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mm mump Trnnid mfffiKO ItXrlfl BB Bdlwj Stwer Skews Him Dp ii a p Bad Light by Pablisbiif I THE IRELAND LETTERS WK These Lettm, Which are Now PubB Ushfd for the Flint Time, lUUex a Direct Question of Veracity Be gf twees Roosevelt and the Archbi. I shop and Mr. and Mrs. Storer. I As told Is. the press dispatches, | i Mrt. Bellamy Storer, "My Dear Maj rih," Mas written a letter to the f Springfield Republican from France In which "he reviews in detail the famoup Cardinal's hat episode, which rnpdn each a stir four or fire years SO. The Storers have been friends of the Rooeevclia for years. Mr. Stores, a r.?n of medicore abality, was a Congressman when 'Mr. Roosevelt was police commissioner of New "York, and it now appears from Mrs. ' fRorer's account of the matter that vt ' it was Mr. Storer who secured for p | , "Mr. Roosevelt, at the latter's urgent solicitation, the appointment as assistant Secretary of the Navy under President McKinley. When Mr. Roosevelt went to Washington as Vice President Mrs. i 8torer seta fbrth that he accepted ' their house la Washington at half the rental Mr. Olney had paid for it. Mr. Roosevelt explaining "We are ao fend of you that we don't mind helag under obligations to you." <W Naturally, therefore, when Mr. Jr Roosevelt succeeded to the Presldenffy the Storers. who were then in ftpain. to which country Mr. Storer had ~ been sent as ambassador, felt that their star was in the ascendancy.^ Mrs. Storer quotes in full two letters from Archbishop I ir eland" lb show the substantia 1 basis upon which their hope rested. Mr. Roosevelt, It will be recalled, sneered at the Storers for having aspired to the court of St. James or to Berlin. Here is what Archbishop Ireland wrote Mr. 6torer two months after Mr Roosevelt became President: St. Paul, November 3,1901. My Dear Friend: I have had two most pleasant meetings with the President at the White House. .tip. is decidedly your friend, and resolved to give you the beat there " -Am. "Even," said he, "if Berlin comes drat, and Bellamy wished it for a little while, pending Choate's retention of London, I would give it to him and change him shortly afterward to London. Let him trust me." With kind regards to hire. Storer, I am very sincerely, { John Ireland. Qdr. Storer did not get either of the poets he sought. Instead, he waa transferred to Vienna. Mrs. Storer alleges that in September, 1903, she and her husband spent a day with Mr. Roosevelt at Oyster Bay, while on a visit to America, and that Mr. Roosevelt at that time requested Mr. Storer to go to Rome and urge the new Pope to make Archbishop Ireland a cardinal. Mr. Roosevelt has denied emphatically that he ever did anything of the aort. .In the light of his denial the following letter from Archbishop ? Ireland is of interest: ' ': . St. Paul. October 23, 1901. My dear Mrs. Storer: ? I was in Washington last week and, of course, saw the President, I spoke with him of Paris and removed from his mind all suspl cion that a Catholic would be there a "persona non grata" as embaasador. He promised me that the next embassador to Paris vould be iMr. Storer and furthermore expressed the belief that General Porter would soon retire. The President also told me that he had commissioned Mr. Storer to speak fo him viva voce at the Vatican. He seemed rather proud of having done so. Give my love to Bellamy, and believe me, very sincerely, John Ireland. Here is another letter from th< Archbishop to Mra. Storer, written month later than that just quoted: St. Paul, November 23, 1901. My dear Mrs. Storer: ? The President said to me: "Mr. Storer has told you what I said to him about you, Archbishop?" "Well," I replied. "I do not remember." "About his going to Rome?" the President then ask ed. I said "No." "Well." he snid, "I told him I would not write a letter to the Pope, asking for honors for you; but I suid that he could go to Rome and say - viva voce?to the Pope, how much I wish you to be cardinal, and how grateful I personally would he to him for giving you that "honor." 1 am most clear in my memory as to every word. I will write about American politics to Bellamy, With most affectionate regards to him and to yourself, 1 am. sincerely, John Ireland. (When Mr. Storer went to Rom< and tha report was cabled to Amer ka that he had visited the Vaticai at the representative of the Presi dent, Mr. Roosevelt, according t< j Mrs. Storer, became alarmed lest h< > night Incur the wrath of the Anti Bg ^ ii .iii ii ?a? i FATAL WRECK x " f 0 " .x i SIX PKRSON8 ARK KILLKD IX ' TKOLLKY CAR CK.CS1L Freight C?r Patwes Stopping Place and Collides With Passenger AU.Iing to Death List. tDisobedience of orders by the crew of a freight car Is said to have 1 bean the cause Saturday of the second nterurban traction wreck in three days in Indiana. Saturday's disaster cost the lives of si* nirann* ? ? ? ? r?" ???? and the serious injury of six more. The southbound freight car crashed head-on into a northern passenger car on the Indianapolis & Peru division of ihe Indiana Utah Traction company shortly after noon, two miles north of Tipton, Ind. The freight car had beeu ordered to stop at the first switch north of Ressler's crtseing. but tried to make the first switch south. A clump of trees hid the limited and the crew of the freight barely had time to jump. The front end of the limited was shattered and all passengers in the smoking compartment were killed. Farmers living in the vicinity of Ressler's crossing heard the crash and after telephoning Tipton for physicians went to the aid of the injured. Nearby homes were thrown open and the injured made as comfortable as possible. "One of the sad features of the wreck is that I)r. \V. C. Holshauser. of Brooklyn, N. Y., who, with his brother, Walter, was killed, was on his way to Kokomo, Ind., to be married tonight to Miss Nellie Coxen. daughter of the secretary of the Great Western Pottery company ot" Kokomo. The brother was to have been best man at the wedding. Miss Coxen was prostrated when she heard of the death of her fiance. "I guess we over-ran our orders, said ftlotormnn Lacey or the freight car, who, with Conductor Sebree, jumped when he saw the limited bearing down upon them. Just three days ago, almost to the hour, occurred the fatal wreck near Kingsland, Ind.. on the IHuftton division of the Wahaah Vallt?v Tmk. tion company, which caused the 1 death of 4 1 persons, with three more 1 still in the hospitals of Fort Wayne, with barely a chance for recovery. * GO VKK.VM K.N'T FIG I I IKS. ' i ( Given Out in Itegard to Pellagra and , Infantile Paralysis. The mortality report of the cen- < us bureau, covering investigations *1 for 1 y09 takes cognizance on infan- i tile paralysis and pellagra as diseases i to which the flesh is heir. The record shows 569 in the former and 1 116 In the latter class. The statistics cover only slightly more than half of the population, extending only to States or cities which require the registration of deaths. As comparatively little of the area in which pellagra is most prevalent is included *?n the reglstation section it is suggested that the report on that malady scarcely gives an adequate idea of its real ravages. i Owing to the fact that the deaths i of Infantile paralysis were widely distributed the inference is drawn by the report that the disease exists either in epidemic or endemic form in many parts of the country. Catholics, vehemently denied that tie ? ?.. ? 1 w - uau VICI nugfrsiru aucu a mission to iMr. Storer, and later, following the consistory in 190f), flew into a passion when Archbishop Ireland was not honored as he had requested, wrote Mrs. Storer a most insulting letter, denouncing her in the public prints and brutally dismissed Mr. Storer from the diplomatic service. The public is not especially concerned about the Storers and their fate, but Mrs. Storer's revival of this particular incident of the Itooseveli Administration makes interesting reading, in view of the fact that the ? citation of the Ireland letters makes ! the issue of veracity lie not net ween the Storers and the Kx-President. but between the Ex-President and the Storers plus Archbishop Ireland. It now appears that either Mr. Roosevelt was guilty of bald misrepresentation or else the Archbishop misstated the facts. "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned." and when that wo man is possessed of the patience which has heen exhibited by "My Dear Maria." collided with the instict to know just when and h >w to Rive reign to her pent-up wrath, she become a dangerous adversary for even so seasoned a controversialist as Theodore Roosevelt. Mr. Roosevelt's popularity has oozed from him recently in a canner and degree which have amazed veteran observers. Thus to be pitted against a leading officer of the Catholic Church will advantage him nothing anion a the Catholics of America, the 8 more especially in view of the Vat ican incident of last spring. i The hero of San Juan Hill Is not - the first man of his type to be un? done by a woman, as history, sacred e and orofane, will abundantly testify. - ?The News and Courier. \ ( jkS / BREAKS RECORD Ckavese, Pervviu Aviatar, Follaws Ea flc's Reate Acrau THE SNOW CAPPED ALPS I'mwcH Safely Over Yawning (Jalchen and Threatening Peaks of Italy's Natural Fortress, Only to Meet With Disaster and Serious Injury Within Fifty Kasy Allies of Goal. The great feat of crossing the snow-capped Alpine barrier between Switzerland and Italy in a heavier than air machine was accomplished Friday by George Chavese. the young Peruvian aviator. The plucky hero of the exploit, however, lies in a local hospital badly Injured as the result of an accident that occurred just as he had completed the most arduous and nerve-raking portion of a task he had set out to accomplish?a flight from Brig, Switzerland, across the Alps to Milan in Kaly. in all a distance of about 7a miles. Beth his legs are broken, his left thigh is lractured and his body is badly contused; but the physicians in attendance are of the opiuion that these hurts will not prove fatal and that unless unlooked for complications ensue Chavese will be about in two months. The accident occurred as Chavese was endeavoring to make a landing at Pomodossola, Italy. The Alps had been crossed successfully and the aviator was descending with the power of his machine cut off. When about thirty feet above the ground a sudden gust of wind seemed to catch the monoplane, which turned over and fell. When croads that had been waichin* thu rioiii'nnt run up they found Chavese lying twisted and bleeding; l>eueath the twisted wreckage. Fifty miles away lay Milan, the goal for which he was seeking in order to win the prize of $.U,UU0 offered by the Italian Aviation society. Chavese lost the race. The weather at Urig was clear and bright when Chavese made his start Leaving the ground with his motor running at full speed he rose in sweeping circles until he Itttd reached an altitude sufllcient for him to crear the shoulder to the southeast- i ward of Zrig. i This obstacle having been overcome, the Peruvian aviator headed ( his monoplane straight for the snowcapped crags of the Fletchern. Constantly ascending, Chavese reached the Simplon Kulm, where, at an altitude estimated at 7.'-'00 feet, he turned his machine south over the terrifying Simplon pass with the Kaltwasser glacier at his left and the frozen peak of the Hubschliorn at his right. After crossing the divide, Chavese turned to the towering white mountain head of Monte Leone, which rises to a height of I 6,<54 I feet, and passed down above the Conde i;orge, until he reached the open valley of Vedro, and then descended easily toword Domodossola. which is 8X9 feet above sea level. It was here that the accident occurred. Some of the spectators of the flight say that Chuvese. after crossing the Simplon pass, followed the short cut route over the Monseera pass, which is 8,000 feet above sea level. If this he so, it is possible that the Peruvian beat his own world's record for height of 8.271. The 2.7 miles between Hrig and OomodosHola. which it took the armies of Napoleon a fortnight to negotiate. Chavese accomplished by the route of the eagle in axactly forty minutes. From the high point at Monseera lie descended 7,0 00 feet in 13 minutes, his machine gaining in momentum as it flew over the jumble of lower peaks, gulches and hills beyond until the speed was terrific as it appronched the aerodrome at Dontodossla. This doubtless caused the accident which turned the cheers of adoiration of the waiting crowd into cries of horror when the machine came hurling to the ground just as it seemed that fhnveae ?.:i? nlwmt m alight in safety. After treatment in the hospital Chavese regained consciousness but was unable to explain how the accident had occurred. The generally accepted opinion is that the accident was due to a slight shift in the rudder while 'he monoplane was being sent at a high rate of speed. Although Chavese did not succeed in winning the prize of $20,000, having failed to reach Milan, some of the members of the aviation committee are in favor of turning over the prize to him and erecting a monument in commemoration of mans first flight across the Alps. (Chavese, although a Peruvian, was born in Paris in 1887. He secured his license from the Aero club as air pilot in February 19 of this year. Chavese was able to receive visitors at the hospital for a few min-i Alps." THEY ARE NO GOOD INSURX3KNTS HAVH DOXK NOTHING IN CONGRKSS. So Hays Congrrwrnijui lUiwjr, Who Arr?i(jt? the Republicans G^oerally for Plundering the People. ConRr^semnn Henry T. Rainey. chairman of the Illinois Democratic State convention, declares that the efforts of the 9vu>. v^uiifti ru-smen had be?D purposeless and futile. and predicted general Democratic victories throughout the country In the coming election. He said in part: "The Democratic party is united today as it has not been for fourteen years and the Republican party is divided as it has never been in all Its history. The Republican party leaders stand today upon more thoroughly discredited than the leaders of any party have ever been during all the decades of our history. "A great leader among the insurgents in the recent disturbance in the House might have been able to accomplish something for the country. During the last session of Congress insurgent Republican members professed to be against the PayneAldrieh bill. They professed to be against the Speaker of the House of Representatives and they insisted that there were in favor of revising the rule* and enlarging the committee on rules in order to mak^ the House a deliberative body. "Recently we have given them a chance to vote to repeal the PayneAldrich bill and every one af them voted for it. The Speaker of the House charged them with being traitors to their party and insisted that they ought to be hanged, not shot: they ought to receive the punishment usually given to traitors and we then gave every one of them an opportunity to depose the Speaker. Almost without exception thsy voted for him. and so the present Speaker of the House of Representatives has the honor of being twice elected Speaker during the life of one Congress. "When the Democrats succeeded in enlarging the committee on rules the insurgents at once held a caucus and refused to accept positions on that committee, but declared themselves to he in favor of going into a Republican caucus and abiding the result and they did. The effect of this action on their part was almost to completely nullify the fight made by the Democrats at the last session of Congress for the establishment of a deliberative body. When the speaker continued his denudation of the Insurgent members, they finall.v fiercely retaliated by shutting off the gasoline from the automobile purchased for him by the CongTess. and this is the only victory that can be credited in any way to the Insurgent members of Congress up to the present time. "The regular Republicans have failed to accomplish the things the people are demanding. The insurgents have failed miserably and the people are about to give the Democratic party a trial. "I do not desire to attack the administration of President Taft. it is not necessary to do that. In all our history as a nation no administration has been so thoroughly discredited. He has surrounded himself by an official family who represent and who 9tand for those criminal trusts against which the people cry out in vain at the piesent time. He has been subservient to those interests which prey upon the country, and has Iwen controlled by them as no other President has been in all of our history as a nation. He has been most aptly described as being "a large body surrounded by men who knew what they want.' " liOOTRO AM) Hl'ltNKD. Owner of Hiium* Was While the Burglar* Worked. Hur-lars burned the J.'iu.OOO residence of \V. E. .Muse, of ilindsdale, 111., early Saturday morning, after stealing thousands of dollars worth of silverware, jewelry, rugs and tapestry. according to the owner's report to the police after the fire. The thieves loaded the plunder into an express wagon, he ciatnis, then set fire to the house and prepared to fire an adjacent barn, but tied without having done so. Muse was alone in the house, the domestics having gone with 'Mrs. Muse on the summer vacation. The attorney claims he was forced to lie in bed by one of the burglar's while others carried out the property. i,...., i. .... ........ t/ltl Mrs Fannie Leonard Wight Cloveland. of Marietta, (la., died at her home Friday morning, after a short illness. She was ninety-four years old and one of the few surviving actual daughters of the American Revolution. Mrs. Leonard was the mother of Mrs. J no. It. Cleveland of Spartanburg. utes that night. Although week, he was in a most cheerful mood. "I am unable to explain the cause of the fall," said he. "I am delighted at being the first to croaa the PUT IN THK PHN. "Broker in Hearts" Paying Penaltj for Defrauding. Inane R. Warne, a "broker In hearts." as he termed himself, wae Friday sentenced by Judge Landla. i In Chicago, to serve 14 months In the federal prison at Fort Leavenworth for using tho United States mails to defraud. (Warns confessed that he had used the mall in earring on the business of his marriage bureau. His clrcu iars depicting the sadness of lonely old age were read In court. One of his books sent to prospective customers was entitled "The Way to Win a Woman's Heart." It contains the following passage: "You do not know what It la to live alone, uncared for; anknown when old age overtakes yon. Solitude fills one with horrible agony. Solitude at home by the fireside at night In so profound, so sad." * LOW DKATH RATK. For the United States He ported by Census Bulletin. The death rate in the United States in 1909 was fifteen in each one thousand, according to a bulletin issued by the census bureau. This is the lowest average ever reported for this country. The figures cover only the cities and State having laws requiring the registration of deaths. These represent 55.3 per cent of the estimated total population. In addition returns were received from flfty-fo'T cities having local registration law?. The total number of deaths recorded was 732,538. of which 398,597, or over 54 per cent were of males. The greatest mortality occurred in March, and the lowest in June. WANTS HKK DIAMONDS BACK. Hemarkable Suit Filed Against Columbia lawyer. Seeking to recover a necklace containing 2 1 diamonds and a solitaire diamond ring alleged to have been given as a fee in a case which she had instituted against her husband. Mrs. Alice I). Whittle, of Columbia, tiled a suit against Frank Q. Tompkins, one of the leading members of the Columbia bar. Perhaps the most remarkable grounds ever given in a eivii suit in South Carolina are named in this unique case. Mrs. Whittle claims that when she gave the two articles worth a small sized fortune to the attorney she was not in her right mind. The suit to either recover the diamonds or to be paid the sum of $1,000 was filed at the office of the Clerk of court for Kichland county. The attorney representing Mrs. Whittle is A. II. Ninestein of Harnwel! county. M KKT WATKRY 1>KATH. Four Autoist.s lb-owned by I'lungiug of Cur into Canul. All four occupants of a large touring car. returning from a lake shore resort to New Orleans early Saturday, were drowned when the car, rounded a curve in the West hind shell road at a high rate of speed, shot straight ahead and plunged into the New Basin Canal. A laborer on his way to work was the only witn??ss to the accident. He said the car passed him at such a clip lhat he was unable to note how many persons it contained. It was at first reported that the car had seven oecunanta when it left Wnut Knd and. the canal was dragged for several hours after these four bodies had been found. Late Staurday afternoon it was definitely established that two men and two women were the only persontt In the car when it went into the canal. Shoulder llressed, Not Head. John Young, a negro hod carrier at work on a soysoraper, at Denver, Col., was filling his hod when a fellow workman dropped a brick eleven stories above. The brick hit Young on the head. looking up to ascertain the source of his intruption, he saw a second brick speeding toward the same mark as the first and he ducked. The brick hit his shoulder Then they took Young to the hospital, where they dressed his shoulder?not his head. Cholera's Toll. A dispatch from St. Petersburg, Russia, says the fin tires available at the sanitary bureau show that dur nig inn present cnoicra epidemic there have been 191.071? case* with 88,716 deaths throughout the country. In the week ending September 17 there was a total of 4.4 12 cases and 2,0 71 deaths. In the last six days there have been <101 new cases and 62 deaths in the city. * Gruesome Proposition. Rather gruesome is the proposition advanced by Indiana health authorities to try the effects of tuberculous milk and cow meat upon a life-term convict. The life-termer, it is proposed, shall drink infected milk and eat Infected meat, and If he i survlces. he will get his freedom. * OWE NEGRO SHOT As the Resalt ( an Attempted AssmI m a Married Wemaa, SEVERAL SHOTS FIRED Small Son of Negro (baplr Wounded Ibiring Melee.?Negro. Hr Wife and White Man Arretted.? The Fiend I<akl in Wait for the Woman ltehind Some Week*. A row between white men and negroes In which several shots were fired and a small negro boy wounded resulted from an attempt by a negro to assault a white married woman at Lancaster on Saturday night and the subsequent effort to arrest a negro man suspected of the crime. Th* suspected negro and his wife ga?o (battle and their son was shot, presumably by the mother, though unlntentially. Later the negro, his wife and a young white man were all arrested. (The woman in question, whoso home is in the suburbs of Lancaster, was returning trom a vleit to a nearby neighbor, when a negro man sprang out from behind some lalt weeds and seized her. She screamed with fright and broke loose from his clutches and ran, but the brute soon overtook her and caught hold of her again. For the second time she succeeded in getting away from him and finally reached her home ta safety. Failing in his pnrpoee the negro quickly disappeared in the dark news. At the Ime of the occurence the ?u} t> nusoana wa? up town, but he soon returned home and upon being Informed by his wife of what ha-d happened started out. accompanied by some three or four friends, in search of the negro fiend, obtained from his wife a description of her would-be assailant, his dress, ete., and the direction in which he disappeared. The party went to the house of John Mackey, a negro tenant on one of Chief Justice Jones' farms east of town, and. pretending to want to buy whiskey, engaged Mackey in conversation, after calling him outside the building. While talking to him one of the party seized Mackey at the same time remarkiug, "You are the nigger we want." Mackey jerked loose an ran hark into his house, where, it Is said, b*> got his pistol and his wife a shotgun. A row was soon in procees. a n 11 nVh??r at uhAfu _ VN/VO W*U(S UI cu, VHU no one was hurt except Muchey'a son. a boy about 10 years old, who was shot In the hand, presumably by his mother, as the wound was Indicted by a shotgun, and she is said to have been the only person present armed with such a weapon. Cater in the night Policeman Hell and Constable Hunter went out and arrested Mackey and his wife; also a young white man. Hob Hunter, who is said to have been a member of th?* party that went to Mackey's home. The parties arrested are now in jail. A STKAVGK OtXTTtKNCK. Covey of Fat Cartridges Caught in Hotel Bedroom. Messrs. Sheffield and Wolf, two well known traveling men from Savannah, had a rather unusual experience in Mr. Wolf's bed room at the PfeifTer hotel in Sylvania, Ga., Tuesday night, when they flushed up a smjall drove of partridges jn ttu? room, about midnight. The two gentlemen had been sitting up talking shop, and taking an occasional drink of ice water in Mr. Sheffield's room, until about twelve o'clock, when Mr. Wolf went acrosa the hall to his own room and struck a light. As soon as he did so, he was startled to hear the well known whirr of partridges, as they rose from the floor at his feet and salleo across the room. Kuhbing his eyes to see if he was dreaming of being out in the woods with gun and dog. ho was fully convinced when another largo, plump partridge rose from the floor and. in its flight, struck 111 in on Hit* head. .Messrs. Wolf and Sheffield succeeded in catching the covey and they proved to bo large, tat ones, nearly grown. It is supposed that they llew in at the open window late the afternoon before, and were roosting in tlie room, as they are more plentiful than chickens in the held and gardens around Sylvania. Twelve Inch (iiin Kxplodee. During target practice of the Atlantic fleet of the Virginia capes Friday one of the big 12-iueh .\0-ton guns of tlie battleship Georgia burst, on tlie first range shot. The muzzle as fur back as the forward end of the jacket was blown off. The crew miraculously escaped injury. * Killed Many Cuttle. Oharbon, which has caused the death of hundreds of cattle in Southwestern Louisiana has been stamped out according to announcement made i by the Louisiana Sanitary Liv? Stock Hoard. *