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VOL. XXVIII MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY* OCTOBER2 AIRSHIP EXPLODES ------ . ZEPPELINS, LATEST DIRIGIBLE MEETS DISASTER TWENTY EIGfHT KILLED Ship Was on Final Trial Pending Ac ceptance by German Government. -Explosion Caused by Ignition of 4f Gas, Causing Airship to Drop 900 Feet. ZAi~wenty-elght persons were killed day near Johanisthal, Germany, in explosion and fall of Count Zep pelin's latest dirigible balloon, the L-II. The twenty-eight men repre sented the entire personnel of the admiralty board, which was to con duct the final trial of the dirigible looking to its acceptance by the gov ernment as a new unit of the Ger man aerial navy, the pilot and crew and invited guests. Every person that went aloft in the big airship Is dead. Twenty-seven of them were killed almost instantly by the explosion of gas in the balloon, or burned to death as the flaming wreck fell to the ground from a height of 00 feet and envelpped them. One man, Lieut. Baron von Bleul, of the Queen Au gusta Grenadier Guards, a guest of the admiralty board. was extricated alive from the mass of twisted wreckage. His eyes were burned out and he suffered other terrible hurts. Begging his rescuers to kill him and end his sufferings he wss taken to a hosnital, where he died Friday night. The L-II, had it proved success ful. would have been attachad to the aerial corps of.the navy, which, after Friday's fatalities, now has i1v two men trained to comn-n-d airshis. The official report of the accident says the explosion was due to the Ignition of gas in or above the for ward gondola. but not -within the body of the airship. The navy was not the only sufferer through avia tion accidents, for three army officers wo-p kille-l in aeronAne fights, Cant. Haeseler, Lieut. Koch and Sergt Mante. Hundreds of people, who had been watching the flight from parks and housetops, rushed to the scene. There was nothing to be done, ex cept to take out the dead bodies of the victims of .the disaster from the mass- of -twisted wreckage. Specta - tors. who had been watching the im pressive manoeuvres of the L-I from below suddently saw the great gas bag burst Into a glaring flame and then fall. A second or two later the reverberating sound of the terri flc explosion reached them. It was impossible for some time to approach the flaming dirigible, be neath which the members of the crew had been crushed and burned. A director of one of the aviation com panies at the JTohnnisthal Aerodrome was an eye-witness of the disaster. He described it as follows: "I was working in my office, about 500 yards from the scene of the accident, when I was startled by an explosion of ex traordinary violence. My !first thought was that an aeroplane had landed on the roof of my building and that the gasoline tank had ex ploded. "I rushed to a window and saw the new dirigible, in flames and plunging toward the earth. The out er covering of the aircraft had been already burned off and the inner bal loonets containing the gas had disap peared. The naked aluminum frame work, with its long centerpieces, its interlaced ribs and Its tapering ends, and the gondolas containing the mo p tors beneath fell rapidly bow fore most. "When the skeleton of the im mense craft struck the earth the! heavy gondolas buried themselves in the ground. I rushed immediately to the scene after ordering out the fire department from the aerodrome." Coming shortly after the destruc tion of the "TIP'I in a hurricane in the North Sea on September 9. when fifteen men were killed, this disaster gave rise to a feeling of cosera tion''1n Berlin. whose public hai within a week been saddened by the1 loss of many G'erman passengers on board the burned Volturno and by accounts of the terrible mining catas trophe in Wales. Other liossible causes of the fire and explosion were that old gasoline was carried on board or that a spark of atmospheric electricity was devel oped by the friction of the ballobnets rubbing together inside the outer frame work, as occurred in the case of the predecessors of the L-II. These theories are regarded as improbable owing to the Improvements made in the design of the airship to meet such contingencies. He Wijll Soon Fall. Recent evens in Mexico have vin dicated the wisdom of President Wil son in refusing recognition to the Huerta government. Huerta has now cldarly exposed his determination to hold with the strong hand the gov ernment he wrested from the consti tutional president by treachery, con spiracy and assissination. Huerta is nothing short of a murderous tyrant. Horses Are Burned. Thirty-three horses were burned Eo death, a tobacco warehouse, sev eral dwellings and a livery stable, were destroyed by fire of unknown origin a't Chatham, Va., Thursday. Several farmers sleeping in the to bacco warehouse narrowly escaped being burned to death. The loss is estimated at $25,000. Officer Kills Negro. Gus Glover, colored, was shot and killed at Lamar Saturday by Police man Odom In self-defense. EXPLOSION KILLS THREE GASOLINE CARELESSNESS HAS FATAL RESULT. Gas-Vapor Ignited in Anderson Gar age When Driver Lights Cigarette and Building is Demolished. Three men are dead, nine in the hospital, a concrete and stone build ing entirely demolished and there may be other victims in the wreck age, as the result of a gasoline explo sion at Anderson about 1 o'clock Thursday morning, caused by an au tomobile driver lighting a cigarette while the tank of his car was being filled with gasoline. The dead and injured men, so far identified, were victims of a falling wall of the garage building, when the large supply tank exploded. The dead are: William E. Campbell, fireman, crushed to death. Robert Dodd, fireman, crushed to death. An unidentified man whose re mains are still under the wreckage, believed to be a citizen who was try ing to aid the firemen. Members of the department and citizens are still trying to remove the wreckage to re cover the body. The injured, all of whor, are in the hospital, are: H. C. Townsend, who owned the building; left leg practically crushed off below the knee and badly burned. Tom Davis, a fireman, who was pinned under the debris more than thirty minutes before being rescued; seriously burned and mashed. Reed Fowler, fireman, crushed and burned. Marshall Smith, fireman, mashed and burned. Isaac Sein, fireman, mashed and burned. Andrew Jones, citizen. who was aiding the firemen, mashed and burned. H. L. Todd. owner of the garage. bruised about the body, face and hands badly burned. Edward Layton, an automobile man from Columbia, who went to Anderson to run an automobile for the circus people Thursday, drove into the garage of H. L. Todd after midnight to have his car supplied with gasoline. While the helpers In the garage were filling the tank of his car, Layton, who was standing leaning against the car, struck a match to light a cigarette. The gas vapor from the pouring fluid was ig alted and the car was a sheet of flame in a second. Quickly the fire alarm was rung in and the department responded. Those inside the garage ran to the street when the fire started. Just as the firemen were about to enter the front of the building to fight the flames there was a deafening crash, caused by the explosion of the big supply tank of gasoline. The walls of the building, which was made of concrete and rock, crumbled and caught a ozen or more of the firemen and citizens. At least that many have been accounted for at 2 o'clock. and t s feared there may be others in the wreckage, since a number of people were seen to rush into the building just before the explosion. Mr. H. C. Townsend, who owned the building, had an office and builders' supply store in one end. the garage being in the other. He was in his office at work at the time of the explosion, and was caught by the- wreckage, his left leg being so badly crushed that immediately op n his arrival at the hospital pre parations were made to amputate it. The building was entirely destroyed, but the fire did not spread to any other property. BOLL ROT COSTS MILLIONS. South Suffers Annual Loss From Rav ages of Fungus. The cotton crop suffers an annual loss of about $2,000,000 as a result of the disease known as cotton an thraconose or boll rot. In a report on the subject the department of ag riculture says that since the fungus ran live on dead cotton bolls in the ield for at least a year and in the seed for two or three years, there hould be rotation of crops, cotton "ever should be planted on land where anthracnose was prevalent the year previous, while fully as impor tant is the selection of healthy seed. The department says the disease is reported at present in every cotton field in Georgia, in every county of South Carolina, In all parts of Missis sippi, being worse in the delta and bottom lands. Its occurance is more or less general throughout the entire cotton belt. Admits Several Robberies. A man who gives his name as George Clark, who was arrested Wed nesday by the Savannah police and who Is held as a suspicious charac ter, admits that he has committed robberies in several small post offices recently. The Government authori ties are to take him in charge and try to get a more extended confes Mangled by Gin Saw. Thaylor McGuirt, while ginning cotton Tuesday morning at Waxhaw, near Chester. came in contact with the saws, which tore one of his arms up so that it had to be amputated and also severely cut his face and neck. He was brought to a hospital and is in a critical condition. Negro Baby Burns. The home of Addle Belton, a negro woman living near Ridgeway, was completely destroyed Tuesday by fire. and her eight-months-Old baby, left In the house while the mother was in the field picking cottos wvp burned in detth. SHOULD RETALIATE UNFAIR LAWS EXIST AGAINST BONDS Of THIS STATE PASSED IN WAR TIME State, County and Municipal Bonds of Southern States Are Legislated Against-McMaster's Annual Re port Advises That We Retaliate by Legal Enactment. "It is recommened that legislation be enacted forbidding license to any financial institution seeking the peo ple's money which has on the statute books of its home state any law which prohibits its insurance com panies from counting as security any state, county or municipal secuitcies," says F. H. McMaster, insurance com misioner of South Carolina, in his annual report, discussing laws of certain states forbidding investments south of the District of Columbia. The commisioner says that "it mat ters not from what angle the subject is viewed. self-respect. safety or pub lic funds, or market for investment of home securities demand that South Carolina no longer rest quietly under such insulting statutes." "Search has not been made to dis cover them," says the commisioner, "but it is understood that several other states have statutes similar to that to be found in the insurance code of Connecticut, which forbides its sa'ings from investing in the state. county or municipal bonds of any state south of the District of Colum bia and which foreign insurance com panies from using any of such secur ities for purposes of deposit in that state. Such statutes were passed about thirty or forty years ago.. "It is well enough to recall some of the facts of forty years ago. The South Carolina state debit in 1868, when the negro rule commenced, was $5,407,000. R. K. Scott, of Ohio, was elected governor that year, with Niles C. Parker, of Massachusetts, as state treasurer and D. H. Chamberlain, of Massachusetts, as attorney general. These three constituted the financial board of the state. J. J. Paterson, of Pennsylvania, was ringmaster and partner of. the side. "After four years of control by these creatures, an investigating com mittee reported to the legislature in 1872 that South Carolina was facing a total of $2S,977,000 actual and contingnent liabilities of tliistate. The next year the rag-tag-al..4oh tail legislature repudiated one-half of the actual debt because of inability to pay. But really, was this any worse than the action of the Federal gov ernment itself, which in 1866-68. had by act of congress, prohibited South Carolina from paying a debt of $2,241,000, contracted in 1861, for the military defense of the state. The difference between the two debts was that the debt of 1861 represented dol lar for dollar money loaned by the people of this state under definite and certain authority of the legislature; the debt of 1872 was representedby fraudulant issues of bonds brought by personsin the North at scandulous, discounts. "Not only was the state robbed di 'ectly, but by many indirect means, as the sale of stock in' the Columbia & Greenville Railroad, which repre sented value to the state exceeding $400,000 but sold to Patterson and his gang for less than $60,000. Like wise with the municipalities. The $850,000 debt, placed upon Colum bia, the caultal during those days, represents less than $100,000 actual value: $400,000 of it was for a city hall, contract price $65,000 and when completed had no roof because the architect had not stipulated for one in the specifications. Columbia has never repudiated one dollar of this great deebt. So with Charleston's $4.150,0.00 debt, not a dollar of Of it %,750,000 represents nothing on God's green earth nor in the wat ers beneath it.' "During the forty years that the credit of the old secession states have had this bar sinster written across it by the statutes of Northern and East ern states, agents of the insurance companies form those states have been most assiduously seeking South Carolina money to be sent to trustees in the North. Out of the money col lected here and, all of the expenses meurred here and aftertaking out the toll for home office expenses in the home states of the companies, there have remained over millions of dol lars, which for the most part have ben invested elsewhere. "And, sad to relate, man' agents employed by these foreign corpora tions to gather ~South Carolina money rarely hesitate to disparage or throt tle domestic companies which sought to keep part of this money at home. "So while South Carolina's credit has been damaged abroad, her own institutions have been stifled and the money of her people has been sent to make great and still greater institu tions in unfriendly sectIons. and to enrich people there and elsewhere. "If such statutes are an expression of the bitterness and hate of forty years ago, South C'arolina's self-re pet demands that she hold no com merce with such states until such in sults disappear from their statute ooks. If they are evidences of dis trust in the integrity or capacity of the trustees of puhlic funds in those states to invest properly and securely Blood Poisoning Fatal. Capt. Arna' Miller, assistant sur geon. attached to the Sixth United ! tts cavalry at Texas City, Texas, died Wednesday from blood poison n caused by the' fracture of a leg when he w'as thrown fromn his horse HUERTA IS WARNED WILSON INTENDS TO BREAK WITH MEXICAN RULER. Realizes Value of Show of Force, But is Unwilling to Use it Unless Ready to Back it Up. President Wilson Thursday indi cated to those who discussed the Mex ican situation with him that he was irrevocably determined to deal no longer with the Huerta regime, but that further steps toward bringing peace to Mexico were being consider ed. No move is expected, however, until after October 26, the date set for the Mexican election. Just what the Washington government will do is a matter of speculation among high officials, but the trend of events, un mistakably is toward conducting ne gotiations in some form or another with the Constitutionalists. The policy of the United States has been to make complete the record of having attempted to handle the prob lem by peaceful means. Up to the present parleys have been carried on with the Huerta authorities who have rejected the good offices of the Uni ted Statt. Strong prssure now is be ing brough to bear upon the Presi dent and Secretary Bryan to give the Constitutionalists an opportunity to compose the situation through the support of this country. Reports that the President was pre paring to recognize the belligerency of th' Constitutionalists chiefly are based upon the friendly disposition toward them that has arisen among Adm'sistration officials since Huerta's proclamation of dictatorship. The The suggestion has been carried to President Wilson by those upon whose fudgment he and Secretary Bryin have, in the past, been guided to some extent, and while the atti. tule is one of waiting until October 26 arrives, it appears that some move indicating support for the Constitu tionalists was not at all improable. Such action might not be formal recognition, which would present a curious tangle in techanicalities of international law, but it is pointee out that in reality Governor Carranza legally was elected Chief Executive of the State of Coahuila and that he and Governor Maytorena, of Sonora, justify their armed resistance of Huerta as a measure of defence against those who took possession of the Federal Government machinery in the Mexican Capital by arbitraily overthrowing Madero. That President Wilson believes the Mexico City administration is incap able of restoring constitutional au thority is evident and there is a well founded understanding that the Washington government immediately would adopt a very drastic policy but for the fear that it would interfere with the Democratic programme of currency and other important legns latice reform. Those who best know President Wilson's attitude say he realizes the value of a show of force, but is un willing to consent to any- demons tration except with the Intention of backing it up with actual use of force if events call for It. Menas for dealing with the tangle through peaceful measures, however, by no means mave been exhausted, and the likelihood Is that before any military or naval demonstrations are serious ly considered support may be thrown toward the Constitutionalists with a view of sweeping the Huerta regime from power. The Washington Gov ernent would welcome the elima tion of Huerta and if this can be ac amplished by lifting the embargo on arms or giving the Constitutionalists the moral support of this country, many officials favor such a policy. RETURN BY AUTO. Conressmen Leave Washington for Short Stay at Home. Con gressman Lever, Ragsdale and Byrnes, with William D. Aiken, Mr. Lever's secretary, left Washington early Thursday morning for South Carolina, travelling in Mr. Ragsdale's large automobile. The party will travel via Staunton, Roanoke and Charlotte and expects to reach South Carolina territory Sunday. An agree ment having been reached that the House would transact no business of importance until December, the South Carolinians will now go home for a brief rest before the busy days of next session begin. Establishes Himself Dictator. IHuerta, who murdered President adero and usurped his place, has gone the limit and has fetched up logically in the role of dictator of Mexico. He has assumed all the functions of the government, having turned out the Congress and jailed many of its members and suspended the constitutional provisions for its independence. Drops Dead WThile Singing. While singing a Welsh hymn, the translation of which is, "I'll Obey Thy Will This Moment,"~ Mrs. Henry B. Evans, 36 years old of Scranton Pa., dIropped dead during church ser vice tle funds which belong to the people of those states then South Carolina s~ould not permit trustees in those states to have uncontrolled use of the funds of the people of this state. If such statutes under a plea of self righteousness, are for the purpose of limiting the market of Southern se curities. and thereby forcing a higher rae of interest on Southern securities the good business demands that South Carolina and Virginia and North Carolina and all the other old secession states offset this by exclud ing from their border the agents of financial Institutions of states having such statutes, and reserving Southern funds to be nvted in Southera se YOUNG FARMER MISSING LEXINGTON IS SCENE OF MYSTE RIO'S DISAPPEARANCE Sells His Cotton in Columbia but Does Not Return to His Home Team is Found Nearby. Lexington county has another mys tery. Haskell L. Lucas, a highly re spectable farmer of the Gaston sec tion and a well-known farmer, has been missing since Monday night, and Wednesday night a party of citizens made a thorough.search in an effort to solve the mystery. Mr. Lucas left his home on Monday morning with a bale of cotton to mar ket in Columbia. Failing to return Monday night his wife became very uneasy and a search was instituted, but not until late Tuesday was a clue found. Roaming about In the field grazing,. was found the mule of Mr. Lucas, still hitched to the wagon; in which was a sack of flour, a shotgun, the hat of the man and his overcoat. In the hat was found a bill for the sale of the cotton bearing the name I of a well-known Columbia coton buy er. The place -where the mule was found is at a point about a mile south of Congaree Creek, on the State road leading from Columbia to Gaston. Mr. Lucas was seen by a number of persons as he passed C through New Brookland and Cayce, I and was also seen standing beside his I mule at a point near Congaree Creek, c a little after dust Monday evening. He was alone at that time. J. A. Lucas, father of the missing young min was in Lexington Wednes- t day. The aged father is afraid that his son has met with foul play, an'd that he will never be heard of again. f On the other hand, he stated that ; Haskell had left home about three t years ago and his disappearance then was as mysterious as in the present case; that for three weeks he was not heard from, and when he returned to his home it was learned that he had been in Birmingham, Ala. Haskell Lucas, according to the statements of the father, was never known to dissi pate, and this makes his disappear ance all the more mysterious. It was stated that the young man t had made threats to the effect that ( he was going to leave home. It being t also rumored that his domestic rela- I tions were anything but pleasant. He t has been married five or six years and has no children. He Is described as being about six feet tall, clean shav en,' iith a reddish mustache, heavy t set and will weigh about 185'or 180 s pounds. t Unle'ss young Lucas has departed- r it is believed that he was murdered and his body thrown into Congaree Creek to hide the crime, or t'aat he f has committed suicide by throwing himself into the deep water of Con garee Creek. These are the three r theories advanced by those who are s in close touch with the situation. STATE FAIR WILL BE GREAT. Will Be One of the Best Ever Heldc in the Entire South. Ref lecting the great prosperity I which blessed South Carolina .thisc year, and promising the greatest suc cess of any previous undertaking, t preparations have been completed I for holding the forty-fifth Annual I Fair of The State Agriculture anda Mechanical Society in Columbia. Oct- t ober 27, 28, 29, 30, 31. IndicationsC are that people from every nook and corner of the State will crowd the 1 fair grounds by thousands and it is t expected that attendance records will( set a new high water mark at thej gathering this year. The good har-C vests, the.gratifying returns for the t labor of their hands and the evidencet of God's favor in the ideal harvest I weather. have made the farmers of the State prosperous and happy, and I they are looking forward to the an- I nual gathering in Columbia, when i everybody turns aside from businessC to have a regular good old time at t the annual State Fair. Laying While Hatching. Newberry has a progressive breed I of hens as the following from thee Herald and News will prove: "This: t scribe doesn't claim to know any- t thing about poultry habits and theC like, but thinks what is here to be re cited is somewhat unusual. NeitherC is he the best of grammavians, so I will not argue the disputed point of a sitting or setting hen, but Mr. Hen- I ry Chappel says he has a hen that has just hatched a brood and that thei hen laid an egg the day the chicks were hatched, after laying contin uously during the time of her "incu-f bation". Boys, Remember This. c The Fort Mill Times says: The I boy who has the freedom of the streets after nightfall, without busi- I ness or permission, is cultivating a 1 very dangerous habit. Any place 1 where a boy has no business is a very dangerous place for him wheth- r r it is on the street, In the store or elsewhere. A boy that Is all right likes his home, friends, books or < newspaper in preference to the class found on the streets, without busi ness. Business men of all kinds look upon the boy loafer as a dead beat of the future. Wilson Was Right.. The Huerta despotism can not last a great while in Mexico. President Wilson did the right thing when he refused to recognize the assassin and the other cut-throats who constitute his aiders and abetters. Events from now on are likely to move rapidly and perhaps more bloodily, and out1 of the growing welter of anarchy and murder which can not long be en-1 dured by any people the Mexicans' must soon work their way Into some: WERE NOT COWARE GAPTAIN OF VOLTURNO DENIE! SENSATIONAL STORY HO NOT DRAW PISTOl -4 7aptain Inch, Who Commanded th( Ill-fated Volturno, Pays Tribute t< Men of His Own Crew and to th Rescue Ships Which Answered Hii Desperate AppeaL Francis Inch, the boyish-looking 3riton who commanded the burne steamer Volturno, Thursday nigh1 ,ame to port at New York bringing with him 87 survivors, passenger: mnd crew of his ill-fated vessel. Hic tory of the disaster, in which 13( ives were lost, had preceded him b3 wireless, but In a cabin of the steam. r Kroonland, which brought him t( Kew York, Capt. Inch told his tale it imply phrased and modestly spok-r letail that more vividly described Gih anorama of the Volturno's loss and he rescue of more than 500 of those ,he had on board. There was no cowardice on th( Tolturno, either among officers oi rew, Inch said. There was no rust f seamen which made it necessary or him to warn them back with hi: -evolver. His revolver was in a Irawer in his cabin and it burned vith the ship. And no one on board trew a revolver. These statement: Le intended should refute the stories old by steerage passengers who ar ved on the Grosser Kurfuerst. The Volturno's master, besides de ending his own officers and men, aid he had no criticism to make of he tactics of any of the boats that tood by. "The Carmania did its est, the same as the others," he said. 'There Is nothing but praise for very one. I did not expect a boat ould live in those seas when the 'armania and the other first few hips came up." The Carmania did drop a jaat, nch declared, but it could not-get Lear for the Volturno drifted faster han the crew could row. Later the :armania sent forth six rafts, but hey drifted across the Volturno's >ow and disappeared. More than hat, the Carmania could not do, said nch. Eighteen cabin and two steer .ge passengers entered the first life *at that ventured to leave the Vol urno. Only enough of the crew tepped Into to man it, said Inch; hey did not rush to it and It was Lot overcrowded. It entangled itse1f a its after tackle and capsized. All a It-were drowned; ezgt Chief Of icer Miller and a It*Ward, who limbed into It after It had righted tself and were rescued. Into the text boat went 30 passengers and 10 ailors. This .boat got away but has Lot been beard from. The third oat took off 40, 10 of them sailors. s she settled into the water 10 miore umped aboard from the Volturno's eck. A wave swept it under the Tolturno's stern.. "She just sat on it .nd crushed it out of sight," said nh. "The bos'n dived and was the nly one to escape." Inch denied reports of rotting ackle and fire hose and of unsafe ifeboats. He counted only three ex ilosions, the last one wrecking wheel .nd compass so that a handgear had o be rigged. He also denied stories f steerage passengers that women rere swept ogerboard and babies rampled in a rush to be rescued in he Grosser -Kurfuerst's first boat. )fficers urged men and women to ump overboard, for the lifeboat ould not get near enough for them o be lowered into it. None dared o jump: "Show them how to jump," nch told his crew. Two at a time they leaped over the 'all. When passengers saw them 'each the lifeboat they followed them nto the sea. With boat hooks and ears some were rescued. Others went o their death. No women were re noved in this way. "Before I climbed down I went ver the ship to see If any one re naned," Inch said. "The fire had aten its way beyond amidships under he decks. I found no one alive, ough there were bodies in the fore astles. I went to the rail with my log, wrapped in a blanket. I leaned ver. 'Here,' I said, 'catch my baby. dropped the dog into the arms of SKroonland officer in the lifeboat. e opened the blanket tenderly. Why, its a dog,' he said, 'I thought t was your kid.'" Inch's three "kids" and their nother are in London. One of his irst acts upon arriving in New Yorkt -as to send them a cabiegram. Their ather went 36 hours without eating r drinking, refusing to leave the rork of fire fighting. "I smoked, moked about all the time, cigars. ipes, cigarettes, anything I could ret," Inch said. A blast of heal :linded his eyes with pain and the kin peeled from his face when he 'eceived his first medical attention Lfter being rescued. They had to Irop cocaine into his eyes before he ould again see. Train Kills Two. W. E. Benjamin and his wife were tilled and their four children and irs. Boscoe Williams were injured then a southbound Western and At. antic train late Thursday struck 'the agon in which the party was riding 1ear Dalton, Ga. All the injurec vill recover. Robs Mail Car. A masked bandit late Tuesday rob )ed the mail car of a Southern Pa ific train near Burlingame, Cal., rif ed the registered mail pouch and ~scaped when the train reached ths erminal yards at San Francisco 'ostal inspectopr Id the 1ess woulc HAVE FOUND NO CLUE MYSTERY STILL VEILS HEART LESS TEXA 31URDER. Working Girl, Slain in Office, is Still Unavenged by Law Although Three Months Have Passed. One hundred clues have been run down and all found worthless in the Florence Brown mystery, according to a statement Sunday by Chief of Detectives Henry Tanner of Dallas, Texas. Miss Brown, a choir singer and prominent Association worker, was found dead, with her throat cut, in her uncle's real estate office there at 9 a. m., July 28 last. The circum stances of her death have ever since remained well-nigh incredible. Misz Brown, 26 years old, rather handsome, was stenographer and con fidential agent for her uncle, Jeff D. Robinson. Rer uncle was in Colora do. On the morning of her death Shadrack B. Cuthbertson, an em ployee, called as was customary, at her home in one of the firm's auto mobiles. Together they drove direct to the office, opening it about eight o'clock. Fifteen minutes later fluth bertson drove away in the automei bile on business, leaving Miss Brown alone. She stood in the street door way and waved good-bye to him, sev eral persons afterward testifying they saw her do this. Cuthbertson returned just before 9 o'clock, finding the office apparently vacant. As the officials were not due until 9 this was not unsual. The of fice door on the ground floor was en tirely visible from the sidewalk, ex cept two small rooms, Robinson's pri vate office and a hat room just be hind it. The hat room had two en trances, one from the private office and one from the main office. Hun dreds of persons had passed this of fice, at one of the city's busiest cor ners, during Cuthbertson's absence. He entered, sat at his desk a moment, and then W. R. Styron, of the firm, and G. W. Swor, an employee, enter ed together. Swor went directly to the hat room and immediately cried out for Styron and Cuthbertson to come quickly "that something had happened to Miss Brown". The three found her lying in her face, throat cut and arms and should ers bearing marks said she had not been dead more than ten minutes. Miss Brown was a small woman, but whoever killed her had to fight hard. A deep bite on the outer side of one wrist showed where the slay er had held one arm with his teeth. Her face, arms and breast were scratched in a manner which led de tectives to believe a woman had at tacked her. A heavy blow had been struck on her forehead; and one on the bank of the head, these probably stunning her. Then apparently as she lay face down the assassin had drawn back her head and cut her throat. Again there was the sugges tion that the slayer was not muscu lar, .because the knife had been drawn three times through the wound. A wash bowl in the hat room was half full of bloody water, the in side kno~b of the door opening Into the main office was bloody, indicating the killer first looked out to see if the office was empty, and then wash ed his hands. Detectives said the girl's position made it possible for the slayer to avoid blood except on his hands. There was no exit from the office, neither doors nor windows, except front street door. No knife was found, although sewers were search ed and floors raised. The only thing approaching a weapon was a hammer, which belonged in the hat room. There was a tiny bloody spot on Its handle, but the iron head was clean. These are all the material facts about the acutla death that eleven weeks' search has revealed. Patrolman J. R. Brown, the girl's father, had the beat passing her office door, and was a short distance away when she was killed. Neither he nor other officers reached the place until after an over-zealous undertaker had removed the body. Of the hundreds that passed the office, some within 30 feet of the murder, only three were found to throw any light on it. A woman acquaintance of Miss Brown had looked In about 8:30, notIng the office apparently empty. A man not ed the same thing. Another man thought he heard a scream. Cuth.bertson's story was verified to the last detail. Styron and Swor have undergone literal third degree examinations, some of them by pri vates detectives, but not the slightest ground for arresting them or any one else has been discovered. Even the wives of some of the men con nected with the methods. Miss Brown's reputation so far has come through a long ordeal unsullied. Very Queer Damage Suit. The Charleston Evening Post says: "Judge Henry A. M. Smith in the United States district court Tuesday heard a motion to set aside the service of the complaint in the case of Daniel E. Johnson against the Ford Auto Company. The plain tiff' alleges that he broke his arm in attempting to crank a Ford automo bile and charges that some defect In the mechanism of the car was re sponsible for this. He is suing for $10,000 damages. Judge Smith has ,the matter under consideration. The plaintiff is a resident of Bamberg and alleges that the machine was pur chased from C. F. Rizer, a dealer of Olar.'' Hope Given Up. All hope of rescuing more of the miners entombed in the Urniversal colliery at Cardiff, Wales, where an explosion occurred Tuesray, virtually has been abandoned. The report that a party of 29 men had been found alive in one of the galleries has prov ed erroneous, but a large number of tlea bnenln ware ima Wannaemaav7 SULZER 13 GUILTY VERDICT RENDERED BY NE YORK IMPEACHMENT COURT GLYNN GETS THE OfFIE Governor is Found Guilty of Falsifi cation of Campaign Statement; of Perjury and of Suppressing Evi deuce by Threats.-Not DisquaM fled From Holding Office. Governor William Sulzer, of the State of New York, was Thursday. found guilty by the high Cdurt of Impeachment on three of the arti cles preferred against him. * They were Articles Nos. 1, 2, and 4.' He was declared innocent of the charges contained in Article 3. 'He will be removed from office, but not disqual ified from holding office in the future, unless there Is a'substantial change in the. informal vote reported to have been taken by the Court on these questions in secret session. For the, same reason it was expected that he - will be found not guilty on the other four articles still remaining to ,be voted on when the Court adjouined Thursday night. Lieutenant Governor Martin B. Glynn, who has been acting governor since the impeachment of Sulzer, will become Chref Executive of the State. He is an Albany newspaper owner. Robert F. Wagner, a New York at torney, will become Lieutenant Gov ernor. He is the majority leader In.;" the Senate. The vote on Articles 1 and 2 was 39 to 18, a bare two-thirds majority. The former article charges that the Governor falsified his statement of campaign contributions; the latter charges that he committed perjury in so doing. The vote on Article 3, which charges the Governor bribed witnesses to withhold testimony'from the Frawley investigating committee, was unanimous in favor of the Gov ernor. The vote on Article 4 was 43 to 14, six members changing their votes on Articles 1 and 2 from "not guilty" to "guilty", and two* from "guilty" to "not guilty". This article charges that the Governgr suppressed evi dence by means of threats to keep witne'ses from testifying before the Frawley committee. Among these was Duncan W. Peck, State superin tendent of public works, who testified at the trial that the Governor had asked him to commit perjury. The secret informal vote to remove the Governor was said to be 43 to' 14, the same as on Article 4, and tie vote not to disqualify him was said to be unanimous. Article 6, which charges that the Governor committed larceny in speculating with his campaign con tributions, was said not to- have been sustained In the secret session by a ' vote of 50 declaring the Governor "not guilty" to seven against him. Article 5, which charges that he prevented a particular witness, Fred erick L. Colwell, from attending the sessions of the Frawley committee; Article 7, that he threatened to use his office' and influence to -affect the vote or political action of certain Assemblymen, and Article 8, that he corruptly used his influence to affect the prices of securities on the Stock Exchange, were reported also to have been decided In favor of the Governor In the secret session by a practically unanimous vote. Presiding Judge Edgar M. Cullen, who will shortly retire from the bench, voted "not guilty" on every article and rendered a long opinion. if explaining his votes. The other eight Judges of the Court of Appeals were divided. Presiding Judge Cul len held that the offences charged In Articles 1 and 2 were not Impeach able and that the Governor neither falsified his statement under the pro visions of the election law, nor com mitted "legal perjury". Practically every member of the Court explained his vote on Article 1, although those who voted In favor of the Governor did not enter at length Into a discussion of the merits. of the case or of the matters of law and precedent Involved, as did the others, including all the Judges. The latter filed with the Court lengthy opinions in support of their votes. Homicide Near Sumter. A man named Pye, was shot and Instantly killed six miles east of Sum ter Wednesday afternoon, and the slayer, whose name is as yet un known, made his escape. The killing Is alleged to have been caused by In timate relations between Pye and a woman. The woman was arrested and lodged in jail but claims to know nothing of the killing. Sheriff Brad ford and his deputies have gone to the scene with the coroner to hold the Inquest and endeavor to arrest the slayer. Bingham and Fraser Freed, The preliminary in the case of the State against J. B. Fraser Jr. and Bissel Bigham, of Chester, charged with robbing the paymaster of $16, 000, at Parr Shoals, was held Wed nesday before Magistrate F. K. Mann, at Winnsboro, and resulted in the magistrate holding that there was a failure on the grant of the prosecu tion to make out a probable case against the defendants, who, there fore, were discharged.* Four Die in Wreck, Four persons were killed and more than 20 were injured when a freight car loaded with crossties which broke from a train on a down grade Tues day night crashed Into an interurban passenger car near Dallas, Texas. The collision occurred on a 50-foot tres tle and practically demolished the entire front end of the passenger car hnt 4Id not throw it fromu the bride,*