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COURT IN A PANIC ? I TWO LAWYERS FIGHT IN PRESENCE Of THE JUDGE r COURT ROOM IN A PANIC # 1 Spectators .loin in KiTorts to Stop 1 I the Fight, and a Kenewal of the IMTculty Was ITevented by Judge l'urdy's Threat to Send the Ofi fonder to Jail. 1 Heel blood flowed at the trial of T. U. Vaughn, in the (Jeneral Sessions I Court ui Creenviile, Friday, when .Attorney John J. McSwain, assisting in the prosecution, and Attorney 13. F. 'Martin, of counsel for the defence, engaged in a furious listicuff resulting ti oin a dispute as to the admission ol ceitain evi .ence. For several minutes the crowded Court room was tin own into a siate of hysteria, as half dozen olllcers attempted to separate the combatants, and it was by the narrowest margin that a riot was averted. The disturbance was quelled for a few minutes and then threatened to break out afresh when a half dozen i .....I I ii t lin t ))(>. il I I UI in.') n I UOICU III 11 v; unuu uv came engaged in a heated wrangle. Judge J'urdy, who had retained his composure throughout the excitement, realized that the situation had grown extremely critical and at once brought into play the power of his station, by threatening to put the next man who opened his mouth in jail. Order was finally restored, but it was some minutes before the deck cleared for action again. The first, and the prosecuting, witness in one of the cases against Vaughn was on the stand at the time tin; altercation took place. Counsel for the defence was (juesHoimnr ihe girl as to whether or not Mr. McSwain was her attorney in a da mac suit for $ 10,000, which she liad filed against Vaughn just after his escape iio.n jail. This question was the beginning of the trouble. After a dramatic wrangle, a low mtit to red growi was nearu. i norc was a sound of some one rushing across the floor, disturbing chairs and tables. In the twinkling of an eye, Mr. McSwain was upon Attorney Martin and, to all appearances, had dealt, him a blow which knocked him to the floor. The next instant Mr.-uMcSwain was upon the attorney and things were in such a state of pandemonium that it is difiicult to state just what transpired. The Court room was thrown into ? state of panic. Sheriff Poole, who was standing near by, rushed upon the combatants, but was powerless to get them apart. A half dozen or more ofllcers and spectators took hold of Mr. McSwain, who is of splendid physique, but they were tossed rignt and left. Finally more officers and spectators surrounded Mr, McSwain and bore him to the floor. For several seconds the scene resembled a football scrimmage, first Attorney McSwain being on top and then the half dozen or more who wore trying to quiet him. In the meantime Mr. .Martin was taken out of the room and into a hallway in the rear of tlie Judge's bench. Mr. Martin was bleeding profusely from several scratches on the right temple and jaw. Mr. McSwain, to all appearances, was unscratched. The Court room was crowded to overflowing. The excitement spread to the audience and many of them fled tho building, while others rushed to the front and took so no sort of part in the fray. With difficulty the mob was beaten b'ack behind the bar railing. When order was restored Judge Pardy made a brief statement, in which he deplored the incident, but stated that, it was an occurrence which neither be nor the sheriff was able to foresee. lie stated that at the proper time and in the proper manner he would dispose of the matter. Mr. Martin and 'Mr. McSwain then asked to be allowed to make statements to the Court. Permission was granted and Mr. Martin explained his tide of the dispute. At this point other attorneys became encaged in iho discs den an 1 when it appeared that hosti'ltles vcre about to he renewed .Indgo Purdy arose and in a very < lpl m.O statement brought, order out of chaos. "1 have managed to keep cool during this trouble, as becomes my position," said Judge Purdy, "hut 1 am getting pretty hot myself now. 1 don't want to' hear another word about this matter and If it goes on I will put the offender in Jail and keep him there." Within a few' minutes after quiet was restored Court recessed for lunch. The afternoon session was held behind elosed doors, only the members of the Thar, witnesses and the press being admitted. ^ WAG 10 A VIGOROUS WAR. +.... V . Democrats Working to Capture UnitStates Senate. A dispatch from New York sava the Democrats will make a vigorous campaign to obtain a majority in the United States Senate where they now lack six votes of having command. Departure of Chairman McCombs of he Democratic Executive Committee, for Chicago, where Monday ho conferred with party leaders is be.! ,vfd to n ark the beginning of the mo I strennos part of this fight. There are Senatorial vacancies in Colorado. Illinois and Idaho, the last named TfiUsed by the recent death of Senator Heyburn. Senator James A. Reed of Missouri, chairman of the Democratic campaign committee sent Governor Shafroth of Colorado, and former Governor Thomas of the same state. Into Idaho to get Into the senatorial light. Democrats now have fortythree seats in the senate. STRONG POINT TAKEN BULGARIANS FORCE TURKS TO KEEP ON RUNNING. The Turks Do Not Conceal Their Disappointment and Surprise at Success of HulKarianN. A brief Soila dispatch Sunday announces what may bo the mo&t important move of the victorious Unitarian army so far in the Turkishikilkan war?the capture of Esk'iaba. The report describes tills to.vu-'is an important position on the main line between Adrianople and Constantinople. If the Bulgarins have captured the railroad at this point, they have cut the communications between Constatinople Saloniki. The Bulgarian plan of campaign, according to the well informed correspondent of the Vienna Reichipost at the headquarters of the second Bulgarian army, will be the complete destruction of all the Turkish forces along the Maritza River and those retreating across the Erkenq Itiver. lie decsribes Gen Dimitrieff's army an advancing on a broad front, the l ight flank along a line from Yenidie to Eski-Baba, the Western column to Havla, with the central column already in the vicinity of Kavakli. The eastern wing in forced marcher is affecting a great turning movement by way of Bunarhissar, Visa and Serai, towards the road from Lulehburgas to Chorlu. The correspondent says there are still large forces of Turks north of the railway line with others at Chorlu and Istriandia. Detached Bulgarian forces have been dispatched in the direction of these places and Mfdia on the coast. The intention is to cut the Turkish army off from the capital and force it owards the seashore and then compel It. to capitulate. lie describes the attack on Adrianople as making excellent progress and predicts its successful conclusion within a week. A Bulgarian column from the Arda Valley has occupied Salpistalar and ICmirli. Another report announces the occupation of I'ashmakK-. There is no indication yet whe-e the Turks will make a stir.e, 'i h?v are everywhere falling hack tiefore the victorious allies. They evacuated he town of Isfip in Macedonia, J without resistance, although it occupies a strong natural position. In the Bulgarian diplomatic quarters in London it was stated that Bulgaria, far from assuring that Iho war is approaching a conclusion, has summoned another so.ono reserves o the colors. Turkish diplomats do not conceal their disappointment and surprise at the results of the campaign. ACCrSKS "WIIITK SLAYKRH". + The Murder of tlio Italian Girl an Act of Vengeance. Definite evidence has been secured by the police, Detective Capt. George Arnold said Friday, that the murder of Jennie Cavaglier, a young Italian -1 ~ r * _ woman, near sinumni, ^uim., auur she had been taken there by five men of her nationality in an automobile from Bridgeport, Conn., was an act of vengeance executed upon her for having betrayed secrets of "white slave" traffickers. Capt. Arnold says that the evidence shows that the manner of the woman's death was decided at a conference between the five men implicated hold in the Italian quarters of ho city Sunday night. At this conference it was determined whether he woman should be slashed with he "squealer's" mark or should be put to death. The latter was de-j terminod upon. According to Capt. Arnold, the five men came to Bridgeport under directions from certain men in the "white slave" traffic for the express purpose of making away with the woman because slio had betrayed the organization code which provides disfigurement or death for any person who becomes untrue or any woman who leaves the man under whose protection or with whom she had been living. l*n vest igation of the cose, Cant. Arnold declares, has so far failed to reveal the true identity of the woman, although she has been given several mimes since the crime was com miltch There is every indication, however, he says, that she was closely connected with "white slave" traflie Xew York, New Haven, Conn., and ''bicago. Some of the evidence eo!'eeled tends to show a#direct connection between the shooting and the "vice crusade" in Chicago, and that the woman's death was decreed by the "national odganiza?tion" of "white slave" traders. * MANY OFFERS MARRIAGE Received by Chicago Xurscs who Attended Roosevelt, Margaret Fitzgerald and Miss Blanche Welter, the nurs'i who niter d.vl ^o! Roosevelt, while he was a patient In a hospital in Chicago, have received a large number of letters from men making proposals of marriage. "You are the girl for me," wrote one suitor to Miss Fitzgerald. "I am well off and can make a happy home for you. I fell in love with your picture. Marry me and save my iieart/' "Your care and devotion to a hero," wrote another to Miss Welter, " have completely broken my heart. A beautiful capablo young woman like you would make a happy wife. T know I can make you happy." Ptill another wrote Miss Welter that he had not been able to eat or sleep since he had seen her picture.* Man TTrninoil With an Ave. .Tim TTllt. a nearro of Rarnwelf was found on the railroad track Tuesday morn'ng early. He had been brainen with an axe and had had one ear cut off. TELLS OF HIS CRIME' TRIAL OF VAUGHN COMES TO A DRAMATIC CLOSE j HE MAKES A CONFESSION Tlie Accused, in u Vain Effort to Escape Death Penalty, Admits His Guilt in a Statement to the Jury, Which Hot urns a Verdict of Guilty in Four Minutes. T. U. Vaughn, 011 trial for alleged immorality during his term as superintendent of the Odd Fellows' Home at Greenville, was put on the stand by his lawyers Saturday and made a clean confession of his awful crime. The trial was brought to a sensational close when Vaughn broke down and confessed all. Me named two other victims in addition to those Included in the indictment. The jury was out but four minutes and made no recommendation for mercy, the /erdict carrying the death penalty. Tears streamed down the face of Judge Purdy, named by Governor I Mease as special Judge for this trial. Many jurors, Court olllcials and spetators alike made no pretence of hiding their tears as Vaughn, pale and broken, acknowledged his crime. Some jurors wept aloud. In the afternoon Judge Purdy, bennntnnniocr VniirrVtn nv^rrillptl f! iiii i; 111 w . v. . ^ motion for a new trial, which was argued by one of Vaughn's lawyers, after his client made his confession. .Judge Purdy, in sentencing Vaughn to death in the electric chair, set December 2 0 as the date for his execution. When Court opened there was no Intimation that the accused would make a confession. His attorney had fought stubbornly s.ince the beginning of the case to break down the strong evidence developed by the piosecution's littlft girT witnesses. Immediately after Court opened Saturday attorneys of both sides consulted, resulting in an agreement to let Vaughn confess in an effort to save his own life, and that the ease would go to the jury without argument. "I have acted devilishly, T have noted shamelessly," began Vaughn. "The devil tempted me and I have fallen." He pleaded eloquently but vainly with the jury to save his life, not so much for his sake as for his wife and little doughter. Neither Mrs. Vaughn nor her daughter were in Court Saturday, though they had been with the accused since the trial opened, lie was formerly nssisstant superintendent of ihe First Baotist Church Sunday school, one of the largest and most fashionable in Greenville. He was a ministerial student and frequently occupied pulpits of churches in and around Greenville. lie owns considerable property. Vaughn's Confession. Facing the jury, Vaughn made his confession. In all, his statement makes three thousand words. Briefly summarized it is as follows: "Gentlemen, it is useless to say that in this instance I am greatly humiliated, and for months and months 1 have had agonizing hours over the whole matter. I wish to say this in the outset, that 1 have never wished to conceal one whit of the truth when the time came to make a clear statement. I have been so cautious in those particulars that some have inferred that I had denied my guilt. 1 know that some have had that impression, but I knew that I was guilty and would tell it at the proper time. For thai reason I have made impressions that were unfavorable to me. "I. want to say here and now that [ am going to assume full responsibility. 1 want to lake it off of that girl. 1 want to say that I have loved the girls always, hut that love has L< en misdirected and missused. 1 don't think I be girl will deny to-day (lie reality of mv love in many respects, yet my conduct towards her would make her take the position towards mo which she now takes, and just takes. "As superintendent of the Orphanage, I had entire control of her. 1 realize that now. 1 did it uud?r circumstances about which I would no! care to.go into details here. At the very point I thought myself the strongest, I found myself tno weakest. I found that the Devil had attacked me with a more subtle and powerful tempatlon in the very place I thought I could not be tempted. I cannot now go into the details of the circumstances surrounding me when I fell, and I now assume full responsibility and ask God to save that girl. "Now, as to the treaty cut of the children out there; of cout-se, 1 whipped them, but I never did wish to be cruel. I did not abuse them, and had no desire to do so. Hut as hellish as this weight of sin has been, and despite the suffering of my body and soul, it has brought, an .entirely new vinwnotnt of 1ifr? 1 nm riot snrnkln? ing it to make my position clear, and of this for sympathy, I am simply statI want to say this, that if it took all of this to save, to bring mo to whore I stand, and in spite of nil this prosecution, of all this shame and suffering, if it has taken all cf this to redeem my soul and save me from Hell, I am thangful for it to-day. "I now have a better conception of fled and of man. With that feet in view, realizing the cheapness of life, f can he of hotter service to Hod and to man. I feel that if you will give me another opportunity, after pleading guilty to this charge, and let me have another chance, T can be of to't sorviee to Hod than ever before. T feel that T can live a IKe rf sublime service and consecration to r?od. As dark as it may seem, as disgusting as it may seem to you, as hellish as It appears. f feel \.hat In the depths of 0 WHERE IT CAME FROM . J SOURCES OP THE DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN FUND. ? Yearly Seven Hundred Thousand Dollars Given by Fifty-Three Thousand Odd People. ' Contributions to the Presidential campaign fund of the Democratic r party this year totalled $07 8,IMG, J according to the sworn statement of Treasurer ltolla C. Wells, of St. Louis, Hied with tlie clerk of the Mouse of Representatives Friday. Expenditures aggregated $502,01 8.21, including $120,000 sent to Chicago Mom the headquarters at New York, and there are outstanding obligations of $55,140. ( The Republican statement of contributions was iiled Saturday, the last day under the law. The Progressive party filed its statement Thursday, showing contributions oi $304,24 4, expenditures of $2 02,34 1 and outstanding obligations amounting to $41,3 41. All told 53,3 03 contributions were received by Mr. Wells, and of these 62,2 4 0 were for amounts of $100 or less. Governor Wilson, the nominee, gave $500. Herman Kidder, of New York, as treasurer of the national committee, turned over $28,825 as the surplus of the Baltimore Convention. Judge J. W. Gerard, of New York, was the largest individual contributor, with $13,000. Charles It. Crane, of Chicago, and Jacob IT. Schiff, of New York, each contributed $10,000 in two payments of $5,000 each. Samuel Untermyer, of New York, gave $10,000, as ditl Frederic C. Penfield, ?f Germantown, Pa., and Henry Goldman and Ilenry Morganthau, of New York. Among those who contributed $5,(>00 were Cleveland m. Dodge of New York: ltolla C. Wells of St. Louis. treasurer of the committee: Thomas P. Loekwood, of Buffalo; Hugh Wallace, of Tacoma, Wash.; Charles H. Smith, of 'Menassa, Wis.; C. A. Spreckles, of New York; J. C. C. Mayo, of Paintsville, Ky.; Senator Watson, of Wc?st Virginia; Iioger Sullivan of Chicago; Nathan Straus, of New York, and former Senator Clark of Montana. Other contributions were from David M. llyman of New York, $2,f>00 ; Mrs. N. McCormick Blaine, $ 1 ,(>00; Senator O'Gorinan of New York, $1,000; William Church Osborne, of New York, $3,000; Herman A. Mctz, ol' New York, $1,000; Mayor Carter Harrison, of Chicago, $200, and Dr. J B. Murphy, of Chicago, who recently attended Theodore Roosevelt in. that city, $100. The amount shows the chief items of expenditures were for printing, postage, newspaper advertising, salaries and travelling expenses of speakers and the Presidential nominee. WANTS DEMOCHATS TO WIN. Father of Teddy's Running Mat? is a Good Democrat. At Sacramento Gov. Marshall of Indiana, Democratic vice-presidential nominee, criticised Gov. Johnson of California, his opponent on the Progressive ticket, in addressing an open air meeting there late Monday. Ilis reference to Gov. Johnson was made af'er the Democratic nominee had been welcomed to Sacramento and had been wished success by Grover Johnson, Gov. Johnson's father. He said Gov. Johnson had told Indiana how to run its government. He would not undertake this in California, but would call his hearers' attention to the fact that in Indiana Republican voters were free to vete for Mr. Taft on a Republican ticket under a Republican emblem. Such was not the case in California, he said. "I should liko to see California cast its electoral vote for Woodrow Wilson," said Gov. Marshall, "but I want to s^o it done through the free will of the voters. I would not like to see Woodrow Wilson win this state if j voters were driven to him by a law which renders them powerless to vote for their own choice." my heart. I can go forward in net (or service, and I make this plea to yon. "What is life? It is a very snia'l thing. It is a very short time hero and my suffering it woul ! soon be over and I would ho dead. Then it is i matter of eternity. Hut my preset plea is that I have sinned, that 1 have suffered the tortures of the damned, that if I am given another opportunity, that the hold 1 now have on God, with the strength of the new faith I have in Him from out of this awful sin. 1 believe that I can go out into the dives of sin in this State and he of service to my State and my God in reclaiming the evil-doers, in saving the State great expense and in redeeming them of their crimes and sins. "I believe truly that T can he of great. service to my God and my fellow man. I love my life, it s true, but T simply feel that in view of this now conception, life is a very small matter. Life Is not eternal: it is a mere temporary existence. That which comes from God. to God must fdliirn Cr? for* n a 5a r> rt r ?"> r> ft if Is very small; It is the greater something which comes after." Tn closing his confession Vaughn ! mado a plea that ho be allowed to live in order to prove to his wife that ho could reform and bo a good man. * - ? <? Hungry Hull Cores Owner. A prize Jersey bull, angry at not being given his morning feed, attacked i's owner. O. TT. Solman, a young "armor of Pouglnssvllle, da., at the ^tote Fair grounds at Macon Friday corning, and seriously injured him ^tandors-hy lassoed the hull end provented It from trampling the prosrate man to death. ft I HORRIBLE STORY' ? ? i rOLD BY AN ORPHAN GIRL IN THE VAUGHAN TRIAL. ?.? ' LVIDENCE IS SHOCKING I'he Testimony on the Whole is l'n- %{ printable, ami Only a Characteriza- ' tion of the Horrible Iiecital of the j Crimes as Told by the Girl is Given 1 Below. A pretty 17-year-old orphan girl of Graniteville, A'ken county, prosecutrix in an Indictment handed down by the grand jury last Monday against Thurston U. Vaughn, former superintendent of the South Carolina Odd Fellows' orphanage, assistant superintendent of the largest Sunday school in the city and jteacher of a college tor girls' Bible class, took the witness stand in the court of general sessions at Greenville Friday and for eight hours told a story that Friday night is upon many tongues in Greenville and fills twice us many ears. With one day of testifying shifted behind the scenes of time not half of tlio witnesses summoned in the case have yet been put on the stand. What testimony they will offer no one knows and the people stand aghast and wonder what the morrow will bring. As a whole, the testimony offered is unprintable. A general characterization of it is, however, permissible. The witness stated, beginning in June, 1908, illicit relations with the defendant extended over a period of four years and ended only this spring when she was removed from Vaughn's private home in the city and sent to her sister's home at Graniteville. In December, 190S, she testified, she submitted to an alleged criminal operation to relieve her of her embarrassing condition. Revolting stories of barbarous i treatment which she alleges Vaughn showed her wore woven into her testimony. This treatment, she alleged, consisted of heatings administer-; ed with sticks, hoards, switches, his] hand and "most anything else." The i last beating which she said Vaughn { gave her was last spring after j Vaughn had resigned at the orphan age and had brought her to live with | him at his home in the city. On this occasion, sin; alleges, the defendant beat her until she fainted. A physician was sent t'otr, she alleges, and Vaughn told hirtK ,hat. the girl had received a severe*-. 11 from which she fainted. Jr, Though the erosw-examination was grilling, the girl's story was unshaken in the main when Blie was taken down from the stand. Two well known physicians of the city were examined. One gave ex- ' pert testimony along the line of what ! would bring about relief for one who was in the condition which the girl alleges she found herself. The other physician had treated tho girl after the alleged operation had been performed, but neither took any part . in nor had any knowledge of such an operation having been performed. lie testified as to the condition in which he found the child. A tiiiy cnna, sistor 01 tne prosecu- i trix, was (ho fourth witness called. | The littlo giil sat 011 the edge of the j witness chair, her feet scarcely reaching the floor, and told what she knew. The witness appeared too young to realize what was going on. | She was asked a few simple questions which she answered in a child's way. She stated that she had slept with her sister at the orphan home, that sometimes at night her sister was taken out of the room and carried somewhere, that she sometimes returned the same night and some- | times remained out all night. Eyes glistened with moisture as they bo- I hold the pitiful spectacle in the dim ' light of the few flickering gas .lets i that disturbed the gathering darkness in flreenville's crumbling tern- ! plo of just ice. * .? -?* rOWKKS MAY INTMHYKm ? All I'ur< po Surprised at Successes of 1'nlkan Allies. I A dispatch from London says the early capture of Kirk-Killisseh was a groat surprise, even to Rulgarian staff otlicers and (heir allies, and the' swift progress of the war was unext\r>Mrwl ii\* ill.* t'lirnnmns irenerallv. It lias been only nine days since Turkey declared war and yet events bavo inarched to the point where the pos- ! sihility of intervention by the Powers already is talked of. Much interest centres in the na-| ture of the alliance of the TTalknn , States. Tt. is said on good authority that one of the provisions of that al-! Ilance is that no one shall conclude peace without the others ugrering to do so. Next in importance to the operation in Thrace is the struggle he-j twoen the Servians and the Turks In the Kumavo region. Constantinople at last admits the success of the Servian army. The Servians captured! two towns, Vuohitrin and CJilan, on ?he road between Mitrovita and Vranya. The Montenegrins are pressing their attack on Scutari. Tt is reported that the Turkish garrison at Ssutnri has retired to the heights of Sa drtna, south of the town. This notion fs intornretod as a preparation to evaouato Scutari. i Tho Outlook savs tho flnlkan diolomats In Ton^on doclaro their oh-J met Is the Balkans for tho Balkan people and In ease of victory tho demands which will ho included In a note to Turkey, will he their mini-' mum rooutromeuts. They will not sit In the ante-room while the Pow-' o^s allot the anolls nor will they ne-; cent any temporary patching of near' Kastern problems. , 'i HAV1RD GETS FREEDOM IUCH MAN WHO TRIED TO RD)I OVER YOUNG LADY. interesting Comment Made to ttt Jury that Convicted Him by Judft Sease. Pope B. Havird. a rich farmer Of Saluda County, was paroled by Governor Please on Saturday. HavirA was convicted in March, 1911, ui tiie charge of trying to ride down and abusing a young woman school teacher on the public highway la that county because sho whipped one of his children, who was a pupil in her school. 11^ was sentenced to five years on the public works 61 Saluda county on the specific charge of assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature. "Parole this said Pope D. Havird upon the condition of good behavior and upon the further condition tliA if he violate any of the criminal laws of this State and be convicted thereof thereafter that he shall be retrrneB to the State penitentiary to serve thfi remainder of the sentence in the case for which the parole was granted." This statement was made by the govTliis statement was made by the governor in the official parole sent to the office of the secretary of State. According to a dispatch received from Saluda and published Friday, March 0, 1911, Havird was found guilty of assault and battery of a high and aggragavated nature and sentenced to five years on the county chaingang wihout the alternative of a fine. When the verdict, was brought in, according to the account of the trial received from Saluda, .Judge Sease, In passing sentence, said: "The testimony in this case shows that you allowed your passions to lie aroused, that you took vour shotgifa and your wife in your buggy and endeavored to ride down this young ladv because she had corrected one of your children in school. Other luaVters which have come out in this court room show that you have been accustomed to try to take the law ii?to your own hands to wreak vensn*ance upon those whom you hav? thought had wronged you. In passing sentence 1 shall have to pass on? whose punishment shall be commonsura tor with the charge. 1 can not make the sentence a light one. It must he severe. Ton have had as fair and Impartial a trial as could be given any man. It is a notable f ''*t out the 2 0-odd .lurors sworn in this case only one said that he had formed an opinion of your guilt." . FI ND WAS GIVFX HACK, ... , r r McCormick's Oontttfto to Canape ign Declined. \V. J. Bryan, campaigning In behalf of Governor Wilson's eaiulid*C), shot across Southeastern Michigan Friday, making over a dozen speeches in as many cities and returning to Detroit Friday night to address a Democratic mass meeting. Mr. Bryan devoted considerable ot his timo to a discussion of campaign contributions. In several cities he made tlie announcement that the treasurer ol the Democratic national committee had informed him that the contribution of $12,600 which Cyrus HL McCormick, of Chicago, had made to Governor Wilson's campaign, had been returned. Mo referred to Mr. McCormick kb being connected with the International Ilarveeter Company, and said that despite Mr. McCormick was a college man and lifelong friend or Coventor Wilson t lie contribution had been refused on the ground thai the acceptance of it might cause political opponents to charge that the Wilson campaign had become indebted to persons to concerns Involved In government litigation. WOMAN GETS LIKE SENTEXCJL Fanatic Confesses Comniitting Mn** teen Minders. At T nfayette, l.a., Clementine llernabet, tlio negro "axe woman" and follower of (ho Church of Steriflc?, whoso confessed nuinliTs number nine e n, \v; r Friday I'opt ' n My of and was sent* m ml to llfo imyv'!oonment in the Stat p eiicatia rv. The negroes of the community, who ha ( feared her, bo ii b e of the crimes she had committed and for the "evil eye" they hdievcl she possessed, had threatened to iy^ch her should she bo acquitted. The woman's trial began Friday on one charge, that of having killed the wife of Norbert "Randall. All of her vt?lims were negroes. A year ago the negro woman*? father, Raymond Rernnhot, and her hi other, Zepherln Tlernabot. were convicted for murders that the ":n woman" later confessed to having e/\rvi?oitfn^ \17hnf rlicsnAolt inn r\oui VI/ 111 < (1 I I l* \l I TT IIU? V IVII livn will bo made of their cases has not been determined. ? . ItcsriKMl FYom Ruining Ship. The steamship Asiatic Prince reported at New York the rescue of thirteen men from the burning steamer Fa pun dee Vatella, off the Pra'/illian coast, October 7. The ship bad caught Are from chemicals In her hold. There were forty ban <U, all told, aboard, 18 of whom wwre drowned and nine of whom ware picked up by another vessel. - ? Car Strike !n Columbia OiT. The strike of the motormen and orn<mcTorB 01 me (joiumms street Railway was ended Friday afternoon, when representatives of tho striking carmen and th? officials of the o?re*t railway signed an agreement satisfactory to both sides and the strike was declared off. Tlio Rtrcet enti Ms resumed their regular schedules. *#