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VOLUME XVII FORT MILL, THURSDAY, MARCH 18.19Q9 xrTT^
WELL ONCE MORE
Senator Tillman and Mrs Tillman
Spent Short Time In
THE CAPITAL CITY
The Senator Talk* With Much Intercut
About Hia Fight on Cruin and
How He Held Up Sixty Senator*
by Relating Reminiscence* of
n?conntnictlon.
Columbia, March 11.?Senator and
Mrs. Tillman spent a couple of hours
In Columbia today. Senator Tillman
was on his way home from the meeting
of the trustees of Clemson College.
Mrs. Tillman had been on a
visit to relatives at Greenwood.
Senator Tillman looks remarkably
well. He said that he had never
felt better. His face Is well filled,
his complexion ruddy and healthy,
and altogether he looks well. He Is
devoting himself to Indoor exercise
and says It Is fine.
Senator Tillman says that the
Clemson board transacted consider
able business. The board has asked
that Major Marcus B. Stokes, originally
of Hampton county, be detailed
to Clemson College as commandant
to take the place of Capt. Minus,
resigned.
Senator Tillman expects to spend
a month In Trenton, as he does not
think the Democrats can do very
much in the tariff situation, and ho
Is satisfied that the Republicans will
carry out their policies.
Senator Tillman snid he did not
know what President. Taft would do
with Dr. Crum. lie had heard nothing
whatever about any appointment
for Dr. Crum and would not bo surprised
if he were not appointed to
any place, nor would he he surprised
if ho were given some place in
Washington.
Senator Tillman talks with much
Interest about his ftght against the
confirmation of the appointment of
Dr. Crum, and said t,hat one of the
remarkable things about his fight
wua for hours he held up sixty senators.
while ho was relating his reminiscences
of reconstruction and his
fight with McLaurtn.
The senator says he feels quite
well enough to go out on another
of his lecture tours, and incidentally
he thinks that the "wild talk" in
which he indulged while on his lecturing
tour had done much to clear
up the atmosphere with regard to
the race question.
Mrs. Tillman says that Senator
Tillman Is not to go on any lecture
tours, but she is quite willing for
him to go to Europe again.
Senator Tillman continues to he
much Interested In the Navy Yard
at Charleston, and says that he had
the work there well cared for In
the appropriation bill, and that "as
long as he Is alive the Charleston
ynrd has nothing to fear."?^News
and Courier.
THIS IS coon NEWS.
Beirut 1st* Say the Earth Won't. Have
Collision.
Cambridge. Mass., March 11.?
Commenting on the assertion made
recently by Dr. Perclval Lowell that
the earth was In dancer of colliding
with Rome large astral body and thus
he destroyed, Prof. William H. Pickering.
of the Harvard Astronomoenl
Observatory, says that the chance
of snch an event Is ahont "one In
one hundred mllllona, raised to the
one hundred millionth power."
"A more possible danger,' he added,
"but nevertheless an Improbable
one. Is that the solar system In its
Journey through space may com?
closo enough to some such a dark
body as to cnuse a disturbance In the
orbital motion of planets and perhaps
carry some of them, the earth
Included. Into space. The danger is
so remote, however, that .there need
be no popular apprehension about
It."
WANT SOYjDIKRS AltllKSTKI)
For Robbing nn Eagle's Xcst on
James Island.
Columbia, S. C., March 11.?President
Taylor of the State Audubon
Society has secured warrants from
Magistrate Fowler here, against, the
eleven federal soldiers stationed at
Fort Moultrie, accused in an article
in the News and Courier of today, of
having robbed an eagle's nest of its
young on James Island Sunday . Mr.
Taylor is having papers sent down for
service. The warrant charges the
men with violation of the act of 1905.
WANTED TO LYNCH HIM.
Was Pursued All Night by an AngryMob
of Men.
PIccurney, Iowa, March 11.?After
ten-mile drive over the worst roads
experienced in Iowa, on the darkest
night Imaginable, and then a twentymile
ride upon a handcar, Sherlfl
Grimes, with his prisoner. John Dunken,
the confessed murderer of Cara
Rosen, the Ottumwa choir singer
managed to escape with what is believed
to be the approaching of a mot
and landed his prisoner in the penitentiary
at Fort Madison today.
GOES SCOT FREE
STANDARD OIL ACQUITTED OF
A ED CHARGES.
The Verdict Was Returned On x Instruction
of United States Judge
Anderson in Chicago.
Chicago, March 10.?The Standard
Oil Company of Indiana was today
found not guilty of accepting rebates
from shipments of oil from Whiting,
Ind., to East St. Louis, 111. The
verdict was returned by a jury In
the federal court on instructions of
Judge A. G. Anderson, who averred
that he followed the circuit court
of anneals rtpriainn ?o 5' - *
uu vu IUC TerUICl
returned at the former trial of the
snme case and on which verdict
Judge Kensaw Mountain Landia asseBsed
a fine of $29,240,000.
Judge Anderson's decision was not
unexpected as he had yesterday told
the government prosecutors that the
I proof relied on in the first trial was
incompetent, and that it must be
complemented or fail. It was with
something of an air of hopelessness
that District Attorney Edwin W.
Sims, and his assistant attempted to
show the admissahillty of the Illinois
classification to prove the existance
of a legal rate of 18 cents,
which was a vital point in the government's
contention.
It was after Assistant District Attorney
Jas. H. Wilkcrson had argued
for two hours and in the end admitted
that the prosecution could
not furnish the further proof deemed
necessary by the court for a continuation
of the case that Judge Anderson
announced his decision.
Mr. Wilkcrson said that the government
could proceed no further
and suggested dismissal of the case.
Attorney John S. Miller, chief counsel
in the cr.sc of the oil company.
Immediately moved that there be an
instructed verdict of not guilty. The
court so ordered and the jury, which
had been excluded during the arguments
by the attorneys, was called in
and charged.
The decision of Judge flrosscup.
Raker and Seaman, of the United
States circuit court of appeals, reversing
Judge I.andis, together with
the decision of the court of appeals,
was assigned as authorltv for
v\/ucij a
decision.
VEltV QI'EEU TALE.
Told by Escort of (ii'rl Who Was
Shot.
Raltimore, March 0.?Jennie Rood,
aged 21 years, of this city, was murdered
Monday by a highwayman at
Mount Washington, residence suburb.
She and Jog Mueller, to whom
Rhe was engaged to be married were
on the way to visit friends at Mount
Washington, according to Mueller's
statement and left the car at Seventh
avenue.
When they had walked half a
block and were in a lonely place,
they were stopped by a man, who,
leveling a pistol, called for their valuables.
Mueller said lie gave up
what valuables he had and then the
highwayman demanded a necklace
worn by Miss Reed. Her reply was
a slap in the face, upon receiving
which, the man fired, the bullet
striking the girl behind the left ear.
She was carried into a nearby house,
but death had been almost instantaneous.
The highwayman disappeared
and is being diligently sought
by the police.
Mueller, who appears to have been
the onlv witness In Ihn ohnntln. """"
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placed tinder arrest.
TIIHOIjOGY AND A ItliOKK.V I1KA1)
How One lied to the Other in (Tierokee
Negro Church.
Gaffney, March 10.?At. a row
which occurred in a colored
church, a few miles in the country
on Saturday, a negro named Wat
(list was arguing some theological
questions, when a negro named
Thomas Jeter took issue with some
of the doctrines promulgated by the
aforesaid Gist, calling him a liar,
whereupon Gist seized a chair and
applied same with such force to the
cranium of Jeter as to bring him to
his knees, and pursuing his advantage,
struck him in the mouth and
knocked several front teeth down his
throat. As soon as Jeter recovered
sufficiently to come to town he Indicted
Gist, for asault and battery
of a high and aggravated nature, and
the matter will be threshed out in
the Courts.
ONE HUNDRED MEN
From One State Caught I'lreumonta
At Inauguration.
Washington, March 10.?A letter
received hero states that of the 800
men which represented the Massachusetts
coast artillery in the inaugural
parade, 100 of them are sufi
fering from pneumonia, one has died
from typhoid pneumonia and another
is dying from the same disease.
' The Massachusetts coast artillery
was quartered in National Rifle's ari
mory and like many of the other
, troops were not supplied with conts,
hut slept on the floor with only a thin
> mattress to protect their bodies from
tho drafts which swept in through
the doors and windows.
BITTER FIGHT
.
Is On Between Speaker Cannon
And The Insurgents.
DEMOCRATS JOIN IN
The War on the Speaker and Ho May
He Defeated?The Allien hark
Only One Vote, Which They Hope
to Get From Four New
Members.
Washington, March 10.?Republican
leaders in the house of representatives
are gravely discussing the
insurgents movement, which has
evolved sufficient strength to make
Imminent a change of the house rules
despite the resistive effortB of the
Cannon-Payne-Dalzell combine. Failing
to change the rules on the day
preceeding the adjournment last
week, the Insurgents gave notice of
their immovable purpose thereafter
to renew the fight with vigor when
the extra session is rapped to order
next Monday.
In the next house there will be
219 Republicans and 172 Democrats.
Tho Insurgents will have 22 holdover
members in their ranks with
certain addition of Judge Irving
Dent Lenroot, of Wisconsin, who was
elected on an Anti-Cannon pledge.
United with the solid Democratic
forces they will be able to muster
19f> votes, according to pre*ent estimates,
while the total opposition
strength will be 19H. It requires the
vote of only one Republican for the
Insurgents to change the hoiiHe rules
to any extent that may be desired.
The insurgents claim four new members:
Picket and Woods, of Iowa;
Plumly, of Vermont., and Kopp, of
Wisconsin. <|
They have been working earnestly
to make their converts and unless
the leaders stick close to their guns
the movement will undoubtedly be
recruited. So intense has the purpose
and the loyalty of the insurgents
become that each man is constituting
himself a "whip" nnd Is
doing strenuous service. Minority
Leader Clark says that every one
of his men shall be present in ?."
house on March 16, to vote for a
change In the rules, which are as
obnoxious to the Democrats, ns they
are to those Republicans who are
lending the movement for certain
radical reform.
The changing of the rules along
radical lines Is not the only nlm of
the Insurgents. They mean. If possible,
to depose Speaker Cannon, and
that progress in that direction Is coequal
and co-extensive with their
campaign for a change of the unpopular
rules.
A proposition has been submitted
to the Democrats by which an Insurgent
may Im? elected Speaker with
the aid of the minority. The plan
is to allow the Democratic leaders
to select a candidate from among
the Insurgents, who will then support
him. It Is not believed that the
proposition will be accepted, as some
of the Democrats regard It as Involving
bad policies, and might result
in the Insurgents being repudiated
by their party as going too far in
their opposition to the Republican
leaders of the house. Whether or
not Mr. Cannon is defeated for reelection
as Speaker, every indication
points to the success of the movement
against the existing rules in
At a banquet last Saturday night in
At. a banquet last. Saturday nicht in
honor of Vice President Sherman,
Speaker Cannon took occasion to say
what he thought nbout the insurgents,
saving among other things, that
henceforth none of them would lv">
recognized by the house Republican
regime. He also referred to them
as bullies and bluffers, who wer?
absolutely without tho courage of
their convictions.
It will be seen from this that a
good-sized vote ni lonot
polled against Mr Cannon next Monday.?News
and Courier.
MANY WANT JOBS.
One Hundred nnd Thirty Apply for
Two Positions.
Columbia, March 9?Commissioner
Watson has alreadv received one
hundred and twenty applications for
the two positions of inspectors that
he is required to appoint under the
provisions of the act recently passed
lie hopes to be able to find two mer
who have had some training alon?
the lines expected, or who will b<
willing to work along modern lines
Mr. Watson hopes to make these tw<
places serve those for whom the]
are Intended, and to get data am
do Inspecting along proper lines, ant
he does not want nr.en who simpl]
want the places for the salary in
volved. He Is in no hurry abou
making the appointments, and ex
pects to get first class men. at leas
as good as the moderate salary wil
permit.
Hies of Old Age.
Des Moines, March 1 1.?Mrs. Rutl
McPherson died hero today at th
advanced ago of 102 years. She wa
the oldest person in Iowa and wa
i born in Grayson county, Virginia, o:
I August 22, 1807.
A MYSTERIOUS CAVERON.
Two Dog* Arc Ltwt in It and Can't
I Bo Found.
Farmers of Weldon Spring, in St.
Charles county, Mo., strove for two
days to rescue two dogs that had
been imprisoned for three weeks in
a cave. Spurred by the piteous barks
and whines of the dogs, the men dug
down until they were stopped by
solid rock. Dynamite was used without
avail. One man risked his life
by crawling 150 feet at the end of
a rope Into a cave, but was unable
to rescue the dogs. The effort was
then abandoned, because the cries
of the dogs could no longer be heard,
and it was concluded that they had
perished.
Three weeks ago Bob Tarbel and
Sam Pitman were hunting on John
Burton's farm, when their dogs started
a coon, which sought safety in a
cave. The dogs, intent on the chase,
followed it in through th6 narrowentrance
and disappeared from sl^hf
and hearing. They did not return,
and it was three wevks later, that
their whines were heard near an old
sink hole 500 feet away. Digging
began but was soon stopped by solid
ork and dynamite was then used.
Fully 10ft men, women and children
gathered and urged the workers
to greater endeavors, hut they could
do nothing except to try to explore
the cave. Finally Tlowell risked his
life in an attempt to reach and rescue
the dogs. He volunteered to
crawl into the cave with a rope tied
to him. One 150 feet long was
brought and an end of it tied around
his waist. He crawled into the cave
and went the length of the rope.
He found the passage at that depth
so small that he could not have gone
further, even if the rope had been
longer. He could hear the dogs and
' ailed loudly to them, but they seemed
to have fallen over a declivity,
and could not come to him.
1JOAT TO IIK llAISED.
First Confederate Torj?edo float on
Bottom.
New Orleans, Mnrch 11.?That arrangements
have been completed to
raise the first torpedo boat of the
Confederacy from the bottom of Lake
Ponchartraln was announced at a
meeting of Confederates hero last
night. The boat is lying near Spanish
Fort, where it went down years
ago. It is proposed to place this
vessel on the lawn of the Confederate
Soldiers' Home in New Orleans.
CHLOROFORM CRIMINALS.
Favors Elimination of Hanging and
Elect rorutioq.
Atlanta, Ga., March 11.?Gen.
Clement A. Evans, commander-inchief
of the United Confederate Veterans
and chairman of tlm
commission of Georgia, advocates
chloroforming criminals who have
received the death sentence.
"I believe the law has no right
to do more than take a man's life,"
said <$en. Evans. "No living man
should witness it. The death cell
should be air tight, and the man who
is to die should inhale the very
breath of death itself and should die
painlessly and alone. Any other
death punishment is nothing short
of barbarous. Even this is bad
enough."
Gen. Evans had already qualified
this statement by declaring himself
opposed to capital punishment for
any crime save that of attack upon
women.
TIIEY DESTROY CHOPS.
Poisoned Wheat to Hail Prairie Dogs
in the West.
Washington, March 11.?Poisoned
wheat is to be used as bait to kill off !
ihe prairie dogs, the stockmen's enemy,
that now infest Arizona and
New Mexico and have become a menace
to the^ forest ranges there. On
1 ranch lands prairie dogs have proved
destructive to a variety of crops, including
wheat, grain, potatoes and
sugar beets; while on grazing lands
they destroy so much grass that the
grazing capacity of the land is re,
duced r.O to 75 per cent. The forest
service is employing every effort to
prevent range deterioration.
STABBED HIMSELF
?
W'itli Scissors While Hiding on ?
Georgia Train.
( Savannah, Ga., March 1ft.?Rorom.
in* violent on a Southern train last
3 night between Atlanta and Jesup,
and claiming ho was being shot, Dr.
> R, T. Baird, of Fredericksburg, Va.,
T stabbed himself in the chest with a
1 pair of scissors, then attacked the
1 negro porter and other trainmen.
f He was found dead this morning in
. his berth on the arrival of the train
t In Jesup. It is presumed he was
. under the influence of some drug,
t The body was taken to Jacksonville.
1
Three Men Buried Alive.
Hamilton. Ohio, March 11.?A
sewer trench eight feet deep caved
h In today, burying three men. When
e rescuers reached the l>nttom of the
8 sewer they found the dead bodies
fl of James Robinson and Alexander
n Howard. Thomas Revera was rescued
alive, but will probably die.
A HUGE CAVE
Found In The Adiron dacke Upper
New YorK
RIVAL THE MAMMOTH
Kutciislvc Itooms lTn<U*r the Mountain
Near Standisli, N. Y., Which Are
Yet to lie Explored?Veteran (lives
Some Measurements and Tells of
the Pits Which Are Deep.
Saranac Lake. N. Y.t March 10.?
Capt. E. E. Thomas, an old-time
woodsman, has discovered a great
cave in a secluded part of the Adirondacks
which may rival the famous
Mammoth Cave of Kentucky. Thomas
chanced to strike the entrance to
the cavern on the summit of a mountain
seldom visited by travelers, or
sportsmen, some time ago, but kept
the matter secret until he could make
an investigation.
Taking a companinon with him.
he entered the cavern for 1,000
feet, and as the end was not reached,
the extent of the cave from that
point on is as yet undetermined. It
is situated on a mountain known as
"W" Mountain, not far from Standish,
N. Y.
In describing his diarnverv
old woodsman said: "The mouth Is
about fifty feet wide. The first room
is fifty feet long, twenty feet wide
and thirty feet high. It swarmed
with hats, which lined the walls and
seemed scarcely able to move. There
was a decided smell of sulphur. In
the next room, which was abou'
forty by fifteen feet, we found passages
branching in many directions,
and were unable to explore all of
them.
"With only the feeble rays of a
lantern to guide us, we several times
narrowly escaped falling into pits.
You can imagine how deep some of
these were, when I say that wo had
time to count fifteen and twenty before
rocks we dropped Into them were
heard to strike?and we did not
count rapidly. An elk's horn was
found by us far insido the cave.
"After going a short distance from
the mouth there was no vegetation.
There is no opening nt the base of
the mountain nnd there are no
streams in the cave so far as we
have yet discovered."
TRAIN HAND KIIiLKD.
Will Campbell Hun Over by Kiigine
at Greenwood.
Greenwood, March 11.?Will
Campbell, a negro train hand employed
in the Seaboard local yards,
had his legs cut off wlille at work
in the yards early Wednesday morn- ^
ing, and died several hours later
from the effects of his injuries. He
was run over shortly after 2 o'clock
and died at 5 o'clock Wednesday
morning.
It appeared that Campbell was at
the switch waiting for the engine
to go up to the tank and return. It
would seem that, as the engine came
back, he attempted to jump on, hut
missed his footing and fell underneath.
Hoth legs were cut off
The switching crew was in charge
of Yard Conductor Menders and Kngineer
Pitt man. Mr. Plttman stated
that the engine was going about
two or three mtles an hour. Campbell
was an excellent train hand,
knew his business well, and it seems
more than likely that it was a case
of accident. It was said at the inquest
that Campbell said before he
died that he did not see how he could
get hurt.
A coroner's jury was Impanelled
and the following verdict was rendered:
"Will Campbell came to his
death by accident on his own part."
TRAIN WRECKER CAUGHT.
Arrosted on Charge of Causing Wreck
at llarbins.
Greenville, March 10.?John Tarroll,
colored, was arrested near Sen- I
eca this morning by Special Agent
Alton, of the Southern, and Sheriff
Kay, of Oconee county, charged with
wrecking train No. 3f>, near llarbins,
on February 22.
It will be remembered that F.nglneer
Will O'Neal lost his life in
the wreck. A warrant has also heen
issued for the Lewis, colored, charging
him with being a party to the
deed. The grand jury at Walhalla
retnrnerl n Imo I.Ill n""!"-' "
.. ?v ,.,,i nfsmiini. l?l>l 11 IIKgroes
this morlng. The sheriff of
Oconee has gono to Georgia looking
for Lewis.
Killed and Injured.
Brlnkley, Ark., March 10.?Twenty-nine
dead and seventy-four Injured
Is Rrlnkley's list of casualties
from the tornndo of Monday. Outside
of Brlnkley thirteen persons
were killed and forty-six wounded,
several of whom may die.
I'asseager Train Wrecked.
New Orleans, March 11.?Is is reported
that an Arkansas, Louisiana
and Gulf passenger train, bound
? south from Little Rock, was derailed
i by train wreekers during the night
' near the Louisiana line, and that
several persons wero killed and
soveral Injurod.
GOES TO WORK
IX DKAD EARNEST TO FIGHT
CONSUMPTION.
! Aiken Employs 11 Trained Nurse Who
Will Devote All of Her Timo to
Tuberculosis.
The Columbia Record snys Mips
Susie S. Ravenel has been employed
by the Aiken County Antituberculosis
League, as a trained nure. to assist
In its work of prevention of the
white plague. The league has been
very active in Its Inauguration of a
war agaliiRt consumption. Although
the league has been organized only
a few weeks, practical results are
now being obtained, and the people
are being instructed in the means
of preventing disease.
It is only recent years that means
for cope with this dreaded disease
have been discovered and this knowledge
is not yet prevalent among the
people: and the dissemination of this
knowledge is the primary object for
the league In this county. No dues
are paid for membership in the
league, but volnntnrv
are being: reoelved by tbe officers Tor
the prosecution of the work. Many
of the Northern visitors have liberally
helped in this work.
Miss Ryenel has already commenced
her work. She devotes the
forenoon to the work, making visits
to all parties who may need her
assistance. No charge is made for
her assistance, which is Riven not
from a charitable standpoint, but
as a matter of Riving valuable suggestions
for the cailnR of patients
and prevention of the spread to other
members of the family, and the
iblic. with whom Infected persons
av come in contact. Miss Ravenel
has had Iohr experience as a nurse,
and she has entered the work with
a spirit. She will make periodical
reports to the president of the
league. Dr. Filmore Moore.
The trained nurse will conduct
her work in conjunction with, and
in harmony with the board of health.
Miss Ravenel will also consult with
the physicians of the city, and work
in conjunction with them. Such
cases that are reported to her, as
needing assistance, advice, or in any
manner that she can help them, she
will visit. The object of this is, of
course, to prevent the further spread
of the disease, and it is stated that
where persons refuse to heed friendly
and voluntary suggest ions for the
safety of the people against tuberculosis,
such cases will ho referred
to the board of health, to tako such
action as they seo fit for public
Hafety.
Ml'ItDKR WOMAN'S III SRAX1>.
"Rev." Wiolfram and Mrs. Malindn
Ijockhart Tricked I'p.
Atlanta, Ga? March 10.?Charles
IT. Wolfram, whom calims to be an
ordained Holiness preacher, and Mrs.
.Maunua Ix>ckhart are being held In
the county jail on charges growing
out of their discovery together in
the former's room on Marietta street.
The arrest was caused by woman's
husband, James J. Lockhart, whom,
the two prisoners claim, they had
planned to murder.
Wolfram is author of several socalled
religions books, and earned a
livelihood selling them on the streets.
Mrs. lyockhart. is a strikingly handsome
woman, and apparently intelligent.
She has not lived with her
husband for two years, bocaute, as
she claims. Wolfram was found to
bo her "soul-mate" or "affinity."
Religious attraction led to their
association, is is claimed, and to remove
al! carnal barriers they had decided
to remove Lockhart by the
poison route. Their nerve failed at
the last moment and Lockhart still
lives to enjoy his estate of $10,000
or $lf>,000.?Augusta Chronicle.
SHOULD SHUN SOFT DIIIX K.1.
Government l'urc Food Kxpert Warns
Girl Students.
Washington, March 10. ? The
dangers of "the soft drink habit"
and the innocence with which rri.-iu
become addicted to it, wore emphasized
tonight by Dr. Harvey, with VV.
Wiley, the Government's pure food
expert, in a lecture before one hundred
girl students at Holy Cross
Academy.
"If you only know what I know
about what those soft drinks contain
you would abstain from them,"
ho said. "It will surprise you to
know that most of them contain
more caffeine than coffee, and a drup
which is more deadly. So beware
of the soft drink. It is more harmful
than cofTee, and I advise all
young people against the use of this
stimulant. Perhaps you would 1><
interested to know I have collect
ed more than one hundred sample!
of soft drinks sold at soda foun
tains, and each contains caffeine, ant
many of them a deadly drug."
Several Drowned.
Montgomery. Ala., March 10- Fivi
persons were drowned Wednesday ii
the Alabama river here In the risin)
waters which followed Tuesda;
night's storm. Three white and i
negro were drowned from the ferry
and William Dillard, a white boy
fell in and was drowned.
V/
A PRIEST SLAIN
In His Study at Newark, N. J, by
Assassins
SHOT AT WOMAN ALSO
Three Men Walk into Hooin of the
Kov. Erasmus Ansion and Shoot
Him to Death?Dead Priest Had
Ousted Several Trustees, Causing
Mueli Dissatisfaction.
Newark, N. J., March 10.?Three
men w'noBe features appear to have
been concealed by their heavy overcoats
and slouch hats, walked Into
the study of the Rev. Erasmus Ansion,
pastor of the PoIlBh Church of
St. Stanislaus, this morning and
opened fire upon him. Three bullets
from their three revolvers hit the
priest, killing him instantly.
The trio turned to make their escape
and found their way blockod
by Mrs. Antonio SewrzytHka, the
housekeeper. One of viaic^r.
turned his revolver upon her, InfllctiiiK
a wound which Is likely to prove
fatal. Then ull three made their escape.
The police wore put to work on
tlve case within a few minutes of
the murder and by noon had
rounded up four suspects, one of
whom the housekeeper, now In St.
Barnashan Hospital, thought hore a
resemblance to the lead'er of the trio
who had done the shooting. The others
she was unable to Identify. All
four denied any knowledge of the afrair.
No adequate theory to account for
the attack upon the priest has heea
presented to the police. It was learned
that there has recently been considerable
factional trouble In the congregation,
and Father Ansion, when
he came from Paterson to take
charge of the church five months ago, \
made several changes which are said '
to have caused widespread dissatisfaction.
All the men arrested are members
of St. Stanislaus church, and the
police ordered the arrest of all the
former trustees, whom the dead
priest ousted when he took charge
of the parish.
The police tonight arrested three
men, suspects, all Poles, who reside
near the church. At the same time
it wns announced that the belief was
growing that the priest's assassins
were not Newark men, although it
was thought that the murder has been
planned here and that some of
those under arrest may be able to
shed light on these plans.
A crowd of 5,000 Poles gathered
early tonight In front of the rectory
in which lay the body of the murdered
priest, expressing their grief and
demanding to see the body. The
police succeeded in getting it under .
j control by promising to grant its demand.
Accordingly, a double line of
police was arrayed from the street
through the house, and for two hours n
or more the Poles marched In single
file past the casket in which the ?
body lay.
POI ND fil lIjTY OF MUlinKR.
Laurens Breaks a Iteeord ('/ovoring
Fifteen Years.
Laurens, March 10.?For the first
time in about fifteen years a Laur1
ns jury has returned n straight verdiet
of murder without a recommen- ^
dation to mercy. This occurred this
afternoon in the Court of General iL+j*
Sessions, when the jury returned a
verdict of guilty in the case of the ,E;
State vs. John Henry Anderson for
the murder of his father-in-law. It
will lie recalled that Anderson shot
and killed old man Joseph Carter
at the Cedar Grove church at the
funeral of one of Anderson's children.
He shot, him In tlio hack, and
without immediate provocation, ? '
Anderson will very likely be seutenc- '4 j
ed on Saturday.
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Two cases of attempted criminal > i
assault were tried today in the General
Sessions Court, one against /
a young white man, Albert Duncan, )
accused of attempting to ravish a /
young girl in Waterloo Township,/ .
the home of both. Duncan waa]
found guilty with mercy recommend-^
ed by the jury. The other case was
against Will McCollough, colored,
charged with attempting to ravish
a young white elrl In KiiIHvati'b
Township. The Jury returned a vec- .
diet of not guilty.
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WEATHER CLERK EXPLAINS
How lie Made Such a Mistake Abunt
tlio Weather. - it"
' Washington, March 8.?Juat how
it happened that there was such * ft
blizzard in Washington March 4, and
P In the fart of his telogramB to Mr. |
raft, on the night of 3rd that the I
' weather would he rh ar, was ex- m
plaited to the lit today by fl
Willis L. Moore, chief <>f the United I
State weather bureau. Prof. Moore ?
p admitted lie had waited for Several ( I
n days with sonio timidity bek
fore attempting to , ' "pay hi*
V respects" to Mr. Tatjjfr.Mr. Moor#
ft lias an explanation \vhMb ha.*t>i()iigiit V
to a climax with all aorta of proof
tluit no such "highs" and "lotvs" ever Ifl
before produced guchja mfWstornK
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