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48 SOLDIERS KILLED Fec.-ful Slaughter of Our Men in the Philippines. OF 72 MEN, 24 ESCAPED DEATH. I Were Surprised While at Breakfast ! Saturday Morning, on the Island ol ] Samar? News Created a Sensation : in This Country. Manila, By Cable.?A disastrous fish: between faited States troops aii.i insurgents occurred Saturday in the island of Samar. ucar Balangiga. -A large body of insurgents attacked j Company C, Ninth Infantry, only 21J members of the company escaping. All others are reported to have been > killed. The company were at breakfast when attacked and made a deter mined resistance, but the overwhelming number cf the insurgents compel!?*d th?ni to retreat . Of the survivor* who have arrived at uassey. u art wounded. According to the latest returns th? strength of the company was 72. Th? survivors include Captain Thomas W. i Connelly. First Lieutenant Edward Bum pus, and Dr. R. S. GriswoM. surgeon. Cai^ain Edward V. Bookmiller. cl < the Ninth Infantry, reports that Gen eral Hughes is assembling a force il attack the insurgents. The insurgent* raptured all the stores and ammunition of the company and all the rifles except 26. Washington. Special.?News of the disastrous fight between troops of the Ninth Infantry and the insurgents en the island of Samar was sent prompt-' ly by General Hughes, commanding1 in that island, to General Chaffee at i Manila, and by him transmitted to the War Department. It reached the Department during the cany hours Sat urday and Adjutant General Gortin realizing its importance, at once made it public after sending a copy to the ( White House. General Chaffee's dispatch. which agrees with the Associa *" ' * * In n n frtl 1a*VC ICU r*i"tes uiayaivu, io iv>tvn?. "Manila, Sept. 29. " Adjutant General. Washington: "Hughes reports the following from j Bassey, Southern Samar. Twenty-foui i men of Company C, Ninth Regiment. ' 1'nitcd States Infantry, eleven wound j cd. have just arrived from Balangiga. The remainder of the company killed. The insurgents secured all the company supplies and all rifles except 12. The company was attacked during j breakfast on the morning of September 28. The company was 72 strong filacers. Thomas W. Connelly, capaln: Edward A. Bumpus. first lieutenant. and Dr. R. S. Griswold, majoi _/ surge>c<n. escaped." / The news created a sensation in official circles. It was the first sever*? ' reverse that has occurred for a long time. Still the officials were not unprepared for news of just this chara*t?r from Samar, in which the rovolu- j tiun started by Aguinaldo still con- \ tinues. Samar is a country about as j large as the State of Ohio and the American forces of occupation number in ail between 2,000 and 2,500 men. These are distributed among various posts in the island, a large number being located at the more important ?- centres. Spain never made any effort to o?i upv Samar and it only has been for probably three months past that the ITn.fed States have undertaken the work. The latest report made by General Hughes to the War Depart gent rifles in the Island aggregated about 300. The Filipinos carried on a guerilla warfare and operations agaist them were difficult. The diss aster to Company C occurred, it is believed, while it was engaged in an expedition to clear the country of roving bands of these insurgents. The fact that the Americans were attacked while at breakfast indicates the pluck and daring of the insurgents. Two Men Killed by Fall. Wilkesbare. Pa.. Speci?f. ?John Wallace, engineer, and John Conneily miner, were instantly killed at the tw.n shaft at Pittston. The men were being hoisted to the surface in a bucket ami when about half-way up the shaft the bucket tipped over and both men were thrown out. They fell a distance of 2C0 fe?: and when picked up nearly every Jtoone in their bodies was broken. Negro Whipped to Death. Longview, Tex.. Special.?News ha? reached here of a race riot at Hallvilie, in Harrison county. A party oi white men Saturday night whipped c lieg.o so severely that he died. They attempted to break into the house o! anmiv r negro who shot and killed Julian A wood. Armed citizens have beer searching for Tom Wa'krr, v.ho (lit tii - sheeting. and late reports say he has been hanged. The trouble was ovci orc.i mortgages. It is said the negro * secured advances on their crops an I utn refused to fulfill the contract. I M'KINLEY'S V/1LL r?.C3AT^. His Wife node the Sole Legatee For : Life?Executors Named. Canton. 0.. Special.?Secretary Cortelyou came hpre last Friday to as- \ sist Mrs. McKinley in disposing of 1 matters connected with the late President's estate. Alter meeting Mrs. McKinley, the question of filing the will was taken no. The trvir.g task of reading it to her was undertaken by the faithful secretary. Mrs. McKinley made a heroic effort to bear up and succeeded in doing so. although the ordeal was difficult for her. She J- 41 11 4 II 1,.??1 IS resiiu& well. .Mil ic^ai IU1 mauvag i necessary for her to sub.-c-ribe to were disposed of. At 3 o'clock Judge Day and Secretary Cortelyou went to the office of the probate judge and offered the will of President McKinley for probate. They carried with them the following: "I. Ida S. McKinley, widow of William McKinley. deceased, hereby decline the administration of his estate and recommend the appointment of Wm. R. Day and Geo. B. Cortelyou as ' administrators, with the will annexed." This recommendation bears the date of September 27. 1901. Following is the text of President McKinley's will: "Executive Mansion, Washington. "I publish the following as my latest will and testament, hereby revoking ! all former wills: To my beloved wife 1 Ida S. McKinley. I bequeath all of my ! real estate, wherever situated, and thp inoomp of anv nprsnnal nrrvnprtv of which I may be possessed at death, during her natural life. I make tho following charge upon all of my prop erty, both real and personal: To pay my mother during her life $1,000 a year, and at hor death said sum to be paid to my sister. Helen McKinley. If the income from property be lnsufli- j cient to keep my wife in great com- ! fort and pay the annuity above provi- | ded. then I direct -that such of my property be sold so as to make a sum : adequate for both purposes. Whatever property remains at the death of rny wife. I give to my brother and sister, share and share alike. My chief concern Is that my wife from my estate shall have all she requires for her comfort and pleasure, and that my mother shall be provided with whatever money she requires to make he old age comfortable and happy. Witness my hand and seal. this. 22nd day of October. 1897, to my last will and ( testament, made at the city of Wasnington. District of Columbia. (Seal.) "WILLIAM McKINLEY. "The foregoing will was witnessed by us this. 22nd day of October, 1897, at the request of the testator and his name signed hereto in our presenco and our signature hereto in his presence. "CHARLES LOEFFLER." "G. B. CORTELYOU. It is given out on authority that the .Mi-rvimejr eoicue win UJUll --O.l'UU or 1 $250,000, including life insurance of $07,000, Aside from this insurance the estate consists of real estate here and contiguous to Canton and of deposits in Washington banks. Monday morning has been fixed by the probate court for a hearing prior to probating the will. The will is in the President's own handwriting. Military Prisoners Shot. New York, Special.?Charles P. Meiner. of Yonkers, N. Y., one of a batch of military prisoners who were being escorted aboard tho steamer Hamilton, bound for Norfolk, tried to escape and was shot above the right hip by one of the marine guards. Edward Early. The guard, used a revolver and the bullet pasted through Meiner's body. Meiner was conveyed to the Hudson Street Hospital. and after Early had reported at the Leonard street police station he was allowed to proceed with the rest of the guard in command of Lieutenant G. Bishop. Jr., Meiner was conscious when he reached the hospital but the doctors there stated that he was in a precarious condition. Canal Treaty Ready to Sign. I/ondon, By Cable.?Correspon dence regarding the Nicaragua Canal treaty has ceased, the treaty being in form for signature. The only authoritative information obtainable about it here is that it is considerably better for the United States than the preceding one. The utmost reserve exists respecting the neutrality clause. In other respects the treaty follows the general lines of the old one. flacArthur Mas Nothing to Say. Milwaukee, Special.?When his attention was called to the dispatches announcing the disaster that had overtaken Company C of the Ninth Infantry. Gen. George Arthur MacArthur said: "This is one of those deplorable isolated incidents which will have no effect on the general result. It is a portion of the insurrection which has been conducted by General Likban. which has not been suppressed. There are plenty of soldiers there ultimately to subdue the rebellion in the island of Samar. The details are too meagre for me to discuss the subject. The dispatch contains all the information that can be had at this time. I can add nothing more." COLUMBIA IN LEAD. The Second Yacht Race Was Quite a Success. IT WAS VERY CLOSE AND EXCITING. Women Fainted and A\en Went Wild With Excitement?The Englishman Satisfied. Thr> first nf tHo r.f?r>9 n* al yacht races was a failure cn account of light wind. The second was a successful one. and is thus described: New York, Special.?In the closest and most soul-stirring race ever silled for the old America's cup, the white flyer Columbia Saturday beat the British challenger over a windward and iceward course of thirty nautical miles by the narrow margin of 39 seconds. As Lipton's latest aspirant for cup honors must allow the defender 43 seconds on account of the extra 813 square feet of canvass in her sail a;ea, the official record, under the rules, gives her the victory by one minute and two seconds. As a spectacle the contest was superb. From the time the two sky-scraping races crossed the starting line until they fled across the finish line four and a half hours later the result was in doubt and the excitement aboard the excursion fleet increased until men became frenzied and women almost hysterical. So evenly matched were these two scientific racing machines that never after they started were the rival skippers out of each other's hail and more than three-quarters of the time they were so close that Charlie Barr, who had the tiller aboard the American, could have tossed a ball to Captain Sycamore. For miles as they beat their way to the other ouier mark the black shadow of the Shamrock's huge club topsail was painted on the bigmainsail of the Columbia and for an hour on the run home, with the two yachts flying like scared deer before the following wind, they ran almost beam to beam as if they had been harnessed together. As a result of the day s race, though faith in the Columbia still remains in the hearts of the patriots, all the experts admit that the British boat is the ablest sloop ever sent to these waters to lift the 100-guinea cup which the old schooner America brought across the Atlantic 50 years ago, and that the superiority of American seamanship and American naval architecture, as represented by the defender, remains to be established. The quality of a sailing ship is measured by her ability to carve her way into an ad- J verse wina ana in me uiueu-umc thresh to windward the golden challenger gained 39 seconds, while on t ie run home her lead was eaten up Lad the Columbia crossed the finish line exactly 37 seconds before the Shamrock. It must be remembered, however, that the challenger had the weather gauge, and the nautical experts said after the race that during the outward journey she had been sailed to absolute perfection, while before the wind the American yacht not only showed a fleeter pair of heels, but, in the opinion of the sharps, was better handled. Damage to Rice Crop. Savannah, Ga., Special.?The freshet that came down the Savannah river I Friday was one of the worst ever experienced by rice planters of this section. The river rose a foot or more higher than ever known; and practically every rice plantation 0:1 the river is under water. The water reached its greatest height Friday night. It not only overflowed the banks of the fields but in a number of places broke through the banks, making bad wash-1 outs that can be repaired only with a great deal of trouble and expense. The | damage to the rice will not be known j until the flood subsides enough to allow a repair of the banks and the drainage of the fields. The water is receding. Another Fight Reported. Manila, By Cable.?Capt. Lawrence J. Learhn reports a 3evere engagement with insurgents near Canilelaria, ti e Americans losing one killed and two wounded. The insurgent lcs3 has not been ascertained. The Americans captured 20,000 pounds of rice and several hundred pounds of ammunition. General News Notes. The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York arrived at Winnipeg, Man. Prince Makachidze. of Russia, was arrested in Italy as an anarchist. Mount Vesuvius is in eruption again. The Peary Artic steamer Windward returned to Brigus, X. I'., from Ncrt'.i Greenland. The first of the scri's cf iares between the Columbia and Shamrock 11 for the international yachting championship was declared "no race" becaus the yachts failed to finish within the time limit. Six men were killed and seven severely injured by a gas works explosion in Newark, N. J. i 6ET1I.VG THE REPORTS READY. I State Superintendent of Education is | Pushing it Forward. The superintendent of education is now busy preparing his annual report J ] to the legislature. Superintendent Mi ^ Mahan is in Pickens conducting the j county summer school, but while doir.g t this he is also writing his report so c : that H may he given to the State c printer soon after his return next r week. Meantime, the clerks in his oil- | floe are busy collecting data and ar- ^ ranging it for the statistical part of f thi3 report c j i Qe tmorma^ion given in mis repjrt a this year will be more accurate and ^ fuller, perhaps, than has ever been a given In the reports of a superintend- j ent of education. Many new features have been added and special effoits j have been put forward 6;<jce early in i the year to have the data full and c accurate. Many reports have had to be returned for fuller information or , for correction. * Wednesday the circulars for infor. mation about the mill schools were t sent to all the cotton mill presidents In the State with a requtst that th?se j, blanks be filled out and returned at once. The table in the last report of the superintendent of education was * used much by the members of the legislature, even though the data given in a this table was not full. This year | the superintendent of education will ? ! give a much more elaborate one, which ?in ho r\t miinli interest to J Will UVUl/litoa t/V V4 *MM ! the legislature and to the many In- s ! teresled In the subject of education ? In the cotton mills. One of the questions Mr. Mahan has asked in this 1 circular is "up to what age do you 1 2 favor compulsory education?" Some of the towns in the State have [ not yet sent in their reports, but the j r reports have been checked off and " , another request made of the delln- J j; quent ones, making the third and in 2 some instances the fourth request made. The superintendent of education believes that there is no way to 2 get these reports except by persistent effort. Still up to the present the re, turns are more complete than they | have been and it is likely that the report of town schools will be a very full c and interesting one. c Tragedy in Greenwood County. x Greenwood. Special.?A very sad i death occurred in the lower section of f this county last week. Young Clar- i ence Colllson, the 16-ytar-old son of a James W. Colllson of this city, was c accidentally shot and instaatly killed while engaged In target shooting with t 1 a Miss Connally, a visitor at the home p of her brother-in-law, Eugene Bowers, v with whom young Collison was stay- g ing. The young lady had the rifle in a i her hand and in some way it went off. the bullet striking Colllson In the I forehead. The bullet came out at tho base of the skull. He died instantly. His father and mother of this city P were notified at once and went down. I It was a severe shock fo hi3 mothei. * She had been talking to him over the P telephone not more than five minutes a befcxe the accident occurred. Young P Collison was a student at Furman ? University last session and expected 0 to return this week to resume his S j studies at that institution. He had ^ gone down to his father's store to 1 I help open the new fall goods and in- t tended to return Thursday. ii "No Such Premium." Strange as It may seem some rr>ig!s- ^ trates in different portions of the j. State have had the idea that because E a man loses his citizenship upon being I a convicted and sent to the state prison t he is not required to pay taxes after he is set free. One magistrate wrote t the attorney general about the matter c and Mr. Bellinger replied as follows: s "Dear Sir: In your letter of the 21st ) inst. you ask to be informed 'if a man v who ha3 been convicted and served his j, I time out at the penitentiary at Colum- n bia, is amendable to poll tax?" In re- v ply I beg to say that no one Is relieved a of the burden of paying taxes, elthe: n | upon property or poll, by reason of In- c diriment or conviction for crime. Tho j law doe3 not place such a premium B upon violation of law." 0 a Whiskey In the Mountains. a Greenville. Special. ? Constables o James Altom, G. L. Cooley, H. L. Bell ? and Deputy Collector E. A. Aiken left the city Saturday night with the in- v tention of bagging some larger game c than could be caught in this neighbor- v hood, and on Sunday about 9 o'clock ^ they returned with a white man. a J"! mule and buggy, a Winchester rid*, ^ and four cans which contained several gallons of corn whiskey, which were captured by them about 18 miles north of the city in the Dark Corner, and ^ the officers claim that it was not a tvery good night either for game. The man they captured i3 named Ben Ful- ^ ler, and ho lives near Chick Springs, r. Want Better Wages. f Fall River. Mass., Special.?The tox- '' tile council unanimously voted to in- v struct Secretary James Whitehead to r address a communication to the manu- J" facturers asking that notices be posted in all the mills giving an advance of 0 wage3 similar to that posted in the 11 Iron Works and Bourne Mills. 0 d ??^ SERIuUS WRECK. ra5t Passeoger Train Runs Into a Freight Near Columbia. Columbia, Special.?About midnight Thursday night there was a ba-1 vreck on the Southern Railway's Coumbia and Greenville division about wo miles from the city. The news >f the accident wa3 not generally roeived in the city until after 2 o'clock text morning. It was a tail-end collison between the down passenger train lue here at midnight?No. 16?and reight train No. 72. Who were in :harge of the two trains could not be jcertained. At 2:30 Supt. Welles and ['ardmaster Blanton, with Dr. Taylor md other physicians, left the city for he scene of the wreck. i ae man ageni on me i??icu65i rain whoee name could not bo asceralned was reported by the passengers >n the train as seriously Injured. The fireman of the passenger train las an ankle dislocated. One passenger, Mr. Joe Munday, had ds shoulder dislocated. Flagman Burns was also injured, it s said, only slightly. The engineer of the passenger Is re>orted to havo dislocated shoulder. This was all that could be l-earned s to the Injured. From a passenger who reached the ity at 2:30 it was learned that the relght train was trying to make the idlng at Camp Fornance. having or* lers to clear for the passenger to pass, rhls proved to be Impossible, and tha >assenger came down upon the freight it the rate of 35 miles an hour and rashed into the rear of the freight The caboose of the freight was comiletely telescoped, the oab being left tround the engine boiler. The box :ars of the freight were also telescoped as well as two flat cars, the rucks being left upon the tracks. The elescoped cars referred to caught fire md were burned, the flat cars being inly partially burjied. The passenger who told the story aid that the crash was an awful one .nd the jar was too much for the pasengers, all being thrown from their eats save himself, and he was sitting n the double seat at the front of the oach. There were two young ladies vho were tossed about but were not ?urt. He says that had it not been or the fact that the passenger was a nixed train results would have b?e_n lerlous. As It was one of tne box ars on the passenger was wrecked. The freight conductor came cm to own cm the engine of his train and re>orted the accident, and the engine ras sent back with a couple of passenger cars bringing the passengers in tbout 2:15 o'clock. Six flen Blown to Death. New York, Special.?Six men anil ossibly seven, were killed and seven njured by the explosion of an oil ank of the Essex & Hudson Gas Coni>iny. at Newark. N. J. The known dead re: I^awrence Kirch, 33 years old, em'loyed in the works; Wm. Meyer, 10 ears of age; Otto Newman, 27 years Id, foreman at the works; Alfred !nyder. 22 years old, resided in Jersey lity; Nicholas Miller, 45 years old; midentifled man. Many witnesses say here is a body in the river.as they saw t hurled high in the air and thrown n that direction. The tank which exdoded was one of a number of imnense steel reservoirs which was unlergoing its periodical cleaning, havng been emptied of its oil in the norning. The tank was 20 feet deep ,nd Kirch and Meyer entered through he manhole first without taking the recaution of having ropes tied about hem. They were iramediate'y overome by the fumes. Foreman Newman aw this and started down after them, ifter shouting a warning to the other vorkmen in the yard, he too collapsed q t\e tank. Nicholas Miller, a grocer ear by, who had been foreman of the rorks, was in the yards and at cnce ssumed charge of the rescue. Sumloning others the men began with hisel to cut a large ring in the tank, t is supposed one of the chisels in truing tne steei causeu uue cmiaoiuu f a spark for immediately there was in explosion like that of a cannon ana , sheet of flame. Ten men were on top if the tank at the time. They were wept away in all directions. Miller, Inyder and the undentifled man were down many feet in the air. The tank vas rent in twain and after all was iver the badies of the three men in it rere taken out. The gas and other anks in the yard were surrounded by lames for a short time but none exiloded and the firemen had little to io. Minor Hatters. Over 1T?00 sheep will be shown at he Pan-American Exposition in Buf alo, N. Y.. this week. Major General MacArthur goes Yost next week to command the Department of the Colorado. Hundreds of persons are fleeing rorn Little Lake, Wyo.. the town havng been set on flic by burning forests. Forty switchmen, striking for higher. .-ages, have tied up traffic on eight ailroads over the Kentucky and Ininna bridge over the Ohio River at .ouisville, Ky. William Thompson, former treasurer f the National Soldiers' Home, at lampton, Va., has been made govrnor of the home, vice P. T. Woodfln, eceased.