Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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SEA TRAGEDY Captain and His Wife and Eleven Sea men Lose Their Lives. - SCHOONER IS WRECKED Sailer Picked Up in the Wreckage of the Governor Ames and Car* ried f> Charleston by the Steam ship Sliawmut, Gives Graphic Sto ry of a Catastrophe. The five-masted schooner Gover nor Ames, bound from Brunswick On., to New York, with a large car 9P of railroad crosstles, grounded and went to pieces off Wimble Shoals, twenty-five miles north of Gape Hatteras, Monday afternoon at about 6 o'clock. The captain, the orew, consisting of twelve men, and .tie wife of the captain, were al! killed or drowned with one single exception. This, says The News and Courier, ia the story toid by the sole sur Tivor, a Nova Scotian, by the name mi Josiah Spearing, a seaman on the vessel. He was picked up from a mass of floating ties by the steam ship Shawmut, while on her way worn Philadelphia to Charleston, ?here 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 Shawmut was about two miles from the scene, hut immediately hastened to where the wreckage lay. The sea was too sough to lower a boat, but a ladder was thrown over the side of the ves sel and' Spearing climbed aboard. Spearing was suffering from the ?old, the shock and particularly from jpevere bruises inflicted by the float ing wreckage, which beat upon him ?a account of the heavy sea dash ins it to and fro. His legs and arms ?ear blue and black marks, and he Is unable to walk. His mind, how ever, is clear and he is able to give a full account of the calamity, which he did to a reporter "of The News and Courier, and from that account we make up this report: ? -Spearing hailed the Shawmut by waving an .oil skin coat, which he managed to save before the schooner went down. ' He says that in the loreaoon Monday the wind assumed large proportions; it was foggy, and drizzling, and he says the man at the wheel was near-sighted anl could aot 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 m the morning the schooner struck rocks and broke aft The sea came ?in on the quarter nV?k and tue tail ars lashed the captain's wife to the ranker rigging. 1 hen the men wei.. down to get life preservers. When it Was triei to use them they fell to pieces before any one could get tfcein on. Rope yards were then iashel around the preservers by each man who had one. While the men were trying to make the preserves seaworthy the xessel broke aft, and the captain's wKe w^s rushed to the forward deck anl lashed to the mast. She was ?almost frozen, suffering from the ?old win: and from the cold sea <cat was filling the boat. The men ?ushei down into the cabin for blankets fcr her, and they had hari 3y gotten cn deck again when the stern broke in two and the cabin was filled with water. It was abjdt 2 o'clock then, and the wind increasing, the vessel broke ?p completely. The woman ??.?s lash ad to the mizzen rigging, and then, as the rigging began to break, she was taken away and lashed to the hoops of the mainmast, on the fore asstle. The sea was so violent that Ihe mast broke, and, falling upon the woman, crushed her to death, ?rearing said as the woman fell he heard a man give a death scream, a* the same mast had fallen upon mm an 1 killed him. Spearing said th3t as soon as he and the mate saw that the captain's wife was dead they knew they could ?"r. no more, so they made an effort mo save their own lives by runniug to the jib as It was the safest place. When the vessel be^an breaking aft she swung aroun 1 so violently that they couldn't stay on her any longer. Three big seas washed over fte wreckage and Spearing managed to hoi 1 on. The fourth sea was so strong, how ?ver. that he fell overboard from the wreckage. He grabbed to a hand rope at the flying jib and was for tunate enough to land on the deck, which was floating. He had scarce ly landed when two seas struck him knocking Mm down before he could Mise himself. He was terribly daz ad ?n1 about half conscious when he stood up, but he made a start for the aft deck and he could hear men ?creaming with fear and agony as they were being poun led senppless ?y falMn" t'mbers. Another sea washed over him and he Tempted' to got to t-c men in aiFtress. It was good dark then; the Ftumn of the JUger mast broke ?ff and with It came twenty feet of the deck. Three men were hanging an and all had broken irms and legs. It was at this time that Snearin^ ?limbed ;;p the only mast above wa ter and found on the top a poor eea TIMES A W?JBK. AND TWENTY-FIVE INJURED IN THE SOUTHERN WRECK. Names and Addresses of the Passeng I. ? I ers Who Were Killed or Wound j ed by the Accident. Vice President and General Man ager Ackert, of the Southern Rail way, Wednesday gave out the fol lowing statement in regard to the accident near GreenBboro, N. C, ear ly Wednesday morning: "Our passenger train, No. 11, which is operated locally between Richmond, Va., and Atlanta, Ga? and carries sleepers from Richmonu to Charlotte and from Norfolk to Charlotte, was derailed about 6.50 o'clock this morning, about eleven miles 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 ana two sleep ers turned over. The engine, man 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. El Bagby, Richmond, Va. Richard Eames, New York city. Isaac Dammails, porter on Rich 'rnond sleeper. One unidentified, clean shaven white man, about 24 years of age. Total reported dead, eleven. Reported injured: John W. Phi ips, Petersburg, Vn David P. McBrayer, Anderson, S. C. Alva L. Harris, Rel ;sville, N. C Will Kemmins, Davidson College, N. C. Sutral Watson, Baskerville, Va. Arthur Watson, Baskerville, Va. Robert Russell, 14 East 41st street, New York. Mrs. H. T. Ceok, Norfolk, Va. F. Smith, Spencer, N. cT H. L. Stribbling. Atlanta, Ga. Richard Dcbie, Norfolk. Va. W. T. Deberry, Portsmouth, Va. Mrs. Robert E-moni, Jr., New Orleans, I a. Philip Nelson, Greensboro, N. C The Rev. D. B. Hill (colored), Rei'sville, N. C. Thomas W. Eldrid?e, baggage master, Richmond, Va. Burton Marye, road master, xtich mond, Va. Thomas V. Chalkley, Richmond, Va. George B. Wagoner, Danville, Va. .W. t*. Carroll, ticket agent, Nor folk. Va. H. L. Wood, Pullman superinten dent, Norfolk, Va. W. T. Carter, traveling auditor, Danville, Va. John Anderson, colored porter, Norfolk, Va. Total reported injured twenty four. The track wa3 cleared and al' trains moving at 6:30 p. m. Wednes day. Tragedy in Georgia. At Cuthbert, Ga., John W. Harris, 50 yeaTS old, and brother of Mayor Harris, of that city, was shot and instantly killed in the lobby of the Randolph hotel by J. F. Lord, Jr., 18 years old, son of the proprietor Harris was pj lyting cards in the lobby when young Lord, it is said, ordered him out of the house, and (In the difficulty following Harris was shot. Lord is under arrest. man with all his fingers chopped off. When finally a big sea dashed the men from the perches and took the mast with It. Spearing remained In the wat?r fully fifteen minutes be fore 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 morning. Spearing says the schooner left 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 Bos ton The crew consisted of the captal-n. two mates, an engineer and a steward and six seamen and the captain's wife. Spearing said that his home is Cambridge, Hants county. Novla Scotia. He is 33 years of age and unmarried. Spearing was floating on the wreckage two or three miles from the Shawmut when he was first sighted, which was about 24 miles n~rth. northeast of Diamond Shoals lightship. The catastrophe occurred ?t Wimble Shoals, about 25 miles nr-t'i Ca^e Hitteras. Spearing siH that the vessel went to pieces about five miles from empt 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 shore could Just be seen owing to the heavy fog. OBANGEBUK? WRECK OF TRAIN Costs Eleven Lives and Causes Injury to Many People. ACCIDENT ON SOUTHERN A Broken Rail Thrown Fvie Coaches From a Bridge Near Greensboro, N. C.?Two High Southern Rail j way Officials Are Included in the List of Those Killed. Local passen ser train No. 11, on the Southern railway, known as the Richmond and Atlanta train, due in Greensboro at 6:40 a. m., was wrecke 1 Wednesday at 6:32 at Reedy Fork trestle, ten miles north of Greensboro, and at 6 o'clock Wednes day evening eleven deai bodies had been removed from the wreckage. Fourteen are reported dead and twenty-five injured are being cared for at St. Leo's hospital. ! 0.?ing to the character of the [ wreck much time was required to remove the dead and injured froni I the ebris and, it was 8:30 before this work was well underway. The j injure, were carried to Greensboro as rapidly as they could be extri cated from the wreck and placoa in St. Leo's hospital. The Uerailment of the train wa3 ' cause 1 by a broken rail, about two hunjred feet from the trestle that spans the small stream. The train was composed of two baggage, ex press and mail cars, three day coaches anl two Pullmans. The en g.ne and baggage, mail anl express cars passed over in safety, while the 'ay coaches and Pullman wer-2 t 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 t.ack, the right hand rail being broken, about eighteen inch es from 3, joint, the r'il was broken Into fragments for several feet, and t.rn entirely from the crosstles. The I'truck wheels ran on the ties until :iear the trestle, when the outsi'? whee's went over, allowing .the :>r ke be ms ani axles to fall on j "he gu ird rail of the bridge. As i the 1 ,ct coach was about on the tre.i tie, the five coaches topplei ove. ; broke loose from the mail an I ev press car and tumbled to the mil 1 n water below. The Norfolk Pullman fell in the rf-te? wh.le the Richmond sloepe: just in front, landed cn!y partially in the water. The most of the in ?ure' an ! i'.iilcd in the sleepers we k in the Richmon \ sleeper, which was totally demolished. The Norfo:! letper wrs not so badly torn up, but fell on its el'e In the swo'le? stream, submerging many of the mongers in the water. The con lue tor in th's coach, Capt. Johnson, was very slightly injure i and none of tht pas?en:ers in his car were killed. The Richmond Pullman Is a mas? of wreckage and scatters 1 over the wet and muddy bank of the stream, part of it being buried In the mu:l. At 11. o'clock parts of two bodi.s were visible from the edge of this mass of wreckage and it Is not now known how many more are under it. Railroad men, who were work Ing hard to rescue the unfortunate victims and to recover the bodied of th' e'ead, are practically certaiii that a removal of the debris would reveal more deli bodies The iw > day ccacbe3 in front of the Pull mans were also complete wrecks, be ing smcshed Into kindling wood. Of the dead their appearance at the undertakers "bowed tha... 3on?e were scalded to death, o^3. ! were badly mutilated, while one was cut 1 nhalf at the waist, his dismember e l parts being found at the opposire end of the coach. At 1 o'clock, when the d?a.l were carried Into the city, the morgue was so crowded th** the tralu pav ed on further where the ambulances and hacks were gatherel to convsjf the dead to an improvised morgue which had been ordered. It took a cordon of policemen to keep the eager crowds from .iU ek ing all approaches. For a sp.-i:u of four hours the streets were at one time or another the scene of a pro cession of ambulances carrying ihu wounded to the hospital or the dead to the morgue. The Southern u :d a corps of of ficials, physicians and laborers on the seen quickly after the news was re celved. Improvised litters wore quickly put Into service, as the in jured were released from their per ilous positions In the mass of wreck age. Pullman mattresses and blankets were used to protect the the injured, and the dead were wrapped and handled as tenderly as the exigen cies of the occasion would permit. Stron? and willing hands lifted the improvised litters with their bur dens of suffering humanity and bore them to the hospital trains, which were r.npr-'ted between the place of the wreck and Summit avenue, near est the St. Leo's hospital. Strong men wore blanched faces, but carried Bteady hands and work ed quietly, but with a will to do everything In their power. Even under the stress of the terrible ex citement there was much tender solicitude shown the suffering. 8. C. SATURDAY. DE ZEUYA BAS RESIGNED I TYRANICAL NICARAGUAN RULER YIELDS TO THE INEVITABLE. With the Whole Country Seething With Revolution Against Him, This Was His Only Way Out. A dispatch from Managua says Jose Santas Zelaya has resigned from the Presidency of Nicaragua. He placed his resignation in the hands of Congress Thursday morn ing. Apparently there was no oth er course for him;J to take. The people were at last aroused. The guns of the revolutionists threaten ed, the warahips of the United States were in Nicaraguan ports. Managua has been seething for days. The spirit of revolt has spread even to the gates of the palace. Zelaya surrendered himself with an armed guard. Unchecked the pop ulace have marched through the streets, crying for tne end of the old, proclaiming the new regime. Who will take up the reins no one knows nor cares. It is sufficient that Zelaya as dictator will be known no more. There Is no doubt that Congress will act quickly on his resignation, for the people have de mandei it. Dr. Jose Madriz, Judge of the Central American Court of Justice at Cartago, who has been close to Zelaya, and is now his choice for a president, has gone to Mana gua. Madriz has his following, strong and influential, even among the revolutionists, but Gen. Estrada, under whose command the great body of fighting insurgents now face Vasquez's troops at Rama, will have none of him. Estrada's word will bear weight in the choice of a Presi dent. Zelaya has known, too, that Madriz is not acceptable to the Unit ed States, and he has sought to learn who would be looked upon with fa vor by that government as his sue cessor. Accompanying bds resignation. Zelaya sent the following message to congress: "The painful circumstances in which the country is plunged call foi acts of abnegation and patriotism on the part cf.gool citizens, who are the witnesses of the oppression of the Republic by the heavy hand o: fate, 'ihe country'is staggering un er a shameless revolution, whicn threatens the nation's sovcre'gno an a foreign nation unjustly inter venes in our affairs, publicly provid ing the rebels with arms, which has only resulted in their being defeated everywhere through the heroism of our troopB. "To avoid further bloodshed, and for the reason that the revolution ists ?have declared that they woul put down their arms when I sur render the executive power, I here by place In the hands of the national assembly the abandonment of the remain.'er of my term of office, which Is to be filled by a substitute on their choosing, with the hope that this will result in good to Nicaragua, tue reestablishment of peace, and partic ularly the suspension of the hostili ty of the United States to which I o not wish to give a pretext for intervention." A commission of five deputies was appointed to draft a bill looking to the acceptance of Zelaya's resigna tion, which is now consi 'ered a mere formality. News of the president's action spread through the city, ani soon great crowds moved through the streets, shouting for the United States, Estrada and the revolution. Held in control for years by the strong hand of Zelaya, the people have been quick to break through restraint when it was certain that the dictator could not breast the tide that has been rising around him. During the later days Zelaya has resortnd to all the known tricks and contrivances to hold the people of Managua with him. Reports of a government victory at Rama have been freely circulat ed, and rumors that a massacre of revolutionists had occurred were al j lowed to spread unchallenged and un denied. It Anally became known that these were without a shred of truth, and they rebounded like a boomerang. First one deputy then another took up the denunciation of Zelaya in the chamber and later in the public places, and soon throughout the city demonstrations were held, in which open revolt was voiced. Wednes day night, however, a pro Zalaya demonstration marked the session of congross, but this had no effect out side the walls of the house. The rising was more marked Thursday than ever, and the President de cided discretion to he the better part of valor and withdrew from office. Shot While Hunting. Mr. Barkin B. Berley, a r'anter ef the Mount Pleasant section of Newberry county, accidentally shot j himself at 9 o'clock Wednesday morning wNi?1 out h:rd hunting. th? load penetrating his left leg Just bp'ow 'he knee, an' producing a hemorrhage from which he die 1 at 3 o'elrck v"Vf?pe-"f?v ?f,ernoini. I Bitten by Bull Dog. Seven persons were bitten by a rabid white bull dog which went on a rampage In the lower part of New York Wednesday night. The dog was Anally killed by a policeman. CEMBEK l? I90i*.. CAN THIS BE SO? Major Hemphili, Editor of the News and Courier, is Said to be AN ADVISOR OF MR. TAFT The Editor's Abuse of Mr. Bryan Before His Last Nomination, and His Ridicule of Bryan by the Hen and Gander Incident Mode the Editor Solid With Mr. Taft. Zack McGee, Washington corre spondent of 'ihe State, sends out a surprising statement in his last let ter to his paper. Here is what Mc Gee says: "In these modern and radiant days of Big Bill Taft, what has become of that ancient ana honorable in stitution formerly designated 'Re publican Referee,' beatifically trans morgrified, aB you may recall, unjer the be-accurate dispensation of Hon. George Bruce Cortelyou into 'Ad viser' ?But, regardless of nomencla ture, where is he at? In brief, Who's it in South Carolina when it comes to pie? "The man who secured the nomi nation of Louis C. Kuker to be post master at Florence and S. Coke King to be postmaster at Darlington as Mayor James Calvin Hemphili, edi tor 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 and erstwhile "referee" for South Carolina recommended other men for these offices. Captain Caper's recommendations have been wont to go in South 1 Carolina postmaster ships. "General Francis H. Hitchcock, Political Charge d.'Affalrs 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 nis durndest,' in the lan guage of the classic poet, to Induce the president to name another man for Florence. But there was one more potent in the counciles 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 1 know there isn't any such job,' he says. 'I have retired to my private law practice and am devoting my time to it, Intending not to accept any further political office. Of course, until the next national con vention, I am still the national committeeman, and having advise! about South Carolina offices so long,' and still desirous of seeing good men In office as well as to Be? the party prosper in South Carolina, why wheneve' I am asked to ad vise, I a'vise. When I am not asked, I have nothing to say.' In passing it is an evidence of Mi. pa per's sincerity that he has had th:: refusal o*f at least two good feder al appointments since he left that of General Revenue commission**" "Now upon the election of Mr. Taft a different policy with respect to appointments in the South was determined upon. Mr. Taft had been down to Greensboro, N C, several years before he was an ac tive candidate for the pre? .le.iiy. 1 here he shocked his fellow ltc?ub licans, who for Beveral years had been engaged in one continuous and conspicuous exhibition dogfight 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 enter ed upon a wholesale policy of ap pointing Democrats to office had it not been for the more astute poll tical head of his postmaster general and chief political advlper. There is a difference only of judgment between Mr. Taft and Mr. Hitch cock. The object of each is to break the solid South. Mr. Taft thinks he can do It by coddling a few Demo crats with Republican leanings, and while Mr. Hitchcock does not whol ly disagree with the Idea be wants to be quite sure of the leanings Mr. Taft seems willing to take great er chances on this score. The regu lar aforetime 'referees' have not been formally abolished or super seeded so much as they have been Jest sort o' deTunctlonized, as it were, perhaps temporary and ex perimentally In order that the beam ing and eprsuaslve personality of the big hearted Bill Taft might beam J direct. "This personality has been beam ing upon the Charleston editor ever since that famous Gander and Hen inci'ent, when The News and C">ur ler con 'acted a raffle for the Bryan campaign fund. This tickled the 1 Republican can M 'ate very much an I his attention was riveted upon tre hitter attacks unon Mr. Bryan which The News and Ciurier had made be fore the Denver convention anl th' P"arrtelv vei'e' pari Lilly of Its editor for the Republican candidate ''"-hie: the campaign. While Mr. Taft knew Major Hemphili before tint, having tertn entertained in Charleston In that most hospitable and charming manner for which TW DRUG STORE WRECKED TS 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 Pryo: street, Tuesday evening at 10.30 o'clock, Arthur Kagle, the young Eo?a dispenser, now lies at the Gra dy hospital at the point of death from burns received; Dr. Fuller :p badly burned about the face, hands and body and the pharmacy is a to tal wreck. At 'he time of the explosion Dr Fuller and Kagel were opening a new supply of fireworks that had come in during the day and were utterly lenorant of any danger; hav ing been particularly careful to rx tinguish 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. When the $90 worth of firework*, including Roman candles, skyrockets, firecrackers, and dynamite caps, ex ploded young Kagel was blown ten feet against the top of the store and came down In the very midst of the burning missiles. Dr. Kul.er had gone to the ca?h register in an adjoining room to ring up tb*. en'.e of a cigar when he was jarred by the Ignition of the fireworks. Though he was many feet away he w>v> blown ten feet through space against the soda fount and badly burned by ihe flying explosives before he could escape. After his flight to the ceiling and back, young Kagel was so bady bli vi ed that It took him ten minutes io ? ight his way out of the o-i.timg prescription room. Finally finding the door he made a dash for the street and ran up and do-vn lhe sidewalk like a mad man, with his clothing ablaze. He was so ba-lly frightened by the flames and jurns he had received that it wai with difficulty that W. S. Matthews chas ed ? him down and held him until his burning clothes .could be remov ed. The pharmacy looks a6 if a cyclone had struck it with all its force. The front doors were torn from their hinges, all window panes shattered, show cases demolished, soda foun tain ruined and the building badly damaged by firo. The prescription room Is a total wreck, where the fire works were being opened. There Is nothing to it at all. The many booties of powder and liquids were sprinkled all over the floor and every bottle broken iuto bits. Charleston Is famous, in which en tertainment the editor of The News and Courier was naturally conspic uous, owing not so much to his po sitlon as to his own pleasing and cordial personality. But this Gan ger and Hen incident seemed to have been an especial bond of union. 1 wice since he was elected presi dent, Mr. Taft nas visited Charles ton, and Major Hemphill has vislt e the President in Washington, their friendship being at each meet ing intensified. "The Gander and Hen incident, you understand, was a joke. Mr. Taft likc-B a joke and he likes a man who gets off a good one. But thr president Is not all joke. That campaign 'ist 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 as New York showed such signs of Re publican disintegration that he got all vexifled, as it were. It has al ways been an idea with him ever since he entered politics, which was when he became candidate for pres ident, you understand, that he was the man of Destiny to break up the Solid South. And he wanted to go into the South during that cam* paign to convert the stiffnecked peo ple, and would have done so but 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 close ly. He had certain lieutenants, pulse feelers, to report to him what men in the South coulo 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, but it Is postively known that he had tile eye on them, and considered them as not so hostile as 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 hopp of assistance in breaking up the Sell 1 South or not can be but a mat ter of surmise. It is certain that he consults the Major about appoint ments, and that the Major, whether r-onsulted or not, sometimes gives his 'advice.' This he did a few days ngn in the c?ndi 'acy of his cousin, J. J. Hemphill for the office of com missioner cf the District cf Colum bh. 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. Hemp hill to the office, further consWera O CENTS PER COP* ADMITS HE LIED Capt. Loose Brands His Own Statement About Dr. Cook a Lie. WAS OUT FOR THE MONEY Maker of a Sworn Statement That He Had Prepared Cook's Obser vations for Him Has Confwicd That the Story Was Prepared Without Regard to Truth. Capt. B. S. Osborn. of New Yom, secretary of the Arctic Cl'io. h;s written Capt. Joseph E. Berater and others that Capt. August W. u-joso's story of his dealings with Dr. Cook, as published in a New York news paper, was concocted for sale, with out regard to the truth. "In the presence of witne-isca." said Capt. Osborn, "I heard Loose 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 his affidavits, was a part of any plot io 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 some thing else. Dunkle was the promot er, Loose the workman. "Also Dunkle .got most of the money. That's what Loose says, and now he is casting around to see where he stands. He's got a con science, and it smarts. "I wrote these facts in private letters to Capt. Bernler and others, and their premature publication id a mistake, and may spol. what would have been complete documentary proof of my assertion, sworn to be fore a notary. "Loose had an appointment to sign a confession, which has al ready been drawn up. He did not appear, and now he has just twenty four 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 basei." Capt. Osborn was not at llbertr to name the person who had obtain ed and drafted the confession. "A ship owner," he designated him, "a former employer of Loose and a man who has personal influ ence with him." "How did this man prevail cz Loose to confess," was asked. "He told Loose straight out," said the captain, "that Loose was playing checkers with his own nose." Capt. Osborn does not deny that Dr. Cook and Loose had business 'ealings, and that money passed between them. But he said: "I know enough shipmates of the doctor s who went into the Antarc tic with him to be sure the doctor needed nobody to fabricate observa tions for him. No doubt he eel problems for Loose, by which to check his own calculations." Neither Loose or Dunkle could he found. "Lie From Beginning to End.'1 An Ottawa, Ont., dispatch says, "Capt. Louse has confessed that his story published in a New Yo?-i: newspaper is a line from beginning to end. We hope to have his con fession sworn to in a few days." This, in substance, is the state ment made to a letter received by Capt. Vernier, commander of the Canadian exploration steamer Are tic. The letter, Capt. Bernier states, is from Capt. B. S. Osborn, of Nevr York, secretary of the Arctic Cluh of which the explorer is a member. It was Capt. Bernier who received the first letter from Dr. Cook aft^r his dash to the pole, announcing the sunee?s of the journey. Extra Term of Court. A dispatch from Klngatffte says Clerk or Court Brltton received Wednesday from Cuvrrnor Ansel an order for the calling of an extra term of the Court of General Ses sions to commence on January 10, H'10. The special term Is for the purpose of trying John Woods (or Hose), the would-be rapist. This is the earliest day the court can lawfully be held. Fatal Shooting Scrape. A fatal shooting scrape occurred at Wrestville Tuesday night In which Doc Belk was shot ami killed by John Peach. The parties are white. The killing Is understood to be about a woman. tion being of course given to Mr. I bemphlll's fitness. "Major Hemphlll's recommenda tions are not always favorable acted on, this being notably the case ia a rejjnt recommendation for the postmaster's position at Walhalla. He recommended Miss Fant, who it developed was at the time residing I in Anderson, engaged there as ste nographer. She had, however, been a resident of Walhalla. However, she and her people were Democrats, while Anson C. Merrick, the husband of the deceased postmaster, was a 'good Republican.' This was OBe i time the Postmaster General had his way, and Merrick was appoint ed."