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VOL. XXVIII MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1913 PHILLIPINE FREEDOM WILSON'S SCHEME GUARAN-TEES NATIVE CONTROL. Gov.-Gen. Harrison Announces Presi dent's Plan to Give Natives a Ma jority on Commission. Ultimate independence for the Fil ipino people is contemplated in the policy of President Wilson announc ed a few days ago in the inaugural address of Francis Burton Harrison, the rew governor-general of the Phillirines. The first step in the President's policy toward the islands is to have a majority of the Philli pine commission composed of Fili pinos, thus giving the islanders im mediate control in the higher body of the 'Phillipine Congress, which cor responds to the Senate in the Ameri can Congress. The Manilla manifesto will be soon put into effect, when Ameriran Com missioner Frank A. Branagan and Vice-Governor Gilbert, are retired in the near future. Their places will be filled by natives. Two new Ameri can commissioners, however, will be named to take the places of Commis sioners Worcester and Elliott, recent ly resigned. This will give the Fili pinds six commissioners in the higher legislative body of the Phillipines and the Americans three, insuring native control, as the Filipinos already have a mapority in the lower body. Up to this time the commissioners have been named by appointment and there have been five Americans and two natives on the board. Under American rule Filipino civ ilization has advanced far beyond any standard set in the Orient under Spanish control. A general school system has been established. The judicial system is comparable with that of most American states and the archipelago has enjoyed prosperity. In the new policy the future of the islands is placed in the hands of the natives and the next steps toward in dependence will depend on the meas ure of ability demonstrated by the Filipinos in their first efforts at self government. NOT DRIVING SENATORS. Wilson Denies Report Regarding His Attitude on Currency. Reports that President Wilson was attempting to prod Democratic Sena tors into quick action on the curren cy bill and a published statement that he would class a- - "rebel" any Dem ocrat who did not support him, brought out an emphatic denial from the White House Wednesday. The President made public the following letter: "To the Editor of the Washington Post-Sir: I am quoted In your is sue of this morning as saying that any one who does not support me is no Democrat, but a rebel. Of course I never said any such thing. It is contrary both to my thought and to my character, and I must ask that you give a very prominent place in your issue of to-morrow to this de nial Very truly yours, "Woodrow Wilson." At the White House there was a disposition to look upon the currency situation as on the way to amicable adjustment. The president. It was said, feels sure that Senator Reed, of Missouri, will soon join the admin istration supporters in the banking and currency committee, and that Senator O'Gorman will in the end side with the majority. There was no such sanguine feeling, however, with respect to Senator Hitchcock, of Nebraska. SLAYS FARM HAND. Laurens County Farmer Shoots in Self-Defence. Thomas H. Neal. a farmer residing about four miles below Cross Hill in Laurens County, shot and instantly killed Isaac Smith, a negro farm hand, Friday night shortly after mid night. Saturday morning Neal sur rendered to the sheriff. After the in quest was held Saturday afternoon, John M. Cannon, attorney for the de fendant, appeared before Associate Justice Watts at chambers at Lau rens and secured bail in the sum of $1,000. Bond was immediately se cured and Neal returned home. It is alleged that the negro with out Neal's knowledge or permission, took one of the defendant's mules from the stable Friday night and drove it until about midnight. When he returned with the team the negro was intercepted at the barn by Neal. Being caught, the negro became de fiant and drew his pistol on the white man, whereupon Neal fired upon Smith, shooting him dead. I. . Auto Turns Turtle. Miss Gright Kelly, twenty-two years old, a prominent society girl of Covington, Ky., was killed and two other young women and three men were slightly injured early Thursday when the big touring auto mobile in which they were riding got beyond control of the driver and turned turtle on the Indian Hill road near Madisonville, Ky. Maniac Runs Amuck. In a flit of religious mania early Wednesday a youthful church worker at Liverpool, Eng., William McDon ald ran amuck with a loaded revol ver and killed three of his fellow church workers. He thea committed suicide. Lad Sells Cow to See Ball Game. Adolph Deuscher, aged sixteen years. left his parental home near West Liverpool. N. J., after selling the family cow to see the game in the world's series between the New York G~a,. a the Philaelphia Athlet CORN CROP BETTER INDICATED PRODUCTION IS 2,351, 000,000, BUSHELS iGOVERNMENT REPORTS Tobacco Prospects Increased 1.9 Per Cent During Month-Oats Pros pects Brighter-Rice Increased 7.4 Per Cent-White Potatoes 1.8 Per Cent. Loss Over Last Month. An improvement in the condition of the corn 6rop during the last month to the extent of 22,000.000 bushels is the estimated final pro duction was the feature of the de partment of agriculture's October crop report issued Thursday after noon. The indicated final rroduction is placed at 2,737,000,000 bushels. or 752,000,000 bushels below last year's record crop. Tobacco prospects in creased 1.9 per cent. during the month and finx 5 per cent., while prospects of rice decreased 7.4 per cent., buckwheat 6.7 per cent. and white potatoes 1.8 per cent. The preliminary estimates of the produc tion of spring wheat and all wheat place the yield at about the same quantity as predicted last month. Oats prospects increased so that the preliminary estimate of production is 56,000,000 bushels more than esti mated in September. Details of the report in regards to corn, oats, potatoes, tobacco, rice and apples. with comparisons for other years (condition figures relate to Oct. 1, or at time of harvest) follow: Corn-Condition. 65.3 per cent. of a normal compared with 65.1 per cent. on September 1, 1913: 82.2 per, cent. in October, 1912 and 80.6 per cent. the 10 year verage in October. Indicated yield per acre, 22.2 bushels, i compared with 29.2 bushels in 1912 and 26.5 bushels, the 1908-12 aver age yield. On the planted area, 106, SS4,000 acres, it is estimated, from condition reports, that the total yield will be 2,373,000,000 bushels, com harvested last year, and 2,531,000, 000 bushels harvested in 1911. Oats-Indicated yield per acre. 29.3 bushels, compared with 37.4 bushels last year, and 29.7 bushels, the average yield, 1908-12. On the planted area, 38,341,000 acres, it isl preliminarily estimated the total final production will be 1,122,139,000 bushels, compared with 1,418,337, 000 bushels harvested last year, and' 922,298,000 bushels harvested in 1911. Quality, 89.1 per cent. of a normal, compared with a ten year Iaverage of 87.1 per cent. Potatoes-Condition, 67.7 per cent. of a normal, compared with 69.6 per cent. on September 1, 1913, 85.1 per cent. in October last year, and 76.4 per cent., the ten year average for October. Indicated yield per acre, 86.7 bushels, compared with 113.4 bushels harvested last year, and 96.1 bushels, the average yield per acre, 190-2. On the planted area, 3, 685,000 acres, it is estiniated from condition reports, the total final pro duction will be 31,000.000 bushels, compared with 421,000,000 bushels harvested last year, and 293,000,000 bushels harvested in 1911. Tobacco-Condition, 76.6 per cent. of a normal, compared with 74.5 per cent. on September 1, 1913; 81.8 per cent. in October, last year, and 83.1 per cent., the ten-year average con dition for October. Indicated yield per acre, 766 pounds. compared with 22.3 pounds. the average yield per acre, 1908-,2. On the planted area, 1,14,500 acres, it is estimated from condition reports, the total final pro duction will be 877,000.000 pounds, compared with 963,000,000 pounds harvested last year, and 905,000,000 pounds harvested in 1911. Rice-Condition', 80.3 per cent. of a normal, compared with 88.0 per cent. on September 1, 1913; 89.2 per Icent. in October last year, and 87.5 per cent., the October average for the past ten years. Indicated yield per acre, 30.9 bushels, compared with 34.7 bushels harvested last year, and 33.7 bushels, the average yield, 1908 12. On the planted area, 824.100 acres, it is estimated from condition' reports ,the total final production Iwill be 25,000,000 bushels, compared with 25,000,000 bushels harvested last year, and 23,000,000 bushels harvested in 1911. Apples-Condition, 46.6 per cent. of a normal, compared with 47.7 per 'cent. on September 1, 1913; 67.8 per cent. in October last year, and 54.1 per cent., the October average condi tion for the past ten years. The condition on Oct. 1 of corn and tobacco in the Southern states follow: Corn. 10-yr. State. 1913 1912 aver. Texas........- 7 75 73 Oklahoma ....... 38 63 67 Georgia .. ....... 87 74 86 Tennessee ....... 66 82 85 Alabama.... .. .. 78 S0 86 Mississippi. .. .. .. 80 80 86 North Carolina . ..85 75 84 Arkansas ....... 70 78 80 South Carolina. . - S~> -7 82 T irginia . .. ... 5 73 85 Louisiana ....... 84 SO 82 Tobacco. Kenteky.. ..... 7 86 8 North Carolina . .. 4 75 7S Virginia .. .. .. ... 89 53 Tcnness'ee 7 84 85 South Carolina. .. 84 79 80 Florida .. .. ..--. 94 91 Shoots .Mothcr. rs. Silas Gibson is under arrest in .xington. Ky.. charged with the killing of M-s. Jame's Smith in a darce hall at JTigh Bridge. MIrs. Gib son erept up behind her victim and shot her twie in ti" back while she wa holejing an infort child. Jeal ......i. given as the cause of the kill PAIRTY 1 UNITED BANKERS ASSAULT STRENGRENS ;URRENY STAND CRITICISM IS ANSWERED President Thinks Views Do Not Rep resent Public Sentiment-Does Not Wish to Make Bill a Party Meas ure But Will Do so if Necessary to Secure Action in Senate. A concerted defence by administra tion forces against criticisms of the currency bill by bankers at the Bos ton Convention of the American Bankers' Association and against what was alleged to be an organized effort to hinder Its consideration and passage, served to clear the air in Washington Thursday and to inspire a new feeling of confidence in Demo sratic circles. A Senate debate in which the bankers' criticism came In for sharp answer from friends of the bill, found its echo later in the day when Presiden. Wilson made plain to callers his own view of the recent de velopments surrounding the bill. The President let it be known that he did not think the views of the Boston Bankers' Convention, as they bore on the currency bill now before the Senate, represented the general public sentiment of the country. In the President's view the attacks made on the bill by the Boston conference represented the activities of men whom he believed to be secting with sincerity, but who as individrals re fused to yield their position of con - trol of the country's financial system. The expressions in the Senate were more emphatic. "I think the Boston meeting's obvious purpose was to work up opposition to this bill," said Senator Owen, "and either to force the bankers' view or to delay or de feat this bill." Senator Thomas talked of an "or ganized conspiracy" to misrepresent the President and impede legislation; Senator Overman declared the Boston conference did not reflect the views of the general public; and Senator Owen. answering a question by his Democratic colleagues, said he believ ed there was an organized propagan da against the bill that found its re fiection in the Boston conference, and In the various State bankers' conven ti"ns. which have adopted resolutions criticising the currency measure. The result of the Senate debate had of the latter discussions by the President with White House visitors were to develop the following facts: That no effort will be made to make the currency bill a party meas ure In the Senate unless It becomes impossible to get It through in any other way. That the President believes early action on the bill is essential, while many Democratic Senators will op pose any effort to unduly force the situation. That 'the criticism of the bankers' conference at Boston has tended to solidify the Democratic ranks In sup port of the bill. President Wilson told callers that tIme was most essential In the cur rency situation: that with the big accumulations of business in the au tumn and early winter, business men were anxious that the banking and credit question should be definitely settled at once. While the President also took the position that the Serate's currency bearings had been unduly prolonged, members of the Senate in the debate of that body indicated general satis inct ion with the facts and informa tion disclosed through these hearings. It was soarent when Thursday's hearings of the currency bill ended that there had been no change in committee sentiment indicating an earlier termination of the committee work. Democratic members insist ed, however, that with proper time for consideration, it would be possible to get a complete bill out of the com mittee in November and that Its pas sate through the Senate might be ac complished in December. DON'T BELIEVE H~I. Chicago Police Do Not Believe Spen cer's Murderous Story.. A speedy ,trial for the murder of Mrs. Mildren Allison-Rexroat on Sep tember 25 was Tuesday promised Henry Spencer, whose confessions of twenty murders, woven by an opium clouded brain, dumbfounded the po lice of Chicago. The authorities con tinued to investigate his fantastic stories in the hope of establishing further facts. Spencer's admission of the Rexroat crime is substantiat ed by evidence. He is known to have committed many of the large number of buarglaries he has confessed and there is a possibility that he may have slain Mrs. Annabel Wight last December. She was beaten to death with a hammer by a man who had rented a room and robbed. The re mainder of Spencer's twenty murders are believed to be the dreams of a man obsessed by a delution describ ed as penitentiary insanity. Storm Hits Georgetown. Beginning in the early hours of Wednesday morning a storm of wind and rain struck Georgetown. coming from a northerly direction, and reaching its height about five o'clock in the afternoon. Notwithstanding the fact that the wind was at times exceeding strong, very little serious damage to property has been renort ed. A few trees and considerable fencing was blown down. There has been much disorder in the lighting and telephone service, those being tbe main objects to suffer, WAMTD HIM KILLED WIFE GIVE SIGNAL FOR HEI HUSBAND'S DEATH. SI:e Drew Aside Her Window Blind t< Indicate That Her Husband Wa About to Leave. The drawing aside of a curtain and the appearance of the face of his af, finity at a window in her home wa, the death signal for the killing o: Frank E. Nelson, in San Francisco according to the confession of Jame! P. Cook, now under arrest and charg ed with the crime. The startlin; charge that the wife of his victin give the signal for the murder of hei husband was made in a preliminary hearing in which she was tried foi complicity in the crime. Cook declares he was under s strange spell against which he wac powerless when he shot and killed Nelson. He declares Mrs. Nelsor urged him daily to murder Nelsor and that he killed him because he loved the woman. In his testimony against Mrs. Nel son, Cook declared she gave him $2C with which to purchase a revolvei and do the shooting. On the night before the murder he declares he sal for hours and pondered over the crime. He determined not to kill and then some strange fascination seemed to draw him near the Nelson home. He was eager to see if Mrs. Nelson would give the signal. "It was 4:40," says Nelson, "about the time Nelson usually left home when I appeared on the street. I walked down to the house to see ii Mrs. Nelson would give the signal. Soon the curtain was put back and the face of Mrs. Nelson appeared through the-window. "There was something fascinating about that window. I watched for a few minutes and then saw Nelson walk from the front door." After the death signal was given Cook declares he felt -Mrs. Nelson lov ed him more than any one else in the world and determined to kill as she desired. He followed Nelson for several squares and then shot him in the back. He placed the revolver by his side and ran away. Cook states he met Mrs. Nelson daily before the tragedy, but.she con fided her domestic troubles with him and often expressed the wish that her husband was dead. FEDERALS ARE EXECUTED. General Alvarez and 125 Soldiers Slain After Torreon Fell. Gen. Alvarez and his staff of the Federal army, together with 125 Fed eral soldiers, were executed Wednes day i Torreon, under orders of Gen. Francisco Villa, of the Constitution alist forces, according to information from reliable sources brought into Loredo, Texas, Wednesday. With the ity of Torreon, the rebels captured ractically all of the arms and artil ery of the Federals. The battle last d four days, with heavy losses on oth sides. Three hundred refugees, most of hem Americans, left Torreon before he capture of that city by the Con stitutionalists and are making their ay overland to the border, accord ng to a dispatch received Wednesday ight. They are expected to reach aredo Friday. It was learned that the Constitu ionalists gained the advantage which esulted in the capture of Torreon hrough a ruse. With the battle at its height Gen. Villa withdrew his orces, a portion of which he started on an apparent retreat toward Santa Rosalie. Believing that the entire rebel army had been put to flight a arge force of Federals started in roops were well on their way, how ver, the main body of rebels, who were in hiding, slipped into the city and after a sanguinary battle, gained possession. So far as can be ascertained none f the foreigners was Injured either while the street fightin~g was in progress or during the reprisals which folowed the rebel victory, the onstitutionalist commander provid ing for them, especially the Ameri cans. FELICITATES YUAN. Wilson Sends M1essage of Congratula tion to Chinese Ruler. President Wilson Thursday sent a congratulatory message to Yuan Shi Kai, the newly elected president of China. The message says: "It is my hope and expectation that, guided by the principles of right and justice and the higher ideals of republican overnment, your excellency's admin istration will be so conducted as tc assure the advancement of China and conduce to the peace, happiness and prosperity of her people. It will be my pleasure to co-operate with you in preserving and still more firmly ementing the friendly and cordial relations between the two countries.' Dying. in Pov-erty, Worth a M1illion. Edward McDonald, a plainly dress ed middle aged man, was found ill in a cheap lodging house in San Fran cisco. with $1,270,000 in negotiable bonds and securities sewed inl an in sido pocket. The papers are said tc be securities of 47 bona fide com panis and all drawing interest. The man is in a coma and no explanation regarding his wealth can be had. Saves Mian's Life. But for the protection of a folded handkerchief in his left beast pock et, L. J. Hughes, general manager o1 a saw mill at Paxton, Fla., would have been killed by Tim Williamson, a timekeeper on the job. WVilliamsot tried to stab his employer but the handkerchief retarded the knif'; and prvnted its reaching the heart. MURDERED MANY PHENOMENAL SLAYER ARREST ED BY CIUCAGO POLICE. Enticed Men and Women to Lonely Spots, From Which They Never Re turned Alive. Mrs. Mildred Allison Rexroat, dancing teacher, who was shot to death at Wheaton, Ill., a week ago, was the victim of a modem blue beard, who, according to his own con fession, had killed thirteen others in in as many years. Henry Spencer, ar rested in a room near the South Side levee district of Chicago Sunday night, confessed that he not only kill ed Mrs. Rexroat, but that he had slain fourteen persons. He was posi tively identified as the mysterious Mr. Spencer with whom Mrs. Rexroat left Chicaigo on the night she was killed. Mrs. Rexroat's bloodstained rattan suitcase was found In his room, as also was the revolver with which he said he killed her. Spencer's confession was so start ling that it probably would have re ceived no credence had not the bloody suitcase and the revolver at least con firmed part of his statement. All his murders except two, he declared, had been for the purpose of robbery. The two policemen, Pennell and Devine, who were shot to death twelve years ago, he said, he and a companion kill ed to escape being arrested. "I intended to kill Mrs. A. J. Sco field, proprietor of the rooming house where I have been living," he said. "If I had not been arrested just at this time I would have killed her. He told the police he had killed fourteen persons in all, ten since his release from the Illinoie State peni tentiary in September, 1912, and four previously. Following is the list- of killings Spencer related to Chief of Detectives Halphin: One man and a woman about four teen years ago. Policemen Pennell and Devine, twelve years ago. First wife near West Point, N. Y. Two girls at Pawpaw Lake, Michi gan, last August. One girl at Lake Delevan, Wiss., last summer. One woman at Belle Island, Mich., last summer. One man shot in Chicago this fall. One old man shot In a South Side park two months ago. One woman shot and burned on the northwest side of Chicago late last summer. One woman killed near the Cook County hospital a few days ago. Spencer calmly told his gruesome story to Capt. Halpin of the Chicago police force and a room full of de tectives and newspaper men. He said he never drank or smoked, but that he chewed tobacco and smoked opium. He had not, however, the ap pearance of a drug fiend, having a healthy complexion and clear eyes. "I've been a thief all my life," he declared. "I killed all of these women to get their money. I found it was the easiest way to live. It cost we $400 to $500 a week to enjoy myself the way I wanted to in these cabarets and dives and the easiest and quick est way to get the money was to get some girl off by herself and kill her. "Mrs. Rexroat, was easy. She thought she was working me the same way she worked the farmer. I let her think so. At first I war gong to take her to Michigan and kIll her there, but finally I decided it would be less trouble to take her a little way out on the car line and get it over in a businesslike way. She thought we were going to be married. "When we got out at the station It was nearly eight o'clock. We turned around and walked down the track until we got where it was dark. I took her by the right arm. pulled out my gun and shot her through the head. Then I laid her on the railroad track so she would be 'torn up'. I took what few dollars she had and her diamond ring. I opened her suit case and dumped her stuff out of it an1 brought it back to Chicago with me. I took the next train back about ten minutes after I had shot her. I didn't want the ring. I never go to pawnshops; that's the way people get caught. I gave the ring to a girl. Just a common girl I met on the street. She went to New York Tues day or Wednesday." Spencer said he had married four women, killed the firet one near West Point, N. Y. He did not know ex actly how many years ago. One wife is living In Detroit, he craid, and an other in Chicago. He gave details of his alleged murders at the Wiscon sin and Michigan resorts, where he ~aid he had spent most of the summer as a hotel thief, committing an occa sional murder. "I killed the two girls at Pawpaw, Lake for their money and rings," he said. "One of them one time let me see that she had some money with her and so I shot her and sank her body In the lake. The other girl I killed the same way, but she did not have much money. The girl at Del avan Lake I shot with the same gun with which I killed Mrs. Rexroat. "When I got back to Chicago I met a man one night who looked as If he had money. I shot him ia an alley o the South Side levee. He did not have much money, but enough for me to go to a hotel for a few days and there I met another man, an old fel low, who said he was a broker. We got friendly and he let on to have a fine business and a lot of money. He looked like money. I was dissap pointed in that fellow. "I got him to take a walk with me late one afternoon In Jackson Park and I shot him there and went through him. He told me he had a lot more than I found. I rolled him into a swampy place, where they were lumping. The papers had a lot about it, and called it a ease of suicide." "Another case the police called a suicide was that of a woman I killed on the nothwest side. I killed her DOES NOT TESTIFY SULZER ENDS DEFENCE WITHOUT TAIN STAND WOULDN'T BRAG WIFE IN Sulzer's Attorneys Say That the Rea son for His Sudden Determination Not to Testify in His Own Behalf Was a Desire to Shield His Wife From All Publicity. Without calling either Gov. Sulzer or his wife to the witness stand, his counsel Wednesday rested their case in the trial of his impeachment. Ac cording to D. Cady Herrick, chief of his attorneys, Gov. Sulzer decided not to defend himself In person, because he did not want to be placed in the position of shielding himself behind his wife-for it was for Mrs. Sulzer, according to testimony, that the gov ernor had- recourse to Wall street dealing. The rest of this week will be de voted to summing up the case by op posing counsel. Monday next being a holiday, adjournment probably will be taken until Tuesday when it is ex pected the verdict on the governor's innocence or guilt will be reached. JuJdge Herrick Wednesday night pointed out that the testimony Tues day of Allan A. Ryan best disclosed the reason why the governor had not taken the stand. This was the con vensation which Ryan said he had with %the impeached executive early in September in relation to obtaining political influence to stop the trial. "I suggested to Mr. Sulzer," Ryan's testimony ran, "now that certain charges had been made against him that I did not see that he could af ford to put himself in a position in which he could ac answer the charges. He said that the reason was that he did not want to drag his wife into the situation and put her on the stand." The sudden announcement that the case for the defense was closed, which came late in the Wednesday afternoon session, created a sensation in the court room. Soon after the trial began Gov. Sulzer iold newspa per men that he would positively ap pear in his own defense. He said that at that time he would tell an "astounding story that would force Charles F. Murphy, leader of Tam many Hall, to take the stand in his defense also. Until a few days ago, it was learned from authoritative sources, the governor was still insist ent that he be allowed to tell his story, but he finally yielded it was said, to the advice of his attorneys. In preparing for this story, as well as that expected from Mrs. Sulzer, counsel for the impeachment man agers had several whom they had expected to put on In rebuttal. Two of these witnesses were called before court adjourned but Judge Cullen ex cluded their testimony. They were George W. Egbert, a bank examiner in charge of the books of the now de funct Carnegie Trust company, and James C. Miller, an official of the Fifth avenue Bank of New York. Judge Cullen held that the introduc tion of their testimony "would' Inject new evidence and reopen the case."* MURDER AND SUICIDE. New York Wife Kills Self and Child in Husband's Absence. The Queens county jail in Long Is land City, just across the East river froni New York, was the scene of a double tragedy Wednesday night which was probably a case of mur der and suicide. Henry Schleth, who was warden of the jail, returned to his apartments there at an early hour Thursday morning and found his wife and a four-year-old son dead, each with a bullet wound in their right temples. Near Mrs. Schleth was found a revolver with two chambers empty. Both mother and child were in their night clothes. Schleth could suggest no motive for his wife's act which the authorities agreed appear ed to be murder of herself and child destruction. I.I Roman Numerals Doomed. Secretary McAdoo Thursday in structed the supervising architect of the treasury to use .arabic instead of Ruman numerals on all public build ings. The order was issued because of the difficulties the average citizen finds in quickly interpreting Roman numerals. The order, though a revo lutionary one, was expected to be popular. ~with a hammer, tore up hr clothes and set fire to them. The last woman I killed was a few days ago, two blocks west of the county hospital. I put her to death with a hammer. She had two rings and $200. This murder was done with the hammer the police found wrapped in a towel by the rail road tracks. They thought the ham mer had something to do with the Rexroat murder." Spencer said he killed three women Including Mrs. Rexroat, with the re volver the police found in his lodg ings. He said he bought it a month ago,, after his other weapon refused to work. He claimed to have held up many of the restaurants which re cently have been robbed by highway men in Chicago. "Why I spent $700 in two nighta last week in 'Charley West's,' " he said. "It costs a lot of money to hold up your end in these cabarets. I average two jobs a week all the time I'm out of jail." Spencer said none of the jewelry he had taken from his victims ever would be receovered. "I never go into a pawnshop," he said. "When I sell of it it Is to some private person, MANY SPANIARDS SLAIN RUMOR SPREADS OF AWFUI BUTCHERY AT TORREON. Rebels Have Been Credited With a Boast to Slaughter Spaniards City's Capture Seems Confirmed. With the capture of Torreon b3 the rebels, rumors became current al Mexico City Wednesday of a massacre of Spaniards, which if confirmed would approach the horror of the massacre of Chinese in the same city during the Madero revolution it 1910. It is estimated that there ar( between 60 and 100 Spaniards in thE city of Torreon. Refugees who havE communicated with the rebels In thai district declare that it has been a common boast that they would slaughter the Spaniards if they suc ceed in capturing the town. The Spanish minister to Mexico, Senor Cologan y Cologan, Wednesday night was without information fur ther than the reports, but was greatly concerned. He held a long confer ence with the American charge, Nel son O'Shaughuessy, and the latter made an appointment wit1 the *Mexi can foreign minister. The Ameri can charge is convinced of the truth of the capture of the city and has so notified Washington. Few Ameri cans are left in Torreon. Besides Spaniards there are a number of French and Germans residing there. The diplomats here are making ef forts to learn their fate. Every effort has been made by the Mexican authorities to keep the news of the affair from the public. The newspapers even failed to print a reference to the persistent rumors. In banking circles the capture of Tor reon was credited and caused a jump of twenty points in the Exchange. Torreon has been under siege for many weeks, but it was recently re ported that the rebels had been driv en back. It has always been declared by the authorities to be impregnable, because of the heavy artillery with which It is protected. Another un confirmed report Is that Gen. Trucy Aubert, who with a thousand men left Saltillo three weeks ago to march to the relief of Torreon, has gone over to the rebels. * TILLMAN'S "ALLEGORICAL COW". Illustrated Article in Congressional Record Causes Flurry. Senator Tillman's "allegorical cow" sketched eighteen years ago to accompany an attack by the South Carolina Senator upna Wall Street and the "money power" Illustrated the same article In Wednesday's Con gressional Record. One view shows the cow as an elongated animal, sym bolic of the national resource feeding on the farms of the South and West. While her golden milk is being drawn in New York and New England. Then the cow is pictured tdrned around, but the Supreme Court is choking her as she attempts to feed on the In come tax. Southern farmers are get ting no milk. Unanimous consent for Inserting the article with illustrations In the Record was obtained by Senator Till man, who said he made the request because so much that was mere sur mise and prophecy then has come true". He added that he rejoiced that the country no longer could be 'bamboozled" and that under a -Dem cratic administration legislation was being enacted which would prevent the robbery that had gone on In the past. The appearance of the cartoon In the Record created a flurry at the Capitol. Nobody remembered when such a thing had-happened before." * ATHLETICS LEAD SERIES, Win Three Out of the First Four Championship Games. Philadelphia has now won three ut of the first four games. Bush, a recruit, held New York safe Thurs ay, while Philadelphia slugged Tes reau and Crandall. Friday ,Bender won his second game, although hard it, Merkle getting a home run In the seventh with two on. Third game at New York: Phila . . .320 000 210-8 12 1 . Y. . . .000 010 100-2 5 1 Batteries: Bush and Schang; Tes reau, Crandall and McLean. Fourth game at Philadelphia: . Y. . . .000 000 320-5 8 0 Phila . . .010 320 00*-6 9 0 Batteries: Demaree, Marquard and MceLean and Wilson; Bender and Schang. Shot at His Door. 1Rising from the breakfast table to aswer the doorbell, Frank Ivy, a real state dealer of Los Angeles, Cal., was shot by his first wife in the pres nce of his second wife and their two abies. The woman then dropped the weapon and fled. Ivy picked it up ad fired as the woman ran down the street, the bullet striking her in the leg. The shooting was the result f a quarrel over the divorced pair's fifteen-year-old daughter. Use Citizen as Shield. Six bandits held the whole town of ulton, Ark., at bay while they rob bed the Bank of Fulton of $70 in pen nies. They used a citizen they had aptured as a shield to prevent his ownsmen from shooting them down. he bandits appear to have been the same gang that robbed the First State bank at Dardanelle, Ark. Horse Gets His Own Shoes. Gilbert A. Penney, of Quogue, L. I., owns a horse that knows when he eeds new shoes. Several days ago Big Ben went to a blacksmith shop, took his place in the line of waiting orses and was shod, Then he re turned home. TO DRIVE THEM OUT 4 CHARLESTON'S ILLEGED TIGERS BEFORE GRA JURY 290 NAMES HANDED IN Judge Bowman Makes Strong Charge, Telling Grand Jury Possession of Revenue License is Prima Fade Evidence of Violation of Dispen sary Law and Enough for True Bill. Two hundred and ninety indict ments, each one for violation of the law by the illegal selling and storing of liquor, were handed to the Char leston grand jury Wednesday morn ing by Solicitor.John H. Peurifoy. In a special charge to the jurors, in. which he explained their duty to them, Judge Bowman cited to them Section 838, of the Criminal Code of South Carolina, telling the jurors that was as far as they need go and they were to bring -in a true bill on this evidence. Section 838 of the Criminal Code, cited by Judge Bowman, is as fol lows: "The payment of the United States special tax as a liquor seller, or notice of any kind in any place of resort, or in any store or shop, indi cating that alcoholic liquors are there sold, kept, or given 'away, shall be held to be prima fade evidence that the person or persons paying such tax, and the parties displaying such notices, are acting in violation of this chapter (Chapter I X, Reg ulations in Reference to Alcoholic Liquors)." Judge Bowman having charged the grand jury that this was sufficient evidence on which to bring in true bills against the persons indicted, the~ prosecution placed in evidence with the grand jury, It Is understood, a certified copy of the names of the in dicted persons as they appeared on the books of the United States col lector of internal revennes the middle of September, the certification being made to all the names' by D. Clinch Heyward, collector of internali reve nues. This list of licenses constitute prima facie evidence under the law. However, it is understood that the prosecution does not desire to stop this and several witnesses have been summoned to appear before the jury to testify. One of the witnesses Sum moned to testify against the persons Indicted is Chief of Police James R. Cantwell. Thus far the Law and Order League has not presented to the grand jury any of Its cases against gambling house keepers or other persons violating the law against whom evidence has been con nected. All the indictments turned over by Solicitor !Peurifoy were for alleged Illicit liquor selling. The grand jury has held three ses sions in the present matter, but has done nothing. With the indictments handed them by solicitor and the wit esses having been secured for them by the solicitor, with the evidence, it s likely that the jurors will take some action Immediately. * HAVE BUSINESS BOW. Two Partners Have Patal Shooting Scrape at Olar. Joe Kimsey was shot and killed 'by Victor Kearse Saturday evening, the shooting taking place on the princi pal street of Olar. Kimsey, who was a planter, and -Kearse were business associates in a lunch room at Olar, and the dispute which ended fatally s said to have begun with a duscus sion of business differences. Kimsey was shot twice, one bullet taking ef 'ect in the left side in the region of the heart. The other struck him in the right arm. Details as to the ac tual shooting are meagre. After the affray Kimsey was taken to a doctor's ffice where he died about twenty inutes later. Kimsey leaves a wife nd three children. *Keai'se Is mar ried and has one child.. FOUR MEMBERS REMIAIN. Other Carolina Congressmen Desert Their Post at Washington. In the quorumless condition of the ouse of Representatives Tuesday, South Carolina showed up better than ost of the states, and better than either of her next door neighbors. 'he South Carolinians who answer d the roll call were Messrs. Alken, Johnson, Lever and Whaley. Only three of the North Carolina delega tion were on hand. The Republicans were delighted with the situation and re hopeful of being able to force an adjournment in the Senate. It Is re arded as remarkable that among the Democratic absentees in the House re Speaker Clark, Floor Leader Un erwood, Caucus Chairman Palmer nd the clerk and sergeant-at-arms. Lever Invited to Kansas. Congressman Lever is in receipt of telegram from President Waters, of. the Agricultural College of Kansas, nviting him to deliver an address at the celebration of the semi-centennia f its establishment, on the subject, What the Lever Bill Will Accomn plish if Enacted Into Law." Mr. Lver delivered an address at this In stitution last year and would like greatly to accept the Invitation of President Waters, but has had to de cline. Speaker Clark Hurt. Speaker Clark Thursday returned from Wheeling to Washington badly ruised by a severe bumping in a sleeping car Wednesday night in the Pittsburg Railroad yards. Though e was not seriously Inh-red, the Speaker had a narrow esca, when San eineased into his car.