The times and democrat. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, March 03, 1908, Image 1
A. S Mire Jr
ESTABLISHED Etf IS
TAKES A HAND.
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United States Court Assumes Jur
isdiction in Dispensary Matter.
STATE WILL APPEAL.
Lyon Suggests That the Judge Wait
Until Question of Jurisdiction Is
Settled Finally?He Says He Has
No Intention of Provoking Conflict.
?Pritchard Declares He Has No
Doubt of His Accuracy.
It looks like the .United States
Court will at last take a hand in
winding . up the affairs of the old
State dispensary. At Asheville, N.
C, on Saturday the matter was again
brought up in that court on a recent
order of Judge Pritchard's, signed on
motion of the Wilson Distilling Com
pany commission of South Carolina
to appear and show cause why a re
ceiver should not be appointed to
take charge of the $S00,000 funds
now in the hands of the commission
for the payment of the just liabilities
of the old dispensary.
Prior to the hearing of the Wilson
case Judge Pritchard informally re
ferred to the recent hearing in the
matter of the Fleishmann Company
against the dispensary commission.
The complainants in this case also
applied for a receiver.
The application for a receiver was
denied and argument had on the
question of jurisdiction, the court
reserving its decision. Saturday
morning Judge Pritchard stated that
he hadn't completed his forn|il opin
ion and decision, but that in view of
the coming on of the Wilson case he
thought it best to indicate what his
decision would be.
"The suit is not a suit against the
State," said Judge Pritchard. "I have
considered carefully this whole mat
ter and had I any doubt I would give
the defendants the benefit of that
doubt and rule in favor of the S' ite.
.There is no doubt in my mind, how
ever, and therefore the court takes
jurisdiction."
Judge Pritchard said it was his
purpose to appoint two special mas
ters IX is stated that these masters
will be named next Mo 'day, when the
defendants make formal answer.
The defendants announced that
they would appeal from the decision
of the court.
Attorney General Lyon in referring
tothedeternihationof the State to ap
peal suggested to the court in effect
that in order to avoid any unseemly
clash between the State and Federal
authorities that "your honor refrain
from ordering any specific acts to* be
done until the question of jurisdic
tion is settled."
Judge Pritchard to this suggestion
made reply: "That this court is not
going to do anything to provoke a
conflict but at 'the same time the
court is going ahead and do its
duty."
Judge Pritchard said there was
no necessity or reason for a recur
rence of the unfortunate incidents
which occurred in North Carolina
last year. He said that "this court
is as much a South Carolina court
as any court and incidentally that it
is presided over by a Southern man."
A hearing of the receivorship pro
ceedings will be held on Saturday.
HAD TOO MANY KEYS.
Why a Stranger is Now Under Arrest
in Florence.
At Florence P. W. Boswell, one of
three white men who were found
loitering on the strets at an early
hour Sunday morning and acting in
a very suspicious manner, was arrest
ed by Oflicer Cain. The other two
men made good their scape. After
being arrested, Boswell was searched
and a large bunch of skeleton and
various other kinds of keys were tak
en from his pockets. Chief Koopman
now thinks that Boswell is one of
the men who blew the safe in Mr. J.
J. Hood's store at Blenheim on Fri
day night.
HANGING AT ST. AUGUSTINE.
Two Thousand Persons See Negro Ex
' ecuted for Murder.
Charlie Powers, colored, was hang
ed in the county jail yard at St.
Augustine. Fla., at 10:30 o'clock Fri
day morning for the murder of John
Rogers, also colored. As the trap
was sprung the rope parted, but not
before Power's neck had been brok
en. Powers was so frightened that
he gave way entirely and had to be
carried to the scaffold. He was too
limp to stand, and a board was se
cured and fastened to his back. Two
thousand persons witnessed the hang
STREET FIGHT.
Contractor Shoots Merchant Over in
the Town of Aiken.
AtAiken on Friday, W. F. Doby,
a prominent contractor, had an al
tercation with K. H. Rankin. a groc
er, about a small account he owed
Rankin. Doby invlt i Rankin to the
street and words passed. Rankin
struck Doby, who tiled a pistol,
shooting Rankin in the hip. painfully
inj-iring him. The wound ;^ not n^c
es^.?lrily fatal. The shooting created
some excitement. ?
69.
BRUTES CONFESS.
The Tojand Negroes Tall of Foul
Killing in Lexington.
They Make Full Confession of the
Murder of Mrs. Paul W. Ellisor
Near Columbia.
A dispatch from Columbia says
Ned anil Brack Toland, negroes, age l
17 and 19 years, respectfully, late
Friday afternoon made a full con
fession of the murder of Mrs. Paul
VV. Ellisor, the aged woman who liv
ed just across the river from Colum
bia.
Brack, the-youngest of the broth
ers, said that Mrs. Ellisor suspected
something as soon as they entered the
house. When they got inside Brack
said he caught the old woman and
held her while his brother knocked
her in the head with an axe.
They put her body in a basket and
Ned struck her two more blows. They
then proceeded to rob the house, tak
ing a gun and a number of articles
of wearing apparel. No money was
found.
These negroes were arrested on
the train going to New berry the day
after the brutal murder and brought
back to Columbia. There was a big
crowd of men at the train when they
arrived and had it not been for the
presence of several officers an at
tempt to lynch them would have been
made. The two fiends are now in
the penitentiary for safe keeping.
A dispatch from Prosperity says
Ned Toland bears a bad reputation,
having been in a number of scrapes.
About six years ago he broke into
Sligh's store, at Sligh's Station, and
robbed the postoffice. He served a
sentence in the United States prison
in Atlanta for this crime. He has
been on the chain gang several times
at different places. ,
Brack was working in the oil mill
and was enticed away by Ned. They
left Prosperity walking Monday.
Some of the hands in the oil mil!
warned Brack that Ned would get
him in trouble. Ned's wife had gone
to Columbia on the morning Colum
bia, Newberry and Laurens train.
WIFE SKIPS.
Mother of Two Little Girls Runs
Away With a Man She Loves.
Sending her two little girls to bed
at 10 o'clock Sunday night and leav
ing a note behind saying that her
household effects may be sold to pay
all debts incurred, Mrs. C. A. Ctrick
land, of the Olympia mill village, on
the outskirts of Columbia, ran away
from her home with a man she loved
at 12 o'clock Sunday night, while her
husband is in North Carolina, and
sentenced to the penitentiary for 18
months for bigamy.
The little girls are ten and twelve
years of age and lived with their
mother in the Olympia mill village.
Only the small family of three were
together in the house, so whn Mrs.
Strickland left, the children were
thrown upon the mercy of the world.
?The front door was left open as
the mother of the little girls and the
man to whom she was engaged or
married fled under coverof darkness in
the dead of the night. Some neigh
bors there were, however, who pos
sibly heard the ci ?ak of the door and
saw the pair as ihjjy stole out into
the world and away from two tiny
mortals, the flesh and blood of a de
serting mother.
Early Monday morning two mar
ried sisters of the little ones, who
lived next door, entered the home
and found to their utter surprise and
horror, the note that told the incred
ible story. The children were taken
to their sster's home and will be
cared for until the mother returns, if
she so decides to do so.
The elder girl works in thi mill
and the note contained information
that the mother would return on pay
day to get her daughter's salary.
About forty days ago, the husband
of Mrs. Strickland was tried in North
Carolina for bigamy and sentenced
for 18 months. Upon some after dis
covered evidence, however, Gov.
Glenn granted him a reprieve for 60
days, but that time has not yet ex
pired.
SOUTH CAROLINIAN DEAD.
Judge John A. Edison, WofTord Mau,
Dies in Texas.
The Spartanburg Herald says Judge
J. A. Edison, formerly of South Car
olina, and a gradual* of Wofford
College, died in Hamilton, Texas,
several days ago. He was considered
by many one of the ablest lawyers in
Texas. He was appointed associate
justice of court of appals by Governor
Lanaham of Texas, another Wofford
boy. Mr. Edison graduated from
Wofford soon after the war, having
served through tl 3 latter part of the
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war.
Hanged in Georgia.
Lee Holmes, colored, slayer of Dr.
E. A. Sands, was hanged in the jall
yard at Derien. Ga., at noon Friday.
He was brought from Savannah the
night before. Holmes said nothing
at the gallows except to pray aloud
for a short time.
Threw a Bomb.
At Buenas Ayres a dynamite bomb
was thrown Friday against a car
riage in which President Alcorta was
driving but .failed to explode. Four
1 nersons are arrestt charged with
j complicity In the plot *
DEADLY AVALANCHE
Demolishes Hotel Building andjn
jures Thirty People.
Little Children Lose Their Lives in
Vainly Trying to Save the Lives of
Others.
An awful and deadly avalanche de
scended Sunday near the village of
Goppenstein in Switzerland. The
enormous atmospheric pressure de
molished a hotel at the mouth of the
Loetschenthal tunnel works, killing
thirteen persons and injuring fifteen
others.
The occupants of the hotel, num
bering thirty, were surprised while
seated at the table by sinister rum
blings. Almost immediately two
children rushed into the dining room
and screamed: "An avalanche, an
avalanche."
There was a rush to escape, but
the building, which was of a tempor
ary nature, collapsed, without warn
ing. Both of the children were kill
ed along with many of those they liid
sought to save.
Among the others killed was an
American engineer named Mervart,
who was installing American machin
ery to be used for a tunnel.
The hotel had been erected by the
tunnel contractors for the conven
ience of the engineers and others en
gaged in construction work. There
were no tourists there.
The village postoffice and police
station were seriously damaged by
the air wave and were keeled over to
a angle of 45 degrees, making oc
cupancy impossible. The tunnel
works were not damaged.
NEGRO WOUNDS NINES.
Fired upon Crowd of Five Hundred
Church-Goers.
At Richmond, Va., Sunday night,
a woman and a man were shot and
fatally wounded and seven other per
sons were seriously woundd by Rob
ert Faulkner, a negro thief, supposed
to be insane, who fired promiscously
into a crowd of 500 people ov their
way to church.
Faulkner early in the evening
broke into Lignor's gunshop, on
East Franklin street, and stole a
double barreled shotgun and a supply
of amunition. He left the shop just
as the crowd of church goers were
passing, and without warning, he be
gan firing, keeping up a fusilade into
the throng until sixteen shots had
been fired, nearly every shot finding
a human target. The shrieks of the
wounded and the sounds of the fir
ing called six policemen hurriedly to
the scene, where by this time nearly
a thousand people had congregated.
The policeman found the negro
slowly retreating, but holding the
crowd at bay with his gun. They
immediately opened fire on him and
he fell with five bullets in his body
and with his leg broken.
In defiance of the demand of the
mob that the negro be lynched, the
policemen quickly hurried him to the
poke station, from whence he was
transferred to a hospital.
HARD MAN TO KILL.
Lives With His Head Nearly Severed
With Heavy Axe.
With his head nearly severed, W.
S. Smith ran half a mile to a physi
cian at Sumrall, Miss, Friday, was
treated, and will soon be out again.
The case is one of the most singular
In surgical annals. Doctors who
performed the operation declare that
the patient's neck is tougher than
leather. Smith and a man named
Hardy quarreled over a bill. Hardy
felled his adversary with an axe, and
tried to cut off his head. He evident
ly thought he had decapitated his
victim for he dragged the body 40
feet into a patch of urderbush and
went to hide his axe.
Shot While He Slep.
At Clinton, Iowa. Fred Dolph,
about 60 years old, was shot to death
Saturday night while he slept. His
head was blown off with a shotgun
placed against his cheek. Mrs. Dolpb
is under arrest.
lURG, S.;C TUESDAY. 1
ALL BACK, INCLUDING HIS CLI
i AWFUL RECORD.
I _
Nearly One Homicide Each Day i
in South Carolina. r
DURIN3 LAST YEAR.
The Rev. Louis J. Bristow Presents
Some Interesting Figures Compiled
by Him from the Reports Made to
the Attorney General by the Solici
tors of the Various Circuits in this
State.
A recent letter to the press of the
St,ate, in whch I gave the number of
homicides committed in South Caro
lina during the last six months of
1907, caused a number of papers
both in this state and others to ask
for a record of the convictions for
murder during the same time. A
careful study of the report of the
Attorney General reveals th follow
ing facts:
There were in South Carolina in
1907 34 6 cases in which the defend
ants were charged with murder. Of
these, ten defendants were convict
ed of the charge and sentenced to
death; 30 were convicted, but were
recommended to the mercy of "the
Court, which under the statute, re
duced the nenalty to a life term in
the penitentiary; 44 were convicted
of man-slaughter and given short
terms in the Penitentiary or on the
county chain gangs. Besides these
there were 15 convictions reported
from the 2d judicial circuit wherein
no record of degree of guilt or of
sentence was given, and 8 in Chero
kee, and 3 in Union. The total num
ber of convictions thus was 110.
There were no murder trials in
Pickens or Oconee counties. In other
counties they were as follows:
First Circuit?Berkeley, 8; George
town, 5; Dorchester, 20; Orangeburg,
15; total 48. Death penalty, George
town, 1; Orangeburg, 1; Dorchester,
1. Life term, Georgetown, 1; Or
angeburg, 2. Short terms, Berkeley,
2; Dorchester, 7; Orangeburg, 6.
Total convictions, 21.
Second Circuit?Aiken, 14; Bam
berg, 12; Barnwell, 12; Hampton, z;
total, 40. Convictions, 15, but no re
cord of sentence.
Third Circuit?Clarendon, 4; Flor
ence, 3 (1 manslaughter;) Lee, 6;
Sumter, 3; Williamsburg, 2 (man
slaughter;) total, 18. Death penalty,
none. Life term, Sumter, 1; Wil
hamsburg, 2; Clarendon 1. Short
terms, Lee, 1; Clarendon, 3; Sum
ter, 1. Total convictions, 9.
Fourth Circuit?Chesterfield, 2;
Darlington, 2; Horry, 1; Marlboro,
8; Marion, 4; total, 17. .Death pen
alty, 1 in Marlboro. Life term, Marl
boro, 1. Short terms. Chesterfield,
2; Marlboro, 2; Marion, 1. Total
convictions, 7.
Fifth Circuit?Edgefield. 10 (1
manslaughter;) Kershaw 6, (2 man
slaughter;) Legfngton, 7 (1 man '
slaughter;) Richland, 11 (3 man
slaughter;) total, 34. Death pen
alty, none. Life term, Richland.
1; Edgefield. 1. Short terms, Edge
field. 1; Kershaw, 2. Total convic
tions, 5 (and 2 in Richland County
in which new trials were granted by
trial Judge.)
Sixth Circuit?Chester, 11; Fair
field, 4; Lancaster, 6; York. 9; to
tal, 30. Death penalty, Chester, 2;
Fairfield, 1. Life term, Chester, 3.
Short terms, Chester, 5; Lancaster,!
3; Fairfield, 1; York, 2. Total con-|
victions, 17. (It is worthy of note!
here that of Chester's 11 cases there'
were 1 0 convictions.
Seventh Circuit?Cherokee, 8;
Spartanburg, S; Union, 6; total, 22.
Death penalty, none. Life term,
Spartanburg, 2. Short terms, Spar
tanburg, 3. Total, 5. (There are no
records for Cherokee and Union.)
Eighth Circuit?Abbeville, 7 (2
manslaughter; Greenwood, 4; Lau-;
rens, 30 (7 manslaughter;) N'ewber
1 ry, 11 (4 manslaughter;) Saluda, 11
i 4 manslaughter;) total, 63. Death
sentence, Greenwood, 1. Life term,
Laurens, 6; Newberry, 1; Saluda, 2.
tARCII ii, 190S.
DTHES.
?Rogers in New York Herald.
TRIED TO KILL HIM.
Two Bombs Thrown at the Shah's
Automobile, in Which
He Was Supposed to be Riding, but,
Fearing Assassination,He Was Rid
ing in a Carriage.
A dispatch from Teheren, Persia,
says an attempt was made in that
city Friday afternoon to assassinate
the Shah of Persia by a bomb. His
Majesty was not hurt. Three of the
outriders who were accompanying
him at the time were, killed.
The Shah owes his escape to the
precautions taken to protect him
from just such an attempt. He was
on his way to a nearby town, where
he intended to pass a few days. The
procession had left the palace, and
was traversing a narrow street, when
two bombs were hurled down as if
from the roof of a house.
One exploded in the air, but the
other struck the ground near the
Shah's auomobile. This missile in
exploding killed the three outriders,
wounded the chaffeur and a score of
bystanders and shattered the vehicle.
The Shah, however, was not in his
automobile. He had taken the pre
caution to send the motor car on
ahead and ride himself in a carriage
further in the rear of the procession.
The motor car was a closed one and
it was thought the sovereign was in
side.
As soon as the Shah heard the ex
plosion he alighted hurriedly from
his carriage and entered a neighbor
ing house. Here he remained quiet
ly while his attendants sent word for
a detailment of troops.
The soldiers were hurried to the
scene and formed in front of the
house where the Shah was. He then
came out, surrounded by a big body
guard, and returned to the palace.
The house from, which the bombs
were thrown, and the buildings near
by were searched, but no arrests were
made.
Burned to Death.
According to a long distance tele
phone message from Marshall, a small
town in the western part of North
Carolina, Miss Blazer, a girl II years
old, was burned to death early Fri
day in a fire that destroyed a tene
ment house c?cupicd by two large
families. ?
Big Guns Shipped.
Twelve six-inch guns, each weigh
ing twelve tons and intended gy the
United States government for coast
defenses in the Philippines, started
on their journey Friday on the Brit
ist steamer lnveresk, 'vNch sailed
from herNspier at the Bush stores,
Brooklyn. ?
Short terms, Abbeville, 2; Green
wood, 1; Laurens, 7; Newberry, 4;
Saluda 1. Total convictions, 25.
Ninth Circuit?Beaufort, 1; Coile
ton, 6 (1 manslaughter;) Charleston,
27 (3 manslaughter;) total 34.
Death penalty, none. Life term, Char
leston, 2. Short terms, Colleton, 1 ;
Charleston, 3. Total convictions, C.
Tenth Circuit?Anderson, 17;
Greenville, 13; Oconro. none; Pick
ens, none; total, 30. Death penalty,
none. Life term. Anderson, 0. Short
terms. Anderson, 2; Greenville, f?.
Total convictions, 13.
I have simply given the figuree as
compiled by the solicitors for the At
torney General. They need no com
ment further than to say that out
of 346 cases tried there were only
110 convictions. Of courso, it does
not follow that the other 236 men
were guilty of murder and "got off." j
But these figures reveal the fact that
the taking of human life in South
Carolina is not often considered a
crime against society.
One other matter: While of the
34 6, no less than 40 wer-- convicted
I by as many juries of felonious and
wilful murder, 3 0 of these juries de
clined to permit the murderers to be
executed for their crimes. 1 have of
ten said that more than 50 per cent
'of the people of So-ith C rolina are
:or >sed to capital punishment; 75
I sent of these j :ries '.re.
i.ouis Gristow.
BAD NEGRO SHOT.
At Fl orence by the Chief of Police
In Self Defence.
IA Colored Undertaker Resists Arrest
and Fires at Policeman, and Is
Himself Mortally Wounded.
At Florence W. P. Rogers, a well
known negro undertaker and hack
man of Florence, was shot and prob
ably mortally wounded by Policeman
Joe Turbeville at an early hour Sun
day morning. Policeman Turbeville
had arrested Rogers, together with
Charlie Barno, John Prince, Bill Wil
son 2nd John Serious, all charged
with creating a disturbance at the
corner of Evans and Ravenel streets
in a negro restaurant.
Turbeville being alone and unable
to get. asisstance, some of them es
caped. Rogers, who lived nearby
where the disturbance occurred, got
away from the officer and went into
his dwelling house. Tubeville follow
ed him to his door and Rogers re
appeared with a shot-gun in his
hands, and told Turbeville he "would
be d?d if he would be arrested by
any d?n white man," and threw up
the gun at the officer and pulled the
trigger.
Luckily for Policeman Turbeville
the gun failed to fire, Turbeville then
quickly drew his 38-calibre and be
can shooting at Rogers, firing five
shots at close range. Three of the
shots took effect in Roger's body, one
in the shoulder, another in the arm
and the third in the thigh. The one
taking effect in the arm, broke the
arm and caused Rogers to drop the
gun. Turbevill, however, did not
know this, and for fear that Rogers
would make a second effort to fire
his shot-gun, proceeded to empty
his pistol at Rogers.
Dr. B. G. Gregg was hastily sum
moned, but as yet it is not known
whether Rogers will survive the
mock or not. Rogers is a verv lar^e
and powerful man and has hoo?t up
before the mayor on several occa
sions for being drunk and disorderly
and creatng a disturbance. If he
survives this last battle it will go
pretty hard with him.
A BRAVE TELLER.
Robbers' Pistols Had No Terror For
Him.
Masked robbers made a desperate at
tempt to rob the Canadian Bank of
Commerce at Winnipeg, Manitoba,
Saturday night. Freeman Sussex, the
paying teller, was shot through the
arms and two of the bandits also still
at large were wounded.
As is customery, the bank was
open Saturday evening from 7 until
9 o'c.:ock. Shortly after the open
ing Sussex was disturbed at his work
by a gruff command of "Hands-up."
Two bandits had him covered with
big revolvers.
"Why," he asked, to gain time.
The answer was to hurry up with
his hands or die.
"Shoot," yelled the only emr.ioye
in the bank at the time and the rob
bers complying emptied their pistols
in al3 idrections. The first bullet
struck Sussex in the arm. Sussex
started shooting from the tellers
cage and emptied his revolver at the
robbers.
The robbers escapd in the Cana
dian Pacific railroad yards. The bank
officials Sunday announced that Sus
sex would be rewarded.
DIES IN ST. LOUIS.
Underwent Operation So As He Could
Enlist in Army.
A dispatch from St. Louis to The
State says Charles H. Smith of Town
ville died there Sunday as the result
of an operation. Mr. Smith wished
to enlist in the army and the recruit
ing station accepted him on condition
that he undergo an operation. The
depot surgeon at Jefferson barracks
performed the operation on Wednes
day with great success and the pa
tient was in very good condition un
til he rose from his bed and walked
accross the room without aid. The
exertion of walking broke the stiches,
causing injuries which resulted in his
death. *
DESTROYED PUBLIC RECORD
Government Clerks in the Patent Of
fice Fucc Serious Charge.
New W. Barton, an assistant of
the patent office, at Washington, Har
ry E. Everding, a patent attorney of
Philaedlpbia and John A. Heany, an
inventor, were indicted by the grand
jury and arretsed on a charge of
destroying public records.
The indictment charges the three
with, Intent to steal and to destroy,"
and that they carried away from the
patent, office letters, specifications and
amendments, and unlawfully and wil
fully destroying them.
Scalded to Death.
At Greensboro. N. C. on Friday,
two children of Thomas Hardin and
one child of his brother met a fright
ful death while playing in imitation
of hog killing" around a pot of
boiiing tar, which was over turn
ed.
Many Are Dead.
Following an explosion of gas in
mine No. 3, of the Cla Carbon de
Sabinas mines, at Rosita, Mexico,
nothing has been heard from the two
hundred men working in the mine. ?
SI.50 PER ANjNTJM.
BOLTED PARTY.
Four Assistant Republicans De
feat Democratic Nominee.
STABS THEIR PARTY.
Deadlock in Kentucky Legislature
Broken, Four So"Called Democrats
Going Over to the Republicans and
Electing Their Candidate for the
United States Senators hip.?Looks
Very Much Like a Sharp Bargain.
The deadlock of the Kentucky Leg
islature has been broken at last
Former Governor F. 0. Bradley, the
Republican candidate, was elected on
Friday to the United States Senate
after an exciting joint sitting of the
General Assembly, receiving 64 votes,
four of which were Democratic.
The Republicans voted solidly for
Bradley, the caucus nominee. It had.
been held from the beginning of the
contest (over six weeks ago) that a
majority of a quorum was sufficient
for an election and with 126 mem
bers present it required 64 votes to
elect. The votes of the four Democrats
who have steadily refused to vote for
former Governor Beckham were
transferred to Bradley from the var
ious Democratic opponents of Beck
ham.
Bradley received 64 votes to 60
for Beckham, one for Allen and one
for Blackburn. The Democrats left
the hall in an attempt to break the
vote, but later returned and the vote
wps ratified.
Senators McNutt and Charlton and
Representative Muller, of Louisville,
and Representative Lillard, of Boyle,
were the Democrats who voted with
the Republicans for Bradley.
A scene of wildest excitement pre
vailed before the result was announc
ed, after the Democrats demanded a
recapitulation. Beckman came on
the floor and released the Democrats
from their primary nomination pledge.
Many Democrats sought to change
their votes, the majority going to
Congressman James.
A strong effort was made to induce
the four recalcitrant Democrat?? to
leave Bradley and vote for some Dem
ocrat. The many changes of votes
made the capitulation slow and
also developed an additional vote,
but the vote for Bradley remained
unchanged, still being a majority of
all members present and voting. The
Speaker finally announced that Brad
ley had received a majority of the
vote and was elected.
The announcment that Bradley had
been elected Senator was made after
nearly all the Democrats had chang
ed their votes. The four who voted
for Bradley resisted the strongest ap
peals from the leaders of all their
party factions, declaring it was too
late.
In a speech accepting his election.
Bradley promised to use every ef
fort as Senator to procure the re
peal of the 6-cent tax on tobacco.
Representative Lillard was the
only one of the four Democrats to
explain his vote for Bradley He
said he thought the time had come
to "throw off party shackles and to
break up the machine," and, al
though he did support the Democrat
ic ticket for 40 years, he believed his.
vote for Bradley "was the best Dem
ocratic vote he ever cast."
FROM EXPLODING LAMP.
A Mother and Three Chldren Wer?
Burned to Death.
A mother and her three children
were burned to death and several
persons were injured by a fire in
Brewerton, Ave., a foreign district of
Pittsburg, Pa. A large number of
excited foreigners had narrow escapes
from death and injury. A nineteen
year old girl jumped from a window,
braking three ribs, and John Kalin
keowiski, occupying r ? adjoining
house which was desti . . threw his
wife and four children out of Ths?
window into the arms of a policeman
and all were more or less injured,
The fire started from an exploding
lamp.
TEN WEBE INJURED
When Railway Engine and Electric
Train Met at Crossing.
Ten persons were injured, none
fatally, in a collsion between a Sou
thern railway engine and a train of
the Washington and Alexandria Bleep
trie railway Friday night at Alexen-?
dria, Va. The engine was backing
from the roundhouse and crashed in
to the motor car of the electric train.
It is asserted by passengers on the
trolley cars that the accident was
caused by failure to observe that the
cars should have been brought to a
full stop before crossing the steam
railway's tracks.
The body of Charles Scott, a negro,
aged 18 years, was found hangmg to
a tree at Conroc, Texas, Friday. The
negroe's feet had a placard attached
to them bearing the words: "Warn
ing to negroes found prowling ia
white folks' honses." Scott had been
arrested and placed under bond o?
a charge of : i tempting an assault up-,
on a Miss A ?.y.