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GOES TO PRISON.
A Very Rich Woman Convicted of
Having Cruelly *
TORTURED TO DEATH
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Old Mnid Servant, Whose Mother In
Oi?en Court, While kneeling Al
most at the Fret of the llieh .Murderer,
Just Before She Was Convicted,
Brayed That <?od Would
Forgive Her For The Crime
In the Criminal Court of Flandreau,
S. D., a few days ago, sat two women
who represented opposite poles
of the social world. The rich woman,
wife of a millionaire politically powerful,
was on trial charged with
murder. Upon her proud face were
fixed the eyes of the poor woman,
almost friendless and without influence
of any kind.
The charge and the testimony showed
that the rich woman had fiendishly
tortured to death the only daugher
of the poor woman.
The haughty face of the rich woman
indicated her belief that no jurywould
dare convict the wife of her
influential millionaire husband. The
poor woman, broken with grief, looked
dazed. Suddenly she left her seat
among the spectators and approached
the rich woman. Was she about
to attack the murderess of her daugh- I
ter?
No such thought was in her mind. ;
Her conduct was even more sensational.
It was indescribably affect-!
ing. Dropping to her knees in the
aisle and raising her toil-worn hands
aloft, while tears streamed from her
eyes, she besought the Almighty to
pardon the one who had tortured to
death her only child.
'*0 God, forgive the murderer of
my daughter!" she prayed.
Then the poor woman's mind and
ooay collapsed, and it was found necessary
to take the mother of dead
Agnes Polreis back to her wretched
little home in the country near Parkston,
S. D., whence Agnes had come
two years before, to be beaten to
death?so it is charged?by her rich
mistress, Mrs. Emma Kaufmann,
wife of Moses Kaufmann, the milr
lionaire brewer of Sioux Falls, S. D.
The story of this instance of almost
incredible cruelty practised upI
on a maid servant by her mistress
l' was printed in these pages a year
^ ago. Agnes Polreis, a pretty girl of
9 sixteen, was hurriedly sent from
H Mrs. Kaufmann's house to a Sioux
9k Falls hospital where, next day. she
died. Mrs. Kaufmann was arrested
on the testimony of other servants
that she had systematically tortured
and virtually beaten the girl to
death.
Of course the rich woman was ad^
mitted to bail. In answer to the
statements of the accussing servants
?who said that the woman had an
ungovernable temper and that they
were often compelled to flee to the
cellar from her dangerous wrath?it
was explained that Mrs. Kaufmann's
mind has been affected by the death
of her daughter several years ago.
The sight of any other girl?especially
a fresh one, like Agnes Polreis?
made her frantic.
So strong was public sentiment
against Mrs. Kaufmann in Sioux Palls
that her attorneys obtained a change
of venue for her trial to Flanareu.
The news that she had been admitted
to bail caused such a mob to gather
at the jail that she was smuggled
out of a back door to her home,
where she had to have police protec:
tion.
Mr. Kaufmann's wealth had procured
the best legal talent in the
West for his wife's defence. Several
medical experts were placed on
the witness stand. To them was put
the following "hypothetical questions"
which catalogue the wounds
found upon the body of Agnes Polreis
after her death:
"Assume the following facts: A
patient si' /teen years old is in a very
v * '-# emaciated condition. She has a sore
* having the appearance of a cut about
"' one and one-half to two inches long
Transversely across the point of the
? left shoulder; she has a sore having
-the appearance of a cut transversely
across the point of the right elbow,
extending down to the joints; she
has a similar sore upon the point of
the left elbow.
She has a gangrenous sore upon
the point of each shoulder blade; the
ring finger of the left hand is disjointed,
with the .bone protruding;
the cutite is off the ends of the fingers;
the bone protrudes through the
tip of one finger; there are numerous
viipvwivtotiuiio la?j\>i1 tllC UUliy | Lilt? Kill
knee is badly swollen, the skin broken
and off, from the left ankle the
skin is off the top of the foot; the
s>le of the foot is entirely loose,
hanging down; the cuticle is off from
the toes and the rest of the foot; the
right foot is in practically the same
condition.
' 'Such being the facts, state wheth
er or not, in your opinion, such conditions
would be due to externel violence
or disease and its results."
Dr. Spafford?In my "opinion to
violence.* . .
Dr. Rider?In my 'opinion to disease
and its results (referring to the
disease Diabetes mellitus).
In cross-examining Dr. Onley, of
Sioux Falls, Prosecuting Attorney
Rg&n asked:
"How could the wound on the left
- aboulder be self-iiiflicted?"
~ ~<rz:,uA.?I claim these wound were not
self-inflicted. \
Q.?How could they be inflicted by
another?
A.?By taking a knife and cutting I
across.
A part of the testimony of Peter1
Bfl& rfekson, the mantvho worked at the
^'me;
"?orn that I could'HII am
4 h. ever riS**
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mann strike or maltreat the girl, Agnes.
A.?I once found the girl on the
kitchen floor. Mrs. Kaurmann was
there, and told me she had poured
hot water on the girl to make her get
up. Another time, when the girl was
on the floor and too weak to get up,
Mrs. Kaufmann said, "Don't touch
her, as she can get up herself if she
wants to?she is only working on
your sympathy." When Agnes tried
to get up by grasping a screen door
Mrs. Kaufmann roughly jerked the
door away.
Q.?Did you ever see Mrs. Kaufmann
hit Agnes?
A.?She often punched her with a
broom handle. I saw the girl on her
knees many times, pleadingly repeating
the words, "Frau Kaufmann!
Frau Kaufmann!"
Q. Did you see anything else?
A. Before her final sickness, Agnes
was too weak to walk up to her
room, so I carried her. Mrs. Kauf
mann wanted me to shake the girl
first, but 1 stood her up by a trunk;
then Mrs. Kaufmann hit her with a
stick a foot and a half long; the girl
cried and I carried her upstairs.
Q. Did Mrs. Kaufmann do anything
for Agnes' wounds?
A. She put turpentine on her legs.
Q. What happened Friday morning
before the girl died?
A. I noticed blood in Agnes' matted
hair, but Mrs. Kaufmann told me
not to mind it.
Q. What happened after Agnes
died?
A. Mrs. Kaufmann, when she
heard of it, cried: "What shall I do?
What shall 1 do?" Then she made
me scrub the blood stains from the
floor of Agnes' room and tear away
wall paper with blood stains on it.
Gecrge Bossier testified that Mrs.
Kaufman said to him once, when
speaking of Agnes:
"She is so stupid, I feel sometimes
like killing her."
Mrs. J. T. Udell, a neighbor, heard
Agnc.i crying upstairs; saw her in so
weak a condition that she could hardly
carry a pail of water down the
steps; and saw the girl one day try
to run away but return when pursued
by Mrs. Kaufmann, and was made
to march back to the house.
Miiss Janet E. Larson, superintendent
of nurses at the hospital where
Agnes died, testified that the girl
cried out in German:
"My head aches! My stomach aches!
1 ache all over!"
The case of^the prosecution was a
very strong! one?much stronger, in
fact, than was supposed would be
presented. The evidence of physici
cuio wiiu mum.* poBi mortem examinations
on two occasions, and of others
who knew something of the treatment
accorded the girl by Mrs. Kaufmann,
was presented and made a
part of the evidence of the State.
The physicians did not hesitate to
testify that three wounds upon the
head, and three at the base of the
skull of the dead girl, taken in connection
with numerous other wounds
cuts and bruises found upon her
body, arms and legs were sufficient
to have caused her death.
Testimony was presented showing
Mrs. Kaufmann had poked the girl in
the ribs with a broom-sticky of having
her bathe her feet in ashes soaked
with water, forming lye, and of
many other instances of alleged
cruelty on the part of Mrs. Kaufmann
toward the girl, this continuing up
to within a brief time before the girl
had to be taken to the hospital, where
she died, the harsh treatment having
continued when the girl was so weak
she could hardly stand upon her feet.
Throughout the trial the courtroom
was packed with spectators, and demonstrations
against the rich defendant
frequently had to be rebuked
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wiv jiiukc. xnc presence 01 tne
poor old mother of Agnes Polreis excited
much feeling against Mrs.
Kaufinann.
It had come to be generally known
that the death of Agnes was the second
tragedy in the mother's life, the
first having been the shooting and
killing of an elder daughter by a rejected
suitor.
On several occasions the grief stricken
mother has wandered to the
Parkston (Cemetery, where the remains
of her younger daughter are
buried, and in the dead of night has
been found weeping on her grave,
force being necessasy to induce her
to leave the spot.
HISSES FROM THE SPECTATORS.
The spell of the case, which already
had divided several South Dakota
communities was apparent in the
courtroom. This was clearly shown
during the examination of the star
witness for the prosecution, when the
hundreds of spectators who crowded
the courtroom gave spontaneous and
forceful vent to their sympathy with
the State and resentment toward the
defendant.
Hisses came while Erickson was
testifying in reference to Mrs. Kaufmann,
having on one occasion poured
hot water on the girl after she
had fallen to the floor from sheer exhaustion,
in order, as she is alleged
to have expressed it to Erickson, "to
get her up." Erickson testified to
numerous things showing the customary
harsh and inhuman treatment
of the girl by Mrs. Kaufmann.
In spite of the unsriendly sentiment
manifested by the spectators
Mrs. Kaufmann and members of her
iamny appeared confident of acquittal.
When the jury returned to conaider
its verdict Mrs. Kaufmann sat
between her husband and their grown
son Charles. The Court, the Kaufmanns
and the spectators remained
in their seats evidently eqpecting a
quick decision.
In less than an hour the jury returned.
"We find the defendant guilty of
manslaughter in the first degree,"
said the foreman.
| The spectators burst into applause,
which the Judge sternly reDuked.
Mrs. Kaufmann turned deadly pale
and her head sank upon her hand.
Charles Kaufmann, her son, burst
into tears. Her hosband seemed utterly
crushed. They knew that the
least penalty under the law would be
four years in the penitentiary.
Mrs. Kaufmann was first to recover
Her composure. This statement by
the Court seemed to give ho*^ -w
comfort: /T
Mffhe Court fixes
ftfcr pronouncj?m^ n
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SWEPT OVER DAM.
Six Persons Perish in River Accident
in Pennsylvania.
Engine of Gasoline Launch Brooke
and the Boat Drifted Toward the
Dam.
Six persons were drowned late Friday
evening near Russell. Pa. Nine
persons hud taken a gasoline launch
on the Conewango River, which was
very high, owing to recent rains. The
boat was s"-ept over a dam and six
people drowned. The dead are:
Mr. and Mrs. John Best and daughter,
Violet, aged 18, of Warren, Pa.
Mrs. George Baker, Warren, Pa.
Mrs. Hilda Knox, Warren, Pa.
O. F. Butts, a traveling salesman
from Philadelphia.
A dispatch from Russet, Pa., says
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mm mi. nuu mis. JUIII1 IX'Hl naa lflvited
a company of friends to take
supper with them at their cottAge on
the Conewango River and had come
down to the Russel bout landing to
meet them.
The visitors were in one naptha
launch, and Mr. nest aud his party
in another. The boat containing the
visitors became lodged on a pile a
short distance above the dam and
Mr. Best went to assist them, when
the engine in his launch broke and
the boat containing nine persons
drifted toward the dam without an
oar to stay them.
When the boat roached the dam
it was drifting broadside and it went
over, turning upside down. Six of
the nino persons were caught under
it. The other launch could not be
gotten off in time to prevent the sad
accident, and those people in it could
only sit and watch their friends go
to almost certain death.
EUTAW COUNTY.
Gov. Ansel Has Had a New Proposition
Submitted
Tl?e I'npers in flie Case Were Filed
Thursday?All Constitutional Requirements
Met.
The State says Messrs. .1. C. Evans.
A. A. Dantzler, W. M. Fair and .1. D.
Gates of Elloree; Gordon Wiggins,
M. 11. Rast and A. B. llennett of
Holly Hill filed a petition with Gov.
Ansel Thursday in the Eutaw County
matter. The new county is arrange !
to embrace portions of Orangeburg
and Berkeley counties.
The Northern boundary of the proposed
new county begins at a point
on the Santee river about eight and
one-half miles above Elloree, strike
inc the Fmir Holes ewitnin noor Ihn
town of Cameron with the natural
boundaries. Four Holes Swamp and
the Santee river, on either side.
It is understood that the proposition
has been given the closest attention
for some time and the people
are hard at work getting matters in
proper condition. The petitions filed
witli Gov. Ansel, according to the
| registration hooks of Orangeburg and
Berkeley, were signed by over twothirds
of the voters within the proposed
cut and the promoters are very
enthusiastic over the prospects of
success.
A map and completed survey, made
by Harmon D. Moise of Sumter, was
filed with the petitions, and certificates
from the officials of Orangeburg
and Berkeley counties, showing that
the proposed new county meets all
the legal requirements for the formation
of new counties. The certificate
of the surveyor shows the area to be
| 420 square miles. All of the papers
will be referred to the attorney general,
who will see whether the legal
requirements have been complied
with.
The delegation had reports from
the auditors of Orangeburg and
Berkeley counties showing that the
taxable property in the parts of these
two counties that will become a section
of the new county Is at the
present time something like $2,000,000.
The statuary requirement is
that there must be taxable property
to the amount of $1,500,000 within
the area of any proposed new county.
Some of the territory* embraced in
the proposed Eutaw county, is also
embraced in the proposed Calnoun
County, which will cause a conflict
between the two new county propositions.
It is a novel situation, and
just how it is to be* settled we do
not know, but we suppose the people
in - .d disputed territory will decide
by vote with which of the new county
propositions they would rather
cast their fortunes. We do not know
whether this is the law or not, but if
it is not, it should be, as the people
in the disputed territory should be
allowed to decide the matter for
themselves. We do not suppose that
either of the new county projectors
would object to this equitable and
satisfactory mode of settling the matter.
if the people of the disputed territory
votes to throw their fortunes
with Elloree, the St. Matthews people
would have to extend their lines in
some other directions to get the territory
they require for their county.
Then if both propositions are voted
down, the territory embraced in either
of the proposed new counties could
not be called upon to vote upon a
similar proposition for four years.
That is the way CJov. Ansel recently
decided the case of llammond.County,
and we think he was right. The
P/x.m?tr u/.lw.nw. Aotu ?!(#.a # ou
the matter considerably but we suppose
there is some way out of the
tangle. One thing is certain, the same
territory can't he embraced Iti two
counties, and before a vote on either
can be had the matter will have to be
adjusted. It is a novel situation nnd
will be watched with Interest by the
whole State.
the defendant. In the meantime she
is permitted to remain at liberty
under the bond of $25,000 furnished
last June."
Sentence was deferred to the date
named in order to give time for arguments
for a new trial, which will
be made at Yankton on October 10.
The conviction of Mrs. Kaufmann
appears to have quieted public animosity
toward her. Probably she
"eed fear no more mob demonstrations
such as terrorized her upon her
release from the Sioux Falls jail a
year ago. ^ t
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V'
SCHMITZ IN JAIL
Five Years in "Pen" for the Boodling
Mayor.
A HISTORICAL TRIAL.
Glrat Victory of Citizens Over Political
Extortion. .Judge Dunne
Granted No Mercy. The One-Time
Hero of San Francisco to Be
Plugcd Into Prison for the Betruyal
of His High Trust.
Mayor Eugene E. Schmitz, of San
Francisco, convicted of extortion,
was.l ast week, sentenced to five
years in the penitentiary. When the
sentence was prcnounced there was
a remarkable outburst of applause
from the hundreds of persons who
crowded Judge Dunne's courtroom.
The judge prefaced his announcement
of the penalty by administering
a stringing rebuke to the discredited
mayor for his breach of
trust and betrayal of the confidence
reposed in him by the people of San
Francisco.
Scarcely had the last words of the
sentence fallen from the lips of Judge
Dunne when the vast. crowd that
thronged the courtroom broke forth
in cheers. Schmitz's attorneys protested
that the display of feeling was
unwarranted and unjust, but the
sherifT and other court officers were
unable to drive the people from the
room, which rang with the cheer,
"Good for you." The dramatic atmosphere
was heightened by a staff
of newspaper photographs, who exploded
flashlight after flashlight, till
the courtroom was so filled with
smoke that it was stifling.
When Judge Dunne, having disposed
of some matters preliminary
to other trials on bribery charges,
called for the calendar: "The People
vs. Eugene E. Schmitz," District Attorney
Langdon and Attorney Fairall
answered in unison, "ready."
The judge inquired of Mr. Langdon
whether he was ready to proceed with
the other four charges of extortion
against Schmitz. The district attorney
interposed that the calendar was
very long and that the prosecution
was ready to receive sentence. Attorneys
for the defense moved for a
new ti ia', but the motion was denied
on the ground of insufficient
reason, motion for arrest of judgment
also failed.
Judge Dunne prepared hia pronouncement
of sentence with a lecture
in which he called attention to
the fact that the verdict indicates
that no matter how high the station
of a criminal he can be sentenced by
the law when found guilty. Attorney
Metson, for the defense, interrupted,
but was promptly squelched. He
was warned that further attempts
to interfere would result in his being
sent to prison for contempt. Schmitz
interposed frequent protests against
humiliation. The judge commented
on Schmitz's career of hyprocrisy,
duplicity and dishonor and the wilful
crirftinalacts by which he had betrayed
the confidence of the people of
San Francisco. In concluding his
remarks Judge Dunne referred to
Schmitz as morally naked, shamed
and disgraced. The words of the sentence
followed: "It is the judgment
of the court that you be confined in
the state prison at San Quento for a
term of five years. Motion for an appeal
was made and it is Drobable the
case will be tried in a higher court.
Immediately after resuming his
seat at the counsel table Schmitz dictated
the following statement to the
newspapers:
"The court wherein I received my
sentence for the charge of extortion
again demonstrates, and more clearI,.
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ijr man aujf 1.1111else LI1UL 11 [lttS IlLTt'toforc
done, a charge I made upon
my immediate return from the Kast
that Judge Dunne was prejudiced
against me, and that it was impossible
to procure in his court a fair
trial. The animus that he has treasured
in his heart for some time came
clearly and positively to the surface
this morning.
"I have never asked for leniency,
hut 1 have expected, as every Amercan
citizen has the right to expect,
justice. I ask the people to withhold
their final judgment in this matter
until the iniquitous proceedings
which have been held in Judge
Dunne's court since the beginning of
my trial shall be brought before the
highest court.
"I have never asked for mercy, and
before a court where I did not receive
a fair trial I certainly did not
expect it. I intend not only to fight
this case step by step, but all the
charges that have been brought
against me; and, with the knowledge
in my own conscience of my entire
innocense, 1 expect to be successful
in the contest.
"I now repeat what I have stated
already, that I will be a candidate
I for mayor of the city and county of
San Francisco this fall, when the
people of San Francisco will have an
opportunity by their votes of demonstrating
whether they believe me
guilty or innocent. The people are
always right. I am satisfied to leave
my case with them."
It was the confession of Abraham
Ruef, boss, that made the conviction
of Schmitz certain. Ruef declared
he and Schmitz had been partners in
crime and that they had divided
more than $100,000 extorted from
almost every possible source. The
charge on which Schmitz received
sentence was for extorting $1,175
from restaurant keepers.
Base Ball is surely a national institution.
It is being played from
one end of this country to the other,
and witnessed by millions of people.
We doubt if any game was ever more
popular in any country than base ball
is in the United States. It is a great
game.
Many a man has lost his game by i
boosting it- too mnch.
Necessity keeps a man from getting
Wiety. _ ^ j
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CRUSHES HER SKULL
Woman Trying to Hold Burglar
Falls From Window.
Robber IH?tected in Room, Flees to
Roof of Adjoining Houso?Atteniping
to Slide Down Pole to Ground.
Max Prichep and his brother, Abe,
keep a clothing store, at 150 Hssex
street. New York, and sleep in the
rear. Along about 3:30 Thursday
morning Max woke up and saw two
men prowling around the room. Max
jumped up and began shouting for
the police at the top of his voice.
One of the men made for the door
leading into the front hallway. The
inner wnose name was subsquently
learned to be Levine, after first striking;
Max in the-face, went through the
rear window, taking the sash with
him and sending a shower of broken
glass into the back yard. A third
man, who was in Abe's room, got
away with $3 in cash.
The man who went through the
rear window ran across the yard.
| climbed a fence, and got into the
tenement at 151 Norfolk street. He
ran to the roof of the house. He
found a number of persons on the
roofs of near-by tenements when he
reached that of 151 Norfolk street.
The crowd saw him and yelled. LeI
vine leaped from the roof and grabbi
ed a high clothes pole, which stood
near the house in the rear yard. He
began to slide to the ground.
As he was passing the second story
Mrs. Annie Kelbauer poked her head
|out of the rear window to see what
was the trouble. She saw Levine
coming down the clothes pole, and
j reached out and caught hold of the
trousers. Levin struck at the woman
with one hand, but was unable to
free himself.
According to the people in the
neighborhood, lie then grabbed the
wohian and pulled her by the hair.
She lost her balance and went crashing
to the pavement of the yard. She
landed on her head, crushing her
skull. Levine then slid down the
pole, and climbed over a fence into
the rear yard of 14 9 Norfolk street.
There the police found and arrested
him.
Mrs. Kelbauer was hurried to the
hospital, where she died shortly afI
their arrival. Prlchep grappled with
| the thief who made for the front
i door, and held him until the police
j came. At the station-house he said
he was Kills Levine. The name of
the third man was Harry Strunhall.
USES HIS KNIFE
On a Negro Woman and on a Police
Officer.
?
l lie Is Pursued j111< 1 Sliol ut By u
Posse of White Citizens Hut Makes
His Kscupc.
There was some excitement in
i Ilowesville on last Saturday night
caused by the outrageous conduct of
a negro by the name of Jim Jones.
I The correspondent of The State at
Rowesville says Jones is a bad fellow
| generally and he kept up his reputai
tion on Saturday night by an tinprovoked
attack on Lavissa Lee, a
1 woman with whom he has lived for
the past six years off and on, and by
j an attack later on Oflleer Dempsey.
It seems that Jones Is very jealous
of Lavlssa and Saturday night
about 10.30 he found her talking
with a group of negroes on the street
near the railroad crossing and without
warning he slashed the woiuau
with a idg knife and the blow or
blows laid open the back side of her
head and then caught into the flesh
and opened a gash on her back from
the neck to the waist line.
While none of the wounds are nocesarily
fatal, they were serious
ones, as one or two arteries were cut
in the scalp and the wound on her
back is half an Inch deep in places.
Oflicer Dempsey was notifled of tie*
assault and arming himself with a
pistol, which was furnished him by
Intendant Stokes, he ran against
Jones in the dark without knowing
that lie was up against his man until
the latter made a leap for him.
The pistol was not a self acting
one, which Dempsey did not know,
and when he pulled the trigger without
having cocked it, it of course did
not go off and Dempsey was overthrown
and went down 011 his back
in the ditch with the negro, who is
a powerful fellow, on top of him and
trying to use his knife on him.
Dempsey called for help and did highest
to ward off the blows of the negro.
He was cut slightly in the left
hand and his shirt was cut three
times over the heart, but he was not
injured other than the slightest cut
on the hand . The white men had
gathered by this time and the negro
ran, followed by a fusillade of revolver
shots an.1 by discharges from
shotguns, but so far as known he was
not hit in the darkness. A search
was made for him until midnight
and it was renewed yesterday, but lie
was not found.
There i: 110 doubt but that he v. ill
return and then lie will be placed under
arrest. If he had been found
Saturday night the chances are that
there would have been a dead "nigger"
in Howesville, as the temper of
the young white men was such that
they would have taken no chances
with the "nigger" armed as he was.
and after miakng the assault which
he did on an officer.
Columbia repudiates the report
! that she will not he in the South AtI
lantic League next season. Columi
bia is not much of a game dinner
this season, but she is game to the
i core, and will stick to the end. We
hope she will have l>etter luck next
season.
It is assented as a fact by those
who claim to know that American
cotton is the worse packed cotton
that goes on the European markets.
This does not only reflect upon our
business methods but costs us millions
of dollars m money. Why can't
thi * be remedied?
If the cotton farmer will discard
the jute bagging and cover their
bales with bagging made from cotton
they will take a long step :n the direction
of their fun inucycnuciue.
Will they do it?
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IN AIRSHIP.
Aeronaut Lights a Cigarette After
800-Foot Drop.
When Propeller Hips Silk, Machine
Plunged Very HapUlly To?varU the
Earth.
Carl Robinson, who sails the Knabenshue
airship, fell 800 feet Saturday
evening at Springfield, O., and
lives to tell about one of the most
remarkable decents. lie escaped
serious injury. The o^iy mark he
has to show for his experience is a
tiny scratch over his left eye.
When Robinson landed on the
ground people flocked to the scene
of the accident, expecting to find him
dead. Hut he quietly remarked to
Uie first arrival: "Why, you people
are more excited over tiiis than I
am."
Then he lighted a cigarette and
asked a man in an automobile to
drive him to the city to get a meal.
The eyes of thousands of people
were fastened on Robinson when his
airship eollapsed. Screams rent the
air and many women fainted. Every
one expected to see Robinson dashed
to a pulp.
At first he shot throinrh snnoo
rapidly that it was difficult for the
eye to follow him. As he neared
the earth the machine slowed up and
he reached ground safely, lowered as
gently as a mother would place her
baby in a cradle.
Robinson has made one successful
trip. He says that when he sta ted
on his second trial to reach the
center of the city he went higher
than usual so as to get free of the
wind, and as he soared he was struck
by counter currents.
The propeller was thrown against
the end of the balloon and the rapidly
revolving wheel cut open the gat
bag. It immediately began to settle
rapidly. Robinson kept his head and
climbed quickly to the propeller and
grabbed the gas bag side of the rent
thus forming a parachute. As soon
as this was done the air entered flu
bag and the machine's fall was broken.
EIGHT KILLED
From Explosion of Powder on the
Battleship Georgia.
Tln? Cause of the Accident is Unknown,
Hut Was Not Caused b>
Carelessness.
Hy the explosion of a case of powder
in the hands of a gunner in thf
after superimposed turret! of thf
battleship Georgia in Massachusettsbay
Monday, six men were killed and
fifteen injured.
Not one of the persons in the tur
rot escaped injury. The following
are tl>e names of those who were kill
ed outright:
William J. Thatcher, chief turrel
captain, Wilmington, Del.
Faulkner Goldthwaite, midshipman,
Kentucky.
W. J. Bucker, ordinary seaman
Quincy, Mass.
(J. (J. Hamilton, ordinary seaman
South Framirgton, Mass.
William Thomus, ordinary seaman
Newport, it. I.
| George c,. Miller, ordinary seaman
Brooklyn. N. Y.
In addition to the above the following
died after being taken to th(
hospital:
Lieut. Casper Goodrich, New York
Edward J. Walsh, ordinary seaman
Yynu, Mass.
Twelve injured remain in the hospital,
of whom Midshipman James F
Cruse of Nebraska and Seaman Jas
P. Thomas of Brooklyn, N. Y., arc
not expected to recover.
The other men's conditions has no!
changed since they were carried tc
the hospital.
The cause of the explosion is not
known.
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In the last few years accidents
have been entirely too frequent on
our naval ships.
Such accidents as that which occurred
on the Battleship Georgia
does not reflect much credit on our
navy.
The State of Georgia wants to try
the experiment of prohibition. Should
she adopt it we can then study the
subject at close range.
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TRAGIC DEATH.
Runaway Team Thrusts Shaft
Through Man's Brain.
WILD DASH BY HORSE
Samuel Cohen, New York Manufacturer,
Meets Sudden l>cath While
Standing on the Street.?A Policeman
Was Flung Off After the
Wagon Had lleen Smashed Into a
.Mass of Wreckage.
With two policemen clinging to the
fragments of the harness, a runaway
horse dashed the end of a shaft
through the brain of Samuel Cohen,
a hat manufacturer of Nos. 201-203
VVooster street, New York, as ho
stood waiting to enter the Bleecker
street station of the subway shortly
after six o'clock Friday night.
Heath came almost instantly.
Cohen was carried to the sidewalk,
where the body lay Tor nearly an
hour in rain waiting for permission
from the Coroner's ofliee to be
moved.
Startled by a fluttering piece of
paper at Green and Bleecker streets,
the horse, which was attached to a
single wagon driven by Alexander
Harris, of No. 2S Itntgers street, reared
into the air and dashed forward.
The jerk broke the king bolt of the
! vehicle, and I lie forewheels and shaft
seperated from the main body of tho
wagon moving forward with the
horse.
Harris clung to the reins for about
5 half a block, and then the strain
' proved to great for him. The reins
were torn from his hands and the
1 horse dashed on.
With the crashing wreckage of the
1 vehicle behind hitn the frenzy of the
5 animal became greater with each
stride, and although Trallic Squad
Patrolman Joseph / lien, who is stationed
at Broadway, two blocks from
the spot where the wagon had broken
made a frantic effort to seize the
horse's head as he swung by, the
animal evaded him, ami went tearing
down the street. The policeman
| clutched at the wheels and axle as
they passed and hung on trying to
overtake the horse. But the speed
of the animal was so great that the
policeman had great trouble to maintain
his position in the rear.
Kast on Bleecker street went the
terrified horse trailing behind him
r the ruin of the wagon and the shouting
policemen being in the rear. It
was just about the time the skyscrapers
in the vicinity were empty
ing their crowds of workers, and the
( street was packed from curb to curb.
At Bleecker and Lafayette streets
Trnflic Squad Policeman Bracken
1 sprank at the head of the running
1 horse. The animal reared, and then
came crashing down on the pavement
as the weight of the big policemade
itself felt. Standing at that
> point was Mr. Cohen. He had not
seen or heard the animal coming and
was not aware of his danger.
The pointed shaft, broken by a collision
with a lamp post, struck the
. man squarely in the center of the
forehead and crashed through his
skull and brain.
As soon as the horse could be
brought to a standstill, which was
within a few feet of the spot where
Cohen was killed, the limp body was
lifted off and carried to the sidewalk.
A drizzle of rain was falling and the
policeman who bore the body laid it
. down in full view of the gaping
, crowd. Nobody thought of bringing
a blanket or covering. Later it was
taken to the Central Office but a
, short half block away.
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from being brought back to South
( Carolina for trial goes to prove the
charge that negro criminals have the
sympathy of their race everywhere.
The best friends of the negroes regret
this.
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