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i- .-V - . v ',y ^r-T^*::'*v' AN OCEAN HORROR; ? i _ i Steamship Goes Down in i Crash With a Schooner, i i. i ft i SCORES OF LIVES LOST j b i j||f; I Of 249 Souls on Board Only 144 Are ! So Far Known to Have Escaped. m- " i Disaster Occurred Off the i ? I * I California Coast. , j E-i ik' ' ! I A San Francisco special says: In a 1 eollision between the passenger steamC er Columbia and the steam schooner San Pedro off the Mendocino coast, we hundred passengers lost their lives early Sunday morning. The Columbia was sunk and lies completely submerged in the deep waters of Shelter j v cove. . ; 'The collision occurred at midnight, when ail on board save the lookout and officer on the bridge were asleep In their berths. The Columbia was steaming north at an easy rate, having left San Francisco at noon. Suddenly out of the fog loomed the dark hulk of the steam schooner San ^edro, southbound, which was evidently out of her course. Whistles were blown and gS?.s' frantic efforts made by the helmsman of each vessel to avoid the collision, , twit without avail. The San Pedro struck the Columbia in the port bow, tearing an immense ' hole in her side through which the water rushed in great volume. Alarms p\ were sounded on the passenger ship and the terrified passengers scrambled from their staterooms in an effort to escape from the doomed vessel. But the time was too short to aid the lifesavers. The vessel sank within five CQiflitltS 01 ine Ciuie ui cut? uumswu. xv life rait was launched with a number of passengers on board, but only a few if"--'1 of the entire number aboard were K saved. Of the 249 persons on the steamer I Columbia, one hundred and forty-four irere landed at Eureka, Cal., Monday by the steamer Elder. Of these 107 were passengers and 37 members of ' the crew of the Columbia. > Pin addition to these four life boats are reported to have been picked up, one containing thirteen people, one 18, and one 15. The number on the fourth ^ ' boat is not given. Nearly all of the Columbia's passen' gers and many of her crew were aslesp i in their cabins and bunks when the crash came. xVs the San Pedro backed \ away the sea poured in through the ? '.ragged hole in the Columbia's bow above the water line, and in five min- ' %. utes the Columbia sank to the bottom, the deep waters of Shelter Cove cov- i ering even the tops of the Columbia's I Pit, masts. ? i The story of that five minutes is yet ?to be told, and as it is to be told by j some survivors, only the facts of the < f|> tragedy can be guessed at. 1 According to J. S. Flynn, a passenger I on the Roanoke, Captain Doran of the < Columbia succeeded in launching four 1 life boats and two rafts before the ] |||'; Columbia sank. j Flynn, in an interview, is quoted as i p saying that 88 passengers, all ] men, got away in that manner, and 1 were saved; that Captain Doran acted ? it: with srreat coolness in the face of I 1 death, and went down with his ship. |v Flynn is further quoted as saying that t none of the hundred odd women were 1 K< saved. ( Shortly after the collision the steam- f ? ers Roanoke and George W. Eider and : the steam schooner Daisy Mitchell, all southbound, came to the scene and j stood by. The Elder took the San Pe? c j# tiro in tow and the last report an- c nounces their arival in Eureka. The t stem of the San Pedro was smashed < to splinters, one of her masts was c snapped a: the deck, and she was set- c tling and had a heavy list when taken t jt;x in tow. c "ANTIQUATED AND LUXURIOUS." Annual Chicago Labor Day Parades Are ' x Relegated to Oblivion. 'ijxx&Zo has had the last of its labor ' day^ra^s, at least for several years to conie. The annual long march through the 1 -streets by thousands of unionists wear- * dug the picturesque uniforms of their ( ^trades, was abandoned by the Federa- 1 tion of Labor and the Associated JBuildim? Trades at a meeting Sunday as be- : ? ing an "antiquated and luxurious" method of displying labor's strength 1 before the public. J ' I DISEASE FROM "TAINTED" MONEY ! I | Army Paymaster in Manila Loses Arm in Peculiar Manner. Major Paymaster Eugene Coffin haa had his left arm amputated in Manila , as the result of infection from the handling of money in the payment of troops. He was a veteran of the civil war and a member of the old McKinley ? regiment. !judge"voids~newtaw! i 1 Pritchard Knocks Out Penalty Clause in North Carolina Rate Statute Warns Officials. ? . The penalty clause of the new North Carolina state rate bill was declared unconstitutional and void by United States Judge Pritchard at Asheville, N. C., Monday. James H. Wood, district .passenger agent of the Southern, and C. Wilson, the ticket agent of the same road, who were recently sentenced to thirty days on the chaingang for violation of the new law, were discharged on habeas corpus proceedings. In his decision Judge Pritchard said that the penalties inflicted by the statute would close the doors to a judicial hearing and would amount to $2,500,000 a day if the penalty was enforced on the sale of each ticket, which x3 eight times more than the amount involved in the original suit. Also that it would do violence to the comity which exists between the state and federal courts. While not imputing any improper motives to officials or state courts, Judge Pritchard remarked that if such a course of conduct was permitted to be pursued it would have the effect of defeating the jurisdiction of the United States court. Continuing, Judge Pritchard said: "It will be a sad day for the people of North Carolina when its citizens are prohibited by acts of the legislature from securing any rights guaranteed to them by the constitution of the United States. Suits of this character have been brought in different states of' the union and in every instance federal courts have proceded to determine questions involved without interference, hindrance or delay by legislative or judicial authorities of such states. "The equal protection of the law is guaranteed to every citizen of the United States, and I shall employ all means within the power of the court to secure to all persons who may invoke jurisdiction of this court such rights to the fulest extent of the law. If the law is construed in a spirit of fairness and impartiality there can be no conflict of jurisdiction between the state courts and the courts of the United States. "In this instance the federal court has not been the aggressor, but has simply adopted the regular practice and procedure which has been approved by the supreme court of the United States in a case of like nature, and while the court is not inclined to do anything that will produce an unseemly conflict, nevertheless it is incumbent upon it to protect the rights of the parties to this controversy and the dignity and authority of this court. This cannot be accomplished without preserving to the fullest extent the jurisdiction of the court in determining Lhe question which has been submitted to it for consideration. "The court is confronted with open and avowed opposition by the powers }f the state. The penalties prescribed by the state statute for charging more than the statutory rates are so errone 3U3 that if permitted to be enforced hey would practically bankrupt the railroads in an exceedingly brief time, and before a final hearing could be had in the case, and thus place the complainant in a position where it would 3e powerless to assert the rights guaranteed to it by the constitution of the United States." Many think the state authorities will ;ake some action in the direction of nore penalty suits. President Finley, I General Counsel Thorn and other ofIcials of the Sotuhern railway are iwaiting the next move. After Judge Prkchard had signed the udgment, Judge J. H. Merrimon, special counsel for the state, gave notice )f appeal and waived bonds, but under he law the court fixed a bond of $200 iach for Wood and Wilson. Both sides :o-operated tc make the appeal as ;imple as possible in order to present he point at issue 10 the supremo :curt. COBB RESIGNS JUDGESHIP. I Member of Georgia Supreme Court Tires of His Job. Associate Justice Andrew J. Cobb >f the Georgia supreme court, Monday norning presented to Governor Hoke Smith, his resignation to take effect )n October 12, 1907. Justice Cobb de;ermined several weeks ago to retire :rom the supreme bench, to re-engage n the practice of law at Athens. Justice Cob, when he retires in October, will have served on the supreme bench for nearly eleven years. DEATH SENTENCE FOR HAU. Erstwhile Washington Professor ConKiliina Mother-in-Law. VlVskVWt V* Earl Hau, a brilliant young law professor of Washington, D. C., was condemned to death at Karishrue, Germany, Monday morning after a five days' trial for the murder of his wife's mother, Frau Molitor, a wealthy resident of; liaden Baden, in that city, November | 6, last. | I "want more time Atlanta Bankers Anticipate Effect of Prohibition Law. APPEAL TO LEGISLATURE Urge That Measure Be So Amended as Not to Become Operative Until 1909?Seek Time to Adjust Finances. | In a reiolution unanimously adQpted by the Atlanta Clearing House Association Wednesday morning, the association requested the state legislature to postpone the date at which the present prohibition bill, if passed, will become effective January 1, 1909. The association comprises the Lowry National Bank, the Atlanta National Bank, the Fourth National Bank, the Third National Bank, the MaddoxRucker Banking company, the Neal Bank and the Central Bank and Trust corporation. The resolution shows that the Atlanta bankers take no sides in the present prohibition fight, but unanimously request that one and one-half years be given in event the state prohibition bill is passed, for it to take effect. t* nnt in the resolutions A L AO wv- \JL WV4.W AM ?? V. that the state itself and the large cities need this time in which, should the bill be passed, to rearrange their working plans under the new conditions. In the case of Atlanta, the bankers, all of whom are Atlantians, call direct attention to the fact that school, fire, auditorium and armory and other improvements have been contracted for, and that the contracts have been made with the understanding that present conditions exist. They ask that the time suggested be given so that in the event of the passage of the prohibition bill, the city can readjust itself to the new conditions. One of the leading bankers of the city made the following comment after the meeting; "We made no effort to oppose the present bill. In fact, the question of j prohibition as a principle did not enI 4 nii? u H/-trw> Kill- wo havp I ICi XlitU uUl WI*W '? V ? . only requested our legislature to give us a short time in which, should the state prohibition bill become law, to readjust and rearrange for the state itself, for our own banks and those of our sister cities, and for the contracts into which Atlanta has already entered, our business contracts and obligations." The resolutions follow: "Wheras, tne proposed state prohibition bill now pending before the legislature, will, by its passage, deprive the state and the larger cities of a considerable yearly income, which income for the year 1908 in many cases, and particularly in the case of the city of Atlanta, has been anticipated and the obligations contracted thereon for the erection of school houses, engine houses, waterworks improvements, auditorium and army and for other public improvements; and the withdrawal on January 1, 1908, of the income derived by the state ana cities from tne licensed sale 01 liquor win cause financial complications, and in some instances prevent the completion of public improvements now under construction; therefore, be it "Resolved, by the Atlanta Clearing House Association, That we request and urge the representatives of Ful;on county to use their influence to have said prohibition bill so amended as to become effective January 1, 1909, so that during 1908, the finances of the state and the larger cities can be so adjusted and rearranged as lo meet i the changed conditions, and those citi[ zens of the state who have large sums | Invested in the business to be affected will have a reasonable time within | which to retire and close out their business." BLOW OF FIST FATAL. Private of Sixteenth Infantry Killed by Teamster of Same Company. Charles McFarlane, a private of the sixteenth infantry, stationed at Fort Logan Roots, Arkansas, was killed while engaged in a fist fight with Harry Miller, a teamster. A slight misunderstanding led to the encounter, and Miller, who is of huge frame, | struck McFarlane a powerful blow with his fist, the latter sinking to the | ground and expirirg almost immediately. I ' SLEW FAMILY WITH AX. Crazed Farmer Cul: Deadly Swath Before Being Killed. Henry Scutchean, a farmer about fifty years of age, living near Nunica, Mich., ran amuck Sunday with an ax, killing his invalid son, his wife and her father. Scutchean was later shot by Henry McClellan, a neighbor, whom the crazed mv/ierer had also attacked. I SMITH AFTER RAILROADS. Georgia Governor Sends Special Me* sage to Legislature Urging Changes in Methods of Their Taxation. The passage of legislation which will require the railroads of Georgia to pay taxes to the state on exactly the same valuation as that given by them as a basis for freight and passenger rates was urged in a special massage sent to the general assembly by Governor Hoke Smith Wednesday. That railroads operating in Georgia have given in the value of their property at one figure for taxation purposes, and then in resisting orders of the railroad commlsssion for lower rates have sworn to much higher valuations is pointed out, the Southern railway and the Central of Georgia being cited as instances. Last year the Central, says Governor Smith, returned its tangible property and its franchise at $16,823,850, while during the hearing before the federal court Vice President W. A. Winburn swore that "the cost of reproducing its lines and therefore the present actual minimum value of its lines and equipment is $33,666,999." In like manner Governor Smith shows that the Southern returned its property in Georgia at $14,884,923,-'but that Vice President J. M. Culp swore that "the cost of- reproduction and therefore the present minimum value is $48,150,00Q." That the Southern Is now resisting an assessment of $26,000,COO by the comptroller general was also shown by the governor. Governor Smith then goes on to state that under the present law arbitrators are not sworn and are given no authority to swear those who come before them. If arbitrators were given the authority to make railroad officials give in the value of their properties under oath, Governor Smith says they could be forced to swear to the same valuations which they give when resisting rate reductions. STATE WITNESSES LIARS Declare Defendants in Noted Lynching Case, in Attacking the Testimony. Given by Squealers. The defense in the case of the twenty citizens of Anson county, charged with the lynching of J. V. Johnson, at Wadesboro, the night' of May 30th, 1906, now being heard in Union county superior court, at Monroe, N. C., began the introduction of testimony Wednesday, concentrating its efforts in an attempt to impeach the evidence 1 given by the witnesses for the state. T. R. Tcmlineon, the officer who arrested H. D. Kendall, a member of the mob, who turned siate's evidence, testified that Kendall told him that he (Kendall) was at'home on the night of the lynching; that late that night he heard the noise made by the crowd passing his house and went out to his gate to investigate, but could not recognize any member of the mob. o. J. ixauiius Lcauiieu. iuai, aiuuseu by the noise made by the lynchers, he went to a point near the jail, but saw no one on horseback. Kendall testified that he rode to the jail with the mob.On cross-examination witness admitted that the night was so dark he could' 4 not have seen a horse if one had been there. Several witnesses testified in refutation of Sheriff Bogan's testimony that the sheriff had stated to them that he did not recognize any member of the mob the night of the lynching. Bogan stated on the stand that he had given evasive answers to several inquiries as to his recognition of the lynchers for reasons of personal safety, threats having been freley made against state's witnesses prior to the first trial. 0;her witnesses swore to the alleged bad character of the senior Kendall, but admitted on cross-examination that they considered his character good prior to the lynching. GIVEN CHAIN GANG SENTENCE. 1 i Railroad Men Found Guilty in Ashe* ville Police Court. James H. Wood, district passenger 1 agent, and Ticket Agent 0. C. Wilson : of thi? Southern railway were found J guilty in the Asheville, N. C., police court Thursday of selling tickets in 1 disregard of the new rate law and ( each sentenced to thirty days on the ^ chaingang. Wood is a member of the ^ board of aldermen. Lictle doubt is felt ' that some way will be found to save Wood and Wilson from serving the J sentence. 1 BANKHEAD COMMISSIONED. Alabama Governor Confirms Action of { * the State Legislature. Governor Comer of Alabama, Friday, signed the commission of John H. ( Bankhead as United States senator to j ' succeed Senator Morgan. His signa- ^ ture was affixed with a pen that was : taken away by the new member oi 2 the upper house of Washington, which 1 he will keep as a souvenir. 1 . . . ' ' " -.v . " V r- ' TS * . .' "" '' ~i . -? DEATH FOR THIRTY And Seventy Hurt in Crash of Passenger and Freight. IMPACT WAS FRIGHTFUL Victims Were Excursionists Bound from lona to Detroit, Michigan. Cars Torn to Pieces and Passengers Badly Mangled. , Thirty people are dead and more than seventy injured, several of them seriously, as the result of a head-on. collision Saturday between Salem, Mich., and Plymouth, when a Pere j Marquette excursion train, bound from Iona to Detroit, crashed into a westbound freight in a cut located at a sharp curve on the Pere Marquette | railroad, about a mile east of Salem. The passenger train of eleven cars, carrying the Pere Marquette shop em. ployees of Iona and their families to the Michigan metropolis for their annual excursion was running at high speedy, probably fifty miles an hour down a steep graae. it sirucK me lighter locomotive of the freight train with such terrific force as to turn the freight engine completely around. The wrecked locomotives lay side by side, both headed eastward. Only a few of the freight cars were smash ed, and it was only a few hours' work to remove all traces of them from the scene. But behind the two wrecked lomotives, six cars of the passenger train lay piled in a hopeless wreck. Four of the passenger coaches remained on the track undamaged and were used to convey the dead and injured to Iona; one coach was entirely undamaged, with "only its forward tracks off the rails. These were the rear five cars. -The two coaches next ahead of these were telescoped. The next car forward stood almost on its end after the wreck, its forward end resting on the roadbed and the rear end high in the air, upon the two telescoped coaches that had been following it. Two coaches were thrown crosswise of the track and lay suspended from bank to bank of the cut, five or six feet above the rails. Of the baggage car not enough remained to show where it had been tossed. Portions of baggage car and of the loccmotoive tenders and freight cars were piled in a tangled mass of debris. James Boyles, a farmer, was working in the field near the scene when the two trains approached from opposite directions. The freight came slowly up the heavy grade and had just reached the curve when the passenger train appeared running at high bpeed. Boyles saw the passenger engineer shut off his steam and apply the brakes and saw the crews of both engines jump before the crash. He ran to the tracks, where he found the uninjured passengers from the rear coaches running forward and joined with them in pulling out the injured who could be seen on every hand. There was a panic among the pasonn ore* j* a fny a f&nr minntPC OT"l OQ J.U1 U J.VIT UA4UUWW. A UVM^ MW the uninjured people realized that they had not been hurt, they rushed from the cars to the rescue of their friends and relatives who were ^pinioned among the wreckage. Families were scattered. Mothers ran screaming up and down, searching for their children, while many of the young .people were as frantically calling for their parents. The dead were placed in a row alongside the track and the injured were made as comfortable as possible until the arrival of wrecking trains from Saginaw, Detroit and Grand Rapids made it possible to send them to Iona and Detroit. Responsibility is put squarely upon the crew of the freight train by officials of the road, who arrived at the scene of the wreck soon after the accident, and who secured from the crew of the freight train the orders under which it was running, and which clearly showed the position of the .passenger excursion train and that the freight train had encroached upon the other train's running time. The freight crew explained simply that they naa iorgotien. ine collision Dccurred at 9:13 o'clock, and the freight train should have reached Sal.em at 9:10, to be within their criers. The crash of the colliding trains was ieard for a great distance up and down die tracks Oil I A M Pk U A SCI I ET DCTIIDM Ul Uhi ftliu mnwh.bk.ki Ilk. | Willi! Steel Trust President Says He Ha? No Intention of Resigning. "I have come back to resume m7 tvork as the president of the United States Steel Corporation," said Willam Ellis Corey upon his arrival in S'ew York, Satui*day, from his honeynoon tour in Europe with his new vife, formerly Miss Mabelle Gillman. nan. .... 4 GIVES A PERFECT SKIN. Sulphur in Liquid Form Add* to the Beauty of Women. "Beauty is only skin deep," but you cannot bo beantifnl if you have any Skin Disease or a bad complexion. Hancock's Liquid Sulphur quickly cures Eczema, Tetter, Sores, Eruptions, Blotches, and all Skin Diseases. Apply Hancock's Liquid Sulphur Ointment to the face just as you go to bed, and it will soon give you a smooch, velvety skin. Taken internally, Hancock*3 Liquid Sulphur purifies the blood and clears up the complexion. A few spoonfuls in hot water makes the finest of sulphur baths. All druggists sell it. Sulphur Booklet free, if you write Hancock Liquid Sulphur Co.. t>. *1 A : JMillWlViV. Dr. W. W. Leake, of Orlando, Fla., who was cored, says: "It is the most wonderful remedy for Eczema I have ever known." Immigrant arrivals are overtaxing the capacity of Ellis Island. Argo Red Salmon is just the thing for unexpected company. There is nothing better to serve from the can. At all grocers. China and Japan together produce 125,000 tons of silk annually. THE STATE NORMAL SCHOOL. The development of this branch of the University at Athens, Ga., has been wonderful. There are now three large dormitories, three school buildings, and a new dining hall seating 400 students. There are 17 deportments of instruction and 36 officers and teachers. The schools of Domestic Science and Manual Arts are bandsomelydioused and equipped. The Department of Music includes instruction in Common School Music teaching, chorus singing, the piano, and the stringed instruments. The School Orchestra numbers 18 pieces. The most wonderful thing about the school is the small expense of the school year. These charges have kept down to the lowest possible figure. Thus hundreds of students get a wholesome, practical, sensible education there, who could not afford to attend other schools. The graduates are in demand at good salaries everywhere. Twt* of them have just been called into the faculties of the Normal Schools of Virginia, afteV teaching several years in Georgia. Students are registering rapidly for the new vear. Only 400 can be accommodated. President Branson has just issued an attractive picture Catalogue of the Sohool. Washington's Nickname. A paragraph has been going the rounds crediting William Makepeace Thaokeray with naming Washington IITS,^ nit.. moorniflrent distflrinftS." 1 UO v~? LJ VI uiu3uiuwMW This is incorrect. Thackeray may have used the phrase, but it originated twith John A. Corwine, of Bellefontaine, Logan Count, O., who wa? a very famous personage in the forties and fifties. Once on a vlatt to the national capital he wound up a period of exhilirating experiences in the visitors' gallery of the House of Representatives, and as that august body came to order Mr. Corwine felt impelled to rise in his place and make a few remarks. He began: "I have been visiting this city of magnificent distances." There was a lot more but this sentence lived. 1 ? i Stage-Coach Days. John Randolph was once In a tarera, lying on a sofa in the parlor, waiting for the stage to come to the door. A dandified chap stepped into the room with a whip in his hand, * just come from a drive, and standing \ v before the mirror, arranged his hair and collar, quite unconscious of the M presence of the gentleman on * the sofa. After attitudinizing a while he turned to go out, when Mr. Randolph asked him: "Has the stage come?" "Stage, sir! stage!" said the fop;; "I've nothing to do with it, sir." "Oh!j I beg your pardon," said Randolph, quietly; "I thought you were the driver!" ' $ TRUTH FOR ONCE. "I always buy my Christinas pree* ents early." "Aw, come off." "As I was about to say, early on the morning of the 24th."?Louisville Tnnrnal. WVUi tv? V ? ? MEAT OR CEREALS A Question of Interest to All Careful Persons. Arguments on food are interesting. Many persons adopt a vegetarian diet on the ground that they do not like to feel that life has been taken to feed them, nor do they, fancy the thought of eating dead meat. On the other hand, too great con- fa sumption of partly cooked, starchy, oats and wheat or white bread, pastry, etc., produces serious bowel troubles, because the bowel digestive organs, (where starch is digested), are overtaxed and the food ferments, producing gas, and microbes generate in the decayed food, frequently bringing on peritonitis ana appenai- ^ citis. Starchy food is absolutely essential to the human body. Its best, form is shown in the food "GrapeNuts," where the starch is changed into a form of sugar during the pro- J cess of its manufacture. In this way, the required food is presented to the system in a pre-digested form and is immediately made into blood ' and tissue, without taxing the digestive organs. \ A remarkable result in nourishment is obtained; the person using Crano-Mnts Mins auicklv in Dhysical and mental strength. Why in mental? Because the food contains delicate particles of Phosphate of Potash obtained from the grains, and this unites with the albumen of all food and the combination is what nature uses to rebuild worn out cells in the brain. This is a scientific fact that can be easily proven by ten days' use of Grape-Nuts. "There's a Reason." Read <:The Road to