The times and democrat. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, May 16, 1911, Image 1
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. *
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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 :<lount, c. negro,
was found dead on the sidewalk with
a pistol beside him. Crul captured
I.McLeod after a chase and took him
to jail.
The belief that the wounded depu
ty could not recover caused much
excitement. *
Byrnes Has The Mumps.
Congresman James F. Byrnes is
(an unfortunate member of the South
I Carolina delegation in Congress Just
i at present. While several of his col
! leagues are at home among their
; friends he is confined to his hotel In
I Washington with a well developed
lease of mumps. *