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VOL. XXIII MANNING, S. C. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1909 NO.25 FEAR A RACE WAR Many idle Negroes Are Arrested Because of Attacks on YOUNG WHITE GIRLS Reign of Terror in Herron Hill Dis trict Causes Police to Decide to Arrest All Negroes Without Visi ble Means of Support-Releness Crusade to Stamp Out Crimes. Pittsburg, Feb. 3.-At the Cea'ral police station here today 126 negroes arrested last night and today, fol lowing a carnival of erime against young white girls in the Herron Hi! district recently, were given hear ings before Magistrate Brady. For ty-.hree t. the negroes proved to the court that they lave honest employ ment and were discharged. in spits of many threats of armed resistance upon the part of negroes if the police continue their whole sale arrests of members of their race without employment in the Herron Hill district of the city, no outbreak of any kind has occurred up to late tonight. Of course these threats -will have no effect on the authorities. Following the wholesale arrests last night from now on large forces of officers will be stationed over the entire Herroi Hill district and stren 1cous efforts will be made to stam ont the many assaults on young wo me.' Indignation is high against this chaa acter of crime and the au thorities have decided to arrest ev ery negro who has no- visible means of support or who is known to be a user of drugs. During the evening three were taken to police stations, and it is anticipated that tonight many others will be arrested. No furiher attacks upon women or girls has bcjo repox t ed since. last -night, and should one occur, the temper of citizens is such that violence very probably wold be meted out to the assailant If caught. Men and women throughout the section involved are carrying revolv ers, and. the negroes are said to be well armed also. Should a clash come, as is considered not at all imi probable if more arrests are made, the .esult would be serious. Local orators are inflaming the negroes to resistance, and the feeling is high. Forty-two were fined todr.y in amounts varying from $5 or ten days in jail to $25 or thirty days in the workhouse and forty-one were heid over pending further investi -gations. - The police are of the opin -1ion that the terrible criminal acts of othe negroes are the work of 2 -few degen~erate cocaine fiends. Thit. character of negroes together with -those who shirk work and -frequent pool rooms, are. to .be taken intc custody as soon as located. This afternoon a large number of negroes are indulging in much rabid etalk~ -There is talk of race riots and bloodshed. It 'is said that -the ne groes are arming themiselves. Ac cording to rumors. should the au thorities decide- to make another raid on the ne'groes armed resiatance will 'be offered by them. The police. -however, seem to have the situatior ~ ell in hand and probably will not make further indiscriminate arrests Of the negroes arrested last night. 'thirty-nine were iined, most of them going to- the work house, and' two. Mack McGee and Edward Armstead * were held over, for further evidence. having been partly identified as per' petrators of one of the attacks or girlIs..- It is said that during the 15asi *month over a dozen girls have beer assaulted in the Herron Hill district This will give some idea of the statt of affairs. -NEGRO INSULTED GIRL. Serious Trouble Narrowly Averted in Pittsburg Quarter. Pitsburg, Feb. 5.--The first se rious trouble growing out of the police crusade against the negroes who hsave terrorized the Herron Hill district by frequently assaulting young white girls, was narrowly averted last night.' -John Moulton, a negro, was ar rested on the charge that he had annoyed a white girl and acosted her with ":God evening, sweetheart, ain't aint' you going to kissome?" . The negro was arestedaand while being taken to the -licle station .a brother of the girl attempted to get him away from, the offcers. The young man struck at the negro and threatened to shoot him. -A lar-ge crowd gathered and fora time it was- believed that the negrc would . receive rough treatment, bul -he was landed in the police station He was sentenced to six .. -,nths ir the workhouse. About s- og -Fight. Huntsville,. Aa., -Feb. 1.-Stev .Bridges and-Mlex Locke. brothers in-law and wi~nknown farmers, en gaged in a -bod? fight near Jeff Ala., today. -Tocke was chopped i3 the back with an axe and will di< before night. Bridges telephonet that he would come in and surrend er. The difficulty arose over a do; fight. ied by Tornado. Birmingham, Feb. 5..-Report have reached here that a tornad strouck Booth. Miss., this mornini killing six people and destroyin much property. Particulars of th storm a meagre. HASKELL INDICIED HE IS CHARGED WITH CONSPIR ACY TO DEFRAUD The Government in the Town Lot Case-Six Others Are Indicted With Him. Muskogee, Okla., Feb. 4.-S'even indictments were returned by the federal grand jury here last night in the town lot alleged fraud inves tigation, the charge being conspiracy to defraud the gov'ernment. The names of those indicted are: Gov. Charles N. Haskell, F. B. Severs, A. Z. English, C. W. Turner, W. T. Hutchings, Jesse W. Hill and Walter R. Eaton. Attorney Thomas H. Owen, of Muskogee, representing Governor Haskell made arrangements for the governor to enter his appearance on Friday and give bond in the sum of $5,000 for appearance for trial. The writs issued are returnable forthwith. Governor Haskell is at Guthrie. There is but one indictment against him. It charges conspiring with Walter R. Eaton and Clarence W. Turner to defraud the government. There are two indictments against Turner and one each against the others indicted. Walter R. Eaton, one of the men indicted, Is the secretary of the In dianola Contracting Company, of which. Governor Haskell is president, and which it is alleged scheduled the names of many "dummies" to secure town lots. Fifteen of the wealthiest men in Muskogee called at the office of the United States marshal and signed Governor Haskell's bond for $5,000. Many more asked to be allowed to sign it. Governor Haskell when informed that he -vas indicted issued the fol lowing statement to The Associated Press: "I have just heard of the indict ment for conspiracy coupled with seven or eight of the oldest and high est charactered citizens in Muskogge, who developed and built up that country by their unselfish effort. From now on, the proceeding will be open to both sides. "Hearst's crooked manipulations will be at a discount. - "I am satisfied that the interior lapartment has been misled by false statments. I am confident there 'ias not been a dishonest act done by ,ny of the indicted parties and that good citizens in general regardless ->f politics feel the same way. (Signed) '"C. N. HASKELL." TILIMAN'S FIGHT SUCCESSFUL Leading Republican Says Cram Will Not Be Confirmed. Charleston, Feb. 6.--The Evening Post says Crum will not be confirm ed at this session. The Post sa its Washington correspondent gets this important information from a leading Republican Senator. Wheth er Mr. Taft will reappoint Crum to te conlectorship is problematical. There is some talk 'that Crum might be appointed recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia, a posi tion which for years has been held by a negro, or he might be appoint ed register of the treasury. The Post's Washington correspon dent says the Republicans would vote to confirm Cium, but if the Democrats continue to debate the confirmation as they have !done, then because of pressure of other important matters the confirmation will not be passed by the Republi ans to the exclusion of other busi ness which means that there will be no vote on the nomin:. >n this ses No combination has been made rrith the Republicans because it is 'ot necessary. It is known that Mr. f'aft would like the Crum case dis posed of but it can not be done for want of time, and so it will go over. * TERRIBLE ACCID)ENT. ineteen People Drowned in a Laike in Italy. Rome, .Feb. 4.--Word has jus: 'een received from Vercurago, in thc istrict of Lecco, of a drowning ac ident, in which nineteen people per. hed. The wife of Signor LongOne. he proprietor of one of the larg 3t silk factories in, the district, wa~ king sixteen of the girls employ& 1 her husband's mill on a trip t. he famous San Gennaro sanctuary. hen the barge in which they were receeding began to leak. The girls ecame panick-strickten and in their truggles upset the boat. All were rowned, including two workmet rom the factory who were rowing -he barge. Town Under Water. Chico. Cal., Feb. 4.--The town oi Pehma, which had 600 inhabitant! s under 15 feet of water. The Sou hern Pacific railroad operator al ' ehama junction, half a mile fron: he town, says that the depot is gonlA tnd a bicek of houses has been wash 2 d away. The houses are fioating ofeet above the city's streets. Commits Suicide. , Medham, N. J., Feb. ::.-Jhn Gil -.er Speed, the author and journal tcommitted suicide by shootini .'iimself in the head while in his be< .sroom at the Phoenix House here tc 0day. He left no explanation of hi ~,act. He leaves a daughter gMrs. Dudley Gray, of Morristowr eMr. Speed was a grand nephew c *o eats th noet. TEDDY'S SPIES Sent Out t; Mannfacture Testi mony Against Men That HF COULD NOT BOSS An Arizona Man Files Sensational Statement With Senator Clay. Says an Eiort Was Made to In volve Senator Morgan in a Timber Scandal-Perjured Evidence Used. Washington, Feb. 6.-L. S. Wil liams, the Arizcna man who came to Washington to press charges against the secret service and who claims that his room at the Raleigh hotel was entered Sunday night and valu able papers taken, has filed with Sen ator Clay, a member of the investi gating committee, a sensational statement enumerating his charges against secret service agents. The statement revolves around the conviction of E. B. Perrin, a mil lionaire land owner and sheep rais er of Arizona, for conspiracy against the government, but, according to Williams, the original purpose of pressing the house was a groundless and unsuccessful effort to implicate the late Senator John T. Morgan, of Alabama, in a scandal involving a large tract of valuable timber lands in California. Williams charges also that the de partment of justice has made an investigation since the conviction of Perrin which completely vindicates him of conspiracy and shows that the convictik- was sceured by un questionable means. The report of this investigation, Williams claims, will not be divulged by Attorney General Bonaparte. Senator Clay will lay the state ment of Williams before the inves tigating committtee if he can get a meeeting. He states that the in vestigation has been delayed by Sen ator Galliger, whose time for the present is required by the consider attion of business of the District of Columbia. Another of Williams' charges is that E. H. Harriman obtained several years ago a vast tract of land in Utah by the same means as Perrin contemplated using. The lands were patented to the Harriman interests, by claims under the Hitchcock ad ministration. Subsequently, when there was talk of an investigation, the Harriman people deeded the lands back to the government and and there were no prosecutions as in the case of Perrin, whose methods were identical. The prosecution of Perrin grew ut of a transaction he contemplated with John A. -Benson, of San Fran cisco, involving sixteen thousand acres of timber land in California. When the government investi gated the case prior to Perrin's .in dictment, Inspector George C. Hunt advised against a prosecution. In his report was- an affidavit by C. P. Snell, a secret service agent, who was previously in Perrin's employ as a lawyer. and this affidavit set forth. that .Ferrin remarked to Benson, the alleged conspiracy that he- (Per rin) had great influence at Washing ton with Senator Morgan, and that he could get him to assist in geting the lands. The first question asked Perrin by Inspector Hunt was: "How much money had been paid Senator Mor gan by Perrin," and for what pur pose had it been paid, according to Williams' statement. Eight months later Secret Service Agent William J. Burns appeared before the fed eral grand jury and declared that he was just from Oyster Bay, and that President Roosevelt wanted Per rn indicted." Snel!'s affidavit, in which Senator Morgan was mentioned, grew out of a conversation which he overheard between Perrin and Benson, in which the former spoke of the Alabama senator only as a friend and not as a legal adviser, and the impression conveyed was not -justified, accord ing to Williams, and was malicious. In this connection the Arizona man states verhally that the inves tigation grew out of a desire on the part of the president to implicate Morgan been use of Morgan's persis ent fight against the Panama Canal. It is charged by Williams that the records of the secret service will show that about $4,000 was paid to Snell by the government and his only services consisted of testimony against Perrini. Snell had previous to his employ mnt by the secret service been Perrin's lawyer. The statement charges that Snell's sworn evidence against Perrin on trial of the case bas since been proven by Snell's confession to have been perjured. Williams claims that in spite of Snell's confession to perjury, the government refuses to indict him for the offense. He claims that Perrin was notified only last week in San Francisco at the door of the grand jury room that no indictment would be returned against Snell, unless it was ordered by Attorney General Bonaparte. nlo matter what evidence might be submitted. This state ment, he claims was made by As sistant District Attorney A.. P. Black. Williams' statement is subdivided -under nineteen heads, and after each allegation he cites references, letters, Saffidavits and court records to sub lstantiate them. If thie investigation -committee goes into the matter, much time will be required to in vestigate the citations unless Wil lams has certified copies of all the frecords as he claims he have in the ae at Raleigh hotel.* SUNDAY LUNCHES THE HOUSE REFUSED TO INTER FERE IN MATTER. Sabbath Observance Given as the Principal Reason for Voting the Bill Down. Columbia, Feb. 5.-The Rucker bill to prohibit any city or town to make it unlawful to sell lunches on Sunday had another fight and was finally killed by a vote of 68 to 48 by the house yesterday. When third reading bills were reached Mr. Richards moved to re commit the bill. He said he knew it was unusual but he felt he would be doing himself and those who be lieved in Sabbath observance an in justice if he did not protest against such a bill. The legislature had not the right to enforce a law of that kind on towns that might want to prohibit lunch selling on Sunday. Mr. Rucker said his bill simply allowing a hungry man to get s:mnie thing to eat when he traveled on Sunday. He had no patieacs with the smug believer in Sabbath observ ance who denied a lunch to the trav eler while enjoying a hot dinner at home. Mr. McMahan said it was dang erous to meddle with local police regulations. It would not be just, for instance, to sa.y to a strict re ligious community like Due West that it should have the same local rdinances as Columbia. The entire principle, was wrong. The bill on an aye and nay call was accordingly 'illed. The Vcte. The vote on t'.he motion of Mr. Rihcards to recommit the bill was as follows: Ayes-Messrs. Amick, Bodie, Dow e. Bowman, Brice, W. D. Bry kn, Bunch, Cantrell, Carey, Car rigan, Carter, Carwile, Celey, Clary, Daniel, Dick, Dingle, E. C. Edwards, Fraser, J. P. Gibson, W. J. Gibson, Graham, Green; Greer, Hall, Hamer, Harmon, J. R. Harrison, Wade, C. Harrison, HInes, Horger, Hydrick, Lane, Lawson, League, Lee, Leng nick, McColl, McEachern, McKeown, IcMahan, Miann, Mauldin, Mosley, 'icholson, Niver, Nunne-ry, Richards, Ridgell, G. M. Riley, D. C. Sanders, carborough, Seibels, B. A. Shuler, imkins, Singleton. Chits. A. Smith, NI. L. Smith, Spears, Stanley, Stubbs, Jared D. Sullivan, Suydam, Utsey, Vaughan, Way, W'ingo, Wyche-68. Nays-Messrs. Joshua W. Ashley. Melvin J. Ashley, Ayer, Berg, Brown, Browning, F. M. Bryan, Coker, Cos grove, Dixon, Doar, Duvall, Isaac. Edwards, Foster, Fultz, Garris, Gasque, Glasscock, Griffin, Hollis. Hughes, Ir!y, Jackson, Kibler, Lee land, -Mars, Mobley, Nesbitt, Pat terson, Pauling, W. L. R~iley, Robert son, Roessler, Rucker, 0. L. San ers, Sawyer, C. T. Shuler, K. P Smith, P. P. Sullivan. Tobias, Wade, Wells, Whatley, Wiggins, Williams. 0. A. Wilson, W. B. Wilson, Jr., Wright-48. FIRE DRAWS NEAR And Residents of Ilttsburg Are in Great Fcar. Pittsburg, Feb. 3.--A fire burning for forty years in the depths of a coal mine in West Liberty, now in the new Nineteenth w;ard will be fought by the Pittsburg fire depart ment in an effort to save two houses which are threatened. Besides fear ing for the safety of their property, a the snmouldering fire creeps closer .ave asked Director of Public Works dward G. Lang for aid. Assistani 'ire Chief James Connelly, after at vestigation yesterady said tha1 while the danger did not appear tc e immediate, action would be tak .n by the department. Three years ago a man who went to sleep on th< warnm earth above the fire was over ome by gas fumes. STARING FAMILY IS FOUND. Fther Placed in Ja-il for Stealini Bread for Children. New York, Feb. 3.--So weak frori .ck of food that they could scarce y walk, a mother and four childre: rcre found in a house at Corona '. I., by an agent of the Society fo he Prcvention of Cruelty to Child The woman's husband, Michac Lumbard, is confined in the Queen county jail, unable to provide $20 )ail after being arrested on a charg of stealing bread. Both lhe and hi wife were arrested with twent eaves in their possession, but th charge against the woman was nc 9ressed. With her husband in jail, th mother had no means of providin for herself and children, and the were in a pitable light when visitei The children were sent to the roon of the society, while neighbors pr< vided food for the mother. CHILD) KILLED BY LION. MIothr, in Despair, Almost Throv Herself on Beast. Balboa, Cal.. Feb. 1.-H~er tw year-old boy killed by a huge mou tat lion and the sight of the fier beast devouring one of his le? whic i: had torn from the soe t gregeted Mrs. Chris Brown wh they engred the family tent, a ft a short 'walk last evening. Wh the motb~ realized what had tak. place shs sereamed and almost thre herself on Ethe lion, which growl savagely agd disappeared sloty Ithrough the 'rear of the etut, carr ,n amcthu of flesh in its teel TNREE LIVING WIVES SENSATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS IN NEW JERSEY CASE. A Twelve-Year-Old Boy Recognized His Father's Picture in a News paper. Newark, N. J., Feb. 4.-There were sensational developments todi.y in the case of Frank Wilhelm, the contractor who was found murder ed in his home here Monday. Te revelations include the charge that Wilhelm had three wives living, and that he had never been divorced. Another occurrence of interest was the action of the police in sud denly bringing Mrs. Mary J. Wil helm ard Nicholas fEicca, a boarder in the Wilhelm homc, both held in connection with the murder, into the presence of the body of the murder ed man. Mrs. Wilhelm, though she became 1 hysterical, withstood the test fairly well, but Sicca was so disturbed that his arraignment in court, set for to day, had to be postponed. Mrs. Frederick Wilhelm, of New i York, claimed she was married to ( Wilhelm in Jersey :City in 1894, < soon after he had deserted.his first I wife, Hannah H. Wilhelm, who was also his step-sister. Two years later, she said,~she discovered his -perfidy. When she accused him, he deserted her, she alleged, and her year-old t daughter and a baby soon to be born, and fled with his step-sister wife. . t Since then she had not heard from I him until ,the child, then unborn, and now a lad of 12 years, read of his murder in a newspaper Tuesday. and recognized his picture in the paper as that of the man whose pic ture, in their home, he had been told was his father. Mrs. Frederick Wilhelm does not know what be came of Hannah Wilhelm. Mrs. Frederick Wilhelm and her sister, Mrs. Maria Armater, of New York, fainted at Wilhelm's bier to- 1 day, while the funeral was in prog- j ress, and when, as they declared, they identified the dead man as the husband of Fredericka Wilhelm. The last named fell dramatically across the coffin in a complete state of colapse while her siter slipped to the floor in a faint. Mrs. Mary J. Wilhelm, the wife now held in connection with the murder.. was not permitted to attend the funeral, although she had re quested permission to do so. * 3NISTER WfHPPED On the Streets by a Big, Burley Woman. Oklahoma City, Okla., Feb. 6. The Rev. Jas. P. Peden, pastor of the Coweta Baptist .church, was i horse-whipped in Main street by Mrs.1 L. J. Charlton, who accused him of making disparaging remarks about: her. Mr. Peden was carried away Saeding and unconscious. ~Mrs. Charltn waited at the postoffice with a long black snake whip hidden in the folds of her skirt. The minis ter wa~s unable to protect himself from her blows and. the assault, which was witnessed by a crowd was not stopped untul the police inter fered.* RETT.NS TO SCENE OF CRIME, And Gives Himself Up After Lapse .of Ten Years. Dublin, Ga., *Feb. 6.-Drawn by some irresistible impulse to return to the scene where he killed a man when he was 15 years of age', Man ly B. Tripp, after roaming over a good potrion of the world for 10 years, today surrendered to the sher iff of Laurens county. For some time he has been here and was an interested spectator in the court house during a trial. He was not recognized until he voluntarily sur rendered. He was a well known youth and is prominently connected. H e shot James Hood down ~ on the streets in 1899. He escaped and ef fort to capture him failed. * 1BOTH LEGS BROEN n Attempt to Stop a Horse at Ben nettsville. Bennettsville, Feb. 3.-In an effort Ito stop a horse this morning, Mr. SGeorge T. Reid had both his legs Sbroken just above the knee. Mr. SReid was at home. The boy brought Sthe horse and buggy out and the ,.horse became frightened at some ething. Mr. Reid artemapted to stop rhe animal and was knocked- down and injured. The physicians have eset ad dressed the injured parts and Mr. Reid seems to be standing the shock remarknably well. He is saout 57 years old and the senior of the firm of Reid & Co. of this place. ELEVATOR ACCIDENT. ~ils Twvo Men and Wounds Eight Others in Mine. Jhnstown, Tenn., Feb. 4.-Two -men were killed and eight others a-injured today as the result of an ~elevtr accident at Shaft No. 1, of s.the Jeromae -Coal mine, Jerom3: Pa.. Mi~~r here. The dead -men are Michiel! Mudderick and Charles Ber ers. While descending the shaft ~nthe elevator dropped with terrific nsned. Mudderick and Bergers at 'wtempted to jump out when the car clstruck, but when the car bounded lyupward they were crushed to death, - -while their eight companions escaped PROHIBITION ins Its FIrst Fight in the House Thursday VERY CLOSE VOTE Che House Agrees to Take up Pro hibition Measure Out of its Reg ular Order and Will Talk on the Subject, But the Vote is Not Con sidered Important. Columbia, Feb. 5.-After an aye od nay vote the house yesterady ecided to order bill No. 85, known s the prohibition bill, an adjourn d debate bill, for 11 o'clock today. The State says the vote is really ot a test of the streigth of the hohibitionists, according to the lo al option people in the house, as here were a number who will vote .gainst the bill that were willing or it to come up and be disposed if before the debates were started n the appropriation and supply ilis. Mr. Richards, who made the mol ion for the bil, urged the house to onsider the measure either one way r another at once. The bill is in roduced by Messrs. Richards, M. L. mith, C. A. Smith and J. P. Carey. Mr. Rucker raised the point that he night before the house had re used to take up the bill for a special >rder and the clincher thad been ut on the refusal. Mr. Smith, act ng as speaker in the absence .of /r. Whaley, ruled that the motion >f Mr. Richards was in order as the notion the night before was for the >urpose of making the- bill a special irder. The present -motion of Mr. tichards was to make the bill an .djourned debate bill'. Mr. Rucker held that to make the ill either special order or an ad ourned debate bill two motions vere necessary. First to take up the ill out of its regular order. That notion. had been defeated the day efore. Should tbe house agree tc alke up the bill out of its regular irder, then it could be made a spec al order, withdrawn or any other .ction taken on it that the author night desire, should the house con ent. Mr. Smith, however, ruled that the Louse could not bind itself for the ntire session on any mtion not o take up a bill out of its regular rder. The motion to make the >ill a speci>.l order had been clinch !d, but the motion of Mr. Richards 'as to rake it an adjourned de )ate bill. The Vote. Mr. Dixon nioved to lay the mo ion of Mr. Richards to make the >ill adjourned debate on the table. Che ayes and nays were called for Ld the vote was as follows.: Yeas-Messrs. Melvin J. Ashley, ay Berg, Browning, F. M. Bryan. 3unch, Carwile, .Coker, Cosgrove, othran, Dick, Dixon, Dear, Duvall, . C. Edwards Isaac Edwards, Fultz, arris, Gasque,. Glasscock, Graham, reer, Griffin, J. R. Harrison, Hlol is, Hughes, Hydrick, McColl, Mc Wahan. Mars, Niver, Patterson, Paul ing, Rucker, 0. L. Sanders, Sawyer, 3eibels, Simkins, Singleton, K. P. -mith, Stanley, Tobias, Vander ~-Iorst, Vaughan, Wade, Wells, Wig ins Williams, 0. D. A. Wilson, W. Nays-Messrs. Amick~; Joshua W. shley, Bodie, Bowers, -Bowman, oyd, Brice, Brown, W.- D. Bryan, Cantrell, Carrigan, -Carter, Celey, 3ary, Daniel, Dingle, Foster, Fraser, T. P. Gibson, W. J. Gibson, Green, !uall, Hamer, Harmon, Wade C. Har -ison, Hines, Horger, Kibler, Lawson. Lee McEachern, McKeown, Mann, Mauldin, Mobley, Mosley, Nesbitt. icholson. Nunnery, Richards, Ridgell, G. M. Riley, W. L. Riley, Robertson. Roessler, D. C. Sanders, Scarborough, B. A. Shuler, C. T. Shuler, Chas. A. Smith, M. L. Smith, Spears, Stubbs, Jared D. Sullivan P. P. Sullivan, Suydam, Utsey, Way. Whatley, Wingo, Wyche-61. The clincher was then put on and 'y a division vote of 59 to 52 the house agreed to make the measurE n adjourned debate bill for 11 o'clock tomorrow. TH-E HEAD OF A MAN Found an the Pilot of Passengel Train Engine. New York, Feb. 3.-The head o 1 man was carried into the Pennsyl va~nia station on the pilot of a lo comotive which drew a fast passen er train into Jersey City. Despit the fact it was removed as quickl: as possible hundreds of passenger saw it. It was learned that in Rah way men had picked up fragment of a man's body and had been search for the head. Then word was sen to that place of the finding of :iead on the locomotive, which us ing for the head. Then word was sen Saves the Ship. Mexico City, Feb. 6.-The rev4 nue cutter Josevius Limantour be came disabled fifty miles off tb coast near Culiacan a few days ag< according to reports received her and her calls for asistance by wir less were caught up by the Alamon which immediately steamed ouit an brought the disabled cuter safely i Passed Over Veto of Gov-ernor. Nashville. Tenn., Feb. 4.--The bi prohibiting the manufacture of i: toxicating liquors in Tennessee W; passed by the house over the go DESERVES HANGING MARYLAND GOVERNOR WOULD HANG NEW YORKER Who Abducted and Carried Off a Twelve-Year-Old Girl From Her Brooklyn Home. Baltimore, Feb. 4.-The Balti more grand jury today will indict Joseph Janer,, who is accused of kid napping Katherine Loerch from her home, 334 Classon avenue, .Brook lyn, and if he is convicted of the crime -charged, he may be hanged. The Maryland authorities will re sist all attempts of the Brooklyn po lice to have Janer extra.ited and will insist that he be tried here, where death is the penalty. The child,, who will not be 12 years old until the 22nd of this month, related the story of her ab duction in the Central police court. When she had finished the Mary !and authorities, headed by the gov ernor, were so enraged that they decided to indict and try him within a week, under Maryland law. Ar ticle 27, section 369, of the code of public general laws of Maryland, provides for cases of this sort as follows:, "The offender being convicted thereof, shall, at the discretion of the court, suffer death or imprison ment for life in the penitentiary or or a definite period, not less than 18 months, nor more than 21 years." Janer, who had been a friend of :he girl's paralytic father, and a boarder in her home, was arrested in a barroom* on Calvert street. He had been drinking heavily there for an hour, and the child he had stolen stood shivering and crying in the street 'outside. He had forced her to wait there ,or him since they had left a cheap oarding house some hours before. At police headquarters Janer was woo much befuddled with whiskey 'o talk, but the girl sobbed out a piiful statement to' the 'officials, which she signed. Its nature is such that no considerable p6rtion ill do for publication. MEMORY OF LINCOLN Wil Bring. Harmony to Political Parties of Kentucky for a Day... politics ath One3,6k hrdluuuulu. Louisville, Ky., Feb. '4.-Though olitics are admittedly dominant in Centucky, both political parties havE nited in preparation for the Lin zoln centeniary celebration to be :ield at Hodgenville,. Ky., February .2th, when President Roosevelt and thers will speak. State, Chairman Winn and Henry 3. Prewitt, both of Mount-Sterling nd next-door neighbors, have each 1pointed four members of a con erence committee which on Satur lay will determine what concerted art the Republicans and Democrats' shall take in the ceremonies. HANGE NAME CAPITOL SQUARE Wants IR to Be Known as Indepen dence Square. Washington, Feb. 4.-Congress nani Barthold, of Missouri, proposes o introduce a bill to change thi ame, of Lafayette Square, which iz irectly in front of the White HousC o Independence Square and substi ute for the statue of Andrew Jack on, a fitting statue of George Wash ~ngton. The Jteckson statue now tandis in the center of the square. ~nd is one of the handsomest ii Washington. The statue of Von Steuben whici: s to adorn one corner o fthe square. s now ready and the house has beer o notified. On another corner is the statue of afayette( on another that of Roch -~mbeau and on the fourth corner vill be Pulaski. Fate of Steamer Unknown. New York, Feb. 4.-The agents of -he Norwegian steamer Munin, which ;ailed from New York January 26. or Darien, Ga., said that they had 1ad no word from the steamer since he left port. The Munin carried nc assengers and had a crew of 25. When asked if there was a proba ,ility that the Munin was the steam r which went down off Diamond hoals last week, the agents said it was possible. New Cotton Expert Appointed. Washington. Feb. 4.--Julien L Brode of Memphis, Tenn., an ex 'ert in the cotton business, wil b' aippointed special agent of the de artment of commerce and labor tc nquire into the matter of cottot seed products, succeeding Albert G -Perkins of Tennessee, resigned !.Brode's work will begin in the Soutl f France and will extend east as are as St. Petersburg.. .Shoots Self to Death. -Charlotte, N. C., Feb. 3.-Citizen: eof Thomasville, N. C., were snockei ,. this morning by the news that A. F , Cox. one of the most prominent res -idents of that town, had committed .suicide. After kissing his wife ani d baby. Cox went upstairs, took hi > revolver and blew out his brains. eLoeb Gets the ob. Washington, Feb. 4.--Friends i William Loeb, secretary to the Pres! -- dent, made the definite annoulce s ment that he will become collecte -- of the port of New York at the b' ginnn of the nexrt administratioJ WILL BEAT UUW Senator Tillman to Talk to Death His Nomination. HE HAS A HARD FIGHT But He Plans a One-Man Fiibus ter by Which He Hopes to Defeat Crum's Appointment -Declares He Can Talk It to Death Provided His Health Will Stand. Washington, Feb. 3.-In order to defeat the confirmation of W. D. Crum's appointment as collector o the port at Charleston, It i sta today that Senator Tillman, if neces sary, will conduct a "dne-man" fl- - buster until congress adjourns on March 4, even -at the risk of bi - health, which is none too good.. The senator proposes t.o talk the confirmation to death, which he may easily do if his strength doesn't de sert him. Under the rules of the senate, no proposition can be put a vote so long as -a senator 'wantsi to 1-e heard, and there is no wa by which th4 remarks of a member ca be limited. Senator Tillman has reque ted number of lPemocrats to b'l h with his fillibuster, speainhg fr one -hour to half a day each ande has enlisted the aid of a numbir although it appears'that manyem. crats doubt the wisdom onco:tln aing the fight on Crum.. But, with little help, Timn n should be able to 'hold up-the con mation until Taft is inaugurate and unless he changes Ji ind 5 - will do this. The senate does- not-hold an-,1 ecutiVe session every day a6:is fact will operate to the hand ofTill man, as the Crum matter can . sidered on,1y In executive. sessibn - After Senator Tillman iad take the floor, he called for a quoru ind after the roll call, he-an hat he proposed to see that a um was maintained througloth day. The vice 'president called his t :ention to a ruling made In the 6W". hours of the last session of c .o the effect that,-businessmust tnot intervene betweefi 'calls for a qu rum, and that a speecn woujdinotbe regarded as "business. This annountemt ovoked discussion of the rul, but tot h >ut the afternoon no o5casiou a.Ois 0 call forth a ruling ont at ques tion. Mr. Tillman had received comu aicatlons from various commer ',odies of Charleston, in opposition to the confirmation of the Crum nom nation, and read them to provetat-,A his protest against Crum fully rep'- , sented the popular sentiment In Charleston.- -:r' The Japanese and- Chinese :qu ions, now causing discussion on the ~~ 'acinec coast, were rierred to nsad Ir. Bacon, of Geoiglamade a7 en -ral inquiry of -the Pacific- coastA1 o their ettitude toward any-'pzropo- '~ itihn to sppoint 'a hnwAmi as eo octor of cusftoms of San Francisne There was a very general discus ion .of the race problem in which ~ everal of the senators on the Dem- - cratic side .took part. Senator Ioney occupied~ nearly an houar and eviewed 'the history of tlie races. o sustain his position that the ,su-.~ eriority of the white race marke - t to dominate in matters of govein nent. - About fifty senators remained: n1 j~' he chamber 'thoroughout the ses on. The nomination will come up -1 executive session today, and Mr illman, It is expeeted, will continue is remarks. As predicted above,'-the Crum-nat er came'- up today and nearly.: our ours was devoted to Its considers ion. Senator Tillman aided by his emocratic colleagues staved off ac ion aid 'the inatter went* over for he present. The Republican senators are unit. d in favor of confirming Crum in ~rder that Mr. Taft may be reller-n 'd of the necessity of sending a aom nation to the senate, w~Iich has been pposed during the present adm'inIa ration. The debate in the senate today,2 -cording to the reports which leak d ont afterwards, resembled an old ie ministrelsy. Senator Tillman, M:cLaurin, Money and Johnston told 1egro dialect stories and kept the uenate in laughter throughout the -roceedngs. Nothing but the best of humor was displayed. Senator Tillman re sounted a number of Incidents 'with his various controversies with Pres* dent Roosevelt. Shot Girl and Self. New York, Fel'. 3.-Harry Pope, a saloon keeper in Brooklyn, shot Bessie -Schroeder, 23 years old in the. uack this afternoon and then killed himself in a brooklyn hotel. Shot While Hunting. Hawkinsville, Ga., Feb. 3.-News has just been received here that Dr. E. C. Brown, a well known physician f this city, had been accidentally shot through the eye at a dove shoot several miles above here. Stock Trains Crash. Chillicothe, 0.; Feb. 3.-Three trainmen were killed and one fatally f injured early today when two stock -trins on the Chicago, Milwaukee - nd St. Paul railroad collided head r n at Powersville, Mo.. It appears -one of the trains was a. runaway, L. jthe crew having lo'st coniro'l df it