Blacks and W rites S?em Near Fighting PtialFijar Daran}, Okla. POSSE 1PTING FIEP Second Murd t of White Woman Within Th ee Days Inflames Peo ple' of Run nt District, and- the Ne groes Are Ordered to Leave That Section at Once, The murd? r ot the second white woman by. a Maek fiend in the Dur ant, Okla., di-strict -within three days has infiamed he white people to such an extent th it the outbreak of a long threatei ed race war is immin ent. On Tuesday Mrs. Corder, wife of a farmer living ten miles south of Durant, - ras killed after being bruta|ly ,tea en by a negro. The black ran as the woman's husband, who had bee i led to a nearby field, came with a posse after him. After finding the dead body of his wife, Corder walked five miles to Halzell, a village where were his nearest neigb 5ors, and told his story. The common ity is sparsely settled and excitement runs high in the vil liages and to rns. For more than a year there ha i been open enmity evi dent between the whites and blacks and it is expected that "the develop ments of the ast few days is only the beginning of ... fierce war. Many mini r clashes,,between the whites and negroes, a posse chasing a negro,'at Idamond, Okla\ who'is said tc have insulted a white wo man, ' several hundred' white men waitipts the a -rival of a train carry ing a negro captured near Durant comprise the happenings which have in the last tw > days sent that section to Oklahoma into a seething race quarrel. At Caddo, Okla, trouble started as 3c an as it was learned that the negr > who attacked Mrs. L. R. Campbell -. t Durant Saturday had been killed nd his body burned. Mrs. Campbe 1, who had died from ber injuries, at Sherman. Texas, I dentified the body of the negro be fore she was aken to Texas.. The negro s said to have lived in Caddo, and ? here the race trouble predominates numerically. As soon as his friends heard of the death of Mrs. Campbe! I'a assailant there was talk of orga; h:ing and seeking re venge. To fi restall this the white men of Cadd > formed a posse and posted signs varning all negroes to leave town 1 e'ore Saturday night The negroes s :arted to leave at once, but there is i alk that they expected aid of negroes of other towns. Since then al ue ? cjs bve left ihn*. ;bre but it is also said that blacks 'from other town a e preparing to open a fight upon thi white people of that section. Nothing ca t be learned as to the nature of th i crime committed by the negro who attacked the Corder woman. Wo: d was brought here that a negro attacked a white wo man, and th \t a large number of men, heavily irmed, are on his trail.' If he is caugl t it is probable he will be lynched.. AJoka, Okla, was the scene of even greater excitement, for nearly all of che inhabitants are ne groes. When they heard of the burn ing of the bli ck, who assaulted Mrs. Campbell, thi warning and clashes at Caddo and that a posse was after another neg o at Daimond, they were immec* lately organized, and when a Misse uri, Kansas and Texas freight train came through the town they co' ered the trainmen with guns and too : charge. The condu tor managed to elude his captors 1 >ng enough to send a warning to I urant and Caddo. He I warned the tawns that the negroes were armed ind bent on avenging the death of Mrs. Campbell's assail ant. Immediately upon receipt of the message ; t Durant, as in Caddo, nearly every nan in town was press ed into servi e and is armed await ing the arri- al of the "avengers," who should r< ach here within a short time. Atoka is the county .seat of Atoka County . and about thirty miles northwest of Durant. Caddo is be tween Duran. and the train which is carrying he negroes, and it is there they w .ll be met by the first armed posse. Telegrams were received at Dur ant supposed: y bearing the signature of the condm tor of the freight train which it was said had been captured by armed bl icks, and hundreds of armed men met the train at Caddo. to learn that there were no negroes aboard the tr .in. Five hundred men armed themselves in Durant and pre pared to meethe train when it ar rived there. Before its arrival, how ever, they le; rned that the informa tion was fals i, and while there was great exciten ent, no trouble result ed from the /ild rumors. Wore Ring Too Long. The Charleston Evening Post says Mr?. Jessie S ewart Gardner, of that city, died because she hai refused too long to ake her r ead.ng ring from her fin? er had increased grad ually in size, it finally became em bedded in the flesh and caused an in terruption f blood circulation. With much r luctance, Mrs. Gardner consented to have it filed off. Ow-J ing to\the de ay, blood poisoning de veloped and resulted in her death.) She was slxt ' years old. i^pPTEO ASSAULT WHITE LADY ATTACKER * IX HER HOME AT ST. GEORGE Fiend Foiled to Accomplish His Pur pose but Struck the Lady Blows in the Month. St. George was in a feveJ of excite ment Tuesday night, following an at tempt at criminal assault ,!>y a negro on the person of a well j known and highly respected woite woman. While the assailant failed to accomplish his purpose, he succeeded in inflict ing severe and painful -^-.juries on his intended victim, having struck her in the mouth several times, caus ing the blood to flow. In endeavor ing to escape she also-stumbled-ovor the furniture in the darkened room, from which she sustained painful bruises. ' Clinton Glover, a negro suspected of the dastardly crime, was arrested and lodged in jail. Glover is a negro wbo had been in St. George but a short time. He was seen loafing about the premises of the iady Tues day by several people, and suspicion naturally fell on him, and be was tak en in custody. He denies his guilt, but he will be safely held until he can be thoroughly examined or the guil ty party Is found beyond doubt. The dastardly crime wan attempt ed about half past ten o'clock Tues day night, when the would-be fiend entered the bed room of his intend ed victim, who had retired and was sound asleep. The lady says she was awakened by feeling some one clutching her throat, which was her first intimation of any one being in" th,e room besides herself. She screamed, and the 'fiend struck her several blows in the mout>* and then ran. The residence of the lady Is locat ed in a principal part of the" town, only a block from the business por tion of Main street, and her screams brought many people to iher rescue, bu.t when they got there the fiend had made his escape. The room be ing in darkness, the lady could not tell anything about the ?iend that had attacked her. Suspicion fell on Glover and it was thought advisable to arrest him and await further de velopments. The county bloodhcunds which were eight miles from St. George were sent for, and put on the trail of the fiend with the hope of run ning him down, and it is hoped that the brutal assailant has been caught. The husband of the victim is em ployed several miles from *own and was not at home when the attack on his wife was mari'i. It is thought that the party who committed the of fense was aware of the husband's absence. ' The? lady upon whom t rie assault was attempted is the mother of six or seven children and is a Iiighly re spected citizen of the town. The dastarly outrage, has stirred up the people of the town and surrounding country, and should the fiend be caught and unmistakably identified, it would be a hard matter to keep the infuriated citizens from visiting summary punishment on him. It was one of the boldest crime;; ever at tempted in this ection of the State. HOW THEY GOT EVEN. Writes Wife of Victim Thai He Want ed Her Killed. Joseph Vacek, aged 55, a wealthy carpenter contractor, in Chicago, 111., was found murdered in ihis borne in the southwest portion of the city. He had been shot in the head, and near the body was a letter addressed to Mrs. Vacek, the victim's "dfe, sign ed "B. H." and reading as follows: "Your husband is now where he wanted you to be. He told us if we killed you he would give us $500, cud we failed. We asked him. for the coin, anyway, and he did ;ioo\give it to us so we got even. He deserved it and not you. I am a perfect gen tleman and a friend of yours. Do not mourn for this guy, as he is a cow ard." ,The sheet on which this was writ ten was crudely decorated with cof fins, and daggers, drawn in pencil. Mrs. Vacek is unable to throw any light on the mystery. THEY MUST W1XD UP. Senate Sounds Death Knell of Mon iry Commission. The national monetary commiss ion, which is headed by fo-mer Sen ator Aldrich, of Rhode Island, once Republican leader of the Senate, must wind up his affairs by January S next if the House takes favorable action on the measure passed by the Senate limiting the commission's life to that date. Tuesday's ac tion followed a storm of criticism that u-cently hroke ."ut in 'he Senat* over the commission's de'.;:y in mak ing a rei>ort and its alleged extrava gance. Th2ives some idea of the magnitude of the business that is going on in Greensboro and in other towns of the South among the lower class of negroes. Here it is found that users and sellers of co caine are an absolutely worthless class, sniffers of the drug make up at least two thirds of the criminal dock et. The rapidity with which the number of users is growing is also alarming and unless speedy and he roic efforts are brought to bear the drug will become a greater menace to the negro race than whiskey has ever been. The effects of the drug aie so much more permanent than that of whiskey. The center of trou ble is the drug stores and they are harder to reach. Republican campaign. Mr. Parker's accusations arainst Mr. Cortelyou and me are monstrous. The state ments made by Mr. Parker are un qualifiedly and atrociously false. Politically, Mr. Roosevelt's state ment was successful, but he was the man doing the lying about the cam paign funds and not Judge Parker. The Presidential prestige gave it weight. The lawful secrecy sur rounding the corruption funds aided the defense. Yet Judge Parker's statement was true in every word. A splendid victory was gained in principle when so radical a measure passed the Republican senate and the Democratic house. The cause is on the eve of triumph. The corrupt use of money at the polls has been declared outlaw by the American peo ple, and it must be stopped. GUST 17,l(flf TAFT INA HOLE Bis Admioistralioo Will Have a Time to Clear Its; If of Fraud. FRAUDS ON ALL SIDES State, Agricultural and the Postofflce Departments Are in Order Now and the Surface of the Frauds and Rascalities in Them Have Only Been Hinted At. Mir. P. H. McGowan, the Washing ton correspondent of The State says it is .becominis more evident in Wash ington day .by day that the Taft ad ministration is going to have an ex ceedingly difficult time "proving a clean bill of health when it goes be fore the people for indorsement in the national election next year. Even lifelong Republicans?those who 'have stood the G. 0. P. outfit in its good days and its bad ones, through the exciting times of the Roosevelt administration and the tame ones that make every day alike at the White House now?are begin ning to see that aside from talk, hope and expectation there are sev eral good reasons to believe that next year will see the departure? hag and baggage?from the Wihite House of the Republican party as now organized and operated in the United States No one blames William Howard Taft for the present condition of af fairs. He is a good man, thoroughly honest in all that the word honesty Implies, but absolutely unable to see that he is surrounded by much the same surroundings that characteriz ed the days when Capt. Kidd was pi ratical lord and master of the high seas. Today President Taft is surrounded by as shrewd a band of political gamesters as ever came down the road. And the funny part about it is that they are getting away with it, and Taft?with his strictly judicial temperament and believing that ev erybody is honest, even the politic It. ns?does not see it, though every one else does. Mr Taft unfortunately was left with an overstock of the Roosevelt junk on hand in the way of official timber, and has been unable, so far to unload. And right here will be 'his undoing when he tries to explain to the people next year. The worst blot on the Taft official record is the case of that missing vouchers in the Hay portrait case and the manner in which the caze was hushed up for fear that more and worse developments might come. It was bad enough, to be sure, as it was but no case is ever helped by covering up the truth, and it is going to take a mighty lot of clever work to make the people believe that any thing but crooked work has been going on in the department presided over by Philander C. Knox. i The missing voucher and the man ner of its beine found must stand out as particularly objectionable to the minds of honest people who want an honest administration. The Wickersham administration in the department of justice has fared little better and the great head of the nation's law department did him self no credit when he shifted the calcium from himself to the depart ment of agriculture, where he Is trying his level best to make "Old Borax" Wiley go home. He may succeed. Wiley may have to go, but thousands of people who have followed Wiley's efforts to enforce the pure food laws will say: "There goes an honest man" Then the scene will shift again to the Wickersham stronghold and what developments will follow, unles they too, are chloroformed with administration dope, will prob ably recall the days of Diogones and the 'honest man. But with Wickersham and Knox in bad and poor old "Tama" Jim Wil son, for thirteen years the adminis tration's official farmer, about all In because he has acknowledged that he does not know what is going on in his department and that the crop statistics and like matters are ma nipulated to suit the wishes of his underlings, the people may, indeed look for something real, classy when they take hold of the great and onlj Frank H. Hitchcock in earnest. So far the handling of this gentle man by the congressional commit tees has been merely perfunctory, but some time at no distant day his real investigation is going to begin. Then take notice. That same Hitch cock knows things, and many vol umes will be needed to make the records when he comes down from the witness stand. There are just a few facts relating to the baiting of small postmasters all over the coun try that the Democrats want light upon, a few figures about campaign assessments, and just a bit of infor mation regarding pledges to sup port William Howard Taft and his band of G. 0. P. braves But this is only part of the pro gramme which Rinamaster Taft will present to the country's 90,000,000 people next year in the hope of se curing another four years' tenure ?in the White House. Seriously, the administration is in a bad hole, and it is a question whether it is not too late for political doctors to do any good. The crisis is at hand. ' STARTS LONG FLIGHT AVIATOR TO GO FROM ST LOUIS TO BOSTON MASS. After Going Ninety-Eight Miles Lands at Springfield, IU., For Lunch and Rest. Amid the cheers of the huge crowd that had gathered on Art Hill in For est park at St. Louis to witness the events under a sky obscured by clouds Harry N. Atwood, of Boston, Tuesday morning, shortly after 8 o'clock, be gan his record-breaking flight ?f 1, "?61) miles,across the continent from St. Louis to New York and Boston by way of Chicago and other cities. Atwood, flying at a iheiyht of 800 feet was cheered by a great assem blage. He waved his hand in ac knowlegement of the oheering which was wafted to him. Atwood flew north over the Mississippi river for ten miles, and circled over the down town district at 8:30 o'clock, follow ing his first appearance with a series of 'maneuvers which brought cheer upon cheer from the crowds. A dispatch from Alton, 111, says Atwood passed over Alton at 9.07 o'olock flying high and in straight line north. Business was suspended from the minute word was flashed from St. Louis that the aviator was on his way to Alton until the ma chine passed out of sight. The streets, tops of houses and the bluffs were dotted with spectators to bid him God-speed on his journey. A dispatch from Brighton, 111., says Atwood winged ovor that place at 9.17 o'clock. He was flyintg low, at a height of probably not more than 300 feet, but travelling at a terrific speed. He is following the Chicago and Alton railroad to Springfield. Atwood by passing. over Corlins ville Tuesday morning af 9.27 o'clock successfully covered sixty of the nin ety-eight miles to Springfield, the first leg of his flight to this Atlantic. He was flying high and at a rate of about a mile a minute. After circling Springfield, 111., sev eral times, Atwood landed in Capitol park at 10:30 a. m. He was entertain ed by the Springfield Commercial As sociation at a reception and luncheon and will resume his flight toward Chicago at three o'clock. Atwood landed in Chicago at 6.39 p. m. His total time between St. Louis and Chicago, counting the de lays occasioned by the two stops, was ten hours and 14 minutes, but his actual time in the air, computed by deducting the delays was five hours and 43 minutes. This, Atwood as serts, is three hours and 12 minutes less than the scheduled time for ex press trains for the same distance. CAUSED DEATH OF THREE. Four Men Engage in Pistol Duel Ab out Italian Girl. Love for a woman resulted in a free for all gunfisht Tuesday in which three men were shot to death, another was mortally wounded and a i woman severely wounded. The dead: Valdo Aronoco, 33 years old. Antonio Lasarr,28 years old. Pietro Matalli,25 years old, The wounded: Ben Petrollo, 24 years old; shot through the breast near the heart; will die. Mari Bartino, 28 years old; shot in left leg; will recover. The following occurred at Whis key Run, a mining settlement hear Saltsbury. Angelo Marceldo, accus in of Aronoco. spent last night at the latter's house. The two men and three boarders were in love with Marie Bartino, Italian girl. Tues day evening the girl was particular I ly devoted to Marceldo. Upon the I angry and jealous muttering of the ' others, Aronoco challenged the en j tire party, and soon the pistol battle was on near the home of the amora ta. Automatic revolvers were used and when the ammunition was ex hausted Petrello was the only one a | live and there is no hope for his re covery, as he was shot through breast near the heart. While the battle raged, Miss Bartino the inno cent cause, was attracted by the shooting and hurrin? to the rear door of her home, opened the door only to ,be shot through the left leg by a stray bullet from the gun of one of the combatants. BLACK HAND CRIMES. Commit Many Murders and Collect Big Sum of Money. I A summary of the crimes committ ed by members of the "Black Hand" In Chicago, 111., during the year 1911 gives a total of 18 murders, scores of Btabbings and more than 9.r? bomb 1 explosions, $500,000 collected in blackmail and the terrorizing of thousands by threats. With one or two exceptions, none of the perpe* trators of these numerous crimes have been convicted. In .March of the present year four murders were committed near one street corner in what is known as "Little Sicily" alone That month also was more than ordinary prolific of bomb explosions, in all of which considerable damage to property was done. During the trial of .John Algoni on charge of sending a threatening let ter through the mails Judge Kene saw M. Land is, of the Federal court, received a leter warding him not to convict Algoni and a bomb was plac ed at -his door. TWO CENTS PER COPY. AIRMEN PERISH Two Yoaog Aviators Lose Their Lives at International Meet. DROWNED AND CRUSHED William Badger, of Pittsburg, Goes to His Death at St. Croix and John stone Plunges to His Destruction Under the Yawning Waters off Lake Michigan. Two aviators, William R Badger, of Pittsburg and W. L. Jobn stone of Chicago, both young men, lost their-lives .at the international aviation meet at Chicago on Wednes day. In dying both revealed the frailty of (the craft in which two score or. more aviators were curving and glid ing about the air, with scarcely a pause for the deaths of their contem poraries. Death in both cases was due to un explained accidents, probably the re sults of unsuspected defects in the mechanism of the machines and was in no way caused by carelessnes or lack of responsibility of the drivers, Badger, a wealthy young man, ca reened to his death in a pit in the avaiation field. There had been a flaw in one of the wings of the pro peller of the Baldwin machine he drove. Centrifugal force broke the propeller, upset the delicate eouir Ifbrium of the machine and Badger clashed to bis death 100 feet below to the bottom of the pit, his neck, broken. Johnstons fell five hundred feet into the lake and: was drowned under his engine as the result of an equal ly unsuspected defect . Caught under the heavy engine in the Moissant monoplane, he was carried1 deep inv.o Lake Michigan and his body was nat recovered; until three-quarters of an hour had eiapsed. Bad.Ser Hvedi for three-quarters of an hour after he had been extricated/ from the wreck of his machine. He did not recover consciousness, but died almost at once after he reached' the hospital. His death was the first of the aviation meet. The meet at Chicago, which began last Sunday, ?was Badger's first pubjid appear ance. He had been up Tuesday just two hours, 13 minutes, and nineteen seconds on the flight that ended his life when he fell. He dropped just in fr?nt of the grandstand before thousands of spec tators. Thousands rushed into thp pit where the wrecked .biplane fe51. There was a party of police in. the fields, and numerous heads were hit with their clubs. Badger received' his first flying lesson at iMdneola, N. Y. June 25 he made a successful1 flight and was granted a pilot's in spection license. Capt. Baldwin-af ter 'the accident at once withdrew his; machines from the meet. Johnstone's accident was due, ac cording to expert aviators, to a sim ilar unsuspected flaw in the mechan ism of his monoplane. Just what it was probably will never be known as the engine is deep in the lake. Johnstone's fall was witnessed by his young wife, although it was not until half an hour later that she was in-* formed of his death. As the mono plane faltered in midair and crash ed downward to the surface of the lake, the young aviator's wife, who had been following his flight closely,, grasped a mechanics hand and ex claimed: "Oh, oh, pity, he's fallen. My boy will be killed-" Wives of half a doz en other aviators rushed to Mrs. Johnstone's side and attempted to assure her that her husband would? not be injured. Five minutes later Mrs. Johnstone pleaded to be allowed' to cross ithe field and go to the lake, where her husband's machine had plunged. A mechanic rushed up and assured Mrs. Johnstone that her husband had been plucked out of the lake un harmed. Reassured by this news, which had been deliberately Invented to calm the aviator's wife, she went back to her hotel and hurriedly laid out dry apparel for her husband. For half an hour she waited, then a mem ber of Johnstone's family took her word of the aviator's death. The young wife was prostrated by the shock. Fishing Crew Rescued. Capt. Gould of the lumber schooner Savannah, which arrived at Jackson ville, Fla., from Portland, Me., rc I [vorts the rescue on July 29 of the {members of the crew of the fishing (schooner Arbitrator who were lost ! for two days in a small boat during a fog off the Ceorgia banks. Names and details were not given. Negro Kills Negro. Dove Seegars shot and killed an other negro named Frank Debous at New Hope church, about four miles from Chester on Tuesday. Seegars shot Debous twice over the right eye. Debous died instantly, Seegars made his escape and is still at large. The trouble started about faking change at a lemonade stand. Nears End of Journey. Wi'liam Bro^-n, of St. John's, New foundland, arrived in Superior, Wis. last week on the la3t leg of a tour around the world with a dog team. He started Christmas day, 1906, with five dogs and a wolf and will com plete the journey is a short tyme.