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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
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FEARFUL TRAGEDY
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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
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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.
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Bust Prove llis llisiovcries or I-osr j
Public lb-wards.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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. . .
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