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PUBLISHED THREE TO FOUND IN TRUNK Pool of Blood in Baggage Room Led Police to Investigate. MAN HAD BEEN DRUGGED Widow and Male Escort Vigorously Deny Any Knowledge.?Routuig Mistake Causes Dl?u*v?\*jr.>?Mat tress and Raiment Arc- I?ihkI Stained in Room in Hort I A blunder by the murderers 'n wrongly routing a t* it?x sent to the uiiion station in Portland, O ego it", was the means late Tuesday of dis closing a ghastly murder Th- vic tim is Wiliam Joeu*. who, with his wife and seven-year-old son, ar rived at Portland on Monday morn ing in company with a man who went by the name of A. C. Powers. The party registered at a cheip iNorth side hotel, "Powers," as com ing from Nome. Alaska. The John sons did not give their residence. Powers, whose real name is J. P. Webb, and Mrs. Johnson, were ar rested at an up-town lodging house early Wednesday. They were located through finding the little boy, dur ing the absence of Fowers, or Webb and the woman. They were appre hended as they were returning from an automobile trip to a suburban re sort. Both the man and woman, though intoxicated, denied all know ledge of the crime. Webb declared he saw Johnson last at the Union station Tutsday afternoon, waiting for a train to go to Seattle. He as serted Johnson was intoxicated at the time. Nothing important was elicited from either. On Webb's person was found two watches, one of which Mr6. Johnson identified as her husbauC's, and" two ladies' handkerchiefs, both blood stained. One of Webb's hands was injured and bandaged. He carried an International Typographical Un ion car, issued by Vancouver, B. C., local No. 226. An ordinary-looking trunk was re ceived at the depot late in the day and ordered checked via the Oregon and Washington railroad to North Puyallup, a. station not on that road. Shortly before 10 o'clock Tuesday night c the trunk was taken to the platform. There the mistake was noticeable, and it was sent back to the baggage room. A little latti one of thg baggage men noticed a pool of blood, which had trickled /from the trunk broke it open and dis covered the body of a man. Investigation by the detectives de veloped that the man's name was W. A. Johnson, and a visit to the rooms occupied by him and his fam ily resulted in the discovery that the mattress was saturated with blood and also that blood was spat tered over many personal belongings of Johnson. The detectives believe Johnson was first drugged with the alcohol, then struck over the temple with a "black jack" as he lay on the bed, next shot through the temple, and finally, to make certain, Johnson's negiligee shirt had been twisted and tightiy knotted about his neck. Among Johnson's belongings was a large number of cards bearing the name "Miss May Webster,'' and some of them having the address "315 South Wall Street," and others "1031 Ellis Street," San Francisco. The Wall street address does not name any city, but is believed by the police too be in Spokane, Wash. In "Powers" room.a suit case was found containing a blackjack clot ted with blood and frayed at the end, a bank book of the Scandina vian-American Bank of Seattle, be longing to J. P. Webb, some loose en- . velopes which had borne the same address, and an International Typo graphical Union card No. 226, issued by the Vancouver (B. C.), local to J. ?. Webb. According to the clerk of the ho tel the trunk left the hotel about the' middle of the afternoon. The clerk said he remembered the incident, be cause the porter commented on its weight, after having carried it to the expresss wagon. A few minutes later the clerk stated, Mrs. Johnson and .her child left the hotel and did not return. About 6 o'clock "Pow ers'" came down, and after saying he was going out for a little while, mentioned that the Johnsons would probably go to Seattle on the night train. Over $1,900 in currency was found on Mrs. Johnson. The woman said her husband had recently sold a farm near Seattle, and had entrust ed the money to her for safekeeping. BURNED TO DEATH. Young Man Dead and Brother Injur ed in Morning Fire. James West, twenty-years old, was burned to death, and his brother, ?dward. eightean-years-old. was ser iously injured, at the result of a hre which destroyed a boarding house at Hattiesburg, Miss., early' Tuesday. The latter leaped from a second-story window, breaking sev eral bones and probably injuring himself internally. The charred body of his brother was later found in the ruine. Ofcher Inmates of the house escaped without Injury. [ES A WEEK. SERVING LONGEST TERM HIGHLY EDUCATED BLACKS IN THE PENITENTIARY. id -4 "o*?t Negroes Serving Shortest S| V/o. ^uth Carolina Peniten >fv; ; Hary: < ?? /y. ?j v . Flures tau. ^ 6 /? cause all thoughtful advocate / the so-call ed higher education among the ne gro race to ponder yet a little more, have been compiled showing the startling conditions that of the ne groes incarcerated within South Car olina State penitentiary those most highly educated are serving the long est sentences. The poor ignorant negroes are imprisoned for the minor crimes and offenses while the negroes who have had a school or college education are the life-timers and the "over ten year" prisoners. That this is the condition also in the county chaingangs and on the public works of the counties and in the jaiUs throughout the state is the opinion of Commissioner E. J. Wiatson, of the department of agri culture, bommeree and industries, by which department the figures were compiled. Asked for an explanation of the compilation and the possible rea sons nor the condition shown to exist Commissioner Watson stated Tues day that the figures showed beyond reasonable doubt that the academic education is not the thing for the negro. Commissioner Watson advo cates education of the negro along industrial lines and thinks that the negro should also have sufficient schooling to be able to keep the ac counts on the farm Summing up the situation the commissioner said that the proper education of the ne gro is to further his usefulness in the industrial world by means of proper instruction in subjects that tend tb increase his manual effi ciency. The commissioner and his assist ants had a wide field to base their compilations upon for there were 535 negro prisoners examined, of this number 479 being males and 5? being females. T.he total number of male life prisoners is 256 of the negro race. Of this number 10 read and write without attending school. One hun dred and seven attended the common schools from one to ten years. Sev enteen attended schbol Ipss than one year. Six attended college. The summary shows 123 who cannot read and write ad 133 who can read and write. Of the female colored prisoners who are serving life sentence, the total 11.. None read and write without attending school. Five at tended common school 1 to 10 years and none of those who attended school did so for one year or less. Two of the life prisoners among the colored women attended college. There are four who cannot read and write and 7 who can read and write A further analysis of these figures shows that there is altogether 2 67 life termers of the 536 negro pris oners at the penitentiary, reforma tory and state farm. That of this number 140 can read and write, 8 attended college and less than one half of the total number cannot read and write. FLEEING CONVICTS SHOT. Convicts Make a Break for Liberty But are Dowuded by Guards. Two young white men, Garfieid Hutchins and Lindsey Huffman were shot while attempting to get away from convict camp on the L<.w Monday morning, and it is said that Hutchins may die. The men slipped away from convict camp near Wins ton-Salem Monday, and it is said ran into a cornfield a distance about forty yards when Guards Griffin and Dull fired on thcin, dropping them instantly . , Hutchins, who is rather well known hereabouts and who was on a thirty month's term for robbery on the street while impersonating an officer, was struck in the back of the head by a load of buckshot. He was hurried to the Twin City hospi tal at Winston-Salem and Dr. E. P. Gray attended him. The physician said the man would scarcely recov er. Huffman, who was serving a 14 months term for forgery, was slight ly wounded about the head and will recover. DOUBLE KILLING. Two Killer at Greenville Within Few Minutes. Two murders, occurring within a few minutes of each other created intense excitement at Greenville ear ly Tuesday.. Peter Rowley, a well'known citi zen, was shot and killed at a disor derly house by 0. L. Godfry, a horse dealer from Spartanburg. Ac cording to the report of the police Rowley was refused admittance to the house, but lsfcer . succeded in gaining entrancb and picked a quar rel with Godfrey, in which the latter is said to have shot in self-defence. rThe second killing oocurred near the Southern railway station, when a negro named Bob Calhoun, shot and instantly killed another negro, WJll Brown In a fight over a woman. OEANGEBl SHOT INTO CROWD OXE RECEIVES PAINFUL WOUND WITH SLUG. Two of Posse Fired at Him Bnt it Is Not Known That He Was Hit. Woman Is Arrested. A dispatch from Walterboro says that at Williams on Saturday night at 10 o'clock Jr. S. E. Kinsey was shot and seriously wounded by Joe Freeman, a negro. Saturday afternoon Dr. Kinsey's son was standing at the door of the store of Quinn Bros, when Lena Freeman, a negro woman, came up the steps to enter the store door and said to. Mr. Kinsey: "Some one wants to come in." Mr. Kinsey step ped out of the way and looking back saw this negro woman. He expected to see some white woman enter, and jokingly remarked that he thought it was somebody. The negro took out a knife from her pocket and began to abuse Mr. Kin sey, who insisted that she hush and stated to her that he did not mean any harm by the remark, which was jokingly made. She continued her abuse and left the store shortly, and going to her home, returned with her husband, Joe Freeman, she carrying a gun. Mr. Kinsey was informed of this fact and went to his home and re turned with his gun, which he put in Mr. Brabham's store. His father hearing of this came over to the store4and instructed his son to put the gun up and go to Magistrate Wil son and take out a warrant for the negroes and have them arrested. This Mr. Kinsey did and turned the warrant over to Constable Maxey, who went over to Williams to make ?the arrest. Maxey appointed Dr. Kinsey and others as special con stables to aid him in making the arrest. The party proceeded to the home of the Freemans, but just before reaching it, they were informed that Joe Freeman was back at the store of Quin Bros, with his gun. They returned to the store and attempted to arrest him, who seeing the party approach ran. They went back to the home, where the woman was ar rested. After securing her they started to leave and Joe Freeman appeared behind a clump of bushes near the house crying: "Get out of there." At the same time he shot into the crowd, the shjot taking effect just above Dr. Kinsey's hip. The negro then made his escape into the dark ness. Dr. .Kinsey was taken back home and was attended. It was found that the gun had been loaded with a slug, but fortunately the load produced only painful flesh wounds. Efforts were made Sunday morn ing to catch Freeman and he was seen several times by the pursuing party, but owing to the thickness of the undergrowth in the bays near Williams, he has so far eluded cap ture. SWELTER AND SIZZLE. Hapless New Yorkers Cringe Beneath the Hot Weather. Hapless New Yorkers sizzled and sweltered Tuesday while the mer cury climbed steadily until it at tained a maximum of 90 degrees by official readings at 3.45 p. m., a high mark for the year. Thernionu ters on the street ranged as high as 98 and three deaths directly due to the heat were recorded. More than 3 0 persons were prostrated. Excessive humidity added to the tortures of the year's hottest day. In the congested districts the -suffering was intense and hospital ambulances were kept busy caring for the strick en. In.Bayonne, N. J., five men were prostrated, two of whom are ex-i pected to die. At Minoleai L. I., during a par ade and contest of Long Island vol unteer firemen, half a dozen firemen were overcome and several spectators were prostrated. SHOT BY HIGH A W Y > IA X. Salesman Fired on by Negro Wlto ? Attempts to Hold Him Up. While en route from Xewbern, N.. I C. to Jones county Monday morning, Mr. Ralph Lupton, a traveling sales | man for the Carolina Grocery Co. i was held up by a negro man about ten miles from this city, who ordcr tiiin to hand over all of his money. Mr. Lupton refused to do this and attempted to secure his revolver, which was in the foot of the buggy, but before he could do so the negro fired at him, the ball taking effect in .his thigh. After shooting Mr. Lupton the ne gro took to th-> woods and has not not bees seen since. Robbers Fire Barn. Four mules and a thousand dol lars worth of flour, implements and supplies were burned Monday night In the barn of B. Hobgood, at Gar ner, near Raleigh, N. C, there beinfr every indication that the barn was burned to oover the stealing of a fine horse and buggy, no trace of which could be found in the rnins. Hob good js a well-to-do farmer and con ducts a tobacco warehouse at Clay ton. JRG, S. G., THURSDAY, J TRAGIC END Tailor Is Murdered In His Store lo Bosi b.ss Section of Charleston. ROBBERY THE MOTIVE Assailant, and Suspected Robber, Makes Good His Escape After At tacking Storekeeper in Middle of Day.?Victim Carried to Hospital Where He Died a Little Later. Max Lubelsky, of 543 King St., Charleston,tailor and clothier, aged 37 years, was found in a dying con dition at his store ^Puesday morn ing at about 11,45 o'clock, by Max Posner, of 56 Line street, with three ugly wounds in the back of the head, evidently inflicted with a large slat, found lying in the vicinity of the body, in the hands of a party or par ties as yet unknown. The desperate ly wounded man was rushed to the hospital in a police ambulance, but died from hemorrhage and a frac tured skull at 1.19 o'clock P. M. A rifled cash dTawer found in the rear of the premises, and the disappear ance of several articles and valua bles from the store, led the police to believe that the motive for the mur der was robbery. The killing caused a sensation throughout the city, especially among the Jewish population in the upper part of town. A number of friends of the dead man have offered a re ward of $500 for the capture of the guilty party. Max Posner, a peddler, was the first came to discover Lubelsky lying on the floor of his own store. He stated to the police that he entered the establishment at about 11.30 o'clock, in company with his little daughter, to whom he wished to show some chickens and pigeons which he had sold Lubelsky several weeks ago. Finding the store apparently deserted, Posner walked Into the yard in search of his friend. He came back and took a seat in the middle of the store. Suddenly his eyes beheld a steady stream of blood running towards him from beneath a counter on the op posite side of the store, and upon examination he found Lubelsky in a half sitting posture between the sec ond and third counters. He tried to get the wounded man to talk, but was unsuccessful, and immediately went in search of assistance. A phy sician arrived on the scene in ans wer to a hurry summons, and was followed immediately by officers. The wounded man was sent to the hospital in a police ambulance. Sev eral doctors took up the work of at tempting to save his life, but all ef forts proved to be useless, and he died In about one hour's time with out having regained consciousness. John Cross, a driver for a city ex press concern, delivered a box of dry goods to the Lubelsky establishment at ebout 11.15 o'clock, placing the box in front of the store. Cross then went inside for the purpose of hav ing his book receipted for the goods, and was met by a negro, who told him that he, the porter, had been left in charge of the establisment while Lubelsky had stepped across the street. After a several minutes wait. Cross left, stating that he would be in again for the purpose of hav ing the book signed. The police be lieve that the unknown negro had already overpowered Lubelsky when Cross entered the store, and on being interrupted by the latter, had bodily declared himself as being the por ter of the establishment. . PECULIAR TRAGEDY. Woman Accidentally Shoot.s Board er In Her House. Dennis Iteed. aped 2Ti, a boarder in the horn eof J. J. Flowers, at Illuefield, W. Va., was accidentally shot and killed by Mrs. Flowers at her residence Monday.. Mrs. Flow ers was talking to Iteed and said she intended getting a gun to kill some chickens. When she returned with the weapon, Reed threw up his hands in a jesting manner, saying, "I am not guilty. The gun was discharg ed and Reed fell dead. Mrs. Flow ers said she did not know the gun was loaded and is frantic over the affair. The woman's husband was asleep in the house at the time. Fell Sixty Feet to Death. Charles Heasley, of Greensboro. N. c, a lineman for the Southern Pow er Company, was killed Tuesday morning while working on the com pany's lines about live miles from Greenville. In some way Heasley got mixed up in the wires and fell 60 feet. The man's body was badly burned, .his right arm being torn from the socket and his left shoe torn from his foot by the heavy vol tage. Sensational Shooting at (\tiurch. As a result of a sensational shoot ing at Highland Church, in Macou county, Tenn., Monden afternoon, one man is dead and thfree wounded. After the shooting it was found that Alonza Gaines had beea killed and Robert Nichols and two men named Parker had been shot The trouble is fcrflqved to have been the result of an old feud between the parties. IUNE 23. 1910. ADDITIONAL AMOUNTS AMOUNTS FOR PUBLIC BUILD INGS AM) SITES. (\>Inmbia Gets Appropriation of $7.">, 000 for New Site.?Camden and i Beunettsville Each $00,000. A Washington dispatch says that President Taft will affix his signa ture, during the next day or two, to the public building bill of the present session, just passed, and within a short time a large amount of money will be spent, In different parts of the United States, in the erection of Federal buildings. A careful inspection of the figures shows that South Carolina ha s been well provided for, the following be ing the provisions. Camden, $50,000; Gaffney, $10,000; Orangeburg, $10, 000; Columbia. $75,000; Bennetts yille, $50,000; Marion', $7,500; Laurens and Union, each $10,000; N'ewberry, $10,000. While the members of the South Carolina delegation workt-d hard to secure these amounts, credit should be given Representative Johnson of Spartanburg, a member of the House committee on buildings and grounds, for his work. As the matter stands now every city and town in South Carolina which, under the law, is entitled to receive a'Federal build ing, either has one completed, un der construction, or authorized. The Columbia appropriation is for the purchase of a new building site. The amounts of less than $50,000 are in addition to previsions made for the cities in former bills. SECOND IS SHOOTING. The South Carolina Ranks After the Battleship Idaho. The battleship Idaho 1s to enjoy for a year tne coveted official honor of being the best hitter in the Amer ican navy. A comparison of the shooting performances of the battle ships this year was made public at Washington on Tuesday at the navy department. The Idaho made a score with her guns of .46.121. The South Carolina gets second place with a score of 42.585, and the Wis consin third with a score of 4 0,478. The battleships are competing for a trophy, their rank depending not only upon the hits of the guns but u'jon their work with mines and tor pedoes. While the target practice h^s been concluded by the battle ships, only a few have done the re quired mining. Of these the Wis consin stands at the head of those which have completed the competi tion with a score of 45.494, the Maryland second with 3 7.587 and the West Virginia third with 22.264. Of the vessels competing for the cruiser trophy for gunnery the Char leston now leads with a score of 21,075. In the competition for the gunboat trophy, the Mayflower stands at the head of the list of those that have fired with a score of 6.612. Among the vessels competiting for the torpedo trophy the Preble is the victor with a score of 90,928. One of her competitors, the Rowan, is credited with a score of only 0.055. SHOOTS AT INVALID. Xegitt Kilters Sick Woman's Room and Fires When Seen. While the family of Mrs. C. V. Adamson, of Macon, Ga., were seat ed at supper, Mrs. Adamson's daugh ter, who had been sick for some time, was eating her supper in bed in a nearby room. . She happened to glance upward and saw a big yellow negro standing at the side of h^r bed fumbling between the mattress. She screamed to alarm the house hold, and the burglar, instead ot making his escape as quickly as pos sible, pulled out a pistol that he had found under the mattress and deliberately shot at her. The bul let passed through her hair and bur ied itself in the head of her bed, and the negro, hastily springing over the bed on which the sick woma i u.'s lying, jumped out of the window aiid made his escape. The phio! was Bound on the grass near \h-: house,! wherf- he had thrown it. LIGHTNING STRIKES NEGRO. Strikes Shoes from His Feet hut Ne gro is Unharmed. Lightning struck the shanks of William Graham, a negro, Sunday afternoon at Winston-Salem and stripp? d him of his shoes and socks, not injuring him, however, in any way, outside of mental anguish, so Co speak, for William was surely Beared. His wife, who was in the room at the time was also uninjur ed. The lightning ran down tn> chimney during the severe electri cal storm which swept through that city, and tore up the bureau, before it divested William of his shoes and stockings, besides ripping his draw ers also from the ankle to the knee. Many persons in the neighborhood visited the scene and William show ed them corroborating garments. ] Drowned During Om!o. The body of Dr. L. L. Lusk. was found i? the lake off Seventy-fifth street, Chicago, Monday. He be lieve'd to have been drowned by the capsizing of a aailboat on Saturday durlag a gale. ?.. BURNED AT STAKE NEGRO LYNCHED BY FRENZIED TEXAS MOB. Had Waylaid and Brutally Murdered Young Woman. When Captured Admitted His Guilt. Leonard Johnson, a negro charged with having killed Miss Maud Red ding, a young woman near Rusk, Texas, Monday, was burned at the stake by a mob near the scene of the crime late that night. Sheriff Norwood and a posse were enroute to the jail with the negro when they were overpowered by a mob at Lone Star, near the home of the murdered woman. . Securing the frightened negro, who was now pleading for his life, the mob, composed of more than one hundred and fifty men and boys, dragged him a short distance from the town. There it is stated he con fessed that he had not only mur dered, but had assaulted Miss Red ding. The negro was then tied to a stake and after brush .had been piled, high around him the torch was ap plied. Disregarding the . pleadings of Johnson; the fire was fed until .he was dead. After this the mob quiet ly dispersed. The murder of Miss Redding was ofie of the most brutal in the history of that section. She had left her home enroute to Lone Star, about noon. Two hours later her body with her throat cut from ear to ear was found in a dense v ood, a short distance from the town. Following the finding of the young woman s body, bloodhounds were put on the trail. The dogs immediately took up the sceut,'following it until the negro was captured. . MIR ACL' LO US ESCAPE. Buggy in Which Two Are Riding Is Demolished by Freight. How John Mills and Jerry Boul ware, Jr., both colored, who were driving leisurely across the Southern Railway track opposite the residence of Mr. M. E. White on the Columbia road, just outside of Chester, when struck by a northbound through freight, escaped an instant and aw ful death is more than eye witnesses are able to figure out. The two negroes svere on their way to Chester and drove out from behind the big bluff that shuts off all view of an approaching train, en tirely unconscious of danger, when just as they had got out on the track a through freight came flying arround the bend a few yards away, and before they could get across .had struck the buggy and totally demol ished it. The two occupants Were hurled high in the air, but, surprising to! state, were not killed. The mule was 'not Injured at all, but was 'greatly ftrightened by the occurrence and ran away. The buggy was about as badly battered up as is possible to conceive. It is still at the scene of the accident and has been viewed by a number of per sons, all of whom are totally unable to conceive how the occupants es caped without fatal injuries. N EAR ELECTROCl'TION. Mill Operative at Rock Hill Has a Close Call. W. F. Lucus, an operative at the Highland Park Mill, barely missed being electrocuted Tuesday morning. He was carrying a joint of 1-2 inch iron piping to a water tank, to fish out something which had gotten there, and had the pipe over his shoulder, the free end elevated con siderably and the lower end grasped tightly with both hands. He forgot about the naked wire of the South ern Power Company's line running in to supply the mill and carrying 1 1,000 volts of' electricity, and the upper end of the pipe came into contact with it as he passed under. After the contactthosewhosaw reand After the contact those who saw it thought Lucas was dead, as?they could find no heart-beat, but the physician, who came quickly, found him still alive and at once applied restoratives. He states that Lucas will recover. DOUBLE TRAGEDY. Farmer Slays Tenant and Wounds the Latter's Mother. Asbury Spieer, a well-to-do farmer of Breathitt county. T''nn., and once a prominent figure in the Hargis feud, Monday shot and killed Judge Ftlgate, a tenant on Asbury's farm and wounded Fugate's mother. The killing occurred in the country and the first known of it was when Spic er telephoned in that he had killed Fugate and had shot his mother and was coming to Jackson to give him self up. Neither the extent of Mrs. Fugat-'s injuries or the caisfe cf the trouble is known. Freight Suttmers ColMde. The French freight steamer La Rocheile ffom Bordeaux for Liver pool, was sunk through a collision v?t.h the British freighter Yews off Skerries, Ireland, Monday. Ten of the crew of the French vessel were drowned. TWO CENTS PER COPY" RESTS ITS CASE Defence in Trial of Lorimer Says Testi mony Necessary Submitted. WHOLLY UNEXPECTED .State's Attorney Wyman In Argu ment to the Jury Says Murderers Can Go Unpunished, but There is No Justification for Bribery.? Defendant Will Not Testify. Precluding the possibility of the defendant going upon' the stand in his own behalf, counsel say,, and shutting out all testimony that Sen ator William Lorimer might have to offer in denial of the charge that his seat in the United States senate was purchased, lawyers for Lee O'Neill Browne abruptly rested their, case in the criminal court at Chicago at noon Tuesday. The sudden move of the defense in the alleged legislative bribery trial was wholly unexpected. More than fifty witnesses for the defense were thus excluded from the records of the case. Several of these in addi tion to Browne and Senator Lorimer were considered of importance to the defense. Among them was Lieuten ant Governor John G. Oglesby. It is said that Browne's counsel believe their case stands or falls upon whether the jury is willing to accept the testimony of Representa tive Charles A. White, who made the first confession and delivered the principal testimony in the alleged bribery scandal. Attorney W. S. Forest, who has led the defense of Browne, has insist ed from the beginning that he is not concerned materially over the out come in the criminal court; , that .he has made out a legal case for his clie.a to stand on in a higher court. In this connection Mr. Forest said at the close of court:. "We have submitted-all. the testi mony that we believed necessary. We wanted chiefly character witness es to support the defendant as be lieving that after what the jury heard about White.. his testimony would have no weight." ' State's Attorney .Wyman, how ever, takes another view of the pro ceeding. He says that Browne and .his lawyers fear to allow; the case to .be probed further, that even with their own witnesses they dare not take a chance cf an unexpected stop. Although Mr. Wyman began his closing argument to the jury com paratively early in the afteipoon, he had not finished when'court was ad journed for the day. Mr. Wyman said in part:. ... ? "Murderers can go.'hnpunished, larceny is. often excused by the law, and a man may go .ouT.in the night and rob to feed a starvig family; but there is no justification for brib ery. It cannot go unpunished. "The fact that wer firty Demo ... V crats voted for .'iehator Loriruer, a Republican, shows" in itself that there was bribery.. .Representative White was thus bribed'.to elect' a. member to the only body- in bur federal gov ernment that can declare war or ef fect peace for the millions of our population. ?'It was a. gigantic' moment for Browne, the minority leader, when he trien to elect Loriiner.. If he had faib-d, what amends could he have . made to his constituents? As long as he succeeded the Democrats could go back to their ?onstituents and make some sort of. a pol. qgy because he had succeeded." DYING HK ISSUES ORDERS. Switchman, Shows..New. After His l>egs' Are Severed. George" C. ? Brlley. ?? a-ged twenty three years, a switchman for the South- rn'' rairwa.'y, at' Birmingham, Ala., alter being -run?over Monday Uiorning, both'-of ? his -legs cut off and otherwise hUrr, gaye'fnstructions as to' the disposition -to be made of his body, asking that it be shipped to Columbia, Teiin.. where he has relatives.' While cutting a string of cars his ;foot" was* caught in a switch frog and before-he could ex tricate it he'was knocked'down and several cars passed over his body. He died twenty minutes after the ac cident, but was conscious to the last. Plunges lX>Wn-'the Mountain. L. J. Miller, or San' Francisco, was killed, and Richard Combs, of Little River, Cal., Guy Redwine, of Ukiah. Cal.. and Mr. and Mrs.- Rea, of West port. Cal., injured-, Monday evening when the stage from., Willetts to Muir Junction ran : away. The brakes gave way and .the heavy ve hicle plunged against." the horses, nending th< m In a mad run down the. mountain. . The vehicle was overturn.ed.Miller being pinned b? neatlj and crushed to death. Two Burned to Death. Two. men were burned to death and two others received slight inju ries in a fire that destroyed ?he Cen tury Club cottage" and On adjoinfhg smalt .snmnVo'r reside%pe at Bates Park, In BeTerly, ')&}&., Tuesday. The d*ad are: He'ary'B. .Barre?, of Peabody, and Bert McSbana, of Sam ern. The U'o'meh, wtth the three Dthere, had hired the c?ttage for their summer vacation.