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? Tlio Press and Banner. JZltT SECOITD. : FEAR A RACE WAF Many Idle Negroes Are Arrestei Because of Attacks on YOUNG WHITE GIRLS Reign of Terror in Herron Hill Dis trict Causes Police to Decide t< Arrest All Negroes Without Visible Means of Support?Relentless Crusade to Stamp Out Crimes. Pittsburg, Feb. 3.?At the Centra] police station here today 126 negroe; arrested last night and today, following a carnival of crime agains. young white girls in the Herron Hi!I district recently, were given hearings before Magistrate Brady. Forty-three of the negroes proved to the court that they have honest employment and were discharged. In spite of many threats of armed resistance upon the part of negroes if the police continue their wnoiesale arrests of members of their race without employment in the Herron Hill district of the city, no outbreak of any#kind has occurred up to late tonight. Of course these threats will have no effect on the authorities. Following the wholesale arrests last night from now on large forces of officers will be stationed over the entire Herron Hill district and strenuous efforts will be made to stam,) out the many assaults on young wo men. Indignation is high against this chaiacter of crime and the authorities have decided to arrest every negro who has no visible means of support or who is known to be a user of drugs. During the evening three wert taken to police station?, and it is anticipated that tonight many others ?m i- further attacks Will UC dl icoicu. ........ upon women or girls has Iic?:m revolted since last night, and should one occur, the temper of citizens is such that violence very probably would be meted out to the assailant 11 caught. Men and women throughout the section involved are carrying revolvers, and the negroes are said to be well armed also. Should a clash come, as is considered not at all improbable if more arrests are made, the result would be serious. Local orators are inflaming the negroes to resistance, and the feeling is high. Forty-two were fined today in amounts varying from $5 or ten days in jail to $25 or thirty days in the workhouse and forty-one were held over pending further investigations. The police are of the opinion that the teriible criminal acts of the negroes are tne worn 01 a few degenerate cocaine fiends. This character of negroes together with those who shirk work and frequent pool rooms, are to be taken into custody as soon as located. This afternoon a large number of negroes are indulging in much rabid talk. There is talk of race riots and bloodshed. It is said that the negroes are arming themselves. According to rumors, should the authorities decide to make another raid on the negroes armed resistance will be offered by them. The police, however, seem to have the situation well in hand and probably will not make further indiscriminate arrests. Of the negroes arrested last night, thirty?nine were fined, most of them going to the work house, and two. Mack McGee and Edward Armstead. were held over for further evidence, havinz been partly identified as per potrators of one of the attacks on girls. It is said that during the pasmonth over a dozen girls have been rssaulted In the Herron Hill districi This will give some idea of the stat? of affairs. STARVING FAMILY IS FOUND. Father Placed in Jail for Stealing Prcad for Children. New York, Feb. 3.?So weak from lack of food that they could scarcely walk, a mother and four children were found in a house at Corona, L. I., by an agent of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. The woman's husband, Michael Lumbard, is confined in the Queens county jail, unable to provide $200 bail after being arrested on a charge of stealing bread. Both he and his wife were arrested with twenty loaves in their possession, but the charge against the woman was noc pressed. With her husband in jail, the mother had no means of providing for herself and children, and they were in a pitable light when visited. The children were sent to the rooms of the society, while neighbors provided food for the mother. Town Under Water. Chico, Cal., Feb. 4.?The town oI Tehama. which had 600 inhabitants is under 15 feet of water. The Southern Pacific railroad operator at Tehama junction, half a mile from ho town, says that the depot is gone >- 1 n i>i~ck of houses has been washed away. The houses are floating feet above the city's streets. [ HASKELL INDICTED HE IS CHARGED WITH COXSPIRJ ACY TO DEFRAUD The Government in the Town Lot | Case?Six Others Are Indicted With Him. Muskogee, Okla., Feb. 4.?Seven indictments were returned by the } Federal grand jury here last night . in the town lot alleged fraud investigation, the charge being conspiracy to defraud the government. The names of those indicted are: I Gov. Charles N. Haskell, F. B. i Severs, A. Z. English, C. W. Turner, j . W. T. Hutchings, Jesse W. Hill and \ Walter R. Eaton. t Attorney Thomas H. Owen, of t Muskogee, representing Governor ; Haskell made arrangements for the a governor to enter his appearance on ? 1 Friday and give bond in the sum of g $5,000 for appearance for trial. g The writs issued are returnable a forthwith. Governor Haskell is at Guthrie. c There is but one indictment against ] him. It charges conspiring with Walter R. Eaton and Clarence W. t Turner to defraud the government. \ There are two indictments against p Turner and one each against the a others indicted. t Walter R. Eaton, one of the men / indicted, is the secretary of the In- i; dianola Contracting Company, of j] which Governor Haskell is president, and which it is alleged scheduled p the names of many "dummies" to j secure town lots. p Fifteen of the wealthiest men in h Muskogee called at the office of the t United States marshal and signed q Governor Haskell's bond for $5,000. t Many more asked to be allowed to \ sign it. G Governor Haskell when informed that he was indicted issued the fol- it lowing statement to The Associated ti Press: a "I have just heard of the indict- v< 'nent for conspiracy coupled with a seven or eight of the oldest and high- p jst charactered citizens in Muskogee, a who developed^ and built up that C country by their unselfish effort. From now on, the proceeding will tl be open to both sides. y "Hearst's crooked manipulations I will be at a discount. c( "I am satisfied that the interior pi department has been misled by false b statements. I am confident there m has not been a dishonest act done by tl iny of the indicted parties and that tl good citizens in general regardless la of politics feel the same way. ai (Signed) "C. N. HASKELL." ir w TERRIBLE ACCIDENT. o Nineteen People Drowned in a Lake w ci in Italy. a< Rome, Feb. 4.?Word has just been received from Vercurago, in the district of Lecco, of a drowning accident, in which nineteen people per- h ished. The wife of Signor Longono, g, the proprietor of one of the larg- ! est silk factories in the district, was jg taking sixteen of the girls employed tj in her husband's mill on a trip to ^ the famous San Gennaro Sanctuary, { when the barge in which they were t proceeding began to leak. The girls ^ became paniek-stricken and in their tj struggles upset the boat. All were drowned, including two workmen from the factory who were rowing ni 'he barge. BOTH LEGS BROKEN \c In Attempt to Stop a Horse at Ben ' e; nettsville. ^ Bennettsville, Feb. 3.?In an effort " o stop a horse this morning, Mr ri George T. Re id had both his leg.s iroken jnst above the knee. Mr. 4 leii was at home. The boy brought ^ he horse and buggy out and the ' mrse became frightened at somehing. Mr. Reid attempted to stop he animal and was knocked down c< ind injured. The physicians have . ;et and dressed the injured parts md Mr. Reid seems to be standing he shock remarkably well. He is j about 57 years old and the senior of the firm of Reid & Co. of this place. f( ELEVATOR ACCIDENT. t] si Kills Two Men and Wounds Eight S o Others in Mine. a Johnstown, Tenn., Feb. 4.?Two men were killed and eight others p injured today as the result of an elevator accident at Shaft Xo. 1, of the Jerome Coal mine, Jerome, Pa.. ^ near here. The dead men are Michael Mudderick and Charles Per- ^ gers. While descending the shaft the elevator dropped with terrific c speed. Mudderick and Bergers at- ^ tempted to jump out when the car t struck, but when the car bounded upward they were crushed to d<jath. j; whilu their eight companions escaped j ; with painful bruises. h Shot Girl ?n<l Self. j New York, Feb. 3.?Harry Pope, 1 ri : a saloon keeper in Brooklyn, shot n ! Bessie Schroeder, 23 years old in the s ;. back this afternoon and then killed I himself in a brooklyn hotel. i TEDDY'S SPIES Sent Out to Mannfacture Testimony Against Men That HE COULD NOT BOSS \n Arizona Man Files Sensational Statement With Senator Clay. Says an Effort Was Made to Involve Senator Morgan in a Timber Scandal?Perjured Evidence Used. Washington, Feb. 6.?L. S. W11iams, the Arizona man who came to Washington to press charges against he secret service and who claims hat his room at the Raleigh hotel vas entered Sunday night and vafuible papers taken, has filed with Senitor Clay, a member of the investi;ating committee, a sensational statement enumerating his charges tgainst secret service agents. The statement revolves around the :onviction of E. B. Perrin, a milionaire land owner and sheep raiser of Arizona, for conspiracy against he government, .but, according to Villiams, the original purpose of ressing the house was a groundless ind unsuccessful effort f implicate ho lato Connfnr Tnhn T Mnrtran nf ilabama, iu a scandal ir giving- a arge tract of valuable timber lands i California. Williams charges also that the deartment of justice has made an nvestigation since the conviction of 'errin which completely vindicates im of conspiracy and shows that he conviction was sceured by unuestionable means. The report of his investigation, Williams claims, vill not be divulged by Attorney leneral Bonaparte. Senator Clay will lay the statelent of Williams before the invesgating committtee if he can get , meeeting. He states that the insstigation has been delayed by Sentor Galliger, whose time for the resent is required by the considertion of business of the District of olumbia. Another of Williams' charges is lat E. H. Harriman obtained several ears ago a vast tract of land in Jtah by the same means as Perrin )ntemplated using. The lands were atented to the Harriman interests, y claims under the Hitchcock adlinistration. Subsequently, when lere was talk of an investigation, nu narrnnaii peopie aeeaeu me .nds back to the government and id there were no prosecutions as i the case of Perrin, whose methods ere identical. The prosecution of Perrin grew ut of a transaction he contemplated :ith John A. Benson, of San Fransco, involving sixteen thousand :res of timber land in California. When the government investiited the case prior to Perrin's inictment, Inspector George C. Hunt dvised against a prosecution. In is report was an affidavit by C. P. nell, a secret service agent, who was reviously in Perrin's employ as a wyer, and this affidavit set forth iat Ferrin remarked to Benson, lie alleged conspiracy that he (Peril ) had great influence at Washing>n with Senator Morgan, and that e could get him to assist in geting le lands. The first question asked Perrin >' Inspector Hunt was: "How much loney had been paid Senator Moran by Perrin," and for what purose had it been paid, according to .'illiams' statement. Eight months iter Secret Service Agent William . Burns appeared before the fedral grand jury and declared that e was just from Oyster Bay, and iat President Roosevelt wanted Perin indicted." Sneli's affidavit, in which Senator [organ was mentioned, grew out of conversation which he overheard etween Perrin and Benson, in which le former spoke of the Alabama ?nator only as a friend and not as legal adviser, and the impression Dnveyed was not justified, accordlg to Williams, and was malicious. In this connection the Arizona inn states verbally that the invesgation grew out of a desire on the art of the president to implicate [organ because of Morgan's persis>nt fight against the Panama Canal. It is charged by Williams that ie records of the secret service will how that about $4,000 was paid to nell by the government and his nly services consisted of testimony gainst Perrin. Snell had previous to his employlent by the secret service been 'errin's lawyer. The statement charges that Sneli's worn evidence against Perrin on rial of the case has 'since been rovcn by Snell's confession to have een perjured. Williams claims that in spite of nell's confession to perjury, the overnment refuses to indict him for lie offense. He claims that Perrin ,'as notified only last week in San "rancisco at. the door of the grand ury room that no indictment would e returned against Snell, unless it /as ordered by Attorney General Jonaparte, no matter what evidence night be submitted. This statetient, he claims was made by Asistant District Attorney A.. P. Jlack. Williams' statement Is subdivided SUNDAY LUNCHES THE HOUSE REFUSED TO INTER! FERE IN MATTER. Sabbath Observance Given as the Principal Reason for Voting tho Bill Down. Columbia, Feb. 5.?The Rucker , hill tn nrnhiliit nnv ritv nr tnwn tn make it unlawful to sell lunches on Sunday had another fight and was finally killed by a vote of 68 to 48 , by the house yesterday. When third reading bills were reached Mr. Richards moved to recommit the bill. He said he knew it was unusual but he felt he would be doing himself and those who be- > lieved In Sabbath observance an injustice if he did not protest against such a bill. The legislature had not the right to enforce a law of that kind on towns that might want to prohibit lunch selling on Sunday. Mr. Rucker said his bill simply allowing a hungry maa to get something to eat when he traveled on Sunday. He had no pafcie.inj with the smug believer in Sabbath observance who denied a lunch to the traveler while enjoying a hot dinner at home. Mr. McMahan said it was dangerous to meddle with local police regulations. It would not be just, for instance, to say to a strict religious community like Due West that it should have the same local ordinances as Columbia. The entire principle was wrong. The bill on an aye and nay call was accordingly killed. The Vote. The vote on the motion of Mr. Rihcards to recommit the bill was as follows: Ayes?Messrs. Amick, Bodie, Rowers, Bowman, Brice, W. D. Bryan, Bunch, Cantrell, Carey, Carrlgan, Carter, Carwile, Celey, Clary, Daniel, Dick, Dingle, E. C. Edwards, Fraser, J. P. Gibson, W. J. Gibson, Graham, Green, Greer, Hall, Hamer, } Harmon. .T. R. Harrison. Wade. C. . Harrison, Hines, Horger, Hydrick, ^ Lane, Lawson, League, Lee, Lengnick, McColl, McEachern, McKeown, McMahan, Mann, Mauldin, Mosley, Nicholson, Niver, Nunnery, Richards, Ridgell, G. M. Riley, D. C. Sanders, Scarborough, Seibels, B. A. Sliuler, { Simkins, Singleton, Chas. A. Smith, M. L. Smith, Spears, Stanley, Stubbs, 2 Jared D. Sullivan, Suydam, Utsey, r Vaughan, Way, Win go, Wyche?68. s Nays?Messrs. Joshua W. Ashley, Melvin J. Ashley, Ayer, Berg. Brown, Browning, F. M. Bryan, Coker, Cosgrove, Dixon, Doar, Duvall, Isaac. Edwards, Foster, Fultz, Garris, (c Gasque, Glasscock, Griffin, Hollis, Hughes, Irby, Jackson, Kibler, Lie- e land, Mars, Mobley, Nesbitt, Pat- * terson, Pauling, W. L. Riley, Robertson, Rocssler, Rucker, O. L. Sanders, Sawyer, C. T. Shuler, K. P Smith, P. P. Sullivan, Tobias, Wade, ' Wells, Whatley, Wiggins, Williams. O. A. Wilson, W. B. Wilson, Jr., ' Wright?48. 8 FII\E DRAWS NEAR j ( And Residents of Pittsburg Are in t Great Fear. Pittsburg, Feb. 3.?A fire burning 1 for forty years in the depths of d 1 coal mine in West Liberty, now in 1 the new Nineteenth ward will be ? fought by the Pittsburg fire depart- S ment in an effort to save two houses ^ which are threatened. Besides fear- r ine fnr th*> safetv nf thpir nronert.v. I as the smouldering fire creeps closer, have asked Director of Public Works -J Edward G. Lang for aid. Assistant E Fire Chief James Connelly, after an C investigation yesterady said that C while the danger did not appear to J he immediate, action would be tak- 1en by the department. Three years r ago a man who went to sleep on the T. warm earth above the fire was over- IS come by gas fumes. > r CHILD KILLED BY LION. F S Mother, in Despair, Almost Throws ^ S Herself on lienst. p Balboa, Cal., Feb. 1.?Her twoyear-old boy killed by a huge moun- j tain lion and the sight of the fierce . beast devouring ,one ?f his legs, which it had torn from the sock 0 et, greeted Mrs. Chris Brown when they entered the family tent, after a short walk last evening. Whon the mother realized what had taken place she screamed and almost threw * herself on the lion, which growled savagely and disappeared slowly through the rear of the etnt, carrying a mouthful of flesh in its teeth, a v Stock Trains Crash. c Chillicothe, O., Feb. 3.?Three ? trainmen were killed and one fatally t injured early today when two stock a trains on the Chicago, Milwaukee 5 and St. Paul railroad collided head- v on at Powersville, Mo. It appears ? one of the trains was a runaway, f the crew having lost control of it. t' h under nineteen heads, and after each ]l allegation he cites references, letters, J' affidavits and court records to substantiate them. If the investigation committee goes into the matter, much time will be required to in- I1 vestigate the citations unless AVil- I* liams has certified copies of all the o | records as he claims he have in the j s safe at Raleigh hotel. * 1 s PROHIBITION Wins Its First Fight in the House Thursday VfRY CLOSE VOTE The House Agrees to Take up Prohibition Measure Out of its Regular Order and Will Talk on the Subject, But the Vote is Not Considered Important. Columbia, Feb. 5.?After an aye and nay vote the house yesterady ! Jecided to order bill No. 85, known is the prohibition bill, an adjourned debate bill, for 11 o'clock today. The State says the vote is really ; not a test of the streigth of the phohibitionists, according to the lo- 1 :al option people in the house, as :here were a number who will vote < igainst the bill that were willing , :or it to come up and be disposed ; if before the debates were started 3n the appropriation and supply i jills. ] Mr. Richards, who made the mo- : :ion for the bil, urged the house to consider the measure either one way i )r another at once. The bill is in- i produced by Messrs. Richards, M. L. j Smith, C. A. Smith and J. P. Carey, j Mr. Rucker raised the point that ;he nijht before the house had reused to take up the bill for a special i srder and the cflincher 'had been ] lut on the refusal. Mr. Smith, act- j ng as speaker in the absence of ] VIr. Whaley, ruled that the motion j )f Mr. Richards was in order as the < notion the night before was for the i mrpose of making the bill a special >rder. The present motion of Mr. j Richards was to make the bill an | idjourned debate bill. Mr. Rucker held that to make the | nil cither special order or an ad- | ourned debate bill two motions j vere necessary. First to take up the i >ill out of its regular order. That . notion had been defeated the day i >efore. Should the house agree to ake up the bill out of its regular f Vton if oaiiM ?vio/1a ? n ?-?/-. '?uti , ciiv.il u vuuiu uc uiauc a opctal order, withdrawn or any other iction taken on it that the author night desire, should the house conient. Mr. Smith, however, ruled that the I louse could not bind itself for the >ntire session on any motion not I 0 take up a bill out of Its regular I irder. The motion to make the t >il 1 a special order had been clinch- c d, but the motion of Mr. Richards 1 vas to make it an adjourned de- 1 >ate bill. c The Vote. Mr. Dixon moved to lay the mo- I io-i of Mr. Richards to make the ? >ill adjourned debate on the table. '< fhe ayes and nays were called for f md the vote was as follows: c Yeas?Messrs. Melvin J. Ashley, I ^.yer, Berg, Browning, F. M. Bryan, s iunch, Carwile, Coker, Cosgrove, Jothran, Dick, Dixon, Doar, Duvall, ( 1. C. Edwards Isaac Edwards, Fultz, Jarris, Casque, Glasscock, Graham, ^ Jreer, Griffin, J. R. Harrison, Holis. Hughes, Hydrick, McColl, Mc/lahan, Mars, Niver, Patterson, Pauling, Rucker, O. L. Sanders, Sawyer, >eibels, Simkins, Singleton, K. P. 1 smith, Stanley, Tobias, Vander t lorst, Vaughan, Wade, Wells, Wig- r ins. Williams, 0. D. A. Wilson, W. Wilson, Jr., Wright?55. Nays?Messrs. Amick, Joshua W. Ashley, Bodie, Bowers, Bowman, s 5ovd, Brice, Brown, W. D. Bryan, -antrell, Carrigan, Carter, Celey, s Mary, Daniel, Dingle, Foster, Fraser, 3 . P.' Gibson, W. J. Gibson, Green, ^ lall, Hamer, Harmon, Wade C. Har- . ison, Hines, Horger, Kibler, Lawson, ]' ,ee McEachern, McXeown, Mann, lauldin, Mobley, Mosley, Nesbitt, s Jicholson, Nunnery, Richards, tidgell, G. M. Riley, W. L. Riley, tobertson, Roessler, D. C. Sanders, a 1 1 _1_ T"? A n ^ 'Caruorougn, o. a. onuier, v^. i. hulcr, Chas. A. Smith, M. L. Smith, ipears, Stubbs, Jared D. Sullivan, P. Sullivan, Suydam, Utsey, Way, Wiatley, Wingo, Wyche?61. I The clincher was then put on and P y a division vote of 59 to 52 the a ouse agreed to make the measure P n adjourned debate bill for 11 'clock tomorrow. s F THE HEAD OF A MAX F o 'ound on the Pilot of Passenger a Train Engine. New York. Feb. 3.?The head off ? ? ? ?? ? ??! i n f a f Vi q Ponnoul. 1 Ill ci II Wclb iai I 1CU liiiir i (.uiiuji ania station on the pilot of a lo- ^ omotive which drew a fast passen- .( er train into Jersey City. Despite ho fact it was removed as quickly. ^ s possible hundreds of passengers aw it. It was learned that in Rah.rav men had picked up fragments f a man's body and had been searchor the head. Then word was sent o that place of thn finding of a * end on the locomotive, which un- d ng for the head. Then word was seV. n nan. 0 Shot While Hunting. Hawkinsville, Ga., Feb. 3.?Xewt> as just been received here that Dr. 3. C. Brown, a well known phvsicinn f this city, had been accidentally hot through the eye at a dove shoot r cveral miles above here. * DESERVES HANGING Wl MARYLAND GOVERNOR WOULD ^ Seru HANG NEW YORKER Who Abducted and Carried Off a Twelve-Year-Old Girl From Her HE Brooklyn Home. Baltimore, Feb. 4.?The Balti- gut more grand jury today will indict tei Joseph Janer,, who is accused of kidnapping Katherine Loerch from her Cr home, 33 4 Classon avenue, Brook- jjc lyn, and if he is convicted of the Hi crime charged, he may be hanged. The Maryland authorities will re- Wj sist all attempts of the Brooklyn po- defea lice to have Janer extradited and Crun will insist that he be tried here, the i where death is the penalty. todaj The child,, who will not be 12 years old until the 22nd of this sary' x ?, . , hnctc [iiuiim, reiaiea me story 01 ner aD- ??""> Suction in the Central police court. Marc When she had finished the Mary- healt land authorities, headed by the gov- ^ ernor, were so enraged that they Jecided to indict and try him within con 1 a. week, under Maryland law. Ar- easil; tide 27, section 369, of the code sert 3f public general laws of Maryland, senat provides for cases of this sort as follows: "The offender being convicted t0 thereof, shall, at the discretion of whjcl the court, suffer death or imprison- bo li ment for life in the penitentiary or ge! for a definite period, not less than 18 months, nor more than 21 years." Janer, who had been a friend of the girl's paralytic father, and a one 1 boarder In her home, was arrested ^as 1 in a barroom on Calvert street. He tiad been drinking heavily there for ocra^ in hour, andrthe child he had stolen u'n& stood shivering and crying in the ?u street outside. shoul He had forced her to wait there matic for him since they had left a cheap an(* ' warding house some hours before. < A.t police headquarters Janer was :oo much befuddled with whiskey ecuti^ :o talk, but the girl sobbed out a fact 1 pitiful statement to the :officials, man> vhich she signed. Its nature is siden uch that no considerable portion Aft ;vill do for publication. ' * and a MEMORY OF LINCOLN that rum day. IVill Bring Harmony to Political Parties of Kentucky fcr a Day. . . tentic hours politics ath One3,6k h.rdluuuuuu to th Louisville, Ky., Feb. 4.?Though inter )olitics are admittedly dominant in rum, Kentucky, both political parties have regar mited in preparation for the Lin- Th :oln centeniary celebration to be discui leld at Hodgenville, Ky., February out t L 2th, when President Roosevelt and to ca )thers will speak. tlon. State Chairman Winn and Henry Mr 3. Prewitt, both of Mount-Sterling nicatl ind next-door neighbors, have each bodie ippointed four members of a con- to th( 'erence committee which on Satur- inatic lay will determine what concerted his p >art the Republicans and Democrats sente ihall take in the ceremonies. Charl Th :fAnGE NAME CAPITOL SQUARE tions, Pacifl A'ants It to Be Known as Indenen- Mr- 1 a eral ! dence Square. to th , sition Washington, Feb. 4.?Congress- )ect0I nan Barthold, of Missouri, proposes Th o introduce a bill to change the s.Qn iame of Lafayette Square, which is sever lirectly in front of the White House ocrat; o Independence Square and substi- yjone ute for the statue of Andrew Jack- _ev|e, on, a fitting statue of George Wash- . gu ngton. The Jfckson statue now lo] tands in the center of the square, jt tQ ind is one of the handsomest in ment Washington. Ab'( The statue of Von Steuben which s to adorn one corner o fthe square, . s now ready and the house has been . ex o notified. ' Ti]lm! On another corner is the statue of . r( ,afayette( on another that of Roch- ' .mbeau and on the fourth corner c? liI1 be Fulagki- hours tion. Now Cotton Export Appointed. Demo Washington, Feb. 4.?J alien L. tjon . irode of Memphis, Tenn., an ex- tjie pI ert in the cotton business, wil be The ppointed special agent of the de- e(j jn artment of commerce and labor to orcjcr nquire into the matter of cotton ed of eed products, succeeding Albert G. jnatio: erkins of Tennessee, resigned. oppoS( trode's work will begin in the South (ratj0] f France and will extend east as re as St. Petersburg. accord ' ed oul Shoots Self to Death. time Charlotte, N. C., Feb. 3.?Citizens McLai f Thomasville, N. C., were shocked negro his morning by the news that A. F. senate !ox, one of the most prominent res- procet ients of that town, had committed Not uicide. After kissing his wife and was d aby, Cox went upstairs, took his counti evolver and blew out his brains. his va dent 1 Loeb Gets the ob. Washington, Feb. 4.?Friends of F. Hlliam Loeb, secretary to the Presi- Xe\ enf, made the definite announce- the X rient that he will become collector spiled f the port of New York at the be- for d inning of the next a iministration. had n she le Passed Over Veto of Governor. passe Nashville. Tenn.^Feh. 4.?The bill Wt r^hiliitlne; the manufacture cC in- bility Honors in Tenncpsee ws er w tassed by the house over the gov- Shoal tronr's veto. ' was ; ILL BEAT CRUM itor Tillman to Talk to Death His Nomination. HAS A HARD FiGHT He Plans a One-Man Filibus by Which He Hopes to Defeat urn's Appointment ? Declare* ; Can Talk It to Death Provided s Health Will Stand. ishington, Feb. 3.?In order to it the confirmation of W. D. fs appointment as collector of Dort at Charleston, it is sta'e.1 ' that Senator Tillman, if neceswill conduct a "one-man" fiilli>r until congress adjourns on h 4, even at the risk of his h, which is none too. good, e senator proposes to talk the rmation to death, which he may / do if his strength doesn't dehim. Under the rules of th;e, no proposition can be put to te so long as a senator wants heard, and there is no way by i the remarks of a member can mited. * aator Tillman has requested a jer of LYmocrats to tielp him his fillibuster, speaking from iour to half a day each, and he enlisted the aid of a number. ugh it appears that many Dems doubt the wisdom of contin- ^ the fight on Crum. t, with little help, Tillman d be able to hold up the confir>n until Taft is inaugurated inless he *anges his mind, he io this. e senate does not hold an ex/e session every day, and this vill operate to the hand of Tillas the Crum matter can be conJd only in executive session. :er Senator Tillman had taker loor, he called for a quorum, ifter the^" all, he announced he proposed to see that a quowas maintained throughout the e vice president called his at>n tr> a mHner marie in the last i of the last session of congress, e effect that, business must noi rene between calls for a quoand^at a speecn would not be ded as "business." is announcement provoked a ssion of the rule, but throughhe afternoon no occasion arose 11 forth a ruling on that ques. Tillman had received commuions from various commercial s of Charleston, in opposition ; confirmation of the Cram nom>n, and read them to prove tha' rotest against Crum fully repred the popular sentiment in eston. e Japanese and Chinese qu^snow causing discussion on the c coast, were referred to, and Jacon, of Georgia, made a geninquiry of the Pacific coast as eir attitude toward any pro;>oto appoint a Chinaman as col ' of customs of San Francisco ere was a very general discusof the race problem in which al of the senators on the Demic side took part. Senatot y occupied nearly an hour an : ved the history of the races stain his position that the s;i ity of the white race marked dominate in matters ef govern jut fifty senators remained n ihamber thoroughout the ses The nomination will come uj ecutive session today, and Mr an, it is expected, will continue imarks. predicted above, the Crum matime up today and nearly fou; was devoted to its consi leraSenator Tillman aided by his cratic colleagues staved off acind the matter went over fn esent. > Republican senators ar? unit favor of confining Crum it that Mr. Taft may be reliev the necessity of sending a no: > a to the senate, wllich has bee. 3d during the present adminis a. ! debate in the senate today ling to the reports which leakt afterwards, -esemblcd an o!; ministrelsy. Senator Tillman irin, Money and Johnston tol:. dialect stories and kept the ( in laughter throughout the >dings. hing but the best of humot isplayed. Senator Tillnan re3d a number of incidents with .rious controversies with Presi Roosevelt. ate of Steamer Unknown, v York, Feb. 4.?The aeonts of orwegian steamer Munin, which O C from New YorK January arien, Ga., said that they had io word from the steamer since ?ft port. The Munin carried no ngers and had a crew of 25. ion asked if there was a probathat the Munin was the steamhich went down offDiamond ^ s last week, the agents said it possible.