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PUBLISHED TK ^ 333 ii Descents Publish Taeir fin&Bgs in the j mser Case. THEY FIND HIM GUILTY KepuMicaa Members of the Cvii* mitte? Refused to Take Part in Me? tine of the Committee, Rat ^Vill Issue a White Washing State rat^t_^.tter:Ttuef Meet. "That Richard A. Ballinger has | mot been true to the trust reposed In him as* Secretary of the- Interior, that he iaJlnot - deserving';, of public confidence, and that he should be required by the proper authorities to resign his~ office." ' ~The 'foregoing1 sums up the finding of the four Dem ocratic members of ? the B?lllnger Pinchot Congressional Investigating! committee, which were, made public flate Friday after they, held a meet-| ing at Minneapolis, iMinn. ; The.. Rephblican members issued ao report of any kind 'hearing oh' the j controversy. ' iAu " independent ' re-1 port was given out by Mr. Madison, the "Insurgent" Republican -from Kansas, which declares that . Mr. I Ballinger "should not be retain-1 cd that he. was an unfaithful trustee | of the people's interests and enemy of conservation." and that / the Charges of Gifford Pinchot should *be sustained. v; These findings will be printed anc\| filed with Coagress. The decision of the four Democratic members, an-'. Mr. Madison to make the reports ?piiblic followed a session which was unusual. Three Republican mem-j hers; Senator Sutherland, of Utah, and Representatives.McCall, of Mas sachusetts, and Denby, of Michigan, refusing to attend the meeting. Fi- j naily The chairman of the commit-1 tee, himself, Senator Nelson, of Min nesota, left the committee room and Jailed to return. Chairman Nelson gave notice that a meeting would be held in Chicago next Tuesday The Democratic mem bers adjourned to meet again iu . . Washington, December 3. Represen tative Ollle M. James, of Kentucky, I one of ;the Democratic members, an-1 ^nnce?-iiit .all jot the'Democrats, -would refuse to attend the meetings, ? ^r^htch^esmtor* Nelson -hau - just given notice. ' The Republicans will then be in the same "position that the Democratic "members and Mr. $Cadis6h found "themselves Friday. The report of the Democrats Is signed by Senators Duncan U. Flet cher, of Florida, and William Pur cell, of North Dakota, and Repre sentatives Ollie James,.of Kentucky, and James M. Graham, of Illinois It says: . "Summarized, the Democratic findings declare that the evidence! shows': v "That there was no conspiracy against Mr. . Ballinger. "That Giff?rd Pinchot and L. R. Glavis were faithful trustees of the | people's interests? "That Mr." Ballinger's conduct on) certain occasions was intended to! and'did have the effect of fooling; the President. - "That Mr. Ballinger's action in caving 'clearified'- these so-called | Cunningham Alaskan coal lands and | ordering them patented showed bad faith: \ "That he advocated a bill to vali date Alaskan coal claims alleged to oe fraudulent. ' "That his action in acting as at- j torney in cases pending in the land offices while he was commissioner was reprehensible. "That he helped to force the Cun-| ningharn coal 'claims to a hearing | Before the government was ready to j proceed. "That he encouraged subordina tion in the reclamation service and condoned improper official conduct in that connection." Numerous official acts of Mr. Bal linger are attacked. High praise is given Gifford Pinchot, former chief ) forester. andHL. R. Gl?vis. former j chief of the field division of thej general ]und office. r- Mr. 'Madison's conclusions are: "That the charges of Messrs. Gla Tis and Pinchot should be sustained. "That Mr. Ballinger has li*en un faithful to the' public interests. "That in the matter of the Cunningham co?>i lands he was -not j a faithfuY trustee of the people's- in terests. "That with regard to the reclama tion service he has taken action tend-! Jng toward' lts disintegration/* j Secretary Balllnger-s action in re storing water-power-* si tea without in tention to withdraw is also criticis ed, along with his conservation poli cy among other \ things. " A .resolution adopted by the Dem-1 ocratsTiad<-MV. Madison provides For J pubiic?tr?n^?f t?f'Bt?irngsv * 'Wheai Senator -Nelson 'left-the- committee,; Senator -Eleteixer.iras made chairman pro Ttwb" and" the menab^'ra" present j proceeded with their work. Earlier in the day an effort **a3 cw.de to secure a quorum, but' *ltn djjj^.<^sf^^iql Sleeman. of 'Wa?^ S]Bg*?tf;> 15: ]C:V'; s^rj^r^ 'of; ther'coBf-'* | l^rvctkk to ftW^tiAS -In. ther^was no power to do th}s:; lia^pr]] t?? rSfeolullon- authorizing the oom tefteeV1"'^'^'-^ vJ tES A WEEK. ;V60INS FOR TEDDY V ' ? K fyVELT HAS STIRRED UP A \ I HORNETS KEST SURE. Senator Lorimer's Friends Are De nouncing; the Ex-President and all J His Works. A Chicago dispatch says the Ham ilton Club, of that city, often called the "banner Republican club of the nation, is greatly-wropght up follow ing the Boosevelt-Lorimer incident .of, .Thursday. . Senator Lorimer has a host of I friends in the membership of the club, and from 'these men came) rumblings of revolt" All declared j they were anxious to rebuke Presi dent Batten: for ?ceptins Col. Roose velt's ultimatum regarding the ban-1 quet. The Senator's frends say jthoy are only waiting the cue from Mr. Lori mer and if he resigns his member ship from the clujb they will do flikewlse. So far he not given the word and has refused to talk on the BUbject. "Senator Lorimer's friends, with considerable effort, maintaned si lence when asked by the newspaper men for Interviews bearing on the I situation. They then relieved them-| selves by expressing their personal views on the incident and everything | Rooseveltian in word* extremely tor rid. Pr?sident Taft's meeting with Senator ' Lorimer when in Chicago ; last March, as the guest of the Ham ilton Club, is declared by members to have the Roosevelt move all the more unexpected. When President Taft -was here, Senator Lorimer was a conspicious guest at the various banquets and receptions, and the President eeem-| ed pleased to have the junior sena tor from Illinois close at hand. . Those c?ub members say that if the President of the nation dtd not feel ] there was any official impropriety in meeting the Senator in public, they did not apprehend that a private cit izen would consider it impossible to attend the same public function with the Senator*. . ?a? ?i ? STABBED WITH PENCIL. Jackie on Gunboat Hancock Is Kill ed. With Unusual Weapon. ( The stab of a lead pencil was tha i weapon which brought death Satur day night-to ^Albert'-Curren,. a jackie on th& gunboat Hancock. Curren had ^obtained a leave" 'of absence to ? visit-hia' sisters in Brooklyn. In a.| saloo'n near her home lie ii'ecame gaged with John Schmiac, an ac quaintance in a lively discuss on as to the merits of" the battleship? of Gerni?ny and the United States. Scbnitdt declares Gurren-'struck him.. Schmidt said he did not realize that he held a lead pencil in his clijched hand'1 when, resenting Curren's at1 taek ? he' Btruck back. The blow caught Curren on > the neck ani the J pencil pierced his. jugular' vein. MAY DIE OP FRIGHT. Murderer Falls jxuCourt. Ro^iu.Ue -: ' - r 1 r ' f ?' i fore Sentenced. % r'-'^v*V:'^'v>'. . . It. is possible that the negro Bunk Sherard;"*w&?* wa's^onvicted of klltr ing OfficerWaTdrop at Piedmont' may escape the'gaiiow-8.\Wheri. the,"ne gro: was brought'-in court at Green'; ville to be sentenced he fell in dead faint and' htB~"groans cause J the spectators to* believe'-.that the negro was in the1 throes'?'f deaths He waai carried 'from thl; roiirt room ?* > THSjj cell' in the corner jail and" b physi cian'^ has been, inl^lraost constant | attendance oh him. It se*ems the-ne gro was literally almost scared to death. The man is still unconscious and the court is in a quanda-v as to when he shall be sentenced. FATAL AUTOMOBILE SMASH. Compact With Electric Pole Resulic in Death of Two. Albert E. Hanna, aged 38. of Low ell.' Mass.. and Mrs. Fannie Reed, wife of Charles I. Reed, a manufac turer, of Nahant. Mass., were killed, and: Herman Stegeman, of Jamaica Plain, was slightly injured when an automobile, in which they were rid ing,-era sh'ed into an electric pc-le on the Nahant road, early Sunday. The bursting of the tires'on both wheels, which- ca^ed^Hanna,"The chauffeur, to lose control of the machine, while it was traveling at high speed, wap responsible for the arcident. Killed by FU1 rrom Buggy. At Florence Mattla Buchanan, a well known ne?ro woman, wife of a highly respected carpenter. w?s kill ed by being thrown from a bMggy. She was riding with another 'negro "woman. The horse took fright and ran away and the occupanU or the buggy were thrown, out. The ? Bu chanan woman was instantly killed by the breaking of t'.e base of the skull on the ha*d pavement. ? It waa said that the Republicans' bad remained away' rromythe meet ing because '-'the feared the posslbil- J Yty~tfiat"*tEe' action"of"the bemoe'rat jjg $&\&n-\j#$ Mr.'iMadlsbh; in Adopting: a rwolutlon urging'th"e'dls ?misaal of the ^Secretary and-condemn ing, hl? official' act. ip^t;^ rat-! !Wdv* r?* ? '?8$' ******* *? OK?NGEB?KG, FIRES IN THE STATE SPARKS AND LIGHTNING TWO GREATEST CAUSES. Some Interesting Data Furnished bjr; ' . - '? :.v Commissioner McMaster on the ? Subject. s j The following was given out Sat jurrflay afternoon Jby Commissioner : MdMaster: Fife' loss report, January to Sept. tember 1. 1910: Causes: Ash box on porch. 1 Ashes thrown in yard. 1 Automobile?originated in crank ing machine. 1 Burning trash in stove. 1 Burning trash in yard.. .... 3 Boiler house. 1 Burning soot.. .. ,. 3 Coals falling from grate. 22 Clothing ignited from open fire place. .. .. .. 4 Conflagration. 4 Curtain blowing in fire. 1 Combustion of fuel oll. 1 Defective flue..'. 44 Defective chimney. 16] Defective electric wiring. 6 j Drapery caught from lamp.... 3 Explosion of lamp. 23 Explosion of gasoline. 1 Explosion of oil stove. 7 Explosion of water pipe in stove 1 Explosion of overheated turpen tine.'. ..-. 1 Fireworks. 1 Gas jet. *S Gas escaping from lamp. 1 Gasoline light. 1 Gasoline stove. 1 Incendiary.. 11 In picker room. 21 Instantaneous heatet. 1 Ignition of gasoline. t'j Lighted match or cigar. 3 Lightning...... 61 Leakage In gasoline system.... 1 Metal in machinery. 8 Oveturned candle.. -.. 3 Overheated smokestack on side of building. 1 Overheated stove. .. 1 Proximity of lamp to*imirror.. . 1 Rubbish heap.. ... 1 Rats and matches. 18 Sparks on roof. .. .. 70 Sparks from chimney and flue.. 18 Sparks from electric motor in card room .. .'.'.. .. 3 Sparks from open fireplace. 21 Sparks from -train.'.'...... 3' Spontaneous combustion. 2 Woods (fire. .'..-'. . '2 Water slaking of Ihne. 1 Wind storm. 3 Unknown.4 70 _____ Total number of fires.858 Estimate of actual losses: January.. .?.% 26,699.94 \February...100.330.24 :March ... 113,888.36.. April.'. . .131,718.74 IMay. 78,520.02 June. 33,154.73 July.180,459.87 'August... 71.327.96? Estimate of actual loss. .$73 4.099.86 Resigns from Club. A terse note of resignation from the Hamilton Club, of which he had been a member many years, was the answer made uy United States Sena tor William Lorimer Sunday to the action of the club president, John H. Batten, in withdrawing his' invitation to the Roosevelt banquet Thursday night. The ' invitation' was,, with drawn at,the demand of Col Roose velt, who refused to attend a ban quet at which Senator Lorimer also; was a ?uest. Drowned in Collision. At St. Louis a man and a boy were drowned Sunday afternoon when the ferryboat Samuel B. Wiggins, of the Wiggins Ferry company, ran into and capsized the sailboat in which they were sailing on the Mississippi river. The sailboat in making a tack in un effort to escape another ferry, ran in front of the Wiggins and was smash ed. The bodies have not yet been re covered. Cuts Off His Queue. iPrince Tsai Tao, the chief of the [ Chinese military mission, who has spent two months in visiting America and the principal European countries has cut off his pigtail. The news was received with delight in Pekin, by the officers of the Chinese army, who feel sure that the prince, who is their commander-in "chief, means to give them permission to follow his example. Miners Have Fatal Full. John Little, aged 25. and R. L'. Davis, aged 22, miners In Burra Cop-"; per (Mine at Ducktown, Tenh.,! fell, 200 feet'from a ledge of the shaft | Saturday. s?;iklng a^ floor of solid rock. Their bodies were terribiy mangled. v"' '??*?'?' Governor's Daughter Killed.' Miss Florence Pardee,'the eldest] .daughter of ;.former Governor Par-.j dee, of California,'vas killed Sunday in an automobile'accident at CorteI Madeira/" The machfne went'over an enbankment'and' Miss "Pardee was throwh otit. "Beat Him Fa tally. While taking a shower bath with two white 'Insane patients at the. Philadelphia Municipal hospital, Geo. Hill, a negr<v .also insane, was set upon by the white men and given a beating from }*#hl?h*?ae' died' v*-'- 'V . S. C, TUESDAY, SEPT. Hie Worst Disaster ip toe History of Lake Michigan Happens. ' lW!$ people perish Ferry Boat Goes to Bottom When Half Way Across Lake.?Heroic Efforts of Crew to Prevent Catas trophe Unavailing.?Indescribable Scenes of Horror. ' Twenty-nine lives were lost near Ludington, Mdch., Friday when Pere Marquettq .car ferry No. 18, bound from Ludington to Milwaukee went to the bottom of Lake Michigan half way across the lake. The dead include Capt, Peter Golty* of Lud ington, S. F. Sezepanek,- of Chicago, purser and wireless operator, whose signals of distress brought assistance to the sinking steamer, ? and two menrbers of the crew of car ferry TCo. IT, who lost their lives in an effort to rescue the crew of No. 18. shrouded rin mystery. -F.- F. Pevln, cabin watch, said the boat was very low at the stern when the first alarm was given. He said they pushed 29 railroad cars into the lake to ease the vessel, but without avail. Sey mour C?chrane, of^Chicago, another survivor, said he was reading a mag azine in his berth wbett a cabin boy rapped' at the door about 4:30 a. m. and shouted that; the bow was sink ing. Cochrane. floated on a cabin door until picked up by No. 17. The purser had given him SI,000 which was due Cochrane^-employers after they had delivered the .boat to the Pere Marquette company, they hav ing leased'her all summer. But Cocn rance could net load himself down with tie coin and?tied the money to the stairB. rail as the boat went down. ?: is . Many of the life boats were stove in 'by wreckage, tumbling in every direction on the tossing sea, the oc cupants of the , small boats being thrown in the water and many drowned. The sum total of the catastrophe is told in the fatal figures, 29 lives lest and the. financial loss amounts to So'OOvOOO. j The story of the- loss of car ferry No. 18 constitutes Lthe most tragic and thrilling chapter yet written in the history of Lake Michigan ma rine. Leaving Ludington Thursday night at 11.30 with a fair but stiff wind and 29 cars loaded on deck, j the ferry made good weather for five [ hours on its course to Milwaukee. At 4.45 word was sent to C&pt. j Peter Colty that his boat was rapidly making water and that the pumps 'were unable to keep even with the inflow. Wll full confidence In the stability and seaworthiness of his craft the veteran car ferry navigator headed his ship with all speed to Sheboygan on the Wisconsin side. The pumps were worked to their fullest capacity and all expedients known to a skilled and resourceful mariner resorted to. ? But despite every effort the ter rible fact dawned upon the captain and on all on board that the boat was gradually bi^t surely sinking. An effort was. made to run a num ber of .railroad cars overboard and thus ?ghten the load and gain a few precious minutes. With great diffi imlty*nine were dropped off the stern of. No. 18, but this gave the vessel ' only-.slight and temporary relief. The: ship was doomed. Yet, not withstanding this important fact and in the hope of saving both crew and craft, the captain crowded his ship to the utmost limit hoping to reach shoal water. The effort was futile. At 7.20 Friday morning time came when the boat's bouyancy was no longer sufficient to sustain it. Sud denly without warning and before the horrified gaze of 50 men on hoard ferry No. 17, which had just arrived on the scene in response to a distress signal, the big .black bow of the ship rose high in the air, the stern settled swiftly toward the bot tom and with a roar and crash like an explosion the ship shot downward and was lost to view. The horrified onlookers on num ber 17 stood for a moment speech less and petrified. There among the surging waves were fellow beings struggling for their lives. Agoniz intg cries for help were heard above the sea. All was. confusion, indes-1 scribable, terror and chaos. In a twinkling 29 lives were snuffed out and sixty strong men were precipi-J tated into a death trap as cruel as it was hopeless. ? Then began the rescue. Lower ing one of her lire -boats, contain ing four sailors the crew of Number >17' began a work which marks many of: thorn--as heroes. No sooner Jiad,; the tiny-boat touched, the angry wav es than it :w?s hurled , with terrific force against the side of the Steel pteamer and crushed- to a '.ah ape less mass. Two of the sailors were rescued by those on board while the other two. Jos. Uetersen and R. Jacob son, a scrubber, immediately stalk and drowned. After this incident it it said that the men were loath to enter the small boats, but others ol greater courage' manned 'another, which' was successfully' launched'. ?'This boat;- In' charge" of? Duncan ?M-ilHgan. of Ludington. didc-'h$rbficr EJMBER 13, 1910. QUITS THE RACE GOV. PATTERSON WITHDRAWS FROM CONTEST. | The Bitter Fight Against Him Ends With His Returning His Nomina tion to the Party. Gov. M. R. Patterson, of Tennes see, withdrew from the race to suc ceed himself on Saturday night, When he Issued a long statement from Nashville announcing the fact. Governor Patterson was the nomi nee of the regular faction of the Democratic party and has been bit terly opposed by the * independent State-wide prohibition Democrats, who, in coalition with the Republi cans, elected a State judiciary last month, defeating a ticket for which Governor Patterson made a strenu ous campaign of. the State. On Wednesday, the 14th instant, the independent Democrat is meet in Nashville in State convention, a ma jority of the delegates going instruct ed to vote for the endorsement of. B. W. Hooper, the Republican nomi nee for Governor. Governor Patterson, in his ad dress announcing his withdrawal, de clares he will not be an obstacle in the way of his party'B success at the polls nor will he willingly con tribute in any way to the possibil ity of success of the Republicansvin Tennessee. ?He withdraws in the interest of harmony' and that Democratic fac tions may get together to prevent the loss of the State in November. He make3 reference to interference of a Republican President in Ten nessee politics. Hn an interview following the is suance of the statement, Governor Patterson declares that he has ho personal preference in the matter of a Democratic nominee and that he will take the stump for him, who ever, he may be. Patterson's ?political career has been a stormy one, including his de feat of former Senator E. W. Car mack:,' for the gubernatorial nomi nation In a sensational campaign, followed by the killing of Carmack ?by the Coopers, their trial, which at tracted1 national attention, and' Pat terson's pardon of D.-ff. Cooper with in a few minutes after his conviction was sustained by the Supreme Court. FALLING ROCK KILLS NINE. Ten Others Injured at Mouth of Old Erie Tunnel. lAt least nine laborers were killed outright Sunday and ten others ser iously injured, in the. collapse of an overhanging shoulder of rock above the western mouth of the old Erie tunnel, under Bergen Hill, N. Y. The collapse was directly be icath .the edge of the Hudson Boulevard, which, at that point, runs along the inner line of Bergen Hill. Thous ands lined the boulevard all after noon, peering down at the wo'.-i of I removal. ?For seveu years the Erie has been working at the giganjtlc task of carv ing an open cut for its passenger trains through the solid rock of Ber ? geri-Hill, which In some spots, is 300 feet high. The cut was opened for travel':not long, ago, but there sMl I remains the task of hewing a com mon portal for the old tunnel and the new cut. They Were Drowned. According to men landing at Old Point Comfort from the battleships, the three men who met death aboard I the North ? Dakota were not killed | by the explosion of oil as a*, first re ported, but were'drowned'when Are room No. 13 was flooded to pr*\cr:t the spread of the flames and th? ex plosion of the magazine jocated just over the Are. ? Wife's Hatpin I>ld It. Frank Osborne, of Whippany, X. J., wilt lose the sight of his eye as the result of an acidental encounter with a hatpin. Osborne was adjusting the hatpin for his wife when it slip ped, the sharp end piercing his eye ball. ! work and in less than an hour pick ed up 14 survivors, who were float ing about clinging to bits of wreck age, then another life boat was man ned and joined In the work. It was a race for time and more than thirty were saved. Meanwhile the tug A, C. Tessler, of Milwaukee, car ferry No. 20, Pere Marquette steamer No. fi and a t?g from "Shebbygan' towing the ~Sh'eboy-' g'an life saving crew arrived bh the scene. They" Instituted a thorough search for survivors and bodies and succeeded In picking up' seven of the former and eight of the latter. " The cause of the disaster may al ways remain a mystery. The ' men who know- whaf the trouble was are a&t dead and among the' survivors there are only two theories and speculations. The best conclusion | seems that the car ferry's after wat er compartment filled through on j open or"broken' deadlight which was followed at the last minute by a I bursting of bulkheads. r'.., his'first assistant.' Chretuspec-dirtsec "?Chief Engineer Ross': Leedham and'his first 'assistant. Chas. Rosen-: c'rans,''dfeti-at their po?t?' In tn? en gine- roolm '?' - ??" ' ?* STOLEN IN TRANSIT LEAD SUBSTITUTED FOB GOLD ON BOARD STEAMER. The Seals of the Boxes Were Intact and How the Metal Was Stolen is a Mystery. Gold bullion valued at $57,500, part of a consignment of $170,000 from the 'Washington-Alaskan bank of Fairbanks to Dexter Horton Na tional hank of Seattle, on the steam ship Humboldt; was Sunday stolen in transit: Lead was substituted in the strong box. Discovery of the theft was an nounced Sunday. The stolen gold weighed 250 pounds. When it left Fairbanks on a Youkon river steamer for Daws'on and Whitehorse, the gold was contained in three wooden boxes and was in the care of the Alaska Pacific Express company. When the boxes were opened by''the Canadian customs officers at Dawson the gold bars were found to be, as stated, in the express company's papers.' The boxes were opened again at, the United States assay office in Seattle Friday noon and the theft discovered. One contained pigs of lead instead of gold. The seals of the boxes were intact when th>y reached the assay, office and it was evident that the robbery had been committed on board ship. The gold was insured against loss by the ex press company. ? RETURNED BY KIDNAPPERS. As Much Mystery Surrounds Keau pearanee as Disappearance/? Little Michael Scinieca, the S^year old son of Dr. Michael Scimeca, a prominent Italian physician, is now ; safely in the hand of his relie ves i in New York after having been held for nearly three, months a cap'iva by "black hand" kidnappers. Td} ab ductors of-the hoy. .hjtyje so -fur es caped the police drasnet. [ Much myster.' surrounds the- cir cumstances of the c ii'd's re-ip.ipau ance. It was paid that a telephone ?message was received that littie Michael .would be found wa'k Ls on. Fifty-fifth street. The boy u.tered a cry of joy .when he say hid rela tives and was soon snugly wrapped up in a carriage' and ohVthe way to P.etrellas'. Dr.' Scimeca's ..father- in .law,.Brooklyn, home, Michael Scimec? was spirftod away from his parents' home on Juu> 17. Shortly afterward demands fo.' large sums, for his ransom began to pou-; in on his well-to-do father through the mail and in mysterious telephone messages. Threats that the bny 'boy would be killed also were re ceived and his parent were in an ?agony of terror lest ham would come to him. , ? ? *> THE WAGES OF SIN. Bad Fellow Jumps in Front of a Moving Train. At Gainesville. Ga., Louis Farmer,1 aged 25, hurled himself in front of a fast Sourthern train, on- which was' Mrs. P. D. Hooper, being escorted back to their horhe'in Lahrens, S. C. by her husband, who had followed his wife and Farmer to Gainesvill*1. IFarmer was ground to death" by the ilocombtive. Farmer and' Mrs. Hoop er went to Gainesville Saturday^ Mrs. Hooper's husband arriving on the next , train. : Shortly after the hus band's arrival-an officer with a war rant found Farmer and Mrs. Hoop er. Mr. and Mrs. Hooper hoarded the Southbound train Sunday Tor their home. Farmer walked down the track a quarter of a mile and when the train aproached jumped in front of the locomotive. Leprosy A boa rd Trai n. John Kokas, a grefk, In an ad vanced stage of leprosy, who has been under quarantine at Salt La'.ie City for the last three months, was missing Friday from the tent in which he has been quarantined and it was learned that he had taken a train on Wednesday evening intend ing to go to New York and thence to Greece. Funds for the journey were provided by his countrymen. Friends would not divulge the route he has taken. * Commends Roosevelt. Commending Ex-President Theo dore Roosevelt's course in refusing to sit at the same table with United States Senator William Lorlmer of Illinois at the Hamilton club ban quet in Chicago Thursday night, Wil liam Jennings Bryan , said that the former President's action would ele vate society and politics to a .mark ed degree. Killed by Lightning Stroke. Quince Bo wen, 12-year-old' son of Sid 'Bowen, -was killed Sunday after noon by lightning at Eastman, Ga. He and hl9 tittle brother were stand ing "under a mulberry itree when struck. The Btroke* rendered the other boy unconscious but. it is be; Ueved that they' will recover. Costs Big Sum. For the Democratic nomination for the governorship" of Georgia the expenses:of'Hbke Smith was $17,955, according to an itemized expense ac count filed with the comptroller gen eral of'th'e auite-' Brown'spent near lrfi.'ooo:" - ' [?wo cents p a a Q)^I STERN REALITY Ine Skeptical SbaJd Eni erteil jb fa ther Docks Aboat DREAD HYDROPHOBIA 1 ? ? . Report of Public Health Serrice, ot % Federal Government Says Disease , Is no "Respector of Season nosf*" Speeles of Mammal."? Certain Mad Dog Fallacies Repudiated. Hydrophobia is a reality and Is a respector of no particular season nor species of mammal, says a public health service report,, issued Satur day from Washington; A. M. Stim'son.lts author, repudi ates certain mad__dog fallacies and advices those, .sceptical of the exist ence of such audisease as rabies to have their -'dOubts dispelled ?.t a scientific laboratory. This, .eport from Surgeon General Wyman's bu reau admits rabbles may not uni formly be fatal, though It is almost so. ' ; Pasteurization generally prevents development. "We do know," saya the report, "that artificially ?mmun fty c?ir be conferred du'jlrig the us ual incubation period. The possibil ities of anti-rabies serum have not ?been exhausted by trial. It deserves further investigation, but our pres ent data does" hot warrant us to ex pect very much benefit from this source. Despite discouraging results of past experiences st cure by drugs* continued efforts to find an effectual remedy are weighed, the most prom ising line of investigation appearing "to be based, not upon the phsioligi cal action of the drug, but upon its . action upon the parasite." .Mad dogs are not always wild eyed and frothing at the mouth and determined upon the. attacking of every person they meej. The report contends that whep the attack first begins to develop dogs are frequent ly more playfully inclined; "the rab id dogs is sick; he is not necessarily running Wild .and furious; he is fre quently Obedient up to a late stage, and often seems to. have a bone in his throat, or to have sustained in jury to the back." .,- - Another fallacy is the general be lief that rabid dog Is sick; he is not necessarily in the summer than in other months. The explanation is that more people are moving abort and become subject to attack. Nor is the malady confined to any cii-. mate or region. It Is likely to oc cur in the Artie or the equatorial jungles. Dogs, wolves, coyotes and. skunks seem to be especially suscep tible. But not even with the canine tribe is the disease of spontaneous origin. This fact renders isolation or de-, struetiori ineffective; elimination of infected animals is the only -sure preventive. In this way Great Brit ain has eradicated the distemper. "If all rabid dogs could be prevented from biting other animals," says the report, "rabies would within a year be a historical cusiosity of medicinee. an illegitimate field of research for the investigator in pure pathology, 'a plaything for the controversialist." The mad-stone and chicken breasts at cures for the madness are ar raigned as real dangers because they frequently prevent people from seeking other remedies. Lastly, human hydrophobiacs do not seek to bite other persons. The average period of incubation is a little over ten weeks, but in some persons the effect of a mad dog's bite is not manifested for more than a year. * Paid Her Good Sum. The Southern Railway has com promised with Mrs. Martha Wyatt, who lives in Cherokee county, in the sum of $10,000. It will be remem bered that some months ago the New Orleans Limited on the Southern struck a wagon in which "Tude" Wyatt and two of his sons were rid ing. The father was instantly kill ed and both sons were injured. Hog Nearly Kills Baby. Near Fullerton, La., a passerby rescued the baby of Mrs: S. S. Me Collough just as a large hog was aibout to crush it to death with its tusks. Mrs. iMcCollough had sent her small son .into the yard to play with the baby and the boy left it momentarily when the bog sougnt to make a meal of it. ; -. ? ? ?. Poike Inspector Killed. A native police inspector. Sarat Chandra, was shot and probably fa tally wounded Friday 'at Dacca, British India, where a number of young Indians are on -trial'for con spiracy against the (^government. The assailants of the 'inspector aro youths of good families. ? . declared Ineligible. At a meeting of the Graenvti'o County democratic committee Cap* John G. Greer, who was elected *? the legislature in the first primary. Was. declared . ineligible because of the-fact-that; he<f?iledto ?leespen-.* account ;qn the, da? before tho el*j tion. John k. Harrison wU'<r*eetftr ?ed elected in his stead.