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WILD ?N0 F???L P?SIG. ?ev?nty-Ei?hi Dead and as Many More Injured, Resulting From a ? Stampede in a Negro Churcjt in Birmingham. Birmingham, Ala., Sept. 19.?Sev nty-eight known to be dead and ighty ininred, the majority perhaps fctally, is the result of a panic which ecurred in the Shiloh negro Baptist )hurch here tonight during the even ng session of the negro national" ?aptist convention. Fifteeen hun ?red delegates were crowded into the tliurch; which had only seating capa ity for four hundred, "when the audi L!3ce was thrown into a stampede by a ulnflict between two of the delegates the rear of the church. The cries \l''fight.'> which followed, the audi nce mistook for an alarm of ** fire" ind in the wild effort to escape 78 per ons were crushed to death, 80 more eeeiving injuries, some of which may jrove fatal. The list of dead and in ured included only negroes in attend ance. Owing to the number of visiting dele ctes the identification of the dead and njured has been difficult The disaster occurred at 9 o'clock ust as Booker T. Washington had con ,'iuded his address to the national con tention of Bapists, and for three hours he scenes around the church were indescribable. Bead bodies were strewn every direction and the ambulance lervice of the city was utterly incapa citated to move them until after 1 'clock a., m. The church is the largest house of worship for negroes in Birmingham }nd the pastor says there were at east 2,000 persons in the edifice when ?he stampede began. Instructions had >een issued to allow no one else to en sr after the building had been filled, rat the negreos forced their "way inside ihe church and were standing In every isle, the entrance was literally pack id. Just as Booker Washington conclud ed his address Judge Billon, a negro awyer from Baltimore* engaged in al ercation with the choir leader con ;erning an rnoccupied seat and it is aid a blow was struck. Some one in he choir cried, "They're fighting." i?staking the word "fighting" for 'fire," the congregation rose en masse ind started for the door. One of the ninisters quickly mounted the rostrum Lud admonished the people to keep miet. He repeated the word ' ' quiet, " ' ? everal times and motioned to his learers to be seated. Again the excited congregation mis ook the word "quiet" for a second Jarm of ?re and rushed for the door, fen and women crawled over bench s, fought their way into the aisles nd those who had fallen were tramp ed upon like cattle. The ministers tried again to stop the tampede, but no power on earth ould stay the struggling, fighting nass of humanity. The scream of women and children dded to the horror of the scene and rom mere fright many persons fainted ind as they fell to the floor were crush d to death. The level of the floor is ,bout 100 feet from the ground and Dug steps lead to the sidewalk to the obby just outside the main auditor um. Brick walls extend on each side if these steps for six or seven feet and his proved a veritable death trap, segroes who had reached the top of he steps were pushed violently for rar? and many felL Before they could nove others fell upon them and in a ew moments persons were piled upon lach other to a height of ten feet. This wall of struggling humanity elocked the entrance and the weight i1,500 persons was pushed against it j If ore than 20 persons lying on the steps j mderneath the heap of bodies died from suffocation. Two white men, who were in the ear of the church * when the rush be :an, escaped, and realizing the seri ousness of the situation rushed to a orner nearby and turned in a fire Jarm. The department answered quick y and the arrival of the wagons served o scatter the crowd which had gather ed around the front of the church. A squad of police was also hastened o the church and with the firemen inally succeeded in relieving the ne jroes from their pinioned position in he entrance. The dead bodies were quickly moved tnd the crowd inside, finding an outlet ame pouring out. Scores of them lost heir footing and rolled down the long steps to the pavement, sustaining brok en limbs and internal injuries. In an our the church had been practically beared and the sight which greeted hose who had come to aid the injured "as sickening. NDown the aisles and tlong the outside of the pews the dead ?odies of men and women were strew ed and the cries of the maimed and ?rippled was heartrending. In a few ni utes the work of removing the xedies was begun and the wails of the relatives of the dead who had waited >n the outside could bejieard for s?v irai blocks. V The Shiloh church is located just in ne edge of the South Highlands, the ashionable residence section of the' ;ity, and all the physicians living in ;hat part of town went to the assist mee of the injured. Most of the dead are women and the physicians say in many cases they fainted and died from suffocation. A remarkable feature of the calamity is ;hat no blood was seen on any of the victims. They were either crushed or iied from suffocation. THE CAUSE. The Rev. Dr. T. W. Walker, pastor >f Shiloh church, said tonight: "Shi oh church is a modern brick structure md has been complete at a cost of ?75,000. There are four entrances to he building and the main one is 16 set wide. The deaths were caused by everybody trying to rush out of the nain entrance at the same timer I? ude the church not a bench was over urned and all of those who were kill ed died in or about the entrance. The >eople near the front of the church rere not injured in the least. Mayor Wm. Drennen said: "Most >f those who were killed were strang ers, but their bodies will be cared or until identified and claimed by re* a ti ves. ' ' BOOKER WASHINGTONS' AC COUNT. Booker T. Washington when seen ifter the accident at the residence of J. G. Mason, said : "I had just finished delivering my ecture on 'Industry' and the singing had commenced when some woman ,' back of me was heard to scream. A ! member of the choir yelled 4 quiet, ' which the gallery understood to be 'fire.' This was repeated and started the stampede. "I found on investigation that a Birm ingham man had stepped on the tees of a delegate from Baltimore named Billon. "Billon resented it and made a mo tion as if to draw a gun. This caused the woman to scream. "There was little excitement in the centre and front of the church. The rear of the church was congested and some of the men tried to walk out on the heads of the crowd. At the time of the alarm there were probably 3,000 people in the church and fully that number without. The crowd on the sidewalk surged in and this in a mea sure accounted for the large loss of life. " The majority of those killed were smothered to death, very few having bones broken. "When I saw that a stampede was imminent I started the choir singing and part of the audience joined them. I remained until the excitement had subsided for fully 30 minutes One good sister whose name I did not learn caught me firmly by the waist and held me throughout the excitement, saying ' keep still. ' "I am unable to say positively, but there is a probability that the conven tion will adjourn out of respect to the dead. The session would have closed Monday night. . "So far as known about 10 delegates were among those killed, two from Texas and two from New Orleans be ing among the number. ' ' HESTER'S STATEMENT. Movement of Cotton During the Past Week. I New Orleans, Sept. 19..?Sec. Hest er's weekly cotton statement issued to day shows the amount brought into sisrht during the past week to be 283, - 831, against 170.098 for the same days last year and 213?, 647 jear before last The total of the crop moved into sight for the 19. days of this season has been 645,633, against 341,391 last year and 412,805 year before last Receipts at all United^States ports since Sept. 1 have been 452,709, against 198,589 last year; overland across the Mississippi, Ohio and Potomac rivers to northern mills and Canada 8,114, against 6,452 last year; interior stocks in excess of those held Sept 1st, 74, 810, against 38,450 last year, and southern mills taking 110,000, against 97,900 last year. Foreign exports since Sept. 1 have beep 267,489, against 147,489 last year. The total takings of American mills, north and south and Canada thus far for the season* have been 159,176, against 132,928 last year. Stocks at American ports and the 29 leading southern interior centres have increased 218,968 bales, against an in crease for the same period last season of 56,56. Including amounts left over in stocks at ports and interior towns from the last crop and the number of bales brought into sight thus far for the new crop the supply to date is 860,707, against 701,078 for the same period last year. BUSO MAN BITS COMBINE. ??? ,:.V- V ' .. . ? t ?? Will Recover $5,000,000 of Which He Was Defrauded. Pittsburg, Sept. 17.?John Brisling former roller who helped Antonie Vinnac, another roller, invent and patent a table for carrying hot ingots of steel to and from rolls mechanically, and in whose favor Judge Buffington gave a decision against the Carnegie Steel company, when told of his for tune today said : "The news is too good to be true. For seven years I have fought f jr my rights. Brisiin is blind and is 75 years of age. His partner died two years ago. He left his interest-to Brisiin. If Brisiin ever lives to secure his rights he can recover at least $5,000,000 in royalties for infringements on patents. This would fall heaviest on the United States Steel corporation. Brisiin until recently was a janitor in the Bake well building, ' but lost his place through loss of sight. Queen of the Belgians Dead. Spa, Belgium, Sept. 19.?Marie Henriette, queen of the Belgians, died suduenly tonight, at 10 minutes be fore 8 o'clock. Neither her husband, members of her family, nor her maj esty's doctors were present at the time of her death. She was seated at a table eating a light dinner, when she was seized with an attack of syncop?. Dr. Guillaume, who, in the course of the day, had remarked upon certain disquieting symptoms in the queen's condition, was summoned immediately, but her majesty was dead before he arrived. Two members of her suite were with the queen during her last moments. Queen Marie Henriette was a daugh ter of the late Archduke Joseph of Austria. She was born Aug. 23, 1836, and was married Aug. 22, 1353, to Prince Leopold of Belgium, son of King Leopold I, who ascended the throne at the death of his father as Leopold II, Dec. 10, 1865. The queen had been ill for about three years past of a malady of the heart, and of recent months her con ditone had been so serious that little hope of her recovery was entertained. Lieut. John R. Morris, the second man to commit suicide on board the Olympia, says the Waterbury Ameri can, "was formerly electrician on the Maine, and there are intimations that his suicide was the result of long brooding over a suspicion in his mind that the Maine was blown up in Hav ana harbor as the result of defective wiring. " The Spartanburg Journal has called attention to the iactthatat La timer's home box in Belton the vote stood as follows: Evans 62, Latimer 41. It is said that'Latimer has never carried this box in any election, and it is com posed of the old citizens of the town, who have been his neighbors the long SETTLEMENT IN SIGHT. Latest Statement as to the Great Coal Strike. Harrisburg, Pa., Sept. 19.?The Telegraph this evening prints the fol lowing: ' "Information reached The Tele graph through a private source this afternoon that the end of the coal strike was in sight. The report was to the effect that one of the largest of the companies whose representatives in New York have been discussing the situation for some time, had decided upon a settlement and an official an nouncement would be made either to- j morrow'or early next week. The in formation seemed to have considerable foundation - and came as an answer to inquiries sent to New York parties re garding the filling of large orders tx>r coal in this city, intimating that the orders would probably be filleVl soonei than was expected because* of the en couraging prospects of an early settle ment. WHAT MITCHELL SAYS. Wilkesbarre, Pa., Sept. 19.?In or der to set all rumors abont a settle ment- of the miners' strike at rest, President Mitchell stated this evening that if any overtures were received from the operators they w^ould first be submitted to a convention of the miners and the acceptance or rejection of any proposition made by the coal companies would rest with the men themselves. Peanut Roaster Exploded. Norfolk; Va., Sept. 19.?-By the ex plosion of a gasoline peanut roaster, which was in operation on the Atlantic street side of Charles H. Diggs' con fectionery store Miss Bessie McGrath of Phoebus, Va., was instantly killed this afternoon, while Mrs. Mary A. Palmer of Lawrence vi lie, Va., was so badly injured that; no hope of her recovery is entertained. Two other women were injured. One was the wife of C. Behnecken, who operated the peanut stand. She was cut about the head. The otiier woman was Mrs. Lavinia Raby, wife of a .machinist. Her injuries are not serious. Cotton Hurt by San Jose Scale. Waycross, Ga., Sept. 18.?San Jose scale, or something very similar, is playing havoc with the sea island cot ton of this section. Reports fom the surrrounding coun try indicate that the disease is. general and it s feared that the sea island crop will be cut off nearly half by its ravages. The scale is exactly like the San Jose scale on the peaches and affects the stalk and limbs much like it does the peach limbs., Wherever- it encircles the stalk or fimb it kills very quickly. It is feared that the scale will become permanently lodged rn the land and ruin the cotton crops of the future and the farmers"are at a loss to know what to do about it. ? It is likely that the government will be asked to send an expert to investi gate it and suggest a remedy for it. For a bad taste in the month take Cham berlain's Stomach and liver Tablets. For sale by Dr. A. J. China. Alexandria, La., Sept. 18.?A special to the Alexandria Record states that oil has been struck at Ausemla Butte, near La Fayette, La., forty miles from Alexandria. It is expected that a gusher will result, in which erent a steady supply of fuel oil will be had for the numerous oil burning furnaces in Alexandria and vicinity. A Sad Disappointment, Ineffective medicine is a disappoint ment, bnt yon don't want to purge, strain and break the glands of the stomach and bowels. De Witt's Little Early isers .never disappoint. They cleanse the system of all poison and putrid matter and do it so gently that one enjoys the pleasant effects. They are a tonic to the liver. Cn re billions ness, torpid liver and prevent fever. J. S. Hughson & Co. Master's Sale. BY VIRTUE OF A DECREE of the Court of Common Pleas for Sumter County, in the State of South Caro lina, in the case of John W. Durant and Luke Durant against Elsie Durant, Angeline Durant, Wesley Durant, James Durant, Henry Durant, Arthur Frierson, Mark Reynolds, Marion Moise and Shepard Nash as Administrator of the Estate of Janu ary Durant, deceased, I will sell to the highest bidder, at public auction at the Court House in the City of Sumter, in said County and State* on sale day in October, 1902, being: the sixth day of said month, during the usual hours of sale, the following de scribed real estate, to wit : "All that piece, parcel or tract of land containing one hundred and forty four and 6-10 acres, situate, lying and being in the. County and State afore said, on Poley Bridge Branch or Swamp, bounded by lands owned by persons now or formerly as follows ; north, and east by lands of J. N. Corbett'; south by land of J. N. Corbett and lands of James Booth and west by lands of James Booth and lands of the estate of G. W. Lee, which described'tract of land is repre sented by the deed of James Eboth with plat attached recorded in the proper office in said County in Book V. page 614. Second: Also all that piece, parcel or tract of land lying and being in Sumter County in said State, contain ing twenty-five acres, more or less, and bounded by lands owned by per sons now or formerly as follows : north by lands of Frank -White, east and south by waters of DesChamps Mill Pond and west by lands of John E. Brown and by the waters aforesaid which described tract of land is de scribed in the deed of Horace Harby to Werry Durant, bein-; the sani?' Jan uary Durant, recorded in the proper office in said County in Book Z. *,?*;>. " Terms of saie, cash. Purchaser to pav for papers. H. FRANK WILSON, Master for Sumter Count v. Sep. 10. FBIARS SN THE PHILIPPINES. American Members of the Augus tinian Order to Replace the Spanish Friars. Philadelphia, Pa., September 18.? An important step toward the solution of the troubles in the Philippine Isl ands, caused by the presence of the Spanish friars there, was taken to day at Villanova College, when the most Rev. Thomas Rodriqnez, O. S. A., of .Rome, prior general of the Augustinian Order throughout the world, announced that the Rev. Daniel O'Mahony, of Andover, Mass,, and the Rev. J. E. McFarlain, of Villan ova, had been ordered to the Pi lip pines as pioneers in the movement of American priests to those islands to succeed the Spaniards. The two priests will leave for Manila within the next two weeks and will be follow ed in a short time, it is believed, by several other American Augustinians. Both clergymen chosen are -distinguish ed and able members of the Order. They were selected from among about a dozen volunteers who offered their services to the prior general in case he needed American Augustinians for the Philippines. Many of the Spanish friars in the Philippines belong to the Order. "We go there to carry out the pro gramme which has been decided on by the prior general," said Mr. O'Ma hony. "We are fully cognizant of the work done by the friars of our and other orders in the Philippines and go to them as brothers working in the same cause. We have no idea how long we will remain or how many American Augustinians will be sent to the isl ands." A Communi cation. Mr. Editor?Allow me to speak a few words in favor of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy., I suffered for three years with the bronchitis and c?uld not sleep at nights. I tried several doctors and various patent medicines, but could get nothing to give me any relief until my wife got a bottle of this valuable medicine, which has com pletely relived me.?W. S. Brockman, Bag nell, Mo. This remedy is for s'alo by Dr. A. J. China. Master's Sale. BY VIRTUE OF A DECREE of the Court of Common Pleas for Sumt?r County, in the State of South Caro lina, in the case of William A. Nettles against Jessie H. Bradford, Ashly W. Bradford, Susan Bradford, Kate S. Bradford, Ernest Bradford, Juannita Bradford and Clarence Bradford, I will sell to the highest bidder at pub lic auction, at the Court House in the City of Sumter, in said County and State, on sale day in October, 1902, being the sixth day of same month, during the usual hours of sale, the fol lowing described real estate; to wit: "All that parcel of land situated -in the said County and State, containing fifty-six (56) acres and designated by the letter "A"on a plat made of the estate of Mary A. Bradford by J. M. Nichols, D. S. from a survey closed Nov. 26th A. D., 1879, which said plat is a part of the record of the case of John D. Bradford and others again ts Louis D. Jervey and others, ?n file in the office of the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said Coun ty and State, said parcel of land was allotted to me in said action and is bounded on the north by lot designated " B" on said plat, allotted to Robert M. Bradford in said action, on the east by the public road leading from Privateer to Sumter, C. H., on the south by lot designated "M" on said .plat and now owned by Richard Monaghan and on the west by land now or formerly of John S. Richard son. Also that other parcel of land con taining thirty-four and one half (3^o) acres, being the southern portion of lot designated "C" on said plat, and bounded on the north by the other portion of said lot designated "C" on said plat, on the east by the public road leading from Privateer to Sum ter, on the south by the said lot desig nated " B" on said plat and on the west by lands now or formerly of John Moffitt and John Nettles,-the parcel of land iast described is more particularly represented by a plat thereof made by J. M. Nichols, D. S., surveyed Feb. 11th, 1880, and annexed to a deed of said land to me executed by my broth er John D. Bradfordy Also those three parcels of land in the said County and State now owned by me and together containing one hundred and forty eight acres ; one of which parcels was assigned to me in the partition of the estate of my de ceased mother, Mrs. Mary A. Brad ford, by the judgment or order of the Court of Common Pleas for said coun ty in an action therein depending in which John D. Bradford and others were Plaintiffs and Louis D. Jervey and Sallie D. Jeivey his wife, and others were defendants, containing fifty-six acres, and bounded on the north by the parcels of land which in said partition was ?ssigned to Robert M. Bradford and by him has been conveyed to me ; on the east by the public road, on the south by land of I ?-Gainley and on the west by lands of the said J. Cohen Wilson; another of said three parcels, .contain ing fifty-six acres, which was assigned in the said partition to Robert M. Bradford and which has been convey ed by him to me, and bounded on the north by the parcel of land which in said partition was assigned to John D. Bradford and has been conveyed to me, on the east by the said public road : on the south by the parcel of land first above described and on the west by land of J. Cohen Wilson : the third parcel containing thirty-six acres which has been conveyed to me by John D. Bradford, it being a part of the parcel which in said partition was assigned to the said John D. Bradford: and being bounded on the north* by the remainder of said parcel so assign ed to Jotm D. Bradford, I from which it is separated by a road) on the east by the said public road, on the south by the said parcel, which was assigned in said partition to Robert M. Brad ford, and on the west by land of -Monaghan. " Terms of sah- cash. Purchaser to pav for all necessarv papers. H. FRANK WILSON, Master for Sumter Countv. 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Drinkers of Ginger Ale will be delighted to get this de lightful and refreshing drink, made with Glenn Springs Min eral Water. Experts pronounce it the finest on the market Try it and you will be convinced. Ask your dealer for it. THE GLENN SPRINGS CO. GLENN SPRINGS, S. C. E HORSES M IL Fresh Carload just arrived, and from now on I will keep them constantly on hand. Give me a ca?! and HI try to please you. Aii?SLE?D. HARBT. Sept 17