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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1908-03-11
Frank B. Gary is Elected.

Columbia, Specialize long con-
test over successor to United States
Senator Latimer was ended Friday
afternoon, when, on the fftieth ballot
Of the two houses, Frank B. Gary, Of
Abbeville, received the requisite num-
Der of votes and was declared elect
ed.
The first joint ballot for United
States Senator Friday morning re-
suited:
Gary, 6s; Walker, %; T. G. Nc
Leod, IA; J. Wright Nash, 13; Maui
den, s; Coke, IA; Ira B. Jones, 5;
Willie Jones. 4.
Total, 154; necessary to choice 70.
Gary had gained five votes from
tho last ballot at night. The House
Immediately pro- I'D to another
ballot.
Congr ssman Lever was nominat-
ed in spite of protests from friends
that he is not candidate and partic-
ularly didn't want to be entered.
Nash's name was withdrawn.
The second ballot resulted:
Gary, 70; Walker, %; Mcleod, IL;
Ira Jones, 4; Wylie Jones, 4; Maui
din, Z; Coker, 10; Ex-Governor John
C. Sheppard, of Edgefeld, new entry,
Is: Congressman Lever, Z.
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Passenger Rates On Short Lines.

Columbia, Specialize railroad
commission heard the representatives
of a number of roads regarding the
reduction Of passenger rates in South
Carolina. The hearing was ordered
several days ago after representatives
of some of the main liues had ap-H
peared before the commission and of
fered reduction OF straight mileage
from 3 cents per mile to 2l-2 cents
per mile
Wednesday Messrs. Leigh, Watts,
general counsel of the Seaboard Air
Line, C. D. Wayne and Chas. Stewart,
assistant general passenger agents,
and MI. VIM. II. Lyles, local council,
appeared before the commission and
submitted statement as to the earn
ings of the road in this State and IN
Georgia and Eorth Carolina. 1t was
stated that the earnings in this State
had been far less than in other States
although the road was willing to put
on sale the mileage tickets sat the
rates offered by the other roads with
the privilege of charging 3 cents per
mile for straight fare. This will be
considered by the commission at the
meeting later.
The Columbia, Newberry 6 Laur-3
ems rilroad has submitted Q PROPOSE.
tion for lower rate on its line from
Newberry to Columbia, but protests
ON the reduction from Newberry to-
Laurens. 6,
The Carolina3& Northwestern line
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A Gang of Criminals.

Spartanburg, Special.-Aceording
to a letter found on young Lee Bow,
den who was arrested Monday night
in connection with the robbery OF the
hardware store of Montgomery g
Crawford last Saturday night, liked
Gang Number Thirteen" has been or
oanized in this State for the purpose
of committing crimes. Bowden and
Crawford q Bosse, when placed under
arrest on the charge of forcibly EN-
tering the store of Montgomery 6
Crawford and stealing lot of pock-
ct knives, razors and scissors, con
fessed and implicated two ether
Young men, but they refused to dl,
yulse their names. Wien searched
a letter was found on Bowden, adj
dressed to a citizen in the lower part
of tho State, stating that cred Gang
Number Thirteen" intended to to Visit
his town and proposed to kill HIM.
The T ,etter also told of safe that t
had been robbed in the lower part Oh
M ,ss State and claimed the credit OF
robbing the safe. Bowden denies hay.
;ns written the letter, stating that
he he nieked it up on the floor of the
onora ~ house. He says he has no
knowledge as to the author OF 'he
letter
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DEATH AT SCHOOL HOUSE
Their Egress Cut Of ky the Fiery
Flames That Rage Below Them,
the Little Ones Are Lncinerated
Almost Within Reach of Safety.

Cleveland, o, special.-Penned in
narrow Railways, jammed up against
doors that only opened inward, be-
tween 100 and 40 children in the
suburb Of North Colinwood Wednes-
day we're killed by fire, by smoke and
beneath the grinding heels Of their
panic-stricken playmates.
The awful tragedy occurred We'd
nesday morning in the public school
Of North Collinwood, 10 miles east of
this city. At 10 O'Clock Wednesday
night 165 corpses were in the morgue
at Collinswood, six children were still
unaccounted for and all the hospitals
and houses for two miles around con-
tanned numbers of children, some IA
tally and many less seriously injur-
ed.
All Of the victims were between
the ages Of 6 and Is years. The
school contained between 80 and 325
pupils, and Of this entire number only
about eighty are known to have left
the building unhurt. 1t will be sew
eral days before the exact number
of killed is known as the ruins may
still contain other bodies and the list
of fatalities may be increased by a
number of deaths among the children
who are now lying in the hospitals
lowering between life and death.
Only One Fire Escape.
The schoolhouse was of brick, two
stories and an attic in height. The
number Of pupils was more tha nor
mally large, and the smaller children
had been placed in the upper part
Of the building. There was but one
fire escape and that was in the rear
of the building. There were two
stairways, one leading to a door in
front, and the other to door in the
rear. Both of these doors opened
inward, and it is claimed the rear
door was locked as we'll.
When the flames were discovered
the teachers who throughout seem
to have acted with courage and self
possession and to have struggled he
reically for the safety Of their pu-
pills, marshaled the little ones into
A"---Arill - which they had
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building. When the en1iaren ies.-...,,
the foot Of the stars they found the
flames close upon them, and so swift
a rush was made for the door that in
an instant a tightly packed mass OF
children was piled up against it. From
that SECOND none Of those who were
upon any portion of the first flight of
stairs had chance for their lives.
The children at the front of the stars
attempted to fight their way back to
the floor above, while those who were
coming down showed them mercilessly
back into the flames below. In all IN
slant there was q frightful panic with
two hundred Of the pupils fighting for
their lives. Most Of those who were
killed died here. The greater part
Of those who escaped managed to
turn back and reached the fire es-
care and the windows in the rear.
Approximately 300 children attend
ed the school, which had nine rooms.
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PROMINENT PEOPLE,

Charles D. Carter, the member
from the Fourth District of Oklaho-
ma, is an Indian who has all his life
lived among his kinsmen.
FSank A. Munsey. the magazine
and newspaper owner, declared a
combination of 500 papers under one
able management feasible plan.
Professor Schofield has returned to
Harvard University after spending
the irst half OF his academic year
lecturing in German universities.
Sir Dominic Ellis Colnagiil. the
British ConsulGeneral at Boston
1S96-1899, died in London. He was
born In 1884 and knighted in 1883.
Senator Stephenson, Of Wisconsin,
Is now wealthy, but when he was a
boy he had to go barefooted even IN
winter, because Of his fathers pow
erty,
James Bryce, British Ambassadors
to the United States. has been invest
ed with the honorary degree OF Doc
Cor Of Laws, at McGill University,
Ottawa.
Lord Curzon is extremely method
ical. It Is said Of him when Viceroy
in India that in single moment he
could place his hand on any paper ne
wanted.
Leon A. Bereznaik. native Of
ODESSA, is now living in indianapolis:
He is lawyer, scholar, author and
translator of "Trilbyn in the Russian
language.
Mr.. Nathan Straus. of New York,
achieved signal victory In having
the Information Pure Milk Congress
in Brussels, officially declare against
the use of raw milk.
Bishop Wilkinson, in letter pub
lisned in the London Daily Mail, de-
scribss the devastation wrought by
reYo1utionists in Russia. and says that
the government has erred on the side
OF leniency.
General Rufus Saxton, VINO died In
Washington, D. c., was in his eighty.
fourth year and childless.
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Governor Ansel's Recommendations.

Columbia, special.-Attorney Gen
eral Lyon and Attorney B. L. Abney
has sent up a draft of amendments
to the house bill now pending in the
Senate with the view of carrying out
the recommendations of Governor
Ansel as to the Pritchard injunction
on dispensary amendment which
places, fund of 100000 in the
hands of the State treasury, claims to
be paid strictly as adjudicated by the
winding-up commission, taking the
matter out of the Federal Courts en-
tircly. The amendments have not
been acted upon, and will be sub
mitted to both houses from the judi
ciary committees. One of the amend
ments says: "That none Of such
claims shall be allowed the benefits OF
this act of be paid out of such moneys
where from and after the passing OF
this act the holder or holders or own
ers thereof shall attempt to collect
or proceed further by suit already be-
gun in any other tribunal to enforce
the SAME, otherwise than by submls-
sion of same to the said commission
for investigation and adjudication OF
by appeal from decision of the SAID
commission to the Supreme Court as
provided for by law, nor unless the
same shall be presented to and filct'
with the said commission within nine
ty days, keter the passage of this
aot -
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tcocnUSu.
Blue Ridge railway by J. r. Anaer, 4.
son and T. B. Lumpkin, 81 mlles OIL
railway. :,
Chesterfield & Lancaster railway by
A. e. Page, 35 miles Of railway.
Hampton & Branchville railway py
w. c. Mauldin, 16 miles Of railway.
Alcolu railway by D. w. Alderman,
% miles Of line.
Bennettsville & Cheraw railway by
H. A. Page, Is miles of railway. :,
Carolina g. Northwestern by l.. l.
Nichols, 81 miles of line in South Car
olina.
Georgetown & Western railway by
P. A. Wilcox, receiver, representing
Sc miles of railway.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1908-03-11
FUNDS IN A MUDDLE
Judge Pritchard Appoints Re-
ceivers Fer S. c. Funds
STlRS UP LIVELY RESENTMENT
Judge pritchard at Asheville Ap-
pointed Three Permanent Receiv-
ers for the 100000 South Carolina
Dispensary Fund and Ordered Il
Turned Over to Theso Men,

Asheyille, N, Co. Special.-After
hearing lengthy arguments on TIE
motion Of the Wilson Distilling Com
pany and the Fleischmann Company
for the appointment Of a receiver i'll
the South Carolina dispensary mat
ter Federal Judge J. C. Pritchard
decided to make permanent the ap-
pointnlent of temporary receivers and
named Judge Joseph A. Mccullough,
G.. K. Henderson and B. F. Arthur as
permanent receivers for the trust
fund of $S00,0O0 and directing that
the fund be turned over to the re-
ceivers upon demand.
In a memoranda Judge Pritchard
referred to the fact that two of the
dispensary commissioners, w. J..
Murray and John McSwecn, appoint
ed as temporary receivers, had re-
fused to accept and that Commission
en- Avery Patton had not made reply
to the notice of appointment, while
Comissioners Henderson and Arthur
had accepted; he said that these
gentlemen were appointed upon the
theory that the court was anxious to
adopt the instruments provided by
the State in this instance for tine ad-
ministrat;on of the TRUST fund in their
hands, but that inasmuch as ma
jority of the commission had either
declined or refused to indicate a pur-
pose to serve the court had decided
to appoint Messrs. Mccullough, Hen
derson and Arthur permanent receiv-
ers for all the funds and property in
the hands of the defendants consti-
tuting the State commission. The
court said that it regretted exceeding
ly that any of these defendants
should have declined to accept the
appointments, feeling as it does that
their acceptance would have been in
harmony with the State under which
they were appointed.
In the order appointing permanent
receivers creditors of the diSpensary
are restrained from prosecuting or
attempting to prosecute suits in
courts other than the court that has
taken jurisdiction without first hav-
ing had is sanction.
The regularly constituted dispen-
sary commission, which is practically
put out If commission by the ap-
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Big Horse Show in Texas.

Fort Worth, Tex, special-Entries
have closed FOR the horse show ex-
bibits at the National Feeders and
Breeders Show, which will open next
Wednesday in the great coliseum
erected at a cost Of $250,QOO. There
are ffty-four different classes in the
horse show lists and $4,000 Will be
awarded in premiums. A prize lis
aggregating $4,000 is offered on the
live stock which will be on exhibit.
Governor Campbell will preside at the
opening of the show on "Wednesday
morning and will deliver an address.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1908-03-11
Serious Labor Troubles Threatened
in England.

London, By Cable.-serious labor
troubles still are threatened in the
Lancashire cotton trade and among
the engineers on the northeast coast.
Notices were posed threatening a
lockout of 10000 cotton operatives in
the Coine and Nelson districts, while
the engineers who have been involved
in the recent ship building strike
along the Tyne rejected by a large
majority the compromise effected with
the employers by David Lloyd-George
president of the board of trade.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1908-03-11
10 CHILDREN DIE IN A FIRE
School, Building Burns and Children Die
By Scores in Utter Helplessness

Janitor Herter could remember lit
tie Of what happened after the fire
started. ~ was sweeping in the base
ment," he said, "whep ! looked up
and saw q wisp Of smoke curling from
beneath the front stairway.
II ran to the fire alarm and pulled
the gong that sounded throughout the
building. Then I ran frst to the front
and then to the rear doors. ! can't
! remember what happened next, ex-
cept that saw the flames shooting all
about and the children running down
through them screaming. Some Fell
f, at the rear entrance and others STUN.
bled over them. saw my little Helen
among them. I tried to pull her out,
but the flames drove me back. I had
| to leave my little child to die. Z" Her
Ter was badly burned about tho head.
After the fire had practically burn
ed itself out, the work of rescuing
the bodies was begun by fremen and
railroad employees from ne Lake
Shore shops. The railroaA company
! turned over one Of its buildings near
by to be used as a temporary morgue,
and thither the charred and broken
little bodies were removed as fast as
they could be dug from the ruins.
They were placed to rows in the Lake
Shore shop. Identifcations were
made only by means of clothing or
trinkcts. The fire had swept away
nearly all resemblance to human fea-
lures. Distracted parents soon began
to gather and the work of Identify
ing the blackened and mangled corp
ses began.
The grewsome task Of taking out
the blackened torsos and bits OF
human remains was one Of horror. A
line of rescurers was formed backed
by half Dozen ambulances. As the
bodies were untangled from the de-
bris they were passed along to the
strslchers and thence loaded in the
ambulance. Mercifully covered with
blankets the pitiful sights were veil
ed from the crowd Of curious. AS
fast as g load was obtained it was
driven away to the improvised
morgue, to be succeeded by another
within short time.
Teacher Tells Story.
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NEwsY. G1EANINGs.
Wall Street markets stay bt
nnno hed -

Wall Street markets stay be-
numbed.
British administrations are charged
with selling titles.
The merger of Mexican railroads
Is said to be practically perfected.
The next President will probably
have the appointment of four new
Supreme Court Justices.
Comptroller Metz issued report
that s102,S34,327 is due New York
City in uncollected taxes.
Baron Takahira, the new Japanese
Ambassador, said war with the Uni
ted States would be crime.
The great diamond company of De
Beers has taken fright at the disas-
trous faltin the price of gems.
Plans: .:ere being prepared for maxi
ing Vladivostok, Siberia, first class
fortress at cost Of s6,000,000.
Peter Cooper Hewitt, of New York.
will build a his7dirigible balloon as a
fighting machine for the Government.
A bill which, will wipe out $4,000
licenses in Great Britain was intro.
duced by the Chancellor OF the ES-
chequer.
E. r. Thomas creditors in New
York City were worried on learning
that his debts are nearly s5,000,000
instead of the s2,7o0,oo0 they had
supposed.
There was much comment over the
announcement of the declaration Of
an extra dividend Of SIS share on
Oregon Railroad and Navigation Com
pany stock.
varnum Lincoln. OF Andover,
Mass. has left by will $4,000, the an
nual income Of which is to be distrib-
utsd in cash prizes to the best SPELL
ers at asspelling bee.
The Appellate Division of the New
York Supreme Court decided that
tenant who stays in cold fiat cannot
collect damages from the landlord,
but that the tenant may legally break
his lease and move.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1908-03-11
Dead and Without Friends.

Greenville, Special.-P. A. Ham
NETT, we'll known and pathetic fig
ure on the streets for the past year.,
was found dead in lonely and all
most unfurnished room he called
home, early Thursday morning. The
body was taken in charge by the cor.
oner. Heart disease was declared the
cause of death and no inquest was
deemed necessary. The body has been
embalmed to be kept for identifies
tion. Hammett was an object Of char.
ivy.
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Locomotive Explodes.

Roberta, Ga, Special.-Engine No
12S on train No. 81, Southern railway
exploded at Champion, two miles be-
low here at s o'clock Wednesday
morning. Engineer Charles O'Nelll,
of Fort Valley, was scalded and IN
ternally injured and will die. Two
negro brakemen were scalded, one Ia
tally. The engine and four freights
are a complete wreck. The truck is
torn up for hundred yards.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1908-03-11
Scores of Freight Conductors Lalt
Off by Southern.

Asheville, Specisl.-on account Of
decrease in business on the Asheville
division of the Southern it is learned
here that within q week SO freight
conductors have been laid of. 1t is
said that not for years has business
on the division been as slack as at
present.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1908-03-11
Shooting Near saluda.

saluda, special.-Bill Holland
Thursday afternoon shot and serious
ly wounded Boy Abney. Both par
ties are negroes. The Holland darky
acme at once to Saluda and surrend-
cred and is now in jail 1t was at
first reported that the Abney negro
would die. Later reports are thai
he is not fatally wounded.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1908-03-11
BURIAL OF FIRE VICTIMS

n1ustSH4uSS ASdauSs tNo Sau&o1
Cousd Be Heard on Every Side, The
Grief Crazed Parents Forgetting
That sthe Janitor Himself Walked
Behind a Hearsc Containing Three
Of His Loved Ones.
CiesMand, O., Special.-Collins-
wood Friday came to full fealiza-
tion: her woe. Slowly and solemn
ly the professions of death began 10
wend their way toward the eeme-
teries, bearing the. battered and
charrea remains Of some of tho hun
dreds sad sixty-seven children whose
lives: Fere snufed out in Wednesday
mornings catastrophe in the Lake
view school. From 8 o'clock in the
morning until dusk there was no
cessation in the funeral corteges.
Those$who had no dead to mourn as
pessonal loss stood in the streets
with sared heads as the grim process
sionsspassed. There was scarcely a
drysllye in Collinwoods Zone of the
sad funerals was that Of the three
child len of Janitor Hirter, held joint
" with the services for three other
little hes.
Talk Against Janitor.
M4tsrings against the janitor
couid BE heard about the village as
grief efserazed parents sought an OBJ
jectt Upon which to wreak vengeance,
forgatting as they did that Hirter
himss was walking With bowed head
and broken-hearted behind the biers
of three of his loved ones A detail
ofSpolice was placed about the Hir-
tel Home when the hour of the fun
eraI Icame. Fully five hundred per-
sons had gathered, but wien the cof-
fins mere carried to the doorway the
crowd spread and opened the way
for fhem without protest or express
sionso sof hostility.
A5together there: were so burials
Friday and Saturday the grewsomc
tasksSas repeated. Sunday will wit
nessSthe last of the individual burials
and ION Monday the remains of all
those who are yet unidentified will be
laid 70 rest with one funeral. There
are l2S Of these bundles of flesh that
await claimants.
! Stories of Herioism.
Testimony describing the mad rush
death Of the school children was
given Friday at the continued session
Of Tie coroner's inquest. Stories of
herbism on the part. of the women
teachers were recited. F. P. Whit
new, superintendent Of the Collinwood
! - IL
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Another Priest Threatened.

Providence, R. L. Specialize
fate that overlook Father Leo Hem
richs, of Denver, threatens Rev. D.
H. Beland, pastor of Notre Dame
French Catholic church of Central
Falls. Letters have come to him con-
tanning a notification that he will be
killed at the altar. His friends ap-
pealed to tho authorities when they
learned Of his danger,
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1908-03-11
Hartje and His Cohorts Acquitted OF
Perjury.

Pittsburg, Pa, Special. --Au-
gustus Hartje, millionaire; John l..
Welshons, hardware merchant, and
friend of Hartje and Clifford Hooe'
the negro coachman, who have been
on trial in criminal court charged
with conspiracy to blacken the char
acter of Mrs. Mary Scott Hartje,
were all acquitted, binding instruc,
tions having been given the jury to
find such verdict and place the
costs of the case upon the county.
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Game Law violators Fined.

Sumter, special.-on Monday the
proprietors of the Dixie restaurant
were fined $3.50 for exposing part.
ridges for sale. Mr.. James Henry
Rice, Jr., agent of the Audubon So
ciety, recently made tour of inspec-
ton of Sumter restaurants to see If
the game laws were being violated.
Nc game was found in any except the
Dixie, where IS partridges were
found and seized. The proprietors
were also summoned for trial under
the provisions Of the game laws OF
the State
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1908-03-11
Negro Killed in Marlboro.

Bennettsvile, Special. : Evander
Bostick was shot and killed Thursday
night by Willis Crosland at Beauty
Snot. a few miles from town. An IN
quest was held and the jury returned
the following verdict: "That the SAID
Evander Bostick come to his death by
a gunshot wound in the . hands Al
willis Crosland." Both of the par
ties arc negroes.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1908-03-11
Senator Proctor Passes.

Washington, Special. : United
States Senator Redheld Proctor, OF
Vermont, died at his apartments at
the Champlain here at 4:5O O'Clock
Wednesday afternoon after a short
illness following an attack of grip.
The Senator's son, Governor Fletcher
Proctor, of Vermont, the governor
wife and several intimate friends
were OF the bedside when the Sena-
tor passed away. Senator Proctor
was n years old,
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President Protects Native Birds.

Washington, special.--The Presl-
dent has issued an order setting aside
call small mangrove and soft grass
islets, shoals, sand. bars and sand
spits'' in Mosquito inlet on the east
shore of Florida, near the mouths OF
the Halifax and Hillsboro rivers for
the use of the Department of Agricul-
ture. "as a preserve and breeding
ground for native birds" The reser-
yyation will ba known as Mosquito In
LEI Reservation,