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GREAT FLOODS BiR Franc Spead Destrudi to Life ad Propery. V8 sTUa MRs The Region of Innaon is steadi ly Enlarging and Villages In Scores of Places Are Entirely Submerged, the People Fleeing For Their Lives. Advices from Paris say that the floods have -brought disaster to a large part of France. The Seine is now a raging torrent and rising at the rate of more than half an inch an hour. As it furiously rushes seaward it sounds the message or in creasing misery and destruction The victims of the good number more than 100.000 and the monetary losses incalcuable. Thousands of poor are hopelessly ruined and are fleeing to Paris. The government urgent measure has requisitioned army and navy material to house the sufferers, and boats for the res cue of the stricken, as well as thos3 imprisoned in the houses In the lood centres on all sides of Pars. The region of Inundation is stead fly enlarging, and villages In scores of places, are entirely submerged, the people fleeing for their lives and abandoning everything. In many cases the soldiers' have been obliged to use force in compelling the in habitants to evacuate their homes. Hundreds of them refused to leave. clamoring only for food and wa ter. In Paris the situation Is rapidly becoming worse, the floods sparing neither the rich -r the poor. The flood Is insnln.Or Invading the capacity built area on either side of the winding Seine, undermining the residences and public buidings and fWreing-the evacuation of many hou. es. All the stree in the south eastern section are running rivers, Every hour helps to complete the tie-up of the telephone. telegrapb and railroads. The subways and tram service are deminshing anc In every section gas and electr: Ughts are fafling Paris is practically cut off Soutl and West, and If the present con dition continue the question of food supplies will become menacing. Th. Senate unanimously adopted an ap ,Vropriaton of $400,000 for national relef and various societies are send Jag out calls for - aid. Presidea Fallieres heads the list with $4,000, and other gifts aggregate $40.000. The entire population of Iver Sur Seine and adjacent places, whict are completely covered with water are in a desperate state. Only the tops of the houses at Alfortvllle are visible, the water averaging 12 feel In the street. At this place, since S o'clock' Tuesday morning, 3,00C -persons have been rescued by boats, and 30,O00 others have found safety lay their own efforts. In many towns along the rivers the houses are col lapsing and the wreckage is whirled off in the-stream. The riesene imork at Al~ortvie was hampered by lack of light -But the rescuers had more to eon tend with than the tarbulent watera Groups of Apaches bad gathered and soon were engaged in the work os plraty. They seize several of the boats and robbed rescued and res. cuers alike. In some cases they en tered the houses and carried on thei. depreans Fluially a force of soldiers drove off the looter - There were many cases of drown 2ng and death to the aged sad sick as a result of shock and exposure. Two instauns of death were partic. ularly pathetic. Aged and inflrn *and flndng themselves unable te move, a man and a woman hanged themselves to abed post. The hos pital at Ivory, containing 2,000 pa tients, Is surrounded by water and grave results are feared. -President Fallieres and Premi Briand made an automobile tuis through the flooded districts In the eastern section of Paris. They walk ed through some of the streets, knee deep in mud and water, and saw the crowds fleeing, men tugging at valil es and trunks, and weelp'tg womez burdened with children and al sorts of household belongings. The con ditions are appalling, and the pres dent and premier hastened e way to seek means.of relief for the suf tering people. DEECVE BOYER PASSES. Succumbs to Wound Inflite by Ne gr. Car Thief in CamM=a Southern Railway Detective S. H. Boyer. who was shot through the lung by one of three negro car thieves whom he surprised at work in the Royster yards near Columbia. died Friday morning at the Colum bia hospital. The sheriff and his deputies ap parently have little hope of ever cap. turing the negroes, and the poliee are completely in the dark. From the best information obtainable the negroes- are probably makng their way through North Carolina on their way to the North or West. The officers are looking for Eugene Davis. Ben Little and Dave Richard son. Negroes fitting their descrip tions were taken aboard the Coast Line train going out of Columbia the morning of the shooting . They got off at Easter. In Richland county. Thursday the same negroes. Sheriff Hood of Fairfield, Is confident, ap peared at the home of L. R. Free. in the Buckhead section of Fairfield -county. Sheriff Hood at once noti fied all his county officers and also those of Chester to De on the look out for the negroes.* Kill Each Other. A dispatch from St. Petersburg. Russia. says more than 100 persons have been killed and many wound --ti as the result of religious con flicts which have been waged in old Bokhara between the Sunites and the Shiahs for two days. The Sun Ites demand the replacement of Zbh' Shiah officials by Sunites. it 't request of the Bokhara au thorities. Rlusin troope and machine guns have been sent from Samarkand *9 YOUNGMAN URDERED AXD HIS BODY PLIACED OX THE RAILROAD TRACK. The Foul Crime Was Committed in a Boarding House in Prince ton, N. C. News from Princeton. a smtll North Carolina town twelve miles from Goldsboro, tell of a homicide in that town about 11 o'clock Sat urday nignt. when Frank Langley. a young white man, was shot sud instantly killed in a boarding house run by A. Gis Pearce. Troy Pearce. his father and two brothers. Albert and Andrew Pearce. and a blacksmith by the name of Lem Sauls, are in jail charged with the crime, which, according to the reports, was coidabloodied murder. Sauls. the blacksmith, left Prince ton last Saturday Right but was cap tured later by the sheriff near Se me and placed in jail. He den5t'd being in the crowd which did the killing. but later admitted that he was a member of the party, but did not know who committed the Zee4 John E. Pearce, an uncle of the Pearce party, was also in the house at the time or the killing and says that the crim lays between Troy and Andrew Pearce. that he had re tired for the night and the clock4 in his room had begun the stroke of 11. but only a few strokes had broken the stillness, when the sue. ceeding ones were drowned by the discharge of a shotgun which wa I followed by a blood-curdling yell This Is the only statement he would make. The body of the deceased was placed In a cart by the murdere and carried down the Southern rail. way track about half mile from th< scene of the tragedy and left on thi rails in order to try and hide the crime by letting the train pass ove1 the body. The night train goInj west severed the head from th body, but at the coroner's !inques held Sunday afternoon. it was dis covered that the deceased came to hi death as the result of a gunsho wound. PET DUCK MET SAD END. Tamed by a Man in Canada, it Wa Shot In Anderson. Some time ago while hunt!g l1 the swamps on Rocky river, M-. W E. Bray, of Anderson. killed a due and on one of the legs or the bin was found a silver band bearing thi Inscription "Box 48. Kingsville. On tarlo." He at once wrote to Lb address, and has just reclve-i ! reply a letter from Mr. John T. Min er, manufacturer of brick and th, In that distant town. He sals tha the duck shot by Mr. Bray cane t, his home, where he has a sm.U pon and a flock of tame gray and blael "wild" ducks, and joined the~ foie about the 5th of last Augus#. Th< duck was very wild for a time, bu about August 20 he had gotten in it would almost eat out of m: band," writer Mr. Miner. "Late the duck became very tame an< ve-uld follow me over to the til< factory and look in at the door, ani I often threw crumbs of bread azy 1corn to It. Thea she would follos me into the barn, and knei right well where the corn barre stood. - 2I becam, very much attact ed to the duck, and 'wished to se, if I could get any trace of her afte she left here, so I put the band o1 her leg." Mr. Miner says that the duck wa Mr. Miner says the the' duck wa known to him as Mabel. and lef his little pond about December 1 He says he Is a great admIrer o birds and is often called all kinds o "green things" because of this fan cy, petting birds and not shootinj more than he does. ~"But this,' he says, "Is worth a whole season' shooting to me. "I suppose," he continues. "you will think I hav< wheels in my head, and sometime: I think the same, but I am a greal lover of birds and can't help It.' In his letter Mr. Bray wrote thai the duck had come to the best place in the United States, and followins out the thread of humor, Mr. Mines writes that the duck was fed in thd only heaven on earth. BOOZE DOND HID. Anothe' 'of Rag Time Music Goe to the Poor House. Hugh Cannon, who wrote "Goe Goo Eyes." "Ain't That a Shame, "Bill Bailey" and other classics of ragtime, was sent to the Eloise poor house at Detroit Tuesday at the ag' of thirty-six. He told the pathetic story of his life in short, expressive sentences. "I quit coke easy," he said. "I hit the pipe in New York for a year and stopped that. I wen' up against morphine hard and quit, but boose, red, oily booze, that's got me for keeps, Except for seven months on the water wagon, I've been pickled most of the time," Died of Rabie. At Durham, N. C., Bennice Man gum, a young boy died of a typical case of hydrophobia Monday morn ing at Watts hospital, The y.oung boy was taken to the hospital Sat urday night and he developed rab~ies rapidly. Prior to the treatment the madstone had been successfully ap plied and nobody was arnxious. For two days he suffered the hzarrors of the damned and had to be chain jed to h bed. thoe Him Pown. John B. Tatum. a prominent resi dent of Antauga. Ala., was shot down Sunday night by an unknown man and Instantly killed. Tatumn was on~ his way home with his srep-in-law when the shot was fired from ant bush is said to have been the result of an vid feud. Confesses to Murder. James Hall. an enlisted man in the navy, has confessed to the murder of Anna Schumacher at Rochester, N. Y., In 1909. and is now under arrest at the Portsmouth navy yard. The girl was killed in a cemetery last August, All that glitters is not gold; some nae boinedn. STANDS TO THE TRUSTS TAFT TELLS THEM TO BE OF GOOD CHEER AN) FEAR NOT. Says He Has No Intention of Inter fering With Them or Their Wicked Ways. President Taft Tuesday made pub lic the following statement a- to the reports that the administration is planning a crusade against unlaw ful combinations of capital: "No statement was issued either from the attorney general's office or the White House Indicating that the purpose of the administration to in stitute prosecutions under the anti trust law is other tban as set forth in the message of the president of January 7. 1910. Sensational state ments as if there were to be a new departure and an indiscriminate prosecution of important industries have no foundation. The purpose of the administration is exactly as al ready stated in the presidents me sage." The stateme.nt was issue.1 atter the president had talked ,:ith Jtmes J. Hill. the railway magnate. an.s had received information that pric.s were crumbling in New York under the various reports printed the day before and that morning. Mr. Hill on leaving the White House. said he was sure that the president would not attack corporations for them selves, but the sins of the corpora tions. If corporations were violat ing the laws of the country he sup posed they would be brought to book. James J. Hill's visit to the White House. it was said, was merely a coincidence. Mr. Hill declared that he had discussed "general condit ions," with the pia sident and had not gone into the subject of the prosecution of the trusts. "Normally conditions are satisfac tury in all directions," said Mr. Hill. "but we don't want a lot of wild stories to get abroad that will cause depression." Mr. Hill did not want to discuss the president's recommendations as to railroad legislation. saying it was too important a subject to take up "off-hand." "But we do need the rest-cure ; badly.'' he said, adding that the country should be allowed full time to becover from the panic of 1907. He thought that three or four months of rest from agitation would do a lot of good. ELECTIONS ELn BY HOUSE. Judges. School Trutees and Othey |Offeers Chosen. The following elections were held L Tuesday by the legislature: ' Associate Justice-D. E. Hydric lof Spartanburg. IFirst Judicial Circuit-Chas. G. IDantzler, of Orangeburg. ISecond Judicial Circuit-Roberi i Aldrich, of Barnwell. ' Third Judicial Circuit-J. S. Wil son, of Clarendon. IFourth Judicial Circuit-R. C. |Watts. of Chesterfld. ISixth Judicial Circuit-Geo. W. Gage, of Chester. Eighth Judicial Circuit-J. C. IKiugh, of Abbeville. IState Librarian-Miss L H. Lab orde, of Columbia. IInsurance Commssioner-Fitz H. IMcMaster, of Columbia. IDirectors Penitentlary-W. H. IGlenn. of Anderson; J. D. Deas, of Kershaw. ' Trustees Clemson College-I. M.~ SMauldin, of Pickens; D. H. Rawis. of Lexington; W. D. Evans. of Ches Iterfield. Trustees of Winthrop College-R. R . Tillman, of Edgefield; D. W. Mc SLaurin, of Dillon. |Trustees University of South Car iolina-S. P. Hunter. Jr., of Dillon; IC. E. Spencer. of York. |Trustees State Colored Caiiga - |G. B. White, of Chester; J. W. Fl3oyd. of Kershaw. STRIKES BLOW FOR OLEO. Atlanta Health Committee t'rges Congress to Repeal Tax. Declaring the tax of ten cents per pound ce' oleomagarine to be largely responsible for the Increased cost of livini,. the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce 1palth committee a few days ago adopted a resolution memorializing congress to repeal the tax. The resolution sets forth that the tax Is "'class legislation, which deprives the Federal government of $2,000,000 revenue, whrile It shuts out of the market a wholesome pr3 duct, made of milk, cotton oil and beef fat, which otherwise would be in reach of the masses." The effect of this tax, it is con cluded has greatly increased the price of butter. It is announced that In a letter to the Chamber of Commerce. Dr. Har vey W. Wiley. chief chemist of the Federal government, states that the repeal of the tax on oleomargarine would in no way interefre with the enforcement of the pure food laws, adding that he considered oleomargarino a wholesome pro duct* Seen Jus't in Time. Moths saved a small fortune from destruction by fire at South Nor walk. Conn., Thursday night. A bundle of worn garments which had belonged to Mary Spitzer, an aged recluse, who died recently, were about to be thrown on a bonfire when through a moth-holl the gleam of a yellow back was seen. An in vestigation brought to light $2.000 in bills, which had been sewed into the linings. Advocate High License. A ColumbIa dispatch to The News and Courier says a candidate for governor on a high license platform was the announcement definitely made by one who is in close touch with the political alignment of South Carolina. Next summer a gentle man will certainly come out in the race for governor who will advocate a system of license for the handling of liquor traffic in this State. A girl likes an extravagant yoiung man-if she Isn't going to ma-ry SUES FOR THfE Acion Brought Against Senator B. R. Tilhiman and His Wife By MRS. BEN..R. LMAN, JR. For the Recovery of Her Two Daugh ters, Who, She Alleges, Were Tak en From Her by Her Husband. Who Then Abandoned Her in Washington While She Was Sick. Mrs. Benj. R. Tillman, Jr.. Mon day instituted habeas corpus proceed ings before the supreme court az Columbia to compel Senator and Mrs. B. R. Tillman to return her two children to her. aged three and fire years, and be pe-petually re strained from interfering with them. Sensational are the charges the younger Mrs. Tillman brings against her husband. They are that after repeatedly outrageously insulting her and brutally and cruelly treatinz her whl'e he was drunk; that afte" she had given hiM the Keeley treat ment. following which he only grew worse in spite of promises to reform and at times had attacks of deli rium tremens: that after he had squandered much of her estate: that she had appealed to his parents. Senator and Mrs. Tillman. with the result that the senator only insult ed her and both blamed her for the trouble between herself and her huq band and for his drinking to excess -that after all this, and much more. her husband, she having gone back to him following their separation. for the sake of their two children. and in violation of their written agreement to divide their time be tween their father and their mother in case of separation. had her ord-: the two children dressed while both families were at Washington last November. under pretense of taking the children on an evening's visit to their grandpartens. turned them over to Senator and Mrs. Tillman, who brought them to South Caroli na. her husband then deserting her when she was "in a condition ton delicate to mention." he also lear ing for South Carolina shortly af. terward and filing a deed at Edge field giving the children to Senator and Mrs. Tillman. alleging in this deed his wife's "unfitness and inabill ty to rpise my two children as theo should be raised." although Mrs. I R .Tillman. Jr.. has a handtome an cestral home at Edgefield and annua! rentals in addition of '1.190. The younger Mrs. Tillman is o1 bearing giving all the indication! a delicate beauty, her features and of high birth and of having be,r reared In an atmosphere of cultura and refinement. She Is tbe grand daughter of the late Governor F W. Pickins. who was also ambassa dor to the Russian court, where he; mother was born and christened b~s the czar. Douschka, which meanr "little darling.' Her mother's sis ter was the first wife of the late United States Senator M!. C. Butler. whom Senator Tillman defeated for the senate after the dramatic Till man gubernatorial administration She is a blood relative of many o; the old-time ruling families of the State, and of course her social stand in~g Is the highest. Mr. and Mrs. Tillman's domestit troubles appear to date from tha time Tillman came home to Edge field and found Col. Jaries H. Till man at his home, but thought af insulted his wife on this occasion, it is alleged, he apologized and ack nowledged he had wronged her: Col. Tillman, it is said, was at hi! kinswoman's innocently playing with one of his cousin's children at th' time Mr. Tillman came in in a rage. In an affidavit submitted to the court Monday Mrs. Tillman says that one occasion she was forced by her husband's drunken debauches and cruel treatment 'to separate from him, but "not until deponent's hus band under the Influence of exces sire drink made a most outrageous. false and degrading attack upon de ponent's character, that deponent, so outraged and insulted flew through the night time with her two infant children from deponent's home at 'Edgewoodl' to hiE sister's home in Edgefield for protection, where she remained for several months." .It would seem from the number arnd character of the affidavits read Monday in support of Mrs. Tillman's right to the child-ren. that practi cally every man and woman of stand ing in Edgefield is up in arms against Senator and Mrs. Tillman and their son. Among the signers or these affidavits are several relatives of Justice Gary, himself a member of the supreme bench. There are orer signed by two or more, and several fifty affidavits, practically all of them having from 25 to 50 signatures. The signatures include the follow ing, all testIfying that they have known Mrs. Tillman either several years or from Infancy, and that she is a woman of irreproachable char. acter. modest, refined, cultured. dis peculiarly fitted and amply finan cially able to care for and educate cate her own children. Dr. 3. Tompkins. her famIly phy sician: Judge J. W. Devorpe. mem her of the circuit bench: the Rev. C. E. Burts. pastor of the Raptist chrrrc~h at Edgenieid: the pastor of the Presbyterian church at EM!r feld: L. Wigfali Cheatham. etiitor of the local newspaper: over a huno dred of Edgfield's most influential matrons: !ncluding Mrs. John C. Sheppard. wife of! the governor whom Tillman succeeded, and Mrs. Orlando Sheppard. wife of the past grand master of Masons and many young .w.Iety women. The rea; contest will come on th^ return tc. the rule, and it will be a bitter one, both sides having em ployed fine legal talent. For the younger Mrs. Tillman appe-tras Messrs. DlePass & DePass of the C' lumbia bar, and Mr. Samuel Mc-(ow an Simkins of the Edgefield bar while for Senator anti Mrs. Tillmian appear ex-Solicitor J. William Thu mond. who prosecuted ex-Lieuten ant Governor James H-. Tillman on his trial for the killing of Editor Y. G. Ganzal~es of the Columbia Stat e. and Senator Tillman's son, Mr. Henry PARTNER WITH NATURE SOUTH CAROLINA BOY WINS GOVERNMENT PRIZE. A High Tribute Paid to Young Bascom Usher for the Grand Pro duction of Corn on One Acre. We get the following from the New York Evening Mail: There probably As nothing more prosale to the superficial observer than a one-acre cornfield, unless it is anoth er just like it. or possibly a little more so. It is merely a patch of growing crop, where the combined forces of man and the favoring sun shine are coaxing nature more or less effectively to smile with a har .est. From the hour of planting. down through successive hoeings to the final processes of cutting and husking. the field is nothing more to the unthinking man a common place scene of human activity, In which the work is hard and the re turns uncertain. But Bascom Usher's one-acre corn deld was dstinoLtly d.ifferent. It was ihe theatre not only of an ex nloit which charms one's imagina tion. but of an agricultural triumph that should make every American boy proud. Bascom Usher is 17 year old, and lives in South Carolina. Now, every year the Government organizes a national corn contest for boys, in which $10.000 in prizes is awarded for various achievements. iucluding one for the largest yield from a single acre. Bascom Usher enterel last year's contest. He ploughed his acre. planted it. cultivated it as he believed it should be. and watcheJ and tended it as if it were some del icate flower bed. The work was hard -everybody that ever hoed corn. knows that-but Bascom Usher for got his fatigue in the sheer joy of watching that corn grow. L' due season it was cut and shuckel. and a little later it was huksed. Then the official committee came a-ound. looked over the results.and decided that Bascom Usher's acre had won the first prize. Please consider what this victn.y meant to Bascom Usher in a practi cal way, and quite apart from the exaltation of pride, which it must have brought to him. His onr acre field sold as prize seed at $2 a bushel, making $305, and the fod der for $30, or a total of $335 Allowing $135 for labor, the one acre cornfield returned a net profit of $200-a yield rich enough to make the average grown-up corn grower gasp. But the sense of conquest wag worth more than the money. Bas come Usher has learned how. He is a master of the soil. He has dis covered a new charm in land and become a joint partner with natur2 in a combination capable of trans forming black loam and sunshine into gold. S KEPT CHILD SEVERAL DAYS And Then Turned Her Loose as She Was Not One Wanted. Greenwood has a great sensation. A pretty little eighttyear-old girl was kidnapped and held by an old negro woman. The unsuspecting child was lured away by the negress. who carried her to a secluded spot nee~ the city. The child was held there for some hours. Her parents grew anxious about her nonappear ance in the afternoon and immediate ly search was instituted but without avail. The child says that the ne gro woman told her that she was not the one who was wanted and with this she was set free. Later the little girl was brought to her home by a lady living in the vicini ty where she was held. All of the parents of the Greenwood school children are in constant dread on account of the statement that the negro failed to get the child she wanted. No trace of the negro has been found. WORK OF HEROES. Daring Rescue of Two Women and Four Children. Two women and four little chil dren, overcome and trapped b~y smoke and flame, were rescued in thrilling melodramatic style Wed'es day by Firemen Kelly and Ladd at a fire in a five-story frame tenement. No. 16 Mill road, Jersey City, N. J. The firemen were lowered by ropei down an air-shaft from the root of the adjoining apartment house and were pulled back, with their uncon scious burdens, by their comrades. The blaze was discovered in the early morning and it was thought all the tenants were out of the buildings, when cries were heard from the wo men and children, who had been pen ned in by the fire on the stairways. The air-shaft had b'een conver' . into a fiery pit, but the firemen, by making two trips, effected the res cue without accident. COMMITTED SUICIDE. Note in Purse Asks That Husband Be Notified. At Dallas. Texas, a handsomely dressed woman, giving her name as Mrs. Nick Kunth of Chicago. was picked up in an unconscious condition on the street there last Thursday night, suffering from laudanum pot soning. She was taken to the Emer gency Hospital, wh:ere she is report ed to be out of immediate danger. A note in her purse asked that her husband in Chicago be notified of ner condition. She declared that she belonged to a leading Chicago fami ly and expresed regret that her effort to kill herself had failed. Mrs. Kunth arrived in Dallas. Tuesday. Child Painfully Burned. A few days ago after Mr. and Mrs. M. I. Shol :'s little .:-ye.tr-old child, of P~essemer City, N. r., while playing around the stove catught flr and was painfuliy. thoug- it is thought, not dangerously htt-ved. be fore the fire could be extinzuishe d. Mrs. Sholer. Miss May Wooten and| R.-v-. Mr. Wooten. sister an-: father| re-spe'ctfully. of Mrs. Sholer. T-erelj downtown when the accident occur red. The littlk one was e csting DIED TREE TES SUMERAL DENNIS' WIDOW SAYS HE HAS DIED LATELY While the Pension Office Had Him .Dead Once in 1815 and Once Again In 1847. Zach McGee in his letter to The State from Washington says a form er South Carolinian. Sumeral Dennis. bears the record of the nearest ap proach to the nine lives of the cat. and the pension office is at work try ing to figure out how many times he really has died. The Washington Star prints the following stery. which while the pension case is of special interest in Alabama. is still of interest in South Carolina if there is anybody there now whose name Is Dennis: "The officials of the pension office In Washington are accustomed to receive claim for pensions which are stranger than fiction. They are at work on a claim made by Mrs. Sum meral Dennis of Dadeville, Ala.. which caused them no end of sur prise. "Sumeral Dennis. it appears on the official records, died in 1815, af ter serving in the American army during the war of 1S12. According to the records, he also died In 1847 at the close of the war with Mexico, in which he also did good service. Now comes his widow and declares that Sumeral Dennis died only a few years ago, having lived to a ripe old age. "Senator Johnston of Alabama has taken much interest in the claim and is pushing it before the senate nommittee on claims with the hope of winning the pension for the old lady, who lives now in Dadevlle with her son. Perry C. Dennis. a prominent attorney. "If the pension claim goes througl Mrs. Dennis will receive in the neighborhood of $3.000. including the back pension which Is due her "Sumeral Dennis has a death rec ord that few can beat. The oMciab in Washington are afraid that ho may yet be discovered alive. "Way back in 1812 he lived It South Carolina. During the secon( war with Great Britain, Mr. Denni became a member of Cap. Beatty'i company in the First regiment o the South Carolina militia. He serv ed gallantly during the war. But according to the records on Ale is Washington, he died his first deati in 1815. "But, in spite of the fact that hi was officially dead, Mr. Dennis. wh< was still a young man, moved tA Alabama, where he settled and livei prosperously until the Mexican wa broke out. His old spirit for wa was still alive, and he organized i company of volunteers himself anw joined the army of Invasion. "After this war he was offcial; reported dead for the second! time However, he lived to return to Ala bama and to marry Mrs. Eva P. Den nis some years later. It is Mrs Dennis who is now seeking the pen sion. The old man was 94 year old when he died the third time. "When the offclalk in Washingto, raise the erticism of the claim tha Mr. Dennis died after the Mexical war, before Mrs. Dennis claims ti have married him. Senator Johnstoi points to the fact that, accordini to the records. Dennis was dead 12 1815. and yet the later records shoi him to have served in the Mexical war. "The senator argues , therefiore that If the records as to his d-. -.tl were wrong in the first Instance they might be wrong in the second and that Mr. Dennis' widow shouk' know, if any one, when her husbanc died and If she married the shadoi of a man." SAYS WOMEN ROBBED HID. A New York Banker Despoiled ou Big Aniount of Cash. In New York Wednesday nigh Warner M. V 'a Norden, the banke and presi... - of the Van Norder Trust Company, was robbed of $28, 000 as he was leaving the Waldorf Astoria. With the arraignment a few days ago of Bessie Roberts, alias Kitty Dowel!, of Chicago. and Annit Williams, alias "Chicago Maggie, the story was made public. Mr. Van Norden saw two women walking along Fifth .ioenue. One dropped a pocketbook and Mr. Van Norden politely picked it up and re turned it to her. A hearty slap on the back was the somewhat startling and unconven tional manner in which one of the women signalized her thanks. There was a profusion of thanks and bows and one of the women fainted sud denly on Mr. Van Norden's shoul der. The woman revived and a few 'minutes later Mr. Va'n Norden mis3 ed the $28.000. The women were held in $30.000 bonds. "WIDOW" FOOLED A WIDOWER. She Told Him She Was In "Love" and Secured $20,000. Detectives in the employ of A. E. King. a retired business man in Lincoln. Neb., are seeking to make an arrest among the social set of Kansas City. Kan.. as the result of a peculiar love affair. It appears the woman in the case represented herself as a widow, when in fact she is married and has a husband living. Mr. King alleges she told him that she was about to rec-eive a large amount of eash from New York and secured money to the amounit of $20.oA00 on this pretense. Later sh" declared the money was only a loan and that the cash had been spent. She is charged with ob tamIng money under false pretense and may be pros.ecuted. At present she has two motor cars and lives fu a fine home with expensive furnish ings.* I'nknown Man Killed. An unknown negro was run over and killed by a traIn near Meg getts one night last week. TL~e coroner's jury r.-ndetd a verdict that the neg'ro came to hIs death through his own carelessness an-I no blame was attached to the train SENATOR TILLM BRINGS UP MATTER OF PUR CHASE OF PUBLIC DOMAIN. Accuses Southern Pacific of Holding Large Tract in Direct Violation of Grant. Senator Tillman Monday brought up in the senate the Oregon land af fair upon the subject of his connec tion with which President Roose velt once sent a message to congress. *Some ef you are familiar." said Senator Tillman, "with my desire to buy some land in Oregon located on a land grant. and the effort made by Mr. Roosevelt to create the im pression that I was playing the ras cal In regard to it. and all that sort of thing. I have followed up this matter on account of my personal Interest then enlisted. Not in the purchase of lard any more. but to see that the people have the right to buy according to the terms of the grants to the railroads and to the military roads. I found out long ago that neither I nor any one else could buy them according to the terms of the grants." He then read a letter he had written l'iquIring of the attorney general if any had been bought in accordance with the resolution of congress passed two years ago. Continuing he said there had been a tempest in a tea pot over the Bal linger affair, but that 2,000.000 acres of valuable timber land is held by the Southern Pacific railroad or by the Harriman Interest In abso lute and direct violation of the grant which they refuse to sell to anybody. They have already sold over 500. 000 acres contrary to the law, ho said. Senator Chamberlain of Oregon has Introduced a resolution calling for information on the subject and Senator Tillman announced that when that comes up he will have something further to say. His ref. erence to the famous Oregon land affair was greeted with a profound silence and looks of surprise on the faces of senators. DISCUSSES HIGH COST OF LVING Presidenm Wilson Says the Trouble is Too Many Leaving Farms. "Is costs more to get the common i necessities of life In the United States today than In any other coun try In the world." This startling statement was made a few nights ago by James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture, In an ad dress delivered before the 'Manufac turers' Club of Philadelphia. Seo retary Wilson discussed "The Pres ent Food Crisis." in a way that was r original and forceful. "'Some poeple," he said. "tell un that If we repeal the present tarifi law to let in forefp products free of duty, the present dlfifcu:::y will cease. I do not believe It. Eggs sare 35 cents a dozen In Canadian cities and 60 cents a dozen In some American cities. The duty is 3 cents a dozen. What difference would it make whether you took off that 3 cents or not?"' The secretary further stated that he believed the Aemrican people are suffering at present not so muchi from the cost of living, his state meat being: "It has been said that the Ameri can is the best fed, best clothed, best educated and best housed man upon earth. We shall have to add now that he is the most evpensively fed.' Secretary Wilson pointed out that the fundamental difficulty was that the people are leaving the farms to such an extent that there are not enough remaios to produce the foodi of the increasing population. The boys and girls of the farm, he asserted, are being lured away to the cIties, to the factories and to the mines, and to too great an ex tent the agricultural resources of the country are being neglected. He said he was convinced that the combination of retailers, whole salers and the like were responsible in great measure for the keeping up of prices and that the same Influence would be sufficient to control the prices of products brought from oth er countries, even though the tariff were removed. Secretary Wilson, after declaring that the record made by the manu facturers of the United States Is a good one, said "the education of the farmer, however, has been over looked. The young farmer has been educated away from the farm and from the production of food for the people."' PRISONS ARE FULL OF ALaIES. Influx of Immigrants the Cause of Increase of Criminals That the recent remarkable in crease in prison population in New York state is due largely to the inf~ux of immigrants Into the state. Is the conclusion of C. V. Collins, superintendent of state prisons, who, In his annual report to the legisla ture. suggests that the federal gov ernment. which permits these alien criminals to land on its shores. should assume the burden of main taining them till they have served their sentence when they should be deported and never allowed to re turn. A census of 4.320 prIsoners In Sing Sing, Auburn and Clinton prisons, showed that 1.091 or 25 per cent were aliens. Garfield Opposed Ballinger. Former Secretary of the Interior Garfield Tuesday appeared befor* the senate committee on houses and lands, and opposed the bIll submit ted by Se'retary Ballinger. authorlz ing the secretary to withdraw the public lands from settlement, pend lng a recommendation to congress f-.- legislation. Fiend Ass.aults Child. Frank Larrance. a fourteen-year old n.egro boy, has been committed to jail at Hendersonville. N. C.. charged with committing an ass.-'it on a little white girl ten years old.1 The fiend has confessed his crime You cannot tell what a woman CASH CUT OFF JUakefig Trqi by lembers of Cugress Does NoW.d But WASTES LOTS OF MONEY immipation Commision Scored Storm of Protest Aroused by -Re quest for $12,000 More-Late Senator Latimer, of This State. Was a Member. By cutting off a deficiency appro priation of $125,000 for the National Immigration Commission, the House Monday lent Its support to seveia! members, led by Representative Ma con of Arkansas. who denounced the commission and its work and threat ened it with immediate extinctiOn. Unless friends of the commission succeed in having the Item restored to the urgency deficiency bill In the senate It will be compelled to sus pend for lack of funds. The com mission asked for the $125.004 ap propriation which It needed to wind up its work. Senator Dilingham of Vermont Is chairman of the commission, the oth er members being Senator L3dge, Representative Howell of New Jer sey. Bennett of New York and Bur nett of Alabama; Prof. J. W. Jenks of Cornel University. and William R. Wheeler of San Francisco. When the paragraph making the appropriation for the commission was reached during the consideration ef the urgent deficiency bill Mr. Ma con made a point of order against it on the ground that It was not a deficiency. Foll1wing this action came a general assault agaInt the commission by several members, Mr. Macon making a scathing attack on the body. He charged dbsat the commission had gone on a junket ing eipedition abroad, had spent $657,993 and had accomplishod prac tically nothing. -I am advised." said Mr. Macon, "that this commission went abroad during the summer - of 1907. and that no report of the trip has ever been published, and In my judgmen will not, for It seems the trip W3s a pleasure junket for most of the .-m bers, rather than an information gathering trip. The commission made no progress until forced to do so by the late Senator Latime. of South Carolina, who thrpstaned to return home on the nest steamer. and inform the government on the door of the senate that the commis sion inteaded merely to deiaf im migration investigation. Messrs. Latimer. Buruett and Howell of the commission #e al lowed to go to work while the chair man told Mr. Wheeler. se'.aV.y f the commission, to come Win Dan. and enjoy himself, that toe ismm gration problem had been th oghly investigated by the lndust:!.ii rom mission and that only he and one other knew the real purpose ot the commission. "I have hieard that the auditor for the State department has -nter ed a protest against a certain meim ber of the commission for charging up as part of his expense ac'unt amounts paid out by him for Laundry, hair-cuts, shampoos, shines and iu tomobile rides for pleasure on the Appian way.'' Mr. Tawney, chairman of the ap propriation commission, which re ported the bill, condemned the prin ciple of creating commissions with "permanent appropriations,'' but said he never had been able to stop that practice. Mr. Sabath of II11 nos, Butler of Pennsylvanla, Bur nett 'of Alabama, who Is a member - of the commission, and others aeso spoke against the appropriation after which It was stricken out on Mr. Macon's point of order. RODE TO DEATH. Terrible Joney of Boy on a Hug. Ice Fl0e. Death was the station where 12 year-old Albert Pakulate debstrked after an exciting and terrible 18 - mile ride down the Naugatiek river In Connecticut, on an icc flos. Thosnds of people witnessed por-., tions of the boy-s perilous trip and hundreds of men made efforts to save him. but all in vain. A boat could not live in crunch g mass of ice, rocks and de br is, and the only hope for the lad was tha' the cake of :ce on which he was riding would be caught by an eddy and carried near the shore. Bat at remained in the middle of the 'tream until It was caught in an undertow, and the boy was dragged unde~r some logs and drowned. The boy was playing with the ice in a cove near his home at Water- * bury. Conn., when his foot -dippei and he fell into the river just as an immense Ice floe drifted by. He clambered up on the cake which soo'o ,' drifted out to midstream and rkc boy was held a helpless prisoner . For 18 mIles he drifted down thi stream encouraged by the shouts of his would-be rescueres who raced along the stream but could make no successful esort to get the boy from his perilous position. Finally t-ie cake and the boy disappeared whea an undertow drew them under somt Give This a Trial. To clean silverware, either solid or plated, use a weak solution of ammonia (20 parts water to one of ammonia) and soap. Rub with a brush and rinse in alcohol. This Is for bright or polished finish. For satin or frosted finish use the weak solution of ammonia and baking soda. Wet the brush, rub on the soap, then dip brush into dry soda and scrub the articles thoroughly. Repeat if necessary. Do not use so da on gray silver; it will maze it a.l the same color.* Fiend Makes Escape. A negro entered the hom' of a rarmer near Osborne, N. C., while e was away and assaulted his wife. ihe negro was caught by the fatrm r but later made his escape. Cloe