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Marlboro 9 .'DO iTIOU, GREAT LIBERTY, INBPUiE OUR SOULS AND MAKE OUR LJVESIN TUX POSSESSION HAPPY OR OUR DEATHS GLORIOUS IN THY CAUSE" VOL. XX^v u omi BENNETTS VILLE, S. C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3. 1905. NO. ft8t ?i SHOT TO DEATH. A Young Man Killed by Another at Union Station. HAD BEEN EMENDS A Seemingly Playful Affair Ends In a Tragedy, Both the Men Were From Leesville, and Were c Qood Friends Before the Fatal Shooting. The Columbia Stato say? James Trotter, a young unmarried farmer of the Leesville soobion waa shot through the heart at tho Union station In that city at 4.15 o'olook Thursday after noon by Wilmer Mitchell, about thc same age and also of Leesville, thc two being fast frlonds. Lr. Smith of "Wards, who happened to bo present at the time of tho tragedy, pronounc ed life extinct in the wounded man in less than ton minutes, death result ing from an internal hemorragc. The weapon used waa a 38 calibre; the bullet outerlug straight from the front. Trotter had becu drinking, but tho arresting ouloors say Mitchell was perfectly sober, no gave as au exouao for tho shoeing that Trotter continued to slap his face, after he had soveral times wis ned him to quit and after walking kway from lum Eye witnesses say tho ' wo naen ap peared to be jesting, Trotter striking at Mitchell in play, as tho two were walting for a train home. A woman relativo was thc lirst to Trotter's side. Mitohell gav himself up promptly to a plain clothes man, and was car ried to Jail In tho hurry up wagon, lie appeared to bc not Hie least dis concerted. His family ls about the most prominent aod inlluentlal in Leesville. Ho ls the son of Mr. Orowoll Mitohell of that place. Trot ter was unarmed, Both bear good reputations. Tho killing ocourred in the presonco of a largo number of people, thc sta tion being orowded inside, on tho ver andas, in front and undor the sheds downstairs. Thc shot was fired on the veranda overlooking the sheds immediately lu front of tho colored walting room. Porhaps two thousand people were at the station waiting for speolal or regular trains homo. Young Trotter was a cousin nf Al derman D. I Trotter of this city. The Inquest will bo hold at the un dertaking establishment of Funder burk and Matteson at 10 o'clock this morning. Those who saw che shoot lng and who were summoned as wit nesses ari : Dr. W. B. Bates, John MoGuller, lt. .1 Brown, Willie Ballard George Kauo, White Smith, Gooroc Etheredge aud others may be called upon to testify. Only a Cow. Five trainmen were killed at Seaton 111 , when a heavy double header freight train on tho Iowa Central llallroad struck a ODW, says thc Chi cago Inter Ocean. The locomotives and eleven freight cars loaded with grain aud lumber, were piled in a heap beside tho track. A cow was lying on tho tics bctweeu the rails and was hidden from view by other oittlo standing about lt. AH the sound of the whistle of tho approaching train tho standing ca'tle Pearn pored away, but tho forward locomotivo struck thc cow lying down. The. animal was crushed nuder thc wheels of thc pilot truck and rolled alonar the blea for a hundred feet. Irs blood made the rails slippery and pieces ol' bone threw the front locomotive from the track. The derailed locomotive rolled down an embankment, drawing the second locomotive Into the ditch, where the two machines pllod up, crushing the ouglneeisand the tlremen. Neuro Entally Sfiot. The Columbia R c >rd says Eugene Simklns, colored, was hhot and prob ably fatally wounded Thursday morn ing by Dave 131am, al o colored. Thc affair occurred at a house, 1405..: Lin coln street, occupied by Dr. Durham, colored, who was not present at the time. Thc twe negroes aro relatives of the doctor, and were on a visit to him. Both aro from IOjgefleld, having come to the city Tuesday. Exactly what led to tho shooting ls not clear. The two men wore In a room in the house, and woro drinking. A white man named Holland, also appears to have been about. Thc lirst known of the at?air was when Simklns was scon to come out of thc house, go b"to an alley running from the street and fal). To those who saw him and went to his alslstance he said that Kl a m had Shot him, though hu did not think ho Intended to. The two worein the room. A pistol was there and Ulam either intentionally or foolishly took lt up, pointer! at his companion say ing ho was ','olng to shoob. He did and immediately llred. The bullet struck Slml.lns on the neck and pass ed through, lodging in the back. Ora/.y Oflloer. At Madrid, Spain, a naval officer named O.n.edo who rnanlfcstod evi dences of insanity latoly, has been re moved to an asylum. Olmedo was attempting to raiso a great military forco to invade tho United States. Olmedo scrvod aboard thc culsor Oquondo lost In the battle of Santllgo and it ls believed his mind was unbal anced ab that time. Unod Mall it??*. "._Tho Belgian govornmont discovered some bl mo ago that the leather bags usod for the mails in tho Cjngo B'reo Stato wore ofton stolon. Investiga tion nrovod that natives In the postal service took them, cut tho bottoms and gave them to their wives to bo worn as olothlng. _ (.Hellt Drowned. A steam launch containing ten Phlladolphlans collided In the Dolo ware on Sunday with a bargo and was sunk, seven of tho party being drowned. AWAIN UNDER EIRE. Charged That Fatimate Was Hold Up for Two Fours. For tho Benefit ol New York Spccu tutors. Dlrootor North Is sues Km printie Donial. The census buroau issued a bullotin Wednesday placing tho ootton ginned in tho United States up to Ootober 18 at 4.010,728 bales, round bales being counted as half bales. Tho ?t?tonnent is based on reports mado hy tho bu rcau's special agents in the Hold. No estimate is made of the total crop for the year, but tlgures are glvon out concerning crops of former years. These figures show that up to tills date in 1004, the product of tho gins had reached a total of 0,417,804 bales, out of a total of 13 003,279 halos for the yexr. lu 1903, the total production was 10,045,615 hales and the ginning output up lo Oatober 25, 3,706,248; 1902 thc total was 10,827.168 and the output to Ootobor 25, was 5 683,000. Today's report covered 26,374 ginner ies and the statements ur-on wide)) lt was prepared were supplied by tele graph by 702 special agents in thc tield, most of thom representing one county each. Tho fact that tho bulletin was not Issued until 2 o'clock, two iiouis after tho usual time, caused somo complaint from brokers in different cities, and some of tbeso which reached the bu reau before the document was given to the public, were of a sensational character. They arc summarized lu the following from Secrotary llestor, of the Now Orleans Cotton Exchange: New Orleans, Oct. 25, 1005. lion. S. N. ?. North, Director of the Consus. Washington, D. C. Much disappointment and dissatisfaction hero at dolay in issuing gimiera' re port r.o 2 p. m. Deaohe & company, of Now York, wiro Heyward, Vick & Clark, of New Orloans, as follows: "David -Miller bas just made the statement to tho t fi'ect that thc gin ners' report has been delayed from 12 o'clock to 2 o'clock, so ns to allow more time to coi tain parties to sell cotton and says he will stand by the above." Ono rumor here lu that the report will show, counting round bales as half bales being, 0,100,000. All kinds of rumors are hoing spread and parties aro selling the market down, under suspicion of something wrong in your bureau. 1 send this because 1 think lt proper you should know it. David Miller, referred to, was tho receiver of Sully Sc Company, and is a promi nent member of thc Now York Cotton Exchange. H G. HKSTUU. To this Director North replied: Washington, D. C., Oot. 25 Honry Gk Hester, Seoretary, New Orleans Cotton l?xohaiiKu, Kow Ov leans, La. Telegram received. Nobody in this oMlce kuows even approximately at the moment how many bales ginned the report will show. The men engaged in compiling it arc locked up and tho door guarded on the outside. More than half of tho telegraphic reports from country agents were received this morning aud their compilation prior loo 2 o'clock was a physical i ni possibil ity. NORTH This telegram was forwarded before the bulletin was given out and after lt was issued, it was stated that some of tile report from some of the agents were not received until 10 minutos bafoie 2 o'clock, Tile ginning product for the present year to date by states is as follows: Alabama, 641,133 bales; Arkansas. 117.511; Florida, 38,007; Georgia, 1, 058,107; Indian Territory, 70,222; Kentucky, 177,OUU; Louisiana, 141,? 780, Mississippi, 311,472; Missouri, 8,575; North Carolina, 325,208; Okla homa, 95,280; South Carolina, (Kb),. 974; Tennessee, 02,025; Toxis, 1,417, 466; Virginia, 4,051. liiH|ii;otora I te ports. Dispensary Inspectors horeafter ac cording to an order issued by Comunis ioncr Tatum a short time ago, must bo prepared to swear to tho accuracy of their report on caeli dispensary cheeked up. Tills order is tho result of tho discovery that many shortages occur by the use ol' dummies or half om pty eases that liavo boen chocked by Inspectors as full case*. Mr. Ta tum saki to day that after the short ago In Charleston and a recent one in a town in tho upper part of the state he was con vine Ml that the Inspection heretofore lias i.oen to perfunctory, ile discovered that oases supposed to he full could oontaln only one half the mimber of bottles or bo entirely empty. Tills happened some time ago with a dispenser In Fairfield county. All In specters w"vo then notitled that every box must be Inspectod and thc Inspec tor absolutely satisfied that tho seals had not boen broken. Burnett in ? Hotel. At Hot Spring, Ark., :,lx hodlos svere takon on Thursday from thc ruins of tho Railroad Hotel, comer o' 101m and O ?Ivo streets, which was gutted by lire. Two aro unidentified, charred beyond recognition. The dead arc: Harry Bradley, a walter: 10 I ward Snyder, a porter; Mrs. Mack, a musi cian; A. L. Manna railroad con duo tor, believed to bc from Denver, Col., and tho two unknown mon. Thoro may be othor bodies In tho ruins. The hotel was a two story frame building, containing thirty rooms, all but ono of which wero occupied by from ono to four persons, lt was patronized by Invalids and cripples, who were under treatment. The lire ls believed to have been caused by an exploding tamp. There was only one narrow exit, that being a stairway, and dozons were compehcrl to jump from the second story. One man, Fred O ?orson, of Hot Springs, was probably fatally in jured. Gruel Hoionoe. Now comos Dr. Valentine Mal passe, ,.f Pit?|fl who ?a ?tu If. lu rlnnir.Arotin t.n shake hands on account of microbos. Only tho othor day another celebrated physician announced that kissing ls dangerous for the same reason, if thoso scientific dootors dont let up tlioy will destroy all tho plcasu oof courtship. Just think of courting a good looking girl with kissing and playing hands elimina!edi Details of Wreck of Schooner Van Name and King. LEFT CHARLESTOM On thc Third Dav of October and Was Wrecked Two Days Later Off Cape Lookout. Two Sailors, Who Were Saved. Tell a Moraible Tafe. Clinging to a plcco of wrookage wltb the fast failing strength of their weakenod bodies whioh had known no nourlahmant for live days, their throats adam* with a thirst of lire, their burning oyes blinded by the salt of tho sea, and their minds tortured by tho memories of tho self destruc tion of their hunger maddened ship mates, William Thomas, aged 2U, and William E. Warner, also 2!>, both oolorod and mcmboraof the crew of the three-masted schooner Vannarao and King, were picked up off Cape Lookout, after hoing live days adrift on a raft, by the Stillman F. Kelly, a schoonor whioh arrived at Huston sumo days after being wrocked. Tho Boston Globe says such a talo as these men told is unparelleled In flotion, "No sturdier craft had clear od the port t f Charleston that day nd nj happier crew had sot sall with prospects of a brighter voyage than when the Vanname and King, Capt. William A. Maxwell, lumber loaded and bound for New York, hoisted her oanvan to thc fresh blowing brcex.c. on Tuesday, October 3, and headed ooeanward. The schooner was speeding along under full sall when on Thursday morning, Ootober 5, thc drat signs of an approaching storm were noticed. Next day at daylight it looked pretty black, blacker than a sailor ll kos to soe lt, and there was au uuoom for ta ble feeling among tho officers and men which none tried to conceal. "Bring ber down to short sall," thc captain bellowed, and this was done. A noiso like tho buratiug of a huge soda tank fell upon their cars with tho splash of a tremendous wave "To tho pumps, all hands, and qulokly tool" The voice of the cap tain was drowned in the tumult of wind a^d water, but eaoh man under stood and jumped to his post. Tho struggle was unceasing unti the oraf t wai caught in tho trough of tho sea, and hove on her beam ends The Ufo boat? wore swept away ' though they had never uemi. ' No word of command was needed for these mon for each mado for a hold on the "weather side," that part willoh was out of tho water. The grips of thc eight palra of stout hands wore nothing in the face of the gale, for the next wave loosened every man's hold and swept one poor fellow, William Grlzzell, into thc Hood. "Here's my knife," said the cap tain, "cut yourself a rope from the halliards and make yourself fast to rigging. It was with dlillculty that tho shiny, blt of stool was handed from man to man, but no oue faltered and each cut himself a line and lashed himself to tho stanch soars. Night came and wont, and nota man dared loose his Judd. Prayerfl and curses, grim jokos and bender words of encouragement, but no ot c stirred. That afternoon when ho| c had vanished from every heart, thee came another wave bigger and greater than all others, and thc Bcheouor was dashed to pieces. The lumber that bad tillad the craft Heated, and made support for the men, but only one portion of the dock about 10 feeti square, was really enough for a raft. One of thc sailors, Alfred Arthur, hose leg bad been broken in throe places, had thrown himself upon this, and for four hours thc others floundered about In the water uatll they finally reached bia side. Then came tho voyago of sleken lug terror, the maniacal dewnds for water and food from tho.%^ whoso minds had left thom under Its terri ble strain; the groundless hopoi of men who could not behove that their life was to be taken from thom. "It was awful, awful" said Warner as bc looked across the mess table to Thomas, whose eyes answered with a gleam that was half of sadness and half of well rom inhered agony. Both these men arc tho specimens of the best type of the British West ludios colored men. They are natives of Antigua, British Wost Indies have receivod a fair education, know hov/ to express themselves clearly ano! show that when In thc full possession of their faculties they are as husky as thc huskiest of s iilors. "Thc Storni began," Warner con tinu id, "Thursday morning, but ll was Krlday night that the sohoonei began to leak so badly that all bands became alarmed. "The captain called thc engineer to him about IO that night, and said, 'You'll haye to work the electric pumps,' when thc engineer .said, 'lt's no uso cap'n; thc engine room ls full of water.' '"At midnight tho captain decided to run her fore tho soa to ease up tho strain. Wc hadn't takon that course long before thc schooner waa hove on her beam onda. Thoro wasn't any thing to do but make for tho wcatho) side, and wo all did. "No soonor had wo got there than thoro oamca wave which washed over board one of the aoamen, William Griz/.oll. Then the captain told tis each to take his knife and cut a rope and lash oursolvcs to the rigging. Wo did and there we hung until tho next afternoon. I think wn wore aff Capo Lookout whoo first the hurricane struck us and lu all woro lloatod 100 miles before they picked us up. "Saturday, aud as near as I can ligure io it wa? about 3 "0 p, m., thc sohoonor started to hroal up and turn turtle We had to got clear and swim for our live? "A good deni of tho lumber wo car ried and parta of thc dook wcro Heat ing around. Alfred Arthur had bro kea ouo of bis logs in threo places, but bad made out to get onto a good sized piece of the deck. I oould seo him although the storm hadn't lot up a blt alnco it started. "For four hours we were in thc wa ter, all trying to get to Arthur. Wo did llnally pull ourselves onto a raft, you might call lt that, only to lind poor Arthur dying. "That night au ho lay Ju tho lap of Thomas, Arthur breathed his last. Ho moaned for water until tho end. Wo kept the body with us for an hour or HO, but it o.ado us feel a good deal worse and then we felt that wo ought to lower it overboard. Wo didn't havo to, though, for auother heavy sea lifted lt iuto tho oocan for us. "Ab noon Sunday lt had cahnod. Wo bogan to feel a little brighter then, for wo conld soc some distance away a four masted sohoonor and a steamship going south and a bark going north. "'Hall, for Hod's sake,' s\ld the captain, and wc all did our best. " 'Taln't no usc capo, said 1, after I had rhooted till 1 could scarcely speak; 'they don't seo us.' V "No, no,' ho yollod at mo. 'Keep a sharper lookout; they must see us ' 1 took a look at his face. 1 could see in his eyes he was stark mad. "Then tho captain sahl, as ho seized mo with au awful grip on thc arm, 'you must get some water, Warner. 'Aye ayo, slr,' saya I, but 1 didn't know where it was coming from. "I don't know whether the Lord sent it not, but that mluutc a ralu cloud oame Just o vor head and a show or descended. I held a sou'wester to catch what water wc could and got enough for everybody to take a big drink. "That Sunday night the sea got high again. Thc mate, 10. A. Chase, who hadn't said much all this time, looked at all of us lu a queer way, then before we could raise a hand to stop him, bc pluugod Into the water. There was a trail of sharks that I could sec all around us, and I knew that poor Chase fell Into their j*ws. "Wo stood looking at tho place whore Chane went down when the captain turned tu mc lu a Btrangc way and said, 'Warner you've got my whistle.' " 'No, slr,' says I, as respectfully as 1 could. "Nonsense' says he. 'I want lt. I can seo my father. II e's calling me. I must answer him. Quick, give me that whistle.' "Poor mon, his mind had left him altogether, "See. Warner,' says bc 'there's my father; he wauts mo, ho't holding out his arms for mo to com': to him. Look, look.' Then tb( captain Jumped overboard. God heh him. "Wo were all suffering tho utmosl tortures that Sunday night when tin stoward, he was a colored man and J don't know his name, Jumpod up anc 9bonr*?d, ?. "Chore's land, X can ...sci land.' "Poor follow, his mind had gone too. Ho talked all hight aud said wi were drifting out to sea when wi ought to be making land. He said wi were crazy and didn't know what wi were doing. Ho shouted and callee all night. When the dawn broke tin steward swore again that tho laue was ClOSO by. "'I'm a good swimmer,' said thi steward. I'll make it before any o you,' andover he jumped. That wa about 1 o'olOCVt Monday morning, watched the watorand I saw tho UT preserver tho steward had been wear lug floating along. 1 was ?uro tho that tho sharks had got him. "Tho engineer-ho was a Gormai ai fi 1 never heard him oalled by nam te was dcilrlous and called all th time for foe: and water. He wanta! to lie down, but Thomas and I kop talking to him and saying, ' Be C good cheer, somebody \sill pick us u yet * ''There ho lay, his body bocomln more rigid every minute, At l o'clock, as well as 1. can ligure, he die in my aim;. ''At daybreak Tuesday, October b lt wau calm, but thcro was nothing 1 sight. Toomas pulled a buckle c his suspenders and made lt Into kind of hook. He Halted for a loi time and finally caught a couple i lislies, 111 rh: ones. Ho atc one and the. other. They tasted pretty goo but that was not much nourlshmon ''Themis was beginning to v/eake when I said: 'Let mc tell you of dream l had last night. I dream* that a lady came to nie on a steal boat and told me that we should bo be brought Into Now York safely, had not liuishod when bo saw t Stillman K. li illy, l waved ai waved, and then I broke down ai cried when I saw her answering o signal. Poor Thomas was pretty ? gone. They had to lift him aboa the schooner." Tho Vannamo and King was three-master, 100.6 feet long, 3( feet boam. 10 ti feet depth of hold r tonnage 020 and gross tonnage 7; She was built at li'Alr Haven, Com io 1808, and owned by Vannamo a King, of Now Haven, from whl p.>ri she hailed. She was valued $18,000. A Little Hoy Killed. The Columbia Itaoord says mik Sims, a whlto boy about ten years < svas shot and Instantly killed thlsm nlng. A little negro boy, Hal G don about niuo years old ls rosponsl for his death. Young Sims, w i),ear Korde and Alvin Sims ab; the samo agc were In woods n benedict Institute. They had W thom a singlo barred shot gun. So of the boys bad sling shots, and tl all laid asido the gun and were abc lng at birds with their slings. WI they were engaged In this tho lil negro oame up and bogan bandi! tho gun, tho other boys not notlo him, Suddeulyl thc gun llrcd, i shot from lt penetrated young SI chest, striking thc heart and klli him instantly. Tho other boys Inc rdlatly alarmed the nclgbborho but nothing could be donn for the fortunate boy. It ls presumed t tho killing was purely from oaroli noss and Ignorance on tho part of little negro. Tho coronor was d notified. Tho dead boy was tho of Mr. Jack Sims, who is omployee Southern railway shops, aud who ll in tno oarstorn suburb* on the rJ Notch roud. CLOSE CALL President Roosevelt in Dangei by the Collision of His SniP WITH ANOTHER Although Inconvenienced by the Acci dent and Delay thc I'rcslcknt was Unmoved by the Mishap, and Ref Mined Ills Voyage Abonni Auuthcr Vessel. A dispatch from Now Orleans say? ali 11 o'clock Thurday ?vening, througl confusion of signals, tho fruit steam er Esparta collided with tho light house tender Magnolia, which wai conveying the President, Secretary Loeb and Dr. Rlxoy to the crulsor, West Virginia. Tho rall and port bow of t^o Magnolia were damagod and two Or tbreo holes made In thc hull below the water line. No ono was hurt, The magnolia Immediate ly on hoing struck was beached, hei bow being high and dry. After a careful examination of tho damage tc tho vossel, lt was evident there wai no clanger and thc president and hit party wont to bed. Maj Cralghlll of the United State? ongineers was aboard tho Magnolia, His ship, the Ivy, a slater ship of the Magnolia, had proceeded tho Magnol ia aud was somo distance ahead. A boat was immediately put efl for thc nearest telephone, about a mlle and s half away, and tho order given tc head tho Ivy olT at Pilot station aurl havo hor return for tire president and his party. Tho transfer was made at 3 o'clock Friday morning. The ves sel got under way immediately and tho Wost Virginia was boarded on sohedulo time Thc lhst nows of the accident reach ed New Oilcans by telephone carly L'riday morning in an appeal for hclf from Capt. lt we of thc United Fruit company's steamer Esparta, willoi oamc from Nairn, La., near where thc accident occurred, lils report gav? no dotailSv The Magnolia left New Or leans at 0 30 Thursday night and thc Fjparta was due to arrivo Friday at Chalmettet. The weathor was lin", with oomparativoly little wind on the river. Immediately upon tho receipt of the nowa communication was opon ed with tutf ownors hore and tho pow erful t iy;;t R. Wilmot and ?. I). Wood left New Oilcans shortly after 4 o'clock Friday rooming with orders to go at full sr/?tul to the soono of the acoldeut Mean d rr v however, the president's iiL.-.;$y u&u managen uo go? u?COmS?rj'ri icatlon with thc lower part of thc river whoro it was known that thc lighthouse tendor Ivy way lying. At 1 o'olook thc operator at Pilot Town was rung up by Maj. Cralghlll, thc government engineer, with orders that the Ivy should be sont to 60 milo point with all possible speed. Tho Ivy im mediately got under way and covered tho 10 miles in rapid time President Roosevelt, Seoretary Lo:band Surgeon Rlxoy, with their bag^e, wo~e at once transferred and the Ivy proceed ed down the river. At t?. 16 the Ivy passed Pilot Town on her way down, signalling that thc president and party were on board and that all were well. Tho Ivy readied tho West Virginia at ? 10 and the president at once went aboard. The lighthouse tondei Ivy returned from sea after putting ?resident Rnofcvdt on hoard and stopped at Pilot Town. Thosfi aboard reported that the West Virginia Lac sailed at 10.06. They said that th? president was In excellant spit its ant unshaken hy tho accident. At tin time of thc accident at 11 o'clock tin president, absolutely worn out bj lils strenuous experience In Nev Orleans, was fast asloep. He har turnod in shortly after thc vessol lof I New o "loans. The two ships were near thc west short; when they cami in cont A cit in an elTort to avoid run ning into each other. The prow of th Esparta struck the Magnolia on th port bow. It was not known to what exton bbc Magnolia mi,;ht have txrm Injure and there was great nashs in push In : her ashore ?otb vessels grounde ! but tho Esparta got nfl under lier ow steam and was lound not to have sui ferccl any damage. The presiden showed ni) excitement when informoi of the extent of tho disaster, thong; he was somewhat annoyed by tho prot ability of a delay because lt was evl dent that the Magnolia could not prc; ceed on tho way. He dressed 1 m med? ate ly and those of bis party hurried) made arrangements for lils transfer t tho Ivy, which was Intercepted aili brought back to thc scene of the ace dent. Except tor tho loss of som sleep, tile president su florec? notliin by tho collision. With the whol party transferred to the Ivy, that ve was speeded down thc rlvor, meei lng with no further mishap. The United Emit Company, b which the E-.parta ls chartered issuo tiie following statement (friday night "Tho Esparta sighted a vesso afterward found to lie tho Magnolia Tho Magnolia blow two whistles, sl^ ni fy lng her intention of passing t starboard, winch was answered by til Eiparta, which latter vessel continue on up the riser and at thc timo c SUOh signal was within 100 feet ol th wost bank of thc river. About tw minutes after tho Magnolia blew til first signal, she blew ono whistle, sltf nlfylng ber Intention of changing lie course and crossing to tho inside c the Esparta. The pilot ?af E?part? seeing thc danger In such action, bio1 whistles and also tho danger signal c titree whistles, signifying tho (lange of suoti a movo on tho part of th Magnolia, as tho pilot of tho Etpart was aware of tho fact that there wo not enough room between tho vesst and the bank of rivor for tho Magnc ila to pass, as ho had taken his ship i as eloso as possible so as bo lcavo plot ty of room in tho middle of the rive for the Magnolia, and had tho Magnc Ha adhorcd to her original signal an Intention of passing to starboard woul havo passed olear as the rlvor was ove a half milo wido at that polut. Instead of this, the Magnolia hauled to port and the two vessels collided. The Es parta struck the Magnolia on tho port side about 20 foot abaft the boats and considerable damage was done tho Magnolia." TEMPTED AND FELL. This is tito UonfoBHion [ol Kdward .tionruo Cunllfl\\ Edward George Cunllffo, the Adams Express employe who disappeared from Pittsburg, Pa., with* $ 101,000 in oash, was arrested at Bridgeport, conn. Ile mado a confession and express ed his willingness to return at once to Pittsburg. Ho declared that the money which ho took is lntaot and that lt could bo recovered, but deollu ed to tell until his return to Pitts burg, whoro lt 1B hidden. Ou his per sou when arrested, the deteotives found $20."?. Deteotives traced Cunliffe to Bridge port. All tho hotels wore watohed oarcfully, but Cunliffe was not arrest ed until late In the forenoon, when he was seen walking down Middle street. Cunliffe made no attempt to deuy his identity and ollercd no resistance. ' F.vo minutes after 1 took that money I was sorry," said Cunliffe, "but lt was too lato to do anything. What can you expect from a man get i ting a salary of $05 a month aud handling thousands of dollars a day? I waB tempted and I fell. I havo handled larger hums. I remember once when 1 had 8250,000 lu cash, I was tempted, but I thought lt over, and decided to bj honest, "The uight 1 left Pittsburg, I rodo In a sleeper on tho way to Now York and I stuck my head out of my berth and saw Slater pass by. Slater ls our local manager In Pittsburg. I thought then that I would turn back, but knowing that he did not sec mo and that I had the money with mo In cash, I thought 1 would take the chances. "I want togo bark to Pittsburg, restore tho money a?, d throw mynelf upon tho mercy of the courts." For aker'a Gloom Workn liuey. Senator Forakcr te certainly entit led to the champ lonah lp b.ltas the greatest "republican glcom discover er" of the day. It was Senator For aker who discovered that a vote against the corrupt Cox machine In Ohio was a mciaoe to republican supremaoy in tho nation, lt was Senator Foraker who discovered that If tho rotten Dur ham republicau machine ia defeated in Philadelphia it will threaten re publican Bupremaov In thc nation. "Defeat ii errick and you threaten the welfare of tho American workingman, shouts the excited senator from Ohio. "Dofeat the republican city ticket in Philadelphia and our republioau instl tu tiona totter to thoir fall?" ho shouts in excited tones. According to the excited senator tho dorcas o? rtc/i;ot* will wipe out tho pension bureau, break down tho tariff walls, destroy the gold standard, reduce the olroula ting medium and create a great finan cial panic. All this would bo wonder fully interesting If true, but being only laughable tho senator adds to thc ga'e'iy of the times by his frantic declarations. Trainman miloo. A dispatch from G roen ville to the State says in|mortal agony surrounded by his follow trainman, Charles Smith, )iored, told in disconnected senten ces how he was fearfully mashed while coupling oar at Gantts siding four milos from tho city on the C. and G. division of tho Southern rail way, and before bc had completed his story, death had relieved tho unfortu nate mans suffering, While coupling cars at Coutts on north bound local froight No. 07, Smith was caught be j I tweon the bumpers of two ears and lil* whole ti uuk was fearfully mashed. Tue brakeman cried for help, and Conductor Beam and a colored train hand went to his relief, lt was at otc ) discovered that Smith hadrccclv ed mortal injuries, but all haste was made to bring tho wounded man t thc city. Ile was placod aboard thc caboose and at once brought to the city, but the poor fellow died twe miles from the city after relating thc manner In which he was Injured. At Morov of Itobbor?, Burglars oarly Wednesday morning g ?j blew open tho safe In the bank o Q I Ridge ville, and stole $??,000, and af te a running battle with a posse of clt/.oru I in whloh thc cashier and two olt/.oni tl were wounded the burglars escaped Q For more than an hour the town wai practically at the mercy of the rob hors, who openly walked the street shooting at everything, apparently ?. taking their time In leaving town y Two charges of dynamite were ex plod Q ed before thc safe gave way. A soo tl ohd blast aroused Cashier lt. R. titan [. som, who ran Into tho street. As sooi e as he appeared the robbers opene< g lire. This aroused other cltl/.tns. Then e were seven In the cracksmen's party. Y Oom pit mont od by I'roeddont. The little girl referred to in tb following from tho Charlotte Cbron y icio Uvos in Spartanburg with be d parents on South Church street. Mi Matthew ls a traveling man. Whci tho president turned to tako his seat Miriam Matthew, a great granddaugb tor of the 'Squire Benjamin Boyd o o Charlotte and daughter of PlncKne c Matthew of Spartanburg, S. C., ad d vanoed and presented bim with atre t mendous bouquet of Howers. Th o president bowed, picked up tho littl o girl, ilowors and all, and hold hor U] e bighln lils arms, "llor?is tho bes product," he said. r " if Indooont Poatoard. t George MoDowell, tho Spartanbur? ^ youth who mailed an indecently aug ,f gostivo plcturo postal oard to a younf ,r woman was convicted ?ccently In th c United States dlstrlot court at Grcon a ville. The card whloh embrolle vonna McDowell with tho federal au thorltles wa? offored in ovidenco. I boro no writing savo tho address, bu whon it was handed to tho jury wltl the other papora in tho ease they re q lired only a few minutes to lind i vordiot of guilty. In tho indlotmon lt described UM "too indecent tn bo sproad upon tho records of tin court." DAYS OF PIRACY Are Fot Passed Tet Acoordlng to Kew York Polioe. A. Bunill Bloop Captured Whioli M ntl o Business of llobbory Alon# Tho Atlantic Coast for Your?. A dispatch f om Newport, R. I , says sensational devclopmonts aro likely to follow an expeoted arreBt of Henry A. Jackson, of Tauton, owner of the sloop Dorado, which was oap lured In the bay on Saturday after noon and found full of loot. She io no.. railed tho Pirate sloop and Jack son, the Pirate Skipper. Although earoh has has boon made in sevoral cities lu New England for bim, no olow has been obtained. It ls thought that when persons be gin to claim articles in the Dorado, there will oomo tu light a startling series of thefts from house? and yaohts along the ooaat from Maryland to Rtiodo Island. There ia, too, a suspioion that something YO ry like a clow to the shooting of Mn. Walter O, Morrill, In Oreonwioh, Conn., will develop. Chloroform, dynamite and nlto-glj carine are aboard the Dorado, and it baa boon suggested that the sloop may have figured in a bauk rob bery in bridgeport, Conn. ShorlfT Anthony hopas the owner of silver marked Arbuckle will claim it, and that tho owner of solid sliver hand mirrors marked #,B. II. A." will oall for it, and linen marked "Julia M. Wood" and "Mrs. H. R. Tool,*' also bas boen found. Tho sheriff has learned that tho owner of tho catboat Jcsslo, In which one of Jaokson'a supposed associates came to Newport last Saturkay oven lng, ls C. I Burlingame of the Elgo Ueld Yacht club, of Providence. An chora, ohains, and other trappings wero taken from boat? of the Edge wood club and charts from Henry T Hammond of that club. Many pawn tickets indlcfctea that the pirates sold choaply what they took, a great amount of stuff going to pawn shops in New York. Bills of wine of all kinds indicated that they llvod well. Among papers was found the bill of salo of the Dorado to Jaok son, dated December 16, 1904, show lng tho sloop had been sold to him by Frank Oliffe, of St. Helena, Md., for $50.00 Another paper was a recommanda lion of Jackson as a steady, indus trious and reliable man written by F. P. Lovering, of No. 60 West tl6th street, New York. It was on paper of the Now York Telephone company and is dated January 28, 1005. There also are pictures of Thomas Foley, a leader of Tammany Hall, lt stolen then. The Dorado waa libelled today by F. A. Conell for damages to his launch, which, lt lt said, was stolon by Jackson. She ls au old fashioned boat about 30 foot lone and in good condition. SUICIDE AT SON'S FUNERAL. Oriel Ktriokon Father Shoots llhn BOlf at Coma's Sido. "I cannot let him go alone," cried Herman Schultz, Wednesday after noon as he lingered beside the body of hit; ?jon, Otto, who killed himself by inhaling gason Tuesday. The funer al services were in progress at tho Schultz home, 233 Wyofcoff avenue, Wlll'.Amsburg, Now York. Before any one oouid divine hlR Intention the old man ' seized a rovolver and shot himself through tho head. Kver since his son's tragic end the father had refiucd'Ao eat and had slept little. He sat coW|?antly by the dead boy's aldo sobbing arni pi&y[r\g. Before thc time set for the funeral this afternoen Schultz had apparently composed himself and waa resigned. Tho boy's body waa placad in the par lor where a large number of relatives and friends of the family gathered. Mrs. Schultz, her three daughters and two sous wore at tho hoad of the collin with the father. Prayers and the singing of hvms { had ended and a long lino of persons f filed by tho coffin taking a farewell look at the face of the boy. Schultz1 was the last. He lingered until Un dertaker Po tb began to draw tho lld of tho collin over his son's counten anco. Then ho shot himself. Most of the women in tho house fainted or became hysterioal. Dr. Moore came with ?au ambulance from tho German hospital, but bo said that tho old man had diod instantly. After a hasty conforenco with mom bora of tho family the funoral of ? j young Schultz was postponed. Father i j and son will be buried together. Hoy Bigamist; nw.YnA Tho youngest bigamist on record reached the Mississippi penitentiary Friday in tho person of William Gray. Gray is only sevontenn years of ago and has beon married more than a year, and leaves two wlvos and a baby in his home county of Tlppah. He will not rejoin them untlll 1007 In tho samo gang was Gus Stack,also of f Tlppah county, oightcon years old, y sentenced to twelve years in tho pen ftontiary for arson and robbery, and Will Jones, of Marahall county, who 0 although only tweuty-one is serving e his mc .MM I term in the penitentiary, p this time for burglary. Tho three t aro said to constltuto the youngest ponitontlary gang ever known. Pleasant lnotdent. At Mobile, Alabama, Judge Sern mes, son of the great Admiral Rapu . I aol Sommes, commander of the "Ala ' 1 bama" in the Civil war, Presented Roosovelt, in bohalf of tho olfctzona, with a gold badgo. In responding, tho president ?aid that one of his t unoles waa ar offices on tho "Ala ? bama" and another Unolo built tho V08801. T _. Steamer I mat A dispatch from Olovoland, Ohio*) ?avS all hopo for fttajim?* Tr*lyu?? V?M been given up by the owners. It ls supposed to have gone down with the crew cf scvontcon in the recent storm FIRST VISIT. Of El Hagy Abudullah Aly Sadik Pasha to America. ' , AWED BY NEW ?ORK. He Comes to This Country to Pave tht Way for Diplomatic Relations Be? tween Abyslnla and the United States of America. What He Thinks of New York. El-Hagy-Abdullabl Aly Sadi? Pacha, prlnoe of the Mohammedan ohuroh, general of the Abyssinian army, ministor of commerce and en voy of Empercr Monelik to President RooHovclt, arrlvod on the Oedrio at New York recently. He comes ostensibly in regard to the new treaty of commerce between this country and Abyssinia, but actual ly to pavo tho way for permanent dip lomatic relations. England, Franco, Germany and Italy have representatives in Abyssin ia, but Menelik bas never sent diplo matic agents *o those nations. Sadik Paoha's mission is to study the possi bilities of olusor relations with Eu rope and America. He has come to Amerloa after a stay in Berlin, Paris und London. Menelik ls especially in terested in tho United States and has already given a home for a legation at Adis Ababa, the capital, In oase tbis country cares, to establish one. The Pacha ls a man of striking per sonality. His color is ebony, but he has cleary obisoilod features and the small feet and tapering fingeres of the Arab. He speak? no European language aud travels with an Interpreter. On the steamer he wore European oos tume, save for a red fez, but aa soon as he reached tbe Hotel BroBlln he donned an Oriental costume of won derful colorings and wore a turban. After two hours of prayer the Abys sinian envoy went for a drive, then returned, to tho hotel, where he held an informal reception. He was met at the steamer by Wil liam H. Ellis, O. Dellrlntr, Hugh Creighton and John Madigan. Among the caller at the hotel were General James S. Clarkson. "If the emperor could only see this through some ono's eyes I" exolalmod the Pacha on his return from Central Park. The orowdlng of womon on tho street cars and the tall buildings impressed him most, vu M,. women?" he waa asked. "I did not have time to see them," he answered. "I was busy, counting tho stories of tho buildings." Some one remarked that there was one building thirty-two stories high. "Take me there," he said. "I will say my prayers on the roof of that house tomorrow." Sadiff Pacha, who is the hoad of all the Monhammedans in Abyssinia, ls exceedingly devout and devotes four hours of each day to prayer. Ho has one wife and two thousand slaves. He ls exceedingly sensitive on the subject of his children. When some one asked him how many ohll dron ho had, ho swept out of the room, deeply offended. His Interpretor explained that the question was thought to bring bad luok and that he was not sure of the number of his ohlldron, but lt was in the neighbor hood of two hundred. He wa*> brought back only when American ignorance had been explained to him. Oae of his first injuries was for J. P. Morgan, and he will pay Wall street a vlBlt. When his Interprete mention ed "t?as, subject of loans SadIk shook his hoad VJi^b. dignity anP said Aby ssinia had no stach thing as debt. "How do you%ke Amerloan food?" the visitor was afa^d. "Givo me a chancey'was the intnr proted answer. "I havWyet tasted ^ only the oooktall and foun?inY?npleas-y and, but tho rooms that go up (moan ing elevators) are too fast for my Btomaoh." Sadlk lost part of his suite in Flag land through l,lic miscarriage of a valiso containing his orodentlals to the president. Two of his men were Bent back to London from Liverpool to got tho missing bag and bring it by the noxt steamor. Sadik's guide in Now York is Wa llam H. Ellis, who accompanied Fred erick Kout Loomis on the voyage in whioh Loomis mysteriously mot his death by drowning while on route to Abyssinia. Tho envoy baa with him somo magnilloent speolmens of ivory and two stuffed tigers, presumably presents for the president. When asked if they were for Mr. lloosovolt, Sadlk replied diplomatically: "You will learn later." Ono question that struok terror to tho Pasha General who commanded the loft wing of the Abysslnians In tholr greatest battles waa whether he would buy firearms in Amerloa. "That question," explained the in* ter pretor, "might cost him his head on h!s return." Menellk's envoy told of the great peace that had como to bis oountrj^aud how a stranger could travel throw the empire unarmed. One of the objecta of his visit ia to establish dlrcot commuuoatlon with this country. At presont Amerloan cotton goods aro sold in Manchester and French Abyssinia before they reach Menellk's frontier. Flory Death Shower. At Chicago, 111., five tons of mol ten metal exploded at the Joilot plant of the Illinois Stool Company Wed nesday falling in a showor of death on a band of workmen about a conver ter. One man ls dead, three are fat ally burnod and half a dozen aro inju red so badly that they may die. The acotdent carno without warning. The explosion shook the whole plant, san* ding panie into every corner of th? great works. Half a hundred men were within range of the liquid metal And many suffered severe hums.