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VOL. XIV. MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 9, 1904. NO.7. A GREAT AIRSHiP Makes a Half Hour I xcurtion A mong the Clouds and LANDS PROM WHE IT STARTEI Thousards at the Exposition WitnCss the Ascent and De-scent of the Baldwin's Successful F13ing Mahine. After flyrg in everydirection, with the wind and against it at a height of 2,000 feet above the Cascades, in s'ght of thousands of cheering, enthusiastic spectators on the World's Fair grounds one day last week, A. Roy Knaben shue, of Tledo, In command of Thus. S. B..ldwin's airship, the California Arrow, brought it to anchor at the place wht nce he started, as neatly and as accurately as a train runs into a staticn. In all he flew 31 milea. Knabenshue starA d from the Aero nautic Cot curse at 3.37 p. m., and returned at 4.05 p. m. On the re turn trip the airship sailed -lowly over the exact spot from which it had r.sen 28 minutes previously, and glid ed ab.!ut 100 fet t further west, where it settled gracefally to the gi ound. CARRIED OFF IN TRIUMPH. The dek cnt of the Arrow was the s!goal fur a grLat demonstration. ,lLundreds of eager hands were up st: etched to grasp the frame of the flying machine, which, with its t avi gator, was carried around the con course (,n the shoulders of shouting men. Hats were thrown in the a ir, and when Knabenshue called for three cheers for his home town they were given with a will, and another round followed for Knabenshue and Baldwin. The successful flight followed a day full of discouragement. Baldwin and Knabenshue had worked for twenty six hours, without sleep, to prepare for the flight. The first attempt to ascend with Baldwin in command, ended disastrously. The Arrow fell to the ground and broke a blade of the propeller. ' FLIES T.KE A BIRD. In half an hour that had been re paired, and with Knabenshue in com mand the airship was cist loose. It rt se slowly and easily, its prow di. rected toward the west. When, at a height of twenty-five feet Knabenshue turned the rudder and the aerial craft, answerirg to its helm, pointed south and ct ntinued its flght without inter ruption. Khabensbue at that time was not high enough to clear the aeronautic ferice, and as he rapidly approacbe' it, the crowd held its breath, fearing that the craft would be dashed against the barricade, and the aeronaut in jured or killed. But Knabenshue waving his cap to assure those who were fuliowing his every move, moved toward the rear of the airship. Te Arrow pointed its prow upward and, answering the pull of the propeller, soared ligutly over the fence and rap idly gained an altitude of 1,000 feet. CHANGES COURSE AT WILL. Knabenshue again changed the di rection of the craft and passed over the crowd in the course, amid, or rather far above, rousing cheers. The "ctug, chug, chug" of the motor could be plainly heard and the rays of the sun glistened on tbe polished blades cf the propeller, making a halo aro.und the prow of the flying ma chine. After procce-ilng about ha]f a mile westward Knabenshue turned the airship albout and again passed over the c ancourse, at the same time increasirg his altitude until he was 2,000 feet above the earth. Sailing first to the northeast and then to the southeast, occasionally making conrplete turns, Knabenshue continued in a generally easterly di rection until over the Cascades, the ccntre of the World's Fair grounds and about a mile an I a half in a di rect line froni the point of starting. GOES AGAINST EIGHT-MILE WIND. At about that time the barely per ceptible bre-.ze that had been blow Ing from the west, increased to about eight miles an hour, and veered to the north. In order to return to the starting point it was necessary for Kniabenshue to breast this breeze. It seemed that his first effort to turn the airshin from a course before the wind was unsuccessful, but Kniabenshue, after trying to turn to the left, swung the rudder sharply In the other di rL ction, and the Arrow came into the wind, staggered a moment, and then gaining power, sped toward the con course at a speed that caused the spec tato~rs to cheer and toss hats in the air. The demonstration was observ ed by Knabenshue, who leaned far out and waved an empty ballast bag in reply. Without deviation, the California Arrow continued on in the teeth of the bretze, gaining speed and rushing toward the corncourse in an imposing marnner. When within a few hundred feet of the concourse, Knabenshue moved forward in the car, the Arrow pointed downward and sailed toward the ground without any slackening of speed. ALIGHTs GRACEFULLY. Knabenshue entered the concourse from the east at a height of 200 feet, and slowing the speed of the motor, directed the airship over the wooden frame that had supported the Arrow before the flight, and alighted grace fully within 100 feet of the dock. After Knabenshue had assisted in housing the airship in the aerodrome, he was introduced to President Francis, of the Exposition; Mayor Wells, of St. Louis, and many World's Fair and city otlcers. Knabenshue's mother and wife, who had arrivec fr m Toleeo Tuesday, jasit in time t< see the flight, were prcsent and addec t) the young aeronaut's happiness b3 j ining their praise to that t the dis t:nguished men. Kuabenstiue had only praise for thi flying machine he had directed. Hi own share in the achievement wa si condary In his eyes to the manne in w~hich the California Arrow hac supported the claims of the Inventor FRLOFITED BY EIFERIENCE. "There was not a moment," he said. "when I did not have complet< cor-trol of the airship. It needed bul t ha slightest. pressure on thre helm t( change the d irect'on of the vessel, an the old 'Arrow' responded to ever demand that I made on it. I ah profited by the lessc-n I learned on tb first light, and wben I found tha the motor was wo'king smoothly an evenly. furnishin all the power nece sarv for suc-h a demenstration, I le vell enough alone aLd did not attemp to increase the speed of ths motol for that was what caused the moto to break on my trial last Tuesday. "The mnechanical pait of the airshij workr d perfectly. The gasoline moto did not miss an ignition and the revo utions of the propeller were stead; and powerful. I am not sufficiently ex pesienced to estimate the speed a which I moved, and I was too busy a the time to make any calculat'ons. DELIGHTFUL SENSATION. "The sensation was most rleasant I did not have time to think abou1 danger. In fact there was no real dan. ger. An operat,-r of the Baldwin Ar row needs only to have an average amount of nerve, a little experience a an aeronaut and he can make a suc cmssful fight." Captain Baldwin was extremely op timistic regarding the future of hii airship. 'I bad about dstermined to leave St. Louis," be said. "Now I shall Lot be content to leave before I have had several trials for that $100,000 prize. Knabenshue went up with instructi; n, not to go far from the aer.nautic con course and to bring the ship to the ground aft-r a trial of half an hour. He came within two minutes of obey ing my instruc:ions to the letter. "I am now convinced that I have a wonderful airship, and we shall give daily (xhibit'o-s of varying lei gths tc convince the people of tMe word that I am right." "A PATRIOT OF PATRIOTS." This Is What a Western Paper Terms General Lee. "The greatest geneneral of his age and the finest gentleman of the South" is the tribute that one not of the South himself -has paid to the memory of the leader of the Confed erate armies. For 5 ears, C gainst the greatest odds that evcr man bad to fight against, suffering from the great est privations from which ever soldiers suffered, marching through devas tated country, without food, without sufficient clothing, with the knowl edge that their cause was almost a lost cau e already, with the thought that after it was over, no matter what the outccme, they would have nothing but ruined homes to which they might return, the soldiers of Lee followed him through a serics cf bat tles whose like was never known in the history of the world, uncomplain ingly, never quest oning the wisdom or the integrity of their leader. Never in the hi tory (f wars have soldiers loved a general with the same trust and loyalty with which the sol diers of the Confederacy loved Robert E. Lee. Like many otter generals of the Southern side, Lee was a graduate of West Point. He had been appointed lieutenant in the ergineering corps and had served along the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers before the Mexi can war. During this war he was assigned to duty on the staff of Gen. Scott as cheit eng lncer and for his gallant con duct in Its battles won promotion by successive grades to the rank of colo nel. When the Virginia Convention on April 17, 1861, passed an ordinance of secession Lee resigned his commission in the United States army immedi ately. It was upon this day, April 20, 1861, that he -wrote: "The whole South is in a state of revolution, into which Virginia, by a long strug gle,has been drawn. Though I rec'gnize no necessity fLr this state of thiz gs, and would have forborre and pleaded to the end for redress t grievances, real ' r supposed, yet in my own person I had to meet the question wht ther I should take part against my native State. "With all my (evotion to the Union, and the feeling of loyalty and duty as an A meri,:an citizen, I have not been able to make up my mind to ra'se my hand against my relatives, my children, my home. I have, there. fore, resigned my commission in the army, and, save in defence of my na tive State, with the sincere hope that my poor services may never be needed, I1 hope I may nev-er be called on o 'r~w my swor d." lNoble, great-hearteA, ready tc serve his State when his State called as he had bceo ready to serve the country when the couutry hacd ner ded him. Ro'rert, E. Lee is one of the mcst heroic of a band of heroes. D, ing his dut y as he saw it before him suffering f >r the cause in wnicna h believed, undergoi~ g hard~hWps 0: avsery sort, enduring tne contumely 03 those wh> thought they could reac his conscience for him, Lee may wel be considered by North as wdll ais b2 South a patriot of patriots.-Chcgt Journal. Killed at Hot Supper. At Charleston an inquest was bek Thursday over the bjydy of Jamne Green, cclored, whose body was fount last night in a well on Anson street 1It was shown that at a -hot supr.- 0: Sunday, Green had entered tie roon and put the inmates to liight an' Charles Hayes, who was arrested las night was the man, who seizing ai axe, struck the blow which cause< (xreen's death. It did not develop however, who placed the body in th well. Hayes denying that he did It He claims that he struck Green 11 self defense. Hie was c :mmitted t jail for trial. Threats o1 Lyeching. A di patt h fromt McCormick to Tb State says Mose Cowan, colored, wa brought before Magistrate P:ic-: Sat utday morning (Oct. 29, charged wit: rape upon the~ 13-year old daughter C IRobert Belcier, colored. The dee was comm tted Friday afteruooni the Bordeaux section. lie was corr mitted to jail at A bbevilie. Therej some talk of lynching a'rong th negroes. Cowan accomplished hi purpose. He was captured and turne over to the magistrate by t wo of i colored neighbors. d KILLED BY OUTLAWS. y 0 Refused to Give Up Money and Wa eI t Shot Dead. Four heavily armed outlaws fron t the Hole-in-the.Wall country held ui t and rotbed the First Natt nal ban] of Cody, Wyo., Wednesday, and aftei r shouting and killing Cashier Franl Middaugh, of the bank, had a runnirE fight with cowboys and bunters anc escaped ito the Rattlesnake m'un. taiLs, where they are being pursuec by half a dcz3n differeut posses. A battle is imminent. The Hole-in the Wall gang are not d as the most des perate outlaws in the west and the Cody pcsses are determined to wipe the bandits out of existence. "Buffalo Bill" himrself is enroute frcm Omaha in a special car, having with him a party of titled Englishmen and two of tis Sioux Indian scouts and has tele graphed orders for horses to be wait ing his party at the depot. He will take the trail in person imme diately on his arrival. Just before the close of the bank Wednesday afterncon a party of four roughly dressed men rode up to the Fi:st National bank in the heart of the town and acro s the street from the Irma, "Buffalo Bill's" hotel. Three men dismounted and entered the building, the forth remaining out side to guard the horses. As-soon as the outlaws entered the bank one of them covered Cashier Middaugh, who was the only occupant of the room and demanded the cash from the vault. Iastead of complying Middaugh zrabt ed a revolver and made a game fight for life and money, firing sever al shots even before the outlaw lead er could fire at the banker, but Mid daugh was excited and his bullets went wild, while the single shot sent fro-n the outlaw's guu passed through the bankers brain and he died instant ly. One of the posses, led by Sheriff Jeff Champion. overtook the outlaws at dusk, 20 miles southwest of Cody, and a battle ensued in which Cham pion had a horse shot under him but was unirjured. The bandits obtained fresh borses at a ranch nearby and escaped. RURLD TO DEATH. Mine Carriage Fell Thirteen Hun dred Feet Killing Ten People. One of the most appalling mine ac cidents in the history of the Wyoming valley for many years past occurred at No. 1 Auchincioss shaft, operated by the Deleware, Lackwanna and West ern Coal company at Nanticoke, at an early huur Wednesday morning by which ten men were hurled to Instant death and three seriou-ly in jared. T1 e men were mostly all upon the mine carriage to be lowered to the workings below. The signal was given to the engi nerr, who began lowering the men. The carriage had gone but a few feet when the engineer lost control of his engines, owing to the reverse levers failing to work, and the carriage, with its load of human freight, ten in all. was dashed beyond the R ,ss vein, landing nearly 1,100 feet below the surface and from there they were pre cipitated 300 feet further into a sump. Those wno may not have been kill ed outright were without doubt drowned in the sump, which is fully 50 feet deep with water. Up to 8 o'clock Wednesday night no human aid could reach them and every man on the Ill-fated carriage has been given up by the mine offials as lost. The victims, who were miners and laborers, all resided in Nanticoke and most of them leave families. They were Poles or Slaves with the excep tion of one named John Kemper. Inter-se exci-emernt continued to prevail about the mouth of the shaft Wednesday night. Women and chil dren are running about crying and moaning for those who are at the bot tom. There are fully 75 mIners and laborers In the mine dragging the sump for the bodies and it may re quire two or three days before any of the dead can be recovered. A Great Sensation. James Hendrix, aged 22, one of the most prominent young men of lEnt gomery, Ala., was found dead early Wednesday morning on the roof of the American National Bank Building with a set of burglars' tLOls lying near him. He was killed while trying to cut an electric wire. The police are making every effort to ferret out the ma stery which surrounds the death of Hendr ix. Hendrix was dressed in his militia uniform and his citizens clothes were found at the armory of the Montgomery Grays. A complete set of burglars tools was near him, and on Hendrix's wee nitro-glycerine, dynamite, fuses, a glass cutter and a pistol. The caronor's jury returned a verdict of death by ekcctricity. The friends of the dead man are astonished reyond expression. liendrix was very prominently connected. Painranly Injuarea.. Dr. W. E. Pelham of New Berry received the sad news Thursday -morning that his son, Mr. Chas. P. Pelbam, had teen serk usly injured it a runaway accident near Asheville, N. 0. It seems that Mr. Pelham was thrown fri. m a tbuggy against a cross tie and his skull fractured. Details 1are lacking, but it is said that Mr. Pelham has regained consciousness. IMr. Pelham Is tr.valing for the wel known d:ug firm, P.arke, Davis & Co of Balmore. He has many friend~ -here who hope that his injuries ar -not so bad as rer ted. Weevil Moving South. In an exihaust-ive report on the bol weevil made by Asistant State Ento Imelogist R. I. Smith to Commissione: eof Agr~iculture 0. B. Stevens, an im sp-rtant and dangerous feature re -garding this pt st, according to Mr Smith, Is the rapidity with which thi weevil is moving eastward. Mr 3 Smith asserts in his report that, i Smeasures to fight the weevil are loni -delaycd in the eastern portion of tbt '' cottLn belt, It will mean inestimabli e loss to the cotton pianters. Mr sSmith has been in Texas in an uIlcia capacity for some time, making I through study of the Mexican bol Iweevil. STORY OF MIAO YAN6 B Battle Notes from a Correspondert'i Diary. INCIDENTS OF GREAT STRUGGLE Graphically Described by an Eye witness. Sp- ctacies of the Wounded a n d Dyirg. Mukden, September 18.-Frcm the diary of ore of the Associated Press corresponderts with the Ru.sian army is taken the following notes on t he battle of Liao Yang. August 28.-Returning from the faneral of Gen. Routkowsky, I met a whole train of ambulance carts filled wiLh wounded, two or three men In each. The band of the Primorsky Dragoons also passed me going to join the reserves. Troops were moving along every road, offcers and order lies galleping in every direction. All and everything that must be with the reserves was fb.wing towards Liao Yang in groups and parties, small and great, like little streams flowirg into a river. To the rear of house, high in the heavens, hangs the captive bal loon, with three officers watching the enemy. There is something uncanny about the immobility of the enormous sphere-something fantastic and monstrous. No news as yet from the field of battle. Two Japanese, one a trooper, have just been brought in prisoners. The trooper wears a very dignified air, like most of his country men. The other is a pitiful sight, entirely naked. covered with bruises and scarcely alive. 11 A. .-The fighting has ceased. It is the Japanese custom to give their*men a rest from 11 2 to every day. They are clever and mean to fight in comfort. 6 P. M.-At three o'clock a fierce bombardment recommenced, lasting till this hour. At times the firing was so severe that it was even oppres sive. One of my friends has just re turned from the batteries. He says that it is perfect hell there. Riding tbrough the town, I met a rumber of stretchers covered with sheets and under them were the wounded. A sad spectacle. AN UNACCT7STOMED ROAR. 7 P. M.-The cannonade continues. This constant and unceasing uproar, although somewhat dulled by distance, singularly depresses one. To-morrow will decide the fate of Liao Yang. The cannonade stopped late at night. The first large convoy of wounded came in after dark. It was sad to hoar the groans and sighs in the dark ness. Many of the wounded succum bed before reaching the ambulance. August 29.-I was awakened very early by an unaccustomed roar. At first I could not understand what was happening and only after.carefully lis tening I understcod that a terrific bcmbardment was going on in the outskirts of the city. Hurriedly dress ing myself I went out on the porch. Here the firing could be heard much plainer. ..The boom of cannon came now fast, now slow; sometimes they combined into one prolonged thunder cus roar fr om which the very atmos phere shook. At six o'clock in the morning a number of carts entered the yard to remove our things to the train. By half-past seven nothing re mained in our rooms. Are we going to leave Liao Yang or not? Tha.t is the question which fills our minds, and the roar of the cannon grows stronger and stronger, just as if a monstrous drum was being un mercifully beaten. Beyond the quar ters of the staff arises a little hill which is covered with spectators hun grily watching the bursting shells on the heights outside the city. To tl'e southwESt beyond the vil lage of Showshanpou where the first army corps is fightIng, the firing is particularly intense. The entire slope of the mountainous ridge is pictures quely dc fine d against the sky line. Lit tie c'ouds of smoke dot the sky above it. Despite the fi bring sunlight, it Is quite easy to distinguish the flame of artillery discharges. Sometimes they seem td run alone, the ground like will o-the-wips, sometimes when the enemy Is firing valleys, a whole filck of cloudlets and flames is seen above the hill tops. It looks as though noth ing could live under such a pandemon ium. FLY WIDE OR FALL SHORT. One cannot realiz3 that the vast maj :rity of the projectiles fly wide or fall short. Sometimes it happens that a couple of hours frightful can nonade will only kill ten or twenty men, but sometimes, alas, in 15 or 20 minutes there is a mountain of dead bodies. Being condemned to immobility we stand here and watch the spectacle through our fild glasses. The captive biuloon rises alittle to our left; it rises and then stops as if overcome by the grandeur of the sight. I have often seen a captive balloon rise above a pleasure ground, but never did It cause uch an impression upon me as here amidst the movement of 'armed hosts and to the ac::ompaniment of demon iacal cannonading. Everything seems to be changed, even here, since yester day. There is something majestic in the air and in the faces of all present. Every body feels that something grand and unusual, something that is going to intluence future history, is transpir ing. Alongside the headquarters staff at the foot of our hill, the commis sariat officials and their subordinates are hurriedly removing documents. Similar work is going on all round at the various other staff and commis sariat offces. In the distance along Iside the railway station locomotive en gines are puffig and blowing and rail wacarriages are strung out in enor -mo-us lines. A part of the stores have already left and we can hear the creaking of the commissariat wagons. THE WOUNDED. At two o'clock the first transport of wcunded arrived. The severely wounded are placed by ones and twos in the two wheeled ambulance carts, with a canvass cover. Those hss se verely wounded are placed by threes [and even fours. Others are supported by the hospital attenants and those slightly wounded are dragging tbem selves. along unaided. F, r the first time since the war began I saw such a gathering of wounded and was struck by the quietnes prevailing amongst them. Neither shouts nor groans were to be heard except now and then when the rough two wheeled carts which would cause a strong man some qualms, gave a particularly severe J It, then one wuuld hear pitiful ex clamation : "Oh, Lrd, have mere !' "Mother of Heaven, I can't stand it." "Contrary to their laudable practice of suspending operaticns till two in the afternoon, the Japanese, on this day, broke their rules and continued to bombard us fur all they were worth. The unceasing roar of artillery made o-e dizzy. There was no getting away from the horrid din. It pursu ed one everywhere. By three o'clock the sky over clouded and rain b-gan to fall. The ground, which had not yet dried from the previous downpour, soon became converted into a verita ble bog, over which the ambulance carts creaked, splashing mud, on their way back to their position for a furth er batch of wounded. September 1. -At six o'clock this morning Kuropatkin. accompan'ed by all his staff, left to ride around the positions, and meanwhile his train was brought on the main l'ne and prc ceeded first to the station and after wards, when the commander had re turned and entered his carriage three verst from Liao Yang, the train was drawn on to a siding. On riding through the town just be fore the departure, I stopped near the church. A sad p'cture presented it self to my eyes. On the other side of the enclosure, in a tiny ht llow, lay ten ccrpses placed side by side and covered with sheets from under which one could see their feet, looking hideously dirty, covered with black earth. Some of them still wore their bootq, but the maj rity were barefooted. The aged priest and his deacon with a few choristers selected from the non-com batants, were hurriedly reading the burial service. While the service was being read over some of the corpses bearers were hastily bringing others and unceremoniously flirging them on the grouad. PLACING SIEGE GUNS. Up to two o'clock in the afternoon the Japanese left us alone it was said that they were placing siege guns to bombard 'he city. Our armies re treated beyond the lines of forts and took up very well entrenched posi tions. Indescribable tumult prevail ed at the railroad station, trains were rapidly formed, loaded with wounded, with artillery ammunition, with com missariat stores, and hurriedly for warded. The refreshment room at the station was thronged mostly with reserve offcers and commissaryt flicer as well as doctors and sisters of mercy, all hurrying to satisfy their hunger as no one knew when he would next have a meal. The hum of many voices filled the air, the noise was literally deafening Suddenly, just at two o'clock, the well known hissing sOund of a shell was heard above the station roof and the projectile burst alongside the building An awful crash for the moment oblit erated all other sound; then came the rattle of falling glass and stone, the crowd rushed hither and thither-a piercing shriek rent the air; it came from a sister of mercy who had been struck by a splinter as she was cross ing the platform. She fell covered with blood. Then came another shell bursting a little to the side near the water tower; a third fell beyond the station at a spot where the foreign military attaches lived. The bom bardment of Liao Yang had begun. Along the whole length Gf the rail road from the Red Cross Hospital of the Gerge's Sisterhoi stretched a line of tents where lay the wounded, whom it had been impossible to place in the railway carriages. Here they were dressed, sorted out and en trained. As the carriages were filled up the trains moved off one after an other, northward. The sun was westering, night was at hand. In some places i. e broke ouw; some stores which had not been remov~ d were burning. Shots re-echoed dis charges of artillery was to be seen on all siaes. The flare of innumer-b'e discharges of artillery was to be seen here and there. Above everything glowed the flames of the fire and the heart was filled with the bitterness of a vague affront. O31y now could I to some extent realize what our ances tors had felt In leaving Moscow, since the abandonment of such an ins g-aif cant and even foreign place as Liao Yang causes a heartache. Today It is still in our har~ds, but tomorrow or at latest the day after, the Japanese will enter. ALL NIGHT LONG. All night long the Japanese poured a stream of shot and shell into Liao Yang, centering their fire upon the spot where stood the headquarters of the commissariat depots. The latter, however, had almost all been emptied. This senseless, futile bom bardment racked ones nerves. "What are the f-.o1s wasting their ammuni tion for ?" muttered a speatator te side me. "Who n are they shooting at? Nothing but empty air and empty hioures. Evidently they don't know 'what to do with their shells." It must be true that the Japanese have an inextaustible supply of am munition if-they can squander it o wild'y. It is to be supposed that they derive an esthetic delight from listen ing to the sound of their own guns. Late In the evening we were told that on the following day, September 2, Kuropatkin would leave his train, which was going straight en to Muk den and that he and all his staff would march with the army. September 2.--About six o'clock in the morning a convoy of Amour Cos sacks drew up around the com mander's carriage where a brilliant staff was assembled. The commis sariat trains had already left and were stretching in a long caravan to-' wards the village of Chanstun, where they were to bivouac. After half an hour's conference In Kuropatkin's carriage the first to come out was Gen Sakharoff. He looked ro bust and cheerful; his face breathing energy. Summoning his orderly of ficers, the chief of staff quickly gave them his instructions and then light ly jumped into his saddle. He is a splendid horseman. l A HOT TIME. A Free to Al Fight Among tb French Deputies. A dispatch from Paris says Satur day's sitting of the chamber of depu ties was one of the stormiest and most heated in recent years, the ex citement culminating' when Gabriel Syveton, a prominent Nationalist deputy, stepped to Gen. Andre, the minister of war, and slapped his faca. After accomplishir g this feat Syveton retreated rapidly to the uppermost row of seats, taking refuge behind members of the opposition. A tremendous tumult ensued, depr ties of all parties crowding upoa t e floor of the house, where a free fight was soon in progress. Speaker Bri son left the chair, thus suspending the sitting. Eventually order was restored and, the sitting being re sumed, Syveton's temporary exclusion was voted. The offznder, however, re fused to quit his seat, and it became neccessary to again suspend the sit ting while he was removed by a mili tary guard. It is probable that this misconduct, which occurred just before the final division, mats'rially contributed to strengthen the position of the cabinet, which at one time seemed very c-iti cal, for after securing a majority of only two on a preliminary qesticn the government finally carried a vo e of confidence by an overwhelmirtg ma jority. At midnight the officials of the chamber of deputies, assembled in Speak'er Brisson's private cabinet, were discusding the course of action to be taken regarding Deputy Syve ton. Deputies who witnessed the assau't up'n the minister of war saying thet Gen. Andre was wholly taken by sur prise and was struck with such violence that -be would have fal len had not Premier Corb s tepped forward and supported im. Gen. Andre's frc3 was much swollen and was cut by a ring worn by Syveton. Speaker Brisson cotfled the judicial authority that an assault had been committed within the pre Dincts of the chamber. PLAYED HAVOC WITH TOWN. City of Mont Vernon Shocked and One Man Killed. At Mount Vernon, N. Y., the ex plosiou of over a ton of dynamite und2r the Bond street bridge at I Y'clock Wednesday shook the city and the surrounding country within a ra Slus of five miles, probably killed at L-ast one person and injured marly forty others, two of whom may die. The man supposed to have been killed was an Italian in charge of the dyna, mite. He was seen at his post of duty just before the explosion, and no trace )f him has since been found. There were 2,300 pounds of dyna mite stored at the side of a deep rock aut, which was used for blasting a path for additioral tracks. The ex plosion tore a hole in the ground eighty feet deep that is now full of water from a hidden spring, wrecked the Bond street bridge over the rail way tracks and broke all the windows within a quarter of a mile. The force of the explosion, as is usual, was down ward, but the upheaval along the sidt s of the- cut hurled large stones for blocks. Many houses were shifted from their foundations, walls were stripped of plaster and furniture 'was sp'intered. Most of the injured were caught by falling cellings and walls in the hou3 es nearby. Stoves In stores and dwel lings were overturned and many fire~s were started, but in each case the flames were quickly extinguished. Chief of Police Foley at once arrested William F. Ryan, foreman of the gang of workmen, employed on the blasting operations, and many witnesses are now held while an investigation is b3 ing made into the cause of the explo sion. Parsued the Daughther. A dispatch under date of Baltimor ', O.ctober 25, printed in the Kansas City Star, says: "Mrs. William P. Tonry, the oily daughter of Mrs. Mary E. Surratt, who was put to death for being Involved in the Lin coin conspiracy, died there early Thursday after seve-ral years' Illness, resulting fromn her eff 'rts to save her mother. She was 68 years old." Commenting upon this dispatch, a writer in the Star says: "June 21, 1869. William P. Tonry, employed in Washington, 1- st his position under peculiar circumstances, and, It is said, with the approval of President Grant. He had served in the United States army during the civil war, and he had been detailed as assistant chemist in the laboratory of the surgeon general's offce, which position he had filled with entire satisfaction. The trouble was said to be that he had just mar ried. He had married, at that, a woman whom any loyal citizen of the UJnited States ought not to marry, ac cording to the views of the supposed ly loyal citizen of the United States, at that particular time. His bite was Anna E. Surratt. The gidl's mother had been hanged a short time before for complcity in the assassina tion of President Lincoln." At Chickamaugua In 1898, accord ing to the Star writer, when the Fifth Maryland Volunteers were encampEd there, they were under command of Ge neral Frederick Grant. In that reg iment were Reg.inald I. Toury, ser geant in Company U, commanded by Captain Thompson, and Albert S. Tonry, corpporal In Company L, com manded by Captain Boyden. They were the sons of the man who had lost his position because he had married Mrs. Surratt's daughter, and they were grandsoms of Mrs. Surratt. Many remember Mrs. Surratt's trial and conviction after John Wilkes Booth had killed the president. They remem iber her hanging too, but few remem her that her smn-In-law, a loyal union (solders, was discharged because he 'married her daughter. And very, very few know that Mrs. Surratt's two grandsons were serving under the Stars and Stripes In the volunteer armiy. Mrs. Toney had just lef t school when her mother was hanged. She was probably about 18 years old and was an only daughter." CAROLINIANS IN OFFICE Mighty Few, Compared With Some Other States. A bulletin has just been issued by Director North of the census office on "The Executive Civil Service of the United States," and shows that there w.-re 25,675 persons employed by tte governme'bt In the District of Colum bia on July 1 1903. These figure do not Include two or three thousand clerks, engineers, laborers, - etc, em ployed by the government of the Dis trict of Columbia. Virginia is the only southern state which seems to have its share of gov-. ernment employes, which is due, no doubt, to the close proximity to the capital. On July 1, 1903, the govern ment had e Aployed in the city of Washirgton 1,119 persons who claim ed the state of Virginia as their legal residence. North Carolina had 445. S ,uth Carolina, 290, and Georgia 519. It would appear from these figures that S. uth Carolina has been slighted ia the matter of government appoint ments. South Carolina's quota. of government 65 per cent exhausted, and at the present time it Is a com paratively easy matter for young men and women from the Palmetto- state who stand high upon their state reg -sters to get appointments in Wash ingon. A great many of the Eastern states have exhausted their quota,. and in Maryl md, Virginia. Pennsylvania Ne v York and one or two other states -pplicants are not permitted to take a large number of the civil ser vice examinations for the reason that those states aleady have more ap pointments than they are entitled to. Although the residents of the Dis trict of Columbia are not allowed the rights of citizens of states, such as the right to vote, they get their full share ?f government jobs. One-fifth of the people employed In the govern ment service within the district were either born in Washington, or have since made it their home. The exact number of government employes whose legal residence is in the 1Uls trict of Columbia is 5,348. New York state has the next largest number, 2 2.16. The department of state employes the smallest force of clerks of any of :h great government bureaus. The enthie number is but 113. Virginia nas six representatives in the depart ment ruled over by Secretary Hay; North Carolina, three, and South Carolina none. The department o! agriculture employs more persons than any other branch of the govern ment. Under Secretary Wilson there are 4,115 clerks, scientistA, gardeners, laborers, etc. There are 59 S uth Caro inians; 79 North Carolinians, and 138 Virginians working in the department of agriculture. There are 4,048 employes in th6 de partment of the interior. Virginia is represented by 156 clerks, etc., North Carolina by 79 and South Caro lina by 37. About two-thirds of the govern ment employes in the district ar men, the exact figures being 13,793 men and 6,882 women. In regard to the charter of the work of the 25,675 persons upon Uncle Sam's pay roll, the bulletin shows that 8,877 are en gaged in clerical work; 3,319 In pro fessional technical or scientific occupa tions; 558 In executive duties; 2,248 are doing mechanical work; 8,266 are sub-clerks and laborers, and 1,107 are messengers, chad women, and the like. The table in regard to ages of the emnployes presents some interesting figures. A larger percentage of the clerks are between 30 and 40 years of age than any other period. There are 6,979 government employes be tween 30 and 39 years of age. There are 3,000 between the ages of 60 and 79 It would Pay. . The Augusta Chronicle refers to the scarnty of poultry and eggs in the South, the high price demanded for them, and suggests that the fact should stimulate farmers in increase their stocks of chickens, for there is no likehood that the market will be glutted, in commenting on the abve the Columbia Record says "any one who visited the state fair and saw there the splezndid pou:try display might well wonder that we have to depend largely for our p 'ultry and egg supply upon other states. Yet it is a fact, because these money makirig "crops" are neglected, when there is abundant evidence that the poultry Industry can be made most profitable in this state. Those who are already engaged in It make money, and there is no reason why others cannot do the same" We endorse every word said above. Poultry and eggs cannot be bought In this market except at fig ures that put them clean out of the reach of all except those with fat pocket books. At twelve cents a dczer. eggs would be profitable, to say noth ing of twenty five cents, the price at which they are now sellihig. Nevadgez Claim. A salt against the United States was Friday flied in the United States court of claims by the state of Ne vada, claimingr a refund of 8470,414.18 advanced In aid of the Federal gov emrnent at the time of the civil war Corgress, In 1861, authcrIzed the states to recruit troops and make all necessary expenditures, their accounts for which were to be allowed by the treasury department. Nevada, on attaining statehood in 1864, incurred extraordinary expenditures in recruit Ing its quota of troops, not only pay ing bounty for enistments, but being compelled, because of the high wages paid for labor in the mining states at that time, to pay the volunteers an amount in addition to the regular army pay. The allowance .of these expenditures have been for many years a diputed matter in the treas ury departmeot. The present action is brought under acts of congress passed in 1932 directirg the read justment (of these accounrs and a ref erence of the claims to the court of claims by the secretary of the treas ury. The firm of Ralston & Siddons appears as attorney for the state. Barned to I)earn. Two negro children were burned to death Thursday afternoon In a fira which destroyed a house and ootton gin near Tarbnra.N.C -. WINSTON FLOODED. Reservoir Gave Way, rausing Toss of Nine Lives. NINE OTHER PERSONS INURnD A Dam Holding 800,000. G1uions of Water Broke in the Reartt of the Twin City Causing a Great Flood. A reservoir of the municipal water works, located near the centre of Winston, N. C., broke at 5 o'clock Wednesday morning, causing the loss of nine lives and the Injury of four or five persons. The dead are: Mrs. Martin Paeples. Mrs. Vogler. Mrs. John Poe and 12-year-old daughter. Mrs. Southern. John Southern. Miss Octavia Bailey, aged 20. Lucile Malone. Carolina Martin. The two last named are colored. The injured: Martin V. Peeples, both legs brok- - en. Walter Peeples, injury to back. Gilley Jordav, slightly bruised. Tnese are au the hospital. D. L_ Payne, a traveling man- of Gree boro, may recover, though his cmd Gien prevents his removal to the hos pital now. The north side of the reservoir, which is 30 feet high, tumbled over aing upon the home and barn of Eartin V. Peeples. There were %bo..t 800,000 gallons of water in tbe~x h reservoir, and the mad stream rushed nortbeast to the Southern railway, -it and thence to Belos pond, a dis art'ce of a half mile. Four e ouses were washed several hundred Fards. D. L. Payne, injured, said he wa Lwakened by the crash and thought le was being swallowed by an .earth luake. "I cannot describe my expe- V.. rience while I was floating on the mad, rushing stream of water," said Er. Payne, after his removal to.a house near the place where he "was 'ound. There were several miraculous es :apes. A colored man and his Wife, named Davis, after their house was turned over, floated upon the stream of water on their bed to the railroad junction, a distance of 500 yards. iodged upon a heap of rubbish and walked out without a scratch. The Winston aldermen -met Wed nesday morning and made arrange ments to bury the dead and care for the injured. The Winston reservoir was built. 1881 by a company composed- of.6 Ditizens. Ten years ago it and the entire water plant was sold to the city. - Soon thereafter ten feet: was idded to the height of the reservoir, which was full of water when the col Lapse came.' The city has just had a Large stand pipecompleted. It is ful at water and the town is prepared to supply every demand. Despite the early hour, the news of the disaster spread over the city in an incredibly short space of time, and witbin 30 minutes between 500 and 1,000 people surrounded the spot.. An hour later the entire city was aroused and excited. Before the extent of the damage was known, andywhile it was thougnt that perhaps the members of the Peeples family were the only ones who had lost their lives, cries of dis tress were heard farther down the street. The thousands of gallons of water that flowed from the reservoir formed a pond in the vicinity, and It - was thought that several people pie might have been drowned in this. The city council met and decided to drain the pond in order to recover any bodies. that might lie beneath the water. The reservoir was situated about five blocks from the centre of the busi ness district of the city and was sur rounded by a number of residences and several small stores. It Is under stood that tire structure had been condemned, but the city authorities bad failed to remove it. Dining Hall Burned. At Clinton, S. C., the Memorial Dining hail of Thornwell orphanage was destroyed by fire Friday night.:, The fire was discovered about 11.30 o'clock and had then gained such a bead way as to make It impossible to save the building. Tae best that could be done was to pievent the flames spreaoing to the dormitories on each side, in which the inmates were asleep, when the fire began. There were no sleeping apartments in the memorial hail but it was fitted up in excellent~~ style and the financial loss is heavy. The building contained dining room, store rooms and kitchen, the last be ing furnished with modern ranges and appliances. The destruction of the building leaves the orphans with noth ing to eat an.1 no place to cook or eat if there were provisions on hand. Help must come promptly to put things in shape again and Dr. Jacobs, the su perintendent, appeals to the people through The Sinate for carntributions at once. A Big Raul. At Buffalo, N. Y., four masked men entered James L. Bladges/'s private bank at the Hermitage during the night, dynamited the safe and secured $30,000. Tne robbers were pursued and numerous shots were exchanged. None were hit. The whole village was aroused and a posse was formed to purene the burglars. Several years ago Bladgett, who is the "Dayld Harum" of the place, was robbed of $12,000. S&udent Arreced. A dispatch from Newberry to The State says George Singleton, a student of the colored State college at Orange. burg, was arrested there Tnursday for the theft of a bicycle from Maj. Shelly about eight weeks ago. Single ton had purchased his ticket and checked the wheel when arrested by Policeman Carter. Singleton pro tested his Innnonce but wa reane