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I. ffi Hfl ? ? - [ - ? ? ' ESTABLISHED IN li ? i\i,\*y ?"H . -- -? ? . ? SCimES PERISH - Two Hundred Lives Lost in ?w ful Sea Disaster. _tri t ? ? Ha }\ ' English Steamer Burned Off the Coast of Malta?Fire Apparatus TVas Useless-i-Paisengers Trapped and Were Forced to" Jump Into the Sea and Drown. Valetta, ?sland of Malta; Nov. 28. ?A terrible disaster, Ih which more than a hundred persons^ lost their lives, occurred at the entrance to this port Wednesday morning. The British steamer Sardinia, of1 the Ellerman Line, hailing from Liver pool and bound for Alexandria, with a crew of 44 Englishmen,. 11 first and 6 second cabin English passen gers and nearly" 200 Arab pilgrims aboard, caught fire and within a few minutes was a roaring furnace, the flames bursting upward to a" height of'200 feet from frequpnt explosior-s in -the hold. So "rapidly did the fire spread that the frantic efforts of the crew tD operate the fire apparatus proved useless, for it seemed but a moment before- the upper works and masts crashed down upon the deck while the ship's boats were crushed by the falling debris or set fire and quickly burned. Safety lay in the sea, for no one could save himself except by jifmp ing overboard and taking chances of being picked up. Assistance was hurried to the burning vessel from all the war ships in the harbor and from the shore, but the work of res cue was greatly impeded by the strong tide that was running. Even the naval launches were unable to go alongside. Among the Arabs there was a panic that could not be controlled. Many of them were too frightened to jump and they were burned to death. Others, casting themselves into the waves, were drowned. The crew behaved with admirable courage, serving out life preservers to the last and working the pumps. When the pumps became useless, Capt. Charles Little, commander of the Sardinia, took the helm and directed his ship towards the shore so long as it could be navigated. He perished at his post. First Officer Frank Watson, all three engineers, Seagraves, Hlslup and Neill, thirteen of the ship's company and two first class passeng ers, one of them a boy named Grant, are missing. Fifty or more bodies have been recovered and seventy per sons were rescued. It is Impossible at present to say just how many were drowned or burned to death, but the number will doubtless far ex ceed a hundred. The vessel drifted around three times, and finally was beached broad side on the rocks at the mouth of the harbor. She is still burning and will bo a total loss. The British vice admiral, Sir Asheton, and Curzon-Howe and Ad miral Fisher directed the rescuing boats, which did gallant work in saving those who were yet alive, and bringing the bodies of the dead ashore. Capt. Little's body, t which was terribly mangled, was landed this afternoon. The other bodies were also mutilated and burned. Fifty six of the injured are being cared for in the hospitals. One ?f the rescued passengers gave a graphic account of the disaster. "The Sardinia." he said, "left Valetta at 8:45 this morning. We were just outside the harbor and the crew securing the anchor when the cry of 'fire' was heard. Flames could be seen issuing from a venti lator on the port side. A hose was promptly brought up and a stream poured down the ventilator, but thir did no good. In less than ten min utes flames were streaming out of the other ventilators. The whole vessel admldships was wrapped in flames. The Arab passengers were told to leave the hatch, in which they clung desperately, but they re fused to move. All who remained forward perished, except some of those who leaped into the water. ?"In the meantime naval pinnaces hurried to the scene. They could, not approach closely on account o" the high seas and falling spars. The great majority of the European pa?-J sengers succeeded in reaching shore. The Arabs, among whom were many women and .children, clung together shrieking, and but few of them would jump overboard, al though urged to do so. "The ship's boats were rendered useless by the flames and no attempt was made to ?et them over the side Soon the hatches were blown off with loud explosions, throwing 1 ie Arabs into the air and killing and injuring many of them. After a few minutes had been spent in trying to put out the fire nothing remained but to jump overboard." Unquestionably explosions occurr ed, although the cause of the f e is not known, and it was first believed that the rapid spread of the flares: was due largely to the flowing naph tha. ? HANGED AT SALUOA SLATER OF EMANUEL CARVER PAYS PENALTY On the Gallows for His Crime, j Shot His Victim While He was Picking Cotton. S?luda, Nov. 28.'?A special to The 1 News and Courier says at 12 o'clock ; on Friday Will Herrin paid with his I life the penalty of the law for the murder of' Emanuel Carver in Sep ' tember. The execution was without a hitch. Only a very few minutes were con sumed in preparing the prisoner for the drop. After ascending the scaf fold, Sheriff .Sample asked Herrin if he desired', to say anything. He merely mumbled a word or two to the effect that he had nothing to say. At no time did he seem to realize what was awaiting him, and he met his fate without the least emotion: i He was pronounced dead in ten min utes fater the trap was sprung, and his body, was laid In a cheap coffin, furnished ,by the county, and carried to the poor house for burial:. The Rev. D. H. Crossland went to .Herrin's cell this morning and con ducted a little service. The con i demned man manifested absolutely no Interest in it While an effort was made to shield the execution from the pujlic, scores from positions of vantage witnessed it. Will Herrin was tried before Special Judge C. C. Featherstone at a special term of the Sessions Court in October for the murder of Mr. Emanuel Carver at his home in Sep tember. The testimony at the trial show that Herrin, without any ap parent cause whatever, shot Mr. Car ver in the back while the latter was picking cotton and failing to kill him ran upon him, knocked him down and beat him over the head with his gun and left him dead. Mrs. Carver was a witness to a part of the awful deed, she being In the house when the shot was fired, and running to the door was horrified to see her L.isband down and Herrin standing over him, beating his head into a pulp ? with a gun. , As soon as the news of the crime was made known some of Carver's neighbors went t$ the scene and soon found Herrin a little distance away, and upon advancing on him to take him into custody, was met with a volley of curses and fired up on with a stockless gun, he having broken the weapon while beating Carver. One. of the party was sprinkled with shot, and the crowd in turn fired at Herin and effected his capture. For a while a lynching was imminent, but cooler counsel prevailed and the culprit was turned over to the sheriff and brought to Saluda and lodged in jail. Thpre was a tremendous crowd present to witness Herrin's trial, but the best of order prevailed. The de fendant was the only negro in the Court House during the trial, except the porter, and to all appearances was the least disturbed by what wa3 taking place. The only defence that could pos sibly have been made in Herrin s behalf was insanity, and this ques tion was fairly submitted to the jury, and under the testimony no other verdict than that reached could have been returned. Herrin was, however, a man of a very low order of intelligence. * KILLED A PLANTER. Three Negroes Arrested Charged With the Crime. Greensboro, Ala., Nov. 28.?Sher iff Gewin has captured three negroes, charged with the murder of Former Sheriff R. W. Drake, near Laneville, Ala., Thursday night. One of the negroes confessed and implicated the other two. He says that he held the light while the other two negroes killed Mr. Drake by knocking him in the head with an axe; that they then saturated his clothing and the bed clothing with oil and set fire to them. Steps have been taken to call a special term of court to try the negroes because of the feeling, which is running high. * YOUNG MURDERER. Boy Aged Fourteen Shoots Lad of Ten. Chattanooga, Tenn., Nov. 26.? Clarence Litt'e, ten years of age, was shot and instantly killed by Tom Wiekes, aged 14, Monday afternoon. Young Little chafed the Wiekes boy on returning from a hunt without any game, and said: "I would not be afraid to give you a shot at me." ?By G^-, 111 take it," said Wiekes, and fired a charge of buck shot into the boy's breast. The coroner's jury held Wiekes for first degree murder. Killed by Train. Covington, La., Nov. 26.?While pasing the station at Florenville, La., one car of a Great Northern railroad gravel train jumped the track and j crashed into the depot. Mr?. J.* W. Condor, wife of the treasurer of the Covington Naval Stores Company, who was waiting for a train, was killed outright. Sev earl negroes were badly injured. * OKANGBB?Bt GOES DOWN Sfeamer Finance is Rammed by the Steamer Georglc and SINKS OFF NEW YORK Collision Occurs In Dense Fog In Main Channel?Three of the Eighty-five Passengers on the Fi . nance, One Member of Her Crew and Much Mail Lost. New York, Nov. 28.?In the thick of a fog off Sandy Hook Thursday the stout steel freighter, Georgic, of the White Star Line, rammed and sank the lightly laden Panama steamer, Finance, outward bound with 85 passengers, the Finance go ing down within ten minutes, car rying to their death three of her pas sengers and one of the crew. The rest of the passengers, who included 19 women and 14 children, as well as othdlB of the crew were rescued by the$fcats of the Georglc. The j rrelghfer was' not damaged. Miss Irene'Campbell, of Panama, a passenger who waB lost, . clung frantically to the rail of the sinking vessel and could not be persuaded to release her hold, nor were the men who manned the small boats able to remove her. She was seen cling ing determinedly as the vessel was engulfed. Wm. H. Todd, third as sistant engineer, jumped overboard and was lost. When a roll, call of the passengers of the Finance was called, it was found that Charles II. Schweinler, a policeman of Panama, and Henry Muller, a railroad con ductor of Panama, had disappeared and there is little doubt that they were drowned. The disaster occurred in the main ship channel off Sandy Hook at 8 o'clock this morning, and as both ves sels were groping their way through a fog. ? The Finance had weighed anchor and was picking her way down the Swash Channel, when Captain Mofbray, who was on the bridge, heard the whistle of an ap proaching liner. The Finance was immediately started astern, and was slowly backing when the Georgic, in bound fr?ni Liverpool, loomed. ou? of the fog and. a moment later crash ed into the port side, and just abaft the beam of the Finance., The prow of the freighter penetrated the side of the Finance nearly ten feet, tear ing away an unoccupied state room and leaving a ragged hole, 'through which the .water rushed in. The Panama keeled far over to starboard, while men and women, many of Whom had been awakened from a sound sleep, were thrown from their berths. Hastily, covering themselves with bed clothing, they .rushed in a panic to the main deck, which was fast sinking to the sur face of the water. Many of the pas sengers jumped overboard, not stop ping even to provide themselves with life preservers. That more were not lost was due to the discipline of the crew of the Panama, and the prompt and intelligent work of the sailors from the Georgic. ? Immediately after the accident, the freighter backed off and anchor ed, her commander, Capt. Clark, in the meantime having ordered the life boats lowered. The boats of the Panama were also cut away .is quickly as possible, though with dif ficulty because of the heavy list of the sinking steamer. A score . or more of those who jumped overboard were picked up by the small boats. Meantime the Finance was settling steadily. To add to the confusion a moment after the impact there was an explosion of an ammonia tank in the forward hold of the Finance and the fumes drove the engineers and firemen to the deck. Wm. Todd, the third as sistant engineer, was partially over come by the fumes, he, staggering to the rail, threw himself overboard. He was not seen again. Probablj half of the passengers with the crew, stood by the ship, awaiting rescue, and these were gotten off with re markable expedition. Captain Mowbray and several of the crew remained in a life boat near the sunken ship. Only .the masts, stacks and part of the superstruc ture of the Panama remained above the surface. The shipwrecked passengers and crew were brought to1 this city to night and placed aboard the Panama steamer, Alliance, where the women and children were provided with clothes. The passengers will depail I on the next outgoing bound steamer for Panama. ? Captain Clark, of the Georgic states that he was feeling his way into port slowly, and hearing a whistle on his port blow, tried to veer off and thought he would clear the Panama steamer, which unfor tunately began to go astern, with Jthe result that the two steamers collided. The Finance had over seven hundred bags of mail aboard. Four elephants in the Georgic's hold were undisturbed by the collision. * Commits Suicide. New York, Nov. 2S.?George Schuester, 62 year old, a veteran of the German army, shot himself with the old army pistol that he carried through the campaigns of the Franco-Prussian war. He had been out of work for two months. * 9, S. C 1TJESDAT. DEC! SERVED HIM RIGHT YOUNG NEGRO MAN WROTE IN DECENT LETTER To a Young White Lady and Is Taken From Jail and is ? Operated Upon. A special dispatch from Spartan burg to the Charleston Evening Post says Will Dickson, a ,young ne gro man of Madison, Oconee county was arrested on the charge of writ-i ing an offensive and indecent letter to a young lady, the daughter of a well known banker of Westminister, was made away with by a party of men Friday night. . The negro has been taken from the guard house, where he was con fined at Westminister by unknown parties, who with the negro then Immediately dlsappeareed, and there is much speculation as to what was done with thfe ;flend> Everything about Dae affair was done decently and in order, says the dispatch, but with great secrecy. It was reported at first that the scoundrel had been lyncqed, and then it was reported that after being taken out of the guard house and carried to a place of secrecy a deli cate operation was performed on him, after which he was told to leave the town, which he lost no time in doing. Where he went or what has become of the rascal no one knows, or if they know they won't tell. \ The only thing certain about the affair is that the negro who wrote the letter was caught and that he j was taken out Of the guard house by force and that his whereabouts is unknown except to those who took him out of the guard house. It seems that they first thought of lynching the scoundrel, but finally decided that an operation would be more effective, and that mode of punishment was adopted and carried out. OVER TWELVE MILLION BALES. Commissioner Watson Estimates Cot ton Crop of 1008. The cotton crop of 1908 will amount to 12,551,086 bales, accord ing to the estimate made by Com missioner Watson, of South Carolina, l as chairman of the cotton commit tee of the Southern States Associa tion of Commissioners of Agriculture and Other Agiiciilfcural Workers; Iu announcing the estimate, Mr. Watson says: "Our estimates, which is based On telegraphic reports received from all the States save Georgia, whose com missioner Is absent from the State; dated November 19, and on the gin hers' reports of November 14, is 12, ?551,086 running bales, excluding Unters. This conclusion is reached after due allowance for the weather and other crop conditions for 1908. Were the estimate based entirely on amount of cotton ginned to Novem ber 14, in years when same ginners' results were shown, the 190S crop would be 13,498,879 bales. But con ditions have not been the same in the various years. "Were we to take the average amount of cotton for the past four seasons to be ginned after November 14, we would have to add 3,704,157 bales, to the 9,630,563 bales alreadv ginned, and get a total crop of 13, 334,157 bales. If we add to the amount already ginned In 1908 the amount ginned after November 14 in 1905, to which year 1908 con ditions closely correspond, we will have a total crop for this year of 12,632,925 bales which, it is seen, closely approximates the estimate of 12,552,086 b8les that the Associa tion's committee considers a fair one." ? WAITING FOR DINNER TICKETS. Victims of Republican Prosperity Fall Into a Pit. New York, Nov. 28.?One hundred needy persons waiting patiently in drizzling rain on Wednesday evening in front of a mission house in West Thirty-second street to receive tick ets for a Thanksgiving dinner, crashed through the thin covering over a part of the new Pennsylvania tunnel system and disappeared In the darkness below. Shouts aud cries arose from the pit and a crowd which collected gazed down upon a tangled heap of arms and legs. When they clambered out It was found that only two or three had been injured, and these only slightly. When calm had been restored the hungry ones lined up ?nd received their precious tickets and dispersel, rubbing their bruises. * Both Will Die. Rome, Ga., Nov. 28.?After hunt ing together all day Bert Montaine and John Accomassy, each aboiu fourteen years of age, engaged in a duel, caused, it is said, by the former daring Accomassy to cross the road, and as a result both of the boys may die. * Shoots Up Train. Knoxvllle, Tenn., Nov. 29.?While a passenger on a Southern Railway train near Greenville, John Parker, of Washington county, became vio lently insane. Pulling a pistol he be gan firing promiscuously, a young man named Lowery being wounded in the left leg. ? 3MBER 1, 1908. THE WAY OUT And the (Duly Way Out For the Farmer. SOME PLAIN TRUTHS Cora, Wheat and tock Farmers of the West Regulato Price3 by Liv ing at Home, and Southern Farm ers Gs>n Do the Same Thing if They Will Try to Do It Hon. John M. ? Parker, of New Orleans, discussed the methods of cotton farmers in plain, hard words that evoked much applause during the forenoon of the last day of the Farmers' Union Convention at New Orleans. He spoke as follows: "It is much more pleasant and safe to hand bouquets than it is to throw brick, and, for that reason, most speakers at farmers' gatherings adopt the former course, and give 'the hardy sons of toll' such a sur- j feit of fiatterly as to make a blunt statement of existing conditions most unwelcome. "A number of personal experiences have satisfied me the majority are like children, and prefer a sugar coated pill to quinine. Sometimes It is necessary to give your medicine straight. Due to low prices and the boll weevil, already over a large sec tion and certain to spread further, the time has come for the farmer to take his dose like a man. "My excuse for this preface is hav ing addressed a number of farmers' gatherings and having been hooted and hissed at, too, I'now ask as a personal favor that you hold up any demonstrations until my 3hort talk is finished, as it is decidedly unpleas ant for a speaker to be interrupted with the shout "Throw him out,' and then again, it is apt to interfere with this argument. "There Is no more improvident man on earth than the average cot ton planter. In those good old days, before the war, of which the orator tells us, history says every farmer had his smoke-house packed with bacon, his crib filled with corn, the grist mill hummed regularly, and the farmers waxed fat and prosp erous. "Today not one cotton farmer Jn ten raises meat. Not one in five raises corn enough to last him, and, shameful to say, thousands actually buy the hay necessary to sustain their stock. "Annually now for some years the cotton farmers meet in convention, listen to some good political speech es, arid occasionally a new joke, then vigorously applaud the fervid oratory denouncing all trusts, and finally or ganize the biggest kind of a trust t ? regulate prices, agree to decrease acreage and diversify their crops, to raise what they need at home, arii be Independent of bank, cotton fac tors or merchants. "Their final resolutions are en thusiastically carried at the conven tion hall, and all conveniently for gotten, for by the time they return home, they decide to plant a little bit more cotton, and they keep ou in the same old way. "Do you ever hear the wheat grower, or the corn grower, or the oat grower, or the mule raiser call conventions to 'regulate prices?' Not on your life. He goes ahead, skimps close until he gets out of debt, then asks the value of his pro duct and holds it until he gets it. He don't sit on the fence and cry for either moral or financial sympa thy. "The curse of our cotton planter is debt, and until he gets out of deb' he will never realize his dreams of Independence. "Have you ever thought that In the great chain of the credit system the cotton planter forms one of the important links? How the tenant borrows from the planter, who bor rows from the merchant or factor, who, In turn, borrows from the local bank, which borrows in one of the great financial centers, which, in turn, borrows from the financial cen ters of Europe, and how in return both from the picking of the cotton to the final sending of the bill of exchange to reimburse the European center completes the chain? "Credit is the whole system, with the high prices and excessive charges which must be made to cover the risk involved. "Have you ev/er been through Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, or Iowa, and seen the farmers of those sections? Great, splendid barns filled with hay and corn and oats and silage. The pasture with sleek cattle and sheep and hogs, the tool-house filled with well-kept implements, everything neat and orderly, and some profit on every article raised. They rotate crops in those sections, and keep their property up, and have money in bank. "Why do our planters still adhere to the razor-back hog and scrub cat tle when at a less expense they could raise fine stock, which will improve the farm and go a long ways Cowards lifting the mortage. The loss and abuse of farm implements annually represent a fortune. Hoes, plows, harrows, mrowing machines and wagons often lie, for months ex posed to the elements and when the crops of corn and cotton are gather ed they are shamefully cared for. The leaky barns with damaged corn J VOTED FOR TAFT BUT THEIR WAGES WERE NOT RAISED. According to Promise, and Then Shot Down by Depnty Sheriffs Be cause They Struck About It. P^rth Amboy, N. J., Nov. 27.? Following a pitched battle between 700 strikers and twelve deputy sher iffs Wednesday at the factory 1 the National Firepruoflng Comp.iny at Keasbey, near lure in which six of the strikers were shot down, Governor J. Franklin Fort dispatch ed four companies of the Stite National Guard at Trenton to the scene to make the men behave them selves. A feeling of intense excitement prevails, as the strikers declareethe deputy sheriffs were not justified hi firing upon them. Two of the wound ed men are dying here, and the four others wounded are painfully hurt. The citizens fear for the morrow, when the strikers threaten an attack on the plant of the National Fireprooffing Company. For two days there has been rifl ing at Keasbey, and a number of manufacturing towns along -.he Raritan river. Two weeks ago the men employed by the Raritan River Clay Company went on strike for higher wages. They marched to the plant of the Perth Amboy Fire Brick Company and Induced the men there to go out. Then each succeeding day the strikers constantly increased in number, marched to other towns to induce employees to leave their work. The strikers say that they were given to understand before the election that if Taft was elected then pay would be restored to ?1.50 a day. It now is $1.35. The officials of *h* factories deny that such a pron ise was made. When Chief of Police Burke sant a man to bring lunch to the deputies the latter was met with a shower of stones, compelling hlra to retreat. The man succeeded later in leaving the factory unobserved and secured the food. As he was returning one of the strikers, caught sight of him and immediately there was a general attack. The man was not injured Then began a bombardment - of stones, during which i.jarly every window In the factory was smashed. Chief Burke says that two of his men were struck by. missiles and slightly injured. He restrained' his men from opening fire until the !a*t minute, he declares. Matters had become so Berious that the deputies were compelled to open fire to pro tect themselves, he further says. At least a dozen of the shots were fired point black at the strikers and six men fell. The strikers did not return the fire. The workmen turn ed and fled, leaving the wounded on the ground. There was only a tem porary lull In the rioting. The strikers soon returned to the factory. They kepf. at a distance, but it was evident they were angered by the shooting down of their comrades. * SHOCKING TRAGEDY. Five Persons Burned up in a Hotse in Alabama. Hartsell, Ala., Nov. 28.?The home of Tom Richardson, at Wood land Mills, seventeen miles east of here, was burned to the ground Wednesday night, and Richardsons wife, mother and three children were burned to death. The remains of the children were found in the burn ed barn which adjoined the house. Several theories have been advanced, all of which Is robbery. Richardson is missing, but his body was not found in the ruins. ? and colicky mules are a disgrace. "No other agricultural product is as abused as cotton. It is improperly covered, improperly cared for, and there is not a train out of New Or leans from whose car windows you cannot see picked cotton lying out over-night exposed to weather, bales of cotton lying on the ground or under a tree, or in a puddle of wa ter, with cheap bagging rotting and cotton daily being damaged. Such planters don't deserve the name of cotton farmer. They are merely cot ton producers. "Most business men or professional men will average at least 275 working days a year. On the prop erties under my control last season the greatest time any tenant actually worked in the fields was 146 days, the least time 112 days, and the average 138 days, or less than one half the time put in by the merchant or professional man. It was either too hot or too cold, too wet or too dry, or any old excuse to keep out of the field. "The Northern farmer works twice as hard as we do and under great disadvantages, and to the full appre ciates the old motto: "The Lord helps those who help themselves.' "Quit resolving and resoluting. Get to work. Diversify your crop. Raise good rtock. Get your Con gressman to send you the latest Gov ernment bulletins. Get the best seed. Raise what you can at home. Above all, get out of debt. Stay out of debt, and then hold your products until you get value for them, and the whole world, instead of con demning, will applaud your wis dom." \ $1.50 PBB ANKUM. BURIED ALIVE. No Hope for One Hundred Men Entombed in Mine NEAR PITTSBURG, PA. One Shaft Wrec. ? and Other Not Completed-rCage Blown 300 Feet From Mouth, One Man's Head Bo ing Taken Off?Women Quickly Gather, Their Cries Being Pitiful. Pittsburg, Nov. 28.?A large num ber of miners are imperiled in \ mine of the Pittsburg-Buffalo Coal Company at Marlanna, near here, which caught, fire following an ex plosion at 11:30 this morning. President Jones, of the company says that one hundred men, con stituting almost the entire force, were in the mine, which had jist been examined by the State inspec tors and was found in perfect con dition. A special train carrying a tv cuing party, equipped with all the latest appliances, left Monongahela. at 12:30 for Marianna. There are siid to be many English miners among the imperiled force. A dense cloud of smoak Is coming from the mine's two shafts. Great excitement prevails there. Marianna i.? In Washington coun ty, which was built a few months ago by the company, and is consid ered the mort model mining town in the world. It is believed mai.y men lost their lives. The heavy iron cage which carried the men from the surface to the workings was blown three hundred feet from the mouth of the shaft. Two men on the cage were killed, one of them having his head blown off.' Little hope is entertained for the entombed men, as the fan house was partly demolished and the fans stopped for over an hour. The ex plosion occurred in shaft No. 2, No. 1 not being completed. Some company officials believe It necsssary to dig through eight, hun dred feet of solid coal before they can reach the workings. At 1:30 this afternoon the smoke ceased is suing from the mine. Wives, moth ers and relatives of the miners gath ered about the mine mouth, their cries being pitiful. It is said that there is a largo gas well-in the vicinity, but whether the gas from this was communicat-d to the. mine and became ignited or whether the powder and dynamite for blasting exploded can not be as certained. According to State Mine Inspec tor Louitt, there were between 180 ? and 200 men in the mine. It-* M not likely that any will be recov ered alive. The rescue party suc ceeded in entering the mine th s afternoon. * The last ray of hope for the res cue of any one of the miners was dispelled at 8:30 o'clock tonight when the first rescuing party reach ed the workings and found the dead bodies scattered about the floor o* the mine. Few if any of the bodies are muti lated and the men were undoubtedly' smothered by the deadly vapors which followed the explosion. The bodies have not yet been counted, but it is known that there are at least 125 and the number may b9 larger. All but two of the bodies in the mine, it is said, are thise of foreigners. No effort has yet been made to re move th? bodies from the mine. Instead the rescuers and the mining experts are making a complete ex ploration of all of the workings to see if they are now safe. This work is expected to occupy several hours.* THIEF CUT GLASS And Made Away With a Jar Con taining Money. Dublin, Ga., Nov. 28.?A bold burglary was committed last night, or early this morning in the city. In one of the large plate-glass wind ows of the hardware store of the Gilbert Hardware Company, a round opening about three feet in diam eter was cut and a jar containing $50 or $60 In denominations from a penny to a silver dollar was stolen. The jar was put Into the window by the firm and the customers were allowed to guess the amount of mon ey it contained. The burglars evi dently used a diamond or steel cut ter, and they were experts in their line. Marks are seen in the window on the opposite side of the stoio front showing that an effort must have been made also to take out the plate glass on that side. Officers Rowland and Chavous o* the police force discovered the bur glary a few minutes after 3 o'clock this morning. There is not the slightest clue as to the identity of the burglars. * Tell-Tale Wounded. Salsbury, N. C, Nov. 25.?War ren Whitmire, colored, was arrested here when he appealed to a physic ian for treatment of a gunshot. It is charged that be is a burglar who was shot by Mrs. Maud Feamster In her home In this city last week, when she fired upon someone in the darkness at her bedside. ?