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) ~