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W w 1/ I HE MUST GO hsvgent Republicans and Democrats At f tack Old Maa Joe. COMBINE AGAINST HIM The Irregular Republicans and the Democratic Members in the House Join in a Fight on Speaker Can nun to Curb ills Crowing Powei Over the Members. They had a hot time In the Houst of Representatives at Washington or Thursday. Encouraged by their repeated victories over the speaker and the regular Republicans of the house the "insurgents" started an aggressive movement for a change in the rules of the house for the purpose of eliminating Speaker Cannon from the committee on rules and curtailing his power in legislative matters. Without a word of warning that o radical a proposition would be brought up with the apparent support of a majority of the membership of the house, Representative Norris late in the afternoon obtained the boor and offered a resolution for a change in the rule of the bouse. Mr. Norris Insisted that the language of the constitution gave his measure the same privilege that Speaker Cannon had claimed for a resolution relating to the taking of the census. He asked that this resolution be placed before the house at once. On both the Republican and Democratic sides nearly every member was in his place and all realized that at last the "insurgents" were locking horns with the regular Republicans for what might prove to be a death struggle. On both sides of the house the "whips," realizing the necessity of obtaining their full voting strength, put In motion all their resources tor tne summoning of absent members. Telegrams were sent to those absent on leave and had left the city. Taxicabs were ordered to make trips to he hotels and :esidenceB of the few members known to be In Washington who were not on hand. The news of the Impending struggle soon spread about the city and the galleries that had been but half filled became crowded. Mr. Norris, whose seat is on the Democratic side of the chamber, appealed to the speaker for a ruling in favor of the immediate consideration of his resolution. He Insisted that the time had come for action by the bouse so that it might take matters affecting legislation into their own handB. rThe attitude of the Democrats toward the movement so suddenly put under way was made evident by the prompt endorsement of Mr. Norris' contentions by Mr. Underwood and by Champ Clark, minority leader. Mr. Underwood insisted that the language of the constitution made the Nebraskan's resolution a matter of the highest import. Minority Deader Clarke reminded the speak r that he had once said that the house could do anything it pleased, even to the election of a new speaker. "The speaker has said that an election could be put through the house If the house so desired," shout ed Mr. Clark. "The speaker," said Mr. Cannon, who had until now watched the proceedings in grim silence, "would he prepared to rule on the question when any gentleman thinks that the minority has becoino the majority. Hut that presents an entirely different question from the one now before us." "If we can change the speaker," shouted Mr. Clark, "why can't we change the rules?" Deafening applause on the Democratic side was evoked by this remark. Mr. Clark opposing any suggestion that the resolution be referred to tho committee on rules, declaring that that committee, consisting of three Republicans, including the speaker, and two Democrats, could not be trusted with a measure curtailing its own powers. The Republican majority of one on that committee was as great a3 their majority in the house, "and," he added, amid laughter, "more reliable." "If you wnnt trt change the rules," shouted Mr. Clark, looklfig over the house, "now Is "the accepted time." When the applause had subsided. Majority Leader Payne made a strong and feeling plea for "regularity." "We can not have tho responsibility of the majority of this house." said Mr. Payne, "unless we can exercise it under the rules of the house The men on that side," he continued waving his hand toward the Democrats, "come today to break down the rule." "Is the Democratic party going to make its usual blunder?" ho asked. "Now at this critical time, with an election coming ofT ami with the best Interests of the people at stake, you, who have fought for the Republican party have a care that you do not aid and abet the enemy of the Republican party.'* ^ j > * FEARFUL TRAGEDY / A FATHER AND HIS SONS SLAIN IN THEIR HOUSE. Triple Tragedy la New York Appeals to be Case of Doublo Murder and Suicide. i Herman Moritz, 45 years old, and two sons, George and Walter, 17 and 5 12 years old respectively were found shot to death Sunday night in their homes in New York. The lathers r body was in the hallway, the eldest son lay dead in a closet, whil* tbe younger boy was found in the ccl, lar. It appears to bo a case of dou, ble murder and suicide. Moritz was a retired real estate I dealer and from all appearances he killed his two BonB, then turned the revolver on himself. A 38-callbre revolver lay beside the father's body. The discovery of the oodles came about when a policeman and night watchman ran into the house after the watchman had rung in a Cre alarm at the request of Mr. Moritz, who had rushed into the street Bhouting that his hour,e was on Are. The watchman also called a policeman. The policeman pushed on the. front door, which was partly open. The door was blocked but as the policeman pushed harder the door opened suddenly. On the floor In the front hall lay the body of 1 Moritz. In a bed room closet they found 1 the body of George. The body wan all huddled up in the closet in such a position as to indicate that th? body had been chased by the father , and had sought to hide himself. Firemen in the meantime began extinguishing the small blaze in the cellar . I'd were on the point of leaving wh'n bey found the body of tho yoni r son lying on a heap of rags near tbe cellar stairway. lie had been *hot twice in the right breast. Mc itz was evidently seized with a fit of despondency to which neighbors say he was subject, killed hi3 two boys, set the cellar afire, gave the alarm, theu returned and shot himself. He had shot himself in the head. The Moritz's were well-to-do. Mrs. Moritz is visiting in Englewood, N. J. An outburst of applause on the Republican side had hardlv diort n?t . before Mr Poindexter one of the long < Mnie insurgents, declared that there l was no regular system of rules In i the house by which business was s transacted. I Mr. Poindexter charged the InBur- i gents of the house to hear in mind i that this resolution gave them a i chance to allow the country to see i where they stood in their attitude s of reformers of the practices of the l house. Mr. Douglas in an impassioned appeal to the majority, declared that by the adoption of the pending res- | olution the house would make chaos of its rules. "Now is the time of your salvation," shouted Mr. Poindexter, after ridiculing the suggestion that this 1 was the beginning of choas in the 1 conduct of the house. One of the most vigorous speeches 1 of the day was made by Hamilton 1 Fish of New York, who told of his ( efforts to get a hearing on his bills 1 for a parcels post. 'Your resolution for an Inquiry into the parcels post suggestion gave t the committee only 3 0 days to con- s elude its work," suggested Mr. Smith. ? "Oh," exclaimed the New Yorker, * derisively, "you could have changed c that to give yourselves 60 or DO c days." Then followed charges anil counter < .muges concerning the methods of r the house and inability of members s to get hearings on bills and the im- t possibility of having bills brought out unless approved by "the powers of the house." At three o'clock the regular He- , publicans seeing that they were whipped left their seats, thus breaking the quorum, but the Insurgent Republicans and Democrats held the fort and renewed the tight as soon 1 as a quorum assembled Friday morn- < tug. i At two o'clock Friday afternoon i a motion by representative Martin 1 of South Dakota, a regular, that the l house take take a recess until 4 ? p. m. was carried by a vote of 161 s to 151. Indescribable confusion and < deafening yells greeted the result ( of this, the fourth test of strength, ' of t?... -? - - - ...w Mu oiiuii ui ouuuning a respite. ? From the Democratic side came 1 the positive declaration that the regulars were defeated and that it ( was merely a question now of how ' and when. It was claimed that a ! certain majority was in sight for ( the Norris resolution whenever the ' speaker rules, if he does rule. From one of the most intimate friends of the speaker comes the somewhat startling statement that if the Norris resolution was passed, Speaker Cannon would resign and that the regulars would vote with the Democrats for the election of Champ '' Clark as speaker rather than ' side with the insurgents for the selection v of one of their choosing. This start- R ling statement was denied hy other 11 friends of the speaker. The light c was still on when we went to press w Friday afternoon. u t # HUNG THEN TWO ARE LYXOHKD FOR PART IN JAIL DELIVERY. Prisoner* Were Returned to Sheriff but Later Taken from Jail.?The Work Done iu Business Fashion. At Marion. Ark., Bob Austin and Charles Richardson, negroes, were lynched at an early hour Friday morning in the court houBe square bv a mob of .100 citizens with ?M ing and abetting a jail delivery that occurred there Monday night. Richardson was arrested in Memphis and while on the way to the local jail a mob overpowered Sh?;:ff Lewis and secured the prisoner He confessed to complicity in ailing the escape of the prisoners and implicated Rob Austin. The latter war Immediately apprehended and it looked as it the trembling prisoners would be hanged on the spot. Cooler heads prevailed and the two men were given over to the sherifT. At three o'clcok Friday morning a mob quietly formed and marched to the Jail. The negroes were secured and hanged to a tree in front of the court house. The mob was orderly and went about its work in a business-like fashion. The bodies of the victims were cut down at seven o'clock Friday morning and were turned over to the negro friends for burial. FIVE KITTEN ItY MAI) All the Children of Mr. Davis Smith of the EUoreo Section. The Columbia Record says five little children, the oldest 13 years and the youngest three years, are receiving the Pastuer treatment at th State laboratory under I)r. Coward These are the children of Mr. Davis Smith of Elloree, vv ho were bitten several days ago by a puppy that was suspected of suffering from rabies. An examination of the dog's head confirmed this suspicion and the little patients have been und<; treatment in Columbia since the enth. Mr. Smith had the head examined, and was advised that the log was suffering from hydrophobia. The children were hurried to the place of treatment at the earliest convenient date. Mr. Smith is an honest, hard working man, and his noighlK>rs and friends extend their sviminthv in * U1- * kw ...in in ins great miBrortune. We hope that the treatment will prove efficacious and that :he little ones can soon return home with all danger of the dread disease removed. The little dog that caused 30 much trouble is said to have ^een a pet of the whole family. POISONED EAT 1 NO POPCORN. Popped in Frying Pan Which Contained "Illack Oil." The manager of the "Mellwood Distillery," at Louisville, Ky., seven rmployes and two government rev- j *nne men narrowly escaped death ( ecently by the' prompt attendance )f physicians after they had eat*m :orn popped in a frying pan which lad contained a lubricant known as 'black oil." ' In less than fifteen minutes after hey had eaten the com, all were leized with violent fits of vomiting, tevere pains and extreme coma. They 1 vere rushed from the distillery in j carriages to their homes and physii , ians summoned. Seven of the men are pronounced 1 >ut of danger. Three of them, Peter* 1 Pepp r. Conrad Owens, and J. M. 1 Jackleford, all distillery employ- * 'S, are still in a critical condition l CiKTS ANOTHER BLOW. i * t Bust Prove llis llisiovcries or I-osr j Public lb-wards. 1 The proposal to have congress re- s ward Commander Peary for his dis- 1 -overy of the North Poles met with ' mother setback in the house com mittee on naval affairs Thursday. : Representative Englebright, of Cali- ' Fornia, his principal advocate in th 5 committee, moved to discharge the ' subcommittee which has been consid- 5 ?ring the Peary award bills and to :onsider them in full committee, I'he motion was defeated by a vote jf 17 to 1, Mr. Englebright alone ( supporting lils motion. Another mo- , ion to dPect the sub-committee to onsider further the bills providing ' 'or honoring Mr. Peary was adopted 1 .y a unamimous vole. As a major!'./ < ! me committee U rtrongly oppos ><1 a o voting a reward to Commander ? Jeary, however, unless his proofs ? ire made public, it i8 not expected 9 hat a bill 011 the subject will bo a eported out. t Wife Won't Cook. Because his wife "refuse to cook lis meals," J. T. Perdee, of Bibb v ounty, Qa., has filed suit for <11- 9 orce. The result will be of much c eneral interest, as the issue is one a ever before passed upon by the r ourt. The question of whether a d rife should cook her husband'a h ieals will then be decided. h GETS 'A NEW TRIAL t ? THE SUPREME COURT SAVES A FIEND FROM A Deserved Hanging on ? Nonsensical Technicality and P??^ u.e Way for Later Lynching*. The sentence o' death imposed upon Robert Johnson, alais Tony Howard, from criminal assault has been stayed by a decision of the supreme court on the ground that the circuit court erred in the trial. The negro pleaded not guilty and attempted to prove an alibi. The opinion in the case is by Associate Justice Hydrick. A new trial will be given the negro. The negro was convicted in the Darlington county court last year. He wub held for a time at the penitentiary for safekeeping. The crime was committed in the town of Hartsville in December of 1908. On the night of the outrage the woman retired at 7 o'clock, leaving a lamp burning low on the bureau in her room. The front door was unlocked. She was alone with her little son. The woman was expecting her husband. Several minutes before retiring she sa\f a negro standing by the bureau. He blew out the light. Telling her that he would kill her if she screamed, the negro seized the woman and dragged her into the hall of the home where the crime was committed. The negro left the home, telling her to return to the room and not to make any fuss for it meant death. The husband came home al>out ten o'clock and found his wife in a state of shock. The story of the crime was recited to him and he gave the alarm and the pursuit of the negro was commenced. Robert Johnson was afterward identified by the woman as the assailant. The first exception in the case alleged error in admitting testimony that about 20 negroes were arrested and carried before the woman immediately after the outrage and she failed to identify any of them. The supreme court says "we think that the testimony was competent." The court also holds the testimony revelevant in that it "tended to show that she had some recollection of the features of the man." The other executions imnntP ormr in charging njton the fac.s. The following la the portion of the charge excepted to, "Gentlemen, you need not bother yourselves much al>out the corpus delicti, that is, about the commission of the offense." The court hold with refereence to this that the negro's plea of not guilty put in issue the corpus delicti. The supreme court says that It was necessary for the State to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the crime 1 had been committed. It is also held that in the above expression that the circuit judge gave the jury a plain intimation if not a positive expres- ; sion. A number of authorities are here cited in substantiation of the holding of the court that a circuit judge has no right to charge as to the facts in a case. The case was ried in Darlington county. "TIIT FIGHT IS TOO IIAItl)." Pathetic Note Iicft by a Young \Yo- \ man Who Suicided. With her silk stockings tightly C cnotted together, one end bound f i iround her neck, and the other fast iien 10 a snower bath in the private j mthroom of her suite, the lifeless s ?ody of heautlful Selma Ruth Kauf- 1 nan, aged 28, of New York, was v ound 111 the Hotel White, McKees- 11 )ort, Pa. 8 The young woman, after arrang- 11 ng th<' improvised rope of silk hos- s ery, stood on the edge of the bathub. securely fastened one end of the 0 joined stocking to the shower and 1 arefully adjusted the other in a 1 loose, slipped it over her head and ' stepped into eternity. In her room ' va8 found the following note pinned a o a costly parasol: "The fight is too hard. Goodbye, 0 ind God bless all who have been tind. My trunks are at the 23rd v street station, New York city. I en- s reat forgiveness as 1 hope to be for- 1 ;iven and have another chance." O m m <1 I'rovi <] Good I,tick. A small black cat. proved to he an I' imen of good luck when it saved f drs. W. .1. Slogan and h< r two chilIren from a horrible death in their uirnine hnino j?t ^ lay night. The family were asleep s md unaware that their home was a o nass of flam s when thr cat jumped ft lpon tire bed and by repeatedly h cratching its mistress, succeeded in a iwakening her just in time for them f( o escape from the burning houij. u b Died t'ndcr Auto. W. H. Jones, a prominent hardrare dealer of Ocala, Fla., was intantly killed and (Jeorge McKay, a ft ontractor, was fatally Injured, when si n automobile in which they were In iding near Ocala upset early Tues- I) ay morning. Mr. Jones was pinned ti eneath the machine and his head w orribly crushed. tl I * V WHY DOUBTCOOK Aid Trust Peary, Asks G?t. Brown, wki Dediaes to Introduce PEARY TO AN AUDIENCE Both Little Joe nnd Mayor Maddos of Atlanta, Refuse to Mix Willi Explorer, and the Former Thinkt Cook More Entitled to Credence Tluvn I'eary and Saya So. lloth Gov. Joe Brown and Mavoi Maddox of Atlanta declined to introduce Peary when he lectured In thai city the other night. In discussing the matter Governor Brown, who is quite a student of north pole explroations, said that in his opinion if Dr. Cook is a fakir, Peary is all the more one, because Peary's description ol his trip to the pole is very largely a duplicate of that given by Cook; and Peary has been more reticent about disclosing the proofs of his trip. Gov. Brown said: "The public, while discrediting Cook's story, makes the mistake of supposing Peary's true, yet Peary's story is the same as Cook's. What is the best proof that Cook's story is correct? It is that Peary's story conforms to Cook's, thus confirming it. "Did Peary fake his astron|cal figures In the Roosevelt? He went alone to the pole. Why? "What proof does Peary bring save his own word? Cook brings the same, and as good. Where was Cook? Did he Bp* ml the time in a snow house with his dogs, etc? If lie stayed at one place for months, it would have gotten out. "Peary, to destroy the value of Cook's narrative, must first discover the value of his own. Two horns of a dilemma. If Cook has handed up a gold brick, Peary has handed us a paste diamond, or for a silver platter, has given us a basin made of a very cheap grade of pewter. It is up to Peary to explain how Cook's story can be false, and his identical story can be true. The American people will not accept his smile as proof that lie is not as great a fakir as lie charges Cook to be. "Fantastic snow shapes, rifts in the ice, colored ice, the sun going in * circle, not setting, ice-covered sea, us described by Peary, are almost identical with similar description frotn Cook's narrative. "Kven if Cook were to assert that bis story was a fake, it would not make it false, unless he were forced :o confess that it was false; for the wo stories are the same, and, like he Siamese twins, they must live together or die together. You might is well say that Chang was a Chinese and Eng was an Englishman as o say that Cook's story is false and Peary's true. "The world loves a good loser. It ondemns an ungenerous winner bit give it time, and it discerns heween a winner and a pseudo-wiuler. "I have no interest in the controversy, save the right to have the ruth; but when Peary asks me to lelieve the same story false from 'ook and true from him I respectully decline to he considered 'so lasy.' "Till Representative Macon's expose of Peary, 1 believed that the tories of both were true, but that, f either was false, both wen- false ? rere fakes. Roth were heroes, or ioth were champion liars. They are Tnerally linked together, though it low appears that Peary copied the torv from Cook. "Hamum said that the people lik(1 to be humbugged. Rut if I am to pc iiuiuiHiKKtHi, i wouia prerer to inak'n in l>y the original humbug, ban by the counterfeit humbug, "bey are both the same in appearnco, hut Cook's is the original. "I say these words in the interest if the truth. I say them with that iride in the Amercian government vhich protests against putting its eal upon a transparent fraud?a raud in that while denouncing the Irst story of Cook as a fake, it asks is to stamp Peary's after-told idential story as the truth, a fraud which rands Cook, and lamia oses to reward Peary for the perormance of the same act." Another Football Victim. John A. Aldhart. aired 19, a former tudent at Simmons College of Ahilne, Texas, who was injured in a lotball game at that place on Octoer 10, last, died in a sanitarium t Dallas, Thursday, lie has been ir the greater part of this period nconscious from concussion of the rain. Hurled in One (iravc. At Livermoore, Cal., an entire imily, the husband, wife and three nail children, victims of the avainche at Wellington, Wash., were uried in one large grave. At the me of the accident, the family, ho lived at Marcus. Wash., were on leir way to vibit relatives. WOMAN GETS DIVORCE i FROM HUSBAND WHO RLOi'ED 1 WITH HEH MOTHKR. The Woman Claims that Her Moth er Stole Her Husband He? uuse She Sided With Father. At Detroit. Mich., Mrsj Geo. Wardell. the beautiful young woman who i created a sensation in divorce court * last month by stating that her hus' hand had eloped with her mother, , has got her decree. She told on the witness stand how her mother had long ago vowed vengeance upon her for siding with her father in family disputes, and how the revenge was taken by stealing the love of her . husband. , "When Raymond, our boy, was ( born," she said, "she came to our house and no on? lrrw.a. V ? ??v nuvn CtlUUgU IU ' Bend her away. That's when she got George in her clutches and she uevi er let go. , "Friends of mine would tell me that I'd better keep my eyes open, but I refused to believe gossip. My mother had the nerve to lecture me alK)Ut not being strict enough with George. Nights when they had been nut together, as I learned later, slio would tell me that if George was her husband there would not be any such goings on. The night of Juno 21 he stayted out until two in the morning. "He tiold me he had been bowling down town. A friend of mine told me to look in his pockets. I found two notes, one making a date with my mother tor the night before, and thv other telling of their plans to run away together. "I went up stair, asked and asked again, 'Where did you say you were last night?' " 'Bowling,' he said. Then I showed bim the notes. They tb <1 the same day. I got a letter Trotyi him dated Chicago the day after he went away." FI.OGGKIt \GF.I> WOMAN. Rich Farmer Sent to the IVuitentiary for Good Term. The Columbia Record says the penitentiary authorities had a new experience Monday in receiving a wealthy farmer from Marion county for heating a poor helpless white woman who had been cooking for him for the heinous crime of disobeying his orders in leaving his house in his absence. The name of the convict is \V. H. Rrigman, who is said to hnvn i,: ? _ .,^v .1 111 numerous cutting and shooting scrapes, but who always managed to buy off his pros- ? ecutors. Ho had apparently succeeding in hushing the old woman with money, but Solicitor Wells unexpectedly handed out an indictment and ho was convicted. Itrigman decided to plead guilty, evidently expecting this would result in only a light flno against him, but he was disappointed, for Judge 10a in est (lary, who was presiding, gave him IS months without the privilege of paying a fine. When asked what lie had to say why sentence should not be imposed Itrigman said that the reason ho tlogged the old woman was that she went away against his orders, and that when lie return* d the house had been burned. When lie came back and found the old woman has disobeyed him. other witnesses testified he went out in the yard and cut a stout peach switch and heat her soundly. <;IVKN Till: I KOZIvN IIAXIh I Vary Hail Small Crowd to cllai* Him in Atlanta. A special dispatch from Atlanta t i the Augusta Chronicle says never was a man given such a eold shoulder in Atlanta as was Command-r Robert E. Peary Wednesday night. Only T. L. Seelv, who introduced him dared to appear on the stag- with him. Tliere was not over 250 in tho audi* nee until the performance began, and then the management let In the crowd of the curious waiting in the streets. Tho audience had some Peary supporters hilt was far from enthusiastic. Following the result of his lecture. Peary has cancelled his engagement at Birmingham and wltl probably appear no more in tho South. Deadly Air Itifle. Edward Oartlettan, an eleven-yearold boy, is in a New York hospital fatally wounded by a bullet received while playing soldier with two llOV Cn 111 rinnlnno .... nr.ii iiih iinnic at Willet's Point, Long Island. The boy was retreating in the face of the "enemy" when he fell, discharging an air rifle which lie carried, s< nding a bullet into his abdomen. * r I,n( ire Family Iturncd. Thcoppil Thoni, his wife and two grown daughters were burned to deatli in a lire that destroyed their home on a farm near Twin Falls. It is believed that the house was s<t 011 fire by robbers to conceal their crimes. . . : * jl _