Newspaper Page Text
?1VEN ? RO?S?T
? --
Some Scathing Comments in the
Recent Elections.
ANENT COBTLEYOIL
Hie New York Prese Contrasts His
Treatment by President Rossevelt
With (he Defeat of Congress*
man Babcock bv the Peo
ple of His District.
It ought not, says the Now York
Press, to be necessary to use a steam
drill to drive Into the hoads of Bo
pubPoans the lesson taught by the
defeat of Representative Baboook In
Wisconsin. Tho Press thore goes on
to say:
In a district which is normally Re
publican by several thousands of
votes, and which gives a handsome
plurality to the victorious, Republi
can oandidate for Govomor Babcock
has been beaton for ro election. And
this despite the fact that he was
Ohairman of the Congress campaign
committee, a powerful member of thc
system In the House, and could oom
mand resources not available to the
ordinary Congress oandidate.
Baboook was beaten because ho was
in partnership with the lifo insurauoo
grafters. He took 82,500 from ?the
despollera of the widows' and orphans'
fund and spent lt to maintain that
part of the Congress machine ovor
which he was in command in 1004.
The faot was widely published lu Mu.
Armstrong oommittee testimony. It
was familiar to tho voters in Bab
cock's district, and it overshadowed
questions of tariff and trusts and tho
like. Nothing counted much in tho
campaign but tho lnoidont of Baboook
taking 92,500 from McCurdy to
finance the political maohlneof which
he was tho engineer. Tho voters of
the 3d Wisconsin dlstrlot decided that
a man who would take money whloh
he knew ho had no right to take was
not flt to look after their interests or
those of tho country, and they have
returned Baboook to private life.
Now, does not the fate of Reprc
sentatlvo Baboook suggest largor
possibilities of danger to National
Republicanism? Oonsidor the oase
of Oortelyou. It is like Baboook's
only worse.
All tho yellow dog funds contri
buted largo sums to Oortelyou, and
be fattened the funds of the National
Republican committeo with them.
Babcock took cents where Oortelyou
took dollars. But tho aotions of the
two mon wero identical In that each
accepted moneys willoh did not be
long to tho givers, in that each know
the contributions did not bolong to
those who made them, in that caoh
oonoealed the gifts as carefully as
the evldenoo of anv felony, and in
that both Cortelyou and Baboook
spent tho money in thc further de
bauchery of Amerioan politics.
The similarity in tho offences of
the ohairman of tho National Repub
lican committee and the chairman of
the Republican Congress campaign
oommittee stops thore. It is when
we come to tho treatment of tho two
mon that the big diff?rence occurs.
Bepresentatlvo Baboook, not being
a member of the Cabinet, but being
in charge of tho Congress oampaign
oommittee, and not daring to faoo a
canvass of the country in behalf of a
Ropublican House with the 82,500
steal staring the voters in tho face,
he is retired from tho chairmanship.
Then when ho goes baok to his dis
trict for a "vindication" thc hobnails
of public opinion are applied vigor
ously whero they will do the most
good. No vory high standard of
morals is required ordinarily for
membership in the House, as is prov
ed by the fact that Baboook could
go there after ho had been oaught
stuffing the malls with franked postal
matter during railroad weighing
time, and as demonstrated by tho
presenoe in Congress for a long time
of some men who belonged in Jail an1
have sinoo either been started in that
direotion or are already in prison.
But tho 3d Wlsoonsln dlstrlot drew
the line at being rr presented by a
man who helped McCurdy to skin tho
policy-holders of tho Mutual.
now Oortelyou was treated for do
le g on a larger neale what Babcock
did was advertised to the oountry,
and particularly to tho Stato of New
York, a few days before tho balloting,
whloh eleoted to tho Governorship
the man most instrumental in ox
posing the partnership of Cortelyou
and Babcock with tho dispensers of
Yellow Dog funds. For his share
In the dirty business Babcock is wip
ed off tho map of the system at
Washington. For his part in tho
plunder Oortelyou is not retired from
his position as Postmaster General,
but ls raisod of all things to thc chair
Of Alexander Hamilton. Tho man
who would spend in a oladestino man
ner trust funds belonging to mom
bers of ono political party to promoto
tho fortunes of another political party
ls not punished but rewarded. And
to aggravato tho outrage tho reward
to him for his failure to observo com
mon honesty in tho handling of other
people's money ls his promotion to
the post whero ho is in ohargo of tho
funds of tho whole nation I
Suoh is the difference botwoen tho
treatment of Baboock by tho voters
of his homo district and tho treat
ment of Oortolyou by President
Roosevelt, although tho olfonoo com
mltteed by the two men differed only
in degree, and to that extent tho
wrong dono by tho Cabinet officer is
greater than the blooding of the Re
presentative.
The Amerioan people have longed
looked upon the "vindication" of
Paul Morton from tho solf-oonfessed
oharge of orlminal rebathig as tito
topmost point of absurdity reaohed in
American administrative Govern
ment. This height of folly is scaled
by tho promotion of Secrotary Oortel
you to tho Troauury, and tho fact ls
al) the moro emphasized bv tho beat
ing the voters havo given to Oortol
you's confederate in the 3d Wlsoonsln
district.
Jb'Atiil Fight.
At Grand Rapids. Midi., Mike
Word, the pugilist, of Harina, (hitar
lo, died Friday morning at 0 45
o'olook as tbe result of a knockout
in alight Thursday night with Harry
Lewis, of Philadelphia, Ward died of
oerbral hommorrhago, aocording to tho
physicians who attended him. Hurry
Lewis, Roferec Byan, of Detroit, and
Frank O'Brien, Lo wis' trainer were
placed under arrest.
?
FINDS A PEARL.
WhllQ Elating lUw Oy s tora In a New
York Onie.
At New York William H Bloors,
manager of the Ohio Brass company's
works in Mansfield, Ohio, struok a
mine of pearla in an oyster In. the
Oaf? Savarin Thursday. Mr. Bloom
ia staying in the Hotel Breslln.
Thursday he went down town and
dropped into the Savarin for a bite to
oat. Mr Bloom thought he would
like some raw oysters. So tho man
opened him half a dozen.
With four ot these oysters this
story has nothing to do, The fifth
oyster was the one that oonoealed
seven beautiful pearls valued at 9500.
If he swallowed them whole, Mr.
Bloom would have returned to his
nappy Ohio home ignorant forever,
perhaps, of how muoh he was worth
him8elfj inside. But in Mansfield
they ohow their oysters. As Mr.
Bloom hit Into tho fi (th cystor he
felt something round between his
teeth.
They have failed to properly mani?
euro those oysters" he said, aud ojco
ted the gritty otjaot from his mouth.
It was a lusoioua pearl. In quiok
succession he produced six more
pearls.
"I presume that when you serve
oysters on the half sholl all that oomeB
in the shell belongs to the guest?" in
quired Mr. Bloom, of Waiter Gustav.
Gustav admitted that suoh was the
mle.
"Well, you should have some re
ward," said Mr. Bloom as he plokod
up ono of tho pearls. "I shall leave
you the remaining oyster."
And ho wrapped up all tho pearls
and told Gustav to thank Mr. Savar
in for him on aooountof Mr. Savarlu's
kindness and gonorosity and went
away.
BROODING OVER L03S.
A Lindy Attempted to Kill Horaolt
Willi Foison.
In a flt of despondency Mrs. Joo
Steine, wifo of tho heaviest loser in
the reoont fire at Warrenton, Ga.,
made a dosperato attempt to oommit
Buloido Thursday at uoou in Augu3ta
by drinking poison.
She had beon visiting frionds in
that olty hoping to ovoroome the
strain whioh has resulted from tho
great loss by the fire of last week.
Tho Stoino store and building suf
fered a loss of twenty thousand dol
lars by fire and there was only ni*
thousand dollars insurauoo, which lt.
seems was not muoh moro than
enough to pay outstanding obliga
tions.
Mrs. Steine was stopping at 914
Broad street and somo one happened to
observe hor as olio took the deadly
dose of poison and promptly summon
ed City Physician MoLaws, who suo
ooeded in pumping up most of tho
poison and giving counteracting dos
es, whioh put Mrs. Steino uut of dau
ger aftor tho employment of stringont
means.
In a statement to the physician
and othoro present sho said she wish
to dio as tho work of a lifetime had
been destroyed in a few short mo
ments by the llames and sho did not
feel ablo to begin anew the struggle.
She is reported as resting very well
now and out of all danger from her
desperate aotlon. s
The finally is well known through
out that section of the state and num
erous friends havo expressed their
sympathy over the loss of their prop>
erty.
Tiroil ol 1.1 lo.
Mr, William B. O.lgen, bookkeeper
in the Charlotte brauoh r ill JO of thc
Philip Carey Manufacturing Co. com
mitted suicide here early Thursday
night by asphyxiation. The act was
a most deliberate one. After writing
a dc z ?u or moro notes to his father,
wlfo, S?veral rolatives and friends, ho
drew the shades in the othoo, made a
pallet on the floor wtiha pillow of ox
oelsior, out the gas tube leading to
the small hoator and tied the freo end
to his nook. Aftor turning on tho
gas ho threw a felt blanket over bia
hoad and was dead in a vory short
time. Ile leaves a wife and two
children. Profound melanoholia,
brought about ;by poor. eyesight, 1H
said to have been tho oauee of the rash
deed. In a noto to his brother, Mr.
E. P. Tln?sloy he said:
"I am afraid of myself. Sometimes
I have been tempted to take all
the folks with mo, but have resisted
tho feeling, 1 do oot think I can do
so any longer."
A Wino Woman.
There is a wiso woman in Pough
keepsie, N. Y. She is Mrs. James
Crawford, who for years has support
ed hor husband, who drank up all tho
money ho could got while she did sev
en washings a week. Littlo by little
she kept putting away savings from
hor meagre earnings until sho had
$100. Sho caused hor husband to be
summoned bofore Justioo Carpenter
and offered him tiie $100 if ho would
sign an agrecmont to leave the vlllago
and never oomo noar her again. Craw
ford signed tho paper and took the
money.
Burnod to Doatli.
At Aiken on Thursday afternoon
little Ryau, tho -1-year-old son of Mr.
A. J. Halglit, was no severely burned
that death resulted Friday morning
at 5 o'olock. The ohild's clothes ho
came iguitod and bofore it was res
cued it was burned fatally. Tho body
wan oarried to Blackville for Inter
ment. Mr. and Mrs. Ifaight haye
tho sincerest sympathy of all in tboir
sad bereavement.
lOlK'it Mon Hm ind.
A dlspatoh from Douglass, Arizona,
says that eight mon woro burled un
der tons of rook by the promature ex
plosion of giant powder at a limo
quarry near there. Employes from
the smolters have boon sont to dig
them out.
Put I hom to fi'light.
While E. R. Ooodshall and others
were attempting to kill a bull at Un
ion the infuriated animal turnsd on
them and put them to dight, during
which Ooodshall foll and tho bull at
tacked him, indicting soveral painful
wounds.
SBOKBTAHY Wilson has agreed to
lot tho packers label their steamed
beef as "roast beef." He calls it a
"concession to tho paokors." The
pauperized beef packers aro sadly in
need of somo concession.
NOTING that Mr. Howard Gould is
mgry because ho has a Chlneso broth
>r-in law, tho Houston Post sagoly
?bsorves that he ought to bo tliank
ul lt Isn't Harry Lehr. Thore's
[onulno optimism for you.
hOMH N1W KULIMS
WHAT ilUHAIi OAItUlERHHUBT
AND MUHT NOX DO.
A Poitoffloe Offloial Gives Cat a Btate
ment an to Their Duties,
Bead lt.
"New that tho rural free delivery
jystem has been BO oxtoudod in thu
country-in faot it will bo but a abort
tl no when the merry rural free do
1 vory carrier will be trotting over
t ie snows and icy peaks of Alaska
the department ls In constant receipt
of letters to what rural oarrlers may
carry on their routes besldesthemsolves
and their mall," Ba'd a poatofHoe de
partment official recently.
"lu ino first plaoe, they cant oarry
Any liquid that stimulates either on
the inside or outside of their persohs;
intoxication means instant dismissal,
and they are dismissed when they
aro deteoted drinking even off their
routos JNor are t?ty permlttod to
oarry spirituous liquors for the ac
comodation of their patrons; personal
friendship doesn't go with tho depart
ment in these oases, and no exceptions
are made with the rule.
"Eural carr lora must carry th*
mail aud nothing else, even though
biuduoss houses seek of times to make
errand boys of them. Garrlors must
not either lu peron or through othors,
directly or indirectly, solicit money,
gifts or prosents. nor issue for profit
souvonolrs or postal handbooks, nor
00 operate with or assist the pub
ishcrs of tho same to secure
the patronage of tho publlo. Thoy
are also barred from compiling or
assisting in mo compiling of direo
corles for public uso. Business Urina
with largo mall lists have oaused us
a groat deal of trouble in attempt
ing to engage tho oairlors as tboir
agents, so wo have striotly prohibited
thom from furnishing tho names and
addresses of patrons on their routes
for pay or favor to any business
establishment, or to any individual
exoopt to the department officials
who aro entitled to thom uudor the
regulations.
Tlio department has received let
ters from patrons complaining because
tho oaariors rofuoed to oarry tboir
milk cam. This is funny, bub lt ls
true, and lt shows what some people
in tho country think tho rural deliv
ery sorvioo was established for. Oar
rlers are not permlttod to oarry pas
sengers, nor to permit ? ny parson
other than authorized postal officials,
to ride with them or to have acoess to
the mails. Thoy must not eugago in
any business during tboir prescribed
hours of service or to conduct any
business aftor hours which offers tera
tatton to solicit patrourgo on their
routes, or whioh by reason of their
positions in the government service
?{Ives them special advantages over
1 competitors.
We rigidly bar thora from acting
as book canvassers, Insurance solicitors
sowing maohino agents or aoting as
agent of any kind or occupation. We
allow carriers to oarry merchandise
for hire upon tho request of patrons
residing npon their respective routos
whenever it will not intfere with the
proper dlsoharge of their official dut
ies under suoh regulations thc de
partment may preeoribo. Country
storekeepers try to uso tho carriers
vehicles as dei ivory wagons, but tho
government ls not in that sort of
business. We allow tho oarrlers to
re?oive no compensation from tho sel
ler of tho merchandise and where
the merchandise is oarrlod on the
request of the patrous for hire for
the carrying, oarrylug must bo paid
by tho patrons.
"We got thousands of letters from
ll over tho country Just on this ono
point -what oarrlers may oarry on
their routes. If the rural delivery
patrons would only remember that
tho govormout ls not in tho express
business, thoy would save themselves,
tho carriers and the department a
great deal of trouble."
DANTZLER WILL CONTEST
So AB MU ?nd ftloorer Omi dot a
lil lt lo M ta ko.
Tlie commissioners of elootlon for
Orangeburg County mot on Tuesday
and organ!/..ul themselves into boards
of canvassers for the purpesn of can
vassing and tabulating the vote poll
ed at tho general election on tho Otb
instant. The two boards of this coun
ty are composed as follows:
Federal-J. A. Berry, chairman; J.
C. Redmond, J. B, Stroman; secretary,
M. F. lnabinet.
State-John S. Bowman, Jr., Chair
man; D. B. Berry and Thos. J. Hart,
seorobary, S. J. Ilolliday.
There wero fewer votes polled in
Orangeburg County this year than
two years ago. Governor Ansel only
recolved 1,888 votes, and the balance
of tho tlokets in the State, and county
boxes rooolvcd about the same.
For Congress, Mr. A. Frank Lover
recolved 1,1)79 votes In tho county,
willie tho negro, Alex. ?, Dantzler,
only received 83.
lt is presumed that Dantz'er in
tends going before Congross with
another contest. Jacob Moorer, a ooh
orcd lawyor of this piece, who lias been
conducting these biennial contests
heretofore, appcercd before tho board
of Federal oanvaisors and served the
following notloo upon them:
State of South Carolina, Seventh Con
gressional District.
To tho board or county canvassers
for tho couuty of Orangeburg. Please
take notloo that tho undersigned, A.
D. Dantzler, Republican candidato for
a seat in thc ot)th Congress from the
7th Congressional district of South
Uarolina, protests against the count'
lng, canvassing, tubulating and re
turning of any and all votes cast at
tho election hold November (I, l??O,
tor A. F. Lover, Demooratio oandl
date for a scat in the (iOth Congress
from thu Soveni/n Cong rossal district
if South Carolina, upon tho following
{rounds!
First, that tito laws under whioh the
election was hold, November 0, 1000,
tre in violation of tho 14th and l?tli
imcndments of tho Federal Omstitu
don and should be doolarod void and
)f nono oifecb;
Second, that the managers of clen
don wero partial and unlawfully per
nll.tcd a certain olass of olUv.ons
mown as Confederate soldiers, to vote
without tho qualifications required of
)thor citizens, to tho great Injury and
jrojudioa of tho Republican candi
late
A. 1). DANTZLHB, Protestant.
J Aeon Monition,
Attorney for Protestant.
Tho failure of two Savings Banks in
Washington in ono woek, shows
hat Republican prosperity ls not uni'
oraal.
QXBL KI LLB D HBRBBLF.
Did Not I Wftnt KO Uo to Bohool wu the
CMUHO,
At Concord, Ga., rather than go to
Hohool against her wishes, Miss Mary
Standford, pretty and vivacious, sent
a bullet crashing through her head
Tuesday morning of last week at 0
o'clock at her home in Concord, Ga.,
dying Instantly.
The young girl left home for school
under protest; declaring she did not
want to study. Instead of going to
the school hou o, however, she re
traced her stop.. Into tho house, scour
ed her father's pistol and hurried un
observed to the barn, where she de
liberately plaoed the weapon against
her ear and pulled the trigger.
A negro heard tho mulled report of
the weapon, but thought nothing of
tho matter until two hours later when
the body was found by the girls
fa thor.
Miss Stanford waa noted for her
beauty and from earliest ohlldhood
he 1 been admired by all her friends
and companions, Bv nature she
wa? of the happiest disposition and
until her recent 111 health was the
lender In tho in the youngor sooial
ol clo of which she was the charming
center.
She waa the daughtor of Mr. and
Mrs. E. J. Stanford, one of the most
prominont families in the town.
Her father is a large land owner and
lives on the rent from his several
plantations. Henry Stanford of At
lanta ls a broihor of the young girl.
He has been wired of the tragedy.
A BIRD TRAGEDY.
Tho PaasoiiKor Pigeon, Onco So Pion
ttl ul, Now Hxttnot,
Tho greatest of all tragedies Iv the
feathorod kingdom was tne sudden
oxtiuotion, the magioal disappearance,
of tho onoe countless hosts of passen
gor pigeons. Tho question as to what
bcoamo of tbem and why tbey went
bas becomo ono of the most puzzling
problems of ornithology. Those old
enough to romombor these beautiful
birds have never ceased to regrot their
unaccountable extermination. Ono
day as uumorous as the sands of 'oho
soashoro and flying in myriads that
darkened the sky for hours at a thoo,
next day they have disappeared as
completely as If never in oxistonoo so
completely that a large roward ciTor
cd for a pair still romains unolaimed.
A celebrated Amorloan ornithologist
estimated that a Hook he saw early In
the last century numbored largely over
two thousand two hundred and thirty
millions, and they would consumo sev
enteen million four hundred and twen
ty- four thousand bushels of mast every
dayl These are tremendous figures
but many of our older rea tors, r mern
bering Hocks seen in their boyhood,
will readily boliove thom to be true.
As late as the sixties it was no' un
common thing to dee in Kontuoky, In
diana and Michigan, Hooks that'dark
ened the sky in every direction aa far
as tho eye could roaoh and they would
be passing for hours at a time.
lb has been over thirty-three years
i since any considerable number' of
these birds wore soon south of. thc
great lakes though an extensive nest
ing was reported from tho rogln of
Petoskev as late as 1881. T gb
hundreds of men were cugagad ?Ot
ting thom and captured fully 10,, ut,
OOO, it was estimated that not ono
bird in a thousand was taken. An eye
witness deolarcs that this neBtlug oov
erod au aroa twenty-eight miles long
and fully four miles wido while e>ery
treo of any size oyer this extonjlvo
space had more or less noats and many
wore full of them. j
This, however, seems to have been
thc last of the passenger pigeon in
numbers. Soon thereafter he disap
peared as suddenly as the Virg'nia
sora after a frost as oomplotely aa tho
great auk of tho southern soas. What
became of thom still remains and
doubtless always will remain one of
tho unsolved mysteries of scionoe. lt
was at first thought that they at
tempted to cross tho ocean, but un
equal to tho long Hight foll and vero
swallowed by the waves. Amore prob
able conclusion ls that In the destruc
tion of the forests, willoh deprived
them of their natural food, aided by
tho relentless persecution of malu lu
every locality, wo may lind the real
explanation of this deletable tragedy
in tho kingdom of the birds.
BoillU in Ht. IV lorn.
At Rome, Italy on last Sunday
morning a bomb was explodod in St.
Peters, wbloh ls tho largest chu roh
building in the world. Tho edi (Icc
was orowded and an indescribable
soeno of confusion followed. There
were no fatalities. As soon as the
cohoes of tho tremendous roar had
oeasod, a canon sought by reassuring
words, to quiet tho people, but in
vain. They Hod in all directions and
a number of wemen fainted. Womon
and children aoreamcd and mon tried
to protect their families in the crush.
Thc ohuroh ls BO large, however, that
there was ample room for tho orowd
to scatter and no ono was injured.
No traoe of the perpetrator of the
deed has been found.
No Ohftgo Wantod
A dispatch from Richmond, Va.,
says by resolution tho V.rglnia Hap
tist Convtntlon Wednesday broko off
all relations with tho American So
ciety and refused to use their publi
cations. The trouble grew out of
printing by the house of bibles for
Asiatics, in wbloh tho Crook word
''baptlBo" was translated "dipped."
Tho Amorloan Society contend their
iratisalatlon is correct and refused to
chango lt in Haptlst blblos.
Out le.WM Ktllod.
A punitivo expedition, which bas
boon oporatlng in Kroutzberg district
Runfla, for tho last week, has killed
ninety pousants belonging to tho re*
olutlonary organization, tormed Wor
nat ItangorB, who levied tributo on
tho surrounding country.
PitKSimcNT Rooscvolt should call
the attontlon of tho First Assistant
Postmaster-Goneral to the Ropublican
campaign book In which it Is doolared
that the oost of living has not In
areased porooptlbly. That hardly ag.
,?rccs with the olllolal request for in
creased pay for postal olerks duo to
tho inoreaao in the oost of living.
Phoso who aro paying high trust
prices oan hardly bavemuoh faith in
ItopubHoan statements which have
evidently boon manufactured to de
)oi it thom.
Tum bedeviled policy holders of the
Lifo 1 usu raneo oompanies are now
Doing blod to elect their c jrn officers
ind only two years ago they were bo
ng bled to elect Roosevelt. Their
ot could bo no worso li they were
federal oftlolals.
rUKIY-olA Ult
From a Railroad Collision W hich
Caused a Wreck,
WERE FOREIGNERS.
The Wreckage Took Pire and All of the
Dead Except Two Arc ?urned Be
yond Recognition. Blunder
of the Employ?s of
the Road.
Moro than one-half tho passongors
on an Immigrant train on thc Balti
more and Ohio road woro killed or
Injured in a collision Tuesday
botween the passenger train and a
freight near Woodville, Ind.
One hundred and sixtv-iivo passen
gers were on thc train. Of these 47
were olther killed outright or were
burned to death in a lire that broke
out in thc wreckage immediately af
ter tlie collision. Thc names of all of
the dead will probably never bc
known, as 45 of the bodies were con
sumed In thc Hames or were so badly
burned that Identification will bo
out of the question. Thirty-eight
people were injured and several will
die. Elgty others escaped unhurt but
lost all their baggage and clothing,
Thc disaster was caused hy a blund
er of some employe of the railroad
company, but just where tho blame
Iles has uot as yet been determined.
The passenger train, which was load
ed with Russian .lews, Servian and
Toles, all of the recent arrivals in this
country, and hound for Chicago or
points in thc Northwest, was the
second section of a through t rain from
Baltimore. The engineer of tho
freight train, No. inion instructions
received at McCool, Ind., waited at
a siding at Babcock, Ind , to allow
the immigrant train to pass.
One report ls that the engineer of
thc freight train had not been In
formed that the passenger train was
running in two sections; thc other is
that the Hist section of the passenger
tram carried no lights or signals of
any kind Indicating that a secondsec
tion was close behind. As soon as the
lirst section of tho immigrant train
had passed the switch at Babcock, thc
freight train started eastward.A l'ght
snow was falling, which increased the
darkness of the early morning and as
the freight was rounding a sharp curve
just west of Woodville, the second
section of the immigrant train came
into sight a short distance away,
tearing toward Chicago at the rate of
40 miles an hour. The two trains
came together with unslakonlng speed
and In Hie crash six passenger coaches
and several freight cars were knocked
into kindling wood and together with
the locomotives went rolling down
the 10-foot embank ment.
Vir0 broke but almost immediately
In the wreckage, and although a num
ber of the injured were saved hy the
desperate efforts of the train crew and
surviving passengers, the greater part
of those who were pinned down under
the debris was burned to death. ,
The Hames spread through the
wreckage so rapidly that it was im
possible to save a number of people
who were only slightly hurt, hut were
held fast by timbers that weighted
them down. These were burned In
plain sight of the throng that stood
around the scene of the disaster, ut
terly unable to lend asissstanoe in any
way. The lire cont inned until all of
the shattered cars were entirely con
sumed and of thc 17 people whose
death followed the collision 45 were
burned to ashes.
Thc crash of thc collision was so
great that a number of fanners and
other lesidonts of the noigborhood
came hastening to the scene, but they
could do nothing except lend assis
tance to the injured who had already
been taken from the wreck. All of the
six cars of the immigrant train were
knocked into kindling wood, as were
three freight cars.
Ivelief trains were sent at once from
South Chicago and from Valparaiso,
Ind., with every availabe physicsan,
and every possible aid was given to
the injured.
Utfly Muidor ltooord.
"During the last live years 45,000
poraons vrcre murdered In tho United
States. More persons were murder
ed last year than died of typhoid fev
er. This ftvfful total has been duo
to tlie way tho law was admin
iorercd, and the lav/ Itself ls
bad and lnoffloent. It is burdened
with restrictions and technicalities,
and In almost every oaao .??ho criminal
lias niuo ohauocs of (.soaping to ono of
hoing found guilty." So deolarod
Judge Marcus Kavanagh in au ad
drona before tho alumnae of St. Igan
gantius College gathered at a banquet
at the G-rott Northern llotol at Chi
cago. Ile spoke on " IOnforeemcut of
the Law In the Dargo Cities,'* and
vigorously assailed tho oporatlon of
courts under tho jury system. That
tho United Slatea is the most criminal
oountry in tho world, tho jury the
mont loose and antiquated, and the
lav/ tho mest open to attaok aro
among tho asaoYfcions made by Judgo
Kavanagh.
Another Doath.
Mr. Flarold Korest Holley, of Aiken
County, a student of the South Caro
lina University In Columbia, died
Sunday morning of typhoid fev.;r.
This ls the second death at the Uni
versity In thc last two v*ooks from
typhoid fevor. Mr. Holley was a
bright and promising young man. He
was tho son of Mr. B. F. Holley, of
Aiken, and was regarded as a tine
student and maxily young follow.
There havo beau no nev/ oases In
twelve days now, and the medical
authorities give assurances that
danger is over. Tho use of woll
water for a few days, during a break
In the regular oity supply, ls regarded
an the causo of the oases of typhoid,
Tho Columbia correspondent of The
News and Courier says a? tho well
water ls no longer used and thore
have been no new oases In a fortnight,
the fear of further trouble ls regard
od as over. Tho authorities havo tho
boat of trained nurses and physicians
attending tho young mon who are
sick- all aro now about woll.
Itrutftlly Murdered.
At Wilmington, N.C., Bottle John
son, ? negro woman about 25 yoars of
age, was brutally murdered Saturday
night by Frank James, a looting's Duth
Carolina negro of bad police record.
Saturday tho woman was assaulted by
James and oarly Saturday night as
she was returning homo from a mag
istrate's oillco, where sho had sworn
out a warrant against the man, he
again attaoked her. With a razor he
out her throat and savagely gashed
her body. Death resultod In a few mo
ments from hemorrhage. James ls at
large. Tho flond whan oaughfc should
be made short work of.
i
BOBNB Ol' BU AV H.
Hobbors ?nd Patron? of a Saloon
Have Blondy Fight.
Al San Francisco two men ?re
dead, two others dying and ot)mrs
seriously in Ju rod aa a result of a pis
tol duel Thursday night la an at
tempted hold?up of a saloon by two
masked robbers.
Shortly before midnight two men
with handkerchiefs over their faoe
and revolter in their hands entered
tho saloon of John O'Connell at
Sixth and Brannan streets.
AU the inmates oomplied with the
ordor to hold up their hands given by
the masked mm except George O'
Oonnell, a retired and pensioned po
lice officer, who drew a revolver, and
oommenoed shooting at a robber near
tho Sixth Street entrance.
The robbers began dring at the
policeman, and patrons of the saloon
at almost the Bame moment. When
the smoke of battle oloarod away,
four men were lying on the floor of
the saloon, throe of them dying and a
C uirth seriously lujurod.
O'Connell has two bullots. in his
ohest, Steven Lynoii was twloe shot
in the abdomen, Louis Dalatour had
his Jaw torn away by a bullet and
Michael Kennedy was shot la tho oar.
Oae of the robbers, Frank Burke,
an ox? convJot- was found dead outside,
with his mask still on. O'Oonnell
died soon after being taken to tho
hospital, whore it ls said, that Lynch
and Delatour, both laborers, oan not
recover. _
ANOTHER OUTRAGE IK ATLANTA.
NoRro Hoar, Hound and Criminally
AsBimltod,White lindy.
Somo of tho nogroes of Atlanta
must be determined to pull off anoth
er riot. One of tho most dastardly
assaults ever perpetrated was that
committed thoro on Tuesday of last
week by Joe Glenn, a negro 30 years
old, when ho entered tho home of
Mrs. J. N Camp, on Oasoado avenue,
about 0.30 o'olock that morning, chok
ed Mrs. Camp into unconclousness,
tied a leather strap around har throat
and assaulted her. Leaving his vio
tim in an unoonsolous state he plund
ered the house unttl^he;iiad partly re
vived, when he returned and attacked
her again. He remained unconcerned
ly abou1-. thehouso until sta had re
trait, od nor power to Boream and run
i rom the house, whereupon the then
unknown assailant made his escapo.
Mrs. Camp was found by two men
who wore passing shortly after 10
o'olook that morning, hound to a tree
aud terribly bruised and Injured as a
result of tho negro's orlminal attaok.
She was taken into thc bouse in a
dangerous oondilion, and there ls
somo question as to her recovery.
Mrs. Camp is about 35 years old aud
has several ohlldron. Tho Oamp homo
stands about a quarter of a milo away
from tho nearest noighbor, and she
was practically unprotected, The
oounty polioo and tho marshal of
Oakland City were notified of tho
orime and at once instituted a scaroh.
Late Thursday afternoon ?a negro
answering therLgeneral|dcEoription was
traood ta Gaseado Spring, and when
captured, was found to {moro olosely
answer "the description. When he
was taken into tho presence of his
victim Glenn was at onoo positively
Identified.
The officials anticipated trouble and
made a rush for the oounty jail,
which they succeeded in reaching
Bftfoly before it was known that Glenn
had boen either oapturod or identified
The negro is now safe behind the
bars, and there has boon no unusual
oommotion about the olty either dur
ing the day or night on aooount
of the orimo.
Prollt Not Gout.
Mr. Storrctt. Tate, replying to a
quotation from tho Now York Herald
LO thc effect that as ootton oan be
grown at ilvo cent per pound, lt is
unreasonable for the produoer to ex
peot moro than ten cents for lt. Mr.
Tate successfully ridicules the prop
csltion that cotton oan be grown at
five cents a pound and shows that
ton cents is too low for tho produoor
to mako the reasonable margin of pro
fit to which he is entitled.
It is a very simple matter for a
newspaper a thousand miles away
from tho fields to tell tho cotton pro
duoor what lt costa por pound to raise
ootton, but when reduced to ita last
analysis advioo from tho neighbor
hood of Wall street ls ot no more
value to the avorago cotton farmer
than would be tho opinion of the
average ootton produoor to a Now
York speoulat-or who might bo seek
ing ovidenco as to the latest movo
mont8 of the Parlslon bourse.
Every item entering into the pro
duction of ootton has vastly lnorcased
during tho past few years. It costs
moro to buy land, fertilizers, stook,
utonsilu, to pay for labor and to meet
tho expenses of living than over be
fore. Tho oost entering into the pro
duotlon of a bale of cotton today ls
almost double the cost c f the making
of a bale ten yoars ago. While it 1B
true that ton ocnts will perhaps moot
aotual czponsos and give the produoor
and his family a living, lt ts > .o', just
for the world to expect tho oouton
grower to be satisfied with only ao
tual living expensen.
Tho cotton grower ls Just as muoh
cntitlod to a reasonablo return on his
effort, his energy, his time and his
investment as tho Wall street broker
is ontitled to lils profit. What would
Wall stroot think if tho cotton pro
duoer should tttko the position that
its brokors and business mon should
be ontitled to no moro than aotual
living oxpenscs out of their boniness
-and yet that is tiie position aasum
od towards the cotton growers by a
great many people tho world over.
What Wall street doonn't know about
tho cost of making ootton would fill
a great many hooks.
In the moantlmo Tho constitution
again urges the ootton producers Of
tho south to let Wall street alono,
and to make its arrangements inde
pondent of advioo r60olvod from that
dlreotion. The secretary of the
Mississippi division of tho Southon)
Cotton Assoolatlon was right when
ho warned the produc?is of the Bouth
against the boar movement emanat
ing from Wall street, and lt ls notice
able that lt comos tills year from
some of thoso who only a year ago
wore ooddling the farmers of thc
south with tho vlow, evidently, of
working into their confidence to bag
big game this year. Notwithstand
ing this ootton has gone abovo olov
en cont?, and ovory pound now on the
market ls worth that muoh at least,
aud if marketed slowly will bring lt.
Tine ondoraomeut of Senator Bailey
bv a largo majority of the D?mocratie
i State Committee of Texas Indicates
that his implacable enemies are more
I noisy than numerous,
-,-,-,-_
OVBK NORTH IS KN MI8BL JUIPA'l
On Last Saturday Hight Leavirg
Death and Destruction
in Ita Wake.
Tolegraphlo and t?l?phonie oommu
ni oat io ns reoelved Sunday night from
points in Mississippi, Arkansas and
Tennessee for a distance, of sever? 1
miles, report that territory to have
suffered Saturday night and early
Sundav from one of the most doatruc
tlvo rain and wind storms experienced
in years.
Only meagre details are aa yob ob
tainable, but five lives are known to
have been lost ana great damage done
to property and orops. Railroad trafilo
ls completely demoralized by mimer
ous washouts, and many trains have
neoesta'ily been annulled. From tho
reports so far received the great dam
age occurred in the oentral and Delta
regions of Mississippi.
At Winona, Miss., the Catholic,
Christian and negro Methodist ohuroh
09 and tho Henty brick yard wore de
nuoiiBhed, and numerous buildings un
roofed aud badly damaged. Among
the largeat buildings damaged at this
p'aoe are the postoillce, Opera Hon o
(ho oil mill, the o empress, ware house
of the Jaokson Mercantile Company
and the residence of E. J. Dunkston.
Besides tbose, about twenty . flvo
smallor bondings were almost com
pletely destroyed.
Of those buildings not totally do
stroyed, tbo oompross was probably
the most badly damaged. The roof
of this building was torn eff by tbo
wind, which at times reaohed almost
tornado-like velocity, falling on the
home of E. J. Dunkston, 250 yards
away. The wind storm was preoeded
and followed by heavy rains, causing
serious washouts along the route of
the Illinois Oontral Railroad, and
badly damaging orops.
At Mathison, Miss., sor loua damago
is reported to have ooeured and a
woman killed by a falling building.
At Tebula; a falling tree striking a
small frame building, oaused lt to bo
sotaliro a woman and ohlld were burn
ed to death. At Nonconnah Creek a rail
road trestle fell under the weight of a
switch engine plunging Into the swoll
en stream carrying with it Engineer
?. V. Peterson and Fireman A. R.
Rttohle, who were drowned.
Wost Point, Columbus aud Mahon,
Miss., are reported to have suffered
serious damage, but as theso points
aro completely out off from communi
cation it is Impossible at this time
to ascertain the extont.
Wolf River, a small stream in the
viol ni ty of Rossville, Tenn., is out of
its banks, tho wator Hooding the sur
rounding territory for many milos.
Thc entire town of Rossville is inun
dated, the water in the publlo square
reaohlng a depth of four feet and
great damago has boen dono to proper
ty at this plaoe and eastward.
A railroad employee reports the
people In a state of panie, tho flood
being the worst in tho town's hlstorv.
Q iantitio? ot loose ootton has been
washed away, as well as many small
buildings and Uvestook drowned. For
a distance of eight miles, between
that plaoe and Moscow, Tenn, the
water is from one to six feet deep on
the tracks of the Southern Railway.
l'ioi uro Post Garda.
Notwithstanding the faob of the
enormous popularity of tho picture
poat-oard a reoent order of the Post
?nico department ls likely to make
these little mall souvenirs oven more
sought after than ever. This order
will make lawful a postoard upon
which there is a spaoo upon the ad
dress side for written messages. This
will onable the sender to keep tho
ploturo unmarred and yot wrlto a
message upon the left band aide of
the oard, tho whole of which aide has
been in the past resorved for the ad
dress only. This agreement was
roached at the session of tho univer
sal postal congress during the past
summer. This style of post* oard bas
been in use for some time In foreign
oountrles. Tho admission of lb to
American malls promises to lnorease
tho number now handled by several
millions. A poouliar feature of the
post-card ls, that although lt is sent
for ono cont, their usc bas inoreascd
the revonuos of the department.
Holet By Ula Own Potard.
One of two burglars who attempted
to break open a safe In the o Also of a
large manufacturer ab Berln, Cor, has
mot with a singular death. Ho and
his accomplice, Unding tholr tools
not sharp enough or tempered enough,
determined to burst opon the safe
with some explosive. They etuffed
thc look full with tho explosive, pre
sumably gunpowder, and attaohlng
an ignited fuse, waitod for the result.
As the fuse burned slowly one of the
robbers approached bhe Bafe bo has
ton matters. At that moment tho
gunpowdor oxplodod, and tho door of
tho safe dow open, smashing in the
skull of the burglar, His accomplice
escaped, and as tho explosion made
hardly any noiso nothing was known
of the affair till next morning.
ARIZONA whioh la entirely under
tho o mtrol of tho Federal authorlbloo
reports a lumber trust plundering
her pcoplo. Yea, if we fly to the
uttermost parts of thc earth tho
trusts, under this Republican polioy
of tariff fostering, pursue us and oven
under the protection cf the fedoral
otil?la1? appolnood by PresldentlRoof-e
volt, tho people Hud no rest from
trust cxaotlons.
We Have h
Ono 25 horso power Talbott, second lin
ly hoon ovorhauled, This Engino is
a groat bargain for anyone who is in t
We tire headquarters for anything ir
prompt attention will be given to ?ll ir
caro. Writo us when you aro in the r
to get ponrriees before plaoing your (
tiUlnmbla Stinnlv ??..
j. lawton i imw.T, I. a
Strutt fat moatlt MaJ.Ccl-j
t???ttst. ix,Pm,K. vua.
Mri.fetUty. h. Munta
tot? Mri. fe., feud
st tulls, tU>,
Chronic Disc
Successful
- If Buffering fror
Nervous Bxhnaitl
Varioooole, ?trlot
Liv?r, fltomftoh; 1!
Disorders, Kidnuy
to women, ?to., ea
20 yo/vra' KxporioL
Reputation firmly
our books "Brain t
and "MOM'S Disaa
advised. Many oas
lOxOort opinion of
blank. Addraas 1
Inman HulUiug, A
VJ?
*t CltiMbur*, ^
With ?efceotlvos from ol tit?* 0f
neighboring stAtoa who ar? there lu Ula
hop? or fiudlng orcoks of nation-*! re
putation, tum bas been no apparent'
oessatlon in crimes that nave stirred
Pittsburg within" the past two weeks.
During Wednesday and early Thurs
day morning Booro? ot people weze ar
rested on tho streets as suspected
characters.
Shortly after midnight Thursday a
nogro who intered the home ot David
Roney, Parryville Ave. Allegheny,
was heard in the lower portion ot tho
house by a maid, who Immediately
notified Mr. R'.moy. Mr. Roney tired
geveral shots but the negro escaped.
Ron ey'a home ls located to a row of
ton house ..niuo of whioh have been
robbed during the past two evenings.
DlBpatohes to the Associated Press
Thursday night from neighboring
towns says the reign of lawlessness has
never before been equalled In these
suburbs. At South Sharon, Meroer
County, the pol loe found John Mo
Donald lying In an alloy, almost dead
from exposure and fraoturod skull. At
Washington, .Pa., bloodhounds have
! started on tho trail ot robbers whe
assaulted Mrs. Cole, wife of the tax
o/ilcotor of Oreen County, whose con
dition ls preoarlous.
At Beaver Falls, Pa., a thief enter
en the home of Mrs. Mary MoMlller
and falling to Hud money ohooked her
nearly to.death. The woman finally
broke away from her assailant and
grasping an iron poker struck bim
several times over the head. Three
white men were arrested Thursday
night at Somersot, Pa., charged with
stealing $250 and soveral hundred dol
lars worth of government stamps from
the wife of a government revenue col
lector while she was riding on a street
oar In Grecnsburg, Pa., Thursday.
At New Brighton two men were
hold-up and assaulted Thursday
night by highway men. Both men were
seriously injured. A general manhunt
is In progress St McKoooporb, Pa., sev
eral miles from here, lu an endeavor
to oapture James Taylor, who murder
ed Isaao Oarter Monday evening. At
SwlBsvillo, a suburb, extra police were
added to the force Thursday night at
a special mooting of the connon.
WK agree with the Macon Tele
graph that the trouble In the So:
I ern Cotton association ls tjtorliame
that has beset every aesooi&tlon orga
nized by scubhorn farmers. The offi
cers could not restrain their ambition
co branch out,
Ti no Sugar Trust very naturally
demurs to being indioted for receiv
ing rebates from the railroads: but
tno evidence shows the managers are
guilty, but under tho extraordinary
antics of the anministration the
trusts will be fined and the real law
breakers go free.
WIIKN Unolo Joe Cannon began to
jae statistics inhlsspeeohes he borrow
ed trouble that will stick to him, for
his 'tigers' provo just opposite to what.
he Intended. The people are too wide
awake to be fooled any ru >ro by these
Republican statesmen sloablng around
in a sea of statistics they don't under
stand .
THH Atlanta Georgian printed a!
complimentary retorcaos to Senator
Tillman and waked up tho Ohcvsicatcw,
Post and Columbia State, and aooord
lug to the Spartanburg Journal these
performed the same old stunts they
havo boen doing for 15 years only
proviug that a prophet ls not without
honor except in his own country.
Tino Sparenburg Journal says;
"The one-aided poll foal conditions in
South Carolina form ono of our great
oat drawbacks. Tal? Btate and the
ether Southern states need a strong
minority party." The Journal's views
could soon be realized if the registra
tion laws aro made moro liberal, but
wo fall to see the benefit to be deriv
ed. _
f KN ATO a Knox, who by the assis
tance of the Pennsylvania Railroad
and the geuolous help of the Standard
Oil Trusts represents the oorporatlonB
In the Unitad States Senate, has
been nailed Into consultation at the
White House to know just whatought
to bo dono by tho numerous "and
best attorneys in the country, to pre
paro the cuso against the Standard
Oil Trust with unusual oare." It
might bo suggested that moat any
honest oornlljld lawyer oould get
John D. Rookofeller in stripes, If the
Federal judge and jury oan be relied
upon, but lt would seem to a laymen
that it would bo advisable to keep
Knox out of tho case.
M.
tn?
BY A
& Cf ?\?\?\ BANK DEPOSIT
53*UUU R. R. ftn Paid. Not?t Wm
^ 7 BOO PRB8 CO ORS Eli
gMM^BHMHBflHH Bo*rcUtCo?i. WrltoQuk*
tt?0R6IVAUBAMADU8IHG8SC0LmeB.aBMM.*?
An Organ
that will last a lifo time Is what you
want. Our Organs have a puro tone
and lovely casca. Wo can supply
you with an Organ that will pleaso in
every particular for only $05 and $70.
delivered. Write us for our spcoiai
terms of payment, and for illustration!
of the beautiful Organs roferred to.
If you prefer a Plano we have beau
tiful and good now Uprights from $186
up on easy terms.
Address Malone's Muslo House,
Columbia, S. ?.
mii-J-l-i-JU_--JILL- .MHB,i.'lim..18 ? 'J.. iijUJ-lBJ
or Sale
nd engino in stock whioh has recent
?n first class condition and will be
he market for such a size engine,
i tho way of machinery supplies, and
?quiriea and orders entrusted to ou?
uarkot for anything, and be enrt
)rdera oloowhore.
- - <AlrimMn, 8, *
????????????????????? ????
ases Of Men and Women
ly Treated.
u Rheumatl?in, Speolfto Mood Poison?
ion, Debility, Monk Down, oto., Catarrh
uro, Oleo!, any disease of the Heart,
?vela or I.un?nj $kln ))lions??, Mood
or Madder diseases, Diseases peculiar
ll on or write na. We have had over
ice in tho troatmont of thoee diseases,
established. Examination Dank and
ind Nerve Exhaustion" and "Health"
sos" sont fro?. Personal examination
os ourablo by our home treatment plan,
your oase froo. Write for examination
Mi. HATHAWAY k 00, ,8ulU 88-D
tlanta, Qoorgla.
