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VOL. XXVII MANNING, S. C.. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 16. 1912 WHAT TEDDY SAID A VOICE FROM THE WHITE HOUSE TALK TO SCOTT IT WANTED MORE. MONEY A Conversation Relating to Colonel Roosevelt's Campaign Fund Is Told to the Senate Committee by Ex Senator Nathan B. Scott, Republi can, of West Virginia. More testimony about the so-call ed Harriman fund of 1904 and the al ieged $100,000 Standard Oil contri bution was developed beoce the com mittee the other day. Former Senator Natha:i B. Scott, of West Virginia, testified that the lats, Cornelius N. Bliss had told him of collecting $100,000 from the Standard and that when be suggested that Bliss ask the company for more, Bliss told him President loosevelt had forbidden contributions from that source. Scott relatod a conver sation he had on the telephone with the "White- House" abo'it the New York campaign of 1904 Ili which "the vcice at the White House" told him "that Mr. Harriman was com ing." Judge Robert S. Lovett, chairman of the executive committee of the Harriman railroads, testified that the late E. H. Harriman had told of a vis it to the..White House and said that President Roosevelt wanted him to help the national committee raise $200,000 for the New York state committee. Former Senator Nathan B. Scott, of West Virginia, was the first witness Wednesday. "When we got low in funds in Oc tober, 1904," he said, "I asked Mr. Bliss if he could not go to 26 Broad way and get some money. '!e :aid 'No,' that he had already secured a contribution from those p9opie. I asked him how much they had given and'he said $100,000." Mr. Scott said he was in Republi can national headquarters in New York in October, 1904, when a tele phone call came "from the White House" for Treasurer Bliss o. Chair man Cortclyou. Neither was present so he talked on the wire. Scott did not identify the speaker - at the White House end of the wire but referred to him as "the voice from the White House" and the "re sponse from the White House." "'What is this trouble I hear about Higgins?" Scott said he heard over the wire. "I hear he may be defeat ed.' "p - He told the "White House" that Mr. Higgins was in danger. "'Can't the state committee sup ply the necessary funds?"' asked the "sWhite House." Mr. Scott said he told of the diffi culties in getting money for the cam paign nd the response from "the White House" was: "'I would rather lose the election in the country than be defeated in my own state.' " "I replied: 'There is no danger of your being defeated,'" said Mr Scott. He added that the voice -at the White House said: "Mtr. -Harriman is coming to see me and I'll see If we can arrange to raise the funds to help Higgins." -'Scott said the committee would "hae to jtudge" with whom he had "Oh, I might as well answer your question." he added. "I thought I -was talking with President Roose 'vlt" When further -questioned he said he could not remember whether the "party at the White House" had said "Mr. Harriman Is coming here." or "1' will have Mr. Harriman come here." Scott said that when he suggested that Bliss go to 26 Broadway for more money. Bliss renlled Presi'!ent Roosevelt had notified him not to accept Standard Oil contributions. "When all the trouble broke out about the life Insurance con'nanies and campaign contribnltions." said Scott. "I went to the ~White House and suggested to President Roosevelt when Mr. Perkins was indicted. that we who, bad benefitted by his contri butions. suply funds to replace those he would have to return, anti for the * use of which he was in trouble. T said I was willing to return that amonnt th't had been sent into West Virginia. but the presiaent said no. that if the money was to be returned It should be returned by the party as a whole." Scott said he never had been in formed of a. ?eturn of $100.000 to the Standard Oil company or any direc tor of it. Judge Robert S. Lovett. chairman of the eveecntiva committee of the --Harriman system testified: -"I knew of Mr. Harriman's visit to~ Washingtotn in October. 1904." be said. "He told me the national enmp mittee w'e then in a hole andI owed the state committee $200.00)0. He said, "The nresidenit wants mae to~ hein thenm ont anti I've got to do it." "Some r'ays later he came to n-i offce and rave me some checks and cash. Mr. Fliss came and rot them. The sum was $25fl.000. The checks were brokerage house checks and were endorsed to Mr. Bliss. T +nld him to send receints to the contribu tors if he knew them." NAUGHTY LITTLE GIRLS. Ten-Year-Old Tots Charged With (Cig arette Smoking. " Girls not over ten years old, in some of the society homes in St. Louis, are smoking cigarettes," said lMrs. E. B. Ingalls at the state con vention of the Women's Christian Temneranc'e union. "Not only here. but in other parts of the state. I have found them r'uffing cigarettes," con tipper the speaker. Mrs. Ingalls pleaded with the dele gates to use every effort in helping enforce th law which prohibits the sale of cigarettes or cigarette mater mis to persons less than 18 years old. Nearly Fifty Were Killed. A dispatch from Tamuica. Mexico, says the charred bodies of 22 victim' of Wednesday nirht's warehouse ex plosion have been recovered. Five hWundred kegs of nowder exnloded. Ii is believed nearly 50 persons were ilman senvmeral hundred hurt. DEATH LIST SEVEN DRUNKEN REBELS OPENED FIRE ON AMERICANS. Three Men Lost Their Lives at Leon * and Four Others Were Killed at Barrancas Tales of the surrender of the town of Leon Sunday by Nicaraguan rev olutionists to American marines and sailors, under Lieut. Col. Long, and the loss of three American lives through the treachery of drunken rebels, were received at the state de partment from Minister Weitsell at Managua. The deaths Sunday brought the to tal of Americans killed by the rebels to seven, the loss of four at Barranca Hill, on the road to Leon, having been previously reported. In his ad vices to Minister Weitself, Rear Ad miral Southerland said he expected peace in the republic within a month. The chief- revolutionary bands have been crushed, and their leaders cap tured and exiled. The men killed at Leon were: Roy G. Morgan, Los An geles, Cal.; George O. Buirgess, or dinary seaman Colorado, Stillwater, Minn.; Marine Private John Bartels, Cook county, Ill. Although three were reported in jured the name of only one private, Frank Kittsmiller, could be found in the records at Washington. Those reported wounded, whose names do not appear in the records, were: Lamper, ordinary Seaman Colorado, and Dalder trumpeter, marine, Com pany D. "The credit of this successful ter mination of a most critical condi tion," said Admiral Southerland in his report, "is principally due to the firmness and the good judgment, abil ity and tact of Lieut. Col. Long dur ing the month he has had charge of the situation at that place." When Col. Long demanded the surrender of Leon, Dr. Espinosa, Gen. Irias and 11 other rebel lead ers from Costa Rica applied for pro tection and passports to leave the country. This was agreed to after the colonel had communicated with Rear Admiral Southerland at Mana gua, who secured the approval of President Dias. Then the surrender of the town was ahnounced. Before the Americans could take possession, however, a handful of drunken rebels opened fire upon the Americans, killing the three named. The marines and bluejackets return ed the fire and killed about 50 revolu tionists. WHIP THE TURKS IN BATTLE. Their Position at Detchitch Fafls Be fore Terrific Bombardment. A cablegram from Podgoritsa, Montenegro, says the Montenegrins have captured Detchitch Mountain. The Turkish commander and officers with many soldiers have surrendered. For the last thirty hours the battle between the Montenegrin forces, un der direct command of King Nichol as, and Turkish troops strongly en trenched in the hills, has been in progress. The fight began at eight o'clock on Wednesday morning, the first shot being fired by Prince Peter against the Turkish position on Mount Plan nitza. Within a few hours the Turks evacuated that dlsttct. Strongly fortified positions were occupied by the Turks, however, on Detchitch iMountain, which com mands the road to Scutari and rein forcements were brought up, which resulted in a general engagement, which extended over a line several miles long. King Nicholas remained at his headquarters at .Podgoritza while the, Crown Prince directed operations at the front. The Montenegrins resum ed the bombardment of Detchitch at dawn and a heavy cannonading was kept up until eleven o'clock in the morning, when the Turkish batteries on the mountain were silenced. Meanwhile a great battle was pro ceeding near the Turkish town of Tushi. about 15 miles to the south of Podlgoritza. In the afternoon the Turkish commander in Detchitch, with his officers and a majority of his troops 3urrendered. The Montene grins captured four guns. The Mfontenegrin standard was boisted over the captured position. There were heavy losses on bot'h sides. buit the Montenegrin camp gave itself over to re.Coicings on the first victory in the war. A division of Montenegrins commanded by Gen. Vkotuch crossed the frontier early Thursday morning, near Berana. LOVEMAKER 1S rNWfAKBR. Disclosures at Trial of Hugger Led to Breaking of Engagements, W nesses at the trial of Ellwood Tmes, of Sterling, Ill., charged by Miss Alice Prescott with attempted ~usault, proved that he bad made lve to practically every unmarried oman in the town and had succeed d in hugging and caressing 12 of them. He was fined $25. After the trial. Edward Hans and William Matzinger, sweethearts of two of the objects of James' atten t~ion. organized a posse of other sim iarly affected young men and drove ames out of the city. He led his pur suers for several miles anid managed to escape. As a result of the disclo sures at the trial several engage ments have been canceled. Former Senator Peffer Dead. William A. Peffer, elected to the United States Senate by the first Populist Legislature of Kansas, died ot anoplexy at Grenola. Kan., early Monday aged 81 years. Peffer was elected to the Senate in 1891 and served six years. Badly Shot But Will Live. At Savnnah, Ga., F. M. Rountree, an Emanuel county bailiff, is at a hospital with a bullet hole practical ly through his entire body, but the doctors say he will get well. Roun tree was shot at Stillmore. Emanuel county, Sunday evening by Bob You man's a youth. Farmers Have Fatal Fight. James Farris, one of the wealth it farmers of Central Kentucky, was shot and killed on the street at Richmand. Ky., Monday. Brecken ridge Maupin, another wealthy farm er, was arrested. The killing was a DARK 13 OUTLOOK FOR THE REPUBLICANS THROUGH OUT THE NATION. SURE RUIN AWAIT THEM Only Democratic Over Confidence Can gave the Grand Old Party, and Events of Recent Days Have Gone Farther to Foreshadow Rout of Taft and Roosevelt. The Washington correspondent of The State says with less than a month remaining until the presiden tial election, it is apparent to any man who is not deaf, dumb, blind and paralyzed in addition that Wood row Wilson will be elected by the largest popular majority every given a candidate of the Democratic party. These things have happened during the past week to make it absolutely certain that the Republican ,outfit, bag and baggage, will leave the White House at noon March 4; Roosevelt reached the zenith of his popularity when he ended his swing around the campaign contribution committee in Washington a few days ago; Charles D Hilles, Taft's man Friday, who should hereafter be known as Charles-claim-it-all 'Hilles, has made a monkey out of his- chief and has proved himself a poor prophet by de claring that the regular Republicans have everything sewed up when any one of unprejudiced mind knows that nothing of the kind is true; Senator .oseph M. Dixon injured the Progres sive cause by his attitude of hostility before the campaign committee by crying for the "other fellow" to be called; Bryan has done the right thing by Wilson and again proved to the country where he now stands, and lastly "William Bill" Sulzel, by being nominated for governor of New York will make the Empire State solid for Wilson and Marshall. These are the big political events of the past ten days, not to say anything of the countless smaller indications, all pointing toward a Wilson and Mar shall viptors. It would have been better, accord ing to well known political leaders there, had Roosevelt not appeared -before the campaign investigating committee, and his cause would not have suffered if he had kept Senator Dixon off the stand. The latter hurt the Progressive movement more than anything else that has happened since Roosevelt threw his hat i '.tne ring at Chicago and declared that he would have the presidential nomina tion if it could be gotten regularly, if not he would have it anyhow. Dix or's attitude, when before the com mittee, convinced not only the com mittee members abut spectators as well that there was much that he knew but would not tell, but alto gether his demeanor was so overbear ing that the committee was glad to let him go and be done with him, according to what the campaign mon ey probers say. If anything at all was accomplished by the Roosevelt Dixon testimony it was to send Roose velt and Taft further apart and cem ent the Democrats. Where Charles Dewey Hilles gets the inspiration to feed President Taft reelection dope is more than the av erage politician there or anywhere else is able to understand, During the last few days the big chief has been taking extra large quantities of Dr. Hilles cure-all stuff and the strange part about it is that the doc tor is really making Taft believe he Is going to lIe re-elected. Even the'very close friends of the president admit that under present circumstances he stands third in the presidential line-up, and they see with clear vision that while the total Taft-Roosevelt vote at the election next month must come from one source alone--the Republican vote and that there are two men to solit It-Wilson, on the other hand, has the entire solid Democracy bohind him. Any man who can not see that proposition must, indeed, be blind, and all do see it, apparently, but Mr. raft himself. Hilles is making him believe he is really to be re-elected. Thbe truth about the matter Is that the G. 0. P. Is slated for rout before the year 1913 has gone'far into his tory. Ask the real thinking men in the party whose perspective is clear and whose vision is keen. They will tell you that the handwriting on the wall clearly spells Wilson and Mar shall and Democratic victory and that probably only one thing can defeat the Democrats-overconfidence-and that leading to indifference and apathy in some sections of the coun try. With the G. 0. P. split as It never has been before and dashing itself to fragments with every incoming wave, to say nothing of the influence working for Wilson and Marshall with all the big and little Democrats pulling for victory-the demise of the G. 0. P. is near at hand. RE-WED AFTER MANY YEARS, Was Divorced Twenty-Nine Years and Drifted Apart. That their last days may be spent together, Alexander C. Tonecray. 75 years of age, and his divorced wife. 73, have remarried after having been separated 29 years, Their second honey-moon will be spent in Califor na, near Los Angeles, where Toncray owns an orange grove. The reunion was brought about by a letter to Ton cray, then in Chicago, from his daughter in New York city. The in formation that his former wife was ill brought him to St. Louis, Mo., to her bedside. A reconciliation fol lowed and they were remarried. Their first wedding was at Clarks ville, Mo., in 1859. Eighteen Sailors Rescued. Eighteen survivors of the abandon Sstoamer Banes were picked up Off the Florida coast Wednesday by the naval supply ship Aretl';aa. accord ing to a report received by wireless -u the Key West naval staition. The Ranes sailed from Norfolk on Sep. ember 7 for Manzanillo. Negro Bite Was Fatal At Stanford, Ky., Ed Elam. 21. p. farmer, is dead from the effects 1o rabies, which developed a few days after he was bitten by a negre farm hand during a fight two weekE ago. PARTY NEEDS MONEY WANTS OF THE DEMOCRACY ARE VERY PRESSING. Situation Becomes Urgent and the Finance Committee Makes Appeal to South Carolina. To the Democrats of South Carolina: The chairman of the finance com mittee for South Carolina for the na tional Democratic committee receiv ed the following telegram from Hen ry .Morgentbau, chairman of the gen eral finance committee of the Demo cratic national committee: "National committee must have funds this week. Send us for your State by Saturday or Monday at least $3,000. Communicate with your finance committee and other promi nent Democrats and see, if possible, that your collections equal this amount. The situation Is urgent and we depend upon you." Owing to the fine contribution of $1,800 received from Charleston, through Henry W' Conner of the South Carolina finance committee, it is possible to comply with Mr. MIor genthau's call. But what will be the condition next week and the week following when the needs of the na tional committee will be at least as great and when there will not be a Charleston mine to be worked? That question may be answered satisfactorily by those counties that have not begun to give financial sup port to the Democratic cause. When the children of a graded school in Greenwood county has given more to Democracy than is represented by the counties with 3.000 Democratic vot ers; when not one of 21 counties has contributed as much as $100; when little Dorchester has given more than Greenville and Cherokee com bined and as much as Spartanburg, it is readily seen that there Is room for tremendous additions to the fund without placing a strain upon either financial capacity or party spirit. Hundreds of "prominent Demo crats"' have been communicated with personally; some have' responded, many have not. Time is now very limited, and the situation as describ ed by Chairman Morgenthau is here given to the public for such action as it may inspire. William E. Gonzales. Chairman Finance Committee for South Carolina. Columbia, October 9. OFFICIAL VOTE BY COUNTIES. Returns for Governor as Tabulated by State Committee. The official returns of the State Democratic executive committee for the forty-four counties for the Gu bernatorial candidates, as tabulated, shows that there were 140,757 votes cast. The total vote for Governor Blease was 72,043; for former Judge Ira B. Jones, 66,548, and for John T. Duncan, 2,166. The Governor's plurality over Jones, the next candi date, was 5,495, and his majority was 3,329. The official vote, as tab ulated, for the two leading candi dates for Governor follows: Blease. Jones. Abbeville.. .. .. .. 1,392 1,339 Aiken.......... 2,190 1,926 Anderson... .. .. ..5,155 2,779 Bamberg..... .. .. . 574 684 Barnwell. .. .. .. ..1,265 1,113 Beaufort.... .. .. .. 187 494. Berkeley.... .. .. ..655 470 Calhoun..........407 481 Charleston. .. .. .. 2,713 3,521 Cherokee.. .. ......1,841 1,255 Chester.. .. .. ....1,148 1,148 Chesterfield .. ......1,708 1,299 Clarendon .. .. .. .. 1,279 747 Colleton.. .......1,480 1,086 Darlington. .. .. .. 1,507 1,566 Dorchester.... .. .. 873 781 Dilloni.... .........1,124 1,102 Edgefield.... .. .. .. 638 1,306 Fairfield .. .. .. .... 731 787 Florence. .. .. .. .. 2,0 24 1,912 Georgetown.........596 968 Greenville.. .. .. .. 4,319 4.61 5 Greenwood. .. .. .. 1,429 1,588 Hampton...........655 919 1orry. .. .. .. .. .. 2,172 1.510 Tasper.............272 246 Kershaw. .. .. .. .. 1,487 1,026 Lancaster.... .....1,262 1,546 Laurens. .. .. .. .. 2,203 1,773 Lee.. .......... 999 765 Lexington--.'. .. .... 2,308 1.972 Marn. .. .. .. ... 909 1,177 Marlboro.. .. .. ...1,147 1,253 Newberry.. .. .. ...1,64 4 1,438 Oconee. .. ........1991 1,546 Orangeburg .. .. ....1,763 2,552 Pickens. .. .. .. .. 2.259 1,297 ..chland. .. .. .. .. 3,011 2,906 Saluda...... .. .. ..1,158 947 Spartanburg .. ......5,642 4,931 Sumter............890 1,361 Union.... .... ...1,757 1,265 Williamsburg.......908 1,100 York.. .... .....2,371 1,924 Totals .. .. .. ...72,0 43 66,548 AUGUSTA MOB ATTACKS CAR. The Mortomnan Fatally Hurt and the Condwz'tor Wounded. At Augusta Wednesday night, in a dark spot adjoining the Schuetzen platz, a small crowd of men ran out and hoarded a car coming down from Summerville. When they attempted to capture the motorman and conduc to. strikebreakers, one of them fired on the crowd. Immediately a dozen or more shots were fired and the attacking crowd left the car. One of the injiured men fell over the back of the car upon the track. The other one, falling off of the moving car, made his way into the hallway of an adjoining resi dece and fell. The car was stopped nearly two blocks below the scene of the shooting. Both the wounded men, strike breakers, were picked up by a pass ing automobile and rushed to the city hospital. They were unconscious. Motorman Frank Kelly will die, but Conductor Allen Brooks will proba bly recover, it is reported since exam ination by surgeons. None of the crowd of strike sympathizers who fir edi on the two men have been arrest ed.4 Wanted to See Circus Parade. Alph Whitehead, a young North Georgia farmer boy, attempted tc cmmit suicide on the street at At. lanta Monday afternoon because he had come all the way from home tc see the circus parade, and then miss ed it by standing on the wrong street LIVELY TIMES AHEAD THERE WILL $E THREE PARTIES IN THE ELECI'ION. But the Democrats Are Certain of Success Before They Ever Go Up Against Teddy's Forces. The Columbia correspondent of the Augusta Chroniale says three parties will participate in the gen eral election in South Carolina to be held on November 5-the success of the Democratic party always being assured in this State. The electors of the Democratic party have already been named and electors of both the Republican and Progressive party will be placed on the ticket. The Re publican party in this State is made up almost to a man out of the negro voters. The Progressives claim that the new party is a white man's party and that the negro is not welcome. At the meeting of the Progressives several days ago W. P. Beard of Ab beville was named as permanent sec retary. Beard is a great friend of Governor B-lease and is editor of the News-Scimetar, the official Blease newspaper in South Carolina. At least it has been and no announce ment has been made as to the change of policy. Beard was also a constable appointed by the governor to accom pany him on his campaign during the summer. The people of the State are very much interested just now in just what the relations will be between Blease and Beard. Will Beard be a Progressive and be continued on the pay roll of the Democratic voters of the State for practically all taxpayers are Demo crats. It will also be remembered, too, thkt just before the executive committee declared Blease the Dem ocratic nominee that Beard wrote some articles, of a semi-official na ture stating the position of the ad iinistration. At that time Beard showed his Bull Moose inclination because he intimated -that should Please be declared not the nominee that he would run any way. and that a full state ticket from governor down would be placed in the field. The Republicans and the Progres sives will not put out a state ticket. Republican officers say that district conventions will be called and that candidates for congress will be put out in every district. Where are the Republican and ' Progressive votes coming from? According to the re turns from the Democratic primary over 140,000 votes were cast. In the last general election there were 3, 965 Republican votes cast. It is hardly probable that many Demo crats will violate their oath and bolt the party. Then, too, the Democrat ic vote was abnormal. Will the Re publicans and the Progressives split the 4,000? BANK ROBBER CAUGHT. Police Seize Pair in $320,000 Cana dian Bank Theft. A year's chase following the theft of $320,000 from a branch of the Montreal bank, in Westminster, B. C., has ended in St. Louis in the irrest of Frank West, one of the leaders of the gang, and a woman supposed to be his wife, but who is known to the public as Jeanett Little. She was captured in Edwardsville, Ind. The pair are being held for the Canadian authorities, though the Chicago po lice desire them for the assault with intent to kill Police Leut. Burns. The arrest of West was brought about by detectives following a wo man, who was traced from Chicago after the Burns assault through In diana to St. Louis. There she secur ed quarters In a cheap lodging house. West joined her there and they left immediately.. He was arrested while walking a square behind the woman. When she was unable to locate her companion, she fled and was taken in Edwardsville. Following the assault on Lieut. Burns, the police of Chicago picked up a book of accounts Indicating that the gang has spent as much as $2, 000. The book also gives clews to the identity of the rest of the gang, including one member who has $140, 000 In Canadian money. It Is known now that the gang visited Chicago to exchange Canadian bills and was giving a per cent. for the exchange. HER HUSBAND A MULATTO. Woman Makes a Startling Discovery Four Years After Marriage. Mrs. Annie Wilsore of Washing ton, an applicant to the Juvenile court for an order requiring her hus band to support their two children, declares in her plea that she has just made the discovery that for four years she has been married to a ne The discovery was not made until the man's mother came to visit them for the first time and revealed Wil son's race. He had explained his color to his wife before their mar riage by saying he was of Indian de scent. The marriage occurred in Boston four years ago. Mrs. Wilson will apply for a divorce. .SHOTS FIRETD AT CREW.. Augusta Street Car Attacke-1, but No 'body Hurt. A dispatch from Augusta says that between 8 and 9 o'clock SIonday night a car on the Ionte Sano belt, of the city lines, was signalled to stop on Gwinnett, near 5th street. When it came to a standstill the trol ley was snatched from the wire and the lights put out. Immediately the motorman and conductor, strike breakers, jumped from the car and fifteen or twenty shots were fired at them as they ran. Investigation by a special detail of policemen, who were rushed to the scene in automo biles, has not developed injure to anybody, but the car remained on the line a couple of hours. Killed in Signal Tower. William Willcox, telegraph opera. Itor in a signal tower at Saybrook, Coln., on the New Haven railroad, Iwas crushed to death Wednesday night when a freight train crashed Iinto the tower, burying him under Ithe wreckage. INegro Shoots Motorman. An unknown negro shot the mo Itorman of a street car in (Mobile, and mae good his escape. CHAINS GIRL TO FLOOR ANDMAKE LOVE TO HER A WELL DRESSED ROliUE tl Raffles in Real Life, Accompanied by ] Giant Negro, Enters Residence of c W. E. Gaines, at Spartanburg But w w Steals a Little Whiskey and Leaves y b a Note. tl The Spartanburg Herald says s bound and gagged by a desperate but gentlemanly burglar, who kept her lying helpless on the floor while he drank whiskey, smoked cigarettes ard paid her delicate compliments such was the remarkable experience of Miss Lily Gaines, pretty 18-year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wil liam E. Gaines, in their home at No. 320 South Liberty street Monday af- d ternoon. Returning home from a shopping f trip about 5:45 o'clock, Mrs. Gaines B found Miss Lily in the plight describ- E ed in the sitting room in the front of b the house. The door and front win- U dow of the room were locked and en trance was obtained through a side window. When the chains with h which the girl's wrists and ankles u were bound and the flour sack with t] which her mouth was stopped had a been removed, Miss Lily related the f, story of. her experience-a story s strange as fiction. t She told how she was overcome sa -hile dozing on a couch by a well- c, dressed and seemingly, cultivated in- tl truder, a middle-aged white man of fc striking appearance, accompanied by riant mulatto, who scemed to stand ti !n great fear Ci the white man. She I< told how the white man, leaving the o 'o to guard her, ransacked the' S mo e, and t?:en, apparently finding h r.tliing to his ilkingreturned to the c oon to flatter her with nicely turn- h ed bonmots on her personal appear- o ,ce: how, after amusing himself in ft this fashion for perhaps a half hour. h in the meantime draining a good part a of a bottle of liquor, this Raffles in real life ordered the negro to leave nd departed himself through the ij:e window five minutes later, and just about 15 minutes before Mrs. Baines returned. There was found a note left by the burglar-almost an apology for dis turbing the serenity of the house- p hold. The girl, he said, would be r found unharmed; his purpose in re- c gard to her had been fell, but his tl chivalry had come to the rescue. The p police were notifned of 'Miss Lily's ad- d venture anu are making a search for g the villain, of whom they have ,been given a minute description by the v heroine of the affair. s: Miss Gaines was alone in the house b when it happened. Her father was s, at his work in the shop of the Spar- a tanburg Machinery company. The v younger children were playing in a vacant lot. Mrs. Gaines. had gone it shopping. Miss Lily had intended to b accompany her mother but decided v not to go on account of a headache. a She lay down on the lounge in the a sitting room, which is in the front e part of the house on the ground floor, and read a book until sne Decame drowsy. The girl fell asleep. It was about rj 4:30 o'clock, as nearly as sne can reckon, when she was awakened by feeling a hand on her mouth. She looked up Into the face of a man n unusual face, with a deep scar, as t c a sabre cut on his face, and pierc- t ing blue eyes and raven black hair. t Sbe heard a sweet and refined voice C tell ger g--tly but firmly not to make b an outcry, as he did not intend to t hurt her. Miss Lily says she struggled fdi'i ously and struck the man a sharp I blow in the face, making hIs noset bleed. But he overcame her and stuff-- E ed a flour sack into her mouth and n held it in place by strapping a white u woman's belt, the property of her -i mother, around her heard. The burg- C Tar then fastened her wrists with a dog chain, securing it with a lock - and a piece of wire. He bound her ankles with another chain and laid a her'on the floor In the middle of the 3 room. The dog chain belonged to s Miiss Lily's little brothers and was r found by the burglar In the yard. The burglar told the negro to sit C opposite the girl in a rocking chair. 'Don't you move." he said to the burly black, "unless the girl moves. I you do, I will shoot you." The mulatto shivered, according to the ~ girl, as if in a state of terror, but ~ said not a word. As nearly as she could follow his movements the burglar crossed the hall into Mrs. Gaines' bedroom, which he proceeded to turn tonsy-turvy, ~ pulling the drawers out of the bu reau and dumping their contents on the floor. He seemed to be searching ~ for money. but his search was futile. a as Mrs. Gaines had taken all the money with her when she went down ~ town. The burglar then went to the din ing room, where he found a bottle of 1 whiskey on the sideboard. Mr. Gaines was given the liquor for medical pur poses several days ago. The man car ried the bottle and a glass back Into the sitting room. With a sweep of the arm he knocked the bric-a-brac off a little table and drew It up be- I side the prostrate figure of the girl. He leisurely poured out a drink, lighted a cigarette, and leaned cam fortably back in a chair. n his rich musical tones he talked to the young lady. She was unwil ling to repeat what he said. His language was that of a gentleman. she asserted, but modesty forbade her to make his remarks public. Suf fice It to say, she told The Herald, that he flattered her. It seemed an hour that he sat there, offering her soft blandish ments, she said. The negro sat in silence, quaking. A livery boy came 1 on the porch and knocked at the ioor. Getting no answer, he walked into the hall and laid his bundle down, then went out again. The mys terious burglar drank heavily of the whiskey. 'Miss Lily had an excellent oppor tunity to study the man's appearance. He was between 35 and 40 years old. about five feet, nine inches tall, and weighed about 175 pounds. He had blue eyes, jet black hair, and a diag onal scar about two inches long on~ his right cheek. She remembered having seen him ass lngSoth Liberty street and' AXE MAN SLAYS FOUR READED MURDERER OF THE WEST APPEARS IN TTLLIOIS. [aniacal Brute Swung His Instra ment of Death While Victims Slept. Four more victims are added to te list of the maniacal brute ho for nearly a year has been mak ig his trail eastward across the untry by households slaughtered ith an axe. The bodies of the four -ere found 16 miles from Quincy, LI., in the ruins of a house ,that had een burned. It was thought at first sat fire had overtaken them in their eep, but investigation showed the andiwork of the axe man. The victims were Mr. and Mrs. harles Plandschmidt, their 16-year Id daughter, Blanche, and Miss Em La Kaempen, 21, a Quincy teacher ho' had gone to the Pfandschmidt ,untry home for the week end. Miss Kaempen's body and that of [iss Pfandschmidt were found un er a mattress which to some extent ad protected them against the ames. A pillow on which Miss :aempen had been lying was so baked with blood that it did not urn, and the back of the young wo tan's head therefore was well pre erved. Plainly visible on the top of the ead was a- deep wound, evidently Lade with an axe, and the back of 2e Pfandschmidt girl's head, which so escaped incineration, though the ce was burned, was eloquent of a imilar story. The bodies of the wo older people were burned in ich a way as to give no hint of the ause of" their death. Apparently 2e murder was planned with care, r the telephone wires had been cut. The killing shows but two varia ons from the method generally fol >wed by the axe murderer. In all ther cases he has done his work on aturday nights and in no other case as he resorted to the use of fire to ver his tracks. In other details, wever, this has the characteristics f the slaughters that have gone be 're, as every occupant of every ouse-he has entered has been killed, ad all, apparently in their sleep. CONVICTED BY CAMERA. ailroad Sleuths Use Photograph to Enforce Anti-Booze Rules. Employees of the transporation de artment of the Lackawanna rail ad were confounded when it be ime known that the enforcement of 2e rule prohibiting employees from atronizing saloons while on or off uty, is taking the form of photo raphing violators. Two employees, one a veteran who 'ould have been placed- on the pen ion list in a few years, were snapped y a detective while regaling them elves in a saloon at Elmira, N. Y., nd the picture forwarded to the di ision superintendent at Scranton. "Is this your picture?" the super tendent asked the employees, exhi !ting a small photograph. The men rere speechless at first but finally dmitted that they had been caught rith the goods. They were discharg d on the spot. WILL LOSE THEIR EARS errible Threats Are Made Against Strike Breakers Angry strikers and strike sympa ilvers along the Geogia railroad be green Atlanta and Augusta threaten 21 morning that they will seize,and ut off the ears of the first strike reakers they can lay hands on; and dat they will nail their ears on the oors of the railway coaches as a arning to other strike-breakers. 'he brutal -picturesqueness of the treat has aroused no little excite ient here, and the view Is taken a tong railroad men that the strikers tay mean literally to carry it out, 2asmuch as they have already fired n, stoned and beaten members of e strike-breaking Crews. yok Into the house that morning, nd also recalled having seen him on ain street last Thursday. He was mooth-shaven then, however, and ow wore a false mustache. He wore a neatly fitting dark blue r black suit, a turndown collar, a rhite silk necktie with a green snake roven into the design, tan shoes and black derby hat. The negro, she said, seemed to be early seven feet tall. He wore over ls, a wooly gray cap and brand new atent leather shoes, which squeaked rhen he walked. After a while the white man told be negro to leave, and the latter did o with alacrity. The burglar then acked the front window, took the :ey of the door leading from the sit ing room to the hall out of the door ud laid it on the piano, and locked e door with a key of his own. He xamined the girl's chains to see that hey were secure, and then left the om through the side window, reaking the glass. After a while the little children re urned from their play and sat down nn the front porch. When Mrs. raines came home about 5:45 o'clock he asked her little sonl William rhere Lily was. He answered that te did not know. Miss Lily moaned ci Ion d that they heard her. When they found the door and the rent window locked, Frances, the ittle sister of Miss Lily. went around o the side window and saw her lying ii the floor chained. Mrs. Gaines vas greatly agitated and went to the lephone and called ti- police and ir. Gaines. Frances came Into the room hrough the side window anu un oosed the chains. J. M. Crawford. a hor, was called, and forced the loor open. On the table, where the chiskey stood, was the note left by he burglar. It was written on sta ionery which Miss Lily had been tsing earlier in the afternoon. There vere only a dozen words, more or ess, and they were in capital le~rs rhich as are used in print. The note waas turned over to Policeman Wal ae W. Littlejohni. Leper's Wife Given Divorce. At Tacoma, Wyo., Mrs. John R. Eaarly was granted a divorce from Tohn R. Early, the leper now at Dia mnd Point Hospital. She was giver the custody of the three children and $55 of Early's salary of $95 a month oractng a eepner of another leper. TEDDY KET MONEY GIVEN HIM BY THE STANDARD. OIL COMPANY FOLK RECEIPT WAS BORNED Standard Oil President Emphatic in His Statement Before Senate Probers and Admits the Anthea ticity of Letters to Senators and Congressmen Published by Hearst. The authenticity of the majority of the letters recently made public by William R. Hearst purporting to have passed between John D. Archbold, president of the Standard Oil Con members of the House and Senate, pany, and members of the House and Senate, was admitted by Mr. Arch bold before the Senate committee in vestigating campaign -activities and expenditures. Those letters, of which facsimile photographs have been published, were in almost every case identified by Mr. Archbold, with the state ment: "I undoubtedly wrote that." These included letters to and from Senators Hanna; Foraker, Quay and Penrose and former Representatives Sibley of Pennsylvania, and Grosve nor of Ohio. The president of -the Standard Oil - Company, recalled by the committee after making his showing' in August that he had given $100,)00 to the Republican campaign fund of 1904; admitted Thursday that the receipt given by Cornelius N. Bliss for the sum had been destroyed by himself and H. H. Rogers, now' dead. He said he had not been able to find even a book entry of the amount, on - the books of the Standard Oil Corn pany. "I repeat that the money was paid," he said, "and was not.ref.used; that it was paid by me to Mr. Bliss. I don't want any man to tell me it was not." Mr. Archbold's identification of the 'various letters was followed by little questioning from the commit tee. He said the money referred to in some of them as having been sent to Senator Foraker, had been for legal services in the State of Ohio; that he wrote to Senator M. A. Hanna to watch legislative tffairs there, because Mr. Hanna had been a life-long friend; and that a contri bution of $1,000 to Senator Quay had been entirely a political contri bution, as had the $25,000 contribu tion to Senator Penrose. He did not know to whom Ofr. Sibley had referred in the letter say ing that a certain Senator had re quested a'loan of $1,000, and asking if Mr. Archbold wanted "to make the investment." He said he did net send the. $1,000, had no talk witL Mr. Sibley about it and did not know to whom the statement related. Mr. Archbold presented four new letters that he had found as the re sult of a search of his files, the only ones, he said, "that had escaped the - thieves." One was from President Roosevelt. "It is of little value, but I offer it as showing the friendly attitude of Mr. Roosevelt in 1904. at a period when he has indicated he considered me under the ban," said Mr. Arch bold. The letter In full was as follows: "White House, Aper!! 26, 1904. "My Dear Mr. Archbold: Lam in receipt of your- letter of the 25th and shall carefully take up the name of your brother-in-law with the hope that I can promote him. Sineernely yours. "Theodore Roosevelt" The other letters and telegrams related to one recently made 'public by Mr. Hearst, In which Congress :nan Sibley wrote Mr. Archbold that President Roosevelt was anxious to see him and advising him to come to Washington and take luncheon with the President. The letters addressed to Ifr. Sibley expressed Mr. Arch bold's regret that he could not come and expressed the hope that he might later visit the President Mr. Archbold told the committele that he did not go to the White House at that -time, January, 1904. "Mr. Roosevelt, on the stand be ifere this committee, put me in the peculiar attitude of having been brought to luncheon with him in 190$ at Oyster Bay by Senator Bourne," said Mr. Archbold. He said that on a visit to the White House, President Roosevelt had spoken of the return of Mr. archbold's daughter and son-In-law from Africa. "'I must have you bring them ov er,' " the President said, according to Mr. Archbold, and the latter add ed that they went on the day ap pointed to Oyster Bay at the Invita tion of Col. Roosevelt. Mr. Archbold declared the letters made public by Mr. Hearst had been stolen from the files of his office; but he declined to name those whom le suspected of the theft. Hc said he believed the letters contained "nothing that is subject to just crit icism," and that they were "such letters as a man in a position lIke ine would write to men in repre 'cntative positions." "I zever made a request of any man that meant the infraction of an exiting law or the making of any new law, or the giving of any spe cial privilege." he said. "Of course, conditions have changed. The cam paign publicity laws since made have changed things, but the other mat ters in the letters I would repeat to day. I have no apology to make." He declared it was "amazing that men in Mr. Roosevelt's position would make the assertion that, be cause of this contribution of money to Senator Penrose for campaign purposes, Mr. Penrose should be ex pelled from the Senate." "It Is a monstrous thing to say," iMr. Arch bold said. Chums Had Quick Parting. William Mitchell and Andrew Cal ery, two. membeFs of an engine com pany at Trenton, had been chums for years. Siitchell's only regret was that they could not have the same meal hours. But Mitchell had his breakfast hour unexpectedly changed a few days ago and hastened home to tell his wife. There he found her entertaining bis chum, and divorce proeedngs are under way.