E._ FOUR KILLED BY TORNADO Destructive Storm Visits a South Caro- lina Town. THEIR HAVEN PROVED A DEATH-TRAP The Victims Escaped From One Falling Build: ing Only to Be Caught and Crushed in the Ruins of Another Aside From the Killed, Several Other Persons Received Serious Injury Property Damage $20,000. (Special ).—This place The S.C was visited by a terrific tornado Union, the southwest meeting in this vicinity. Four deaths and there was also one from considerable loss of property resulted. The the ceded by a heavy rain and what appeared storm from north was to be a dark mass about 100 yards wide t traveled with great speed, and people barely get before the storm was upon the town Knitting Mill hill, south of the town, caught the full f tornado, which blew down the two residences, convertir nto | thing wood. of the hou from one had time to indoors force ses het preces by. but splinters In this . rd and refuge L 1 this house aiso the Mi A nd Anni Mrs. Maxey her 1 qd ident 100i the Excelsi bands assis as much the fa Jonesy Miss La that the and 3 mite DISTURBANCE FELT IN FLORIDA. The Effect Upon the Magnetic Needles at the Observatory, Cheltenham, Md Washi mtendent ngton detic Sur tion of Mont Pelee: On th iC to 4.16, E Pierre | slight «¢ dles at Mag el Ma ng its 1 1:32 P May 21, to 1.05 A mean larger, di OFFICIALS SAY WAR IS ENDED. Several Weeks May Elapse Before a Definite Anoouncement is Made. London, ments im tion bear . bled. A member of the that eve that however, before a made. We w every ch: their foll and that t gon are perfectly « § pra +} 14 1 nfprence IXKES eal Lightaing Ran Down Umbrella d 3 storn $i. winch Akers +d passed down i passed down the flesh and passing o the buggy. , the buggy i ished and its » occupants thrown to the ground. The husband of Mrs. Akers came up and his wife a Id little hurt Kester dead Phere some evide life, a doctor now anounced DOOt 1 ferrin demol nd chi and lence of ummoned, and it is that Kester will recover Negro Tortured to Death — Dudleg at the Hullville, 100 miles east of Mrs. McKee, a white woman, the wife of a section fore- man on the Texas and Pacific Railway Morgan was captured near Mount Pleas- ant and identified. After being bound he made this statement: “Tell my wife good-bye and tell her how I went. Tell her I was guilty of the charge. and it all occurred on account of Whaley Hurd He persuaded me to do it, and said he would do the same thing. We planned it Dallas, Texas, Morgan, a {Se cial) pecias negro, was burned stake near Dallas, for ' assauiung day.” Disapproved by Gen. Chaffee. Manila, (By Cable) ~The official find- ings of the court-martial which tried Ma- Jor L. W. T. Waller and Lieut. John H. A. Day, of the Marine Corps, for execut- ing natives of the Island of Samar with- out trial, have been made public. The re- General Adna R. Chaffee, commander-in- chief of the American forces in the Phil. ippines, has expressed his disapproval of the court's findings in both cases. ————————————————— Gen. Uribe Escapes Capture, Colon, Colombia, (By Cable). ~The Colombian government received news that the insurgent generals, Uribe-Uribe and Focion Soto, had arrived at Port of Spain, Trinidad, thus escaping the pur- suit of the government forces command. ed by Gen. Pompilioc Gutierrez. The gvernmen regards the departure from olombia of Gens. Uribe-Uribe and Soto as evidence of the hopelessness of the insurgent cause in the interior of the re- public. Domestic. Samuel Salter, Joseph D. Rodgers, Clarence Meeser, Harry McCabe and James I. Sheehan, tried in Philadelphia on the charge of ballot-box stuffing, were found not guilty John L charge of being involved in the Bridell Taylor counterfeiting case, was acquit ted. W. Va., resulted in the election of Geo ford, Fusion candidate { Mrs {of Windsor Township, Pa, was felon { ously assaulted and murdered while on | her way home from Red Lion. Sixteen prominent students at North | western University, at Evanston, Ill, { were arrested at the instance of the alum- ni for hazing a student It was officially anounced that a Semi- tic seminary will established at Princeton in conection with the Theo logical Seminary [he sixth biennial convention of the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union will be held in Geneva, June, 1003 One effect of the teamsters' strike in Chicago has been a shortage of supplie be Is and small dealers Dr. John Henry Barrows, pr lin College | he inta ion of Miss an English soman of to, § 14. as shown by ters read : something of a sensation A circular was 1 1 give Mf the agreément between M« syndicate North German | and Hamburg- American Lines A military balloon was struck by light ning near Augsburg, Bavaria. An army | officer who was in the basket had the bones in both feet broken It is reported in Madrid King Alfonso may marry rincess of Medira-Coeli Workmen laying out new golf links at Sunningdale, England, discovered a num. ber of ancient funeral urns i Henri Greenville (Alice Marie Celeste Durand ), the French novelist, is dead The Colombian government received S10 ig the terms rgar 1 | + anda the Jdovd that the young his cousin, the | Uribe and Foccion Soto had arrived at | Port of Spain, Trinidad, thus escaping | the pursuit of the government forces i commanded by General Pompilio Gutier- | rez. ! i {in Paris, the reception-room being orna- mented with portraits of Washington. i { i “THE FILIPINOS Bible Society. A. Randolph, of the United States Army, and Dedicated to the Mississippi Conference of M. E. Church South, Bible Society has received from its agent in the Philippines, the Rev. Jay C. Good {of the Rochambeau statue. Emperor William has finally imined to start his | schooner-yacht Meteor in the race from | Coronation, Cup. Financial It is Feported in Milwaukee that Pres. dem Earling of the St. Paul has resign- ed. The New York Subtreasury statement shows that the banks have gained $915, 000 the past week. The Southern Cotton Oil Company has declared a dividend of 4 per cent, payable June 14. A report was current in Wall Street that the control of St. Louis & San Francisco is shortly to pass to one of the larger granger systems Bible 1 task It either of the child's civil or military authorities here He says: *“ that was no confronted the the Spanish government officials with 1 drew those who had shaped affairs re mained behind. Shaken loose by the rev olution, still this system clung, and must i, conciliated dealt h VE long can be be considered and with before those who suffered much and protested beneht i od Careful heen sary to bring about any N gf tiations for $0.1 diplomacy neces like order hing the settlement of the arried forward FIRE PANIC IN A HOSPITAL Four Girls Nearly Suffocated by the Smoke Condition Serious. drymng-r the Kate Gaft and Heler from act was mnmtenged as § Killed by Lightning. Ohto, (Special) ~<A BNC Wing [oledo. terrific electrical m passed over Yhio, doing much dam Northwestern ( iA age in the oil fields. Henry Juallman, a farm hand at Danbury, and lsadore Metzger, aged 25, an oil man at Delphos, were killed. Metzger and five compan ions were in a barn which was struck by lightning. Marcus Suver was fatally jn- jured and Lee Beckman, William Web- ber. Nicholas Sarber and Garrett Wien- ken were injured A Vegetarian the Winner, Berlin, (By Cable) ~The pedestrian performance of Carl Mann, the vegetar- ian, who won the international match 27 hours 13 minutes and 145 seconds, beating the next man, meat eater, by one hour and 45 minutes, has, according to Dr. Gerschel, surpassed the famous Greeks run from Marathon to Athens announcing victory. 140 miles in 48 125 miles in 27 hours he vegetarian societies are holding special meetings to Boy Accidentally Kills Another. Richmond, Va, (Special) —Clyde a parlor rifle by Jimmie Whitheld, aged seven. The shooting occurred in the backyard of W. B. Crooks, chief of the fire department in Manchester. Four small boys borrowed young Crooks’ ri- fle, and when it came Jimmie Whitfield's time to shoot at a mark his baby strength was not sufficient to draw the hamme: back, and in trying to do #0 he turned about, the hammer slipped from his thumb and the ball went into Clyde Binn's brain. . LIVE NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS. “Divine Right of Kings.” Representative Stephens, of Texas, in- troduced a resolution that is aimed at the tender of a monument of Frederick the Great to the United States by the It forth that should not accept from any foreign na erect in any public place any statue of any king, emperor, prince or sets Of i | i i basic principles, as enunciated in Rights and Constitution, an in ary iather my g seit of the g« tuttie erected and the blessings of the k'ngs to rule thereby an admission thet one man nat.on without th= con- veined and after his desth in the nhl divine rghit appron ed Yin a Hic cf ret rep Lumber for Homeless People. The Navy Department has added one more, and perhaps the last, to the good offices which it has been called on 10 per form mm behalf of the West Indian vol undertaking to trans canic sufferers | port to cent a large quantity the homeless s coming by h to Norfolk ¥ pa its without Farm Statistics Bureau | wgricnltural nd Indias Salaries of Senators snd Members. Representative Page Morris Wouldn't This Cool You? Mal Census repor uniry curni 4.204.477 tons Pennsvivanis Was Senor Corea. the sred Secretary ia ry been considering the bill for the estab. wostal curency has submit { an adverse report to the Postmaster. While commending the general the methods of SAYS impracticable report To Remove the Sunken Maine. A bill by odge providing for the removal of the attleship Maine from the harbor of {avana and the recovery of the bodies of the American sailors who sank with the vessel. The bill appropriates $1,000, ooo for the purpose was introduced Senator Capital News in Geaersl n McDonald told the Philippine Committee that the told by Corporal O'Brien involving him Captas THE MONUMENT T0 ROCHAMBEAU An Imposing Demonstration at the Un. veiling in Washington. PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS ©F WELCOME. The Ceremonies Notable for Brioglag To- gether French and American Sallors sad Soldiers dnd Cemgnting the Friendship Which Was Begun at a Trylog Epoch in the History of This Country. Washington, D. C the { Special) —Amid ’ enthusiastic demonstrations of a great concourse of people the superb bronze statue of Gen beau, who brought the forces of France the est peril in the American Revolution, was from across sea at the hour of great- unveiled here, Seldom has an event pre sented so many briliant features of mili and at the same for the manifestation of mds of friend<hip existing French Republic and the first time i witnessed the tary given the strong bx between the United States Fi h pageantry, time occasion inn tts in ins story igh f rank on rank of French sear avemu SUPPLIES AT MARTINIQUE The Freoch Admiral Reguesis More Be Scot { St That Nothing C18 sested him te of government States that there were now su plies in the colony 10 feed eve one needing help for four months therclore, suggested nothing further need be sent Chapman Dies on Scaffold be + 44 gor #0 { { Neve Disaster in a Mine lo. Mexico strong 6H Hermon dia 1158 re the Alamos caused a heavy ers lost the mine “ifteen min chamber: ¢ have been re covered others are miss ing indicted on Ninety Counts, Helena, Mont. H Mateson, former cashier of the First Na 1 Bank of on 00 counts on the ¢ Siok 000 while he bank. The testimony Jury disclosed the fact { Special) —H fiona Great Falle, was indictec harge of embezzling cashier of the before the Grand that Mateson wat was the Philippines were pure fiction, The Isthmian Canal Committee made Isthmian Canal. Business men from various parts of the country called at the Capitol to urge the Ray amendment to the National Bank- ruptcy Law. The President nominated Robert S. McCormick, of Illinois, to be ambassa- dor to Austria-Hungary. has suggested to both the United States and French governments that no further stores now on hand to feed every one needing help for four months. Unjted States consuls in various parts of France report upon the growing de- ments and labor-saving devices, Carol Norton, in a lecture in the Co. lumbia Theatre, claimed that Christian Science had cured 2,000,000 cases during the 1% years of its history. It is now steated that the debate on the Philippine Government Bill in the Sen- ate will continue for a week or 10 fo The National Society of the Co Dames closed its session and took part in the Rochambeau monument festivities, Elijah Chapman, who murdered Ida Simmons, was hanged for the crime, i A Rebellion Suppressed. Pekin, (By Cable) ~The rebellion in Chi Li province has been practically sub. under Yuan Shai Kai, the governor of between the guilty and the innocent. A —————— 1,000 Killed in 9 Seconds San: Francisco, (Special) —From ag: vices brought here by the steamer City of Para it is learned that in go seconds 1,000 persons were killed, over 4000 maimed, and the homes in Queseltango, Jpetions destroyed by the earthquake of April 18 ¢ surrounding towns of San Pedro, San Marco, San Juna, Amatitian and Solola were also destroyed. Chattanooga, Tenn., (Special) —C. N. Henson and W. D. Riddle, of Chatta- nooga, Tenn; U. S. G. Cherry and oth- ers, of South Dakota, have made applica- tion for a charter at Pierre, S. D., Mutual Cotton Oil Company. with an authorized capital of $4,000,000, divided into shares of $100 each. —— a Manila, (By Cable) ~The cholera rec- ord to date is as follows: Manila, 1,146 cases and 610 deaths ; the 3.002 cases and 2,774 deaths i END CAME UNEXPECTEDLY. Death of Lord Pasuncefote, the Brithsk Ambassador. Washington, D. C., (Special) ~Lord Pauncefote, British ambassador to the States, died at the oclock A. M. The improvement which his during the past week received a sudden check about 6 o'clock, when ticed that in breathing United embassy at 5:35 had been noted condition in no- he was experiencing difficulty Dr. Jung, his physician, was immediately sent for, and he decided upon a consultation with a local physic- ian, in the meantime telegraphimg for Dr. Osler, of Baltimore. In his stead came Dr. Thayer, of Johns Hopkins Uni versity, arriving about z o'clock. The patient's pulse was still good and when Dr. Thayer left the embassy at 3 o'clock for Baltimore the Ambassas ing so comfortably that sent to his son-in-law, London, there was danger Soon after 31 o a distinct weak of the hear leveloped j 1] pulse began to col . peacefully ti i sician, who fearec fection would the end came Immediately death Lord 1 that 1 ness ur yr ¥s upon . ra White 01 i Hay went to the a short conference with proceeded directly to where he lence MOB ATTACKS AUTOMOBILE. Stomes, Sticks, Tincans sad Otber Missiles Thrown st the Big Machine. ATTEMPT TO SETTLE STRIKE Civic Federation Will Use Its Good Offices as Soon as Operatives Consent. 115 3 of With reference cal ommitiee arranged ODDS AND ENDS OF THE NEWS T he ericksburg by the Assembl Daughters I'he fortv-ninth Refo | services were held in Fred y of the King's conference of the motion three to pr adopted result being a victory the Croker element and a defeat for Carroll-Van Wyck crowd Dudley Morgan, a negro, was burned at the stake at Lansing. Tex, for a crim inal assault upon a woman, whose hus. band applied the match to the pyre The Ward Line steamer Vigilanc steamed out of New York harbor under the Cuban flag, being the first to have that distinction Miss Josephine Holman, who broke off her engagement to Signor Marconi, was married in London to Eugen Borrst, of Budapest. Hungary. Representatives of the Gould interests denied that they had bought the Colum. bus, Sandusky and Hocking Railroad or had any use for it The steamer John K. Speed, with a valuable cargo, was burned to the water's edge while lying at her wharf at New Orleans. The Belgian steamer Stanleyville, from Antwerp for the go, was wrecked m the Gold Coast. Her passengers and crew were saved, The Baptist American Missionary Union in St. Paul Minn, was addressed by a number of returned missionaries. British government officials express the belief that the war in South Africa is practically ended, and that, as a result of the conferences betwepn the Roar lead- ers and Lord Kitchener and Lord Mil ner at Pretoria, the most of the Boer generals will refuse to continue the fight- he council of the colony of Martin. ue has declared that the total or par- actica the tihable at present. Meanwhile the ple continue to leave the island. eer
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