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I VIVID STORY I Ytnf Lad Tells of His Shipwreck and I Fierce Sattle for Lite AMID RAGING WATERS >ed, ttii< Twelve Year Old Sob oX. the Late ("apt. K. O. Miller, of the i Wrecked Schooner Converge, Telln Ulo IV.... < I. unit HI* Own K .rap?. The Augusta Chronicle says the body of Capt hi. G. Miller, of Hephzibah, Ga.. commander of the threemasted schooner William W. Converse, which was wrecked In the recent hurricane, 30 miles below St. Augustine, Fla.', 'has never been recovered. Shortly after the vessel went to pieces a body drifted ashore that wan thought to be that of Capt. Miller, but later the body was found to be that of another victim of the treat storm. The late Capt. Miller was a prominent citisen of Hephzibah. Ills shore-leaves were all spent at his home in Itochmond county. He was a prominent Mason and his fellow tpembers of the order were active la the efforts to find his body af.'ar the wreck. Hut all hope Is now abandoned that the sea will ever give op the body of this man who had spent his life In Its service. On his last trip Capt. Miller was accompanied by his son, Fred 'Miller, It years old. The boy had a terrible experience in the storm 'n which his father, the mate aud a seaman lost their lives. Fred Miller was brought to his home In Hephzibah last Friday night a week ago. 1Mb story of his experience Ls a thrilling taLe of the sea. The vessel ran into the hurricane off Savannah early Tuesday morning last week. The Converse was i staunch schooner and Capt. Miller held to his course, believing, no doubt, that this boat could weather it as she had weathered many before. He had a cargo of coal aboard and was bound for Cuba. The hurricane Increased in fury and when about 30 mlle9 below St. Augustine the vessel was blown upon the rocks about a mile and a half off he Florida coast. The waves wee rolling mountain-high and the boat began to break up almost immediately. Oapt. Miller ordered all hands to don life-preservers and take to the wutei, a* no boat could be launched tu such a sea. Captain Miller himself prepared his son for the terrible Journey and after telling the boy to keep his ey '6 on the shore and not look behind him the captain saw that he was safely started upon his trip ami th-?:i stood back until every one of his man had left. Then the captain abandoned the doomed ship. 'Fred Miller says he will remember that 6hort but awful journey until hla dying day. The boy is .in excellent swimmer, but no man's strength could buffet those waves and live. It was every man for himself. The life-preserver kept the boy's head above water and then h"? had all he could do to keep his breath from being literally pounded out of him by the raging, roaring seas. Though his father had ordered him not to look behind him the boy could not resist the Impulse to loo? back just once. He saw his father battling with the waves a short distance behind. Captain Miller wuv;d his hand encouragingly to his sou and that was the last the boy ever saw of his father, for just then a monster wave came over and engulf ed them all. Fred Miller felt himseil going down, clown, down. Ho no longer heard the airoan and roaring of the form, hut In his ears was a deafening humming that no words can describe He felt as though he were enmeshed In some giant threshing machine that was ripping and tearing him to pieces. He tried to hold his breath but ha was under water so long, hours It seemed to him. that he was forcer to swallow salt water until. he feared he would burst. He guve up *11 hope of ever breathing again, but he kept kicking and struggling to escapo the maelstrom that ha 1 him in its deadly grip. At last the wave passed over anu his body shot to the surface. His life-preserver, even hie Jacket, had been torn from him. But the great wave robbed him of his father, and which had almost torn all the doming from his own body, had also, is If shamed by the havoc it had wrought, borne the boy much nearer the shore. Now hla ability a* a swimmer served him well, and In spile of his bruises ho was able, by swimming and clinKin* to bits of wreckage. in keep himself ntloat untii rescued ay the life-boat from a noarby station. This life-boat rescued all the men Id the water except the captain aud the mate, who could not be found. ?>d one seaman whose brains were beaten out by a heavy timber just as the reecurers were making toward bias. MADE BOLD ATTACK CAIJiKD TO MIS DOOR AMI KXOCKTD UNCONSCIOUS. The Object of the Attach l? Supposed to " be Robbery and KotUiui i Klse. A dispatch from Gaffney w.ys that plure was a?os with excitement Thursday night over a bold attempt to rob and poestbly murder Will 1. Francis, superintendent of the public schools of that city. It seems from ~ I * I I " uiu v cwi uc ivai uuvi */? iur ouuaiiuu j that Professor Francis was Bitting ?n hiB roora at his home alone counting over a big roll of Confederate money. The blinds In the room were turned, affording a clear view' to any one who might be passing. It is evident that some perosn or persons! were outside the window and saw the money. They went to the hack of the house and knocked on the door. Prof. Francis, with his pistol in his hand, walked to the roar and opened the door, stepping out on the steps. When he did so some one hit hini on the head, knocking him to the ground. He was knocked unconscious and then an attempt was evidently made to cut him, as his beh and suspenders are cut in two places. He soon regained consciousness and he heard the party climbing over a back fence. He shot at them three times and then arose, going over to the residence of Mr. it. A. Jones, next door, and when the door was opened fell into the house. H< has now aunost recovered and is able to walk, although his head is badly laccrateJ and bruised. Oflict is were summoned lrom town and bio dhounds were secured and now a strenuous search is beiuu made by the officers and a posse of citizens. Mr. Francis Is unable to state whether there was more than one ass ilaut or not. He cannot sny what he was struck with. The blood uuuuun imik- I I1IIK1II luc irail UUU [ill' mlscrea'.na may he captured. TIIK UAO<iA(iK LAW. Kuilroa.l <'ononis-, loners Will Kn force It. The railroad commission w 11 strictly nforce the law with reference to the loading and unloading of bagg go at all towns of over 600 Inhabitants. A circular calling attention to the act passed by the general assembly with referene to the loading of baggage has been seal to all o: the roads of the State. The ."oliowing is the section referred lo: "All railroad companies shall p: ovide such means or appliances as may he necessary to secure the car?-nil handling and prevent Injury to baggage. At all stations where i o proper appliances are supplied the baggagemnster shall have such assistance from the train hands or others as may be necessary to handle -be bagtige without injury to same. That all Junctional points and towns of over 500 Inhabitant), sufficient trucks be furnished to load and unload the baggage. * TIIK l*AKt<3KST STBA-MSHIP. The Ol.i tuple Whs l*auitchcd in Ireland laist Week. At th - Immense shlnhullitin * vur.tv at Belfast, Ireland, last week, wa? launch* .1 the world's largest steamship, tl.e Olympic, of the White Star line. '1 he tniinense craft, to be used in carrying passengers across the Atlantic between New York city and Southhampton, is 822 feet long, has a breadth of 92 feet and a h* ig.it from the keel to the top of the cap tuin's house of 105 feet. There are eleven steel decks and 15 water-tight bulkhe: ds. lu the ship 2,000.000 steel r!\eis. weighing in nil 1.200 tons, h: vo been employed to bind the massivt st? el plates in 6 soring the greates stability; and the rudder on the ves .el weighs 10o tons, yet will be moved by electricity almost as lightly as a feather. t U'KKI) HOY'S DKATIl. Hit Willi u Potato Over the Heart by His Father. I'eeu .:ir accident resulted :n the. death < two children near Winston Salem, S C.. on lust Saturday. While gatehnaK his crop of Irish potatoes. J. W. ilennotf threw one towards i basket, hut the tuber struck his Iyear-olo eoy. standing nearby, ju*i over tfc?- heart. The hoy died before a phyAU'ian could be summoned. The four-year-old daughter of J. li. EverbaTt. a Sew Vernon farmer, was ki!led w-ben her skull was crushed between he barn and the bub ot a wagon -* her father was putting up his tec in. Kred Miller Is recovering from biti Injuries at bis home In llophtibah. " an boy's body is a mass ol bruise* and cuts, but none of bis Injurle- will prove fatal, and be will be abb to be about in a few Juy* -T; ' " *:w ' FOULLY SLAIN. Negro Fern Hand Charged With Hardering a Floreoce Farmer IN HIS COUNTRY HOME Four Load** from Hhotffun Kind Lodgment tn Victim's Budjr.? Killing (krurs in DcmI Han's liesMence where Hiajrw Kvldentlj Lay Id Waiting for His Iteturn. A dispatch to The News and Courier from Florence says to be foully murdered within the confines of his own home was the fute of Mr. Kllhu M. Moye, a well known and highly respected farmer and citizen of the Ebenezer section, about ten o'clock Friday night, and Clarence 11am, a ginger-cake colored negro, about 3 U years old. is in jail, charged by the coroner's jury with being the mau who committed the heinous crime, and using Moye's own gun to kill his victim with. The news of the horrible deed wjs telegraphed in to Florence at an early hour Saturday morning to the sheriff, asking that he come at once to Ebettezer and bring with uiru Coroner Cooper, as Mr. Moye had been found deud on his piazza, supposedly from the hands of a murderer. Sheriff Bureli and Coroner Cooper hustlly went to the scour, and the news as telephoned In proved to be a reality. The news spread througnout the Kt?enezer section with ngntning-like rapidity, and It was only a short time before hundreds of people had gathered about the Moye home, with the hope of guiuing some information a.- to how he mot de. th in such a foul and dastardly maimer. .All the while from the time tie- new* became known until the coioner's Jury had been empanelled, t.ie entii? neighborhood was wrought up and there Is no telling what might have happened had it been known at that time that Clarence Haui, t lie negro now in jail, had had auythtug to do with the taking of the life of Klibu Moye. The Sheriff had learned that Clar euee Hum had 'been in tiie employ of Mr. Move some weeks ago and had been discharged because he failed to work to suit his employer. Luat week, however, Mr. .\ioye agreed to tuke Ham back and i>ut him to work Saturday morning Hani %va* the only negro on the plantation who. failed to show up, and Sherifl (lurch, it. order to see what there was In him, nut him up before the juty to testify and lie stated that he had left th? place Into Friday and went to a woman's house by the name of Ethel Wilds Friday night, where he stayed. While he was testifying, Deputy Sheriff llurrell was sent to the Wilds woman's house to bring her also as a witness and while at the house Deputy liarrell thought he would search tho premises. He found iu a bureau drawer s coat belonging to Mr. Move and a pair of trousers. These he took ilong with him to tho imiuoet, and it proved to be the right evidence on which the murder could be laid at Ham's door, for it was tho coat that Mr. Move wore Friday uight. and tho one ho had Just divested himself of a lew moineuts before tho killing took place, as was sworn to by Mr. Harold Cole, who had accompanied Mr. Move to TimmonsvHle to a protracted meeting. Letters and other paper of Mr. Moye s were found in the pockets, going still further to prove Mr. Colo's testimony, and lending to show that Hani is the criminal . Mr Moye was married several j.eirs ago to Miss Minnie llitrvHi, vv ho preceded him some eighteen months a^o He ?> ?? " ' _ _ _ in Hi .done. excepting when his maiden sister visited him. Ho was a son of 106 : ?le Wash Move, of old Darlington, mil Is survived by one brother. \lr. Theodore A Moyo, and two slBtets, vl'vs Mary Move nnd Mrs Sarah Mann, all of Florence county, together with a large and wide circle of nonr relatives and hosts of friends. The horrible murder has been the talk of the town and county, for an the people knew Kllhu Moyo. and they were terr bly shocked * hen the news was fitst hunde.l out. Clarence Ham. the supported slayer of Mr. Mok. Ifi behind the bars of the Florence Count; prison and stands ehariM d ?>v fl>? x-.-.wu.-. n ju I jr the slayer of Mr. Moye. Hail it not hnv? been that a petition wah quickly circulated immediately after the inquest, calling upon Solicitoi W. H Wells, by Mr. John YtcSweon, of Tlminonavllle, unking the Governor to order a special term of tne Criminal Court in the county to t-y Ham. nad the cooler beads of those present, there ?? no telling but what H ati's bod) would now In* ewirtj ing from a tree In the forest near Mr. Moye's home. All Interested, however, agreed to awult the Cour''a verdict and ilaui lives After next Tuesday Toddy will be a has been. He will he disastrously i beaten in New York. WANT A MONK WHO IS CHAKtiKD WITH SO.MK TKKIUH1.K CKLMKS. Ik?tectives Hunt in Tim* Countries, Cloweljr Wstchlns tor the MUslnfl Monk to Arrest Hliu. The Police of Germany. Austria, and Russia are searching for a fugitive Paulist monk, who is charged with the robbery of precarious stones valued at $3,000,000. and the murder of his brother, a postman. The robbery took pluce a year ago at Czestochowu, Russian Poland. Tne church there contains an image ot the Virgiu and Child ascribed to St. Luke. The image once belonged to the mothed of Constantine the Great, and has been at Czestochowa since 1382. Miraculous powers are ascribed to It, and myriads of pilgrims have visited it during the past six centuries Some 3OQ.000 Popes go there each year. The Image had been deoorut ed with precious objects of vast worth, presented by Popes. Kmperors and Kings. The Virgin's crown. I given by Pope Clement in 171b. was valued at $.">0,000. A rope of pearls given by Queen fledwig, of Poland, w is worth hundreds of thousunds of poundB. There was a painful sensation throughout Poland when the news of the robbery of $3,000,000 worth of the treasure was made kuown The missing monk, who was attain ed to a Czestochowa inona?t???-i ... I yaid to have boon Inst beard of at I Lodz. He is stated to have own livI lng rioutously with a woman at WarI cuw and other towns. I The discovery of a body in the r!v er Warta adds to the mystery. TUa man who had evidently murdered. 1 was found sewn up In a sol'u He I proved to be u postman, brother 01 I the monk. The public proseeutoi I has nie awhile ascertained that the monastery authorities nils let" the po I lice in their attempts to trace tue I authors both of the rolvbery and th* I iiostman's death. The monastery I hns now been officially sealed and e.\I haustive Investigations nro taking I place. Several :uoukr are under arI rest. * I MBKTi.Nti WILL 1SK HKIJV |lte\i?(il Sen ires itl Fair (arouiMl* on Thursday. I That a great meet lug will be hoel in the fair grounds on Thursday I night of the state fair wus the uu1 nouncement made Friday by th" 1 committee of ministers who for over I three weeks have been conducting I tho revival services in Columbia. J The first meetings were held by all I the congregations simultaneously, leach church securing its workers, I and leaving to the other churches I the matter of selecting preachers, I etc. With the close of these meetI ings Sunday, it was announced that I meetings would be held In the state I house. These meetings will be con Itiuued. but the ma.^s meeting wlil be J held at the fair grounds, and it 's {proposed to secure a larger hall for jtho other Services In Columbia durj lng the week. * WOMAN'S ACT OF 1IKHOISM. She May Hie After SavIiik Her >IiGCicy. from it Fire. At Albany, On.. LUlle Preston, a negro vuman, employed by Mr... l.?? Whidby. wife of u local nievc! , at. In near death, after having s \?-<l uer 1 mistress from death by tl;.ate bunday nb'ht. Mrs. Whldb dress was I limited at an open grate hint sue ran into the ,-ard of Ler home. The ne?.ro woman overpowered her, druggod h?T *o the bath room, nd extinguished the flume*. Mrs Whidby is very seriously burned, but will recover. The negro woman's hands wore burned to a qrlap and she is badly burned elsewhere. INFANT! LB PA KA LYSIS PI CALK. Klfortx to Ascertain Cause and Treti inent Futile. A d'.?i>.?tch from Providence. K I., pays siiK-e June I, *05 capes of Infantile purnlynis have b. on reported to the ft't'.o board of Health. Of this number '.'3 have, resulted ?u death. Nine other suspected cases are being watched. Every effort to deter mino the cause, treatment and cur? of the malady has proved practically futile. Not only have children been afflicted, but many adults have been victims and several have died. It was thou :ht that adults w ere tmtnume from th?> dlstoase * tftxil \V?r Shell Explode A hombshd? which h d fair, half ^buried since civil war days In the | vsrd of a nopro. Oeorpe Towns, ;>f ! I>akon. Oa., within a short diptance (of the old breastworks. exploded j Friday w-hen struck with a piece of (Iron In the hands of Tow nV grand' sou. The child's mother was alight, l> hurt and the clothing of two boya j standing Oearby caught Ore * "HELLO, YANK!" i Two Brother* Meet on the Battery in Charleston Very Recently AFTER FIFTY YEARS A Grand Army Man Waw Gazing at Fort Sumter and Was Accosted by n Coofodrrote Veteran and lteeognltion Follows .in the Old Soldiers St Hike Hands. To meet one's brother suddonly by the merest accident arter a separation of tifty years is a thing thai bus happened to very few people on earth, yet that Is whnt befell Capt. Itobort Oruhnm. of this city, not long ago says the News and Courier. Capt. Graham Is a well known citizen of Charleston, being manager of the American Brewing Company, of this city, and formerly clerk of Court. He was among the earliest to enter the Confederate service after Soul i Carolina hud seceded from the Uniou. and ho Berved in the Washington Artillery with courage und fidelity throughout the war. He was also a prominent member of tne South Carolina Jockey Club lu the obi horse racing days In this State. The story of tho dramatic reunion of 1 Capt. Graham and his brother. Samuel, who served In tho Union array and who Is now a resident of liayonne, N. J., is told as follows In tho New York Telegram: Parted noarly a haf-century, ! four years of which they spent ou opposite sides of the blazing, shotto in battlefields of the civil war, two brothers have just been reunited by ' t chance meeting In a Southern city, but* of them lived in Uayonuo, N. J., the other in Charleston, S. C., ev^r since the early eighties, and both have achieved success. Mr. Samuel Graham, who lives a. No. 411 Fast 4 2nd. street. Uayonn), Ik a grand Army man, with a most brilliant record of service in the Union army during the civil war. Naturally proud of the organization ii wqicq ne is u member, be wear* its button wherever he goes. On a recent visit to Charleston, S. C., the home of his childhood, he was standing on the Battery looking across the bay at Fort Sumtur nncl mi.sing on the stirring events which occurred there neurly half a ceutur> ago. He was suddenly shipped on the shoulder, hb a genial Southern voice exclaimed: "Hello, there, Yank!" "Hello, there, Johliny Rob!" answered Mr. Graham, turning with a smile to greet the tine looking Confederate Veteran who had interrupted his musings. Both smiling, they extended their hands and exchanged a heart) greeting Then, as eacn man wan about to make some commonplace remark, the smile died on his face. Their looked ut each other's face with a curious interest, which was uot with out a touch of awe. Memories of days long past surged Into the minds of both, and trembling hands wore raised as the simultaneous ejaculaeoi.fi ejaculations -sprang font thoir tlon sprang froui their lips. " Robert!" "Samuel!" "Brother!' Reunited after flftw years, the bra thers, who as boyn had parted, oue to fight for the Confederacy, the oth or for tlie Union, foil into each owner's arms. Mr. Giabam, of Itayonne. wan taken forthwith to the old taomestoiu by hie brother Robert, and 'n a j union with his relatives there, mark, ed by all the warmth and affection which has usade Southern hospital! ty famous, he on joyed a most teem- ! ! m-able visit. j With the firing of Fort Snruter. thu brothers" rilatione were abruptly severe 1 Robert, the shier, t.o-n , only nineteen years old. enlisted in the ranks o! the So rh under Gen. I TUauregavu and !ai ,-r touh rough out the war w|*h (ion Wade *fn:np ( ton Samuel was onl> ti:i?* i. yearold at the outbreak of Lost .inw but in tin- second year of ;n" * : he enlisted tn the s-trh regin.ent o New York Mr Clrnhftrr. ot Huyontu >* the; distinction ot being oue of .1 dr?/.-. i. survivors of a party of two thotaad who stormed a rebel battery at tre 1 j battle of Williamsburg The pari; ' I 'A* 14 * Olriitfkdl finnihli. ? -> ? - * n*i?uAiiilti|*<1 I ?> l.itt VH ' my's guns. a mere handful, of whim j he was jix, eat-aplng rolling d'? u ] i t!?< hill torn by the deadly Or* of , the Southern artillery. At th? close ol the war the bro> lh? rs went their separate w.iys ai?.l I never met until the riramntt: rvun?ion of h few days ago at Cmrl?f?*un | Hohert, the elder brother hramo 1 prominent as a breeder of throuorgbhred hor?ws In Charleston and achlev 1 ' ??<3 consider',Sl?* suroeea a.' u dealer | Samuel learned the printers trade, ''.n Ne.w York and worked at dlfieront tiroes on most of the dnlly newspapers of the metropolis, amonx ' them the K-veninx Telegram H; was I a reporter and proof-reader ou ' he | old Kxprese when Amos Caromlnxs, . i one time Representative In Conitrw. was lu charge of that lournal Huh BREAKS THE RECORD FOR GROWING CORN O.N ONK ACT.K OF RAND BY BOY8. A Marlboro County Roy IVxIbm^ Over Two Hundred and TweotyKigtit UusheLs on One A<h?. The Htate says another world's record for corn production hSa been broken In South Carolina. A ioyear-old boy residing In the Pee I>eo section of the 8tate nan produced 228 bushels and three pocks of corn on one acre of land. Besides the money that he will receive from his crop he is to get $600 in prizes and a trip to Washington. The unknown hoy. for his name will not be announced for eeveral days from the Washington ofllee of the United States furm deuionbtra lion work is a member of one of the hoy's corn clubs and his record Is sworn to by witnesses. The olhciat announcement and the boy's own story of how he secured such a marvelous yield will be printed In The State within the next several days. CThe unknown boy has broken au world's records for production of i corn by a boy and he is v'.ihin 27 J bushels of the great yield of 266 bushels by Drake, the Marlboro I county farmer. The boy is the sou of a minister and the record-break | ing yield was grown upon the pur sonage land. His story of how he accomplished such an unusual feat m of exceptional human interest. The boy grew the coru under the direction of the United States farm demonstration work, of which Ira W. Williams is at the head in this Sm?e. The largest yield list year was l?>2 1-2 bushels, which was secured by Baaoombe I'Nher. lie will send ?a excellent exhibit to the South Atlantic States corn exposition, whb-n is to be held in Columbia from t>eceinber 6 to 8. Stt'lVIU IV/' ~ - i nr. AMiKOKS. \ White lUscul Arrested White At ti Xejeni Church. j A dls(>alrh to the News and CouI Her say* a white man was arrested Wednesday in a negro church about | a mile below Cross Hill, expiating to the negroes a great scheme or lending them money at 5 per cent interest. It seems that a man was irxuud some two or three months ago and arranged everything with the ne groes. and this men was to receive the commissions, and the money was to be let to the negroes la'er He told the negroes elj:- tuo'/.w'-Olio told the negroes a woman died a the North some time ago aud left $.">0,000,000 to be loaned to the ne groes at f> p>*r cent interest, but they were to pay as a matter of gooo faith so much money dov n haforo the money could be gotten, according to their rating, according to the property they had, some paying $13.25, $:o, $30 and $50 He was Just about ready to receive their money when Officer Kane and Policeman Ko??n arrested hiui He is being tried now before Magistrate Culberson, at Cross Hill. Ho was at a negro church Tuesday, and .L is said took in a good deal of money from the negroes, 'l'be man had an appointment Thurudav at * large negro church Burnt1 live miles from Cross Hill, where he wouia doubtless hove gotten luore money, .?k the negroes ure "well to do " WANTKI) TO lllOAK TtUtlfJIK). Hut It ll?**<(iltc<t in the I tenth of ? l?'ttrn?er Nearby. The IiOitiKvlllo and Nashville railroad agent at Elkuiout, Ala., placed a target torpedo on the tra<*k Satur day afternoon," Jr.st to lie.tr it explode." A passenger train, south betid, exploded the torpedo T. VV Wells, well known farmer of Heeat ur county, was waiting for tha i in to go home when the torpedo -truck him near the heart, killing hi.): instantly. The agent who plac d 'he torpedo on the track was w?t in lured. )*c u-ntly Mr (Jraham opened a printing establishment ol his own at Vo 20 Frankfort street, New York He has lived in Hayonnc more !hr?n thirty year- and has held nearly every oUlce within the gift of that rlty These Include terms as school 'trustee, councilman, police romml* doner health cor.iuiisslonur und juotice of the pence He is now em fdov.xt le ?-" , , " ?? " ~i?kiiin uriiiirimeni at jioiicc* headquarters AmonK 'he coiiD f 1?*bs incidents ?hich Tnad?- his Southern visit (lellttbtfol to hln? Mr ?;ratiRm says nofh!n? pleased him morn than ?. greeting bo received from s?*v?n beanUfnl yrmiiK Southern nortifii, <rh?. ?I'lfomrd h'n. with the cry "Thcre'r our llriclr Sara! * To Ms delighted surprise ho found that they were all nrloos. Mr. Ornhinn Is ."till Id excellent health and does not appear to bo Althlo a decode of the age of 80. to v hlch ho confesses. He t? onto of the be?t known and cao*i popular I'Mtdroti of l!ttyonn?