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SOLVED AT LAST ?*? The Mysterious Disappearance of a Little Girl Cleared Up. BODY FOUND IN CELLAR Of St. Joseph's Catholic School, at '4 Louisville, Ky., Where the Victim Lived With Her Parents When She Disappeared a Few Months Ago Suddenly. That Alma Kellner, the eight-yearold daughter of Fred L. Kellner. of Louisville, K>\, was murdered and not kidnapped. waB proven Monday when her mutilated and diBmembered body was found in the cellar of St. John's Catholic School, at Clay and Walnut streets, scarcely five blockB from her home. The mystery surrounding the girl's disappearance, on December 8 last, completely baffled the police, and notwithstanding a search in all paits of the United States and Canada, no tidings of her whereabouts was received until about 10 o'clock Monday morning, when a plumber, searching for a leak in the basement of the Bchool, discovered the body. The detectives are working on the theory that the girl was murdered in the vicinity of the school, and after attempts had been made to burn the laxly it was surreptitiously buried in the sub-cellar and quick lime used to disintegrate the flesh. Every bone in the childs body was broken and the skull was crushed and charred, showing that the attempt to burn the body, if such was made had been interrupted or the perpetrator of the crime had changed his mind regarding its disposition. The finding of the body has aroused intense excitement and a large crowd surrounded the school all day. The child's mother has not yet seen the body, but after she recovered from a collapse, she merely said: "I Lave been relieved." The toTso was found wrapped In a piece of carpet, save for one limb, which was later discovered In a corner of the cellar aud buried in the clay floor of tho basement to a depth of perhaps three feet. The leak in the water pipe, the cause of which has not yet been learned, had caused the water to flow until tho floor was covered to a depth of three feet. The scene of the discovery is only five blocts from the Kellner home, and the school tvdjoins St. Johns church, where the Kellner family worsh/lped. The body was very badly decomposed. and had probaibly been in th e basement Ave months. It was to attend services at St. John's church on the morning of December 8 laBt, that Alma left home about a quarter before 9, and seen a few moments later as she neared St. John's by a druggist, who noticed her stopping for a moment to play with a cat which was sitting in the window of his store. The durggist was the last known person to sec the child alive. The police are looking for Joseph Wendllng, former janitor at St. John's Church, who since January 14. a little more than a month after the disappearance of the Kellner child, has been missing. Mrs. Lena Wendllng, wife of the missing man and housekeeper for Father Schumann, pastor of St. John'B Church. Is under surveillance. In a sworn Btatement made before Capt. Carney, chief of detectives. Mrs. Wendling admitted washing muddy clothes of her husband shortly after the disappearance of the Kellner girl. The detectives have these clothes, trousers, shirt and .hat. and declare there are still blood stains on them. Wendling is described by the detectives as being 27 years of age, about 5 feet 10 inches in height, weight about 160 pounds, a small black moustache and dark -hair and eyes. 'Mrs Wendling is 4 2. A little more than a year ago Wendling was arrested and fined for improper conduct with a young girl. Wendllng's parents live at Genlis, Cote d'Or, France. According to the wife's statement to Capt. Carney, Wendling was a deserter from the French army. Father Schumann said he had learned since Wendllng's disappearance that .he had left several positions without notice. His departure from the church was a surprise to the priest. HETFKIl BROUGHT BIG PRICE. Cattle Raising In South Carolina Proves Profitable. South Carolina's place in the cattle raising industry is shown in the sale in New York recently at the Cooper's cattle sale of a 14-monthe' heifer for $1,150. The heifer was grown near Columbia. "Emincnts Nameless" out of "Golden-ferns Nameless" by Eminents Goldenrnont Lad." a bull from Mr. Thomas Taylor's cuttle farm, was the heifer which sold for $325 more than her mother sold for at the same sale. The mother. "t>oldenf<M-ns Nameless." brought $825, and the 14* months' heifer brought $1,150. This shows the progress of cattle raising In South Carolina. / HELP THE GOOD WORK THE GLEAN SPORTS LEAGUE OP THE CAROLINAS. Has Been Carefully Organized and Arrangements Made to Put It Into Effective Operation. The Clean Sports League of the CarolinaB has been carefully organized and elaborate arrangements have been made to put Into operation an effective working machinery. This organization will have no legislative power per se but will direct its efforts along educational lines. The headquarters are in the Y. M. C. A. building. Charleston. It has been organized to popularize athletic sports and to improve the standard of athietic activities, bo as to harmonize them with the hlgb purpose of educatlor and good citizenship. "Sport ?c: sport's sake" is its motto. In 1909 one hundred and nineteen professional players of the National League were suspended for rowdyism and other ofTences. Undoubtedly many offences were overlooked. Similarly in amateur ranks there is a continual violation of rules and principles which reflects upon our boast of being true sportsmen. Amateurs too often do things they hope will not come to lieht. Frequently spectators and rooters are unjust in their actions not always in accord with what is known to be right. The Clean Sports League of the Carolinias is an educational organization composed of the leading colleges and Y. M. C. A.'s of the Carolinas. It is endorsed by the? 1. Southern Inter-Collegiate Association. 2. Athletic League of North America. 3. South Carolina Inter-Collegiate Association. 4. Carolina Federation of Y. M. C. A.'s. r. a - a I. Vyiiai It'oiuil AillttU-UI AlUICllt Federation. The following adopted eode of ethics is simple?fair to the individual to the large as well as to the small colleges, schools or other organizations. It appeals to the manhood in man. and all lovers of clean sport are asked to support it. 1. Both the home team and the home town should treat the visiting team as a guesv. 2. Both players and spectators should recognize good playB of the visiting team by suitable cheering. 3. Players should play ball fair and be good losers. 4. The umpire and referee have difficult tasks to perform. Spectators should accord them their moral support. The players should extend them hearty thanks as they leave the field. f>. Condemn all use of profane language on the field. Lists will be circulated in every town in the Caroliuas, and every man and every boy big enough to swing a bat is requested to add bis signature, with the understanding that an honest effort will be made to live up to these principles. Such action will add greatly to the pleasure and dignity of athletic activtles of the Carolines. KILLED BY IlVKHTIXti TIRE. Flying Inner Tube Almost Severs Alan's Howl from Body. While seated on an embankment near his .home at Marcus Hook, Pa., watching his brother-in-law, Charles Guyer, pump air Into the tires of his automobile, Frank D. Marshall, aged 4 f? years, was struck in the face by he Inner tube of the tire, which exploded with a loud report. The tire cut his face horizontally across the bridge of his nose and It was found necessary to tie up his head to keep hi? feature in act. He died within ten minutes after the accident and before he could be taken to the hospital. The accident was witnessed by he dead man's wife, who was standing in the doorway of Jier home. Ml'RUKR HAND SENTENCED. Twenty-Nine Men to Die for Their Crimes in Russia. Penalties of death or life Imprisonment have been meted out at St. Petersburg, Russia, to the youthful band of men and women, who for eignieen montns (luring 1307-08 committed a series of murders and robbdries that terrorized the reaidenta of a considerable territory. Twenty-nine men, aged from 18 to 2F? years, were aentenced to death. Eight women escaped hanging because of their sex, but were aentenced to imprisonment for life. Three Were Killed. When a northbound freight train on the Mobile and Ohio railroad was wrecked Monday, near Scooba, Miss., three men lost their lives, considerable property was damaged and several are reported injured. Thirty Suicides in May. \vith jo Jay to be heard from, i the n ?n:i: \of May contributed n ; Kb ??'* record of 80 suicides in ! Philadelphia. LAST HOPE GONE PINK FRANKLIN LOSES HIS CASE AND Wild, HANG. The United States Supreme Court Has No Jurisdiction in the Case and Dismisses It. Pink Franklin, the South Carolina negro, whose conviction for the murder of Special Constable Valentine led to an attack on the so-called labor contract laws of the South, will suffer the death penalty, according to the decision Tuesday of the supreme court of the United States. ' It was claimed by Franklin that i the constable came to his home at night and entered without announc- i ing himself as an officer of the law. It was while in Franklin's cabin that ' Valentine was mortally wounded by I a shot. Former Attorney General Bona- < parte became Interested in the case and after the negro lawyers for the condemned man had appealed the case to the supreme court of the United States, Mr. Bonaparte filed a brief in Franklin's behalf. He contended that Franklin had a right to resist arrest, which was sought to be made on a warrant issued under an Unconstitutional law. This law was the so-called "labor contract law," which provided that agricultural laborers under contract to work were guilty of misdemeanors if they break their contracts after receiving wages in advance, Mr. Bonaparte denounced this law as an attempt to reduce the negroes of the South to captivity. Justice Day, in announcing the decision said the court could inquire only into federal questions. He said the question of resistance of arrest under an unconstitutional law was not raised in time in the State court. Mr. Bonaparte's connection with /.nn? ...nn ? ? Mic i nri- \\iin I WIIUIICU IU lilt" IlllUg OI a brief for the defense. Soon after 1 his brief was filed, the two negro lawyers for Franklin announced that Mr. Bonaparte was not of counsel in the case. Jacob Moorer, one of Franklin's lawyers, said that Mr. Bonaparte had been employed by rich negroes in Philadelphia, without any knowledge i of the two who had taken the case up to the supreme court of the United States. MEETS DEATH ON TRACK. Two Young Men Run Over and Killed by a Train. Shuford Abernethy was instantly killed and Robert Hodges perhaps fatally injured by westbound through freight No. 75 at Brldgewater, N. C., Monday evening at 8 o'clock. Two trains, 72 and 75, were to pass at Brldgewater. Abernethy and Hodges were walking along the Bidetrack, keeping out of the way of train No. 72 on the main line, and evidently did not see train 75 as it rushed upon them. Abernethy was frightfully mangled and was doubtless killed instantly. One of Hodges' feet was cut off and he is otherwise seriously injured, nut there 1b a fighting chance for his recovery, CUPID GOT HEAL BUSY. And Captured All the Lady "Tearhers in a School. A triple wedding occurred at Westminister on Tuesday. Miss Eva Martin of Cross Hill married Hurt Mitchell, a prominent Westminister merchant; Miss Gussie Harper, of Clinton married A. W. Kathem. a progressive farmer of West mister; Miss Augusta Smithson of Westminister married I)r. Samuel C. Moon, a popular Westminister physician. The ceremony occurred at two o'clock and the thr*e couples boarded No. 38 going to Asheville for their honeymoon. The three brides were teach- ' ers the past session in the Westminister high school. This is l>elieved to be the first time on record when Cupid has invaded a school and captured the entire teaching force with the exception of the superintendent, who in this instance is already married. SOI/ONS liOHE THIK JONS. Vooxltr All AUK. * ? ' - I ??a / iiii mnimiiwi IA*^PH* Ii<*ft at Home. A 'MontgomTy dispatch says showing. it is claimed, the reversion of sentiment since the last legislature, which enacted the State-wide prohibition and other laws, only eleven men out of the 105 composing the Alabama Legislature will be returned to office. This fact developed Monday in t.he first official compilation of names of the new solons. Two preachers were nominated in the re-1 cent primaries and will be elected. In three counties the Democrats put no candidates forward, and the Hepublican nominees will be elected without opposition. I/ong Itallot. It is said an eight-foot ballot will be required in the State election in South Dakota next November, ow ing to the large number of measures 1 to be voted on under the initiative and referendum. . * KILLED THE PRIEST WHO HAD HAD CRIMINAL RELATIONS WITH HIS WIFE. Before Killing the Guilty Priest, the Outraged Husband Killed His Wife After She Confessed. At South St. Paul. Minn., J. P. Gibbons, a live stock comission man, shot and killed his wife at their home in that city. A few minutes later Gibbons rang the door bell at the residence of Father E. J. Walsh, ! the young pastor of St. Augustine's ( Roman Catholic church, and as the , door was opened Gibbons fired two shots into the priest's head, killing him almost instantly. Gibbons wus arrested and brought to St. Paul, as 1 there had been talk of lynching at South St. Paul, where the priest was 1 popular. At the jail Gibbons said his wife had made a confession in which * she used the name of Father Walsh. "It is a peculiar world, looking at it from my angle," he said. "I've ' viewed it in several ways and don't 1 know much about it yet. I had a wife once who did not care for me but liked the companionship of others. "When Father Walsh came to South St. Paul I was jubilant. Il< appeared such a nice fellow and I went to him and volunteered what support was in my power to give him. He thanked me and w e became fast friends. Then followed a game of treachery and deceit?a game that 1 was not in on, yet deeply interested in. i uan invuea earner waisn to my homo and introduced him to my wife. Whenever he called a box of cigars were at his disposal. Mind you, they were not the brand I smoked, but much better. "The calls of Father Walsh were becoming too frequent to please me. He appeared at my home afternoons when I was at my office, and spent several hours in the company of Mrs. Gibl*ons. Sometimes my children were present, but more often were not. "I said nothing to my wife, never mentioning that I thought anything of the frequent visits. I had planned my little game, which worked so successfully." Gibbons has lived in South St. T'aul for twenty-five years. For a ?*-g time he was chief of police. GOING FH)H HIS RECORDS. Explorer Cook Getting Rejwly to Go to Greenland. The New York American says the mystery of the whereabouts of Dr. Frederick A. Cook has been solved. He is in Scotland preparing fer his trip to Etah, whence he plans to bring back his records of his disoovery of the North Pole and his instruments which are cached there. He also intends to bring back the two Esqulmo boys who accompanied him on his dash to the North Pole. Chester Beecroit, of Pelham Manor, N. Y.. has announced that he will Bail from Etah on June 15 with the Bernier expedition to the Arctic in the hope of finding the record, which Dr. Frederick A. Cook left in the North. DIED WHILE RAISING FLAG. Flag Wire Got (Yoosod With a IJve Electric iWre. The patriotism of John Gleriow- i ski, a middle aged Polander, has cost him his life. While trying to hoist the Stars and Stripes for Memorial Day on the roof of Turner Hall, in Glendale. Pa., a copper wire, on which the flag was strung, came in contact with a live light wire. The shock which travelled to Gierlowskt knocked him down, and entangled him in the flag and wire, he rolled to the ground, thirty-five feet below. He died half an hour later, either from the electric shock or the injuries received in the fall. GRIPPED BY FIERCE BLIZZARD. j Damage Done by Storm in I>akc Su- | perior Section. A 6pecial to the Detroit News from Calumet says that Lake Superior and the surrounding; country are in the grip of a fierce blizzard, with .high northerly winds and a heavy snow. All boats are seeking ports of refuge from the gale. A heavy sea is running-all along the southern coast. No boats are reported within reach of the wireless. Wire and train service are practically demoralized. Lived Without Work. The only man in Indiana who could live without working, Thomas Fields, died at Hartford City. Ind., last week. He was a waif in New York and 55 years ago was shipped West. He was honest, sober and lazy and bummed his meals for over half a century. Blew Open Safe. The state bank of Unity. Wis., was robbed Tuesday of $2,000, the safe of the bank being dynamited. The robbers escaped. The bank was established in 1005 with a capital of $10,000. ^ t % HYATT IN THE RACE MAKES FORMAL ANNOUNCEMENT OF HIS CANDIOACY. SUt<* That There Should be 1'olitics and More Effort to liun Matters Along Husiness IJdca. (F. H. Hyatt, of Columbia, one of the State's best known and most successful business men, has announced his candidacy for governor of the Stafp ; Ti orinnnnoino- V>? a.. IUC v anuiuut) of Mr. Hyatt the Columbia State says: , "With the announcement that Mr. Hyatt intends to "make the race is t (he opening of a campaign along dif- j ferent lines from that of any other candidate in the run for gubernato- ^ rial honors. 'A business man's government,' is Mr. Hyatt's slogan for J the race and in hiB platform he says: "As a business man my chief aim. if plected, will be conduct a State I * government along business lines.' j The following is the platform: "1 beg to announce my candidacy for j t-he offlct of governor, subject to the decision of the Democratic voters of the State. Campaign promises are ( easily made. My purpose is. if elected. to give the people a plain, honest ' and business-like administration. Of cours ', 1 shall advocate good roads, good schools and good government: my attitude to the same being well known to the public for many years j "1 consistently advocated prohibition and was among the first to give money and lend influence to push ( that movent' nt more thar. twenty years ago. As a business man my ' chief aim. if elected, will be to eon- ( duct a State government along business lines." F. H. Haytt has been associated j with Columbia's and South Carolina's 1 interests for many years. He has lived in Columbia since the beginning of hitc business career and as manager of the Mutual Life Insur- 1 ance company for this State has be- ' oome known throughout South Caro- ( lina. For ten years Ire has been 1 president of the CJood Itoads associa- ! tion and had advocated good roads 1 even at a time when the general movement had not thought of being launched. He built th<- first mnca- 1 rl.iv** 4 ~ * ' uc*in i\ nu in ivivii i(i iiii ruiuny. In the Southern Cotton association ' alon.g with E. I). Smith, now United 1 States senator. Mr. Hyatt was a con- I spicious figure in t.he successful ef- 1 forts to secure higher prices tor cot- ' ton for the tarniers of the State. Several years ago he was urged to ' enter the race. 1 "Recently." said Mr. Hyatt, "the ' sentiment has been very strong for a {candidate to enter the race on . such a platform as I have entered, t T.he question of sale of liquors in 1 South Carolina is, apparently, doom- t ed to a second rate place in the cam- i paign issues. Good roads, education t and like matters are likely to attract the attention of the voters in . the approaching campaign more so < than the much mooted whiRkey ques- , fion, in the opinion of many who ( have closely followed the situation i in this State." RAYS THEY ARE ALRIGHT. Supreme <>?urt Upholds Jim Crow Car law. An attempt to have t-he Supreme Court of the United States pass on the authority of common carriers in inter-state commerce to make "Jim Crow" regulation met with failure on Tuesday when the Court dismissed the so-called Chiles appeal from its docket. The question arose in a suit which .1 Alexander Chiles, a necro. tirnuaht suit for damages against the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company. Chiles bought a through ticket from Washington, I>. C., to Lexington, Ky. At Ashland, Ky., all the passengers except those in a sleeper were required to take other coaches. Over the objection of a brakeman, be insisted on riding in a coach set aside for white passengers. He was compelled by the conductor to go into the coach for colored persons. In the suit for damages tJie railroad relied on the defence that it had acted in conformity with its regulations. The supreme court of Kentucky found these regulations in regard to the seperate coaches for the two races to be reasonable. Inasmuch as Chiles had been furnished accommodations equal to those provided for white passengers, according to the trial jury, a verdict was rendered for the railroad company. From this Chiles appealed. The Supreme <. niMnwwi Vw. i unit <11111 in v. u uif n *v loii/ii i^i tut; | State Court. Dry Dock Wm Sunk. A Manila dispatch says the examination of the United States dry dock Dewev has strengthened the belief of those of the navy who have held that the damage was done deliberately by conspirators against the government. Could Not (let Work. Albert Hetts, aged 67, despondent over not heing able to get employment, committed suicide in Greenville on Tuesday by drinking carbolic acid. He left a note stating his reason for the act. . * MANY IN RACE For the Different Offices (o be Filled ii This State This Fall. READ OVER THE NAMES Others May Fnter latter, an Om First Campaign Meeting Will Not IW Held Until the Twenty-Heeoad nf #Hn IhiAfnn* %,rl- *** ?. vv < .->tm .iiuhiii, it urn iiu Pled tics Will He Piled. Candidates for state and congresdonal offices are beginning to pop >ut lively with the near approach >f t.he county-to-county sptech-mahng tour, which opens on June 22, tlthouiah the candidates are not -ushing forward yet to- get in their hedges and checks with Chairman iones. Surprises may be looked for therefore in the nature of "dark horses** ind other kinds of entries up to he very hour of noon on the 21st, which is the last minute in which a candidate may get in the race, Chairman Jones firing t.he starting ;un at that minute. There are going to be several r< ry lively races for state offices and some entertaining little congressional scrap on t.he side, all the congressional men having opposition with the possible exception of J. T. Johnson in the fourth district. Th-re are now six candidates in ihe held for governor, all definite announcement and all working hard :o get their organizations in good trim. These are C. C. Featherstone of Laurens, John G. Richards, Jr., of Kershaw and F. II. Hyatt of Columthia, all advocating prohibition. Cole. L. Hlease of Newberry and Thomas G. McLoed of Hishopvllle, Tor different sorts of local option, and Editor John T. Duncan of The to I untihia Reporter. Mr. Duncan has aot yet announced his platform, but ways he Iwas definitely C^cf'-.l to nake the race. For lieutenant governor, C. A. Smith of Tlmmonsville, one of the int.nors of the house prohibition bill, will be opposed by E. W. Duvall, a nember of the house of representaives from Chesterfield, a banker ar.d resident of the state association of *etail hardware dealers, and possibly y M. S. Connor of Dorchester. The secretary of state the incum>ent, R. M. McCown of Florence, wiH e oppossed by J. M. Moss of Wallalla. So far as can be learned W. A. tones ha? no oppossition for comproller general, and state treasurer R. H. Jennings and state superin:en?lent of education Swearinger are n a similarly happy situation?for he present. "At present J. Fraser Lyon is unopposed for Attorney General. B?^peaker of the house. M. L. Smith of fitmden had intended running for the office. but that was in !he event that Mr. Lyon became a candidate for .governor, a thing Mr. Lyon has decided positively n it t?? .lo For adjutant general there are four candidates, and possibly time will be others. liie four pns.tivulr announced and actively at work are the incumbent, Gen. J. C. lloyd, his assistant, Col. W. T. Htock, Ca.it. J M. Richardson of Aiken an.l MaJ. Charles Newsham of Colunt.iU. 'For railroad commissi >.:er th? son of a United States senator, G. MpPuffle Hampton, is trying to succeed the son of a United States senator, -Maj. John H. Karle, whose father. Judge J. H. Karle, succeeded Gen. Wade Hampton. Mr. Kine, however, will not offer for re-election. Other candidates for the place ave James Can/.ler of Tirzah, ex-Mayor G. Heyward Malum of Greenville. and Representative O. C. Scarborough of Clarendon. T.he present congressmen from this state are: From the First district. Ceo. S. Ia?gare; Second, J. O. Patterson; Third, Wyatt Aiken; Fourth, J. T. Johnson; Fifth, I). Pi. Finley; Sixth, J. E. EUerbe; Seventh. A. F. Lever. The present line-up of those looking for these gentleman's honors and salaries looks like this: First district, J. H. Lesene, of Manning. Second district. Solictor J. F. Byrns, of Aiken, and C. VV. Harris, of Bamberg, former railroad coromissiom r and present member of the house of representatives. Third district. Solicitor Julius R. Bor-'gs, of CJreenville, and Dickens and Rev. Coke D. Mann of Oconee, member of the board of trustees of Clem son. Fourth district, ex-State Senator T. B. Butler or CJaffney, and Solicitor J. K. Henry, of Chester. Fifth district. State Senator T. I. Rogers; P. A. Hodges, former financial agent for Columbia college; e*State Senator \V. A. Brown, of I>ar lington and ex-Representative Bee R. Sellars of Sellars. Sixth district, Dr. W. W. Ray, of Richland. It is predicted that trolley fir en must rise, but as almost everyone tele that they can afford automobiles, what do we care?