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VOTE FOR JUDGE
A Close and Exciting Race for the New
^ Supreme Coort Jusrice.
* A NECK AND NECK START,
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Meminln?;or, Watts, 1'razor, Honlmm
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anil <?rubcr l'ut in Nomination
and on First Ballot Kan Pretty
t'lose Together, Except timber,
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mm luiKKfU nMllll'W'lini llCIIlim.
At noon on Wednesday the Senate
and House of Representatives met in
joint assembly to elect a fifth Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court.
The nominations were:
Judge It. Withers Memmlncer, of
Charleston, by Mr. Vander Horst.
Judge It. C. Watts, of Cheraw. b>
Mr. Stevenson.
Mr. W. M. Gruber, of Colleton, by
Senator Rates.
The Hon. Thos. R. Fraser. of Sumter.
nominated by Senator Johnstone.
Gen. Milledge L. Ronham. of Anderson,
nominated by Senator Sullivan.
Three ballots were taken, but no
election resulted, the vote on the
first ballot being Memininger, 39;
Watts, 35; Fraser, 33; Ronham, 30;
Gruber, 18; Carey, 1. On the third
ballot Watts and Fraser received respectively
3 8 and 3 6, while Ronham
lost 2 and Gruber 4. The vote of
the different members was as follows:
Voting for Memniinger.
For Judge Memniinger: Senators
Appelt, Croft, Dennis, Muckonfuss,
Rainsford, Splvey, Walker, Weston.
House: Speaker Smith, Ralley,
Rookter, Royd, T. P. Rrown, Bryan, j
Rutler, Connor. Courtnay, Davis. <
Erekmann, Horlheck, Kirkland, be- !
Innd, Mansfield, Manuel, Motte, H. A. i
Odom, Osborne, Peeples. Rembert,
Sawyer, Sliulor, Tlson, Tobias, Todd, !
Turnbull, Vander Horst, Wells, Wil- j
iiams. loumuns?39.
bull Vnnder Horst, Wells, Williams,
Youmans?39.
Voting for Fraser.
For Mr. Fraeer: Senators Chrlslenson,
Clifton, Johnstone, lIou?n,
8tnrkey.
House: Raskin, Reiser, Rethea,
Rowers, Bowman, Browning, Chandler.
W. L. Daniel, Dick, I)oar. DuBose,
Edwards, I. and E. C. Fult7.,
Graham. James, Jones, Klbler, Legnick.
McKeown, Paulllng, Reaves, i
Richardson, Saunders. Saye, Vincent,
Whl-onant, Wingard. Total, 33.
^ Voting for Gruber.
j|r For Mr. Gruher: Senators Ackerman.
Rates, Black, Crosson, Glnn.
Stewart, Summers.
House: Dobson, Hamilton, Hill,
Hunter, Hutto, Folk, Minis, Mltehum
Riley, C. T. Sliuler, I). L. Smith.
Total, 18.
Voting for Watts.
For Judge Watts: Senators Carlisle.
Earle, Green, Hardin, W. J.
Johnson, Laney, Lawson, Manning,
McCmvn, Strait, Waller, Wharton,
You"":.
House: Beamguard, Charles,
Dixon, Earle, Evans, Gary, Irby,
Ketchen, Kirven, MeDow, McQueen.
Macill, Mears, Miller, Moore, \V. r.
Odom, Pegues. Singleton, Stanley,
Stevenson. Willis, Wyche. Total, 115.
Voting for Honliam.
For Mr. Bonham: Senators Forrest.
hide, Mars, W. I,. Mauldin, T.
J. Mauldin, Montgomery, Sullivan.
House: Arnold, Ashley, Ayer, B.
H. Brown, Cary, John M. Daniel.
Drummond, Gilbert, Harris, Harrison.
Hopkins, Jackson. League. Lee,
McCary, Mauldin. Mower. Nicholson,
Scott, Searson, C. I"). Smith, K. P.
Smith. Watson. Total, SO.
Changes on Second Ballot.
On the second ballot the changes
were: Senator W. L. Mauldin. from
Bonham to Watts; Mr. Price, Carey
to Frnser; T. P. Brown, Memminger
to Watts: Mr. Doar did not vote: Mr.
Hamilton changed from C.ruber to
Bonham: Mr. Riley did not vote.
Mr. C. T. Shuler changed from C.ruber
to Frnser.
Changes 011 Third Ballot.
On the third ballot the changes
were: Senator Crosson changed
from C.ruber to Watts: Senator Hall,
not previously voting, voted for
Frt ror: Senator W. L. Mauldin voted
for Bonham. Senators Sinkler and
Eppe* were absent for the day, the!
former being sick at home.
In the House Mr. Doar did not
vot-\ nor did Mr Dobson; Mr. Ham
men voted ror Memminger; Mr. I
Rile: did not vote, and Mr. Searson j
vote l for Orubor.
''"'-is concluded the balloting for ,
the day.
Ilanged for Murder.
At Wayno8i>oro, Ga., Calvin Johnston
paid the penalty for the murder
> of Harvey Jones Wednesday morning
by hanging. The trap was
sprung at 11:22 a. m., nnd he was
n pronounced dead in fifteen minutes
from strangulation, lie went to the
palinws with as little emotion as he
shoved during his trial, and had no
statement to make.
Prussia's Population.
Prussia has a population of 4 0,157,573.
Tho official figures as recorded
in Dec. 1, 1910, w^sre made
public today. The increase In the
last five years is slightly n.'oro than
that of tho preceding census period.
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THREE CONVICTS ESCAPE.
Negro Prisoners Dash for Liberty
From State Farm.
While working in a swamp on the
State farm, in Kershaw county, throe
neerro ronv'ets escaped. Two were
serving life terms and the third was
serving a sentence of thirteen years.
A message was sent to the penitentiary.
D. J. GrifTUh, the superintendent
of the penitentiary, offered a reward
of $50 each for the escaped
prisoners. The prisoners who escaped
were: Lee Carter, Hllbert
Odom and Frank McAlister.
IIIIl.AMt r\, J *
uuuri i v/vxuui ?ci? ini'u ana convlcted
In Barnwell county, in 1904,
on the charge of burglary, and was
sentenced to life imprisonment. He
is about 5 feet 4 inches high, black
hair, dark-brown eyes, dark-brown
complexion. He is 33 years old, has
small mark on left cheek and has
three front upper teeth filled with
gold.
bee Carter was tried and con\lcted
at the March term of Court in Union
county, on the charge of housebreaa- (
ing and larceny, and was sentenced
to the penitentiary for thirteen years,
lie is 27 years old, f> feet 10 Inches
high, black hair, dark-brown eyes
and dark-brown complexion, ^ind a
low, fiat nose.
Frank McAllster was tried and
convicted at the February term of
Court in Williamsburg county, on the
charge of murder, and was sentenced
to life imprisonment. He is 30 years
old. 5 feet 4 inches in height, black |
hair, black eyes, black complexion,
has scar under left eye and two scars
on back of head.
IjOCOMOTIVK ItOlLKH KXrLODKS. '
Kleven Men Were Blown Into Fragments
by Concession.
At Smithville, Texas, on Wednes- 1
day eleven shop employees of the '
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad
were torn to fragments and several
others were injured when an
engine, under repair, exploded in the '
Sniithville yards.
The locomotive Just had been run '
from the repair shops to be tested '
when the explosion occurred.
O'Rourke, a machinist, at the time :
was attaching a safety valve. The '
engine was blow nto atoms, two otli- '
er locomotives standing nearby were 1
wrecked, and the round house was 1
partially demolished.
With the bursting of the boiler a :
rain of pieces of the engine and por- (
tions of human bodies fell for several
hundred yards. Pieces of flesh 1
and clothing were literally driven !
into the shattered wall of the round '
house. In several instances identi- 1
ficatlon was impossible. The exact '
cause of the evplosion has not been '
determined. '
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DARING KKSCCK RY F1RKMKN. <
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Crowds in the Street Cheer Their j
Thrilling Work.
Firemen achieved spectacular rescues
of two imperilled clothing workers
from upper stories of a big factory
buildiner iti f!r?er<?k
York, Wednesday while the flames
were bursting out on all sides of
them. j
The men in danger were in exactly
similar positions, one on the <
fifth and the other on the sixth floor
of the burning structure. I
Twining their legs about the flro
escape railings of the next door '
building, which ran close to the factory
wall, two firemen reached over
and joined hands with the workmen
as the latter mounted the window
ledges anil extended themselves to
the limit. Iloth dangled in midair i
for a moment but were finally landed
safely on the fire escapes.
Crowds on the street cheered the
rescuers. The fire burned out the ;
three upper floors of the building. * ;
POWI>EIS PLANT EXPLODES.
Ten Employees of tlit* Company Were
Blown to Atoms. (
In a disastrous explosion ten men 1
met death at the plant of the Pluto
Powder Company, in the outskirts1
of Ishpemlng. Mich., Monday. One '
man was injured. The bodies of the
dead werp blown to pieces.
The explosion took place in the
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in tills building were blown to pieces.
Throe men were absent from the
building and escaped. What caused |
the explosition is not known. Gelatine
powder is largely composed of
nitro-glycerine, and it is supposed
that the mixture was being stirred
in the big rucihle within the house
when it le* go.
About 1,00ft pounds exploded.
Only twenty minutes before the disaster
5,000 pounds of the explosive
were removed. The main plant was
little damaged an.l the shock felt in)
Islipeniyig v .ia hardly perceptible. ^
Killed by a I don. |,
Geo. Grey, a brother of Sir Ed- 1
ward Grc , the British minister of
foreign af'airs, died during the nieh
at the hospital to which he was removed
following his encounter with
a lion last Tuesday. Mr. Grey with
several companions had been stalking
lions near the Athi river in
Africa. ,
None of us comes within a stone's
throw of what he shoulw do.
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THE EARTH CAVING IN
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A BOTTOMLESS HOLE APPEARS
NEAR GAINESVILLE, FLA.
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Just How Deep the Water In This
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Hole is Cannot l>e estimated With c
Accuracy.
Another "sink" on Alachua Lake, *1
just across from the chain of "sinks" a
south of the city, developed some n
time during Wednesday night, says a
the Sun, of Gainesville, Fla., and
as a result the trains over the At- 1
lactic Coast Line were annulled nf- c
tor the Leesbure-.Iacksonville train :1
which reached hero Thursday morn- '
ing at 8 o'clock.
According to the Sun's account the 1
tlrst report that reached the "Ity was I
brought by Conductor Frederick, *
who was advised of the trouble by v
Section Foreman Thigpen, who made c
the discovery early in the morning 0
on his way to the south end of his 8
section. v
When Mr. Thigpen first discovered
the new sink it was not more than ^
10 or 15 feet in diameter, but it
spread very rapidly during the morn- 0
ing hours, ami by the arrival ol the 0
Leesburg passenger train It bad
rrown to about 4 0 feet, one large
chunk of earth following after another
in rapid succession, and the I
ground eracklng for a space of several
feet around the entire hole.
At about the noon hour the place
presented a rather interesting scene,
for at this time the great loads of '
earth were rolling in at Intervals, v
and with them the water would boil 1
and sizzle as though it was hot iron '
being struck in place. Thp great pool '
ilso resembled the waves of the seas *
for duria: all day it was in motion,
sometimes being greater than at others,
and up to last night the earth 1
was still falling.
Reports from the nlnon nt.rv.?
were to the effect that the hole had '
covered a distance of 125 feet running
north and south, while from
s
ho east to west banks the distance
s fully 100 feet.
This sink developed some 20o ^
yards this side of the one that oc urred
there a few years ago, when (
i local freight train with many cars (i
Tell to the bottom of the place, but
fortunately there was no water in
r
his one, and it was easily filled In. ,.
md is used today the same as the
>ld roadbed.
Just how deep the water In this
lew place is cannot be estimated
with any degree of accuracy, for
luring the forenoon a laree tree that
was fully 20 or more feet tall was a
n the middle of the place, and in the 1
1 f
ifternoon it nad disappeared as
hough nothing but a bottomless hoie ?
vas there to receive anything that ''
same its way.
There are a number of old sinks
n the vicinity, but the new one is
larger than any of the others.
I
soox Tin-: lxx; was dead.
Huge Gorilla and Hull Dog Hat tie
to the Death.
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A battle to the death between a '
n
gorilla and an English bull dog. in
which the gorilla was the victor, 11
was the attraction Wednesday night x
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...... o.uiwsi tut- enure male popula- v
tion of New Iberia, I.a., as spectators.
A pen 12 feet square and 8 feet s
!ii;'h was arranged for the combat 1
with seats on all sides. The dog and
gorilla were placed into the pen at 11
12 midnight. At 12.02.30 the dog ll
was dead. p
The dog leaped at the gorilla lni- 1
mediately after being placed into the s
pen. The gorilla caught the dog e
iust as a man catches a baseball,
hen bit quickly through the dog's v
knll into the brain, broke Its back
and tore it to pieces.
I'ied in a Coal Mine.
Seventeen lives were lost in the 3
'X'dosion that wrecked the Cokedale 1
Mine of the Carbon Coal and Coke '
Company, eight miles from PrinadoJ. '
C..1., Friday night. Fifteen bodies a
including those of Assistant Super- '
Intedent E. A. Sutton and Robert
\!e< k. rescuers, who lost their lives '
in the attempt to save others, have
been brought to the surface. *
Find Four Read. ?
A tragedy growing out of the inability
of the head of the house to
provide properly for his w ife and two
children, 1 the way the police sura r
III) 11'. di nvi v.- r>f
, . . . ... iwiii rui |!?:a III r
\ Brooklyn home today. The vie- L
t'ms v ere Fnnk Bernard, his wife p
p.! thflr two children.. The family r
v ere v!? ! > s of aspyxiation from il:linat
lug pas. f]
"Mi ' v 1 lives host.
Vn rrti. > fishing village of
men which hag been c"' tbli.-he I on '
[! ic? ontrli'e iorko sound w s| '
i\ ' r* r " < 'a a pale op Fri- "
[lay night. The i..s..aUT was not . i
covered until morning, when the vll- 1
lage was already out of sight. Floats s
hav- been sent to the rescue hut have
not ye# returned.
Many Drown. t
Several coasting vessels in the v
Mediterranean are still missing and I
it la feared that they were lost dur- n
ing the recent storm. On the Cata- a
Ionian ^oast alone five barks were h
wrecked and 43 persons drowned. I'
VICTUALS FOR HNERS.
re*i Stores jof Food Needed by
Olympic and Titanic.
Sixty thousand dollars worth of
tmorican food and drink will be
laced on board the new ocean lin rs
Titanic and Olympic each time
hese big boats dock at New York
lty. For meat alone $15,000 is to
>e paid each time either of the big
ister ships comes into port. Large
luantities of beef, lamb, pork, veal
.nd mutton will be brought from
.11 over the country and stacked
.way in refrigerators that must hold
nouixh to feed 3 500 nonnto <->? -
rans-Atlantlc voyage. Wagonloads
?f poultry costing $5,400 are to be
dded to this array, with piles of
ish worth $2,000.
Far away in the frigid depth of
he new liner's cold storage cemlartinents
$1,200 worth of ice cream
s to he stored, and for cigars $2,000
rill he spent. Wines and spirits
osting $5,OOP are set down as necssary
for each shipload of passen;ers,
together with some $:'.,000
rorth of beer and mineral waters.
If both boats are able to begin
heir regular trips next spring, $ 1 ,>00,000
will be spent in New York
itv in a year simply to stock up their
apacions larders.
SNOW FlIXIN't; ll? ST It MKTS.
llnukct of White Costs Transportation
Interests Dear.
The snowstorm which struck Chiago
early Sunday, filling the streets
vith hir-e drifts, delaying railroad
ransportation and temporarily tying
treet car and elevated train service,
lassod on to the east today. The
torm centre moved eastward to Inliana
and the United State weather
tureau tonight predicted clear weatlir
for the Middle West tomorrow.
The loss in Chicago to traction
ompanies, telegraph and telephone
ompanies and the city is estimated
unight at $1,000,000. Surface transportation
companies, which had
truggled along during the day.
ame almost ?o a standstill in the
nop during the rush hours Monday
Ight.
The situation became worse Mnn
ay night when the temperature
ropped to freezing and sleet covrod
the drifts with ice, which can bo
emoved only with difficulty. Two
Utilities and numerous accidents on
ccount of the snow and ice were reorted
to the police.
Fruit Trees Itiuom.
Pear and peach trees in Mississippi
re in full bloom, a rare sight at this
line of the year. Planters report
ruit trees developing fast because
f the recent warm weather. It is
parol ilmt a heavy frost will cause
onsidera de damage.
gaggkd ami poi nd.
Iclpless Woman Watches Thieves
Holt Her Home.
Gagged and hound to a trunk with
rire. Mrs. Kate N. Kirkpatrick witesseil
the ransacking of her apartlents
by a burglar Wednesday at
'ucanbla, Ala. She was not releas< d
ntil three hours later when a seiant
came from a neighbor on an
rrand.
The man Mrs. Kirk patrick derribes
as well dressed and of Keneel
appearance. When she answered
lis call he first made inquiry for a
uale member of the family. When
le ascertained she wa3 alone she
xplains, the u an seized and hound
ler, then robbed the ho >.e. ilc
ecured her purse, jewelry and othr
valuables. Mrs. Kirkpa rich, ci.hr
than sufferinK a nervou.* collapse,
pas not injured. *
Hen Trust Pays Well.
The expenses of a 100-acre farm
n the Walla Walla valley in tnt
tnte of Washington are heing paia
>y 200 hens, the property of C. C.
'arker. It is stated that after pay11?
for all the groceries. fuel, meat
fid even for the threshing. the
hlckens had a balance of $S2.60 to
heir credit In the grocery store on
an l.
SF.KIOI S KKVOLT.
Natives of Ponnpe Island Kill Several
( ernians.
The steamer Zealandia, brought
epons oi tne revolution suppressed
>y Gorman warships on Ponape isand
in the Carolines. The rising
farted from the punishment of a
intive workman.
Tho German overseers took to
light and sh lt< red ir. i Catholic
nission, which 'e n-'tlves plaeed
Tile <ier<\ Th?> dc:'< i lers, nine in
inr '? nil Germans, were killed.
nebk the ntIsrionarv.
in i V-111c ' wh n e kin? to leave the
dssion and the road superintendents
?? ' a"k< d to piece? nf'er a gilan:
Pcht at the Poach, where they
ought to launch n Po t.
After Many Years.
King McNamara surrendered to
he police In New York city last
ireek and asked that he he sent to
,exington, Ky., to be tried for a
uurdur ho committed twelve years
.go . The police of T^exlngton found
10 was accused of killing Janfes S.
Cellar in 1899.
TOOK OFF THE DUTY
OBJECT LESSON OP HOW THF
TARIFF RAISES PRICES.
No Bettor Proof Needed to Show That
They Are Framed for the Benefit
of Trusts.
In Tho Tofforaftnl/\n !"* '
? . wuvtovuivii vi IUDI ween
Ex-Congressman T. E. Watson bajb
we have at the present time, an illustration
of how the removal of a
tariff duty reduce* the price of the
commodity upon which the duty was
levied. Here is what Watson says
about It, which you can read for
yourself:
"You remember the great forest
llres which recently devastated so
many hundred square miles in Minnesota.
and other states lying along:
the Canadian border. Hundieds, <
perhaps thousands, of people were!
burned out of house and home. Their
misfortunes, like that of the sufierers
of the Sicilian earthquakes. w*>s
of a dramati" character which appealed
to the Imagination and
aroused human sympathy. A great
cry for relief went up from the
sufferers?and what shape .ie you
suppose it took? It was a demand
for the removal of the tariff di.ty
upon lumber.
"Of course, they wanted to rebuild
their dwellings as soon as possible,
also their outhouses and fences, and
therefore they wanted lumber at the I
lowest obtainable price. Some of thf S
very men who, in Congress, had i
voted in favor of the number Trust
and who had argued that the tariff
duties were an unalloyed and bountiful
blessing, used all of their influence
with the Taft administration
to have Canadian lumber admitted
free of duty. The Administration j
yielded, the tariff law was set aside,
in so far as it related to lumber, and |
the citizens of those north-western i
states bought lumber at about half I
the price which you and I have to
pay.
"Could you want any better proof
that tariffs are framed for the benefit
of the cruel trusts*' Do you any
longer doubt that, the increase of
tariff duties in the Payne-Aldrich i
hill, which went into effort last sum-|
rr.er, was the true and only cause of
the Immediate advance in the cost ,
of living? Can you have any further |
doubt that those who pretend that !
tariffs are made in the interest of
labor and for the general welfare of)
the country, are unmitigated liars
and hypocrites?
"Consider the injustice of the
thine; see with what favoritism our,
government is run. We must not he-'
grudge the enormous benefit of cheap
building material to those burnt-out
unfortunates of the Northwest. But I
why shouldn't the same benefit be'
enjoyed by all the rest of us? What
have we done that we are less entitled
to have the cost-increasing
tariff on lumber removed In our favor?
Why should we be held down
by the government while the Lumber
Trust goes through our pock-,
ets. {
"There is not an hour in the day
when somebody is not burned out;
there is never a nisht when the
alarm-bell does not strike its terror
into some town or city. The number
of dwellings, barns, gln-houscs and j
other necessary buildings that go up I
in flames every year, far exceeds the
number of homes and other build- (
ings consumed by the forest fires
of the Northwest. Therefore, when j
you take a bird's-eye view, mentally,
of the entire United States, you cannot
fail to realize^ that there are
just as many unfortunate burn-outs j
musiue ine Durne<l-over area of the'
Northwest, as there were within it. '
Wihen you think of this and hear tn
mind that the Law should be no respecter
of persons, and should treat
us nil alike, you will deeply feel the
Injustice of our Government, in compelling
millions of people to surrender
a part of their money ?to the
Lumber Trust to gratify its inordinate
greed for gain.
"If you can think up any good
reason why the American saw-mtlls
in the great lumber regions of :he ,
Northwest cannot produce lumber
profitably, as cheaply as the Canadians
can do it, please tell us what it .
is. I venture to say that the steam whistles
of some of the American
saw-mills on the border, can be heard |
by some of the saw-mills of Canada,
and vice versa. The labor supply
is practically the same on both sides
of the line. The wages paid by the
Canadian mills are worth as much in j
Canada as those paid by the Ameri
can mills are worth in this country.
The lumber Is cut from the:
same continuous forest growth. .
Why, then, should the Lumber Trust
of tlie Northwest be given power to j
shut out Canadian lumber and toi
i xtort monopoly prices from the
Americans who hnvo to use their prortujct?
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Evidently the Lumber Trust was
, '? ! ' e - unable to prevent the tern- |
pc- >rv i er ne of their victims. The
burm-d-eots v re desperate; the demand
whmh they placed upon their ,
representatives in Congress was too'
passionately Imperative to the re- j
sisted. "The Taft administration has'
long heen tempest-tossed on H f.rou- !
bled sea, therefore it was thought,
good politics to let the Lumber i
Trust release its prey for a little
while, leaving it to make up for lost
time later on when the people are
FOUND A WHALE
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Forty Foot Mammal Seen Floating Near
Cole's island Dead. M
MONSTER WAS LANDED
Two Young Dadies First Discovered
the Big Fish Floating in the Ocean.
Was limited Ashore and Will Boll
Down the Blubber and Preserve
the Frame.
The News and Courier says Capt.
W. it. Hernandez and members c
his family succeeded in landing e
forty-foot whale on the beach at
Cole's Island, near Stono. Sunday
afternoon. The monster, which was
quite dead, was seen tloating around
the inlet near Capt Hernandez's homo
Sunday afternoon. Immediately the
captain got busy, and with the assistance
of members of his family the
immense carcass was landed Sunday
afternoon, after working all Saturday
night and most of the Saubath.
How the monster came to be
in these parts is not known, and
tlie cause of his death is as' much a
mystery as his presence.
The whale was first seen by Phoeb
and Nellie Hernandez. They were
walking on the beach Sunday afternoon,
when they noticed a great,
bulky object floating about in the inlet.
Being unable to make out
what it was, they hastened to the
house and notified their father. Master
Charles Hernandez put his yacht
in order in all haste and carried his
father out on the water to investigate.
Capt. Hernandez soon discovered
that he had a whale in his
hands, which is about as unwleldiy
a proposition as having an elephant
on one's hands. As soon as he
learned that' the big fish was quite
dead Capt. Hernandez set about getting
it ashore.
unuini Willi Siroilg ropes, the
whale was tewed by the little yacht
as far as- possible toward the beach.
Reaching .a point where they coula
not drag it with the aid of the tide,
Capt. Herandez put the block ana
tackle system into operation. The
rope was carried around a pine tree
nearby and the captain, son and his
two daughters began to "haul in."
It was a difficult proposition, even
with so many on the rope to budge
the fish. It was not until high tide
Sunday that they succeeded in dragging
their catch up far enough to be
left high and dry at ebb tide.
It was suggested to Capt. It'erandez
that he bring the whale to tho
city and have it exhibited, as the one
which was caught in the harbor some
thirty years ago "was exhibited it
Pregnall's ship yard. Capt. Hernandez
had a conference with Mr. S. .1.
Pregnall, proprietor of the ship yarn,
and they agreed that it would not
nay to bring the whale to the city,
for by the time it arrived it womo
be iu a stage of decomposition, which
would lie dangerous to the health of
the whole community.
It will lie remembered that some
time in the SO's a 45-foot whale was
caught in the harbor at Charleston.
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. .... >VI1 v.i 1 Ilia w unit: is now
the property of the Charleston Museum.
Prof. Ilea, head of the Museum,
when asked if he did not think the
skeleton of the present whale would
be a splendid addition to the Museum,
said that the skeleton of a whale
took up so much room that it was
almost impossible to allow space lor
two specimens, unless they were or
different types. He said that it took
more than a month to clean the skeleton
and put It In condition to be
exhibited, lie said that he was very
anxious to pet the exact measurements
of the whale at Cole's Island
and all the particulars about it possible.
Ituilder of floats.
Capt. W. ft. Hernandez, as his
name shows, is of Spanish descent.
He came to Charleston from (Ireenville
county when he was quite a
small boy. It was not long after his
arrival that a bis whale was caught
In the harbor and later exhibited at
Pregnall's ship yard. Capt. Hernandez
Is a builder of boats. He says
that he has had very little experience
as a whaler, but when the occasion
arises he is fully prepared to land
the biggest fish that "floats." When
asked how about landing the biggest
one that swims, he replied that he
would be willing to tackle the proposition
only he would prefer them
floating.
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tin- ivri-ass 01 iiic wnaic at Colo s
Island bag been gnawed but very
little by -diarks anil other scavengers
of the sea, showing that it has not
long hern dead. Capt. Hernandez
states that the flesh is perfectly
ound, aii 1 that so far there is no
perceptible odor.
not looking.
"Hnt haven't you been asking
yourself.-I'.y what rijrht does the Government
suspend the tariff law for
a single hour in response to any
kind of .appeal? It has no such authority
it Is a violation of oaths of
office. . ,1/ they acn suspend one law,
(hey ran suspend theni all. When
Government Is operated after that
fashion, it Is not one of Law, but
of personal whim. Under such a
system, nobody and no business Is
safe."