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ESTABLISHED IN 1? NOTED CROOK Convicted and Sent Op For 15 Years in the Pen. SASSEO THE JUDGE Who Added Five Years More to the Ten Years Already Given Him for Talking Bark at His Honor?The Prisoner Seems to Be a Hardened Criminal. < Samuel K. Williams, alias James P Kelly, alias Oakland Sammy, alias Sara Raymond, yeggman and burglar, after making a well planned attempt to escape from the Charleston jail on Tuesday night in the midst of his trial in Charleston for carrying bur glar's tools, faced Judge Prince Wednesday morning in the court of general session, after the jury had brought In a verdict of guilty, and was given sentence of 10 years and one month at hard labor in the State penitentiary. Sullen and persisting to the last that his guilt had not been proved Williams asked Judge Prince why his honor did not give him ihe limit while he was. about it. "Bring Williams back to the stand," ordered the judge, as the prisoner had stepped down. "I am going to reform your sentence, Will iams," announced his honor. "I sen tence you to lo years at hard labor in the State penitentiary." Under a heavy guard of deputies WilliamB slouched back tc the pris oners' room, apparently eased in mind .about, his sentence. At half-past 5 o'clock Wednesday morning when Captain Geadlck, the jailer, went to pay Williams a morn ing call he found the cage door and the corridor door open. The birl had flown. Captain Gradick had taken every precaution that he could think of, warned and taught by ex perience. Here the yeggman had goi away, undr hiB very eyes, as mysterious as nightfall. How could the man have escaped With apparently not a tool to help him? Before doing anything else Cap tain Gradick ran down from the west wing of the third floor, where Will iams cell was located, td_ the jad yard, to look for traces of an escape over the high jail wall. He found no evidence that the man had scaled the wall, and so made a thorougn search of the lower floor of the jaii. No Williams could be sighted. Then the captain returned to the empty cell of the yeggman to look for clothes. Williams had been locked up in a steel cell within a locked steel cage which opens into a corridor on the third floor having heavily barred win dows and shut off! from the staircase by a sheet iron door always kept locked. Williams had been placed in a cell directly on the corridor that he might be better watched from without. To reach the stair case, where trace of him was losr, he had to pick a heavy Yale lock. This allowed him to raise the lever that unlocked the cells in his cage. Then he stepped out into the ce'l corridor within the steel cage. A heavy Yale lock secured the cage door. Williams sawed the three eight inch ring of this lock, getting at It by thrusting his arm through the bars. After he had opened the cage door, he passed .'nto the cor Sldor and was confronted by the heavy Iron door that shut of? the cells from the staircases. This door bears a heavy mortised lock that is opened with a huge braes key. How he got through this was a mystery, as well as was his location. Comforting himself with the de duction that Williams, although a jailbird, could not fly, Captain Grad ick then proceeded to search in the only place where the prisoner could possibly be, namely: the jalt loft. Over the stairway corridor is a trap door which gives entrance into the jail loft above. It is come 15 feet above the floor. There was no lad der or rope in sight, but Captain Gradick had it figured out that Will lams must be hiding up in this dark and huge loft. Calling to him, a ta'l negro trusty named "Mink," Captai.i Gradick secured a stepladder and or dered Mink to mount it and climb into the loft where, by striking a match he raignt see if Williams were hidden. Caliing out that he would shcot Williams on sight if he made .resistance, Captain Gradick drew his revolver and sent Mink irp the lad der and Into the loft to take the last chance of nosing Oakland Sammy out if he were about the jail. It was a tense moment-- for the jailer when Mink disappeared into the loft, and the match was struck. A light flared up. and then Mink, big eyed and shaking, stuck his heal through the trap door and said: "He is dar, cap'in." Seeing the jag was up, Williams Seeing the jig was up. Williams came from the recesses of the loft, and said he was caught. He raa'j no resistance and slowly backed down out of the onening. Ho had *"> hang by his hands to toucn th^ stonladder with his feet. Williams looked glum and ba.'fled. but was game, and stated to the captain th;u he had failed to escape because ho did not have time. After Captain Gradick got Will iams again in custody, the prisoner 6?. STATES FOR BRYAN CONSERVATIVE ESTIMATE OF f VICE-CHAIRMAN HUDSPETH. \ : Tammany Gives Fifteen Thousand i Dollars to the Cause?Kohlsaat Called on For Proof. At New York on Tuesday Vice chairman Hudspeth, of the Demo cratic National Committee, made 'public a list of States In which he !said Mr. Bryan would receive the (electoral vote. They are as follows: The solid South 166, Nebraska 8, Indiana 15, Ohio, 23, West Virginia 7, Nevada 3, New York 39. Total 261. Necessary to a choice 242. The vice-chairman put Wisconsin in the doubtful column and said thai New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Illinois were still debat able, with New Jersey and Connecti cut favorable to the Democratic par ty. Tammany Hall will contribute $10,000 to the Democratic National Committee, according to an announc ment made by Charles F. Murphy, the Tammany leader. In addition, the local organization will pay all the expenses of the big mass meet ing in Madison bquare Garden on October i4, at which Mr. Bryan is to speak. This will probably amount to $5,000 more. According to a telegram received by Vice-Chairman Hudspeth from Chairman Mack, in Cmcago, Mr. Bry an will speak only one day in New lersey and one day in Connecticut. Mr. Hudspeth said, referring to a reported statement of H. H. KohJ saat, of Chicago, to the effect that there are three Democratic editors in the UnPed States who are sup porting Mr. Bryan in their paper-, but who do not wish to see him elected, and that one of them Is a member of the Democratic execu tive committee. "I challenge Mr. Kohlsaat to give the names of these editors or to name the member of the executive committee. Mr. Kohlsaat has come under the hypnotic influence of the White. House. It is ratber singular that all these reports about dissat isfied Democrats come out of Wash ington." Rain of Volcanic Ashes. A raftr of"'ashes from volcanoes on Martinique or St. Vincent Island is failing over Guadelopue Island. Mount Soufriere, the largest volca no on St. Vincent, is calm and the ashes must come from some other crater. Six Boys Killed. Six boys were reported killed at Sugar Ridge, when a freight train on the Toledo and Ohio Central Rail road crashed into a heavily -laden excursion train returning from a fair at Bowling Green. was placed in another cell, untamp ered with and closely guarded, until it was time to take him over to the court room. He is now under a heavy guard, and will not be un watched while the Charleston author ities have him In charge. The story of Williams' plan of the escape Is Interesting. It is thought that he had assistance from the outside, or within the jail. Sus picion points to a white man re cently sentenced to the gang for va grancy, a stranger here who has been sick for the past two days and stayed in the jail. Williams used a picklock not yet found to open the lock which held down ihe cell' lever to let him into the cage. To get out of the ceil cage he sawed through the lock ring on the cage door outside with a steel saw made from a corset rib. And to unlock the corridor door that ad mitted him into the main hallway to the trap door he used an Inge niouely contrived wooden key that worked to. perfection. Taking His canvas cell hammock, he cut and tore it into strips and knotttd a stout rope. Wrenching on* a piece of iro'. from his washstand, ho bent it into the shape of the letter S and had a hook attached to the rope, by which he could grip the edge of the trap door above him in tae main hall and pull himself into the loft. A tiny three-sided file was found on him with which he made the saw teeth. He must have worked for hours on his bob, but Captain Gradick, leav ing him at midnight and coming back at 5:30, did not give the yegg man time o perfect -is escape. ?. .< p'an was to make his way to *he roof and find or saw out an opening and then let himself down into the jail yard and scale the wall with his rope and hook. He carried aloim two extra hammocks to lengthen his rope with. The hook and hammocks were found in the jail loft by Assistant Jailer Rice. The steel saw used by William? is only about five inches long, with some three inches of teeth cut Intr one edge on the corset stay or rib. The key used to unlock the corridor door is of hickory, with one end rounded for the stem and pin. Tim ward is made of two pieces of woou closely fitted into a slit cut into the stem and tied with cord. The ward and stem were waxed. It is thought that Williams or a confed erate obtained a wax impression of the door key. which is carried some times by a trusty. The corset rib and file were probably handed to Williams by a confederate. OliANGEKUE RICH AND RACY Hearst Reads Some More Greasy Letters From Archbold TO SOME OF HIS PALS They Were Written to Our Sometime Senator McLanrin, Congressman Sibley and R. H. Edmunds, Editor of the Manufacturers' Record, and Prom McLaurin to Archbold. Shaking in California the other day, W. R. Hearst read more Arch bold-McLaurin-Sibley letters. He also read one to R. H. Edmunds, editor of the Manufacturers' RecorJ. Here are the letters: "26 Broadway, Feb. 5, 1901. "My Dear Senator: I have your most kind favor of yesterday and ap preciate it greatly. I have also a telegram from Mr. Grasty today which I have answered, and which answer I hope he will make known to you. Believe me that I appre ciate the expresions of your letter more highly than I can well state, and I hope when the time comes, if it ever does, for an opportunity to reciprocate, you won't be found' wanting. . Again thanking you and with very kind regards, I am "Very sincerely yours, 'John D. Archbold. "Hon. J. L. McLaurin, Senate Cham ber, Washington, D. C. "26 Broadway, Feb. 13, 1901. "Mr. R. H. Edmunds, Baltimore, Md. "Dear Mr. Edmunds: I have your several very interesting favors, I re turn Senator McLaurin's letter witn the clippings. The whole affair at Washington has been most interest ing. Have been sorry indeed to hear of the senator's illness. Mr. Gris comb undertook to have a talk with him Monday through a mutual friend Your own work in all this matter has been most admirable. "Very truly yours, "Jno. D. Archbold." ? - . "26 Broadway, Feb. 15, 1901. "Dear Mr. Sibley: I beg to inclose you herewith certificate of deposit'to your favor for $5,000, sent you at the request of Mr. Griscom', the pur pose of which you no doubt under stand. Permht me to express my high appreciation in response to our request regarding the consideration subsidy matter with Mr. Griscom. "Very truly yours, "John D. Archbold. "Hon. J. C. Sibiey, Washington." "26 Broadway, Feb. 18, 1901. "My Dear Senator: Please accept thanks for your note of the 16th. I am, of course, much interested In the statement. Have no doubt Mr. Sibley saw you on Saturday, as I requested him to do. "Very truly yours, "John D. Archbold." "Hon. J. L. McLaurin, Washington. D. C."\ "Bennettsvllle. S. C, Sept. 3, 1904. ? (Confidential). "Dear Mr. Archbold: In the sam? mail by which your letter came wav one that I wish to quote a sentence from apronose of vour remarks about Mr. R. The writer of that letter was employed In a confidential way bv Senator Hanna In matters of im portance. He is a shrewd, but a verv Intelligent man, whose public exnerience and acouaintance Is wide. I knew him well in Washlnert.^n anil when he aaw my article In The Sun he wrote me a long letter, indulgin? in some unexpected criticism of tie "resident, to which I replied, com batiks his position. "He said in part, viz.: "Reading on Sunday Lawsnn's 'Frenzied Fi nance' recalled to mind a remark ?hat I heard him (Roosevelt) make that he booed some dav to be ab'e to take a fall out of that' Standard Oil ganer. and If he succeeds him self, mark mv word, he will try to make good his statement, as he be lieves it will anneal to the mass'-p and keep him in the centre of the staee.' "I thourcht it would he a friendjv act to copy this and give it to you in strict confidence. Frem mv po sition. I c^n net say whether it is worth the ink or not. It will Fh"n\ anyway, that I am not unmindful of your various kind actions toward mi*. "With k'ndest regards. " Y^urs sincerelv, "John Lowndes McLaurin. "To Mr. Joh'n D. Archbold." "Here we have a statement of Pena^r McLanrin from the Standard Oil Cenuianv that, thev will not b ? found wanting, the wor^s found wanM"? peculiarly emnhnslzed bv nuotaHon marks. Here we have " statement that Mr. Prtecn miinH*r FtHtement that Mr. Grlpcnm nnder MoT.pnrin on Monday through a mu tual friend. "TTr>rr> we have next tho |pAv|t*W?? certificate ef rtonocit so"t to Mr. Sih lev. the mutual friend, 'at th?? request of Mr. (;rlc?"o'>^., and. fln?llv. wp have the confidence expressed bv tlK Pfndard Oil Companv to Senator McLaurin that no doubt Mr. Slblev saw the senator on Saturday, as Mr Archbnld renuested him to do so. Mr. Archbold assuredly was not found wanting. But the question tO. S. C..FBIDAY. OCTOl POST CARD VOTE. OP NEW YORK WORLD SHOW LARGE DEMOCRATIC GAINfJ. Similar Change in All the States Would Sweep Bryan Into the White House on & Democratic Tidal Wave. The New York World last Sun day morning pulAjshed a forecast of the presidential election, that should carry comfort to every Dem ocrat who reads and carefully weighs its details. The World does not pre dict Bryan's election, but the result of its postal card poll is an encour aging sign?the most encouraging prospect the Democrats have had since 1892, when Grover Clevelani was elected. The fairness and impartiality of ante-election polls of the New Yorit World are never questioned, and they are just as complete as It is possible to make them. And this particular noil shows a plurality in New Yoik State of only 10,000 vote:: for Tat?; toe Republican nominee. Fifteen thousand votes plurality for Taft, as against 175,000 votes plurality for Roosevelt four years ago.! -The canvas was made by sending out thirty-five thousand postal cards [to voters in the five boroughs of Greater New fork. They were askeu to indicate their preference for pres ident, and to state the name of the I candidate for whom they voted four years ago. The return cards brought replies from 8,913 voters, who voted as follows in 1904: Roosevelt.5,433 Parker.2,413 Debs. 205 New votes . 862 Including the new vote the dis tribution of the Indicated vote is as follows: For Taft, 4,969, as follows: From Roosevelt.4,024 From Parker. 520 From Debs. 10 New votes. 4151 Total.7..4,969 For Bryan, 3,112, as follows: From Roosevelu ...1,032 From Parker .. ..'.1,692 From Debs..,. 30 New votes..... 35T Total .. .. ....... ......3.112 For Debs, 337, as follows:. Frop RooBevelt. 130 From -Parker. 39 From Debs. 134 New votes. 34 Total. 337 For HiBgen, 495 votes, as follows: From Roosevelt . . .,. 242 From Parker. 162 From Debs . 31 New votes. 60 I Total . 493 n taken as representative ofif.lngt.hr Taklng these returns, Tne World's election experts, men who have been estimating election results with re markable accuracy for many years, make the following deductions: Estimates of the presidential vote in Greater New York in 1908, based on the vote of 1904?an estimated Increase of 50,000 in 1908, or a to tal vote of 690,000, under applica tion of the changes as between the respective parties on a percentage basis, calculated from actual decla rations of 8,913 voters, as per figures; given above. 8,651 declarations received are herein taken as representative of the 640,000 vote of 1904. 862 declarations received are here in taken as representative of the 50,000 increase in 1908. 8,918 declarations received are here in taken as represntatlve of 690, 000 estimatod vote of i908. Roosevelt's vote in Greater New York in 1904 _289,00') Net loss of Taft?10.92 per cent of total vote of 640, 000. 69,888 Gain of 48.15 per cent of es timated increase of 50,000 24,075 Taft's indicated vote of 1908, calculated on basis of dec larations and changes ...243,1.87 Parker's vote In Greater New York In 1904 .327,000 Total gain of Bryan?3.30 per cent of total vote of 640,000 . 27,520 Gain of Bryan?40.95 per cent of estimated increase of 50,000 . 20,475 Bryan's indicated vote of 1 908. calculated on basis of declarations and changes.374,995 Debs' vote in Greater New (Continued on Page 8.) is, Who was found guilty? Assur edly Mr. SiUley saw Senator Mc Laurin, but tne question is. Did he merely see him or did he raise him? "If the phraseology of this partic ular game is too technical for the ladies in the audience let us put the question in this form: Button, but ton, who got the $5.000? "Now, my friends, I have read you these letters, not merely to interest, and entertain you. but to arouse you to the seriousness of the danger that threatens our republic. Be patriotic, be non-partizan, be vigilent, with the eternal vigilance which is the price of liberty, and do not allow those forces of corruption to destroy our republic which destroyed the repub lic of Rome." JER 16, 1908. A GRAVE CHARGE The President Accused of Using an Offfice to Buy LABOR LEADER KEEFE Whose Change to Taft From Bryan Accounted for by the Democratic - Press Agent, who Says Keefe was Promised Immigration Commis sioner's Office to Desert Gompers. The National Democratic Commit tee, through John G. Gordon, assis tant and acting chief of the press bureau at headquarters in New York, made public the following statement Tuesday night. "It was stated at the National Democratic Committee headquarters Tuesday night that President Roose velt by promise of office has succeed ed in having one of the big men of the American Federation of Labor de sert President Gompers in his ad vocacy of the election of Mr. Bryan for the Presidency. "The labor leader In question Daniel J. Keefe, of Detroit, president of the International Association of Longshoremen, and one of the vic3 presidents of the Federation, of La bor. "The Democratic committee al leges that Keefe and the President were closeted for several hours m Washington on Saturday, October 3. and the offer of being named com misioner general of immigration, made vacant by the deatu of Com missioner Sargent, was made in con sideration of Keefe's repudiating Mr. Gompers and the executive council of the Federation. . "Keefe, on Saturday last, issued a statement In which he said: 'Am going to vote for Wm .H. Taft. "It is pointed out that on Sep tember 28 last, the executive council of the American Federation of Labor Issued a circular calling on all or ganizations of labor to work for the defeat of Mr. Taft and Republican Congressmen seeking re-election and Mr. keefe authorized bis signature to be attached to it. "The scource of the Democratic committee's information was not di vulged, but the inZormation was ot fered that if Mr. Keefe or President Roosevelt deny the charges, another big labor leader, now in New York, will come forward with facts to prove that the offer was made, and that Mr. Keefe accepted it and has com menced to make good his part of the deal." THEY MARRIED AGAIN. After Being Divorced Sixteen Years Old Couple Reunited. After sixteen years of divorced separation, during which each had remarried and had each been bereft through death, an aged German couple, who were married in their fatherland forty years ? ago, pro cured In New York a marriage license in order to at once re-enter, for their declining years, the ties they had legally set aside so long ago. Con rad Knubert's second wife died not long ago. Having heard that his for mer wife's husbaf l had also died in Germany, he wrote the partner of his young years, asking her to come to New York and marry him again. She cabled her reply?that she was coming and on the next steamer. She reached New York on Tuesday. COLONEL TUCKER ARRESTED. Army Officer Charged With Having Deserted His Wife. Col. William M. Tucker, of the Un?ted States army, was arrested at Decatur, 111., on Tuesday charged with deserting his wife, a daugh ter of the late Gen. John A. Logan. The arrest was made by Sergt. O'Brien, of the Chicago police depart ment. Col. Tucker, who was ill and could not be taken off the train, agreed to return without requisition papers. He went on to St. Louis io be taken back to Chicago later in th day. ? 1 ? Col. Tucker was accompanied by a woman for whom he is alleged t.) have deserted his wife. A woman nurse, who was taking care of him and two men servants, completed the party. BURNED IX His HOUSE. Goes Into Burning Building to Get His Valuables. W. S. Laugher was cremated in his home near "St. Edith's Acad emy, live miles west of Mauassas. Va., Tuesday morning, when his house, with its entire contents, was destroyed by fire originating prob ably from a detective Hew. All the other occupants of the building escaped. Laugher had re-entered the burn ing structure to save some money and valuable papers in an upper room against the pleading of his wife and children. Langher's Mills, th-; home of the Langhers, was one of the oldest landmarks of the county, j KEEP DENIES REPORT. Claims He Was Not Offered Job as Reported. At Detroit when Keefe was shown the above address on Tuesday night ae said: "I was not closeted with President Roosevelt at all. I did i)e him on October 3, but it was only a four or five-minutes' audience, at which sev eral others were present. The in cluded P. H. Morrissey, hi.ad of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, and I think one of the others was Gen. Fowell Clayton. There *ero others that I did not know. I am of the opinion that every word that was said to me at that time was overheard. "The President did not offer me the position of commissioner general of immigration directly or indirectly then or at any other time. "The executive council of the American Federation of Labor did not to my knowledge send out any circular, as i3 referred to in the dispatch from New York, conse quently I could not have endorsed it. "On August 15, more than six weeks before I saw the President, 1 made practically the same statement which I made today In regard to William H. Taft's candidacy. My statements appeared in the Detroit Free Press of August 16. I was asked then by a representative of the Free Press If I had signed or seen a letter sent out by President Gompers, of the American Federa tion of Labor, denouncing the Re publican platform and urging labor to support Bryan and the Democratic ticket. I replied: " 'I do not believe Mr. Gomners has issued any such letter, and if he has it does not meet my endorse ment. If such a letter has been is sued I have not seen It. I will neith er support nor vote j for Mr. Bryan. I am going to vote for Mr. Taft, who is an honorary member of one of our branches, the Association of Steam Shovel and Dredge Men.' " SAYS CHARGES ARE TRUE. Healey Heard High Official Say Keefe WU1 Get Job. The national Democratic commit tee has issued a statement quoting Timothy Healey, president of Sta tionary Firemen, as authority for the .allegation that Daniel J. Keefs had been promised by the president appointment as' commissioner gen eral of immigration in return for that labor leader's support of Taft. The national committee quotes Mr. Healey in part as follows: "I was in Washington Wednesday of last week on a matter dealing with our organization which brought me In contact with an official of high standing in the government ser vice . He said to me: 'Dan Keefe has been selected for commissioner general of immigration.' " 'Is that so,' I said. " 'Yes, the Job Is his,' he replied. I asked 'him how he knew and he told me that his informant was a member of the president's cabinet and knew what he was talking about. "This infr.mation was not given to me In a confidential manner, but I will not give my Informant's name, for It Is plain to see what woulu hap pen to him if his name came out. "There Is not any doubt In mv mind bu tthat the statement that the president offered Keefe the position and that Keefe agreed to accept is true. Perhaps the effer was not made at the conference on October 2 last but I believe it has been made." WORK OF A FIEND. Young Lady Outraged by a Negro Near Concord, N. C. Miss Pearl Tucker, sixteen years old, was criminally assaulted by a negro in the woods near Concord, twenty miles north of Charlotte, N. C., Tuesday afternoon. The girl was picking cotton in a field and the negro led her to the bushes at the point of a pistol. After accomplish ing his purpose he threatened to kill her If she told on him, and tell ing her his name was Henry Fag gart, ffed Into the woods. A posse of 500 citizens quickly formed and captured a suspect an hour after the crime was committed. Police Chief Boger succeeded in getting the negro in an automobile, and follow ed by a frenzied mob, which has grown to two thousand, is endeavor ing to get his prisoner to a place of safety. ARRESTED ON SERIOUS CHARGE. Merchant Accused of Trying to Burn His Store. A dispatch to The News and Cour ier says the store room in Deunetts ville occupied by Z. P. Wright was found to be on fire Monday nlglit shortly after ten o'clock. After th.; flames were extinguished and an ex amination made it is said that a lot of plunder, boxes and bags, were found in the loft, thoroughly satu rated with oil. These are now in the sheriff's office. The policemen ar rested Mr. Wright on a charge of disorderly conduct, and the mayor took out a warrant for his arrest Tuesday morning before Magistrate inclnnis charging Mr. Wright with having set fire to and burning the store. The accused is In jail and It Is said that he has not demand ed an investigation. Mr. Wright i? of a large and influential family. $1.50 PER ANNUM. FELL IN THE SEA Another American Air Ship Meek With Disaster; HAD EXCITING TIME The Pansangers, Suddenly Finding Themselves Over Deep Water, Don Life Preservers, Descend to Wafer and are Finally Rescued by life Savers. A dispatch from "Berlin, Germany, says the second of the three Ameri can balloons that started in the race for the international trophy on Sun day from Schmargendorf has met disaster in the North sea. The "Saint Louis," manned by N. H. Ar nold, of North Adams, Mass., and Harry J. Hewitt, was carried over land to treacherous air currents and later in the- haze the aeronauts lost their bearings until suddenly they saw the guard lights of an unknown, coast. This meant that they must de scend or risk the drnger of being driven far out of the track of ves sels. They chose the former course' and for an hou trhey were buffered by the waves, olmost giving up in despair. Eventually they were rescued by a life boat, and the first intimation that an accident had occurred to the "Saint Louis" was conveyed in a wireless message from Arnold saying: "Lost everything in the North Sea. last night." Following so closely on the dra matic experience of A. Holland For bes and Augustus Post, the naviga .tors of the "Conquerer," which burst at an altitude of four thousand feet soon after the start of the race, both, men having a thrilling escape rom death, the disaster to +be "Saint Louis" was the subject of excited interest in Berlin throughout the day and twnirg. The prets comrounica? .vi with Mr. Arnold at Wilhelmshaven, to which place he had been transport-' ed by one of the torpedo boats, which were sent out to render as sistance to any of the balloonists who might drift out over the water. Mr. Arnold told a graphic story of the mishap. He said: "All day Monday with the except * tion r.f the eaiJj pfternoon we were unable to see the earth and we low ered the balloon repeated) to com municate with iV peo?*e to ascer tain our whereabouts. Apparently we could not make them understand* but t::Js probab'e w;-s dus. to our poor German. Finally we decided to risk proceeding, still having twen ty sacks '*f balls s;. 'Moving In a northwes:jrly direc -iOi :a !?v .vening . j p.;<>s?-d a c'.y, the lights of which . vislbl? fire miles to the west and we learned later that it was Bremerhaven. Soon afterwards we noticed light houses, and buoys, which convinced us that we were moving about big water, but we had no idea where we wore. "In order to avoid drifting out of the line of ship- traffice we conclud ed to go down to the water but be efor doing so we put on life preserv ers. This was a perolious task, ior it was dark and there was great danger of being swamped In the bas ket. "After pitching about in the wa ter for almost an hour and giving * up all hopes of rescue, Hewitt, who had climbed into the riglng, dis covered a flash light and soon after ward was a life boat approaching us. The boat, however, could not reach us, as we were being dragged through the waves at the rate of about fifteen or twenty miles an ' hour. The boatman shouted to us to jump overboard, which we did. "I tried to save the St Louis Club's ballon by ripping it up, but the rope was jerked out of my hands. About ten minutes later I was picked up by the boat, which in the mean time had saved my companion. Hewitt. Wc were landed here, too tired to proceed to Berlin, whither we will go. , Two of the competitors In the en durartce raqes have not been re ported, and It is hoped that these escaped the changeable lower cur rents which affected the other com petitors and succeeded at higher al titudes In reaching Russia. A report received here from Wag erloog Island, in the North Sea, says that a balloon passed over there, but that there was no further tidings of it. The flotilla of torpedo boat de stroyers Is searching the North Sea, where a thick fog prevails. MAKES POOR SHOWING. About Fifty at Hearst Party Gathcr ing at Columbia. At Columbia on Tuesday night, a meeting was held in the interest of i the Hearst party. There were about I fifty persons present, many of them active Democrats, Including a bank er, several lawyers, newspaper men, business men and laboring men. An address was made by ex-Congress man Howard, of Alabama. State Secretary S. S. Price, of Columbia, presided, and M. F. Tighe, of Wash ington, connected with the Hearst papers, waa present.