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w RESCUED AT SET ' " ^ WIRELESS CALL BRINGS BELP TO BURNING SHIP i SAVES 130 PASSENGEBS Oa Wajr to Npm York Cunanlor Honrs ? ('(ill for llolp an<l Then Hares at Top Spend to Assist Spanish Steam- ' viiip WIiomi Burning (kit ton Cargo ] 'ITironims Kit tiro Vessel. The Spanish steamship Halmes, J with her cotton cargo on fire, was ' towed into St. (leorge's harbor, Bermuda, Hunday morning, convoyed by ' the C'unard liner, Hannonia. Tho Cu- ' narder had on hoard 130 passengers * of the Halmes taken off the burning ' ship Friday morning in mid-ocean, 1 w hile heavy seas were running, after a race to tho rosco in answer to wireless calls for help. The Hannonia, when she had finish- I c?<l her task of convoying tho Halmes, ' pointed her prow toward New York and steamed away with the passengers of the Halmes lining her decks anil cheering lustily. The fire on tin1! irialmes, which was discovered Wodflf'yilllV lit >')' ( 111 I 1 ii'i'tm'l/ U'MIn llii> steamer ploughing (Mistward on her t r*ii? to Cadiz, Spain, from Galveston ?nd Havana, spread rapidly. The wireless operator then bogan sending out calls for assistance. The call reached the Pannonia, 1 SO miles to the north, .bound for New York, and Capt. Roht. (tapper answered he would come to the Palmes' aid. The V.ritish cruiser Suffolk also answered the steamer's call, but her message was indistinct. Turning south the Pannonia, under forced draught, raced at top speed toward the spot whom the Palmes had said she was in distress. All of WodliOvSday night and throughout Thursday Capt. Capper pressed tho Pannonia. Thursday night the Spanish vessel was sighted hy the Cuarder, which was soon alongside tho hurtling vessel, Capt. Capper stood hy the naimos until morning and then took off her passengers, the captain and crew electing to remain on their ship to navigate her and fight the lire. The Palmes' crew fought the fire throughout hViday, hut all tho time it continued to gain headway. Saturday Might the flames had reached such proportions it was thought they might spread to tho rum in tho hold and that the vessel might have to he jAhfttidoned. The crew, however, never ceased their endeavors. When the ^ t.uge picked up the Palmes and towed her inlo St. George, the powerful jjutups put aboard, soon Quenched the tin me. i ? (JAIttC <ilU>lTNl>. dftinidl That. l*ardong IIata I/<?st Vot<vi lot- RIomc. Adherents of Senator 13. 1). Smith aro smiling broadly orer the reports [ which are going to Columbia from Anderson connty of the tendency said t bo manifested in that county to rally around the senator in his race Tor re-etootioa. The reassuring re' porta which reach the Smith headquarters at Columbia from Anderson v county are causing political forecasters t* sit up and take notice. 1 The significant estimate was made 1 by a gentleman tho other night, who 1 fcnew conditions in Anderson county, 1 that, ! his opinion, Corernor Blea?o 1 Inst l,iM rotes when ho pardoned v Idiiison and Miners on "In mv nntn ioa, l.GOO of those will never support e the Governor again, -while he may or unay mot win back &00 of them," said 1 Ua in talking over the Senatorial ? race. These kinds of reports have x bexat going to Oolumbia with porsis? te*cy. especially within tho last few y tweaks. "It shows you whether SenaV1 tor Smith's friends are asleep or not," was the statement which this talker a made. Is ? ? ui IJlVlftK T<) KPHAK. 5. ' ui To Address Live Htock Gathering in ^ie r|- Grecwvitle. Congressman A. P. Lever will ( r n#cak in Greenville on Novomber 19, )!l at which time a meeting will bo hold tlf fa the interest of live stock raising ( !a Greenville county. Mr. W. W. ar Long, State demonstration agent, will "? also speak, and & namber of other 118 prominent people will be on the pro'* ' gram. The agricultural department llH nf the Greenville Chamber of Com10 meroe hare for some time been Interric opted In raising Hto stock, and it la 1 ^ thought that the coming meeting will 3r ftladly aid in the campaign. l>rlnks Poison. Mrs. Um Harrell of Tampa, Fla.J ic^ o.nmmitted suicide Friday night by lie Ug homo In an intoxicated condition ^ and treating her lu an alleged cruel manner, the woman grabbed the bottle of poison and gulped down the a*' contents. fK Pays for Crime. >r* Henry Spencer, confessed slayer of rgi Mrs. Illldrel Allison Rexroat, a ChiCo ongo dancing teacher, Friday night or! vti found guilty of murder by a Jury utl at When ton, n suburb. ? MAKES DARING ESCAPE ; SAWS IIIMSKIjF Ol'TOF l'KMTKNTIAHV. lolin Fisher, Notorious Safe-U-lower, Serving Fifteen-Year-Term, Climbs Prison Wall to Freedom. John Fisher, a notorious yoggmnn, serving fifteen yours for safe-blowng, escaped from the Stato Penltentary Saturday night by sawing the jars to ids cell. Ho climbed over the wall, via the old Hosiery Mill, lot Himself down by a rope and vanished. Penitentiary officials Sunday night tent out description in every direction ind have offered a reward of $50 for Ids recapture. When the prisoners wore lined up Tor roll call Sunday afternoon Fisher was absent. An investigation disclosed the broken bars to his cell, where lie had cut his way to freedom. A search of the grounds and zuildings 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 aver the Hosiery Mill on the top of the eighteen-foot will which encloses the Penitentiary grounds and let himself down on tlio banks of the Conga ree 1 liver. Fisher was sent up from Lancaster County in 11105 for safe-cracking for 15 years. lie is also wanted by the United States government for post ofilco robberies, lie is said to have been a member of tho gang which cracked post ofilco safes in all parts of tho South until rounded up by Post Ofilco Inspector (Iregory. It is claimed Fisher was a pal of "Portland Ned". There is a warrant lying in tho United States commissioner's ofheo for Fisher as soon as lie serves his term in the State penitentiary. Tho penitentiary officials furnished tho following description of Fisher: Five feet, 2 7-8 inches high; weight, 1 25 pounds; hlaek hair, brown eyes, dark complexion, scar on outside of left thigh, large scar on outside of right leg, scars on both forearms and wrists. lie is 5 4 years old and has tho appearance of a typical yeggman. There is no clue as to how Fisher got the rope by which he escaped over the walls. A rigid investigation is being made by the penitentiary officials. A general alarm sent out in all directions, it is hoped, will he the means of quickly recapturing the yegg. Tho police of Charleston, Norfolk and New York, where the favorite haunts of the yeggmen were located in their palmy days, have been notified of tho escape. Fisher had a number of aliases and it is thought that his picture adorns the rogue's galleries in several cities and should be the means of assisting in identifying him. Steam Kngines Are Doomed. The proposed electrifying of the whole of tho Canadian Pacific, railroad system is causing a good deal of interest not only in railroad circles but also on tho part of people generally. Already some portions of the lino are being experimented with and the success following tho trials leads to the belief that in a very short time every mile of that great road will be run without a single locomotive engine. Of course, tho abundant water power, extending almost the entiro length of the system and from which any amount of electricity may he genorated for motive power, it 13 a groat advantage. The electrification of so largo a systom would immediately cause other trunk lines 011 this continent to supersede steam with electricity to the very great comfort of travelers and the no less comfort of peoplo living in the vicinity of station yards and other places where locomotives belch forth thoir smoke and cinders. This is only the beginning of the end of steam engines. In the next fifty years a steam engine of any kind will bo a curiosity. Electricity is the coming power. People Eiko to be Fooled. Necromancers, fortune tellers, seers, mediums, clairvoyants, and all others of that ilk will in future give St. Louis a wido berth now that it has prohibited all such people from following their calling in that city. It ought not to bo necessary for any such measure to ho passed anywhere, but so long as people are foolish enough to think that there are some other people, mostly of unsavory moral reputation, supernaturally endowed and qualified to reveal the future of folks of whom they know nothing, just so long will it ho necessary to protect in somo way these same foolish people. Strange, isn't it, now sonio folks do like to bo fooled? And Isn't it equally strango how very, very seldom these occultists that profess to be able to show others bow to make fortunes have any fortune of their own? This fact alone should convince people that the socalled readers of the future aro nothing but. fakors. If they can tell others how to get rich, is it not reason able to suppose that they would get rich themselves? Twenty-Two Firemen Overcome. Twenty-two members of the Savannah flro department wore overcome by smoke and heat Saturday while fighting fire in the hold of the British steamship Ulidia. The fire was a cargo of cotton loaded for shipment to Hamburg. J 111'KltTA IK>M>S ON. Says It Is ('use of Life and Death and lie Will Not Itosip. What doubt remained regarding Hen. iluerta's intentions with respect to compliance with the American demands for his own elimination was removed from the minds of most Mexicans and foreign residents by his peremptory dismissal Sunday of Manuel Qarza Aldape, minister of interior, who was looked upon as the head of Iluerta's Cabinet. Manuel Garza Aldape led that group of the Cabinet which held the conviction that it would he best to accede to that portion at least of Washington's demands which meant the total abandonment of power by the Provisional President, and ho Is said to have been the only one with sullicient courage to discuss the trouble frankly with his chief. Senor Aldape's resignation was demanded at a Cabinet meeting at President Iluerta's house early Sunday morning. lluerta 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. lluerta liavo been indicating to him, is is said, for some time that the minister of interior was intriguing for the presidency and that the Cabinet had become divided into two camps. Those who opposed Senor Aldape Include Querldo Moheno, minister of foreign affairs; Gen. lUanouet. minis ter of war, and Jose Maria Lozano. ? m Jack (Jets Justice at I>ast. A victory for humanity and for the safety of crews and passengers of lake and ocean craft was won when the LaFollotte "Seaman's Bill" was passed by the United States senate. For years the shipping lobby fought against any real remedy of conditions that worked most unjustly against seamen and which jeopardized the safety of travelers. In that selfish attitude, selfish because the lobby thought only of its own financial gain, tho men who controlled the shipping were hut following tho example of pursuing the same course that other combinations of capital have almost invariably followed. Hut the passage of tho Seaman's bill is one of those signs, happily now more frequent than formerly, that the power of wrongly used capital is being broken and that the common man is coining to his own. Any one who knows anything of the sea knows that seamen have for many years labored under disabilities that landsmen have destroyed long since. But "Poor Jack", because his vocation Is on an element with which most people are unfamiliar in tho way of travel, has had but few friends to champion his cause. He has suffered from restrictions that amounted practically to servitude, his hours were overlong, his wages small, and his food far from right. Now there is to bo a change. Jack is to have far better treatment, shorter hours of labor, and an amount of liberty not unlike that which his fellow worker on land enjoys. Not only that, but the passenger, whether he be first, second, or third class, will he able to cross lake or ocean with the comfortable assurance that ho is to be safeguarded as never before. The provisions of the bill relative to the number of able seamen, the number 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 tho sailor. Of course the new bill will mean larger outlay by tho ship owners to meet the conditions of tho bill, and that makes them grumblo because above all things else the rich magnate dislikes to pay money for others, although ho has no hesitancy in paying immense sums on private yachts and other things for his own amusement. Hut the ship owners can well pay and still make big profits. Tho passage of the Seaman's Hill will make true tho boast that American sailors are treated bettor and their condition are superior to the sailors of all other countries in the world. ( AH ON F1RK. T fioaded With Fish It Ihirns Near Florence. | While speeding along at a gait of I about fifty miles the hour Friday night, train No. 78, the Charleston-1 Florence local passenger was suddenly halted by Conductor Charles C. Tilghman, who found that the train was on fire shortly after leaving Cowards. After the train came to a standstill it was found that the top of a Pennsylvania Railroad Express car, lr?o/lrwl ..iltl, 1--*-- * . .vitiivu <1 an lion ai \_sIliiriUHLUU, 1)01111(1 I north, was afire. The car was cut loose from the train and pulled down the road a few feet and with the assistance of the train crew and a "passenger" bucket brigade sufficient water was carried from the engine tank and put on the fire. Tt was soon put out, but not until it had damaged the car sufficiently for it to be "sidetracked" at Florence. ? ? Knocked Them OIT. An overhanging bmb swept twenty pleasuro seekers from a fiat car on the Waycross and Southern Short Lino Railroad near Waycross, Ga., Sunday afternoon. L. Tk Lancaster, 21 years old, of Brunswick,'was kill'ed. MUTINY ON BOARD SHIP1 ItKVKXrrc Cl'TTKH ItlUNGS 1IAHK INTO ( HKSAPKAKK. (iocs to Kcscuc and llringK Occupant* of the lloat Itefor? the United Stat<*s Commissioner. An armed guard from the United States revenue cutter Onondaga was Tuesday placed about tho American four-iuasted bark Mangarcva, near Lewes, Del., the crew of the latter having mutinied on tho high seas. Members of the crew of the bark state that the action was duo to the fact that the ohicers were intoxicated and that a mate beat one of their number. Tho commander of tho Onondago, which responded to tho Mangareva's call for aid, decided to transfer tho captain and crew of tho bark to the Onondaga and tako them before a United States commissioned. Four sailors from Lewes, Del., were placed aboard tho bark with instructions to safeguard it during the inquiry which the government will conduct. The Mangareva sailed from Philadelphia a month ago for San Francisco with a cargo of coal. Whon several hundred miles at sea tho crew of 28 men mutinied, 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 Dolawaro capes. Wireless message from the commander of the Onondago recommended that tho bark with the crow aboard be towed back to Philadelphia with the armed guard of United States sailors in charge, and this probably will bo done. It has not yet been learned when the men rebelled. Tho little marine reporting station at Lewes was thrown into a state of excitement Monday when word came that a ship with mutiny aboard was corning in. A letter from Capt. II. C. Townscnd of tho Mangareva came ashore conveying the information about the mutiny and asking immediate assistance. Tho Onondago was picked up by wireless and came alongside the Mangareva about daylight Tuesday morning. It was stated when tho bark sailed that her crew of 2 8 men comprised so many different nationalities that scarcely two of them spoke tho same language. * ? ? Agitation Means Progress. There is discontent and discontent. Tlint I - ?- '~ -? - a uut \uoivuii iv'ii t will i; IL 111 U U13 Li) H chronic desire for a change and which Is unwilling to mnke the best of tilings as they are foolish and harmful In tho extreme. But that discontent which seeks to better conditions and bring to life greater joy and comfort Is noble in its character. The truth is that progress Is Impossible without discontent. To it Is duo all tho advance which in every department of life has been made In the pjreceding centuries. To that righteous discontent expressing Itself through our forefathers this country owes its freedom and independence. To it Is due all tho uplift that has come in tho industrial world. In society, In politics, and in every other realm. Tho discontent brought about among tho people by William Jennings Bryan and others has brought about many reforms and put the Democratic party In power at Washington. I Along the Right IJ no. Several states aro taking definite and wise action to promote tho improvement of rural school houses and their grounds. Idteraturo, plans, and other material aro provided to show how the changes may best he made, and competent instructors aro also employed, it is a timely movement that will most likely accomplish great good. One can imagine tho transforming influence on a community wrought by school house premises as to ho a model of beauty and refined taste. All this is in lino with the movement to mako the country school house tho center of the social life of tho neighborhood. That movement is all tho more likely to ho realized if it is accompanied by tho judicious adornment of house and grounds. Somo work along this line is being done in this Stato and it should he extended. CAN'T SKMj TOY PISTOLS. * Attorney-General Says Our Criminal Code Forbids. In replying to a letter seeking information from tho attorney-general's ofllce with regard to the sale of paper cap pistols and paper caps. Assistant Attornoy General Fred II. Dominion rendered fin opinion Saturday declaring that the code prohibits the sale ot same. In addition to the prohibition against tho sale of paper-cap pistol? and the paper caps, Mr. Dominlck calls attention to tho section of the criminal code which defines what sorl of firecrackers can bo sold in thi? State. I Pellagra Victim Suicides. Made desperate by suffering, William M. Meares, a pellagra victim ol Spartanburg, Friday night committed suicide. He was a carpenter G2 yean old. SHOULD PASS AT ONCE. Democrats Should Oct Itusy and Wind Up Currency Hill. Tho last Democratic platform * promised tlie enactment of some good wholesome, reasonable banking and I currency legislation if the party was entrusted with power. Tho Democratic party, therefore, went into power pledged to this and other badly needed reforms. The people want und expect it. The business conditions generally need and demand it, ' and the bankers, themselves, admit that it is a reform that is badly needed, and one that we ought to have as soon as wo can get it. Then why should not tho currency bill now before Congress bo passed at once? Senator Myers says it is a wellnigh universally and uniformly ad- ' mitted fact that tho 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 spito of this handicap is marvellous and proves the vitality and productivity of our country. The ever recurring panics that we imvu iicid in uiis coumry under our present lame and inefficient banking < and currency system are proof sufficient of the need of banking and currency legislation. The panics of 1 873, 1 893 and 1 907, together with minor depressions and intermediate and intermittent counter periods of inflation and flush times, show that tliero should be greater regulation of banking and currency, a stronger hand and inoro authority at the throttle of 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 and not turned loose, and free from strict regulation, to create artificial periods of hot-houso prosperity on the one hand or hard times and panics on the other hand, at their will. Panics are most terribly disastrous things for a country. The business disturbances that accompany these monetary disturbances are frightful in their results. To overcome the danger of these disturbances and give the country a steady flow of business at all times, an even prosperity, reliable banking institutions, and an elastic currency, which may bo extended or contracted at the will of the Government and the needs of commerce, as circum stances develop, should he the desire of every pood citizen. The now currency legislation, which is overwhelmingly admitted to ho needed, should accompany and go hand-inhand with the new tariff law. It is particularly needed at this time, and as soon as it may be enacted, in order to aid the Government to guard against and forestall preconcerted efforts of protected interests to bring on business depression and money stringency and thus discredit the new tariff law enacted in the interest of the masses of the people. The people of this country have plainly dmanded both tariff and monetary legislation. They expect and aro 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. HAS NO CONGKIOSS. ? Mexican House Meets but Senate Hacks Quorum. President Huerta was unable to bring his new Congress fully to life Sunday. The Chamber of Deputies met and effected temporary organization but the Senate proved reaction | ary ana tne lark or a quorum preI vented organization. (ien. Iluerta and his friends, however, profess 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 Senate, they think, can be induced to move into line by Monday, when Senators are summoned to meet again. 1 Long after the hour fixed for the Senate to convene the roll call showed only 21 Senators present, nearly all of them being generals in the army. Twenty-nine are necessary for a quorum. None of the Catholic SenI ators was present. This is understood to have been duo to an agreement among them that the party should not participate in the Senatorial session. (iirl ({urns 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 "Ini dtan." Norris, her five-year-old broths er, touched off a match to her dress and she was fatally burned before the flames could bo smothered. ? ? It appears that over in New Jersey Mr. Stokes accepted the Republican nomination for governor and made the fight merely as a forlorn hftpe, knowing all tho time that ho was r doomed. This is the way Democrats I in that state went into battle until i they discovered Woodrow Wilson, Comments the New York World. THE HORRY HERALD CONWAY. S. C. Published Kvety Thursday. Tilt USI>AY, NOVKMHKH SO, 1013. PROFKSSION AIi CAIU>S. II. II. WOOinvAKi), Attorney nud Counsellor at liuw. CONWAY, b. C. B. 11. SCAltltOltOLCU. Attorney at l.uw. CONWAY, 8. C. # H. II. BURROUGHS, Physician and Surgeon. CONWAY, 8. C. IV. E. McCORD, Dental Sureeon CONWAY. S C. RRNFJ llWKNKT/ I .And Surveying anil Drainage Spivey Rulldlng Conway. S. O. r STAND 11V WILSON. Senator Tillman's Questions Governor ({lease's Democracy. Senator Tillman's letter, which is printed in The St. Matthews Record to-day, calls attention to a matter which wo have mentioned several times in the last few months. The Senator flatly raises a question as to the party loyalty of Governor Rlease, who is an avowed candidate for United States Senator. Senator Tillman is the National Executive Committeeman from South Carolina and that makes him the spokesman of the South Carolina Democracy in National politics, and what he says should be heeded by all true Democrats. Senator Tillman makes the pointed assertion that Governor Rlenso "has shown no loyalty to the Democratic party" and declares that as the Democrats have a majority of only seven in the Senate now", that he would earnestly urge upon the people, could he make but one speech to them, "their duty to support the Democratic President by sending him a loyal friend to the Senate" and mm, - 11 would he criminal to do otherwise than to increase the Democratic majority." This is plain talk and it must he indorsed by every true Democrat. Senator Tillman, who speaks as the National Democratic Committeeman as well as Senator, puts it straight to the Democratic voters of South Carolina that the eloctiou of the candidate in question would endanger the Democratic majority in the Senate. Senator Tillman gives to the race for the Senate an entirely new color. No longer is the question to him one solely of personal fitnesR, of ability and character, among rival Democratic candidates, to serve the State in the Senate, hut whether or not a real Democrat who will support the Democratic Administration will he chosen. The raising of this question by Senator Tillman is timely and the peoplo should heed what ho says about it. President Wilson and the Democratic Administration has already done much good for the masses of the people. The farmers of the country have been specially benefitted by the use President Wilson has made of the public money to move the crops. This kept thom out nf the clutches of Wall Stroet. President Wilson has more legislation in view to benefit the masses and South Carolina should send no man to the Senate who would obstruct this good work. Kills Wife and Takes Poison. (leorgo W\ lleaman, carpenter, of Wilmington, N. C., Sunday shot and killed his wife at their home and then attempted to commit suicide by drinking poison. He is expected to recover. Domestic troubles of long standing are said to have been responsible for Beaman'a acts. I + Suicides (Before Husband. Mrs. Susie Harrell, member of a prominent Florida family, Saturday night committed suicide at her home In Tallahassee by swallowing n {ft/invMl . Tho act was committed in tho presence of her husband, with whom she is said to have quarrelled. ? Peace for (Jmhtc and Turkey. A treaty of peaco between Greece and Turkey was signed Thursday night. The peace delegates reached an agreement Tuesday practically on all points under negotiation and initialled the draft. ? ? Postmaster at Conway. A. C. Thompson was Thursday nominated by tho president to b? postmaster at Conway. U ~ & & k:' "