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Death and Disaster from Tremendous Brief Summary of Most
Cloudburst in South Carolina. "T25S
HALF A HUNDRED DEAD
Great Cotton Mills at Pacolet
and Vicinity Totally De
stroyed by a Mighty,
Swirling Deluge.
List of Fatalltlaa May Equal Gaines
ville and New Holland Horror,
While Property Loss Is Mil
lions Higher—Scenes cf
...' Devastation.
Following close up to dire havoc of
the storm king at Gainesville and New
the channel of tho stream. Many el
these were picked up by rescuers, who
did their utmost to save those who
clung to the roots of houses and Coat
ing timbers.
Early In the morning two children
apparently around twelve years of
age, appeared directly in mid stream,
in their terrible voyage they cried out
most piteously. It was Impossible to
cot to their rescue, and both children
were seen to go over the Pacolet dam
in each others arms.
As the Topeka, Kans., disaster war-
eclipsed by tho Gainesville horror, 30
it. now seems in turn thnt the loss of
property, if not cf life, In tho Georgia
city will be eclipsed by tho great wavo
of .devastation which swept through
and over the great milling districts of
Clifton and Pacolet with such destruc
tive violence.
it ... The property loss is placed at over
Holland, Ga„ came another tcrrih.e : ‘ ^ m , ])3 * £ro the most
visitation cf the upper elements upon
tile thriving mill towns of Pacolet and
Clifton, near Spartanburg, S. C., Fri
day night.
The black demon of destruction de
scended in the form of a .errific water
spout and clondourst, shortly after too
complete and valuable factories in the
south, and were literally wiped out of
existence with their entire equipment.
The three dams were massive struc
tures and represented thousands of
dollars In their construction.
The warehouses of the mills, with
shades of evening had enveloped the j their stocks of manufactured goads
nilcut big cotton mills which support | and raw cotton went with the rest,
these busy textile communities. The j The two villages had their churches,
very bottom seemed to have fallen out | school houses, hotels and other large
of the heavens and in a few momenta j buildings, and their ruins lie strewn
tho celestial Niagara had swollen the ! along tho margin of the receding flood
great dams, three In number, lying In
the narrow valley ahove the tiiroa ldg
mills, until the massive masonry could
not resist the tremendous pressure,
hut burst asunder like a pasteboard
barrlor. On as quick as thought the
wild wall of water swept down upon
the huge brick mills with their en
vironing rows of cottages, crushing
their stccl-girdercd walls as though
they were egg shells and carrying
upon Its seething, churning surface
hundreds of frame cottages as though
they wore corks.
Tho property destruction was com
plete, the bricks and machinery of tho
three mill3 being scattered for miles
down the valley and mingled with tho
kindling wood do ris of the opera
tives' cottages and uprooidd trees.
Fortunately, most of tho Inhabitants
of Pacolet and Clifton had been sulu
clently alarmed by tho menacing, as
pect of the heavens shortly before the
cloudburst to cause them to tlco to the
bluffs and highlands above the narrow
valley in which they lived, and tills
wise precaution saved hundreds of
btimp.nd lives. A few lingered too
long in the valley of death.
Half a Hundred Known Dead.
The latest reports place the esti
mated loss of life at fifty-five. The
known dead are:
At Clirton Mills No. 3.—Mrs. Will
Kirby, Miss Maggie <virby, Mrs. John
OwenB and her four children. Mr.
Hall and his eight children, Mr. and
Mrs. Elders, Garland Long, Mrs. Gar
land Long, Sara Swain,tan, Mrs. Sam
Swnlngan, Miss Fleta G033.
At Clifton Mills No. 2— Augustus
Calvert, Mrs. Augustus Calvert, I.ucy
Calvert, Foyhx Calvert, Unborn l-'ln-
ley, Mrs, Robert Finley and tlioir five
boarders, Mrs. R. F. Finley, Mrs. II.
S. Johnson and four children, three
Williams children, Marie Sims.
List of the known dead Is now A3,
and there nrc known to bo fourteen
others drowned at Satuc and Clifton
mills No. 2. Total, 57.
Five bodies have been recovered,
one of which has been Identified »s
I.ucy Calvert and the other two rs
Maggie Kirby and three children of
Mrs. Williams. 13. S. Johnson, who
was reported to hpvo drowned, nftor
having clung to a honce lop from Clin
ton down to Pacolet, a distance of
eight miles, who, when Inst Ecen, went
over the dam at Pacolet, escaped by
or afford obstruction to the sullen
tide.
Scene Beggars Description.
The scone for miles below the site
of tho demolished mill towns beggars
description. The wreckage and debris
Is piled many feet thick In places, and
thousands of people from miles
around are wandering along tho path
way of the storm demon searching for
bodies and attracted by the urwonted
terror of the spectacle. The scene of
devastation could not well be mere
complete.
Victor M. Montgomery, the owner
of the Pacolet mills, has sustained
nearly the entire loss as estimated la
the foregoing. He was also the owner
of tho ill-fated Pacolet mill at New
Holland, near Gainesville, Ga.
Enormous, Property Log3.
Owing to the absolute Isolation of
Spartanburg, terrible suffering cannot
possibly be prevented, from the many
thousands afflicted by the catastrophe.
Appeals are being sent out for aid. In
I be,co appeals money Is particularly re
quested, as provisions cannot reach
any of the points, owing to the fact
that railroad bridges are down in ev
ery direction. The latest reports of
damages susalned are given by those
In authority ns follows:
President Montgomery, of the Pa-
colct mills, places their loss at, $1,000.-
000, President A. H. Twltchelt, of tho
Clifton Manufacturing Company mills,
places the loss at $1,500,000. For tho
D. E. Converse Company, at Glendale,
S. C„ the estimate is $30,000. Tuna-
pan mills, $23,000. Lockhart mills,
$23,000. Fairmont, $5,000. Whitney,
.1.000; Lolo, $5,000. Total mill loss,
$3,250,000.
Over 3,000 employes In tho mills of
tho Clifton Manufacturing Company
aro out of work and in destitute cir
cumstances.
At Pacolet 2,000 people are practi
cally destitute. In the smaller mills
of the county the number thrown out
of employment will exceed 5,000.
All day Sunday hundreds of peoplo
hovorcil about the scene of destruc
tion. The survivors stood upon tho
spots occupied by tho homes of their
lead friends. Not a trace of half a
hundred homes is now visible. In
some places the sites occupied by the
houses are burled beneath great sand
banks and only an occasional piece of
plank projecting through the sand
catching to tho overhanging hough3 I would Indicate that a house stood In
of a tree, relumed to Clifton Sunday ! that place. The destruction Is awful
only to And that his wife and four cull- j and complete. The force of the flood
dren were all drowned. : has so completely cnanged the banks
Some of the actual scenes along the : of tho river and flat borders on which
hanks of the river were sad beyond j numerous houses stcod that It will not
portrayal. While the flood was at Us j ho possible to rebuild on tho former
height, scores of persons floated down ! sites.
LYNCHING FOLLOWS MURDER.
WAR SHIPS OFF CHINA.
Significant Movements cf Un';lc Sam’s
Vessels in the Orient
A Washington special says: Coming
close on the heels of a long report
form Rear Admiral Hobley D. Evans,
commander In chief of tho Asiatic
squadron, concerning the grave inter
nal situation in China, the assem
blage of his squadron in Chinese
waters Is regarded here as significant.
The battleships Kentucky and Ore
gon and the protected cruiser New
Orleans have arrived at Chefoo, the
monitor Monterey and the colllar Pom-
pejr at Shanghai.
PUNISHMENT TOO LENIENT
Old German Sergeant 8p2t In Mouths
of Army Recruits
A Berlin dispatch says: An old ser
geant named Warncck, of the Ninety-
second Infantry, has been sentenced
to thirty months' Imprisonment and to
dismissal from the army after haring
baas convicted la 166 Instances of
BbBio of soldi are. In two cases
W&nwck ipat to the avatiu of too
in
Negro School Teacher Shoots County
Superintendent and Pays Penalty.
County Superintendent Charles Hcr-
tel, of St. Clair county. III., v.as shot
and mortally wounded In his office at
Belleville Saturday evening by W. T.
Wyatt, a negro school teacher, of East
St. Louis, whose certificate lo teach
Hertcl had refused to renew. Wyatt
was Immediately arrested and taken
to fall.
Within a short time a mob stormed
the Jail, iseeurcd the prisoner and
hanged him to a telephone pole In the
public square.
STEAMSHIPS IN COLLISION.
Shipping Diraster and Heavy Less cf
Life at Marseilles.
A terrible shipping disaster occur
red a little distance from the port of
j Marseilles at noon Sunday, when two
| passenger steamers, tho Insulalre and
j tho Llban, both belonging to the Fralt-
I senet Steamship Company, cf Mar-
j seltlei, came Into collision. Tho Lt’iin
teak end over one hundred of her
pamsgere end erjw pertibid.
1 —Miss Mary btevens, of Hall coun
ty. Ga.. died shortly after eating bread.
Into tho dough of which a spider had
been kneeded.
j —John Tanner, of Hall county, Ga.,
swears out warrant for daughter In
law's arrest, charging her with poison-
, Ing her husband.
! —Fast train No. 97 and a freight
train of the Southern collided near
Charlotte, N. C.. Monday. Three pos
tal clerks and an engineer hurt.
| —Five negroes are reported ns hav
ing been shot to death in Smith coun-
■ ty, Mississippi, Monday, on account of
! the killing of two white men by two
j negroes.
I —The flood situation at St. Louis is
I not Improved. About twenty deaths
by drowning have been reported.
—Georgia has been allotted a little
over $27,000 as her share of tho $2,-
000,000 appropriated by congress for
ine militia.
—Owing to troubles at Valparaiso,
United States war ships nave been or
dered to Chilean waters to protect
American interests.
—The Groff brothers have been in
dicted for alleged complicity In the
postal scandal. Tho grand jury i3 now
considering the case of General Tyner
and wife.
—Chauncoy Dewey, a cousin of Ad
miral Dewey, is In danger of being
lynched in Kansas on account of his
alleged connection with the killing of
the Berry family.
—Tho French shelled the town of
Fluglg, in Morocco, Monday. Women
and children have been killed.
—It has been decided In tho Trans
vaal that municipal suffrage is not to
be allowed to the negroes.
—Judge Emory Speer is asked to
deliver In Atlanta Ills lecture on “Rob
ert E. Lee" for tho benefit of tho
Gainesville sufferers.
—Whllo drawing a chock iln a
Montezuma, Ga, bank Friday to pay
his life insurance premium J. i3.
Farrlll fell dead.
—A mob of citizens at Wynne, Ark.,
tarred and feathered two Memphis
men, one of whom was charged with
Intending to elope with the wife of n
Wynne merchcnt.
—Forest fires aro still raging In
New England and New York.
—The flood situation along tho tip
per Mississippi Is very critical. Al
ready tramenso damage has been
done.
—At Washington tho massing of
United States warships off the China
coant is considered significant in
view of tho alarmist report of Admi
ral Evans on conditions in China.
—A German sergeant lias been sen
tenced to prison for /rntallty to pri
vates. It was proven that the ser
geant frequently spat in the mouths cf
Pccrults.
—At Paris a fight Is In progress be
tween the mother nnd wife of John C.
Breckinridge for control of the per
son of the California millionaire, whi
le alleged to he Ins3nc.
—Tho south In nsked to send flowers
to decorate graves of confederate dead
at Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio.
—According to an official statement
Issued by the relief corps nt Gaines
ville, nlncty-flvo nre dead nnd It Is be
lieved that twelve more will die.
—Work has stopped on tho mam
moth Mohawk steel plant nt Bruns
wlrk, Ga., the constructing company
claiming that payments nre overdue.
—Sollcllor Pottle, of the Ocmulgoe,
Ga., circuit. Is working to have the
ball of Mrs. Lizzie Griffin, charged
with the murder of her husband,
raised.
—The rase of August W. Maehcn,
accused of accepting bribes whllo in
tho government service, has been pro
sented to tho court by the grand jury
nt Washington,
—Hon. Jefferson B. Browne, chair
man of the Florida railroad commis
sion, has been exonerated Of tho lob
hying charge preferred against him.
—All the property of tho Atlantic
Coast Lumber Company, of South Car
olina, has been sold.
—Judge Niles, of iho Mississippi
federal court, has reopened tho lumber
rale Injunction hearing, assuming that
hts court has. Jurisdiction.
—Passenger trains collided near
Stillwell,, Kans., Thursday. Nine per
sons were killed nnd twenty-eight in
Jurcd.
—The Ohio republican eonvenllen
nominated Myron Herrick for governor
and Indorsed President Roosevelt tor
a second term.
—Tho total number of dead at Tope-
l ka has reached seventy-clgot and many
| are missing.
I —A decree has been Issued at Bo-
; gota stating that order ha3 been re
■ stored throughout Colombia.
I —Basbl-Dazonks burned a village
near Monasiir. In European Turkey
and butchered tho inhabitants. Many
[ women and girU died fighting for their i
honor.
—Russia has ordered Jews who wish i
I to own property to confine themselves j
| to the polo. There Is only 110 towna!
1 In Rueitn where Jew* eta own reel j
1 Mthto.
POISON IN THE MILK
Young Bride Charged With
Murder of Her Husband.
A SENSATIONAL AFFAIR
State Chemist Analyzed Contents of
Young Man’a Stomach and Found
Traces of Strychnine—War
rant Immediately Follows.
John W. Tanner, father of Wiley F.
Tanner, who died upder susfilclous cir
cumstances at his home In Clinch dis
trict, Hall county, Ga., Saturday, May
23, aworo out a warrant Monday af
ternoon against Mrs. Onlo Tanner,
wife of the young man who died,
charging her with murder.
The warrant was immediately turn
ed over to Sheriff Gilmer, of Hnll
county, and tho officer left for the
home of Frank Duncan, father of tho
young woman, where shq, was staying,
to make the arrest and return her to
Gainesville to he incarcerated In the
Hnll county Jail.
The state chemist Monday morning
forwarded tho result of his Investiga
tions to Dr. J. D. Mauldin, of Flowery
Branch, who Immediately communica
ted the same to John W. Tanner at
his homo near Chestnut mountain.
Tanner at once hitched up nls team
and went to Gainesville, whero the
warrant was sworn out at 5:30 o'clock
p. m. The result of the chemist's ana
lysis showed nine-tenths of a grain of
strychnine In tho stomach and glass
from which milk was drank. This was
sufficient to satisfy Tanner, and ho
at once proceeded to swear out a war
rant. charging his daughter 'In law
with murder.
The case Is one of tho most sensa
tional ever occurring in tho county,
and has aroused great Interest. Sat
urday, May 23, Tanner 3.st down to
his noonday meal, apparently In tho
best of health and in the enjoyment
of a contented homo, with his bride of
two months. Sho hail already parta
ken of her meal when he arrived, but,
like the happy wife she was supposed
to lie. sat down by her husband and
talked pleasantly to him. TI10 meal
had only proceeded a short time when
Tanner turned to his wile and re
marked that there must be something
the niHttcr with the buttermilk, at tho
same time asking her to taste It,
which she did. She spit out what she
rtrar.k withou: swallowing any, and
Tanner poured the remainder In a
slop tub, which was afterwards given
some hogs, which, after drinking of
the milk, also died.
In a few moments Tnnnor was
death';/ sick and, screaming to his
wife that he was poisoned, Tanner ran
to tho home of his uncle, Henry Tan
ner, a short distance away, crying to
him that he was deathly sick. Wiley’s
uncle ran toward him nnd caught him
In his nrni3 as he was about to sink lo
tho earth.
To Ills uncle John Tanner repeated
what I10 had said to his wife—that ho
hail been poisoned. All was done for
ldiy that his peoplo knew what to do,
hut In forty-five minutes life was ex
tinct, his body assuming a rigidity
that usually follows the administration
of strychnine or similar poisons. The
young man's death being so peculiar,
John Tanner, his father, had Coroner
Dorsey to hold an inqucBt over the
body the Sunday following.
During the Investigations, It wan de
cided to have an analysis made of H10
voting man's stomach. Accordlnely
tho inquc3t wan suspended until a
body of physicians made the test,
which was done Monday, May 25. by
Dr. E. I*. Ham, Dr. K. A. bmlth and
Dr. T. C. Gower, of Gainesville; Dr.
Cooper, or Hoschton, and Dr. Kennedy,
of Itellmont.
The test made by those phyMeinna
did not disclose nny poison In Tan
ner's stomach, nnd the physicians
made known Iheir investigations to
the coroner's jury at tho Investigation
on Tuesday following tho young man's
death.
The coroner’s Jury falling to ascer
tain tho cause of young Tanner's
death, John Tanner derided lo have
an analysis made by the state chemist
of his son's stomach.
STEAMSHIP GOES TO BOTTOM.
MORE ARRESTS MADE
In Connection with the Postoffice Scan
dal in Washington—A Charge
of Conspiracy.
A Washington special says: As a
result of tho sweeping Investigation of
affairs at tho postoffico department,
Thomas W. McGregor, a clerk in
chargo of tho supplies of the rural
free delivery service, and C. Ellsworth
Upton, of Baltlniorfc, one of McGreg
or's assistants, were arrested Friday
on the cliargo of conspiracy, 'with
Charles E. Smith, of Baltimore, to de
fraud the government in the purchase
of the leather pouches furnished tho
rural carriers throughout the country.
Their cases make seven arrests in all
since the Investigation began. Other
arrests aro expected later.
The story of the arrests is be3t told
Iti the following official statement giv
en out by Fourth Assistant Postmaster
General Bristow Friday evening:
“Thomas W. McGregor nnd C. Ells
worth Upton wero arrested this after
noon upon warrants sworn out In Bal
timore by Inspectors J. D. Sullivan
nnd R. D. Simmons, charged with con
spiracy, with Chas. E. Smith and oth
ers, to'defraud the United States gov
ernment In the purehaso of pouches
from C. E. Smith, of Baltimore. The
complaint sets forth that McGregor
and Upton agreed with Smith to ob
tain for him orders for many thou
sands of leather poaches, such as are
used by rural letter carriers. Tho
price agreed upon was 90 ccntB per
pouch; the actual value was less than
50 rents per pouch. !t is stated at the
department that the actual number of
pouches which were purchased .ex
ceeded 20,000, fur which the govern
ment paid 90 cents each, or $18,000 In
all. Smith received nnd retained of
this for Ills own use $10,000. The re
maining $8,000 was paid to McGregor
and Upton The government could
have bought the cntlro number of
pouches from tho manufacturers for
$5,000."
From Fifteen to Twenty cf Her Pas
senqera Reported Crowned.
Advices from Antwerp, Belgium
state that tt.n Pri':-:> n'e.iraer HuJ
ilersficld. Captain Ifar.tmon, whicl
sailed from that pert Tuesday lot
Grime';;-, England, collided with tin
Norwegian steamer Uio. The Hud
dcrsfleld Is r"ja r' ■ i to h ive foundered
From After!- to tv.Hv of h-r passen
gen aro sold t n’rv •• their lives
The crew w-tc rav-r T;: * - pisucngen
were mostly re:r.inc -clumlng lo Eng
land.
EX-GOVERNOR CANDLER TALKS.
His Opinion of the Calamity Visiting
His Home City,
Ex-Governor Candler, whoso home 1b
In Gainesville, Ga., nnd who had just
returned from a trip lo Washington,
expresses himself regarding tlio fright
ful cyclone calamity as follows:
“I cannot blame the peoplo who are
at a distance for not' believing all tho
reports which have been sent out by
the newspaper men from Gainesville,
After being In town for two wholo
days, I am just beginning to rcalizo
the devastation that haa been wrought.
Since my arrival Tuesday afternoon I
have been in a semi-dazed condition,
seeing and feeling without roallzlng
fully just to what extent tho horror
extended.
“The Gainesville cyclone, population
taken Into consideration, was worse
Ilian the Galveston tldnl wave.
“Financially considered, It was
worse than Iho Jacksonville fire,
where $12,000,000 III property loss was
suffered,
"I have walked over the entire
courso of tho storm, from its beginning
to the Pacolet mill, where It appears
tho storm lifted and divided.
"Without fear of contradiction, I am
freo to say the disaster of last Monday
nfternoon was tho worst of Its kind
that ever visited Iho southland. I
know of no parallel In tho country
whero a vitlago has suffered tho
frightful loss of one hundred nnd more
dead, three to four hundred Injured
and a property loss of $500,000.
“The sufferers were tho least able of
all to meet tho disaster. Their loss
represents everything In tho world
they possessed. The victims aro In
Hint class of citizens to whom ft dol
lar is worth live times Itn purchasing
value to Iho successful business man
or tho rich land owner. Thoy lost in
the twinkling of an eyo„what had re
quired years In get together. To them
It Is Irreparable and means more than
to us.”
Now subscriptions reported Friday:
I.nvonln. $43.00; Moultrie, $170.00;
Jewell. $50.50; Madison, $200.00; Hart
well, $100 00; Hltte Ridge, $100.00; Cai-
lioun, $40.00; Maysville, $148.43; Ho-
gsusvlllc, $100.00; Waynesboro, $100;
Fayetteville, $30.90: Wrlghlavlllo,
$100.00; Killjoy, $53.00; Covington,
$75.00; Fort Valley, <138.00
CHARGE WAS “LOBBYING”
HURRICANE IN PHILIPPINES.
Several American Vetseli Reported
Wrecked, But News I* Meagre.
A hurricane has swept over tho Phil
ippine Islands and great damago has
been done to shipping.
The United States steamer Poarla
de Vlsayas has been totally lost off
Camotcs island. Part of her crow
were saved.
The United S'_a 03 steamer San Ka-
| fael and the s./ioner Mayflower have
! been driven ashore off O.-moc, West
I Leyte, and will prove total losses. All
■ on hoard there teasels were saved.
Acceptance of Fee Was Not Unlawful,
and Charges Made Were Untrue,
Saye Committee—Houso
Adopts Report.
A Tallahassee special says: Sever
al weeks ago a sensation rang through
Florida occasioned by tho ajoptlon by
the lower house of the legislature of a
resolution providing for a committee
to Investigate the alleged lobbying of
Hon, Jefferson B. Browne, chairman
of tho Florida railroad commission, to
secure tho pazsago of a hill appro
priating $10,000 for the purchase by
tlio state from Monroe county of the
Key West armory and site.
It was allege! that Mr. Browne was
to receive $1,000 of tills appropriation
to “lobby" tho-bll! through, nnd, being
n stato official, Ills action was repre
hensible and should receive legislative
investigation.
Tho coinmitleo was duly appointed,
consisting of Messrs. Mote of Lake,
Flnlayson of Lafayotte, and Johnson
cf Pasco. The committee haa made
Its report, setting lorth the facts and
basing its conclusions largely upon an
opinion of Attorney l eneral James E.
Whitfield.
Tho facts developed were that Mr.
Brow no was consulted professionally
on tho right of tho county to collect a
lax to pay for the maintenance of an
ermory, and, ns he advised that the
county had no such right, under a re-
rent decision of tho supreme court, to
propose sumo method by which tho
burden which the county had taken
upon Itself In erecting tho armory
could bo borne by tho .state.
After soveral consultations with tho
county commissioners, Mr. Brmvno ad
vised that tho only v/ay to reach the
desired result would he for tho legis
lature to authorize the stato to pur
chase tho property. Upon being nskod
what would he his chargo to do this,
Mr. Browne replied $l,2u0, but ho was
offered 10 por cent of the amount ap
propriated, a proposition which was
accepted.
It was understood in the "contrast
between Mr. Browne nnd tho board
that, In addition to rendering opinions,
lie W03 to draft a proper hill to be in-
aroduced In tho legislature by one of
tho members from Monroe county, and
got up the data necessary to bo pre
sented to that body, nnd show the nec
essity for llio county caving an ar
mory, Its cost, etc.; to mnko argu
ments before the committee. If nec
essary; and to examine and report on
tho title, and present proof of Its val
idity to tho proper s-ato authorities,
to whom the question of tltlo would
bp referred; and to go Into court with
a bill to remove any cloud from the
title nnd cure all defects in tho same,
If necessary.
Senator Harris 4ml Representatives
Roberts and Knowles, tho Monroe
county delegation, each testified that
so far as ho knew no lobbying had
been done by Mr. Browno.
Tho Investigating committee, In con
cluding Its report, found as follows;
Your committee, after thorough In
vestigation and careful consideration
of all evidence, both oral and written,
brought before It, bog to report that
they find that the said Hon. Jcfforaon
B. Browno did no “lobbying" In con
nection with said house bill No. 182,
known ns tho “Key West Armory
Bill,” and find that ho acted within the
Intent and mennlng of bln said con
tract with the board of county com
missioners of Monroe county, Florldn,
and that his actions In the matter wore
In nowise Illegal, and wo therefore
recommend that Iho 3aid Hon. Jeffer
son B. Browne he fully exonerated In
connection with this matter.
Report Adopted by Hcuce.
The report of the investigating com
mittee completely vindicating Hon. .
Jefferson H. Browno of alleged lobby
ing charges was taken up by the house
of representatives nnd adopted unani
mously.
HEBREWS ARE RESTRICTED.
Cannot Own Property In Russia Ex
cept Within Jewish Pole.
A St. Petersburg dispatch says; The
czar has approved the derision of tho
committee of ministers torblddln;
Jews to acquire real estate or enjoy
the proceeds thereor except In towns
within to* Jowitfc pole, until the laws
concerning Jtw* have been r*etT«4
Tlwrt arc U9 lucb towni,
EH?
TRAIN from cpartanburg.
Initial Post-Flood Trip Made on the
Charleston and Western Carolina.
! Tho first train carrying passengers
on the Charleston and Western Caro-
j Una to Carlisle. Hero passengers
1 since Spartanburg’s Isolation by dam
age* resulting from tbe flood left Spar
tanburg at 8 o'clock Sunday erenlng
war* abla to connect with tta* St*
board Air Mae outiMt,
PRESIDENT AGAIN AT HOME
Receives Glad Welcome frem a Large
Crowd at National Capital.
President Itooccvclt returned to
Washington Friday night, from hla
memorable trip of over two months
throughout the west. He was given
n hearty reception by tho people of Iho
capital, who lined the sidewalks as his
carriage was driven to the white
house.
The president cordially responded to
tho greetings given him and repeated
ly stool up in his carriage and waved
hla hat and halved Ills acknowledge
ments. He locked the picture ct
health.
BLACKS BARRED IN AFRICA.
Only White British Subjects Can Vote
In the Transvaal,
A special from Pretoria, Transvaal,
South Africa, says; In consequence
of the opposition to tho municipal en
franchisement of colored men, tbe gov
ernment baa decided to amend tbo
municipal ordinance* so m to exclude
nllana u well w colored men, tone
restricting the freficblit to wblt* r
lib lubjeetl.