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vn . vx~XV MANNING, S. C. WEDNESDAY SEPTE.P>R 14, 191) NO.1 WANT HIM FIRED BafMer Case. TRYFNDIM GULT RepubUcan Member of the Cow mittee Refused to Take Part in Meeting of the Commttee. But Wll sLqwue a White Washing State meet After They Meet "That Richard A. Ballinger has not been true to the trust reposed In him as Secretary of the Interior. that he is not deserling of public conlidence. and that he should be required by the proper authorities to resign his oMce." The foregoing sums up the finding of the four Dem ocratic members of the Ballinger Pinchot Congressional investigating committee. which were. made public late Friday after they held a meet ing at Minneapolis. ainn. The Republican members issud no report of any kind bearing on the controversy. An independent re port was given out by Mr. Madisou. the "Insurgent" Republican from Kansas. which declares that Mr. Ballinger "should not be retain ed that he was an unfaithful truste. of the peoples interests and enemy of conservation." and that the charges of Gifford Pinchot shouid .be sustained. These findings will be printed ase Sled with Couwress. The decision Q of the four Democratic men'bers, an-1I Mr. Madison to make the reports ydblic followed a session which was unuwual. Three Republican mem bers, Senator Sutherland. of Utah. and Representatives McCall. of Has sachusetts, and Denby. of Michigan. t refusing to attend the meeting. F1 nally the chairman of the commit tee. hinws:. Senator Nelson. of Min nesota. left the committee room and a failed to return. t Chairman Nelson gave notice thv a mecdng would be held in Chicago next Tuesday. The Democratic mem bers adjourned to meet again in Washington. Deceurber 3. Represen tative Ollie M. James. of Kentucky. one of the Democratic members. an nounced that all of the Democrats. would refuse to attend the meetings. d of vhich Senator Nelson has junst given notiee. The Republicans will s then be in the same position that n the Democratic members and Mr. t Madison found themselves Friday. L The report of the Democrats % b signed by Senators Duncan 7. Flet cher. of Florida. and William pur d cell. of North Dakota. and Repre sentatives Ollie James, of Kentucky. and James M. Graham. of Illinois ~ it says:1 "Summarized. the Demiocrath. it findings declare that the evideace ~ shows: "That there was no conspiracy against Mr. Ballinger. "That Gifford Pinchot and L. R. jd Glavis were faithful trustees of thet peoples interests. I "That Mr. Ballingers conduct on C oertain occasions was intended to and did hiav, the effect of fooling the President. "That Mr. Ballinger's action in havig 'clearined' these so-called A Cunningham Alaskan coal lands and ordering them patented showed bad faith. "That he advocated a hill to vaii date Alaskan coal claims alleged to it be fraudulent. "That his action in acting as at torney in cases pendng Is the land - omces while he was commissionler e was reprehensIble. "That he helped to force the Cun-h ningham coal claims to a hearina before the government was ready te -proceed. "That he encouraged subordina- 1 tion In the reclamation service and condoned improper official conduct' in that connection. Numerous official acts of Mr. Bal linger are attacked. High praise i. given Gifford Pinchot, former chief forester. and L R. Glavis, former chief of the field division of ihe general land offce. Mr. -Madison's conclusions are: "That the charges of Messrs. Gla v1s and Pinchiot should be sustained. "Ta Mr. Ballinger has been un faithful to the public interes-s. "That in the matter of the Cunningham coal lands he was not a faithful trustee of the pe'ople's in terests. "That with regard to the reclama tion service he has taken action tend ing toward its disintegration.' Secretary Ballinwers action in re storing water power sites without in tention to withdraw is also criticis ed. along with his conservation poh cy among other things. A resolution adopted by the Demi ocrats and Mr. Madison provides to publication of the findings. Wlei Senator Nelson left the committee. Senator Fletcher was made chairman pro temn anid the members present proceeded with their work. Earlier in the day an effort wa made to secure a quorunt. 1iit .iith out success. Paul Sleemnan. of Wah ington. D. C.. secretary of the com mittee, was instructed to b'ring in the absentees after being dsignated as sergean1t-at-arm~s. H~e was order ed to arr'st them. but it was :ound there was nio power to do this under the resolution authiorizing the comn m ittee. .it was tpid that tha' RepuiblicansI had remained away- from the ment ing b'ees-o the teared the possimii lty that the action of the Democra' Ic members and Mr. Madison. in adopting a resolution urging the dis milssal of the Secretary and condemn ing his of~cal act. 'm:.ght be rat ified* GOING FOR TEDDY itOSEVl.THAS STlIRD U'P .A H0LtN1-lTS XlE-ST S'l*E.. Senator sriner's Friends Are le aouncing the Ex-President and all SHi% Wo.rka. A Chicago di.patch sam the Ham ilton Club. of that city. often called the :>anner Republican club o: the nation. is greatly wrought up follow ing the Roosevelt-Lorimer incident >f Thursday. Senator Lorimer has a host of riends in the membership of the rlub. and trom these men came rumblings of revolt. All declared .hey were anxious to rebuke Preen ent Batten for acepti; Col. Roese-I elt's ultimatum regarding the ban uet. The Senator's frends say thuy are aly waiting the cue from Mr. Lort nor and if he resigas his member hip from the clu0 they will do likewise. So far he not given the rord and has refu-sed to talk on the abject. Senator Lorimer's friends. witi i .osiderable effort. ma!ntaned st ence -when asked by the newspaper i men for interviews bearing or the Ituation. They then relieved them- 4 elves by .expressing their personal i iews on the incident and everything 1 tooseveltian in words extremely tor d. .Prwident Taft's meeting with enator Lorimer when in Chicago g st Marea. as the guest of the Ham- i too elub. is declared by members I o have the Roosevelt move all the I ore unexpected. When President Taft was here. z nator Lorimer was a conspicious I nest at the various banquets and t ceptions. and the President seem- I d pleased to have the junior sena- i >r from Illinois close at hand. I Those club members sgy that if the 'resident of the nation did not feel t here was any official impropriety in I weeting the Senator in pablic, they I Id not apprehend that a private cit- t ean would consider it impossible to I ttend the same public function with 1 e Senator. * z ARE GETTING RIWt'LTS. d oer Seven Humdred Dog. Ta,.ea Up C in Chareten. It was reported at the Charleston g pound T. tr-lay that . *otal of 00 dogs had been capture4 qn the reete Ate past year. ad ->f this umer 616 had been kil*1- Seven --three dogs have been r-Caoei - ownerat. a-nd there are now on D and at th pound eleven c.-a'tes I waiting their fate. ei h -- thL .-f r oath or going forth licensed S This is a very good rec.'<i t n- . 1at has not been equat-l ?ine- ;ae . g cacther was instit~ias-i in .ar- a ~ston. The wagon start.": o'. on s s rounds on April IS. and has hee..' teadily at w.rk since t'1a dat- ti early 2.000 dog licenses have bten t sd by the city tre-se urer. sinlce tne tive campaign -.-r.;t thec .''-AV t og was taken up. and it is owin'.s the good work of *ne police. the 1c esth inspectors and or thb: dcr b tcher that the results obtaind are followed.I E5LLL KILLS A MA.'. te a Terrible Fight in a Pastaie D t at Night, A Savannah dispatch to the Au usta Chronicle says in a terrible :tht in the dark, with a bull. Jacob azzard. a negro man was killed he seen midnight and dawn Wednes ay morning in a pasture at the I astern city limits. After he es aped from the hull. he crawled two undred yards for help. but no'thing nid be done for him. and he died ithin a short time. Hazzard had ust entered the pasture when a , uge shape leaped upon him from he dark. The bull'a horns had bra~s nobs at the tips and the animal hrust the knobs far into the man's e od, tearing great holes in him. ith Its victim on the ground. true 'ull pawed at him inflictir n'aanr .ruises. Hazzard foughut 'or his. fe, crawling to the fence antd push d himaeelf throusrh it. StAY I)E OF~ FRIGHT. rderer F~aill in Court Rto-'. le fore itemtenced. It is possible that the necro B~unki heard. who was convicted of kill g Officer Waldrc~p at Piedmont. nay es'ape the gallows. When :h> ne tro was b'rought in --ourt at Gree. i:1e to be sentenced he fell in .3 'ead faint and his groans cause~ r t p'ctators to believe that the near as in the throes of death. He. wa -arrid from th.- enurt rom u el in the connD: Jail and .1 ;-h:-si -ian hafbeen in almost constant trendance on him. It seems the no r was literally almo:-t scaredl to jeath. The man is still unen.*sc.-'Is o'i he court is in a quanda' as t.> when ha shall be sentenced. ' Leprosy Aboard Train. te'n Kokas. a greek. in ana a~ edl stage of Ieprosy. who has w-r. under qularantine at Salt LaXs iyfor the last three months. was. nisn Fridav frnte the tent :n hieb ha has been quarantined and it was learned that he had taken a train on Wednesday evening intend in gn to Nw Ynrk and ?h.encc o Gr""'ca. F'unds for the .itn t-er.. p:-'vidied he his eur'rymtv' F'ris wnuid no: divulge the routo e as taken. L&Follette Reelected. United States Senator Rohert La Follette has swept the State of W:s REMOVE BALIUNGR POINT OF No Q(')lt- IiSEU AFTI t voTE Is TAK-N. With "Itegular" itepublican Mean bers Abent, lIuurtentt and Dem ucraL% Yote t6 Oust Him. At an executive meeting of the Fall inger- !incheLt investi4-tating com mittee held at Milwaukee on Wed negiay Senator Duncan U. Fletcher, of Fiorida.. a Democrat. introduc'd a resolution holding that the Secre tary of the Interior was an unfaita fu, public officer and should be re moved. Rtepresentative Madison. the Re publican lisurgent from Kansas. in .roduced a substitute holdint that he charges which have been made y Gifford Pinchot and Louis Glav s. a former chief of the feld divis on of the general land office, weie ustained. Representative James. Democrat. >f Kentucky. offered an amendment o Representative Madison's substi tute resolution. providing for the emoval of Mr. Ballinger from office nd Mr. Madison accepted the unendment. The vote came on the substitute f Mr. Madison as amended by the notion of Mr. James and the roll ras called. Those voting for the su.bstitute rere Fletcher, W. E. Purcell. of Crth Dakota. a Democrat: Repre entative James A. Graham. of 1111 ois. Democrat: Representative Mad son. Republican, and Representa ye James. When this vote was being taken enator George Sutherland. of Utah. tepublican. and Representative Sam el W. McCall of Massachusetts. Re ublican. left the committee room. asisting the full committee shouid e present. The Democratic members replied hat they had been months consider ag the evidence, that a quorum was resent, and had a right to transact usines. Senator Nelson. the chair 2an of the committee, took the vote, oting present himself and then %ade the ruling that no quorum was resent. (Mr. james made the point of or er that no member raised the point f no quorum before the vote had en called. FIMINATE MIDDILMIEN. ion- of Texas and Oklahoma Sell Cotton irect. it was announced Thursday by the resident of the Farmers' Union of exas and Oklahoma that a deter ined effort will he made this sea >n to eliminate the middleman in iarketing cotton from that sect'on. s a res-it of the Galveston bankers nd cotton dealers comi ng to the a. istance ,Z the cotton producer: of exa and Oklahoma during the ti ancial troubles of 1908S and 19t9, e farmiers' union contracted to andle the cotton of its members brough the port of Galveston last aon. This was successfully ac >mplished and the contract is just een rene-wed for another year. Speakng of the matter. i'residet .oudermilk of the uon said W--d say that Gal'.eston waseecd eaue it is the purpose of the un n's selling agency to bring c.hou~ roducers directly into touch with be spinners and dealers, thus cut ing out the middlemen. who are a x alike on the producer and the Th'O KILLiEIJ BY FOUl4 AIR. ars Well in Lancaster Cnunty Cau-ses Tragedy. A dispatch to the News and Cour r says Jim Shields and 'Buster' raig. t wo negroes. lost their lives cently by foutl air in a well on S. '. Criminter's place. several mijles Heath Springs. The men were preparing to clean ut the well when Craig's hat fell .He went down to get it and. tot retrnlng. Shields was aiso log red into the well to find nut what he trouble was. He likewise fail dd to make any response to those at he top. Ihis brother. Sam Shields. then tared doiwn in the bucket, to which e was securely tied. After being owered some distar.ee he made a ign of distress and was at once rawn up. When taken out of the ucket he was in an un' !u ndlon. but laiter reviv, t-oul ilr in the well was the cause of the rgedy. D~eclared lneliiblle. At a meeting of the Greenvit~e 'unt v democratic committee C-. ohn G. Greer. who was electod to he leislaure in the first prinmary. ss declared ineligible because of he fact that he failed to file e~en-" .count on the day before the ek' ion. Johnk it Frison we elr ' elected in his stead. Young Men Drown~ed. Monday afternoon by the swamp no a gasoline laumnch on the Ton. isS river, two popular young wo men. Msses Rosa Miller and.1-:a taderan. were drowned near Flor s~e. .ta. Their two brothers were .cued in an exhauseOd crfdit!on. he -odies have not yet been recoc Negro Girl Barred. ma ha called upon Zn der de .i": -a constitu-os a negro in the l'ni ed States it the court of appeals up holds the decision of the District o' r'tumbia snpreme court. in which S yrold !sabel Wall. w-ho is 1-16th neero blood. w-as barred from theo STEAMER SINKS The Worst Disaster in the 6itory of Lake Michigan Happeas MANY PEOPLE PERISH Ferry Boat (e to 4)i1ttna WI-.en Half Way Across Lake:-Heroic Efforts ef Crew to Prevent Cata. troph- Unavailing.-Indescribable Scenes of Horror. Twenty-nine lives were lost near Ludington. ..Mich.. Friday when Pere Marquette car ferry No. IS. bound from Ludington to Milwaukee went to the bottom of Lake .iichigan half way across the lake. The dead include Capt. Peter Colty of Lud ington. S. F. Sezepanek. of Chicago. purser and wireless operator. whose signals of distress brought assistance to the sinking stermner. and two menrbe'rs of the crew of car ferry No. 17. who lost their lives in an effon to rescue the crew of No. I S. shrouded in mystery. F. F. Pevin. cabin watch. said the boat was very low !%t 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 Cochrane. of Chicago. another urvivor, said he was reading a mag azine in his berth when 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 $h000 which t was due Cochrane-s employers after they had delivered the boat to the I Pere Marqueve tomipany. the. h iv lag leased her all summer. But Coc- 4 rance could not load himself down with the coin and tied the thoney 1 to the stairs rail as the boat went down. t Many of the life boats were stove in by wreckage. tumntbling in every direction on the tossing sea. the oc upants of the small boats being t thrown in the water and many, t drowned. t The sum total of the catastropher is toM in the fatal figures. 29 lives lost and the financial loss amounts to s;)0.A'. t The story of the loss of car ferry o. 1V constitutes the most tragic: and thrilling chapter yet written in a the history of Lake Michigan ma rine. Leaving Ludington Thursday night at 11.t' with a fair but stiff t wind and :19 cars loaded on deck. the ferry made good weathe- for five hours on its course to Milwaukee. At 4.4. word was sent to Capt. Peter Colty that his boat was rapidly making water and that the pumps i were unable to keep even with thet now. Will full coinfidence in thea tability and seaworthiness of his raft the veteran car ferry navigator t eaded his ship with all speed toC Sheboygan on the Wisconsin side. The pumpsl were worked to their fulest capacity and all e.xpedienth! nown to a skilled and resuurceful mariner resorted to. Kut despite eve-ry effort the ter-t ile fact dawned upeon the capitain: nd on all on board that the boat s was gradually but surely sinking. An effort was made to run a numz- a er of railroad cars overboard and tus lighten the load and gain a few precious minutes. With great dini uty nine were dropped off the stern f No. 1%. but this gave the vessel - nly 5irht and temporary relief. The ship was doomed. Yet, nni- ! withstanding this inmportant fact anda in the hope of saving both crew and t*aft, the captain crowded his ship . to the utmost lt hoping to reachi hoal water. The effort was futile. At 7.2" Friday nmorninct time came f when the boat's bouyancy was no longer sunficien? to sustain it. Sud denly without warning and before the horrified gaze of 50 men on 1 board ferry No. 1 7. which had justc arrived on the rscene in response to 1 a distress signal, the big black bow I of the ship rase high in the air, thea stern settled swiftly toward the hot tom and with a roar and crash like an expilosion the ship shot downward I and was tost to view. Tho horritted onlookers on num- I ber I 7 stood for a moment spwe.en less and petrified. There among the surging waves wer" !ellow being~sI struggling for their liv.-s. Agoniz-c intr cries for help were' beard ab~ote the sea. All wais confusion. indes- 4 striale. terror and chaos. In a twinkling 29 live-s were snuffed Out and sixty strong men we're pre-cip: tated into a death trap as cruel as 4 itwas hopeless. Then h ran the rescue. l.ow--r inr one o her life 'boats. contain inc four sailors the crew of Numbetr 1 began a work which marks many of them as horoc. No sooner hadl the tiny boat touched the angry wav es than it was hurled with territic force against the side of the steel steamer and crushed to a sh, pele.,s mss. Two of the sailors were retseued by those on hoard while the other two. .lo~s_ Tetmron and R ..Jaco& son. a scruiber. immrediately -<. and drown-'d. After this incident it said 'hat the men were loath to' entr *he small boa's. but others of gaater courage man e nter. This :.oat. mn charge of Dune--n 'Mllirn. o! Ludincton. did heroic work and in :ess than an hour pick d up 14 survivors, who were ils. in about clingrini to bits of wre, k a:. *han another li!fe Sn't 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. Tesier. of Milwaukee. ear terry No. 20. Pere Marquete stea~ner No. A and a tu; GETS VERY MCI Roosevelt Refuses to Attend Diner WiW] Suator Lorimer. WAS A GREAT SURPRISI After [k-ing Informed that Junior Senator from Illinoli. was Invited to Banquet Given in Hi& Honor Teddy Says "Then I .%lust Decline to Go." Col. Theodore Roosevelt. Ex-Pr-s dent of the United States. Thursday barred Senator William Loriner. punior Seuator from Illinois, from he Hamilton Club banquet at the ongress Hotel at Chicago by refus ng to sit at the same table. The in :ident came .unheralded. The pr.p ramme of the big event. under the uidance of the Hamilton Club. has or days announced that Senator Lor!mer and others would sit at the peakers' table with Col. Roosevelt. The occurrence startled politicians n Chicago and over the State. The inprecedented demand that the Ham ton Club deny to one of its own nembers the privilege of attendia. he banquet came with charastertSa bruptness from Col. Rooseve't. The Hamilton Club delegation. eaded by former Judge John T. Bat joined Col. Roosevelt at the 'air grounds in Freeport. Ill.. sbc- - y after noon. The Colonel shook ands heartily with each member of he delegation and at once began uestioning them concerning the nquet. "*Is Speaker Cannon to be there?" e asked. --Yes." Mr. flatten replied. *he h4 ccepted the invitation." *How about Senator Lorimer?" ras asked. -Senator Lorimer Is a member of he club." he was told. "and has ac epted an Invitation to the dinner." "Then I must decline to go," said ol. Roosevelt. adding that he would eel the -same about the presence of enator Lorimer as he would of sit ing down with members of the 11'i ois Legislature who are under In tment in the graft inv'~t*iatiOu The committee members looked heir amazement. and finally. aftez ome hesitation. informed their -uest they would go back to Chicago nd tell Senator Lorimer his views. -No.- Col. Roosevelt said emphAt ally. "Send a telegram telling him hat I will not attend the dinner to ight if he is there.' The limilton Club men were per lexed. utit their embarrassment was pnarently not noticed by Col. Roose elt. who chatted with others stand ag near by. After some intersal he following telestram was drafted d dispatched to Senator Lorimer: -Col. Roosevelt positively declin.'s o sit at the same table with you. )ur invitationl to you for this eve ing is hereby withdrawn." This telegram~ was signed by for .xer -Judge John H. Batten. The de gaton which waited on Cal. Roos.' eIt to escort him to Chicago and e ainquet hall wais :aken com-' letely by sturprise and their discus ion of the event did not cease with he sending of the telegrsam to Sen tor Lorimer. .Judge Batten, as the spokesman f the party, said that the incident. as a complete surprise to him. -The club had invited a number f prominent Republicans among hem the Republican Governor of linois and various Congressmen. d l had not occurred to the men -hoe arranged the dinner.'' said dge Batten. ''that they should not nvite a Repuhlcan Senator. U-nder he circumstances there is nothing >r us to do except to respect thA ishs of Col. Roosevelt. the guest f the evenin'.'' On the t~rip to Chicago there was nuch discussion of the possihle out ne of the incident and all mem ers of the delegation appeared re eevd when they' were Informed oxn rrivingt at Chicago that Sen rtor Lor -er would not attend the banque-. On the street. in offices anc in uublic buildings the tidings caused1 uch commnent. particularly among hose who noted that the ban agaiutt 'nator L.orimoer was coincident with h coplet ion of the second trial ot ee O'Nil lrown,-. minority leader if the Illinois Legislature. charged ih bribery in connection with the lction of the junior Senator fromr If Senator William Lorier was urprisd at the refusal of Col. Roos velt to sit at the banquet table with iin. no indication of it escaped him. f he was displease'd or hurt at the rnk exposition of distaste of his rrsence he showed no sietr.s. Killed by Bas.eball. Edward Ballard. 'i years old. was iilled in a baseball game Thursday tt isner. Mtich. A foul tip h't himi er the heart while he was play ng the position of catcher. :an lie saving crew arri-.ed on the rene. They' instituted a thorough rareb for survivors and bodies and uueed'd in pIcking up seven of the ore~r and eight of the lat'er. Te cause of the disaister may al s's remain a mys'~tery. The men "'h knw what the trouble was are ti dead and among the suxrvivors hre are only tw'o theories and seculations. The hest conclusion r's that the car ferry's after wat er ompartment filled through on 'e or broken deadlight whieh was f&wed at th. last minute by a brsting of hulkheads. ifnr assistant. Chretusper-dirisec -Chief Engineer Ross Leedham zzd hs tf.rt assistant. Chas. Rosen :ras. died at their posts in the en le *om COTTON GINNED FIfST REIPORT ISSUEI ) Y THE (ENS4S I)EVAITMENT. Amount of the Staple Ginned of This Year-s Crop shows. a Big Falling Off to September 1. The numipr of les of cotton ginn ed to September I from the growth of 1910 was 1.56.24 bales. round hales counted as half bales. accord ing to the report of the census bu reau made at 10 o'clock Thursdhy morning. The 1909 total was 388. 242 bales: the 190! was 402.22. bales. and the 1907 was :00.278. Comparative statistics by States of 'cotton ginned follows: States. 91). 1903. Alabama. .).:.. .. . 4.5 , 13.32 Arkansas.. 27 449 Florida........ 60 4 3.L 42 Georgia........ 2.s18 1. 06.3 10 1 Louisiana....... 1.106 3.A , Mississippi .. ....Z5 1.76.. ) North Carolina. .. 4 1.070 Oklahoma.. .. .. 397 1.30 South Carolina. .. 198 18.94 Tennessee...... - - 4 Texas . . . . . . ..3:8.625 237.901 All other states. . 55 1 The number of sea island bales included Is 208 as compared wizh? 1.236 for 1909. Statist.icians of the census bureau do not consider the fal!ing of' In the figures of the first ginning report to the eastern States as significant as might appear. They attribute the I decrease to the lateness of the crop c rather than to any cause which In c t'he end would effect its vonume They say that the spring was late through out the eastern southern States. re- T tarding the growth of the plant and 9 delaying its maturity for abo-t two t weeks. Without having any other t definite informatlon they expect a :, aterial imoprovemenit in future re- I ports. The season has been unus ually good in Texas. which fact ac- I colunts for the prospective large crop - there. C s GAVE DEATH DINNERS. Was An Eccentric Host and Undes irable Husband. t Julius L. Brown. oldest son of the war governor of Georgia. and broth er of the present governor. who died the other day at Atlanta. was a uni que character. Hie graduated with honors from Harvard and practiced 'aw for a time. but gave it up and hecane a collector of rare coins and curios. He was a friend of the stage t and entertained at his home every , prominent actor and actress woo came to Atlanta. He also entertained President Gro ver Cleveland. sittitr; in a chair once owned by Napoleon and dining off a t tablecloth that belonged to the ill fated Maximilian. Mrs. Brown sep- e erated from her husband aecause of ~ his ec'centricities. and for many years he had lived alone in a great Eli abthan mansion.dnei ':early he gave a "death dne to a band of cronies. At the* din n ers every.thing was~ emblemiat.e of 1 death. The table was In the form o'f a coffin. there were skeleton., arnd skulls about the diningt room. laghts were so arranged as to produce :hostly effects and skulls and uones were on the menu cards. WEALTHY P'AINTElB. Ik-ath Beveals Supposed Poor Man a to Jhe Rich. r That Frank Nicholas. of Momence. a I's.. a member of a crew of painters ( at work on the Burlington Round n House there, was not an humble I eraftsman ho pretended to be. hut ar wealthy man studying sociological " problems, came to light thorough a search of the man's effects after het had been killed by a fall from a lad - der on which he was at work. Deeds to valuable Chicago real estate. min ing property in the Dakotas and I stock in various railroads. aggreg:st ing over $50.fl00 In value were found I among his posessions. Clt!lIlN.1LI NEGI.IGENCE Millionaire SlotEriLst Held Under Serlius Char-e. "Guilty of criminal negligence-u was the verdict found Thursday byb a coroner's jury against Edw:.rd '* .r Resenheimer. the youngt millionair--. whs motor car rat: down .inid ka!. ed t;race Hlough, the 19-y-a~r-oal e daughter of a l.oli~ema1~n e..-.rly on thet morning o: August 1 s. In th- Brounx. New York. It is charn.ed Ro..nh.'im r who wais driving put on full pow- I or after the collision. Tha coroner 1 refused to admit Rosenheimer '.o ail Thursday and said he won :d consider an appalication for bail Fri-d day. Nine l~roaned. I Reports Wednesday from the nooded districts of Hamilton and Comanche counties. Texas. along thef Soth L.eon River have not miateri a! ly increased the death list. Nine persons were report-d as drowneda which includo Mrs. Geor::e Carey ad thr-ee children. .L. R. Fulcer. ife and two children. and Mrs. Mec Cullouagh. The crops along the riv r have been destroyed. Wires ire downr and full details are lacking. They Were Drowned. Accorditn: to men landi:3; at Old Pint Comfor' from 'ho ba'1 uia.: the three men w ho me'. doath aboardl ha North Dakota were no' kil led.i by the explosion of oil as v drst re-1i ported. :.ut were drcwned w'het 6iei room No. 12 was f~ockef'd to prn~' i te spread of the names and the ex< plosion of the magaa:ne .located j.t I MAYOR HITS AT TEDDY IEFUSES TO SERVE ON THE RF CEIMON C)3IITTEE. Because the Former President Said Miany Harel Things About the So sialist Some Time Ago. Soon after R..,os4 elt arrived a Milwaukee %Wines4 - and before he ;at down to breakfa..t at the Pfeister iotel. he found himself involved in L controversy with Emil Seidel. the ocialist- mayor. -who had declined .o act upon the reception committee which welcomed the colonel to Mil waukee. In a contribution "Tto he Pig itick." a newspaper published by the Ailwau;ee Press club for this oc tasion. Mayor Seidel st:ed that *if dr. Roosevelt comes to Milwaukee iolding the same ideas which he ex ressed in an article published by 1m March 20. 191)9. it is clear that ie cannot serve the cause of honesty nd decency in American politi;al ife.". Rap From Mayor Seidel. "It is possible that I have misun ierstood the article," stated Mayor seidel. "but inasmuch as I am a ocialist and he has called socialism thing which is against morals and -eligion. 'abhorrent.' 'revolting. vhich would replace the family and tome life by a glorious state of free unch counter and a State founding asylum. I am sure that he will be >eased that I am not personally onnected with his reception In the :ity." No Right to Preach Xorality. Charging the colonel with 'a cun ting and deliberate purpose to cre te a false Impression." he declared hat the visitor "could lay no claim o the right of preachng either mor lity or religion or civic righteoua Less." In the spiaking tour of Mr. Roose -elt through the West.' continued ,ayor Seidel. "I fall to see anything >f impoortance beyond political de igns and plans. As such. of course. t is of no special service to the pres t city administration. The prob ems that now confront our ci'y are f much the same nature as those he nation facee." Shown the StatemenL Upon being shown this statement. 0ol. Roosevelt promptly said: "On this trip I have made no par isan political speeches and of course hall not break through the rule ow by discussing either the State arty matters or the municipal par t matters. and at present o' curse he doninant nunicipal party in Mil 'aukee is the socialistic-party. "If any one wishes to triow ri iews on what is usually ca:lcd 3o ialism. they will find then set o 1r a such fashion that it is impossibl. D misinterpret or misanderstand hem in the articles to which thel, tayor in his letters refers. and I dvise them to read the articles hemelves and not what the mayor ays oZ them.'' CLiMBS ON ENGiNE. 'he Miraculous% Ew',aye From Death of a Young Man. Climbing from the wreckage of is buggy. on the pilot of a locamo ive ilying at the rate of ->0 miles an our. Fred Minor, aged I8 years ecently clambered up on the run ing board of the engine and into e engine cab. His escaipe was ear to the miraculous. The engirP. on the Lake Shore allroad struck his horse and bugay few miles outside of Ashitahula. hio. The horse was killed and Mi or. wedged into the wreckage of the uggy. remained on the pilot of the shing engine. Indignant, he climb d into the Cah. he says to tell tue ngineer what he thought of him. le claimed that the engiae had no endlight. The enttine stopped to let h-irn oit lnor pointing out that his parents -ould expect him home early and e walked the six miles back to town. I was not hurt. LARGER THAN THE STATE. 'w York City Has Nearly Five Mil lion People. The census of 19!'0 shows the pop lation of Greater New York~ city to - la.or than the population of the emnainder of New York state. Itn he opinion of th.- New York Sun nother decade must pas before the ity will dominate ini the legis:ature. ut the gain of the city in congres ionl and legiltive represenltatin :ratly enchance~s its politfil powen. n r.-lation to up-State New York. temembering the numbers of great iies in N.-w York State. such as luao and Rochester. and the hun Ireds of others. cities and towns. he anouncemfent that the metropolis utnumbers thenm in aggregate popu ation brings home some notion of ts imen.ity. In fact. New Yo:'i s much too big Customs Grafterm. At New York Patrick .3. Quigley. orm.'r customts weigher, who tes ified Friday in the customs under reighing tria!. declared that whbile mployed on the Arbuckle sugar lo-ks in Brooklyn from 1965 to 97 be had repeatedly particupated a under-weighing operations. HeI estied that his tee for passing the m~portaions was "from $50 to SI)o er shipment." Schooner., Wrcked. Rigolets. I a on the ;:ulf of Meo. o. reports tha' the tramp schooners sarewel and He::ry M. were wreck aa severe storm zaf about an hour's uration thera Friday afternoon i'h --e- -e-e -rened by a fishing FIRE ON Cu s aplon hia Ki ABOARD NORTH D The 51ysterious Accident Oce. in Lower Chesapeake Bay day Morning While the A Fleet Was Sailing froana D)rill Gaou'-'. Another of those tragedies. w go to show that the sailor ofera life to his country in time , as well as in time of war, was acted Thursday morning In the d nought North Dakola. asout 10 from Norfolk. in lower Ches Bay. when an explosion of ..a4 the ensuing fire cost the PlIe three men and more or less injury to nine others. including Lieut. Orin G. Murfin. The accident happened far any shore, and for severaw hoars wildest rumors circulated. th out the community. The official report of A'.l7 Schroeder to the 7 4 names the following and ed in tfe fire'of the battleship Dakota: Dead: Joseph W. Schmidt. ps3er. Robert Gilmore. coal p Joseph Strait, coal passer. Injured: Chief- Mchinst E. Andrew. *achinist T. G. M Chas. C. Roberts. machinist's ebastian J. Wittwer. fireman. class. James A. Brady. fireman. lass: Leo F. Piorek. fireman. class. John G. Morrison, rst class. Fred P. Kinney, rst class. Rear Admiral Seaton Sch :ommanding the Atlantic fleet, mad he following succinct statement he accident: "Between 10.30 and 11 o'clock oil rom room No. 3 In North Dakota aught fire, while the frst sq4adrOz f the Atlantic fleet was maring pa& age from the Southern drill 6o Hampton Roads. t a re nuest from the epamander of C6rth Da kevle commander-in hief of the fleet Immediately order .4 the North Dakota to leave the rcet formation and the battleship 'ew Hampshire put- in near to ren ler assistance, in case they could >f service. No assistance was necessary and - )y I ..30 the fire on the North Da :uta was under contr-l.' "It has not yet been ascertainea iow the fire started. although it is 2ot believed that the accident was lue to any careiessness of the men )f the North Dakota. A board of nquiry was named to investigate the teident. consisting of Capt. C. A. ~ore, of the Delaware, senior officer; Leut. CommandeceL,.Price, of the3 elaware. and Lieut. Commander~L.4 5. Procter. of the Connecticut. ThsJ ard will thoroughly look into the ause of the explosion. - After naming the dead and in ured. stat'eg that the three wno ere dead were "killed outright,' tdmiral Schroeder adds: "The injured men are all expect d to recover. Chief Lieut Orin G. ~Jurfin was In the fire room at the ime of the accident and was burned. ut no: seriously. "The North Dakota. shortly after he accident, anchored off the Thim le Shoal lighthiousie. The wounded men. who are severely but not ser' usly burned, who are removed rom the North Dakota to the hospi al ship Solace and are receiving the est medical attentionl. 'The settling tank in No. 3 fie oomi. near which the fire apparent y broke out is part of a double-bot-. omed compartment. in which the ul is carried in h-.dk. In each fire oom are two 3-.0 :alion tanks. Into rhich the oil it. pumped to be set ~led: It is t'hen pumped into the fire. The North Dakota hal a fire once ef->re .ince she was launched. in Jovember. 1907. That was on the ith of last tay. at the Boston navy ard, when a red-hot rIvet dropped nro, one of the after magazines whiles he shIp was in dry dock. Te. rompt responce of her 250 men to he ship's lire cal: resulted in Quick xtingushmfenlt and averted the breatene.d calamity. Capt. Albert leaves, who commands the North akota. zs a Tennessean and haachad hiryseve'n years of naval servi37," neiluding nineteen ye'ars at sea. Frightful Wreck. Two persons were killed. 15 were eriously injured. five perhaps fatas Ly. and ::0 others suffered minor in uries in the wreck of an eastbound1 urington train on the Great North rn early Wedresdiay at Coram. 301 niles east of Kalispell. Mont. The :rain was enroute from Seattle to Cansas City. Lady Runs for Ofice. 31iss Maude H. Cook,. of Denver. has announced that sbr' will be a andiate for the legislature on the Dmocratic ticke:. Conservation of the State school lands will be the ap eal which she will make to the3 'oters. and if elected she will In roduce a bill to prevent the sale f thess iands and retain them as a perpetual asset of the schools. Took Her Own Life. A Cedartown. Ga. Miss Carrie Ph;!!:ps committed suicide at the ome of her brother-in-law. Will Kerr. by shooting herself through :e heart. Miss Phiilips was divor ed from her husb.d. W. 3. a some time ago. Whetherd Inelcwie "tmede the d