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— A VOL. XXXI • Vf‘: ' i BARNWELL, S. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1907 WmI Pretidwit RooMvsIt Ri- RUtbif Wtat Ht SaW ON ELECTION NIGHT. RcpmbUcM »od Democratic Leaders Freelj Comment on the Pmi dent'a Annooncement that He Will Under No drcnmetnacea Stand for Reelection m the Candidate of the Republican Party. President Roose^plj^ wUl not he a candidate for a third term. All doubt on this point was dispelled Wednesday by the authorised ttate- ment from the Whit* House that Mr. Roosevelt still adhered to the declar ation made three years ago. In the otatement issued Wednesday Presi dent Roosevelt says he has not chanced and shall not change the de cision communicated to the public in 1904. -The President's statement follows: On the night after the election I made the following announcement. T am deeply sensible of the honor done me by the American people In tlrai expressing their confidence in what I have tried to do. I appreciate to the full the solemn responsibility this confidence Imposes upon me and I shall do all that in my power lies not to forfeit it. On the fourth of March next L shall have served three and a halt years, and this threw and a half years constitute my first term The wise custom, which limits the President to two terms regards the substance, and not the form, and under no circumstances will I be a candidate for or accept another nom ination.' I have not. changed and ahall not change the decision thus aanounsed. Express Their Views. The announcement that the Pres ident wo aid not accept the Republi- • can nomination If tendered came at HOT FROM AMBUSH. ; v PtlicMiM Davit, af Salle Y, Prob- i Rby Martalljr Wounded . Rhen In the Act of Unlocking the • Guard House He Is Fired on the Dark. ~ in too late ah hour to become generally known in political circles, but among those who learned of It—Democrats and Republicans alike—the feeling was general^ that tt left ngylement of doubt in the PrestdentiifniUuaUon.' The “wedding breakfast" Is com mon enough, but a “divorce break fast" le the newest thing in these ho far as it relates to the third term talk, and that it definitely elimnates Mr. Roosevelt from the contest. Some Democrats, however, express a belief that a Roosevelt stampede in the Republican Convention would shake his resolution, and that he torical precedent lu that no Ameri can citizen ever refused a Presiden tial nomination. Administration Republicans de clare that the announcement r gives great impetus to the Taft boom. while the Democrats, many of the leaders of whom are at Washington, are shouting that It means “Bryan In a ’walk.” Speaker Cannon says the President speaks for himself and It would be Inappropriate for him to interpret his words. Senator Foraker declin ed to discuss the matter. Senator Hopkins said it shows him to be a patriot as well as a states- the man, following as he is' the tradi tions of Washington and Jefferson la limiting hiaa||f to two terms. Senator La Gillette said: “While such an announcement could be ex pected it was not expected to come so soon. I have no other comment to make at this time." Representative Richardson of Ala bama, said. "It Is In accordance with what f have always said of him. I did not believe he would accept the nomination for a third term.” Means Bryan Says Tillman. ' Among the Democrats who com mented on the President's statement waa Senator Tlllmah, who said: "This Is by way of documentary evidence that the President has seen the handwriting on the wall. It means that Bryan will be the next President of the United States. Roosevelt is the only possible Re publican candidate who could be considered formidable." John Sharp Williams sald:-'T be lleve I am one of the few Democrats in public life In the country who has been saying all along that the Pres ident would not run for a third time. I believe he had too much knowledge of history to run the risk of threatening republican institutions with perpetuity of tenure In the Presidency. % I also thought he was a man of so much pfide that even If he had coine to regret hi* after-elec tion utterances he would still stand, to his word. I think the third term Issue would have made Mr. Roose velt the weakest man the Republican party could have nominated, not- withstanding the fact that he la per sonally the moat popular Republican In the country to-day Representative Hardwick, of Geor gia, said: “I think It means a tri umph lor the reactionary element In the Republican v » food ^chance.for the U > ,wln. ,, , Representative Bi>v_ M Geer gia,/said! 'SUrowm a duerent can diddle and a different platform. 1 think the Republicans will nominate Chief of Police W. H. Davis, of Sslleys, was shot from ambush Fri day night and may die. A shotgun was used and the charge penetrated his abdomen. In a statement mads directly af- ter the shooting in the presence oi several witnesses Mr.- Davis stated that he had been shot by Morgan Boylston. with whom he is said to have had trouble recently. Mr. Davis was formerly on the po lice Mem in Columbia, but has been In Salley about two years. Recently he had serious trouble with Mr. Boyl ston and his son-in-law, Mr. D. O. Manning, and when It became nec essary to arrest them he had to use considerable force, and the two men Indicted Davis for assault and bat tery and false Imprisonment.. . This case was to have been tried at the last term-of court In Aiken, but was continued. A few days ago Mr. Davis at tempted ,to arrest Mr. Manning again and in doing so had to beat him up considerably: Tire TSSb against him was heard by the city council at Salley Friday, but result ed in a mistrial. , Davis had a negro locked up In the guard 'house ht Salley and Friday night he went to the building to re lease the prisoner. Just as he was about to unlock the door ,some one stepped out from behind the guard house and fired point blank at him. and the wounded man claims the shot was fired by Boylston. The latest report from his bedside is to the effect that his wound is mortal. Davis has preserved order during his incumbency as chief of police and Is held in high regard by the people of Salley. _ “DIVORCE BREAKFAST” Is the Latest Thing in the Real of Society. Judge Moyers, in the City Court, a divorce from her husband, Marion Ryan, and at the same Time her sis ter, Mrs. Mltaanda* Hatfield, got a divorce from her husband, Charles Hatfield. As soon as the two had been granted the happy divorces took their mother, who had been their principal witness, and celebrat ed with a divorce breakfast at a fashionable restaurant. - WATCHMAN MURDERED And Robbed at Pee Dee Bridge in Marion County. * A special dispatch from Fierenee to The News and Courier says Mr. C. E. Kale, the bridge watchman Mr the Atlantic Coast Line at Pee- Dee River, was found lying beside the track in an unconscious condi tion between the river bridge and the station at Pee-Dee Monday night, with two wounds on the head his money and watch missing indicating that he had been foully dealt with, robbed and left for dead. He was found by the station agent it Pee-Dee and, as he was still alive, was brought to Florence on Train No. 89 for medical treatment, but tied soon after reaching the Coast -4»e—Hospital ■onsclousness. GETS A FORTUNE. I’ensocola Woman Thought She Was Ministering to a Pauper. Miss Annie Burkhart, twenty years ild, thought she was entertaining a >auper In Thomas Caldwell, an aged ecluae. who went to Pensocola, Fla., 'rom Chncago and eked out a niiser- rble existence by peddling fish and food. Miss Burkhart ministered to the man when he was ill . The girl has npsr received Information that die has been made the sole heir of the estate of Caldwell, valued at ■976,000. Didn't Slur Bryan. Thomas E. Watson, of Ge&giar asked ’ the American Thursday to deny the story that he referred to Bryan at “one big laugh.” “It is absolutely untrue," said Mr. Watson, ‘that I made any-disrespectful al lusion whatever to Mr. Bryan.” a man on an entirely different plat form ant put Into the platform those things which would not have been put in had Roosevelt stood for the nomination.” Rkpreientative James of Kentucky said: “R is a complete surrender on Roosevelt’s part t6 the corporation element of the Republican party/and announcement in advance of a sur- FIERCE RACE RIOT. Thirty Blacks Rsportad Kitted and Five Whites Hurt Fifteen Blacks Burned to Death When the Whites Attacked the ‘ Lodge Room of the Latter. A special dispatch to the Mem phis News-Scimiter from Columbus, Miss., says some thirty negroes were killed one night last week and many more were wounded as the re sult ot a fierce race war In Pickens County, Ala. Five white men were wounded. It is said that owing to the dis covery of a plot on the part of the negroes to raise against the whites every black in the cQmmnuity Is In danger. This plot was carried on by means of a secret society which had lodge rooms in remote districts of Pickens county. Fifteen negroes were burned to death in a lodge room near Reform, Ala., Tuesday’ night, when-whites at tacked the place- and finding a num ber of repeating rifles and shotguns, fired the building. Th* blacks were penned Jn by the continual shooting of the whites and those who were not killed in at tempting to escape we» roasted alive/^T ■ Nehr Gordon, three negroes were killed when a posse of white men at tacked a lodge room. So fqr as has been learned, the Inirujng of the oth er lodge rooms-vwas without -fatali ties. - ■ The trouble started i’lth; the ar rest ot Tom Ixjwe, a negro, on a eharan of stealing a bale' of cotton letter written to friends. from Whig Lowe, a whife pTahterT who is also aT'deputy sheriff. Deputy Whig Lowe and severe! other officers succeeded in arresting the accused negro. As they were riding to Gordo with their prisoner, they were fired upon from ambush by a party of negroes headed by Bob Lowe, the prisoner's brother. Tom Lowe fell dead from a shot, which it Is said was fired by his own prother, at the deputy sheriff. Deputy Lowe fell, mortally wounded. A dispatch to The Atlanta Journal from Birminghanf, Ala., says -a long distance telephone message from Re form. the nearest telegraph town to the scene stated that there had been days of novelty. Recently at St v>uls Mi. Teny Ryan obtained' from —l^rstnis—killed—6iB?e._Lhe__Lowe 1 tragedy. The excitement in Pickens county was the result of the killing of a negro named Lowe and the serious wounding of a white man of the name, the latter being a con stable who was shot while friends were trying to take the negro from him. Thg negro Lowe had been arrested for titeaHng cotton. Which had been tagged. When relatives and other negroes approached the 'officer who had him, shooting )>ecame promis cuous and the negro was kHled and Lowe was hurt. Sixteen negroes are In jail in the western part of Pickens pounty, charged with partlcpatlon in the cltement. Many negroes are related In that section of the countyMnd for that reason the whites are armed to be ready for all emergencies. The determined white men of Pic kens county. In the vicinity of Gordo hearing reports that negroes were preparing for an attack, raided a lodge room and secured thirteen Winchester shotguns, which/were loaded with buckshot, and every trace of a Weapon taken in charger The leader of the gang of negroes said to bp getting ready for a riot was reported to have boarded a train for Birmingham, and efforts have been anade to hayp him stop ped and placed under arrest. No killing took place during the raid on the lodge room. Gordo is not on a direct wire from Blrhlmgham, and Information being received is meagre, though rumors prevail that seven negroes have been killed already since Saturday, when the first trouble began between the whites and colored. S- GIRL RESCUED. THE GOEBEL MURDER. TWOWMTE MUTES Held by a North Carolina Farmer aa estate IN A BARN WITH RATS. E. T. Pender Hired Miss Olga Sjos- tedt by Advertisement and Then Tried to Starve Her,—He Laugh ed ®t Her Pleadings.—When Re leased, She Declares Negroes Re- celved Better Food Than She. Half starved, yet Joyful over her release from what she declared to be slavery on a farm owned by E. T. Pender, six miles from Halifax, Olga Sjostedt passed Youtsoy, One at the Partfclpanta, Telle About It L He Hays Caleb Powers and Taylor Both Approved of Hie Plan, to Kill the Governor. N. C., Miss through Washington D. C., on Thurs day.—— — With her was Thomas Broderick, formerly a detective at Asbury Park. That Is the home of the girl, who is trained nurse and who served In that capacity in the Spanlsh-Amer- ican War. “On the Tuesday before Thanks giving Iw^nt to Halifax to work for Pender, whom I believe to Imi in sane," said the* girl, as she clung to her rescuer. vertable slave. If Mr. Broderick had not arrived. I would hav“ killed myself, as I'declared I would do in a Broderick's mission was r» strange one. He had been-iold that. if. by Sunday, Mftr Sjostedt were rmt re leased she would destroy herself. Supplied with ample funds by the rl’s Meads, he hurried io the train and early Thursday he reached Hal- ifnx '' -i - ' ' Hiring a rig, the detertive sped over the miles seperatlng the little town from the bleak, desolate farm. Arriving there he found Pender, a hoary-headed man beyond 60 years of age. He did not at first see the unfortunate nurse whose piteous ap peals for help by mail had aroused Asbury Park. r Broderick, a big, powerful man, with a'record Mr . bravery, aggres sively demanded that .the* jgirMie^pjate. ducad.- *_ Pender snarled and refused to comply. Broderick then resorted to milder means. He .quoted the law, At Georgetown:,- Ky., on Wednes day of last .week, Henry E. Youtaey, who Is under a life sentence for com plicity in the assassination of Gov. William Goebel, of Kentucky, some years ago, went on the witness stand and testified In the case of Gabel Powers, who is being tried there for the murder. Powers wss Secretary of State of Kentucky when the as sassination took place, and the shot was fired from one of the windows in his office Inr the State House at Frankfort, where Goebel had gone to be inaugurated^ Youtsey testified that he had talk- ed with Dr. W. R. Johnson in the latter's office about the killing of Goebel and of the purchase by him self of smokeless cartridges In Cld- cinnatti. He said before the car tridges were offered Johnson became impatient, and said he could shoot Goebel with his pistol from .Secre- wlndow, curs ing Goebel at the time. Youtsey.then told of the plot to kill Goebel. He gave a detailed ac count of events leading up to the tragedy, and told of the preparations he had made for the shooting. He said he met James Howard, who did the actual shooting, en his arrival - - . pointed out Becknell as the guilty at Frankfort, a few (fry before the phrty. and stated that he himself shooting took-place. Youtsey also told of placing guns In Powers office, of raising the win dow, and drawing the curtains, of pointing but Goebel as he approach ed the capitol and seeing Howard aim at Goebel. He then left the room and heard the crack of the ri fle as he was descending the stairs. Youtsey In his testimony corner ed powers directly with the tragedy by stating that he fixed the door for the entrance of the. assassin and ap proved of ; the plan .In his testimony also gave very damaging test!- mbnY against Former Governor Tay lor. State Treasurer Day, Superin tendent of Public Instructlop W. J. Davison, W. W. H. Cullen and others He told -Pender that-he, having hir-. ed the girl, was responsible for her welfare..* ‘ He cited the fact as he knew it, that she had been given only two meals a day, both consisting almost invariably of cornmeal. The detec tive also told of lettera, Miss Sjos tedt had smuggled North, describing how she had been imprisoned in a barn, through the cleats of which snow and the-Weak winds blew. “This girl,” thundered Broderick, came Into your employ through an advertisement. She was afflicted with a slight ,throat Trouble, ahd thought the South was the place tor her. You accepted her aa-T^buse- and as such you should have provided for her. You haven’t done BO, and if you don’t deliver her to me I’ll Save you hauled before a Judge. connected with the atato admlnlatra- tlon. Youtsey further testified that Tay lor dictated a letter to him asking for Howard to come to Frankfort to ‘do the Job,” and he gtated^ttret he would give $1,500, a pardon, and a military escort to the mountains to the man who would kill Goebel: Youtsey identified the original af fidavit which he gave Powers while both men were in the Louisville Jail. In this document Youtsey made oath that he knew nothing against - Pow ers tg co street' BWTffTfBr wijF^rftt nor mar: DISPENSARY LAW DISCUSSED. Representatives of Eleven County Boards of Control Meet. Pursuant to a call sent out by the Kershaw County board of Control there was held in Columbia Wednes day a conference of-county boards, which was attended by representa tives of eleven county boards as fol lows: Kershaw, Richland, Orangeburg, Charleston, Lee, Barnwell, Laurens, Dorchester, Fairfield, Chester and Sumter/ Dr. W. J. Dunn, of Ker shaw. was elected president, and Capt J. H. Claffy, of Orangeburg, secre tary. * -, ' Pender quivered and finally broke down. He led the detective to Miss Sjostedt. who at that moment, she said afterward, was comtemplatlng means of suicide. She had said: "It is better and easier to die by my own hand than to be. starved to death by this lun atic.” Miss Sjostedt flung her arms The members of county boards present discussed the provisions of the Carey-Cothran law in detail and particularly as to such sections as now give pracTical difficulty in the operation of the, dispensaries. The matter of samples, which Is not dealt with at all ih.>the law, was chiefly, discussed, and it was decided around the big detective’s neck when he told her-he had-come to release her. The pair got into the rig. Brod erick keeping one eye upon Pender meanwhile, and they covered the six miles of ffesotate country, where only half a dozen negroes and three or four white persons live. Arriving at Halifox, they took the train northward, and reached Wash ington, en route to Asbury Park. Miss Sjostedt was In tears during the trip, but her tears were not those of one- in agony. The nervous strain through which she had bravely bat tled began tQ-teU on her as she left the shadow of the tumble-down barn, where Pender would thrust her at night and* lock the door_upon her, and where rats and mice scampered about, adding more horror to her pitiable condition. —-‘-4 never knew,” she said, “that a white man—or a man alleged to be white—could treat a human be ing In the manner Pender treated me. He even laughen in my face when I begged for some nutritious food, and offered me the same ol<! dried up, unpalatable corn meal. He fed the negroes working for him bet ter fare than he gave me.” Broderick gave no explanation why, after he had rescued Miss Sjos tedt, he did~ not have Pender ar rested. It Is believed he bad reasons of his own to Justify tki* move his main object being to return Miss Sjostedt to her friends. , render and the - forceasting of thf to ask the General Assembly to defeated National Convention of the amend the law so that the boards can policies for which he st.indr. ThLs dispose of samples in some way le- will make Bryan stronger than dver.” filly. Two Islands Sold. , " . Fannin* ^nd Washington islands of the Vanning Islands group in the South Pacific, were sold at suction at Suva, Fiji, on Saturday last to Father Broughier for the aum of 1125,900. J _____ the assassination of Goebel. The affidavit, the witness stated, was giv en to Powers at his request for the purpose of getting Powers a new trial as his case was then pending in the court of appeals. t ^ An agreement, purported to have been given Youtsey by Powers in ex change for the affidavit wss also put in evidence. The agreement was to the effect that the affidavit made by Youtsey for Powers should not be made public, and should be returned to Youtsey In fifteen days. Youtsey stated that he knew when he made the statements s davit they were false, and that Pow ers said he must have It to get a new heairng. He said Powers wrote the agreement. LOHT THEIR HANDS. Workers. it IMm m a Mott Swim Ckar|t. They Attacked aad Attempted to Aasaalt • Young White Woman on the Highway. A special dispatch to The News and Courier from Union says on Sunday afternoon a dastardly at tempt at criminal assault was tnsds, It Is alleged, by Lester Beck nell, white, upon Miss Fannie Vaughn, a respectable white girl of 16 or 18 years of age. Miss Vaughfi and Miss Sadie Wil lard come to Union Inst week from their homes near Santee on a visit to relatives. On Sunday, a little before sunset, the tw 0 girls were walking on the Southern Railroad leadfng to Spar tanburg. When a short distance up the railroad they were overtaken by Lester Becknell end a man who gives his name as W. C. Massey. The for mer Is a native of Union coiiiTty. When these men came up with the girls Miss Willard turned and ran back to the hoine of her brother-in- law, but the men took hold of Mias Vanghn. carried her some distance up the track and Into a thicket, where she waa knocked down, beat en, .about the face, and the men on ly desisted from their efforts to ac complish their purpose when they became alarmed at the outcries of the girl. Upon being arrest*^ Becknell re mained stoild and weakly denied his guilt Massey, on the other hand. only stood off and looked on while Becknell made his attempt. No one having denied this ac count of the affair. Msfisey, who only came to-Unlon last week, is being held in jail ns a witness, while a warrant was promptly Issued for Becknell on the charge of an assault with intent to ravish. _— . Miss Vaughn's brothers assaulted Massey after the occurrence and stabbed him In the back with a knife, but the wound is not a serious one. MOURNERS MAKE MISTAKE. Mother Wrongly Identifies Dead Boy as Her Hon. High water Monday night caused the collapse of a new bridge In course of erection over* the west branch of the Susquehanna River at Mlffltugvttle, Pa., and resulted In the death of seven/fiien and the In-. Jury of nearly a score of others, two fa tatty. Forty men were at work on the traveller on the middle span of the structure when it collapned. They were all thrown Into the swol len river. \ The collapse of the bridge wan caused by the rapid rise In the river. The water rose during the day at the rate'of almost one foot an hour and detyrles carried down the stream by the Hood struck the false work of the bridge and caused its collapse. The accident, occurred Just at nightfall, when the men were pre paring to abandon their work. As a result the * work of rescuing those who were thrown Into the water and caught In the maaa of twisted iron and ateel was greatly retarded. The second span of the bridge wig being erected and It was this section that fell with the big traveller. The bodies of four of those killed were found floating on the surface of the water entangled In the bent end twisted girders and iron work, but the others haven’t been found. Many of the men were caught In the rapid water and carried a mile or more down tbs river before they were reached. One of the most miraculous es capes was that of William who -was caught in the tra% ^rork „ and held a -prisoner an houi- with its mouth and chin above water be fore being rescued. The bridge wss being built by the State to replace one carried away 1ft.** frashet In Tniipftteh To The mMK if Courier says when the body of the young man killed by a live wire tr Camden and supposed to be that o£ Wilber Langley of Chester was car. ried there for interment, the coffin was opened at the request of young Langley’s mother. No one doubted the identity of the corpse. Mrs. Langley herself not questioning that the body was that of her son, and she and other relatives of young Langley viewed It and wept over It Among those who came lu the house of mourning to pay their re spects to the grief-stricken family" “ was Mrs. Orre, a neighbor of the Langley's. Mrs. Orre. like others of those present, was permitted to vl^w the remains, and to her utter aston- tahment recognised In the dead body her own son. Lewis Sowell, s child by a former marriage. The Langleys, following the an nouncement of Mrs. Orre of her dis covery, were convicted of its correct ness, and It was further confirmed by the appearance on the scene of Langley hlmselFT kllx*. and well, who returned home from the country, where he had been at work, and was astonished to learn that he had been mourned as dead Young Sowell, who waa 17 years old, leaves besides his mother, two brothers and * sister, Mr. Ernest To Save the Lives of Their FoMow-fga-weil of Orangeburg County: Mr Roy Sowell and Mrs. B. Lowry, of At New York ip order to save a number of Comrades from death, Olive Jude and John J. McGlynn, iron workers, each lost a hand on Thursday. The two men were at work on the Long Islknd city tower of the new Blackwell Island bridge. They were working high up on the structure, and it was their fluty to guide Into place the great ateel plates on which the girdle rest; Be low them were working a acore of other men. One of the great plates that had just been settled into place sudden ly began to slide. Unless it was stopped It would plunge from its base onto the heads of the men work ing below. Jude and McGlynn saw the danger and, shouting to the workmen below, each threw an arm around"a beam and each seized with his free hand the sliding piste. By a gigantic effort they allpped it to one side so that It rested against a beam. But they were unable to withdraw their hjuids in time. Jude’s right hand was cut off at the wrist and McGlynn's left hand was terribly mangled. Comrades rigged- a tackle and drew the plate back ao that they were released, meantime holding the two lajared men so that they did not fall fro: the tower. At the hospital Me- Glynn's hand was amputated. Both will recover. _ Lancaster. TILLMAN WANTS TO KNOW. Asks Investigation of Cortelyou's Action Daring Financial Crisis. “ - , - — - . Senator Tillman Monday Intro duced a resolution in the Senate directing the committee on finance to-investigate the recent proceed ings of the Secretary of the Treasury in connection with the financial cries arid also to make an inquiry concerning clearing house certifica tes. The resolution wss presented in two series, the first dealing with the operations of the Treasury De partment, and the second with clear ing house certificates, both being divided Into three sub-divisions. KILLED BY LIVE WIRE. Employee of Carnival Company Shocked to Death. 1 A dispatch from Camden to The News and Courier -says Tuesday eve- nlng Wilber Lewis Langley, of Laa caster, who was recently employed in the Persian Theatre of the Jonas Carnival Company, now. showing that pikes, met with * tragic deeth He we4 attempting to attach a globe to an electric wire end in taking bold ot the wire he was instantly killed He was a young man apparently ot | about 20 years of age. NO. 16 A FATAL CRASH. UsUdr tf rilM Bridp Mb M- ti SwollM Strain SEVEN MEN DROWNED. High Water Caused the Accident. Tho Catastrophe Occurred Jut at Nightfall, When Men Were Pee- paring to Knock Off Work for the Day. There Were Many Narrow Escapes. 8EARCH~fOR DEAD SUSPENDED. Wrecked Coal Mines Have Given Up «ao Bodies. At Monogph, W. VBT~**arch In Mines 6 and 8. of tbe Fairmont Coal Company for victims of last Friday’s , explosion was suspended early tbis week, partly because fire had broken out again In Mine 8. and partly be cause every section of the two mines has been explored and it was not be loved that further search along the same lines would result in the find ing of more bodies. Three hundred and twenty bodies have been removed. Of these 71 were Americans, 146 Italians. 54 Slovaks. 81 Poles, 5 Greeks and 2 Hunga rians. Vice President Wheelwright and General Manager Lee L. Malone be lieve that all bodies aet deeply bur led In the old workings have been re moved, —•— • hM Jjegun to clean up the mine and remove the heavy falls and heaps of debris that were not disturbed by the rescuing parties, and It Is said that some ad ditional bodies will be found. DECIDE ON DENVER. Democratic National Convention Will Meet There on July 7. After deciding to hold the next Democratic National Convention at Denver, Col., and fixing the date, July 7. 1908, the national committee Thursday at Washington entered up on a spirited debate on the propriety ot accepting more of the |100,600 offered by Denver for the Conven tion than Is actually needed to pay the Convention expenses IS that city. The opposition to the acceptance of the contribution took the form 6f a resolution by Representative Clay ton of Alabama declining money not actually needed for Convention pur poses, but after a long debate the resolution was laid on the table by vote of $1 to 14. CASHIER KILLS HIMSELF. Illinois Banker s Suicide Bank in Fine Condition. R. P. Easton. 41 years old. cash ier of the State Bank of Herseher. 111., committed suicide in hi* bank last week by shooting himself In the bead. Easton had been cashier of the bank since its organisation and wit a stockholder. He was married and leaves a widow and in. When the recent a condition of all the Illinois was made one of the oat from The report be ia al <jre: