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SHOT HIM DOWN Major Gajnor of New York Fired on by Former City Employee SERIOUSLY WOUNDED The Mayor Was Standing On the Deck of an Ocean Steamer Chat* elmrf Wttfi UAvornl Vrion <1 u Who Had Called to Bee Him OfT on a Trip to Kurope. Msyor William J. Gaynor, of New York, was shot In the neck and badly wounded Tuesday morning by Jas. J. Gallagher, a discharged employe of the city dock department. The hooting took place on the deck of the steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, lying at her pier ini Hoboken, N. J., on which the mayor was on the point of sailing for a month's vacation abroad. Gallagher was RC once arrested. The bullet entered just below the right ear, passing through the mastoid and traveling from right to left and slightly downward. Gallagher evidently has a fancied grievance against Mayor Gaynor. He declared after the shooting that the mayor had deprived him of his "bread and butter." Gallagher was mobbed and his life was threatened before the police could lodge Jilm in jail. Three shots were fired at the mayor. Two of them missed and the third lodged in the fleshy portion of the left side of the neck. Blood gushed from the wound and the first hasty examinations led to the belief of Berious and perhaps fatal consequences. The mayor retained ocn ciousnesB and later examination by the physicians when the mayor was taken to the hospital gave a hopeful outlook. Mayor Gaynor and city officials were standing in a group about to have their piotures taken when the shooting began. Blood spurted from the wound in the neck as the mayor fell to the deck. Officer Kitxererini?. one of the guard of the North German Lloyd line, was standing near at the time. He had in his hand a small police club, with which he hit the assailant a blow on the head, felling him to the deck. The man was seized by officers. In the scuflle his hat fell off, disclosing the initials "H. C. G." Throughout the strugggle the man retained a pipe in Lis hand. Meantime there was intense excitement on the deck of the steamer. The Mayor's secretary, Mr. Adamson, lifted the stricken executive to his feet and with the assistance of others carried him to a state room. Later he was conveyed to the hospital. The revolver used by the assassin was found to contain four empty shells. As Mayor Gaynor was being borne by his friends he remarked simple: "Say goodbye to the people." At the city hall it is believed that Gallagher is the man who had been noticed loitering in city hall park for several weeks apparently trying to see Mayor Qaynor. The attendants at the city hall, however, prevented the man reaching the mayor. Mayor Gaynor's administration, which began on January 1, last, had been so drastic in its reforms and he had condemned so many persons and parties in such strong terms that he became the subject of many threats. In municipal offices he made many bitter enemies and a number of powerful organizations were uncompromisingly against him. Several months ago an armed visitor at the city hall was found trying to approach Mayor Gaynor and he was removed. Robert Adamson, secretary to the mayor, was quoted as saying he feared a crank might sometime attempt to kill the mayor, j Mayor Caynor was sailing on the first vacation he had since taking office on January 1. He has been at work from 14 to 16 hours a day , and imperitivoly felt the need of a Dm. iu uruer 10 ue out 01 reac.n or tho affaire of his office it was his Intention to avoid all the European cities to take a jaunt through the North Sea to the coast of Norway. He expected to be absent about one month. Gallagher was appointed a watchman in the New York City Dock department April 7, 1903. He was discharged July 19, 1910, after having been found guilty of neglect of duty and misconduct. Among his other transgressions was the fact that he had failed to punch the dial on the time clock that recorded his presence. Ho was also charged with using insulting language to an inspector. Since his discharge Gallagher has been writing letters to tho Mayor. Jury Cleared Him. "Justtflcabio homicide" was the 1 verdict of the coroner's Jury at Columbus, Ga., In the case of James 11. Knowles, a white express employe, who shot to death Hen Tillman, a ne- f gro, as the latter was advancing on t him with a hatchet at tho Union i station, following a heated contro- t vorsy. a I CRUSHED TO DEATH TRAIN STRIKES AUTO KILLING FIVE PEOPLE. Every Person in the Automobile Was Instantly Killed by Being Terribly Crushed. Five persons were crushed to death Tuesday night when an express train on the Pennsylvania railroad struck an automobile at Mill Lane Crossing, on the West Jersey and Seashore Railroad. me aead are: Frederick W. Feidner and wife; Fritz Mergenthaler and wife; M. C. Jones, chauffeur, all of Baltimore. Mergenthaler was the son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. Feldner. The party had been spending a fewdays in Atlantic City and that afternoon left for an automobile ride to Cape May. As they approached the tracks the express was hidden from view by a corn field and It was impossible for the chauffeur to see the train' until he was within a few feet of the tracks. As the automobile bore down toward the tracks, (Mrs. Thomas McNeill, who resides close to the crossing, saw the rapidly approaching express, and waved her hand for the automobile driver to stop his car, but the man either did not see the danger or thought he could cross the tracks before the train reached him, and dashed on to the road just as the train reached the crossing. The train struck the automobile squarely between the wheels, and threw it and all of the occupants clear of the tracks. All five of the riders were instantly kiled and badly cut and bruised. The bodies were quickly gathered together and a physician hurriedly summoned, but a glance at the mangled forms showed plainly no need for medical aid. So severe was the Impact that pieces of llin machino n'orn >iriuon on the piston rod. The express struck the autornobilo squarely between the wheels and threw it and all the occupants clear of the tracks. All live of the riders were instantly killed. Coroner Reeves reached the scene a few minutes after the accident occurrd. He took charge of the live bodies and had them carried to the morgue. TIMBER KILLS SAWYER. Colored Man Meets With Fatal Mishap at Saw Mill. A colored man employed at the Penn. Lumber Company, at Sumter, suffered a horrible death Monday. A sharp piece of wood entered his eye with terrific force, completely penetrating his head and causine almost instant death. Singleton held the position of sawyer at the lumber yard, and when hit by the timber, he was running what is know as the "rip" saw. He was ripping the rough edge off a board, and when the edge was off the saw, in some unaccountable way, Jecked it back, sending it on its deatbdealing mission. Singleton was rushed to the Sumter hospital, where an operation was hurriedly performed, but without success. The patient lived but a few minutes after the operation had been completed. No inquest was ueiu. SLAVED HIS llROTHTR. Whom He Had Mistaken for a Rob* ber of Their Home. Relieving he was shooting at a burglar, Ivy Land, aged 22, after midnight Monday morning, shot and killed his brother. Quintus Land, 20, years of age at Albany, Ga. Ivy was aroused by the screaming of a woman in the neighborhood and with his shotgun ran to her assistance. Shortly afterwards he heard another woman screaming in the direction of his own home. He rnn back just in time to see his younger brother, who also had been aroused and was hurrying to investigate the cause of the trouble, leap from a window of their home. He ilred, killing his brother instantly. DAMAGED RY FM>OD. Thousands in Japan Made Homeless Ilf-i UJ ?? WHT, The devastation wrought throughout many districts in Japan by the recent floodss Is appalling. Whole villages and towns have been washed away and many lives have been lost. In the lower sections of Tokio alone 30,000 houses were submerged. Communication by railroad throughout the flooded area has been Interrupted. There is much suffering and iu many places the inhaldtats are dostltute and threatened with starvation. The loss amounts to millions of dollars. Collier Sunk. The naval collier Marcelltis, lies it the bottom of the ocean. In latlude 36, longitude 71.8, having sunk n ten hours after she was struck by he Norwegian fruit steamer, S. llosrio dl Giorgio, last Tuesday. , V, V WANTED HIS MONEY A MOST HOItRIKIiK CHIME BY A I FARMER PREACHER. Charged With Murdering Youth for n Insurance Money and Then Setting Fire to the House. The supposed murder of a youta to secure $2,500 insurance on his i life, the gutting of the Rock Spring ] hotel, a combination hotel and lodging house on the wharf, the arrest of . J. C. Holly, about 40 years old, pro- , prietor of the house, erstwhile } preacher of the Sanctiflcation faith, constituted the sensational of a trag- , ic fire which occurred In \Yliming- ( ton. N. C.. says a dispatch to The j State. j Edward Cromwell, 19 years old, , said to have come to Wilmington four , months ago from an orphan home in i Charleston, and was cook at the ho- . tel. was found lying on the floor of his room, in his night clothes, nearly ^ an hour after the flvse was discov- ( ered. , Capt. W. P. Monroe, assistant . chief of the fire department, who was the first to enter the room, testified , at the coroner's investigation that . the body was lying parallel with the , bed, which showed no evidence of f having been disturbed, his feet to- { ward the head of the bed, thus exploding the theory that the youtn , fell from the bed. j The mattress, he testified, was sat- 8 uruated with kerosene oil and under t the heait of the dead youth was j found a counterpane also saturated , with oil, while two large empty oil cans were found in an adjoining ^ room. Other witnesses testified to v hearing a noise as if a struggle about j midnight in the youth's room. .1. 11. Scull testified that on Mon- f day, acting as notary public he sign- j ed certificate of transfer of insurance f policy for $2,500 from Cromwell to f Holly, the premium on which he was j informed was paid by Holly, who had | applied t'oi insurance to tJhe amount ( of $5,000, the company refusing more , than $2,500. This is supposed to { have furnished the motive for the crime that is believed to have been committeed. The most important development was discovered by l)r. W. C. Bell, cor- f oner, that L. B. Sasser, a druggist, sold to J. C. Holly, proprietor of the hotel, sixteen ounces of Dateman's drops, containing laudanum, etc., at t about ten o'clock Tuesday night, and 1 the subsequent finding by the physi- v clan of the bottle in the hotel with s less than a teaspoonful of the drug t in it. t WOULD SAVE HIMSELF. 1 Ciov. Patterson Sees Handwriting on f the Wail. ( As an outcome of the recent judi- f cial election In Tennessee, in which 1 the regular Democratic nominee, which he suported were defeated by v independents who had the active aid v og the Republican organization. Gov- c ernor Patterson has issued a state- 1 nient expressing a willingness to 1 waive the Democratic nomination for 1 a third term, which he has already v received and again test the question c I of the choice of Democracy in any ! sort of a primary. Thus he would , hope, he says, to save the State to Democracy. The address among other things ' says: 0 The pernicious inter-meddling of ( a Republican President with the af- e fairs of the Democratic party in our State should he resented and his well in.iu pian to KepuDlicanize it thwarted before it is too late. > "Those Democrats who are actively aiding and abetting his efforts excuse their treason by saying that it is necessary in order to eliminate ino from politics. ? "If this is true, why not bring it n about in a way that will restore harmony and not destroy Democratic ascendancy? If the majority of the Democrats are opposed to me as it w is claimed, 1 should not represent ' them as their candidate for Govern- !i or." 1 The Governor then offers to enter a a new primary and adds: }i ' The only condition I make is that a the successful nominee shall be sup- I' ported in the November election by 11 all who participate in the primary. ? s coxniTiov eiuuf mi u OHirlal IliiiuIetiiiH Cheerful.'?Slcc|*ing Well. * \ Expressions of encouragement on the part of all the watchers by Mayor William J. Gaynor's bedside ushered in the fourth day of his fight for re- 0 covery. An official bulletin at 7.10 j, o'clock Friday morning said "Mayor n Gaynor passed a very good night. lie q slept seven hours. Ho is comforta- p bio this morning and is is excellent n general conditions. His temperature p is 100; pulse 70; respiration 10." t| a Died in the Surf. p William J. Day, a young man aged tl 5 0 of Richmond, Va., was drowned ai while bathing Sunday at Ocean View, a; The body has not been recovered, ti Several girl friends saw young Day w drown, but were powerless to aid, d< him. di BREAK SOLID SOUTH ' PRESIDENT WANTS TO PATCH UP POLITICAL TROUBLE. Taft Summons to Beverly the Republicans from Tennessee to Discuss Matters in that Stnte. President Talf and President Hadey of Yale were In conference at Beverly in regard to the personnel >f the commission which is to be apjointed to inquire into the proposed regulations of the issues of stocks ind bonds by railroads. Wnile Mr. Hadley has not yet definitely accepted the tendered position >f chairman of the commission, he h giving the president all the assistince he ran in formulating a plan of !vork, and it is believed that evenually he will take the chairmanship. Mr. Taft is strongly urging the mailer upon him. An effort is being made to have he commission represent all phrases >f the work. The so-called "pro;ressive" sentiment of the republican larty Ib to be represented. President Taft and his poliitcal advisers believe that the republican >arty has a good opportunity to car y Tennessee this fall and thus make i break in the "Solid South"?one >f the president's ambitions. With this in view Mr. Taft has invited a number of tho party leaders n Tennessee to Beverly in order to tee if the republicans cannot adjust heir differences of the pass and go nto the coming campaign in harnony. The Tenneseeans lunched Friday vtth the President. Among them vero Representative Sanders and fudge G. M. Henderson. The Republican hope as viewed rora Beverley is based on the split n the democratic party and the re ent overwhelming victory of the inlependent judicial ticket, which won ?y from 45.000 to 50,000 majority, n addition to a governor, there is o be elected this fall a legislature, vhlch will name a successor to Senitor Frazier. CKIjEBRATK their birthday. Senator Tillman iui'l I)r. Hnbcock Dined Together. Thursday was the birthday of two oceeedingly well known South Caroinians, Benjamin Ryan Tillman, an inique figure in the United States lenate, and Dr. James Woods Bab ock, one of the leading alienists of he country, ti'un- i- * - uue in many respects vastly dif'erent from each other, t,he sena/or ind the doctor are intimate personal 'riends and have many tastes in com- i non. Each in his sphere has reniered distinguished service to his itate. The senator Thursday entered lis G4t.h year, the doctor his 55th. Dr. Babcock was in a good berth vith a large asylum in the North vhen Senator Tillman sought him nit and brought him South to lake barge of Uie State Hospital for the , nsane at Columbia and the soundless of this choice has been amply ( indicated by the career of Dr. Bab- j oek since that time. i The two friends had planned a | ittle dinner last Sunday at Senator 'illman's plantation home at Tren- i 011, as a sort of anticipatory celebra- I ion of the birthdays, but urgent 0H1- j ial business kept Dr. Babcock in 1 'olunibia that day, but the two din- < d together on Thursday. I ? 1 I'KOMI'TbV EYNCHHlt HIM. t - 1 legro Entered CiiTs Boom and Then ( I the Next World. < Jim Toler. a negro, was lynched at ne o'clock Thursday morning at Alia, tia., by a mob of over 100 men or having entered the room of two aughters of a prominent plater of lontgomery county Tuesday night, rhile the girls were in bed asleep. I is stated that one of t.he girls was wakened by Toler when he raised lie mosquito netting over the bed nd that her screams frightened him way. Search for the negro began t once and the next afternoon a osse of men came upon Toler worktig in a corn field and acused him f the crime. He confessed his uilt and wag tied to a tree and shot o death It IX OVEK 11V TKAl.V. 'oung Mun Killed on CM C. and <). Near Spartanburg. < Vernon Jolley, 10 years old, son t f Stephen Jolloy, a well known and f iglily respected farmer living s?x t illes west of Chester In Spartanburg c !ounty, was run over and killed earv Thursday morning on the C., C. t nd O., about one mile above the s hesney depot. He was killed by y tie excursion train which had taken i party lo Johnson City, and was re- i lining to Itostic after putting off t le passengers at Spartanburg. The i [ eidont happened at 12.30 a. mn ii Qd the body was not discovered un ii I after sunrise, when .Mr. Ularkwell, a ho lives near the scene of the arci- 5 mt. happened to be going down tho p rack. w wrzysn* vMWSff THE LUMBER TAX Jenator Tillman Tells Why He Voted Against the big Steal. IT ROBS THE FARMERS The Senator Says a l>uty on Lumber Only Helps the Lumber Trust, Which Has Hought I'p All the Timber I^antls in the State, ami Iluncocs the Farmers ami Others. We present below some extracts from the remarks of Senator Tillman in the United States Senate on the lumber schedule: Mr. President, before the lumber schedule passes from the attention of the Senate, I want to make a brief statement. When it was in the Senate before, two or three weeks ago, I voted for the amendment proposed by the Senator from Alabama to put lumber and all building materials on the free list. In the discussion I remarked that I was in fafor of free lumber. When the Senator from North Dakota offered an amendment, which did not give us free lumber, leaving the duty on whitewood, sycamore and basswood at fifty cents a thousand, 1 voted against it, because it did not give us free lumber. The Senate adjourned immediately afterwards, giving me no opportunity to vote for free lumber. There has been no opportunity to vote for free lumber. I still think we ought to have free lumber, and 1 will give my experience and my reasons for that belief. I know, of course, we can not get it. Twelve years ago, when the Ding- J ley bill was on its passage, I voted ' tor <i iz larin on luinuer, and re marked, very much to the disgust of ' some people and the edification of others, 'if there was to be stealing, I want my share." I have found out that I can not get tny share; that ! tlie conditions of the South are such that the articles and products of the region which are capable of being protected are so few in number that if we were to throw around everything down there a high pro- ( teetive tariff, we would not get any- : thing liko a proportionate benefit ' with the New Kngland and manufac- ( turing States of this Union. In regard to this matter of lum- . her I have watched the result of the ( duty. Immediately afterwards our . timber lauds, which had previously . been neglected so there were comparatively small lumbering industries , down there, began to be in demand. . .Men from Wisconsin and Michigan ( and other northern States where j lumbering had practically denuded the forests of timber, or were about to finish them up, came into the State and bought up very large tracts of timber at a very small ' price. They did this all over the South. Large mills were established and the lumber industry began to pick up, showing investment of ( capital and a large export. At the same time the price began to rise, "( a little faster, apparently, 'han the , industry itself. Now consider for a moment that the people of South Carolina are In about this shape; the Stale being i triangle, the upper part cutting off like the letter "A" is largely the Ahlte section of the State. Nearly J two thirds of the people, although v t is only one-third of the area, live here. They are consumers of luni>er and they have no yellow pine >r very little. They have been importing that lumber from the low- ? ;r half of the counties next to the ^ ica. In this coast region the lumber ? ndustry has taken root and is now v ,'ery extensively carried on. 1 notice after three or four years e >f this introduction of lumber on 8 in extensive scale that tlie price went ? steadily up, up, and it very soon lecame noised abroad. I do not enow on what foundation that these umber men had formed a combina- n ion and they would not sell under h >ach otlier to the consumers in the tppor part of the State. B Lumber is not a luxury. It is a ii leeessity. It is one of the neces- 1" laries of life. When I saw that the 'armors. Who had to blllld hmmoa n ind fence? and barns in the whole P lpper country, wero being charged a iteadily increasing prices for their s umber, T began to chango my opinon as to whether I was getting my h ihare of the stealing or ifot. It look- a >d like somebody not very far away f vas getting an unreasonably profit P >ut of our trees, which had cost P hem a very small sum of money rel- p itively. So my opinion in regard to h lie benefits of the tariff in our State t :hanged very radically. t I believe in the greatest good to o die greatest number, and when 1 aw that the people who use lumber, i< radically four-fifths of them, were s. laying an increased price, I decided s f I ever got a chance 1 would take u hat tariff off. I do not feel that b t Is my business here to protect the li ndustry of lumber which perhaps, "> avolves the interests of BO.OnO good '< nd worthy people, as against the s: 00,000 equally, good and worthy p? eople who have to use lumber, and j tt o would not be saved from au ex- w CENSUS WILL REVEAL CATION'S POI?V LATION ABOUT NIXKTY MILLIONS. Mieved That This This Be Figuie I Shown by Thirteenth Census.? > The Counting. ' It will be Oetober before the people of the United States learn their rue numbers as revealed by the otll- \ :ia 1 count of the loth census. It is ' senerally believed that t.he number will l?e about 90,000.000, and census ^dlcials are known to share in this general belief, although they know nothing about this. This belief is based on the fact that an increase slightly in excess M the 13.000,000 increase during the previous decade would bring the copulation in 1910 to the 90,000.000 nark. About 300 of the more than 18,000 census clerks are compiling population ilgures, while the others are working on other statistics, "ontrary to the general opinion, all he counting of the people is done '.y clerks, the tabulating machines icing used only in classification as o race, sex and other conditions. Enumeration figures will continue o be given out day by day for the Text two months or more, while the >ociological and industrial figures will come later. All enumerated tigires are counted from three to four lines and an investigation is orderid if there is any sugggestion of er or. In two cases evidence of fraud lad been discovered and in one. that >f Great Falls, Mont., a prosecution ins been undertaken for fraudulent inumerat ion. The intention of Director Duraud s to tabulate first the population of ho large cities, after which the iigires for tlie States will be given out is they are ascertained, the returns 'or all counties in the State being innounced at the same time as the lgures for the State. 1XCKEASED AOCI DEN TS. S'uniber Killed During First Quarter Eleven Hundred. A considerable increase in the lumber of persons killed and injur ?d on the railways of the United states during the months of January. February and March, 1910, is shown iver the corresponding period of last pear. The total number killed durng the quarter was 1,100 and 21,{22 were Injured. This was an increase of 406 killed and 0,110 inlured, as compared with the corresumding period last year. There were 19 killed on electric railways and 109 injured. The figures were made mblic by the interstate commerce -ommission from reports submitted ^ >y railroads as required hy law. FIKH AT SAIjUDA. lusiness Section of the Town Destroyed by Fire. Fire Tuesday night at Saluda, N. }., a mountain resort crowded with ummer visitors, destroyed entirely ho general merchandise stores of Thorn & Boone and S. 1). Station, ach valued at $8,000, together with l warehouse and stables worth $10,100. Saluda has no lire protection, ind hundreds of white-clad visitors ratched the spectacle and bankers nd mill presidents put in several lours' hu.d work passing buckets of inter. Attacked by ( ailiecock. Everett Bussc Weber, a flve-yearld boy, was attacked and badly In urea at Chicago Monday by a thorughbred game rooster. The child ( as unconscious when the bird was riven from him. The rooster jnmpd at the boy's head and inflicted everal gashes in his forehead. In ne a blood vessel was bursted. Dangerous Animals. The efforts of seven men were reuired to make an angry bulldog rosase his hold on the face of Samuel, he thre?-year-old son of Qua Marolen of Paris, Ky., Thursday mornng. It is probable that the lad wiil use the sight of one eye. rbitant price, because, 1 think, those icople formed a combination and greed that they would not underell each other. The only reason why wo were abp, or will be able, to get lumber at reasonable rate was due to the act thai there were some old field ine second growth left In the uper part of the State and small atcheg, or small areas, two or three undred acres or 500 acres, all hrough in the middle lower region hat the lumbermen had not bought r could not buy at the high prices -I mean the great lumber compan*s, with their railroads, and all that ort of tiling, running out into tho wamps. The only reason wliy the pper-country peoplo could get lumer at decent prices was hecouse a ttie one-horse sawmill, costing $1,00 or at most $2,000, would go in> these little patches of pine and iw the timber up and furnish the f'oplo I ma necessary, as against iese great combinations of capital hich had absorbed our timber. {