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VOL.XII MANNING, S. C. WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1908 NO.40 BRYAN'S VIEWS. Nebraskan Censures Action of Republican Convention. INJUNCTION PLANK. Cails it a "Transparent Fraud" and Analyzes it in Detail-Laboring Mlan, he Says. Has Nothing to Hope From the Party Which Has Chosen Taft and Sherman. A dispatch fro Lincoln, Neb., says: Following up his expression of Saturday in criticism of the Republi can nationat piatform in generla. William Jennings Bryan gave out Sunday a statement in which he as sails in particular the anti-injunction plank of the Chicago declaration, characterizing is as a* "transparent fraud." The statement follows: "The anti-injunction plank of the Republican platform as finally adopt ed is a transparent fraud. It is pos sible that the members of the com mittee were buncoed by some trust lawyer-that is the only charitable view that can be taken of it. Those who advocated the plank claimed to be doing it as a concession to the wage earners, and yet if one will read the plank he will see that it is. in fact, an announcement that the Republican party is unalterably op-1 posed to the laboring man's position. The plank reads as follows: " 'The Republican party will up hold at all times the authority and integrity of the courts, State and fed eral, and will ever insist that their power to enforce their processes and to protect life, liberty and property shall be preserved inviolate. We be lieve, however, that the rules of pro cedure in federal courts .with ;re spect to the issuance of a writ of injunction should be more accurately defined by th" statute; that no in junction or temporary restraining order should be issued without no tice, except where irreparable in jury would result from delay. in which case a speedy hearing there after should be granted. "Ii will be seen the plank begins with an unnecessary eulogy of the courts. Nobody is opposed to up-1 holding- at all times the authority and integrity of the courts. Nobody is ohje.'Por 1o the enforcerae't of their processes or of their exercise of their powers to protect life, liber ty and propert 7. The plank assumes that somebody is attacking the courts and that the courts are in danger of losing support or of having theirpow ers weakened. - There is no attack upon the courts and there is no thought anywhere of interfering with any legi'imate function of the court. The Republican convention puts up a man of straw and then proceeds to.- demolish it. This part of the plank was written to give as surance to the people who are op posed to the laboring man's plea. And now let us proceed to that part of the plank wihich was intended as a sop to the lbiboring man. It says: 'e belive, that the rules of proce dure in the federal court with re spect to the issuance of a writ of injunction should be more accurately deined by the~ statute.' (Just what that definition shall be is not stat ed). Str.tute Copied.| "'That no injunction or tempor-I ary restraini 1ig order should be issed withol: t notice except wher'e irreparable injury should result from delay. l-i which case a speedy hearing thereafter should be grant ed' Note the words 'except where irreparable injury would result from delav' and compare this exception with the fede:-ai statute on the sub ject and you will find that court is not empower :d to grant a tempo rary restraininag order except there appears to be danger of irreparable injury from dlelay. It. will be seen that the man who wrote the in junction plank copied the statute al most word fr.r word and made the exception as broad as the statute. If the conventit n had been frank in the statement of its T'osition it would have quoted the present statute and said that it wras in favor of enforc ing the law just as it is. It would have said. 'Whereas at present a court or judge may grant a tempor' ary restraininlg order.' 'if there ap' pears to be danger of irreparable in. jury from de lay.' 'theref'ore. be ii resoled that we are opposed tc .The men who are responlsiole the language of the injunction plaL may have fo',led the convention bW they can not fool the laboring met or the voters~ in general. The in junctionl plank has not even th~ value of a gold plate brick for th~ pla jng in bras5s as well as the inter -o f the btick. The plank as prepared in advan ei of the convention by Mr. Taft friends and given out Tuesday rea' follows: 'We declare for suc mendments to the statutes relativ to rocedure in the federal court with respect to the use of the wr of injunction as will, on the on hand prevent the summary issuec sch orders without proper ~O ideration qnd on the other wili pr s-rve undiminoished the power teutsot enforce their proce tothe en that justice may be dot at all times and to all parties.' at will be noticed that in th lank the declaration in favor amendments comes fis .n h -lrto - in favor of preserving u d imiished the power ofteou oenfoce their processes com ~~Ttad.In the plank as ado 'ed hy the convention tedca ion in favor of th cort coan irst and the discussion ofacn in the law conmes afterward. Resort to Deception. "If the demand of the labori man was unreasonable w hy did the convcmion say so? -hydi reort to deception? The eU THE SCUTH CAROLIM GOVERNOR ANSEL TO ATTEN C1 REMONY OF LAUNCHING. Constructed on the Latest Desigi For War Vessels and Has No Sup rior in the American Navy. A special dispatch from Columbi to The News and Courier says When the next battleship of Unc] Sam's navy is launched it will t christened "South Carolina" by Mi; Fr ederica Ansel, daughter of tb governor of this state. The launcl ing of the ship will take place o the 11th of July at the Cramps' shi yard, Phuladelphia. Covernor Ansel has sent out le1 ters to his staff askin gthem to at company him to the launching, an he stated recently that his daughte would christen the ship. The cerc monies are in charge of the builder of the ship, who have requested Gol Ansel to bring his part yand part elpate in the launching, the ceremor ies of which are simple. After the launching the party wil be entertained at luncheon by fh contractors. when two or ,three shor speeches are to be made. The United States battleship Sout' Carolina is one of the battleships au thorized by congress in the nava appropriation act of March, 31 1905, her sister ship being the Mich igan, which was launched a fel weeks ago at the New York Shi: Building company's dock. Th South Carolina is being built by th Cramp Sisamship company, of Phila delphia. The contract for her con struction was signed on July 21 1906. Her keel was laid Decembe 18, and she will be finally complel ed and turned over to the Unite< St-tes go 't rnment on December 21 1909. The contract price, exclusiv of armor and armament, was $3 540,000. She will have cost the gov ernment when completed about $7, 000,000. - The South Carolina will have displacement of 16.000 tons: a spee of 18.5 knots: coal supply, 2,2-2 tons; armor belt, 12 inches: case men side armor, 10 to 8 inches barbettes and turrets. 10 to 1: inches. Armament, eight 45-calibr 12-inch guns, twenty-two 3-incl guns. Torpedo tubes, two submerg ed 21-inch. Her length betwee erpeniieu.ars. 450 feet; br idth a load water line. 80 feet; mean draft 24 feet 6 inches; full load displace ment, 17.600 tons: horse power, 17, 000. Her.total complement, includ ing officers and crew, wal be abou 900 men. The battleship South Carolina i of particular interest, because sh is one of the first of our battleship designed after the conclusion of th Russo-Japanese war, and her design ers have embodied in her construc tion the experience gathered duin the naval ccrations of that conflici The South Carolina and her siste shi, the Michigan, wiD) be the tw finest ships in the United States nay: until the Delaware, now in cours of construction, is launched and pta i-to commission. WAITED ON WIFE TO AWAK~E. Demented Husband Thought Dea Woman Was Only Sleeping. Believing that his wife was on1 sleeping Andrew Thierbach, of Wate bury. - Conn., shared her bed for week after death and prepared a elaborate meal to be eaten when sia awoke from her long fast. He is man 61 years of age and married German immigrant a -year ago b cause he said he needed someone1 take care of him. The widower not being detained on account of a mental condition. When he related his story to ti police he said the woman was a soux sleeper and he thought nothing it when she did not awake for a d~ or two. When her sleep had co tined for three days he became wo ied and shook her. On the four da he began to lay in a stoke food judging the sleeper would exceedingly hungry. On the six he bought her some drinks and te sventh day told the neighbC that his wife had slept for a we~ :nestigationl revealed that she h beendeadallthat time. cnparty will find that an hou ourse would have been safer th the dishonest course being pursuet Secretary Taft is known ast father of government bjy inj uncti nd. his speeches in Oklahoma I year gave conclusive proof of adherence to the position taken -'im on the bench. He is still inuf orn of the use of the writ of in3 t ion in labor eases and he is oppo -to trial by jury. "In a speech delivered in N Y ork last winter he said in respo 5 to Questions tha he law ought i be so amended as to give a hear 1 bbefore the in junction was gran a nd even ecnsented tnat the hear s for contempt should be before a t Ierent judge from the one who gr~ e ed the injunction,. but when he c~ to prepare a plank for the conveni L-e did not- go so far as be wen1 his speech. The plank that went f ore the convention as his plank s1 o weak that it amounted to noth e ut it was even then too strong he convention, and the convel issIadopted a plank which not only >ffInot grant any concessions to aborig men but really enmphas t-Ihe position taken by large corpo t mployers by hurling anathema es those who are suspected of ad P- to modify the law i-elating to a-juncios. es "This is the treatment rece ;e y the wage earners from the i'onal conventions of the Repubi party. If this is the position of ag party before the election. whatre .ot has the laboring man to hope :+ tj -,e pat mwl do better afeer A DROWNS WITH WiFE D HER LEAP TO RESCUIE SINI CAPTAIN ENI)S IN TRAGEDY. Drowning Occurred in Sight of Hu . dreds Who Were Powerless 'to Pr sent It. a Locked in each other's arms, plain views of hundreds on sho e and upon the awning decks of a: e chored yachts. Captain Otto Aube s and his wife were drowned Wedne e day nightoff the foot of East Twent; ninth street, New. York in the sI known as "The Drowners." n Five thousand spectators watch( P the electric lights of the police laun and thirty of the yachts as they dra; ged for the bodies. They wei found finally not more than fifi d feet from the barge Edgewooi r which Captain Aubert commanded. Fully fifty persons have bee s drowned off the "Dumps," as th< - part of the river front is called, i the "drowners' " slip in the la twenty years. No tragedy has cau ed the sorrow of this sad happening l The spectators murmured in symp. e thy when the bodies, still firmly he] t in a last embrace, were brought i the surface. It was to save the life of her hell mate that Mrs. Aubert sacrificed he 1 own. He had fallen overboard an she leaped in after him. For more than thirty years the had navigated the rivers and Soun P when their boat, the Edgewood. lac e en to her deck-beams with grain i e bulk, reached the moorings at tl foot of East Twenty-ninth stree The grain was partially discharge when Mrs. Aubert rang the suppE r bell at 7 p. m. After supper the grizzled captaii once a Norwegian soldier, whos universal good nature had game for him the sobriquet of "Happ Otto," lighted his corncob pipe an tuned his banjo. He was an expel - on this Instrument, and for an hou he entertained his wife. Finally he sang his wife's favorit song: "When are you coming homr my dear?" The stuffy little cabin had grow more stuffy, and the Captain sue gested that they get a little air o deck. He preceded her to the ra: and leaned upon it. It gave wa - with his weight just as his wif 1 reached his side. Before he coul make a motion to save her she wa overboard. "Hannah. oh. Hannah:" he cries as the current bore him away. t Mrs. Aubert ran to the rail an plunged in. Daniel Sheehan and John Dun s stood on the bulkhead, after tryin e to get a boat they jumped overboar s in their clothing and swam to when the old captain was strr.ggling t unlock the arms of his wife. Bt the woman, who was half strangle( only clung the tighter. and Sheeha and Dunn had to keep clear c themselves go down. SThey saw the couple sink togeth' and then rise again. The captai eweaker than before. tried againi loosen his wife's hold, but in vail Finally, with a despairing cry, 1: threw his own arms about his wif and they went down for the la atime. dNearly sixty yachts were anchor' in the East River north and soul of Twenty-ninth street. Every o] y of them had sent their tenders 'whe -they heard that a couple wel a drowning. The launches with ele n tric lights on board aided the poli e launch in the search for the bodia alater, while throngs covered tl a shore line and watched until tl 3grapplers of the police boat broug: -o up the bodies. 's The captain and his wife will is buried in one, grave. eSTUNS FOUR PEOPLE. d - Lightning Struck House and Knoc ed Four Senseless. h On Tuesday evening, duringt opassing of heavy electric storms i .John M. Stevenson who lives al)( h-three miles f rom Springfield,and thr mof his children were knocked sen: rs ess, but the attending physiciL k.Dr. H. A. Odom3 reports that all expected to recover. H4e 'with his little son Spurge were coming from the lot: his lit tirls Adelle and Ada Lou were he yard, just as Mr. Stevensona his boy passed the well, lightni astruck 'his milk-house or dairy ~ nthe results that for some time wife thought the entire family I bybeen killed. ~NGAG;EMENTF'S TRAGIC EN! ed Dicourag.ed, Bridegr'ooml Poured w n Hiuselt'f and Th:-n Lit Mate to An engagemnt of :on years sta ing ing. which umerous business r'ev ted es had prevented Mlossomng ing'mariage, came to atragic end lf- Philadelphia, this w-'ek. whent t-han Presser. despair'ing of ever I .me jine his financee to th'. altar. comn in lied suicide by setti-1g fire to in I lothing and perishing in terrT be- agony. was The girl to whom Presser wa ing, have b)een married is Miss I for Shattenstein. They miet ten v lin ago and in a short tine were eni loes ed to be married. But busmeOs ei verses~ caused the wedding to izes postponed time after time. Disc rate aged, who finally went to his h< at doneld his wedding suit. toured sire oene oil over hirnself, and api n- Ia mnatch. ived ISteamer GrounldedI. a- A dispatch from Key West. ian son.ays the British steamer Sb the Aison, from Port Tampa. boun' ason Dunkirk, with phosphiate, ran a~ tat' Monday on Rebecca Shoal, and elec- floated'Wednesday without assis and prc'eeded. FELL ON ROCKS G Young Woman FaHs From Hi Trestle. e- FELL NINETY FEET, l Was Picked Up Unconscious by En re ueer of Train Who Witnessed r rt cident-Swinging From Cr< s- Beam to Escape Train, Miss Ros ip Bradley, of Hagan, Ga., Los ad Hold. ' A dispatch from Tallulah Fal e Ga., says: Swinging to a cross bea by of the ninety-four-feet trestle b d, tween here and The Lodge ot esca a train which was bearing do, upon her, Miss Rossie Bradley, n Hagan. Ga., lost her hold and w st dashed against the rocks below, F s- day. She was picked up by the engine d of the train, who witnessed the a o cident, and carried abroad his trai where it was found that she was se: ously, though perhaps 1ot fatal r hurt. d The strength of the young wom; gave out almost as hands were reac vj ing to save her, as the engineer h: d seen young ladies on the trestle at - stopped his train before it reach( n them. e Two other girls, a sister and co t. sin of Miss Bradly, ran from ti d trestle when they heard the tra -r approach and they supposed that sl had followed. When they turn( , and saw that their companion h: e remained on the trestle and soug d to escape from swinging from it wi ,v her hands they became terrified at d stood on the tracks. .t Captain Jones. engineer of the Ta r lulah Falls railway, brought h train to a standstill, and leaping fro ;e his engine ran towards the girl wl , had suspended from the big bridge He had almost reached her si n when with a scream she dropped ,- the gorge below. It was the wo: n of a few moments to run back acro it the trestle and run down the pat - way on its side. He found t e young woman bruised and bleedir d and in an unconscious condition. s Passengers and the train crew w1 had followed the engineer assist( i, him in carrying the young -womar, the train, which proceeded to t d falls, and the injured girl was se t. the Smith house. n g FIVE PERISH IN CHICAGO FIRE -e Explosion in Chemical Plant Brin t Fatal Result. it , Five are known to be dead at nmore than a score of persons it ed, several of them seriously, as t y. result of an explosion, followed n fire in a five-story building, the u : per floors of whcih were used as ', hoarding house, at. 141 Huron stre e Chicago. Thursday. The explosi e occurred in the plant of the Pal st Chemical Campany on the gruo floor. dThe dead are: Mrs. Nolan, ja: htress of the building, and three ie lier daughters. Jennie, Emma a mHelen. They had seemingly be .hemmed in by the flames and s focated before help reached the cThe fifth is an unidetnified m; ewhose body was recovered fro ml basement. hThe explosion wrecked the fr< of the building and the fire spre be rapidly owing to the inflammable 1 ture of the chemicals stored in 1 basement. The employees of Pabst Chemical Company escap though several were injured by ing glass and debries. They w k- nearly all girls. she building I almost a total wreck. he SAVES BOY IN RIVER. 1Engineer Plunges Into Stream -ePulls Boy Otnt. mn, A dispatch from Fon Du I tre Wis., says bringing his fast exp1 train to a sudden stop to leap ft on his; cab and plunge into the wai in of Mud creek. Engineer J. A. Tyr .nd Iby a quick swim and dive. achie Eng a thrilling rescue of a drowning ith Thursday. his Tynan is a passenger engineer tad the Wisconsin Cent-al, and when proaching Mud creek, near Hill Junction, on is run from Manito ). to Neenah, he caught sight of lad seated midway on the bri Oil fishing, wholly oblivious of the uroaching danger. There was at h. stant closing of the thr< nd- and an applicationl of the air bra .h. ut before the train could be Sped the bridge had been passed. nt ioy, in his fright, either jumped N- to the water or was swept off by ad- train. niWhen Tynan leaped from his gine the little fellow was strugi ble in the stream below. absolutely I less. The engine driver plu to down the bank into the water. Losa ing. swimming and finally divin -ar ireach the boy. and. emerging a t-moments later with his victin e most exhausted. ANTI-RAC1NG LAW. k-Senaite of Louisiannai Passed it lied Vote of 21 toJ 19. A Fter a campaign lasting se months the close ot which was r Fla. ed y a bitter, the so-called I [PY- anti- acing bill was Tuesday I for noon passed by the Louisiana s ;horehav a vote of 21 to 19. Thi was nise the no:se seeral weeki :ance and rnow only requires the sign of e g overnor to become law. STALVEY BUUNU UVER ALLEGED BIGAMIST GIVEN PRE LDM]NIARY AT AIKEN. The Prosecuting Witness, Who Gives Her Name as Mrs. Elizabeth Meigs Stalvey, Being Only Witness. A dispatch from Aiken to The i- News and Courier says Wednesday L afternoon George M. Stalvey, charg ed with bigamy, was given a preli ss minary hearing before Magistrate e W. M. Smoak, and bound over to the higher Court in the sum of $500, es which was promptly furnished. Im mediately after the prisoner had beer released on bond for this charge he was again arrested on a warrant issued by Magistrate Turner,. of Graniteville, on another charge. He - gave bond for his appearance before pe Magistrate Turner on that charge, a which grew out of the same case. The charge heard by Magistrate Smoak was for bigamy. The prose as cuting witness, who gives her name as Mrs. Elizabeth Meigs Stalvey, was the only witness examined. She er testified that she was married on July 24, 1903, to the defendant, by n, a man giving his name as the Rev. T. C. Clemmons at the home of a ly certain fisherman, whose name she did not remembber. She stayed with l Stalvey that night at a hotel at Myr tle Beach, S. C., where the ceremony 1d was performed. She had often been d introduced by the defendant as his d wife. She offered in evidence a docu m e n t signed by J. C. Clem mons. which certified to the marriage of Stalvey and witness. in On cross-examination she said her home was originally in Wilmington. SN. C.; that she was Miss Elizabeth d Petway, that she had been twice mar tt ried, that her first husband was Mr. th Meigs, and that she met Stalvey in id Mullins several weeks before her marriage. She has been a school teacher, stenographer, typewriter is and bookkeeper, and last worked in m Atlanta about a year ago. Since then she had been assisting the defendant. She said she knew the defendant was married in April. He had been t away from her several months at .k the time. The marriage had been s kept secret at his request at some h places, and they went under the name of Mr. and Mrs. Mays, and at other places as Mr. and Mrs. Stal vey. She declared that the defen dant confessed to her his second d marriage and asked her forgiveness. to She forgave him and afterwards re e pented of her action in so doing, and t took action against him. Counsel for the defendant had in his possession several affidavits which he wanted to read, alleging that there was no such preacher as the one .med as the performer of the ceremony, but questions arising from reading them were overruled. The witness declined to produce 10 letters from Stalvey. She said she - had attempted to commit suicide at e Macon. Ga., and . admitted writing a letter offered by the defence just previous to the attempt, stating that she was tired of it all and she was a going to dispose of herself-that she It, was but an incumberance upon him. n She would not assume her correct st name because he would not let her. d She said she was in a hospital in Co lumbia at the time her first boy was ii- born. She had many letters from f him before and after his marriage ad in Aiken to Miss Lightfoot. She en denied ever threatening him, as he if- has claimed. . Stalvey's counsel said his client n. denied any marriage relations with he the prosecutrix and that he could Prove his innocence at the trial, but ft asked that he be not bound over. d Many of the spectators think that ia- a strong case has been made against he Stalvey, and the woman here who he claims she is Mrs. Stalvey No. 1, Id, clearly has the sympathy of the ma ly- jority of those who know the nature Ire of the case. She told a well connect as ed story and differed on no important * detail upon cross-examination. The defendant was representing by Wolfe & Berry. Sawyer and Owens repre sented the prosecution. BURGLAR HADl A HRARID TIE. ac, He Sweltered Under a Bed While Hi ess Victims Chatted. mIn order to rob H. E. Beagle ai ers Louis Schaefer. a burglar entered n. house in Seattle. Wash., early on red afternoon and crawled under the bed boy After cramping himself for abou ten hours the men came to bed a on midnight. Their first act was t< p- o' the bed ten feet across the )ert room and the robber had to roll witi r.oc it. Then the men began to chat an< the kept this up for three hours whil Ige. the would-be rolbber was nearly smn( ap- thering from the heat and was sor in- rom his hard resting place. ittle Finally in desperation he crawle kes. trom the under position and demand top- ed gold and a $250 diamond whic 'he he knew belonged to Beagle. He g< in- a watc~h .and chain worth $25. hi the that was all. The man made hi escape. ing WOMAN ADMITS CRIE. ged She Confeued to Raving Helped C gd toHer Husband to Pieces.. ew Mrs. Edward King is in prison al- Port Orchard jail, in the state * \ashington. onl charge of killing h husbanld and cutting him to piec4 She is 62 years of age and has part confessed her crime. She adm1 > a having cut the body to pieces wi the ax and having scattered t pieces through the orchard and ha veral ing buried some. She declares, ho aki- ever, that she found the aged hi .oke band dead in his chair and then to fter- revenge for the brutal treatment nate had accorded her. bill Deceased was a rancher 60 eys ag of age. and he and his wife hv~ atire together in a lonely cabin near Ola] iUUU 5I1UWIIM. STATE. PRIVATE AND SAVING LN'TITUTIONS PROSPEROUS. Deposits Are Very Large-Saving And Subject-to-check Account Over $2.,000,000. There are some encouraging figut es given in the quarterly bank state ment of the 233 State, private an savings banks in this State. Th statement is compiled by Giles I Wilson, the State bank examiner, an< gives the totals or the assets nay liabilities of the banks, except na tional, of the State. The statements shows that ther is now in these banks over $25,000, 000. nearly half of which is in tb savings departments, a good sign a ways for the bankers. Anothe'r goof sign is that there is now due ti banks and bankers just a little ove $500,000, and the notes and bills re discounted amount only to abou $1,300,000. The statement is as follows: Resources. Loans and discounts.. $36,070,722.61 Demand loans. . . ,. 1,608,372.8, Overdrafts . . . . . 467,421.61 Bonds and stocks owned by the bank. . . . . 3,551.165.0| Banking house. . . . . 789,882.1: Furniture and fixtures 366,742.3: Other real estate. . . 284,710.5 Due from banks and bankers. . . . . . . 3,944,719.31 Currency. . . . . . . 845,597.01 Gold. . . . . . . . . 131,780.01 Silver, nickles and pen nies. . . . . . . . . 283,531.3 Checks and cash items 236,04. 9! Excl anges for the clear ing l ouse. . . . . . 100.417 1 Other resources. . . . 13,194.71 Total. . . . . . . .$48,694,704.5! Liabilities. Capital stock paid in. .$9,193,676.6 Surplus fund. . . . .1,559,163.71 Undivided profits, less current expenses and taxes paid. . . . . 2,854,744.0! Due to banks and bank ers. . . . . . . . . 533.972.61 Due unpaid dividends. 18,919.7 Individual depositssub ject to check. . . .14,467,327.1. Savings deposits. . . .11,067,454.61 Demand certificates. . 204,156.7. Time certificates. . . .2,236,949.6! Certified checks.' . . . 23,254.3 Cashier's checks. . . . 67,336.04 Notes and bills redis counted. . . ... . 1.388,244.0, Bills payable. . . . . . 5,053,037.9: Other liabilities. . . . 26,467.11 Total. . . . . . . .$48 ,694,704.51 A STEAMER WENT DOWN. Struck Rocks and Sank-Fishermal Saved Many Lives. A dispatch from Madrid, Thur. day says: The Spanish steame Larache (1,500 tons), it has beel learned, was struck Tuesday after noon on the rocks off Ximnile12 where the Cardinal Cisneros ani many other .ships have been los and sank in a few minutes. The se was rough at the time. The vess4 carried a crew of 98 and 97 passens ers. It is known that 107 hav been saved. The drowned numbe was S8. The Larache had called at Cadi to embark passengers from Argent na for northern ports. She we ~ound for Muros. 1I. is b)elieve she struck an unknown rock. as tl captain and the pilot were both famn liar with the coast, and shaped tl: course to avoid the rocks. There was a terrible panic whe the vessel struck and several of ti capsized or smahed against ti steamer. Fisherman put out fro: various points and rescued many those on board. It is impossible to obtain comnple details, but the latest reports sta tha 17 women wer eamonghe drow: (AI.GHT A JAP SPY. )m:. Had Made Drawings of Amierica Forts About New York. An alleged Japanese spy was 1 cently detained in Fort Wadsworl at New York, having been caught a memb er of the Forty-seventh re. mnent with plans of the landfalls 51 rounding the fort in his possessic The man had made drawings oft Schief charaCteristics of the land front of batteries Dix, Richmo Sand Ayres. all the 12-inch disappe Sing rifies, and also of the pair of Sinch rifles betweenl these three b teries, known as Battery Barry. the drawings were .made with1 eidea of furnishing a view from sea of' where the batteries are. I d tinctive trees. huts. sentry boxes - signal corps' poles were included It marked on the maps. tThe military authorities at F t Wadsworth admit that a Japan Sspy has been caught hut they not disclose his name. or other p ticulars pending an investigation how he managed to get past senties. Officers of the regular ai tare trying to hush the affair up militiamen speak freely aboul it. n WEALTHY MERCHANT SLAI r G L. IBuiloch, of Cofrkle. Geo.' I'Stabed to D~eath. in an altercation at Ochlochl hh acon cunty, Ga.. Friday .Tames ee Thoma. on stiaobed to death ' u' h.l ,r~e of the wealthiest m ot promine'T t merchants or s de. Mr. Bulloch left Ce"M A. k l Ocniochuntg and Thomasville to he iust somie matters of 'nurii' some 1-usinless trontcactior. rs Thufmpson sorne slighting r .n edtv.re r'3ade about P.ulloch'a f a. which raased ihe clifficultv n 1ILLIViR1 MDERMU. S HE IS RAPIDLY IMPROVING IN HEALTH. -s Senior Senator Writes for His Con s stitutes an Account of His Travels in Spain and Morocco. Senator Tillman is well and enjoy ing very much his trip abroad. Col. d August Kohn has received the follow e ing correspondence, which speaks for itself: d "Gibraltar, June 8, 1908. . "My Dear -Kohn: I forwarded herewith an account dictated by e Senator Tillman of his trip since we landed. It practically amounts to _ a diary. I will add that the senator i seems to me to be improving in 3 health in every way; appetite good. r sleep excellent and in fine spirits. t Mrs. Tillman, too, is standing the hard work of travel very well. "I have had no personal letters since I left Boston, and don't expect to get any till I reach Rome, in about two weeks. "We met this morning on the streets Melton and Earle, who have just returned from a trip similar to ours. Both are well. "Sincerely, "J. W. Babcock." Senator Tillman's account of his trip follows: "The two weeks which have elaps ed since our landing at Gibraltar have been spent in rather strenuous fashion. The long rest on the boat had brought such improvement that the morning after we recahed Gib raltar and found a good steamer a bout to start for Tangier, 40 miles southward on the West African coast in Moroco, we yielded to the sugges tion of two Columbia friends, Messrs. Melton and Earle, who had just come in on the German Lloyd steamer, and put off for Tangier without seeing Gibraltar at all, reaching it about 4 p. m. After resting at the hotel a saunter of an hour and a half through the narrow. filthy streets, from seven to 12 feet wide and all crooked, gave us all I the idea of Mohammedan and Moor ish life and civilization that we want ed, and there was no difference of 5 opinion about returning to Gibraltar I next day. 2 "After taking a view of Gibral tar, through which we drove with I the American counsel, Mr. Richard 5 Sprague, and whose courtesy was 6 much appreciated, we crossed over - ro Algeciras, Spain, on the opposite ) side of the bay, where we spent two nights and a day resting and enjoy ing the magnificent view of the fam ous Rock of Gibraltar, and the most gorgeous display of flowers that it has ever been our good fortune to see, hedges of geraniums five feet high white daisy bushes of even larg -er size, with other flowers too numer rous to mention. These are in the Sgarden or park surronng the well -English hotel, the Reina Christina, and though it was the 1st of Jurie we had to sleep under blankets, t which has been necessary through Sout our trip in Southern Spain. Fri 'day we went. to Ronda, an old Moor ish fortress, in the midst of the e -n:ountains, with a most magnificent Sview. Part of the journey upwards was through the cork-woods. Most z of the way the fields are filled with olive trees. wheat and barley occupy s ing occasional stretches. The wheat d in most instances was very good, esome of it exceedingly fine. After a night at Ronda and a walk through ethe old Moorish town to the cathe dral we started for Granada Sunday morning, and although the Spaniards e are perhaps .the most devout people e n Europe, there was no evidence that the people remeibered the CommandmTenlt, as they were at work eeverywhere in the fields. "'We spent two whole days in te Granada and then left for Seville. .aking nearly all day for the jour ney, though the distance is less than 200 miles. I will not attempt any descriptions, but will only say that we were not disappointed in the Al mhambra, though our expectations had ')een raised very high by what we had read, and in Seville there was ea repetition of this experience. The h, cathedral. with its numerous master' by nieces of painting, 'and the Moorish si Tnlace must be seen to be appreciat r- ed and then seen again and again n while the little chapel in La Caridad he Hospital will undoubtedly linger in joy forever in our memiories. Her4 ad we found the only evidences in Spai ir- *)f prosperity and modern city life .0- :ond undoubtedly. for we all agreee4 at- .en this point, our Columbia friend: Ali ioining in the verdict. that the Sevill he Ian women as a whole are the hand hesomest we have ever seen or expec i~- to see. nd -Friday evening we went to Cor nd dova, famous for its Roman bridg built by Augustus Caesar and fo ort the Moorish Mosque, considered b ese experts as the most wonderful arch vill tectural triumph of the Moors. wh ar- conqunered Spain in the 8th centur: of The Spaniards marred in many way the the dignity and strength of this wo~ my derful building, but again I mu: bnot undertake desc riptionls. * 'We got back to Gibraltar la: night. June 7, well fagged out at N realized for the first time that it in1jst a monrh since we left Trento g.without having any news from hon or* seen an American newspaper. lhave' stood the strain much hett *iee.I than I would have thought possil iT. and attribute it to an entire chan, L of view. and the absence of anythi ad to e-xcite. and the admirable sleepi 'rthat the conditions have broug fo~ bouit. ad- "Letters from home this morni: In tel' ns of hot parched conditions uith South Carolina. and one wonders I the marvellous Spanish climate tI le. blankets in June. where oran; WI flourish and hor house plants gr * tin the yards.", - 'ULLVtLAUII UtAU. Death Claims Aged and Distin guished Ex-President, END UNEXPECTED. Reassurances Caused Friends to Be Unprepared for the Announcement of the Statesman's Death-Only Mrs. Cleveland and the Physicians at the Bedside. Grover Cleveland, twice president of the United States, died at 8:40 o'clock Wednesday morning at his home, "Westland," in Princeton, N.' J., where he had lived since his re tirement as the nation's chief execu tive, almost twelve years ago.. When the end came, which was sudden, there werp in the death chamber o n the second floor of the residence, Mrs. Cleveland, Dr. Jos. D. Bryant of New York, Mr. Cleve land's family physician and personal friend; Dr. Geo. R. Lockwood, also of New York, and Dr. John M. Car ochan of Princeton. An official statement given out and signed by the three physians gave heart trouble, superinduced by stom ach : and kidney ailments of long standing, as the cause of.. death. While Mr.Cleveland had been in poor health for the last two years and had lost 100 pounds in weight, his death came unexpectedly. Some three weeks ago he was brought home from Lakewood, where his condition for a time was such that the hotel at which he was staying was kept open after its reg uilar season because he was too ill to be moved. But when Mr. Cleve land was brought back to Princeton he showed signs of improvement and gained five pounds in weight. Although confined to his room con tinuously after his return'to Prince ton it was not until, yesterday that Mr. Cleveland's condition aroused un easiness on the part of Mrs. Cleve land. Undoubtedly affected by the heat Mr. Cleveland showed signs of heart failure and Mrs. Cleveland tele phoned for Dr. Bryant. Dr. Lock wood followed Dr. Bryant from New. York and when they reached Prince ton, Dr. Carochan, Mr. Cleveland's local physician, was also called in. During the evening Mr. Cleveland seemed to rally and Mrs. Cleveland felt assured that it was merely another of the many attacks Mr. Cleveland had suffered. - Mr. Cleveland became worse dur ing the night and Mrs. Cleveland was called to the bedside of her husband. The distinguished patient sank into unconsciousness from which he re covered at times only to suffer a relapse. This continued throughout the night and early morning. The last time he became unconscious was about two hours before he died. Death was peaceful. Just before he - died Mr. Cleveland sought to say adible. something but his words were in The text of the official statement given out after Mr. Cleveland's death was as follows: "Mr. Cleveland for many years had suffered from repeated attackl of gastritis, of intestinal origin. Also he had a long-standing oi-ganic dis ease of the heart and kidneys. Heart failure, complicated with pulmonary thrombosis and oedema was the immedate cause of his death." Some two or three hours later Dr. Bryant. in answer to a question, said that the "heart failure which occa sioned death was induced iithin 24 hours of the end and death was final ly due to that," thu~s corroborating the unofficial information that Mr. Cleveland began to grow worse Tues day afternoon. The news of Mr. Cleveland's death came as a sudden shock to the peo ple of Princeton, as it did to the people of the rest of the world. As the news spread about the university flags~ were placed at half staff and everybody expressed regrets and ex tolled Mr. Cleveland's virtues. SAVED FROM LYNCHING. Negroes Who Attempted Crimina As sault Caught by Posse. A dispatch from Rome, Ga., says Floyd Walker and Henry Ogletree, negroes. were brought to that place ifrom Aragonl, Ga., Tuesday for safe .keeping, escorted by a company of I militia, after a narrow escape from Slynching. -It is said the two negroes attempt ed criminal assault on two daugh t ter of Geo. Suddeth, a white farmer near Aragon. ablout six o'clock that - morning. Attracted by the cries of the girls. Otis Anderson, who was r working in a field nearby, rushed to their rescue and was fired on by the -negroes and slightly wounded. A posse from Aragon later captured the negroes and with great difficulty 1 peetda lynching. The Lindale Rifles were then summoned and es ;t corted the negroes to Rome. SFREIGHT TRAIN WRECKED. dl a gine Derailed at Trestle Near Mc 0o11 and Nine Cars Go Down. I Train No. 337. the south-bound local freight, from Fayetteville via ec Beinnettsville, was badly wrecked at e John's Station, near McColl, early IThursday. The engine was derailed ig just before reaching a trestle, but ht Ipassed over the trestle safely. The train following, however, did not g ~fare so well as nine box cars and the in calyoose went through the trestle, at the engine having knocked the bents tati from under the structure. Conduc es tor Monta Strauss was painfully but >not seriously hurt. Engineer C. P. Piucar-a escaped injury.