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GETS MY NICE Roosevelt Refuses to Attend Dinner With Senator Loriner. WAS A GREAT SURPRISE After Reing Informed that Junior ^ Senator from Illinois was Invited to Ranquet (*iven in Mis Honor Teddy Says "Then I Must Recllue to Cio." Col. Theodore Roosevelt. Ex-Pr^sideut of the United States, Thursday barred Senator William Lorimer, punior Senator from Illinois, from the Hamilton Club banquet at the Congress Hotel at Chicago by refusing to sit at the same table. The incident came unheralded. The programme of the big event, under the guidance of the Hamilton Club, haB for days announced that Senator Lorlmer and others would sit at the speakers' table with Col. Roosevelt. The occurrence startled politicians In Chicago and over the State. The unprecedented demand that the Hamilton Club deny to one of Its own members the privilege of attendlur the banquet came with characteristic abruptness from Col. Roosevelt. The Hamilton Club delegation, headed by former Judge John T. Hatten, joined Col. Roosevelt at the Fair grounds in Freeport, 111., she,-- ^ ly after noon. The Colonel Bhook hands heartily with each member of the delegation and at once bi*fcan questioning them concerning the banquet. "la Speaker Cannon to be there?" he asked. "Yes." Mr. Flatten replied, "he has accepted the invitation." "How about Senator Lorimer?" was asked. "Senator Ixirimer is a member of the club," he was told, "and has accepted an invitation to the dinner." "Then I must decline to go," said Col. Roosevelt, adding that he wonld feel the same about the presence of Senator L,orimer as he would of sitting down with members of the II'!nol8 legislature vho are under Indictment in the (graft investigation The committee members looked their amazement, and finally, after ' some hesitation, informed their guest they would go back to Chicago ( and tell Senator Lorimer his views. "No," Col. Roosevelt said emphat- ( ically. "Send a telegram telling him that I will not attend the dinner tonight if he Ib there." The Hamilton Club men were per- < plexe-d. but their embarrassment was , apparently not noticed by Col. Roose- , velt, who chatted with others standing near by. After some interval the fallowing telegram was drafted and dispatched to Senator Lorimer: "Col. Roosevelt positively declines to s?* at the same table with you. Our invitation to you for this evening is hereby withdrawn." This telegram wns signed by former Judge John H. flatten. The delegation which waited on Col. Roosevelt to escort him to Chicago and the banquet hall was taken completely by surprise and their discussion of the event did not cease with the sending of the telegram to Senator Lorimer. Judge Ilatten, as the spokesman of the party, said that the incident, was a complete surprise to him. "Tho club had invited a number of prominent Republicans among them the Republican Governor of Illinois and various Congressmen, and it had not occurred to the men ?uu ai ians?u me dinner," sai(l Judge Batten, "that they should not Invite a Republican Senator. Under ( the circumstances there is nothing for us to do except to respect the . wishes of Col. Roosevelt, the guest , of the evening." On the trip to Chicago there was much discussion of the possible out- , come of the incident and all mem- . hers of the delegation appeared relieved when they were informed on arriving at Chicago that Senator LorImer would not attend the banquet. On the street, in offices and in public buildings the tidings caused much comment, particularly among those who noted that the ban against ' Senator I.orimer was coincident with the completion of the second trial of Lee O'Neil Browne, minority leader of the Illinois Legislature, charged 1 with bribery in connection with the i election of the junior Senator from 1 Illinois. 1 If Senator William Lorimer was ? surprised at the refusnl of Col. Rous- < evolt to sit .at the banquet table with 1 him, no Indication of it escaped him. I If he was displeased or hurt at tho ( frank exposition of distaste of his c presence he showed no signs. i l Nine I>rowned. < Reports Wednesday from the ( flooded districts of Hamilton and Comanche counties, Texas, along the p. South Leon River have not materially increased the death list. Nine 1 persons were reported as drowned, t which Include Mrs. George Carey ( and three children, J. R. Fulcer, 1 wife and two children, and Mrs. Mc- ( Cullougb. The crops along the riv- 3 er have been destroyed Wires are i down and full details are lacking. t COTTON GINNED FIKST RE POUT ISSUED DY THE P CENSUS DEPARTMENT. Amount of the Staple (tinned of This W Year's Crop Shows a Big Falling ' CUT to September 1. The number of bales of cotton ginned to September 1 from the growth P of 1910 was 3f?6,824 hales, round , ni hales counted as half hales, accord- ' n< ing to the report of the census bu- ' ol reau made at 10 o'clock Thursday a morning. The 1909 lolul wits 388,-1 tn 242 bules; the 1908 was 402.22J fv bales, and the 1907 was 200.2 7 8. tn Comparative statistics by States of cotton ginned follows: pi States. 1910. 190 J. tr Alabama 4,505 13,r>3.> tl Arkansas 2 7 4 49 b; Florida 60 4 3,542 Is Georgia 2.818 106,3 10 lc Louisiana 1,106 3,47 0 si Mississippi 535 1,760 North Carolina. .. 4 1,070. ol Oklahoma 397 1,370 tc South Carolina. .. 198 18,949 st Tennessee 4 r< Texas 328,625 237,901 ai All other states.. 55 1 a The number of sea island bales included Is 208 as compared with ol 1,236 for 1909. m Statisticians of the census bureau w do not consider the falling olT in the figures of the first ginning report to w the eastern States as significant as N might appear. They attribute the s? decrease to the lateness of the crop n< rather than to any cause which in is the end would effect Its volume They ti say that the spring was late throughout the eastern southern States, re- S< tarding the growth of the plant and R delaying its maturity for about tvo u< weeks. Without having any other pi definite information they expect a in material improvement In future re- b( ports. The season has been unusually good in Texas, which fact ac- tl counts for the prospective large crop in there. pi hi GAVE DEATH DINNERS. m , v< Was An Eccentric Host mnl 1'rules. 111 pi irable Husband d< Julius L. Brown, oldest son of the 0? war governor of Georgia, and broth?r of the present governor, who died Lhe other day at Atlanta, was a unique character. He graduated with honors from Harvard and practiced i*, law for a time, but gave it up and became a collector of rare coins and curios. He was a friend of the stage and entertained at his home every prominent actor and actress who came to Atlanta. He also entertained President Gro- 111 ver Cleveland, sitting in a chair once S( owned by Napoleon and dining off a tablecloth that belonged to the til- * fated Maximilian. Mrs. Brown sep- jV erated from her husband because of his eccentricities, and for many years he had lived alone in a great Kliz- ^ ahethan mansion. Yearly he gave a "death dinner" ^ to a band of cronies. At these dinSt ners everything was emblematic of death. The table was in the form of ^ a cotlln, there were skeletons and skulls about the dining room, lights I were so arranged as to produce ghostly effects and skulls and bones were on the menu cards. io WEALTHY PAINTER. tr * ti IL-iilh C. 1 11 r? I ?M?T IB to lie Kit h. That Frank Nicholas, of Momence, Ills., a member of a crew of painters at work on tlie Burlington Round j.', House there, was not an humble craftsman he pretended to be, but a wealthy man studying sociological problems, came to light thorough a search of the man's effects after he had been killed by a fall from a ladrc tier on which he was at work. Deeds p to valuable Chicago real estate, min- ()f lug property in the Dakotas and dock in various railroads, aggregat- ( ) ing over $50,000 in value were found j among his poaessions. CRIMINAL NEGUtiKNCK ^ ed Millionaire Motorist Held Vnder Serious Charge. ( "Guilty of criminal negligence ' ht was the verdict found Thursday by lo a coroner's jury against Edward "i". sij Itesenheimer. tho young millionaire, dr whose motor car ran down and kill- bi id Grace Hough, the 19-year-old co loonhU, ?.# ? 1' ? -- - ' .....?hi ui a trHriy on ir.e ?i norning of August 18, in the Bronx, tr. Mew York. It is charged Rosenheim?r who was driving put on full pow>r after the collision. The coroner refused to admit Rosenheimer to ha :>ail Thursday and said he would ea onsider an application for bail Fri- n< lay. th ? ? po Negro <Jlrl Burred. vc The United Statee supreme court tr< nay be called upon to decldo Just of vhat constitutes a negro In tho Unit- a 'd States if the court of appeals uplolds the decision of the District of ^olumhia supreme court. In which 8- of rear-old Isabel Wall, who Is 1-16th atl legro blood, was barred from the* ye vhlte public school. ut ' I REMOVE BALLINGER OIXT OF XO QUORUM RAISE I AFTER VOTE IS TAKEN. Titli "Regular" Republican Memlit-rs AWnt, InMirgfiits and l>omtik Huut MJin At an executive meeting of the allinger-Pinchot investigating comlittee held at Milwaukee on Wedesday Senator Duncan U. Fletcher, f Florida, a Democrat, introduced resolution holding that the Secreiry of the Interior w;is an unfaitn'.1 public officer and should be reloved. Representative Madison, the Renblican insurgent from Kansas, inoduced a substitute holding that le charges which have been made v Glfford Pinchot and Louis Glav, a former chief of the held divism of the general land office, weie istained. Representative James. Democrat, [ Kentucky, offered an amendment ? Representative Madison's substiute resolution, providing for the ymoval of Mr. Rallinger from office id Mr. Madison accepted the mendment. The vote came on the substitute [ Mr. Madison as amended by the lotion of Mr. James and the roll as called. Those voting for the substitute ere Fletcher, W. E. Purcell, of orth Dakota, a Democrat; Repre ntative James A. Graham, of 111 iais. Democrat; Representative Madon, Republican, and Representave James. When this vote was being taken ?nator George Sutherland, of Utah, epublican, and Representative Samel W. IMeCall of Massachusetts, Reubltcan, left the committee room, isisting the full committee should ? present. The Democratic members replied tat they had been months considerig the evidence, that a quorum was esent, and had a right to transact tsiness. Senator Nelson, the chairan of the committee, took the vote, >ting present himself and then ade the ruling that no quorum was esent. (Sir. James made thp nntnt r?f r?r >r that no member raised 'he pom' ' no quorum before the vote had ?en called. ELIMINATE MIDDLEMEN. nions of Texas and Oklahoma Soil Cotton Direct. It was announced Thursday by the esident of the Farmers' Union of exas and Oklahoma that a deterined effort will be made this sea>n to eliminate the middleman .In arketing cotton from that section, s a result of the Galveston bankers id cotton dealers coming to the asstance of the cotton producer; of exas and Oklahoma during the liincial troubles of 1908 and 1909, le farmers' union contracted to indie the cotton of its members trough the port of Galveston last >aion. This was successfully ac>mplished and the contract h is jns' ?en renewed for another year. Speaking of the matter. President oudermilk of the union said W'^d?sday that Galveston was selected ^cause it is the purpose of the unn's selling agency to bring .cotton oducers directly into touch with le spinners and dealers, thus cutng out the middlemen, who are a x alike on the producer and the dnner. TWO KILLED I?V FOI L AIR. itrm Well in Lancaster County Causes Tragedy. A dispatch to the News and Courr says Jim Shields and "Buster ' raig, two negroes, lost their lives cently by foul air in a well on S. Criminier's place, several miles Heath Springs. The men were preparing ro clean it the well when Craig's hat fell He went down to get it and. >t returning. Shields was also bowed into the well to find out what 0 trouble was. He likewise fail1 to make any response to those at e top. His brother, Sam Shields, then arted down in the bucket, to which > was securely tied. After being wered some distance he made a gn of distress and was at once ?v?i n|7. >> iitu itiKen out or me ickot he was in an unconscious ndition, but later revived. Foul r in the well was the cause of the agedy. I<aily lluns for OfTice. Miss Maude H. Cook, of Denver, is announced that she will be a ndiuate for the legislature on the ?raocratic ticket. Conservation of e State school lands will be the ap al which she will make to the ters. and if elected she will lnoduce a bill to prevent the sale these lands and retain them as perpetual asset of the schools. Trial by Jury is regarded as one the most sacred and venerable intutions In the land, but some lnwrs and Jurymen seem to do their most to bring It into disrepute. I J MAYOR HITS AT TEDDY ? REFUSES TO SERVE ON THE RECKI'TION COMMITTEE. Because the Former President Said Many Hard Things About the Sosialist Some Time Ago. Poon after Roosevelt arrived a Milwaukee Wednesday and before he sat down to breakfast at the Pfeister i hotel, he found himself involved in. I a controversy with Emil Seidel. the socialist mayor, who had declined to act upon the reception committee which welcomed the colonel to Milwaukee. In a contribution "Tto he Big Stick." a newspaper published by the Milwaukee Press club for this oc casicn. Mayor Seidel stated that "if Mr. Roosevelt comes to Milwaukee holding the same ideas which he exi pressed in an article published bv him March iiO, 1909. it is clear that , he cannot serve the cause of honesty and decency iu American political life." > I tap From >lnyor Seidel. ! "! is possible that I have misuni ders'.ood the article." stated Mayor Seidel, "but inasmuch as I am a socialist and he has called socialism f a thing which is against morals and I religion, 'abhorrent,' 'revolting. which would replace the family and ! home life by a glorious state of free ' lunch counter and a State founding asylum. I am sure that he will be pleased that 1 am not personally connected with his reception in the city." No ltiglit to l'reach Morality. i Charging the colonel with "a cun, ning and deliberate purpose to cre ate a false impression," he declared that the visitor "could lay no claim , to the right of preachng either morI ality or religion or ci\ic righteousness." In the speaking tour of Mr. Roose velt through the West." continued i Mayor Seidel, "I fail to see anything of impoorlance beyond ik?1 itlca 1 designs and plans. As such, of course. it is of no special service to the present city administration. The probi lems that now confront oar cl'.y are of much the same nature as those the nation faces." Shown the Statement. T'pon being shown this statement. Col. Roosevelt promptly said: "On this trip 1 have made no partisan political speeches and of course shall not break through the rule now by discussing either the State party matters or the municipal party matters, and at present of course the dominant municipal party in Milwaukee is the socialistic party. "If any one wishes to know nv Views on what is usually called 30 oialism, they will find them sot o it in such fashion that it is impossible to misinterpret or misunderstand them in the articles to which the mayor in his letters refers, and 1 advise them to read the articles themselves and not what the mayor says of them." CMMJ1S ON* UNO INK. The Miraculous Ksca|>e From Death of n Young Man. Climbing from the wreckage of his buggy, on the pilot of a locamotive flying at the rate of 50 miles an hour, Fred Minor, aged 18 years recently clambered up on the running hoard of the engine and inco the engine cab. His escape was near to the miraculous. The engine on the Lake Shore railroad struck his horse and bugs.v a few miles outside of Ashtahula, Ohio. The horse was killed and Minor, wedged into the wreckage of the buggy, remained on the pilot of the rushing engine. Indignant, he climbed into the Cab. he says to tell the engineer what he thought of him. He claimed that the engine had no headlight. The engine stopped to let him off. Minor pointing out that his parents would expect him home early and he walked the six miles back to town. He was not hurt. "EARTH DISEASE" FOUND. Incurable Korean Ailment Worries Health Authorities. The discovery of a case of dreaded Korean "earth disease" or "tochil" in Seattle, Wash., was reported to the King County Medical Society Tuesday night. Toohil has been seen but on rare occasions In the United States, being brought here from the Orient. Because of the fact that It is incurable and infectious, the medical society will investigate the sanitary features of the case. It is likely that the Korean will be taken in charge by the government authorities and held for deportation. Who Will Kun Over. A dispatch from Columbia says it was learned Saturday afternoon that there was a mistake of 3,000 vot_s in the tabulation made by the State executive committee Friday nigiit. by which McDuffle Hampton, son of Gen. Wade Hampton, is in the race for Railroad Commissioner with Jan. Cansler, instead of O. C. Scarborough being in the second race. The ( mistake waa in the Greenville vote. JUST A TRIFLE TOO I SURE. J ? <> The young man with the beetling I eyebrows and the assertive ueckti I paused to knock the ashes from t n pipe. i "Who'm I going to take to the the atre party?' lie echoed. "Why, don't tnind telling you that I'm rjing tc ( take Kthei!" "Oh!" sa?4 the oth<~ young man whose quietness .. bis noticeable charae">- "Have }ou asi.ed U?1 . The young man with the necktie looked fai wly surprised, "llow'd you ivnow I h..iin"t?" he inquired. "I'll tel phone h? r tonight. 1 w as so busy all day 1 didn t have a chance. Besides, f there's no hurry. There isn't any one ] uKi'iy io asK ner hut you, ami now, that 1 ve siwtken first, of course" "Why, of course!" agreed the quiet } young ii.an. "1 shouldn't dream of , Interfering with your plans! ' I "That's oue thing 1 like about you." j confided the young man with the tie. ( "Some fellows dou t kuow when they j are licked, but you've got common | sense. Oh, 1 was just spewing generally. There are fellows, you know, who'd 'a' sneaked tiff and phoned Eth i el before I'd had a chance. Of course, ( though, I don t know that you're so awfully keen on going w itli her your- t self, only you've gone to sec her a lot." "Yes, 1 have," agreed the quiet ( young man. "I've been so busy lately i haven't had time to see Ethel as often as usn- ' al," said the young man with the tie I "I expect she's sore about it. This I theatre party and some dowers and candy'U tix things all right! 1 know girls!" ' "You do, indeed," agreed the quiet v I young man. "She was speaking about 1 you only the other evening.' The young man with the tie tried ic ' look unconscious. "Was she?" he ' asked carelessly. There was a si- ' lence. "Say," he broke out at last, '1 don't mind telling you?we're old 1 'rlends and you are sort of one of us. 1 you know?I don't mind telling you ' that I'm going to marry that girl!" The quiet young man stirred iutc ' urprise. f "Ethel?" he inquired, explosively. ( "l'h-huh," said the young man with 1 tne tie. "1 expect you are kind o sur ' prised. 1 "atter myself that I don't ' .et on to the general public just what ( intend to do, hut I've been thinking < it over for a long time, and 1 \ e de ?ided she's the girl for me!" "Oh!" said the qinet young man ' .nore calmly. "I see. You?you c hnvun'* aoL.o.1 1,.... The young mail with the tie shook his head. "Are you going to telephone?" hip friend inquired with innocent interest. The young man with the tie looked a triftle suspicions, but dei ided nothing was meant hy the question. "Well, no," he admitted. "I hadn't thought about it. I didn't decide until just recently. I'm not going to jump into a thing like that in a hurry and bo sorry ever after. I know what I want in a wife. Now, Ethel is not too pretty, you see?she can't tie vain about heraelf, and a vain woman is always sell.sh I abominate a selfish woman! Al? she thinks about is herself and her own comfort. 1 want some one who 11 consider me tirst. It's right that the man who provides the home and works for it should be considered first.!" "1 see your point," said the quiet young man. "Some fellows never think of these things. Ethel isn't everlastingly chattering, either. She would give a fellow a chance to do a little talking himself. Most girls think tiie only thing of importance is what they have to say. Did you ever notice now Ethel will sit and listen with her nead on one side, as if she was so interested?kind of amused?" "1 don't believe I ever did," said the quiet young man. "Perhaps not, said his friend with the assertive tie. "You probably haven't had as long talks with her as I have. She alv.ays listens that way when 1 talk. That girl is intelligent, and when she gets a chance to listen to conversation that's worth while she ^ does it without interruption. I think she's economical and a good housekeeper. l?on't you? Not to speak of her father being pretty well fixed, you know !" "1 have great admiration for Kth ' el," declared the tpiiet young man, "but | never exactly figured out her p good fpialilies as you have done." "Well, that s natural you didn't have ( the idea in your mind that I did," said ' the young man with the tie. "No. I didn't," said tne quiet young ' man with a fervency that caused bis friend to look puz/led. "You see," went on the quiet young man, as he got into his coat, "I believe Jt if I were you I'd not waste a nickel t telephoning to Kthel. She promised v to marry me a week ago and 1 rather think she expects me to be her escort t] to that theatre party. Good night!" j The young man wttn tne violent tie || sat staring at the chair which had t been occupied by the quiet young j Ill?II. J "I'd like to know," be said at last, "JuRt what it was she said when she spoke about ine the other evening! Come to think about it, I believe his tone war sarcastic m beu he mentioned it!" n c li jj FIRE ON SHIP 1 Causes Explosion Which Killed Three Men and Injored Nine ABOARD NORTH DAKOTA riw Mysterious Accident Ot-i-urrel in liOwer Clu'siiiH-ak*' Buy Thura?lay Moruiim While the Atluntic Fleet Was Sailing from Southern Drill (ituu'x'H. Another of those ragedles. whi? h 50 to show that lite sailor offers Ma life to his country in time o" peace is well as in time of war, was eotcted Thursday morning in the dread lought North Dakota, about 10 mites rum Norfolk, in lower Chesapeake Hay. when an explosion of ml and he ensuing fire cost the I'voa o* hree men and more or less striont njury to nine others, including Chief Lieut. Orin U. Murfin. The accident happened far from iny shore, and for several ho irs the vlldest rumors circulated through>ut the community. The official report of A'ttntrd Schroeder to fhe navy department tames the following dead and injured in the tire of the battleship Nor'b lakota: l>ead: Joseph W. Schmidt, coal lasser. Robert Gilmore, coal passer. Joseph Strait, coal passer. Injured: Chief Machinist B. \V. \ndrew. Machinist T. (J. McDonougft, 'has. C. Roberts, machinist's mate, Sebastian J. Wittwer, fireman, first lass, James A. Brady, fireman, first lass; Leo F. Pioreh, fireman, second lass. John G. Morrison, fireman, irst class, Fred I*. Kinney, fireman, irst class. Rear Admiral Seaton Schroeder, ommamling the Atlantic fleet, made he following succinct statement of he accident: "Retween 10.30 and 11 o'clock oil rom room No. 3 in North Dakota aught fire, while the first squadron >f the Atlantic fleet was making pas>age from the Southern drill groundn o Hampton Roads. Under a rcjuest from the commander of the <orth Dakota the comniander-inihief of the fleet immediately ordered the North Dakota to leave the leet formation and the battleship Cew Hampshire put in near to renler assistance, in caBe they could be if service. No assistance was necessary and iy 11.30 the fire on the North Dacota was under control." "It has not vet ? low the lire started, although It is lot believed that the accident was lue to anj' carelessness of the men >n the North Dakota. A board of nquiry was natned to investigate the incident, consisting of Capt. C. A. Tore, of the Delaware, senior ofllcer; Liieut. Commander I,. V. Price, of the Delaware, and Lieut. Commander LH. Procter, of the Connecticut. This joard will thoroughly look into the ause of the explosion. After naming the dead and injured, stating that the three who vere dead were "killed outright," \dmiral Schroeder adds: "The injured men are all eapect d to recover. Chief Lieut Orin <?. durfin was in the fire room at the inie of the accident and was burned, >ut not seriously. "The North Dakota, shortly after he accident, anchored off the Thim>le Shoal lighthouse. The woundect nen. who are severely hut not eerously burned, who are remove?l Tom the North Dakota to the hospial ship Solace and are receiving th?> est medical attention." The settling tank in No. II fire oom. near whti-h tho - ?.?v mi v ? 14ml ciil* y broke out is part of a double-hotomed compartment, in v hlch tha uel is carried in hulk. In inch fiio oom are. two 250 gallon tanks. Into vhieh the oil is pumped to he setled; it is then pumped into the fite. The North Dakota hal a fire once efore since she was launched, m Covember, 1!?07. That was on the 2th of last May, at the Hoston navy aid, when a red-hot rivet dropped nto one of.the after magazines while he ship was in dry dock. The ironrpt responce of her 250 men to lie ship's fire call resulted in quick xt inguish nient and averted tho hreatened calamity. Oapt. Albert .leaves," who commands tlie North hikota, is a Tennessean and has had hirty-seven years of naval s-rvi.-e, rirluding nineteen years at sea. Customs drafters. At N'ew York Patrick J. Quigl-y, , former customs weigher, v. ho tesiflefl Friday in the customs uikIi /eighirig trial, declared that while mployed on the Arbuckb- sugar ocks in Brooklyn from 1905 to 907 he had repeatedly partlcupated n under-weighing operations. ( stifled that llis fee for pa sing the nvportations was "from $50 to $?.">o ier shipment." * Killed hy Baseball. Edward Ballard, 20 years old, was ;lllcd in a baseball game Thursday ,t W'isner, Mich. A foul lip h't him tver the heart while he was playag the position of catcher. i : j|