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t -'" " > - v. - /v. mrhi RMrW)S i }dministration of | inal Laws a Disgrace g to Civilization i Villiam H. Taft, Secretary of War. ' St Mjd^ga GRIEVE for my country to say that the administration of the - j> criminal laws in all the states (there may be one or two exI ^ ceptions) is a disgrace to our civilization. Constitutional I EM limitations adopted in tenderness: to the defendant nave uevu i jfek I elaborated by courts and legislatures because thought to be S' 5 in tfle interest of liberty. Trial by jury has come to be reft m garded as a fetich to such an extent that legislatures have exalted the power of the jury and diminished the power of the court in criminal cases. The function of the judge is limited to that of moderator in a religious assembly. The law throws the reins on the back of the jury, and the verdict becomes rather the vote of a town meeting than the sharp, clear decision of the tribunal of justice. The counsel for the defence, relying on the diminishing power of the court, creates by dramatic art and by harping on the importance of unimportant details a false atmosphere, which the judge is powerless to dispel, and under the hypnotic inlluence of which the counsel is able to lead the jurors to vote for a verdict tfhich after th<5 excitement has passed they are unable to support as men. Since 18S5 in the United States there have been 131.951 murders and homicides and 22SG executions. In 1SS5 the number of murders was 1S08. and in 1904 S4S2. The number of executions in 1SS5 was 10$, aad in 1904 11C. This startling increase in murders and homicides compared with executions tells the story. As murder is increasing so are all felonies, and there can be no doubt that they will continue to increase unless the criminal laws IK' enforced with more certainty, uniformity and severity than they now are. If laws could be passed either abolishing the right of criminal appeal and leaving to the pardoning power the correction of judicial wrong, or, if appeal^ must be allowed, then if a law could be enacted by which no judgment of t court below should be reversed except for an error which the court, alter n reading the entire evidence, can say would have led to a different verdict, ninety-nine reversals out of one hundred under the present system would be avoided. If the power of the court by statute to advise the jury to comment ami express its opinion to the jury upon the facts in every criminal case, could be restored, and if the state and the defendant were both deprived o? peremptory challenges in the selection of a jury, twenty-live percent of those trials which are now miscarriages of justice would result in the conviction oi the guilty defendant, and that which has become a mere game in which the defendant's counsel play with loaded dice would resume its office of a serious judicial investigation. Our country is disgusted by the number of lynchlngs in the north and south. If men who commit crime were promptly arrested and convicted, there would be no mob for the purpose of lynching. Nothing but a radical improvement in our administration of criminal law will prevent the growth in the number of lynchings in the United .States that bring the blush of shame to every lover of his country. i ' m: Jjr fjow I Fashions are Formed \ The Way flew Styles vr New Fads Come ^ ^ Forth in Paris. ? By Lady Violet Greville. ?????? ryfc ?u nfc i j HOSE who see tbe beautiful new confections, the marvels of S lace, embroidery and feathers, the novei designs and the arI 5 tistic ideas, probably often wonder who sets the fashions and III whence they come. The best, of course, originate in Paris, S 3 fl where a regular business is made of designing. noi one ^ B person alone, not one establishment alone, but all the best and most scientific of milliners consort and advise together, jjimn nmi ii"m Sometimes an original idea emanates from a humble workwoman, and after fusion in the brain and improvements and suggestions given by the great autocrat, it emerges, Minerva-like, in full panoply, complete and victorious. Numbers of diligent seekers, a horde of assistants, voluminous notes, sketches, ideas, are pressed into the service. Artists lend their willing services, contribute designs or sketches, while the sartorial adept combines, exaggerates, alters old modes, culling, like the bee, flowers of fancy here and there, until the bright vision of beauty is realized and the forthcoming styles decided on. A touch here, a line there, make all the difference, but it requires an artist's touch to assimilate thorn. Needless to say, the rivalry ia incessant and intense, until at last a committee is formed, opinions given, and the fashion is launched forth. Then must the clients be consulted, the actresses interested, the fine ladies dressed. No talways, even after the greatest pains and anxiety, will a fashion catch on. nor will that fashion suit everybody. There are modes for the dashing, extravagant American, others for the smart English woman, and others for the chic Parisienne, who is more exclusive and more exacting in her taste. Fashions are born, like Venus, from the foam of the sea?from a 4 chance combination of color, an accident, a careless caprice, a momentary effect, which strikes the artist's eye and gives him an idea. Old portraits and picture galleries are carefully studied, with a view to new apotheoses of beauty, until the life of a great couturier becomes the life of the true genius?struggle, ambitios, perseverance and success. & The Abunda Life 1 By the President of the University ? - ?/ California. -<0v =* U ARE living in days of abundance," he said. "The economic wwv conditions of the last ten years have suddenly produced a portentously numerous class of American beings whose wbole strength and wit are completely absorbed in devising ?' the means of spending any reasonable portion of their income. ^ ^ Their money has torn them away from the ordinary ( i I,, , J standards of home and civic life, created a new set of conditions for them, made them its servants. They change their abiding place with the seasons, have no home and have forgotten where they vote. The sudden dislodgment of life conditions produced by the rapid access of wealth, in the case of such as allow their lives to be mastered by material wealth, commonly results in a pitiful maladjustment of machinery to work demanded. A man buys more villas than he can live in, more clothes than he can wear and more yachts than he can sail; and then fills his life with false movements in a nervous attempt to keep the machinery going. One of the saddest features of lives pursued by wealth consists in their 1 isolation from humanity. People who maintain steam yachts and dine Frenchfully at night and flit between Lenox and Newport and Palm Beach and Homburg arc naturally and automatically driven into the society of the like-conditinned and bound there. Their sons attend the same expensive academies. their daughters are polished off at some elite schools, their sons ana aaugniers meet together and they intermarry and interdivorce; and the caste of the great rich emerges. 1 Sound judgment and clear prospective In the motives and movements of human life are seldom found among these people of the caste who drag the golden ball and chain. Abundance of goods cannot insure either to a people 1 or to an individual that quality of existence which we are justified in associat- ( ing with the motion of richness, fullness, abundance of life. A man lives abundantly according as he opens his life to the opportunities of the world he lives in both to be and to do. ] We need national laws for divorce, for the oversight of insurance, for the , regulation of the traffic of the great national concerns. It behooves us while holaing fast to local safeguards for local interests, to court the inspiration of t>-~ rational life and be Americans. ! ' REMOVING INK STAINS. Tearful Milk. . Ink stains may be removed from ^ was complaining to her dairywhite goods with lemon and salt. man some time ago about the quality 1 Cover the stam with fine salt, squeeze of his miik. "Short o* grass feed, J the lemon jmce on it, and rub be- mum?short o' grass feed this time o' tween the hands. A second applicar year," said the jocular milkman. ' tion will be necessary when the ink "Bless you, them cows o' mine are is obstinate. Ink may be removed just as sorry about it as I am. I often ' successfully from colored clothes by stands and watches 'em cryin'?regu- i oaking them il sweet milk. Mil- lar cryin', mum?because they feel as 1 dew will usually, disappear if soaked how their milk don't do 'em credit, in soar milk, and then washed in You dcn't believe it?" the usual manner. Chloride of lime "Oh. yes, I believe it," said the lady; \ trill also remove mildew stains, but "but I wish in future you'd see that ] it must be well diluted carefully they don't drop their tears Into our j 'Tl* can."?The Tatler. ================= SOUTH CAROLINA CROP BULLETIN Weather Conditions Given Out by the Department Observer. The South Carolina section of the climate and crop service of the Department of Agriculture issues the following official bulletin of weather ' ,,j ' f - !?? nnct and crop conditions 101 mc week: The week ending: Monday, Septcmber 4th began with very cool weather but the warmth increased to above normal by its close, making the average temperature for the week about normal. The extremes were a maximum of 1)8 degrees at Blaekville and Florence on September 1st and 2nd and a minimum of 50 degrees at Greenville on August 29th and 50th. The week was generally clear with increasing cloudiness during the last two days. The relative humidity was uniformly low. Over the greater portion of the State there was no rain during the week, and in places the ground is becoming dry and the need of moisture is indicated, esepeially in the coast truck districts; showers were general, though mostly light, over the western kinlt' of the State beginning on the - ? niiiht of the 1st and continuing to the close; there were also rains in the eastern tier of counties with occassional heavy showers. On the whole, the weather was favorable for general farm work, especially for haying and saving fodder and for picking cotton. In localities where the sod has been too wet heretofore it dried sufficiently to permit gardening and plowing. Some oats have been sown in the central counties. Cotton continues to deteriorate on sandy lands owing to rust and excessive shedding, so that practically the plants have ceased to grow or fruit and nearly .all the top crop has dropped off; on clay lands the conditions are better, but rust has appeared in places. On sandy lands cotton opened rapidly, and picking made rapid progress over the eastern and central counties and will be gen oral over the western onesttunng me coming week. On clay lands it is just beginning to open f?*eely. Catter pillars continue numerous on sea-island cotton. Tobacco curing is finished. Rice harvest is underway and som? has been thrashed. Peas and sweet potatoes arc doing well. Pastures continue good. Strawberrie plants, being set out. Fall track being planted extensively in the const districts but the soil is too dry for favorable germination.?J. tV. Bauer, Section Director. Colleton Prisoners Try to Break Jail. Walterboro, Special. ? Thursday night there came near being another successful jail delivery here. Some time ago six young white men from the vicinity of Green Pond and Young's Island were committed to jail for breaking into and stealing from some freight cars near Green Pond. A report of this has already been published, also the report of an attempt by these six young men to break out of jail. Their escape was nmvatitod hv tliP timplv disCOVerV Of the sheriff. South Carolina Items. President Harvie Jordan of the Southern Cotton Association will be in Bennettsville on September 12, and will address the cotton growers of Marlboro in the court house on that day. President Smith and Treasurer Hyatt of the State association will also be here at the same time. Jordan and Smith will address a big cotton growers' rally at Maxton, N. C., on the 9th. H. \Y. Holloway, a special Jgent employed by the comptroller general, went to Leesville recently to investigate the burning of the house >? Henry Montz last March. As a result two white men were arested their names being John and William Taylor. The prospect for a large enrollment at the fall session of Converse College, which begins September 20th are very bright, and President Pell, from the information in hand, is sure that the number of new students will be unusually large. Fire broke out 3t an4 early hour Tuesday it an outbuilding on the f'nion oountv iK>or house farm. The barn and stables, three mules, a lot d? corn and a quantity of provender' were consumed. The origin of the fire is thought to have been accidental. The value of the property destroyed is estimated at $SoO. with insurance of Adam Wilkes, a negro man, was brought to Spartanburg charged with the serious crime of criminally assaulting a colored girl. Ivy Choice, iged eight yean His case was investigated in vragistrate Kirby's zourt and he was bound over to sessions court. The evidence against Wilkes was very damaging. There is no longer ^ny question of the Tennessee Normal College, of the Baptist denomination, and its funire. I \ _ t - - ps )rama Closed And The les Down raent of peace and friendship between the sovereigns of the two empires and between the subjects of Rusaia and Japan, respect! rely. Article 2.?His majesty, the Emperor of Russia, recognizes the preponderant interest from political, military and economical points of view of Japan in the empire of Korea and stipulates that Russia will not oppose any measures for its government, protection or control that Japan will deem necessary to take in Korea in conjunction with the Korean government, but Russian said a few words which one had only to hear to know that they came from his heart. He began by saying that he wished, on behalf of Mr. Witte. Russia's first plenipotentiary, and in his own name, to say a few words. ROSEN'S EARNEST WORDS. "We have just signed," continued the ambassador, "an act which will have forever a place in the annals of history. As negotiators on behalf of. the empire of Russia, as well as the empire of Japan, we may with tranquil conscience say that we have done all that was in our power in order to bring about the peace for which the whole ' vilized world was longing. We earnestly hope that friendly relations between the two empires will henceforth be firmly established and we trust thai his excellency. Baron Komura, as Minister of Foreign Affairs, and one of the leading statesmen of his country, will apply to the strengthening of these relations, the wide experience and wise statesmanship he so conspicuously displayed during these negotiations, which have now been so auspiciously concluded." BARON KOMURA'S RESPONSE. Baron Komura replied that he shared entirely the views of Baron de Rosen. The Treaty of Portsmouth which they had just signed, he said, was in the interest of humanity and civilization and he was happy to believe that it would bring about a firm, lasting peice between the two neighboring empires. He begged to assure the Russian plenipotentiaries that it would be his daty as well as his pleasure to do everything in his power to make the treaty in fact what it professes to be in words?a treaty of peace and amity. Portsmouth, N. H., Special.?The peace opens with a preamble reciting that his majesty, the Emperor and autocrat of all the Russians, and his majesty, the Emperor of Japan, desiring: to close the war now subsisting between them and having appointed their respective plenipotentiaries and fur-! nished them with full powers, which were found to be in form, have come to an agreement on a treaty of peace and arranged as. follows: Article 1 stipulates for the establish-1 Caucasus in Wild Panic. Ba By Cable.?Troop3 under the directs, ^ of the Governor are acting with the utmost vigor, but they have not succeeded in restoring order, althought there is rather less firing. Armed rioters attacked the oil works in the suburb of Balakhan, and after a hot fiiL'ht set fire to them. Tartarbands are scouring the country, murdering and pillaging. The country is in a state of wild panic, and houses and farms are bAing abandoned. The Inland Waterway. Washington, Special.?The engineering board, designated by the Secretary of War to make a new survey of the proposed inland waterway, will visit Norfolk and North Carolina points in October for the purpose of holding hearings, so that the best opinions of the people with reference to selection of a route can be secured. This information was obtained by Representative Small, who called at the War Department and conferred with Col. Smith Leach, the president of this board, t . MBflJ Last Act !n The War I Curtain Gc HISTORICAL PAPER'S CONTENTS! llr. Witte Signed First ar.d When All Had Done So Baroir Rosen and Baron Komura Exchanged Compliments For the Two Misssions? Russian Mission Attends Thanhsgiving Service at Christ Episcopal Church?Rulers to Sign Ccr.ics Within 50 Days. Portsmouth, N. H., Special.?The treaty of Portsmouth was signed shortly before 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon in the conference loom of the navy general store at the navy yard. The firing of a national salute of 19 guns was the signal which told the people of Portsmouth. Kittery and Newcastle that the peace of Portsmouth was an accomplished fact, and the church bells in the three towns were soon pealing forthaa joyful refrain. For 47 minutes those outside the coherence room anxiously awaited the signal. Suddenly an orderly dashed to the entrance of the peace building, and waved his hand to the gunner a few feet away and the opening shot of the salute rang out on the clear air of the soft September afternoon, proclaiming peace between Russia and Japan. WITTE GRASPS KOMURA'S HAND. Up to the moment of signing the treaty, no word had broken the silence of the conference room. Throwing his pen aside. Mr. Witte, without a word, reached across the table and grapsed Baron Komura's hand. His conferees followed and the Russian and Japanese delegates remained for a moment In silence, their right hands tightly clasped across the conference table. The war was over?Russia and Japan were once more friends. This simple ceremony rang through and deeply impressed the attaches and secretaries of the two missions, who, with the invited witnesses, had formed a large circle around the delegates sitting at tha table. Baron de Rosen was the first to break the silence. Rising from his seat, the anAassador, looking at Baron Komura anS Mr. Takahira straight in the eye, subjects and Russian enterprises are to enjoy the same status as the subjects and enterprises, of other countries. Article 3.?It is mutually agreed that the territory of Manchuria be simultaneously evacuated by both Russian and Japanese troops. Both countries are concerned in this exacuation, their situations being absolutely identical. All rights acquired by private persons and companies shall remain intact. Article 4.?The rights possessed by I conformity with the lease by Russia of Port Author and Dalny. together with the lands and waters adjacent, shall pass over in their entirety to Japan. ! but the properties and the rights of | Russians subjects are 10 be safeguard I ed and resnected. Article 5.?The governments of Rus[ sia and Japan engage themselves reciprocally not to put any obstacles to the general measures (Which shall be alike for all nations) that China may take for the development of the commerce and industry of Manchuria. Article 6.?The Manchurian Railwayshall be operated jointly between Russia and Japan at Kouang-Tcheng-Tse. The two branch lines shall be operated only for commercial and industrial pur' poses. In view of Russia keeping her I branch line with all rights acquired by ! her convention with China for the con! slruetion of that Railway, Japan acI quires the mines in qpnnection with j such branch line which falls to her However, the rights of private pparties or private enterprises are to be respected. Both parties to this jtreaty remain absolutely frree to undertake what they deem fit sn ex-proprlated ground. Article 7.?Russia and Japan engage , themselves to make a conjunction of J the two branch lines which they own at Kouang-Tcheng-Tse. Article 8.?It is agreed that the i branch lines of the Manchuria Railj way shall be worked with a view to , assure commercial traffic between ' them without obstruction. Article 9.?Russia cedes to Japan j the southern part of Sakhalin Island I as far north as the fiftieth degree of j north latitude, together with the isj lands depending thereon. The right of free navigation is assured in the bays of La Perouse and Tartare. Article 10.?This article recites the situation of the Russian subjects on j the southern part cf Sakhalin Island and stipulates that Russian colonists , there shall be free and shall have the right to remain without changing their nationality. Per contra, the Japanese government shall have the | right to force Russian convicts to | leave the territory which is ceded to her. Article 11.?Russia engages herself to make an agreement with Japan giving to Japanese subjects the right to fish in Russian territorial waters of I the Sea of Japan, the coast of Okhotsk and Behring Sea. Article 12.?The two high contract; ing parties engage themselves to re, new the commercial treaty existing between the two governments prior j to the war, in all its vigor, with slight I modifications in details and with a most favored nation clause, i Article 13.?Russia and Japan recipj rocally engage to restitute their prisi oners of war on paying the real cost ; of keeping the same, such claim for i cost to be supported by documents, j Article 14.?This peace treaty shallj be drawn up in two languages, French j and English, the French text being evi idcnce for tho Russians and the Eng, lish text for the Japanese. In case j of difficulty of interpretation, the j French document to be final evidence. I Article 15.?The ratification of this i treaty shall oe countersigned by the sovereigns of the two States within fifty days after its signature. The French and American embassies shall be intermediaries between the Japanese and Russian governments to announce by telegraph the ratification of the treaty. I The additional articles are agreed to I as follows: I Article One.?The evacuation of ! Manchuria by both armies shall be f completed within eighteen months I from the signing of the treaty, beginI ning with the retirement of troops of ; the first line. At the expiration of the [ eighteen months the two parties will | only be able to leave as guards of | the railway fifteen soldiers per kilometre. Article Two.?The boundary which limits the parts owned respectively'by Russia and Japan in the Sakhalin Is; land shall be definitely marked off on I the spot by a special limitographic | commission. Dr. Rice Named. Columbia. S. C., Special.?The exe cutive committee 01 me wiuuium Theological seminary hag been In session here all day in an effort to elect a president of the institution. They did this indirectly only, having recommended to the trustees that Dr. Theron H. Rice, of Atlanta, be given a position. He was leader in the movement to have the seminary moved from Columbia and consolidated with the I Clarksville university into a big Presj byterian university at Atlanta. Public Printer Ousted. Washington, Special.?Public Printer F. W. Palmer practically has been ousted from office. It was learned authoritatively that President Roosevelt has demanded Mr. Palmer's resignation to take effect on the 15th instant. The demand of the President for Mr. Palmer's resignation was due primarily to the latter's action in trying to force Oscar J. Ricketts and L. C. Hay out of the Government Printing Office. Mr. Palmer asked for the resignation of Rocketts and Hay on the ground that they had been insubordinate. ?? PALMETTO AFFAIRS' Many Newsy Items Gathered From all Sections. Dispensary Investigation. Sumter, Special.?The special committee to investigate the dispensary took up the work here last week. The dispenser at this point was supposed to ho :i model of accuracy and hones ty, but it developed that his administration ins been far from perfect. The testimony went ^o show that the law lias not been carried out in man}' particulars. Thai feature requiring the use of the request blanks has been entirely neglected and there seems to have been more or less 4'graft" in the selling of bottles and cases, amounting to some $500 to $600 per year. While the committee failed to unearth anything positively startling, enough was brought out to show that the institution has been conducted without proper regard to the law, and this in the face of the fact that both the county board and the State board have been notified that such was the ease. On Thursday afternoon the committee tok a recess. An Atrocious Crime. Johnston, Special.?Jim Padgett, a mulatto, was arrested by Chief of Police Derrick as the former was attempting to leave the city on the early train. Padgett is charged with an asault on a young white girl who lives near here. The assault occurred on last Monday and Padgett has ben in hiding since. After the arrest he was immediately carried to Edgefield and it is reported will be carried to Columbia. The crime is a very atricious one. The girl belong? to a highly respected family. Expressions of lynching are freely indulged in, and Padgett would sr.ifer violence if oportunity offered. It is said he made a similar attempt on another victim a few years ago. Escaped From the Gang. Laurens, Special.?Joe Harris, a two-year convict, broke his chains wihle at the camp alone Tuesday aftenoon and, taking one of the mules belonging to the county, made his escape from the county chaingang. He was sick and had been left at the camp, which is located about five miles northeast of the city, securely chained, as the guard thought. He was captured six miles below town by Messrs. Milam and Morris of Lisbon. He had traveled about 12 or 14 miles and when captured had divested himself of his shackles. He had also abandoned the mule and was evidently making his way back to Greenville or Edgefield, whence he came a little over a year ago. After escaping Tuesday he broke into a negro woman's house and stole a quantity of meat and canned fruits, etc. Charged. With Bigamy. Anderson, Special.?Will Rowland, a mill operative, has been lodged in jail on a charge of bigamy. Both of his aleged wives are living in this county, and it was upon a warrant taken out by his second mother-in-law that he was arrested at Toccoa, Ga., and brought back to this city. He will probably be tried for bis offense at the approaching term of the sessions court. Chester To Vote On the Dispensary. Chester, Special.?This county is to be canvassed early and thoroughly for the purpose of securing signatures to petitions asking for an election at as early a day as may be deemed best on the question of "dispensary" or "no dispensary." A com? _i? ? if ? mmee 01 one liom cacti oa iuv ci^in townships has the matter in charge. That committee is composed as follows: L. D. Childs, Geo. W. Byers, H. T. Boyd, W. S. Durham, T. B. McKeown, J. M. Hollis and J. M. Boulware. Palmetto Items. Postmaster Wilson says Florence will soon have free delivery, in fact before she hardly knows it if receipts keep runing up. The receipts for July were $250 more this year than they were for the same month last year. The Union county dispensary and all the stock on hand in the same has been placed in the hands of the sheriff of the county. The secretary of state last week issued a commission to the Williamsburg Live Stock Company, capitalized at at $25,000. The corporators are Hugh McCutchcn, C. M. Hinds, W. I. NLxon and others. A commission was irrucd to the Barnwell Fanners' Warehouse Com* * 1 * - 1 - A. AO AAA rpt. ^ pany, capitalized ai au*; wiporators are: Frank H. Creech, Geo. W. Peacock, Willis J. Duncan, W. II. i Richardson and Sam Hciford. How to Know Bugs. At the seventeenth annual meeting of the Association of Economic Entomologists, held recently in Philadelphia, the society recommended the general adoption of a uniform nomenclature for certain insects, these names being the ones internationally current among scientists. These insects. among scientists. There inr forth be known as follows: American cockroach, Periplaneta americana L; bedbug, Klinophilos lectularia L-; boll-weevil, Anthronomus grandls^Boh: carpet moth, Trlcophaga tapctzella L; gypsy-moth, Porthetria dispar L; house-fly, Musca domestica L: San Jose scale, Aspidiotus perniciosus Comst; silkworm, Bombyx mori L; tomato-worm, Phlegethontius sexta Job. f ith these names in mind, it is claimed that any bug on the scientists' list? may be readily recognized. J ?Harper's Weekly. EARTHV'AKF: S^H DiilcrSances Discinciive aad Sd^HjBH 373 REPORTED BEAD IN TITSOTO ^ """ K ""M Shock Ecfore Daylight is Said to Have Completely Destroyed 18 Villages and Wrought Widspread Loss of Life and Property in the Southern Extremity of the Pennisrla. i Rome, By Cable.?All Italy is suf- j^gL fering from terrible depressldb because of the news from the South, where one of the worst earthquaka^HHgfl ever experienced occurred Friday. though the earthquake was felt ajjr er Calabria and to a v-oUfcffFTxtent In Sicily, the worst ne^^ame from * Pizzo?and Monteleone and from fhe eighteen villages, which are said to 1 have been completely destroyed. According to the latest news received, Jit 370 persons have been killed nr.u a i' great number injured. It is ?as yet impossible to even estimate the prop- J* erty losses. The shock was felt at 2.55 o'clock ; 3 Friday morning. It lasted for eighteen seconds at Cataniaro and soon 3 thereafter was felt at Messina, Rem- -w!j| gino, Monteleone, Martlrano, Stefaconi, Picpio, Triparll, Zmararo, Cessaniti, Naida, Olivani and other points. '} Scenes of Indescribable terror en-. . | sued. Women, aroused from their sleep, rushed half clothed into the streets, screaming with fear, carrying their babies and dragging along their^""'"'"" other children, and calling for help on the madonna and the saintc. The men escaped into the open with their families, all calling on their favorite saints for protection. The cafes were taken by assault by the strangely garbed crowd, but as daylight broke without a repetition of the earthquake the crowd gradually melted away until by 8 o'clock the streets had al- i most assumed their normal appeal* ance except In the ruined villages, A where the inhabitants had no homes to go to. The general confusion added to by dreadful cries from the jBA jails, where the prisoners were be- 9^H side themselves with fright and in HH some cases mutinied, but fortunately. all the prisoners were kept within bounds. Troops, engineers and doctors havo been hurried to the scenes of the disaster to assist in the work of rescue and salvage. The Ministry of the Interior sent |4,000 for the relief of the destitute, and the Minister of Piblic i Works left for Calabria in the evening. j Public Printer Palmer Dismissed. " Oyster Bay, N. Y., Special.?President Roosevelt took summary action in jS the case of Frank W. Palmer,Publio Printer and head of the Government ."IB Printing 0..ce at Washington. Last Monday the President directed Mr. Palmer to send him his resignation -jd to take effect on the 18th instant At the same time he directed him not to I take any further action in the case of M Oscar J. Ricketts, foreman of printing, <|S and L. C. Hay, a division forman, in j the Government Printing Office, - JB. whose resignations Mr. Palmer had rennncfoH In direct disobedience of the Presi- ] dent's instructions, Mr. Palmer on the 5th instant, notified Ricketts and Hay that the time which they might hare in which to answer his charges would iH be extended until Saturday, the 9th in^..s ^ stant. As this was a violation of tfie President's specific instructions, and as . 3a the case ? Ricketts and Hay had been placed fa tu? hands of the Keep commission for investigation, the President felt it was time to take positive action regarding Mr. Palmer. He there A fore removed him from office by telegraph and directed him to turn oyer , *1 the Government Printing Office to * Foreman Ricketts, whom he has design v nated as acting Public Printer. Asheville Slayer Arrested. Asheville, N. C., Special.?Floyd EL. James was arrested Tuesday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock by Patrolman James on a warrant charging him with the murder of James Dougherty, last Sunday night, August 27. Mr. James was placed under arrest while at work, a short distance from his residence, and brought to the city hall. He was in conference with attorneys relating to the conduct of his case and at the conclusion of this conference a preliminary hearing will be had. When ar- ,J rested Mr. James declared that he was an innocent man and that he regretted the arrest more on his wife's account than on his own. * - -i tt..?i stranded v e^ei aigutsu. Norfolk, Va., Special.?The steamer Aragon, lumber laden from Georgetown, S. C-, to New York via Norfolk, which stranded two miles south of 4 False Cape, on the Virginia coast. The Aragon and the lumber-laden barge >? Saxon, which went ashore with the steamer but was subsequently floated, arrived here this afternoon apparently uninjured. Atlanta Patient Dead. Atlanta, Special. ? Atlanta's only yellow fever case resulted fatally shortly after noon Tuesday. The paT n Pariit>jflra U'hn flrpivpd from Pensacola last Friday and who was sent to the detention hospi^^-'-' several miles from the city, died afi^H an attack of yellow fever of a pro-^ nounced type. No other cases have reached here and none Is expected with the vigorous precautions that have been taken to exclude even sus- . picious cases from outside points. Shot by State Senator. Charleston, S. C., Special.?A special from Saluda, S. C., says that Joe Ben Coleman, a well-known citizen of that ^ town, was shot and it is believed fa-1? tally injured, by State Senator E. S. W Biease. The encounter was on the main street and Coleman received four wounds. Biease surrendered- to- the Sheriff. No further particulars are known here. Mr. Biease is a brother to Senator Cole L. Biease, who figures so prominently in the dispensary investigation. One Is Senator of Newberry end the other Senator from Saluda, adjoining counties. , - ^