The Newark journal., 1903-06-12

Pope Leo is reported seriously i'll. Owing to his advanced age, his con dition Is causing much anxiety.
 Acting Surgeon Hamilton of the marine hospital service, who is on duty in Mexico, reports that yellow fever has made its appearance at Progresso.
 A relief association at Armour dale, the south side of Kansas City, kas., has issued an appeal to tie public for aid At this place 16,- 900 people are homeless, having lost their furniture, clothing and every thing.
 Secretary Hay has received a ca blegram from Consul McWade at Canton, which says: ''Gov. Wong telegraphs me that over a million natives in Kwang Si are starving, and earnestly appeals for help from American charity"
 A bloody fight took place near St. Francis, Kas., between a farmer named Berry and his four sons and a gang of cowboys, in which all the Berrys and three cowboys were kill ed The trouble arose over the cutting of a ranch fence by the Der rvs in order to reach town the shortest way.
 A new scheme to cheapen beef, and to free London from the Amer iean beef trust, is about to be tried It Is proposed to bring an increased number of Irish cattle to the eastern counties of England, fatten them on English farms, then feed them in stalls according to the American system and supply them to retail butchers in the metropolis
 The number of immigrants arriv- ing in this country continues to in crease. Statistics for the twelve months ending April 30 last, the returns for May not having yet been compiled, show that the immigrants arriving numbered 803,272 They were divided as follows: From Aus tria-H Hungary, 1S9,7S9; from Italy, 227 ,463; from Russian empire, 12s,- 4S2 from German empire, 36,920 from United Kingdom, 59,S56; from all other countries, 160,762
 County Superintendent of Educa- ton Chas. Hertel of St. Clair coun- ty, Illinois, was assassinated in his office by negro teacher named Wy att. Two hours after the shooting a mob took Wyatt from the jail, and, despite the appeals of the may or, he was put to death. After swinging their victim up, the body was lowered into a fire that had been started and the remains were reduced to ashes. The killing was caused by Hertel refusing to renew Watts license to teach.
 The town of Pacolet, $. C., a cot ton manufacturing point, was al- most completely swept from the map and the great mills of Spar tanburg and Clifton, $. C., were de- stroyed by a cloudburst. The town of Glendale and Converse also suffer- ed severely. Several hundred peo- pie lost their lives, thousands are homeless and the property loss will reach several million dollars. The greatest destruction of life and prop erty occurred at the Pacolet and Clifton and Glendale cotton mills. About 95 per cent of the victims were employees in the big mills de- stroyed. So sudden was the rise of water that but few people in it's path were able to reach a point of safety. This disaster is the greatest ever visited upon the great cotton manufacturing belt of South Caro- lima. There was no wind and no damage by lightning; only by wa ter. This fell in veritable torrents, converting the surface of the earth into a sheer lake of raging water Rivers overfowed their banks to heights never before known; creeks became rivers, and small riyulets roaring torrents, wiplng out every thing in their course Railroad bridges were torn from stone and iron piers; cotton mills were crush ed like straw before the floods, and grist mills and innumerable indus tries and cottages were washed away by the angry waters.
 After a prolonged strike in New York city, 135,o00 workers in the building trades have resumed work on the strength of mutual conces- sions.
 Immediately upon his return to | Washington, President Roosevelt sent for Postmaster General Payne and it is reported urged him to con kinue the investigation of the post