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iixcniil $LMN NT ED TO HOTEL ROOM BY A FAKIE SALESMAN RED AND MURDERED I0 napolis Police Were on Murder er's Trail While Crime Was Being Committed.-Had Worked Similar Trick on Merchants of Other Cities. Convinced that the young man who Monday brutally murdered and rob bed Joseph Schlansky, a clothing merchant, in a hotel at Indianapolis, is the person who has committed sim Ilar crimes in several Eastern and Middle Western cities, the police de partment of Indianapolis Tuesday night asked officers in every large city east of the Mississippi river to watch for the slayer. They believe the murderer is Joseph Ellis, about twenty-one years old, of Richmond, Va. Investigation of the murder of Schlanssy showed that It had been coolly planned and the escape so cun ningly carried out as to throw off suspicion temporarily. - The body of Joseph Schlansky was found late Monday night in a hotel at Indianapolis, which hall been occu pied by a man who had registered as "W. R. Anderson, Louisville, Ky." A strong cord had been tied around -the merchant's throat and he had been shot through the head. Ander son is said to have told that he was a salesman, called at Schlansky's store and asked him to to go his room in the hotel where he said he had some goods to show the mer chant. When Schlansky failed to re turn his family notified the police. The merchant's watch and about twenty dollars also were missing. The slayer left two notes in which he said he had started to rob the merchant and then killed him. After murdering the merchant the man discarded a collar spotted with bloqd, walked to a nearby- store, where he purchased another, and then returned'to the lobby of the hotel wherein his victim lay dead, remained for an hour or more. Late in the afternoon the slayer returned to his room, and then going to the union depot obtained his suit case from the check room and is believed to have caught an east-bound train. From information gathered by the police, Ellis, known also as Brokaw and Robert Duncan. committed simi lar crimes in Louisville last week and left there Saturday for Indianapolis. Previous to the Louisville robberies the man is supposed to have attacked clothing merchants in Cleveland, Tol edo, Philadelphia and Pittsburg. In each town where the man operated his scheme was the same. He would register at a hotel under -an assumed name, call on either one of the small clothing merchants or a second-hand dealer and, explaining that he had some samples he must get out of his possession at once, ask the dealer to go to his room. Once in the man's room the victim either was struck down or forced at the point of a revolver to submit to be ing bound and gagged. Then his vat uables were stolen; then the rotber, leaving the merchant to be discov ered by hotel employees, departed. In every case that was called to the attention of the polic it was said the -boldness with which tho~ robber worked had thwarted suspicion until his victim was found. The man did not attempt to use any disguises. That the murderer of Schlansky is Joseph Ellis, the police say they feel certain. He was identified at Louis ville by photographs sent from his home and also from photos sent out by the Pittsburg police, who wanted the man, under the name of Brokaw, for an attack on a merchant there. At the time that Schlansky was murdered four squads of detectives were seeking Ellis. A telegram from the Louisville police department had been received earlier in the day ask ing the Indianapolis police to arrest Ellis. The squads made an investi gation throughout the afternoon and night. At the hotel where Schlansky was killed the clerks did not remem ber a guest answering Ellis' descrip tion. 'Courtesy Among Senators. It Is pleasing to read of the cour tesies exchanged in the Senate be tween the leaders of the two parties after the Underiwood bill was passed. The attitude of both parties toward each other during the lengthy con sideration of the bill, was indeed com mendable. It showed that it is pos sible to discuss. not only without ran cor, but with positive courtesy and good breeding, measures which may exist the most positive convictions. And why not. Why should differ ences of opinion as to a question cause participants in a debate to abuse each other like pickpockets, or lessen the personal friendship that one may entertain for another? Too often enmities have been aroused in debates and but little consideration has been shown the minority by the -majority, but to-day an improvement is seen and it is most welcome. Hurt in Initiation. Lee Phares, a merchant of Valley !Bend, I11.. is in a critical condition from an injury sustaine'd during an initiation ceremony of a fraternal or der. A "spanker", containing a dy namite cap, was used. The cap ex ploded. inflicting a serious wound. Phrase was hurried to a hospital. Win or lose, we take pleasure in the fact that we have conducted an honest, fair campaign for the mar shalship. We male no charges against any of our competitors, and would scorn the office if we had to resort to such mean, low methods to win it. Mother a-:d Babe Burned. Mrs. M. Hutchinson and her infant son, of Foss Valley, Cal., were found dead Wednesday in the cellar of the Hlutchinson home. which was destroy ed by a forest fire. Students Fight Flames. Students routed from their beds formed into bucket brigades and drove flames from their own dormi tories at the Puget Sound Unitersity. HOT TIME IN TENNESSEE SPEAKER OF HOUSE SAYS GUN MEN ARE AROUND. Members Pull Off Coats to Show Themselves Unarmed and De nounce Others as Cowards. Sensational charges of the bringing of two suit cases of guns into the of fice of the superintendent of the cap1 tol at Nashville, Tenn., and of the presence of gunmen in the hall of the Tennessee House of Representatives, were made on the floor of the House Tuesday by Speaker Stanton. Serious trouble at one time looked certain after the speaker's charges. Several inflamatory speeches were made. At the afternoon session Tuesday a mo tion to investigate the speaker's charges and to bring George C. Ren fro, superintendent of the capitol, be fore the House was voted down. Speaker Stanton, after charging that scurrilous articles had appeared in newspapers threatening to unseat him and that threats and efforts of intimidation had come to him for the past several days, said: "There are two suit cases of guns now in the of fice of the superintendent of the capi tol sent there by friends of Gov. Hooper, and even this will not intimi date or scare me. I am speaker of this House and propose to remain so to the end. I do not propose to be Intimidated by Gov. Hooper or his gunmen and their efforts to force me to make- rulings will do them no good." Representative McFarland, follow Ing Mr. Stanton, after pulling off his coat to show that he was not armed, denounced the man who "rams down weapons In his pocket" and declared that any man guilty of such a prac tice was "a coward." Representative Lex Stone threw back his coat to show that he was unarm ed, turned to Mr. McFarland and said: "Any man who would call a set of armed men to guard the door of the legislative hall is just as much a - - coward as the man re ferred to by Mr. McFarland. Why not send the gunmen out and let honest men have a chance?" shouted Mr. Stone. He declared that if the house was to be cleared all armed thugs should be included and not just "those who side with the fusion ists." After many speeches, some of -them conciliatory, the house adjourned. The so-called law enforcement bills, the consideration of which has brought feeling to a high tension among members of the House, proba bly will be carried by the fusionists. On all test votes it was shown that they probably will have the necessary votes to pass the measure. RECALLS CONFESSION. Wolfsohin Says He Did Not Murder Anna Schumacher. Repudiating his statements made to the Philadelphia police Friday, Jacob Wolfsohn Monday denied thai he was guilty of the murder of Anna Catherine Schumacher in the ceme tery at Rochester. N. Y., four year, ago. When closely questions by Dis trict Attorney Barrett, of Rochester, N. Y., Wolfsohn broke down and said he had confessed to the murder be cause he wanted to die and could not bring himself to commit suicide. "] want to take back my confession. It is not true that I killed the girl and I can prove my innocence." he ex claimed, hysterically. "You can cui my throat, hang me or do whatevei you care, but I do not want to diE with the record of a murderer." "My life has -been an unhappy one," continued Wolfsohn. "I can not return to Russia because I leftI there to escape military service. My wife divorced me here. I hoped tc end my troubles by being electrocut ed." District Attorney Barrett. be fore leaving for Rochester, said he would make further investigations before determining whether he would ask for requsition for Wolfsohn. He said: "It has been proved that thE prisoner worked near the cemetery where the crime was committed, but his description of the clothing worn by the girl does not correspond with the facts. I am not yet satisfied he is the murderer." Fine Detective Wosk. In tracing the murder of Anna Au muller to Hans Schmidt. the Catho lic priest, and bringing him to jus tice, the New York detective force did a most excellent piece of work. The solving of this most brutal and extraordinary murder mystery in a very short period puts the New York~ detectives In the front rank of their profession. They thrust aside several false clues, and finally hit the trail that lead to the brutal murderer and arrested him In his priestly garb. Given only the fragments of a hu man body found in the North River on which to base the theory that a young and probably unmarried wo man had been killed and dismember ed to avert disgrace, and misled at the start by mistaken identifications and false clues, Inspector Faurot and his detectives were yet able by means of a piece of pillow-ticking not only to discover the scene of the crime ad arrest the murderer, but to re veal the details of his double life. As The New York World says "there- can not be praise enough" for detective skill of this quality, exhi bited under conditions calling for promptness. intelligence and a decis iveness of action that did not stop at carrying proofs of guilt into a church rectory. What a contrast to the sor 'id revelations of police graft and police corruption is presented by this 'xample of efficiency in the most im nrtant department of police work! T* aa thing to hearten every citizen - New York by its manifestation of th, character and capacity of thle Striking Pupils Suspended. One thousand pupils of the three Syracuse. N. Y.. high schools were in definitely suspended late Monday fol lowing a strike in the morning as a protest against new hourr of study, nine o'clock in the morning to two thirty o'clock in the afternoon. The striking pupils. many of whom were girls, escaped through windows and side doors. paraded the business COTTON SEED MARKETING PROPOSED RULES FOR GRADING ARE DISCUSSED. Further Action Toward Establishing Cotton Seed Marketing Division in Agricultural Department. A conference Wednesday afternoon at Columbia between representatives of the Cotton Seed Crushers' Asso ciation, independent cotton seed buy ers and representatives of the State Farmers' Union with Commissioner Watson over the proposed grading and rules for marzeting of cotton seed in this State resulted in a deci sion to leave the next step in the hands of the joint committee of the Farmers' Union and Seed Crushers Association, which is called to meet in Columbia next Tuesday for the purpose of passing further on the matter. Besides the marketing committee, of the Seed Crushers, B. F. Taylor, secretary, and W. B. West, the assist ant secretary, were present; Dr. Able, of St. Matthews, representing the in dependent seed buyers, while Pres ident Dabbs, Secretary Reed, R. M. Cooper, B. Harris and R. M. Morri son, of the executive committee of the Farmers' Union, attended the confer ence, which was held in the library at the Capitol. Commissioner Watson explained that while there was no law direct ing his department to take charge ol the cotton seed marketing, still, io the Interests of the great mass of pro. ducers and the cotton seed oil mill business, which is large. and both consumer and producers, and acting on requests he had formulated th rules and regulations for grading anc marketing after a conference betweer himself and representatives of all in terests. In formulating this tentative plan he said, he had delayed putting - ii into effect and given out the proposi tion in order to get the drift of pop ular sentiment. Having gained con siderable information on it he bad called this supplemental conference He said he did not propose to dc anything until the joint committee o1 the seed crushers and the Farmers Union met, and unless ihey present s written request with resolutions at tached signed by every member, he as commissioned of agriculture would do nothing further in the mat ter. He says the State has the ma chinery and is ready and willing to dc the testing and grading of seed, pro vided the mills promise to abide bi such grading. The subject will 'be threshed ou1 at the joint meeting Tuesday of th( seed marketing committee of thi Seed Crushers and the executive com mittee of the Farmers' Union. Fur, ther action toward the organizatior and establishment of a cotton see marketing division in the State de partment of agriculture will depeni on a request from this joint commit tee meeting. I4 I THREE DIE IN CAR CRASH. Electric Railway on Long Island il Scene of Head-on Collision. Three persons were killed an( twenty injured early Monday in head-on crash of two Long Islanl4 railroad electric trains at College Point, Long Island. Of the injured one will die. The dead are: Condue or George Borchel, Motorman Fre4 Loder, and Motorman Charles Hloh lien. Most of the injured were mil employes on their way to work. Thi trains running forty miles an hour rounded a curve near the statioi from opposite directions and the ac cident was unavoidable. The stee ears buckled, but did not telescope This fact doubtless saved many lives A hotel near the scene and a num er of residences nearby were throwi open for use as emergency hospitals Many ambulances and a carps of phy sicians were summoned to the scene The Pennsylvania railroad issued statement saying the accident had been caused, so far as could be deter mined, by the negligence of the oper ator at Whitestone .Tunction, 'who al lowed the train bound for New Yori to leave the double track before th4 other train had cleared. Senator Tillman's Position. Ti e Pee Dee Daily, published a1 BEs.-nettsville, the home of Mr. Drake a candidate for marshal, says: "Il now appears that James L. Sims ma3 lose the appointment as United States marshal for South Carolini because he once, in his youth, seo type for a Republican paper at Kings tree. Senator Tillman probably withdrew his nomination for thai reason." In stating that Senator Tillmar withdrew his official endorsement o: the editor of The Times and Demo crat for marshal because of certair lying charges preferred against him by certain men, the editor of The Pee Dee Daily does Senator Tillmar and the editor of The Times and Democrat a great injustice. Sena tor Tillman gave as his reason for withdrawing his official endorsement from the editor of The T1imes anc Democrat that Senator Smith had accused him of trying to "hog' both the District Attorney and the marshal, and he wanted to clarity the matter. The above facts were published in The News and Courier. Besides, Senator Tillman wrote he editor of The Times and Democrat that he knew that the charges made against him was a lie as soon as he heard it. The Senator also wrote the editor of The Times and Democrat that he had withdrawn his official endorsement for the reasons given above. hut that his feelings towards the editor of The Times and Demo crat had not changed, and that he would endorse no one else for mar shal. These are the simple facts in the case and we publish them as a simple act of justice to Senator Till man and the editor of The Times ond Democrat. Newspapers should he certain of their facts before pub lishing such statements as that clip ped above from The Pee Dee Daily. Now that every one has got back to work after having a rest, business seems to go nearly as smoothly as it did before vacation. It is evidently against the law to settle th hawn cas legall. MAGNIFICENT FUNERAL GAYNOR'S BODY PASSES DOWN CROWDED STREETS. Over a Million View Cortege on Its Way to Cemetery-Ex-President Taft e Pallbearer. Historic Greenwood Cemetery, the resting place in Brooklyn of many famous dead, received the body of New York's-late mayor, William Jay Gaynor, at mid-afternoon Monday, af ter funeral services in his honor that were without parallel in the history of the city. In the presence of the family, the honorary pallbearers, in cluding William Howard Taft and city offcials, among them Mayor Kline, the flAg,draped coffin was com mitted to the grave in the Gaynor family plot. The brief Episcopalian service was read by the Rev. Frank W. Page, former pastor of St. John's, the church where the mayor worship ped. A million people, it is estimated, saw the funeral cortege move slowly, first from the city hall, where thou sands had witnessed the body lying in state Sunday, to Trinity Church, where -Bishop Greer conducted the solemn services; then back past the City Hall across Brooklyn Bridge, through Eighth avenue home, and on to the cemetery. Upon the bridge, hung in black, traffic did not move. City employees stood six feet apart, heads uncovered, as the police-escorted catafalque pro ceeded into the mayor's home bor ough. Below, the river noises were stilled. Not a craft blew its whistle, not a gong was sounded. The funeral train across the bridge and for a dis tance in iBrooklyn paralleled a fov orite route of the mayor, who in all kinds of weather was accustomed to walk to and from City Hall. The bell in the tower of the 'bor ough hall in Brooklyn tolled for the first time in many years. Numerous church bells also sounded their meas ured beats. Trinity's first and then in Brooklyn. In Brooklyn public schools turned forth their pupils, who stood among the mourners in the streets. In the mayor's own neighborhood clubs and residences were draped In crepe, while flags fluttered at half mast. Heading the throng of marchers was a single line of eight mounted police. Behind them came, in the order named, the police band playing the measured strains of the Dead Marcb, a regiment of mounted police, twelve abreast, and another regiment of police on foot in lines that stretch ed across Broadway from curb to curb. Next was the coffin. With the official flag of the mayor draped over its head, the coffin lay, ten feet above the roadway, upon a catafalque whose sombre folds of crepe were unrelieved by color. A great wreath of white chrysanthe I mums lay on the right of the casket, another wreath of orchids and ferns lay on the left and a third rested at the dead mayor's feet. Sixteen coal black horses, heavy with black trappings, flanked on the right by a single file of police and on the left by firemen, drew the cata falque through the street, as the casket passed through two walls of spectators, held to the curb by an unbroken line of police ,every man bared his head and only the blue-cap ped patrolmen remained covered. Of these there were 3,000 in the line of march or on duty along the way of the funeral train. When the church services had end ed the great masses of flowers that had been in Trinity and the City Hall were sent to various hospitals, the choicest among them, orchids and chrysanthemums, to St. Mary's the H oboken, N. J., institute, where Mr. Gaynor lay after being shot down three years ago. NEGRESS BURNS TO DEATH. Hal-Witted Camden Girl Loses Her Life in Fire. ILocked in a house ,while her mother was picking cotton in a field nearby, an eighteen-year-Old negro girl was burned 'to death Tuesday morning at her home, on lower Mar ket street, near Vaughan's ginnery at Camden. The girl was half-witted and at one time was an inmate of the insane asylum. The supposition is that she set fire to some cotton, which was piled up in a corner of the room. Mr. Garner, who operates a ginnery nearby, together with several hands, saw smoke emitting from the cracks of the house. They knocked down the doors and when George DuBose, a negro, attempted to rescue the girl she rushed into another room, and in a few minutes was calling for help, but no one could enter on account of the flames and smoke. Accidentally Kills Brother. While playfully snapping a pistol at his brother Sunday night, Samuel Knight, aged twelve years, shot and killed Paul, two years older. The boys, sons of Henry Knight, a farmer of the Barksdale section of Laurens county, 'were at the home of a neigh bor, Edgar Tumblin, when the acci dent occurred. It seems that the boys thought the weapon was not loaded, but after snapping it a few times one chamber was discharged with the result as stated. The new peace palace at The Hague has been dedicated with imposing and appropriate ceremonies. It is ardent ly to behoped that the purpose of the palace may speedily be realized. The way in which Great Britain and this country have peacefully settled all tho disputes that have arisen between them in the last hundred years is testimony enough that all disputes between nations may be settled in like manner if the spirit of reason ableness is allowed to prevail. Some of the questions settled hr A merica and England were unusually impor tant, but a few men sitting in a room and discussing the matters at iesue in a quiet and sensihle way have settled all of them without the she'4ing of a single drop of blood, and without ais turbing the harmonious relations be tween the two nations. Ohio Flood Loss. A total money loss of $1 U.OO00-O'4 was caused by the Ohio floods lsst March. The United States weather' bureau estimates that sum, which in-' cluds los torairoad telgrap an SEIZE AMEICAN SCHOOL GREEKS TAKE POSSESSION OF' MISSION BTSTITUTION. Affair is Part of Greek Plan of Ter rorization to Force Albania to Ac cept Peace. The Greek authorities at Koritsa, in Albania, Monday seized the Ameri can mission school there, where in struction is given to nearly 100 Al bonian girls. The information was received at Vienna, Austria, in a tel egram from Avlona, the principal sea port of Albania on the Adriatic sea. The Greeks have also arrested and persecuted a large number of Alba nians who recently returned to Korit sa fiom America and other foreign countries, releasing them from de tention only when the Albanians promised to join in the agitation for the Incorporation of the district in Greece. The British consul at Mona stir has entered a vigorous protest with the Greek government on behalf of the Americans. The whole affair forms part of the Greek terrorization of the- Albanian population with the object of com pelling them to agree to inclusion of the whole of southern Albania in the kingdom of Greece. Last week Greek officials at Koritsa endeavored to take forcible possession of the of the American mission school building but the housekeeper in charge refus ed to hand over the keys. The Greek soldiers beat her mercilessly and then carried her off to prison. The mis sion is In charge of Phineas B. Ken nedy, a native of New Jersey and a Princeton graduate. Mrs. Violet B. Kennedy conducts the ladies' liter ary society, whose object is to give the elements of education to the wo men of Albania. No official report of the seizure of the school has been received at Wash ington but the state department is prepared to protest to the Greek gov ernment vigorously for the protection of Americans and their property in Albania under the new political or der. It was pointed out in diplomat ic quarters that the great European powers will do whatever might be necessary to guarantee American rights in the Balkans as they have ever since the first outbreak of hos tilities a year ago. British consuls have been solicitous for the rights of Americans, especially in Asiatic Tur key and before the arrival of the American warships last winter both British and Russian men of war of fered an asylum to any Americans who feared for their safety. Be Careful How You Criticize. All of us are prone to criticise, says The Anderson Mail. We are disposed to criticise the other fellow, the things he is doing, and his manner of doing them. But are we always fair in our criticisms? Do we always know what we are talking about? We believe In the fullest latitude in crit icism, and especially of public men, those In public service. Criticism is not Qnly a privilege, but in very many cases it Is a duty. ~But one of the cruelest things in the world Is to be unjust in our criti cisms-to treat the individual whom we are criticising unfairly. There is nothing more heartbreaking, perhaps, than to be the subject of unjust criti cism-to be wrongf~ully accused-to be denied credit for what we have tried to do. And how many of us have been guilty of this? We see a man doing something the looks of which we do not like. We think he should not do it, or that he should do it in a different way. Forth with we proceed to pull~him down, to heap our condemnation upon him. We do this on first impression, without Investigating the matter. Sometimes it Is given us to find that we have been In the wrong, that our criticism has been unjustified, and fortunate indeed are we If it Is not then too late to make amends, to repair the wrong that, unthinkingly, we have done. How careful we should be, and yet how careless we are. We get an in complete statement of a case, we do not understand all the facts and cir cumstances, and then without fuller investigation we proceed to render our judgments. It we could put our selves In the other fellow's place, if we could get his viewpoint, and know his motives, we would probably praise Instead of condemn. We complain about not getting the best men for the public service. Per haps an explanation may be that many men do not want to be subject ed to wrongful and unjust criticism. If we could build up a sentiment that would Insure fairer~ campaign meth ods that would give public servants just treatment when they come before the people to explain their steward ship. we might get better men to of fer for the public service. "He Is Got 'Em Beat." The Light, a weekly paper publish ed in Columbia by colored people says under the above caption: "Governor Blease says he is going to the Senate, and we hope he will. We make our little request In advance, Governor. When you get on your toga, don't get in the Tillman and Vardaman'class to cuss and oppress the Negro at every opportunity. Let your statesmanship soar higher than Negrophobia. Be national in Idea, and human in soul, Governor. Get above abusing and be rating the Negro That has been Till man's littleness." The colored peo ple seem to believe In ~Governor Blease. They want him to beat Sen ator Smith. no doubt, because the Governor abuses and has no interest in President Wilson or the Democrat c Administration. It is a good thing that the colored people can't vote in the Democratic primaries. If they ould they would give Governor lease such a large vote that Senator Smith would not be in the race at all. Governor Please has surely worked his rabbit foot on the colored broth Gives Life to Save Her Baby. Chased by a cow afflicted with rabies while she was carrying her baby to the hospital, Mfrs. M1ary Ar lisli, of Pittston, Pa., saved the life of the little one by throwing it into an open store door. The next min ute the woman was fatally gored. 'he tariff and the currency bills will soon he out of the way, and Coges+a hen adjourn for a few MAYOR GAYNOR'S WILL HE LEAVES AN ESTATE VALUED AT $2,000,000. [Lis Two Sons, Three Daughters, and Widow Share Wealth-Married Daughters Get Little. The will of William J. Gaynor, late mayor of New York, as filed Wednes day at New York, leaves to the widow his Brooklyn residence and 500 shares of Royal Baking Powder Com pany stock. The remainder, with the exception of minor bequests -of the estate, is divided, two-sevenths to each of two sons and one-seventh to each of three unmarried daugfters. The value of the estate is estimated at $2,000,000. The two married daughers, Mrs. Harry Vingut and Mrs. William Se ward Webb Jr. received $1,000. The share of Rufus Gaynor, a son, who was with the late mayor when he died aboard the steamer Baltic, is placed in the hands of the trustees, who are~ instructed to pay him the income un til he is thirty years old and then to surrender the principal if they judge him capable of handling it wisely. In a codicil Mayor Gaynor describes Rufus as "a good boy always, with out bad habits, but, it may be, too easy, and liable to let go of what he has, not knowing how hard it is to accumulate property." The will di rects the trustees to end their trust for Rufus "provided they are satis fied from his past life and business capacity and habits that he will not let it slip through his fingers, and I want him judged fairly in this re spect." Rufus is now twenty-four years old. He is the oldest son. Norman Gaynor is just twenty-one. When the will was made, May, 1909, his father directed that his share of the proper ty be held in trust until he became of age. The only other beneficiary mentioned in the will Is the late mayor's maiden sister, Mary Gaynor, of Utica. -Miss Gaynor receives a house her brother owned in Utica and the income of 115 share of Baking Powder stock to be held for her In trust during her life time. The legacies to three unmarried daughters, Helen, Marion, and Ruth, also are placed In the hands of a trus tee to be held until they are twenty five years old. Until they are twenty one these daughters are not to re ceive more than $1,500 a year; after that, and until they come into pos session of their full shares, they shall receive the entire income. No explanation is given of the ap parent discrimination against the two married daughters, both of whom eloped and married without their father's knowledge or consent. The will provides that any heir who con tests the division of the estate shall automatically forfeit his legacy. Mayor Gaynor prepared the Instru ment in his own handwriting. It cov ered ten pages of foolscap. HAVE RACE RIOT. Benton, Ill., Is Scene of Amnerican Polish Disturbance. A race riot between American and Polish miners was begun on the town square at .Benton, Ill., Monday night as a result of the double murder Sun day night of Ewell Hutchins and Quincy Drummonds, who were killed by a band of drunken miners while returning from a Polish dance, where they had furnished the music. The disturbance soon assumed such pro portions that Mayor Espy swore In twenty-five extra policemen and sent for the sheriff of Franklin county. The mayor then mounted a box in the center of the square and sought to pacify the Americans. In spite of his address trouble started. Twenty-five foreigners who appear ed on the square were severely beat en and pushed to their homes In the Polish colony. Every other foreigner who was found in the streets met sim ilar treatment. Fifty Polish miners were arrested and are being held pending an investigation into the double murder. Three other miners implicated .by the testimony of the arrested men at the coroner's inquest are being sought by a posse of sev enty-five men led by the sheriff. The story of the murder was brought to Benton by Harmon Wyant, the third member of the musicians who escaped with a bullet wound in the arm and an injured head. Wyant and a party of Americans left the dance hall at eleven o'clock Sunday night. Shortly before midnight they were waylaid by a party of about ten miners and attacked with revolvers and clubs. Wyant said he did not know why they had been attacked. INVITATION TO WILSON. Columbia Offers Boyhood Home as Winter Residence. Mayor W. H. Gibbs, of ColumbIa, former Governor D. C. Heyward andi Messrs. Christie Benet and James A. Hoyt Monday extended to President Wilson, at the White House a renew ed invitation on .behalf of the city of Columbia to make his winter home in the South Carolina capital. The president was told that the commit tee had secured for his accommoda tion, if he would come, the house on Hampton street which was designed by his mother and built by his fath er, while the latter was a member of the faculty of the Columbia Theolo gical Seminary and in which the pres ident himself had lived when a boy. Mr. Wilson said that if he made his winter home anywhere else than in Washington, it would be in Columbia. hut thnt it looked as if he would spend the coming winter hard at work at the White House. He ex pressed the hope that he might be able to accept the invitation after the next winter. The delegation was pre sented to the President by Represent stive A. F. Lever. Pol icemian Kills Passerby. A bullet fired by Policeman Win. Allen of Chicago, at three highway men early Wednesday stuck on an iron trolley pole, deflected and killed William Lorimer, a tobacco agent. Four Firemen Hurt. Four firemen were seriously burn ed while fighting a fire in the Asbes tos and Roofing Material plant at . INSURANCE HIS MOTIVE LATEST POLICE THEORY IN SCHMIDT-MURET CASE. nspector Faurot Hears Evidence of Doctor Said to Have Received ]a legal Offer of Deal. Evidence that Hans Schmidt, the confessed murderer of Anna Aumul ler, and "Dr." Ernest Muret, his dent ist friend, planned a campaign of murder for the.purpose of collecting life insurance money reached the New York police Monday. It tended to explain the blank death certificates found in Schmidt's room. The evi dence came from a physician who told Inspector Faurot of the detective bu reau that Schmidt and Muret, a short time ago, tried to arrange with him to issue death certificates in the event of the "sudden death" of persons just insured. "I can not divulge at this time the identity of the physician," said the inspector. "If the story told us by him is true the fact stands out big and black that Father Schmidt and Dr. Muret had a plan whereby they would collect insurance. I am happy to state that the physician flatly de clined to listen to their proposal." Inepector Faurot has learned, he said, that the dentist, at one time in his life figured as an insurance brok er. The inspector said that with the assistance of the Chicago police he was trying to find if there was any connection between Schmidt and Mu ret and Johana Hoch, the "blue beard" of Chicago, who was execut ed in 1905 for murdering one wife and accused of killing several others. Schmidt was In Chicago in 1905. "Although I may call it nothing but a rumor, this coincidence," said Fau rot, "I consider of sufficient impor tance to warrant a thorough investi gation." Gave Him the Swell Head. Senator John L. McLaurin, in his first of a series of letters to The Co lumbia Record, makes the honest confession that at the time he was spouting his "Commercial Democra cy" ideas, he was made so much of that he " did get the 'swelled head,' " which caused all the trouble that came to him afterwards. "I was too fond of praise and flattery, too young and inexperienced to know how fickle is popular applause," frankly admits the Ex-Senator. In commenting on his confession the Lancaster News says "the Marlboro statesman is now an older and should be wiser man. If he does yield again to that subtle in fluence, "popular applause," and en ter the race for governor, it will show that the swelling in his head has not gone down. Better remain-on your farm, Senator McLaurin, than to ven ture again on the treacherous sea of South Carolina politics." Ex-Senator McLaurin would do well to heed the wise advice given him by the News, but the chances are that he is being "made so much of" again by certain politicians, who only want to use him for their own purposes, that he has forgotten "how fickle Is popular ap plause," and will again "venture on the treacherous sea of South Carolina politics" to his undoing. Experience is a dear school, but some people for get its teaching. .Freeing the Banana. Only by the necessity of raising revenue could a tariff duty on banan as be explained, and the amount of [revenue collected would have been small. In the circumstances, how ever, the xemtval of the duty in the pending bill is justified because of the malicious efforts iade in many quarters to misrepresent the whole business. 'Whether the trifling tax would have really increased the price of bananas to consumers is doubtful. So little was to 'be gained in the form of duties to the Government that the experiment was not worth the risk. The New York World says among all articles of food, sugar is the ideal revenue, producer, but in keeping with their pledges to untax the ne cessaries of life the Democrats have placed it on the free list. Having done that at the dost of sacrificing so much revenue, it would have been ob viously inconsistent and altogether inexpedient to select for taxation for the first time an article of food that enters so largely into general con sumption among the poor as does the banana. College Professors in Politics. The Greenville Piedmont speaks as follows about the invasion of the po litical arena by the college professor: "The college professor is having his inning in the political world. First and foremost is Prof. Woodrow Wil son as president of these United States; then we have Prof. Colum bus Ben Martin, alderman-elect from ward six, city of Greenville, and now we have Dr. Coleman B. Wailer, pro fessor of chemistry of Wofford col lege, commissionler-elect for the city of Spartanburg." The Spartanburg Herald odds to this list the name Prof. Jno. G. Clinkscales, of Wofford ollege, who proposes to make the race for governor next year on a com pulsory education platform, and who, in addition to being widely acquaint ed from the Piedmont to 'the sea shore, is abundantly able to take care of himself in any sort of controversy or argument that is likely to arise. h entry of college professors into oics will have a good and whole some in~uence on them. .Joy Riders Are Shot. At San Francisco, Kate Coulson, thirty-ive years of age, was shot in the neck Friday and George Kovack, niht watchman in a garage, and Wil lm Acker, a chauffeur, were shot dead after the three had been riding miost of the night in an automobile. . R. Coulson, husband of the wound ed woman, is being sought by the police. Mrs. Coulson is believed to be fatally wounded. Finds Wife and Child Dead. When Carl Hirsch, a glass cutter, entered his home at Monaca, Pa., he discovered the dead body of his In fant son in the bath tub, and its mother, Mrs. Ida Hirsch, hanging to a beam in the cellar. The woman had drowned the child and the'n corm mitted suicide. It must throw a coolness over a eugenic courtship when grandfather! coains of the rhenmatiz. DEPEND ON FARMERS RUST AVERT MEAT FAINE BY RASINM BEEVES 1wo EACH EVERY YEAR American Meat iPackers Declare If Decrease in Production is Not Stop ped Question of Supply Will be Se rious-Suggest Substitution of Corn for Cotton. The responsibility of averting a fu ture meat falnine was put up to small farmers by speakers at the eighth an nual Convention of the American Meat Packers' Convention at Chicago Monday. All the speakers agreed that if the decrease in meat produc tion of the last ten.years is not stop ped the question of the meat supply for the people of the United States will be most serious. Among the remedies suggested by the speakers were: Every small farmer should raise at - least two beef steers a year to offset the decreased production of the great ranches of the West. The remaining ranges should be cut up In farms to put all farmers on an equal footing. Development of the hills of New England with their bountiful springs and prevailing shade as a beef-pro ducing country. Substitution of corn for cotton In the Southern states and the conse quent development of cattle and hog production. The report of the executive com mittee sounded a note of the danger of famine. "The American meat packing house situation and that of consumers of meat food products in this country are both in a condition more precarious than at any other time in our history," the report stat ed. "We are facing conditions in the production of meat food products which would have been thought im possible ten years ago. The shortage of live stock, which has been Im pressed upon us as packing house producers for several years, has been intensified during the last year. Our population is growing at its normal rate. "The farmers are not furnishing nearly a sufficient number of animals to keep the packing houses in opera tion. on anything like full time, and this results in heavy losses, owing to lack of volume of business, and there seems to be no prospect of relief. De spite the higher prices for live stock of all kinds statistics show that the farmers not only are not increasing their production of meat food ani mals, but that such production Is de creasing at an appalling rate." Among other causes for the short age of meat the report pointed out another loss of meat food and ani mals through preventable diseases and "the unthinking slaughter of calves, and especially heifer calves." The committee appointed to confer with government officials regarding pure food laws in its report challeng ed the wisdom of the federal govern ment dictating what ingredients shall be used in meat productions. "Our principal difficulty has .been that those In power know practically nothing of the peculiar conditions in packing house operation. We have been in the hands of capable, well meaning scieritists on one hand and political office-holders on the other." The report declared that the action of the government in changing the character of labels on canned goods, after once they had been accepted by the government, cost the packing In dustry $250,000 annually. Speakers at the National Convention of butter and egg men urged the need of na tional legislation to regulate the stor age of these products in .order to avoid repeated charges of price rais ing and monopoly. WILL GET FAVORABLE REPORT. Lever Agricultural Extension Bill Said to Please. The House committee on agricul ture held a hearing Tuesday on Chairman Lever's agricultural exten sion bill, as as modified after his re cent conferences with Senator Smith, of Georgia, and agreed almost unani mously that it should be reported favorably to the House the first thing after orening of the December ses sion. The committee had the pleas ure of having Secretary Houston present at its sessions for the first time. He and B. T. Galloway, the Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, both addressed the committee in be half of the Lever bill, and repre sentative of the American Federation of Labor assured the committee that the measure had the endorsement of that Important organization.. CONFESSES TO MURDER. Alamaba Boy Said to Have Admit ted Killing His Father. Essick Gibson, sixteen years old, has confessed to the murder of his father, Alex Gibson. at his home, near Greenville, Ala.,is what they say, who Monday arrested young Gibson and placed him in jail. The boy Is said to have declared he crept into his father's bedroom and crushed the sleeping man's skull. Then he closed the door, locking a little dog In the room with the bpdy. Young Gibson, according to the alleged confession, then went to his brother's home and told his brother of the crime, re questing that he be allowed time to make his escape. A neighbor Is said to have discovered Gibson several days later. Officers say the boy charges his father with cruelty. Gaynor's Friend Suicides. Morris Metrzgar, a wealthy resi dent of Far Rockaway Beach, and a lifelong friend of the late mayor, hanged himself in his barn Monday afternoon as Mayor Caynor's body was being carried to the grave. The floor of the barn was littered with newspapers, giving accounts of the last honors that were being paid Mayor Gaynor. Friends of Metzgar attribute his suicide to grief at the