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THE FORT MILL TIMES. |?8 16TH YEAR FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1907 NO. 82 | HOW DID HE DIE? VNew York Police Have Failed to Solve Mysterious Death. HELD UP AND ROBBED And Later Found Dead in HIh Room /ii uie ?u/uon, une 01 inc aweu Hotels of New York. Letter He Wrote Indicate* He Expected Death But His Injuries Plainly Evidence a Murder. New York has another mysterious murder or suicide case that the police find difficult to solve. Herman Bradley Potter, an insurance agent of Doylestown, Pa., a roan of excellent social standing and comfortable means was found* dead in his rooms on the fourteenth iioor of the Waldorf-Astoria Wednesday night, with hts skull fractured in two places, his nose broken and bleeding, and bruises about his legs jlnd feet, showing that he had been horribly beaten. Whether the man was murdered in the hotel or whether he was beaten in the street, and went to his room to die, Is not yet determined A question of possible polBon also figures in the extraordinary mystery. There is a suspicion that a JAr of white powder found in the room contained cyanide of mercury. An autopsy will be held to reveal whether or not there uro rarou nf Hw? Hrnir in tho mnn'w atomach. At the same time there was a mysterious letter written by Mr. Potter to his wife In Doylestown, which puts the whole affair In a different phase. It has been proved that. Potter was attacked by thugs on Saturday night, and that he received a cut in the nose from a blow*. He did not receive, however, the wounds that appeared on his body when he was found dead. There are sufficient in themselves to have produced death and the physicians declare they were received only a short time before death. When the man's body was examined by the coroner he said: "This man has been beaten to death. Can't say that he was killed in,the hotel, but a murder has been committed." On a table in his room was a letter addressed to Mrs. H. Bradley Potter, Jr., of DoyleBtown, Pa. The letter was on a letter head of .the Michigan Commercial Insurance company, of Doylestown. The letter in no. way threw light on the mystery. It read: "My Dear Wife:?In the left hand drawer of the bureau you will And an envelope of every insurance company I represent. Write to every one of them and ask them to appoint you agent. "Everything I own is in the box on my desk. "Good-bye to you and the children. I forgot to say last Saturday night I wput out of business on my way home to the hotel. f ' "I was attacked by three toughs and I had quite an experience. I actually put two of them to sleep, but the third ducked and hit me with a sandbag on the left side of the head, and put me to sleep. "He took my watch, locket, cigar <ette case, ring and pocket book. "I was picked up by an officer lying In the gutter. Fortunately I had ruy room key' with me. and the Waldorf ? means a great deal In New York. "Farewell to you all. Good-bye. "(Signed) Herman " While the letter would seem to Indicate Potter knew death was approaching, it was agreed the wounds on his body could not possibly have been self-Inflicted. It was shown the letter was written in a strong hand and by n man. who. If in physical suffering or under a nervous strain, showed no sign of it in his writing. A comparison of the writing to the signature on the hotel register, proved beyond doubt that Potter had penned the note. Further examination of the room disclosed the jar of white powder. In the trousers of the dead mnn was found $6.31 in cash together with papers and other effects that proved his Identity SWAM A RIVER. To See His Sweet henrt Rather Than He Quarantined. At Philadelphia impatient to see hJs sweetheart, Lieutenant John B. Richardson, second lieutenant In the Twenty-eighth infantry, defied the quarantine laws and plunged into the river. A row boat carried him ashore After drying his garments, he proceeded to the home of Mlsr. Helen .Elisabeth Qrady, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John C. Grady, at 320 West Lancaster Pike, WTayne. They arranged .for their marriage in St. The Iieutennant was a passenger wjion the transport Sumner. He was ered when he found that one of the MEETING OF LAYMEN Of Methodist Episcopal Church, South, In Columbia. i Some of the Most Prominent I>aynien I In the State Were Present and Discussed Affairs. Some of the laymen of the Metho- j dlst Church. South, held a meeting in Columbia last Wednesday evening to consider certain things connected wiid the management of the church. The notice of the meeting was very short, or no doubt there would have been a Larger attendance. The Columbia Record, from which paper we take this account of the meeting, says Col. R. W. Simpson, of Pendleton, life president of the board of trustees of Clemson College, was called to the chair, and Mr. W. W. Watsou. of Batesburg. was requested to act as secretary. As stated by the chairman, the object of the meeting was "to consider the state of affairs in Methodism and to take such steps as may seem fit toward remeding existing evils." The raising of preachers' salaries was discussed, as was also the question of the adoption of a fixed salary for the presiding elders, who are nowpaid on the precentage plan. Col. Simpson, speaking for his associates, said that he was a loyal Methodist, and wished to see a restoration of the church in this state. "There are too many mere sermonizers," he declared, "among the ministers, we need a few more Christian gentlemen." Col. Simpson thought it but Just that the laymen, who pay the expenses of maintaining t.he 1 church, should have some represen- ' tation. He thought the laymen should at least have an advisory commission in touch with the bishop's cabinet. 1 CM. Simpson had a set of resolu- ' tions drawn up, which he offered as suggestions. The first of these were adopted. It is in substancfe, to the ? effect that the laymen present vfere loyal Methodists and would stand for 1 the ultimate and highest good of the church of their fathers. The object of this was to make It clear in the 1 outset that its framers were not seek- 1 ing the disruption of the denomlna- * tlon nor planning an insurrectionary campaign. , ' Col. Simpson's second resolution j brought forth comment of one kind or another from almost everyone present. It was practically this: * That the laymen present view with sorrow that spiritual decadence of the church and the "mlsanagement" 1 of ts affairs. ' There were some opposed to this and some in favor of it. The party ( that seemed to be n the majority ' thought the resolution too sweeMM^J and were of the opinion that so a body of men, at so early a staMg&al the contemplated campaign, not safely and wisely take such cal measures, lest they frighten from thier standard the more servilt I ve of tho lauman nrl". sympathy with them, but not ai^E^is aligned with them openly. There was discussion ad llbH;'H upon this resolution. Members and debated the question at leiH|j|jj|g and hotly. Col. Simpson off'-n-BpgH amend his resolution, by Btrikint^R?||a the words "mismanagement" anHsraj serting 'unsatisfactory managera^B^K However, this did not meet witl^HH majority's favor, and after consHgKH able more debate, a new resoli^^S$| was drawn up and adopted. "Rt-HgSH ed. That the chairman of this iflonS ing appoint one or three men H3^|S each presiding elder's 'listrivie^M wards organizing the laymen o(Kjlj||| South Carolina Conference." Early in the meeting Co^Byafj Simpson, enumerating a few ofl||jfi9 laymen's grievances, said one asHjps| ment of $20,000 was for the surfllj|| of two negro colleges, one in GetH^S and the other in Tennessee. "I ed one well informed minister Rj|jj||| we were paying this nm," said l.j&S onel Simpson, "and he said he c^E|a?a not find out any reason except it was to pay the salaries of the idents." Another assessment of I^BsSH 000 is for the education of ihuc|K||| Mr. P. L. Sturkey, who had one of the promoters of the meetHjH said that he recently saw a letter made him blush for his church. was from one the presiding to a minister, and contained a st:M|||l ment in regard to collections that^^J had "worked the rabbit's foot on < 'em,'* and "things" were "fine." t The meeting adjourned nt half- t past eleven o'clock. It Is expected t that another meeting will be held as 1 sobn as the appointments are made i In the several presiding elder's dls- c tricts asd an organization will then s be effected. , HK HAD NEKVK. I Young Roy Carried His Own Severed Iiimb Home. Riding a horse near Elida, N. H., t Thursday Ben Johnson, a sixteen- a year-old lad. ran the animal into a r barbed wire fence and completely a severed his own foot, but carrying b the severed member, he rode into t town, a mile away for treatment, and 1 did not faint. t ' \ CHASM OPENED And Engulfed a City and All of Its Inhabitants. ONLY [TWO ESCAPED. Fifteen Thousand People Was Buried in the Ruins of the City of tvuratagli, Which Was Destroyed by a Terrible Earthquake, Which Was Followed by a Mountain Slide Fears Felt for Other Towns. The earthquake In Italy, an account of which was published by us last week, seems to have been worse iestructlve than at first reported. It seems to have been more severe in Jther countries than it was in Italy. Later reports say that the entire :ity of Karatagh. in Bokhara, has been destroyed by the terrible earthquake which was followed by a Mountain slide, in which thfc entire ;x>pulation, numbering 15,000 were ^urted. Only two persons survived 'he disaster, these Veing the goverlor of Karatagh and his mother. Details of the convulsions are as ret unavailable, but the news so far eceived leads to the belief that a <reat chasm opened in the valley K'here the city stood and that almost he whole vicinity was engulfed in )oe pile of ruins. There is also reason to believe :hat other towns and cities in the leighborhood of Bokhara were badly shaken "by the same convulsion of lature and it is expected that the full :ale of death will reach a total which will make the disaster as one of the greatest in the history of all Asia Minor. 1 A dispatch from London says an louncements from the seiRmic bureaus in various world's centers, it is earned that the preliminary tremors >egan at about 11.00 p. in., and the strong motion at 11.48 p. m.. on October 20. The shocks continued intil 1.15 a. m.. October 21. The origin of the earthquake, it is jelieved, is quite different from those -ecorded October 16. and 17, and nay, perhaps be near tho antipodes )f Washington. The same day, October 20, prolonged seismic disturbances which asted several hours during the mornng of the next day. were announced !rom the London bureau. The initrument on the Isle of Wight and Lai Bach. Austria clearly recorded he earthquake, which was supposed it the time to be at a distance of 3,)00 miles. On October 21, when Karatagh was iestroyed. dispatches received in x>ndon from St. Petersburg stated iat^^iej^J^^J^^i^severeea r t hv ':^' /.'r> . . at ?$? n d, of H1 as BnroHiSGHHSBffiCTHHHH16? eBt HB|ggMHsgm i^^BJ a 11" be Hy. Ier h<to pB Its ils UK lrn uc lay through his shuttered windows hey saw Alessandro seated alongside he dead body of the woman who was o have been hiR wife affectionately lolding her hand. The police were nformed and Alessandro was arrest d. The body has been buried a econd time. KILLKI) BY CL'KKKNT. lole Four Inches in l>lnmeter Was lturucd Through Itody. Will Templeton, an employee of he Southern Power Company, was iccidentally struck by a current, 30 niles south of Charlotte. N. C., and , hole four inches in diameter was urned through his body from side n side in the center of the trunk, "empleton was the son of Postmaser Templeton of Mooresville, N. C. LENDING MONEY To Stock Gamblers By Cortelyou ( to Bo Investigated. Congressmen Say the Sontlt Could Get No Such llellef from the Na* ' tional Government. When the resolution of Inquiry in- ^ to Secretary of the Treasury CortelUAH 'o ? '-1 Jl * * .r~" o atuuu iu aiuing in? wall street banks in the New York crisis in money matters is introducted in the house by Representative Sims of Tennessee, one of its most ardent advocates and supporters will be Representative Oscar W. Gillespie of Tex?, Joint author of the Tillman-Gillespie resolution that resulted in a federal investigation of the ownership 1 of the coal mines by the railroads. c Mr. Gillespie, who has always been opposed to the encouragement by the ?; government of Wall Street ventures. < said recently: t "What is all this but using the a people's money in the stock market p of New York. It appears to me to be j a case of the government going to t the aid of the stock gamblers of New ? York. The defense of this action a which may be made the subject of 8 congressional inquiry, is that New j York is the money center of the country, and that deposits of money there r will relieve the situation throughout ^ the country. "But I don't believe this Is so. Did j the sending of money to the few c York banks relieve the situation in ^ other parts of the county? Certainly f not. Banks are closing in other parts t of the country right along. The rem- a edy for all this panicky feeling in r Wall street and throughout the coun- t try, without straining for anything T strange or new or novel, is to re- t dure the tariff to a revenue basis c strickly, and force the government to j refrain hereafter from going into t Wall street with its funds. That the j tariff change is needed is certain. If t it is not needed, why doesn't the Dingley tariff, hailed as the maker of e prosperity, save the day instead of g having your Uncle Sam held up?" j While Southerners and democrats t are attacking Mr. Cortelyou's policy v I in the Wall stroef moHor ? publican statesmen refuse to take j( these onslaughts seriously. They do ,, not believe any resolution of inquiry s can be reported favorably by a com- e mlttee, or be passed by either the ^ house or the senate. They are grate- ^ ful to Mr. Cortelyou for having relieved the situation in Wall street, ^ and they believe the country feels p the same way about it. HIS SKULIj crushed. a a t A Darlington Man Fatally Assaulted b by Two Negroes. * A special from Darlington to The t N'ews and Courier says Tolly Boseman, of the Swift Creek section, was t fatally wounded by two blows struck * by two negro boys, Abraham Evans n and Abraham Cooper, Thursday c morning. One blow was on the front H and one on the back of the head. 1' The skull is crushed and no hope is ^ felt for Mr. Boseman's recovery. h The trouble came about when Mr. tl Boseman, who is overseer on Mr. T. v P. Rhodes' plantation, spoke to one S of the negroes about cursing and fir- '< ing a pistol at his son. It is the bus- tl incsB of Mr. Boseman's son to bring n up me cows at night and the duty of n one of the negroes to draw water for them. One night he failed to do t< it. and when spoken to by young a Boseman about it he cursed him and d fired a pistol at him. b When Mr. Boseman spoke to the tl negro about it the negro curs*.d him, and when Mr. Boseman stooped to s pick up a board he was struck down tl by one of the negro boys and the oth- c er one struck him after he had fallen, b EN1>KI> AT LAST. Case That Has Beou in Court Over a ' Hundred Years. A case that has been occupying the courts at Staunton, Va., for over one hundred years was ended on Thursday in the circuit court by Mayor W. ^ H. Landis, receiver, entering a decree ^ which is considered final. Hbowing all disbursements in the case of Pock vs. 01 Borden and Borden vs. Borden. Over $100,000 was involved and various ^ decrees have been entered by almost every lawyer there. The heirs, number four hundred, were from all pats of the country. The final decree approving the set- ^ tlement. of the receiver, Hon. Wil- ^ llam H. Bandis, involved only about . $6,000. One heir, represented In the ^ original suit as an infant, died some ^ years ago. at the age of 9 6 years. Nearly every lawyer at the bar fori" the past century, has represented {' some heir. The papers in the case ' were so numerous that no man living, h even judge or clerk, was familiar with all of them. A IIKAVY BABY. A lie Is Fight Months Ohl and Weighs 110 Ponnds. n S W. H. Baues of Matoaka. Chester- tl field county, Va., is the father of Ed- cl ward Banes, a eight-months old boy al weighing 110 pounds. The infant was tt of normal weight at birth. lgt J SOUTH VILIFIED By a Woman Detective Sent Out ? By the Government MAKES QUEER REPORT * he Sajs Labor Conditions Here Are ^ Worse than Slavery, and That We si o Are Trying to Dupe Innocent For- n elgners to this Part of the Country to Hold Them in Servitude, aii of ti Which Is Untrue. r. The Washington correspondent of ? rhn ' - - S .? ..v?> courier sou as this ^ lueer tale to his paper: ii Declaring that all through the f, Southern States negroes by the hunIreds are held slaves in stockades, h hat peonage is a common occurrence. e< md that the whole scheme of imml- tl tration is planned to dupe unsuspect- 0 ng foreigners and to get them into a he cotton fields and the mills of the a >outh, where they will be held in a ervitude. Miss Mary Quackenboss, a pectal attorney of the department of a UBtice, has filed with the department R l sensational report, after having e nade an alleged investigation of la- e, >or conditions in the South. Some time ago Attorney General 0 lonaparte decided that it would be a i good idea to send a woman investl- j, :ator through the South to make a 0 >ersonal inspection of labor condl- p ions. Miss Quackenboss was chosen. ind after, spending two or three p nonths in North and South Carolina. ^ Alabama and Mississippi she has nade her report. She has filed with ^ he department of justice what she tl alls an abundance of evidence tend- p ng to prove that labor conditions In 0 he South are intolerable and worse, t< f possible, than they were at the p Ime negroes were freed. g It is understood that Miss Quack- tl mboss is very pessimistic an to the uccess of the movement that has fj teen started to divert immigration in e, hat direction. This view is based 8] ipon the fact that as a'legod immi- n ;rants have been alarmed through a earning about peonage cases disclos- g d in tho South, aliens and negroes in w everal instances having, it is dec'.ard, been captured on various preext8 and held in stockade in a eonlition bordering on absolute slavery, t Another obstacle to immigration o the South, she says, is tho wages IfliH trt lohnporo 1 1 ?* ? hum jucviuiuii.s mere. t Is reported that wages in the North re from 40 to 75 per cent, higher, .nd that unless there is a change in n he attitude of Southern employers C( ioth in the wages paid and in the n reatment of aliens, it whl be dlffl- 81 ult to induce immigrants to go to ^ he Southern States. The general question of immigra- w Ion is touched upon in passing by ** liss Quackenboss. who devotes the ' lajor portion of her report to a disussion of peonage cases in the Caro- s*. Inaff, Alabama and Mississippi. It i understood that she advises the ' ittorney General that conditions are a ad in several localities notably in sl he Sunnyside colony in Mississippi, w rhlch was established for Italians. a( he reports thurit is nothing more or l>' ?ss than a large plantation, and that (" he Italians who live there are very a' luch dissatisfid with their envivoulent. Sl While Miss Quackenboss declines 3 talk about her visit to the South, 9 nd the officials likewise refused to iscuss her report., there is reason to K< elieve that 6he has made a report 81 hat is startling in many particulars. * Why the department of justice hould have chosen a woman to make 88 hese investigations Is not yet dis- n losed. The report is undoubtedly s* adly colored. cc BLACK HAND KILLS ol oi i Man Who Refused to Blow l*p a ol Victim. Because he failed to carry out an rrand of vengeance, Vlto Greinaldi, member of the black hand society. Hiannea to aeath by members of is own band early Thursday on Lnoll street. Brooklyn. I* A dynamite bomb was found so- e? reted beneath Greinaldi's coat, to 'hlch the police say would have w lown up an entire block had it ex- eti loded. A loaded revolver was found *' 1 his pocket. re Papers found on the dead man roved that Grienaldi was a member B< f the black hand and had started to ynamite a man's home who had re- bt ised to pay tribute to the society, etectives says that members of the lack hand followed Greinaldi on his lission and when he balked at his bl isk killed him. A stiletto lay near sc reinaldi's l>ody there were nine .ab wounds in the body. of ???????? be WANTKH TO LYNCH HIM. sn ab fiittle Girl Assaulted and Choked to to Heath. tic The body of Mary Donnelly, aged sl< Ine. was found on the bank of the wf usqueh ana river At Reneva, Pa., pa te child having been assaulted and ed joked to death. There is consider* po ble excitement and men declare fir lat a lynching will follow if the? dh llty party is found by the inob. iui FOUND AT LAST. Moscow Sees the End of a Moving War Tragedy. lich Officer and Wife Wbo Ijost Iiittle Daughter During Rout of I.aio Yang Finds Her in Rags. An Associated Press Dispatch from loscow. Russia, tells a pathetic tory- The dispatch says the crowd f prcmenaders on the Tverskayi witessed recently the ending of a war ragedy which had its beginning at ne battle of Lalo Yang. A smart landau drawn by a flne i?am of horses drew up to a restnuant. The occupants, a handsome orcer and his wife, stepped out and t that moment a little beggar girl, ittered and torn, drew near, extendlg her hand with a piteous appeal >r alms. The woman fumbled around in er pocket-book, drew out the dcslrd coin and was about to hand it to le beggar. But upon catching sight f the girl's face she uttered a scream nd rushing forward threw her arms round her neck and began hugging nd kissing ber. After this the officer and his wifo nd the little tattered and torn begar girl drove away. The following xplonation of the scene was obtafnd later. During the battle of Llao Yang the ffice was in command of a regiment nd lived with his wife and daughter i a Chinese hut near the scene of perationa. When the fight of the Lussian soldiers began they were fol>wed by bands of roving bandits who urned and looted everything they ould lay their hands on. In the panic which followedl the isordered retreat, the daughter of tie officer's, a very young girl, was >st. A few days later a det.atchment f Russian soldiers put the bundits > flight and regained much of tho lunder. They also found the little lrl, whom they took along with hem. One of the soldiers took a great incy to her and when be was woundd and sent to recuperate at Moscow he went with him. In Moscow the inn died and the little girl was left lone to wander the streets and beg. ood fortune led her to the street here her parents were driving. WEEKLY PAPER PROBLEM. hey Must Raise the Price of HubRcriptlon or Quit. In discussing the increasing germs problems which now confronts ewspaper publishers all over the >untry. The Fourth Estate, whose ame sufficiently Indicates its nature 3 a publication, expresses the upturn that the worse sufferers will be lose weeklies and semi-weeklies hich Beveral years ago reduced sub:riptlon from $2.00 and $1.50 to 1.00. "This unfortunate cut in price," lys our contemporary "occurred when le country was in the clutches of ard times, and the people were not ble to pay their hills. Now every lbscription taken at that price i9 ell night a financial loss. It will be I a loss when the new price of pasr goes into effect. There is but ie thing for small publishers to do ad that is to increase the price of leir paper. They should not ex?ct to make the advance less than ft cents on $1 .00 subscription, and ie game amount on $1.50 rates. * * No subscriber ought to expect, to 3t a paper nowadays for such a im as $1.00. The print paper alone ill be worth nearly that." "That's the way it looks to us," lys the Charlotte Observer, "is look iK to more and more weekly and >ml-weekly publishers and should iortly look to all the subscribers mcerned. If the laborer Is worthy I his hire and these particular lab ers are to receive and hire at all, no ;her course remains." SHOW Kit OF HP MAN Fl,ESH. xplosion in Pennsylvania in Which Four Men Are Killed. Fragments of human bodies popped with particles of rocks and irth fell in a shower over the little wn of Gwendolen, Pa., Thursday, hen 500 pounds of dynamite explod1 with a terriffic report. Four men ere torn to pieces and six others celved Injuries. The dead: Nicholas M. Rroeden, foreman, snnett. Pa. Tilton Thornton, a negro, FUUjrK. PaStephen Olshafshy, Rennett, Pa Andrew Michaelvlch, Rennett, I?a. iu? six injured men, stunned and ceding, ran aimlessly from i.he ene and have not been located. Littlo is known of the exac^ cause the explosion, but a pasaifby Just fore the accident occurred says a lall fire had been lighted, preaumJy to warm the dynamite.' Thc rnn, who was powderman. went to >rk Thursday morning with Inutruc>ns to dynamite a portion of a hillle above the Waba3h tracks, which is unsafe, the earth endangering saing trains. Thornton, surroundby several of the men, it is supsed. got the explosive too near the e and it Exploded. The shock was itinctly felt in towns within a radi of over ten miles. ?aMj|l . ? '/*? - TURNS PIRATE. Russian Torpedo Destroyer Captured by Her Crew and BOMBARDS THE CITY Vladivostok, and a Severe Battle Takes I'Lore in Which Several People Are Killed?Five Loyal War Vessels Engage the Mutinous Boat, Which Is Itiddled and Hun Ashore. The Vrew Killed or Captured. Hoisting the red ting at the signal masthead, the torpedo boat destroyer Skory, captured by her mutinous crew, steamed out into the harbor of Vladivostook Thursday and immediately opened fire on the city. This act. following the mutiny of a battalion of army sappers, who attacked and almost captured ono of the barracks, has terrorized the people and tho city is under martial law. Soldiers are patroling the streets No one may venture from his home after dark on pain of nrrest. The mutiny on board the Skory was not even suspected by her commander, Lieutennnnt. Stoer. who gave his life in the defense of his ship when the crew arose at dawn and overpowred tho officers. They were incited to this act by agitators from the city, who had managed to get on board during the night through the consent of a sympathizer with the revolutionists. The moment the mutineers obtained the upper hand they slipped the cable anchoring the destroyer near four other war boats, and steamed out into the horbor, while a red flag was run up the signal halyards. I Not only did the Skory shell the J city, but the mutineers returned the J fire of the forts, and of the four oth- 1 er destroyers and two gunboats. fl Taking a position that would com mand the city and regardless of their exposure to the fire of the harbor fort, and of the other destroyers, the mutineers begun to hurl sheels Into the forts and eity. Every gun of the Skory was worked by the mutineers, who appeared to realize that In the end they were doomed and were determined to wheak all injury they; coma wntie they had the power. The sheels of the Skory burst fa many parts of the city. One shell was aimed at the city hall and bursting near it destroyed one corner of the building. The gunners on the mutinous boat were experts, and mauy people were blown to pieces In the streets by the bursting shells. Many bouses were destroyed. Fire started in many places in city Ave minutes after the mutineers ""'"Va opened flre. The close range of tha Skory. which was not more than a fourth of a mile out, made the aim more deadly. The torpedo boat destroyers Garsovoz, Smely and Serditz and the gunboats Mandschur and Ravy steamed out and engaged the pirate destroyer, and a pitched naval battle begnn. The harbor fort, manned hy the Twelfth Regiment of Artillery, added its fire to that of the torpedo boat destroyers and the gunboats, and soon riddled the mutineers' craft. The Skory's funnels of sheet steel were torn to pieces, the fragments killing many of the crew. Her armor plate was nlerced hv Rhottc or.^ decks strewed with dead and wounded. But her pilothouse, encased, In steel, was not damaged, and the steersman, who had been manouevering in short circles, so that every gun could be used, turned toward the shore when he saw that the Skory must soon sink. As a last desperate move the Skory was run through the heavy surf and beached. When the few survivors struggled through the surf from the bloodstained decks they were met by soldiers. who manacled them and dragged them to cells. Some of the survivors were hayonetted by the troops before the commander Interfered. Many men were killed and wounded on the loyal boats. Captain Karosch. commander of the torpedo boat Ravy. was torn to pieces by one of tho uhnllo .* MMVKH. I^??7WbOU(MIV f no? sllief. of the Serdltz, was Wounded. All of the destroyers bore marks of the Skory's fire. One Ametfcan was wounded In the city. The uprising of the Rappers Battalion was an unexpected as'tfie mutiny. Their attempt to take a barrack was defeated by the use of mac hi no guns by the rifle regiment Quartered there. A score of the Insurgents were killed and wounded and the other* routed. PICKED UP MKSSAtTF^ One Ship Off Sonth Carolina and One at Psimmlfc.. v> The steamabip City of*gavannah while on her way to NdW -Tork from Savannah got into wireless commun- J ication with a steam dilp "at Panama J in the Taciflf - was too J great tc decipher mot* j?han a few ~ words of the message the other ship M was sending, probably to Some ves- 3 sel within a few hundred miles of her, jj| I HsS