Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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idwl *s *■ MAKES DARING ESCAPE HVOITA HOLM ON. mmmr on board ship •hoixdpamatonc* IEIPT0 THOOMAN HAWS HDCSKLf OUT OF PKNITBIfTIART. i-<A IS IM PtSSENiEIS '■■/a %:■ ' . ’M Oottoa Cargo m * m r.* SpwUh lU&iziBhlp Ralmec, Ith h«f oottoft cargo on tiro, was iow«4 Into St. Oeorge's harbor. Ber- ■tadiy Banda/ morning, con to rod by Oio Cunard liaor. Panaonia. The Cu Harder had on hoard 136 passengers of the Balmer taken off the burning Ship Friday morning in mid-ocean, While heavy seas were running, after a race to the resce la answer to wlre- leee calls for help. The Panaonta. when she had finish ed her tank of convoying the Baltnes, pointed her prow toward New York and steamed away with the passMi gets *of the Balmes lining her declci and cheering lustily. The fire on the Palmes, which was discovered Wed nesday night at 11 o’clock while the steamer ploughing eastward on her trip to Cadis. Spain, from Galveston and Havana, spread rapidly. The wireless operator then began sending oat calle for assistance. The anil reached the Paanonla, 180 miles In the north, hound for New York Capt. Rebt. Capper answered he weald come to the Balmes* aid. The British oreiaer Suffolk alee answered the steamer's call, but her win indistinct. Taming eoatb the Paaaeals, aader feres! draught, rased at top speed to ward the jpot where the Balmes had said she Was la distress. All of Wed night and throughout Thure- ftpt. Capper pressed the Paa Thursday sight thu apentsh was Wghted by the Hoarder waa seen alongside thu hum Ml. Copt. Capper etood by the uuttl mermlag end then took etf her peMungeie. the oaptslu end crew sleeting te reasale on their ship to aavlgats her and Ight the Ire The Relmee* crew feught the Ire Phi day. hut all the Urns It med te gnia headway Saturday the dames had reeshed such It waa theoght they might spread to the ram ta the hold sad that toe veeeel might have i r. hewerur, When the mee end towed the pewurful pat ebeerd. seen suenshed the I ITH OAHVO far YeCre fur ■ is ef Senator K D Smith over the reports to OoiuaMs from ef the tendency eeld ia that eeauty to it the saaeter 1s hie reoe The reaaueiiug re- lidh reach the Smith heed- at CtoemMa from Aadoreos cenntr kre oauWag peilUeoi forecaet- ers to sit up sad Uhs notice The Hgalflcaat eetimsto wus mode by s genltemaa the ether sight, who knew oeadtUoas la Anderson county, that, ta hie optuleu. Governor Blease lost l.tM votes when he pardoned KUIsea aad Hmersoa “In my opin ion. l.Mt of these will never support the Ooveresr again, while he may or may aet wta hack of them.” said he ta talking aver the Senator!*] race. These klads ef reports have been going te Oetumhls with persis tent. especially within the last few arep*. "it shews yen whether Sena- tof Smith's friends are asleep or not,” waa the statement which this talker male lAlfMt TO SPHAK. John Fisher, Notorious Safe-fllower, Serving Fifteen-Year-Terna, Climbs Prison Wall to Freedom. John Fisher, a notorious yeggman, serving fifteen years for safe-blow ing, escaped from the State Peniten tiary Saturday night by sawing the bars to his cell. He climbed over the wall, via the old Hosiery Mill, let himself down by a rope and vanished. Penltentifry officials Sunday night sent out description in every direction and have offered a reward of $50 for his recapture. When the prisoners were lined up for roll call Sunday afternoon Fisher was absent. An Investigation disclos ed the broken bars to his cell, where he had cut his way to freedom. A search of the grounds and zulldlngs was made, and dangling over the wall behind the old Hosiery Mill was found a rope showing how he had gotten to freedom. He had climbed over the Hosiery Mill on the top of the elghteen-foot will which encloses the Penitentiary grounds and let him self down on the banks of the Con- garee River. Fisher was sent up from Lancaster County In 190$ for safe-cracking for 15 yesrs. He is also wanted by the Cnlfed States government for post office robberies. Me Is said to have been a member of the gang which cracked post office safes In all parts of the South until rounded up by Post Office Inspector Gregory. It Is claimed Fisher was s psl of "Port- Itnd Ned". There Is s warrant lying In the United States commissioner’s office for Fisher as soon as hs serves his term In the State penitentiary The penitentiary officials furnished the following deecrlptlon of Fisher: Five feet, 8 7-8 tnchee high; weight. 1SI pounds; black hair, brown eyes, dark complexion, scar on outside of left thigh, large scar on outside of light leg. scars on both forearms and wrists He Is 6 4 year* old and has ths appearance of s typical yegaman There la no Hue as to how Ftuher got the rope by which he eecsped over the walla A rigid Investigation Is being made by the penitentiary of ficials A general alarm sent oat In all directions. It Is hoped, will be the means of quickly recapturing the yegg The police of Charleeton. Nor folk and New York, where the favor ite haunts of the yeggmen were locat ed !■ their palmy daye. have been notified of the seress Fisher had s aamber of aliases aad It Is thought that his picture adores ths rogues galleries la several cities aad should he the means of aseinting ta Ideatify- lag him Tbs rrogoead electrifying of the whole of the Canadian Pacific rail road system Is causing s good deal ef Interest not only In railroad circles but also on the pert of people gen erally Already some portions of ths Ifns are being experimented with and the success following the trials leads to the belief that In a very short time every mile ef that great road will be rua without a single locomotive en gine. Of course, the abundant water power, extending almost the entire length of the system and from which any amount of alactrlclty may be gen erated for motive power. It ta s greet advantage. The electrification of so large s system would Immediately cause other trunk lines on this conti nent to supersede steam with elec tricity to the very great comfort of travelers and the no less comfort of people living in the vicinity of sia- tlon yards and other place# where locomotive# belch forth their smoke and cinder*. This la only the begin ning of the end of ateam engines. In the next fifty years s ateam engine of any kind will be a curloalty. Elec tricity la the coming power. Live Stock Gathering In Cougreusuaan A. F. Lever will ■t>©*k la Greenville ou November II, ut which time a meeting will be held in the Interest of live stock raising ia Greenville county. Mr. W. W. Loog, State denaoastratlon agent, will alsp speak, aad a number of other pfepatneat people will be on the pro- grgm. The agrleiltaral department of toe Greenville Chamber of Com oaelrda have for some time been inter- naCpd la raising live stock, and It Is t&fia$ht that the coming meeting will if aid ta the campaign. —— . i ♦ ♦ a Brinks Poison. Mrs. Lam Harrell of Tampa, Fla., eammttted suicide Friday night by toff homa to an totetfoaiad condition aad treating her ia an alleged cruel maaner. the woman grabbed the hot tie of poison and gulped down the People Uke to 1m* Fooled. Necromancers, fortune tellers, seers, mediums, clairvoyants, and all others of that ilk will In future give 9t. Loots a wide berth now that It has prohibited all such people from following their calling In that city. It ought not to be necesaary for any such measure to be passed anywhere, but so long as people are foolish enough to 'think that there are some other people, mostly of unsavory moral reputation, supernaturally en dowed and qualified to reveal the fu ture of folks of whom they know nothing, just to long will It be neces sary to protect in some way these same foolish people. Strange, Isn’t It, how some folks do like to be fool ed? And Isn’t It equally strange how very, very seldom these occultists that profess to be able to show others how to make fortunes have any for tune of their own? This fact alone should convince people that the so- called readers of *he future are noth ing but fakers. If they can tell oth ers how to get rich. Is It not reason able to suppose that they would get rich themselves? Twemty-Two Firemen Overcome. Twenty-two members of the Savan nah fire department were overcome by smoke and heat Saturday while fighting fire to the hold of the Brit* iah steamship Ulidla. The Ire waa a earfo of eottoa loaded fer Hays It Is Case of Ufa aad Death aad - He Will \ot Resign. What doubt remaloed regarding Gen. Huerta's lutentlons with respect to compliance will the American de mands for his own elimination was removed from the mlnde of most Mexicans and foreign residents by his peremptory dismissal Sunday of Man uel Garza Aldape, minister of Inte rior, who was looked upon as the head of Huerta’s Cabinet. Manuel Garza Ald&pe led that group of the Cabinet which held the conviction that It would be best to accede to that portion at least of Washington’s demands which meant the total abandonment of power by the Provisional President, and he Is said to have been the only one with sufficient courage to discuss the trou ble frankly with his chief. Senor Aldape’s resignation was demanded at a Cabinet meeting at President Huerta’a house early Sunday morn ing. - Huerta Is said to have reiterated at this meeting the statement that he would not resign, that with him it was a case of life or death and he was disposed to play out the game. Certain Intimate friends of Gen. Huerta have been Indicating to him, Is Is said, for some time that the min ister of Interior was intriguing for the presidency and that the Cabinet had become divided Into two camps. Those who opposed Senor Aldape In clude Querldo Moheno, minister of foreign affairs; Gen. Hlanquet, minis ter of war. and Jose Maria Ix)zano. Jerk Gets Justice at Laat. A,victory for humanity and for the safety of crewa and passengers of lake and ocean craft was won when the LaFollette “Seaman's BUI” was passed by the United State# senate For years the shipping lobby fought against any real remedy of conditions that worked most unjustly against seamen and which jeopardised the safety of traveler*. In that selfish at titude. selfish because the lobby thought only of It* own financial gala, the men who controlled the •hipping were but following ihe ex ample of pursuing the same course that other combinations of capital have almost lavartebly followed. Hut the passage of the Beaman • bill Is one of those signs happily now more frequent than formerly, that the power of wrongly used capital la being broken and that the common man la coming to his own Any one who knows anything of the sea knows that seamen have for many years labored under disabilities that lands men have destroyed long since But '‘Poor Jack”, because hie vocation la on sa element with which most peo ple are unfamiliar In the way of travel, has had but few friends te champion hla cause He has sa fared from restrictions thet amounted prac tically to servitude, hie hours were overlong, hie wages email, aad hla food far from right. Now thore Is to be a change, inch Is to have fer better treatment, short er hours of labor, and an amount of liberty not unlike that which his fel low worker on land enjoys Not only that, but the passenger, whether be be first, second, or third rlnae. will be able to cross lake or ocean with the comfortable assurance that he Is to be safeguarded as never before The provisions of the bill relative to the number of able seamen, the num ber of such for each lifeboat, the ability to understand orders given, and many other things are Just as much for the safety of the passenger as for the sailor Of course the new bill will mean larger outlay by the ship owners to meet the conditions of the bill, and that makes them grumble because above all things else the rich magnate dislikes to pay money for others, al though h£ has no hesitancy In paying Immense sums on private yachts and other things for his own amusement. Rut the ship owners can well pay and still make big profits. The passage of the Seaman’s BUI will make true the boast that American sailors are treated better and their condition are superior to the sailors of all other countries In the world. CAR ON FIRE. — ■ ♦ Loaded With Fish It Burns Near Florence. While speeding along at a gait of about fifty miles the hour Friday night, train No. 78, the Charleston- Florence local passenger was sudden ly halted by Conductor Charles C Tllghman, who found that the train was on fire shortly after leaving Cowards. After the train came to a standstill ILwfis found that the top of a Pennsylvania Railroad Express car, loaded with fish at Charleston, bound north, was afire. The cay was cut loose from the train and pulled down the road a few feet and with the as sistance of the train crew and a "pas senger” bucket brigade sufficient water was carried from the engine tank and put on the fire. It waa soon put out, but not until It had damaged the car sufficiently for It to be "sidetracked'' at Florence. RHVKNW CUTTER BRINGS BARK INTO CHESAPEAKE. Goes to Rescue and Brings Occupants of the Bunt Before the United States Commissioner. - • wtBwrr*-, . ■* •-* —-- — ■ .% An armed guard from the Unltdd States revenuq cutter Onondaga was Tuesday placed about the American four-masted bark Mangareva, near Lewes, Del., th*> craw of the latter havljlg' mutinied on the high seas, lumbers of th« crew of the bark atate that the actlbn waa due to the fact that the officers were Intoxicated and that a mate beat one of their num ber. The commander of the Onondago. which responded to the Mangareva’s call for aid, decided to transfer the captain and crew of the bark to the Onondaga and take them before a United Statea commissioned. Four sailors from Lewes, Del., were placed aboard the bark with instructions to safeguard It during the inquiry which the government will conduct. The Mangareva sailed from Phila delphia a month ago for San Francis co with a cargo of coal. When sev eral hundred miles at sea the crew of 28 men mutfnied. tied the captain and mate In their bertha and took possession of the ship. Subsequently the officers were released to navigate the ship, after a promise had been exacted that the mutineers would be returned to the Delaware capes. Wireless message from the command er of the Onondago recommended that the bark with the crew aboard be towed bark to Philadelphia with the armed guard of United States tailors In charge, and this probably will be done It has not yet been learned when the men rebelled The little marine reporting station at I .ewes was thrown Into a stata of excitement Monday when word came that a ship with mutiny aboard waa coming In A letter from ('apt H C Townsend of the Mangareva came ashore conveying the Information about the mutiny and asking Imme diate aaalstance The Onondago was picked up by wireless and came alongside the Mangareva about day light Tuesday morning It was slat ed when the bark sailed that her crew of 74 men comprised so many different nationalities that warrely two of them spoke the same lan guage Agitation Measts Pro There Is discontent snd discontent Thet dtstroeienl which Is dwe to a chronic desire for a change snd which Is unwilling to maks ths beet of things as they are foolish end harmful In the extreme But thet discontent which seeks to better ooo dltloas end bring to life greater joy and comfort Is noble in Its character The tr*th la that progress la Impoo stble wtthoet discontent To It la due nil the advance which In every department of life has been msde In the pjrecedtng centuries To tbst righteous discontent expressing Itself through our forefathers this country owe* It* freedom end Independence To It Is due all the uplift that has come In the industrial world, la so ciety. In politics, and tn every other realm The discontent brought about amoug the people by William Jen nlngs Rryan and others has brought shout many reforms snd put the Democratic party In power at Wash Ington Knocked Them Off. Aa overhanging Irtnb swept twenty pleasure wnkar* from a flat ear on tito Wayerooa and Southern Short Ltoa Railroad near Way cross, Oa., Sunday afternoon. L. A Lancaster, tl yofiifi file of Rruowkk. wao klB- CAN’T SELL TOY PISTOLS. Attorney-General Say* Our Criminal Code Forbids. In replying to a letter seeking in formation from the attorney-general’s office with regard to the sale of paper cap pistols and paper caps, Assistant Attorney General Fred H. Dominick rendered an opinion Saturday declar ing that the code prohibits the sale of same. In addition to the prohibition against the sale of paper-cap pistols and the paper caps, Mr. Dominick calls attention to the section of the criminal code which defines what sort of firecrackers can be sold In this State. . ( Democrats Should Get Busy and Wind Up Ceneacy MIL The last Democratic platform promised the enactment of some good wholesome, reasonable banking and currency legislation If the party was entrusted with power. The Demo cratic party, therefore, went Into power pledged to this and other bad ly needed reforms. The people want and expect it. The business condi tions generally need and demand it, and the bankers, themselves, admit that it Is a reform that is badly need ed, and one that we ought to have as soon *as we can get it. Then why should not the currency hill now be fore Congress be passed at once? Senator Myers says it Is a well- nigh universally and uniformly ad mitted fact that the United States has a very poor and bungling banking and currency system—one of the poorest in the civilized world. It is generally conceded, even by bankers themselves, that It is not anything like as good as the Canadian, British and Continental European systems. That we have thrived and grown and prospered and developed as we have In spite of this handicap is marvel lous and proves the vitality and pro ductivity of our country. The ever recurring panics that we have had in this country under our present lame and inefficient banking and currency system are proof suf flclent of the need of banking and currency legislation The panics of 187 3, 1S93 and 1 907, together with minor depressions and Intermediate and Intermittent counter periods of Inflation and flush times, show that there should be greater regulation of banking and currency, a stronger hand and more authority at the throttle o^ the financial machinery They show that th Geovernment should take a greater and stronger hand In the regulation of banking and currency, twin creatures of the Government, which should be subject to and controlled by their creator end net turned loose, and free from strict regulation, to create artificial periods of hot house prosperity on the one hand or hard times and panics on the other hind, st their will. Uanics are most terribly dis astrous things for s coun*ry The business dltturbsnces that accom pany thess monetsry disturbances sre frightful In *helr results To overcome the danger of these disturbances and give ths country s steady flow of business st ail times an sven prosperity, relisbls banking Institutions, snd sa elastic rurrsnry which may bs extendsd or contractsd st ths will of ths Govsmment snd ths nesds of rommsrre as clrcua stances develop should bs ths daslrs of avary good cttlten Tbs naw car rsary legstsUon. which ts over whslmlngly admitted to bs nssdsd shosld acvotnpsny and go hand In hand with ths nsw tariff law It ts particularly nssdsd at this time, and as soon as tt may be enact ed. In order to aid ths Government to guard against and forestall pre- concsrtsd efforts of protected inter ests to bring on business depression snd money stringency snd thos die credit the new tariff law enacted In the Interest of ths masses of the pe«> pie The people of this country hav# plainly dmanded both tariff and mon etary legislation They expect and are entitled to It The two things should go hand In hand The one has been given them and has been received with evident signs of great satisfaction The other should be given without unnecessary delay FACULTY to lee In re- wltn gen- Along the Right line. Several statea are taking defi nite and wise action to promote the Improvement of rural school houses and their grounds Literature, plans, and other material are provided to •how how the changes may best be made, and competent IndTructors are also employed It la a timely move ment that will most likely accomplish great good. One can imagine the transforming Influence on a commun ity wrought by school house prem ises as to be a model of beauty and refined taste. All this Is In line with the movement to make the country school house the center of the social life of the neighborhood. That movement is all the more likely to be realized if it is accompanied by the judicious adornment of house and grounds. Some work along this line is being done In this State and It should be extended. HAH NO OONGKKkK. Mrxlrna House Meet* but Henete IAckn (Juorum. ITerldent Huerta was unable to bring hts- new ('ongreks fully to life Sunday The Chamber of Deputes met and effected temporary organiza tion but the Senay proved reaction ary and the lack of a quorum pre vented organization. Gen. Huerta and his friends, however, profees to believe the greater part of their work Is done, because the newly created lower house has formally and, In their opinion, legally met. The Sen ate, they think, can be induced to move Into line by Monday, when Sen ators are summoned to meet again. Ix)ng after the hour fixed for the Senate to convene the roll call show ed only 21 Senators present, nearly all of them being generals In the army. Twenty-nine are necessary for a quorum. None of the Catholic Sen ators was present. This Is understood to have been due to an agreement among them that the party should not participate In the Senatorial session. Girl Burns to Death. Lena Hewitt, seven years old, of Atlantic City, N. J., died Sunday from Injuries received Saturday, when she was the “captive” in a game of “In- idian.” Norris, her five-year-old broth er, touched off a match to her dress and she was fatally burned before the flames could be smothered. Pellagra Victim Huicidea. Mode desperate by suffering, Wil liam M. Msores, a pellagra victim of Spartaabarg. Friday night committed He waa a carpenter It years It appears that over in New Jersey Mr. Stokes accepted the Republican nomination for governor and made the fight merely as a forlorn hope, knowing all the time that he was doomed. This is the way Democrats in that state went tote bottle aati) they Gives Floe H hoe Id be The action of th# Wofford fiMalty In suspending the young men for their violation of the rul« gard to fraternities meet* eral approval. The Columbia State, discussing it, says: “In the summary suspension of nine students who, contrary to the rules of the college, joined a Greek letter society, the Wofford college fac ulty have given to the state a fine ex ample of the manner in Which a col lege is and should be governed. “Judging from thejjr ^mee, the young genUetfien in question are members of influential families, and it is to be said for them that they have committed no act irreconcilable with moral and gentlemanly conduct. They are probably of the "cream” of the Wofford student body, but, delib erately antagonizing the college law, it Is theirs suffeSt; the penalty. “Whether Greek letier fraternltiee should or should not be allowed In Wofford or any other college is be side the question. While the law In hibiting them Is in the Wofford col lege statute book. It must be enforced or Wofford must surrender public re spect. “The college is a commonwealth In miniature and Its government is root ed In law Had the Wofford faculty, by reason of the prominence of these young gentlemen and of their pa rents. paltered with the Issue when it arose, there would be thousands of persons to accuse them of practicing favoritism Unfortunately, the num ber of people who need to take to heart the lesson that Wofford teaches and to practice It in the government of the state Is far too great In South Carolina ' STAND IlY WILSON. Senator Tillman's (Javwtloaa Oo nor fUeane's Democrat. Seoator Tillman ■ letter, which la printed In The St Matthews Rew ord today, call* attention to a matter »hlrh we hav* mentioned several time# tn the last few moatba Ike Senator flatly raises e qaeatloa as to the t-any loyalty of Governor Please, who Is an avowed candidate for United Btat>« Senator Senator Tillman Is the National Executive ( omrtilMeemsn fmtn South Carolina and 'hst makes him the spoksainAa of the South ( arolina Iwmoeraey la National politics and what he aay* should Ne heeded by ill trse Itemo c rats Senator Tillman makes the pointed qeeertlon that Governor fUeoae ' hoe shown no loyalty to the IvemoereDe party and declares that aa the lemocrats have a majority of omly seven In the Senate now", thet be wonld earnestly urge epos the peo ple could be make but oee 17seek te them, "their duty to espport tbe lemoemtle President by nee41 eg ktm n loynl friend to the Seeeto” sad thet It weuid he crlmtael to 4e oth rr w lee than to tnrreoae tbe Data* rrntlr ma'orltv ” This is plate balk ar.d it must be Indorsed ky every tree I »vmocrnt Senator Til man who speaks aa the National Iwmocratlc Commltlee- msn a« well on Senator, pokn It straight to the I>emorratls voters of South Carolina that th* elerttos of the candidate In queetloa wosld endanger th* Democratic majority la the Senate Senator Tillman gives to the race for the Senate an entire ly new color No longer ta th# qaee- t!on to him one solely of personal Ifc- neee. of ability and character, amosg rival Democratic candidates, to serve the State In the Senate, but whether or not a real Democrat who will sap- port the Democratic Admlnlstrstles will he chosen The raining of thin question ky Senator Tillman 1* timely end the people should heed what he says about It President Wllnon and th# Democratic Administration has al ready done much good for the masses of the people. The farmers of the country have been specially beneflt- ted by the use President Wilson has made of the public money to move the crops. This kept them out of the clutches of Wall Street. Presi dent Wilson has more legislation ia view to benefit the masses and Boath Carolina should send no mao to the Senate who would obstruct this good work. Kills Wife and Takes Poison. George W. Beaman^TM^enter, Wilmington, N. C., Sunday khot ai killed his wife at their home ai then attempted to commit suicide drinking poison. He is expected recover. Domestic troubles of loi standing are said to have been 1 sponsible for Beaman’s acts. Suicides Before Husband. Mrs. Susie Harrell, member of prominent Florida family, Satnrdi night committed suicide at her hon in Tallahassee by swallowing polso: The act waa committed in the pre ence of her husband, with whom si is said to have quarrelled. Peace for Greece aad Turkey. A treaty of peace between Or* and Turkey waa signed Thurad night. The peace delegates ranch it Tuesday practically