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ESTABLISHED AWFUL TRAGEDY Jn a Crowded Cafe in the City o f New York. MURDER AND SUICIDE. frank Bradjr, Newspaper Advertis ing Solicitor, Made Target for Five Pistol Balls from Weapon in the Hands of Woman at Whose House He Had Boarded, Which Created a Panic in Cafe. The was a 'errible tragedy enact ed ia a crowded cafe in the, city of New York on Thursday. Sweeping through the crowded restaurant takes up the eighth floor of Macy's department and into the gentlemen's ?afe, a tall, stylishly dressed woman bent for a moment over the shoulder of a diner, whispered something in his ear and then drawing a revolver from her muff emptied the contents ?f- the five chambers into his body. A3 the victim, Frank Brady, a ?ewapaper advertising solicitor, slip ped lifeless to the floor, the woman fung-. the revolver from her and taking a second revolver from her muff shot herself first in the head, and then twice in the breast. She died half an hour later. A note fuond in the woman's purse proved her to be Mrs. Mary Roberts Clark, a manicurist, the widow of a police officer and stepmother of a shc-year-old son, Raymond. Brady was thirty yars old and the sole support of a helpless aged mother, for whom he bad made a home. The shooting was the culmination of a series of violent quarrels, and, according to the woman's intimates, in fulfillment of a threat to murder Brady in a public place. The suicide, who was about thirty years years old, was Mary McLean when she marired John Roberts. "When the later died a year ago she assumed the name of Clark and sup ported herself and child first as the wardrobe woman at an up-town the atre , and then a manicurist. She was of a prepossing appearance and had marked business ability. While she was in prosperous cir cumstances and before the death of her husband Brady had lodging at her home, and she declared that she had helped him to the success which he subsequently attained. A few months ago he left her home and made a home for his mother, whom be brought from New Jersey. Recently Mrs. Clark thought that Brady was avoiding her, and when be called at her home, occassionally they quarrelled. Thursday Mrs. Clark went to her bank, made a cash deposit, wrote a note identi fying herself and referring the read er to her attorney, and armed with three revolvers went to the store where she knew Bridy usually lunch ed. She made her vay hastily to a small smoakirg room for gentlemen just ofT the dining hall. The big room was filled with women who were lunching after the morning's shopping, and amid the buzz of the conversation her agitated manner at tracted the attention only of the waltressesss. In a moment sbe stood behind Brady's chair and spoke to him. Be fore he had time to reply she had shoved a revolver in his face and commenced firing. The head, the neck, the shoulder, the breast and the abdomen were successively pierc ed by bullets, and Brady lay dead at her feet. Giving one glance to the half doz en men neari>y who were momentar ily stunned by the pitiless murder, Mrs. Clark whipped another weapon from her furs and put a bullet near ber right ear and two others in her bosom. The report of the discharges creat ed consternation and there was a rush for the elevators. Employees of the place quickly closed the doors, shutting oft the view of the smoaking room and reassuring the women pa trons, few of whom realized what bad occurred. The police broke the news to Brady's aged mother and the Gerry Society took charge of the dead woman's body. t THE UNWRITTEN LAW. Woman Acquitted for Killing Man Who Wronged Her. At El Paso, Texas, having follow ed Robert J. Schram to his room and shot him down after he refused to right her wrong by marrying her just two days after the verdict of not quilty in the Bradley case, in Washington, Mary Adloff was found not 'guilty of murder and released, both on the plea of "unwritten law," and temporarily insanity. She admitted killing Schram, but said after she nursed his dying wife at LaJounta, Col., he made love to her, promised to marry her. and then betrayed her and left for El Paso, where, when she followed and asked him to keep his promise and marry her, he struck her. Women hugged her as she stepped forth free and they squeezed the hands of the jury and said, "God bless you." I BRYAN A WINNER. Henry Watterson Says He Will Be Nominated and Elected. Thinks Got. Hughes, of New York, is the Only Republican, Who Can Defeat the Great Commoner. "Bryan is as good as nominated." "Just so sure as the convention of the Democratic party meets in Den ver next July Bryan will be named as the standard Dearer or tne party." "If the country remains In its pres ent condition of unrest, Bryan will be elected." "Governor Hughes is the only can didate the Republican party can name who could defeat Bryan under normal conditions." These quotations express the lat est opinions of Henry Watterson, the famous editor of the Louisville Cour ier-Journal, and are part of an in terview with him while in Washing ton recently. The fact that Col. Watterson has been leading the fight against Bryan's nomination by the Democratic party, makes his utterances significant. "It is too late to defeat Bryan for the nomination," said Col. Watter son. "Had I been given six months ago the support of those Democrats, who are now clamoring for another nominee, we might have accomplish ed something. "When I suggested that if Bryan were to withdraw from the contest, I could name a man who measured up to all the requirements, a good, winning Democratic candidate for president. When I named him md found that he possessed all the qual ifications I claimed for him, some Democrats gave me credit for hav ing some perspicuity is now too late. Then followed the Quotations made above. "I am not personally unfriendly to Mr. Bryan," said Col. Watterson. "On the contrary, I like him. and I am convinced that if the country re mains in its present state of unrest, Bryan will be the victor in the next election. Gov. Hughes is the only man the Republicans could name who would have a chance to defeat the candidate of the Democrats, how ever he may be and with the coun try in a normal state he would prob ably be elected. But I repeat, if the country remains in a state of unrest, victory will perch on the banner of the Democrats & the national elec tion next November. "Who appears to you to be in the lead, so far as the Republican nomi nation is concerned?" Col. Watter son was asked. "If Taft is not nominated on the first ballot, Gov. Hughes will he chosen on the second," wao the laconic responce. "What about the sehatorship out in Kentucky?would you become a compromise candidate, if Gov. Beck ham is not elected?" "I would not come to Washington to take the oath of office if a certi ficate of election were handed to me," replied Col. Watterson. t MURDERERS RUN DOWN. Members of Desperate Band of Ne groes Are Captured. Three of a gang of negroes who brained a Cincinnati Southern tele graph operator, John Brown, at An nadel, Morgan county, Tennessee, and later shot and killed a bridge watchman, David Langley, last Sat urday night, have been captured or killed. One, name unknown, was killed Monday by a posse. A second one was captured and is being held for safekeeping. The third surren dered to a farmer living near Wart burg after he had been shot by a posse, pursuing him. He was turn ed over to Sheriff Langley of Mor gan county, who started for knox vllle with him. Excitement is too high in Morgan county to keep the men in "Wartburg jail. t YOUNG MAN MURDERED. His Gun and Garments Found in a Negro's House. The dead body of Thomas Furr, 18 years old, was found a short distance from his home in Union county, the other morning, with a gunshot wound in his heart. Young Furr left home the day be fore in the early evening riding a mule. The animal returned at day light, riderless, with blood on the saddle. A search revealed the murdered body in a field and. later Furr's gun. j together with blovd-stainod garments were found in the cabin of Susie Watts, a negress, near the scene of the crime. The woman, together with a ne gro man, Charles Stratford, were ar rested, charged with the murder of the young man. t STRANGE OCCURRENCE. Three Large Islands Said to Hare Dissr.pcnred Recently. The Mexican meterological bureau has been advised tint recent sub terranean disturbances off the coast of Yucatan have caused the islan Is of Obispo, Sur and Cuyonevo to dis appear. They were of considi rable sh'.e and were well known to naviga tors. There were several guano camps upon two of them. The har bor at Progrcso has had its depth great decreased. t jjll ORANGEBUR THE RACE ISSUE Discussed Before the Members of the General Assembly. MORE WHITE PEOPLE Needed in this State.?Sees in This the Only Solution of the Race Question.?Constitution of 1895 Was But a Temporary Subterfuge Which Must Loose Efficiency.? Favors Immigration. Before several hundred people Senator B. R. Tillman Thursday night delivered in the State capitol an address on immigration as it af fects the race question. He spoke in responce to an invitation from the general assembly. The address last ed not quite two hours and was closely followed by those present. His* utterances on the immigration question are perhaps his first from a platform in this State and were therefore of particular interest to the members. On the race problem the senator touched, arguing in the main for a repeal of the 15th amendment of the constitution of the United States, but his main argument was that South Carolina needs more settlers of the right sort, the kind authori zed in the act creating the depart ment of agriculture, commerce and immigration, and the only way to get these settlers is by advertising the advantages of South Carolina? a plan now being used in the West, where there are also many advan tages, where wages are higher and where the negro is not met in com petion. Senator Tillman anaylized the re sult of his lectures in the North, told of the disappearence of sectional feeling and closed with a strong plea for mere education of the whites, calling attention to the growing ex tent of the education of the negroes, pointing out the fact that the con stitution of 1895 was only a tem porary remedy and emphasizing the growing danger of the use of the educated negro for political purpos es. After being introduced by Lieut. Gov. McLeod he expressed his grati fication* on account of the invita tion and declared tha-t he would try to comply with its terms. He be lieves the discussion of immigration and the race question to be so close ly interwoven that one can not be handled without the other. There is still a wide divergence of opinion on the race question, but he is not disposed to quarrel with those who differed with him. He is will ing to debate his views with any one, however, because he believes he is right. He Is now three score years of age anl he had found that young men wto were infants in the days of Hanpton, Gary and 1876 are under taking to lay down rules of con duct on the subject. Sees a Crisis. He believes that the most dread ful crisis is ahead of us and claimed that he could prove it to an intelli gent audience. Some have said there is no race problem; that it was solv ed by the convention of 1895; that the negroes are now quiet, why stir it up? These very men were oppos ed to this convention and as "I was one of those who advocated the con vention I have a right to speak and show that everything is not quiet." It is true that the new constitution disqualified many negroes and that the government is now conducted by white men, but his analysis of con ditions is that despite the education al and suffrage qualifications, the expedient is only temporary, not a remedy but the best that could be done at the time. Therefore he want ed to warn the people that the terms of the constitution requiring a man to read and write or pay taxes on $300 of property before he could vote, might react. The report from every county showed that more ne groes were going to school than white children. There are more of them. He reviewed the work of the con stitutional convention of 1S6S, which he said was attended by three-four ths negroes and nearly all the car petbaggers. The people seemed to forget the negro rule of eight long years that followed. Of course this can not return, but something worse can. The school attendance by the negroes shows that, at our expense, they are now getting the ability to read and write and can comply with the requirements of the constitution. He was not one to object to their education, but how long would it be before enough of them can read and write to equal the white vote and then balance the power? He was not objecting to the negro schools; he wanted to emphasize this, but they are here. The 14th and 15th amendments are staring us in the face and the Southern people are manacled to them. With the millions of dollars being poured into the South for ne gro education it can not be denied that in the future there will be a strong struggle for mastery?no doubt urged by unprincipled white nen who wish power. And yet it i.i charged that "Tillman is running up and down the country making money < n lectures op the racs ciucsUtin.' Those who believe this were charac terized as either os.: riches, who bid from danger by stiking their head* S. C, TUESDAY, JAN in the sand, or fools. Nothing bas saved the South from the negro being the balance of power but the Democratic primary. He re ferred to North Carolina and "the capture of that State by Pritchard." Such a thing would not happen in South Carolina iu his day. Immigration the Remedy. Coming to a question of remedy he wanted to say first that the problem had not yet been safely solved hut he believed there was only one answer to the question?the white race must be reinforced. We have no race suicide or divorce and we have the purest blooded citizenship in America with the most glorious history. All this should nerve us to get at once more white men and women in South Carolina. In his travels across the continent he had noticed that other States want more settlers and a great many of these States have far more advantages and it could be easily un derstood why the people are not breaking their necks to get here. "It's a good State, but a great many coldblooded people will see the gul leys and the swamps and may go elsewhere." However there are things in this State we have to offer and these ad vantages can be displayed. He has found people who do not want new comers. He wou-.u?like to i dopt that theory, but conditious are such that settlers are needed and are necssary. As to what kind ar best, he declared | that he had a fellow feeling for the English, German and Irish, having that blood In his veins. He, however, in going through this State was struck with the good stock, the pure blood and the fact that every citi zen was proud of the State. More of this kind are needed. The general assembly a few years ago passed 'a bill for a department of immigration. Now what is wanted are homeseekers. Those of us who have thousands of acres of land and are facing labor trouble with the negroes, realizing that the negroes are more and more independent, know that something must be done. The difficulties grow day by day and what would be the result of an influx of 200,000 people who seek to be come South Carolinians? Can we expect them to come here, however, when the advantages of the West, with its high wages, are being constantly advocated everywhere and the government spending millions of dollars on the desert land? He bad served notice, however, that if this government was going to put water on the desert lands of the West he expected the government to take the water off of the lands of the coast of South Carolina. But suppose this is done. The settler will find the ne gro there, five and 10 to one. He believes firmly that immigration is the solution. True, he did not be lieve In the certain classes now pour ing into the country, but the other kind make good citizens and they are needed. Fifteenth Amendment. When Lee surrendered at-Appo mattox we knew that the Union was one and that slavery existed no long er. But we did not know that sec tional hatred would make the North j forget all the long past and declare the. negro as good as the white. While Radicalism has been thrown off temporarily there is only one de finite and permanent remedy?the repeal of the 15th amendment. He was told that he was the only Southern representative who advo cated this. He had talked to hun dreds of Northern audiences and found that they had very little use for the negro, although they wanted his vote and are consequently very polite to the colored brother. It was a question with him, he said, whether or not it was not time for the South to unite and call for the repeal cf this amendment. if the South never asked for it they would never get it. In roaming over the land he was' able to bring the news back that sec tional feeling was dead. There were a few old men who still cling to the old ideas. But there are many who have come South during the Span ish-American war, have invested their money here and have visited here and they have the same ideas we have. He claimed thai he had j aroused more enthusiasm in Wiscon sin than lu re on the matter of white supremacy; he had followed his old style of hand primaries and usually secured a unanimous vote. It is now i ho good old game is bi UARY 28, 1908. ATTACKED BY FLAMES Portland and Baltimore Suffer Big Losses From Fire. For Second Time Within Week Same Two Cities Give Strenuous Bnttle to the Fire Fiend. A dispatch from Portland, Me., says a fire of undertermined origin started early today in the brick block, Nos. 154 to 166 Middle street, occupied by Milliken, Cousens & Co., wholesale drygoodo, and A. F. Cox & Co., wholesale boots and shoes. After a desperate fight of more than three hours the combined fire departments of Portland, Biddeford, Lewiston and Bath had the situation well in hand when the flames broke out anew and before they could -be checked, had gained such rapid head way that the men found themselves again helpless and in order to save the remnant of the business section, summoned aid from Boston. The fire, it is estimated, at eight o'clock Monday morning, had done damage of more than $1,000,000. The burning block is in the very center of the down-town wholesale district. A heavy rain shortly after midnight gave the fire fighters great aid and it was thought the flames were under control when suddenly out of the blinding smoke a great tongue of fire shot up and five min utes later the entire side was In flames. Fire in Baltimore. A dispatch from Baltimore under date of Modnay says firo is raging in the immense tanks of the Standard Oil Company at Frst avenue and Fifth street,' in the south eastern portion of the city. Thousands of gallons of oil have already been burned. The fire threatens the large refinery and other property nearby. ONE BELIEVED KILLED Costly Fire Does Big Damage in the City of Chicago. A dispatch from Chicago says one man Is believed to be killed and over a score severely injured and a prop erty loss of $550,000 caused by a fire which broke out in the printing es tablishment of the W. P. Dunn com pany, Sunday night, and for a time threatened to get beyond control of the firemen. The building occupied by the print ing concern was completely gutted and the Hotel Florence adjoining, also destroyed. Guests in the latter, and also in the Grand Pacific, were thrown in a panic. Fanned by a mile-a-minute gale, the flames beat fiercely against the sky 6crapers in the compactly built district. FIVE FIREMEN KILLED While Fighting a Fire Friday in the City of Baltimore. At Baltimore five firemen were killed and twenty seriously injured by falling walls early Friday morn ing in what was the greatest fire i which that city has experienced since the great conflagration of 1 004. Among tho worst injured is George Horton, chief of the fire department. The loss caused by the Haines is es timated at more than $500.000. t a question of nerve or courage to se cure a repeal of this amendment and the South should demand it. He wishes to have credit for fore sight, lie wanted, however, to press upon the people the fact that the time will come when the negro vole in the South will count. More white men are needed and we can not get i them we must say to the North that, this amendment must be repealed. The question must be pressed upon I them bcause the North knows noth-j ing about it. Every day he sees evidence of morei and more friction between the races, j lie had no purpose of creating more of it, but all that ho wished to say j was that South Carolina would never submit to negro domination. t| mm LOCKER CLUBS Over in Georgia Wiil Be Put Out of Business. Uhir.ed States Judge Speer Rules that Each Member of Them Must Pay Twenty-Five Dollars License. A dispatch from Savannah, Ga., to the Augusta Chronicle says "trou ble of a deep nature is looming ahead for the locker clubs of Georgia? those oases in the desert into which the prohibition ha-"e converted the State, and unto which those who are sore at thirst are wont to wend their way. ' This trouble is not that which is lurking in the approaching session of the legislature, but it awaits the clubs in the term of the United States court for the Southern district of Georgia, which is to convene in Savannah on February 20. Judge Emory Speer sounded the docket for the term. Ho will return to hold court beginning February 20. "Asked about the status of the locker clubs in Georgia, Judge Speer caused surprise when he said that he would charge the United States grand jury that the clubs are con ducted in opposition to the statute requiring that each place where li quor is sold or dealt in in any way shs.il pay a-license of $25 to the fed eral government. Each and every member of the clubs, said Judge Speer is, under the law, liable for such a license. He is required to take out such a license and to post in a conspicious place. "Thus far the members in no case have complied with the law, and the judge says he will charge the jury to investigate this omission. This, of course, means the death of locker clubs. "Judge Speer said the impression prevails up the State that no Savan nah jury would take cognisance of failures to observe the prohibition law. This, he is not inclined to be lieve, he said, for he had found Sa vannah citizens ever ready to do their duty as jurors. "However, the judge naively con tinued, that if he found it necessary he might call upon the 'sturdy yeo manry' of Bullock, Emanuel, Screv en and other neighboring counties to come to his aid in enforcing the law. "It was quite evident that Judge Speer was fully informed of the ra l-pid mushroom growth of locker clubs in Savannah." . t ATTACKED BY ANGRY BULL. Two Young Women Frightened and Injured by Ferocious Animal. Chased by an angry bull, Misses Phoebe Polhemus and Jessie Cava naugh tried to take refuge in a tree in their uncle's pasture, near Jack sonville, N. J. Miss Polhemus was climbing a small birch, when she felt the tree shaking violently and fell. The girl landed upon the hack of the bull, which she clutched as a drowning man clutches at a plank. The animal bounded off across the uneven ground, carrying her a quar ter of a mile before it stumbled and fell, throwing Miss Polhemus over its head. The shock that had shaken Miss Polhemus out of the tree was caused by Miss Cavanaugh being tossed by the bull Into the branches. When Farmer Cavanaugh rushed to the as sistance of his nieces, he found Jes sie hanging from a limb by her skirts. The girls were hysterical. Miss Cavanaugh was badly bruised, and will bo kept to her bed for sev eral days. t SHE FOOLED IBM. IA Georgia Farmer Who Had Faith in a Faker's Story. A special to The Augusta Chron icle says a Russel county farmer claims to have lost $45 by consult ing a clarivoyant In Columbus, Ga. Slaughter had a barn of his burn ed some weeks since, and came to the clairvoyant to find out who fired the structure. He was told that in ten days he would be told, and the ":mind reader" incidentally inform ed him that gold was to be found on his land. He paid down $45 with the agreement that he would be told in ten days exactly where to locate the gold. He returned when the ten days were up. but the clairvoyant had fled. t SHE CAPTCIIES HIM. A Frail Little Woman Held Burglar Until Police Came. At Water bury. Conn., Mrs. Lizzie Wolff, a fral. woman, wife of Ad rian F. Wolfe, superintendent of tin tool room in the Scoville company's works, held up a fiat thief in their homo on Ridge street Friday night, made him disgorge, and then with a revolver, held him cowed in a cor ner until the police arrived, eighteen minutes later. Ho is Arthur Roscnthal, a Moston crook, sentenced for burglary in Con cord, March 1906 and having a long (riminal record. Mis. Wolff was at supper when, hearing a noise, she grabbeJ r re volver, swung the electric switch lighting the apartment, and found him ransacking her chamber. t 0 SI.50 PEB AOTTUM. BRYANTRUEBLUE He Is for Democracy and Not Any Particular Man. HE MADE AN ADDRESS To the Democatic Members of the Kentucky Legislature in the Inter ests of Got. Beckhain, Who Is the Democratic Primary Nominee of the Democratic Party for the Unit ed States Senate. A dispatch from Lexington, Ky., says the climax of W. J. Bryan's vis it to that city was reached Wednes day afternoon when he spoke to the Democratic members of the legisla ture behind closed doors, advocating the election of former Gov. Beck ham as United States senator. Mr. Brayan said neither Gov. Beckham nor anybody else had invited him to Frankfort. He declared he had no fears for himself. He said he was told in the Goebel campaign that he might hurt himself if he came to Kentucky. "I am not afraid of hurting my self when the interests of the Dem ocratic party are at stake," said Mr Bryan. "I might be a candidate this year," he said, "I do not know. Only two delegates have been elected and they have been Instructed for me, but they are not enough to elect me. If what I say hero affects my chances of election it is not a suffi cient bribe to keep my mouth closed. I am in the habit of saying what I think." He said he had come to Kentucky not for Beckham, but for the Demo-, cratic nominee and that if McCreary were the nominee for senator he would he here speaking for McCrary. "I am here," he said, "because I believe the Democratic ticket has a good chance to be elected this year. I do not know who the Democratic standard-bearer may be, but I know that it takes a Democratic senate and house to uphold the president. I do not want to be president simpiy to sit in a chair, but to do something for the people. "All the popularity of the Repub lican president has come from adop tion of Democratic principles and re form. "We cannot rely much on Repub lican senators. We may get the house; but it will reffulro an over whelming victory to get the senate. I am hopeful we may make enough gains to secure the senate for Dem ocratic reform. On the vote of one senator may rest the fate o? Demo cratic principles. "For a generation we have had a government under corporate control. This government was sold to the highest bidder and since that time a saturnalia feast has existed at Wash ington. The only relief is a Demo cratic triumph this fall; not only the White House, but also the house and senate. The legislature of Kentucky faces a great responsibility and should arise to the occasion and elect a Democratic senator on whose vote the deliverance may result." He said personalities should not be allowed to figure in politics. He said it was wrong for Democrats to refuse to support men just because they did not want thern. He said in 1904 he took his medicine in Parker. Parker wa; the man above all others he did Dot want, "but," declared Bryan, "he stood for more Demo crats than the Republicans did and I accepted him and did what I could for him. Give me a bitter enemy and if he stands for the same things I stand for I will do more for him than his best friend." At the conclusion of Mr. Bryan's speech to the Democratic members of the legislature, Senator Wheeler Campbell, one of the anti-Beckham Democrats arose and said he would refrain from making public his rea sons why he would not vote for Beck ham for senator, but he would give Mr. Bryan his reasons in private and he felt sure Mr. Bryan would shake hands with him and say: "Well done, good and faithful Democrat." He was greeted with hisses. Mr. Bryan made an address be for the Icgislaturespeakingasfollows: "The embezzlement of power is as great a crime as the embezzlement of money." Mr. Bryan was referring to the man who is elected to a legislative body and then votes against the wish es of the people who sent him. "I hope the time will come," he said, "when such betrayers will be wiped from power." Mr. Bryan declared that legisla tors who are too conscientious to vote as those who elect them want should be conscientious enough to resign their offices. ?'The rights of the corporations ex tend only to those given to them by law," declared Mr. Bryan. The warnings of President Roosevelt as to great fortunes which had been built up by the growth of the cor porations was warmly commended by the speaker. Mr. Bryan said that ho v,anted to express his gratification and gratitude for the taking off from his shoulder a part, of the cussing corporal ions which he formerly had to bear. According to the speaker the re cent panic was due to fictitious val ues. He said every State should pass such lavs or amendments as would make Imposi i do watered stock and fictitious capitalization, t