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AWFUL TRAGEDY A Drunken Man Slays Two Men on a Train Near Wilmington, Del. 0 KILLER SHOT TO DEATH J. H. Hot lira of Dillon, S. O., Kills a Colored Porter and the Conductor on a Pullman Car and la Finally Killed in Battle With the Police. An exciting battle in which three men were killed took place on a north bound Baltimore and Ohio railrfcad train Wednesday afternoon. The fight began at Newark, Del., and ended at Wilmington, Del. Several persons were wounded la the deadly affray which occurred at the Delaware avenue station at Wil piington following the arrival of the train at 5:17 o'clock. The dead: O. E. Wellman, aged 40, of Philadelphia, conductor of the train Samuel Williams, aged 50, negio Pullman porter, whose home 1b aid to have been in Jersey City; J. H. Bo4iea, aged 4 0, Dillon, S. C. The injured: John O. Wiley, aged | 40, a park guard of Wilmington. ( Del., shot in the hand and leg; Matthew Haley, a citizen of Wl'minv- ! ton, shot in the leg. Others were grazed by flying bullets. The foi J lowing grnphic story of the awful -tragcaV -vaH L"' ??? of the m'Mribers trajn crew', "We left Washington at three t o'clock " said the member of the j crew, "but nothing peculiar in the y actions of Bethea was observed until the train pulled out of Baltimore. t We had scarcely reached the out- j skirts of the city, when Bethea, who r was occupying a chair in "the parlor car, threatened to chastise Williams. . because of no apparent reason, other ^ than he took exception to the perter being a negro. , "A Bhort time later the porter j again had occasion to pass through j the car. He was busy onening a ( ventilator, when Bethea arose and lunged toward him. The porter hurriedly left the car aid reported the matter to Conductor Wellman. The latter told Williams to remain ort of the car unless it was aosciutely f/%*. li I Tl^l V, ucccmai ; uui 111ill 10 cuici. Dcmca in the meantime had taken a scat in a coach. "When the train was be .ween Harve de Grance and Newark, the porter started through the coacu, not noticing Bethea. The latter was ap- I parently dosing in his seat, bet just &b the colored man passed him he roBe and said: 'You negro; I'll 1 shoot you full of holes." "Williams was less than four faet 1 from the enraged man and as Bethea spoke Williams turned half aroui d 1 in evident surprise. As he did so 1 Bethea fired a shot into the porter's 1 heart. Williams fell back into a seat, and as Conductor Wellman ap- ' proached the murderer, Bethea fired 1 again. This last shot went Lhrougu 1 Williams* thigh and burled itself in 1 the woodwork in the side of the 1 car. 1 "By this time pandemonium reigned. There were about thirty persons in the car and they made a mad : rush for both doors. Conductor ' Wellman apparently didn't know that Williams had been fatally shot, as the negro was sitting upright in the * seat. As Wellman spoke to Bethea the latter turned livid with rage, s and placing his revolver almost on the conductor's chest, fired. Wellman dropped without uvoving an inch and Bethea, flourishing his revolver, backed toward the toilet room, entered and closed the d/?or. "In the meantime the train had reached Newark, Del. No stop was made but a message was thrown off asking the railroad officials at Wllmlngtion, 12 miles distant, to have policemen on hand to arrest Bethea. None of us knew at this time ! niiii. enner w imams or conductor i Wellman was dead. Before the train i reached Wilmington the door was < barred from the outside and a has- ty examination of both men showed f ^iat life was extinct. s "So bitter was the feeling against < the desperate man among the pas- I sengers that he could have been horn i limb from limb had they been able ! to gain admittance to the toilet. I "When Wilmington was reached i a score of policemen and citizens were waiting on the station platform. 1 The top of Bethea's head could be seen above the window blind as he I was standing in the toilet. Captain Kane of the Wilmington police force 1 was the first man to step on our i train. He was followed by half a < dozen other policemen. As they ap- < proached the toilet room Bethea threatened to murder the whole bunch, if they attempted to enter < the room. The officers withdrew s from the car and held a consultation. This conference was interrupted by 1 several shots from the toilet win- < dow. Bethea then drew back as the I policemen returned the fire. i "At this juncture a fire appartus t appeared and a stream was turned t in the broken window. Bethea kept \ on ^firing, but we had all secured convenient posts and waited develop- i menta. In a few minutes Betbea c COOK'S SAD PLIGHT 1 BROKEN IN HEATH AND WITHOUT FUNDS OR FRIENDS. Knows no One Ho Could Trust to go to Arctic Regions After Proofs if He Had the Monejr. Dr. William H. Axtell, of Bellingham, Wash., a personal friend of Dr. Frederick A. Cook, the explorer, Wednesday received a letter from Mrs. Cook, dated Valparaiso, Chile, in which she says the explorer is broken in health, without funds and ..*7 iu Luiiuiiiii' ma nKiii to establish his claim that he discovered the North Pole. Dr. Axtel said: "Mrs. Cook tells me in her letter that Cook made considerable money out of his trip when ho first landed in New York, but that he spent it in defending himselft against the bitter attacks from bis enemies before the Copenhagen decision was made public. Cook left New York later to escape contumely, says Mrs. Cook, and to go before the board of iquiry at Copenhagen as his own representative. Then Mrs. Cook sought him, met him in England, fwund him a nervous wreck and very ill. "She writes that it was her fault that Cook did not appear publicly at the time he was unfavorably report?d on. She says she took him to Holland, France, Itally and then to Spain, where they embarked for 3uenos Airps. "I'nom Buenos Aires they went iVOUtld Cape Horn to Chile. Cook s still very ill and will be in no conlition to take up Ills light for th* lonors which he still pays should ieen his." Dr. ^xtell added that, according to 1 he It-.'or, the explorer aud his famly I., arrive quietly in New York 1 ill* ? tie down for a quiet life "Mis. Cook says," he continued, 'that her husband has no funds with .vhich to go to the Arctic regions lfter the proofs required by the University of Copenhagen, and that f he had the necessary cash, he tniows of no one he could trest to lo the work for him." TWELVE GIHLS PERISH. in Factory Ft re Caused by Explosion of Rcnzine. Twelve persons are reported dead In a fire which attacked the I/Fish , j,? - - . IUIIHUIC i;uvi|)BU) UUMUlllg ill I'.'UU Wabash Avanue, Chicago Friday.. About 4 0 employes escaped. A girl who jumped from a third story window died at a hospital. The dead were trapped, it is said on the fourth Hfty and sixth floors, when an explosion of benzine on the fourth tloor wrapped the building in flames. Ladders were raised to the sixth [loor, the topmost one, in a desperite efTort to resuoe any person who might be alive there. The lire is said to have started 'rom an explosion of benzine in the i rei>air rooms on the fourth floor, jrobably from a carelessly dropped natch. Two cabin* t makers who it work in the repair room were imong those who escaped slightly ( jurned. When a great shheet of flame shot < icross the floor they were knocked i town, but although almost stifled j hey munag'd to crawl to the front ] itairway, whence they made their 'scape to the street below. The fire, I he said, was preceded by an explo- i don which shook the building. < < A Tug and Crew Lost. The tug Arthur B., from Tacoma o Vancouver, foundered Wednesday < tight off Frazer river lightship. Six I nen were drowned. The tug was 1 lsed in the cement and plaster car- ' ying trade between Puget sound and lriti$h Columbia ports. - < < Fifteen Drowned. The Norwegian steamer, Dixie, touiul from a Scotland port capsized n the mouth of the Elbe river, dur- 1 ng a severe storm Thursday and the rew of 15 were drawned. daggered from his arsenal. Me was dill firing his revolver. As he started to leave the car an officer shot litm in the face and a second later mother shot shattered his arm. Still draggling to thrust his revolver from his injured arm to the sound member, the man dropped dead. "In the toilet room we found nearly fifty empty cartridges, while the window was a full of holes as a pepper box. There was no way of identifying him by baggage, as we could find none. In his pocket was a memorandum book containing the name of J. If. Bethea, Dillon, S. C., aged I 10 year6.' "There were half a dozen wounds in his body. He was shot in the irm, face and shoulder. "I never saw such a scene in my life and never want to see a repetition of it. The women passengers were screaming and were so lysterical that they even attempted o Jump from the train. Even afer it was known that the murderer v?8 dead we had our hands full in 1 inietlng some of the moro nervous < n the run from Wilmington to this 1 Ity." 1 * MANY PARDONS GRANTED by the pardon board during | the Year iooo. Nearly Every Crime and County Is Represented by Those Who Received Pardons. An examination of the pardon record for the year 1909 shows that the following pardons were granted: Usra Alman?Spartanburg county; crime, manslaughter; sentence, two years imprisonment. Pardon granted August 2, 1909. Matthew Atkinson ? Darlington county; crime, drunkenness and stealing; sentence, thirty days on chaiif* gang. Pordon granted October 2, 1909. W. R. Cade?Williamsburg county; crime, murder; sentence, life imprisonment. Pardon granted April 24, 1909, upon recommendation of board of pardons. J. M. Cortex?Aiken county; crime housebreaking: Rpniorro months in the penitentiary. Pardon granted March 18, 1909. tMike Durham?Spartanburg county; crime, receiving stolen goods; sentence, fine of $60 or six months on chain gang. Pardon granted to restore to citizenship. Henry Fowler?Spartanburg county; crime manslaughter; sentence two years imprisonment. Pardon granted October 19, 1909. Ransom Gardner?Lancaster county; crime, receiving stolen goods; senteco, fine of $1,000 or two years in the penitentiary. Pardon granted to use as witness April 2 4, 1909. Joseph Green?Orangeburg county; crime, burglary and. larceny; sentence. life in penitentiary. Pardon granted Dec. 1, 1909. Gus Jackson?Fairfield county; crime, entering house with Intent to i kill; sentence, one year in the penitentiary. Pardon granted to restore to citizenhip Feb. 17, 1909. Abram Jeffords?Lexinton county; crime, burglary and larceny; sentence, life imprisonment. Pardon grant/'d Jan. 6, 1909. i Igirk Kirby?Greenville county; crime,, statutory burglary and larceny; sentence, lmpirsonment for life, but commuted to five years, Dec. 18. 1907. Pardon granted to be used as witness May 6, 1909. John Martin?Hampton county; crime, murder; sentence, imprisonment for life. Pardon granted April 24. 1909. unon rWnmmpnriotinn of board of pardons. John Priestley?Oconee county; crime, manslaughter; sentence, 15 years 1n the penitentiary. Pardon grantn^d October 19, 1909, upon recommendation of board of pardons. Robert Robinson?Greenwood county; "rime, .petit larceny; sentence. 30 days Imprisonment. Pardon granted to restore to citizenship, Oct. 18, 1909. Shelly Robinson ? Orangeburg county; crime, housebreaking and larceny; sentence, three months on chain gang. Pardon granted to restore to citizenship, August 10, 1909. (Walter Samuels?Edgefield county; crime, rape; aenetnee, .life in th$ penitentiary. Pardon granted October 19, 1909, upon recommendation of the board of pardons. Eige Simpson?Newberry county; prime, receiving stolen goods: sent? nee, pay a fine of $:!0. Pardon 1 granted to restore to citizenship. ; December 6, 1909. 1 Robert Singletary?Florence coun- s ;.v; crime, obtaining goods under false pretences, sentence . Parion granted to restore to citizenship October 15, 1909. Samuel Smalls, George Simmons, Thomas Rivers?Charleston county; prime, rape; sentence, life in the penitentiary. Pardon granted April 24, 1909, upon recommorninUnn ?* - board of pardons. ^ H. N. Terry?Greenville county: t crime, bastardy; sentence, three hundred dollars fine to be paid twentyfive dollars each year for twelve. < Pardon granted October 19, 1909. ( S. C. Timer?Spartanburg county; 1 crime. manslaughter; sentence three < years imprisonment. Pardon grant- < ed April 8, 1909. < lllic Thompson?Barnwell county; s crime, housebreaking and larceny; < sentence, 18 months on chain gang. < Pardon granted to restore to citizen- i ship for witnessing July 15, 1909. K. S. Villepigue?Kershaw coun- ] ty; crime, obtaining money uiuh r < false pretences; sentece, fine impos- 1 ed by magistrate. Pardon granted to restore to citizenship March 17, 1909. William Westmoreland?I^xlngton county; crime, adultery; sen- < tence, Arte, which has been paid. | Pardon granted to restore to citizen- , snip. * , ? Incendiary Sentenced. I For having twice set fire to tene- | niont houses in New York, where i dwelt a married woman who repuls- I ed his advanoes, Daniel Roe. convict- 1 od of arson in the first degree, must < serve twenty years and one month in t the penitentiary, lie is twenty-eight years old. 1 todies From Wreck. I Two unidentified bodies, a life c buoy marked I'rinz Willem II, sev 1 ?ral oars and much miscellaneous f wreckage were washed ashore at t Belle Isle, France, last Wednesday. \ j ' I THEY RAN HIM DOWlT" MAN WHO SWINDLED PEOPL.E IN ] THIS STATE CAVGHT At Oklahoma City, Okla., Wore He ' Wjis Kunning a Bigger Swindle * iimii in iireenwooa. A special from Greenwood to The News and Courier says Postoflice In- | spector Gregory, who went to Oklahoma to arrest \V. J. Nicholls, former president of the Metropilitan Loan and Trust Company, has returned after having performed his part of the business in locating the man, arresting him and having the Federal authorities there "put next." Inspector Gregory's report of the trail and final capture of Nicholls, as well as the varied career of Nicholls. himself, reads like a romance, When located in Oklahoma City, Nicholls, now going as "Mr. C. L. Jackson," was n't the head of a concern that was doing about the biggest business in that hustling community. He had an office like a railroad president, and Mr. Gregory said he had seventeen stenographers, young mien and young women as busy as bees. His oncern was alread attract- , ing attention from Uncle Sam's men. , and Federal district attorney there told Mr. Gregory that as soon as the ' time was ripe he would have been t uabhed. , He was "selling the right to sell the right to sell," a certain kind of ( stove, a sort of endless clinin con- ( tract business. No provision was miade as to seeing how or where the j stoves could be secured but the f right to sell the right was what . Jackson was doing. It was the wash- ) ing machine swindle attempted in i this State some years ago with stoves v substituted for washing machines. g "Mr. Gregory said when he called t on Nicholls he had no little trouble 8 in getting into his private office. c When he finally reached it, he found j his attorney there, and his private stenographer also present. He ask- , ed Nicholls or Jackson for a few c words in private, and was told to go ahead as the other two were in a confidential relation. ., Mr. Gregory insisted, so these two j finally returned to an adjoining room s ami then Mr. Gregory addressed him t as Nicholls, and asked about Green- t wood. Jackson was quite indignant j it the joke, and carriet his nart out well, until Mr. Gregory showed him ( his own photo, and he saw the jig t was up. He trembling all over, Mr. t Gregory said, although he still stout- t ly denied that his name was other j than C. L. Jackson. T As an indication of what a rushing business Nlcholls was doing in selling j the right to sell the right to sell a t stove that needed no right to Bell a j hardware man at Oklahoma City c told Mr. Gregory that Nicholls r had paid him ten thousand dol- | lars cash for a lot of stoves to be ^ used by his demonstrators. People ? love to be swindled. t * * r GONE TO SEE TEDD1E. f li And Talk Over l'ii#ty Troubles in the 1 s Party Hanks. li It is said in Washington on the best of authority that both Garfield ind Pinchot wrote letters to Roosecelt at Khartum, telling him of the lad occurrences there under the leadership of Taft. They told Roosevelt that if he wished it one of them jitlier Garfield or Pinchot would p neet him in Europe and give him ( "urther particulars. Roosevelt cabled to them to come. ^ 3-arfield was to go. but owing to the ? Jaio government matter Pinchot f< vent. Now what docs it mean? "All > Washington" is speculating upon s hat question. > Hack from Elba? Is that it? H Mr. Taft is now squarely allign- G with the so-called "reactionaries" t >f the Republican party, those who li tave all along been fighting the so- s Milled "Roosevelt policies"?the G M?ntral idea of which, as we all tin- ii lerstand, is to stay the threatening t itorni of wrath against the alliance if the Republican party with "prelato-y wealth." The same man that wade these "policies" made also Mr. ^ raft, and promised the American people that Taft would carry them int. Now what is he going to do when he gets back here? Echo answers "what"? 1 G I .ft Tl.o... II Ikies the man who sends to a mail d nrder house ever take into account t the cost of postage, expressage*and p nther expenses involved in placing an c Drder and getting it filled? Does s lie also take into account the vexa- ii ions delays he often meets, and the li probability that what ho bought Is t not in quality and other features f that which he expected it to be? n When a man buys of his local mer? h ihant he knows what he is getting tnd he does not have to wait for it Will Meet Teddy. o In responce to a cablegram from T 'ormer President Roosevelt it be- p :ame known Tuesday that Clifford d Pinchot, the deposed chief forester h tailed from New York Saturday on n he steamer President Grant, and fl vill meet Roosevelt in London. si ?L,-. ? ? -1 LOCKS GCCD TO HEM HECK XT ELECTION RETURNS PLEASES DEMOCRATS. The Election in Massachusetts Tuesday Turned Out lletter Tliiui the One in Missouri. Zaeh McGhee says the Democrats in Washington are jubilant over the results of the by-elections in Missouri and Massachusetts. The Missouri district, the one formerly represented by the lato David A. 7 ? Armond, is taken as a typical Midd.e Western district. In it the Democratic candidate made large gains in the election in c January. Now in Massachusetts, In v the most hide-hound Republ'rau d's- j trict of all New England, 0110 never c in ciuiui c hlluwii lt> go UOP'OCrattC. q not even in the Cleveland landslide, v has been changed from 14,000 lie- j publican majority to 6,000 Democrat ^ ic majority. r In each of these district tne ta"- a Iff and the Republican ring rale wer > j the issues. Mr. L?lody, the chairman c of the Democratic congressional j committee, who went up there last week, came back with the }p?nion 0 that there would be Democratic gains v and declaring that if the 14,000 lie- r publican majority should bo cut n lown to 6,000 It publican major ty he Democrats would be doing mighty s well and should be highly satisfied c When the returns came In Tues- s lay night, with 12,000 more Dciua ratlc votes than Mr. Lloyd had c ounted on, there was jollification c ndeed and the Republican w?re avie a stricken. The Republicans do not r vretend to minimize the significance, n >ut frahkl.v admit that the situal'o.i a s omninous of a Democratic tidal n vave n November, unless it can be stayed. They generally stay these w hreatening tidal waves, you know; n end they may be able to stay tbH p >ne; but they are wearing exceed- f, ngly gloomy faces. f, The whole political situation gets jj nore and more Interesting every lay. On Capital hill the Democrats n ire standing together in solid phal- v snx, and, contrary to the usual habit, a ire saying mighty little. The breach jt n the Republican ranks shows no j,signs of healing. Not even the hreat of Democratic victory seems Q o frighten either faction into mak- w ng overtures to the other. tl The Cannon or organization men n the house are disconserted, it is ^ rue, and all the insurgents are sure n >f it that they have strengthened w heir own individual position at a lome by finding a scape goat in Canion for the sins of their party. ^ r But these same insurgents have ^ ittle spirit in any further attacks t< ipon their organization. The victory (j ast week, so far as they are conlernecl, is a sort of Borodino. They nay have captured Moscow by it >ut are so disabled as to be unable (J o hold it. And it looks as if they ire going to let Cannon dominate ^ he rules committee after all. The t| egttlar Republicans, or the Cannon orces, are counting on Mr. Taft to ^ iclp them out, if not in the house, t| hen in the country, and Mr. Taft t) cents in truth to be doing all in u lis power to fulfill the expectation. * n not;i s bonus rr fevada Legislature Is Anxious to M In Take Them I'p. A special dispatch to the Citaratto Observer front Raleigu says Governor Kitchin received a tele raphic request from the Go-'eri.or f Nevada asking for all pos31.de inormation regarding the repudiated lorth Carolina special tax bonds, ^ onto of which have been offered levada in order to induce that tate to site North Carolina '1 lie 111 lovernor of Nevada says lie declines r? accept the bonds, but the l.egis- " ature is trying to force hint to do o. Governor Kitchin and Attorney leneral Bickitt sent him a mass of nforination showing how fraudulent ' he bonds were. _ _ a AXOTIIKK FATAL SIMM?TI\(i. c< * 3| 'linton liluxlcn S'mt to la-atli lij \V. It. tilenn on Street. A fatal shooting took place at x, latesburg on Thursday when \V. It. ilenn, superintendent of the electric iglit plant, shot Clinton Rhoden, to loath, on one of the main streets of 11 lie town. The weapon used was a ct dstol; four shots were fired, and tr. ach shot took effect. One witness si tat> (I that Rhoden was unarmed. It \v ? stated that there had been bad lo ilood between the men for some ti line. Much sympathy is expressed hi ui an iKtnics riiiiirriU'U, as eacn CI ian has a largo family. The affair p| as cast gloom over the town. ai ? ? ? in Maple Sap Kills Flames. gi Maplesap saved the Mazing houso in f George Fall at Pharsalia, N. Y., to 'hursdny nigiit. According to diaatches receive, Fall was boiling own the sap when the roof of his h< ou80 caught fire. His cries brought A eighl>ors who quickly put out the er re with several hundred quarts of pf ap from the storago tank. ^ th % j FATAL WRECK limy Chief of Staff Seriously Injured in Aoto Crash. unc Pi nnru in m * rnno. outturn id MLLbU V Trolley far and an Automobile ^ Crash in Washington, by Wliicb Mrs. Herbert .1. Slocum Loses Her Life and (Jen. .1. F. Bell was Very Seriously Injured. Maj. Gen. J. Franklin Bell, chief f staff of the United States army, vho was injured early Wednesday n Washington In an automobile acident, in which Mrs. Herbert J. Sloum, wife of Maj. Slocuir., U. S. A., vas almost instantly killed, was re>orted at a late hour that night to e. resting comfortably. One of his lbs was broken and he suffered somo icalp wounds but no internal inuries have been discovered and no omplications of any sort have set n. Maj. Slocum, who Is a member f the Seventh Cavalry, now stationd at Governor's Island, N. Y.. arived in Washington Wednesday light. The accident was caused by a outh bound trolley car of the Wisonsin avenue car line, near Teukirts of the city, colliding with an utomohile owned by Gen. Bell. The ar was occupied by Mrs. II. J. Sloum, aged 50 years, Mrs. 11. L. Green nd Gen. Bell. Mrs. Slocum, who eceived internal injuries, was retoved to Georgetown hospital in an utomohile, where she was proounced dead. Chauffeur Ward was unhurt, but as soon arrested, together with the totorman and ootuluctor of the trol?y car. They were latter released rom custody, however, on orders rom Coroner Nevitt, who instructed, hem to appear at the inquest. Mrs. Slocum, whose husband is u ephew of Mrs. Russell Sage, was isiting her sister, Mrs. 11. L. Green, t the Wyoming, a department house i Washington, but Tuesday went bo 'ort Myer to visit Mr. and Mrs. Bell, ith whom she and her husband were n terms of intimate friendship. It ms on the way liack to the Wyoming hat the fatal collision occurred. The Tennallytown road, oillcially nown as Wisconsin Avenue, runs orth from Georgetown through the 'esternly environs of the city, and is favorite route for automobiles, rossing the Georgetown bridge from 'ort Mvor v* a - * 1 mi iiirneci loriti ^ lto Wisconsin avenue and was about 3 turn easterly along the northerly oundary of the city when at Gareld street the collision occurred. The fast moving trolley car, when tie two came together, completely emolished the automobile. Tho utomohile was hurled about five jet against a trolley pole. It finally timed over. General Il? 11 was thrown out. ,'ard was pinned under the front of ic car, but managed to extricate imself. Mrs. Slocum was crushed nder the body of the car. llleedig about the hands and head. Gen. ell directed the passengers on the ir and others in lifting the autolobile from the injured woman, rs. Slocum was then hurried to tho DSpltal. llKATIN'G \ 111 UK. ^ alls From Moving Train anil la ( round to I'llath. While beating his way on a freight ain Wednesday afternoon Charlea nekaliill of Lexington. N. C.. hetr known as "Clad", Ml under the <?ving train and was cut in two I ross the stomach, dying almost inantly. The accident happened in the istern part of ThoinuRvillc, a short stance above the cllege. No particulars further are known tin* killing. Ijockahiil has a wife J id four small children. He was brick mason by trade and was cindered a good peaeahle fellow. e? | pt. at times he would get on a ?ree. SHOOTS DOWN' Ot \KI>S. ' .rtaiiy Wounds Wardens at City Workhouse. I At Wilmington, Del., Stephen unter, a negro prisoner at the Newistle WOrkllOHse. who rncAnlU vmuo ? Delaware from South Carolina. iot and fatally wounded two guards 'alter Hastings and Thomas McCulugh. The negro struck down Has* tigs as the latter handed him his eakfast through the roll door. Seiring the guard's revolver he emled two shots Into Hasting s body I id then dropped McCullough, who 1 id come to the rescue. The ne- # I o was himself wounded before be- I g overcome. His mind Is believed I i have become deranged M Poetry read recently in the Ok la- $3 ima senate nearly caused a fight. 9| pparently the period of gentle tol- fl atlon and pity for the versifier has issed away from the confines of fl at State.