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m :'m m -"M c^jSS The Press and Banner J ?~ " ' ..T ' 11 . ' " ? = L7I1 ? " ' Wl *'? PAET SECOISTD. 1 ' -.. ?& - ????? ???? JAPAN IS MAD. She Has Recalled Her Ambassador Aokl Back Home. miii% rtia nmn ? i UUKDIU WAK rLttl flailing for the Pacific is Supposed to Have Something To Do With the Recall of the Ambassador.?Both Events Happening at the Same Cime Has Created This Impression In Washington. Aokl, the Japanese Ambassador at Washington has been recalled by his Government. A dispatch says he has been summoned to Japan by hiB government to explain personally and in detail the precise situation in regard to the Japanese immigration problem. The ambassador has been making very careful Inquiry on his own account and through the various Japaness concular officials into the extent of the reported race feeling existing in some sections of the United States toward Japanese immigrants. Already Baron Ishii, one of the secretaries of the Japanese interior department, has made an investigation of conditions existing not only in California, Oregon and Washington, but also in British Columbia on the north, upon which he has based a special report to nis government. At the Japanese embassy in Washington it is stated that the ambassador will probably leave Washington for Tokio by way of San Francisco or Victoria in about a fortnight, a fact of which he notified the president and Secretary Root. There is no intimation that he Is ( not to return to Washington. During ^ . his absence Mr. Miyoaka, the counsellor of the embassy, will be in charge of his affairs. It is thought in Washington that the recall is to be permanent and that the ambassador will not return. ( Ambassador Aoki gave notice of his recall practically at the same time that word was received at Wash- , ington of the sailing of the torpedo i section of the fleet destined for the ! Pacific. Many people may connect the things together. Whether or not | onrrontoH tVlAm rpmolns to be U apau wuuvvwvu __ seen. He has been cautious, conservative and friendly to a marked de- ! gree. There is every reason to assert that his recall for the purpose of making a verbal report is caused by the fact that his government thinks he has been too temperate, too moderate, two conservative, too amicable and finally too peaceable. He has been at Washington but a little over a year, having presented his credentials on May. 3, 1906, and his recall at this time can be taken Vas nothing el6e than an expression of disapproval of his course on the part of the Japanese government. DEATH OF OOL. ELLIOTT. Sooth Carolina Looses One of Her Noblest Sons. Col. William Elliott, Sr.. commissioner for the government to locate 1 and mark the graves of the Confederate dead interred in the north, died suddenly at his hunting lodge on Buzzards Island, near Beaufort, where he had come from Washington several days ago, to shoot ducks. i.mn in Beaufort VsUI? uiawvb .. M., in 1838; was educated at Beaufort .? college. Harvard university, and the University of Virginia; was admitted f*- to the bar at Charleston In 1861; en tered the Confederate States array and served as colonel throughout tho whole war. In 1886 was elected a member of the legislature; was a delegate to the national democratic convention? in 1876 and 1SS8; was democratic presidential elector for the state at large in 1880; served six terms in congress as the representative of the 4 First district of South Carolina, and in 1902 was dfeated by A. C. Latif mer for the United States senate. BURNED TO DEATH. Six Men Penned in a Tunnel Meets Awful Fate. Six men were burned to death and 14 others were seriously, if not fatally, hurt Thursday in a disastrous fire which penned them in the bore of the new Pennsylvania tunnel, which runs between Homestead, N. f J., and West Hoboken. At latest account, the bodies of the dead men had been taken from the mouth of the tunnel shaft at Homestead. Five more of the workmen, still alive, had been lifted to the surface and were all hurried to the North Hudson hospital at Union 1 Hill in ambulances. It Js known that there were 35 \ men at work within the tunnel bore k \ when the fire started amjng the piles A \ of tar being used to mix with stone KV \ f?r foundation of the roadbed of the tunnel." Twelve of these, three B. ./ of them known to be dead, were still ELECTION HALTED In the Proposed Calhoun County by Judge Gary On the Petition of Certain Citizens of the Territory Who Are Denied Their Right to Vote, On Wednesday night of last week Associate Justice Gary granted a temporary Injunction restraining the commissioners of election of Orangeburg county from holding the election on the establishment of Calhoun county, which has been ordered by Governor Ansel for Dec. 17. The Injunction was secured by Mr. W. C. Wolfe, of Orangeburg, representing citizens of the proposed new county opposed to its formation. Mr. Wolfe went to Columbia from Or~ A UaPa.a Tnn aii5cuui 5 auu appeal cu uciuic o uo~ tice Gary at chambers, presenting a strong complaint, in which several important points are made effecting the' election laws of the entire state. The order signed by Justice Gary leaves the date blank for hearing the tase but it will be argued before the entire supreme court in time for it to be settled before the date fixed for the election. The Court Order. The order is as follows: "State of South Carolina, county of Orangeburg, in the supreme court. A. R. Parler, D. H. Rush, A. C. Smith. E. F. Irick, .G. W. Smith, W. K. Crook, T. W. Murph, F. I. Culler, C. D. Felkel, T. A. Ulmer, plaintiffs, against, W. Brooks Fogel, J. S. Bowman, Jr., and T. J. Hart, as commissioners of state and county election for Orangeburg county, defendants. "On hearing the annexed verified petition, now on motion of Messrs. Herbert, Wolfe and Moss, Attorneys, for plaintiffs, it is "Ordered that the defendants and aach of them, and all persons acting or claiming to act under or for them, officially or otherwise, be and they hereby are restrained and enjoined, until the further order of this court from holding, or preparing to hold, the election upon the question of forming or creating a proposed new county as complained of in the complaint herein, from delivering the alection boxes to the managers, or any other act whatsoever doing or attempting to do in connection there w tn ; auu lllcll tuw ucicuuauio oau n caise, if any they can, before the 3upreme court at its court room, Columbia, S. C., on the blank day of December, 1907, at 10 o'clock a. m., or as soon thereafter as counsel may be heard, why this order should not be made permanent and absolute." Ground of the Complaint. The complaint sets forth a number ot grounds upon which the injunction Is asked, but the principal ones are as follows: First, that the instructions sent out to the managers declare that only qualified electors residing within the prescribed territory are registered at precincts within the new county shall vote, which cuts off qualified electors who live within proposed new county but whose precinets are outside that territory. This is a conflict between the constitution and the statute which has already been passed on by the Attorney General, but not by the courts. Secondly, that the registration books of Orangeburg County have not been revised within the period prescribed Dy me cuuauiuuuu uuu that as a matter of fact there is not \ legal elector within the county. If the court sustains this point it will affect not Orangeburg county alone, but the entire State, and will not only vitilate all elections, but will seriously interfere wth the work if the courts, since only qualified electors ean serve as purors. RESCUE THEIR CHILD Foud Parents Found Their Paughtei In Gypsy Camp. By a writ of habeas corpus Vantonio Thompson and his wife, of Los Angeles, Cal., Thursday secured posession of their sixteen year old daughter, Marie, from a band of gypsies encamped on the outskirts of St. Louis. Disguised as gypsies themselves they invaded the camp and found their daughter. She threw herself into her mother's arms, but a number of the gypsies under the command of King John seized the girl and drove the parents away. The parents then secured the writ, Accompanied by Deputy Sheriff Banker, they returned to the camp and obtained the girl. Such bands as these gypsies should not be allowed to roam over the country. HAD TO KISS PRETTY GIRL. " ' Ousted Methodist Minister Said He Couldn't Resist Her. [ Caught with his arms about a pretty girl, whom he was kissing, the R6V. i>l. ;>! Diea.st?, ui i UBtaiuuaa Ala., a leading member of the Alabamac onference. said he couldn'l help her. He has been unfrockec *ind expelled from thee church. He 1 is a married man. "I don't believe any man could have helped doing a: I did under the circumstances," sale Bleaee. He is 40 years old. Mrs kBlease blames the girl. MAD MAN SHOOTS Labor Leaders And One of Them Fatally Hurt SHOT IN STATE HOUSE Was Waiting to See Gov. Guild When Attacked.?Private Secretary Grove Grappled With the Maniac and With Others Overpowered Him.?The Madman Recently Released From An Asylum. At Boston, Mass., on Thursday an insane man walked into the anteroom of the executive chamber of the State House and finding Gov. Guild's door closed, turned on three prominent labor leaders and fired three shots at them, probably fatally wounding Edward Cohen of Lynn, president of the State branch of the American Federation of Labor; ser- ] lously wounding Dennis D. Driscoll of Boston, seqretary cf the same ( board, and injuring with the muz- < zle of his evolver Arthur M. Huddel ] of Boston, former president of the < Central Labor union of that city. i The insane man, who was John A. i Steele of Everett, and who was re- i leaced on parole last month from the i Danvers insane asylum, was over- ; powered _by Private Secretary Chas. ; S. Grove and Gen. J. H. Whitney, < chief of the State police. Gov. Guild was in his office only a few reet away ana rusmng out, assisted in subduing Steele, then knelt by Cohen's side an subsequently directed the removal of the wounded men to the hospital. Cohen was shot twice through the head and was in a critical conditiou at the Massachusetts General hospital that night. The third bullet struck Driscoll a glancing blow on the side of the forehead and, making a long wound over the head, rendered him unconscious. He recovered consciousness half an hour later. Huddel's wound was quickly dressed and will ' probably cause him little inconvenience. The three labor leaders came to the State house to meet the governor c by appointment in regard to a pardon i for A. M. Kennedy, of Salem, who is x serving a sentence in the Essex house i of correction. They reached the State i house shortly after three o'clock and f found that the governor was receiving a delegation from Rhode Island. \ The three labor men were asked to i wait in one or ine anie-ruuwo uum the Rhode Island men should leave. ( All three were standing beside a long j table conversing pleasantly when at c the far end of the room Private Sec- t retary Grove was dictating a letter j to the executive stenographer. Suddenly Steele appeared at the door of the room from the hallway . and without announcing his mission ( walked by the doorkeeper and Mes- ( senger Reed and then glanced to- j ward Gov. Guild's room, which was ( about 20 feet away. The door was , closed, Steele turned around and , drawing a revolver, fired at Cohen, J who was about six feet away. Cohen's ] back was turned and the bullet struck the back of the head directly through, and came out at the forehead, driving a great splash of blood to the wall opposite and beside the ( picture of Abraham Lincoln. The wounded man turned, only to receive anchor hnllpt In the head, which also passed completely through. Cohen sank unconscious to the floor. Steele then swung around and fired at Driscoll, the bullet inflicting a severe scalp wound. Drlscoll also fell unconscious to the floor. Huddell. in ittempting to close on the man, was struck on the cheek by the muzzle of 'he revolver and knocked down. But Steele made no attempt to fire again. By this time Secretary Grove had 'eaped over a table and grabbed with Steele and at the same moment, Gen. Whitney, who had been summoned to the Kentucky hearing, came through the door and rushed to his assistance, Huddel also jumped and wrencjied the revolver away, while one of the messengers dashed into the governor's office and said: "They are murdering people in the lobby." The governor instantly went in*o the lobby and helped Gen. Whitney, Mr. Grove and Mr. Huddel push Steele onto one of the sofas. Word ?-?>c wnt tn the office of the State po lice In the basement and a force of officers quickly reached the scene and handcuffed Steele. In the meantime, Gov. Guild had knelt by Cohen's side and was wiping his facs tfith a hankerchief and towels. Dr. Owen Copp, chairman of the State board of insanity, was summoned and he immediately recognized Steele, having had him under observation for more | than five years in various State inj sane asylums. Steele was then taken i to hte office of the State police and subsequently sent under a strong guard to the Tombs. ! The doctor, after a hasty examina-^ > tion of Cohen and Driscoll, expressed the opioion that the former's wounas would probably prove fatal, but that I Driscoll's wound was only a scalp * wound. } ;The two wounded men were con5 veyed to the Massachusetts General 1 hospital. Huddel was also taken to i the hospital. Sevefal of the State officials said after the shooting that Steele was a well known character to the board of insanity-and that he had an Illusion that he was not getting his rights, fnr tvMpTi hp hplrl the efivftrnor re sponsible. Edward Cohen is one of the beet j known labor leaders in Massachusetts. He is married and has several children. Dr. Driscoll is almost as prominent in labor circles in the State. Mr. Huddel is president of the local Central Labor Union. Steele, who is 37 years old, was released from the Danvers insane asylum Nov. 13, last, upon solicitation of his mother, the institution's officials believing that he had showed almost positive signs of recovery. He never showed any sign of violence while In the asylum. STORM PLAYS HAVOO. Wind Reaches Velocity of Sixty Miles at Cape Henry. The wind reached a minimum velocity at Cape Henry in Thursday night's coast storm of sixty miles an hour. It blew from the northwest and drove seaward rather than toward shore any vessels that may have been caught in Its teeth, but so far no wrecks have been reported. The wind at its hurricane velocity carried before it everything movable ?n shore and it is feared that much havoc was wrought at sea. The govsrnment's seacoast telegraph wL^s from Cape Henry southward are rot ivorking and no word could be had ~ X7V* iTOm me uape naueias octuuu. iw .vord could be had from the Boston racht Madleon, bound to Jacksonville ind stranded in Roanoke sound, N. , "1 , I Several of the big battleships Some of the big battleships headjrn ports doubtless had severe experiences if caught within the radius )f the gale. The severity of the gale has caused some anxiety to be felt for the safety >f the six little vessels of the torjedo flotilla bound for San Juan en, oute to the Pacific coast, but with ;hree days' start the little vessels lave probably gotten far enough iway to escape the storm. BIG BANK FAILURE. National Bank of Commerce of Kansas City Goes Under. The National Bank of Commerce >f Kansas .City failed to open Its i ioors and is now in the hands of a lational bank examiner. The bank s one of the oldest there, and Is the i argest financial institution in the :ity. The notice on the door says the jank was closed by order of the joard of directors. i The directors and stockholders in- : :lude some of the most prominent nen in the city. The head of the :learing house association expressed he belief that the failure would not nvolve any of the other Kansas City jank6. When the statement of the Nationil Bank of Commerce under the last ;all appeared, it showed that since :he statement of August 22 aeposus iad been reduced from close to :hirty-five million dollars to $16,552,968. The statement showed also that the items of loans and discounts had been cut down four million dollars. Two small branches of the National Bank of Commerce^ ithe Stock Varde Bank of Commerce and the Union Avenue Bank of Commerce, also closed their doors. NOVEL SCHEME. Devised to Wipe Out a Burdensome -u tuuriii i/cun Thomas Vinnedge, a member of the Baptist Church of Hope, Ind., has devised a novel plan for wiping out the debt against his church. He has written to many persons throughout the United States asking the donation of a hog from each. His first mail brought 30 replies. Among those who have agreed to donate a hog is Mayor Johnson of Cleveland. One half of the sales money is to be applied to the church debt, and the other half remitted to those who gave the hogs. It is expected that at least 1,000 hogs will be received. OVERCOME BY SMOKE. Workers in the Pennsylvania Tunnel Were in Danger. Eleven unconscious men were removed from the New Jersey end of the Pennsylvania tunnel, following a fire in the tunnel at Homestead, N. J. There were 150 men in the tunnel whent hefir e began and the place were filled with smoke. All but 11 fled to the surface, but their comrades were overcome by the smoke and were taken out by a rescuing party. RESULTS OF FIRES. _______ I One Woman Burned and Seven Firemen Overcome. One woman was killed and seven firemen were overcome as the result of two fires in New York on Thursday. Mrs. Annie Linahan aged 76 was burned to death in a five story brick tenement in East 17th Street. Thirty others were rescued from windows and fire escapes. Illuminating gas nearlyc aused fhe death of seven firemen who were fighting a blaze in a store and office building. I k i MANY MEN DIE In Fearful Disaster in a West Virginian Coal Mine. FOfJR HUNDRED DEAD I | 'The Catastrophe Was the Result of a i Fearful Gas Explosion, Which Bulled the Unfortunate Men Beneath Tons of Coal, Rock and j Other Debris.?Only Four of the \ Day Workers Alive. ( Three charred and blackened bod- ( ies lying in the improvised morgue 1 prepared near the entrance to the mine, fouT men hovering between ^ life and death from the awful bruises r sustained and the deadly gases inhal- \ ed in a temporary hospital into one ? of the companies buildings has been ' b transformed, and 369 men imprison- t ed by tons of coal, rock and debris in the depths of the hills surrounding fi the mining town of Monogah, W. Va., * with the chances all against a single one of them being alive, is the most ^ accurate summary obtainable of the n result of a mine explosino Friday, f< which in all probability was attended by greater loss of life than any jj disaster in the history of the bltumi- i, nous coal mining industry of Amer- m ica. oi The explosion occurred shortly after ten o'clock Friday. The full force of 380 men had gone to work in the m mines affected. These mines are s? Nos. 6 and 8, of the Consolidated Coal Company, located on opposite m sides of the West Fork Riverat Mono- cc gal, but merged in their underground w workings by a heading, and on the tr surface by a great steel tipple and r bridge. The finding of the three tt corpses and the four badly injured men it the only reward for stren- th uous and interupted work on the part fe of the large rescuing forces that im- m mediately set to work at every pos* ai aible point. cc The four living men are unable to ti give any details in regard to the af disaster or even explain how they reached the surface. They state that ot Immediately back of them when they tfc began the frantics trugglef or liber- th ty there was a large number of men vi engaged in a similar struggle, while still further back in the workings there was a large number of whom they knew nothing. ^ It is the opinion of the mine officials and others familiar -with mining that the seven men had not penetrated as far as had the majority of Hi the day shift when the explosion oc- m cured, and that they headed for and ci 1 s it.- fho n i reacneu mt? uicnu cun/ u&tviv ??uv u< heavy cave-in that now blocks the c? entrance more than a hundred feet di beyond the mainsopening of the mine p< No. 6. ui As to the miners referred to by is the rescued men as having been alive tt when last seen, It is believed that tl thy were caught back of a heavy ti cave-in of coal and mine roof, and that they could not have survived st more than a few minutes in the is deadly gases with which the entry o1 filled as soon as the ventilating sys- fc tern was interrupted. There is more d: hope for those in more remote sec- ti tions of the mine as they may have b: reachedw orkings where fresh air is a! supplied by other openings. ei Evidencing the terrific force of the Is explosion, props in the entry of No. $ 6 mine supporting the roof were not tl only shattered and torn from their p position, but were blown out of the tl entry andt o the opposite side of a the river. o Other evidence of the force is o shown in every section of the mines g that has been reached by the res- a cuers. Huge quantities of coal and e< ' -.1 J U n. rocK nave Deen looseueu auu uun^u o. into every opening, and all the un- fl derground structure is wrecked be- ti yond semblance of its original shape. The entry of No. 6 mine, 300 feet from the mouth, is piled high with the wreckage of two strings of cars ^ and two electric motors. Some of the rescuers have climbed over this and found dead bodies beyond, but have made no attempt to remove them to ti the surface, partly because it would Ii be almost impossible to carry the c bodies over the debris, but more par- tl ticularly because they do not want c to lose any time in reaching other a sections of the mine, where it is possible men still living may be im- o I prisoned. b The cars are being righted as fast c as possible' and removed from the d entry together with all other ob- c structions. All of the heading lead- a ine off from the main entry are be ing cut off by canvass and barricaded a as last as they are removed by the c relief workers, so that the innermost d workings of the mine may be given v the benefit of the ventilating system t to sustain any that may be yet living ii and make possible an early explora- u tion of these workings. Wives and mothers and sweet- t hearts, together with children and t members of the stronger sex, move * from place to place, vainly seeking a information and making no attempt e to conceal the grief that overwhelms t PREACHES HARMONY. In Speeches at Tremont and Chicago on Friday. Bryan Expresses The Opinion That | Roosevelt is the Only Republican Who Can Be Elected. A dispatch from Tremont, 111., 1 Bays William Jennings Bryan opened his Illinois campaign for the nomination for the Presidency on the Democratic ticket there on Friday light in two rousing speeches, delivered berore mass meetings, and later at a Banquet at which nearly 700 prominent Northern Illinois Dem>crats assembled. Mr. Bryan spoke >n the "Vindication of the Democrat- t c Platform since 1896." t "The Republican party," said Mr. fl 3ryan, "has been Steadily falling t rom popularity, until to-day but one a nan can win the Presidency, one 0 vho will break away from precedent q md accept a third term, and one w /ho has only gained his popularity n y taking for his issue planks from f, he Republican platform. He pointed out that the present nancial stringency was the result of C] iirning down Democracy's bimetall- j8 jm Issue and declared the trusts, ^ iriff and labor arbitration problems ^ rere being solved according to the nes embraced in Democratic platjrms. a Speaks at Chicago. g( A * xx uiopaiv/u ii um vuitagu Day a rv IIam Jennings Bryan Friday at a ,, incheon given by the Iroquois Club J iade a notable speech, the keynote f f which was harmony. s "Where an agreement has been f. mched among men as to what ought i be done there should be forgetful- ^ 3ss for the past," he said, and his sntiment was applaudued. "Men should have good forgetting achines so far as Individuals are mcerned. 'Forgive us our debts as c* e forgive our debters' is a good doc- ? lne to follow. Resentment and r ivenue are the most foolish of ca lings." J" Men who heard the words took iem to mean that Mr. Bryan's dlf- ' irences with National Committeean Roger C. Sullivan are at an end, ? id that there will be no Anti-Bryan ? rntest. Mr. Sullivan has declared lat he will not renew the strife j resh. Mr. Bryan declared that the Dem- jj :ratic party is more united today tan it has been for years, whereas le Republicans, he asserted, are dided" th NEW KIND OF SWINDLE. th T1 olunibia Police Warns Merchants n th Against This Fellow. or The State says that Chief of Po- ?? ce Carthcart desires to warn the ? erchants of this State against a ook whose operations are entirely jw in this section. The man sue- ? issfully worked his game the other "* ly and the police authorities exjet him to attempt It again on some isuspecting merchant. His identity ^ so far an unknown quantity and le police will have to depend upon le merchants to help effect his cap- \ w ire. The modus operandi of this my- 0 erious knight of the swindler's art as follows: He will call a merchant ed ?er the 'phone and give an order >r certain articles of merchandise, irecting that they be sent to a cer- of tin number. This is accompanied ?a y a request that the bill be sent long with the goods;' also the nec- L jsary change for a Ave or ten dolir bill. For instance, he will order Al 2 worth of merchandise and ask lat $3 be sent along as change, exlaining that he has nothing less lan a five dollar bill. The goods ct nd the required change are sent Y( ut and the mysterious stranger is fa n hand at the number Indicated. He ets the goods and the change, hands ^ note to the messenger, supposedly fll Dntainlng the $5 bill, and the mesenger goes back to the store to tj( nd that he has been worke Vto the ^ inp r>f S5. T THREE MEN KILLED. of Hiile Stealing a Ride on a Freight sr Train. di As the result of a derailment on a restle over a small creek just beow the station of Blalrs, twelve ' ars of freight train No. 54 jumped . he track and six cars crashed to the 5 reek below tearing down the trestle nd killing three men. The accident occurred about four T: 'clock Wednesday morning, the train eing bound for Columbia, and in . harge of Engineer Bird and Conuctor Summers. As none of the n -aw TL-aa in lured it was understood nd reported that no one was hurt, l. However, when the wrecking train r,, rrived and the derrick lifted some if the wrecked cars, beneath the m ebris were found the bodies of three tt rhite men.. Two of them were iden- w ified as the Queen brothers of Un- m an, and the other as Gray, whose jj iarents reside in Augusta, Ha. fe hem. But little news can be given o1 hem and such as they do get is bad. m ?o one Is encouraged to hope that bi ny one in the mine has survived the di xplosion and the suffocating gas tc hat thereafter filled the mines.- a< L DIED IN A MINE. | Explosions Kills Forty-Seven Minors at Naomi, Pa. BODIES ARE LOCATED . V.nd Are Being Brought to th? Sor* * fn/>A hr tho nMraan Ma -VW V?V AVWVHVftO f?UV 1MTV Been at Work Ever Since The Terrible Catastrophe Happened Om Last Sunday Evening Without the Slightest Warning to the People, A dispatch from Naomi, Pa., says he fate of the American and fortywo foreign miners, while not deinltely known, was pretty well esabllshed by the finding of a body at mine pump near the 22nd entry f the Naomi mine of the United !oal company at Payette City, in rhlch an explosion occurred Sunday ight. The man had died from inflation. Judging from the two Natalities lus far known, both having been lused by poisonous gas fumes. It i almost certain that the forty-seven liners still entombed in the mine ave succumbed to the deadly after \ j imp. Slowly winding their way around deep spiral stairway which leads >wn into the main heading of the ines, rescuers are carrying to day?ht the bodies of the men who met jath in a terrific explosion whloh look surrounding villages. The rescuers began carrying up e bodies at 10 o'clock and the reains of 35 victims have been locatI and carried to the foot of the airway at that time. By noon all the victims will have ten taken to the,surface. All prfciutlons are taken to prevent grief* rlcken mothers, wives and children om viewing the bodies until they n be made more presentable. In sarly all instances the bodies caa i Identified. If the best Information obtainable bourne out, the remainder of the dies will be found in some of the Sheetings or butt entries which ive l 1 so far found Impassible. BATTLE BETWEEN ANIMALS. [ger Kills Polar Bear at Oirctos Performance. A dispatch from Tlmmonsvllle to e State says duringt he progress of e pe'*- mance presented there iursda> afternoon at the wild anlal show which is being offered by e Johnny Jones Exposition shows ie of the most sensational battles death known to animal history ok place. While one of the acts is taking place, in which Herr von aldo, the noted German trainer, Ters four African lions, two Bengal jers and two Polar bears, all perrming together, Romeo, one of tht g tigers, became angered and tunced upon one of the Polar bears, fter a terrible battle the tiger suseded in sinking its fangs Into the igular vein of the Polar bear, hich died almost instantly. The her animals became enraged by the ent of blood and von Waldo show[ great bravery at the risk of his vn life in subduing them. The Polar iar was valued at $2,000, being one the largest and best trained in ptivity. The fight was witnessed ' hundreds of spectators. EOPARD'S TEETH EXTRACTED Lice Faints When Last of Twelve If Yanked Oat. Alice, a nine-month-old leopard ib in the Central Park Zoo, New ork, had 12 teeth extracted and inted under the operation. The sepers had noticed for several days iat Alice did not seem wel' and iallv she refused to eat. Investigation showed that the lite leopard's baby teeth In the lower ,w had not been shed and that the irmanent teeth had grown in freiit f them. ^ Several dentists were telephoned ir to draw the teeth, but none re>onded to the call, so the keeper ew them himself. When the last le came out Alice fainted, and sev al large drinks of brandy were retired to revive her. She soon revered and the keepers say she will i in her usual spirits in a few day*. SINGULAR ACCIDENT. ried to Stab a Hog and Killed a Man. E. E. Prinze, a farmer living about tree miles north of Cairo, Ga., while _ [lling hogs Monday, assisted by Jim ewis, a negro, accidentally stabbed ewls. They had hit a hog in the sad and both men caught the anial to stab him. Mr. Prince holding te knife. Just as he stabbed the hog, hlch wa sa very large one, the hog ade a lounge backward, throwing t. Prince who held the knife in hie and back on the negro. As he ill the knife struck the negro just i-er the heart and penetrated in. Medical assistance was summoned lit before it arrived the negro was sad. The negro made a statement i the effect that his stabbing was an :cident before he died. ... -dwSS