Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLi SOME BOTWORK Njrlh Carolina's ?art in the Host Bril liant Charge in History. FIGHT AT GETTYSBURG 8Sr>~ '?,??? ? _ 9 Senator Dixon Stands Up for His State and Se l&tor Martin is Heard for Virginia- -What the New York Evening Son Says About the Ter* rifle Battle. The New Yo' k Evening Sun recent ly published the following editorial on the battle < >f Gettysburg and the part the Confe lerates played in it: The spirit ol the gathering at Bull Bun, where v ?terans of the North and the South joined in friendly talk of the great c" ays of half a century ego, is becoml.ig well-nfeb universal in the country Occasionally a curmudgeonly Sen ator, who haf never smelt powder, outrages the whole country by his bitterness and unfairness; but such outburts hav< dwindled down into insignificance. More and n ore the country is be ginning to fee ;he plain truth of the fact that the valor of both sides in the civil war 3 the equal heritage of all. So there v as general interest in the Senate th< other day when Sena tor Martin ol Virginia and Senator Dixon, of IM m tun a, engaged in a friendly deba e upon the old contro versy of the regiments engaged in Pickett's chai ge at Gettysburg. Perhaps th s most brilliant charge in all militar; history, there is abun dant reason why every Amercian should be coi :erned in its facts. Sen ator Dixon ie a North Carolinian by birth, and hi ? desire was to make it plain that r iglments of his native Slate had tali an a prominent place in the charge. The histories, he observed, com monly spok< of "Pickett's Virgin ians." It wt 3 true that Pickett's di vision was o mposed entirely of Vir ginia troops, but Pickett commanded only fhe rig it wing, and in the as saulting col imn were also fifteen regiments. o" North Carolina troops. Such was the point contended for by Senator Dixon. Of the terrible losses suffei ad in that charge Sena tor Dixon tl us spoke: I want to take no credit from any man. The Virginians under Pickett did more tt an mortal men could be exjected to do; but I want it to ap pear, so th it the world may know that the m ijority of the men who went up Cemetery Ridge on the af ternoon of fuly 3, 1863, in the face of that mu -derous fire of shot and shell from Meade's intrenched line of infantry and artillery were North Carolinians and that they bore the 'brunt of tl at historic assault. The 26 North C irolina regiment was par tially recru ted from my home coun ty, and in that assault and in the first day's fighting, on July 1, lost the greates . percentage in killed and wounded cl any regiment of either the Federa ls or Confederate armies. I have her on my desk a book from the Con^; .ssional library entitled, "Regiment il Loses in the American Clvdl War ' which gives the loss of the 26, N >rth Carolina regiment as 88 per cen : in the total casualities. "The regiment mustered 800 men when the >attle began on July 1. Af ter the ro!. had been called 584 were numbered among the dead, wounded and capti red. Of .this remaining 216 who responded 'here" at the end of tlsa first day's fighting and who aga? . sprang forward on that afternoon of July 3 at the word of command 130 never returned. Just S6 of that heroic regiment of heroic Nc -th Carolinians shouldered their mus cets and with heavy hearts took up he line of retreat to the sheltering bank c* the Potomac. The story of > he 'Light Brigade' and its sacrifice it. Balaklava pales besides the story of the 26 North Carolina at Gettys mrg." In fact che loss at Balaklava was bot 247 out ?.f 673 engaged. The tragic hi tory of half a century ago is worth; of the great nation which it made -ecure and should stand the pride of ill J Cilled in Runaway. At Sp .rianburg Alvin Rymer, 11 i years ol , was killed Monday, when a team f mules he was driving ran away d( wn a hill, near Rock Cliff park in the eastern part of the city, throwin.: him under the wheels of the wa ;on. The lad's chest was crushed by the wheels, and before he couli be taken to the hospital in an autc mobile, he died. j ] aces Murder Charge. Althc Jgh he says he shot only to save hi.< life and the bullet from his pistol i assed through the body of one nei ro woman before It killed Jennie Butler, another, late Monday night, V. Toomer, a white special officer .t Thunderbolt, a resort near Savann ih, faces the charge of mur der, bought at the instance of ne groes . Melon for Blease. Gov. Blease has received from George Kay, of Honea Path, a water melon weighing 68 1-2 pounds which is six pounds more than the Geor gia mf Ion, christened "Hoke Smith", which was recently sent to the White Hous* in Washington. j I T Will MAKE HIM I ELL GEO. W. PERKINS FACES WRATH OF THE HOUSE. Tells ATI About Steel Merger but Declines to Give Light as to Cam paign Contributions. George W. Perkins, a director of the United Statas Steel corporation, and one of the men said to have aided in averting financial disaster during (the pane of 1'907, faces' the alternative of answering questions tc the house committee of inquiry into the steel corporation bearing on his personal campaign contributions made by the New York Life Insur ance company, or of being cited be fore the bar of the house of repre sentatives. Should the bouse sustain the ma jority of the committee a;ad order Mr. Perkns to answer, and should he then still refuse, he may be adjudged in contempt of congress and impris oned. It is believed, however, that this crisis will not be reached, Mr. Perkins havng expressed a desire to reflect on his position. Mr. Perkins, though personally willing to talk about campaign con tributions, refused on the advice of counsel to answer interrogatories on that 'line put to him by Chairman Stanley and Representative Beall of Texas. Richard Lindabury, counsel for the steel corporation, jnd Edgar A Bancroft, who appeared for Mt. Perkins, insisted that the authority cf the committee in this inquiry was relevant and an attempt to inquire into the private campaign contribu tions of the witness or his relations with corporations foreign to the steel corporation. Late Tuesday, after the witness, his counsellors and the committee had wrangled long over the hitch, and the chairman's decision that he must answer had been sustained af ter an appeal by Representative Young of (Michigan, Chairman Stan ley warned Mr. Perkins that it might be necessary to cite him to the bar of the house. The chairman later suggested that the New York finan cier appear in the house Wednesday to avoid being taken into custody by the sergeant at arms. When matters reached this stage. Mr. Perkins said the sftur.tlon wj.s so critical that he wished time to consider. This was granted. "Mr. Perkins," said Chairman Stanley, "will be given another opportunity to answer. 1! he still persists in re fusing to answer, there will be noth ing to do but to cite him before the bar of the house." "Mr. Perkins, aside from this turn in the committee proceedings told the committee a remarkable story of the panic of 1907 and the events which made necessary the ab sorption of the Tennessee Coal a:ad Iron company by the United (Stales Steel corporation. Ke admitted the steel corporation bad contributed to the spread of protective tariff doc trine and verified records produced by Chairman Stanley that the steel Corporation in 1906 sought legal ad vice which directed that, as a cor poration, It should-not make contri bution to campaign funds. ANOTHER SIGN OF VICTORY. House Democrats Defeat Republicans in National Game. Democracy triumphed again Mon day, when Republican Congressmen bit the dust?some of them swallow ed quarts of it?on the baseballl diamond, at Washington, in the struggle for the championship 'of the House of Representatives, score 12 to 9. Charges may be preferred against the Democratic umpire, James F. Byrnes, of South Carolina, who had a rabbit's foot in his pocket, and, Republican ball players charge, a loaded half dollar, aiso. The game, played for charity, really was decided by the umpires. Wm. W. Wilson, Reoublican, of Il linois, did all he cou!d to stem the tide of party defeat, sut on all close decisions, when infuriated members of both parties crowded on the field and threatened riot, the only solu tion was for Byrne;? and Williams to resort to the toss of a coin. Byrnes had the coin and did the tossing. Byrnes won every time. Injured by Scissors. Miss Alda Crawford, while visit ing at Mullins, started across the room with a pair of scissors in one hand when she stumbled and fell on the floor. The si-Issors1 -plunged through her mouth, entering at the jaw, and inflicting a. serious wound. One of the points broke off as it struck a tooth. Miss Crawford is resting well. Graft and Liar Used. "Graft!" "Graft!" shouted a crowd that packed the council cham ber at Peublo. Ca'., when the city council prepared to pass over Mayor West's veto an ordinance providing $250,000 in bonds to pay for a filtra tion plant. "Liars!" shouted back Alderman Keating, shaking his fist at the protesting citizens. The meas ure was passed 6 to 1. Many People Drown. A boat overloaded with natives who were on their way to attend a fair at Dessuk, E?.ypt, foundered in the Nile. Xearlx one hundred per sons were drowned. Thirty-six bod ies had been recovered Tuesday. ORANGES BRYAN IS A POWiR WILL HAVE HIS SAY ABOUT THE NEXT CANDIDATE. Some of His Enemies Says He Is Dead, but He Is a Very Lively Political Corpse. The Washington correspondent of The Spartan burg Herald says every newspaper reader is familiar with the fact that Bryan Is a "dead one," for all the big papers say so, and the litile papers, most of them, neces sarily get hold of a lot of the same kind of stuff, all sent out from the offices of the big ones It has been three times and out for Bryan. He is now to Etand aside according to the advisers of his party, and let someone else have a chance to take the lead and bear the party'3 stand ard. This view is pretty general?that Bryar. will never again be a candi date for the presidency on the Demo crat',!: ticket, and of course he will not on any other ticket. The fact thac ho will not say so, however, as Roosevelt aid, has never ceased to trouble the anti-Bryanites. If he would only put t down in black and white over his own signature that he would not under any circum stances again consent to be a candi date, there would be joy in the camp of the anti-Bo-yanites. But, according to those who know him best, Mr. Bryan has a differ ent view of such things from that held by most leaders. He believes that a candidate is his party's choice. In other words, he believes that if his party should see fit to nominate hdm again, even though he felt sure of his own defeat, and even though he knew that in accepting the nom ination he would he doing his own "ortunes a positive injury, he would consider it his duty to obey the will of a majority of his party delegates. That is the kind of Democrat the Nebraskan is. If he should, fake:efore, declare that "under no circumstances" would he again be a candidate, and the convention should see fit to nom inate him, he would have difficulty in squaring his conduct with his pre vious declaration. Therefore, Mr. Bryan will not make the much de sired declaration, but prefers to do as his party commands. But the word that Bryan is a "dead one" is gone out in all the land, and in many instances the wish is father to the thought. And In many in stances, although there is a firm be lief that he is dead, there is a grave yard fear that his ghost may yet be abroad in the land. The ridiculous part of it is, ac cording to some Washington politi cal observers, that the people who are surest of Bryan's deadness are the first and the loudest to protest if the Nebraskan even expresses an opinion. Almost any other man may express preferences in political mat ters, but It seems to be felt that Mr. Bryan must not say a word. When he dares to speak out?this one who has no influence now according to his enemies?there is a howl from one end of the country to the other. Leading editorials are written In condemnation of his efforts to "boss" his party, when all that he has done has been to give his personal opin ions. Cartoons all over the land express the idea that this man?who Is a has-been, be it remembered? is interfering with the destinies of the party that he has thrice led to defeat and disaster. "Why Is it," said a strong ad mirer of Mr. Bryan to this corres pondent, a man who admires Biryan but believes that he will never again be the Democracy's standard bearer ?"why is it, if Bryan is so dead, so utterly devoid of (influence that there should be much oposition raised, from one end of the nountry to the other, when Mr. Bryan has simply expressed an opinion?something that all of us in America claim the right to do? Why can't be say whom he prefers for the presidency, or whom he does not prefer, without being accused of trying to "boss"! his party?" LIGHTNING STRUCK MOURNERS. Woman Killed and Four Others Ren dered Unconscious. Mouring for Phillip Brissel, whose body lay in a coffin before the altar of St. John's Evangelical church at Kohl vi lie, WIs., Mrs. Henry Conrad was struck dead and four other wo men rendered unconscious when a bolt of lightning pierced the house of worship Sunday. Rev. John Frank was opening bis mouth to t'Cgin his sc-rmon when a vivid flash of flame and deafening crash seemed to para lyze for a second the entire congre gation. The pastor's words of compassion for the sorrowing family were never uttered: Mrs. Conrad and a dozen j other women were knocked prostrate on the floor, whlie near them were a dozen others, shrieking in terror, almost precipitating a panic, which: which coolheaded men prevented. Wreaks Vengeance. Because John Sparano, a wealthy Italian merchant of Aliquippa, Pa., refused to comply with the demands of a "Black Hand" letter to place $2,000 where it could be readily be found, the three story building, in which his store was located, wasj blown to pieces by a heavy charge! of dynamite Tuesday. i?RG, S. C, THURSDAY, AU PAID TO VOTE ???? Senator Holtslaw Repeals Bribery Story Before Committee. ON THE LORIMER CASE Banker, Church Leader and State Senator Makes a Most Humiliating Confession Before the Committee Investigating the Bribery Charges Against U. S. Senator Lorimer. Feebly defending, his confessed graft, former State Senator D. W. Holtslaw, the 62 year old Illinois banker and church leader, Tuesday retold to the senate Lorimer com mittee his story of being paid for having voted for Lorimer for Sen ator. Incidentally he told of ask ing and of being promised 51,500 for buying furniture for the State from a certain firm. Holtslaw waB asked many humil iating questions. He was required to tell of being called before ? the grand jury in Cangamon county on his way back from a Baptist conven tion in Baltimore, to which he was a delegate. He was led by counsel into all the details of his demand to be paid by the furniture men be fore he {bought furniture for the State. "You were looking out for the best interest of the State when you demanded $1,500?" asked Sen ator Kenyon. "I felt honestly that I was not taking anything from the State, but was getting part of the agent's com mission." "You were worth $100,000 and didn't need the money?" "No, I didn't need it." "Did you intend to Lum it over to some charity fund?" suggested At torney Marble. "Oh, no; I intended to keep every cent of it." He did not get bhe money because he told the grand jury about it, he said, and declared that It was most ly to get mm unity for his part in the furniture deal that he told the grand jury about receiving money for baring voted for Lorimeh Holtslaw told of his conversation with State Senator John Broderick the night before Lorimer was elect ed. "He said io me: Senator Lorimer will be elected tomorrow,' " said Haltsaw. " 'Yes,' I replied, 'I am going to vote for him.' After a second had passed, he said, 'There will be $2,500 in it for you.' I did not say anything." "Did you think you ought to have got more?'' asked a member of the committee. "No, I thought I ought to have had none." "Why did you take it then?" "I really do not know." TRIED TO POISON THEM. Alleged Plot to Kill a Lot of Little Children. Wbat the county authorities be lieve a plot for the wholesale poison ing of children has been unearthed at Concord, in Calloway county, Mo., and as a result two men and a woman were arrested there by order of the prosecuting attor ney. The persons arrested are Lee Boyd, a farmer, bis wife, iMrs. Anna Boyd, and Jefferson Woods, a horse dealer. The chldren whose lives it is be lieved were endangered, belong to families whose members testified In a slander suit recently brought by Mrs. Boyd against Dr. W. B. Ellis, a physician of Concord. Mry. Boyd, asking $15,000 damages, alleging that Dr. Ellis had damaged her char acter. The jury brought in a verdict for the defendant and it alleged that several packages of chewing gum sprinkled with strychnine have been found at different times in the yard of Edward McPheeters, a nephew of Judge Robert McPheeters, of Ful ton. iThe placing of gum on the premises in the vicinity of Concord has be come frequent the last few days. All the families on whose premises the poisoned gum has been placed have small ohiJdnen. One Negro Shoots Two. At Anderson Will Allen, one ofj the negroes who was shot by Ben Lumpford, at a late hour Sunday ni.g.ht, died in the county hospital late Monday afternoon. Jack Pat-j terson, the other negro, is serious-j ly wounded, and the doctors say that, he has only a fighting chance to survive the wounds. Family af fairs caused the trouble. Proved Fatal Mixture. James Conyers, an industrious, well-to-do and honest negro> of Pine wood, died from ptomaine poisoning, produced from the effects of a sur feit of catfish stew and buttermilk. Prompt medical attention was una vailing and death ensued. Killed in Auto Crash. A girl was killed and nine other persons were hurt, some of them seriously, when an automobile con taining six children and two men crashed into an electric car on tho Fair Haven bridge at New Bedford, Mass. GUST 10, Ifff BURNED TO DEATH FATAL ACCIDENT AT ANDERSON COUNTY HOSPITAL. Miss Mabel Thompson Receives Fearful Injuries in Lamp Explo sion and Dies Soon Afterwards. As the result of an explosion at the Anderson County Hospital Mon day afternoon, Miss Mabel Carpen ter Thompson, the superintendent of the institution, is dead, Miss Josie Moffett, a trained nurse, of Due West, is badty burned, and Charles Barnes, the aospital's orderly, who held the kerosene lamp when It ex ploded is suffering with an ugly gash in the head and painful burns on the arms, hands and face. The News and Courier correspon dent says the explosion occurred when the orderly was pointing out to a plumber a defect in the primer kerosine lamp,' that is used to heat the sterilizing machine. The negro pumped air Into the lamp, to show where it was leaking. Some screw about the lamp must have been lose for the explosion followed, hurling the top of the lamp towards Miss Thompson, who was looking on. Practically all of the kerosene was thrown on Miss Thompson, and in a second's time she war one mass of flames. Her face, head, arms and chest were saturated with oil and before assistance could reach her, she was burned horribly. She very probably swallowed some of the gas and the flame3. Miss iMoffett was attracted from the adjoining room and she had the presence of mind enough to gather up the carpet off the floor and throw it around Miss Thompson, who was thrown to the floor and rolled over and over. The chofruioal fire extlngulsners were brought into use and in a few moments the blaze was extinguish ed. Miss Moffett received her burns in the fight against the fire. The negro orderly received his wounds at the time of the explosion, flying part of the lamp hitting aim on the head and the flames leaping to hlB face. Miss Thompson came to Anderson from Dayton, Ohio, last November. Her home Is in Damascus, Ohio, and her sister, at Salern, Mass., has been notified. She has a brother in New York, but his address is not known. Eot'h of her parents are dead. Since coming to Anderson she endeared herself to all the people with whom she had to come in connection. She. made an ideal superintendent and under -her supervision the hospital was getting along very nicely. Her fatal accident has cast a gloom over the whole city. She was about 30 years of age. This horrible accident and sad se quel is a terrible blow to the hospit al and to the people of the city and county. Miss Thompson recently rc-c|eive|d en offer of the superin dency of a large Northern hospital, carrying a much larger salary than she received here, but because she was contented with her work at An derson and because of the fact that ber work was highly satisfactory and appreciated ,by the people gen eraly she declined the offer Mond day night. PREDICTS END OF WORLD. Seventh Day Adventist Says the Time Is Near at Hand. The world will come to an end within a very few years," declared Elder 0. Montgomery, president of the Indiana conference of the Sev enth Day Adventists, during the ser vices of the camp meeting now pro gressing at Indianapolis, Indiana. "I cannot set the year. It may be next year; it may be five years. But I do know that it will come be fore the death of the last man who saw the falling of the stars on Nov ember 13, 1S33. Thelre are few people living now who saw that phe nomenon and I know that the end will come before all of them are gone." Elder Montgomery said that science had been unable to solve the falling of the stars n 1833 and that he has Scriptural proof that the mil lcnium will occur within the genera tion following that event. Blease Defuses to Talk. "At this time I do not care to make any statement on that matter," Governor Blease said last Tuesday, when asked if he wished to be quot j ed in reply to an article published in I the Belton Times last week and re printed in Columbia, newspapers, ' charging him with incivility toward a young lady, employed as ticket agent in Southern Railway station at Relton. Killed by Lightning. I At Coward as Henry Langston was going to feed his hogs about noon I.Monday he was struck by light ning and instantly killed. He was near a large oak in his yard, which was struck by the same bolt. Mr. ! Langston is survived by a wife and itwo children. He had many rela [ tives. Hanged Self in Church. At Logan, Utah, the body of An dres Anderson, aged 63, was found Tuesday hanging in the Morman church of which he had been sexton for twenty years. Before going to the church Anderson read his favor ite hymn, a renunciation of earthly glory and wealth. CLAIMS TWO VICTIMS YOUNG MEN DROWNED IN LAKE NEAR COLUMBIA. Another Youny Man Saves His Life By Clinging to the Boat After it Had Filled. Keene Brown and Clarence Drig gers, well known young men of Co lumbia were drowned In Ridge wood lake Monday a few minutes he fore noon. The lake is about two hundred yards from the end of the car line and is a summer amusement park. The State says the two young men who lost their lives and J. W. Par rent and J. B. Lewis, all employes of the Seaboard Air Line, were tak ing a boat ride on the lake. Brown, Driggers and Parrent were in one boat and Lewis in another with a boy whose name is not known. 1 hey had been down to tlx dam about a half mile from the pavillion and were on their way back to sur render the boats when the accident occurred. Lewis and the smaller boy were possibly 100 yards ahead of the other young men. Parrent, the young man who was in the boat with Brown and Driggers but was saved, said that the boat they used, No. 3, had water in it when they took It out. It was dip ped out. John Faust the negro who rented them the boats said the wat er had been splashed in by the peo ple who had used the boat last. Lew is verified this statement by Par rent. Parent said that the water contin ued to come in as they went down Ilm Jake atd back. He thougi't the boat leaked. They continued to dip it out, the best they could but the boat went down about two. hundred yards west of the pavillion and about 75 yards from the shore. Parent clung onto the boat, and Brown and Drig gers made an effort to swim to the bank. A litle boy came to Parrent. and gave what assistance he could. Several hours after the accident the boat was brought up to the pavillion and examined, but no leak was found. It Is the theory that the occvi.*M3 of tha boat wen sitting too much on one side and the water gradualy came over into the boat. The place, where the accident oc curred, is about seven or eight feet deep, if they went down in the chan nel of the creek, but when out of the channel the water in this part of the lake is only four or five feet deep. It. is not known whether or not Lirrnvs and Driggers couK'i swim. JUMPS TO AVOID DEATH. Lineman Finds Rattlesnake High Up on Telegraph Pole. Finding a coiled rattlesnake about three inches above his head on a cross-arm of a telegraph pole he had climbed Saturday afternoon, at Gainesville, Georgia, Clarence Rainey, a youiyj lineman for a local telephone company, made no effort to defend himself from the reptile, but shaking his "climbers" loose, dropped 40 feet to the ground. For tunately, he landed in soft ground, cn his feet and unhurt. Rainey says that when he saw the snake he was preparng to adjust his life belt. It is presumed that if he had arranged that belt, the snake, which was coiled to strike, would have bitten the lineman be fore he could disengage himself from the pole. The huge rattler was brought down by tlirowing a rope over the pole, and when measured, was found to be 36 inches long, an inch and a half n circumferance, and with nine rattles. Much mystery was encountered in trying to solve how the snake made Ms, way up the 40-foot pole. It did not seem probable that it had crawl ed there, but this was accepted as the only plausible means. THE MYSTERY HALF SOLVED. Georgia Officers on the Trail of Two Murder Suspects. By following week old automobile tracks on a lonely road, Deputy Sheriff Meldrim, of Chatham Coun ty, solved half of the mystery sur Irounding the murdejr, exactly a week ago, of J. H. Turner, probably the wealthiest negro in Savannah, who was killed in his automobile by two white men, twelve miles from Savannah. The officer found the body of the negro, at least three miles from whqre. he was killed, wrapped in cloth and hidden in an old and deserted well. An automo bile was hired by the two men for a trip into the country, and, appar ently, the negro had been killed by being struck with some blunt in strument as he sat in bis car. Fatal Train Wreck. Two men were scalded to death and two were seriously injured when a passenger train on the Seaboard Air Line plunged through an open switch and struck a freight train on a siding near Petersburg, Va., on Monday. The dead men were the fireman and the engineer of the freight train. Woman Denied Bail. Mrs. R. L. Robbins, of Waycross, Ca., who shot and killed her neigh bor, Miss Belle Smith, in July, must remain in jail until her trial. Rail was denied ber Tuesday by Judge Parker in Superior Court. 0 TWO CENTS PER COPY. DEEP LAID PLAN An Attempt to Conceal Shortage by Commiiin? Other Crimes BUT THE SCHEME FAILS Employed a Burglar to do the In famous Work and He Is Blown Up and Dies From the Efect of His Wounds In a Nearby Hospital Would Not Confess. As the result Sunday night to de stroy the records of the Long Dock Mills and Elevtaor company, in Jer sey City, for the purpose of conceal ing a shortage of $2,600 in the ac counts of Samuel Brown, the cash ier. Brown and Patrick J. Tim mons, an expert accountant, are in jail there, under the charges of ar son, conspiracy and manslaughter, tracks. Brown's alleged confession bearing Brown's signature, telling of his plans for the crime, and nam ing Timmons, his good friend, aB an accomplice. Frank Walsh, known as "Lightning," the burglar who was hired to do the job, died Tuesday of burns received in trying to carry out the scheme. Brown was arrested when he re ported for work Tuesday. His em ployers, told the police that experts had been examining the accounts, during the previous week, and had set Tuesday for examining the books. Brown told the detectives that he had been short since Jan uary, and that Timmons had worked on the books as a friend for three months, trying to cover up his tracks. Brown's alleyed confession said in part: > "About 3 p. m. Sunday I met Tim mons in a saloon in Jersey City. We had been talking about destroying the books for the past two months, as I was short in my accounts. Tim mons said he could get a man In New Yerk to do the job and there we were joined by Walsh. The three of us took an automobile to Jersey City. "About 9:30 we went to the office of the Long Dock Mills. I opened the door and the three, of us wont In. I then opened the safe door and took out three check books and the cash book. Walsh held the- books over the gas jets and set them on fire. I watered them set the books, on fire, then I left them to go back home. I did not know anything about the fire until Tuesday morn ing. The police did not tell Brown up on arresting him that Walsh -had! died in the attempt. Instead they tried to batter down his defence, and; falling, one of them finally said: "Waleh died this morning at 5- o' clock." ' "My GjQdi" Brown gasped, 'T can't bave*that man's death on my soul." Then he told the story. Timmons was arrested near his home in Newark. Efforts of detec tives to elicit a confession from Tim mons have been unsuccessful. In the office tbere was no evidence of an explosion, the lremen say, but plenty of evidence to show that gas oline had been used liberally. The books had bc^en soaked with the' fluid ,but were only partially burnt. Walsh was found with his eyeex blown out and his clothing almost, burned from his body. He said he had gone into the office, the door being open, to sleep. He was smok ing a cigarette, he said, fell asleep* and he supposed the cigarette set tho place afire. At the hospital he. wata told that he would die from his - burns. "Now," queried a detective, "won't you tell us bow it happened?" Walsh shook bis head and stretch ed out on his cot. It was his last act. SIR ORACLE HAS WOKEN. Teddy Tells How to Regulate the Big Cor{>orationf?.. Theodore Roosevelt stalked boldly .before the House of Representatives committee of inquiry into the United States Steel Corporation at New York on Monday and told how his action in consenting, to the absorp tion of the Tennessee Coal & Iron Co. by the Steel Con*oration in 1907 averted a disastrous panic. He arrived unheralded at the city hall, vigorously shook hands with members of the committee, declare himself delighted to see everybody and got down to business. First and foremost he placed upon himself responsibility for approving: the absorption to save a |perilou? financial disaster in Wal! Street and condemned any man who would be so weak as not to act as he did in that crisis. Charged With .Murder. A warrant charging murder was sworn out Tuesday against Charit Jones, negro husband of Bertha Courtney, the white woman whoso body was found in a sewer in the outskirts of the city of Cincin nati last Friday. The negro is miss ing. Death of Bishop Fitzgerald. Bishop Oscar Penn Fitzgerald of the Methodist Episcopal church, died at his cottage at Mont Eagle, Tenn.? Wednesday afterno?n, of neuralgia. of the heart., in his 82nd year.