PUBLI SHED TRI-WEEKL\ BREACHJIflDENS lasargen! ind Regular Repobficus Get ting Farther Apart FEEING IS INTENSE If the Ww Going on in the Republi can P.-rty Does Not Materialize Now, It Will Come Into Evidence at Nex ?- Republican National Con" ventiot. The "Washington correspondent of The Columbia State says an analysis of *he row In the Senate over the election of a president pro tempore has givea special emphasis to the growing division among the senate Republicans. One thing after another Is widen ing the breach among them and there la no si&n whatever that it will be closed. The old guard leaders on the Republican side and the progres sives are getting further and further apart. 'The feeling between the two factions moreover is getting intense. Not a few political observers be lieve that in the split now on there is the forerunner of grave trouble in the Republican party in 1912. If such tremble does materialize it will materialize at the Republican con vention. Those who believe a third party is coming believe the beginning of it is now being fashioned in the senate In the struggles of the old guard and the progressives. Senator Gallinger, nominated in a Republican caucus for president pro tempore, might, under the circum stances that used to obtain in the senate, he expected to get the Re publican vote, but the progressive Republicans, with the exception of four?Borah, Brown, ? Kenyon and Dlxon?did not go into the caucus and did not therefore vote for Sen ator Gallinger. They consider themselves in no way bound to sup port Senator Clapp, one of their own number. The split comes after two years of constant factional fighting. Of course there were forerunners of trouble before the last special ses sion on. the tariff, but when that ses sion v.as held the differences be tween the regulars and Insurgents became aeuto. In the seven ballots cast in the senate oh the question iour insurgents voted steadily for Clapp. They were Brlstow, LaFol lette, Gronna and Poindexter. Had they been present, Senators Cum mings, Bourne, Crawford and Works would have voted for Clapp. Senator Bacon, Democrat, got 35 votes as his highest number. The highest Senator Gallinger got was 32. Clapp got four votes and the others were . scattering. Senator Bacon narrowly escaped election but he did not quite get a majority of those present and voting. A few changes, it is true, would throw the election to Gallinger, but it is a question whether any such changes will occur. In the first place Senator Galllng er is recognized as one of the lead ing conservatives of the senate old guard. The conservatives charge him with being strongly reactionary. They are fighting not Gallinger per sonally, but the things he is standing for. They Insist that a man of more libers.1 views ought to be In the chair of the presiding officer of the senate.* SPLINTER IN HIS FINGER. A Boy's Dread of a Little Pain Costs Him His Life. After a twenty-four hours' fight to save him from death by lockjaw, Harry Soberhieck, eleven years old, of Park place and Grafton avenue, Woodhaven, L. I., died Saturday at St. Mary's Hospital, Jamaica. Last Friday week, while playing, the boy caught his hand on a rough board, and a splinter half an inch long pene trated a finger. He did not tell his parents of the injury because he thought it would be more painful to have the splinter extracted than to leav^ it in his finger. Monday he was seized with convulsions and was hurried to the hospital in an ambu lance. * KILLS HIS LITTLE CHILD. Cle^r Case of Criminal Carelessness on Father's Part. A case of the worse kind of crim inal carelessness took place a few days ago in Lancaster county, wh ?n Kir?od Knight, a farmer living at White Bluff, accidentally killed his 3-y-:>ar-old child. Knight was re pairing an automatic gun and after repairing it put a number of shells in the gun. The weapon not working sat sfactorily, he removed the shells, as lie thought, and snapped the gun; its was discharged, the result being that the top of the child's head was blown off, death being instantaneous. Th ) coroner's jury rendered a ver dic of accidental killing. * Thirty Soldiers Drown. A news dispatch reports the cap sizing of two barkes laden with Belgian soldiers during a storm on the Lualaba river, one of the head str?am3 of the Congo river, near Loicando, Belgian Congo. Thirty liv?s were lost. * STONEWAL! JACKSON ANNIVERSARY OP THE DEATH OP THE GREAT SOLDIER. Had He Lived the South Would Have . .Won in the War Thinks a North ern Preacher. Forty-eight years ago May 10, 1S63, the telegraph wires were bear ing in al? directions the omnious message, "Stonewair Jackson is dead." On that day the great battle winner died of wounds received eight before in the midst of his crowning victory at Chancellorsville. In speaking of the sa . event the Rev. T. B. Gregory in the New York American says: Tbat May day was., in the strictest 6ense of the word, a day of fate. It settled things. It was a day teem ing with destiny. One of the dead general's old chap'..tins is said to have exclaimed, in the course 6* a sermon delivered soon after the war, "When it pleased God to decree that the cause of the Confederacy should lose, He called u;;to Himself His servant, StonewraI! Jackson, in order that His will might he carried out." There are many people North and South who believe that it was that 10th of May, 1863, that settled the issue of the great conflict be tween the States. Gen. Lee repeat edly declared that had Jackson lived and been with him at Gettysburg he would have won that battle, and many of the survivors of that battle of ! the Union side are of Lee's opin ion. In war, as the great Napoleon de clared, "men are nothing; the man is everything." What Napoleon meant was this, that when It comes to winning battles the important thing is not the number of the rank and file, but the military genius of the men who commands the rank and file. Over ar * over again, from Alexander and Caesar down to Marl borough and Von Moltke, has this truth been proven?that it. is the man and not the men who win bat tles and decide campaigns. While Jackson lived the North made no appreciable headway, not withstanding its superior numbers in the field. When Jackson fell at Chancellorsville gold was at its high est premium; Europe was almost, on the point of recognizing the Confed eracy; the war spirit north of the I Potomac was rapidly growing cold, 'and the Sou ft. full c' the gaudium certamines, felt eure of winning its fight. Jackson fell In the Virginia wil derness, shot through mistake by his own men, lingered on for eight days, and died, and all was ehanged. The Confederacy never struck twelve again. There were no more Chan celloTsville, no more first and sec ond Bull Runs, no more Cedar Moun tains and Fredericksburg. Lee's right arm was gone. The supreme geniuB who had stood by him to ex ecute his orders with the speed of the lightning, was no more; and his tory, traced out in the shape of a diagram, shows that from the day of Jackson's death the line represent ing the Confederacy began to dip to ward the nadir. A remarkable man was Stonewall Jackson?a fanatic and the coolest of reasoners; si.ern and yet a per fect gentleman; remorseless in bat tle 8.B a juggernaut, yet brimful ot tenderness and iove; one day an ob scure professor in a "one horse" Virginia institute, the next immortal as Caesar, as Napoleon, to be known forever as one of the supreme mil itary geniuses of the world. It is true that North and South are to-day both happy in the fact that they are together again in the old Union, and it is more than prob able that their happiness is all owing to the fact that on May 10, IS63, God ^called unto Himself His ser vant, Stonewall Jackson." * SCHOONER WAS WRECKED. Her Crew of Jive Men Were Lost' With the Vessel. A Pensacola, Fla., dispatch says it was definitely established this morning that the vessel which was wrecked and washed ashore on St. Andrews.beach in the gulf storm two weeks ago was the schooner Queen, of the Standard Oil company. Hei I crew of five' men undoubtedly were drowned. The boat is a total loss. I i The identification was by men who reached the wreck in small boats.! (The Queen, loaded with oil in bar-' irels, was bound from Tampa to Pan-i |ama City, Fla. Several steamers !have reported 'he wreck, but it was 1 not until today that boats reached ;t *! Gives Up His Job. Secretary of War Jacob McGavock Dickinson, of Tennessee, the Demo I cratic member of the Taft Cabinet, has resigned. Henry L. Stimson, of ?New York, recently defeated Repub lican candidate for Governor, was ap pointed to succeed him. This an nouncement was made at the White House Friday night and caused great surprise. * Crazy Negro Kills Wife, j Mose'Williams, a young negro liv-j ! ing in the lower Broad River section jof Newberry county, Thursday morn- j ing shot and killed his wife with a j shotgun. He has been arrested. The opinion prevails that his mind was unbalanced. ?' THEY SCOOPED MANY THE SUCKERS BIT GREEDILY ON WIRELESS STOCK. How People Were Buncoed Out of Their Hard Earned Money by a Lot of Swindlers. > The New York World says farmers from K?nsas, sheep raisers from Ore gon, merchants from Texas and men In the employ of the Foresiry Dc partmnet testified Saturday ou be half of the United State Government against "Col." .Christopher Columbia Wilson and his associates in the ?management of the United Wireless Telegraph Company Wilson and his friends are charg ed with fraudulent use of the mails in selling wireless a*0'Jk. .So well had their lurid circulars and "f illow up" canvassers done their work, the the witnesses testified, that the de mand on Wilson and his friends foT stock became so great that they had to buy it in the open market la or der to satisfy clamorous customers. It was proved tney bought wire less stock on the dr,b in Chicago at ?1 a share and shipped it to farm ers and sheep raisers at $35 a share, Baying it was Treasury stock and .binding the purchasers not to trans fer it for at least two years, when all would be millionaires. Charles F. DeTarr of Anthony, Kan., the first witness, said he had received several "come-on" circulars from the United Wirelss people and had been visited later by a canvasser, who induced him to buy six shares at $35 a share. From that time he never had any peace. Agents for the Wireless called on him almost every week, and he bought more stock at the same price. He was so easy that they wanted him to pay $40 a share. He split the difference by giving up $37.50 a share. All this stock the Government showed had been "Col." Wilson's personal property. John J. Peth of Mount Vernon, Wash.; Perry Burch, of Ashland, Ore.; Charles W. Peck, of Salt Lake City; Henry S. M. Spielman, a farm er of Tekamah, Xeb.; George H. Graham, of Oregon, and P. T. Shields of San Antonio, testified in a strain slmlliar to that of De Tarr. ? HEAVY LOSS FOR OWNERS. Passengers on the Merida Also Heavy Sufferers. The sinking of the Ward line steamship Merida Friday night by the steamer Admiral Farragut, off the Virginia Capes, will cause a loss [of approximately $2,000,000, accord ing to an estimate made today by P. E. Cabaud, general agent of the owning company. Mr. Cabaud said that the Merida valued at about 111,250,000, was in sured, and the cargo and effects of the passengers, valued at probably $750,000, "were presumably in sured." As to the liability of the company, the passengers who were losers on the Merida, Agen Cabaud said, all probably would be losers except to the extent of insurance carried. The passengers will seek i to recover from the Merida's own ers. Ten of the passengers constituted the party of Augusta Peon, a wealthy hemp exporter of Yucatan, Mexico. The Peon family estimate their per sonal loss at $100,000, inclading I clothing and jewels and cash which [ was locked in the ship's safe. There seems to be no hope of sav [ing the Merida. There were said to have been seven tons of silver aboard her. TEAM GOES OVER CLIFF. Veteran Stage Driver Goes to His Deatii With Team. Jack Louden, one of the last of the old time stage drivers, was fatally J injured Sunday at Hazo Hill on J the Crescent, county road, fifteen miles from Grant's Pass, Oregon, ?while driving a four-horse team which had become frightened. Know ing that he was approaching a high cliff and sharp curve, Louden drew his revolver and shot one of the leaders dead in its tracks. This failed to stop the team, however, which dragged the dead horse sev eral yards over the embankment. Louden was thrown headlong, land ing on his head and fracturing his skull. Louden's two passengers jumped from the stage and escaped with slight injuries. Arrested for Old Murder. Sheriff R. V. Watts, of . Lufkin. Angelina county. Tex., left Gaines ville. (Ja., on Friday with .Jesse Runnels, alias John Brown? charged with the murder of a catrfe man IS years ago. Runnels had been ar rested for complicity in killing a government witness in Levy county recently, but the grand jury failed to return an indictment, apd he was arrested for the crime said to have been committed in Texas. * Found Dead in Park. After an all night search in Riv erside Park, New York, the body of Charles Garnett, a St. Louis mil lionaire paper manufacturer was found dead in a clump of bushes, with a bullet through his head. He had committed suicide during the night. ? Ufa BURG, S. C, TUESDAY, MAY ONE BRAVE HAN Saves the lasarrecto Canse io Mexico by Proving tbat It Really MEANT LAW AND ORDER Bravely Meeting the Issue Between Civil and Military Control of Mex ican Provisional Government, Ma dero Quells Revolt in Incipiency, Mastering Situation Completely. A dispatch from Juarez, Mexico, says the supreme test between mili tary and civil authorities was experi enced Saturday, and Francisco I. Madero, Jr., Is complete master o! the situation. After a day of thrill ing incidents, during which the lives of Madero and his chiefs were in danger, Gen. Orozco, in a moment of passion, ordering the arrest of the little rebel leader, and demanding ?the resignation of the provisional cabinet, the capital of the provisional government is quiet. Gen. Navarro, the defeated federal commander, whose life was threat ened by members of the rebel army, was spirited away by Francisco 1. Madero, Jr., in person, to the American side of the Rio Grande, and is safe in the home of friends in El Paso. A plot, quiet, deeply laid, is sus pected by the rebel leaders as the cause of the near-riot In front of Maderos headquarters. It was said to be a scheme of Madero's enemies to take up the organization of the revolution In Mexico. Provisional President iMadero, in a statement issued Saturday, charges that Gen. Orozco's actions were Incited "by persons interested In bringing about disunion among us." Early Saturday, Gen. Orozco called I on Provisional President Madero, and the two talked alone for some I time. Only their views were an nounced in part. A throng of sold iers had gathered outside the build ing and Senor Madero appealed to them. Six soldiers had been drawn and rifles were levelled, but Madero stood j before the crowd and, slapping his I breast, shouted: "Shoot me! Shoot me! if you dare!" Orozco was unde cided. His men wbuiu not fire. Ma dero talked in his reassuring way, and the affection in which he is held came uppermost. It ended in a mighty shout of "Viva Madero.'-' Many stories concerning the clash are being circulated. Col. Villa was said to have insisted on Gen. Na varro's life, while Gen. Orozco also was said to have been displeased with the naming of a civilian as minister of war. All Is now har mony, Senor Madero having im pressed upon Gen. Orozco that the choosing of a cabinet and the man agement of a government is quite outside the function of the military. Apprehension for the safety of Gen. Navarro stirred the sympathy of Gen. Madero after the incident, and he determined at the risk of his own life to save the brave federal com mander. He was whisked away in an automobile to where Gen. Navarro has been staying since he was cap tured and, after a brief explana tion, conveyed Gen. Navarro to the river front, where the latter waded the river and was soon safe on the jAmeican side. The insurrectos were ignorant of this move. Navarro gave his word of honor that he would return to Mexican soil when required to do so by Madero. If the feeling against Navarro among the insurrectos is because of alleged I acts of cruelty, his life wili be con tinually in danger. Madero and his jsupporters have saved Navarro from jany harm. ! Senor 'Madero gave out this ex^ jplanation of the trouble: j "This trouble has been caused by persons who desire to see trouble : among us. "We have sufficient provisions and want to lay the blame for this dis sension where it belongs. We have I more than enough troops and they jare well provisioned. "I was told that Gen. Orozco did i not like the officers whom I had named as cabinet officials, but I told j him that I could show him where it wa% for the benefit of the country and the general was satisfied. We held a long conference, at which all things ended satisfactorily." New Cotton Destroying Dug. A'new cotton destroying bug has been discovered near Claxton. Ga. They bore into the young. It is : stated that these .bugs are of a varie ty never seen in the cotton belt bo , fore, and that no one has been able to identify them as belonging to any known species. In addition to this . it is not known how they secured a I foothold in Georgia. None of them has ever been in this section. * Took His Own Life. The State says: Samuel Archibald Linsley, a student of the intermed iate class at the Columbia Theologi cal seminary, died by his own hand ! Saturday night at Mars Hill, N. C. (Death resulted from a shot fired j from a shotgun, the weapon's I charge taking effect in the head. Mr. Linley had been In ill health for some time. He was from Ander son. * 16, 1911. WILL MEET SOON RURAL MAIL CARRIERS URGED TO GET TOGETHER. \ \ ? The Service Will be Improved by Cooperative Methods on the Part of the Carriers. . Thos, E. Wicker, president of the Rural Free Delivery Carriers' Asso ciation of South Carolina, has issued an address to the carriers of this State, urging increased interest in the organization. Mr. Wicker,- in his address, says: "Brother Rural Carriers of South Carolina: Below you will find a list of rural carriers whom I have appointed special oiganizers for their respective counties. See if your name is on the list, and if it is, then go to work with a vim for your county as sociation; of it is not, then write your county organizer at once and tell him your services are at his command. "In several counties I have made no appointments because 1 didn't konw who would be willing and in terested enough to undertake the work. I should be glad to have the) names of hustlers from those coun ties, so that the list of organizers could be made complete. The ap pointment of special organizers doesn't mean that State and county officers may become less active in their efforts to secure members. "The State convention at Newberry last July was the largest and best in the history of the association. The question now is: Will it be excelled by the convention at Florence next July? What does Burch say about it? What do we all say about it? Our presence in goodly numbers will make it a success; our absence will make it a failure. "Now let us us all get busy in the (interest of our county conventions Jon the 3 0th of May. Remember the national dues as fixed at Little Rock last year, are 75 cents, and State dues 25 cents. Your county dues, if any, are what you choose to make them. "Le. us all join the association for the good of the service and for our own good. If by getting to gether in conventions and exchanging ideas, we are benefited, then, of course, the service will be benefitted to the same extent. The carrier who refuses or neglects to join the asso ciation, isolates himself and pockets his salary at the end of the month. This is the sum total of his inter est in the rural mail service. The carrier who joins the association manifests by that very act, a desire to learn, through the association as a medium, the wishes of the depart ment officials in the conduct of the service. He is wide-awake and more efficient than his isolated brother, because he is in touch with the de partment and In sympathy with those who are trying to improve the ser vice. "There may be some among us who think that the recent salary in crease was not as large as It should have been. From our viewpoint perhaps it was not; but from the viewpoint of the government it wan solely a question of economy. We must not forget that our branch of the service is yourg, and, in some respects, Imperfect, therefore, let us who are in the field co-operate with our superiors at headquarters, to the end that the imperfections in the service may be eliminated and that we may become more efficient and de i serving. When these things have been accomplished there ne^d be no doubt that our compensation will be as generous as we could wish. Un cle Sam is not stingy; but as every good business man should be, he is conservative. "In closing, let me again urge upon you the importance of your presence at Florence, July 3, 4 and ! 5?three days. Come, whether a j member of the association or not. Fraternally yours, "Thomas E. Wicker, "State President." The special organizers are as fol | lows: Abbeville?Milton F. Martin, Don I olds. ' Aiken?George T. McCain, Haw ; Anderson?J. J. Trussell, Honea j Path, i thone. : Barnwell?E. E. Fickling, Black iville. Chester?J. C. Moore, Chester. Chesterfield?D. M. McNair, Pat | rie.k. ! Clarendon?Silas B. Cobb, Pine : wood. i Colleton?Thomas P. Black, Ruf : fin. Darlington?J, M. Gray. Darling ton. Florence?J. M. Gray, Darlington. Williamsburg?J. M. Gray, Dari ington. Dorchester?J. A. Murray. Sum merville. Edgefield?Sam D. Mayes, Edge field. Fairfieid?Clark Langford, Biythe wood. Greenville?P. M. Huff, Piedmont. Greenwood? L. B. Aull. Dyson. Kershaw?J. E. Kosh, Canideu. Lancaster?C. J. Sistare, Riverside. Laurens?A. C. 0 wings, Gray Court. Lee?J. E. Camden. Lexington?L. B. Addy, Lexington. Newberry?McD. Metts, Whitmire. Orangeburg?L. B. Lide. North. Pickens?C. G. Masters. Central. Richland?John A. Jennings, Co lumbia. Saluda?James Herbert, Saluda. Spartanburg?B. Bryant, Spartan CAUSE OF DIEASE STATE BOARD OP HEALTH CON DEMNS HOSIERY MILL. Outdoor Work Recommended for Convicts and n New Building Ask ed for Females. ^ The hosiery mill at the State pen itentiary, in which several hundred convicts are employed, un?er a five year contract with the State of South Carolina, has been condemned by the State board of health, following an investigation of tonditious to de termine the cause of tuberculosis. The investigation was made as the result of a resolution passed by the general assembly. It is expected that the contract with the oper?tor of the hosiery mill, J. M. Grahum,,will be taken up at the next session of the legislature. The board of health recommends outdoor work for the convicts: The hosiery mill at the State pen itentiary is in old bone of conten tion, and conditions there have been investigated or. several previous oc casions. The report was made to A. K. Sanders, the chairman of the board of directors of the peniten tiary. The report quotes the resolu tion of the general assembly. The resolutions provides that the condi tions may be remedied by the use of the funds of the State peniten tiary. : It was resolved by the State board of health that the building used for the female prisoners at the peniten tiary should be destroyed and a new building erected at an early date. It j is recommended that the sick from I the female ward be removed to a ward in the general hospital anc. that the tuberculosis patients be re ! moved to the tuberculosis hospital at once. The board further recommends i that the toilets in the male prison ; building should be removed to an ex tension to be constructed adjoining [the building, that the bedding of the j prisoners be kept clean, that only j one prisoner be allowed to occupy j one cell, and that fresh water be pio I vided for the prisoners during the I night. This recomedation condemns i the system in vogue of causing I the prisoners to take water from tubs as they enter the prison in tht I evening to be locked up for the night. With reference to the hosiery mill the report says: "Resolved, That after a thorough consideration of all the phases of the hygiene and sam j tation in connection with the work in the hosiery mill it is the sense of ! the entire board tbat this form of I employment should be discontinued I and that work of an outdoor nature should be provided." j The present toilet arrangement in j the general hospital building is con demned that toilets and baths in ac I cordance with modern sanitary ideas I be Installed. It is also recommend jed that the building be generally cleaned, and that the entire building be screened. *f The board says that in the tuber culosis hospital nothing is found to condemn, but much to commend. The only suggestion in reference to < the building is that it be properly screend. Concerning the medical system the report says: "That we condemn the present medical system as inadequate and inefficient." It is recommended ; that a chief physician and assistant ! be named. White or colored nurses ! are recommended. * SAYS PROHIBITION A FARCE. Judge Points Out How Ridiculous Is the Restriction. Discharging his petit jury, follow j Ing five acquittals of saloonists I charged with retailing liquor, Judge j Henry C. Hammond, of the superior [court, at Augusta, Ga., commenting ' from the bench, presented facts to ! show that despite the prohibition 1 law in Georgia, the people want the I liquor, the state licenses the dealer, juries refuse to convict, and hence i the prohibition law of the state is a farce and a failure, j The most drastic law ever passed j for state-wide prohibition was en [ acted in Georgia, the experiment was tried, the state treasury felt the loss of revenue, a gentle breeze op ? posed to prohibition sprang up, the I state granted license to saloons to deal in any "beverage, drink or liquor in initation" of the former al coholic drinks, summarizes the facts he offers. The judge then asks what scien tist has ever discovered any drink in "imitation" of alcoholic bever ages. Concluding, the court de clared that he expressed no person al opinion; "such would be out of place," but that lie was merely pre senting a few simple facts. Negro Killed by Train. A negro was killed late Friday night by the Southern train from Greenville, about 30 miles from Co lumbia. The negro, whose name could not be learned, was on the track, and is supposed to have been intoxicated. The engineer saw something on the track too late to stop. The negro was badly torn up and instantly kill ed. * i-, 1 -urg. Sumter?A. J. Ard, Sumter. Union?H. J. Thomas, Carlisle. York?W. T. Sims, Sharon. TWO CENTS PER COPY. SINKS AT SEA Fwo Steamers Cellides m Mid Ocean and One Goes to Bottom. ALL ABOARD WAS SAVED With Three Hundred and. Nineteen Souls on Board, the Ward Liner Merida Is Struck. During a Fog by the Fruit Steamer Admiral Farragut Off Cape Charles. A near-tragedy of the sea, filled with many thrilling narratives of hu man rescue and escape, occurred off the Virginia coast early Friday morn ing, when the splendid Ward Line steamer Merida, bound from Havana, Cuba, for New York, with 319 soufci on board, sank in thirty-five fathoms of water, fifty-five miles northeast of Cape Charles, after she had been rammed by the fruit steamer Admirrri Farragut, bound from Philadelphia for Port Antonio. Every person aboard the Merida was rescued, and but one was injur ed, a woman who occupied a room immediately next to where the Far ragut struck the Merida. The Merida was struck by the Farragut during a dense fog at 2:30 A. M., and in five hours was at the bottom of the ocean, but with her passengers and crew safely aboard the Admiral Farragut. By wireless the Old Dominion Steamship Company's steamer Ham ilton, bound from New York to Nor folk, was summoned to the scene, and took aboard the rescued pas sengers and crew. They were .bond ed in Norfolk at seven o'clock Fri day night. The Admiral Farragut, which car ried but one passenger, proceeded for the Deleware Breakwater, under convoy of the United States battie I ship Iowa, which answered the wire less appeals for assistance, and which was standing by the Farragut when the steamer Hamilton left, with tby rescued passengers for Norfolk. When rammed, the Merida stag gered away, and it was feared for a while that the Farragut would also be lost. Wireless Operator Leach sent out his appeals for assistance? Meanwhile the passengers and crew were being transferred from the sink ing Merida to the Admiral Farragut. One passenger, Perry T. Beaton, proved himself one of the :*eal heroes of the hour. Benton is an expert engineer, and'lt was largely through his assistance and knowledge of ma chinery that the wireless apparatus on the Farragut had been broken by the shock of collision, and allowed the calls to be sent for help. This was heard by the Old Domin ion liner Hamilton, who at once sent an encouraging reply. The Iowa and the Hamilton began racing to the scene. The Hamilton won. It was a few minutes after 8 o'clock when the Hamilton sighted the Farragut, and in half an hour was close enough to send out life boats. The 319 souls were trans ferred from the Farragut to the Ham ilton in just two hours. The sea was calm and the work of rescue, except for the fog and darkness, was easy. The Merida was 417 feet long, 50 feet beam, 35 feetdeep, with a dis placement of about 10,000 tons. The vessel was only about five years old. Its tonnage was 6,200. The passengers for the most part escaped only in the clothes they were able to get on their backs and some left but scantily clad. Frank G. Conllng, an Importer of New York, said he desired to enter a strong protest against the action of officers of the Merida. He asserted that they told the passengers to go ' back to their state rooms when the 'ship was in imminent danger of sink ing, and all but the captain, quartcr j master and first officer took to the j life boats ahead of even women and jchildren passengers. * FATAL STREET FIGHT. Sheriff and One Negro Killed, Anoth er Negro Hurt. One negro was shot to death, i Deputy Sheriff It. B. Woods died 'later, and John McLeod, a negro, I wounded three times, is in Emanuel ! county jail, following a battle in [the streets of Waynesboro, Ga., Sat urday. No further trouble has oc curred. McLeod was a prisoner in charge of City Marshal Crul. On the way to i jail they met the deputy. The negro drew a pistol and shot Woods in the breast. The marshal and the negro exchanged shots, and other pistols were fired. Dave :