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ESTABLlSHBl) DTl* A DEATH PLUNGE A Young New York Lawyer Kilted by Terrible Fall EVERY BONE BROKEN The Deceased, Who Was the Young, est Son of Henry Watterson, Pitch es Forward Through a Window to His Death on a Roof One Hundred and Ten Feet Below. New York, Nov. 11.?Harvey W. "Wattereon, a lawyer, younger son of Henry Watterson, editor of the X-ouisville Courier-Journal, plunged to his death from the 19th floor of his oflice building at 37 Wall street late today. His tody shot down -ward for 110 feet and landed on the roof of a 10-story building ad joining. Almost every bone was "broken, the head was crushed and -death was practically instantaneous. While there were no eye-witnesses to the tragedy, evidently it was en tirely accidental. Mr. Watterson's hat and overcoat were on his closed desk. /Presumably he had attempted to lower the window, and either stumbled over the radiator, Which ?was in front of the low silL or los ing footing in some manner un known, pitched forward and down to death on the roof below. Mr. Watterson was 30 years olu and married. He was junior mem her of the law firm of Wing, RusseU & Watterson. Shortly before 4 o'clock Mr. Wat terson left the office library, remark ing that he was going home, and passed from the library through the office of F. R. Bagg, the managing ?clerk, into his private office, the door ?of which, closed and locked auto matically as he entered. Bagg was the last person to see the young lawyer alive. A few minutes later the superin tendent of the building rushed in and Informed Thomas Wing, senior member of the firm, that he believ -ed Mr. Watterson had fallen from the Window and looked down from the window. The mangled form was seen lying on the roof below. The body was removed to the Watterson home after the coroner had declared that, the death of Mr. Watterson was due entirely, to accident. A peculiar feature of the case was that Mr. W'atterson's watch and cigarette case in one pocket and a "pipe in another pocket were not damaged by the fall. Mrs. Watterson was prostrated whan informed of her husband's tragic death. Mr. Wing said that Watterson had been a member of the firm about, three years, two years after he was graduated from Columbia universit/ law school. He was sure he said, that death was accicjentaly, since Watterson had no financial or do mestic troubles. Watterson was born and reared in Louisville, Ky. When about 21 years old he came to New York and entered the Columbia university law school. During the time he was a student ^here he taught in a night school. Shortly after 'lecoming a member of the Wing, Russell & Watterson law Aim he ran for assembly on the Tammany ticket in an upper west side district, but the district was strongly Republican and he was de feated. PATRICK WANTS TO DIE. Slayer of Rice Didn't Like Commu tation of Sentence. ?"*-? New York, November 8.?To ar gue before the United State Su preme Court a motion to advance the appeal to that Court in the case of Albert T. Patrick, convicted of the murder of William Marsh Rice in this city eight years ago, William L. McDonald, attorney for Patrick, left tonight for Washington. The motion is expected to come up before the Supreme Court to morrow when Patrick s counsel says he will further ask the Suprme Court for a writ of habeas corpus for the production of Patrick in Washing ton in order that he may argue his case himself. Patrick's appeal is to drclare il legal the commutation granted him by Governor Higgins whereby his sentence to die in the electric chair was changed to imprisonment for life. Patrick made the point that life imprisonment was a much sjs verer sentence than that which con demned him to die. TWO KILLED IX WRECK. Work Train on New England Road Collides With Freight. Deep River, Conn, Nov. 10.? Two men were killed outright, two others fatally injured and a haif dozen severely hurt when a work train, with Italian section hands aboard, crashed into the rear of a freight, train .-ianding on the main track of the Xcw York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad in front of the station here this afternoon. There were twenty-eight Itlaians on the work train and all suffered in juries. The dead are c rank A. Furlong, of Xew London, a brakeman, and one of the Italian section hands. $69; WILL REMAIN OPEN WINTHROP FEVER SITUATION IS NOT ALARMING. College Authorities and State Health Officials Go Over the" Situation. An Official Statement. Rock Hill, Nov. 10.?On Novem ber 4 the State health offleer was notified by the acting president o! Winthrop college that there had been an outbreak of typhoid fever in that institution. At the same time the matter was reported to the local health authorities and they, togeth er with the college physicians and the State health officer, immediately began investigations. Assuming drinking water and milk to be the two most fruitful sources for the spread of the disease, it was deemed wise to eliminate these sources at the earliest possible mo ment. An arrangement was ?made with the city authorities to procure from t'hem city water. Milk and butter produced at the college dairy were eliminated from the diet of the students. a minute and thorough investi gation was then carried on to see if in any way the infection might come from other sources. This investi gation not pointing conclusively to any specific source, the health of ficer reported the findings to the chairman of the State board of health, who caded a meeting of the board on November 9 at Winthrop college for the purpose of studying the situation and of advising the authorities what policy to pursue under existing conditions. The board, accompanied by Dr. J. R. Miller, a representative of tho local board; the college physicians, Dr. Eoyd and Dr. Crawford, Dr. r. W. Babcock of the State health of fice made a sanitary survey of the water supply, a thorough investiga tion of the dairy, college buildings and grounds. After this investiga tion the board, in session with the gentlemen mentioned, discussed the phase of the situation and made tne following statement: "After a study and discussion of the evidence collected from the inves tigation made, this body dees not feel that the situation is alarming. While no specific source of infection can. be definitely decided upon, it is the opinion of the body that since the inauguration of the precaution ary measures which are now being rigidly enforced the epidemic will die out as soon as the period of in cubation has passed." IRBY GETS THiRTY YEARS. For Attempting to Assault Young Lady Near Spartanburg. Spartanburg, Nov. 11.?John Irby, colored, was convicted in the special term of court this morning on the charge of assault with intent to* rav ish upon the person of Miss Leila Dempsey and was -sentenced by Judge Schumpert to 30 years at hard labor in the State penitentiary. Irby was carried to Columbia this afternoon by Deputy Sheriff Beck nell, who was escorted as far as Laurens by the Traynham Guards, returning home after spending 24 hours in Spartanburg helping the Hampton Guards keep the peace and protect the negro Irby from mob violence. The trial passed off quietly and there was no sign of trouble at any time during the day. Irby was ar raigned at 11:45 and at 1:12 p. m Judge Schumpert passed sentence on him. WORK OF THUGS. Four Persons Found Unconscious in Chattanooga Streets. Chattanooga, Tenn., November 8. ?During last night four persons who had been assaulted by thugs were found unconscious in the streets of this city. One of the victims, a negro, diea. soon after being found. B. L. Owens, a white farmer, was picked up on Pine street, with his head cut open. When he regaineO consciousness he said that a negro had struck him and robbed him of $4 0. An unknown young white man. well dressed, was picked up on Whiteside street, and up to a late hour he bad not regained con sciousness. The last victim was a negro woman, who was found with a ghastly cut in the centre of her forehead. COMMITS SUICIDE Because Bryan Failed to be Elected President. Raleigh, Nov. 10.?H. L. Smith, joint station agent for the Norfoli: and Southern and Raleigh and Southport railroad, at Varina, twenty miles from Raleigh, committed sui cide this morning by discharging both loads of a double-barrel shot gun into his head. He had a string attached to the trigger to shoot. He left a note that he was per fectly sane, had contemplate:! suicide for some time but could not bring himself to the point until r.ow. It is reported that he was despon dent over Bryan's defeat. He was 23 years old. He had been at the station eight months. OR?NGEBV TRAGIC KILLING __ Of Senator Carmack in Streets of Nashville ????? BY POLITICAL RIVAL He Is Shot Down in Business Sec tion of the City by Robin Cooper, Whose Father Mr. Garnmck Had Criticised in Tennesseean of Which He Recently Became the Editor. . Nashville, Tenn., Nov 9.?rAs a sequel to the recent bP'er Democrat ic primary for the Gubernatorial nomination in Tennessee, the Hon. Edward Ward Carmack, former United States Senator from Tennes see, was shot and instantly lulled in a street duel here ibis afternoon by Robin Cooper, a young attorney. Young Ccoper was wounded in the shoulder by a bullet from Carmack's revo.vcr and Is tonight und^r polite surveillance in a local hospital. His condition is not serious. Carmack was wounded three times, in the neck, the breast and the left shoul der. , Col. Duncan B. Coope**, father of the young man, was with his son during the affray, but did not fire a shot. It is said he stood by with pistol in hand. He is detained to night at police headquarters. The direct cause of the killing is a recent series of editorials in the Tennesseean, a daily paper of which Mr. Carmack became editor after his defeat for the nomination f^r Gov ernor. The editorials in question had been vigorous in their comment cn Colonel Cooper and his alleged con nection with what Mr. Carmack termed the "Democratic machine and its methods." Colonel Cooper, who is well known in business, newspaper and political circles in Tennessee and in the South, had, it is said, notified Mr. Carmack that the reference to him must cease. Another such editorial appeared this morning. ' The men fought at close quarters and there were but few witnesses. It was past 4 o'clock, in the dusk of the afternoon. They met on 7th avenue, North, directly in from of the Polk flats, a fashionable apart ment house. Mr. Carmack had just lifted his hat to Mrs. Charles H. Eastman, a friend, who was passing. In a mo ment the firing began and Mrs. East man was a horrified witness at close range. So close was she that one of the Coopers is said to have charged Carmack with being a coward and hiding behind a woman. Cooper's friends charged that Carmack fired the first shot, but the dead man's friends stoutly protest that his op ponent was the first to shoot. The tragedy created the most in tense excitement throughout the city and within a short time the streets In the neighborhood were thronged.' The combatants were evidently close together when the firing be gan, but the question of who fired the first shot is in controversy. Mrs. Chas. H. Eastman, of this city, and J. M. Eastman, of New York, were nearby when the tragedy occurred. Mr. Eastman's hearing in not good and he declared he knew but little of the affair. Mrs. Eastman said: Story of Bystander. "We were walking down 7th ave nue, in the direction of Church street, and had just passed the en trance to the Polk flats. Mr. Car mack came up the street towards us, smiling as he recognized us. ne was some steps away and there were very few pepole on the street. Mr. Eastman and I were near the edge of the sidewalk and Mr. Carmack would have passed between us and the fence. He raised his hat as we spoke. He had his right hand up and was about to make a remark when somebody said?it was the older voice?'Wre've got you all right,* or something to that effect. I can't say positively what the ex act words were. It never occurred to me that it was anything mori' than a friend speaking. Mr. Car mack raised his eyes, instantly put on his hat and ran his hand back, when the same voice said: 'You coward, you are hiding behind a woman, are you? Senator Carmack jumped out so as to get clear of me and T jumped into a gateway. 1 saw thai .Mr. Carmack had a pistol, j turned and said: 'For God's sake don't shoot.' i saw Mr. Carmack wheel and fall in a heap in the gu* ter." Mrs. Eastmen said she saw the young man standing over Mr. Car mack and that he put something in to his own pocket. Shot From Behind. Dr. McPheters Glasgow, who ar rived at the scene soon after the tragedy occurred, said tonight: "There were three bullets in the body of Mr. Carmack. One entered on the left side about two and one I half inches below the left nipple and just a short distance below the ?he-art and remained a short distance from the right side, under the skin, crossing the median line of the an atomy. "Another bullet enter the left shoulder and lodged about four and one-half inches below the right nip 'pie, under the skin. Both of these "Bp - ? ., ?fr. "r BG, S. C. FBI DAY. NOT COTTON CONGRESS CONVENED AT MEMPHIS '?N LAST TUESDAY, j |p President of Southern Cotton Grow* S ! . ers* Association Makes Strong Plea y ? p ?' for Better Prices. ] < Memphis, Tenn., Nov; . 10.?The Southern Cotton conference" began here today. Gov. M. R.-,, Patterson welcomed the delegates. '}, The re sponses were made by E..-S. Gay of Montgomery and Haryie^Jora'an..of Atlanta, president , of the^-Southern Cotton Growers' assodatipn.' Gov. Noel of Mississippi ?fap,: spoke. Harvie Jordan was madeVipermanent chairman. In an Interview. Mr. Jor dan said the meeting wosrtd be the most important conference of cotton men ever held. Mr. Jordan said that it was indeed fitting that it should be. assembled in this the largest interior cotton market In the world. "We have assembled,'**; he contin ued, "to safeguard and protect the great staple crop of the -South from the artificial and depressing'influence of federated interests which operate to the detriment of every business interest in this section of America, j We face a serious condition and whether we will arise equal to the emergency and protect our interests as men of brain and business sa gacity or indifferently accept the sit-j uation and parade before the world our voluntary weakness, is the issue which presents itself to this conven tion." Mr. Jordan said that raw cotton the only great staple commodity in the world today which is selling below "the cost of production, not withstanding the fact that it repre sents one of the world's greatest ne cessities. "That this great staple should ever sell at a price to the cotton growers of less than 10 cents per pound is a reflection upon the man hood and intelligence of the South ern people. ' "If the cotton growers, bankers, merchants and allied business inter ests of the South will determine that the price of cotton must and sha'l go back to 10 cents before the month of November passes, that price will be. protected, the financial future of the South will be saved and not a spindle in the world will be injured." Mr. Jordan condemned "night rid ing" and urged that the convention give its attention to the boll weevil menace. He also recommended the formation of a chain of warehouses wherefrom receipts could be issue! which would be acepted as collateral for short time loans by the leading financial institutions in this country and in Europe. Bishop Gaynor of the Episcopal diocese of Tennessee also spoke. MORSE HAS NO MONEY. Rated Two Years Ago as "Worth Twenty MilUon. New York, I\ov. 9.?Chas. W. Morse, who two years ago was rated as being worth upwards of $20,000, 000 today swore under oath that ho has not enough money or securi:/ left from his vast fortune to pay his debts. This relevation was made when Morse's attorney appeared in the United State circuit court of appeals to argue for the admission of Morse to bail. wounds were clean ones and I do not thinks they were the fatal ones. "The third bullet, which I con ceive to be the fatal one, was in the neck. The wound was one and one half inches to the left of the median line and one inch below the hair line on the neck , posteriorily The bullet entered ;the neck and made an exit from the mouth of the deceased. The bullet was found on the street, under his tongue at the sxit of the wound. I think this was the fatal wound. Two teeth were also broken loose. "I think there were two bullets fired from Carmack's gun." Result of Conspiracy. Both the Coopers and Senator Car mack have many friends here and throughout the State. Cooper's statement is that the affair was merely a street duel in which both sides mot amfi both began firing. The friends of the Coopers claim they had tried to avoid a meeting with Carmack, it is sail, and they were on the way to the Stale capital in response to a telephone message from Governor Pattirson when tli? * tragedy occurred and that Senator Carmack had been warned a:<d ups expecting trouble. Friends of Senator German'? strenuously claim that the killing was the result of a conspiracy, pure and simple; that he was waylaid; that when Senator Carmack left The lennessean office for his bearding house the fact was telephone from a house near The Tenncssean office and the Coopers notified that the senator was on his way and to be on tho alert. It now develops, according to friends of Mr. Crimack. that ther; was a third party with the Coopers just before the shooting, a former county official who is a close perso i al friend of both the Coopers and Patterson. Friends of the dead senator indicate that there will 1 v sensational developments within the next day or so regarding the af fair. EMBER 33, 1908. "white slavery Three Thousand Men Held in Bondage in Florida. CASE BEING TRIED Before Judge Hough in New York The Government Charges That the Men Were Forced to Build Flag ler's Railway??Employment Agents Tell Horrible Story of the Affair. New York, Nov. 10.?The cases of alleged peonage lu building Henry M. Flagler's Florida East Coast rail road which have been pending in the United States "courts of this district for nearly two years, were put on trial today before Judge Hough m the United States circuit court. David E. Harley, an employe of the Florida East Coast railway Com pany; Francesco Sabbin and Edwa-d J. Triay, employment agents of this city, and Frank A. Hough, are ac cused of conspiring to keep employes in enforced peonage. Hough had not been arrested before the opening of the case today. It is charged that Sabbia and Tri ay hired men in New York, tooic them to New Jersey and turned them over to Harley and that he took them to Florida to work on the rail road. The complainant alleged thr.t the workmen were kept there in camps in a state of "peonage, slavery and enforced servitude. It was learned that the govern ment has nearly 300 witnesses, many of whom, it is alleged, were induced to go to Florida ly misrep resentation. After the selection and swearing in of the jury, counsel for the gov ernment declared that 3,000 men in 1 905 had been enforced to work on Mr. Flagler's railroad. "These men," he ?sserted, "were held in slavery." Prosecutions Outlined. Attorney General Glenn E. Usted outlined the prosecutions case, con tending the men had been induced by alluring advertisements to appb for employment in the South. Everything went well, the attorncj said, until the men reached Jersey City, where they were put aboaro a train, the doors being locked o?i them and armed guards set over them Jo prevcjjt their escape. Throughout the long journey they were given nothing but stale bread and bologna sausage and when they reached the land end of the journey many rebelled and refused to leav; the train, but a hose had been turn ed on them, and in this manner the entire consignment of human freight had been driven aboard a waiting steamer. When the ultimate destination was reached, said Mr. Usted, the men found that the paradise that, had been promised them was a bar ron wilderness, overrun with rep tiles and venomous snakes, where no place to sleep had been provided for them. Their "high wages," the prosecutor declared, were slips of paper exchangeable at the Company's stores for shoes and clothing and food. Tne escape that many sought was impossible. Some of the men refused to work. These, Mr. Ustel ?said, wote threatened wjth death and brutally beaten. BOOKKEEPER CHLOROFORMED. And the Office He Was In Set on Fire. Greenville, Nov. 10.?A most mys terious thing happened in this city at half-past 11 o'clock last night. At that hour fire was discovered In the office of William Goldsmith, Jr., real estate agent in the Palmetto building on Main street. As the firemen entered the room a man was found lying on the floor with his head wrapped. He was hastily re moved, and it was found that he was Mr. T. E. McCullough, Mr. Gold smith's bookkeeper. He says that as he entered the office from a closet about 11 o'clock, some one threw a rag over his hea I and that was the last he knew until he came to in the police station. The rag was chloroformed and it is very plain that the work was that of robbers. The (lan es were extin guished with a little damage. Mr. McCullough was down posting his books, and they were all out o:i the shelves, and the safe was open. .Mr. McCuliough's keys were taken from his pocket, and thus far the police have not been able to find them. The whole ease is shrouded in mystery, but the general opinion is that robbers had chloroformed .Mr. McCullough. How the fire originated is a mystery. BOLD ROBBER ESS BAFFLED. Forced Woman to Go for Money But Is Overpowered. Denver. Col., Nov. 9.?A woman giving her name as Mrs. H. C. Cones this afternoon compelled Mrs. Genevieve Chandler Phipps, divorced wife of Lawrence Phipps, a Pittsburg millionaire, to take her in an auto mobile to a bank to get $lo,nno that she demanded of Mrs. Phipps, whom I she threatened to blow to piece.-1 with dynamite. At the hank Mrs. Cones was overpowered' by special officers. VOTES HELD BACK SUSPICION OF FRAUD IN OHIO AND INDIANA. Count in Various Congressional Dis tricts Also Held Up for an Un reasonable Time. Washington, Nov. 10.?For some reason or other the returns from the various congressional district have been coming in exceedingly in complete, and from some doughtfui districts they have not come in at all; so that with all the tables be-, ing published in various newspapers purporting to show the. exact membership of the Sixty-first con gress, there is no really reliable in formation at hand even now, over a week after the election. Dispatches from Washington and New York have been enumerating Kahn and Hays, Republican mem bers from California, re-elected for instance. Mr. Kahn's secretary here has received a telegram from Kahn himself saying that both .he and Hays have been defeated. Yet not one single dispatch from California has announced the result. There is an impression here that the returns have been held back to be fixed. There are several instances of holding back returns in Indian\, Ohio and other State which were doubtful, but where the election machinery was in the hands of Re publicans, which are suspicious. There are those hereabouts famil iar with methods In those States when the G. 0. P. has a bar'l of money who express a serious doubt as to Indiana's giving Marshall, the Democratic candidate for governor, a plurality of 10,000 and Taft a plurality of 15,000. Indiana is a notoriously corrupt State politically, and the Republicans poured several hundred thousand dollars into it during the closing days of the election, and yet it has not been fully determined whether they bought up the vobers them selves or some of the election man agers. And it is the same as to other States. ' A Republican newspaper man from Ohio said to me the other day that It was his belief that the Ohio re turns were held back because the the Republican leaders were asham ed of Taft's small majority and that they would announce them at a time wheu they would not attract so much attention. It is still a matter of some considerable -doubt throughout the country whether Taft's majority In Ohio was 75,000 or 25,000. And some doubt whether Taft carried Ohio at all, legitimately. ZACK McGEE, In Coumbia State. SHOOTING AFFRAY. \ _ An Innocent Bystander is Seriously Shot in. Foot. Newberry, Nov. 9.?This town has had another shooting scrape. It took place on the carnival grounds one night last week. It seems that Mr. Mitchell Wright and Mr. Tom Burley had some differences, which resulted in Mr. Burley striking Mr. Wright over the head with a police man's " billy, and Mr. Wright shot at Mr. Burley three or four times with a pistol. Fortunately, though, there was a large crowd on tae grounds, only one stray bullet struck any of the people who were around. Mr. Boyd Jacobs being painfully, though not seriously, wounded in the foot. One of the shots took ef fect is Mr. Burley's shoulder, inflict ing a painful wound, and Mr. Wright has a severe gash on the top of his head, inflicted by the billy in the hands of Mr. Burley. CHARLESTON VOTE. The Old City Gave Her Vote to the Democracy. Charleston. Nov. 11.?The vote of Charleston county in the recent elec tion was officially tabulated yester day by the Federal and State boards of election, each board resolving itself into a body of canvassers. The tabulation of the Federal re turns showed the following figures: For Congress: The Hon. George S. Legare, 1.80S votes; Prioleau, 217. Presidential electors: Democrat ic, 1,814; Republican, Baxter, 3 12; Grant, 3:'. 1; Powell, 311; all othe/s 347. Socialist, 2G; Independent, i. There was no opposition to .he Democratic State and county tickets. COLUMBIA FOUNDRY BURNED. Part of Plant of Gibbes Machinery (Company Destroyed. Columbia. Nov. 9.?The foundry of the Gibbes Machinery Company was practically destroyed by fire this evening shortly after 6 o'clock i lie origin of the fire is unknown, as the workmen had all left the build ing at r> o'clock. President A. M. Gibbes, of the company, stated tonight that he could not at this time give an esti mate of the Ins;. The property is weil insured and the principal loss will be the interruption of busines^ by reason of the destruction cf the patterns in the foundry, this being a busy season in the machinery trade and the company doing an extensive business. ?1.50 PEB ANNUM.. ELEVEN DEATHS Pay For the Errors of Careless Railroad Employees. SOME HEROIC WORK Surviving Passengers Prevent tho Cremation of Victims of a Terrible and Fatal Collission on the New Orleans and Northwestern Railway Tracks at Little Woods. New Orleans, Nov. 11.?It was a heavy price in human flesh and blood that paid for the errors of railroad employes when a Great Northern ex press crashed into the rear of a New Orleans & Northeastern local passen ger train shortly before 9 o'clock this morning at Little Woods, a small sta tion on the Lake Pontchartrain, 12 miles north of this city. Eleven dead and many more in jured, some of them fatally, is the record of the wreck, which was at tended by unusually gruesome scenes in the fog-bound swamps. To add to the horror of tbe situation the work of the surviving passengers prevent ed the cremation of those pinned down in the debris. Between Slidell and New Orleans the Great Northern trains run over the tracks of the New Orleans & Northeastern. A local train of the Northeastern from Hattie3burg, duo to arrive in New Orleans at 8:30 a. m., is followed by a fast Great Northern train from Covington. scheduled to reach here at 8:40 a. m. This morning the Northeastern train was late and the difference ."?f 20 minutes between the running of the trains was considerably re duced. When Engineer Blackman of th-i Great Northern train took the North eastern tracks at Slidell, he says, he was given the usual right of way signal and proceeded toward New Orleans at a 45-mile an hour clip. As the station at Little Woods was approached he discovered the North eastern local, which suddenly loom ed up out of the fog. Fireman McCarty leaped from the engine, but Blackman applied his brakes and remained at the throtths wh|le the ponderous locomtotiva ploughed its way through the trahv ahead, leaving behind it death and destruction. Blackman crawled out practically unscathed, while his fire man sustained ;painful injuries in, his leap. No one in the Great Northern ex press was seriously hurt, but those aboard the Northeastern train wero not so fortunate. The nose of the big express engine toro its way en tirely through the two rear coaches of the local and the crash of split ting timber was followed by the groans of those pinned down in th* wreckage. A little golden-haired , boy waved his hands piteously above his head, unable to extricate himself from the wreckage. A socre or more of men, some of them stained with their own blood, made heroic effort to rescue the child, but in vain. This child was Willie Attaway, 3-year-old son of Mrs. Alphonse Attaway of Slidell. His little body was taken out of the wreck several hours later, horribly mutilated, and placed beside those of others whose lives were sacri ficed in the catastrophe. SENATOR TILLMAN SHOCKED. Carmack Was Knightly and Noble* Hearted Gentleman. Trenton, Nov. 10.?The corre spondent of The News and Courier carried Senator Tillman the news of the sudden and tragic death of his former colleague, Senator Carmack. of Tennessee, today. He was very much surprised and shocked and sali that Mr. Carmack was a knightly and noble-hearted gentleman, and that the South can 111 spare such men at this time. "His taking off in such a way and for such a cause Is deplorable, nay, horible," said Senator Tillman, "and without know ing anything about the facts tho newspaper reports would indicate that he was assassinated, being shot from behind and any one who knew him would feel absolutely certain that he was not running. Altogeth er it is a lamentable affair." STANDARD OIL WINS OPT. Seems to Have Bought Courts as Well as Election. Chicago, Nov. 10.?The govern ment's petition for a rehearing of the case in which the United States circuit court of appeals reversed the trial court in finding the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, $29.2 10,0n"j for alleged rebating, was d nied in the court of appeals today. It is authorativcly stated that the government will now attempt to bring the whole matter before the Supreme Court on a writ certiorari. The government in its petition for a rehearing intimated that if the opinion of the judges of the appelat9 court, Orousscnp, Seaman asd Baker, were allowed to stand it would nul lify nearly every shred of rate re formatory legislation acconsnlish'ed by the Roosevelt administration.