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* h CLOSES SESSION hrastifatinf Coaaittea Appointed By Both fUases at Last Hour. GRAVE ACCUSATIONS Hrpcakpr and Vice President Appoint (X>mmitte?c? to Go Into An Alleged Attempt to llribe Senator Gore of . _ f Oklahoma.?rajrw Kstimates |4,? 000,000 Has Been Saved. Each house of congress Saturday night marked its closing hours by voting for an Investigation of the Mc^Iurray Indian contracts. Instead of the usual scene of comparatively undignified relaxation from the business of legislation, both houses devoted exceedingly serious attention to the charges of attempted bribery and other forms of improper influence made In the senate Friday by Senator Gore of Oklahoma and subsequently lu the house by Representative Murphy of Missouri. Two Beperate investigations are provided for?one In each house. Kach body pass*Ml a resolution creating a select committee of five members to pursue the Inquiry to the bottom during recess of congress and to report whether any of its members are, or have been, interested In any of these contracts. Until a lute honr in the day It looked rather as If the matter would go by default. Bat us booi as the two houses reconveyed at 9 o'clock that night, after a recess since afternoon, the matter came up with a rush, and crowded galleries listened with intense interest to the proceedings, which ended lu the vote to Drobe the charge*. Vice-President Sherman announced the following committee to conduct the senate Investigation: Senators Jones of Washington; Rdrton of Ohio, Crawford of South Dakota, Hughes of Colorado, and Perry of Mississippi. Senator Hughes In presenting his Investigation resolution stated that Senator Gore's accusations were so grave that they could not be ignored. The resolution was adopted without opposition. It is as follows: "Resolved. That a committee of five, to be appointed by the chair, be and it is hereby, directed to Investigate and report whether any senator of the United States is or during his term of office has been interested or called with or connected with legislation affecting the approval of Indian contracts or has done anything because of said interest and whether any Improper attempts or efforts to prevent or to secure a statute affecting the approval of ludian contracts have been made at this session of congress; and said committee is authorized to sit and proceed in the vacation. The bouse adopted a substitute resolution, offered by Mr. Tawney (Minn.), creatlug a committee of flvo to investigate the contracts with the Choctaw, Chicksaw and Osage tribes, the inquiry to embrace any acts of bribery, fraud, or any other Improper influence. The committee is to file its reports when completed with the clerk of the house. llillion Dollar Session. The final figures on the appropriations made at the sec-caul session of the sixty-first congress, just closed, analyzed from both the Republican and Democratic standpoint, will be Klven out by the house appropriations committee. Chairman Tawney, of the committee, claims the aggregate is less than a billion dollars, while Democratic leaders charge an excess of that lim- j it. The statements have been delayed because of the latneBs of the final action on important supply measures. Mr. Sultzer, of New York. Democrat, charges that it has been a Inland millions more with a venand millions more with a vengeance." Mr. Tawney claims that the appropriations for the fiscal year 1H! 1 are less than for the current year and that most of the- bills are less than the estimates submitted for them. Republican Leader Payne contends that the appropriations are a substantial reduction from those of last year without taking into account at all any increase accruing Trom the increased business in the country. Mr. Payne declares that while the appropriation and expenditures for the current fiscal year are much larger than that for the last fiscal year, $4,000,000 has so far been saved by cutting down administration expenses. Mr. Payne concedes that many millions could be saved if one great business man had the country's whole business in his charge. Workmen Found Jars of (lolri. The discovery of ten earthen jars by workmen while excavating on the site of the old Carmne Convent, near Puebla, Mex., has crested quite t stir in the republic. It is claimed the jars contained $500,000 which the law requires should he paid into the treasury, but the workmen have disappeared with their gold. WAR IN CHINATOWN AS A RESULT TWO CELESTIALS WILL LIKKLY DIE. Another In Shot Through Thigh and Seven Are Arrested After the Banquet Proceeds. The furtive tong war that sleeps, but never dies In aplte of threats, promises and solemn treaties, broke out Sunday afternoon In Chinatown, in New York City. In ninety seconds three Chinamen were shot, two of them fatally, a third was painfully wounded, and more than 40 shots were fired. Three minutes following, seven Chinamen had been arrested. It happened that the li.OOOth anniversary of the founding of the Society of Four Brothers fejl on the day of rest, and in its honor the members were to give a banquet iu Pell street at five o'clock. A monster scarlet flag, scalloped in green, floated from the banquet hall and guests began to arrive early from all parts of the city and even from neighboring towns. Sunday Is market day for Chinamen. Then the streets are thickest with sightseers, and the chop suey restaurants thrive best and in remote inck rooms the dice rattle faster aud the dominoes click sharper. It was in the midst of this restless, shuffling throng, sown thick with policemen, that the shooting began. There is no certainty of the precise provocation, but it la generally understood iu Chinatown tha. the Ong La>ong tong did not relish the fact that Chu Ilea, recently acquitted of murder of an Ong Lecug tong man. was to be the gsesf of .honor. The Hip Sing tong. the Ong Leong tongs and the Four Brothers occupy each their street, and no prudent member of one society trespasses on iuf territory 01 another. Pickets had been posted at the ends of Pell atrnet- by the Four Brothers . and scouts of the Ons Leo tip f .ft p.itrolled the adjacent boundary of Mott street. There were note policemen on the beat tha*> uo i both because U?is was Sunday ?e. . because of the banquet. Somebody stepped over tt ? tine, somebody bepan to sue >t. It :s doubtful if any white man .ni!l er know who tresspassed and nb- p*-? ished, because the 'U o* i.l e's ante too fisr ? -c .r.any dlrvsclions at once for tL i to the llrst flush. And no Chinamt will ever toll. Son Chin, the inevitable in 'ovnt *jystauder, was the to tall t+hol through the ablo.e-' and he will die. Chu Foo was shot uind t! ?* ear and in the beck and -Is < i\ die. Chu Pan was sh;P 'hr ec'. (be left thigh. His injuries are not serious. Thus far i*. .' s ue? u impossible to learn whi -eng Individuals wounded in.el..*. Ai* w?r> taken hosp -a . In : police nride a s. ! ,.i?>' f .t everybody that ran but th> r- were more honest ftijritivea than conibstants. anil the doorways ar ?.i.?cker in Chinatown than burrows ? r?*libit warren. Seven wei mpb1 J some of whom the police w; they ' ?aw sho ?tiug and others o.i \.-lic ?' revolvers were found. KKFl'SKN TO KAT Has Fust* <1 Fourteen 1>j?>n and Swnis Determined to Starve. \Y. A. MeOinnis. a white man who has been serving a 11 months' setenco in the county jail for bigamy, ] according to the warden, has euteu no food for a period of fourteen days The facts in the case became, known tonight. A week ago the warden's attention was called to McGlnnis condition and the county physician was summoned. He made an examination and reported t.hat there was nothing the matter with the man's condition He appears normal >r. very particular, and seems bent on starving himself to death. He even refuses milk, and has only taken two or three drinks of water this week. Killed While With Wife. Samuel Lucas was shot from am hush and killed while walking with his wfie late. Wednesday nig. . in Montgomery count> and Wilis (roard Kinier Lillis, A. K MctSrady, Samuel (jlensby and it. I.. Muxey are in jail charged w it.h the crime, i.ucai and liis wife wer returning home after visiting a neighbor when Lucas was shot through the .head. It is sail! Lllf.il* h:ul <1 < !'. i m for money hole. against his wife by Goard. I'liinitc^ tin- Mountain. I.. .T. r.Iiller. of San Francisco. was killed, and Richard Combs, of Utile River, Cal., Guy Redwine, of Ukiah. Cal., and Mr. and Mrs. Rea, of \V>stpor*. Cal.. injured Monday evening when the stage from Wilierts to Muir Junction ran away. The brakes gave way and the .heavy vehicle plunged against the horses, sending th m in a mad run down . '.he mountain. The vehicle was overturned,Miller being pinned beneath and crushed to death. NO NEW TRIAL J?4|e Refuses Wife-Murderer Jeses m tfery Grand. NOTICE OF APPEAL i Id His Opinion Jod^ Crubrr Kajit, 1 K.Tl?lcn(Y Contained In Aflklavit* I 1 IK>t*> Xot Meei Kfquli-riurotN tor Giitntinj; Itrhturin^.?"nlo Deii?-' Ion Handed Down Saturday. A special dispatoh from Union to j The State says W. T. Jones has been refused a uew trial. Special Judge W. B. Gruber, presiding in the circuit court for Union | county, Saturday afternoon handed down his decision in the ease, where-1 in the defendant, convicted of the murder of his wife, Marion J >acs. . is denied the right to again present! his defense to a Jury of his peers. The application for a new trial, after the case had been heard by Che supreme court and determined adversely to the defendant, is based upon alleged misconduct of certain of the trial Jurors and further upon allegs^'ons that material evidence unknown to the defendant has been discovered since the trial oi the case. Judge Gruber. in his decision.' which covers 12 typewritten pages,' reviews at some length the testimony ; introduced by the state at the trial of the case, coming to the points at issue in the motion before him. the judge, after reviewing the proce?*uliiiis before Judge Memrainger for a new trial in this case, holes that tue question as to the alleged miscon|1 liol /v?' ' " * ' 1 ?vv.? v. Auuir ui lofi i rial jurots wa? passed upon by .Iu.ro Meiuniinger and that this waiter is. therefore, res adjudicate and that he has no power if .he had the inclination to consider this ground ot that-motion for a new trial. The second ground upon which the motion is based, that of after-aiscoverei evidenae. is fully considered in the deco?e. Judge Gruber points out that the after-discovered evidence must be material, and that u could not have been discovered by the exercise of due dilligcnce before the trial. He then discussed the evidence contained in the affidavits submitted, by the defendant in suppoit of the motion for a new trial aud holds', that it does not. in his opinion, meet the requirements; that he is not , convinced the defendant cou.d not have discovered the evidence in time to use it at the trial. He points out. also, that some of i the witnesses, whose testimony is alleged to be newly discovered, wenbound over to attend the trial and , others lived on W. T. Jones places. ; The judge concludes by over-ruliiig the motion 011 both grounds The' defendant's attorneys at once gave verbal notice of an appeal lo the supreme court. VKHY Olil> 11K1IM.K. One In Southern Priuur That is lIHMi Years Old. i In southern France there is a concrete bridge, known as the Font iiu Card. which was created in "16 II. C. The concrete employed in the building is not composed of crushed | stone or other small aggregate of the variety now used in such work, but was of the old style, consisting of alternate layers of large ami small stones, gravel, etc., and of cementitious materials. Virtuvius d-scribes t.he materials and methods in use before the Christian era as do other writers. It Is very improbable that the Pont du Curd would have withstood the rigors of our ?wn climate for this length of time and its actual state of preservation. as well as that of many other specimens of ancient concrete worn proves that if modern work of this . kind is honestly executed it will , outlast the requirements of those 1 ivtng at the present time. 1 I l ot \1? I>KAI> 11Y TKACK. 1 I- Supposml to Ifuve I teen Struck ' b> Ti-mIii. \ Lena u J nek son was found dead ( Sunday morning beside the r;i 1.0.0 track at a street crossing in Dillon. From the bruises on his body, it is conjectured that he was struck by * a southbound train during the night. The inquest was begun but adjurn- I ej t'or further investigation. Jack- i sou was half-brother of Austin Hamilton, who conducts a livery stable 1 at Dillon, and was employed by hiin. t Jackson was about thirty years of v age and unmarried. c Hun by Automobile. r (J-eorgt Iteasley, a white man, liv- I ink near Statesboro, was lite victim v of a painful and serious accident li as a result of a runaway, caused by a passing automobile. Mr. iteasley was thrown from his wagon and his skull was fractured. He was i brought to the sanitarium and is re- v ported to be improving. u hh] - ^u?t| ?^ r r*<5~ >wy MT*^! PRISONER A SUICIDE xkgro djlwk big jvick ayi> j DIKS IN J ALL. FjhLs Ills Ufe lUitbrr than Far?* Trial for IntHBtk-Wo.?llw-fJieo Mrilful Attention. Alfred Poole, an aged negro prls- ] oner confined to the county jail at Gaffney to await trial at the next term of court, committed suicide by drinking bug killer In bis cell last Friday night, dying from the effects about one o'clock. Poole was arrested about two weeks ago at Cowpens, charged with being an accomplice in the killing of a negro baby at his home near , Cowpens. He was about 53 years \ of age. t It has been the custom of the t Jailer to supply the prisoners with bug killer at intervals. When the ( disinfectant was given to Poole ho f saved it until night camo, and th.?n < drank it. becoming paralyzed at l once. Although there were two oth- 1 er prisoners In the same cell, both of them disclaim any kno ledge of ( the taking of the juice and ciuiiu i that they knew nothing about the i affair until they became suspicious of his loud breathing. When they i attempted to rouse him they found him dying. Medical assistance was ? summoned and although everything possible was done, Poole soon died. The evidence tended to show that I the act had been contemplated for several days, as he had told his ; son Sam. who is confined in ttn? jail as a witness to the murder of i the infant, that he did not intend to live much longer. This was i about three days before the act was i committed. He seemed to be in fear | of the outcome of his trial for the murder of the infant. ! The coroner's inquest was held at * the jail next morning and the jury decided that Alfred Poole came to his rlM.'lf h I ?V Kir. rvwe. ~ J - r*"** w/ lito U n U H it IIU CS. 1 Qt* 1 f.?-year-old Pfirl who was implicated < by the verdict of the coroner's jury i *ith Poole is now in jail, awaiting 1 trial. i i A XKW FIJKR. t m ( Virginia Man Hmm One to Sturtle the ' l Worid ? 1 CI iming to have solved tl** se- t cret of aerial navigation in a heuv- r ier than air aeroplane, R. R. Grant. ' of Norfolk. Va... is ready to prove * that he can remain up in the air under al kinds of weather conditions, 1 barring a hurricane. Grant is the * assistant city electrician of Norfolk, 1 and for many months has been experimenting wiuh his machine eariy ( in the morning *-hen nearly every- 1 body in ths city was asleep. There I lias been various reports made 1 relative to peculiar lights seen e overhead at such hours, but many persons attributed them to imagination. A few weeks ago, Henry Hyslop, | a newspaper route owner, reported that he h-ard a peculiar noise and saw 1 light in the air a few miles outside the city limits about three o'clock in the morning. His report 1 was so plausible that au investiga- ' tion w is made and It wus discovered ' that Grant, assisted by J. T. Morse, , a mechanical expert had t?< en ex- ' perimentlng with their machine and ' had made some wonderful Might.. ' .Mr. Grant declares that he believed that he and his co-worker 1 have suceded in solving oerinl nav- * lgation in a different way from oth- A -? ? i ii? j ciaim that, their machine will remain in the air under all weather conditions bar- T ring of course, an unusually severe 1 scorin. c OXI.Y A Kl.ll.Mi. \< lots in I'd lis Kept Practicing For ii Fake Play. To much realism in the rehearsals i f a scene in a n v. play, "lian- v o." caused a police raid at a small ' heater in Paris recently. The play v find been advertised fi some time " ?ut the rehearsals draped on slow- 8 y and vet > evening seemed to lie j 0 ievoted to Act II. The scene of this M1 ict was laid in gambling saloon and ' VI. Huponnnis. a police somniissary. s vho happened to call in at the theat- l' r was struck b> the fact. A que*- 8 on to the manager brought the re- ^ ?ly. < "It is most important that the fac.11 play of all th.- actors in this a cue should be exact. They are oi pposed to represent keen Ram- V tiers. We must Ret the by-play as 1 tl as possible. tl At the 4Miil of another fortnight, <1 lowever. the facial play <1??1 n t seem S o hive improved much, as Act It h vj4s still r> he used at Rieet lengths h ach eveniiiR. b Discreet inquiry showed that th?* n fthesisals were a blind, that the fi lay, "Banco." had never been ci rritteii, and that all the actors were lardened gamblers. Twelve Sawed to Freedom. w Twelve prisoners in t4ii' Federal y< ill at Moscogee, Okla.. sawed their n vay to freedom last week. Five u ithers refused to go. e: A DESPERADO Mis All Wfe Cernes ia Raafe ( Bolkls tsd Defies An est TWO VICTIMS FALL Huff Others Are Wounded and t!u? Governor It* Asked for Troop** to Storm House in Which the l>esperndo Has HI* of His Chridi-en With Him. Barricaded in his hotne in the western part of Irwin County, G-a., A'. H. Bostwick has resisted two at .acKs of officers which were made Sunday, hilling two and wounding hree others. He is a wWtc man with i reputation for fighting proclivities ?nd has threatened to kill everyJody who comes In range of his bulets. The local authorities have asked Governor llrown for troops to 6torm Lbe little bouse where the desperate nan is hiding. The dead are. Chief ?f Police Stave Davis, >f Ocilla. . Deputy Sheriff Sheffield, of Irwin county. The wounded are: Deputy Sheriff I. C. Boss, arm broken and shot In the abdomen. Sheriff J. P. Mclnnls. elighly injured. .Deputy Sheriff Wyatt Tucker, slightly injured. Lynching threats are heard and a crowd of men are forming that may not await the coming of the troops. Bostwick is well armed with ritle, shotgun and pistol and has a good supply of ammunition. In the house with him are six of his children. The first attack on Dostwick's fort was made at two o'clock Suulay afternoon.. He was wanted on a misdemeanor charge and Sheriff Mclnnls with Chief I>avis and Deputy Sheriffs Bass and Tucker went to arrest him. hen theWy came whithin dose range of his house Bast wick >pened fire. Chief Davis fell dead ind Bass was wounded. The officers -emoved the dead and wounded and nimnioned a posse from Ocilla aud rwinville and surrounded the house, iheriff Mclnnis with Deputies Tucker and Sheffield led the ouslaught snd Bostwlck killed -Shefi'i?|d initaotly aud.wounded the two others. He Is still unharmed in his fort. The scene of the two battle* Is sev?rnl miles- from Ocilla. and information is hard to obtain. Gen. Scott, alter a conference with ?uv. o. owu at Atlanta Sunday night lecided to send the mllltaiy com?any at Fitzgerald to Irwin county, he scene of the bat Me between the iheriff's posse and W. H. Host wick. FALLS INTO HOT MKT A I*. He Was Slowly Consumed Ikfoie the Kyes of His Coiiijsmion.s. John Mitchell, a steel worker ut he West Pensylvania steel plant at Iraekeu ridge, was suddenly precipiated into a soaking pit containing a vhite hot ingot on June 23 and before his helpless mill mates, the >ody yas consumed by the metal ino w-hlch it slowly sunk. Mitchell was at work at the soakng pits where the ingots were treatHi. Standing on the door of one vhich was covered, he gave the slgml for opening of another pit. Through mistake the wrong lever vas pulled aiid Mitchell fell IS ft. o the bottom of the pit. alighting >n the ingot. TWO INSTANTLY KILLKlh in<1 Three Others Seriously Injured in Automobile Wreck. At Pi11tthn rir Po ? ? r?w |H-1JMM|V v?-re instantly killed, three seriously njured and iwu paiutully hurt, vhen a large automobile was struck tear Charleroi Sunday by a heavy urburban electric-car. The accident ccurred at Heachwood Park crossug, about a mile south of Charlerot. "he 'Tossing is approacned at a coniderable down grade and it is beeved that the driver misjudged the peed of the approaching trolley car. lone of the passengers in the trol?y were injured. Sho?..s Himself to Heath. Cullen Pence, a native of Sou'h v'hitlev. Indiana, and for the past a years prominently identified nii't Ite fruit growing and tru. h". in ! ustry of Florida, committed suicide undav by shooting. His wife found is dead bod> in the bath tub at their ome, a pistol ball through his | rain and his povnloof <?i? ?s.. ti/u? narbv. Pence had been despondent ?r several months because of the audition of his health. < lloke Smith to l!tui. ( Former Governor Hoke Smith, i ho was defeated for reelection two ears ago l?y Joseph M llrown anouncej in Atlanta Thursday that he ould again be in the race for gov- , raor. . #4 i STEAMER BURNED KTFTKKN HINDHHD IN RANdRR; ONLY THRKK IXKNT. IViads Concrrntng the Itarnlag of Kxcursion Steamer on t-be HhoLs* KippiJUvrr Saturday NljtM. Only three persona out of I,GO* lost their llvea Saturday night on account of the burning in Mississippi river of the excursion steamer, J. S., according to officers of the Acme Packet company, owners of the vessel. at Lacrosse, Wis., after a careful search and rechecking of passengers. While five others were severely hurt in the panic and liny other* cut and bruised in escaping from the boat before It burned to the water, those who went through the experience of fire ar.d water declare that tue small number of casualties seem ruarveloue to them. . Mrs. Hmma Randall, of New Albion, la., was the only one who broke through the guard on the edge ?f he docks. Twenty men had araa* outstretch?sl to grasp her ?b?n she plunged Trom the upper deck into the water and drowned. Hear body has not been recovered. John Plane, of YVauhoa, la., was lock??d In the boat's brig In the hold for disorderly conduct, and In the excitement of the panic, no one thought to release -him. lite charred body is in the river with the hulk of the steamer, which sank after the boat had burned to the water. An unidentified woman. while leaving the steamer, wive drowned. Many thrilling stories ?f escape are told by the passengers, who all | reached tbelr homes Sunday, after each had sou?ht out friends and rel j atlves from the confusion ensuing | after the tire, and the hasty tending on Had A.xe lslund, 20 miles south ef lacrosse, whws the steamer was beached ten minutes after the tire started. It is said that a igdureite stub started the flumes under a stairway, but nothing ' definite has beeu ascertained. DI? AI TO TOUR. The Sixth Contest For the OUddrs Trophy is Now On. Good weather. good pnadA and hospitality of the best has been lbs good luck of the automobiltets taking part In the seventh annual tonr of the American Automobile Association, which Is the sixth contest for the famous Glidd n cup and the first for the Chicago trophies. Thin run, w.hich began at Clm.inn ? 1 . ou Tuesday is the largest reliability test ever held iu the United States. and in addition the rule^ were most severe than iu previous years. They embrace flnal testa at the end el* the tour to show the condition of the brakes, transmission, etc. The 1910 tour will cover 2.S5? mill's, and the distance must be made In 10 days. The cars will as far South as Dallas, Texas, and then tinish at Chicago. The (iliddenltog will bare amp'a protection on the run as they are preceded by two "balloon destroying" automobiles. In addition tw? Cadilac roadsters, purt of the **111tary equipment of the Morth western Military Academy, carrying i?u' capable of shooting 4 So slots ? minute, are acting as advance and rear gaurd for the tourists. Twenty-seven competing cars were lined up at the start, 15 tor the fliiddea trophy and twelve for the Chicago cups. In addition there are half a dozen cars for ollicials aud newspapermen. Prisoner Finds a Fortune. William Hamilton, who disappear* od from his home in Pittsburg eight, months ago and who later fell heir to a fortune, was discovered Thursday at the house of correction at. Chicago. The setlemenf of the estate to which Hamilton Is one of the heirs, has been delayed while the nruitll 101 II1V HUMS ins ma II w;is being prosecuted. The first trace wan found in Uie records of the iuunlcipal court which showed thai he w:?s sentenced on Alay lis to serve ho days for disorderly conduct. Mayor Huse will be asked to pardon the prisoner, whose health has been restored and w.ho was so much elated at the news of his good fortune. Fined For Iteluiliiig. In the recorder's report Friday Judge Sykes lined Mrs. K. A. Harrington, of Durham, N. (!., whose husband skipped in the midst of a retailing case, $"i0 and costs for the sanie offense, later reducing it half. Mrs. Harrington is twice Harrington's wife, the two celebrating their honeymoon when Harrington completed his sentence on the roads for retailing last fall. Severe Sentence. The up-< ountrv is not only part, of the world whr the illegal sale of whiskey is punished. In Sumter it man. Hilt button, is serving a 3 months' sentence for just offering a drink to a customer, according to button's statement;!! the trial. T.he prohibition law makes this a misdemeanor.