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PUBLISHED THREE Tl> LEVEN KILLED Arnllerjona Die When Big Oisappear 8 ; / log Gans Barst. TEN STILL MISSING Ts*-? Two Heavy Cannon Exploded at Breech at the Beginning of Prac tice at Fortress Monroe, Va.? j Disaster WitnessedVrby Wives o? Several of the Men Killed. Eleven artillerymen are dead and a number of others seriously injur ed, including two officers, as the re- j ! suit of the blowing out of a breech ? , block .in. a twelve-inch shore gun at the De Russy "battery at Fort Mon roe, Va., during ihe coast artillery practice there Thursday. The accident happened while stu dent officers were endeavoring to sink a fleet of towed targets, repre- j sentiag an imaginary hostile fleet proceeding toward Washington. The battery was under the immediate . control of .Seargent Harry Hess of the Sixty-Ninth company, U. S. coast artillery. The known dead are: SEARGENT HARRY G. HESS, of Phoebus, Va., gun commander. , CORPORAL CHARLES O. AD KINS, address unknown, gun poiut-| er. ' *?' '. :"hV CORPORAL ALBERT BRAD FORD, Dorothy, Va. PRIVATES A. J. SULLIVAN, of 'Perkins, Ky.. ROYAL DUFFY of -Kenova. W. Va.: H. A. ADEY, Bran donville, W. Va.; C. W. KING, of Dayton, Ohio; JOHN W. CHAD WICK of Taxewell, Tenn.; ALFRED W. SMITH of.New York; JUDD Hi. HOGAN of Geyer, Ohio, and JAMES | H. TURNER of Ripley, Tenn. One private was blown into Ches-| apeake Bay with the breech block. Lieut. Van Dusen sustained a bro ken leg-and Lieut. Hawes was iu-J jured about the face. Many prominent officers of the ? army and navy, who went to Hamp ton Roads to witness what was -ex pected to be the greatest practice of this character that had been1 at tempted anywhere, saw the accident. It was- ttie,\more: horrible for the' reason that wives and children ofl "several of the^ -meh^Ille?;' n?'da'?ger | havintg been anticipated, were per mitted 'to see the target practice. A number-of them witnessed the acci dent.1 De Russy battery, where the explo-j ? sison'*'totik'-place; was: located'" inj about"; the! middle ;of the "fort and was eqntp.p^,'trt^ disapSdaWc^-rtftes'.^ It 'Was . named? after Brig. Gen. G. A. DeRussy, who serveo^'ivirtb ; dlst inctioir1 - in i the' >cci vilA war, and died in 1891. The'ba'Uery* -' Was-' ma-Shed-' by the' entireiJer/WsTed'BtTength of "the Sixty ninth; do?ipliiiy.^'WhJch^was-'ab? men/ "?dls'tfibtited among-" t'hie5 three'. rifle9. About"22*meh'werie ?in- each' firing squad and were stationed upon' the implace'mefft of "Ctie^ guns' the others being below in the mag azines. Which of the three guns exploded was not reported, but- officers of the, coast artillery'"say that"'the" Be?vy'j death list- indicated1 that: the explo sion took place' after the gun ? hn.d'| disappeared and was in a reclining] positiott in the pit. They point but th'at' had' it exploded w.hilev the gun"] was up, the'damage would have beeh <S>mparatjveIy slight. -Explosion;/ of the latter character have occurred before in the 'coastartillery, but nev er with such-disastrous results. A report-to the war department says eight men were killed, two fa tally irijUVed' artd^ two others slightly injured; Thursday'-at the beginning of the coast-- artillery :battie practice at Fort Mon;oe Va. Motfter nnd~Babe- Burned. Trapped iu bed with her week-old "baby, Mrs. Grade Wilson, of Grand Rapids, Mich., was burned to death Thursday afternoon when fire de stroyed the old Ledyard block at the ?corner of South Division street and Fourth avenue. A nurse. Mrs. Amel ia Heeney. who tried to rescue the mother and babe, received burns which proved fatal an hour later, and the babe is dying in the hospital. Succumbs to IVIIagrn. At Columbia. Allen C. Wyse. aged twenty-nine, a graduate of the Uni versity of South Carolina in 1901. editor of the Southern Furniture Journal of High Point, N. C. died early Wednesday morning at the 'Co lumbia hospital of Pellagra.' Twentieth Child. The twentieth bnby has been born into the family or Mr. and Mrs. Max im Marcouiller. of Menominee. Wis. The father is 30 and the mother 4U, and both are healthy and prosper ous. Thaw Gets 911,890/' Final distribution of the balance' of the estate of William Thaw was fade in the Orphans court in Pitts burg, last week. Harry K. Thaw re ceived $11.890.29 as his share. Knife I>wiws Lightning. An electric Current attracted by a large butcher knife in the hands of Mrs. Joseph Hhar. of Princeton, \. J., rendered the woman unconscious. I KS A WEEK. TMES WILL BE LOWER Fifty Per Cent. Basis by Big Ma jority. As its meeting in Columbia on Wednesday the State board of equal ization decided by a vote to 33 to 8 to assess cotton mills, cotton oil mills and fertilizer plants on a fifty per .cent., basis, instead of 60 per cent as "formerly. This action was taken upon motion of .Mr. John Shuleri of Oracgeburg, following the argument earlier in the day of Mr. F. Belton Grier, and several speeches in the afternoon on the matter. There was a proposition to make the assessment on a 40 per cer>t.;.basis, but:this was withdrawn as was the proposition to assess the corporations on the same basis as heretofore with the under standing that on improvements the basis should be 50 per cent. Mr. Grier represented the cotton mills of the State, through the Asso ciation, which the mills are not fully satisfied'with the 50 per cent basis, it is realized that this was the best that could be had. ? The ? most vigorous argument against the action taken by the board was that of Mr. Jeremiah Smith, of Horry, who said that the coastal lands are assessed enough now; that there is much real estate that is val ueless to the farmer on" account of swamp.lands and other property that does not produce anything, and "that the" farmer is now bearing sufficient taxes. Mr. Smith, who made a proposi tion at a former meeting that 100 per cent be the basis and over whose protest the 60 per cent basis was adopted,' declaring that although the land values have been increased the same has not been true''of'the prop erty under discussion. He made an impassioned plea that the motion of 50 per cent basis ,be killed. The vote on the Shuler motion'resulted: .Yeas?Lomax, Courtney, Clink scales, Johnson, Vexjdier, Turner, Hafner, Godfrey, Davis, Von Lehe, James, Gadsden, Thompson, Knight, Cochran, Spence, McKensie. Good win, Alton, Dekay, McLeod, Ed wards, Pejus, Flsyd,. Shuler, Boliiu, Coienlan,. Verri?'nV McLanrln. H. K. Smith, Funk, T. L. Johnson, Evans ?33.. ,m Nays?Guess, Reaves* Read, Kit tles, Jeremiah, Smith,, Zimmerman, O'Dell, A?air.?8. ? <t*-?^ RENEGADE DEMOCRATS. Who Voted for' Loiimer Denounced ? ; for Doing" So. ' Democrats* from; all' parts ' of 'the St?.U of IlHrib^ and ^gorou'sly' aetfo^fic^a^.'^^ 'action j ?f;"th&sB 'Dey6^i(c')^ikheTS:et the State- Legislature who ' deseVVed"' their paftyVchoTCe" Tor'United 'States1 Sen ator and' cast their' votes" for "Wm. Lo.ri'meiv The resolutidns'"also com mand1the" twenty-four members of 'the": Legislature'" "wher demonstrated their loyalty in upholding the honor of the*"Democratic Rarty by their un wavering adherence to the primary: nominee of their party for'United! State's Se'n?tei;: The1 resolutions con-1 eluded with an iiwitation to honest and patriotic men "to come to the i rescue of the State and drive from power the present Republican oligar-> chy, and thereby restore good' gov ernment to the people." LOST LIFE IN SURF. Heroic Efforts of Young Ladies Fail-' ed to Save Him. At Atlantic City; X. J., Daniel Gal lagher, aged1 '28. ? janitor" at the Foster home for children, in Lon-; port. was'drowned Wednesday while bathing in the surf"near the home, despite the efforts of a number of young women nurses from the in stitution who formed a human chain anl tried to effect his rescue. The nurses were on the beach .with their charges when Gallagher, who was some distance out in the water, cried for help. No other men were rear, and grasping each others hands, sev ?eral of the young women rushed through the surf toward the strug gling bather. A strong undertow, however, quickly carried the drown ing man out t;# sea. One of the young women was swept off her feet but was rescued by her companions Killed One, Wounded Another. Peter Lander, colored, aged about six. shot and instantly killed his brother, John, .tged 9, at the home of Jonas McCuHough, at Chester, on Thursday afternoon, and perhaps fa tally wounded John McCullough. al so about 9 years of age. The young er Lander boy was playini? with a gun. which waB discharged. The load tore off the left side of John L?n der^ dead and wounded McCullough in the same manner, though not so seriously. The schooting was acci dental. Kxpfosi^h" in' Quarry. Five men. all foreigners, known by numbers, were killed in the" quar ry of the Nazareth^ Pa., Portland Cement' company by the premature explosion- of a charge of dynamite. This is the same quarry in which seven men were'killed; in a similar manner a few weeks ago. % ' DEPUTIES KILL NEGROES. Resisted Arrest and the Shooting j Began.?Two Wounded. Five negroes were killed and two 1 others were mortally wounded on J Thursday, when the seven, taking is jsue with Deputy Sheriff Sid Cauley, at Elliott, Miss., who was endeavor ing to take them into custody on a minor charge, advanced on the offi cer with farming implements as wea ' pons and with the avowed intention . of "cutting him down." i Carrying a warrant charging the seven with assault, Cauley and two citizens deputized to assist him, went It' the home of Henry Beck, a color ed farmer, near Elliott Thursday, af ternoon. As the posse approched the negroes ceased their work in the field and, grabbing pitchforks, and I other farming tools, made for the I deputy. Cauley, however, opened fire with two revolvers before the belligerents came within striking di?tance and, before the others of the posse had regained their wits, five of the attacking party were dead and the remainder wounded. The deputy surrendered, but was releas ed to appear for formal hearing. Sesreral days ago an attempt was made to effect the capture of the ne groes, but the arresting officer with j drew when they employed similar , tactics to those of Thursday. TENEMENT FIRE. Boy Missing and 800 People Driven Out by Flames. s,One person was killed, another is missing and three hundred tenement i dwellers were driven from their homes in a panic, as the result of a .fire'which early Thursday at New I York burned out the three upper ! stories of an. eleven story factory i building at Lewis and Rivington streets, near the Manhattan end of the Williamsburg bridge. The dead ntitn was Parrish Eged, a watchman, Whose burned body was found o>a the sixth floor where he had fallen while trying to escape. An unnamed boy. who was given permission to spend the night bn the roof, is be lieved to have perished. BOY BLED TO DEATH. Stingaree Shoots Barbed Spine. Into His Neck. At West Palm Beach, Fla., death in an almost unheard of form wait ed' for Laurence S. Baker, an eleven year old Jacksonville lad, when he dived from a boat while swimming off Lake Worth. A stingaree, a huge flat bodied gruesome specimen of salt water fish, was lurking just under the boat. One of the barbed spines which this fish carries on its whip-like tail pierced the boy's neck, cutting into 'the jugular vein. He rose to thp surface crying for help and bled to death" within four miu-j utes after his companions had lifted 1 him from the water. WOMEN TYPIST NOT WANTED. Government Prefers Men, Obey Orders. Women stenographers apparently are no longer wanted in the Govern ment service. This announcement was made Wednesday at the civil service commission in an effort to put a stop to a steadily increasing flood of letters from women through out the country who seek informa tion about an examination for sten ographers to be had next Tuesday in all t.he State and Territories. This examination is for the purpose of recruiting only men stenographers and typists, the demand for whom the civil service commission has been unable to meet. Practically all the various departments of the Govern ment are seeking to replace women stenogrphers with men, on the plea that the latter are more amenable to discipline. I An Engine Balked. A loaded passenger train .on the Georsia and Florida railroad spent last night in the woods, three miles ' north of Valdosta, Ga., because the ; engine balked. An official in his pri j vate car was on the train and kept I the passengers supplied with food. The engine began moving about sun rise. Damages by Forest Fires. General reports from all parts of British Co Inf hi a confirmed by dis patched to Premier McBride, Land Minister Ellison and other officials at the capital, place the aggregate loss of the ifresent week by forest fires at not 'less than $1.000.000. with ful ly half million more will be lost in the enforced suspension of affected industries. Farmers Fed .Milk to Hogs. Rather than sell their milk for two and two and a quarter cents a quart, farmers in northern Xey Jer sey counties are feeding it to their hogs. They say the prevailing price is three-fourths of a cent less than it costs to produce the milk. Wife Transferred for $1. A document has been filed in the Onendago County court at Syracuse, X. Y.. whereby Frederick A. Joss, a business man, transfers his wife to Harry W. Rogers, a bookkeeper, for the sum of $1. Rogers has been a roomer in the Joss home for sev eral years. Who Will i EG, S. C, SATURDAY, J LEWS RECORD; In Congress Shown Up by Dr. Ray Who is Running Against Him. VIOLATED HIS PLEDGE When He Voted Wfth the Republi cans to Protect Lumber?He Dis tributed Literature for Meat Trust ?Mr. Lever in His Reply Ignores the Most Serious Charge. We leive below a synopsis of the speech made here Wednesdayby Dr. Ray, who is opposing Congressman Lever. Dr. Ray made some serious charges against Mr. Lever. Dr. Ray said in part: "I am not an entire stranger to the good people of Orangeburg. I heretofore appeared before you, ad vocating the farmers' cause, thereby advocating the cause of the entire South: Tomorrow is the anniversary of the great victory' of- the South at Manassas. We have: a fight before up for principle today as'then; and I appear before you today offering-to give my services to assist the South to come back into her own. It is a fight for one of the (great fundamen tal principles of Democracy, as enun ciated by the fathers of the party. The concensus of opinion expressed' by the Democratic convention at Denver reiterated its allegiance in no uncertain terms to the bed rock principles of the party, standing then as it has for the last 30 years, the removal of all duty on lumber, de manding that it should be placed on the free list. Violated Pledge. "My opponent .filed his pledge and accepted the nomination of the Dem ocratic party after the adoption^ of this declaration of principles, hence his violation of his oath to carry out this provision of the platform is without excuse, because he had full! knowledge of the condition under j which he accepted the nomination. I charge him with deliberately de serting his party, being untrue to his pledge, aiding and assisting by his vote the monopolies and trust, the placing of an unnecessary bur den upon the many- in the interest of. a few, increasing unnecessarily the cost of one of the. prime necessi ties-of life^which enters1 into a; multi tude of industries, nullifying the party platform, breaking faith with the people and embarrassing the par ty to which he had sworn allegiance. This base behavior on his part he justified in his speech at Lexington by claiming that it yielded $3,000, 000 of revenue to the general gov ernment. Investigation- shows this is utterly false. It is said-by-one high in authority that it produces only $1,600,000 revenue while it pillages from the toiling masses and giVes to a-robber band $120,000,000. Our own State by statutory enactment ex empts churches, school houses and other public buildings from taxes. Voted for Lumber Duty. "By his action" he has" set this law at naught and put the plundering hands of monopoly upon these wor thy objects of charity. Let us think for one moment and see if it is not plain to us that the Almighty God, the ' Divine Giver of all. things,, in tended that the product of the for est should be free from the hands of these plunderers. Who is it here that has ever planted a pine tree, ever fertilized it, or cultivated it? And if this be true, you must then conclude that it was a direct gift from the Almighty. And yet, my opponent has allowed a few lumber owners, by petition, by letter and by isolicitation, forgetting the great masses, to put millions of dollars into the hands of a few; and yet has the audacity to boast that he has no apologies to make, that he is not ashamed of his vote. I agree with him that he must be without shame in acting as he did in the face of his oath to do otherwise. As to Oleomargarine. "Further, my friends, what do you think of the Swifts and Armours who combine to put the very meat we eat and the very lard which we put into our bread far beyond the reach of the average man's purse? What do you thin, or a man lending his aid to such a combine? And yet this is what Mr. Lever boasts of doing. For I have seen literature sent out by him in favor of the oleo margarine bill, which was pending before congress. 1 have conclusive proof that this literature was com posed and paid for by the Swift. Ar mour and other packers and given to Mr. Lever for distribution. And if it was to the interest or the peo ple to remove 10 cents per pound off of oleomargarine and not in the interest of Swift, Armour and other packing companies, why was it that | they maintained a lobby at Wash ington while this bill was pending in Congress. How can you bring your selves to support such a m;in for re-election, when he has been guilty of aiding and abetting the greatest and most harmful of all trusts, de priving you of sufficient food. This trust, which by its high prices de prived the masses of one of the great necessities of life. Fighting I'ncle Joe. "I was surprised to hear Mr. Lev er at Lexington boast of the many things which he had done, which investigation proves to be untrue. Among others 1 find him boasting of ULY 23, 1910. the conspicious part which he play ed In displacing Czar Cannon. On examining the record I f.nd him as mute as a mouse; the record showing Lever present, not voting. I was also surprised to hear him speak of the great fight he had made and the great victory he had won in. remov ing the duty on potash, which is a component part of the fertilizer we all use, for I have information? which he dare not dispute?and the record shows that this tax was in the bill without the knowledge of the chairman. As soon as it was called to .his attention iit was promptly removed. Thus he has asked you to give him credit for something which he does not deserve. I find him claiming great credit for appro1 priations obtained, saying they were far in excess of other congressmen in South Carolina, when as a matter of fact all moneys for public build ings are distributed by Jos. T. John ston, member of congress from Spar tanburg district; and to make direct comparison, I find in one other dis trict in the State a congressman who has obtained $35,000 more than Mr. Lever for bublic buildings. He claims to be the special champion of the establishment of rural free delivery routes. Of the 758 rural free delivery routes in South Caro lina, there are: only 119 credited to. his. district, which shows that he ia hardly up to the average. "I have' endeavored, my fellow countrymen, to show you how he be trayed a great party to which we all belong; how he has violated his sol emn oath to support, to uphold and maintain the tenets of that party, t have taken up one by one his claims for your suffrage, and shown that they existed only in imagination, that he is an ordinary braggart, who pre sumes too much on your ignorance.' Lever Takes a Turn. After Dr. Ray concluded, Mr. Lev er was introduced, and received an ovation from his friends in the hall. They were hilarious, and from every quarter of the house came cries of "Lever, Lever," "Give us a good "un," and "Take off your coat." Mr. Lever said that it was a seri ous matter to be accused of being a deserter from the Democratic party and that he was not there for jokes. He promises to justify every posi tion he had ever taken by the Con gressional Record. Spoke of Career. He then reviewed his political ca reer from eight years ago when he was senf to congress down ? to the session which has just closed. He said that he welcomed his opposition in the present race as it gave him an opportunity to show that he. had. never violated his truer.. The peo ple of the Sevenrh district had come first and the people of South Caro lina second. Here Mr. Lever was interupted by applause. Continuinf-;, he said that during) his first term in congress he had been put on two committees, neither of which ever met. In his second term .he had been placed on the committee on agriculture. They were appropriating $250,000 to eradicate the gypsy moth which was destroy ing the trees in New England. He had gotten an appropriation amount ing to exactly the same for killing the cattle tick which was the bane of Southern cattle raisers. He spoke of his activity in putting through the recent pure food bill, his fight for the Appalachian forest reserve, and declared that he was the only Dem ocrat in congress who had been put In charge of a bill carrying $10,000, ??0 and had carried it through. . Bringing Home Bacon. As instances of the times he had "brought home bacon," he cited the $70,000 appropriation for a federal building at sumter, $60,000 for one In Orangeburg and $75,000 for a cite in' Columbia. 'As for the matter of drainage, he with his colleagues, was at work on a proposition which would go be fore congress. Drainage surveys were now being marie within throe miles of his opponent's home. He said that four years ag*> he had in cluded an appropriation In the rivers and harbors bill to dredge the Edisto, but that the engineers had! reported unfavorably upon the pro ject. There was at present an item in the bill to make a survey from Orangeburg to Charleston to deter-' mine the most feasible water route between the two cities. Discussing his vote on oleomar garine, Mr. Lever said that his first speech in congress hail been a pro test against placing it on the free list, and that it had since been pro nounced healthful by chemists. Tne Western dairymen were fighting the tax on oleo because they wanted a monopoly on all the yellow butter sold in the United States. The meas ure would simply help the butter trust and hit the cotton oil industry. Cotton Warehouse lie; irt. Now that the governineut issued a ginning report, he had demanded a report on the amount of cotton held in warehouses all over the United States so thai the cotton growers would have the whole picture before them. Such a report was now in prepa ration. He had sraid r>n ,o!> in Wash ington, said .Mr. Lever, instead of attending the meetings in IMshop ville and ?umter. Me waj mv busy drawing up a bill to prevent gamb ling in cotton and had worked for tj-re? ??:?*-?? ? n t n commit' "< He had introduced the bill, while the meetings were beiug held in Su tut er and Bishopville. As. to the charge that he had neg lected rural free delivery routes in this district. Mr. Lever said that he , had as many as any of the other mm ALMOST A LYNCHING WHITE MAX CHARGED WITH MIS TREATHNG A CHILD. The Crowd Disagreed as to Method of His Death, and the Sheriff Got the Fiend to Jail. ;The lynching of a white man, Thomas Yarborouigh, was prevented in the Silver Street section, of,New berry county early Wednesday morn ing only by disagreement among the crowd as to the manner of death and; probably the lack of a leader. Yarborough is charged with an attempted criminal assault on a 7 year-old white child on July 2. The matter did not become public until Wednesday night,' and then it is said through a letter which the wife of Yarborough wrote to the mother of the child, Vhich led to an investi gation. S-? ie of the crowd which gather ed .jring the early hours of the morning wanted to swing Yarborough to a limb, riddle his body with bul lets and then cut him down and let his body be' carried away by the riv er. Others favored other modes of sending him to the great beyond. Magistrate Hendrix got in com munication with Sheriff Buford, and the sheriff with his deputy, Pope Bu ford, was on the' road within fifteen minutes after receiving the message and carried Yarborouigh to the New berry jail. Acting on advices received as to the feeling of the community. Sher iff Buford got in communication with the governor's office and it was decided that It would be .best to take Yarborough to the State penitentiary for safekeeping, and, this will be done. Yarborough is between fifty and sixty years of age, and has his third wife. The crime is alleged to have happened near Yarborough's home, in a secluded path. Yarborough was formerly an operative in the Mollo ho'n mill. He has been living for some time on the Spearman place, near Silver Street. He claims that the charge is a result of spite work. WHITE FJEXD WANTED. He Is Charged With Assaulting a Young Girl. ' Charged with criminally assault ing Irene Fratus, the twelve-year-old adopted - daughter, of. John Basford and wife, Paul Combell, a white man of prominent family, is surrounded in the Pinewoods, north of Wave land, near Biloxi, Miss., by a posse of citizens of Bay St. Louis, who are bent on C.ombell's capture, and may lynch him if their search is success ful. Darius Combell, brother of the hunted man, promised to deliver Combell to the posse if they would agree to protect him from' violence.1 Leaders of the posse agreed, but lat er Combell had not been, delivered. The crime which Combell is alleg ed to have committed occurred a month ago, but not until Thursday did the child inform her foster par ents of what is alleged to have oc curred. Hearing of her confession, Combell, it is said, fled to the for ests. LIGHTNING STRIKES AIRSHIP. -? While Flying Along High Up With One Man Aboard. While he was taking a cross coun try flLght Wednesday, near Barcelo na, Spain, Aviator Ehrmann's aero plane was struct by lightning and fell blazing to the ground. The aviator escaped uninjured, which is, regarded as almost miraculous. There has never been a more start ling aerial exhibition than that which Ehrmann's unwillingly afford ed and those who witnessed it could hardly believe their eyes when the airman emerged from the singed framework, none the wonte for his expedience. Ehrmann was sailing along at a moderate height when he got in the path of a sky bolt. In stantly the aeroplane was enveljped in flames, its canvas winds shrivel ed up and clinging to the skeleton of his craft. Brhmahn came down with a thud. districts in proportion to population, when the fact js considered that there are letter carries in Columbia, Sui'ter and OrangeHurg. Here Mi. Lever paused. "Want any more?" he asked. "No tell us a joke!" the crowd yelled. "Want any lumber?" he queried. The crowd gave the same answer, and Mr. Lever told them a joke. That Lumber Vote. Then he took up his vote on lum ber and defended it on the ground that the 6 per cent, ad valorem duty was tor revenue only. Canadian lumber, lie said, was chiefly affected and that a duty on it would not raise the priee of lumber in South Caro lina as the freight charges was so high that no Canadian lumber was ever shipped here. As a result of the duty $.1,000,000 would be put in the treasury of the United States Forty-two .Democratiu congressmen had voted with him for a duty on lumber. i$Ir. Lever brought his address to a close at 4.40 p. m. and the cam paign meeting was over iu Orange burg. 0 ?WO GENTS PER COPY HOW DID HE DIE? A Railroad President Shot to Deal! Mysteriously in His Home. SUICIDE OR MURDER Family Claim Burglar Did Shoot ing.?Possible Fraud implication and Fear of Disgrace Advanced as Theory for Suicide,?Dead Man's c Associates Not Surprised. Ira G. Rawn, president of the" Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville; Railroad (the Monon Route,) died' of a .bullet wound, at his summer residence in Winnetka, fifteen miles north of Chicago, early Wednesday morning. Members of Mr. Rawn's family say he was killed by a burglar. Thei police are working on a theory that Mr. Rawn killed himself. As a bas is of their siiicide theory, the police advance the following reasons: They point to the fact that Mr. Rawn was operating vice president of the Illinois Central Railroad at the time fraudulent car repair con tracts were put through and that recently he was drawn into the Il linois Central graft investigation as a chief witness. They saw that the action of Mr. Rawn's relatives in refusing to aid the Chicago detective department to search for the alleged murderer is suspicious. They declare that there exists a lack of convincing evidence that an Intruder had actually been in the Rawn residence. Mrs. Rawn, wife of the dead man; R. G. Coburn, his son-in-law; Mrs. Coburn and two children, and three maids were in the house when the tragedy occurred. Mrs. Rawn says that her husband was aroused from sleep at Laif past one o'clock iin the morn&g by & noise on the first floor of the resi dence. She says Mr. Rawn picked up a revolver in his room on the second floor and started down-stairs and was down in the hall when two shots were fired. A minutes search, of the front hall and adjoining rooms of the residence, however, show but I one bullet, that fired from the re volver of Mr. Rawn and which ap parently had passed through Mr. Rawn's body Jupt below the heart. Coroner Peter Hoffman took per sonal charge of the investigation in to the death. He refused to say whether he thought the case was one of murder or suicide. He stater1', hpwever, that powder marks hud been found on' Mr. Rown/s night gown, indicating that the bullet which killed Mr. Rawn was fired at close range. Friends and .business associates of the dead man say that he has been ' ?looking badly for several weeks Some attributed .Mr. Rawn's worried expression to the investigation of the conspiracy by which the Illinois Central claims it was mulched out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. This is now going on in court. On two successive days last week Mr. Rawn begged for and secured a postponement of his examination as a witness on the plea that his wife was ill. His examination was scheduled to be taken up again next Tuesday. Mr. Rawn left the Illinois Central Railroad in November, 1909, and be came president of the Monon. Early this Spring the Illinois Central fraud came to light. Though the investi gation is not in such shape that any criminal responsibility for the frauds is fixed, it is declared that the rep utation of some persons involved would be ruined and their future practically blotted out. At the first hearing before Master in Chancery Thomas J. Taylor, Jr., Mr. Rawn testified that the car re pair contracts all came under his supervision. He admitted that he was responsible for farming out the cars to the various repair commit tees. niu'g used vvos girl. By* An Unknown Intruder Into Her Home at Night. Fanny May Vryor. the fourteen year-old daughter of Owen W. Pryor, a prominent resident of Mobile, Ala., died early Wednesday from the ef fects of chloroform administered to the child Tuesday night by an un known intruder who succeeded in making his escape. The girl was found in an uncon scious condition by her mother in a room that was almost stifling from the effects of the drug. A man wearing a black shirt and black trousers was seen to jump the fence about 1.45 o'clock by Mrs. Pyor, but his "olor could not be distinguished. The entrance was made through a rear window. Examination by physicians who were summoned showed that the girl had not been assaulted, and why she was chloroformed can not be ex plained. The girl was sleeping with ?her little baby brother. Shot a Game Warden. Mrs. Frank Sfrout is in jail in Springfield. HI., on change of killing Deputy State Game Warden John O'Connor. She declares she has no regrets for the murder for the mam made objectionable advances to her.