Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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SEA TRAGEDY CapUia and His Wife and Eleven Seabcq Lose Their Lives. m njnrrvrn SIHUIMK Id nnmcu Sailer Picked Up in the Wreckage Of ?b? Governor Ames and Carried to Charleston by the Steamship Shawmnt, Gives Graphic Story of a Catastrophe. The flve-masted schooner Governor Ames, bound from Brunswick Ga., to New York, with a large car go of railroad crossties, grounded and went to pieces off Wimble Shoals, twenty-five miles north of Cape Hatteras, Monday afternoon at about 6 o'clock. The captain, the crew, consisting of twelve men, and the wife of the captain, were all killed or drowned with one single exception. This, says The News and Courier, 1b the story toid by the Bole survivor, a Nova Scotian, by the name of Josiah Spearing, a seaman on the vessel. He was picked up from a mass of floating tle6 Dy tne steamship 8hawmut, while on her way from Philadelphia to Charleston, where she arrived Wednesday night with Spearing on board. Capt. A. Syenson. of the Shawmut. on Tuesday morning about 7 o'clock discovered a figure signalling on a mass of wreckage. The Shawinut was about two miles from the scene but Immediately hastened to wher?" the wreckage lay. The sea was too rough to lower a boat, but a ladde; was thrown over the side of the vessel and Spearing climbed aboard. Spearing was suffering from the cold, the shock and particularly from severe bruises Inflicted by the floating wreckage, which beat upon hliu on account of the heavy sea dashing It to and fro. His legs and arms bear blue and black marks, and h( Is unable to walk. His mind, however, Is clear and he is able to give a full account of the calamity, which he did to a reporter of The New* Courier, and from that accouni we make up this report: Spearing hailed the Shawmut by waving an oil skin coat, which ho managed to save before the schooner went down. lie says that in the forenoon Monday the wind assumed large proportions; it was foggy, and drizzling, and he says the man at the wheel was near-sighted and oouh not see where he was steering; that he could only steer by the way the wind filled the sails, or by aid of the stars. That at 11:30 o'clock tn the morning the schooner struck rocks and broke aft The sea came In on the quarter deck and tiie tell ors lathed the captain's wife to the 6pankt'r rigging. 1 hen the men we:., down to get life preservers. When It waa tried to use them they feli to pieces before any one could get them on. Rope yards were then lashed around the preservers by eacl; man who had one. While the men were trying tc make the preserves seawort&y tiie i vessel broke aft, and the captaln't | wife was rushed to the forward deck and lushed to the mast. She wat almost frozen, suffering from thr cold wind and from the cold se6 that was filling the boat. The men rushed down into the cabin for blanketB for her. and they had harJly gotten on deck again when the stern broke in two and the cabin was filled with water. It was about 2 o'clock then, and the wind increasing, the vessel broke op completely. The woman was lashed to the mlzzen rigging, and then as the rigging began to break, Bhe was taken away and lashed to the hoops of the mainmast, on the fore castle. The sea was so violent thai the mast broke, and. falling upon the woman, crushed her to death Spearing said 8s the woman fell hi heard a man give a death scream. as the same mast naa rauen upor; him and killed him. Spearlug said that as soon as hf and the mate saw that the captaiu'twife was dead they knew they couK do no more, so they made an effort to save their own lives by running to the jib as It was the safest place When the vessiil began breakin? aft she swung around so violentb that they couldn't stay on ber any longer. Three big seas washed ove- j the wreckage and Spearing managed j to hold on. The fourth sea was so strong, however, that he fell overboard from the wreckage. He grabbed to a han !rope at the flying jib and was fortunate enough to land on the deck, which was floating. He had scarce ly landed when two seas struck him knocking him down before he coul^ raise himself. He was terribly dazed and about half conscious when he tood up, but he made a start for jani? ar>ri ha nmilH hear nif.n mt; au UCV/a ? screaming with fear and agony as they were being pounded senseless by fallin? timbers. Another sea washed over him and he attempted to get to the men in distress. It was good dark then; the stump of the Jigger mast brok?; off and with it came twenty feet of the deck. Three men were hanging on and all had broken arms and legs. It was at this time that Spearing climbed tip the only mast above water and found on the top a poor seaman with all his Angers chopped off. When finally a his: Pea dashed thf? mpn from the perches and took the mast with it. Spearing remained in the vater fully fifteen minute hpfore he came to a big part of the wreckage which he at first thought was a shark. He hung on to the floating timbers with might and main until the next mornln?. Spearing says the schooner left ELEVEN KILLED AND TWENTY-FIVE INJURED IX THE SOUTHERN WRECK. Vomwi and Addresses of the Pussenjj ers Who Were Killed or Wound od by the Accident. Vice President and General Manager Ackert, of the Southern Railj way, Wednesday gave out the following statement in regard to the accident near Greensboro, N. C., early Wednesday morning: "Our passenger train, No. 11, which is operated locally between Richmond, Va? and Atlanta, Ga., and carries sleepers from Richmond to Charlotte and from Norfolk to Charlotte, was derailed about 6.50 o'clock this morning, about eleven milea south of Greensboro, N. C. As far as can be ascertained at this time, the cause of the accident was a broken rail, due to a concealed defect. Two coaches and two Bleepers turned over. The engine, mall and baggae cars did not leave the track." The passengers reported killed ( are. John A. Broadnax, Greensboro, N. C. V. E. Holcomb, a lawyer of Mount Airy, N. C. Edward Sexton. Denton, N. C. Frank W. Kilby, Birmingham, Ala. A. P. Cone, superintendent of Richmond division of the Southern. C. B. Nolan, Pullman conductor. H. C. White, traveling auditor, Washington, D. C. Ed Bagby, Richmond, Va. Richard Eames, New York city. Isaac Dammails, porter on Richmond sleeper. One unidentified, clean shaven white man, about 24 years of age. Total reported dead, eleven. Reported Injured: John W. Phillips, Petersburg, Va. David P. McBrayer, Anderson, S. C. Alva L. Harris, Reidsvllle, N. C. Will Kemmlns, Davidson College, N*. C. Sutral Watson, Baskervllle, Va. Arthur Wataon, Baskervllle, Va. * ' n 1 ^ Poof 1 1 Qf jtooerx riubbvn, * -i * street, New York. Mrs. H. T. Cook, Norfolk, Va. F. Smith, Spencer, N. C. H. L. Stribbling, Atlanta, Oa. Richard Doble, Norfolk, Va. W. T. Deberry, Portsmouth. Va. Mrs. Robert Edmond, Jr., New Orleans, La. Philip Nelson, Greensboro. N. C. The Rev. D. B. Hill (colored). Roidsvllle, N. C. Thomas YV. Eldridge, baggage master. Richmond, Va. Burton Marye, road master, Rich mond, Va. Thomas V. Chalkley, Richmond, Va. George B. Wagoner, Danville, Va. W. T. Carroll, ticket agent, Norfolk. Va. H. L. Wood, Pullman superintendent. Norfolk, Va. W. T. Carter, traveling auditor, Danville, Va. John Anderson, colored porter, Norfolk. Va. Total reported Injured twentyfour. The track was cleared and al! trains moving at 6:30 p. m. Wednesday. Tragedy in Georgia. At Cuthbert, Ga., John W. Harris, 50 years old, and brother of Mayor Harris, 01' that city, was shot and instantly killed in the lobby of the Randolph hotel by J. F. Lcrd, Jr., 18 years old, son of the proprietor Harris -was pfijting cards in the lobby when young Lord. it. la said, ordered him out of the bouse, and fln the difficulty following Harris was shot Lord Is under arrest. Extra Terra of Court. A dispatch from Klngstree saye H'erk of Court Brltton received Wednesday from Governor Ansel an ' iraer for the calling of an extra term of the Court of General Sessions to commence on January 10 1910. The special term la for the purpose of trying John Woods {or Rose), the would-be rapist. Thlp is the earliest day the court can lawfully be held. Blow lTp Bank. Blowing up with a heavy charge of* dynamite the entire side of tun building, five bandits a few mornings igo robbed the Citizens' Bank of Generimo, a small town eight miles lorth of Lawton, Okla., securing $1,200 and escaped. Two citizens were held under guard until they had robbed the bank. 0 Brunswick on Thursday last. The vessel hailed from Providence, R I., but had sailed from Boston to Brunswick. He did not know the captain's name and had only been with the ship for a little over three weeks. He Joined the ship at Boston The crew consisted of the captain, two mates, an engineer and a steward and six seamen and the captain's wife. Spearing said that his home is Cambridge. Hants county, Novia Scotia. He is 33 years of age and unmarried. Spearing was floating on tue wreckage two or three miles from the Shawmut when ho was first sighted, which was about 24 miles north, northeast of Diamond 8hoals lightship. The catastrophe occurred at Wimble Shoals, about 25 miles north of Cape Hatteras. Spearing said that the vessel went to pieces about five miles from shore. An attempt was made eight or ten times to make rafts to put the crew on so as to get to shore, but the high seas prevented. The shor? could Just be seen owing to the heavy fog. WRECK OF TRAIN* Ctsts Beyea Lives ami Causes Injury tt U taaaj i cvpic. ACCIDENT 0(j SOUTHERN A Broken Rail Throws Fvle Ooachea Prom a Bridge Near Greensboro, ( N. C.?Two High Southern Rail- ' way Officials Are Included in the j List of Those Killed. 1 Local passenger train No. 11, on ( the Southern railway, known as the < Richmond and Atlanta train, due 1 in Greensboro at 6:40 a. m., was wrecked Wednesday at 6:32 at Reedy < Fork trestle, ten miles north of ' Greensboro, and at 6 o'clock Wednes- 1 day evening eleven dead bodies had been removed from the wreckage. ( Fourteen are reported dead and twenty-five injured are being cared ( for at St. Leo's hospital. Owing to the character of the wreck much time waa required to remove the dead and injured fron the debris and, it was 8:30 before this work was well underway. The injured were carried to Greensboro as rapidly as they could be extricated from the wreck and placad in St. Leo's hospital. The derailment of the train waj caused by a broken rail, about two I hundred feet from the trestle that Bpans the small stream. The train was composed of two baggage, express and mall cars, three day coaches and two Pullmans. The engine and baggage, mail and express cars passed over In safety, while the day coaches and Pullman were thrown from the trestle into the creek and along the banks some twenty to thirty feet below. At the point where the first coach left the track, the right hand rail being broken, about eighteen inches from a joint, the rail was broken into fragments for several feet, and torn entirely from the crosstles. The truck wheels ran on the ties until near the trestle, when the outside wheels went over, allowing the brake beams and axles to fall ou the guard rail of the bridge. As the last coach was about on the trej tie, the five coaches toppled over*, t broke loo6e from the mall and ex a prese car and tumbled to the mui and water below. The Norfolk Pull ma - fell In the water while the Richmond slcepei Just In front, landed only partially in tho water. The most of the in jured and killed in the sleepers we * in the Richmond sleeper, which was totally demolished. The Norfolk sleeper was not so badly torn up, but fell on its side in the swollen stream, submerging many of the passengers in the water. The conduc tor in this coach, Capt. Johnson, war very slightly Injured and none of tKt passengers in his car were killed. The Richmond Pullman is a mis? of wreckage and scattered over the wet and muddy bank of the stream, part of it being buried In the mud. At 11 o'clock parts of two bodl.fe were visible from the edge of this mass of wreckage and it is not nov known how many more are under It. Railroad men, who were work ing nara to rescue me unioriunaie { victims and to recover the bodied ? of the dead, are practically certaw< e that a remova; of the debris would t reveal more d?'j'j bodies. The tw ? c day coaches in front of the Pullmans were also complete wrecks, be- ? ing smashed into kindling wood. j Of the dead their appearance at , the undertaken crowed that .lon.r: j were acaldod to death, o'be.-s we.e t badly mutilated, while one was cut j i nhalf at the waist, his dif?ir;embflr , ed parts ttfdng found at the opposite ( end of tbe coach. i At 1 o'clock, when the doad w?>rf> Chrried into thn city, the morgue { was so crowded th<<* the trai?i ]>h>.? ed on further where the ambulances and hacks were gathered to convsy the dead to an improvised morgue which had been ordered. It took a cordon of policemen to keep the eager crowds from .?!< eking all approaches. For a sp-t-'o of four hours the streets were at one time or another the scene of o procession of ambulances carrying ?iio wounded to the hospital or the dead to the morgue. The Southern uid a corps of officials, physicians and laborers on the seen quickly after the news was received. Improvised litters were quickly put Into service, as the injured were released from their per llous positions in the mass of wreckage. Pullman mattrosses and blankets were used to protect the the injured, and the dead were wrapped and handled as tenderly as the exigencies of the occasion would permit. Strong and willing hands lifted the imnrnvldpH HttorR with their bur dens of suffering humanity and bore them to the hospital trains, which wore operated between the place of ' the wreck and Summit avenue, nearest the St. Leo's hospital. Strong men wore blanched facee, but carried steady hands and worked quietly, but with a will to do everything in threlr power. Even under the stress of the terrible excitement there was much tender solicitude shown the suffering. Shot While Hunting. Mr. Barkin B. Berley, a planter ef the Mount Pleasant spction of Newberry county, accidentally shot himself at. 9 o'clock Wednesday morning while out bird hunting, the load penetratinj his left leg just i below the knee, and producing a i hemorrhage from which he died at r. o'clock Wednesday afternoon. ZELAYA HAS RESIGNED rYRANICAL NICARAGUA* RULER YIELDS TO THE INEVITABLE. ' With the Whole Country Seething With Revolution Against Him, Thin Was His Only Way Out. A dispatch from Managua says Jose Santas Zelaya has resigned ^ t ? _ a \ri "rom tne rresiaency 01 .mtarngua. He placed his resignation in the lands of Congress Thursday mornng. Apparently there was no other course for him to take. Tht people were at last aroused. The juns of the revolutionists threatened, the warships of the United States sere in Nicaraguan ports. Managua has been seething for lays. The spirit of revolt has spread jven to the gates of the palace. Selaya surrendered himself with an irmed guard. Unchecked the pop jlace bave marched through the streets, crying for tne end of the )ld, proclaiming the new regime. Who will take up the reins no )ne knows nor cares. It is sufficient .hat Zelaya as dictator will be known 10 more. There is no doubt that Congress will aot quickly on his eelgnation, for the people have denanded it. Dr. Jose Madriz. Judge of the Central American Court of Justice it Cartago, who has been close to Selaya, and is now his choice for i president, has gone to Managua. Madriz has his following, itrong and Influential, even among he revolutionists, but Gen. Estrada, inder whose command the great x)dy of lighting Insurgents now face fasquez's troops at Rama, will have lone of him. Estrada's word will >ear weight In the choice of a Presilent Zelaya has known, too, that tfadrlz Is not acceptable to the Unitid States, and he has sought to learn vho would be looked upon with fa7or by that government as his suc:essor. Accompanying his resignation, telaya sent the following message o congress: "The painful circumstances in vhich the country is plunged call for Lets of abnegation and patriotism on he part of good citizens, who are he witnesses of the oppression of he Republic by the heavy hand of ate. The country Is staggering unler x shameless revolution, which hreatens the nation's sovcre^nti ind a foreign nation unjustly interrenes In our affairs, publicly providng the rebels with arms, which has inly resulted In their being defeated everywhere through the heroism of >ur troops. "To avoid further bloodshed, and or the reason that the revolution's have declared that they would )ut down their arms when I surender the executive power, I here>y place in the hands of the national issembly the abandonment or tne emalnder of my term of office, which a to be filled by a substitute on their :hoosing, with the hope that this vlll result in good to Nicaragua, the ^establishment of peace, and particllarly the suspension of the hostiliy of the United States to which I lo not wish to give a pretext for nterventlon." A commission of five deputies waa ippointed to draft a bill looking to he acceptance of Zelaya'a reslgnaion, which is now considered a mere ormality. News of the president's ictlon spread through the city, and K>on great crowds moved through he streets, shouting for the United States, Estrada and the revolution. Held in control for years by the itrong hand of Zelaya. the people lave been quick to break through estralnt when it was certain that he dictator could not breast the tide hat has been rising around him. During the later days Zelaya has esorted to all the known tricks and contrivances to hold the people of Managua with him. Reports of a government victory ?t Rama have been freely circulated, and rumors that a massacre of evolutionists had occurred were alowed to'spread unchallenged and undented. It finally became known :hat these were without a shred of iruth, and they rebounded like a Soomerang. First one deputy then another tooh up the denunciation of Zelaya ir the chamber and later in the public places, and soon throughout the cit> demonstrations were held, in which apen revolt was voiced. Wednesday night, however, a pro-Zalays demonstration marked the session ol congress, but this had no effect out side the walls of tne nouse. j nt rising was more marked Thursday thau ever, and the President de cided discretion to he the bettei part of valor and withdrew fron office. "CORPSE" SAT UP. But Later Relapsed and the Funern Proceeded. At Terre Haute, Ind., as an un rlertaker started to prepare the bodj of Edward Murphy for burial. th< supposed dead man arose in be< and yawned. "I feel better after that loni sleep," he said. Murphy had been in a state o coma for tea hours. He had beei an invailed for a long time. Bu the undertaker soon was recalled for Murphy really died later, afte ir>lH?<r nlimit hin "first death" to th frightened embalmer. Postoffice Robbed. The po6tofflce at Short Croek, Ala. was entered by dynamiters earl; one morning recently, the cafe blowi open and several hundred dollars li money taken. Bloodhounds war sent to the scene. CAN THIS BE SO? Mzgor Hemphill, Editor of the New and Courier, is Said to be AN AIWKflR OF MR TART nil nv i iuvii vi uui? iiu * The Editor's Abuse of Mr. Bryan Before His Last Nomination, and 1 His Ridicule of Bryan by the Hen and Gander Incident Made the Editor Solid With -Mr. Taft. Zack McGee, Washington corre1 Kpondent of The State, Bends out a surprising statement in his last letter to his paper. Here Is what McGee says: "In these modern and radiant days of Big Bill Taft, what has become of that ancient and honorable in1 stltution formerly designated 'Republican Referee," beatiflcally transmorgrifled, as you may recall, under the be-accurate dispensation of Hon. George Bruce Cortelyou into 'Adviser' ?But, regardless of nomenclature, where Is he at? In brief, Who's It in South Carolina when it comes to pie? "The man who secured the nomi1 nation of Louis C. Kuker to be postmaster at Florence and S. Coke King to be postmaster at Darlington as Mayor James Calvin Hemphill, editor of the Charleston News and Courier, -and Mr. Taft's closest and most confidential friend in South Carolina. Captain John G. Capers, Republican national committeeman - .. ? ana ersiwmie roierce iui ovum Carolina recommended other men for these offices. Captain Caper's recommendations have been wont to go in South Carolina postmasterships. "General Francis H. Hitchcock, Political Charge d'Affairs of the Administration, still consults him about these offices, but a bigger than the General has been taking a hand. Senator E. D. Smith, who represents Florence in the senate and who had the power of holding up any appointment objectionable to him, 'did his durndest,' In the language of the classic poet, to induce the president to name another man for Florence. But 'there was one more potent in the coan?Hes of the president than the senator, and the Major's man was named. "Captain Capers says he is no longer 'Referee' or 'Adviser' in the established sense. 'So far as I know there isn't any such Job,' he says. 'I have retired to my private law practice and am devoting my time tj It, Intending not to accept any further political office. Of course, until the next national convention, I am still the national committeeman, and having advise 1 about South Carolina offices so long, and still desirous of seeing good men in office as well as to se? the party prosper In South Carolina, why whenevp- I am asked to advise, I advise. When I am not asked, 1 have nothing to say.' In passing It Is an evidence of Mi. Caper's sincerity that he has had refusal of at least two good feder al appointments since be lert inui of General Rev?.iue commia.s.'oni-r. "Now upon the election ol Mr. Taft a different policy with rcppect to appointments in the South wos determined upon. Mr. Taft had been down to Greensboro, N C., several years before he was an active candidate for the pre? de.ny. There he shocked his fellow Republicans, who for several yeara had been engaged in one continuous and conspicuous exhibition dogflghi over federal patronage by telling them that the Republican party in the South would be better off if the Democrats held all the offices. He seems not altogether to have got that Idea out of his head, and It Is believed he would have entered upon a wholesale policy of appointing Democrats to office had It not been for the more aatuto poll tical head of his postmaster general and chief political adviser. There is a difference only oif Judgment 1 between Mr. Taft and Mr. Hitchcock. Tho object of each Is to break 1 the solid South. Mr. Taft thinks he can do it by coddling a few Democrats with Republican leanings, and 1 while Mr. Hitchcock does not whol: ly disagree with the idea he wants to be quite sure of the leanings 1 Mr. Taft seems willing to take great" er chances on this score. The regu1 lar aforetime 'referees' have not ' been formally abolished or superseeded so much as they have been 1 Just sort o' dfifunctionlzed. as it were, perhaps temporary and experimentally in order that the beam MAiw?AnaHfv nf tho lug ana eprsua?ivc ijouuuomj v?? ?-? 1 hig hearted Bill Taft might beam direct. "This personality has been beaming upon the Charleston editor ever since that famous Gander and Hen I Incident, when The News and Cour ler conducted a raffle for the Bryan campaign fund. This tickled the Republican candidate very much and ; his attention was riveted upon the s bitter attacks upon Mr. Bryan which j The News and Courier had made before the Denver convention and th<: ? scarcely veiled partially of Its editor for tho Republican candidate f during the campaign. While Mr, 1 Taft knew Major Hemphill before t 'hnt. having been entertained in Charleston in that most hospitable j and charmln? manner for which riinripsfnn is famous. In which en p " , tertainment tlip editor of Tho isewj and Courier was naturally conspicuous. owing not so much to his po sition as to his own pleasing and ' cordial personality But this Gan v 1er and Hen incident seemed to hav? 11 been an especial bond of union n Twice since he was elected presl (e ient. Mr. Tnft has visited Charleston, and Major Hemphill has visit DRUG STORE WRECKED IN ATLANTA BY THE EXPLOSION OF FIREWORKS. Two Persons Badly Burned and the Interior of the Store and Stock Ruined. The Atlanta Journal says as a result of the sudden and entirely unexpected explosion of a quantity of Christmas fireworks In the W. R. Fuller pharmacy, 470 Pryt,: street, Tuesday evening at 10.30 o'clock, Arthur KagLe, the young soda dispenser, now lies at the Grady hospital at the point of death from burns received; Dr. Fuller is badly burned about the face, hands and body and the pharmacy is a total wreck. At the time of the explosion Dr Fuller and Kagei were opening a new supply of fireworks that had come lc during the day and were utterly Ignorant of any danger; h?tvlng been particularly careful to extinguish the fire In the stove five hours before the fireworks were open ed. The couple had just marked up two of the packages when one sud denly exploded and others followed suit. j When toe wonn 01 nrewomi, Including Roman candles, skyrockets, firecrackers, and dynamite caps, exploded young Kagel was blown ten feet against the top of the store and came down In the very mld6t of the burning missiles. Dr. Fuller had gone to the cash register in as adjoining room to ring up thf. fii^e of a cigar when he was jarred by the Ignition of the fireworks. Though he wps many feet away be wui blown ten fact through space against the 9od? foPD*. and badly burned by (he flying explosives before he could escape. After his flight to the celling and back, young Kagel was so bady bll lfled that it took him ten minutes to right his way out of the owning prescription room. Finally finding the door he made a dash for the street and ran up and down the sidewalk like a mad man, wirh hi? clothing ablaze. He was so badly frlghtened by the flames and jurns he had received that It wm with difficulty that W. S. Matthews chased him down and held him until his burning clothes could be removed. The pharmacy looks as if a cyclone had struck It with all Its force. The front doors were torn from their ? binges, an winaow panes suuueiou, show cases demolished, soda fountain ruined and the building badly damaged by fire. The prescription room Is a total wreck, where the fireworks were being opened. There is nothing to it at all. The many bottles of powder and liquids were sprinkled all over the floor and every bottle broken into bits. ed the President in Washington their friendship being at each meeting intensified. "The Oander and Hen Incident, you understand, was a joke. Mr Taft likes a joke and he likes a man who gets off a good one. But tbt president Is not all joke. Tha1 campaign last fall wasn't any joke. He meant business, and at one time Mr. Bryan was pushing him so close and the Middle West as well a? New York showed such signs of Republican disintegration that he got all vexlfled, as It were. It has al ways been an Idea with him evei j since he entered politics, which was when he became canaiaaie ior pica ldent, you understand, that he wat the man of Destiny to break up the Solid South. And he wanted to go Into the South during that campaign to convert the stlffnecked peo pie, and would have done so bul for this dangerous threat of the Middle West and New York. But all the time he was looking about in the South, watching it very closely. He had certain lieutenants, pulsi feelers, to report to him what mer in the South could be of assistance to him in furnishing information about conditions. Among these was J. C. Hemphill in South Carolina. It is not believed that he called on these men for assistance, bur it 1* * * * * ^ V? <y A Vila Oi'fi postiveiy Known lum uk uuu u?o on them, and considered them as not so hostile ae their papers might have indicated to those who did not read between the lines. "Whether he has Major Hemphill on his list of eligibles with the hope of assistance in breaking up the Solid South or not can be but a matter of surmise. It la certain that he consults the Major about appointments, and that the Major, whether consulted or not, sometimes gives his 'advice.' This he did a few days ago in the candidacy of his cousin, J. J. Hemphill for the office of commissioner of the District of Columbia. It Is believed that were It not for the technical bar respecting le gal residents, President Taft would out of consideration for his friend, J. C. Hemphill, appoint J. J. Hemphill to the office, further consideration being of course given to Mr i hemphlll's fitness. "Major Hemphill's recomraenda. tlons are not always favorable acted i on. this being notably the case In i a rejent recommendation for the s postmaster's position at Walhalla i He recommended Miss Fant, who It " x i*qclhlnp developed was ai c.u? LJIJJD ICOIUimi; i In Anderson, engaged there as ste negrapher. She had. however, beer - a resident of Walhalla. However. I she and her people war# Democrat* while Anson C. M?rrlck, the husband 5 of the deceased postmaster, was s . 'good Republican.' This was on* time the Postmaster General had hie war, and Merrick was appoint ' ed," * a * '? ADMITS HE LIED CapL Loisc Brands His Own Statcacat About Dr. Cook a Lie. WAS OUT FOR THE MONEY Maker of * Sworn Statement That He Had Prepared Cook's Observations for Him Ha? Gon(e?ied That the Story Was Prepared Without Regard to Truth. Capt. B. 8. Osborn, of New Yor<, ? i secretary of the Arctic Cluo. written Capt. Joseph E. Bwrnler and others that Capt. August W. Loose's story of his dealings with Dr. Cook, as published in a New York news3 paper, was concocted for sale, without regard to the truth. "In the presence of witnesses." said Capt. Osborn, "I heard Loom say, 'I was out for the money, and I don't care how I get it*" Capt. Osborn does not believe that Loose's narrative, as supported by M his affidavits, was a part of any plot to discredit Dr. Cook. "The idea originated with Loose and Dunkle," says Capt Osborn. "They had for sale matter In this controversy so explosive that nobody ' - - - - - - - - ^ ? dared handle it. When they found that out they cast about for something else. Dunkle was the promoter, Loose the workman. "Also Dunkle got most of th? money. That's what Loose says, and now he Is casting around to see where he stands. He's got a conscience, and it smarts. "I wrote these facts in private letters to Capt. Bernier and others, and their premature publication la a mistake, and may spoil what wonld have been complete documentary proof of my assertion, sworn to before a notary. "Loose had an appointment to elgn a confession, which has already been drawn up. He did sot appear, and now he has just twentyfour hours' grace. If he does not sign very shortly the substance of the confession will then be printed from notes of conversations on which it is based." Capt. Osborn was not at liberty to name the person who had obtained and drafted the oonfession. "A ship owner," he designated bim, "a former employer of Loose and a man who has personal Influence with him." "How did this man prevail on Loose to confess," was asked. "He told Loose straight out," said the captain, "that Loose was playing checkers ^ith his own nose." . Capt. Osborn does not deny that Dr. Cook and Loose had business lealings, and that money passed between them. Gut he said: "I know enough shipmates of the doctor's who went into, the Antarctic with bim to be sure the doctor needed nobody to fabricate observations for him. No doubt he set problems for Loose, by which to check his own calculations." Neither Loose or Dunkle could be found. "Lis Prom Beginning to End." An Ottawa, Ont., dispatch says, "Capt. Loose has confessed that his story published in a New YorK newspaper is a line from beginning to end. We hope to have his confession sworn to in a few days." This, In substance, is the stare* ment made to a letter received by Capt. Vernier, commander of th? Canadian exploration steamer Arctic. The letter, Capt Bernier 8tat*0. is from Capt. B. S. Osborn, of Ne# York, secretary of the Arctic Club of which the explorer is a member. It waa Capt. Bernier who received the first letter from Dr. Cook aft?r his dash to the pole, announcing lh? suncess of the journey. CENSUS TESTS TOO HARD. Only Fifty-four From South Carolina Passed. Director Durand, of the census bureau, Friday informed Represenmtlvp Patterson that only 54 of tha applicants in South Carolina who recently stood examination for clerkship In the census bureau had been successful. This covers the entire State. Mr. Durdan seemed to think that this inability to pas* the examination successfully was no reflection on those who attempted them, but was more to be accoun-el for by reason of the fact that th>e tuestions asked were largely those dealing with manufacturing and kindred matters, about which many oersons have little knowledge. It is not yet shown whether anotheopportunity will be given South Ca'olinians to try for these places. * * * - t4 One Killed, Many Hurt. . (i One woman was killed and 51 persons were injured when the eastbound California limited on the Santa Fe collided with the rear end of the eastbound California express at $~l Winona, Arz., Friday. Mrs. Alice Bennett of Hartford, Conn., was .rushed to death and 22 people on / k. the express were Injured. Twentyr.ine persons, passengers and dinin? ' ^ car waiters, were injured on the .iniitd. * Jp + + -fr Given Tp for Dead. A dispatch from Londen says thre* nun-ired persons on the Austrailian liner Waratah were )fflclally given lp f?-r dead a few days ago and the J 1,2.30,000 Insurance claims on the steamer were paid at Lloyds. Tbe Warn tab has been mlsslngr since J.ih. * V * - ^?11