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KEOWEE COURIER* (Established 1840.) Published .'ivory Wednesday MornliiK Subscription l*er Annum. Advertising li?tes Reasonable. -By STECK, SHEIiOlt AL SCHRODER. Communications <>r a personal character charged for as advertise ments. Obituary notices and tributes ot respect, of no' over 100 words, will bo printed fice of charge. All over that number must be paid for at thc rate of one cent a word. Cash to accompany manuscript. _ WAMI A I,I/A, S. C.: WEDNESDAY, .U'l.V 7, 1015. NATION S CAPITOL IS SHAKEN Ry Bomb Placed m Senate Wing Damage Only Slight. Washington, July 3. Tho publu reception room in the Senate wing ol th,. Capitol of tho United Slates wa: wii ( ked just before last midnight bj an explosion, probably caused by ; houih ol' ni infernal machine. Ni one was injured, and today then was only one clue, a letter receive! ny the Washington Times, un even in^ newspaper here, bearing a post mark inned before thc explosion.au nouncing it would take place;. The letter, although written .Inn 1, was mailed last, night at I o'clock, nearly two hours before Iii explosion. lt was signed "1 Pearce." was typewritten and ind eal? i| thal lb?' writer had been wail iug for some time for an opportun!) to tairy out hi dan. which, he san would be "tlie wt la ma t ion point ? his ea roer." < Ulicinls. at lirsi inclined to b< lieve the explosion was caused 1: spontaneous combustion or escapitt gas, abandoned thal line of investigi lion and proceeded on the theoi thal the exnlosivc was planted by . rank seeking to create a sensatic or some foreign sympathizer seekin 10 register his disapproval of tl policies of th<' United Slates goveri men t. Against l<?X|>orts ot A l ins. Thc letter was a rambling arg nient against export; of war mull tiiiis to Europe "By Hie way," said the writer the outset of his argument, "dor blame this on Hie Germans or i Bryan, l am an old-fashioned AUK lean with a conscience, if it is not sin to have a conscience. ... I, each nation make her own nian-ki mg tn noll i nos. Sorry I had to use e plosives. ( Por I ho last time, I trust 11 is the export kind and ought make enough noise to be heard abo the voices thal clamor for war at blood looney. this explosion is tl exclamation point in my appeal f peace." Ile closed his letter with proposal for a referendum oil th miestion of war exports, which characterized "a "\.e>aaui \morie: el l tue. Part of .ne loiter was typewiitt and par' was written willi a pen. T handwriting apparently was not t i of an uneducated |K*rson. Pci'|?otratod by Crank. A fragment of a chloride of silv liv coll w.. ? found in the Capil grounds about ?00 feel from t source of the explosion. Prof. Mc roe said it might nave been used explode an infernal machine. "The only theory I have of this i fair," said Superintendent Woods,' . hat it was perpetrated by sot crank. There was no gas in I building to explode. There coi have been no sewer gas explosh for I explored the collar and th< was not the slightest trace of sew gas." Piles if Shuttered Plaster. Piles of shattered plaster from t frescoed ceiling and walls, brok crystals from tho big chandelle pieces if thc immense mirror, gi; from the windows' and splintei woodwork littered the door early day (?lass was broken and part the panelling smashed in Ibo d< open int; from the reception hall ii the lobby running along the rear Se?ale chamber. A heav y door opi mg into the Vice President'., roe but which had not been opened many years, was blown partly 0| by the 'orce of th,, concussion, ll the door leading into the room of I sergcant-at-arms, on the op poa aide from that ,?i th,. Vice Preside vas damaged. The explosion was heard for nm blocks away am. guards in all pa of the Capitol and excited perst from some distance came running soe what had happened. While no one was Injured, Wat man Jones, who was seated at .Senate entranco door, almost inn diately beneath the wrecked ro< was almost lifted from his chair the force of the explosion. Wat men in the far end of the bulldlni long city block away, thought dome of the Capitol was falling lr ONK MAN l>II> ROTH JOIJS. ?fan Who Placed Roinb Also Shoe Mr. Morgan. (?Ion ('ovo, N. Y., .Inly lt.-Krank Holt i.> the man who set tho bomb that exploded in the Capitol at Wash ington last night. lu ti statement to Justice Luyster ami riiomas Tunney, head of the bomb squad of the detective bureau, Holt confessed setting the bomb and described it. As a m Issi lo of terror it was said to be unique in the annals of the New York police department. "I made this bomb," Holt is quo led us having said in his confession, "with three sticks of dynamite, some match heads and a bottle ol' sulphu ric acid." "Pretty slick!" commented 'Tun ney. "I don't see how you did it." "Well, you see." Holt answered. "I had experimented on it before not once, you know, but many time-. I knew just what 1 was doing and just how to do lt. I really didn't take any chances, for all my obser vations had been checked up, and 1 knew when the bomb would KO off, almost to the minute. I knew how much time I had, so 1 hung around while the acid was ealing its way through the cork. I pulled out my watch and said to myself thal it ought to be going pretty soon. And sure enough it did go pretty soon. Then I hurried away." Doll's confession of the Capitol outrage caine fast on tho heels o! his denial io newspaper men of the same charge. "Don't you Know anything about this?" they asked him. "No, I don't," he asserted. I I wasn't in Washington yesterday al ?all. I was in New York. I had nr. j breakfast and luncheon at the Mills llol>l at * tit li street and Tib avenue, ?so you see I couldn't base been in Washington." "What were you doing all day?" "I was walking around the streets in New York, trying to make lip my mind to come out here to-day and do my duty. 'That was all. 1 was think ing it over." I When Holt was told that the Mills j Hotel clerks had not recalled seeing him lhere yesterday, he still stuck ; to his story. "lt does look str?ngt?, doesn't it'.'" j he asked, after reading the Wash ? ington story for the second time, "lt 'stems that the man who did that thought about like I did, too, doesn't it? lt was rather odd that he used almost the same words as I did. I can't explain it." When the newspaper reporters left, Justice Luyster and Capt. 'Tun ney began to question him, and soon obtained his confession. Russian Spies Hanged. Petrograd, July I. 'Three accont I pl ices of Lieut. Col. Mlassoyedoff, a Russian tenth arni) interpreter, who some time ago was hanged as a spy. have been convicted after a trial by court-martial and also hanged. (After Miassoyedofl' had been exe cuted last April it was announced that several persons nol connected with the anny had been arrested and would be tried as accomplices. In Februar) the tenth Russian army was defeated in Hast Prussia. the I Hermans taking "?0,000 prisoners. I Plve months earlier the army of (Jen. Renncncamp had boen routed, with grcal losses m prisoners In the same province under similar circum stances. Russian military officers contended thai the (?orinan general statt must have possessed knowledge of intended Russian movements. Suspicion it'll to Mlassoyedoff and he was tried by court-martial and con demned to dent h. ) Raby With Tut? Heads. (Charleston News and Courier.) The budy ol' a baby with two per fectly formed heads was brought to Charleston yesterday to be embalm ed for preservation. 'The child was bom in thc interior and brought here by a physician from the vicinity, lt was taken to the South Carolina Med ical College laboratory, where it will be embalmed. lt is staled that the baby had two perfectly shaped heads and necks which jo' d the body as in normal cases, ai al the remainder of the j bod) was feet. 'The body weighs a bon I "j pounds. An honest man is indeed a good thing for his creditors. The first thing a young man learns at college is how little his parents knew. that some equally great catastrophe had occurred, so great was the force of the concussion, which caused the building to tremble. Robinson W. Pierce, a machinist, the only R. Pearce the authorities could find, made a statement which convinced them he knew nothing of the letter. J. PIERPONT MORGAN SHOT. Financier Victim of War-Crazed Mun. Wound Not Fatal. (ilea Cove. N. Y., July 3.-J. P. Morgan, head ol' the banking house of J. P. Morgan & Co., was shot twice to-day at Iiis country home near here by Prank Holt, a native American, a tonner student and instructor at Cornell University, who waa to have become the head of the department of Preach in tho Southwestern Meth odist University at Dallas, Texas, next fall. Doth shots took effect in the re gion ot the hip. A bulletin issued by specialists at his bedside late to-day stated that there were no unfavora ble symptoms, and that Mr. Morgan v as rest ing easily. Dynamite in Pocket. Holt was overpowered hy Morgan and Henry Fiske, the butler in the Morgan household, who grappled with him in the hallway. He was loi ked up in jail here, and from his cell issued a written .non ne.- say ing that he had intended no ?. -MI to Mr. Morgan, but had come to cien Cove to persuade the banker to stop the shipment abroad of munitions ol* war in this country. He went Into the Morgan home, he said, with a pistol in his band, a stick of dyna mite In his pocket, intending to re main there till Mr. .Morgan "didi something." Another loaded pistol was found in j Holt's po. Uri and more dynamite ?as ? in a sui? ease which he had taken to the Morgan house. In addition, i there wm-e numerous newspaper I clippings in the suit ca*e. all bea ri HR on tbo European war. Statement About Shooting. An authoritative statement of the shooting, obtained here late to-day after many conllicting reports bad been circulated, says: "Holt called al the Morgan home j al '.' o'clock, while Mr. and Mrs Mor- I I gan were at breakfast. Fiske, the j !oitler. answered Holt's ring al the I door. Holl handed the butler his ? card, telling him to inform Mr. Mor- ! nan it was from a friend. As the butler started back through thc hall- j way, Holt slipped a pistol from his .pocket and pressed it against the' j butler's stomach. "See this gun?" he demanded. "1 have auother one." Tile butler, pressed by the nuzzle ' of the weapon, backed into the hall-j way. Holt following. As tht front door closed behind them, the butler, realized the determination of" the as sassin, and spoke in a loud voice, so that Mr. Morgan might r- ir, "Mr. Morgan is In the library." Holt was not diverted by tins, but continued to press the butler back ward down the hallway toward the j dining room. As they neared the dining room door, the butler spoke again., "Upstairs, Mr. Morgan! Upstairs!" be shouted. Alarmed by the shout. Mr. Morgan and his wife left the dining room by another door, entered a rear hall way and weal upstairs. They found i nothing amiss there and started i bat k. using the front stair? ,y. Un wittingly they walked almost into the assassin's arms. Mrs. Morgan saw bim first, screamed and drew back. Molt I urne:! and tired twice before Mr. Morgan could seize him. Fiske, the butler, no longer menaced by the pistol, grabbed the assassin's righi hand. Mr. Morgan, with two bullet wounds in his body, threw himself on Iiis assailant, and the three men went down in a struggling heap on I he hallway door. sir Cecil Spring-Rice, British am bassador to tlui United States, an ovcr-night guest al tho Morgan home, was with Mr. and Mrs. Mor ir?n .?. thc breakfast tabb- when Holt entered the house. The struggle on the Moor was short. The pistol was torn from Holt's lingers and he was beaten by the butler and other servants, who came running at the sound of the shots, until he offered no further re sistance. Then the (?len Cove pojice and a physician was summoned and Holt was placed in one of the Mor gan automobiles and hurried at H* miles an hour lo the jail here. "I fired to scare him." Holt said. "They tell mo I hit him. I hope he is not badly hurt." Assailant's S internent. . Holt made the following statement to the Associated Press this after noon t "My home is in Dallas, Texas. I have a wife and children, and am 40 years old. I was bo.'ii in this coun try and so were my father and mo ther. My ancestors were French and Herman; it. was all mixed up. I re ceived a degree of doctor of philoso phy from Cornell In 1914, but be fore that I was an instructor in French. I formerly was an Instruc tor in Vanderbilt University, "I came to New York two weeks ! ago from Ithaca and put up at the 1 Mills Hotel. I took no pains to con * Holt Takes Own Life. * * Glen Cove, N. Y., July 6.- . * Frank Holt, who ?hot J. P. Mor- . * gan In Iiis home here last Satur- * * day, was found dead to-night In a * * pool of blood In bis cell In the * * county jail. Holt had evidently * * shot himself in the head with a * * revolver. Holt had previously * * tried to commit suicide with a ? * lead pencil. * coal my identity and registered un der my own name. 'About ti month ago 1 conceived the idea to seo J. P. Morgan and get him to use his influence in stopping the exportation of arms which make you and mo responsible for the mur der which is going on over there. "1 have not been influenced to do this by anybody else. I think Presi dent Wilson's notes were line, but they did not seem to do anything to stop the war. "I came down here from New York this morning to put my idea before Mr. Morgan, but I depended upon him to formulate the plan. Of course I did not mean to shoot Mr. Morgan, but I intended to stay there until something was done. 1 had a Mick of dynamite in my pocket; I thought it might come in handy somehow." With a pencil borrowed from newspaper man. Holt addressed this telegram to his wife at 101 Marseil les street. Dallas: "'Man proposes, God disposes. Don't come here nutt' yow g"t my let ter. Be st roi* 3. The 'ciegram was signed "Frank." Inspiration from on High. When asked who inspired the plot against Mr. Morgan, the prisoner de nied that any one had done so. "lt came to me from on high.-' he dei dared. The man seemed to lack complete comprehension of what had happen ed. He could not be persuaded for some time that he had wounded Mr. Morgan. Dynamite and Nitro-Glyrcrine. Holt was hurried to the Court House al Glen Cove, while the eon tents of two suit cases was exam ined. Due was found to contain three ?argo sticks of dynamite and the other a largo bottle of nitro glycerine. There also were two large boxes of cartridges for his re volvers. The prisoner, a tall, lanky man of the raw bone type, was ex tremely reticent at first, but after wards was persuaded to talk, al though he would not say much about himself. lt was said the assailant was seen yesterday in the neighborhood of Mr. Morgan's home. Morgan Out of Danger. Glen Cove, X. Y.. July 5.-J. P. Morgan, shot twice by Frank Holt iast Saturday, is out of all danger, his physicians announced this morn ing. Mr. Morgan's pulse and tem perature are normal, they said, and he passed a rest ful night. Holt, Mr. Morgan's assailant, was so weak lo-day\that when his keeper went to his cell to arouse him he could not sit up on his couch. Un less his condition improves rapidly and physicians say there seemed no reason to expect so radical a ( bange it will bc impossible for him to he taken into court for examination Wednesday, All plans to submit Holt to a fur ther questioning to-day were aband oned because of. his serious condition. Holt Badly Injured. Dr. Guy Clegihorn, the jail physi cian, said Holt's injuries were graver than at first thought. His extreme weakness was due, Dr. Cleghorn said, to the meat loss of blood from the wound over his eye. Two stitches had been taken, but when the wound was dressed to-day it still evinced a ten dency to bleed. In addition, Holl sustained a black eye, his si ouldor was severely wrenched and he was struck a powerful blow In the sto mach which left a black and blue mark. "Holt is very sick," Dr. Cleghorn said; "sick physically and men:.illy. He ls apparently exhausted and !s en able to answer questions." Mr. Morgan awoke this morning nundi refreshed and seemed cheerful. The X-ray examin?t ion yesterday had dispelled fears thal one of the two bullets had entered the abdomen or shattered a bone. Both bullets pass ed through the muscles of thc hip and out through his clothing. The only possible danger, it was asserted, was from blood poisoning, and this grew less with each succeeding hour. Dual Personality ? Authorities were trying to-day to clear up whether Holt had been in volved In the alleged murder of Mrs. Erich Muenter in 19Of?. Brich Mus ter disappeared from Harvard | vcrsity after his wife had died, it was charged, of poisoning, and never was found. Former acquaintances of Muenter in Chicago have asserted that pictures of Holt, showed marked resemblance to the man they knew as Muenter. There were also, lt was said, many WILL, SO< Wc arc prepared to just unloaded one car Ti supplies-Solder, Cappi pers. Etc. We have also 400 ca: Mason G la Tops and Rubbers boug have these in PINTS, QI An OIL STOVE have during thc canning thc yard and do all this 1 Wc have thc New E Automatic. It will pay you to get Matheson H Westmin similarities in the known history of Holt and thal of Muenter, and, in ad dition, many points yet to bc told thc police al.out Holt's life. One of these points, it was said, related to Holt's whereabouts in I90C, the year of the alleged murder. sheriff Grifenhagen questioned Holt closely as to ?his. When Holt answered it was to deny emphati cally 'hat he was Erich Muenter. Ile d'd not enow Muenter, ho said, and bau nothing to do with the murder of Mrs. Muenter. "Where were you in 19061" the sheriff persisted. Holt made him repeat tho question several times before replying. Then he said in a husky whistler and as if in a daze: "I don't remember." lt became known to-day that the secret service is following Hie leads opened hy Holt's story. Every city lie lias mentioned, it was said, will be visited, and a country-wide search is to he made to determine where he was horn and where and how he spent his entire life. Chas. 1. Wood, assistant district attorney of Nassau county, who was in Harvard University while Muenter was there, went to-day to .iee Holt in his cell. Afterwards he said that while Holt bore a strong resemblance to Muenter, he did not think he was I he same man. After a second talk with Holt. Mr. Wood withdrew his previous state ment that bc did not think Holt and Muenter were the same man and as serted he was md sure. "His eyes and his eyebrows are tho same as Mucnter's," Mr. Wood de clared. "His nose, his moni h and other features strongly resemble those of Muenter. 1 could not be positive that he is or is not Muenter, because his he td was tied up in a bandage and this, ol' course, altered his normal appearance." Holt Hems from Wire. A telegram from tho prisoner's wife, received by him late to-day. was dated M?tate, Texas. Previous reports were that Mrs. Holt was with her father in Dallas. The telegram snld: "Everything is all right. lt is your duty now to rest and let loved ones and dod take care of you. All your friends send love. They are so kind to us here. If you can let us know that you gel (his. do so." The message was signed "Mrs. Crank Holt." Holt read the tele gram without comment. Ile sent no ans? er. t'nnhle to ('lear Mystery. Dallas, Texas, .inly ."?. Mrs. Prank Holt was unable to-day to clear up the mystery regarding the past of her husband, who shot .1. P. Morgan. She said lie was born in Wisconsin, but she was unable to give tho name of the place. Mrs. Holt said Holt's parents died before she was married to him. and he had no close relatives. The only relative she could recall was a cotton buyer m North Carolina, and could not recall his name nor where he lived. Mrs. Holt's father, Rev. O. F. Sen NING SON supply your wants ; have n Cans, and all necessary ng Steels, Tipping Cop ses of ss Fruit Jars, ht before the advance. Wc HARTS, and HALVES, is a mighty good stove to season-you can get out in lot work under thc shade, ?erfection and Florence our prices. 'ardware Co., ster, S. C. sabaugh, said Holt carno into tho lifo ot the Sensabaugh family first in 1908, whoo they lived in Kort Worth, Texas. Mr. Sensabaugh was reared In Waynesville, \. C., he said to-day, and had lived In Colorado twelve years. Mrs. Holl ..as horn in Du rango, Colo. Mr. Sensabftugh continued to-day !o keep his daughter in seclusion. He allowed only close friends to see her, and he declared she had not read a newspaper since the tragedy Sat urday. She was prostrated, he said, and added he teared that reading ac counts of tlie arrest of her husband might make her "morbid." At Mrs. Holt's home it was 1 that she had sent a t(legrain husband from "Mutate, Tex reported from ('.len Cove. He: ! said she sent the telegram from here, and that the dale line "M?tate" was a mistake in transmission probably due to misreading of the French. "Mon Cher.' which Mrs. Holt used in her message. HA H.M ITT TO SIMM l ilt SCHOO County Demonstrator Speaks Teachers-School Closes Friday c. M. Barnett, county demonstra tion agent, addressed the summer school during the first period on Tuesday morning on the various phases Of the demonstration work, and its connection with the country school and the country school teacher. He explained how tho teacher may aid in carrying out Hie work of the demonstration agent in the corn club, the poultry club, the pig club, Hu; horticulture club and the tomato club. He stressed the ne cessity of the co-operation of the country teacher with the county demonstrator. He gave the teachers many valuable suggestions as to how they may secure the suppor* the co operation and the assistante of the patrons of the school in this work. Ho also showed who! benefits Hie pa trons may Becure by acquainting themselves with the many helps to their welfare, as farmers, offered by the demonstration dopa rt tuen t of Clemson College in connection with the United Slates Department Of Ag riculture. 'The work of the summer school has been very satisfactory to tho fac itity and to tho teacher-pupils. 'Tho school will close Friday >f this week, the f)th. The last iwo days (Thurs day and Friday) are to be taken up In examinations. Geography, agri culture, primary methods, civics and algebra are scheduled for Thursday, ami grammar, arithmetic, pedagogy and history for Friday. Titree Killed, Porty Hurt. Tacoma, Wash., July 3.-Three persons were killed and about 40 In jured when two coaches of a Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul passenger train fell through a trestle near Rai nier, Wash., 20 miles south of here, to-day. The passenger train foll upon a freight train passing under the trestle.