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MISS NELLIE SCHMIDT of Alameda, Gal, the first woman to swim Golden Gate strait at San Francisco and
who also was the first woman to swim across San Francisco bay, has added to her laurels by swimming around
the famous Seal rocks in the Pacific ocean off the Clift house, San Francisco. The course was 200 yards short
of a mile and was made in the remarkably fast time of 34 minutes and 50 seconds, against strong tides and
treacherous current rips.
TELLS OF HORRORS
Terrible Experience of Wrecked
Party Is Revealed.
Woman and Child In Open Boat With
Crew in Ice Off Cape Horn —Sev-
enteen Men Lose Their Lives
in the Disaster.
London. —The terrible experience of
a party of shipwrecked sailors who
spent a week in an open boat in the
icy neighborhood of Cape Horn are
described in a letter which has just
been received from Port Stanley.
Falkland islands. The men were ac
companied by the captain’s wife and
child, and no fewer than six of the
original occupants of the boat suc
cumbed to cold and exposure before
the exhausted survivors reached the
Falkland islands.
At the same time comes the news
that Captain Thomas, his wife and
child and three sailors reached Liver
pool on the Pacific liner Orepesa.
During a storm which broke sud
denly the large sailing ship Criccleth
Castle, belonging to Carnarvon, met
with disaster oft Cape Horn. The rud
der post gave way and the rudder
damaged the sternpost so much that
the vessel was filling with water. The
captain, Robert Thomas, his wife and
son (aged four years), the second of
ficer and 13 of the crew left the ship
in the large lifeboat, while the first
and third officers and five of the crew
left in a smaller boat.
The experience of the former party
during the first night in the open
boat was terrible, the captain describ
ing it as the worst he had known dur
ing the 22 years of his seafaring life.
That night, the captain thinks, the
second boat must have been swamped,
as nothing was seen of it afterward.
Captain Thomas was washed out of
the lifeboat, but was saved by his
wife, who caught him by his clothing,
enabling two of the men to pull him
aboard. Three of the men died dur
ing the night and they were followed
by three others before the survivors
reached land, seven days later.
UNCOVER ANCIENT CEMETERY
Excavating for a Wine Cellar an Ital
ian Makes a Discovery of His
torical Value.
Rome.—An ancient Christian ceme
tery has accidentally been discovered
In the neighborhood of the remains of
the Church of the Holy Apostles at
Spoleto. in the province of Perugia.
The church, one of the first Christian
temples erected in that part of Italy
contained the bones of many who suf
fered martyrdom under the Flavian
emperors, but had not been used as
a place of burial for more than 15 cen
turies.
Since modern times, having been
little more than a ruin, it parsed as
pvivate property Into the family of
the Slnibaldl, of whom the present
head, the Italian deputy of that name,
decided to enlarge the extensive
basement for uae as a cellar for stor
ing wine, he being a wine grower on
a large scale. Excavations had hard
ly begun a few days ago, when one of
the workmen struck a solid block of
stone about three feet below the sur
face, and this proved to be the cover
NUMBER 14.
Those who know any thing of the
icy region around Cape Horn in win
ter can imagine the sufferings of the
unfortunate people who were for sev
en days in- an open boat, which, more
over, was leaking badly as the result
of striking the ship’s side while it
was being lowered.
On the second day a Finn, a French
cook and a Japanese died; on the
third day a German and an English
man died, and on the morning of the
fourth day those who remained were
horrified to find that during the night
another man, a Welshman, had died.
By the fourth day nearly all who re
mained were frostbitten. All suffered
agonies. Then the water supply gave
out. So exhausted were they that no
one seemed to care what happened to
him.
All hope of rescue seemed to van
ish, but on the seventh day an out
lying island in the Falklands was
sighted. Fire was lighted as soon as
they landed and the survivors were
able to enjoy a drink of melted snow.
But the relief afforded by the islet
was only short lived, and the party
put out to sea again in the hope of
finding an inhabited island.
This quest was attended by misfor
tunes, and the boat was blown out
to sea and beyond sight of land. Ulti
mately Port Stanley was, reached. Al
together 17 men perished.
Boy of 15 Supports Family.
Irwin, Pa. —Joseph Nellis, a fifteen
year-old boy employed in a mine here,
is supporting two younger sisters and
a brother in a shanty which he has
rented. The boy’s father recently dis
appeared. The mother is dead. Jo
seph has a hard time, but he refuses
all offers of aid.
Slaps American Women.
Cleveland O. —In an address here
Dr. William H. Davis of Boston de
clares that rich American women are
a disgrace to the country, because
they refuse to assume the responsibil
ity of motherhood.
of an ancient sarcophagus of unusual
size.
Twenty-one sarcophagi with massive
covers in monolith were unearthed,
all belonging to the third or fourth
century, A. D. They were opened in
the presence of a group of public of
ficials and archaeologists from differ
ent parts of Italy, and each was found
to contain a skeleton in a perfect state
of preservation.
GIRL ON TRIAL WINS SUITOR
Pays Fine of Girl Convict,ec» of Theft,
Proposes Marriage and Is
Accepted.
New York.—Ewa Rioux, the demure
French-Canadian girl who spent four
strenuous days In the superior court
at Bridgeport defending herself
against a charge of theft preferred
by Mrs. C. E. Page of New York and
Sound Beach, is to become a bride
within a week or so.
Her trial resulted In a fine being
imposed. A man who is said to be
the owner of two Connecticut the
aters and who listened to all of the
evidence, paid her fine and then pro-
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IRWINTON, WILKINSON COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1912.
BLOND ESKIMOS LONG KNOWN
Old Revenue Cutter Captain Says
Stories of Burning Mountain
Were Laughed At.
Tacoma, Wash. —Captain Francis
Tuttle of the revenue service, retired,
says that for thirty years or more
stories of Stefansson’s blond Eskimo
tribe have been told by old-time
whalers who were sometimes driven
into Bankland by ice floes. Whalers
were laughed at when they described
Eskimos with red hair seen in the far
north.
In the early nineties Captain Tut
tle, commanding the cutter Bear, met
the whaler Ballene, commanded by
Captain Bert Williams, now residing
at Irondale. Williams told Tuttle of
a strange tribe in Bankland which
came out to the whaler. Some of
them went aboard. Williams could
not understand their language and
learned little about them. From his
winter quarters Williams could see
a burning mountain of coal. The na
tives led him to a place where he ob
tained enough coal to supply his ves
sel that winter. By signs they made
Williams understand that the great
mountain had been burning for 200
years. Captain Tuttle believes Wil
liams is the man of whom one tribe
told Stefansson.
During his thirty years of service
on the Alaskan coast Captain Tuttle
heard of blond tribes from other
whalers, but the stories were general
ly given little credence.
AGED COUPLE IN BOX CAR
Former Missionaries Share Priva
tions and Hardships—Are Found
in South Dakota.
Jamestown, N. D. —Sharing priva
tions and hardships with her husband,
Mrs. K. W. Shepp was found In a box
car in the Northern Pacific yards barn.
She and her husband were traveling
from South Dakota to Idaho, and had
intended going the entire distance in
the car in which they had loaded their
few belongings. Cold weather, how
ever, made the trip hard, and they
were suffering greatly because of their
scant protection from the elements.
Both are more than sixty years old.
They were formerly missionaries.
posed marriage. His name is not di
vulged. He is forty-five and a bach
elor.
Miss Eva was all smiles when seen
In the office of Mrs. T. Carnello, who
had befriended her at the time of the
trial.
“Ooui,” she replied to the question
whether she was to be married. Then
in broken English she expressed pleas
ure, saying she had written home to
get her parents’ consent, and If they
agreed the marriage would take place
at once. The man who is to marry
her has already taken steps to reopen
the case in the superior court and
have Miss Eva’s reputation cleared
Os Uncertain Mind.
Newport, Ky.—After being divorced
and remarried and again divorced, W.
M. James and Anna Wllbourne of
Olive Hill, Ky., have been married the
third time.
Texas Cow Chewed Dynamite.
Caldwell, Tex.—A cow placidly
chewed on a stick of dynamite at a
railroad camp near here, and as a re
sult three men and the cow were
severely injured.
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