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F WILL DROP THEM Balliiger and Others Will Have to Walk the Plank to Save THE GRAND OLD PARTY Thf Republican INi.-ty Ik Facing One of the Most Critical Campaigns iu Its History This Fail, and All Dead Weight Ate to be ltemoved If 1'oKsibte. Certain events of Friday at Beverly following Incidents of the past week or so lead inevitably to the conclusion that a complete political readjusment in circles close to the President is in progress Senatoi Aldrlch, of Rhode Island, called to see the President early today. The President was gratified hat Senator Aldrlch had replied to Senator Bristow's charges regard! g the tariff. In doing so.it is said that the Senator from Rhode Island performed an act which fitted exactly Into a programme which has been framed bv party leaders close to thu President. Although .he is not to retire until March, 1911, the rja ljustment plans which plainly are in progress, apparently treat with the influence Mr. Aldrlch may have had with the President as a thing of the past. The elimation of Mr. Aldrieh, according to close political advisers. Is soon to be followed by the retirement of Secretary Richard ltallinger from the Cabinet. The Republican party is facing one of the most crucial campaigns in its history this fail and the leaders who have been coming more and more into the infiuence with the Pdesident are arriving daily to do all they.can to bring about an adjustment of the diffferen ces within the party. Air. Ballinger practically has losts all his personal fortune in defending himself from the attacks that have been made upon him. If the Secretary is to recover these loses it is said he must assume the lucrative practice of law which he left in his home State to take up the arduouos duties of head of the interior department. The retirement of Mr. Ballineer is fixed for September 15. The Congressional committee will have reported by tnat time and the date is sufficiently early to take the so-called Ballinger issue out of the campaign. enre with the President are arrivls said to be directed against Speaker Cannon. It is not admitted in Beverly that Mr. Cannon will even be a candidate for the Speakership. Once it is known thnt President Tuft would like to see a change in the Speakership, however, it is believed The third move in comlemplation be removed. That Beverly is being made the headquarters of the movement to set the Republican House in order is now generally admitted. The various moves are made quietly, but effectively. Reports have reached Beverly thai the recent results in Kansas and Iowa were due largely to the netlvitj of Speaker Cannon in Kansas to tht charges against Senator A Id rich am doubt in the West as to whether hr actually ir.lended *o retire. The sit uation developed In these two Sta??'? evidently has made an impressioE upon the party leaders that has stirr ed them to action. Mr. Aldrich has to-day told Mr Taft of his plan to make a speech during the fall in one of the Western States defending the PayneAldrich Act as a whole, and part it nlarly replying to the charges madt in reference to the cotton schedule, Senator W. Murray Crune, of Massachusetts. has been one of the active forces in the new political movemi it. It was he who went West to nee Secretary Ilallinger and It was also he who went to see Senator Aldrich at Warwick, R. I., lasi Sunday. Postmaster General Frank Hitchcock, former chairman of the National Republican committee, has been at He erly twice within the weak. There Have been stories in progress of fiieiion between Mr. Hitchcock and Sen itor Crane and some political jealousy as to their influence with fhr* Ail'i.nifltrotlAn Mr. Mi chcock has also beer. h.;\ing a s'-rl. s of conferences with New York SUli lenders, which may have an important bearing upon the campaign. Senator Dick, of Ohio, came ?.o Beverly Friday, but decided to await the arrival of Warren (J. Harding, the Republican no uinee for CJoveror in Ohio, before calling ou the President. j Although admitting that the fight / in Ohio is going to be a hard one that the campaign i lust begin earl) and be carried into < very part of the State, Senator Dick relieves the Republicans will win. "It's going to be an old fashior fight and an old fashioned victory,' he declau.d. ?- .. ..4U m " V V STARVED HERSELF MISS W/ ItDLOW INDICTED FOR UUIlDElt, IS DEAD. She is Reported by the Jailer to Have Deliberately Straved Herself to l>eat!?. Miss VlrRinia Wardlow. one of the mysterious sisters under indictment for the murder of Mrs. Ocey W. M. Snead. the Kast OraiiRe bathtub vie iim, uieu in me nouse or detention at Newark, N. J., Friday. Death was due. in the opinion of physicians, to starvation. The fa'e of the aged woman in this respect paralleled that of her alleged victim, for doctors who examined Ocey Snead before her leath said he ailments weie all due to lack of nourishing food. In the opinion of jail attendan s. Miss Wardlaw deliberately starved herself to death. This has revived rumors circulated at the time of Ocey Snend's death, when the history of the mysterious household was under investigation, that a suicide pact existed between Miss Wardlaw and her neice. For several weeks the woman's condition has been growing worse, and last Monday she was removed from the jail to the house of detention. In the cell she had occupied was found a quantity of stale food, which the prisoner had couoealeu. At the aged woman's bedside whin she died were her sisier, Mrs. Richard l'rir.gie of Chrisiansburg, V i., und her "rrother. the Rev. Albert Wardlaw 01 aouth Carolina, who had been called when her condition became alarming. Hut her other sisters, Mrs. Caroline H. Martin and Mrs. Mary W. Snead, jointly indicted with her, were in their cell us she expired. They wer- sent for, hut the jailc* refuser to allow them to visit the house of detention without the wor-" of a physician that 'Jieir siste- was at the po . f death. What effect Virginia Wardiaw's death will have on the fate of hostelers is slill to be determined. Si; vas '.he d > v i > ? influence of i i' strange household end pred cuot s were made that Mrs. Martin and Mrs. Snead may never be brought 10 trial. * FOt'ND lUt. COOK'S TUMI,. Hut IKh's Not Think He Reached the Highest Peak. The members of the New York Herald and Portland Oregonian party which attempted the ascent of Mount McKinley returned to Seattle' last night. Their mission failed. C. E. Husk said, because the party was insufficiently provisioned. The Ifhsk party ascended to a height of 7.r?00 feet and on July 12 met the Parker Brown party, well equipped for the asoent, and in good spirits. Mr. Husk says lie believes they will make i the top. i "We took the route followed by I)r. Cook on the east side of 'he mountain to Ruth glacier. On the route we saw abandoned camps and much of l.he scenery pictured in Dr. . Cook's book. That far Dr. Cook's . statements are authentic. Furthe', . I would not say, but I do not believe I he ascended the mountain to the ? top." , IIOI.I.Y HKIJ> FOll Mt llDFlt. i " Curvnrr'M Jury lU'fusrs to Allow l.oml to Suspect. 1 A special to the News and Courier troin Wilmington, N. C., says J, ('. Holly, proprietor of the Hot k Springs Hotel, which was burned sever.:- r.ights ago. and where tli.j dead hod/ 'idward Cr ?r: .?el >* found siieral hours after the fire, was committed to jail to-day by coroner's j i*> without bond The verdict being "that the facts and circ.;n. lances introduced before t.his jury warrant the holding without bond of J, C. Holly for the Superior Court." Holly had the boy's life insured for $2,f>00, and the furniture in the building insured also. Cromwell is said to have come from Charleston.* l.iglitning Itrenks Safe. Digpatcnes from AlcFall, Ala., s.iy ngnining played the role of s <? breaker there early Wednesday. It , tore a hob* in the roof of P. I). Snyder's suve ran down n post or<..kf open the safe and stole atva; Af f the .home of To hit l'? it at Alexandria, the family clock was demo! shed although the hotts* was coinpara. tlvel.v uninjured. hilled While With Woman. C. W, Turner, of Paris. Kentucky, , was shot and killed at Hot Springs, r Ark., Thursday night by J. C. Put? nell, a hotel proprietor. Turnell and . Purnells wife were returning form a moving picture show when Purnell i opened fire, killing Turner instanl' ly. Purnell surrendered to the po . - u ^ J. i?i? . yMFir* J?. USED MONEY FREELY THE Ll'MllKIt TRUST LOBBY GAVE SWELL DINNERS To Which Tliejr Invited Members of Congress nnd Others Who Favorpfl llnfv tin I.omluki* As an evidence that the lumber trust makes a good thing of t.he tax levied on that universally used article of necessity we publish below .how the lumber lobby at Washinten spent money last year when the tariff law was being made. The action of the lumber lobby in spending big sums of money to have the lumber tax put on shows the duty was a protective duty and not a revenue duty as it claimed. Zach McGee, the wide awake Washinton correspondent of the Columbia State, says it develops now that the lumber lobby, which has been operating with considerable energy during the present tariff-inaKing session of congress, has been supported nio8i lavishly by the lumber manufacturers. An asscsment was made on earn sawmill in the various associations of $1 foi each $1,000 feet of daily cut. The lumber manufacturers of the State of Oregon and Washington belonging to one particular assiciu tion were assessed $28,000. but so far they have paid only $12,000, and they are being vigorously pressed to pay I he rest. Some of the advocates of free lumber here are declaring that the failure to pay the assessment is evidence that the real pressure for protection or lumber is npt so much from the sawmill people as from the timber syndicates, who owu most of the .^t u m page. There is plenty of money, however. for the lobby. It is estimated that $ 100.000 was raised to maintain the special lobby here to try 'o keep the present rates of $2 a thousand on ?ough lumber and the coirespondv-g high rates on other grades. This does not include the expenses of social delegations sent heio by lumhci organizations in various States and the expenses of individual lumberman who have come here * k - iui iin* purpose 01 inuuenciug congressmen Ironi their own State. A number of lobbyists have been in and about the capital ever sir.ee last fall. Some weeks ago. while the hill was before the house, the lobbyists gave a series of expensive dinners at the Willard hotel, to which they invited members of congress ond others whom they thought whould be influential. TWKXTV-NINTH MKAXT PFATll. Mine of One Family I tied on Twentyninth llirtlidny. Frederick W. Cooper died at Atlanta Friday, his death being remarkable because it occured in his twenty-ninth year. Thai was the age at which his father and eight of his father's brothers all died. Illness and not age I was the cause of each of these deaths. Kecently Cooper became uneasy as his twenty ninth year approached its half wav mark; a preseutanient seemed to come to him; and he said speaking of li is thirtieth birthday next January: "if I can only live until then, why I'll live to be a thousand." A short time ago when Conner was taken sick with typhoid Mie inevPable brooding over the fate of his father and his uncles hastened the progress of the disease. He died while his near relatives were too Jar away to be summoned. His mother, Mrs. M. J. Cooper, is returning from Europe on the steamer St. Paul due in New Yark to-iuormorrow, and his sister. Miss Katherine C. Cooper, is in Paris, Coopei was prominent here, a member of the Capital City Club and connected with a large cotton firm. He was horn in New York. MAKKS HltiHKST Fl.KiHT. Man Peaches Altitude of Over Si\ Thousand I'Vet. It was oflicially announced at Loiiak. Scotland. Friday that ,1. Armstrong Drexel. the American aviator, Tliuisday ni'lii attained a world's altit udb record l>\ rising rt.7.10 feet. Drexei's | (light was tiie sensation of the a.tuition meet i I1C Aseeiiliiif n " ! rlock in the eveniuit. he -lu?t up into a hank of clouds and disappeared fioin the gaze of the anxious crowd, lie landed ahout two hours later, near a farmhouse twelve miles from Lanark. A large crowd witnessed the ascension. * Heavy llain* in Japan. A torrential rainfall Jias caused devastating Moods principally in Shiuzuoku province. 011 the southern coast. Mildreds of houses have been submerged and one occupied by students in the province of Shiuzuoka was buried with its tenants beneath a landslide. RUNS DOWN TOTS Two Little Girls Killed by Passenger Taain Near High Point. THE MOTHERS ESCAPE The Children Were Walking; Along The Km 11 rout! Track Watching a Freight Train When a Passenger Train Caine up from Ilehintl n Very Sharp Curve A dispatch from High Point, N. C.. says that city was shocked Sunday morning when the news of Mie horrible accident at I>ake reached there, telling of the killing of two small wirls by train No. 4 4. Little Vada Look and Hazel Myers left High "oint on train No. 11 Sunday morning with th i? mothers to visit relatives at Lake and after leaving the station at Lake they were walking | long the track watching a freight .lain going South w.hen 4 4 ccine tiong running them down. It seems that the children were up ,n front of their mothers lid could o.. e warned of the approach o?" the tra.r. which wn . coining around a sharp curve. Mrs Cool: and Mrs. Myers returned ?.? High Point on train 4 4 but could not ring the bodies with them on account of the coroner's Itiqiudi hav i.ig to be held first. loth girls were about 9 years of ge. Hazel Myers was the daughter ci' ex-Policeman James Myers, living on Tate Street and Vada Cqok is the daughter of Mrs. Flora Cook, a widow living on Tomlinsou street. The no .ies of the children were badly nr.ngled and from the appearance the skulls of both were entirely mushed on the back side where they were hit by the engine. The same engine that killed lhepe children was the one that some inoe*.'is ag > 'vac being driven by Kn nicer Sebe Perry, when he met his death. It is reported that several other engineers have met with se\eu? acidents while running the enin '. LOST IIIS LIKK IX KIKK. While Wuniinir ?.... ..i.. n v*nnr *?i Their (lmi( Danger. \Y. K. Robinson, mayor of tel Paso. Teras. lost his life at 9 o clock Sunday morning, while endeavoring to warn a number of firemen of imminent d.ii get" from a tottering wall. At the same time, Todd Ware, a fireman. was instantly killed and Win. Robinson and Dave Sullivan, also firemen, were injured, the latter pethaps fatally. The casualities followed a fire whieli broke out in the store of Calislter Dry Goodsss Company and ruined it. As t.he mayor approached the building a large portion of brick wall fell, crushing Robinson and Ware, also knocking the 'her men down. Mrs. Kohinsson witnessed the accident. Conservative estimates place the loss at $225,Obv). DROPS DKAII AT PARK. Palls Lifeless .lust After Crossing Home Plate. Sherman K. Root, a bugler in ih? i'nited States Marine Corps, stationed at the Charleston Navy yard, died this afteroon iust nft??r i-maui.? ? n.? homo plate in a game of base bail between the navy yard team and u team front the army post on Sullivan's Island. Heart failure was the <ai:se of his death Iiystanders heard Hoot exclaim: "Oh my heart!" as it dropped to the ground. He had been pr ving a star game and gave tit. pre vions sign of being ill. Iloot's home is Louisville. K>\ He had been stationed here about three years. Ilrute of a Father. Thomas .larvis. a young farmer o Davie i out.tv, was killed by his 'inner. William Jarvis. near Advance. X. Sunday. The father and son got Into an argument, which ended 1 > . it elder Jarvis drawing hiss knife, cutting his son across the abdomen, from hip to hip. He then stamped upon the young man as he lay bleeding 011 the ground until the victim was fearfully many'od. hilled in a Wreck. An excursion train front Bordeaux. Kra ee. with 1.200 passengers running at a speed of .*>0 miles an hour, crashed into a freight train at Sauklii S:i t arita v Thirl. -i .............. were killed and 100 injnred. Many of the victims were school girls*. Several of the passenger cars were torn to splintee. A misplaced switch was ti e cause of the accident. Leopard Kscapcd. Nine persons were injured during a short spell of freedom e joyed by a leopad who escaped front a menagerie at Vega Portugal. The animal after mauling two wonter made of) with a child in its paws, lint i.ropped it when the chase canit near. The child was scarcely injur I ed at all. / FLOOD IN JAPAN THK CITY OF TOKIO HAS WHOLK WAKlhS SCI IMF KG Kit. Thousands Starve as the Rivera KLse and Dcplorutdc Sights are Seen it Relief Stations. Great floods are sweeping over parts of Japan, and great damage has been done to life and property. The Honjo and Fukadawa wards of Tokio are nearly completely submerged. Tens of thousands of persons are homeless and starving. O'o of oe three more imnortant cmImnkmonia guarding Tokio has been broken. Should the second and third dykes break, half the capital would be submerged. Owing to the Inundation of the buildings of the Fukadawa gas and electric lights are failing. Thous ands of homelesss persons are nowbeing sheltered in the temples and srhoolhouses at wdiich relief stations the most deplorable sights are witnessed. The victims of the flood are wholly dependent upon public relief. Tboun&ands more have been unable to find shelter, owing to ui ? in sufficiency of boats to convey them to places of safety, and they are exposed to the rain and hunger. Every available boat is being employed in the wort of rescue and to convey food w-her it i? mo. needed. The question of feeding the stricken peopi is rg a??pr The vegetable ; iui tisr suppl* s are failing and the stock of biscu:' > at ready is nearly exhausted. Fhe>{. Is no fear, however, for the supply of rice. The water of t.he Sumida river is almost washing the bottom 01 the bridges. The mountain flood in the neighborhood of Karuisawa ha9 destroyed t.he Mlkasa hotel. Many for.'Igiterv were stopping there, but fortunately no fatalities?have been reported so far. MANIAC SHOOTS I I' INIOX. Happily lie Selected the Midnight Hour to lh> It. The Fnlon Times says: T. K. Ha vis shot up that town Tuesday night about midnight. It seems that he becanie mentally deranged, and while in that condition got out 011 top of the small ollice building which adjoins the Mutual Dry Goods Co.'s store and from there proceeded to shoot up and down the street wit 11 a it8 Winc.hester and also a Swift army gur and also with a double barrel shotgun. He tired about twenty-five shots, some of the balls taking effect, one breaking a glass in G. W. Going's store, one striking the side of liuiris Furniture store, one striking the drug sign hanging in front of the Itice Drug Company, breaking several smajl places of glass, three balls struck the side of the Piedmont Pressing Club building, while ] another struck the side of the Hobo! Undertaking building near the front. When officers entered the premises occurred by the demented man about 3.30 a. m. o'clock he was sitting at a table writing a letter. Mr. T. J. Vinson was the first to enter ; the room and he sat down and began talking to Davis. Policeman C. It. Gregory entered at the front and was followed by Policeman W. 1). Love. Policeman Giegory arrested Davis and lodged him in jail. Preparations are being made to take the unfortunate man to Columbia. It is a great thing that the occcureme was at n'glit when tnere were no people on the street, otherwise the *e mlakl l.n? ? ?.. 1? 1 11 I . iifs* it iim ? c uccn a i \ i u 11 11? i ifU irit-jt?dy. * M?sr Ills LIKK l\ SUKF. | In ?n Attempt to Save Tis Wife Mt Tyl>ee Island. In a heroic effort to save his young wife from drowning, Robert M. Cronenberg was swept out to sea and lost off Tybee Island Sunday afternoon. The couples were bathing in the surf when the woman inadvertently got beyond her depth, Heing able 'o swim slightly she called to her husband that she was ail right, but he, believing that she was about to drown, went to her assistance. He succeeded with the assistance of others in forcing her into shallow water, but lit* lost his own life in the effort. Charles Must in and two ladies were in bathing at the time and threw a lifeline to Lhe struggling couple. This was grasped by Mrs. Cronenhcrg, who was safely towed into the beach, hut her husband caught In a strong undertow, was sucked to his death before a boat could be launched. A Fatal Until. Fred Tullar, shortstop of the Hlyliieville baseball club in the I Xortber.st Arkansas league, died Thursdax night in a Memphis hospi> tal. Aftei playing a ten inning game , on August 1, Tullar took a cold ; shower bath. A few minutes later ? ,'ie was 3trickeu with paralysis and was brought to this place for treatment. , 1 broke up court j Police Reserves Called by the Judge ( Stop Hotly Rollers. . THE COURT ATTACHES Wert1 I'nahle to (lope With the Situation When Seventy Retljtious Fanatics llurst Into Frenzy and He Kan to Scream at the Top of TtieJr Voice and Boll About. Atlanta had a funny experience last Saturday when seventy frenr.ied and fanatical negro members of tt?religious sect known as the * Holy Rollers." became possessed by what they call the "Holy Ghost " in recorder's court. T.he court proceedings came to a sharp halt and for ten minutes 'he police were unable to cope with their fury. This outburst of religious fervor real or feigned, came during the trial of Nelson Shorter, one of the leaders of the sect, who had been arrainged at the complaint of a number of residents in the neighborhood of North Boulevard and Irwin street, who have been continuall y disturbed for the past few months by the nightly outbursts of members of the sect, who hold their meeting in a little church at the corner of Irwin and North Boulevard. A negro woman, rising in l:?r seat in the back of the court room, commenced yelling at the top of her voice. Instantly the court was thrown into the wildest state of chaos. Seventy negro fanaticss attending the trial began to scout, screaming, yelling, moaning, groaning, crying, and laughing all at the same time. They waved their arms, their bodies swayed to and fro. and many of them in their frenzy lay down on the court room benches and rolled over and over. At the first outburst the patrolmen in court seemed daed by the power of the fearful din. There were only a handful of officers in the room at the time to control the crazed negroes. T.he chaotic yells and shouts of the "rollers." however, brought up a squad of the evening watchmen osk the run. headed by Chief Jennings, from the first floor. Despite his broke shoulder the chief, followed by his men. threw himself upon t.he yelling mob. Jerking, pushing and (lulling, the patrolmen managed after about seven minutes to clear the court room. The negroes did not attempt in any way to lesist t.he officers of the law, but they seemed to ignore the officers, and several ol the latter hear bruises that were indicted by the wnuiy waving arms and legs of tlie negro crowd. Some twenty of the fanatics were finally shoved into cells by the ofti| cers, but the fact that they were incarcerated did not induce them to moderate the loudness of their religious zeal. So great was the din that the inhabitants of Decatur street, near police quarters, accompanied by alarmed patrolmen from their beats, rushed up, fearing that the world was coming to an end. YOINC; BALLOONIST K1LLMI) Falling 12,000 Feet Body m-capitated in Tree. Bennie Printz, a young balloonist, met a horrible death Friday Afternoon at the close of the aviation meet at Asbury Park, N. J., in makond parachute failed to open an?| ond parachpte failed to open and lie fell more than 2,000 feet. As the swaying body neared the ground. It struck the limb of an apple tree and the boy's head was transfixed on the limb like an apple on apit. As it struck the ground the headless body was crushed into an unrecognizable mass. Print/, was 22 years of age. With Samuel Hartland of Newark, he went up in a hot air balloon. At the height of 1.000 feet Hartland cut loose vsilli one narnchiife im/l .. successful landing. Lightening l>y the drop of Hartland. the cr.ift shot up until it reached about 4,000 feet. Then Prinz cut loose. He fell 500 feet before his first parachute opened. lie sailed slowly earthward for another thousand feet and then cut loose again. There was another terrific fall of about f.OO feet, when the second parachute opened. It checked his fall for a second, then the ropes snapped and the body of the young man shot straight down. Commits Suicide. At Wash in ton John E. v^c.Laren, aged forty-seven, member of a real ertate firm, committed suicide today l?v throwing himself from the fourt a J story window of the.fddfdOBCahis cousin, Di. A It. shands. and A M. Harrison, another guest W*'re discussing M? Karen's nervous condition in'the librarj? below, when they were interrupted by the thud of the butter's body striking iti a flower bed outsitbi the window. jfef \