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VOL. XXIII MANNING, S. C. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1908 NO.15 SCORES PERISH Two Hundred Lives Lost In Aw ful Sea Disaster. DEAD MOSTLY ARABS English Steamer Burned Off the Coast of Malta-Fire Apparatus Was Useless-Passengers Trapped and Were Forced to Jump Into the Sea and Drown. Valetta, Island of Malta, Nov. 28 -A terrible disaster, in which more than a hundred persons lost their lives, occurred at the entrance to this port Wednesday morning. The British steamer Sardinia, of the Ellerman Line, hailing from Live: pool and bound for Alexandria, with a crew of 44 Englishmen, ii first and 6 second cabin English passen gers and nearly 200 Arab pilgrims aboard, caught fire and within a f'w minutes was a roaring furnaee, the Dames bursting upward to a height of 200 feet from frequent explosio s in the hold. So rapidly did the fire spread that the frantic efforts of the crew t-> operate the fire apparatus proved useless, for it seemed but a moment before the upper works and masts crashed down upon the deck while the ship's boats were crushed by the falling debris or set fire and quickly burned. Safety lay in the sea, for no one could save himself except by jump ing overboard and taking chances of being picked up. Assistance was hurried to the burning vessel from all the war ships In the harbor and from the shore, but the work of res cue was greatly Impeded by the strong tide that was running. Even the naval launches were unable to go alongside. Among the Arabs there was a panic that could not be controlled. Many of them were too frightened to jump and they were burned to death. Others, casting themselves into the waves, were drowned. The erew behaved with admirable courage, serving out life preservers to the last and working the pumps. When the pumps became useless. Capt. Charles Little, commander of the Sardinia, took the helm and direeted his ship towards the shore so long as it could be navigated. He perished at his post. First Offieer Frank Watson. all three engineers, Seagraves, Hislop and Neill, thirteen of the ship's company and two first class passeng ers, one of them a boy named Grant, are missing. Fifty or more bodies have been recovered and seventy per sons were rescued. It impossible at present to say just how many were drowned .or burned to death. but the number will doubtless far ex ceed a hundred. The vessel drifted around three times, and finally was beached broad side on the rocks at the mouth of the harbor. She is still burning and will be a total loss. The British . vice admiral, Sir Asheton, and Curzon-Howe and Ad miral Fisher directed the rescuing boats, which did gallant work in saving those who were yet alive. and bringing the bodies of the dead ashore. Capt. Little's body; which wasq terribly mangled, was landed this afternoon. The other bodies were also mutilated and burned. Fifty six of the injured are being eared for in the hospitals. *ne of the rescued passengers gave a graphic account of the disaster. "Trhe Sardinia," he said, "left Valetta at. 8: 4. this morning. We were just outside the harbor and the crew securing the anchor when the cry of 'fire' was heard. Flames could be seen Issuing from a venti lator on the port side. A hose was promptly brought up and a .stream poured down the ventilator, but thi? did no good. In less than ten min utes flames were streaming out of the other venti~lators. The whole vessel admidships was wrapped in nlames. The Arab passengers were told to leave the hatch, in which they clung desperately, but they re fused to move. All who remained forward perished, except some of those who lraped into the water. "In the meantime naval pinnaces hurried to the scene. They coulrd not approach closely on account o' the high seas and falling spars. The great majority of the European pas sengers succeeded in reaching shore The Arabs. among whom were many women and ehildren, clung fogether shriekinlg, and but few of them would jump overboard, a' though urged to do so. "The ship's boats were rendered useless by ~the fames and no atten-pt was made to get them over the side Soon the hatches were blown ofi with loud explosions. throwing 1 ce Arabs into the air and killing anid injuring many of them. After a few minutes had been spent in trying to put out the fire nothing remained but to jump overboard." ~Unq uestionably explosions occurs ed. although the cause of the f' N is not known, and it was first believer that the rapid spread of the flat.e was due largely to the flowing nap'h tha. Tell-Tale Wounded. Salsbury, N. C.. Nov. 25.-War ren Whitmire. colored, was arrestet here when he appealed to a physic ian for treatment of a gunshot. I is charged that he is a burglar whi was shot by Mrs. Maud Feamste in her hom'e in this city last weei when she fired upon someone in th arness at her bedside. VOTED FOR TAFT BUT THEIR WAGES WERE NOT RAISED. According to Promise and Then Shot Down by Deputy Sheriffs Be cause They Struck About It. Perth Amboy, N. J., Nov. 27. Following a pitched battle between 700 strikers and 'twelve deputy sher iffs Wednesday at the factory 1 the National Fi''eproofing Company at Keasbey, near ht re in which si.. of the strikers were shot down, Governor J. Franklin Fort dispatch ed four companies of the Stite National Guard at Trenton to the scene to make the men behave them selves. A feeling of intense excitement prevails, as the strikers declare the deputy sheriffs were not justified i. firing upon them. Two of the wound ed men are dying here, and the four others wounded are painfully hurt. The citizens fear for the morrow, when the strikers threaten an attack on the plant of the National Fireprooffing Company. For two days there has been ri Ing at Keasbey, and a number of manufacturing towns along -he Raritan river. Two weeks ago the men employed by the Raritan River Clay Company went on strike ter higher wages. They marched to the plant of the Perth Amboy Fire Brick Company and induced the men there to. go out. Then each succeeding day the sirikers constantly increased in number, marched to other towns to induce employees to leave their work. The strike - say that they were given to understand before the election that if Taft was elected tlenx pay would be restored to $1.50 a day. It now is $1.35. The officials of eh' factories deny that such a pron.ise was made. When Chief of Police Burke sent a man to bring lunch to the depu'ie3 the latter was met with a shower of stones, compelling him to retreat. The man succeeded later in leaving the factory unobserved and secured the food. As he was returning one of the strikers caught sight of him and immediately there was a general attack. The man was not Injured Then began a bombardment of stones, during which nearly every window in the factory was smashed. Chief Burke says that two of his men were struck by missiles and slightly injured. He restrained his men from opening fire until the la minute, he declares. Matters had become so serious that the deputies were compelled to open fire to pro tet themselves, he further says. At least a dozen of the shots were fired point black at the strikers and six men fell. The strikers did not return the fire. The workmen turn ed and fled, leaving the wounded on the ground. There was only a tem porary lull In the rioting. The strikers soon returned to the factory. They kept at a distance, but It was evident they 'sere angered by the shooting down of their comrades. * TESTAMENT RETURNED By an Illinois Veteran of the Union SArmy. Charleston, Nov. 28.-In The Evening Post of Monday there was published a communication from Capt. David A. Logan, of Patoka. Marion county, Illinois, a veteran of the Union army, stating that he ha~i in his possesion a testament taken from the haversack of Capt. James M. Palmer, of Company, K, Tenth South Carolina Volunteers, who was killed in' the battle of the 2Sth of July, 1864, near Atlanta. Capt. Lo gn desired to return the testament to the family of the dead Confed erate. Gen. C. Irvine Walker. of Charles ton, commanded the Tenth South Carolina regiment In this battle, he being at the time lieutenant colonel of the regiment, and in comman.I owing to the absence of the colone'. Gen. Walker on reading the article in The Evening Post, became con vinced that the testament belonged to Capt. John S. Palmer, who was captain of Company K, of the Tenthi regiment, and whio was killed 4n 'he battle of the 28th of July near Atlanta. Capt. Palmer's widow is now liv 'ng in Charleston and upon her re uest Gen. Walker has written to capt. Logan setting forth the facts tnd requesting tha~t the testament e sent to Mrs. Palmer. as he has no loubt of the identity of the dea' =oldier with Capt. Palmer of his regiment. HUJNDREDS DROWNED. Steamer Sinks in Philippines by Striking on Rocks. Manila, Nov. 28.--The coasting steamer Ponting, carrying a large number of laborers from Narvacan to the rice fields in Pangasinon prov ince, struck a rock and sank last night, during a storm off the tow~n of San Fernando, in Union Province. It is estimated that a hundred of the passengers and crew of the Ponting were drowned. The steamer Vigcaya rescued 55. A patrol of constabulary, which was etablished immediately after the accident, picked up fifteen bodies and many were coming ashore. It is not known whether any Americars or Europeans were aboard the wreck ed steamer. Commits Suicide. -New York. Nov. 28.-Georgc SSchuester, 62 year old, a veteran o~ > the German army. shot himself witi r the old army pistol that he carries through the campaigns of thE SFranco-Prussiani war. He had beeT ou n f 3, rk for two months. BURIED ALIVE. No Hope for One Hundred Mei Entombed in Mine NEAR PITTSBURG, PA. One Shaft Wrecked and Other Not Completed-Cage Blown 300 Feel From Mouth, One Man's Head Be ing Taken Off-Women Quickly Gather, Their Cries Being Pitiful. Pittsburg, Nov. 2S.-A large num ber of miners are imperiled in , mine of the Pittsburg-Buffalo Cor Company at Marianna, near here, which caught fire following an ex plosion at 11:30 this morning. President Jones, of the company says that one hundred men, con stituting almost the entire force, were in the mine, which had j ist been examined by the State inspe: tors and was found in perfect con dition. A special train carrying a re - cuing party, equipped with all th'e latest appliances, left Monongahela at 12:~30 for Marianna. There are suid to be many English miners among the imperiled force. A dense cloud of smoak is coming from the mine's two shafts. Great excitement prevails there. Marianna i.. in Washington coun ty, which was ouilt a few months ago by the company, and is consid ered the most model mining town in the world. It is believed maLy men lost their ives. The heavy iron cage which carried the men from the surface to the workings was blown three hundred feet from the mouth of the shaft. Two men on the cage were lied, one of them having his head lown off. Little hope Is entertained for the entombed men, as the fan house was partly demolished and the fans topped for over an hour. The ex losion occurred in shaft No. 2, No. not being completed. Some company officials believe :t iecessary to djig through eight hun red feet of solid coal before they an reach the workings. At 1:30 :his afternoon the smoke ceased is uing from the mine. Wives, moth rs and relatives of the miners ga th red about the mine mouth, their ries being pitiful. It is said that there is a larg-: as well in the vicinity, but whether ;he gas from this was communicat d :o the mine and became ignited or hether the powder and dynamite or blasting exploded can not be as ertained. According to State Mine Inspee or Louitt, there were between 180 nd 200 men in the mine. It :.s 2ot likely that any wil: be recov ~red alive. The rescue party suc eeded in entering the mine th s fternoon. * The last ray of hope for the res ue of any one of the miners wv lsp'elled at 8:30 o'clock tonight hen the first rescuing party reach d the workings and found the dead ~odes scattered about the floor of :he mine. Few if any of the bodies are muti ted and the men were undoubtedly mothered by the. deadly vapors 'hich followed the explosion. The odies, have not yet been counted, but it is known that there are at Least 125 and the number may b~e Larger. All but two of the bodies a the mine, it is said, are th >se f foreigners. No effort has yet been made to re ove thk. bodkla from the mine. Instead the rescuers and the mining xperts are making a complete ex ploration of all of the workings to see if they are now safe. This work Is expected to occupy several hours.* AITING FOR DINNER TICKETS. Victims of Republican Prosperity Fall Into a Pit. New York, Nov. 28.-One hundred keedy persons waiting patiently in irizzling rain on Wednesday evening n front of a mission house in West hirty-recend street to receive tick -ts for a Thanksgiving dinner, crahed through the thin coverin~ over a part of the new Pennsylvania tunnel system and disappeared in the darkness below. Shouts and cries arose from the pit and a crowd which collected gazed down upon tangled heap of arms and legs. When they clambered out it was found that only two or three had been injured, and these only slightly. When calm head been restored the hungry ones lined up and received their precious tickets and disperse1, rubbing their bruises. TOUNG MURDERER. Boy Aged Fourteen Shoots Lai of Ten. Chattanooga. Tenn., Nov. 26. Clarence Little. ten years of age. wa: shot and instantly killed by Ton Wicks, ag'ed 14. Monday afternooii Young Little chafed the Wickes bo. on returning from a hunt withou any game. and said: "I would no be afraid to give you a shot at me. "By G-. I'll take it." sal Wickes, and fired a charge of buck shot into the boy's breast. Th coroner's jury held Wickes for firs degree murder. Ends His Life. Florence. Nov. 26.-John Haine: 3.- years old, ended his life with shotgun Monday. Mr. Haines live about six miles from Florence. Hl bad just returned from a trip t Florida, where he had expected t locate. He leaves a widow and se' al children. WHAT WE NEED AND HOW THE GOVERNMENT CAN HELP. Better Foreign Markets, Real Regu lation of Trusts and More Cottor Manufacturing at Home. Tom Watson, of Georgia, at the meeting of the Farmers' Union in New Orleans recently made a speech from which we make the extract be low: "In civilized government there are three great departments upon which prosperity depends. Agricul ture is one, manufacturing is another and commerce is another. Tf the government keeps hands off and merely protects each man in the pos session of his property, it is an open field and a free fight, 'root hog, or die.' The government can do this. or it can protect each and every one of these departments, in which case the result would be about the same as in the first. But when the govern ment takes up one at the expense of the others, the other two are in jured. When it takes up two at the expense of the third, the third lan guishes and suffers. Analyze this situation and you will begin to real ize what is . the matter with the backbone of the country." Mr. Watson reviewed the history of protection in this country, and de clared the manufacturers have not only made 8 per cent, but also clear ed $2,000,000,000 besides. He said that the farmer has never asked any thing but a free field and a fair fight, and had been denied these; that he had never asked to have other com modities taken to put money in his own pocket; that no more unselifish man was ever made in God's image on this earth; that when there is a pestilential swamp to drain, the farmer drains it; that when there are taxes to pay, the farmer pays them; that In the early history of the country when there were savages to drive back, It was the farmer who shouldered his musket and did the work. The capture of Andre was referred to and it was stated that the farmers who captured him could not be bribed. We cotton farmers of the South are the only people in the world who have a monopoly and don't know what to do with it, continued the speaker. The Steel Trust has a mo nopoly and knows what to do. It sells you plows, and hoes and rakes. and you have to pay the price. The Harvester Trust makes you pay the price. And all the time they are selling in South America and Russia at cheaper prices than at home. The Coal Trust fixes the price of the coal. It Is their business to fix the price and yours to pay the price. Congress could have said: "No, I won't burden the agriculturist with such loads as these." Congress could have broadened your markets, ob tained greater mercantile trade by reciprocity and other treaties. One commodity could be exchanged for another on terms fair to both. But its policies have caused the other nations to adopt retalitory tactics and narrowed the foreign markets to the produtcts of the Arberican ag riculturist. President McKinley sent a Com mission to France to negotiate a treaty that would have meant the entry into that country of cottonseed products from the South, velued at #20,000,000 a year. But the Senate killed it, and killed it because it contained a clause favoring the im oortation of French hosiery. Some little old New England mill would have been affected, and so $20,000, 000 a year to the South had to be sacrificed. In 1907. the sale of cotton abroad amounted to 9,708,000 bales. This cottox was manufactured and ship. ped back again and sold at higher prices, so that the net profit to our country was only $9,000,000. Don't that show that we are selling cottoi two low? Why not manufacture ev ery bale right here? The high tariff and trust system has restricted and, narrowed the market, cut off the demand and left -t surplus. The remedy lies in a low or tariff. Let the foreigner in, re -luc-e the price of American goods that are now protected, and thereby increase the demand for raw cotton. for the greater the demand is the greater will be the price. ~That's the permanent remedy. Now for immediate and temporary relief. I like that warehouse plan. That takes it off. The coffee growers were confronted with a situation al most similar to that which now con fronts the cotton farmer. Did they swamp the market with their over production? No. they put all their surplus in warehouses, raised the price and compelled the consumer to pay for not only what was market ed. but also for what was never sold at all. IKILLED) A PLANTER. Three Negroes Arrested Charged tWith the Crime. Greensboro, Ala., Nov. 2.-She. iiff Gewin has captured three negroes - charged with the murder of Forme eSheriff R. WV. Drake. near Laneville SAla.. Thursday night. One of thL negroes confessed and implicated th( other two. Het says that he helc the light while the other two negrcoes s. killed Mr. Drake by knocking hin a in the head with an axe: that they d then saturated his clothing and th< e ht'd clothing with .oil and set fir4 o to them. Steps have been taken t< o call a special term of court to tr; rthe negroes because of the feeling which is running high. HANGED AT SALUDA SLAYER OF EMANUEL CARVER PAYS PENALTY On the Gallows for His Crime. Shot His Victim While He was Picking Cotton. Saluda, Nov. 28.-A special to The News and Courier says at 12 o'clock on Friday Will Herrin paid with his life the penalty of the law for the murder of Emanuel Carver in Sep tember. The execution was without a hitch. Only a very few minutes were con sumed in preparing the prisoner for the drop. After ascending the scaf fold, Sheriff Sample asked Herrin if'he desired to say anything. He merely mumbled a word or two to the effect that he had nothing to say. At no time did he seem to realize what was awaiting him, and he met his fate without the least emotion. He was pronounced dead in ten min utes fater the trap was sprung, and his body was laid in a cheap coffin, furnished by the county, and carried to the poor house for burial. The Rev. D. H. Crossland went to Herrin's cell this morning and con ducted a little service. The con demned man manifested absolutely no interest in it. While an effort was made to shield the execution from the public, scores from positions of vantage witnessed it. Will Herrin was tried before Special Judge C. C. Featherstone at a special term of the Sessions Court in October for the murder of Mr. Emanuel Carver at his home In Sep tember. The testimony at the trial show that Herrin, without any ap parent cause whatever, shot Mr. Car ver in the back while the latter was picking cotton and failing to kill him ran upon him, knocked him down' and beat him over the head with his gun and left him dead. Mrs. Carver was a witness to a part of the awful deed, she being in the house when the shot was fired, and running to the door was horrified to see her husband down and Herrin standing over him, beating his head into a pulp with a gun. As soon as the news of the crime was made known some of Carver's neighbors went to the scene and soon found Herrin a little distance away, and upon advancing on him to take him into custody, was met with a volley of curses and fired up on with a stockless gun, he having broken the weapon while beating Carver. One of the party was sprinkled with shot, and the crowd i' turn fired at Herin and effected his capture. For a while a lynching was imminent, but cooler counsel prevailed and the culprit. was turned over to the sheriff and brought to Saluda and lodged in :fail. Thpre was a tremendlous crowd present to witness Herrin's trial, but the best of order prevailed. The de fendant was the only rtegro in the~ Court House during the trial, except the porter, .and to all appearances was the least disturbed by what was taking place. The only defence that could pos sibly have been made in Herrin s behalf was insinity, and this ques tion was fairly submitted to the jury, and under the testimony no :ther verdict than that reached could have been returned. Herrin was, however, a man of a very low order of Intelligence.* THIEF CUT GLASS And Made Away With a Jar Con taining Money. Dublin, Ga., Nov. 28.--A bold burglary was committed last night, or early this morning in the city. In one of the large plate-glass wind ows of the hardware store of the Gilbert Hardware Company, a round opening about three feet In diam eter was cut and a jar containing $50 or $60 In denominations from a penny to a silver dollar was stolen. The jar was put Into the window by the firm and the customers were allowed to guess the amount of mon& ey it contained. The burglars evi dently used a diamond or steel cut ter, and they were experts in their line. Marks are seen in the window on the opposite side of the store front slfowing that an effort must have been made also to take out the plate glass on that side. Officers Rowland and Chavous of' the polfice force discovered the bar glary a 'fewv minutes after 3 o'clock this morning. There Is not the slightest clue as to the Identity of the burglars. MENACE OF RACE SICIDE. It Will Depopulate the World If Kept Up as at Present. Ithaca. Nov. 28.--There will he no children left if present race sui cide tendencies continue during the next Century throughout the civiliz ed world,. was a prediction made hy Prof. WValter P. Wilcox, before the class in sanitary science and public health at Cornell Unirersity. Dr. Wilcox does nct accept the theory that the advance of civiliza tion or the spread of disease is re sponsible for the de::rease in the birth rate. lHe said: "The true reason for the fall in the birth rate is that in modern times. mainly in the last half-century, births and the birth rate have conme under the control of the human will and choice in a sense and to a degree never before true. . "This power to co'ntrol increase .has been used and is being used to day far too exclusively with referenca to prevent economic advantage, and far too little with due consideration to esa welfare and progress." * THE WAY OUT And the Ouly Way Out For the Farmer. SOME PLAIN TRUTHS Corn, Wheat and tock Farmers of the West Regulate Prices by Liv ing at Home, and Southern Farm ers Can Do the Same Thing if They Will Try to Do It. Hon. John M. Parker, of New Orleans, discussed the methods of cotton farmers in plain, hard words that evoked much applause during the forenoon of the last day of the Farmers' Union Convention at New Orleans. He spoke as follows: "It is much more pleasant and safe to hand bouquets than it is to throw brick, and, for that reason, most speakers at farmers' gatherings adopt the former course, and give 'the hardy sons of toil' such a sur feit of flatterly as to make a blunt statement of existing conditions most unwelcome. "A number of personal experiences have satisfied me the majbrity are like children, and prefer a sugar coated pill to quinine. Sometimes, it is necessary to give your medicine straight. Due to low prices and the boll weevil, already over a large sec tion and certain to spread further, the time has come for the farmer to take his dose like a man. "My excuse for this preface is hav ing addressed a number of farmers' gatherings and having been hooted and hissed at, too, I now ask as a personal favor that you hold up any demonstrations until my short talk is finished, as it is deeldedly unpleas ant for a speaker to be interrupted with the shout "Throw him out,' and then again, it is apt to interfere with this argument. "There is no more improvident man on earth than the average cot ton planter. In those good old days. before the war, of which the orator tells us, history says every farmer had his smoke-house packed with bacon, his crib filled with corn, the grist mill hummed regularly, and the farmers waxed fat and prosp erous. "Today not one cotton farmer in ten raises meat. Not one in five raises corn enough to last him, and, shameful to say, thousands actually buy the hay necessary to sustain their stock. "Annually now for some years the cotton farmers meet in convention, isten to some good political speech es, and occasionally a new joke, then rigorously applaud the fervid oratory denouncing all trusts, and finally or ganize the biggest kind of a trust t regulate prices, agree to decrease tcreage and diversify their crops, to aise what they need- at home, an I e independent of bank, cotton fac ors or merchants. "Their final resolutions are en husiastically carried at the conven ion hall, and all conveniently for otten, for by the time they return ome, they decide to plant a little bit more cotton, and they keep ocn n the same old way. "Do you ever hear the wheat grower, or the corn grower, or the at grower, or the mule raiser ca'.l :onventions to 'regulate prices?' Not n your life. He goes ahead. skimps close until he gets out of ebt, then asks the value of his pro uct and holds it until he gets it. e don't sit on the fence and cry or either m~oral or financial sympa hy. "The curse of our cotton planter s debt, and until he gets out of deb' he will never realize his dreams of independence. "Have you ever thought that in the great chain of the credit system the cotton planter forms one of the important links? How the tenant borrows from the planter, who bor rows from the merchant or factor, who, In turn, borrows from the local bank, which borrows in one of the great financial centers, which, in turn, borrows from the financial cen ters of Europe, and how in return both from the picking of the cotton to the final sending of the bill of exchange to reimburse the European center completes the chain? "Credit is the whole system, with the high prices and excessive charges which must be made to cover the risk involved. "Have you eiler b~een through OhIo, Illinois, Indiana, or Iowa, and seen the farmers of those sections? Great, splendid barns filled with hay .nd corn and oats and silage. The pasture with sleek cattle and sheep and hogs, the tool-house filled with well-kept implements, everything neat and orderly, and some profit on every article raised. They rotate crops in those sections, and keepj their property up, and have money in bank. "Why do our planters still adhere to the razor-back hog and scrub cat tle when at a less expense they could raise .fine stock, which will improve the farm and go a long ways towards lifting the mortage. The loss and abuse of farm implements annually represent a fortune. Hoes, plows. harrows, rn'owing -machines and wagons often lie, for months ex posed to the elements and when the crops of corn and cotton are gather. ed they are shamefully cared for The leaky barns with damaged corr and colicky mules are a disgrace. "No other agricultural product i as abused as cotton. It is improperl: covered, improperly cared for, an/ there is not a train out of New Or leans from whose car windows yoi cannot see picked cotton lying ou over-night exposed to weather, bale: of cotton lying on the ground o under a tree, or in a puddle of wa ter. with cheap bagging rotting an cotto aily bein damaged Suec STILLS CAPTURED THURSDAY OVER IN THE COUN TY OF AIKEN. Officers Find Some ".5lind Tigers" Busily Turning Out the "Tussac' Variety in Edisto Swamp. Aiken, S. C., Nov. 28.-Vigilant efforts are being made by the con stabulary officers of this county in an effort to break up the blind tigerz that are said to infest the Edisto river swamps. The officers, Messrs Cato, Samuels and D. H. Wallace, returned to the city Wednesday from Merritts bridge, where they made a successful haul, bringing with them a large copper still, that appeared to have rece':rly been bought. Sunday night the officers paid a visit to the vicinity, and found a quantity of "mash," but the still was conspicuously absent. Th-v calculated that if things were left undisturbed, the "mash" would be made into "blind tiger" about Tues day afternoon, that being the time It would req'uire, before the mash would .be sufficiently soured to be used. Tuesday afternoon they were -m the scene. They found that their calculations as to time were correct, but they were just a few hours too early to catch the bunch at work. They found the still, a new copper apparatus all in readiness, and the "mash" in 'first class condition," nd all other appurtenances read] for stilling bo!. the operaation had not actually commenced. They thought of leaving it in place and returning, but fearing t'.at they may have already been dis covered, and that the still would be taken away If left unmolested, they decided to "break up" things. So taking the still in the vehicle -with them they destroyed about 100 ga. lons of mash, broke all the barrles, jugs, etc. The still was brought to the city by the officers. Messrs. Cato and Samuels are the county dispensary constables, and Mr. Wallace is a United States rev enue officer. This is the third st''l captured on Edisto river within- the past few months, and the officers are being co'-gratulated upon their excellent work. Yesterday morning the Name of ficers made arother raid in the-same vicinity. This raid was made, at a saw mill about four miles I from Merritts bridge. They did not find a still at this point, but found an empty furnace where a still had re cently been taken from, apparently very hurriedly. Five barrels of mash was destroyed here, about 1C0 gallons. It was supposed that the operators of this still, hearing of the fate of the one near Merritts bridge, had hastily removed It to a place of saf ety. Besides the mash, which was made of corn, five bar141s; one "fleek" stand. a portion of a still, pots, jugs and tubs were chopped to pieces with axes.* GEORGIA CO3DIUNITY EXCITED. Citizens Looking for Negro Who Threatened White Woman. Ellaville, Ga., Nov. 27.--Great et citement prevails here this evening on account of an attempted assault committed this morning near here. While alone in her home with her babe, Mrs. Andrew Tellars, wife of a farmer, was confronted by an un known negro, who threatened death if she screamed. Instead of screaming, the fright ened lady seized her child and dash ed from the dwelling leaving the. black invader in full possession. Rushing to the field where Mr. Tel lars was engaged she gave the alarmi. The negro escaped before assistance arrived. One negro has since been captured by the pursuers and held for more~ complete identification. Two hun dred armed men are searching the woods of Schley county this after noon in a determined hunt for the negro, probably not feeling certain of the guilt of the prisoner already in custody. Killed by Train. Covington, La., Nov. 2(.-While pasing the station at Florenville, La.. one car of a Great Northern railroad gravel train jumped the track and crashed into the depot. Mrs. J. W. Cond1or. wife of the treasurer of the Covington Naval Stores Company, who was waiting for a train, was killed outright. Sev earl negroes were badly injured. * planters don't deserve the name of cotton farmer. They are merely cot ton producers. "Most business men or professional men will average at least 275 working days a year. On the prop erties under my control last season the greatest time any tenant actually worked in the fields was 146 days, the least time 112 days. and the -average 138 days. or less than one half the time put in by the merchant or professional man. It was either too hot or too cold, too wet or too dry, or any old excuse to keep out of the field. "The Northern farmer works twie as hard as we do and under great disadvantages, and to the full appre ciates the old motto: ''The Lord helps those who help themselves.' "Quit resolving and resoluting. Get to work. Diversify your crop. Raise good stock. Get your Corn Igressman to send yet. the latest Gov ernent hulletins. Get the best seed. Raise what you can at home. Abovi all, get out of debt. Stay out ol sdebt, and then hold your products 'until you get value for them, an: the whole worldi, instead of con demning, will applaud your wis a dom. GOES DOWN Sfeamer Finance Is Rammed by the Steamer Georgic and SINKS OFF NEW YORK Collision Occurs in Dense Fog In Main Channel-Three of the Eighty-five Passengers on the Fi nance, One Member of Her Crew and Much Mail Lost. New York, Nov. 28.-In the thick of a fog off Sandy Hook Thursday the stout steel freighter, Georgic, of the White Star Line. rammed and sank the lightly laden Panama steamer, Finance, outward bound with 85 passengers, 'he Finance go ing down within ten minutes, car rying to their death three of her pas sengers and one of the crew. The rest of the passengers, who included 19 women and 14 children, as well as others of the crew were rescued by the boats 'of the Georgic. The freighter was not damaged . Miss Irene Campbell, of -Panama, a passenger who was lost, clun - frantically to the rail of the sinking vessel and could not be persuaded to release her hold, nor were the men who manned the small boats able to remove her. She was seen cling ing determinedly as the vessel was engulfed. Win. H. Todd, third As sistant engineer, jumped overboard and was lost.. When a r611 call of the passengers of the Finance was called, it was found that Charles iL Schiweinler, a policeman of Panama, and Henry Muller, a railroad con ductor of Panama, had disappeared and there is little doubt that they were drowned.: The disaster occurred in the main ship channel off Sandy Hook at 8 ' o'clock this morning, and as both-yes sels were groping their way through a fog. The Finance had weighed - anchor and was picking her way down the Swash Channel, when Captain Mofbray, who was on the. bridge, heard the whistle of an ap proacbing linerr- The Finance was immediately started astern, and was slowly backing when the- Georgic, in bound from Liverpool, loomed out of the fog and a moment later crash ed into the port side, and just abaft the beam 'of the Finance. The prow of the freighter penetrated ,the side of the Finance nearly ten feet, tear ing away an unoccupied state room and leavin'g a. ragged hole,' through which the water rushed in. The Panama keeled far over to starboard, while men and women. many of whom had been awakened from a sound sleep, were thrown from their berths. Hastily covering themselves with bed clothing, they rushed in a panic to the main deck, which was fast sinking to the sur face of the water. Many of the pas sengers jumped overboard, not stoti ping even to provide themselves with life preservers. That more were not lost was due to the discipline of the :rew of the Panama, and the prompt and intelligent work of the sailors from the Georgic. Immediately after the accident.' the freighter backed off and anchcr ed, her commander, Capt. Clark, in the meantime having ordered the life boats lowered. The .boats of the Panama were also cut away as quickly as possible, t'hough with dif ficulty because of the heavy list of the sinking steamer. A score or more of those who jumped overboard were picked -up by the small boats. Meantime the Finance was settling steadily. To add to the confusion a moment after the impact there was an explosion of an ammonia tank in the forward hold of the Finance and the fumes drove the engineers and firemen to the deck. Wmn. Todd, the third as sistant. engineer, was partially over come by the fumes, he, staggering' 'o the rail, threw himself overboard. He was not seen again. Probably half of the passengers with the crew. stood by the ship, awaiting rescue, and these were gotten off with re markable expedition. Captain Mowbray and several of, the crew remained in a life boat near the sunken ship. Only the masts, stacks and part of the superstruc ture of the Panama remained above the surface. The shipwrecked passengers an-1 crew were brought to this city to night and placed aboard the Panama - steamer, Alliance, where the women and children were provided with .lothes. The passengers will depart on the next outgoing bound steamer for Panaml a. Captain Clark, of the *Georgie.. states that he was feeling his way into port slowly, and hearing a whistle on his port blow, tried to veer off and thought he would clear the Panama steamer, which unfor tunately began to go astern, with the result Ethat the two steamers collided. The Finance had over seven hundred bags of mail aboard. Four elephants in the Gecorgic's hold were undisturbed by the collision. * SHOCING TRAGEDY. Five Persons Burned up in a Ho'ise in Alabama Hartsel!, Ala., Nov. 28.--The home of Tom Richardson, at Wood land Mills, seventeen miles east of* here, was burned to the ground Wednesday night, and Richardson q wife, mother and three children were hurned to death. The remains of the childrenlgWere found in the burtr ed barn which adjioined the house. Several theories have been advanced.. all of which is robbery. Richardson is missing, but his body was not found in the ruins. '