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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. Th<? Sen are passed a f.nsti
tute for the Cummins resolution,
which would have terminated the
commission's life December 5.
Shot Raiding Still.
Two doctors are in the Brushy
Mountains fighting to save the life
of Robert Henry, deputy collector,
who was shot Tuesday afternoon
wh?n raiding a mountain plant, and
a 'heavily armed posse is scouring the
mcuntains for his assailant, a man
named Lane. The revenue officer
was hit just above the left eye and
his condition is considered; critical.
ORANGES
WILL DO GOOD
Campaign Fonds Hast Be Pib?thed Be
fore and After Elections
ONE OF BRYAN'S IDEAS
Some Instances Given Below Where
mense Campaign Contributions
Were Made by the Trusts to Buy
up the Elections So as They Could
Rob the People.
Among the beneficent acts of the
Democratic House of Representa
tives the passage -Qf* the Rwcker bill,
providing for publicity of campaign
funds both before and after Federal
elections is first in Importance. It
seeks to purify politics at the source.
The revelations made be^re the com
mittee have once nr-re demonstrated
how vital is the need of this legisla
tion. It is necessary and it is inevi
table.
Young men in politics would find it
hard to credit how shameless and
sordid a quarter of a century ago
was the open use of money in elec
tions, or how corruption was made a
jest ,by men who should have been
leaders in public thought. In 1883
CheBter A. Arthur was President of
the United States. In 1880 he was
already elected Vice President when
at a public banquet said:
Indianna was really, I suppose, a
Democratic State .It had always been
put down In the book as a State that
might be carried by close and care
ful a:id perfeot organization and a
great deal of?(Pause filled in by
laughter and a cry of "Soap.")
In 1888 Privilege with heightened
audacity pushed the corruption of
voters to a point never before paral
leled. At any cost Democracy was
to be dethroned. On iMby 25 Presi
dent James J. Foster of the Republi
can League sent out his letter say
ing that manufacturers benefitted by
protection- were laggard in contrib
uting. He added in a phrase that be
came famous: "If I had my way
I would put the manufacturers of
Pennsylvania under the fire and fry
all the fat out of them." Foster's let
ter closed with the remark: "If you
give us the means to win the victory
we will do it. Are you willing?"
On Oct. 24 Col. W. W. Dudley,
Treasurer of the Republican National
Committee, showed how the "means"
were to be applied. He sent out this
advice as^to the handling of purchas
ed votes.
Divide the voters into blocks of
five and put a trusted man with nec
essary funds in charge of these five
men, and make him responsible that
none get away, and that all vote our
ticket.
In 1892 when Cleveland was elect
ed the serond time the interests rais
ed a big corruption fund for his bene
fit and he was elected. We all know
he favored Wall street by his bond
issues. In 1896 Mark Hanna raised
an Immense fund to defeat Bryan,
which was repeated again in 1900.
It is said no one knows how much
money was raised to defeat Bryan in
those two campaigns, but the amount
was very large. The immense cor
ruption and vote buying in the above
campaigns caused Mr. Bryan to pro
pose the law which will soon be on
the statute books, requiring pub
lication of all campaign fund con
tributions. In 1904 a means of
"frying the fat" which far out-Fos
tered Foster's wildest dreams had in
the mean time been provided in the
Burea-u of Corporations, whose re
searches were to be conducted in se
cret and whose conclusions were to
be disclosed only to the President.
They have been refused to an inves
tigating committee of the House of
Representatives within the present
session.
When George B. Cortelyon. who as
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
had oversight of the Bureau of Cor
porations and access to its business
secrets was made chairman of the Re
publican National committee charged
with the re-election of Theodore
Roosevelt, "financial leaders" knew
what was expected of them. The en
suing scandals were the greatest that
ever in the history of American poli
tics have gathered about the corrupt
use of money at the pools. So gross
were the abuses that on Oct. 29, 1904
Judge Parker said in a public speech:
As I have said before, and I deem
it my duty to say it again, the trusts
are furnishing the money with which
they hope to control the election. I
am sorry to be obliged to say it. If it
were not true I would not say it to
gain the Presidency or any earthly
reward.
Mr. Roosevelt's reply, issued six
days later, within which period he
had ample time to inform himself,
! consisted of a quibbling restatement
of the charges and a sweeping denial:
Mr. Parker's charges are in effect
! that the President of the United
States and Mr. Cortelyou. formerly
Mr. Cleveland's executive clerk, then
Mr. McKinley's and my secretary,
then Secretary of Commerce and La
bor, now chairman of the Republican
National committee have been in a
conspiracy in blackmail corporation-.;,
?Mr. Cortelyou using his knowledge
gained while he was secretary of
Commerce and labor to extort money
from the corporations, and I, the
President, having appointed him for
this especial purpose. But there is
not one particle of truth in the state
ment as regards anything that has
gone on in the management of the
;URG, S. C., THURSDAY, AU
WILL STUDY THEM
BRYAN WILL, LEARN ALL ABOUT
PARTY CANDIDATES.
The Great Commoner Says "When
Nominnation Time Comes He Will
Not Remain Silent.
"I intend to devote all my time .be
tween now and the nomination to
find out things about the candidates
for the Democratic nomination for
(president," E^aid William Jennings
Bryan to n large audience at Colum
bus, Ohio. "I know all of the lead
ing men of the party, those who have
hindered and those who have helped
it. When the time comes to name
the man for the candidacy I will not
be silent."
Mr. Bryan was the guest of the
Jefferson club of Columbus at a big
rally and barbecue. Gov, Harmon
had been invited to the rally but he
sent word some days ago that he
would be at his summer home in
Michigan on vacation.
Mr. Bryan refrained from mention
ing the governor in any of his inter
views or his speech.
"I am going to give the Democratic
party all the Information I possess
about the prospective candidates to
head of the ticket," said iMr. Bryan.
"""I am not going to mention indi
viduals now. The country has many
available men. Recently I mentioed
some of the men I believe to'be toler
able as presidential candidates and
I am as glad as I was then that the
Democratic party is so fortunate an
to have such men."
Among the men who Mr. Bryan
mentioned some time ago did not in
clude Gov. Harmon.
"I intend to devote myself to driv
ing'plutocracy from the throne and
put the rights of man into the seat.
I shall find out everything I can of
all the candidates between now and
convention time and will tell all the
people as I learn more and more a
bout them. I have not a friend in
the United States whom I would re
gard at the expense of my party 01
country."
TIDAL WAVE AND TYPHOON
Sweep Over Japan Killing Five Hun
dred People.
More than 500 lives were lost and
great devastation ashore and afloat
resulted from a typhoon and a tidal
wave which spept over Japan July
26, according to advices brought by
the steamer Empress of Japan. The
fishing fleets from Shidzuoka suffer
ed severely Several hundred fish
ermen were drowned.
At Tokyo a tidal wave swept away
many houses, including a large tea
house with 33 persons. The noted
Sherwiiga inlaid work factory collap
sed and 15 employes were killed. A
torpedo boat was swept in shore at
Tokyo and several steamers founder
ed, while big liners dragged anchors.
Eight of 40 men on the Acamori
Maru survived when she went down
in the typhoon off Kuno and 100 fish
ermen were drowned off there. The
Japanese naval training squadron was
crossing off Tosa and two seamen
were killed on the Hashidate and
seven injured. Thousands of houses
collapsed, the number in Tokyo and
vicinity being over 12,000, according
to official statistics. The ware house
and factory districts of Tokyo suff
ered severely, eight warehouses, con
taining goods worth $16,000,000, be
ing demolished. The loss there was
over $4,000,000.
COCAINE EVIL GROWS.
Twenty-five Convicted for Selling the
Deadly Drug.
Twenty-five men and women, near
ly all negroes, were convicted In mu
nicipal court in Greensboro, N. C.
during the month of July for retailing
cocaine. This statement >2ives 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.