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VOL. XX. MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY. MARCH 21. 1906. NO. 25. WHITE SLAVES. A Horrible Tale That Comes from New York. STARTLING FAC N Are Revealed at the District Attorney's Inquiry. Girls in . Search of Work Are Sent to Dens of Infamy and Then Held as Prisoners. The New York American says as an outcome cf an all day inquisition by Assistant D'strict Attorney Ely, Deputy Assistant Vandiver and Calef Clerk Henneberry into the traffil in white slaves conducted by a band of negroes, the head of which as the notorious Bb Spriggs, several arrests have been made. Berthe Clalahe and Hattie Warren and Cora Chester, the women who art in the Tombs awaiting trial for theli participat~in In the case, were pu: thLr%.ugh most severe examinations ano It is said, disclosed fasts more hideous than have yet been reve aled. Through those - ottien Mr Ely hopes to b:iog to the .. ImLc o.air e men who, it is beiie eu, murdtred two 'white women in onie of Sprij's den two years ago and had their b >dies -buried at the dead of night in a negro cemetery. On their testimcny Mr. E y expects to bring to justice the pouickmen Who for years have levInd tribute on Spriggs, with the iu i knowledge of the tribute on Sprigg, i irn the full knowledge of the traL iv aLich he 1 was engaged. These men, it was said on good authority, were under burveallance, and as soon as the formalities nect4 sary to their arrest have been com pleted they will be placed in custody._ The ramifications of this case are I shown to te more and more extensive as the investigation precaeds. Already they have led the probers into the rooms of the police captains of both the Tenderloin and Charles street pc lice stations. Thence they have J'or ted to a number of politicians. That the men who received the bribe money were tl orcughl) avare of its source was learned fron unwL- 9 ling admissions by the police of the Charles street station. There it was learr ed that within the last few months, since Captain Balpin has been L command of tha pncinct Spriggs has been arrested on mosS serious onarges. To be molested by the pollee was at experience he had rever under gone in all theatwenty long years pre vious. Notwithstandin1g all Captains H al pin's efrts, however, some one high er up mnystertu ly saved Spriggs, anc the witnesses against him were spirn ted away. The last case of that kind was as late as February 10 last. Oai that date Spriggs was arrested on the com plaint of a ninete en-year-old girl, who gave her name as Ma-ry Boiler and her daddress as No. 4i.9 Carlton avenue Brooklyn. She actu.,ed Spriggs of abduction. According to her sworn testimony, she asked a man to direct her In Brooklynl to an address she was seek ing. He seemed very ccurtecus and in- ' vited hea into a rest aurant for re freshments. She awoke an what she ~ subst quently learnecd was one of Spigg's Corr.ella street dives, and. saw a negro stanctng over her. Sne escaped after afew days and fLd to the police. Spriggs when arraigned brought ap. parsently reputable white men to tee tify in his behalf, and, notwithstanrd I ing the gravity of the cff mse, the Magistrate In Jefferson -Market Court 1 held him In the nominal bail of $1,000 for further examination. The date I for that examination was setaor next week, Captain Halpin' detectives, in l preparngn the case t wo days ago, went to the aderess the R lie girl gave In Brookyn. only to tind that she had been Epirited away. In the case against Spriggs thatr immediately preceded rhe one in I which Mary Roller was the accuser, the charge wasan attack on a young girs. Spriggs was then held for fu:ther examination, and was dis charged when arrainged the secnd time because no complainant appear ed. He sardonically rercarked In ecurt that the "action hr d been "settled out cf court." Spriggs was arrested the first tim2 ainder Captain Halpin's regime for keeping an Iiegal resort He escaped with afine of $100. Spriggs is a big factor in politics. He controls the negro vote in "Hell's Kitchen" and on thre lower west Side and for years was the leader of the Tammany Hall C -lored Men's Asso cation, In lower West Thiad stree. It was his itfiflnce, It is said, that defeated O'Neil, the candleate ci wil lam Astor Chanler for Democratic leader of the Fifth Assembly Dis trict. State Senotor Bernard J Mar tins secretary. "Joe" Prendergast to whom Martin transferred the dis trict leadership won. That the political "pull exercise d by Spiggr reached former Police Com missioner M-Adoo's office was dem ntrated by the Eudden transfer o1 Police Captain Alconcle from thf Charles street precinct to the wi'ds o1 Staten Island. Alconcle formerly was a patrolmar attached to the Charles street station. He knew Sprlggf and Sprigg's horri ble trade, was In a position to do s& he would drive the negro out of busi ness. In the whirligig of time Alconcle, as captain, returned to the Charlet street station. B. fore he had scarce ly seated himseif Spriggs was at wori and In a remarkably short sprce o time the captain was transferred. The man who was acting captam in the Charles street station wuen Spriggs was in the he, dey of his glory was Sergeant Farrel. In connection with the hints of murder in the dives kept by Spriggs, it was recalled by residents in COrnel Ia street that about twe've months ago a white woman leaped fr. m the secon&-story window of No. 14 Cor nelia street, then kept by Spriggs. An ambulance was called fron St. Vincent's H spital. The docter at tended the woman, but a negro who rushed out of the house as she fell took charge of her, and sending for a cab, to .k her away, refusing to per mit the physician to take her to the hospital. She was never afterward seen. U,) to the time of Sprigg's removal from No. 14 Cornela street a few weeks ago, neighbors say it was no unusual thing to her.piercing shriek from the house -almost nightly. Spriggs, who is a repulsive looking aegro, is about 5 Z et 7 inches in height and about thirt)-five years old. He always was well supplied witb money, dressed flashily displayed many diamonds ard always went ,rmed. He was feared and throughly letested by all respectable residents )f Greenville Village, who on ace u i Af his ugliness, dubbed him "The Euman Monster." The appalling rerelations of the raffic conducted by Spriggs and his and have stirred every minister and ccial worker in the city. The story told by Edna Coleman is nost dramatic. She Is one of the most rpossessing of the women who have ieen brought to the District Attoi ley 's cffice since the crusade was b. - run against the infamous practices of ;priggs and men of his kind. Since er arrest she has been locked up in he Hcule of Detention as a witness Vc rding to her stcry, she was hei elf caught by one of Sptiggs's agents ,bcus two years ago, arnd the: ce o: rar to the time of her arrest she w s :ept in one or another of the d z n rouses which Spriggs maintains in rarious parts of the city. E ghteen months ago. she said, she ras 1 inig in the West Twenty-seven h street house, which was taken care f by the B annett woman. To that en one day were rought two yo'ng ,ad pretty white girls, who ad.ben red to the place by the usual trag. "For more than a week," said the loleman girl, "they .were kept close risoners in a dark dirty room. Thit v ried c~nstantly,-and their screams a. 1ght made the house hideous. Their aeals were thrust in to them, and hey were informed that they would ave to stay in the room until the) .ccded to be quiet. They were told hey might as well make the 'est of hings, because there was no escape >r them. After atout a week their rief wore itselfout, and one day they were permitted to come down stairs. "Tnis liberty was little better than he close confinement to which thpy ad been su'y.ottd. Nne of us ever rar saw tne ou'side street save rough barred windows. Most of the me the shutters were closed and tie tinds d -awn. A soon as the two girls -ere permitted to move about the ouse with some freedom they began o pt to escape. - We who had. been there for a long while told them how useless that was. d what dangers they would run iV hey tried to get out. B.it they paid attention to us. "One night they bid in the cellar nd when they thought no one was oking tried to escape by forcing a indow. They were caught before e got out and were taken to their oms. Soon after I heard awfu reams, and ran to the rooms to see what was the matter. I saw two big egroes whipping the gis unmerc "The poor things were on their 1 nees, b gzing for mercy, and the ne roes were standing over them, thei; aces disi~orted, s wearing horriloly, and r cing them with all their strength. Ihen I tried to help them I was or lered to my room. They told me that I interfered I wcu d get the same "The next day one of the girls died' 1 ,nd the day following the other died. L negro doctor was called in. so I was old, and signed some sort of a certifi a~te. Then a negro underts ker took he bodies away at midnight." Such is ths story. As black a chap er of police inefficiency, or worse. as was ever written of life in Ne w York, i is but one of the scores that are tiking terror to the hearts of fath rs and mothers all over the c~ty, and iringing forth from every section a Lemand for action that will make a epetition of these outrages forever mpossible. The governors of the Clara de ffrch Home in East Sixt3 third treet have called a sp; cial meeting if their committee for Thursday to Iiecuss the conditions, and plan a ,ampagn of action. The Usual Result. Georgia hot suppers seem to be as tal to the colored attendants as the outh Carolina article. .Bob Th kar, olored, Is in Clarkecount~y jail on the bharge of killing Jim Jackson-another egro. Jackson was cursig-the wife f Thokas when the latte-r took his astol and killed him. - Tb killing ook place at a hot supper at the home Thokas a few miles from - Athens, 3eorgi. Botel kurnea. The large brick hotel atf'White tone Lithia Springs, six mfles from ~gartanburg, was burned eown S6 lay night about eight o'clock, the fire ~tarting in the kitchen. :The proper' ty belongs to Saifel Shief tag o' S.sv nnah. The less is gadated at 3,000 and s partially ingured. Cottcon Burned At Tcccoa, Ga., fire of an unknown rigin destroyed the lar ge cotton plat orm and warehouse of Inman, Akers and Inmnan, the plant of thle Atlanta .iompress company, seven hun dredi ales of cotton and seven loaded reight cars. The loss is placed a $150. 300 fully insured. May B Nt. "This world is full of thieves, and 1 a heartily glad to be going to a place where there is none." So spoke harles Brewster of Coudreport, Pa., just before the shier f "worked him ff' on the gallows on Tuesday for the muer of his stepfather. THE RATE BILL Senator Tillman Makes Report on fhe Measure and STATES BIS VIEWS. Says Amendments Can Be Made to Pre vent Delays In Enforcing Rates Or dered by Interstate Commerce Commission. Also Wants Situation In Virginia The UaitEd States Senate Thursday ontinued conFiaeration of the rail road rate question by listening to the eading of a report on the House bill y Senator Tillman, and to a speech n that measure by Senator Nelson. senator Tillman's report was read at he reqiest of Senator Aldrich, who aid that he was curious to hear 0- a pinion of the South Carolina St ra or. T.le report of Snatcr Tilim n e n odied the first clear and concise wa.e ent of the difft-recces concerning kcurt review features and other prc csed amendm:nts that had made a ananimous report from the committee impossible. Without hesitancy the Senator de :iared it to be his bolief that the bill hould be ameoded, but that amend nent should not ba of a cbarn c er to mpVir or prevent the accomplishment >f the cbj cts of the legislation, which ire set forth best, he says, in the ?resident's message to Congress. Ht omphas-zad the need of regarding the neasure as noa partisan, but pr dict d that the issue created will be para mount in the ncx.; Presidzntial elec ion. Senatcr Tillman prefaced his report >y speaking of the peculiar circum tances ruling the committee's actions n the House bill, which made 't an mbarrassirg task to submit viewt ;at would be con-ourred In by the mmittee as a whole. "Icstead cf being amended in com ittee as is usu.1 ," the report said, 'so as to command as a whole the er lorsement and supp-rt of a maj rity f its members, the bill was brought nto the Sdnacor in a form not entire y satisfac ory to more than two mem ers. "This lick of harmony amorg the pporters (.f the bill-it would be peaking %ith mofe accuracy to say e supportr-rs of the pol:c7 involved a the bill-brings about the anoma us situation in whici a member of he minority party in Cor g ess is put a charge in the S:nate of proposed giJation, which !s generally regard d thrcughout the country as the herished scheme of the President, rth whose general p;licy and princ ls that member is not in accord. At he same time the bill is designed to ~arry into uffact his own long chierish d convictions~ and the thrice-reitera ed demands cf the party to which he elongs." E npba'z'ng the claim that this ~onaiton is without precedent in leg slative history, Senator Tillman says brings Into prominen :e the fact I hat the prop -sed legislati-- n is non ,artisan, and is so rec ;gniz d as a re ult of the unanimrous support given it 4 y tee minority in taie H suse and the 'ew opposing votes-only seven-in hat entire body. There would follow "a cyclone f pass onate resentment,'' said Sen. tor Tillman In presenting *what ould be the resuit of filure. or. ,he part of .Corgress to ma~et the widespread demand for railroad rate egislation. He declared that "woe il be harvest" of any mtember oft .he S mnate or Hcuse, wl3ge work" in ormulating a bill to regala railroadsC cs earnestness or honestypf pur ,oses and who shall seek to &b little he q'aestion or 1ti1l the bill .byubte - uge and deception. The Consttution lves to congress the power togegulate ,he railroads, he.conten ded; an" t.iere re many wrong to right. .The bill as comes from the House S niatr Till nan characterized as lorsely. worded nd -capable of different biterpreta ion. Senator Tillmnan pointed out that it s generally supposed ehhe the pend .ng measure embe dIes? the "well di ~ested views of tbe Ezecutive ano hose of his party whose advice he eonsents to take." - Aft~r enumera ing the essentic I chargeircm the iting laws r: gulating Jter State e merce, he stated 444he most important is found it. tien 15 in whiCh power is soitbObe vested in he InterS-te .bdnmerce commission "after hiYI hearing -upon a cc mplaint nisdgto determine and prescribe wha' w411 in its juidgmentbe the juast and ressona'e and f?fy remunerative rate * * - be hereaf ter oh served in sice~tase as the maximum o be charged," and make an order that the same shall go into effect and remain in fcrce for thiree years, which mderli 11 "gognib-ffect thirty days ttir'notieito the carrier and shall r.alh' in ibrce and be observed by the carrier, unless ihe same shall be ussnded or modified or set aside by the ,comm'ssion, or be suspended or setside by a Court of competent au rorty." Concerni.g this section, Senator Tillman sai( "A round the first provision themost earnest arnd exciting contentf~n has arisen and there Is great difference of pinion as to the scope of this clause and the executive powers of the com mission under it. On the one hand, it is claimed most positively that Con gress cannot delegete its powers to the commission and thus author'ze it to fix a rate, while, on the other hand, it is asserted with r qual earnestness and force that this power is le disput able. Whatever may he the results of this discussion In the Senate, if the bill becomes a law in the final deter. mination of the question at Issue muns' be made by the Supreme Court," There is, he said, even greater solicitude upon the question of judicial review. entor Tmlmman added that at tihe same time the cries of the people are demanding relief for producrs and shippers. He declared that it Is the duty of Congress to hold an even bal ance between these conflicting and contending interests. Senator Tillman inclines to the view and said he had not the slightest doubt that it is possible to properly amend the bill so as to prohibit the Circuit Courts from interfering with the orders of the Iatir State com merce commission by any interlocutory ox der. "The Senate must determine by its vote what shall be its attitude upon the q iestion of Court review and in terlocutcry suspensions. The whole qviest!on at issue as to giving relier to producing interests t-f the country re volves around this feature of the bill. If any decision of the Supreme Court shell declare that Congress is power less to grant speedy relief through a commission, It needs no prophet to tell that an outburst of surprise and indignation will sweep over the coun try." Summing up the situation he said: "It is impossible to deny that this great acc imulation of wealth in the .iands of the few is such a menace to Lberty that the honest patriot stands appalled by the outlook." After commenting at length upon what he de.lared to be the existing system of juggling with rai.road prop erties, "for t.e robbery of the masses," Senator Tillman said: "There is a dangerous provision in this bill which, in my judgment, ught to be striken cut, ana that is In Section 15, where the Inter-State com merce commission Is told "to deter mine and prescribe what will, In its idgment, be the just and reasonable ind fairly remunerative rate,' etc. 'he last words are too elastic and am biguous and can be construed to mean oo much that it would be harmful ind dangerous for Congress to enact into a law. 'Firy remunerative rate' )n what; the actual value or the ficti Lous vilue of the propertiee?'' Senator Tillman declared there can be no j asitce in compelling the people is a whole to pay dividends on water ,d stock, primarily to increase the rortunes of men already too rich. "Whatever else Cingress does, or rails to do," he addad. "the produc rs of the count-: should be relieved Irom such danger of being oompelled 5o made good the values of over-zap itaulzd railroads as Jurks in this in 2cent-looking and plaust ole provision bout 'fairly remunerative rates ' " Senator Tillman recommended that ihe amendments to the bill be adopt d, which would give relief to "the momalous and outragaous condition )f a fi1rs disclosed as existing in West Virginla. Contiruing, he said; "Vested with :he rights of eminent domain to con itruct their lines and granted liberal 'ranchisss and charters, the railroads lesigned to be public carriers for the yenefit of the wnole people, in the ast few years have become rapidly ransformed into the variest band of .obbers-Highwaymen who do not hrust their pistols in the facas of heir victims and demand money o! heir 1. v:s, but who levy tribute in reight rates, which are as high as the rafflc will bear, deny access to mar et, nionopol'z3 with i f ronter one of he prime nesessaries of life, coal, and n every way show their absolute con ~empt for the paople and the people's ight. Senator Tillman concluded with "a word of caution to the friends of 'ch ropof el legislation." He samid: 'Our full exp.ectations may not be ealized at the present session of Con ~ress. The opponents or effective egislation are alert, have had large xpeience and are thboroughly organ zed., The demand of the people fQr elief from the oppressions and wrongs hy now endure may be thwarted -by e great influe: c :of the railroad orporations. This infiuet co has hith ~rto been paramount, and its reprc enatives in the two houses may feel is safe to redress the grievances and o contir u3 the policy of non-interfer Dee. They may Ignore popular clam r; and either pass no bill at all or ~nact one that will prove wholly In adequate. They may palter with us ni a double sense: "Keep the word of promise to the. er.And break it to the hope " "St c i action on their part will in ny judgemient, be very unwise and ill only dim up the water. Taie sue will be made the paramount one n thejnext election, and those wno are ~esponsible for delay or inadequete egislation will find that, when at last he f.;od gsates of popular wrath and ndignition are hoissed there will be ;o~ne fir'e grinding done." A rrested for Murder. At DothaD, Ala., dtpatch say a ~ensation In she Christmias murder ~ase occurred when a detc c~ve who as quietly engaged in the matter, ame to D >than from near Cambell on, Fla., the scene of the crime, and rrested Walter Holland, a son-kn-law af the murdered man, and Mrs. Ho' land, the murdered mau's daughter. The murder of .Tudge Christmas, hs wife and son was onie of the most revolting crimes in the history sf this ection. The victims were killed while sleeping in their home near Dottnwood, and their boies were1 round the next day lying In pools of their own blood. The murder occurr ed about two months ago. ht acuers Lost. A dispatch from Paris says an addi bonr1 disaster has betallen the work ers in the coal mine at Caurrieres. A party said to consist of 17 men, who went into the mine for the pur pose of recovering the bodies of those who perishad on Saturday, lost their lives in the undertaking. They had descended in sp te of the recognized danger of the attempt and in the face of the engineer's warnings against making a further effort Rassian Loses. A dispatch from St. Petersburg Russia, says the Invalid, the organ of de military, is still printing daily lists of the losses sustained during the war, whichi, without Including Port Arthur, now total. 151,000 killed, wound-:d and disappeared. The lists covering the fighting at Mukden are jut beginning to appear. A remark able feature In the percentage of men whose fae i unimnwn. SHIP COES DOWN And Twenty-Seven Lives Are Lost in the Atlantic. FOUNDERED AT SEA. There Were Many kcts of. Heroism and Self Sacrifice. Twenty-Four Mena brs of the Crew Were Picked Up at Sea and Carried to Boston. Sr.fr ring, mental and physical, from numerous acts of heroism in saving life, rarely eq'alled in the record of tragedies cf the sea, attended the less of the Pioenix his steamer British King, which on Sunday, March 11, in a raging Atlantic storm, foundered about 150 miles south of Sable island and cirried to death 27 meinbers of the crew. Thirteen men were rescued from the sinking vessel by the Lev land line steamer Bo- tonian. bound from Manchester to Boston. and 11 by the German tank steamer Mannheim, Rotterdam for New York. Five others who had been drawn down in the vor tex into which the British King was engulfed were picked up by the Bos tonian from a frail bit cf wreckag? which they had grasped after a de& perate stragele for life in the whir pool. The Bostonian arrived at B3os ton Wednesday afternoon and the de tails of the disaster became known. O rot. James O'Hagan of the Brit ih King died on board the Bostonian from the effects of terrible injuries mstained in trying to save his ship. 0 1 of the boats of the Bostonian was crushed to fragments and the volun. eer crew which manned it were thrown Into the high running seas, while engaged in the work of rescue, but all %ere saftly landed on board the steamer. Volunteers f rom the Mannh im. af ter a hero!c battle with the waves, ad taken ff 11 from the British King, but after this neither of the teamers, in cons q-ience of the ir reasing gale, could make an attempt to reach the f undering freighter. Horeoyer, darkness fell and it was an Litter impossibility to do else but wai. tor the moonlight to guide them. In he darkness the British King, whieh was then waterlogged and helpless, plunged to the bottom. For three days her captain and rew, working against uneor querable dds, had tried to prevent, or at least postpone, their ship's destruction. Barrels of oil and wreckage formirg nto a powerful arm, were driven down ipon her sides with crushing force, )pening up the vessel's plates and al owing the water to pour ito her iolds. Tne extent of the leak was not un lerstood until the fallowing day, how ver, and then, although all hands were placed at the pumps, the water rained considerably. The fires had een extinguished and the engines endered useless by the rising water. ['Le only re medy at hand lay in re >airir g the damaged s-c bions, and wile personally superintending his work, Capt. O'Hagan sustained a ractured leg and internal i: j iries. Al hough he was unable to s'and he con inued to direct the efforts of his gew. At the end of the three days when all hands had labored ceaseless. y without rest and with little f >od, he Bostonian and Mannheim were ighted, and to these Capt. O'Hagan lisplayred the signal for assistance. Both the Bstonian and Mannheim tood bi the scene of the wreck untIl donday morning, but no bodies were c 2vered. The- British King sailed from N~ew ork bound for Antwerp with a miF ~ellaneus cargo of 150 head of cattle rne passage was uneven tiul until F, i lay morning, when the ship was struck y astrong northwesterly wind, which ~uddenly developed Into a hurricane. Sme cf the hatches were torn open, reat volumes of water pouring into he ships compartments, disabling he engines. and soon the ship became ~bsolutely helpless, the rudder also aving been swept away. R.alzng he necessity of quick action, Capt. (Hagan himself went into the hold d strove to repair the most damag d sections. It was- while doing this that a bar rel of oil fractured one of his leg-i in wo places. The injury was so severe hat a piece of the bone protruded hrough the flesh. In spite of this he rdered that his leg he bound up and wen this had been done, resumed ommand and directed the eff rts which were being made to plug 'ip the 201e in the ship's side. But all efforts .t repairs were fruitless. All hands were forced to take refuge on the nain deck. The cattle were swept >verboard gradually by the seas and rowned. At 6 o'clock Sunday morning Capt. 'Hagan sighted the Mannheim and shortly afterwards the Bostonian, ~th of which hove to. The British ing signalled that she was waterlog ged and would have to be abandoned. t 8 o'clock she sent another signal which read: "D:> not abandon me." The half hundred or more men of the wrecked steamer were in plain view of those on board the Bostonian and Kantheim, who ould, however, do nothing at that time in the way of res cue on account of that was running. At L.40 p. m. the British King sig naled: "Help us, we are sinking." A slight moderation of the weather per mitted the Mannheim to lower a boat in charge of a volunteer crew which, after a Derilous and most dfflault row to the British King, rescued 11 of the crew. Tnle men of the British King were brave for they pushed one another forward, all apparently will. ing to wait for the last chance of be ing saved. Sailors of the Bostonian vied with each other for the honor of sitting in the life boat and were not deterred from this when the first boat wias ahed tn pieces Rainst the stamer's stern. First Officer Wm Brown and the six seamen with him were left struggling in the water, but they were saved by means of lines thrown from the Leyland boat. The men were all oadly bruised. A great cheer went up from the Bostonian when at 4 o'clock the star board life boat was successfully put *ut in charge of Second OMfer Crom well. The steward and four -sailors went with him and the ercouraging cheers were kept un as the little crew gallantly struggled to reach the sink ing steamer. This boat took off 13 men, including Capt. O'agan, who was tenderly but hastily lowered by his men by means of a 1 ne from the stern. The Bostonian was reached and the rescued seamen placed on board. But Defore the life savers culd climb to the deck a quick forming sea hurled .the futile craft against the side of the steamer, f.jrcing her apart, and then, the water receding, carried the volun teers some hundrE d feet distarce from their ship. Cheering cries reached them to cling to the wreckage while the n gines of the B:>stoolan started and the shiv manoeuverd to a point near the struggling seamen. Again were the lines used with skill, and succe s for all the volunteers were hoisted to the ship, though Offi-r Cromwell was alnost drowned. Capt. Rtrry deemed it imprudent to send another boat to the wreck, as darkness was setting in, and decided to wait until the moon arose before conti ung the work of rescue. About 11 o'clock, when the gale was running with apparent reinforced velocity, the British King was seen. to stagger in the trough of the sea, raise herself, and puoge down. Both the Mennheim and the Bosto nian steamed to the point where the ship had fcundered and it had just been decided tha'all those on board had perished when a feeble cry from the darkness told that some at least had not been drowned. Half an hour later Capt. Parry of the Bostonian Ic cated a small section of a cattle di ck to which five men were clinging. These were Second Offiser Flanigan, Chief Engineer Crawford, Adolphus B.ck. fourth engineer, and two cattlemen. They had been carried down with the steamer but after coming to the sur face, had, after mighty C ff rts, suc aeeded in swimming beyond the whir: pool, and in findirg a teml orary r, f age upon the wreckage. - All night and until 7 30 a. m. on onday both the Mannheim and the i Bstonian stood by searching for bed- I les a; d then both ships resumed their i passage. Yesterday, after terrible sufferirg, Capt. O'Hagan died. Fif'y I iix men, including a stowaway, were )n board the British King, and 27 of hese, it is deemed almost certain per ished with their ship. LOCKBD HIS WIFB UP. and Tnen K:!led a Young Woman and Himel;!f. At New York on Thursday Louis Coszer, a race track man, locked his wife in a bath room today and whil; ihe was a prisoner there shot and.kil - d Stella Reynolds, of New 0:lears mn actress, who was a 'vi.itor at their some, and then killed himns lf. Miss Reynolds, it was said, was for nerly an intimate friend of Notzer. The murder and st'isde was the se iuence of a stormy scene Thursday avning, when Muiss R synolds ~alled tt the Notz zr home, Mrs. INosz r, it was reported, objected to the cail, and, iuring the argument which fcllowed - 2er husband swallo wed a small q'ian .ity of laudanum. Both women, b~ united efrts, forc-. d him t e take an emetic Immediate .v, and the poison did him no harm Elbs Reynolds then remained with - Ers. Nosz--r all nignt. Today, while his wife was in the jathroom, Noszer turned the key, and isregarding her protestations to be et out,' he went to Miss Reynold'b oom. Their voices, the man's threaten ug, and the woman's pleading, were eard by the wife in the bathroom. She sprang to the telephon'e which an from this room to the ti se of the partment house, and told a maid who m~swered her ring to hurry to the partment and release her. The maid entered the apartment io late to save Miss R cynold's life. As she opened the door she heard b~sz tr saying to the woman: "There is no use for you and I to .lye any longer. The best thing I can io is to kill you and kill iryself." Nor z r then shot Miss Reynolds ia he temple and himself in the fore ead, bot-b dying almost instantly. No- z ar was 40 years of age, Miss Eenolds was 25.. Miss Reynolds' stage name was Es elle Young. Committe~d Suicide. A special from Norfojlk, Va., says mn March 14, Liuis Brown, 29 years ld, awaiting trial Friday, for the murder of Flossie R ed, at whom he brew a lighted lamp, which explod~ ~ atally burning the woman, commit i edsmicide in his cell,. in the Norfo-k jail Wednesday morning by cutsing as throat with a. sharp~ pen knife, which he had in some unlknown man er smuggled .intu jail.; Brown was !armerly prominent...n- Portsmouth, Va. He wais with~utb fiends or mon sy-his faily having abandoned him -and he grew despondent as tne day of his trial approached. During the recent j Lll fire there Brown escaped, but surrendered a few hours later. Enginecr Kilueo. Dal Spinks,_ an engineer on the Southern, while leaning out C~f his nab window wfas struck by spon 2-til. I-ct and knocked to the girdund and iilled. The accident happened on Sunday between Latham and Easley,i 13 miles south of Greenvilie. .~e wasI a citizen of Greenvi~e. and wa 60 years old and had -bn- an engi~ er for 42 years. * WiJ'Run Again. Former ,Tudge A. B. Parker in an intervlew at Birmingham, Ala., Wed nesday said: "I am convinced, sc far as I am personally concerned. that Mr, Esosevelt- will ask for the nomination of the Repnblican par ty for a-third term, and," he added1 "has intentied'all along to ask for the: nomnation." CEREAL CONTESTF. SOUTB CAROLINA TO FE REPRE SENTED IN IT. This Etate Made in I ppropriation of Five Hundred rollars for the Prizes. Prof. W. G. Johncon, editor cf The American Agriculturist of New York, was in Oiumbia r~cently on his way back from % Florida trip. Prof. John son is perhaps one of the best known authorities iD the country on farming and stck raising and takes. a great :eal of inter)t in anything relating to either. WLile in Columbia he called on Coa.missioner Watson and secured some informatirn concerning the ap propriation of $500 by the State leg islature to be Expendd as prizes for the farmers who bhall enter tWe na tional erreal growing conte-ts. Tne Stat e says it may be of interest to many South Carolinians to know 4hat the lag -s' crop ever grown on in acre of 1::ud was raised by Capt. Z. T. Drake in Marlboro county. Tne Field was 255 bushels and he was awarded the first prize in the nat!ona' 3ontest. Tne national contest is un ler the direction of the ( f Y-rs of The American Agriculturist an- a to-.,al of 85,000 is given in prizes. The s.ction under the State appropriation p:ovid ing for the contest is as follow : "That the sum of $500 be and 1b hereby appropriated to be expended as State priz .s for the farmers of the State who shall enter the naticnal contest for the growing cf cereals per acre. All rules and regulations gi v rning said contest and the dtstribu dion of the prizes and thle expenditure Af the appropriaticn above -prtvided For shall be under the direction and :ontrol of the commissioner of agri :ulture, and the president and the professor ci agriculture of Clemson nllege, who shall constitute a bard rcr this purpose." Prof. Johnson said in regard to the %;jtest : " The details of the contest will sor, Do finally arranged by C:.mssioner Watsun, Dr. Mell and Prof. Caamblis. Farmers in all parts of the State ;hould make up tbeir minds to enter 5his contest at once and send in their requests to Cammissioner Watson. "I am sanitfied that when the crop s harvested this fall that South Csr lIna will stand woll toward the top f the list if not first in this contest We will wa'ca the results with keen .nterest as I am satisfied that these narvelously productive soils with this wonderful climate will again astonish ibe world when the final records are r aie by the j dges. "Io is in:leed a pleasure and inspi ation for me to note from year to Pear the marvelcus development along Lgricultural lines in this atd other 5outhern States. I know of no part )f the country wnere such opportuni Aes await capital and men of energy n the agricultural and industrial ields. "We are now perfecting and work ng upon another contest whch we iope rto get in shape in a year or two 'or the develop:oent of cotton alone. ['ols contest wili be one of the most moque that we have ever undertaken ~nd large cash prizes will be cffered to ,be planters of the Southern States in he development of one of our greatest taple pr,.ducts. It would not sur >rise me in the least to see a farmer f the Palnmetto State again loom up is a sweepstake prize winner in the ~otton c ntest." Prof Johnson left on the evening rain for Washington, where he wili :onsult with Secretary Wilson of the lepartment of agriculture on many natters affbeting the agricultural in erests of the South. Prof. Johnson tated that albong the most loyal suj orters of the farmers' Interests ia he senate and house were the repre entative~s from the S inthern States 31e is of the opinion that we can rea onably expect greater advances in gricultursl development in the next 0 years tuan we have seen during the >ast 25. The farmers in this county should ake part in this contest. Toe) tand a cnance to win a great prize in naoney. BLiEXIG 6ICXNESS. Chousands of People Bave Died of Strange Malady. Prof. Robert Koch lectured recently n Berlin, Germany, on the "sleeping tckness," which he investigated for everal months in equatorial Africa luring the year 1905. Emperor Wil iam and a distinguished company vas present. The malady, said the professor, had een known on the west coast of Afri sy'since th3 beginning cf the last cen diy; and it-had sfpread to the north haore of the Victoria Nyanza and hreatened German Africa. Probably !00,000 persons had died from the lsease. He had found whole villages m the shores of Victoria Nyar zi tc >e empty, and the population of some troups of Islands had die d to the last toul. The infection was spread from 1u nan to human by the sting of a 11: ibe glossina palpalis, some what larg ,r than an ordinary fiy. The person 1 Lffected suffered ill health for several lays, and then was attacked with 'ever, becamie iacoherent, the glands were swollen, the patient 'ecame en eebled; and cv,.ntually was. seizfd with the sleep mania. Prof. Kocb knew of no remedy for uhis disease, but hoped'the infection dlght te ended by the extermination f the Insect, which proiagated slow iv, by burning the under wthi at its ravorite home. The" iofessor will4 return-to Africa shoQrtly and continue als studies of tropinal diseases. Battle Over Rekigfon. A dispath from Warsaw says fie persons were killed and fifteen wouni led in a tight at Strykt if. government ,f Plotork if, Thousday between Cat 2olics and sectarians, who occupied in l'orce a Catholic Church. Knives, BURNT ALVE. Thirty-five People -Lose Their Lives in a Wreck. TWO TRAINS COLLIDE Several of the Unfortunate Passengers Were Pluioned in the Debris and Were Slowly Rasted to Death- - as the Rescuers Looked on Helplessly. Thirty-five lives were crushed out arly Friday in a hea- -nd collision of two passenger trains near Adcbe, Col., on the Dever a. d Ric Grandejia'lroad, and nearly a score of 'the victims were incinerated, several beiond recogni tiun, by a fire that destroyed the wrecked coaches. - More than a score were Ir-Jared, but all will.probably re :ovEr. The wreck was due to undelivered >rders, heavy mountain grades, - a lindr g snowst orm, a sharp curve and the slippery condition of the rails. 0Oly the lccjmotives, baggage and day coaches were wrecked, -the sleep Ing cars escapit g almost unscathed, as in the Eien disaster on the same road in 1904, when part of-a train ran into a flioded canyon through a wash ad out bridge. Many of the dead were homeseek ers bound for the Northwest. The three crushed locomotives set fre to the splintered coaches and it. was hours before all the'bodies were recov ered. the flsmes being so hot tnat ies :uers c.uld not approach the debrs - until the fuel burned cut. It was a- wild, stcruay night in the mountain canyons when the two heavy trains met. Blinding snow darkened he rocky gorges and speed was not aigh. Suddenly headlights flashed out and it was realized by the ergineers that omething was wrong. .Accordirg, to Fireman J. H. Smith of the west bound train, E agineer Walter Coslett applied the emergency brake, but the slippery rails allowed the momentum of the heavy train to carry it on to the fatal crash. The impact was sevsrely notIciable, but the trains crushed and ground into each other. Tne heiper engine of the westbound train acted as a cust on, minmizing the f:rce and weight of the heavy mountain engines. Tnis helger was crushed together like so mauh paper and the other loci m )tives ian tihrough the mesh of irdn and plowed each other to piccis. Fireman Sanlth was the only one of he engine crews to escape. The bag age car of the westbound train broke n two and three coacaes were squeez d together. The bagg ge car, the mail ar and a coach of the eastbound train >uckled but none of the cars telescop . Hardly had the noise of the wreck ~eased when a sheen of fiame ran arough the shattered cars of both irains. In the forwardcoach of the estbound train every seat was-occu pied by passengers, most of whom were aomeseekers. A number of foreigners were among them and In their terror hey gave up life without making any ~ttempt to reach safety outside the ~urning cars. Tney sank to the flaor i the car and were roasted alive. The ~oler ones in the est, seeing their anger, rushed for the windows and loors and with the aid of the passer? ers in the rear of train crew who were unhurt, managed to reach the pen air. Many were Ir jured by the ough handling they received or by in lg glass. Wen the occupants of the two leeping cars taw that nothing could e done to check the flamnes, they aid id the trainmen In pushing bael the ndamaged cars. Commurnication was ~pened with the Pueblo (ffi.:e of the ailroad from-P,>rtland, a mile from he wasck, and a relief train with hysicians was dispatched to the ac ~ident. The injured were placed in he s'eeping cars and brcught .to uelo with the pr~ssengers of the astbund train, who were unhurt. Lnoter relief train cams from Fior oe to take away the unir jared por 1on cf the eestbound train. Fatal Swoog I a ColIumbia. A special dispatch to The News and Jourier says: Ed Tully, a molder at the 4t bs Machinery Factory, on lower irvais street, was shot in the fore eed in Fred Sheppard's store, across he street from the Gibbes pl: c early I~t ursday night by Jim Only, a tough nd brother in-law of sneppard, who as shooting at J- T- Boatwright. L'ully appears to have been concerned n the affair in no way. telng an inno et bystander. Only had fired several 5imes at Boatwright, who ran into. :he store and took refuge behind the ~ounter. Boatwright was begging for is lhfe at the time Tully was shot. uly died half an hour after reach g the hospital, without regaliAng on: c ousne'ss. Only and Boatwright iave bo-tb been arrested, but Only uad dsposed of his weapon before the olice arrived. The coroner, polles ,nd omers, who have been working n the case are puzzled to discover tne notive 0 ly had for fid~ng uon Boat wright. Tne scene of the killirg is a articlary tough section of the sown ud the leading withesses are Inter sted in keeping silent. The. inquest as held Saturday morning. Only eribly slashed up a fire man r a-ed opper on slight provocation about a ear ago. The Wages of amu. A pathetie tragedy occurred at reorgetown, Ga., one day lrst week. rarrett Vaughn, a young white man as con vietdd in the city court of :urglary and sente aced to serve seven rears in the penitentiary. During wednesday night be covered his dis trace with the manrih cf death-nle :ommtted suicide. Taursd ry morn .ng he was f'und ut~cruascious. It was found that he ha-i taken a fatal lose of morp'ine, which, it is ballev d he ha breen saving for the emer