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VOL. XXVI MANNING, S. C, WEDNESDAY, MgAY 119 LAUD S iOV, WILSO 0 HE IS DEMOCRACY'S IOPE, SAY SENATOR SMITH SAYS HE'LL BE ELEUTEI In a Great Speech at Atlanta Recentl; Senator Hoke Smith Predicted th Nomination and Election of Gov ernor Woodrow Wilson by th Democrats This Year. Senator Hoke Smith, who introduc ed Governor Woodrow Wilson on hi. recent visit to Atlanta to an immensi audience that literally packed the au ditorium in that city, was given a per sonal ovation, and his highest enthu siasm for Woodrow Wilson as Dem ocracy's leader in the 1912 campaigi and the next president of the Unite< States. Senator Smith analyzed thi situation throughout the country an( showed how Woodrow Wilson is run ning everywhere and that the race fo: the Democratic nomination is be tween Speaker Champ Clark an< Gov Woodrow Wilson, with Wilso: far in the lead. Senator Smith said he had reached a conclusion, about what the Demo cratic party can and ought to do. 7 have had runusual opportunities < form an opinion within the past foui months in Washington city, and : feel that my fellow citizens of Geor gia are entitled to hear what I hav learned. My conclusions about whai the party ought to do were not form ed by preconceived views I believ ed that the interests of the entiri country demanded the election of Democrat and I undertook to find oui who would be the strongest candi date and who was in a position to-da to serve his country best. I talked to senators from the Pa. cific to the Atlantic, from the lake. to the gulf. I talked to visitors ir Washuzgton, and I was forced to thi conclusion that the people were in terested in the tariff, especially norti of the Potomac. but that they wer( interested in other questions as well The ffxed conviction was taking hole of them north of the Potomac thai they were not receiving from the of ficers elected what they were entitled to-that political bosses, in allianc( with special interests were controll ing legislators and keeping the mas of the people out of their rights. I found that all through tne north the middle states and the west, ther was a deep and stated purpose tc elect a president who would heli them to get away from the evils b2 which they were burdeaed. I founi that all over the country one man it the Democratic party, above all oth ers, had caught the popular imagina tion and won their love and esteem I knew his record and I knew he de served it. Let me give that record to you. Born in Virginia. The peopl< throughout the land are glad to turr again to the birthplace of Washing ton, of Jefferson, of Madison. and o: Monroe, and go back to the old days of the infancy of the republic. Hij boyhood spent in' Georgia. His col lege training received at the Univer sity of Virginia. And admitted t< the bar in Georgia That don't hur him north of the Potomac. Th great heart of the American peopl to-day is asking for the man and no questioning about where he come from. I say he will be elected. Listen t< me. It is a firm conviction. I .havy talked with senators from Maine They tell me that Maine will vote fo: Wilson against Taft or Roosevelt. I< Is the only man that can carry Nev Jersey. He is the strongest man i: Ohio by 50,000 votes. Both th< senators from Indiana have told m< that If nominated he is .certain t< carry that state without a campaign Wisconsin is safe, in spite of LaFol lette's power as a Republican. Bo:l the Dakotas will swing into line. Th< Democrats of Montana will suppor him against either of the Republica candidates. A senator from Oregon tells m Wilson can carry that against eithe of the Republican candidates. Tw editors of the leading independen papers In California say that agains Taft, Wilson will have a walk-over i California. and they are convince, that he would beat Roosevelt als< Now I come back to New York. I ai assured by some of the very best in formed men in New York that wit Governor Wilson we will have ou strongest candidate in that state an that he can certainly beat either Ta: or the colonel. When Georgia. the empire state the south, declares her preference o May I. I believe that the nations convention in Baltimore will see bou empire states line up and vote fc Woodrow Wilson. One of the deli gates, who is one of the foremo& men of New York, told me that w' need not be troubled about Ne York. that when Wilson needed thos votes to nominate hinm he was sati! fied he would get themf. I came dour on the train today with another de egate from New York, who is an ea nest friend of Woodrow Wi' on. I want to tell you another thing. did not believe it two weeks ago whe it was told. One of the leading paa ties in the politics of Pennsylvani told me that the people of Pennsylv: na were so determined to get rid< boss rule, that they would turn fro' the Republican party and that Wi son would carry the State. The or cquestion with the masses of the pe< pie there was: "Shall we be hos riden by men or shall we have a 1 gal administration and admtinistr tors who consider the interests of tl great mass of the people?" Why has Wilson got the mass< the peple? Because after takix the preidency of the great Princetc STEAMER PASSES NEAR BLT PAID NO ATTENTION TO TI S TANIC DISTRESS SIGNAL. Officer Boxhall Tells Dramatic Story of Trying to Signal and Stop Pass ing Steamer. Two facts stand out with intensity in the evidence adduced before the e Senatorial committee that is investi gating the wreck of the Titanic and the loss of life that attended it The first is sworn to by Vice-President e Franklin of the White Star line, the other by J. B. Boxhall, fourth oficer of the Titanic. - Franklin testified that the news of the sinking of the Titanic reached r the offices of the White Star line in d - New York between noon and 1 - o'clock Ionday, April 15, about ten - bours after the vessel had actually - sunk. and two hours after the Car pathia had sent broadcast in aerial messages the news that she had pick- h ed up all the survivors. Franklin said that he could not - believe it true and that he took ev- n ery measure to prevent such news - becoming public until six hours la ter, when absolute confirmation came from the Captain of the Olym- s pic, giving the number of the res cued and further details. Eoxhall declared that within fif- e teen minutes of the sinking of the Titaaic he, with other officers, in-i cluding Captain Smith, and also sev- t eral passengers noticed the masthead t( lights and red sidelight of a large steamer, whose position, Boxhall says, seemed to be not more than five h miles away. Boxhall, who was fourth officer of 0 the Titanic, says he sent up rockets, used the Morse electric signal code d and did everything possi'>le to at tract the attention of this steamer. b Nevertheless, Boxhall maintains u this mysterious vessel drew away, le - taking an oblique course that sent her below the horizon of those on the b L sinking Titanic He has no idea of ti I the name of the vessel nor to what p - line she belonged. LI Not the slightest whisper had 0 gone forth concerning what Boxhall st would testify to, and his every word 0o fell upon the multitude crowded in the marble conference room of the Senate building as lightning flashes from a clear sky. T - University, for 20 years strong young men have gone out over the country. intense believers in Wood , row Wilson. The whole United 1 States came to admire him. And]t > when New Jersey, having been trust- t > ridden by the Republican party, , wanted a candidate to lead them, they turned to Woodrow Wilson and t nominated him as the Democratic sr - candidate for governor. - Then the man went before the peo pie face to face and promised them -popular government. He promised them reform in their' election laws. He promised to drive out bosses. Hea e promised them public service im Sprovements and legislative improve - ments in the school system. So fullyF did he carry out his promises, in h spite of almost overwhelming oppo sition that he stood squarely by the - people and forced the legislature tor - tn ythe rights of the people. If they nominate the colonel we; want somebody that can talk against a him and write against him, and I Spromise you that he will make Teddy sorry if he runs against him. There are too many unwilling to see the a sanctity of the bench destroyed, un willing to believe that the constitu- h tion can be wiped out, unwilling to a let Mr Roosevelt set up a government c in defiance of the constitution and in t defiance of law. The great mass of t people are unwilling to abandon the a traditions of Washington and rput ev- T en the colonel in for the balance of his life-.t SMy fellow citizens, I have talked J longer than I intended, but I wanted sj you to know why I have reached the t conviction 1 have had With the ap- Il proval of eGergia on May 1, the ef- ea fort to defeat Governor Wilson in the A south will be given up, and he will v sweep all the southern states. His e nomination will be assured, and next jt r November we will put him in the ri white house. We will place at our Ib thead a man than whom there has c t been no greater scholar, or one with better training for responsibil- I it-a man who has already shownu his power as a great administrative t officer, has always used it to serve a 'the human race. -I present to you p our next Democratic nominee, the rnext president of the United States, ec WorwWilson. ( ~ITorpedo Strikes Maryland. A dispatch from Los Angeles. Cal. t< L says the united States cruiser Mary land was struck by a torpedo dur *r ing torpedo practice Wednesdey. During the practise in which the tot tpedo flotilla and submarines fired e torpedoes at he Maryland, torpedo'es ith collapsible heads were supposed eto be used, and it is thought that on~e -wi:h a solid head was fired by mis n take 7-Outbreak a Massacre. The revolution in Fez, the 'Moro- I Ican capitol. developed into a verita n ble massacre. It is now known that 15 French officers and 40 soldiers 1 a were killed in the fight with the mu- e tnous Moorish soldiers while 1 a Friench citizens were massacred. Onea Shurt...d Jews were slain. _Saw~ Many Bodies Float inui. s.rhe steamer lBremen andi the -steamer Rhein passed on Saturdlay. - April 15, in afternOon in the neigh Le borhood of three large icebergs. Sighted numerous pieces of wreckage and a great number of huriian bodies with life preservers on floating in.i the sea. iUARD THE JUDGE TORMY DAY MARKS THE TRIAL OF THE OUTLAWS VHO SHOT UP THE COURT udge Staples Presided While Well Armed Pickets Were Scattered at Several Points in and About the Court House to Protect Court from Another Attack from Outlaws. Dsperate but fu-.ile efforts were Lade late Tuesday, according to the etectives here, to smuggle weapons 1 six members of the Allen clan in il at Hillsville, Va., Early in the' ay they had pleaded not guilty to dictments charging them with five turders in Carroll county court ouse on March 14, and their trials ere set for April 30 at Wytheville, L an adjacent county The priso arr will be taken there during the ight and strict precautions will be tken during their transfer from illsville, as the day's developments owed that the Allens had many -iends, who might attempt a rescue. On the pretense of being Intoxicat 1, Wesley Smith attracted attention round the jail and was locked up. an altercation with Detective H. Lucas, Smith drew a dagger, but e detective knocked him uncon ious. Smith is said to be a friend the Allens and his plan is said to ive been to get into a cell adjacent Floyd Allen to communicate with m. Later In the daf at the point a rifle, Detective E C. Payne ove J. C. and David Strickland om the vicinity of the jail. The two others, who hitherto have been der suspicion of aiding Sidna Al n and Wesley Edwards, still at rge in the mountains were charged - Payne with loitering in front of e jail and acting threateningly. Counsel for the Allens were ap led to by the Strickland boys, one them declaring that Payne had ruck him. The attorneys sought it Judge Walter R. Staples, who sited the jail and secured Payne's rsion of the affair. The judge told ayne not to relax his vigilance in iarding the prisoners. In the court proceedings early aesday it was decided that the bul t-searred courthouse of Carroll ty would not be the scene of the lien trials. Atto'rneys for the six embers of the Allen clan thought Ce lead punctured walls and chairs ould be prejudicial reminders to a ry of the tragedy of March 14. hen the judge, the prosecutor, the teriff, a juror and a bystander were ied. The application of the~ de nse for a change of venue was not >posed by the prosecution and idge Staples granted it. To all indictments the six defend its pleaded not guilty. Their attor cys announced a severance of the ses and the Commo.nwealth will try loyd Alien first and probably his ns Claude and Victor, next, then Es nephews. Friel Allen, Sidna Ed ards and Byrd Marion. Toward e close of the d:-.y's proceedings ference was made to Sidna Allen, ho with his nephew, Wesley Ed ards, is s:ill being hunted in the ountains by detectives. N. P. Oglesby, of counsel for the risoners, moved that attachment of idna Allen's property be dismissed had been done with the other risoners. The prosecutor inquired >w Mr. Oglesby had been selected to t for Sidna Allen, and if he hrd immunicated with the latter abou L subject. The attorney replied at he was acting for Sidna Allen the direction of Mrs. Sidna Allen. ie court reserved decision. Court i roceedings drew a pic-[ Iresque crowd of mountaineers. dge Walter R. Staples sat in the teO chair in which Judge Thorn n L. 'Massie met his death. Behind! e rail was a detective, a six-shoot hung conspicuously on his hip. mong the six prisoners, as well as trious strategic points in the smnal :urtroom, armed pickets were sta oned. As the crowd filed in the >m1 Detective Tom Felts, assisted e Sheriff Edwards, searched all for ncealed weapons. Some who had rode in from the ountains expressed surprise at the nusual proceedings, but precau on was not lacking. A cordon of rmed deputies guarded the six risoners as they were brought to e court room. Floyd Allen, on ac >unt of an injured knee, had to be irried, hut the other five defend its strode slowly to the court house Smarked contrast to the morning of Farch 4, when they galloped into wn and defied the law. As Clerk Goad read the five sepa ie indictments charging five mur er, the six defendants listened in ft'erently and answered in mono me -'Not Guilty." Reminders of tcourt house tragedy were numer is-on the scarred chairs and the -als. Clerk Goad and Floyd Allen yet for the first time since their pis 3 duel outside the court house of larch 1 4. which left a red scar on he face of Goad and two bullets in 'loyd Allen's knee As Clerk Goad read the long in Lten~ts. the scene the court ouse was one of grim silence, ex nt for the maneuvers of a big New oundland dog that slowly crept round under t1: knees of the spec ators, calmly surveyed the prisoners d finally reposed beside the idre's bench. Not a woman or a ne ro attended the trial, thcugh many :erc on the court house green. Another Notable Perished. Jonklin 3. 0. Reuchlin, managing irector of the Holland-American . -s:p line, peishd with the Ti CREW REFUSES TO SAIL DEMANDED THAT GOOD LIFE BOATS BE PROVIDED. Despite the Assurance of Officers That the Supply of Boats Was Am ple Seamen Kicked. When the White Star Liner Olym pic, sister ship to the Titanic, was ready to sail from Southampton, England on Wednesday for New York, 300 firemen and engineroom workers quit the vessel, declaring that the collapsible boats on the Olympic were unseaworthy. The Olympic is lying off Ryde, Isle of Wight, with 1,400 pasengers aboard and no possibility of sailing very soon. There were reports that some of the passengers had refused to sail, but for the present all remain aboard the vessel. It also was reported soon after the strike was inaugurated that the company had succeeded in get ting men to take the strikers' places, but this proved to be incorrect As a matter of fact, the strike has extended to the crew, which now de clines to sail with the "blackleg" firemen, who were brought aboard and the British Seafarers' union is supporting the men on this decision. Pickets are patrolling the docks to revent the recruiting of "blacklegs." In an endeavor to have the strikers return to work, Commander Clarke, chief of the immigration office In Southampton, offered to demonstrate in the Cowes roads that the boats on the Olympic were absolutely safe. The men were ready to listen to this proposition, but later, it is learned, declared that they would have been ready to satl if the company had agreed to demonstrate the seaworthi ness of the boats at this port. This, in turn, the company declined to do. Commander Clarke says that there are forty-four lifeboats on board the Olympic, including the collapsible boats, and that their total seating capacity is 2,500 which is largely in excess of the total of the passengers and crew. While he considers wood en lifeboats superior, he was satis fied with all the boats on board. One of the stokers of the Olympic aid: "What we demand is that ev ery one of the lifeboats shall be a wooden one. Personally, I do not care, as I am unmarried, but many of the men have wives and families and their lives are as valuable as those of the first class passengers." QUITE NEAR I TIE TITANIC. -4 But News of the Disaster Recahed the Californian Too Late. The Leyland steamer Californian which has just arrived at Boston was less than 20 miles from the ill rated White Star liner Titanic, when the latter foundered on the morning of April 15 Capt. Lord, of the Cali fornian, said that had he known of the Titanic's plight, all the latter's passengers could have been saved. That his ship was the steamer report ed to have passed within five miles of sinking liner and to have disregarded sgnals for help, Capt. Lord denied positively. "I figure that we were from 17 to 20 miles distant from the Titanic that night," said he. "About 10:30 that Sunday night we steamed into an immense ice field," said Captain Lord, "and im mediately, as a matter of safety, our engines were shut down to wait for daylight. With the engines stopped, the wireless was, of course, not work ing, so we heard nothing of the Ti tanic's plight until the next morning. Then the news came in a message from the Virginian. On receipt of the message we started immediately for the scene of the disaster.' FDITOR SHOT AND KILLED. Murderer a Russian Crazed by the Titanic Wreck. At Spokane, Wash., E. H. Roth rock, city editor of the Spokane Chronicle, was shot and killed in his editorial room by Richard Aleck, a Russian laborer Aleck first told the police he had been on the Titanic and then that he had been on the Carpa thia and mumbled: "Tnere had been too much printed about the disast er." Hie woulel give no other reason for the crime. Aleck walked quietly into the Chronicle local room and askd for the editor. As Rothrock walked towards him, Aleck drew a revolver and shot him in the breast. Rothrock died within five minutes. The murderer later told the police he was 40 years old and came to this country four years ago Pours Hot Coff'ee in Ears. Because he failed to do the bid ding of his wife, R. B. Hayes, of La Porte. Ind., will, lose his hearing. Hayes rushed to a physicians office with the statement that his wife -had poured boiling coffee in his ears in a fit of passion. Examinationl disclos ed the fact that the man's eardrums had been destroyed, leaving him en tirely deaf. cild Burned to D~eath. While he and his companions were playing with matches in the front ard of his home. Frank Sparling Seely, the four-year-Old sonl of Mrs. . A. Seely, of Norfolk, Va., was so badly burned Tuesday afternoon that e died that night. Crazed by the Wreck. Affected by the Titanic disaster, her mind filled with constant pic tures on the sea tragedy, Mrs. H. U. Spueher, a wealthy St. Louis wo man threw herself from the Venice pie ealyTusay and was drown CLOSE CALL FOR SHIPS STEAMER CRETON RAN INTO THE STEAMER IROQUO~ Crashed in Dense Fog at Sea But Fortunately No Disaster Resulted to Either Ship. With a hole in her starboard quar ter five feet by ten feet and extend ing to within two feet of the water line, the Clyde liner Iroquis came into Charleston Sunday night after the narrowest escape of her career. Dur ing a heavy fog at 11 o'clock Sun day night, eight miles east of Look out shoals, the steamer Cretan of the 'erchants' and Miners' line struck her iron prow into the Iroquois' side, crushing the heavy plates like paper and smashing througn a bulkhead into the sleeping quarters between decks. The two ships separated and after a nexamination had been made of the damage to the Iroquois, she proceeded on her way. The Cretan settled somewhat by zne head after the collision and tMere was some thought of transferring her passen gers to the Iroquois. The hole, how ever, was stopped with mattresses and other material and it was decid ed that the ship could take care of herself. The Ocean Steamship liner St. Louis stood by to render any as sistance needed. Despite the shock of the collision and the great size of the wound that was made in the Iroquois' side, there was little excitement among the pas sengers aboard the ship. Some of them, in fact, did not even know that the vessel had been in collision until after morning had come and it was evident that no serious results were to be feared. Six med, however, oc cupying berths forward and on the starboard side between decks, had a narrow escape, the beak of the Cretan breaking through the bulkhead and almost into their berths. While the Iroquois is seriously damaged she was able, to proceed to Jacksonville under her own steam Tuesday. Capt. Ingram of the Iroquois, in his report of collision, states simply that there was a thick fog at the time and the vessels were off Cape t Lookout. According to information fiom other sources, the Iroquois beard the Cretan's whistle and mis took it for the whistle of the Look out lightship. As the liner turned to avoid the supposed lightship the Cretan forged forward out of the fog I and struck the Iroquois. The Cretan passed the Virginia Capes off her way to Baltimore as 4:40 o'clock Monday afternoon. It t is reported that the Cretan had a hole stove in her bow three feet be- E low the water line but took on no water. The Iroquois had a hole stove in her side near the stern. the hospital in Mexico City. i so 1( BRYAN MAY RUN AGAIN. . Should the Republicans Nominate Teddy Roosevelt.k The visit of William Jennings Bry- i an to Washington Wednesday ands his conferences there with the va-a rious party leaders, particularly ins the senate, was followed there by e widespread discussion of the possi-ji bility that the distinguished Nebras-e kan might again be the democratic f candidate for President Mr. Bryan frankly stated to inter-s viewers that he was not a candidate for the nomination in any sense of t the word and that it was difficult for him to conceive of any circumstances f under which he might be a candidate for the nomination. Hie said there I were plenty of other progressives in the party from whom a selection1 could be made. Despite these public utterances, some democratic senators in discuss-I ing their Informal talks with Mr. Bryan were inclined to the .belief that under certain conditions Mr. Bryan. would not decline the nomination. In short the impression left was that if Col. Roosevelt should be the Republl-t can nominee. Mr. Bryan would like 1 once more to take the field against RETURNS TO FACE CHARGE Beach Comes Back From Europe With His Wife. Frederich 0. Beach and Mrs. Beach reached New York'on Wednes day on the steamer Kaiser Wilhelm 1 from a trip abroad, where Mr. Beach learned that he was wanted in Aiken, S. C.. for trial on the charge of having atacked Mrs. Beach there on February 26. 'Mrs. Beach's hand rested in her husband's arm as they' descended the gangway of the steam e'. Mr. Beach declined to say any thing about the case. Pasengers on the steamship said the couple kept to their cabin most of the time. Sparrow Causes Trouble. Two fighting English sparrows! caused the death of Jacob Doll, a prosperous farmer living near Clark s burg. W. Va., this week. Hie was sleeping on his front porch when the birds swooped violently upon his neck. The beak or talon of onc caught in his flesh, tore a hole in the jugular vein and caused him to bleed to dath. ' I ind~ Woman and Fire House. In the guise of telephone repair men, robbers gained entrance to tihe house of Mrs. E. A. Clark, in Chica go, this week and forced her to give en her jewels and nearly $1,000 in cash. They tied her to a table in the basement and set fire to the house. Firemen broke down the doors with axes and rescued Mrs. Clark uncon HOSPITAL IS BURNE. PATIENTS ARE TAKEN DOWN LAD DERS AND SAVED. SOME NARROW ESCAPES -4 Fire Caused by the Carelessness of the Driver of an Oil Wagon, Who Threw Lighted Match Near a Can Which He Had Just Delivered Causing an Explosion. The hospital at Anderson, a three tory, brick building constructed 4 Fears ago at a cost of $50,000, was :ompletely destroyed late Thursday fternoon. The fire originated fron . white man, an oil wagon driver i lighted match carelessly thrown by ear a can of kerosine which he hac just deposited on the side porch The kerosine was ignited and a tank of gasoline nearby expidded :hrowing flames in every direction rhe negro orderly was the first tc liscover the fire, and he hurriedly informed the superintendent, Miss LJtes, who in a composed manner In tructed the nurses to help her gel :he patients out of the building. All patients who were well enough :o walk were led from their beds tc :he elevator and were taken to the round in safety. Six other -patients vho had undergone operations in the .ast day or two, were too weak tc ielp themselves and these were car ied to the ground by ladders put up :o second-story windows. The flames so rapidly spread over he building that no time was given he rescuers to even bring bed othes around the patients as they assed them through the windows. our patients were brought to the round In nude condition. Miss Janie Langley of Mount Car nel, a nurse, who was operated on rhursday morning and who occupied room on the second floor in the ear of the building, narrowly escap d being burned to death. She creamed for help and Dr. Lee San ers and Charlie Sanders attempted o reach her room through the hall, vhich was in a blaze. As the men opened the door lead ng to the room of the patient the lames burst through and drove hem back. They hurried to the round and by means of a ladder eached a window of the room and hrough the window the sick wo nan was take nto safety. A few ninutes' delay would have been fa al to Miss Langley. Judge W. F. Cox, who was operat d on Wednesday, was taken from a econd story window, as were Mrs. H. Ferguson, Mrs. Bush Adams, ,Irs. E. K. Todd, Miss Corrie Mc auley and Miss Langley. Miss linkscales, a nurse, who remained .t her post on the second floor until 11 the patients were safe, descended n the ladder just in time before eing cut off from escape. Mrs. Ada ms, one of the patients >rought down a ladder, was in a dy ng condition, and it is feared that he will succumb. The fire did not .dd to the seriousness 3f her case, as he was in a condition past appre ating the excitement. A negro wo nan had just been taken off the op rating table and had not recoverd rom the anaesthesia. In an uncon cious condition she was removed to afety. Other patients in the hospital at e time were: Mrs. Jennie Hancock, drs. A. C. Sloan, D. 3. Watson and our negro women. For a time it vas feared that Mrs. Hancock had ost her life in the flames, as sh~ ould not be located. It developed ater that she saw the flames, and al bough in a sick and weak condition, he managed to escape on foot, and roceeded to house next door, where he was found after a search. An incident of the fire was when dTiss tes, the Superintendent, held a adder in her arms to lengthen it to mable a man to get in a window on he second floor to rescue some of he patients. Miss Uites, who is of ,eptional strength, held the lad ler by herself as the rescuer and the atient came down the ladder to the ,round. Two patients, Mrs. J. P. Massesy tnd Mrs. Fannie Couch, had been lismissed from the hospital and had ot gotten out of sight of the build g when the fire was discovered. In ill there were 12 patients in the uilding, and everyone of them was -escued and no serious effect upon :heir condition is anticipated' from he fire. A Young Grandmother. Mrs. Patrick Lyne, aged 29 years, >f Victor, Col., is believed to be the :oungest grandmother in the United states. Her daughter, Mrs. A. D. arrity, aged 15, has just given birth a nine and a half pound baby boy. Mrs. Lyne's great-grandfather is still iing. He has twelve children, all iving, the youngest being 23 years Three Elieid in Tornado. Three persons arc known to hav4 been killed, at least a score injured tnd several farm houses and village lwiligs were wrecked Sunda3 when a tornado, which formed in thE vieintiy of Yukon, near Oklahom: Vity, swept in a northeasterly direc tion through the counties of Okla boma and Logan, Okla. lHold Up in New York Cafe. Entering a restaurant on Nem York's East side, four highwaymnel covered Morris Last with revolvers and forced him to give up jewelra and money aggregating $700 in val ue. They hacked out of the room warning thirty other diners to makh no outcry, and made their escape ii SUNK BY AN ILE Lh ANOTHER STEAMER MEETS THE FATE OF THE TITANIC Norwegian Steam Freighter Reports Seeing Unknown Steamer in Dis tress, Which Went Down. Officers of the Norwegian steam ship Romsdel, which is in dry dock at New York Thursday after a trip made perlious by field ice, believe that they witnessed the sinking of a freight ship of about 8.000 tons in latitude 45.5, longitude 57.10, 400 miles north of the Titanic's grave, on March 26. The identity of the sunk en ship is not known. The Romsdel's attention was at tracted to the distress ship soon af ter nightfall when the vessel began sending up rockets showing that help was needed. Capt. Heil ordered that the Romsdel be headed for the scene and his ship was run into the ice field with as much speed as possi ble, but she had not gone far before she had six or seven holes in her hull which allowed much water to enter the hold. Meanwhile the rockets continued te ascend from the ship in distress, but the Romsdel was helpless, for she too was fast in the ice. About midnight the rockets from the other vessel stopped and soon after her lights were seen to disappear be neath the waves. When daylight broke those on board the Romsdel were unable to find any trace of the sunken vessel. For three days the Romsdel was a prisoner in the ice. She finally work ed her way out with six more holes in her hull and her propeller blades broken. Temporary repairs were made but it was necessary to keep the crew at the pumps constantly. On' her arrival at New York she was dry-docked and is now undergoing extensive repairs. REIGN OF TERROR IN MEXICO. Murder and Arson Are of Almost Daily Occurrence. Murder and- arson are crimes of almost daily occurrence in the ban dit infested regions of the west of Mexico, according to American refugees, who arrived at San Fran cisco, Thursday on the Pacific mail steamer City of Panama. Women and children of families of American planters h, d engineers, were taken aboard at Mazatlan, Acapulco, San Blas and other ports. They declared a reign of terror extending over almost the entire coast and gave an account of capture of Acapulco by bandits after the cit izens had been able to offer only $10,000 of $20,000 demanded. Mrs. Leila Steele, of New York, wife of a civil engineer employed on a large plantation, who boarded the vessel t Salina Cruz, said American resi ents of the Salina Cruz district lived in daily terror for their lives. 'Mrs. Ida Gerton of Texas, who boarded the vessel at Salina Cruz, said anarchy prevailed near Lucretia, whence she came, and that she be lieved many Americans were killed. "Railroad bridges have been blown up," said Mrs. Gerton, "ranch houses farms and stores are being robbed nd their defenders shot out of pro ection. ALMOST A MIRACLE. other and Babe Separated in Life boat Are Re-United. Mrs. Leah Aks and her infant, sur vivors of the Titanic disaster, arriv ed at Norfolk, Va., Thursday, but the woman was too ill to talk and had to go to bed. Mrs. Aks. came to Amer ica to join her husband, S. Aks, a tailor who had never seen their child. It was the Aks Infant that was recovered by the mother on the Carpathia after she had given it up as lost. The infant having been ta ken from the mother by a frantic man, fell into the lap of a woman survivor in a lifeboat as it was toss ed over the side of the Titanic. The mother, who fainted, was placed in another lifeboat. BRYAN SPEAKS FOR WILSON Will Speak ini Georgia . and Florida for the Gorernor. A special dispatch to the News and Courier from Washington says the Clark men there including the speak er himself, are disturbed at the an nouncement that William Jennings B~ryan Is going to Georgia and Flor ida to make speeches in behalf of Woodrow Wilson's candidacy for the Denocratic nomination. Up to this time the Speaker has left the field in Georgia and Florida to Underwood and Wilson, but he and his managers do not see how Mr. Bryan, in view of~ Nebraska's course in instructing her Idelegation for Clark, can ceak for' Wilson anywhere. Mule Objected to Amonia. Daniel White, of Elm1sford. N. Y., was driving through Greenville when JTerry, his mule, stopped and refus ed to be budged. A teamster suggest ed holding ammonia to his nostrils. White tried it. e is thought to have a fair chance for recovery. On ly two ribs are broken and he can see1 fairly well out of one eye. ' illed by Lightning. A young white boy, Lonnie Baker, wa struck and killed by a bolt of lightning at his home, in Holly Springs, N. C. The boy was sitting by the fireplace when the bolt camne down the chimney killing him in stantly None of the other members. the family were hurt. MUM UP I LilT ROOSEVELT AND THE HARVESTER TRUST EXPOSED ATERED TO . P. MORiAN Correspondence Relative to Prosecu tion of Alleged Harvester Trust, Tending to Show Roosevelt's Ca. tering to Morgan Interests Brought to Light in the Senate. The confidential correspondence which passed between President Roosevelt, Atorney General Bona parte and Commissioner Herbert Knox Smith, of the bureau of corpo rations, in 1907, about a government. suit against the International Har vester Company, was sent out to the Senate from the files of the depart ment of justice One letter from Col. Roosevelt to Mr. Bonaparte, written from- Oyster Bay on August 22, 1907, said that the Colonel had had conferences with George W. Perkins about the com pany's affairs, directed Mr. Bona parte not to file the suit then, but to go over the matter with Commis sioner Smith and Mr. Perkins. A letter from Commissioner Smith to the Colonel on September 21 told of conferences with Mr. Perkins and stated Commissioners Smith's ob-. jections to a prosecution at that time. The commissioner wrote that he thought the question of the compa ny's guilt or innocence was merely a technical question and told of a con ference with Mr Perkins on August 24. C'ommissioner Smith wrote that Mr. Perkins concluded with great, emphasis "that If after all the en deavors of this company and the oth er Morgan interests to uphdld the policies of the administration and to adopt theif methods of modern pub Licity this company was now going to be attacked in a purely technical -ase, the interests here presented were 'going to fight.' " Further on In the sme letter Mr. Smith wrote: "While the :administration has never hesitated to grapple with any fnancial interests, no matter how reat, when it is believed that a sub stantial wrong is being committed, aevertheless it is a very practical luestion whether it is well to throw tway now the great influence of the o-called Morgan interests which, up :o this time have supported the ad rancd policy of the Administration, both in geneeal principles and the application thereof in their specific nterests, and to place them general .y in opposition. I believe Mr. Pei kins statement that his interesfa\ would necessarily be driven into ac :ive opposition was a sincere one and n fact, I can hardly see how those reat interests can take any other at titude should (this sprosecuticin be tarted and the final adoption of this olicy be made public." In another portion of the letter lommissioner Smith reported Mr. erkins as having said substantially :hat "the Standard Oil people in New ~ork were giving him tihe laugh for aving thought he was trying to be ood and keep solid with the admin stration and now he was going to ;et the same dose as the others" Vith the correspondence was a letter rom William Loeb, Jr., the Presi ent's secretary, making an appoint nent for Mr. Bonaparte to talk the usiness over. Hope of dissolving the $140,000, ) 00 International Harvester Coin Jany without a fight in the Courts das been practically abandoned. A suit against the corporation under he Sherman anti-trust law probably will be filed at Chican about the middle of next week There remains one bare possibility, however, that an agreement may be reached, but those familiar with the problem have lost expectations that the govern ment and the corporation will bridge the differences as to a plan of disin egraion. President Taft was apprised of the situation at a conference with 'Messrs. ekersham, Fowler and Bancroft. It understood he hagreed that the plans for disintegration so far sub itted could not be accepted by the 3overnment. The crux of the whole , lificulty, it is believed, lies in the ~ontention of the harvester company. hat the McCormack and Deering ~ompanies, which are subsidiaries, should not be separated in any scheme of reorganization. The gov arnment wanted these integral parts miade distinct. Switchman Eills Bartender. At Macon, Ga., T. W. Malone, a railroad switchman. walked into the bar of the Seminole club, a locker club. Monday and shot and killed i Hodiges, the bartender. Malone later was arrested at his home. He told the police he had been robbed of $10 while at the club and accused the bartender of taking the money. Wants to Break the Solid South. If Col. Roosevelt gains the nomina ton for president, he said at Greens boro, N. C., Monday he will come to the South in an effort to win it over. He made claim to the support of the Democrats as well as the Republi cans, and said that he woold embark upon a determined campaign to break up the "solid South" Couple's first Quarrel Fatal. After living in peace for 50 years Mr. and M~rs. Bentley, or Siloam Springs. Ark.. had their first quarrel over the div ision of their estate, which was worth $100,000. At the height of the dispute he killed his wife nd then himself.