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VOL. XXIII MANNING, S. C. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1908 NO.9 DIED IN FIRE Forest Fires Cause AWful Dis aster in Michigan. SICKENING SCENES Relief Train Carrying Terrified In habitants of a Little Village At tempts to Run Gauntlet of Flames Only to be Ditched, Fifteen People Losing Their Lives. A dispatch from Alfena, Mich, says fifteen people lost their lives Thursday night in the burning of the Detroit and Mackinac Railway relief train, which was carrying the inhabitants of the little village of Metz, 23 miles north of here, to saf ety from the forest fires which we* sweeping away their homes. The ill-fated train was ditched by spreading rail at Nowicki siding, south of %Ietz, and the terrified ref ugees were" forced to abandon the cars and rush for safety either down the track with burning forests on either side or into the ploughed fields near the siding. Eleven of the victims were women and ch.ildren, who were unable to escape quickly enough from a gondo la car. Their charred bodies wer found there Friday when rescuers reached the scene. Two of the me - victims were members of the train crew. Four additional fatilities occurred in the neighborhood Thursday night. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wagner died from heat and exhaustion on their farm near the scene, and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Nowicki, lost their lives in their burning house near the siding. When the forest fires closed :n Thursday about i the little village a special train of three empty box cars and two coal gondolas was rush ed to Metz, and as rapidly as po sible people and their goods were loaded into the cars. Some refus ed 0' abandon their goods, or the train might have left earlier. When the train fInally starjd there were about 100 frightened people aboard. The flames were already sweeping through the village. Nearing Now icki crossing Engineer Foster saw blazing piles of cedar ties on both sides of the track.. Opening the throttle he tried to dash through at full speed, but the heat had caused the rails to spread and the train left the track Blazing piles of ties surrodunded it and in an instant the cars caught fire .' The terror stricken people jumped from the cars are rushed down the track. Three mothers and their little ones were not quick enough. They were cre mated in the car. Brakeman Barrett sprang into the water tank behind the engine, only to be literally boiled to death as the nlames swept over it. Engin eer Foster and Conductor Kinville fled down the track through the fire and smoke, and were the first to reach the village of Posen and re port the wreck and ask for assis tance. Behind them staggered a burned and wounded procession of' refugees. It was a fearful march over the hot ties with the nlames and burning woods on either side of the track roaring and snapping in their faces. Engineer Foster was terribly burned about the head and face, but it is thought that he will survive. Many of the refugees are suffering painful burns. The survivers of the frightful ex perience seemed dazed by their peri and suferings and were unable to give any coherent statement as to whether anybody was left behind in ietz. It will probably be a week or more before it is known deinitely how many peopie perished in the village of Metz. When the relief train left Metz it carried all the inhabitantS of the village except George Cicero, the sta tion agent, who stayed to handle the railroad wire and escaped through ploughed fields only to find his wife and three children cre mated in the wreck of the relief train. A fourth child, a -boy, about 11 years old, had jumped from the burning car and escaped with but slight Injuries. Every report received Friday nigaL from the fire-swept country to the north of this city increases the extent and grravity of the fire situation, andi the de-ath list which started Friday with the cremating of fifteen people in the Metz relief train, is steadily growing. Presqlue Isle and Cheboy san counties are all flames, and the 75~ miles between this city and Che bogan Is reported to be almost :t solid raass of fire. Alpena County r' ablaze in every direction. Reports of fatilities are coming from many places. From Metz Township Friday night the crematien was reported of Henry Kemps, his wife and two chan dren in their farm house. Bolton, South Rogers and Metz are amone: the destroyed villages. La Rouque is threatened -tonight. Only the church is left at the village of Catro, and it is crowded with ref ugees. A strip twenty miles wide from Fihubberd Lake to the Au Sable River. in Alcana County. is 1>urning. More than lifty farmers are reported to niht :o have been swept by the fires today, and their buildings destroyed. Sixty passengers on a south-bound strot n Maekinac Railroad train. which left Chehoygan last night for this city, spent a night of horror at La Rociue. Flames surrodunded the eri and hn'ied in their tars, the terrified ossengers spent the nigni in momentary expectation that the train w'enid be consumed. It was saved, however, and the passengers eme on to Alpena this afternoon. Iogers City was threatened this after ron, but it is ne hoped hat the o, ca he saved. STATES FOR BRYAN CONSERVATIVE ESTIATE 01 VICE-CH AIIAN HUDSPETH. Tammany Gives Fifteen Thousan Dollars to the Cause-Kohlsaa Called on For Proof. At New York on Tuesdiy Vice Chairman Hudspeth, of the Demo cratic National Committee, mad public a list of States in which h% said Mr. Bryan would receive th' electoral vote. They are as follows: The solid South 166, Nebraska 8, Indiana 15, Ohio. 23, West Virginia 7, Nevada 3, New York 39. Total 261. Necessary to a choice 242. he vice-chairman put Wisconsin in the doubtful column and said that New Jersey, Connecticuit, Rhode Island and Illinois were still debat able, with New Jersey and Connecti ut favorable tCP the Democratic par y. , Tammany Hall will contribute 10,000 to the Democratic National Dommittee, according to an announc ent made by Charles F. Murphy, he Taminany leader. In addition, he locai organization will pay all he expenses of the big mass meet ng in Madison square Garden on )ctober 24, at which Mr. Bryan is :o speak. This will probably amount D $5,000 more. According to a telegram received )y Vice-Chairman Hudspeth from haIrman Mack. in Cacago, Mr. Bry in will speak only one day in New ersey and one day in Connecticut. 9r. Hudspeth said, referring to a -eported statement of H. H. Koh! aat, of Chicago, to the effect that here are three Democratic editors n the United States who are sup orting Mr. Bryan in their papers, ut who do not wish to see him lected. and that one of them is a ember of the Democratic execu lve committee. "I challenge Mr. Kohlsaat to give he names of these editors or to ame the member of the executive ommittee. Mr. Kohlsaat has come inder the hypnotic influence of the Vhte House. .It is rather singular hat all these reports about dissat sfled Democrats come out of Wash gton." NEGROES LAUD FORAKER. ,heir Press Conventions Declare Him to Be a Martyr. The meeting or the negro press onvention in Pittsburg, Pa., last reek carried to that city over one undred of the leading negro editors f the Eastern, Middle and Southern 'tates. -In a declaration of principles and set of resolutions adopted Thursdar enator Foraker and Governor De een, of Illinois, as lauded, while he administration of President toosevelt and the attitude of Candi late William H. Taft are censured. The declaration of principles mong other things states: "We hold in kind memory our riend from ra'illips and Lovejoy to ncoln an' Grant and the others, )ut the one who stands today for ur cause as a champion and martyr s Joseph Benson Foraker, of Ohio, rho, in the face of public opinion, xad dared to uphold the principles f right and not party; whose politi al ft'ure is jeopardized by his own )arty for being on our side and fight ng to sustain truth and justice." The resolutions say: "Wie call upon the negro voters f Ohio to first support Hion. Jos. enson Foraker, our champion, for re-election to the United States enate and ever afterward to any position to which he aspires. As e call upon the negro voters of the lountry who have a spark of man bood left to show their disapproval > the present incumoent of the White House, who will be virtually he power behind the throne if Taft Is elected." JAPAN AND CHINA Have a Clash of Arms on the Corean Border. Grave complications5, which threat e the peace of China and Japan, are feared as the result of a clash be tween Chinese and Japanese troops n the Corean border ,near Kano According to reports a body of ChII nse . soldiers fired on the Japanes without provocation and in the fight ag which ensued many were killed on both sides, the Chinese being finally forced to retreat. The Jay followed them to the border and the Japanese commander demanded thi surrender of the Chinese. which wa refused. The Japanese foreign offic was quickly informed of the affair The fear here is that China's refuse to surrender the men responsible foi the attack on the Japanese ma: cause Japan to cross the boruer which would undoubtedly precipitat an ugly situation. MURDERIER: HANGED. Rode to the Gallows on His Owl New Coffin. At Fayetteville. Ga., on Thursday Jim Bennett. a negro. was hange for the murder of D. McEachern, white man. last September. Benne! was carried to the gallows on th coffin in which he was to be burler The negro also shot down Seabor Adams. another white man, wh attempted to disarm him after he ha killed McBachern. Caused His Death. . E. Judd, said to be a wealth New Yorker, died at Richmond. VT IFriday of poisoning as a result < drinking a hecefragl containlig ace niid. RICH AND RACY Hearst Reads Some More Greasy Letters From Archbold TO SOME OF HIS PALS They Were Written to Our Sometime Senator McLarcrin, Congressman Sibley and R. H. Edmunds, Editor of the Manufacturers' Record, and From McLaurin to Archbold. Speaking in California the other day, W. R. Hearst read more Arch bold-McLaurin-Sibley letters. He also read one to R. H. Edmunds. editor of the Manufacturers' Record. Here are the letters: "26 Broadway, Feb. 5, 1901. "My Dear Senator: I have your1 most kind favor of yesterday and ao. t preciate it greatly. I have also a telegram from Mr. Grasty today which I have answered, and which answer I hope he will make known to you. Believe me that I appre ciate the expresions of your letter more highly than I can well state. and I hope when the time comes. if it ever does, for an opportunity to reciprocate, you won't be found wanting. Again thanking you and C with very kind regards, I am "Very sincerely yours, 'John D. Archbold. "Hon. J. L. McLaurin, Senate Cham ber. Washington, D. C. a "26 Broadway, Feb. 13, 1901. "Mr. R' H. Edmunds, Baltimore, Md. "Dear Mr. Edmunds: I have your several very interesting favors, I re- p turn Senator McLaurin's letter witn the clippings. The whole affair at Washington has been most interest ing. Have been sorry indeed to hear of the senator's illness. Mr. G-ris comb undertook to have a talk witb him Monday through a mutual friend Your own work in all this matter has been most admirable. "Very truly yours, "Jno. D. Archbold." a "26 Broadway, Feb. 15, 1901. "Dear -Mr. Sibley: I beg to inclose you herewith certificate of deposit to your favor for $5,000, sent you at the request of Mr. Griscom, the pur pose of which you no doubt under stand. Permit me to express my high appreciation in response to -,ur request regarding the consideration A subsidy matter with Mr. Griscom. "Very truly yours, - "John D. Archbold. "Hon. J. C. Sib.ey, Washington." "26 Brogdway, Feb. 18, 1901. "My Dear Senator: Please accept thanks for your note of the 16th. I am, of course, much interested in the statement. Have no doubt Mr. Sibley saw you on Saturday; as I requested him to do. "Very truly yours, "John D. Archbold." "Hon. -J. L. McLaurin, Washington. D. C." "Bennettsville, S. C., Sept. 3, 1904. (Confidential). "Dear Mr. Archbold: In the same mail by which your letter came was one that I wish to quote a sentence from apropose of your remarks about r Mr. R. The writer of that letter was employed in a confidential way by Senator Hanna in matters of imn-r portance. He is a shrewd, but a very intelligent man, whose pubie experience and acquaintance Is wide. I knew him well in Washingten and when he saw my article in The S u' he wrote me a longiletter, indulging I in some unexpected criticism of the -I resident, to which I replied, com n bating his position. "He said in part, viz.: "Readinr." on Sunday Lawson's 'Frenzied F! nance' recalled to mind a reraark~ that I heard him (Roosevelt) make that he hoped some day to be able to take a fall out of that Standard Od gang, and if he succeeds him self, mark my word, he will try to make good his statement, as he be lieves it will appeal to the mass'-4 and keep him in the centre of the stage.'. I"I thought It would be a friendly act to copy this and give it to you 1 !n strict confidence. From my po sition. I can not say whether it is woth the ink or not. It will show. anyway, that I am not unmindfui f your various kind actions toward me. "With kindest regards. "Yours sincerely. "John Lowndes AfcLaurin. "To Mr. John D. Archbold." "Helre we have a statement o' Senator McLaurin from the Standard Oil Company that they will not lb found wanting, the words found wanting peculiarly~ emphasized by quotation marks. Here we have -tatement that Mr. Grisco mnunder statement that Mr. Griscoma under MLaurin on Monday through a mnu tual friend.I I"Here we have next the inevitabl" certificate of deposit sent to Mr. Sib Iy, the mutual friend, 'at the request Iof Mr. Griscomf.' and, finally. we have the confidence express~ed by thr Standard Oil Company to Se'nator McLaurin that no doubt Mr. Sibley saw the senator on Saturday. as Mr 'Archbold requested him to do so. Mr. Archbold assuredly was nor! found wanting. But the io i. Who was found guiil-y? Assur edly Mr. Sibley saw Senatr M> Laurin, but the question is. Did he Imerely see him or did he raise him? "If the phraseology of this partic ular game is too technical for th' ladies in the audienlce let us put the question in this form: Button. but .ton. who got the $5,000? ra o f"Now, mny friends, I bavreayo thes j IG;etters. not merely to interest CAPERS WRITES. TO SOUTH CAROLINA COMMIS SIONERS OF ELECTION. [nsinuates That Republican Votes Cast in This State Are Not Count ed by the Managers. John G. Capers, the member'of the Republican national committee for outh Carolina, has sent the follow ng letter to the commissioners of lIection for the State: Washington, D. C., Oct. 14, 1908. ommissioner of Election of South arolina.-My Dear Sir: Except in ne or two of the lower counties In he State there are no accredited Re )ublican nominees for office in South ,arolina to disturb your local af airs in the-State. While in the se ection oft commissioners of electio'i or South Carolina the Republicans Lave had no voice or choice. I hope nd believe that in a spirit of fair Less you will allow those who wish o vote a national Republican ticket .n opportunity under your direction .s commissioner to cast their votes or Mr. Taft and have them counted. 'hat is all the Republicans ask. Conditions which have promoted aany of our citizens to resort 'to aethods unnecessary to review no nger exist, and at this time a purely ational proposition is involved. It -ould seem, therefore, that a spirit f absolute fairness and justice hould prevail, and I have confidence hat you will see to it that we are en a square deal. I value as highly is you do tite raditions and history of my State nd my people, and there are hun reds of men in South Carolina who ael as I do and yet who can see no arthly form of disloyalty in contrib ting through their ballot to a per etuation of the financial and indus rial prosperity of the whole country, hich seems germanent only when a :epublican president and a Republil an Congress are in power. The5 Panama Canal, certain fea re of protection, the great need f improving our river in-the Soutli, lead to us to get for South Carolint ome national standing and -enjoy 2e resulting. national influence and ssistance for the development of our reat resources. . Respectfully, JOHN G. CAPERS, [ember Republican National Com mittee for South Carolina. * SMALL'S SLATER HANGED. . Barnwell Murder Preferred Death to Life Sentence. Friday at eight minutes after 1. 'clock for the first time In twelve ears Barnwell county witnessed a gal hanging. Elliott Green, alias ob Green, a negro, paid the death enalty for the foul murder of liver Smalls, another negro, on the [ace of Herman Brown, near Black [le, last February. The story of reens crime for which he has pai.. ae death penalty as told by him lf to the correspondent of The ews and Courier a few hours be >re execution, is as follows: "Some time last fpring, while ing in Williston, I went up to lackvile. I found Olilver Small the dead man) and went with him his house on the place of the rown's, near Blackville. There I iw Ed Fu-rgerson and Cliff Moseley. did not know them before. We layed cards, and I lost all my money d pawned by pistol to Oliver Smal or three dollars. When we stopped laying I asked him for my pistol, nd when he did'not give it to me hit him in the head with a piece f iron. I then set the house on fire. 'here was no one there but me and ia. The others had gone. I dM ot put kerosene on him and put ima ever the wood box. I left him n the floor by the fire, and set he house on fire. I set the bed on re that set the house."* ANOTHER NEW COUNTY roposed Out of Portions of Alken and Lexingtonl. A dispatch 'from Columbia to The 'ews and Courier says the promo er of the project to form from por ions of Aiken and Lexington coun les a new county, to be known as 'Summerland," have seized upon the 'allure of the Edisto new county roposition as an auspicious occa ion for the renewal of effort in be lalf of taeir own scheme. It Is :laimed that the necessary territory vith the required population and trea, can be found in the old coun -ies, and that there should by all mneans be a county seat on the rail road between Columbia and Augur' ca. Leesville and Batesburg are the two wings that would soon gather round the Court House, making an inland city with modern equipments.* SIX WERlE KILLED. Picking Dynamite Cap Resulted in Dsiaster to Many. Near Fort Collins, Colo., six per sons were instantly killed and twenty ne other's injured by an explosioa dynamite at the Ingleside Lime stone Quarry. The dead include two apanese and four Mexicans. Five charges of dynamite had been laced, but only four of them ex nodd as arranged. While an at tempt was being made to pick the ap from the unexploded charge it went off. o the seriousness of the danger that threatens our republic. Be patriotic. be non-partizan, be vuigllent, with the eternal vigilance whl$ is the price f liberty, and do not allow those forces of corruption to destroy oui republic which destroyed the repub A (RAVE CHARGE The President Accused of Using an Offfice to Buy LABOR LEADER KEEFE WThose Change to Taft From Bryan Accounted for by the Democratic Press Agent, who Says Keefe was Promised Tmmigration Commis sioner's Office to Desert Gompers The National Democratic Commit tee, through John G. Gordon, assis tant and acting. chief of the press bureau at headquarters in New York, made public the fol6wing statement Tuesday night. % "It was stated at the National Democratic Committee headquarters Tuesday night that President Roose velt by promise of office has succeed ed in having one of the big men of the American Federation of Labor de sert President Gompers in his ad vocacy of the election of Mr. Bryao for the Presidency. "The labor leader in question h. Daniel J. Keefe, of Detroit, president. of the International Association of Longshoremen, and one of the vice presidents of the Federation of La bor. "The Democratic committee al leges that Keefe and the Presideni were closeted for several hours n Washington on Saturdgy, October :3. and the offer of being named con misioner general of immigration. made vacant by, the deatu of Com missioner Sargent, was made in con sideratin of Keefe's repudiating Mr. Gompers and the executive council of the Federation. "Keefe, on Saturday last, issued a statement in which he said: 'Am going to vote for Wm .H. Taft. "It is pointed out that on Sep tember 28 last, the executive council >f the American Federation cf Laboi ssued a circular calling on all or ganizations of labor to work for the defeat of Mr. Taft and Republican Congressmen seeking re-election and r. Keefe authorized his signatur,? to be attached to it. "The scource of the DeraccratiC ommittee's information was not di vulged, but the information was o. ered that if Mr. Keefe or President Roosevelt deny the charges, anothei big. labor leader, now in New York, will come forward with facts to prove that the offer was made, and that Vr. Keefe acceptegt and has com menced to make good his part of the deal." THEY MARRIED AGAIN. ~fter Being Divorced Sixteen Years Old Couple Reunited. After sixteen years of divorceC eparation, during which each had emarried and had each been bereft through death, .an aged German ouple, who were married in their atherland forty years ago, pro cured in New York a marriage license n order to at once re-enter, for their eclining years, the ties they had legally set aside so long ago. Con rad Knubert's second wife died nlot long ago. Having heard that his for mer wife's husband had also died in Germany, be wrote the partner f his young years, asking her to ome to New York and marry him again. She cabled her reply-that she was coming and on the next steamer. She reached .New York on uesday. COLONEL TUCKER ARRESTED. Army Officer Charged With Having Deserted His Wife. Col. William M. Tucker,. of theI United States army, was arrested at Decatur, Ill., on Tuesday charged with deserting his wife, a daugh-. ter of the late Gen. John A. Logan. The arrest was made by Sergt. O'Bren, of the Chicago police depart ent. Col. Trueker, who was ill an.1 could not be taken off the train. agreed to return without reqiuisitica papers. He went on to St. Louis to be taken back to Chicago later in the Col. Tucker was accompanied by ;a woman for whom he is alleged 1-> have deserted his wife. A woman nurse, who was taking care of him and two men servants, completed the party. BRNED IN HIS HLOUSE. Goes Into Burning Building to Get His Valuables. W. S. Langher was cremated in his home near St. Edith's Acad emy, five miles west of Manassas. Va., Tuesday morning, when ils house, with its entire contents, was destroyed by fire originating prc.L ably from a defective flew. All the other occupants of the building escaped. Langher had re-entered the burn ing structure to save some money and valuable papers in. an upper room against the pleading of his wife and children. Langher's Mills. thr' home of the Langhers. was one of the oldest landmarks of the county. Would Cause Panic. In a speech Mr. Bryan said that the Republicans were threateningi panic in case of his election. "Thers will be a panic in one family," he said, "and that will be the Taft fain 11y, for Mr. Taft's Federal salary wi; be withdrawn for the Ernt time it JURORS GAMBLED ON THE LIFE OF A MAN THE' TRIED. Verdict Set Aside Because Two Juror: Resorted to Game of Chance F Order to Arrive at a Conclusion A dispatch from Aiken to Thl News and Courier says Willian Knox, the convicted murder of Pick ens Penn, was given a new trial b: Judge Wilson, who- heard the argu ments for a new trial on the groun. of irregularity in the jury room. Knox was convicted or murder la week in the Criminal Court, but h. was not sentenced at that time ii order that his counsel might be heart in a motion for a new trial. Las Saturday the defendant was calle. up to be sentenced, but the solicit,, asked for a postponement until yes terday. The arguments were begur late yesterday afternoon and end ed this morning by the Judge settin aside the verdict. The ground for the new trial i most unusual. Affidavits were pro luced by Knox's counsel, Messrs Henderson and Davis, Gunter and ,yyles, from four of the jurors wh..: sat on the case. These affidavit were in effect that ten of the jurymen stood for murder, without recommen -lation, and that two stood for mur. der with recommendation to th-i mercy of the Court, thus reducing the sentence to life imprisonment. They could not arrive at a conclu ion by reasoning the matter and re orted to the uncertain game of hance. It was proposed that two slips of paper, one marked "mur der," which was to stand for no re, omendation. and the other to Le marked "mercy," to indicate a rec >mmendation for mercy, were to be placed In a hat and drawn for. This was agreed to and the slip were placed in the hat. It was greed by the two that if the 'mur der" slip was drawn they would give in to the ten, and if the "mercy' slip was drawn the verdict shoul! ye guilty with a recommendation to mercy. Fate was against Knox in the jury room and when the draw was made the "murder" slip was drawn oul, and the verdict was accordingly igned and rendered to the Court. The defendant's counsel contend d that this was gambling the life of the defendant away, and could not have been their honest convictions. ind was contrary to the law, and ask ed that the verdict be set aside. " TURNED GIfAVES DOWN. Hearst's Candidate Tried to Speal, Amid Cheers for Bryan. In Baltimore wide publicity having >een given the announcement thai Win. R. Hearst and John Temple 31aves would address a meeting 01 he Independence party, the Prince4n Theatre was packed tonight. A te! gram was read from Mr. Hearst xpressing his regrets. It was learn. d later that the announcement tha; e would speak was made by mis ake. Mr. Graves in his speech credite. Mr. Hearst with having injected inte his campaign all the interest it poe* sessed, and then severely criticise both the Democratic and Republicar parties. He flayed Win. J. Bryan the mention of whose name, how ever, was heartily cheered. Th' speaker attacked the Democratk 'ice presidential nominee. declarin; Mr. Kern to be the paid representa tive of a railroad corporation con. victed of criminality. A man in th' allery was ejected for repeat edly shouting "Are you not in th: pg. of Wmn. Randolph Hearst?" The ejection of the questioner wa' followed by a call for cheers fo Bryan, which were given In such manner that Mr. Graves threatene to appeal to the police to secure hin a hearing MILK DEALER IS U/ETECTED). Typhoid in Family of Farmer Wh~ Supplies Him. A Chicago dispatch says after dis ecvering more than fifty cases o typhoid fever among customers o Ernest Pilcher, a West Pullman mili dealer. cifcials of the departmnen of health have ordered him to dir continue the sale of nr~ilk immiediate1l and started proceedings to have hi license revoked. A police guard was requisitioneC hv Dr. GottfriedI Koehler. chief foon inspector, to sse that the orde which will affect about 300 custo mers, is enforced and that the deale does not send out any wagons. Health department Inspector found typhoid in the family of on of the farmners from whom Pichle obtains his supply of milk. Acco: ing to Dr. Koehler, Pichier kne' of these facts as long ago as Mor day. but continued to ditribute mil until the inspectors stopped him. DRANK WOOD ALCOHOL As a Substitute for Whiskey as Is Dead. Refused intoxicating drinks by ti saloon-keeper. Frank M. Reese. patent attorney, living at Sharo Hill. Pa.. is dead, as the result drinking wood alcohol. which he toc as a substitute for whiskey. Ree: was one of the sons of Jacob Rees who was closely identinied Wi Andrew Carnegie in the steel i dustry and whose inventions a~ much to do with enabling Mr. Ca negie to buifld up his great fortun FELL IN THE SEi Another American Air Ship Mee1 With Disaster, HAD EXCITING TIME The Passangers, Suddenly Findir Themselves Over Deep-Water, Dc Life Preservers, Descend to Wat and are Finally Rescued by LI Savers. A dispatch from Berlin, Germar says the second of the three Amei can balloons that started in the ra4 for the international trophy on Sn day from Schmargendorf has m disaster in the North sea. TI "Saint Louis," manned by N. H. A nold, of North' Adams, Mass., ax Harry J. Hewitt, was carried ove land to treacherous air currents ax later In the haze the aeronauts loi their bearings until suddenly thi saw the guard lights of an unknow coast. This meant that they must d< scend or risk the danger of bein driven far out of the track of ve sels. They chose the former cours and for an hou trhey were buftete by the waves, olmost giving up i despair. Eventually they were rescued by life boat, and the first intimation tb an accident had occurred to th "Saint Louis" was conveyed in wireless message from Arnold sayina "Lost everything in the North Se last night." Following so closely on the drs matic experience of A. Rolland Foi bes and Augustus Post, the navigg tors of the "Conquerer," which bure at an altitude of four thousand fe soon after the start of the race, bot men having a thrilling escape rot leath, the disaster to the "Sain Louis" was the subject of excite interest in Berlin throughoat the da and Eventrg. The JIrES co'.mnUnicat al wit Mr. Arnold at Wilhelmshaven, t which. place he had been transpor1 ed by one of the torpedo boati which were sent out tp render ac sistance to any of the balloonist who night drift out over the watei Mr. Arnold told a graphic story c the mishap. He said: "All day Monday with the excel :on c~f the eati) zfternoo2 we wer una ble to see the earth and we lo' red the balloon repeatedl to con rmunicate wiLb i i peor'e to asce) tain oxur whereabouts. - Apparent] we could not make them understan'd ut t-is probab'e was du-sl to ou poor German. Finally we decide to risk proca tdinl, still having twer ty sacks 'of ballast. ' Moving in a northwestarly direc -,o :n t a:-- ,vening " 3 pa:ssed a c.: the lights of which were visibl a fiv miles to the west and we learne later that it was Bremerhaven. Soo ifterwards we noticed light house nd buoys, which convinced us tha .e were moving about big water, bt we had no Idea where we wore. "In order to avoid drifting outc the line of ship traffce we conclui ed to go down to the water. hut bi for dgJng so we put on life preseri era. This was a peroliouis task, it it was dark and there was gres danger of being swamped In the bat ket. "After pitching about in the we er for almost an hour and givin 1p all hopes of rescue, Hewitt, w~ had climbed into the riging, dil aovered a flash light and goon afte1 ward was a life boat approachit us. The boat, however, could n' reach us, as we were being dragge through the waves at the rate< about fifteen or twenty miles a hour. The boatman shouted to 1 o jump overboard, which we die "I tried to save the St. Lou Club's bailon by ripping It up, bi :he rope was jerked out of my hand Lbout ten minutes later I was picke up by the boat, .which in the mea time had saved my . -companlo Hewitt. We were landed here, tC tired to proceed to Berlin, whith< we will go. Two of the competitors in the el duraice races have not been t ported, and it is hoped that the escaped the changeable lower cu rents which affected the other cor petitors and succeeded at higher titudes in reaching Russia. A report received here from Wa -erloog Island, in the North Sea, sa that a balloon passed over there, b that there was no further tidings it. The flotilla of torpedo boat d stroyers is searching the North Se where a thick fog prevails. KILLED AT GREENVILLE. Englishman With Carnival Compa eDead-Motorman Arrested. The killing at Greenville of Fr Ruie, an attache ;of the John -Jones Carnival Company, at midnig Thursday at the carnival groun *by a man believed to be Jesse H~ rison, a street car motorman, ~ created considerable excitement he Rubie was an Englishman, and t carnival managemnent has placedt 6case in the hands of the British a bassador at Washington. Harriso is in jail, charged with the crin t appers that there was nothing atween the men that led to the k1 IRain of tolcaxnic Ashes. A raln of ashes from volcan< a.on Martinique or St. Vinoen1 Isls is falling over Guadelopue Islai Mount Soufriere, the largest vol no on St Vincent, is calm and1 ashs mst omefrom some ot1 ete . TRIES TO DODGE HEARST REACHED BY BREAEING DOWN DOOR. Deputy Sheriff Starts to Break in Door of Toilet Room When He Comes Out and Surrenders. After a dramatic scene on a Union -' Pacific train at Omaha, Neb., Thuri D day night In which the door of his - stateroom was burst open by a depu ty sheriff, William Randolph Hearst, e millionaire editor, was served with papers notifying him that suit for $600,000 has been brought again-t Y, him for slander and libel by Governor 1- Charles N. Haskell, of Oklahoma, in e the Douglas county, Nebraska, dis trict court. The suit was filed with the dis a trict court last night, after whieh Le the papers were immediately with r- drawn. The train did not arrive until 11:25. A deputy sheriff was on hand with orders to serve the summons on Hearst. A knock o i 4 the door of Hearst's state-room elic t ited the information from the edi i tor's wife that he was not In the r room, but had gone to the .station to send a telegram. - The deputy sheriff demanded ad mittance in the name of the law, saying, If not admitted, .he would break down the door. There ensued d a dramatic scene. Mrs. Hearst on n the inside screamed oult she was alone and would admit no man, and a the deputy proceeded to carry out his. , threat; using his shoulder as a. bat e tering ram, he crashed through the a door and was met by Mrs. Hearst, partially disrobed, apparently on: the a verge of hysteria. Nothing daunted, although Mrs. Hearst rushed screaming through the door out in the aisle, Deputy Sheriff Stewart started to' kick in the door of the. toilet room aijoln Ing the state-room. ~ Then Hearst b emerged and accepted the papers. To a reporter Hearst said that the summons was unexpected, and he had not the elast suspicion that any thing of the kind was to occur in Omaha. "Why did you refuse admittance to the officers?" was asked.. - "Because myself and wife were retiring for th(e night,". explained Hearst. "I have no objection to be Ing served with these papers here in Omaha or anywhere else." MACK ADDS NEW LIST. e Makes Known Contributions Since October 9, Amounting to $12,556. At Chicago Thursday night Nat lonal Chairtman Norman E. Mack , made public the sums of $100 and r over which were received on October i 10, 11, 12, 13 and .14, which amount to $12,556, from seventy contrlbu-. tors to the Democratic national cam paign fund. These contributions were received by the committee after the first list, which was announced. iThursday in New York, was close.d on October 9. The following are' the contributions announced Thurs tday night: iAlabama-Jefferson County Bryan and Kern Club $100. fCalifornia-an1ta Anna Bryan Club $111. LColorado-J. S. Appel $100, Jas. .F. Burns 4.500. r Delaware-Roland D. Jaggler i $100, W. H. Swift $100. . District o~f Columbia-Hon. Edwin A. Newman $250, Columbia Demo . cratic Club $200. , Illinois-z.. M. Barnes $230, C. ~F. Gunther, $200, S. S. Jack $100, . Robert I. Hunt $125, W. E, Finley .$100. , Kansas-Cash $100, J. B. Wat kins $110 ,W. 0. Riby $100. ,a -Kentuhy-R. C. Ford $100, South 1 Trimble $500. SLouisiana--Albert Estopinai $250, j. C. Henriques $250, J. D. Grant, $250. Saint Clair Adams $200, Hon. .A. P. Jujo $100, Hon Louis Knop $100, Dr. Jos. O'Hara $100, Hon. Thos Connell $100. Hon. Chas. R. Kennedy $100, E. T. Dunn $100, Hon. Chas. Gauthreaux $100, Hon. John T. MIchel $100, Hon. Mat thew J. Long $100, Hon. Robert H. Marr $125, Hon. Robert 1.egier $100. Massachusetts--The Hon. Chas. . Hamin $100, Richard Olney $1500. SMichigan-L. T. Durant $100. ~Mississippi-E. E. Bonner $101. Missouri-0. H. Dean $100, Edward Robbs $100, 3. A. Davidson $100. 1Nebraska-M. D. Welch $1 00, th-e Hon. A. M. Morrissey $100. D. C. Patterson $100, J. A. Mc~hane $100', B. F. Marshall $100. New Hampshire-The Hon. Eu gene E. Reed $100. aNew Jersey-R{. S. Hudspeth $100. New Mexico-S. Lendauer $100. New York-Norman E. Mack $1,000, Francis Burton Harrison $500, J. B. Augustus Haley $500, A. J. McInny $5 00. Richard Croker, Jr., 3$300. Ohio-J. M. Slater $100, J. Mc .aahon $200. d Oklahoma-J. B. Mosley $100. rPennsylvania-J. B. Kaufman bi $100, Michael 'Gross $100, M. C. s. Brown $100. John Cadwalder $500. r- West Virginia-Bryan and Ker'i s Club $133. Bryan and Kern Club~ -e. of Huntington $100. b'w Washington-A. J. Beethen $100, he George.W. Mahoney $100. - Wisconsin-The Hon. E. M. Burke $100. 1. Wyoming-John C. Hamm $100, e- the Hon. .Colon Hunter $100.* * ilied by a Trolley. The Charleston Post says while attempting to cross in front of a e-- navy yard car this morning in the d Meeting street road opposite Ken ad. nerty's farm, 3. Williams. colored, 4- a farm laborer, was struck down and :h his body nearly severed in two pieces aer almost before Motorman Fred Mosley realized what had happened.*