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r . MANY ARE LOST The Steam Ship Lima Wrecked io the Straits of Magellan EIGHTY EIGHT PERISH \ British Steamship ilathumet Took Off of the Stran'J.a Steamship Over Two Hundred People, But Was Compelled to Abandon Nearly a Hundred to Their Fate. A dispatch from Santiago, Chill, Bays the Pacific Navigation company's steamer Lima is ashore on one of the islands of the Huamblad passage of the Straits of Mcgellan and will probably be a total loss. The chief pilot and 50 passengers were drowned. The British steamer Hathumet rescued 205 of the stranded steamer, but was forced to leave 88 persons aboard whom it was Impossible to rescue. The steamship Hathumet has nrrlved at Ancud, Chili, with 188 men aud women and 17 of the crew of the steamer Lima, which Is on the rocks In West H-?uiMad Passage, Straits of M-.gellan. ino steamer went ashore in a storm on February 5. The steamer officials report having left 88 persons aboard the Lima, their rescue being impossible. They had no drinking water, the tanks having burst. The first mate of the Lima and fifty passengers were drowned. The Btranded steamer Lima Is a British vessel owned In Liverpool and plying between that port and the ports of South America. She was last reported as sailing from Bahla Blanca, Argentla, on January 26, and was on her way to Chilean and Peruvian ports. The Lima is 401 feet long, registered 3,115 tons and was built In Glascow In 1907. The place where the steamer was wrecked, is probably Huamblad Passage. located between the south shore of San Pedro Island and Chile. ii is a narrow passage full or (laagers and very difficult of nav":?atlon. lluamhlin rocks, two In number and 65 feet high, mark the entrance to this passage. SEVEN HI/OWN TO ATOMS. Run Gasoline Cur Upon Lighted Dynamite Fuse. Heedless of the warning of a foreman In charge of excavating operations along the line of the private motor road from Kelvia, Ariz., to the Ray Copper mines, the motorman of a gasoline car containing six passengers ran his car close to the sputtering fuse of a heavy charge of dynamite and the car and its seven occupants were blown to atoms. The foreman had discovered a mftsed shot in the excavation at noon and before the motor car came in sight he had relighted the fuse. As the car approached he signalled to the motorman and warned him of the Impending explosion. Motorman Lyalle, believing that he could take his car past the charge to safety, paid no heed to the warning and started ngnln at full speed. Just as the car was passing the charge the explosion came and the car with Its load of human freight was blown high into the air amid a great cloud of debris. The dead men were all prominent in mining affairs In Arizona. THREATENED WITH VENGEANCE I Tobacco Growers Ordered to Leave Their Crops. Several farmers in Rockingham county, N. C., have received circulars and post cards in the last few days, threatening deeds of violence unless they pool their tobacco in the dry prlzeries and stop the practice of disposing of the leaf on the warehouse floor. Some warnings were sent through the mail, while in other Instances a number of prominent tobacco planters found circulars threat ening violence tacked upon their barn doors. Efforts to trace the authorship of the circulars have proved futile and some of the farmers are inclined to treat the threats as a practical joke. The promoters of the dry prizeries disclaim any connection tfith the warnings. * ? ... Shot Daughters Escort. W. F. Roddy is dying at the home of his brother from a pistol shot wound reoeived in Columbus, Ga., having been shot by the father of a young woman with whom he was out riding. Roddy was shot through the , throat and tongue and is therefore unable to give his version of tho affair. Roddy is from Greenville. Fatally Burned. At Augusta, Ga., Mrs. Henry Welsefger, of 288 Walker street, while standing in front of an open fireplace Wednesday, turned to speak to a visitor. As she did no her dress caught lire, and before the flames could be controlled she was fatally burned. 2 WILL BE IN RACE RkC'HARIW ANNOUNCES HIMSELF FOIt (GOVERNOR. SUtrs Where Ho Stands on All Public Questions in a Plain Outspoken Platform. Representative John G. Richards, Jr., Friday announced that he would be a candidate tor .governor this year. The announcement was not a surprise to Mr. RichardB' friends, who have Tor some time expected that he would enter the race. Two years ago Mr. Richards was urged to enter the campaigu, but declined and since the definite announcement that Thos. G. McLeod, row- lieutenant governor, would enter the race there is added interest in the Rltiintlnn Mr wir.v._ ards has had a number of years of legislative experience and has taken an active part in the various issues along certain lines. When asked about his candidacy, he said: "Yes, after seriously considering the matter, 1 have determinec'. to enter the race for governor of South Carolina. For some time my friends in every section of the State have been encouraging me to run, and after considering the matter carefully, 1 have decided to enter the lista. "While 1 am not prepared, of rouse, at this stage to state in detail what my platform will contain, I have no hesitancy, as is my habit in stating clearly my position on some of the more important public questions that are of vital interest to the State and to the people of the State. "I shall advocate equitable support of our higher educational institutions aud the fullest and most unstinted support or our common school system with particular attention to the development of rural schools and education. Our public school system is the vitalizing force that supplies our colleges and Is one of the very foundations of our republican instltions. We aro now making great improvement along educational lines In South Carolina, but the transcendent importance of this question demands an even greater efTort on our part. "I shall stand for and urge such legslation as will make for the fullest development of the agricultural industry of the State for It 's the bed rock foundation of all our prosperity. I shall stand for vigorous support of all agencies making for the development of agriculture and for such legislation as will tea.! to induce capital to come into the Slate for the purpose of developing to the fullest measure our splendid raaorrces. "I shall stand for and advocate State-wide prohibition, with a strict and impartial enforcement of "he law. "I shall stand for retrenchment In the expenditure of the people's money whenever and wherever it eon he done without impairing the public service. "I shall stand for a thorough and complete revision and readjustment of the tax laws of the State and the inauguration of such a system of assessments as will make all pro.?e?-ty hear its horest and just proportion of the burden of taxation. "The agricultural lien law, so long the hindering cause of lack of ::grlcultural progress and independence, and the greatest preventative of see proper control of our negro labor, has at last been repealed. I led 'he fight fer the farmers and I shall urge upon our people the necessity of :?ecepting the changed conditions just brought about with a determl la.ion u|K>n their part to give the new law a fair trial, and I feel thnt the wis dom of this legislation will he demonstrated. "The building of good and permanent highways will add more to the value of property and to the wealth of our State than any other public I utility. The effect of grod roads' thorou fhout the state would be felt j In every walk of life, but thev would I come r.s an especial blessing and a great economy to our people who live in the country districts. I shall stand l\>r the permanent improvement c? our highways, such improvement being made under local selfgovernment in the various counties. "If it should he my good fortune to he .elected hy the people of our proud State to he the governor I shall endeavor with all my s'.reni.h at my command to thoroughly fan i'.. arize myself and keep In cons'ant touch with the working fore^ of .ill of our public institutions and hrauches of i he government, rnd en.leavar to so :?ost myself in regard > >nr public affairs as to intelligently recommend to the law making power of the St te those things that the oei.lic weal and needs of the hour demand. "I do not care to say any nv?r* it this tine than this: That every pu' lie spirited citizen of our Stai.i is anxious for her welfare, her prospe-ity an I materia! advancement in ail things and none Is more so than myself. In entering the race I wish to say new that I will make the Issues clear-cut and to the point, looking ever to thp substantial advancement of our State, and will go before the people upon a platform, every plank of which shall stand for the people's interests and the upbuilding of our State." . . / " KILLED SEVEN The Murderer of a Whole Family Electro cuted at Richmond. WAS ALL ROUND BAD MAN After Murdering His Victims, Seven in All, He Attempted to Conceal His Crime by Setting Fir? to and Burning the House With the Bodies in it. At Richmond, Va., Howard Little, who murdered Mrs. Betsy Justia, her son-in-law, George Meadows, and the latter's wife and three children In their home near Nurley, Buchanan county, Va., last September, was put to death by electrocution in the peuitentiary at dawn Friday without unusual incident. Most murderers are executed for single murder; Howard Little has seven to his account. There were six iu the wholesale butchery for which he w-as sentenced to die in the electric chair here Friday?a man, two women, and three children. The victims were Mrs. Betsy Justis, Geo. Meadows, Mrs. Meadows and three children of the latter couple one uight last fall. Little was no ordinary "low browed" criminal. He bore an excellent reputation in the community in which he lived and a number of friends till believe in his inuocence. H1b character appears to have been strlkinglv on the I)r. Jeykl-Mr. Hyde order, to r*ne side being attributed the- atrociouR crime which brought hin. to the shadow of ignominious death, the other being such a nature as to hold the friends who stood by him until the last. Little is described as one of the handsomest men in the State; more than six feet in height, weighing 236 pounds and being, in short, a more than ordinary fine spenimen of physical manhood. He held the position of United States marshal for the eastern district of Kentucky for a number of years. Except for his asSfJCiMtiflJl llitll I"- J ? ' ? - - v -- .. wuwu lie ucemiru himself generally without reproach He was a sort of rural 'Don Juan," however, and ho himself declared, "that women had been his ruination." It was while in the ?nice of Uuitod States marshall that he shot Geo. McKiuley, in eastern Kentucky, and was sentenced 'o a life term in the Kentucky penitentiary. lie was pardo' ed after a short period and moved back to Virginia, where he was made foreman of u large lumber company at Hurley, Buchanan county. While In this position he lived with the family of Geo. Meadows. Mrs. Little and her children lived In tne same house Mrs. Little is alleged to have be^n present when the murders were committed, but she was not allowed to testify in the case. It wns alleged by the prosecution and believed by the jury that Little coming home one night, killed the three Rieadow children, Mrs. Justis and Mrs. Meadows with an axe and hot George Meadows as the latter ran from the house. Next morning the Meadows home was found In ashes. Dead bodies, only partly burned met the eye on almost every side. They were in nrious postures, indicating that some of the victims at least had made ter i line siruKRies io save themselves. Robbery was established as the direct motive for the crime. It was known that tho ill-fated family had kept a good deal of money in the house, and that Little afterwards appeared "flush." It is believed that he intended to leave Virginia with his latest woman friend. At one time there was talk of lynching hint, but public anger cooled, especially at Little was promptly convicted. Originally the man was sentenced to die January 7tb, but Governor Swanson respited hin. in order that the case might go to the court of appeals. That tribunal sustained the convicted. MAltltlAGR l.KllS'Si: HILL. I'nsses the State Senate Willi Several Amendments. "The marriage license :?*'! ' wa?passed to third reading Fri lav nic .? In the State Senate. Sena:or Johnson instituted an insistent raquest ft?i the bill's consideration ea/iy in the evening, and it was finally called an 1 passed, with amendments. Tnc bel occnssioned much discussion, but finally was passed. An amendment making the fee for the llcm-o instead of 25 cents was adoptel. Abo a committee amendment reading "Nothing herein contained shall render any marriage illegal without the issuing of a license." Teddy is Coining. Jno. A. Stewart, a prominent New York Republican leader, Wednesday reached Washington to confer with President Taft relative to a homecoming celebration in honor of Theodore Roosevelt on his arrival in New York Harbor June 15 next. 0 MURDER CHARGE AGAINST STONE SAID TO BE AN ESCAPED LUNATIC. . Detectives Think Man is One Who Killed Dr. Hickman in Augusta on February 2nd. A special to The State from Aiken says a warrant was placed in the hands of Chief of Police Howard Krl day afternoon for the arrest of a man who says he is Lieut. Wtlliaai C. Stone, now being detained in Aik-en as an escaped lunatic 'rj.u the Richard Gundry Home for Lunatics of Catonsville. Md. Tho warrant charges William C. Stone with the murder of Dr. Charles W. Hle?cm:ui, in Augusta, February 2nd. As a result of the warrant Cult f Howard Friday afternoon reTuscd to give Stone up to the authorities from Catonsville who sent deputies to carry him back to the institution from which he escaped. Friday morning it became apparent .for the fl'-st time that the man was suspected of having committed the crime in Augusta of the second of this month. Stone was placed under arrest as an escaped lunatic on Wednesday afternoon. Karly Friday morning Plnkertoa detectives arrived in Aiken and quiet y went to work, but their actior.3 weie carefully guarded and no one know it. They had an interview with Stone and later in the day had photograpns made o? him. These, with measurements and a full description, tliuy carried with them back to Auguita. ..ater they came again to Aiken, tats time placing a warrant in the hmds of the chief of police so as to prevent the Maryland authorities getting possession of Stone. The warrant was sworn out by Lieut. Ilritt of Augusta. They state positively that Stone is the man who murdered Dr. Hickman and robbed him on February 2. What proof they have to sustain this belief is not known at this time. It became known, however, that they had previously described the man who killed Dr. Hickman as a white man, a man of military turn, one who wore a dark overcoat, broad shoes, cap. muffler, and had figured on his size. Stone wears al>out a No. 7 shoe, the soles of which are broad. He is very neatly dressed and has a black overcoat. He has uo collar or tic hut has n bilk muffler. Stone also claims to bj a lieutenant of the United States army and letters taken from his person are addressed to him 51S ltfMitrnnnt There is no doubt that Stone escaped from the Gundry hospital. As soon as he was arrested he admitted this, stating that the authorities had allowed him to walk about alone and one day he managed to escape. The authorities at Aiken Immediately wired to the home In Catonsville and received a reply confirming Stone's story and requesting that he be held until deputies could be sent for him.* Warrant Withdrawn. The warrant against Lieut. William C. Stone, a ret ired army officer, I charging hint with the murder of I)r. Charles W. Hickman of Augusta, Ga., about two weeks ago was withdrawn lute Saturday afternoon. Stone was turned over to the Maryland authorities who returned him to an Insane asylum from which he had escaped January 23. HOW TO KILL SMALL POX. If Month Old llahics Were Vaccinated It Woidd Go, "If every child was vaccinated when only one month old, smallpox would soon be ancient history," said Dr. W*. B. Sumerall, superintendent of Grady hospital, of Atlanta, discuss ing the prevalence of the disease. With more than a score of physisicians still busy carrying out the order of the board of health, requiring compulsory vaccination, the situation 'n Atlanta is well under control. There are less than 100 cases in th? city, it is stated, all of whom hava been isolated. WOMAN WASH HI) ASMOKE. Had I tube "Tightly Clasped in ller Lifeless Arms. The supposition that the l-'ri nch trans-Atlantic steamer Gen. CMn/.y's boilers exploded after she struck on l.e reef near the Island of Min>rra, Thursday night, is bt?el largely upon the character of the wreckage of the ship, which was rjclnrel almost to kindling. The so: . survivor so far as is known, was Marcel Kodel, and his mind Is still far from clear after his terrible expert Mir*. The work of salvage and reco/ery of the bodies continues, but it i-? aroutlv re. I larded by the high seas. Among the bodies washed ashore wa \ a woman with a baby clasped in her arms. Smallpox at an Orphanage. A dispatch from Thomasvllle says it will be a source of deep sorrow to North Carolinians to know that there are fifteen cases of smallpox at the Thomasvllle Baptist Orphanage. The fact was discovered a few days ago by Dr. Julian, the orphanage physlI clan, and the disease has spread to some extent. 1 RESCUE FIEND Brute Shoots Down Young Girl and / sanlts Her On the Road, WAS SAVED FROM MOE By tho Sheriff, Who Successfully G lly a liftrne Crowd That Want* to Lynch tho Fiend, Although 1 Was Mysteriously Shot by Som one. Who is I'nknonn. After hiding from a mob of ang citizens at Whistler, a small tow nead Mobile for nearly six houi Sheriff Drago Saturday night su ceeded In landing in Jail Henry L< Moseley, the negro charged wi criminally assaulting and beatii Katie Walters, a white girl 12 yea old. It was at first reported in Mobi that the mob had taken Moseh from the officers at Whistler ai this gave rise to wild reports of lynching, but Sheriff Drago succee ed in eluding the mob and landi his prisoner in the Mobile coun jail. Shortly after two o'clock Saturdi afternoon the little girl was walkii along the railroad at liestor. All two miles north of Whistler. SI noticed a negro standing on a trc tie and saw that he had a gun. SI turned and ran, but the negro fin upon her and she fell to the groun The girl was painfully wounded the back, but her injuries are not a serious nature. The negro car to the prostrate form of his victi and seeing that she was alive, e> dently tried to kill her by strikii her over the head with the butt ei of his gun. A resident of Whistler, Emntr Myers, came upon the wounded .gi carried her to Whistler where si received medical attention. T1 physician announced that her wouni were no. of a fatal nature. When the negro, soon nfter h capture, was taken before the lltt girl, she positively identified him i her assailant, lie was taken befoi her again for identification and si seemed to be doubtful as to wtn^u or not he was the guilty person. 1 l?oth times she was in a highly ne vous condition as the result of In experience. Intense excitement prevailed fo lowing the negro's arrest and thoi seems to be some confusion as ho he was shot. The negro, howeve was shot in the hip, but by whom is no known. Persons living near the scene < the alleged attempt say that th( saw a negro answering Moseley's d scriptlon walking along the railroa track about the time the attempt wi made. When arrested there were spots < blood on Moseley's shirt and a sho gun he carried had been lately di charged. It is said that he admitt( having the gun and explained its coi dition by saying that he had shot i a bird. F<)STEH8 AGNOSTICISM. Tiiat Is What a Preacher Suys of tl Carnegie Fund. Rev. David J. Burrell, pastor of tl Marble Collegiate church of Ne York, in an address before the ex cutlve committee of the western so tion of the Presbyterian Alliance the world, Thursday attacked tl "Carnegie Foundation" as fosterli antagonism in religion. "I have been called to *^sk," 1 said, "for saying that the bibical i struction in Princeton University h been under the auspices of a mt who does not believe in the inspln worthiness of the scriptu *rs as tl word of God. The same afllrmatk might be made and still stronglv, 1 spei-uiiK many or tne institutions i learning under avowedly Christi; control. "In my judgment tho C'l'iiw Foundation Is the most signitlcai movement of modern times in the ii terest of agnosticism in general cdi cation." WASHED OVEKliOAKD. ? Captain of a French Itark Swept Int the Sea and Lost. News of the arrival at Melbourr of tho French U..; Marshal deTu rone, from New York, after heir swept by heavy seas, which carrie Captain Parrott and the thi-d olll'ii overboard, was brought by the stean er Makura Friday. The starl>oai l)oat of the Turenne had been stnan ?*d by a giant wave, and Captain Pa rott was investigating the daiuuj when a second sea engulfed him. i 1 third officer, who was carrleti hi the sea at the time, was rescue but the commander perished. He Claims Kin. The editor of the North Carolii Christian Advocate claims kin wl Daniel Boone, who is soon to be a proprlately honored at the old Ya kin river home. v J1H1H I" TTi?IT" " - ' ' ,#% . ONLY ONE SAVED * I % ' OXE HUX DIVED AXD FIFTY MKX ISPEIUSH AT SEA. Lone Survivor Driven Insane by Tor* | tures Following Shipwreck of the Steamship on Reef. Driven helplessly from her course, ot in one of the wildest storms that has swept the Mediterranean sea in forty years, the French Trans-Atlantic steamer Cleneral Chanzy crashed at e_ full speed, in the dead of nifiht, on the treacherous reaf near the island of Minorca and all but one of tlio 157 soul on board perished. The sole survivor is an Algerian 'n customs official. Marcel Kodel, who 3. wns rescued by fishermen. He 'ies ia c_ the hospital at Ciudadela, raving aa a result of the tortures through. ee which he passed, and unable to give and account of the disaster. ig In the ship's company there were 87 passengers, of whom 30 were in the first cabin. The crew numbered 70. It is not thought that any Amer1 * leans were aboard the liner. The \ ship was in command of Capt. Cayol, ^ one of the most careful officers on ^ the line. In his long experience he had never before met with an accident. He had intended to retire from the service in the near future. Ety Tlie passengers of the Chanzy were mostly French officers and officials, returning to their posts iu Algeria, (* accompanied by their wives and chll,R dren, a few soldiers, some Italians tic and Turks, and one priest. The only ' Anglo-Saxon names on the passenger ' list were Green and Stakely. They were members of an opera troupe of (> 11, which had been engaged to sing lie in the casino in Algiers. The Clumsy in sailed from Marseilles Wednesday at noon and was due to arrive at Algeirs Thurday afternoon. id M KAVKD BY CRY OF BABY. t t t rl Dancing I'arty Overcome by Hscaptle He ing (Jus. J 8 At Chicago on Sunday thirteen poola pie were overcome by illuminating j0 gas and a woman was killed by inA8 haling gas. At the home of Henry re Kolkey, twelve people, who remained ie over night after attending a party, ,r were saved from death by the cry . . of n KnKvr Th? ?>.. - ? ......... . III lalllllt UUU me V181? r_ tors had retired after dancing until >r almost daylight. While they slept a defective gas pipe poured fumes into i the crowded quarters. ^ At one p. 111. Sunday a baby sleepw ing In another room by a window r gave a loud wail. This aroused Henry Kolkoy, the only one in the house not completely overcome. He managed to crawl to a window and call into the street for e_ help. Outsiders found the Kolkey uj family and their visitors all unconscions. They were taken to a hospital where it was thought they would ^ recover. In a hotel the p.ilice found Annie s_ Miller, 24 years of ago, dead from ;(j the effects of gas, and Annie Edn_ wards, 20 years of age, in the same ftt room, dying. * ? THIRTY YEAItS IX PRISON. Self-Confessed Sluyer Found Guilty ie of Murder. A dispatch from Oxford, N. C., tig says in a very able speech Solicitor w Gattis furnished his concluding argue. ment Saturday morning in the case ?1 of the State against Solomon Sliep ui iiru on iriai ior murder of Engineer ke Holt of ?he East Durham coal chute In December, 19ft8. The jury Saturday afternoon brought in a verdict of guilty of murder in the second n" degree. The prisoner's counsel as pleaded for mercy. Judge Higgs com,n pllmented them for their handling of the case hut stated that the jury had extended all the mercy the pris)!t rtner deserved and he sentenced the i'- prisoner to 3ft years in the State's pf prison at hard labor, tlie maximum in punishment for second degree inurd?r. le . . it COLORED SOLDIERS IX TROl RLE a- ? The Same Regiment President Roosevelt Dismissed. The 25th United States infantry (colored), the regiment discharged w without honor by President Roosevelt, because of the shooting up of [trownsville, Texas, is again in troule ble, though few, if any, of the old r- men remain to share in this situaig tion. The regiment is stationed at >d Fort I.awton, near Seattle. Wash. i>r Last Friday nlyht Mrs. C. E. Aiseda, a- a white woman, was attacked by a rd negro. She says the man was a solu dier# Suspicion was directed to the i- negro regiment and the regiment will r<s lie made to parade before Mrs. Ais >e | eda, who will be asked to point out to the assailant, d, Train I>eruile<l. Engineer Dudley was killed and two other trainmen injured Tuesday na when a northbound passenger train th on the Southern railway struck an p- open switch at Waddy, Ky., -and d- crashed Into a '-H"ht train. Passen gers escaped injury. I