The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, May 07, 1903, Image 2
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Sheriff Logan and Magistrate S. N".
Johnson, of Yorkville, left for North
Carolina Monday with requisitions for
fugitives from York county justice.
Sheriff Logan went to Charlotte after
oue James Howard, who is wanted for
trying to kill G. A. Buchanan at Rock
Hill, about two years ago. and Magistrate
Johnson went to Winston after
J. White Wright and Charlie Floy,
who arc wanted for patieipation in a
riot in Bethel recently.
From the correspondence in the office
of the secretary of State Greenville
will in all likelihood have a blcachery.
The Union Bleachery and Finishing
company bas taken up the matter of
establishing a plant in tlii3 State. There
is now a successful bleachery at Clearwater.
in Alkea county and. of course,
there is room for another one in the
Piedmont section, if the mills will Lave
their work done here instead of at the
North.
Chaleston has been afflicted with
. another negro official, this time in the
person of J. A. Brier, who has been ap
pointed by United States Marshal
Adams to be a bailiff of the court, succeeding
a very competent anil obliging
white man, Capt. Isaac H. Daggett.
Brier took charge of his office Monday.
The appointment of Brier makes two
?iegro bailiffs of the Federal court.
Information of a horrible accident
has been received from Savage, in the
lower part of Florence county. Swintor.
4 Cozier, a well known resident of that
community, was killed by the kick of
a mule cn Sunday afternoon. The kick
was so strong that the abdomen of Mr.
Cozier was cut open and his liver torn
t?y the bcofs of the animal.
The proceedings of the State of South
Carolina against the Virginia-Carolina
Chemical company instituted by the
attorney general some time ago charging
the company with violation of the j
a&ii-tvrst lar,- of the State, will be j
opened ir. Columbia soon by the taking j
of testimony before the master of KieV j
land county for f.n::l decision.
Ti tslsy -.naming Senator Aivln II. j
Dean, c* Greenville, attorney for j
1Ic-e:v Sacidvh, received a leic'ram
from Gov. II. yrvard notifying hira
thnt Henry Gnlduth had been pardoned
from the State penitentiary
It'will be remembered that Sudciutii
was convicted of rape and sentenced |
to life imprisonment in the penitential
y.
J. A. Wright, of the firm of Vv'right
A Patmaa, proprietors of a beef raarliet
ib Greenville, attempted suicide
Tuesday nftrrr.ccn in room No. 37 of
lit rttreSouthern hotel in that city, by cut tlng
Ms throat and severing the veins
?of nit arm3. The act is said to be
tl:e result of dependency ever financial
circumstances.
r Air. McCormick about 70 years of
1 age, who lives cn Factory hill in Dillon,
was killed at Little Pee Dee trestle,
two miles north of Dillon Wednes- i
day 3fternoon at 6 o'clock by the
south-bound train, No. 23. The train
was stopped, a boat procured, and the
body recovered and taken to the
ir?nn's home.
~U is rumored through the Congaree
? section that the kacline beds are to be
t utilized in a few weeks and crockery j
t manufactory is to be built in Sumter by j
"Northern capitalists, who will own
the entire enterprise. The factory will |
from four to five carloads of kao- j 1
line per week.
The governor has appointed Judge ;
Ernest Garv Stmreme Court Justice!
tp hear the case of the Independent Oil
Company vs. The Pee Dee Ice Company.
In place of Justice C. A. Woods, who
was disqualified by reason of being
.Interested in one of the concerns.
< Arthur Simmons, a negro preacher
living near Beaufort, has been arrested
for running a blind tiger in his
borne. The constables had quite a tussle
with him when they went to search
bis house.
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Industrial Miscellany.
The hig saw and shingle mills of
"William J. Gooding, Jr., at Gooding.
Ga.. were destroyed by fire last week,
together with 85.0GC shingles and 55,000
feet of lumber. The loss is estimated
at 320.000, with no insurance. The
plaining roil! and dry-kilns were not
burned. H Is understood that the plant
will be rebuilt.
The large saw-mill of the Charleston
Lumber Co. located at Brickyard, several
miles from Beaufort, S. C.. will be
romplcted in about two weeks. 'l*;e
company has acquired large timber
rights, and the output of its plant will
40 25,000 feet daily. Another mill of 60,000
feet capacity will be erected shortly
by the same company in the vicinity
of Brickyard.
Lumber Notes.
The n.'3t:c.a for a new trial in the
T?i,nrLi'-..T!i)r'-n r'nv,. trial wjr; hf.lrfi
by Judge Town-rend at Chesterfield.
After hearing the arguments of counsel
on belli s'des the court refused the
cotton.
There is en exhibition ia Columbia
. a handsome ?ol 1 headed umbrella. inscribed
with appropriate Insignia, and
it is to he presented during the reunion
to the oldest visiting veteran.
The "Womack-iJan'.el Lumber Co. 01
Caldwell, Texas, has been organized by
!M. L. "Womack and C. J. Daniel of
Caldwell. The company has purchased
t"he two lumber-yards at that place,
and will consolidate the business.
A shingle-manufacturing company
H'ith a capital of $lo0,000 was incorporated
latt week at Wilmington. N. C.
Sixly thousand dollars has been paid
in. The company will be known as the
b New J?aD3\er Shingle Mills of "WilI
>?LigtOIl.
th: products of Jamaica.
Flow Kanan.i, Coconnut and Chocolate
Tree.* Are Cultivated.
ono of tlie most interesting features
Df Jamaican life is the niauner in
tvhich the large fmit n.ud nut plantations
arc conducted so as to yioid a
profit to their proprietors. This is iu
seine instances a difficult result to obtain.
particularly in the case of the banana.
The banana plant takes about a year
to mature and bears but one bunch,
and that is the end of it. but almost Immediate!
t a sucker .conies up at the
root to take its place. However, after
two or three years, according: lo the
richness of the soli, the old roots are
dug out. and the "banana walk" is repiauttd
with fresh suckers, as after a
time the plants front the old roots will
not prodoce what is called a "bunch."
which contains nine "hands." All below
nine bauds are called "stents." A
stent with eight hands counts as threefourths
of a bunch, one with seven on?boif.
and one with six one-fourth. If
by chance a stem contains more than
nine hands it is only recognized as a
"bunch." Each one is checked tip as it
passes along the dock to the ship on
the ton of a black woman's luad and
the "checkers up" become very skilful,
being able io toll at a glance just how
many hands each stem contains. The
planters try to make their plantations
produce the most fruit at the time of
year when it will bring the best price,
and this is from March through the
summer, as it is easier to handle in the
United Siaies during warm weather
nml is in much greater demand. j ins
<au l;o done l?y pruning, letting only
the right sized suckers remain to take
the place of the plant which has borne.
Aside from banana cultivation a pood
deal of attention is paid to the cocoanut.
This consists more in marketing
the product than anything else, as after
the seed has been planted there is very
little cultivation necessary, except to
keep the grass down, and this is often
accomplished by rattle, after tbe tree
has become a few years old. It takes
nearly seven years before it "frill produce
nuts iu any quantity, but after
this time it blooms every month in the
year. A healthy coconnut tree is never
without fruit m different stages of ripening.
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The chocolate tree hears its fruit in a |
most peculiar way. putting out its
b!com directly from the main trunk
and th? principal branches, forming an
oblong pod resembling a eau'.al ?npe
somewhat, and containing seeds a little
thicker than, a lima bean.
These seeds are taken from the pods
and passed through a simple process of
/..-mAu'rtt!,.,, tl?OM /llMOll fPl?rt ?
U'i ?uai iu\ a uu.u. a ?>? . ,
bears fruit in about four years. and
with little care will produce for many
years.
Nearly all the field work on the?e
plantations is done by Indentured coolies,
both men and women, sent out
from India. Tliey make very reliable
laborers. The loading of the steamers*
Is largely done by the native negroes.?
New York Tost.
The ltllndflsh.
rerhaps one of the most Interesting
facts in connection with the blintifisli
f Arablyopsis spelaeus) of the Mainmotit
Cave in Kentucky.the Wyandotte Cave
In Indiana and the dark subterranean
waters of the limestone rocks of the
Central United States. Is that, like
many human beings who are deprivfd
of the power of vision, its sense of
bearing is most acutely developed.
These curious aquatic creatures, absolutely
colorless, without the slightest
trace of external eves, and measuring
only about live Inches in length, have
such quick hearing that, although they
rente to the top of the water to feed,
and can he easily taken by the net if
iii? strictest silence is observed, are so
sensitive to sound that unless one almost
holds one's breath they Avlil dive
downward with lightning-like rapidity
and hide themselves beneath stones or
rooks at the bottom of the water.
As though to further protect them nature
lias provided them with organs of
fouoii arranged in a series of transverse
ridges 011 either side of the head,
by means of which they are able to
toll the near proximity of enemies in
the most wonderful manner.
Another wonderful provision of nature
is that, being obliged to find its
food o:i the surface?there being very
little life in tiie deep waters of these
caves?Its mouth is so formed that it is
directed upward, and the head being
very flat above, the mouth, as it swims,
is just at the ton of the water. In this
way it is able to take its food quickly
and easily, and so needs no eyes, its
acute sense of hearing more than making
up for the deprivation of sight.?
Collier's Weekly.
Mortem Delivery Wninm.
A eli\ ery wagon of the latest type
stood in front of a well-known jewelry
store the other night. Inside the store
the clerics were closing up. Very soon
one of tker.i came out armed with a
screwdriver and began removing from
the sides 01 the wagon two large sliver
plates hearing the linn's name. The
plates were the only adornment othei
than a very high polish on the rig.
"That's funny," remarked a bystander
who watched the clerk's operation.
"Funny, eh?" said the clerk. "Well,
those plates are worth ?200, and y$u
don't suppose we're taking any
chances with them in a hi# livery
stable."
lie took the plates inside and pni
them with other silverware in the safe.
The same .tiling happens in more than
one store. Up-to-date delivery wagons
in this city are often rather valuable
property. The wagon of one florist
bears his name in large gold letters
<.;i the sides. They are so arranged
that they can bo removed every night
and replaced in the morning.?New
York Sun.
One-third of the physicians of Ecrliu
earn less than $05 a month.
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WEATHER AND CROPS.
The Crop Conditions for the Week
Showed Little Progress.
The week ending 8 p. m. Monday,
April 27th, had a mean temperature of
about 58 degrees, which is 8 degrees
below normal. There were no warm
days, and the nights were unusually
cool, with general frosts on the 23rd
and 24th, and with thin ice in the
northern portions on the latter date,
'."he damage done by the frosts was
sagnt, tnougn tenaer vegetation was
killed in places, but the frosts were
light in those sections where field
ciops are generally up. The cool
weather did harm by retarding the
growth of crops, and by preventing
rapid or favorable germination of
planted seeds. It also caused young
corn and cotton to turn yellow, and
look sickly. High winds prevailed at
times that had a bad effect on cotton.
The precipitation was light and confined
to the first one, and last two
days, with an interval of dry weather
that permitted rapid progress of farm;
work. Hail occurred over the northern
portions on the 20th that destroyed
much tobacco in Marion and adjacent
counties. There was another hailstorm
on the 22nd that did little or no damage.
There was also a flurry of snow
in I^ancastor county on the latter date.
The rain at the close of the week was
beneficial, by softening clay soils that
had become baked and hard, and that
broke up cloddy.
Corn planting is almost finished in
the eastern and central counties, but
made slow progress in the extreme
west where lands continue too wet
Corn that is up looks sickly, owing to
cold weather and stands have become
worms to such an extent that some
worms to sue han extent that some
fields are. being plowed up and replanted.
First cultivation is general
in the eastern counties.
Cotton planting made rapid progress
over all except the extreme
westprn nortions nnrl if? nearly fin
ished in the central and eastern counties,
making the planting season practically
as early as the average one.
The weather has been too cold for the
favorable germination of cotton seed,
and the growth of that is up. Some
cotton is large enough to have received
its first cultivation.
Tobacco plants are doing well, except
where damaged by worms and
hail, and transplanting has become
general in the more westerly districts
and is about finished in the easterly
cr.cs. Rice planting is very backward
in the Georgetown district, but has
progressed favorably in other districts
where much is up to fair stands. The
cats crop shows slight improvement
in localities, but none over the greater
portion cf the State. Lice are still doing
some damage. Cats are heading
low in places and harvest has begun
in Charleston county. Wheat shows no
improvement and rust is spreading
rapidly. Truck was unfavorably affected
by the cool weather. Minor
crops and gardens need warmer
weather.
THE nARKElS.
PRODUCE MARKET.
Onions I 70
Chickens*? Spring 13
Hens?Per head 33
Eggs 13%
Besewax 20
Turkeys 12% ,
Corn <j'0
Ducks 22%
Wheat 60
Wheat-Seed 1 CO
Dates toKyc
1 00Shies..
9>
S!c1e3?Calf . .. 40
Hfdes?Dry salt .. 10
Tallow?Unrendered 2
COTTON MARKET.
Thos^' figuirs lopresent prices paid
to wagons.
Strict goorl middling . .. . .10..35
Gocd middling 10.25
Strict middling TOTS ,
Sta'ns and tinges S l'-4 to lftiiO
Market?Film.
The State Pensions.
Miss Kate Maher. clerfe^of the pension
departixent. has prepared the
checks to be sent to the several counties
to be distributed among the pensioners.
The following are the aip/Jtrnts
at the warrants:.
Abbeville $3,705.90, Aiken
Anderson $10,302.15. Bamberg $1,492.95.
Barawcll $3,257.20, Beaufort
$037.90. Berkeley $2,403.10, Charleston
$2,889.CO, Cherokee $4,940.70. Chester
$3,471.10. Chesterfield $5,619.00. Clarendon
$3,371.05. Colleton *7.058.80,
Darlington $4,953.65. Dorchester $1.6-36.10,
Edgefield $3,618.85. Fairfield
$3,156.20. Florence $3,764.35. Georgetown
$1,055.45. Greenville $10,850.50,
Greenwood $3,332.30, Hampton 54.190.05.
Horry $4.94)2.20. Kershaw $3.333.75,
Lancaster $0,170.80. Laurens
$6,372.50, Lee $3,113.10, i^exingcun
341.40, Marion $3,624.30. Marlboro $3,4S7.G0,
Newberry $3,675.35, Oconee $7,302.30,
Orangeburg $4,34d.05. Pickens
$5,237.05. Richland $4,940.35. Saluda'
$3,927.40. Sj>artanburg $16,606.60,
Sumter $3,057.25. Union $4,C22.25, Williamsburg
$3,865.25, York $S,038.70.
Total $19C.l 75.75.
There are 8,250 pensioners this year,
an increase of 500 over lase yaar,
when there were 7,750, but the amount
of the appropriation was not increased.
The increase has been general
throughout the State. The most numerous
class will get $17.35 per capita,
whereas the pro rata appropriation last
year was $19.65 for this same class.
The total amount appropriated v;as
$200,000, but 52,000 was set aside for
the artificial limb fund and $2,000 for
the expense of the county boards.
Palmetto Briefs. ,
Governor Heyward is still in receipt
of numerous invitations to deliver commencement
speeches. He will be unable
to comply with the tenth of the
requests, all of which he appreciates
very much.
The governor's office is stiH in receipt
of a great many letters congratulating
him upon selecting Gen. Wilie
Jones as the member of the dispensary
board.
| BILL ARP. |
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Where is my grindstone? Where ia
my rake and ray axe? Did anybody
ever hear of a negro stealing a
grindstone. He stole it to sell or else
he thought it was a cheese. I'll bet
there are twenty negroes in sight of
iny nouse wno Know an aooui mai
grindstone, but they won't tell. That
Is a race trait?not to tell on one another.
Who steals ray young pigeons
before we get up in the morning? We
haven't had a squab to eat in three
months.
Mr. Cleveland made a good speech
in New York on the race problem,
and so did Mr. Parkhurst, but you
can't make a good citizen out of a negro
without he has a master or a boss
on whom he has to depend. My opinion
from observation is that Tuskeegee
can't do it nor any other school.
The more education, the les3 inclination
to work for a living. Where
are the Tuskeegee graduates? Just
lazying arcund or teaching school. I
read in yesterday's paper where a negro
school teacher was caught in having
made a fake list of his scholars
and drew more money than he was entitled
to. But neither Cleveland nor
Parkhurst nor any other northern
man know-; enough about the negro to
talk intelligently about him. Nor does
this generation of southern men know
much more. Nobody knows now but
the few old men who are left Our
editors and newspaper men do not
know. They are all too young and
most of them came from stock that
did not own negroes in the old slavery
times. I do not assert this through
conceit, but it pains and astonishes
mo to hear northern speakers and
some editprs from tho south saying
that since the negro was set free he
had mado wonderful progress, considering
that for a thousand years he
had been either a savage or a slave.
Mr. Cleveland said "there is still a
grievous amount of ignorance, a sad
amount of viciousness and a tremendous
amount of laziness and thriftlessness
intermingled with their
citizenship."
If Mr. Cleveland had been an old
citizen of the south he would have
said:
"Before freedom came the negro
was decile, moral, industrious, and as
intelligent as thousands of the uneducated
white people of the south.
Not an outrage was committed by
?hera during the war from the Potomac
to the Rio Grande. There was
not a convict camp nor a changing in
all the south. The marriage relation
wa5 faithfully observed, and negro
families were contented and happy,
for most of them had hind masters
and mistresses, who would get up in
the night and minister to their sick.
Bad negroes had to be punished, cf
course, and so do bad white children,
but it seldom had to bo Jone. Talk
about the shackles and the chains of
slavery. It is all rot and imagination.
Our children have a master until they
are 21. The negro had one all his life,
and. as Dr. Parkhtirst said, most of
them needed one, and need one now,
and so do thousands of white people.
The fact is there are but few people
who have not got one. I do not admit
that I have, but I have a mistress,
and that Is the same thing. There is
not a clerk in a store, whether male
or female, bnt is under the control of
somebody; not a conductor on a railroad
nor a sailor on a ship nor a
pupil in the schools nor a policeman !
in the towns. Nine-tenths of the peo- f
pie In civilized countries are subor- i
dinate to the other tenth, and it ;
looks like everybody in these United \
States belong-.? to Teddy Roosevelt, f
save a few besides myself and some
Mississippi hears.
The old-time slaves got a good, fair
education from contact with their
masters their master's children
and that is where they had the advantage
of the poor whites. Most all
of the family servants could read,
notwithstanding there was a law forbidding
their being taught, shackles |
and chains! Where is my grindstone
and my rake and my ax? The negro,
especially those of the copper colored
type (I don't mean mulattos)
are naturalbom mechanics. We had
in Georgia more negro carpenters,
blacksmiths and shoemakers than
there wwe whites of the same trade.
These kind of mechanics are an over
the State now, bnt they didn't come
trnm TiK'l/nooft FV>r several vpars I
have been looking for a laboring
graduate of that school or any other
negro school, but have not found one.
A New York friend told me not long
ago that 1 could find fifty of them as
waiters in one hotel in New York
city. That is all right. The money for
their education came from up there
and we can spare the whole turnout.
"Just emerged from bondage and ignorance
and were a thousand years
behind the white race when their
shackles were knocked off." On, my
country! where is my gridstonc?
fore those imaginary shackles were
knocked off our slaves were so obedient
and law-abiding we did not need
a prison, and now there a~e 4,400 in
the c hain gangs of Georgia. Wonderful
nmcrrcc * With all their education
they are meaner, lazier, dirtier and
ton tlm<s more immoral in their domestic
relations than ever before.
And yet somo southern editors boast
of their acquisition of property and
run it up in the millions. Of course
there are some gcod and some thrifty
negroes who have made money, but
they are not 5 per cent of the masses.
One negro in this town is worth more
money than ail the rest. The cities
are full cf vagabonds who play craps
and steal and snatch purses from women
and burglarize houses and keep
women and children in a state of constant
alarm. Stealing is as much a
race trait with them as it is among
the Bedowin Arabs. Where are my
young pigeons and what becomes of
my sto've wood and coal?
No our editors are tco young to realize
the difference between now and
t'usn. Why, my faithful man servant
Tip could tell them more about slavery
than they all know. Did I ever
whip Tip? No, never. I never thought
of such a thing. I never whipped but
one of my negroes. My wife's father,
V
Judge Hntchine. owned ever a hundred
and I never heard of hlra whipping
one of them. lie had one very
bad negro who got mad and run
away and stayed in the woods a month
out of spite and when he got tired
and came home the old j ulge. drove
him off again and told him to stay in
the woods, that he didn't want him
any more, but ho finally begged his
way back and gave no more trouble.
Chains and shackles! Mr. Lincoln
knocked them off of his. There pre
many kinds of chains, but the chains
I of slavery were not to ue comparea
with the chains of the chain gang
or the chains of matrimony that
many a poor wife is suffering from.
Now let us hear no more about
shackles nor about the negro being a
thousand years behind the white man.
The truth is the old-time negro was
morally a thousand years ahead of
the rascals up north who brought him
here in slave ships and sold him to
us because they could not use them
at home. But the Lord is merciful and
we had rather endure the negro than
listen to northern slanders. They
have just found a mare's nest. If
it has taken them forty years to realize
their folly, how long will it take
them to pay us for what they swindled
us out of? Where is ray grindstone?
It was an unshackled nigger
that stole it and the folks that unshackled
him ought to pay for it.?
Bill Arp in Atlanta Constitution.
BELIEVES PRIEST INNOCENT.
Rev. Cbas. Rciclilin. Brother of the
Murdered (iirl Makes Statement.
Loraine. 0.. Special.?The Rev. Cbas.
Relchlin. pastor of St. Joseph's church,
in this city, and brother of Agatha
Reichlin, who was murdered last
Thursday night, Sunday made a sensational
denunciation of the authori
ties for the arrest of Rev. Ferdinand
Walser, on the charge of murdering
his sister. The occasion was at the
services in the morning in that church
and the place was from the altar steps.
Father Reicblin was greatly affected
over the happenings of the week and
could hardly speak. Several times his
voice was husky from emotion and he
paused frequently to overcome his
feelings. Father Reichlin's statement
was as follows:
"Various events have happened during
the week past. No doubt they are
a lesson to us. The lC3Son is that we
should always be ready for death: for
we know r.ot when it will pleas? the
Lord to call us to Himself. Avoid sia
and'do good. The lesson is how little
wc ran trust the world.
"Brutality is net a thing that is
confided to so-called dark ages, it is
delusively confined to non-clvllized
countries: it is right here at our home,
in this twentieth century. The world
sees it every day.
"I am sorry to see that Father Walser
is connected with the murder of my j
oJotor- I n m onrvr hcr-fli;sr> 1 kflOW I !
OIOIC* A um JV4 * J - ? ? - - .
am convinced before God that he Is ab- ,
solutely innocent, and that no matter j
how strong public opinion is. how
spiteful, how atrocious that public
opinion may be, it cannot make him
out a murderer, the murderer of my
sister. The time will come when I will #
give the version of the bloodhound
story upon which the character of
public opinion seems to be based. My
friends, I believe Father Walser innocent
until he is proven guilty.
"Personally, I most say that I do
not know which assault is most brutal
?the assault of the murderer upon my
sister, or the assault upon the reputation
of Father Walser?the assault
made by public opinion upon that good
priest.
"In yonr prayers pray for my poor
sister. Pray also for Father Walser.
Let us help him carry his cross and
heavy though it be let us act with fortitude
and as becomes Christians."
The seene of the murder was the .
point of interest for thousands of call- J
ers at the Reichffn home, where the !
body was in view until it was taken >
into St. Joseph's church, at .1 o'clock, j
where the vespers for the dead were j
sung by Rev. Chas. Reichlin and two j
assisting priests. The congregation was- j
so great that it entirely r.LMra au tn?
seats and all the standing room. ,
Father WaTser, who is confined in
the county jail at Elyria. was not accessible
to visitors, and he has seen
no one. He is treated as any other
prisoner except that he has the freedom
of the corridor. His preliminary hearing
will be held probably on Tuesday.
There is no excitement at Elyria and
no sign of any unlawful action.
Theories concerning the crime are as
many as there are individuals, while
the authorities are not disposed to
give expression to any views. Support
of the belief that a burglar committed
the crime was given impetuosity
by the statements of several neighbors
who had seen a stranger hanging
around the Reichlin home for several
hours on the night of the crime.
Emperor Visits the Pope.
Rome. By Cable.?Emperior William 1
was received by the Pope Sunday. He
had a conference with the Pontiff of 1
40 minutes' duration and then returned '
to the residence of the Prussian minister
to the Holy See. The day wa3
bright and as the Emperor and his .
suite traversed the streets of Rome.
His Majesty presented Prince Fredrick
William and Prince Eitfcel to the Pontiff.
At the Vatican the Emperor was
received with military honors by the
Falatin Guards and a platoon of gen
_ . ... V
uarmes, ana ne was welcomed by the
high dignitaries of the pontiflcial
c-:?urt. The visit of Emperior William
was returned by Cardinal Rampolla,
Pcpal Secretary of State, at the Prussian
legation. ,
Spaldings Damaged by Firo. !
Chicago, Special.?Fire destroyed (
the five-story building at 151-153 Wa- .
bash avenue, causing a less of $150,000. '
The principal losers are the Water- j
bury Clock Company; Spieglc Bros. ^
tailors, and A. G. Spalding & Co. The |
latter firm used the two upper stories (
as a store room and their I033 is
fcc&vy.
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FALLS ON T0W%
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Hundreds of Villagers Meet Dealfa ifl
the Wreck.
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OVERWHELMED BY TONS OF ROCK. .
Houses Were Crusked Like EzZm
Shells?"iightcen Mm Imprisoned
in a Mine.
Vancouver, B. C., Special.?Overwhelmed
by countless tons of rock,
Wednesday morning shortly after 4
o'clock, and with probably 112 of it? *
inhabitants killed almost instantly,
the little mining town of Frank, in
Southwestern Alberta is threatened
with complete destruction by flood.
Old Man's river, which flows through
the centre of the town, is dammed up
by the falling rocks to the height of
nearly 100 feet and the entire valley
above the town is flooded for miles.
A big body of water is pressing with
force upon the dam. the only protection
the town of Frank now has. unless
the river shall find another channel.
Should the impromptu dam break,
the entire village would be swept
away.
A dispatch from Frank says: "A
tremendously loud reverbration shook
the whole valley of the Old Man's
river and scarcely half the inhabitants
of this town awakened to a realization
of the impending danger, 1
when, from the top of Turtle Mountain.
overlooking the settlement, trillions
of tons of rock were hurled,
"The Frank Mines, operated by the^^
French Canadian Coal Company, ^
across from the town, were seen to be
burled under hundreds of feet of rock
just as the morning light was breaking.
Inside of fire minutes from the
first thunderous shock, half the town
realized what had happened, a small
force of men had started to the relief
of the miners, despite the great risk
they ran of being buried under the
rocks, which were still being precipitated
from the lofty mountain top.
The volunteer relief force was unable
to get into the mine, but managed to
get near enough to determine that
uot a man at the workings had escaped
death. Many had been fearfully
mangled.
"The disaster was merciful to those
men who were employed above ground
in that they must have been killed instantly,
while those meu in the workings
of the mine may yet be alive if,
they have air to breathe. If all the
air shafts to the mine were closed up
under that awful avalanche all the
men must have died by this afternoon.
Th? disaster was not confined
to the vicinity of the mine alone, for
many of the dwelling houses in the
town of Frank were demolished by the
falling rock. Some of the occupants
of these houses escaped death, but
many others were instantly killed. It
is conservatively estimated that the
loss of life will exceed one hundred
and the latest returns place the number
*>f dead at 112."
It is impossible to arrive at any accurate
estimate of the loss of life,, as,
owing to the excitement and harry
and rush of people on the streets, no
one could say who is mdsuing
and who is not. There are
no records available that will teH how? '
many men were working in and about
'?- At- A*
me mine at uie wime l* iuv uuuwi.
It is variously reported that there
were from 18 to 50 miners under
ground.
The railroad track for a distance of
two miles or more east of the station
is covered with from ten to forty feet
of rock and the telegraph wires are
down. All communication is being cond
acted over one wire, running west,
and this one line is so blocked with
private messages and inquiries from
the outside it is only with the greatest
difficnlty that press matter can be
sent out. The eruption influences seem
to centre at the crown of Turtle
Mountain.
An appeal has been made from
Frank to the government and mounten
police arc being hurried to the unfo:*tunaee
village. Aid is also being
sent from neighboring towns, but owing
to the interruption of the train
service and the mountainous country,
it wdl be several hours before help
can reach the stricken community.
Lumber Boat Disabled.
Newport News. Va.. fTpecial?The
new lumber ship Francis H. I^eggett,
from Newport News to San Francisco,
returned to port, having been badly
crippled in a gale off Hatteras. On
bcr voyage out to her home port, she
ran into a nasty northeaster. Har
steering gear broke and the vessel,
which has very little free board, shipped
a quantity of water. With difficulty
she was brought about and proceeded
to the shipyard here for repairs.
The Leggett had cn board 1,300
tons of steel rails and two locomotive
for the Hammond Lumber Company.
For Division
Tallahassee, Fla., Special.?The
House voted to reconsider Representative
Long's resolution and passed
it by a vote of 45 to 15?one more
th.->n the necessary majority. The _
resolution proposes an amendment to'
the constitution which would divide
the school fund between the race3 in
proportion to the amount paid by
each. Indications point to the defeat
of the resolution in the Senate.
Telegraphic Briefs.
Thomas A. Edison has *aken out 791
patents in all. for which he has paid
in fees 151,000. Of the whole number
*11 were taken cut before 1S95. Since
then he has taken out each year from
) to 23 new ones. La3t year he took
aut 19. The clerks of the patent office
have kept systematic accounts of the
patents of Mr. Edison, tabulated and
indexed, so that reference to them Is
.asy.