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MERCHANTB SUIN NTICED TO HOTEL ROOM BT A FAKE SALESMAN SOKBED AND MUHDE8ED Indianapolis Police Were on Murder er’s Trail While Crime Was Being Committed.—Had Worked Similar Trick on Merchants of Other Cities. ^ Convincod that the young man who "Monday brutally murdered and rob bed Joseph Schlansky, a clothing merchant, in a hotel at Indianapolis, is the person who has committed sim ilar crimes in several Eastern and Middle Western cities, the police de partment of Indianapolis Tuesday night asked officers in every large city east of the Mississippi river to watch for the slayer. They believe the murderer is Joseph Ellis, about twenty-one years old, of Richmond, Va. Investigation of the murder of Pchlanssy showed that it had been coolly planned and the escape so cun- ningly carried out as to throw off ba-pi' ion t> mporarily. The .ody of Joseph Schlansky was fonn 1 late Monday niirht in a hotel nr Indianapolis, which hafl boon occu- jd'-1 h> a man who had registered as • ■ \V K Anderson, Louisville, Ky. ’ A • -ci ord had b* on nod aroun 1 11 ■ 1.11 ■ • ;..itit s t hriuit and he ti 11 t . > Ui rough. • I.*- he a ! \nder ^ a d to ti.ave told ’ ’ if he u as n ,i . : , in. (.idol at .- hlatis* > s vtMfo at. 1 a-^o ! h'm to t > go (.> • i tl o i. iti l whore !.o sal 1 lo • ft,.- g .<»•!« to f'.•• u.• r < k .. t.* n S. l.’.in-*) 'aid i t«. ro t -n Id* fan. v noM'lo i t 1 ;,. p ',g.- "T . • of' ' an’ « w a' h ar. 1 ad >ut t » ot. • r d ■ ! ’ a - ■» a * r* or. " » • , ■■ r * '• • * i t. . t • «.i; ^ f da! ar' o 1 1 „ ..... ,. . . i , . v < HOT TIME IN TENNESSEE COTTON SEED MARKETING SPEAKER OF HOI 8E SAYS GUN MEN ABE ABOUND. Members Pull Off Coats to Show Themselves Unarmed and De nounce Others as Cowards. Sensational charges of the bringing of two suit cases of guns into the of fice of the superintendent of the capl- tol at Nashville, Tenn., and of the presence of gunmen In the hall of the Tennessee Hcuise of Representatives, were made on the floor of the House Tuesday by Speaker Stanton. Serious trouble at one time looked certain after the speaker’s charges. Several inflamatory speeches were made. At the afternoon session Tuesday a mo tion to investigate the speaker’s charges and to bring George C. Ren fro, superintendent of the capitol, be fore the House was voted down. Speaker Stanton, after charging that scurrilous articled had appeared in newspapers threatening to unseat him and that threats and efforts of intimidation had come to him for the past several days, said: “There are two suit cases of guns now in the of fice of the superintendent of the capi tol sent there by friends of Gov. Hooper, and even this will not intimi date or scare mo. 1 am speaker of this House and propose to remain so to the end. I do not propose to be 'ntimidated by Gov. Hooper or his gunmen and their everts to force m ( . to make rulings will do them no goo !.’’ R. present iM\c M'Kurland, follow ing Mr Stanton, af'er pulling off his PROPOSED RULES FOR GRADING ARE DISCUSSED. it to s !,, , 'A till w as not arin.e 1 tl, m m w no rams <town is p ot ' and an Further Action Toward EatablIdling Cotton Seed Marketing Division in Agricultural Department. A conference Wednesday afternoon at Columbia between representatives of the Cotton Seed Crushers’ Asso ciation, independent cotton seed buy ers and representatives of the State Farmers’ Union with Commissioner Watson over the proposed grading and rules for manetlng of cotton seed in this State resulted in a deci sion to leave the next step in the hands of the joint committee of the Farmers’ Union and Seed Crushers' Association, which is called to meet in Columbia next Tuesday for the purpose of passing further on the matter. Besides the marketing committee, of the Seed Crushers, B. F. Taylor, secretary, and W. B. West, the assist ant secretary, were present; Dr. Able, of St. Matthews, representing the in dependent seed buyers, while Pres ident Dabbs, Secretary Reed, R. M. Cooper, B. Harris and R. M Morri son. of the exi-eutuo committee of the Farmers’ Union, attended the confer ence, which was held in the library at the Capitol. ('ommiiwioner Watson explained that while there was no law direct ing ills department to take charge of tl:** (nttoii seed marke’ing, still, in ’! •• interests of the great ma^- of pro- ■ ! ic. rs and the gotten s'^-d oil mill '•u-d:ie<K, whbh D large, an i both '■ensurne- and producers, and acting on r. 11je s *s 1 p 1 * ; furmula'ej the ru!- - and r> gulath r.s for ^ra Lnc and ’■ a r s et, tig aft. r a . te - h< tw -en hi': -> If and tepr« senta' :\e» of all in t e r • -t• da'ing *' '< * ent at;. -• plan • • hud d* 1 ayed pat'!’ g tt s' ! g:\--n o 11 the pr p.-st g. t th«* !r''t i■' ; op t Haring g* ned i on- DEPENDONFARMERS HOST AVERT NEAT FAMINE BY BAKING BEEVES TWO BACH EVERY YEAR American Meat Packers Declare if I>eerea»e in Production Is Not Stop ped Question of Supply Will be Se rious—Suggest Substitution of Corn for Cotton. The responsibility of averting a fu ture meat famine was put up to small farmers by speakers at the eighth an nual Convention of the American Meat Packers’ Convention at Chicago Monday. All the speakers agreec that if the decrease in meat produc tion of the last ten years is not stop ped the question of the meat supply for the people of the United States will lie most serious. Among the remedies suggested by the speakers were: Every small farmer should raise at least two beef steers a year to offset the decreased production of the great ranches of the West. The remain ng ranges should be cut up in farms to )>ut all farmers on an » nual footing. Dcwdopment of the hills of New England with their bountiful springs an 1 prevailing shade as a beef pro du ng country. S ibstit u'ion of corn for cotton It. Hi** Southern states and the ronse- '!'!• n' di\e!opment of attle and hog pr. • 1 net l..n MAGNIFICENT FUNERAL MATOR GATNOTS (.AYNOR’S BODY PASSES DOWN CROWDED STREETS. HE LEAVES AN ESTATE VAXATSE AT *2,000,000. T’ i. rt of the r d a note of t' The A mem . r,' n t n r tn ' • e *•'. u n of famine pa. k ng I.."I**- -.t iat n an 1 t . . n - . tne-s -if ni' at '.< ■ 1 ; r >d ,. •’ * rour.''-y n'e tm’h in a cor.d r-> pr*-. a-..us than at an* < ’ I vo rom- •• danger m meat Over a Million View Cortege on Ha Way to Cemetery—Ex-President Taft a Pallbearer. Historic Gnaenwood Cemetery, the resting place In Brooklyn of many famous dead, received the body of New York’s late mayor, William Jay Gaynor, at mid-afternoon Monday, af ter funeral services in his honor that were without parallel in the history of the city. In the presence of the family, the honorary pallbearers, in cluding William Howard Tajt and city officials, among them Mayor Kline,, the flag,draped coffin was com mitted to the grave in the Gaynor 'family plot. The brief Episcopalian service was read by the Rev. Frank W. Page, former pastor of St. John’s, the church where the mayor worship ped. A million people, it is estimated, saw tlie funeral cortege move slowly, first from the city hall, where thou sands had witnessed the body lying in state Sunday, to Trinity Church, where Bishop Greer conducted the solemn services; then back past the City Hall across Brooklyn Bridge, through Eighth avenue home, and on to the cemetery. Upon tlie bridge, hung in black, tratlic did not move. City employees -tend six feet apart, heads uncovered, as the popoe-es. opted catafalque pro- i ee b d into the mayor's home bor ough pelow, the rlv> r noises wore 1st Pel Not A craft blew Its whlaMe, i ot a gong wag sounded The funeral •ra.n Hi ro'ig th<* bri !ge and for a dis tani'e tn Prooklyn paralleled a fov- ute of t (ie mayor. , i » In all .ir r i' it r i P «* ‘ t . do « » f .1 • 1 1. rv 1 t 1 «> report st%t • t '•on ! 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" pt to u«e anr disguises T!..i» the r.iu'dorer of S. h!;in“ky Is ,1 i se [ ■ h Kips, tie police s.iv tliey feel « .■ ft a i U lie w;\s ident :fle J ftt I,oil's x 111 e *■•.• p’ o* -graplis sent from hl« pome nnd nNo front photos s. n’ out |,v the Pittsburg police, who wanted the man. under the name of Brokaw. for an attack on a merchant there. At the time that Schlansky was murdered four squads of detectives were seeking Kills. A telegram from the Louisville police department had been received earlier in the day ask ing the Indianapolis police to arrest Ellis. The squads made an investi gation throughout the afternoon and night. At the hotel where Schlansky was killed the clerks did not remem ber a guest answering Ellis’ descrip tion. Joy Riders Are Shot. At San Francisco, Kate Coulson, irty-five years of age, was shot in y neck Friday and George Kovack, 'ht watchman in a garage, and Wil- m Acker, a chauffeur, were shot ad after the three had been riding ist of the night In an automobile. R. Coulson, husband of the wound- woman, is being sought by the lice. Mrs. Coulson is believed to be ally wounded. *•’ » l > the !.i”i r w v« a b»'f f t be faculty of th*> < '• urn* la Tl.*-. '*» g i! >. t: !r:ary ar. ! !n wb . li tli«» ; r- >* Id* rt ! tt'X'lf t.a 1 !!».■ 1 when a ti.»v Mr Wilson a.ild t!.:it if lie mad* 1 t:'s winter liome anywiierc else than in Washwigton, It wou! ! bo in Co'nitnliia i'Ut tl.a* it looked as If ho would spond Hie coming winter hard at work at the White House. Ho ix ’Tossed the hopo that ho might b>' able to accopt the invitation after the next winter. The delegation was pre sented to the President by Represent ative A. K. I.ever. V mp ' :i ■ : ■n 't.**lr !. s r : I r. |e 1 a <• urv* 'ro ill r.ppou. t e dir* 1 ' . ’•■nt w aa i < ara t'ickled In' : re 1 were rr.!! 1 w ,i> to work The "> tn'!* s an h-*ur. To-ar t ti e gtation . ’h■ r.s and the ac o The g'* el not telegCiip*. iM o|da' 1 hut did NO NOMINATIONS. Striking Pupils Suspended. ie thousand pupils of the three Mise.’N. Y., high schgols were in- itely suspended late Monday fol- ig a strike in the morning as a st against new hours of study, o’clock in the morning to two- r o’clock in the afternoon. The Ing pupils, many of whom were MC*p4d through window* and door*, paraded the bualneaa U and bald an ladlfnatlon meet- president Wilson Does Nothing About South Carolina Offices. Although it was expected that President Wilson would send to the Senate nominations of a district at torney and a marshal for South Car olina Thursday this was not done. When the senate on Monday remain ed in session for such a brief length of time that no nominations could be received, it was generally supposed that action on the South Carolina matters would be taken Thursday and there was some surprise here that nothing was done. Nothing of a de finite kind having transpired in this matter Thursday it is not known whether the president will send these nomination in when the senate meets again or whether he will wait a few days. ♦ ♦ „ Finds Wife and Child Dead. When Carl Hirsch, a glass cutter, entered his home at Monaca, Pa., he discovered the dead body of his in fant son In the hath tub, and its mother, Mr*. Ida Hirsch. hanging to a beam in the cellar. The woman had drowned the child and then com mitted snldde. Tli n fai'f J .'ll tit b’^s na vt> ! inanr live* A 1 ..!••! noar th*' §. frio an 1 a num- bt r of resiliences nearby were thrown open for use a» emergency hospitals Many ambulances and a corps of phy sicians were summoned to Hie scene The Pennsylvania railroad issued a statement saying the accident had been caused, so far as could be deter mined, by the negligence of the oper ator at Whitestone Junction, who al lowed the train bound for New York to leave the double track before the other train had cleared. Gaynor’s Friend Suicides. Morris Metrzgar, a wealthy resi dent of Far Rockaway Beach, and a lifelong friend of the late mayor, hanged himself in his barn Monday afternoon as Mayor C.aynor’s body was being carried to the grave. The floor of the barn was littered with newspapers, giving accounts of the last honors that were being paid Mayor Gaynor. Friends of Metzgar attribute his suicide to grief ad the loss of his friend. ♦ ♦ ♦ Win or lose, we take pleasure in the fact that we have conducted an honest, fair campaign for the mar- shalship. We made no charges against any of our competitors, and would scorn the office If we ind to rteort to such mean, low methods to win it. » ♦ ♦ Mother and Babe Burned. Mrs. M. Hutchinson and her Infant »on, of Fom Valley, Cal., were found dead Wednesday in the cellar of the Hutchinson home, which was destroy- •d by a forest fire. .”. .' *•*' p*‘ m•' ..8 l • ir. , al (L ffir . !• y 1 ah b«*#n !•*■ tti po»*t kn*<» ; '4 11. * 1!t ■ f • bf p*-. ulur * .iti.h ’ ions In l. »u8*■ opt-ratb n We bar** b*M-n in the bands of capable, well- m* anlt.K 8 dent I*-• ■* in *.ne Ian! and political off:co holders on the nther " 'I .■ report declared that the acton f th*- g. x.rnment In changing the . l.arac t. r of label* on canned goods, after on< e (lev had been ac epted by the government, cost the packing In- du-try 1l’'"."ih) annually Speaker* at the National Convention of butter and egg men urged the need of na tlonal legislation to regulate the stor age of these product* in order to avoid repeated charges of price rais ing and monopoly. S! x 1 *-«■ n c.a. ! » 'V \'k 'r* p; r 1 r h t ‘ t a •! r r *■ f «• * ' «* Ir't t ▼ •'rum '*lq ;r • h 'ot. * h 1^8 of orrfc!1» *a i fern* ant * ’ h' rj reeted st ■ ’ m • ! • k h rtr* * r» rx rt •ankrd on th* His Two Sons, Three Daughters, sad Widow Share Wealth—Married Daughters Get little. The will of William J. Gaynor, lata mayor of New York, as Hied Wednes day at New York, leaves to the widow his Brooklyn residence and 600 shares of Royal Baking Powder Com pany stock. The remainder, with the exception of minor bequests of the estate, is divided, two-sevenths to each of two sons and one-seventh to each of three unmarried daughters. The value of the estate la estimated at $2,<500,000. The two married daughers, Mrs. Harry Vlngut and Mrs. William Se ward Webb Jr. received $1,000. The share of Rufus Gaynor, a son, who was with the late mayor when he died aboard the steamer Baltic, is placed In the hands of the trustees, who are instructed to pay him the income un til he is thirty years old and then to surrender the,principal if they judge him capable of handling it wisely. In a codicil Mayor Gaynor describes Rufus as “a good boy always, with out bad habits, but, It may be, too easy, and liable to let go of what he lias, not knowing how hard it is to accumulate property.” The will di rects tlie trustees to end their trust for Rufus “provided they are satis fied from tils past life and business capacity and habits that lie will not let It slip tiirough hi* flnser*. and I want him Judged fairly in this re spect ” Rufus is now twenty four years old He I* the obtest son. Norman Gaynor !a Just twenty-one. When the sill wa* made Mav, 1909. hi* father directed that hi* share of the proper- tv be held In tru»t until he became of age Tlie only other beneficiary mentioned in the will I* the late m»vnr s maiden •l*ter. Vary Gaynor, of it* Mia* Gaynor receive# a I t er brother owned In I’tlea and ’be In*-* c e of ]]5 •har* of Baking Powder *tock to he held for her In "r .»t duMng her life time The leja^'r* to three unmarried daughter* lle’en. Marlon, and Ruth. al*o ar* j •■'•d in th* haad* of a tf^e- ' rr to b« held until they are twenty- f ' eara old t ntll they ar* twenty- ‘>ne tteee daughter* ar* not to re- ' e t * e more than |! S00 a y*ar; after that an 1 unMI they come lake poe- aeaaicr *,f the r full shar*e. thegr aboil receHe th# entire income No eiplaaallon la glveo of tto ap parent discrimination age loot tto two married daughter*, both of wbom e vped and married without their • '■!! pro»idee that any belr who coo- te*t* the division of tba estate shall automatically forfeit hie legacy. Mayor Gaynor prepared (he laatre- treat to h'e own handwriting It coe- cred ten page* of fooiacap >f p- ‘ice an 1 on drew the ra'* • tree'. a* th* TOAST WITH WATER. Drunk to President Wilson and Presi dent Poincare. A toast to President Wilson and President Poincare and the tradition al friendship between France and the United States was drunk in water Monday night by Secretary Bryan and the visiting French commission selecting a site at the Panama-Pacific fair. The news leaked out when MaJ. J. J. Dickinson, who was host, made a positive denial of a published story that Mr. Bryan had not drunk when the champagne glasses were raised for the toast, and that the French visitors were offended. MaJ. Dick inson explained there was no cham pagne at the dinner, merely an old fashioned cocktail, which the French men had expressed a curiosity to taste, and that as Mr. Bryan proposed the toast near the end of the dinner it was drunk with water. Given Life to Save Her Raby. Chased by a cow afflicted with rabies while she was carrying her baby to the hospital, Mrs. Msry Ar- lisli, of Pittston, Pa., ssved the life of the little one by throwing tt into an open store door. The next min ute the woman was fatally gored. • a * k { *«ae.1 through twi «a'!a of • [.*• t 1 to 'he curb by so •:r'-.k*-n Itr.e n* '-’Ire exerv man bar* 1 h‘* hea l ar 1 only the Mue-cop f>*-1 pa'mlmen rerpalne-l covered Of th#*# there were S e.,n t r , the line of march or on duty along tli* way of t he funeral t ra n W h* n t!.e church aen'.res had end ed the gr**at m.x****.* of flowers that ha 1 b*er. In Trinl'y at:*! Hie ntv Hall wore r*>nt to various hospital*, the • 1 .deest among them, orchid* and chrysanthemums, to St Marv a the Hoboken. N J Institute, where Mr Giynor lay after being allot down 11,re.- years ago. CONFESSES TO MURDER. Alaniaba Roy Said to Have Admit ted Killing His Father. Essick Gibbon, sixteen years old, has confessed to the murder of his father, Alex Gibson, at his home, near Greenville, Ala., is what they say, who Monday arrested young Gibson and placed him In Jail. The boy Is said to have declared he crept Into his father’s bedroom and crushed the sleeping man’s skull. Then he closed the door, locking a little dog In the room with the body. Young Gibson, according to the alleged confession, then went to his brother’s home and told his brother of the crime, re questing that he be allowed time to make his escape. A neighbor Is said to have discovered Gibson several days later. Officers say the boy charges his father with cruelty. Accidentally Kills Brother. While playfully snapping a pistol at his brother Sunday night, Samuel Knight, aged twelve years, shot and killed Paul, two years older. The boys, sons of Henry Knight, a farmer of the Barksdale section of Laurens county, were at the home of a neigh bor, Edgar Tumblin. when the acci dent occurred. It seems that the boys thought the weapon was net loaded, hot after snapping It a few tlmea one chamber wan discharged with th* rsemlt aa stated. NKGHKH4 III HNN TO BRATH. Half Wlttod l amiMw Girl Life in Fire. I-rwked to a house .while her mother wa* picking cotton In n field nearby, an eighteen year-old negro Kiri was burned to death Taeaday morning at her home, on lower Mar ket atreet, near Vaughan's ginnery at Camden. The girl waa half-witted and at one time was an Inmate of the inaane aaylum. The euppoaitlon la that *he set fire to tome cotton, which • a* piled up in a corner of the room. Mr Garner, who operates a ginnery nearby, together with aeveral hands, *aw smoke emitting from the cracks of the houae. They knocked down the door* and when George DuBoae, a negro, attempted to rescue the girl she rushed into another room, and in a few minutes waa calling for help, but no one could enter on account of the flames and smoke. WILL GET FAVORABLE REPORT. e Lever Agricultural Extension BUT Bald to Please. The House committee on agricul ture held a hearing Tuesday on Chairman Lever's agricultural exten sion bill, as as modified after his re cent conferences with Senator Smith, of Georgia, and agreed almost unani mously that It should be reported favorably to the House the first thing after opening of the December ses sion. The committee had the pleas ure of having Secretary Houston present at its sessions for the first time. He and B. T. Galloway, th* Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, both addressed the committee In be half of the Lever bill, and repre sentative of the American Federation of Labor assured the committee that the measure had the endorsement of that important organization. Ohio Flood Loss. A total jnoney loss of $163,000,tt§ was caused by the Ohio floods Ifllt March. The United States weather bureau estimates that sum. which in cludes loss to railroad, telegraph and » # » > It must throw a oonle— eugenic cemplalna et th*