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!AN EASTER ST98SI t Does Serious Damage to Property h Pittsburg FORTY PEOPLE BADLY INJURED 4 Wrecks a Church During Servic s and a Panic Results? heavy Damages. Pittsburg, Special.?Oone cf the fiercest wind storms ever known in this section struck tbe city just before noon Sunday and did almost incalculable damage to property and inJued many people, some cf whom may die from the effects of their woniuis Scores of houses were unroofed, many trees were blown dov.-a, mill stacka toppled over and telegraph and telephone wires generally disabled. The most serious accident reported up to 9 o'clock was the unroofing of the Knoxvllle Presbyterian church, in Knoxviile. The church was filled with an Easter congregation numbering about 600 persons. While the minister was In the midst of his sermon, a strong gust of wind blew over the iarye chimney, and lifted a portion of the roof off the building. The bricks from the chimney crushed through the roof and carried a huge piece of the ceiling, measuring about 40 by 20 feet, down upon the worshipers in the pews. An indescribable panic ensued and a frantic rush was made for the doors and windows. The excitement was soon quieted and the work of rescue begun. At least 40 persons were caught by the wreckage end more or less injured. Of this number five may not recover. The more seriously injured axe: Dr. R. J. Phllipps, aged 40. concus sltm of brain, may die; cuius nay McKnight, 4 years old, internal injuries, both legs crushed, probably fatal; Clarence McNulty, aged 17, | internal injuries, badly crushed, may die; Fletcher Bryon, fracture at the base of the brain, serious; David 6mith, 32. arm broken, head cut and ! badly battered, serious; Joseph I Adams, 21. badly crushed; Albert j Schmidt, 14. both arras broken and j head cut; John Meyer. 17. head an 1 face cut; Thomas Meherlin, 18. arms and head cut; Evan Jones, 22. scii- j ous scalp wounds; Mrs. Rachael Schultz, 35. arms broken. None of the other Injured are seriously hurt. In none of the other accidents reported throughout the city were there any serious injuries to persons, though many narrow escapes arc recorded. The iowboat. Belle McGov/au. was blown over in the Ohio river opposite Mill Run and completely wrecked. Her crew narrowly escaped drowning, but all were finally rescued by harbor boats. The corrugated iron roof of the union bridge at the point, was lifted from its fastenings by the wind and portions of it carried a (lis tance or a miie. me n miner oiwj>, near Mount Washington,, was unroofed and its walls badly twisted. Jones & Laughlin's had 14 of their furnanee stacks blown down, necessitating the shut-down of a portion of their plant for weeks. Reports from near-by towns are not coming iu, probably on account of the crippled condition of the wires. It is feared that much damage has been done in those places. As Rev. J. W. English, pastor of the Robinson Run Union Protestant church, near McDonald, was raising his arms to pronounce the benediction, lightning struck the church spire and it toppled upon the roof, crushing It and injuring a number of worshipers, two of whom will die. The injured are: Robert Patterson, aged 10, skull fractured, will die; Leon AverilJ. 11, skull fractured, will die. Mrs. John Patterson, mother of Robert, severely bruised about body; Mis. Mary Patterson, arm broken and badly bruised; Miss Mary G. Wallace, badly bruised; Mrs. Averill, mother of Leon, head and arms cut and bruised. The spire and portions of the roof of the Union Protestant church at McDonald was torn off and the buildlnc considerably damaged, but nooue was injured. The Noblestown Presbyterian church was also unroofed, but the congregation escaped injury. The Forest Oil Company had between 200 and 300 derricks blown down in its McDonald region and considerable damage was sustained by Its pipe system. The offices of the Monongahela Con necting ttanroaa, on secuuu avcuuu, this city, were destroyed by fire during the afternoon, because no alarm could be sent in either by telephone or telegraph. The Armstrong Cork Company's plant on Liberty avenue, between Twenty-fifth and TwentyBixth streets, was unroofed and much damage dene to machine ry and stock. Reports from the different railroads tonight show that all suiTered more or less from broken telegraph poles and crippled service. All. however, were in good shape and trains running by 8 o'clock. The baseball park in Allegheny lost one of its fences and a portion of the grand stand roof. More than 2.500 lights of glass in the Philipps' conservatory were broken. The Montana apartment house at Pennsylvania avenue and Fairmont street. East End. and the Idaho building, which adjoins it, were partially destroyed. The damage in the Monon 1 gahela and Turtle creek valleys trill reach thousands of dollars, but no . specially bad individual loss is reported. Almost the entire eastern uis| trict of this city is in darkness tonight. the electric lighting system having been put out of commission by the storm. The down-town portic: s were repiarcd early in the afternoon. The storm, which came upon the city very suddenly, came up through the Ohio valley and passed on eastward. It lasted only about SO minutes, only five minutes cf which was at a velocity unusually high. In that five minutes prctically all the damago done was accomplished. Tired of Rebellion. ! Manila. By Cable.?Ruflno. who has spent $30,000 in his efforts to incite rebellion in the province of Misamis. Island of Mindanao, now says he is tired of rebellion and has offered to ! surrender, with 73 rifles, to the native constabulary. General Chaffee will leave Manila April 10. on a tour of inspection to the island of Saniar. Hi , will visit every port ih the island, and 1 will witness the surrender there or i April 13, of the insurgent general. Guevr.rra, After this surrender, the American garrisons in Samar will bi largely reduced. Not After Atlantic Coast L:ne. Wilmington. N. C.. Special.?It is known almost to a certainty here that i there is no truth in the report that the j Pennsylvania Railroad h3s purchased the Atlantic Coast Line. Railroad authorities here are disposed to ties: the rurmor lightly and will not discuss the matter for publication. It Is beI 1:?"?rl UrttvAVA*. fVani n 'WAvorrprt let r.n fool for a joint operation of the Plant System by the Atlantic Coast Line ana Southern. Confederate Battle Abbey. Atlanta. Ga.. Special.?Trustees of 1 the Confederate Memorial Association at a meeting held in this city last week definitely determined upon Richmond. Va.. as the place to build the j Confederate Museum. One hundred thousand dollars was donated by the late Charles Broadway Rouss toward the founding of a Eattle Abbey in the South, provided a like sum could be raised by popular subscription. In the ! report submitted by the treasurer of the association it was shown that all of th.? additional amount had been obtained and pledged. Owns a Whole Town. Raleigh. N. C., Special.?The Supreme Court decides the interesting ! case cf Mrs. Scott vs. Ingram, involving the title to the whole town of Star, in Montgomery county. Mrs. Scoft, a married woman, living in South Carolinr. sold the land on which the town now stands, for a tri.lc. it seems. The town was built, and ic is said the land i Is now worth $70,000 or thereabouts. The Supreme Court decides in favor of Mrs. Scot.: and so the property owners lose it. | Gigantic Mour Combine. Chicago, Special.?The final steps in the formation cf the National Miller's Federation representing a total capital of $-100,000,000. and an annual ' flour output cf 100.000,000 barrels, were taken at a meeting held here. 1 The federation is the national or : gamzation 01 me various aiaie as; sociations and in addition it will in' elude the National Millers' Association and the National Winter Wheat Millers' Association. An U?:ly Ccrtoon. Berlin By Cable? Sinplicissimus an illustrated journal noted for the brutality of its cartcons, and which ha3 1 often been confiscated by the police j because of its irreverence toward high ' personages, appears Tuesday with a I drawing representing MiS3 Alice Roosevelt at sea in an open boat jn immense fat hog in one end of the boat and 1 Miss Roosevelt standing in the otner : holding a pig wrapped in the Stars and i Stripes. The drawing is inscribed: ! "We received your Prince; you must ' admit our hogs." Favor a Genera! Surrender Wolve Iloeck, Orange River Colony, j By Cable.?The train having on board ; Acting Presiednt Schalkburger and his i party passed through this place cn its i way to Kroonstadt Tuesday. The | Transvaal government officials vere ; accompanied by Captain Marker, Lord ; Kitchener's aide-de-camp, and Ave oth- 1 ' er members of the staff of the British commander-in-chief in South Africa, j The impression here is that the Transvaalers fawor a general surrender of the Boer forces. Four Generations of Soldiers. Soldiering seems to run in the blood ! of certain families. A typical instance | of this is furnished in the person of Mr. William Smith, chief janitor at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. Smith's i father was a soldier, he himself and four of his brothers "took the shilling" one after another, and he has ! given four sons and a grandson to the army. This, therefore, is a case of "soldiering" carried through four successive generations, and the youngest of them all is able to make the proud, perhaps the unique, boast that not only his great-grandfather, his grandfather, and his father, but four granduncles and three uncles, all served their sovereign in the ranks.?London Telegraph. t PATRICK IS GUILTY, 1 * a A i 2- r yiiiiK Agreement ui jury iu riiiuuu> Case. Ml'RDERED MILLIONAIRE RICE. The Object of the Crime Was to Qet Possession of the Old flan's Valuable Estate. I . New Ycrk, Special.?Albert Patrick. lawyer, was convicted of tie mur- , der on September 23, 1900. of the ased ; millionaire recluse, William Marsh , I Rice. The peniltv under the statute is ' death in the electric chair. A s^ant three hours of deliberation at the close of a trial prolonged for nine j weeks and replete with sensational interest sufficed to enable the jury to I | reach their verdict. The issue of the j trial establishes the charee that Pat- \ rick consipred with Mr. Rice's valet, 1 Charles F. Jones, to obtain possession of the need Texan's estate, estimated at ; ?7.000.000. and that Jcnes killed his em- j plover hy the administration of chloro- ; form at the direct instigation of Pat- j rick. At the close of Reorder Goffs charge, which occupied the morning; session of the court, the Jury retired. | This was at 1:30 p. m. At 5:55 they no- j tifiej the officer in charge that they ' ! were ready to return to court; rather more than an hour of the intervening time having been devoted to luncheon. In anticipation of a scene of excitement in the event of a verdict of guilty, the j unusual step was taken of ordering all women to leave the court room. Among them were the prisoner's two sisters i and Mrs. Francis, with whom he j ; boarded. j With grave faces the members of; the jury filed into their places and . some minutes of painful tension elapsed while messengers were endeav- j orlng to find the counsel, who had dc-1 parted net expecting a verdict for many ; hours. i Calm as ever and with confidence | seemingly unshaken, the prisoner was escorted in the court room. He walked rapidly and took his stand facing the jury with head erect, and hands loosely clasned behind his back. At the word "guilty" pronounced by Foreman Machell, in <i tone low. but distinct enough to be beard throughout the court not the slightest change passed over Patrick's i*3ce and he remained ! standing in almost listless attitude while th? customary noil of the jury v.t.3 being taken. His ag"d father. i-l._i-.-_ ** _ i ? 1 ? -l.i! 1 uaptain rairicK, siuin^ near nim, ai:j i ( straining to catch the statement of the j : foreman, started for an instant as its import reached him. 1 A smile of triumph lit up the face of s Assistant District Attorney Osborne, ' i who hastened from the court imirmdi- | | ately after the recorder had. at the request of the prisoner's counsel, fixed on a week from Monday as the day on which to pronounce sentence. The verdict was fcnown almost immediately in the corridor where the women relatives and friends of the prisoner were waiting. and a scene of excitement ensued, j Screaming hysterically, the prisoner's oldest sister ran about the corridor, , begging to be allowed to see hex j brother. Mrs. Francis faited and on recovering broke from the attendants and rushed into the court room, from which Patrick had just been removed. There she again sr/ooned. Both, women were removed to an ante-room and were seal home In a carriage. Captain Patrick i took leave of his son who was led back s to the Tombs. He would only say: "It ( is hard: we'll have to try again." ! 1 None of the jurors could be induced i to reaveal how the verdict had been ' reached, an agreement having been i made to tell nothing. A motion will be | 1 made for a new trial when the prisoner < Is arranged for sentence. < DEATMOF CECIL RHODES. i ! Universal /"lournlng In Cape Town ic ' Consequence. Cape Town, By Cable.?Cecil j Rhodes died peacefully at 5:57 p. m. t Wednesday. He slept during the , morning and again in the afternoon ! < but his breathing became more dith- ! . cult and his strength perceptibly dl-! t minished until he passed away. The ( government has decided to give Cecil ? Rhodes a public funeral. His remains ' will be brought here from Grootes- ] chuur, for the burial service, which i I will be held in the cathedral. The tody will then be taken back to y Grootesehuur and will eventually be interred at Matoppo Hills. The news of his death spread through Cape , Town between 7 and 8 o'clock Wed- j nesday evening and caused profound grief. All places of amusement were immediately closed. An open-air concert was stopped and the audience uncovered, while the band played "The Dead March." The people then silently dispersed. News in Paragraphs. A Manila dispatch says: "The outbreak of cholera here does not create alarm. No white persons have been stricken with the disease. According to the report of the medical authorities made up to noon today, there have been all told 26 cases and 21 deaths." A Newport News, Va., dispatch says: "James llrigg3, the negro proprietor of a crap joint in Hampton, died from wounds received in a pistol fight between a posse and a score of negro crap-shooters. Constable Roy Sinclair received a bullet in the head which may cause his death, and Constable John Tignor was wounded in the arm." L * SERf iiUS SOUTHERN PLOODS. High Water Does Damege in Many Piaces. Meridian. Miss.. Special.?Meridian is entirely cut off from the outside world, except that two Western Union wires are still in operation, and not a train is moving with 50 miles of the city. A fast freight on the Northeastern Railroad is C feet under water ard the crew is in danger of being swept away. Efforts to reach the train by boats have been futile, owing to the swift current. Two relief parties started to swim and wt.de streams, but nothing has been heard from them since Thursday night. Water at Enterprise. 12 miles south, is rising at the rate of 18 inches an hour. There is no prospect for t.he resumption of traffic for two or three days. The southern section of this city has been under 3 feet of water for 24 hours and many families have been forced to leave their homes in the low lands and escape to higher ground. New Orleans. Special.?The wind and rain storm which has prevailed over southern Mississippi for the pa3t 48 hours has demoralized all railway traffic and telegraphic communication The town of Hazlehurst, Miss., has been completely isolated for the past two days on account of the heavy rains. Many streams in the country overflowed their banks and all traffic from the country has been stopped, with no trains or mails. The rainfall has caused great damage by flood at Newton, Miss and there Is little probability of the trains running through for several days. About ten miles east the water is running over the railroad tracks six feet deep and four or five miles wide and two miles of track have been swept away. Telegraphic lines are prostrated on all locations. No mail has been received over the star routes since tho rain. Mobile. Ala., Special.?The vain Vl O 4 Vl rt i ? A ltf r AF? A1?(l fi AA/1w 3iui ui mat :iaj l auoiu ocuuuo uuuua in the upper country set in here Friday with steady "but not heavy rain and Rind. The outer bar is reported as exceedingly rough. No vessels have attempted its passage since Thursday light and no vessels passed through the ship channel since this morning, rhe coast steamer Alpha, which is the last to arrive, reports a very rough exlerience on the bar. The Louisville & Nashville Railroad is operating as isual, no -'amagc being reported. The Southern is also operating. The Molile & Ohio is tied up at various points. Jackson. Miss., Special.?The flood situation is somewhat improved so fa: is the railroads are concerned, but raffic has not yet been resumed from New Orleans. Vicksburg or Meridian. Mail from the North arrived Friday 3d lours late, but no mail has come in irom the South in two days. Pearl rir?r continues to rise and is now spread mt ovf<r a wide portion of country in :he vicinity of Jackson. The flood from :he upper country is being felt here tnd Pearl river has already backed up :o within 100 feet of the old capitol. Scores of families moved to high jroxmd. So far there has been no loss if life. Meridian, Miss.. Special.?Eleven inches of rain has fallen here during the last 43 hours. The streams are raging md many farms are under tvater. iridges have been washed away and -ailway traffic in this vicinity is at a standstill. An Alabama Great Southern freight went into a washout near Newark, Friday night. Two trains were lost on the Alabama & Vicksburg his morning, and on the New Orleans ind Northwestern. 20 miles south of Meridian. No trains have entered or Jpparted from Meridian since Thursday afternoon. Several serious washluts are reiorted. Many telegraph wires are down and some points are ;ntirely cut off. Mobile, Ala., Special.?Traffic on the Mobile & Ohio Railroad in Mississippi has been seriously interfered with by :he floods of the Inst two days. Friday light a trestle 20 feet long, just south if Shuqulak, Miss., was washed cut ind the track is under water from Por:erville. Miss., to Iron Bridge, a disance of two miles. Minor washouts ire ruso repnriea Deiween Artesia ana rusenloosa. The passenger train which elt Mobile last night was turned jack at Enterprise. Decatur, Ala., Special.?A very serere wind and rain storm accompain?d hy a heavy fall of hail, struck here ibout 4 o'clock Friday afternoon, lastng one hour. Heavy damage was done md severe and serious washouts wore ncarred hy roads. Haywood Roberts, i white man, and Tom Evan3. colored, vere killed by live electric wires which vere bl^wn down. Wires fell down icross street car tracks and killed two nuies attached to a car, the passengers jeing severely shocked. Valuable Jewels Stolen. Washington, Special.?The police of :he various cities cn the Southern ilailway between Washington and Jacksonville are mystified over the disappearance cf a $3,000 pearl neckace, the property of a passenger cn i Southern train out of Jacksonville ! jn March 7. The necklace was missed from a traveling bag, at Charleston. It was set in heavy gold md in graduated order. The jewel vas manufactured by a Philadelphia Irm and on the clasps were engraved :he letters "H. S. B." The necklace is [ jelieved to be the property of some i veil-known Washingtcnian, whose j dentity is not disclosed. 1 PALMETTO GLEANINGS A Desperate Negro. There is a ne&ro desperado running loose in Horry county, terriiying lu<7 poople over there. anJ the governor has offered $100 for the recapture of _ I the negro, who is really an escapted i convict and should be arrested by the county supervisor without payment of reward. However, the governor con! sidercd that the matter is a serious one and deserving of official notice, i In a letter from Col. D. A. Spivey, a prominent young banker, the gov1 ernor is fully Informed of the conditions. The letter is endorsed by Senator McDermott. The facts are that John Harrell was sentenced to IS months on the chaingang for some misdemeanor. After two days of servitude he escaped and not only has he remained at large but it appears that no efforts are being made to rej capture him. The county supervisoris credited with saying that he is pow erless to act; the sheriff says it is none of his business, and the stockade guard says he cannot leave the chaining to go in pursuit of the escaped convict Col. Splvey continues that the negro is in hiding within a mile of Conway, and is lying in ambush. He has made threats against the livc-3 of some of the best citizens of the county, including the lntendant, the magistrat?, and clerk cf tjie court, the deputy sheriff and others. He wanted to knew if it is not somebody's business to capture this desperado. The offering of a reward was not asked for. but it will no doubt bring the negro out of his hiding place. ?Columbia State. The governor is in a quandary in the matter of paying the lawyers who are called In to preside over special terms of court. The law provides that these acting judges shall be paid $10 a day and expenses; but it does not provide whence the pay shall come. Heretofore the governor has been paying ' these expenses out of his contingent fund. The amount promises to becoms so large this year by reason of theunusually large number of special terms so Held tftat tie does not Know whether to pay these expenses or to let the claims go to the legislature. The reason why so many counties are seeking to have special terms of court isi because the court dockets were congested by reason of the fact that thej old jury law was declared unconstiI tutional. Governor McSweeney receives daily from half a dozen to a score of Ietttererecommending parties for appointment, to place on the State constabulary The governor has on file applications from 100 or more strenuous eitizens who would like to catch the wicked gleam of the baleful eye of the blind tiger. Mr. Sheppard Nash, clerk of thecourt of Sumter county, ha3 written the governor that on account of ill health he wants to take a trip. In accordance with the requirements of law he was given permission to ge beyond the borders of the State. A special term of court will bo held at Florence Monday for the purpose of trying the negro recently arrested for assault on a white woman la that county. Judge Purdy will preside. Sale of Fertilizers Very Heavy. | The State has received from the privilege tax J64.S28.55 since the first of the year against J76.950.6S for the same time last year. This would appear to be a falling off in the amount of fertilizer being used, but last year the sales were phenomenal. For the same time in 1900 the sales, amounted to $03,937.60, which is less than for the first three months of thisyear. Therefore it will be seen that the sales this year are about on a par* with the sales of an average year. The total amount for last year from* this tax was $54,073.43, showing that but $7,000 came in after the first of April. If the amount is yet to be- \ added to the income for 1902 the re- f ceipts for this year may approximate$72,000. Thi3 is about $12,000 short of last year, but is ample for Clemson college's running expenses. The State exacts a license of 25cents on every ton of manufactured fertilizer, on the ground that such a. fee is necessary in order to pay the expense of making chemcial examination of the manufactured product. The income fro mthis source is given toClemson college and is always ?on amount large enough for the necessities of the college. One of the officials in the State treasurer's office said that the farmers would not need .30 much commercial fertilizer if they understood the adaptation cf soils to the use of fertilizer. 1-Ie also called attention to the fact that too many farmers neglect their opportunity and waste thomeans and material for making splendid fertilizer at no cost at all. They are gradually displaying more energy along this line, but meanwhile thesale of commercial fertilizers continues. Thirteen-Year-Old flurderer. Toledo, O., Special.?Danny RoseDbecker, 13-years-old, was arrested' Sunday for the murder of 7-year-old Arthur Shanteau. The parents of, the boys live on adjoining farm3, twomiles from this city. Rosenbecker says that while he and Shanteau were hunting yesterday the latter called him a name and attempted tostrike him with a club, whereupon he retaliated by striking Shanteau with a butcher knife until he was dead. lie then dragged the body among some bushes where it was found later. Rcsenbeck has not shed a tear, orshown any remorse for the crime.