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VOLUME XLTHLI MNXBER S3. NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER I-S, 1910.TWCAWEK$15AYAR MR. M. A. CARLISLE DECLARED GUILTY THE ATTORNEYS MAKE MOTION FOR NEW TRIAL. Argument to be Heard Next Monday. Conviction on Five of the 162 Counts. Special to The Herald and News. Greenville, Oct. 20.-Milton A. Car lisle, of Newberry, was this morning in the UniLarl States district court, convicted on five counts of violating the National banking laws. The counts upon which Mr. Carlisle was convicted were 152, 153, 154, 159 and 160. These counts cover the Cold Point Granite company's drafts and the Willard transactions. A motion for a new trial was im mediately made by Messrs. Blease and Dominick, attorneys for the defense. This motion will be argued Monday. A local attorney stated this morn ing that the minimum sentence on -each count was five years. THE NEWS OF PROSPERITY. Mr. A. G. Wise and Miss Minnie Hus sung Married-Personal Men. tion. Prosperity, Oct. 20.-Miss Mae Lee Barre, of Chattanooga, Tenn., is the guest of her sister, Mrs. E. W. Werts. Mr. W. E. Monts left Wednesday for Pendleton, S. C., where he has ac cepted the position of superintendent of Pendleton graded school. Mr. John Pat Wise, of University of South Carolina, is spending the week end at home. Mr. 0. C. Shealy, of Saluda, will open school Monday at O'Neall on Route No. 1. Miss Helen Nichols, of Utopia, has entered Prosperity high school. Misses Mae Lee and Kate Barre spent Tuesday in Columbia. The first lyceum attraction will be on November 5. Miss Lillie Chapman, of Utopia, spent Tuesday with Mrs. J. A. Simp son. Miss Minnie Hentz, of Pomaria, is spending the winter with Mrs. B. B. Schumpert and will attend Prosperity high school. Miss Gertrude Simpson, field mis sionary worker of South Carolina sy nod, is in Chapin in the interest of the work. We are glad to note that we now have a photographer in town. Mr. A. G. Wise and Miss Minnie Hussung, of Columbia, were married Wednesday afternoon in Columbia. SERVICES NEXT WEEK. Beginning Sunday a Series of Services Will be Held Aveleigh Presby terian Church. The Rev. T. A. Dwyer, a converted Catholic priest and now a Presbyte rian minister, will begin a series of sermons or meetings in Aveleigh Presbyterian church next Sunday morning. This meeting will be con tinued during the week, the services being held every evening at 8 o'clock and a sermon by Dr. Dwyer. At the morning service Sunday, Dr. Dwyer will give a brief sketch of his life and travels and of the work he has been doing as well as of his con version. Dr. Dwyer has traveled ex tensively and this service will be of great interest. The public is cordial 17 invited to the morning service next Sunday and to the evening sevices during the week. YOR SECRETARY OF STATE FAIR. J. N. Cantey Opposes Incumbent, D. F. Efird, of Lexington. Columbia, October 18.-There is a very spirited campaign on for secre tary of the South Carolina Agricul tural and Mechanical society between the incumbent, D. F. Efird, of Lex ington, and the present assistant sec retary, J. M. Cantey, of Columbia. Mr. Efird was chosen by the execu tive commission in February to suc ceed Secretary "Lex" Love, resigned. The election will take place at a meeting of the society on Wednesday WRECK AND RUIN IN STORM'S WAKE HURRICANE SWEEPS FLORIDA AND PASSES NORTHWARD. Millions of Dollars of Property Loss in West Indian Blow-Peninsular Bears Brunt of Storm. Savannah, Ga., October 18.-At mid night Savanah appears to be well with in the influence of the West Indian hurricane, which has been headed in this direction from over Florida all day. The wind is blowing sixty miles an hour, and the velocity is increasing hourly, indicating the steady advance of the storm. Tybee Inundated. Salt water resorts in the vicinity of Savannah have suffered most. At Ty bee the sea has broken over the wall at the government reservation and the parade ground is under several feet of water. The new Tybee hotel stands in the ocean, and miles of the island car tracks have been washed away. Millions Are Lost. Jacksonville, Fla., Oct. 18.-What undoubtedly will prove to be the most destructive storm in the history of the Southeastern extremity of the United States last night and today swept the entire Florida peninsula, doing dam age estimated at several million dol lars. Forty thousand square miles of territory south of Jacksonville has been without any means of communi cation with the outside world for more than twenty-four ho*s. The last reports from this section, em bracing all that territory south of a line from Tampa to St. Augustine, told of hurricane winds, hourly In creasing in intensity, and rapidly falling barometers. The orange crop and vast trueking industry were re ported as probably ruined. Jacksonville sustained heavy prop erty loss, but it is believed there was no loss of life in the vicinity. Along the eastern coast many lives are be lieved to.have been lost and the prop erty damage must have been great. Blew Ninety Miles. The maximum wind velocity, seven ty miles an hour, was recorded here at 7 o'clock tonight, when the centre of the disturbance appeared to have passed up the Atlantic coast toward Savannah. The wind velocity along the coast was greater than in the city. Mayport, at the mouth of the St. John's river, experienced a wind of eighty to ninety miles an hour and half of the houses were wrecked. The only loss of life reported was that of the drowning of three negroes at Key West, contained in an Asso ciated Press dispatch via Havana. The territory from which no reports have come for 24 hours, however, Is ex pected to show a heavy death toll. Extraordinary precautions were taken by the officials of the East Coast railway, which stretches out into the ocean for miles in the vicin ity of the lower keys and the officials here believe all hands are safe. By reason of the warnings issued by the weather bureau, shipping is believed to have suffered very little. All of the steamers in Florida waters have kept within harbors since yes terday morning, with the exception of a few of the big liners. A number of barges and launches were sunk at points along the east coast, but there were no men aboard when they went down. While the damage will be heavy along the coast, the greatest property loss was in the interior, where the storm came upon the peo ple with little warning, and, in some instances, without notice at all. That the property damage through out the State will total several n-il lions, and that there has been loss of iife :s not doubterl here. Invariably tha last message received here last night from points south of Jacks.on ville reported the hurricane winds in cre.uing in velocity and fdling baro raeters St. Augustine Flooded. St. Augustine, Fla., Oct. 18.-At low tide the water is breaking over the seawall here tonight and high tide will flood many of the streets of the city. The power plan:s are out of commission, and the city is in dark ness. All stores are closed, with water running into the lower flonrs of many of them. Damage to proper ty is estimated to be heavy. The wind is blowing at 50 miles an hour from the east northeast. Key West Suffers. Key West, Fla., Oct. 18.-Via Ha vana, Cuba.-The tropical hurricane, which has been sweeping over the West Indies and Southern waters for the last five days took Key West in its grip yesterday and tore away the roofs of houses, shook a number of buildings from their foundations, blew vessels from their moorings and did other damage, the extent of which can not yet be estimated. Pleasure Resort Destroyed. The South Beach section and the western part of the city suffered the greatest from the storm. The sea poured over the low lying shores and many houses facing the ocean were either wrecked or blown from their fcundations. The pleasure resort, La Brisa, a large wooden building, was hurled from its supports and broke in half. Only three lives are reported lost. Alexander Johnson, colored, his wife and four children, while attempting to leave their home, near South Beach, were caught by a wave. The mother and father each carried two of the children. The father escaped, while the mother and two of the children were drowned. Velocity of One Hundred Miles. Washington, Oct. 18.-The following telegram was received by cable from the weather bureau observer at Key West, Fla., today: "Pressure fell rapidly to 28.46 at 3.45 p. m., then wind shifted to south; no steady rise; anemometer cups blown away 2.30 p. m. The estimated maximum velocity was over 100 miles an hour; wind blew over eighty miles per hour for three hours. Storm last ed fifteen hours. The tides have been extremely high and buildings inundat ed over ten feet; building damaged about 1,000. Station force here and al Sand Key safe. Considerable dam age in city. Awful experience." HURRICANE QUITS LAND AND GOES TO WATER Savannah, Ga., Oct. 19.-Unless the hurricane is playing 'possum, indica tions at 6 o'clock are that the storm has passed to sea. It has been almost dead calm all afternoon, due, accord ing to the weather bureau, to the fact that this immediate vicinity was in the centre of the cyclone, in the hole of the doughnut-shaped storm, as it were. But the period of calm has lasted so long the belief prevails that the storm has either weakened until it is no longer dangerous, or has dis appeared off the coast. The conduct of the'storm has been so erratic, how ever, that the shipping interests are playing safe, and staying in port un til positive information about the storm has been received. A dispatch to the Morning News by mail from Brunswick today narrates the facts of the storm's visit to that port. While no lives were lost, there was great damage along the water front. Two .men, who were out hunt ing marsh hens when the storm broke, had not been accounted for this fore noon, but they are not believed to have perished. Jacksonville, Fla., Oct. 19.-Leaving damages from the East to West coasts, the tropical hurricane passed over the Peninsula into the Atlantic last night and the wind has shifted from the northeast to the southwest -still blowing a gale of between 30 and 45 miles an hour. Wires are down all through the State and are very little better than yesterday. What reports have been received indicate a gale of over sixty miles in every city in the Peninsula and sometimes amounting as high as 80 or 90. Only one fatality has been reported since the message from Key West in the State. An electrician in Deland me instant death when entering a business house to fix a broken wire. More encouraging news comes from the State. Outside of the damage to the crops there has been comparative ly little damage considering the wide area of the storm. Every city heard from throughout the State report the electric plants dead. In Jacksonville th' municipal plant is still out o.f ommision. WALTER WELLMAN I ABANDONS AIRSHIP I Across-Atlantic Flight Ends in Fail ure-Rescued Off North Caro lina Coast New York, Oct. 18.-Man's first it tempt to cross any ocean in an air ship has failed, but Walter Wellman?, five companions and a kitten, who es sayed the voyage, are safe. The air ship-the Giant America-is a batter ed aerial derelict, abandoned at sea, j perhaps still in the air, perhaps be- i neath the waves with her costly equip ment. When deserted she had been in the air probably 72 hours, a new world's record for dirigibles and, driv en by the wind, had travelled doubt less 800 miles. Whether the distance record for dirigibles-870 miles-also will be broken, remains to be comput ed. Picked up by the steamship Trent early this morning off the North Caro lina coast, Wellman and his fellow air navigators are due in New York at noon tomorrow. They left their craft because she was in distress and Dlown so far from the course of the steamers' travel that a continuation of the voyage to the British Isles was hopeless. So, summoning aid by wire less, the difficult and dramatic trans fer to the Trent was accomplished and the America left to its fate. From Airship to Steamer. For an incident without parallel in history-the transfer of passengers from an airship to a steamship meagre were the details obtainable by wireless during the day. Wireless, at all times more or less uncertain, was 'rendered more so by the tropical storm which swept northward, but tonight wireless stations in tWe vi cinity of New York picked up from the Trent a word here and a word there amplifying on the earlier dispatches. It was learned that Wellman had fund it necessary to rid the airship of the burden of most of its gasoline, retaining only enough to reach land in the event the Trent had not come to the rescue. When the steamship heeded the calls of distress and drew near its aerial sister, Wellman shouted his predicament through a megaphone and decided that he would lower his life boat, which swung from the diri gible's belly. As a precaution the Trent lowered her life boats, which stood by until the transfer was effect ed and Wellman and his companions, even down to the frightened squirm ing kitten were safe on board the line, surrounded by the excited passengers. The rescue was accomplished at a time when two continents awaited breathlessly the fate of the dirigible and her crew. Swept Southward. Having been spoken by wireless, presmably in the vicinity of Nan- 1 tucket, at 12.45 p. m. on Sunday, it1 was a surprise then when the news came that the America had encoun- 1i tered the Trent, homeward bound, from Bermuda, in a longtitude and latitude nearly 400 miles southward and 250 miles northwest of Bermuda. Thrilling must have been the exper iences of the America's commander and crew as they were thus swept out of their course. Capt. Down, nf the Trent, fiashed < first news .of the t c.scue in a message to the New York Times, which. wli1 the Cli4cago Re. i-Herald and thei Lonndo , Daily Tengiaph, con'rit-zed 1 $3.t0 for the )urpose of expedblon. I Cart Downi also e vised Sanderson & Soni, New York, for the Royal Mail Steamship Packet Line. Subsequently more details canue. In a dispatch to the Associated Press.4 Engine Mlotor Broke. Further wireless messages reachingi New York tonight says that one of I the motors had broken in the Ameri ca, which had made more serious the predicament created when all the gasoline that could be spared was 1 cast into the sea. The America is, or was, 228 feet long and 52 feet in diameter, with a lifting capacity of 23,650 pounds. The envelope alone weighed two tons.4 There were three gasoline engines aboard, two of from 80 to 90-horse power for the propellers and the smaller for the operation of a donkey engine. Taken as a whole the craft was practically the same in which Wellmnan mad his two starts for the1 North Pole in 1907 and 1909, respec ftjv. Nr-ith'e of attf.mnts were suc-i -:. .ul, both were made from Spitz-1 >ergen and one from a group of is ands in the Arctic ocean, between Pranz Posef Island and Greenland. Difficulty in Transfer. On Board Steamer Trent, October .8.-(By United Wireless to New (ork, October 18.)-The crew of the Lirship America, in abandoing their raft, lowered themselves into the ife boat which swung beneath it. rhey then cast the life boat off and were afloat on the sea. The airship, -elieved of the life boat, shot up into he air and was rapidly blown away. Che transfer of the Wellman party rom the life boat to the Trent was ffected with much difficulty. At 4.30 a. m. today the steamer Drent sigted the a*rship America Lnd wireless communication was im nediately established. Irwin, the perator on the airship, informed 'insburg, the operator on the Trent, hat the airship America's crew vished to abandon the balloon. ess communication was kept up rom this time on between the airship Lnd the steamer. Steamer Followed Balloon. Daylight was rapidly approaching, Lnd the Trent was requested' to fol ow the America, which was then Irifting at the rate of twelve miles tn hour. After a consultation held )n the airship it was decided that the mnly means of rescue was the life )oat. But this was such a hazardous indertaking that much time elapsed yefore the manoeuvering was execut d, as the tail of the airship, consist ng of tanks of gasoline and wooden .locks, threatened to capsze the lifs >at as it dropped into the water. rhis danger was at last overcome and :he operation was carried out with ;uccess. In the operation the trailer struck Wireless Operator Jack Irwin Lnd Louis Loud, the engineer, and lso knocked a small hole in the side )f the life boat. Airship Shot Skyward. The airship, Immediately on being *eleased of its weight of the crew and )oat, shot skyward as the boat shot lownward. A moderate sea was running at the ime, and after some slight difficulty he crew were taken on board, togeth r with the life boat, at 7.30 a. m. All the members of the crew are ell, after a thrilling experience. ireless telegraphy has distinguished tself by showing the great assistance n accomplishing the work of rescue. The Morse lamp signalling also ook a great part in the communica ion between Jack Irwin and the oper tor on the Trent, who gave the sig ials leading to the rescue. The crew vas picked up in latitude 35.43 north, ongtitude 62.18 west, where the kmerica was abandoned. Lost His CoTnrse. Wellman said that the airship had een blown far out of her, course so hat it was inadvisable to proceed. The foregoing is the first story of he thrilling rescue and was Bent by yireless direct from the steamer rent to the Associated Press. Mrs. Wellman Grieved. Atlantic City, N. J., Oct. 18.-"My ;reatest sorrow is over the terrible Iisappointment that it will be to my iusband and the men of the America >ver their failure to reach Europe," vas one of the declarations of Mrs. alter Weliman, wife of the head of he America expedition this after ioon in discussing the rescue of her msband. "We are safe and well, Wellman." This message was received by Mrs. Wellman, who was with her daughters Lnd Mrs. Vaniaman, wife of the chief ~ngineer of the airship. After expressing her sorrow at the ailure of the enterprise, Mrs. Well nan continued: Scientific Experiment. "We must be proud of the men who isked their lives aboard the America, >ut I know that Mr. Wellman has al rays considered the venture as a cientific experiment." Mrs. Wellman, her daughters and Irs. Vaniaman left for New York this ~vening. ALTER WELLMAN TELLS STORY OF HIS FLIGHT. New York, Oct. 19.-Walter Well nan and his five companions were anded here this afternoon by the taamship Trent. which picked them p at sea, after they had abondoned heir dirig-ihle -halloon America and failed in the first attempt ever made to cross the Atlantic through the air. A bruised right hand which Wellman carried in a sling was the only phy sical injury that resulted from their long voyage of approximately 800 miles and a rescue the like of which is unknown in all history. Equilibrator Caused Failure. Standing on the deck of the Trent, Wellman made this statement: "We thought we could get along without the equilbraton Now we find we coild not get along with it. Our plans for the future are indafnith until we find something that will do what we thought the equilibrator would do." The "equilibrator" to which Well man attributes the failure of his voy age, was the series of tanks containi ing gasoline which floated in the wat er attached to the airship by a long pipe. The direct cause for abandoing the America was the exhaustion of the supply of gasoline, which had to be thrown out to save the ship. When the crew abandoned the balloon only enough was left tc last about 24 hours. This is Wellma:'s descrip tion of how he hurt his hand. WeUman's Hand Hurt. "While we were afloat in our lIfe boat trying to reach the Trent, I tried to grasp a rope thrown from the steamer. . In some way the rope got twisted about my hand and before I could get loose It nearly tore off my little finger and badly bruised the rest of the hand." The other members of the America's crew said they felt as well as ever and they looked it. They are: Melvin Vaniman, the engineer. J. Murray Simons, the navigator. J. K. Irwin, the wireless operator. Albert L. Loud and John Aubert, the air sailors. And the Cat Came BacL There was also the gray kitten, which was so pampered by the women passengers aboard the steamer that her sides bulged with fooding. She had made the air voyage as a name less, but on board the liner was promptly christened "Trent." She left the steamer on Mr. Vaniman's shoulder. Mrs. Wellman Sheds Tears. With tears in her eyes Mrs. Well man embraced her husband and kiss ed him on both cheeks. The aged Mrs. Loud stood weeping, with one arm around the neck of her son and other about her son-In-law, while Mrs. Vaniman also in tears of joy, hung on her husband's arm. MAJOR THEODORE DEHON DEAD. Former Charlestonlan Dies in Green yille-Once on The News and Courier Staff. , Greenville, Oct. 18.-After a long illness, Major Theodore DeHon, pass ed away this morning at his resi dende in this city. He was 69 years of age, and was well known through out the State, and especially this sec tion. Major DeHon was born in Charles ton, and before the war farmed near Walterboro. He was a member of Hampton's legIon, serving through three years of the war. After the war he returned to Charleston and was for about twenty-five years a journalist, being connected with the News and Courier of that city. He later moved to this county, where he has since been. His death, while not entirely unexpected, has caused shock and a deep regret among those who knew him. Strongest of the Dixon Plays. Playgoers of this city are looking forward with the liveliest anticipation to Friday, October 28, at the opera house when "The Sins of the Father" will be presented by a notably excel lent company under the direction of Manager George H. Brennan. Al though but recently produced, the fame of Thomas Dixon's newest drama has traveled fast. The verdict of critics and public alike is that this play is by far that master craftsman's strongest work. It deals with the great problem of the intermixture of races. The plot hinges on the sus picion that a beautiful young woman, a guest in an aristocratic home, is tainted with the stain of negro blood. Music adds to a special sale, espe cially the kind of music at Blaus