THE COUNTY RECORD. Pabliehed Every Thursday ? AT? 1INGSTREE. SOUTH CAROLINA. ?Br? C. W. WOLFE . Editor and Proprietor. Colonel Higginson says that Longfellow wus the first Harvard professor to address his'Students as "Mr."?a custom now in vogue at all colleges. Camille Flaramarion, who is something of a star-gazer, declares that the planet Mars is not trying to attract the attention of the people of the earth. That being the case, tiie earth can move on. Eecausc of geographical position and relative importance iD the future commerce of the world the three great financial cChtres of the twentieth century will ue New York City, London and San Francisco. Within its own borders the United States now produces eight-tenths of all the world's cotton and corn, onequarter of all Its wheat, one-third of all its coal, more gold than any other country save Africa, and more manufactured goods than England, France and Germany combined. Everybody in the world who is oM enough to know what the word spells either has at some time been in love or expects at some time to be in love. This generalization embraces even the most pronounced woman-hater, who, if ( he be not a hypocrite, is assurediy a man with a past, philosophizes the New York Press. When the American army was in Cuba the island was almost depleted of cattle, a vast number of animals having been killed for food. Now the ranchmen and larmers are busy stocking up again, and have made heavy drafts on Florida, which, as a consequence, has about been stripped of its better grades of cattle. The increase of commerce on the Great Lakes is suggestively Illustrated in the fact that during the year 19ou the several shipyards located on these inland seas turned out a tonnage of 130,011 tons. 58,433 tons more than ail the vessels built on the New England % coast in the same period. In fact, the shipyards of the Groat Lakes turned out one-third of all the new shipping constructed in the United States during the year. Lord Curzon says that "while the n crows fat and the Frenchman wallers the Englishman plays lawn tenuis under a tropical sun." Its effete ou the American lias not yet fccen noted, the data being insufficient. Dewey eauic back from the Philippines fatter than before he went there, but the average American is of somewhat too pronounced a nervous temperament to get the best advantages of residence in a tropical climate. It is a dull week in medical activity that does not produce a new consumption cure. Of two divulged within a recent week, one, a Chicago Invention, reiies mainly on the therapeutic qualities of fresh air. while the other, ira ported from Denmark via Brooklyn, exploits anew the old efficacy of lightin this case "decomposed ligbt"-*-as a powerful agent in averting the progress of the disease. Tne time is at hand when no general practitioner will he considered to have won his spurs till he has devised a sure preventive of tuberculosis. Waiter Crane thinks that "woman's dress has greatly improved during the last few years. One sees simple gowns adapted to the lines of the figure and not distorting It, whereas distortion more or less has ruled the present century since the early empire days. But jus* for the moment there is no exaggeration, unless in the hat. and that liSS r.iwajs ueen auunauu*, eveu ai matinees. As to the man?well, in society lie has always been ruled by tii? clubman, whose canon is correctj Or.? of the redeeming features of a commonplace era. as it has been called, is the tendency to uniformity j? masculine attire, for which we have \j thank the rcr.Jy-niade-clotbing man. A HORRIBLE FATE. Lynching and Burning of a Negro In Indiana. Tcrre Haute, In J.. Special.?Punishfnei' uvift ar.J tent hie wa^ mcied ojt to Gi org?" Ward, the uegr> who murdered MLre Ida Finkelitein, the school | K\k her. by shooting her with a shotgun ai.'d cutting her throat. A few hours after his arrest .an angry mob battered down the doors of the jail, dragged the prisoner to the TVaba^h bridge, severa! squares away, and hanged him to the bridge draw. Not content with the hanging, the crowd cut the corp-ue down, anO laying it on i a eind bar under the bridge kindled a firs and cremated the remains, it was the first lynching that Terre Haute ever experienced. "Ward was arrested at 10 o'clock at th? car works, where he was employed as a laborer, and after being fully identified by two citizens, made a confession. HLs only excuse for the murder was that Miss Finkel.vte'n call'd j him "a dirty nigger" and slapped hint in the face. Sheriff Kasirg ccmmunLcaitod with Governor Durbin, but til? mob accomplished its work before the ; militia could be ordered out. The Gov- j ernor had wired Captain Thomas, of Company B, to place his company, fully armed, in readiness ior uuij. At noon the crowd outside the jail, numbering several hundred, "including men, women and boys, battered down the iron doors, but were driven baric by Jailer Lawrence O'Donnell. woo fired over the heads of the mob. Deputy Sheriffs Cooper, Hessiek and l,dForge were dtruck by scattering shot and slightly Injured, but nobody in iiie crowd was hurt. A detail cf police vainly tried to disperse the crowd. At 12:30 o'clock another crowd ba tered down the outer doors of the jail, secured possession of the keys and entered the ceil room. The side door was opened for the rest of the crowd. The cell was quickly opened and Ward was dragged forth. He fought with desperation and with ferocity. He was dragged out to the streot, still fighting with ! all his strength, but a blow from a ! heavy hammer foiled him to the ground. A nocse was quickly adjusted to iii s neck and the mob smarted with its victim itxjwand the Wa'bash (bridge. Tae feeble resistance made by tfc wretched creature after that blow with the hammer was soon quieted by -the sav: age blows of the mob. Face down, ward, he was dragged through the j street to ?*re bridge and across '.he j roug planking cf the driveway to the i drawbridge. Many are of fhe opinion | that the fellow was dead brfore the I fvene of the hanging was reached, j However, the rope was throw n over I one of the upper beams ahd the bo.1v 1 drawn up. Then burning at the stake was agreed on unanimously ard a fire was quickly kindled on the bank of the river just south of the wst end 01 tne bridge, and into -the fire the body, (bearing no sign of life, wa-thrown, and faggots were piled upon it. The stake was omitted. The Ixody was in a horij zontal position, the feet protruding at | one end and the head at the other. A j can of turpentine was poured on the j eager flames. After that combustible oils seemed to flow spontaneously to* ward the fire and the flames leapei high while the bcdy of the nrgro was rapidly consumed. None of .he mob attempted disguise. When the body was 'taken down to be carried to the fire the bridge wes: of the draw was barricaded, but the cast bank of the river and the bridge on the city side of the draw was crowded with thousands cf men, women and children, gazing at the awful spectacle. With grim determination the mob fed the flames and watched the flesh shrivel to cinders and the bones crumble and burrv. As the bones begun to crumble and fall apart fragments were taken from the Are and carried away. At 3 o'clock there was nothing left of the body except a small section cf the irunk and the back of the head. Busy hand? kept the burning faggots piled upon 'he roasting segment. Women came to the scene by scores. At about 2:30 o'clock the barricade was removed an) the crowd surrounded the fire. , Denounces the British. London, By Cable.?Not finee the days cf the Romans, said Mr. ?John Dillon, Irish National'st, in the debate on the address to the throne, "had an array made a habit of capturing women and children as the British generals in South Africa were doing." To I wnmcn r\n half rat'ons Le cause their husbands had not surrendered', as was the practice. 'he said, was worthy of the worst brigands of Sicily and Greece. Mr. Dillon said that 4n .treaohery and cruelty the balance was against the British. He congratulated the Boers on having a different record. News Briefs. Great excitement has been caused in Pensacola, Fla., by virgin gold in considerable quantities being pumped from a well in the suburbs of the city. Tony Moran. of New York, won one of the smartest and blood est lightweight fights ever seen in Savannah, Ga., from Shanty Jenkins, in the 13to ; i, round. SHOT WIFE AND SELF A Horrible Deed Committed By An Insane Doctor. NO CAUSE HAS BEEN ASSIGN,D. Dr. W. F. Aiken, a Leading Specialist, I Kills liis Wife and Then Blows Out His Own Brains. Savannah, (la.. Special.?Dr. W. F. Aiken, a leading specialist, shot and killed his wife in their bedroom at an early hour Wednesday morning. The rc;.ort of the pis ol av.akened their little son. aged S years. In his night clothes and barefooted the child ran in the street to call a policeman. When the officer entered the house he fcur.d Mrs. Aiken dead on the bed with a bullet hole through her head and Dr. Aiken with a pistol in his hand lying on the floor, dead. After shooting his wife he had placed the weapon to his own head and eent a bullet through his brain The child said that he had htard his father couat, "one. two. threel" and then the pistol shot. k was developed at the coroner's inquest that Dr. Aiken was about 38 years old. He was born in New York | and was graduated at Yale at the age of 20 years Arter graduating nc wo.-* | oonoected for a time with the health j i department of the city of New York. I then he took a special course in disea sea o: the eye and ear, and came South to settle. He married Miss An; r.a K. Porter, daughter of the Rev. J A. C. Porter, a clergyman of NewBedford, Mass Rev. Dr. Porter was a clcse personal friend of Ralph Waldo Cmerson. A brother of Mrs. Aikoj!. Afifrtd C. Porter, is now librarian cf Harvard University. This brother has been telegraphed for. and will ari rive to take charge of the bodies and | remove them to Massachusetles for j interment. tUft. i ??q v u-n?j rlfv. AO cause I CM l lie Iiagw; ? i velcped at the inquest.lt was brought j out that Dr. Aiken was a cigaretei exoker to excess, and that he was of j an extremely nervous temperament, j Two weeks or so ago he had to have | the sei vices of physicians in what was j believed to be morphine poisoning and I it was rumored at the time that he had atempted suicide, but the atending physician says that was improbable. Lately his friends had noticed an ex I treme abstraction and irritability. Dr. Aiken was devoted to science, ar.d was an inventor of some note. He is the originator of many opthalmalogiea! instruments that are now in common use ail f-v have a lone task ahead of f.hem which can only be lightened and by no mean* solved through the victc:io o/er the Boer unites. The glory which the British press some time ago showered on General lJoWet ha- pirfed from him. In dispatches and editorials he is now belittled r ? a disappointed raider, deserted by his own men and venting his fruitless angpr by sjambocking his reluctar: handful c* followers. Calmer ohser? ?-s are inclined to fear the elusive Bosr leader is merely under a temporary cloud, from whith he may be expected at n~y moment to emerge accompanied by a force which, though rot fcrmcble in numbers, will be particularly formable in execution. The false announcement of General Botha's .surrender Thursday, will be a matter for discussion in the House of Commons, especially the fact, which ar anipanied the enervation. that i: was offirld. Government of the Philippines. Washington. I). C., Special?The President will issue an executive orfiw rf.-sruch? fieneral MacArthur and all the ether officers of the present military government in the Philippines to administer all military, civil and judicial powers necessary to govern the Philippine Islands. The ex isting government will continue under a new designation of authority from the President, until arrangements can be made "for the establishment of civil government and for maintaining and protecting the inhabitants of said Islands in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property and religion." This is simply a precaution against legal or international computations. A general plan of civil government has been , formula ted by the Secretary of War and referred to the Philippine commission for its consideration. It will be for th9 President to determine when and how the government shall be inaugurated. It seems to be settled that Judge Taft will be the first civil governor of the Philippines and that General Chaffe wtll have command o/ the military forces. [ . Lived as a Man. Ixjndan. by Cable.?A remarkable story of male impersonation was revealed in a police court here. In eon o 'tr U 11GtTfvl I U^TUlsIl w au au uiiooi money frauds. The prisoner, named Catherine Coombs, aged 66. described as a house decorator appeared in court in male attire. For 40 years Catherine impersonated a man and worked on board peninsula and Oriental s.earners, in various capacities and also for London firms. She says she was married at 15, taught school and then thought there were better chances of advance! meat as a man. She married a lady j with whom she lived for 14 years. I A Lawyer Suicides. Macon, Ga., Special.?Solicitor Genj per 100 kilos. The difference between ; Court, and one of the most prominent j men of the State, was found dead in his room at the court house Saturday. ! A bullet wound was found in his head. The shot had penetrated his brain. All | the gas in the room was turned on, i indicating suicide. Cuban Tarlf Changes. Washington, D. C., Special.?The President has issued an executive oder, making two important changes in the Cuban tariff, which will become operative April 1, next. The. duty on refined mineral oils is increased to St per 100 kilos. The difference beatwcea the crude and the refined will make the cost of oil in Cuba about the samt as it is in the raited States. Also in section 111. regard ng eottor.s. tissues j measuring not o.er Cj centimeters in width and weighing eight kilograms or more per 100 .square meters, art granted the same rate as that formerj ly applied to weights of 10 kilograms, / * DEAD IN COAL MINE Thirty-Six Miners Burned to Death By Explosion. AWFUL RESULT OF CARlLESSNESS. A Fire in a Coal Mine in Diamondviile, Wyo., Burns to Death All the Miners in One Shaft With a Single ' Exception. ^ Cheyenne, Wyo., Special?The worst disaster in the history of coal mining in Wyoming since the Ainry horor, eight years ago, occurred at Diaraondville Monday night. Thirty-six men are believed to have perished in a fire which started in Mine Nol, of the Diamondville Coal and Coke Company. The blaze was first discovered shortly after the night shift commenced work. It is thought to have originated from a careless miner's lamp in the oil room. The flames made such progress that only one man escaped from the two entires in which it was confined His name 13 Jno. Aiexan der and he was frightfully burned in running the gauntlet of the flames. He was suddenly confronted by a wall of fire -and smoke and wrapping his bead in an overcoat he ran In the direction of the main entrance. He fell unconscious, and was carried to the mouth of the mine. The alarm was sounded and hundreds of miners at work in the mines and on. the outside rushed to the rescue of their imprisoned comrades. The fire bad by this time made such progress that it was impossible to einter the rooms of flames. The entire night was spent in confining the fire to the two entries and this morning it was necessary to seal them up to prevent the flames from spreading to other parts of the mine. This step was only decided upon after all hope of saving the lives of the men had been abandoned. Nothing could live five minutes in the fire, which was in creasing in nercsncae e\eij The plugging of the two entries will smother the fire, but it may be several days before the barricades can be removed and the chambers explored. The exact total of men entombed is not yet known as a number are miss- ' ing, some on sick leave and others in the hospital, suffering from burns received while fighting the -flames, so that an accurate count s at present impossible. The scenes at the mouth of the mine during the night and day were heart- ^ rendering. Relatives and friends of the J a niehcl +r\ tho mlTlP tUllftflUl UtXl Iiiuucio iuouvu bv ihmv ? frantically waving their hands and crying to the mine officials and miners to save their dear ones. Many of the women and children were slightly injured in the crowd and by falling over obstacles in the darkness. Diamondville has been the scene ot a number of disastrous fires since the coal mines were opened there, ten years ago, but the conflagrations were never attended with serious loss of life. The mine is owned by the Oregon Short Line Railroad. Its output is about 175,000 tons of coal per year an6 upwards of 700 miners are employed. Horror of Horrors. Versailles, Ind., Special.?George James and his four young daughters were burned to death iu their farm house, four miles from Versallies ear ly Saturday awning. A son, 12 years old, made a desperaiie eflarh to get his father end sisters otic from the burning house, but failed. The son, who been sleeping with his father, escaped through a rear door, and finding it impossible to get back owing to the rapid spread of the fire, rushed to a window of his father's room and broke the glass in with his fist. He bogged his father and sisters to climb through the broken sash, but they made no reply. In a few minutes the whole struetcure fell, burying the five inmate*. The Seaboard to Knoxville. Brunswick, Ga., Special.?It is reported here that negotiations are pending for the purchase of .the Tallulah Falls railroad by the Southern Air Line and eventually resulting in a line # from Athens, Ga., to Knoxville, Tenn. The purpose of the new line, fct is said, is to bring in reaoh the undeveloped rolinaationoionofl -hetinao m cmfw m mineral and timber lands of North Georgia, North Carolina and Eaet Tennessee. George L. Prentiss, of New York, who Is considered a leading promoted- of the undertaking, was here but would neither deny or affirm the rumor. Goes to Ashevilin. Chicago, Special?John T. McOutelieon, the war correspondent-artist,who was with Admiral Dewey at the battle of Manila, was taken to-day on a special car to Asheville, N. C.. where It is hoped his health, seriously affected bymalaria contracted in the Philippines, and an attack of typhoid pneumonia In Chicago, wall be regained. < "i.t