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w 1 - -r*- StetH# Ptople Drowntd la At* tamptinc to Crass r Mvar. A FERRY BOAT SINKS \ \ Startling nguras af Dangars of Travsl la Haw York City. \ la the Middle of the Tomblgbee and All the Occupants Except Two Are ;. Drawned—One of the Victims Was the Son of the United States Engl* neer and the Fifteen Others Were ffegMCt. \4wlle Verneuille, a ^rhite boy. of Mobile, and fifteen negroes were drowned In the Tomblgbee rteer-atj McCrew\ shoals, shortly after noon Thursday, \whlle crossing the river in a ferryboat\from the government’s works where \they were employed. They were on their way to dinner when the accident occurred. About midst ream\ the little boat drifted beyond control of the men Into the rapids and soon capsized. Two of the negroes In tb^ boat scrambled on top as l^overtnrned but the other occupants^k^thrown Into . the swift curren^^^^were drowned almost instantly!w^^h^. count of the 1 strong undercurrent res cues were impossible. \ „ The young white boy drowned is the son of W. B. Verneuille, the chief engineer itr rhnrge»wf4he gevermnenh work at the shoals. Thetrvhome Is at Oakdale, a snrburb of Mobile. The boy was not employed at the works but was there on a visit to his father UR fajr'refurnTifk Kiome when The accident occurred. £ The Tomblgbee river at th^ point ^“Where the boat capsized^is very treacherous and has long been con sidered too dangerous for naviga tion. McGrews shoals Is.aliout one hundred.miles up the river from Mo bile and there is no telegraph or tel ephone communication with the place. X |V» in Fi GIVEN MX VKAHb. Berry Pleaded Guilty to Forgery and Embezzlement. G. Raymond Berry, ex-county sup erintendent of education of Marlon county, hdving pleaded’guilty of for gery, was sentenced by jjiidge Dantz- ler to six years in the State peniten tiary tnd a fine of $100. prisoner submitted to the a written statement which re cited that the defendant was the only support of an invalid wife and thToe small children; that the defandant himself was threatened within .seri ous pulmonary trouble! fHat the beenn made good >to the, . Slerntnf amounts misappropriated had all bMfi msa#~good to the county,- and that th& defendant and his family.' one of much respectability, had suf fered long and deep humiliation or account of the - pending ‘ charges against him. The statement ended with a petlticnr that The court be as merciful as possible in view of.- al! the circumstances. • Solicitor S|tears stated „ that be would consent to the court being as merciful as possible, and Judge Dan- tzler stated that out of regard for his physical condition he would; not Impose the full seven years allowed hy law, but that it would be necessary for him to impose a hdhvy sentence as a warning to other public officers who mi^ht be derelict in their duty. PLAIN TALK FROM BISHOP. He Thinks the Pulpit Needs “Mow Virility and Less Effeminacy. “What we want is more, virility and leas effeminacy^’ said Bishop W. A. Candler before the assemble'! Methodist ministers of. Atlanta at the regular conference on last Monday. “W’e’ve got to be more vigorous. We have a big work to perform, an.l we want to show that we mean bnsji? „ . — i.. r- ness. Bishop Candler was talking of the layman's missionary movement, and the- receht meeting at Knoxville, Tenn., and said he had noticed a ten dency in the men to drop away from the church. JT “They are leaving tfrhtgs to the women/’ he continued. “This is not hard to account for. Pretty little curl- •ed up speeches and curled up words don’t draw men. They draw men - away. Its plain, straight talk i>nd hard wdrka~ahdT) u sTUesa actions that attack the kind of people we are after. W« need virility. The men "must be fed with something menu, not shocked to death with adjeottvea. Sfjifiittar^atuff.won’t do.’’ _ mUm A NOBLE GIFT. v * Fifteen Thuosand Dollars Given for an Infirmary. Mrs. Ann H. Jet§r of Union has given $1 5,000 for the erection of an tnirmary at the Sonth Carolina Unl- vensity In memory of her nephew, A. Wallace Thompson, who was a devot ed alumnus of the Institution. The was made recently very tht From Angust 5 to September a l the Accidents"Averaged One In One Hoar an Twenty-nine Minutes. Every fifteen hours a life is lost in New York city under the wheels of a passenger car, surface, elevatod or steam. This fact has been brought out by Secretary Travis H. Whitney, of the public service commission in a table giving a record he had kept of transportation accidents from August & to September 1. > In these 26 days, 145 persons were hurt in car collisions, and 465 in col lisions between cars and vehicles. Once in each hour and twenty-nine minutes of the period some person was struck by a car, making a total of 405. Sixty-four persons were in jured in hoarding cars and 1,263 were injured in alighting from them, which goes to show that at least that number of New Yprkers have not yet learned to face forward when getting off street cars. Employes to the number of C41 wejg.Julrt: 33 persons tfere "hurt in derailments; 26 prospective passen gers fell down stairs and 1881 per sons were hurt in unclassified way<. A total of 5,500 were either killed or iniured In the 26 days. DmM«4 Against Am Stats Treas urer on Last Friday. BY A COURT EN BANC. KILLED AT THE NAVY YARD. Fall of Forty Feet to Bottom tiavww .wi uni nun irV wwnu vemaaoHx. of the Pit, Fhe d^cond victim of the braces at 1 quay wall being built at the Char- The the lest on navjNvartl-dock met his death Wednesday-when Joseph Smith, col ored. fell froin\a brace of the south coffer dam wall Ipto the pit over 40 feet below and wa^erushed to death. The Post says SmRh. who was em ployed by the New YoTk Jewell-Con tinental Filtration Comphny, as a lab orer wenf '.to work Wednesday after noon at about 4 o'clock. He was too impatient to get his working number, and instead of waiting for the time keeper, C. A. Kstes, to come to him on the north wall as was the custoih^ he started to cross to the timekeeper. In making his way over he stepped upon a brace, and hesitating for a moment looked backward. Atrhe did so he brushed his shoulder against the stone work and fell from the sup port to the l>ottom of the basin be low. He hit with great force and life was crushed out of his l>ody imme diately. His face was mashed in. and his bones broken by the fall. * LIES TEX HOURS IN COFFIN Gruesome Experience of a Victim of Fraternity Initiation. J " 1 - To lie for ten hours in a coffin, to see through the glass covering over his face the glimmer of candies, was the fate of Roy Lorraine, a student of the Dubukue High School, who was the victim of “frat” initiation. The young man, being of the nerveless kind, was to be submitted to the most trying order. -Gagged and bound he was taken under coyer of night to a farm in the vicinity of tbfeclty, Here he wm "escorted to a cellar long in dlsuse'a&d led down the stairway. Candles were lighted and placed about in niches in'the wall and young Lorraine, blindfolded, was induced to lie down in what seemed to him a box, and the cover was fastened. The covering soon was removed from'his eyes, and he awoke to the realization The Decision of the Court Says That 'r.. v: the Bonds Bought in Good Faith Must Be Exchanged for Certificates When Offered by Those Who Hold Them—Suits Will be Brought Against Three State Treasurers. > d X By a very close decision the judi- ary of South Carolina, sitting en banc, decided that the State v treasurer should issue, certificates of stock for bonds taken from the treasurer’s of fice- by a clerk ufttf being bTfered for cancellation and^placed upon the market. The decision means that Attorney General Lyon will at once have to commence suit against the State treasurers who employed the cleik in^question. About $18,000 in principal and interest is at stake and the sfctlon of the court is far reafching and rifgarc^gd as very Important in financial crTv*i 3 0 * Some three year? ‘f .o otic of..the clerks in the State Treasurer's office was arrested charged with misappro- nrlatlng- State fundfl and bonds. It was discovered that bonds offered f6T cancellation and exchange for certifi cates had not. been cancelled^ _but| 'agSTn“place3 upon the market. Last April one of the bonds, owned by EdwanjLEflflich of- Colnnrbte. was offered for exchange for a certificate, which Is not negotjarlfle^ uhless en dorsed. The Bxchapg£xwas refused by the State treasTtrefTon the advice of Attorney General Lyon, and In July the interest was refused. Suit was at once brought, mandam us proceedings, to compel the State treasurer to recognize the stock. The supreme court being equally divided on the matter it was decided to call an enbanc session of the judiciary of the State, constitutional questions be ing involved. "* Friday questions were argued be- ore the entire court, with the ex- tion of Judge Aldrich, who is Hi unable to attend.* For the.State that he was in a coffin. There was sufficient air to keep him from smothering and he.remaln- „ ed there all through the night. Early ^»r corporations in such cases in the morning he was released by some friends. TO COLONIZE NEGROES. Company Seeking Incorporation - -. - -4 ' ■ State of California. in •l- The project to establish a large colony of negroes in southern Cali fornia is being promoted by an asso- ciafton to seek state incorporation. One of the promoters Is.Lieutenant- Colonel Allensworth, formerly a chaplain in the army. Several million dollars is said to represent the wealth of the negroes and lack of the movement. Colonel Allensworth said that com mittees of the association wjU soon visit the 90,000 acre track in River side and San Diego Counties aittL-is satisfied that they will purchase the 4m4i — —7 : The colony^ he said, will not be communistic, the land simply will be offered in small tracks at low prices. The object is to establiBhU pEpsper- ous colony where negroes will’" have the opportunity tQ work under fav orable conditions. Literature describ ing the plan will be sent broadcast throughout the South. COTTON BURNED. Big Loss Caused by Flames Aboard Steamer at Havre. ‘ * ‘w *■ Six hundred bales of cotton on board the British steamer Madawaa- ka, which arrived at Havre, Franca, Thursday from Galveston, were de stroyed by fire Thursday night The IgMtatAMAfe ... „ ^ appealed Attorney General Lyon and J. William Thurman of Edgefield and Mr. W.^T,. Aycock of Columbia ap peared for the petitioner. -.^The opinion of the court is written by Associate Justice Jones and is concurred in by Justice Woods and Circuit Judges Watts. Gage, Dantz- ler, Memminger and’Wilson. After stating the facts the opinion saya:— Thd Court’s Decision. “No marks to indicate cancellation were ever placed npon said bond, al though the Statute expressly declared that such surrendered bond shall im-. mediately upon such surrender be cancelled and filed by the State treas urer with the permanent records of his office. It is admitted that relator is a bona fide holder for value before maturity and without notice..' The general rule of law is tha£ a_ thief of personal property can not convey to a purchaser^ however Innocent, any title to the stolen property as against the real owner. But from the highest considerations of public policy the law excepts from the rule negotiable instruments acquired in good faith before maturity and with out Notice and makes the title of such holder good against the world. The opinion Ides on tp say that “the State bond cases. 12 8. C.. show that a coupon bond of the State, valid in Its inception. Is a negotiable se curity paper incurs the same respon sibilities which attach to individuals There is no question that the Itohd in ques tion was not vhlld when originally put in circulation, and it being ad mitted that relator is a bona fide holder thereof at this time, his title can in no wise be affected by the sur render of the Injnd to the'W’ek&uref by some antecedents holder and the subsequent theft- by means of which it was again put In circulation. The method which the State had adopted to take such bond out of circulation by cancellation was not compiled with by those intrusted by the State with that duty. The direction to can cel bonds was designed to prevent the very possibility which has hap pened and the failure of the State officers to comply can not be treated as a circumstance of no consequence, for the absence of marks of cancella tion makei-it possible for the theif to put Ihe boi*l in circulation.” The Diwenting Opinion. The discenting opinion is by Jus tice E. B. Gary. ap4 ,s concurred in by Chief Justice. Pope and Judges •Klough, Prince and Hydrick. After reviewing the history of the case he says thut the first question is in the right of ^tjmdamus of the petitioner. Bringiiig us the case of Lord vs. Treasuruer, the court held that "mandamus will only to enforce a ministerial duty • • • not a dis- creatkmary duty. The opinion then saya that when a bond is surrendered and a certificate of stock issued in exchange, s it lores its legal effect ^s a subsisting obligation of the»'Bta "' Cancellation waa not a condition pre cedent upon which .tile validity of the certificate of stoekk which was to be toned in exchange depended *ench requirement was required Wwrm TortMd to Death to Bis* pel EvM Spirits r __ Before She Wee Released by Death. v-' ^ ■ • Son, Daughter and Three Others 0 . " , Gave Her Violent Treatment A report from Chicago says five people, members of the sect of Par- hamltes, are under arrest at Zion City? accused of torturing to death Mrs. Letitia Greenlaugh, 64 years old, a cripple for twenty years with rheumatism, to show their belief in the relgion they profess. The people under arest are: Wal ter and Jennie Greenlaflgh, son and daughter of the womaqj Harold Mit chell, Mrs. Harold Mitchell, and a Mrs. S|Qith. The sect of Parhamltes was found ed about a year ago, by Charles Par- ham, and numbers about 200. The members originally belonged to Dow- le’s church. Their theory of sickness is evidence of the possession of the body by evil spirits. The condition of Mrs. Greenlaugh convinced her son and daughter and the others arrayed that she possess ed tfie'«Vri Spi#t They knelt by her bedside and after praying commenced work. ' The arms of Mrs. Greenlaugh, stiffened by rheumatism were twisted about in order that the devn might' be driven out. The cries of the aged woman* were considered those of the evil spirit, and weye greeted with tri umphant shouts They Watched Their Comrades Die From Hunger and Exposure to the Storm-—Real Story of Marooned Mariners That, Chills the Blood— Four of Them Perished From Hun ger and Exposure. \ The story of the wreck of tba American bark- Prussia, on Bleak Staten Island, Terra Del Fuego, “The land of fire,” is a thrilling one. Six of the crew have been landed at New (York by the steamer from Montevldo-* Four perished -and three are in a hos pital at Punta Arenas. The Prussia was owned in San Francisco and sailed from Norfolk, Va . March 17, with a cargo of coal forTfcn^Francls- co. , , On June 19 she was off Staten Is land. It was bitterly cold. Capt Johnson yas trying to make New Year’s Islafiil light. A storm came up in the night and the bark Was ashore a wrecks before the danger was real ized. She broke up at once. Every man umped overboard and 11 of the 13 reached a strip of land which was After a course of ths violent treat- somew A a } jheltaLed Jttf-averhaagto* A motion was tlrtm made Y5~re- nnf pa f Via oaIIjvI+ap ment Mrs. Greenlaugh’"not only be came so weak she could not use her limbs, but became incaable of making any motions. Then her neck was 8abl!>» the rnnk and- tfanr* - .. — • . f ' * * '' TV> n nr I •««. I m — rvi A. tWIited for "some "time At the Coroner’s inquest young Greelaugh testified that his mother’s consent was obtained before the treatment was commenced. TWENTY CENTS FOR COTTON Some of the Long Staple Kind Sold at That Price. The Newberry Observer says: “Mf! S. M. Duncan of Jalapa sold two bales of cotton In Newberry oh nesday for $215.60. One bale weigh ed, 5Q7 pbunds, the other 572, and they brought twenty cents a pound. It was long staple, and he still has the seed, which he can sell for seven ty-five cents a bushel. Mr. Duncan planted 57 acres of this kind and will get from twenty-five to thirty bales. SUICIDE FOLIA)WS CONFESSION. Aged Illinoisan Kills Himself by Eat ing Paris Green. Cyrus Baldwin, eighty-five years of age, one of the wealthiest residents of Kane county, III., killed himself by eating parts green after he confessed he had murdered his wife by smash ing her skull with a hammer. Mrs. Baldwin wqs found dead and was believed to have been murdered by her husband. TO WIPE oi;t debt. Major Fant Gives Ten Thousand Dol lars to Hts Church. J. K. Fant, of Union, who died Last week, gave the First Babtist Church of that city, $10,600 to pay off a debt on it. He was a very rich man. and prominent in busin fairs. 4 - af- ply to prevent fraud after transaction between the holder of the bond and the States had terminated. “The question,” the opinion con tinues, "whether the petitioner is a bona fide holder is not ministerial the action of the treasurer is not subject to review by the court.” The attorney general, however, did hot urgeWs'questTon”noTTke ques tion as to the actual notice the hold er had that the bond was not good. However, the right of the treasurer to issue a certificate of stock is a question of power and must be de termined under the act of 1892, which clearly shows that the legisla ture had under contempation hut one issue of stock for a bond and the treasurer is not authorized to make a second issue. The “bond debt” cases are quoted *to uphold this; where the court held that bonds in the haiyls of bona fide holders only lie regarded as valdi debts. As to the issuance of additional stock. Justice Gary holds thaTTTThe act l»e construed that „ way ‘there would be no reason why there should not l>e a third and fourth* issue. “The rase, as quoted above, that bonds is sued without authority of law ard void even in the hands'of bona fide holders is clearly law.” The opinion then holds th&t the duty enjoined apon the treasurer to issue a. second certificate is ministerial; the court has not power in mandamus proceed ings and the action Is in In effect a suit against the State, which "is un constitutional. stated, this decision means a on the bonds of Dr. W. T. C. Bates and. Messrs. W. H. Timmerman w»d R. H. Jennings, the State Treas urers who employed the,clerk. It is presumed thaaa suits wUl be started at once. Wracksd n a Btoak MM4 Stonr- mg sanore Tin a HsrnMs STORY OF DISASTER. 'Hr. It* lay Flafc a VavNct of Nat *.—amy Which the Judge Saya the Defend- ants In the Case WlB Not Believe Them selves. D> B.^Shannahau and Carrie E. Pou, who at one time lived near Llv- ingstop In Orangeburg County, are In trouble in Columbia^ where they were tried for adultery last week. Both Shaonahan and the Pou woman are white. Shannahan left his wife In take up with the Pou woman, wto deserted her husband to go with Shannahan it Is alleged. The trial consumed the better part of two days and resalted In the conviction of both defendants. The defendant was represented by Mr. F. O. Tomkins, of Columbia, and Mr. A. H. Moss of the Orangeburg bar, Before the jury waa drawn tifor hours of the time of the court were consumed In hearing and determin ing motions made by counsel for the, defense. ^ - ' A moton to quash the indictment was overruled, although the judge stated that the draft of the Indict- mentwsanot in -accord with kiw viewa on what the required form should be and added that if he were the aolfci- he would nol pros the case end draw up a new indictment. SoRy, of Now York, Tata tholtopto AND ABOUT THE SOUTH In Interview He Says the tion of Cotton hy the World WUl Reach Fourteen Million Bates the Coming Year—Prediction of IMG ’ -■ ‘ _ Clone to Fulfillment—Will Our Own Cotton. focEsT They kept warm as best-they could throughout the bight. At mond, ..a sailor, were missing. The Prussia was gone. The strip of land was not more than 300 feet long and impassable cliffs kept the men from escaping across the island. The captain was so exhausted that he died early in the morning and wa sburied on the beach. The men collected what wreckage they could, made a fire, constructed what shelter they were able, secured some cans of provisions, a few biscuits and a bar rel of pork and talked over means of .Carpenter Carl Stprk was set to work at once to build a small boat. He had no tools and had to make them from Iron in the wreckage. All hands helped, but it was a slow ted ious job, and they feared that their provisions would not last. It was decideed that two of their number would try to work over the mountoins, and the lot fell to Porthln and Hosteth. These two scaled the high rocks and started across. After a few days Porthln returned, crawl ing on lils hands an were badly frozen and Hosteth, he re ported had frozen to death. The food had given out. The rocks were covered with limpets which the sailors collected, and they killed some seals that entered the cove. The seals. Rainey says, seemed to acquire wisdom, and after a few had been killed avoided the place. The boat was finished after 30 days of ban ■fcork Heine started off to find New Year’s Island and sent n rescue party to their mates. It was only thirty Miles to the is land, but the frail shell la which they risked their lives had to be fi and they avoided the open , tea and worked in and out of the bays and Inlets. It took them "six days to - reach the lighthouse and they think they went 1<10 miles. Lieut. Delgado, who is stationed at the light, called for volunteera, and with six men In a whale boat, with cue the men still on Staten .Island. The weather grew so bad that they, too, spent six days at it, and con sumed more than half of the pro- but strictly judicial In ts nature and* vMobs they had taken aboard. The bad weather lasted and they had to wait six days longer before venturing on the voyage back, with little left to eat. Luckily, the voyage to the light was a quick one, taking only one day. The sailors were care- fujly nursed at the light and sent on by the tender Orestes to Punta Aren as. Porthln was in the worst shape, and It was feared that he would lose both feet. From Punta Arenas the six men who arrived at New York last week were sent by steamship to Montevid eo. In an Interview concerning cotton, Daniel J. Sully, said in New York on Thursday * “I recall that my prediction bn 1*03 that within five year* fifteen million balm of cotton would be used, was considered very optlmaatlc. “I’ll venture right ham to make some other predictions.- . “Within twenty-flvs years tto southern itates will spin fifty per cent of their own cotton, whereas now they export sixty per cent, of It. “Within twenty-five years fifty per cent, of the spinning industry of Eng* land will be situated In the southern stotea-eC-America. My prediction’of 1903 Is very close to fulfillment, and I predict that this coming year, the consumption of nnttnn by the wortd wlll quire the solicitor to elect upon which charge In the Indictment he would go to trial. This was objected to-stren uoustytiytlM bouhsef for The State, but Judge Johnstone ruled that the trial would have to proceed upon only one of the tvfo charges or 'counts” In the indictment The so licitor entered a nol pros as to the second count In the indictment. This Is an Interesting case and Thursday attracted more than the usual attention. The prosecutor In the case is Mrs. D. B. Shannahan and she was the first witness for the State. Mr. Pou, the husband of tbe woman with whom it Is alleged SMin- nahan 1s living In shame, was also In court as a witness for the State, and will be. put up probably to testify his pants? ii that his wife has been llvlngly open ly with the first named defendant. Mrs. Shannahan testified that her husband had not been living with her qjnee January, 1906, and that ahe begged him since that date to give up the Pow Woman and live with her as man and wife should. She also testified that Shannahan caffled on a off clean linen and, correspondence with the Pou woman hatched habiliments, before he finally left her and went to fondant. Mrs. Shannahan testified that she and the defendant. D. B. Shannahan. have shown In the foregolag It le were married In Orangeburg County in* 1*01. They had but one child, n daughter and she died on Joly 5 of this year at the home of Mra. Shan nahan. . She told of a visit to 1tor husband's “home” and of getting some of her own wearing apparel out of the trunk of her husband's alleged she was and Mata Hunter. Stark, nailofcted $300 to compromise the esse tr* 4\r%A Maw Vaa-’a ... • . ... . . 7 - against her hnsband, bat declared that she refused the offer sad would day when the man with After not agree to accept any money for a settlement.., r being out for twenty-four in the case returned with a verdict of not guilty. Turning to the jury. Judge John stone remarked in his most sarcastic tone: “Gentlemen, the defendants do not believe your vertlct.” It was considered by the Court, very evident, That the prosecution .had made" out Its case and many oth- teen' million bales (If It can -%e oh* tained) at better prices than ever be* fore. “Atnl this wm bring hack" mt country enormous quantities of gold tnstqad of onr exporting big quanti ties of it, to auch an extent that from October, 1907, to July, 1*08, the re ceipt of gold into the United States will exceed by fifty per cent, nay im port of gold ever known by the Amer ican people. 4 Does that look as if there Is any* thing the matter with American nance? Does that look as if Street of 8gos, or. hysteriah tom chaiers can ruin this Does that look im If we were la ger of war? Does that look as ^ there la any reason why this la tlto day for the man with the patch os. What a hobo dream? And every, ‘ hobo at once began to hats a dream. of his exaggerated Ego, and to the time had arrived when all wealth and brains In the Us States will be commanded to. There will never come when the man with tbe patch pants will rule America, Inevitable certainty that the laboring man of the United States will be more proud than ever that he abundantly provided ■ with all wants, can maintain his family desires, and can save ap his for surplus bet will have) from progress of this nation which can stay! . — •• “The world outside the States would hi i ’ - m • £ si . r a ers thought so too, but the jury did hot see it that way. RESCUER IS REWARDED. Railroad TRAIN VICTIM IDENTIFIED Ah Man Who Wanted Roosevelt it " , . Collect Debt of >50.000.000. to Engineer Receives Check With Another to Follow. A special from Kendall.- Wls., says John Franklin, a Northwestern engi neer, running between that place and Sparta, haa received a check for $16,- TOOO with a promise of another for saving the life of a woman at Devil's Lake a few weeks ago. \ Franklin, with his wife, was spend ing a few days at the lake.'“'*At the same time, Williamson, a wealthy Chicago man, with his daughter and Miss Jenkins, a sister 4n law, also were encamped at the laker"^ - One morning while out in a boat the girl and Miss Jenkins rowed over to a spring to get a drink. As Miss Jenkins attempted to get back into thr boat she vitpped, falling into the" water. The impact drove the craft from the, shore, and although she The police believe that the body of a man killed by a train, which waal 1 ^ 1 »no«w, ana aunougn sne picked up on the West Shore tracks mana & f ’tf to h ol< i °f tbfe boat, she pear Hackensack, USTTr?, on Friday is that o?'Orlando Toland, the man who startled the secret , service men at Sagamore Hill by apearing close to the President’s house on Tuesday night. . ^ The man, who was undoubtedly in sane, said that he had traveled from his home in Oxford, Ala., to employ President Roosevelt to collect for him a debt of $50,00(M)00 from John D. Rockefeller Toland said that ha would start West to find Mr. Rockefeller to col lect the debt. A description of To land, received from hie sister In Ala-ffeet agree* with that of the dead could not draw herself from the wa ter. Franklin rescued her Just as her strenth was'about faillng her. — * PEOPLE DROWNED. In Spain by Rains Which Lasted for Many Months. ' his pants swaysd America; bat conception Is as absurd at the utter ance of trite epigram, devoid of sub stance. “I cannot leqve the topic of cottaal anymore than the American psoplG can leave it If they would, or if they could, because It Is ' bly Identified with the which this nutloa le to make, an ad- vancement entirely beyond the power of any man to portray In words. “For years that tufty growth that flecked the southern belt was neglect ed, half-scorned and abused specimen of vegetation began to hear th clvlliu- < ed world shout across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, “Send-us cotton! Send us cotton!” “Then we began to take some no tice of that scrawny plant, and began! to appreciate that It bore for us a ' significance that was to be written, in the future In such revenues that no man dared measure their volume!! And we don’t begin to measure the import of what cotton actually means to the United States yet! t ; We haven’t any conception of tho millions of acres that are today seem- ingly'sterile which In a few yeanrwtiV- lororiate ih snowy tufts of that pre- cous product directly responsible to the demands of the world. Of course, we are a people wondrously energetic as it is, but we .haven’t our energies even yet atliSauIated as they will bo- come. “CWIlazatton cannot advance with- out the help of American cotton. They must.have It! And it rest* with . us itUhey must not also use ourj/T wheat. .America Is depopulating Eu rope by taking its brain and mus cle, ahd the dar i» a?nw»t abovs thar~" horizon when the best human capa city the world contains, and by for the best material wealth the earth knows anywhere, will make the Unite ed States sway the globe.” Eighty eight persons have been drowsed in Spain and the entire Mal aga district ts inundated as a result of torrential rains, prevailing for 46 hours. The lowlands are covered with water to the depth of severalf -'The LUSITANIA AT LIVERPOOL.