%
FIYE ARE DEAD
As tie Resait ?f the Collision of Two
Tmos Near M^Cormck.
MANY OTHERS WOUNDED
Krowitvn Fnils to Ikplivt*!*
Mivt Orilrrs iinil I ( ! Train*
With l-'ntal
irtrvvr Hughe* Will l>ie. Only
Trainmen Killed.
A dispatch from Augusta. Ga..
says owing to the operator at M?
Corcv.ck. 8. C.. failing to deliver
"meet order" for Train No. 8. leaving
Anderson. 3. C.. for Augusta, at
3.50 p. in.. Passenger train No. .1.
leaving Augusta at 4.4 5 Sunday afternoon
for Greenwood, collided with
the Anderson train at 6.45 o'clock at
the forty and a half mile post, two
and a hall' miles of McCormiek. S.
C. The trains were running at top
speed and came together in head-on
collision. As a result of the collision
five trainmen were killed and seven
trainmen and 10 passengers were
injured.
Both engines were completely
wrecked, the two baggage cars
[ were telescoped and the next two
cars on both trains were badly danik
fHl4t list of dead is as follows:
daglOMr Arizona Kiwis. 0] A.i
f cuata. Train No^.
Fireman Jim 8pro*i? \ < <>K>r.-ii
ta. Train No. 8.
KirematT^lllm?a>.Wai e, colored, of
Augusta. Trainee. *
Mail Clerk W. F. Acker, o f Anderson.
Train No. 8.
Train Porter Heard Searles. colored.
of Augusta. Train No. 3.
The iujured are:
"R I. Hurt lav a t 1'..
leg and ankle broken.
A S. McNeal. baggage mister on
Train No. 8. of Augusta, mashed in
ehest and shoulder, condition serious.
Tnciuoer F. S. Hughes, of Augusta.
of Train No 8. fatally injured.
J. G. Stilwell. Augusta, road master
of the Augusta-Anderson division
!Conductor Joseph Hernlon. of
Train No. 8. body mashed.
Baggage Master 11 K Burns, of
Augusta, of Train No. 8. slight 1\
hurt
The following passengers were also
injured:
W. F. Smith. HartsviUe. leg hurt.
W. K. Cutltff. of. Albany, Ga.. .light
? hftnnss
B. N. Sego, of Greenwood, ehe-u
sanid hip injured.
K. D. 9elg#r,*of McCormick. leg
nughtly Injured
tMtss Alma Williauis. of Greenwood.
body bruised.
\Loren/.o Rivers, of Augusta, sou
of Engineer Rivers, slightly hurt
Jenny Payne, of Greewood. ?erlinjured.
a.ols8 Dawson, dead-head fireman,
internal injuries
Peter l.yeh, head scalded and leg
bruised.
All of tbe above passengers were
nn tholt' a/??u j
-? " u ? IU * I ? tcU TN UUU unci V\r j t?
xent to that city in a physicians
charge, a relief train was mad** tip
I at Augusta on receipt of the ?? ?* of
the wreck and litis train was inimek
<tiately sent to the scene
& Shortly after the wreck Dispatcher
iirowden at McCormick telegraphed
B the Augusta office of the r and W\
B C Railroad and stated that he was
I ?o busy selling tickets that he foi
got to show the signal to stop train
| 1 No. 3 for Augusta for orders Train
a iNo. 3 registered at MeC'onniek and
left n-t once tor Augusta,
a Conductor K. I. Fo:;er. who was
^ -on train No. 3. escaped injury mid !
| walked the two and a halt miles to;
McCormiok v\it!i the news ot tin
wreck Then* Capt. Foster secured ;
1 an engine and ran hack to the scene
\ -and took the eoacli from the \uyus
\ ta bound train bark to MeCorniiek
\ mittdkic mystkkv ('i.kaiikd.
Two Men Confess to the Mtit-deriiig j
of Another Man.
One of the most gruesome mid
irysterious murders on record hi New
Orleans was cleared up Sunday by
complete confession, according;
-*?tDC detective department. ot i.mi
rn<?? held iu the parish prison for
maker, whose dismembered ood>.
wed up in a sack, was found float-!
ing in the old basin last Tuesday, j
The two men, the police say. con- i
fessed that after felling Roldel and
finding that they had killed him. |
they cut up the body, placed it in a !
sack and threw it Into the canal in j
an effort to conceal it
Digs I |? (odd Coin,
nigging in his flower bed w ith a I
spade Kdward Casey, of near South
I'end. Ind., came across a piece of
something yellow which turned out
to !*? a $20 gold piece. A little deeper
he found and old tin can and in
It was concealed $ 1,4 40. * .
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OUTLAW DIETZ QUITS
AFTHK \ F1CJHT OF FOI K YKA15S
Hi: SI KKKMlKKS.
Showed White Flat* When lie a.ut
S?ii Were Shot ami His Wife i
About to Colla|>se.
After four years of conflict. John
Deitz, the outlaw of Cameron Dam.
Wis., has surrendered to the Cnited
Stales authorities and th?* unique
struggle of this one man and .i;*
family has come to an end. Tap
last scene in the drama was enac?ed
last Satunlav when, after holding oft
100 deputies amid a vertiable rain
of bullets for over 1 *J hours. Dietz
sent out his little daughter with a
white flag, and the surrender of the
fearless Wisconsin Settler followed
immediately. Hoth Diet/, and his
son Leslie, were wounded, and in
addition Mrs. Diet/, was in a very
delicate condition, and this led to
the end of the unequal struggle. On <
the side of the authorities one deputy
had been killed and about a doen
wounded before the battle ended.
Came to the core, l>ei?z made a
desperate struggle before he acknowledged
himself beaten. When i
an order was issued for his immediate
arrest last week, the outlaw let
it be known that he intended resisting
to the last, and it was not until
Saturday that a determined effort
was made to capture him. Then 100
deputies with Winchesters, were sent
out from Winter to attack the Deitz
fortress at Cameron Dam.
The attackers, creeping stealthily
through the dense woods, surprised
Dietz and his family, who were all
outride their log home. Amid a hail
of bullets from the posse the family
ran inside the house, hut the tirst
volley mured the beginning of the
nd. for the bullets had wounded
Dietz in his right hand and crippled
his son in the leg.
From that time on until marly
nightfall the beseigers kept up a
desultory tiring on the cahin. and
Diet/, tearing harm to his wife and
younger children, finally sent out a
white tlag. Together with his family
he was promptly placed under arrest
and taken to the jail at Winter.
There they will he held, as Mr. and
Mrs. Diet/ and their oldest son are
eharged with murder.
Diet/ came into the limelight
ahout four years ago, when he defended
Cameron Dam, on Thornapple
apple river, against one ot the largest
lit in her companies in the state,
lie claimed that dam was on his
property and tied up several winters'
cuts of logs, valued at thousands of
dollars, hy refusing to allow them to
pass the dam without paying toll.
He was fought in the courts by the
lumber company, but defied the order
of judges and held off at the
point ol a gun ail officers who attempted
to serve papers upon him.
Diet/, won
The last controversy between Die'/,
and the authorities of Sawyer county
dates from Sept. G, when Diet/ abut
tnd seriously wounded Hert ilorrel
in Winter. Wis., in a wrangle. It is
said, over rent due on a school
house. Diet/ lirst quarreled with C.
ti. O'llare. president of the Winter
School board, it is said, and llorrel.
taking O'Hare's part. struck Diet/..
Diet'/, tlieii shot and has since claimed
it was in self-defence.
?
IlKMDADI D TII1HTV Tllt)l SA\I?.|
4 'IlillCsc Kxeciit inner llss Killed That t
Many I'coplc.
Thirty thousand Chiuaiuen have
lost their lives under the blows from
the sword ot the public executioner
in Canton. China He knows nmli
ing of the electric chair, the hangman's
noose, or the guillof inue. The '
Criminal who is condemned to deatn j
in tlte Celestial empire ge.s short j
shift.
lie i- dil'eeted to tile plaee of
death, kneels down, ami dueks his
head well forward The e\reut ioiiei
who is armed with a two-handed I
double-edged flat swortl. takes ir.s I
place and wiili one blow s< vims lilt
criminal - bead.
Then the next steps np for the
same stiintnary treatment And they
have been going s tine, for the e\e?
111inner is oiiD ?? year <>i age ami
has been in the business not morel
than half his life.
Tile executioner !X about SIX feet
tour inches t ill and his sword weigh
about pounds. He is pmund ot
his trusty blade and declares t never
takes more than one blow to kill
I hi Tuo-4'ent Tlietl.
K.tl
. . .. ^ I V . -< II i w 111 s 11 e
from a store in Hnston. (iooi'Rc I*.
Ifurrehan. ot Churlestow-n. .\la->s..i
was scnifiict'd to spend si-von nionm*
in prison. lie told tin* court that
he wanted the whistle for his child,
hut when it was found out that towns
not married the lie.u i sentence
followed * !
Inmil) l'i-ee I'loin llfiilti.
Mr and Mr*. M.iunrie l-'n'tnonl
eel?M>rat< d their golden wedding .it
Tort Austin Mich recently. and "\er\
one ot their 1 "J children and
their oflfsnrini; was present. I?e;ith
has not invaded the Fremont family
in fit) years
WHO WILL WIN?
ICe Democrats anl Republicans are
Fighting for the House.
DEMOCRATS FAVORED
lint' llunitri'ii unci Kiclilcon l?i>tru'ts
.\ro (H'batjililo Kiiiht.v-Two Soat??
Now llt'ltl l>y IU>|iutiliciins \it Vow
in tin* I*. alamo?Squabbles lliml
IkiMiiihtir.'inw ??? ! Ili'li*
The most momentuous election
the country lias seen in half a century
is now in progress. It will determine
whether the Republican party,
the party of national administration
is aide to keep control of the National
House of Representatives
Democrats of political foresight are
emphatic in their claims that the
next House w ill be Democrat ie and 1
that the Hon. Champ Clark will he '
the immediate successor of the lion.
Joseph (?. Cannon, Speaker.
Dissatisfaction with the ltepuhli- 1
can-made tariff is causing Republicans
to give their support to the
Democrats in the doubtful Congressional
districts, of which political experts
claim there are its in the
country. There are It J*1 members of
the House of Representatives. In
the present House U 17 of these are
Republicans and 174 Democrats. It
is generally conceded that there ar*?
111- districts reasonably sure for the
Republieuns and 141 for the Democrats.
This leaves lis districts doubtful
or debatable, in which the battle
for the control of the House is now
raging with more than the accustomed
Congressional vigor. The
Democrats feel they have a remarkable
chance *o show their strength
in this campaign, while the Republicans,
satisfied in some sections over
the tariff are dissatIstieel in others.
in some sections torn by party tights
and in other sections placidly content,
are placed absolutely on the
defensive behind breast works not
t>11 iIt of solid rock.
Of the debatable districts mentioned.
are now held by the Republicans
and I'.ti by Democrats The
fact that there arc so many debatable
itepublieun districts, indicate
on the surface that tie- Republican
party is in a perilous defensive pos
ition. and that remarkable work
must tie done by Republican campaign
managers in order to save
these districts and thus save the
House for the Administration.
l'olitioal experts in figuring upon
the chances for a Democratic Hons,
rely greatly for a base of operations
upon the three special Congressional
'lection held early in the year. The
tirat was in the Sixth Missouri distr'ct
for a successor to the late David
A. DeArmond. Mr. DeArmond,
Democrat, had usually carried the
district bv 3.000. C C. Dickinson
Democrat, carried the district by approximately
3.800.
The second, a pure out-and-out
tariff battle, was held in the Fourteenth
Massachusetts district, where
rhe late William C. l^overing. Republican.
w.i? accustomed to polling a
majority of 14,000. Here Kugene
M. Foss. Democrat, was elected by a
majority of 5.COO. overturning as
on see a tremendous number of
normal Republican votes.
The third was in the Thirty-second
New York district, where .lames
It. Havens, Democrat, was elected to
succeed the late .lames It. IVrkiiM.
Republican, whose normal majority
was. more tbiiii In it"" XI.. i
-"If I
carried the district by .1 majority ??r j
nhotit T.non. In this < lection. th<* i
ti ti h t against tin* political prill-'
. iples <?i He-- ' Alilridge. Havens j
Itirni'licin op|i(ni.'iit rh:in .11;.mis
'in* ttirilT.
These three r?*niark;i hi** spe?*i;il
< -1. I ions were responsible I'ti i* the
I leinnertits elit i 111 itiu ill ndvallee tile
next Mouse <>i lie present at ives They j
\eli* remarkable. too. in sin > vv ill p
lie modern teiidenry Ml voter- to I
shift easily from one party to an-j
other, when oeeasions seem to ?! - j
in.tint vigorous parti discipline It
must he renienihefed. however, that
in the acknowledged debatable j
Republican distriets. the routests j
v ill not !a* as strenuous as they were '
til the three distliefs mentioned ;
1 hov e.
In Vermont. the Kepuldieatis shc.w j
d their displeasure oj the present \
\dmiiiistration to casting a very .
light vote for then two represent;!-I
iv?*s. who. in order to he elected,
had to promise not to vote for Jos- j
ph 1; Cannon for Speaker In j
Maine a month ago the Democrat.- \
won practically all alone ftte line.. !
two members ot Congress managing'
to wiggle through in the irnni.i! He
|tnlilit'itn ov'-rthrow
Tito IUMiiorrats in Mnino. lone .i
in si r<>tieho! I .; ii "In- eo\
rnor. hIIht srato oth> ?T>. both .
hr:?nrh>-s 01 *ho logislai uiv. .uol two
CoimrfHsnion Thf Hei-Mon of a
Doinooral ir siu-n'ssor to Sonnmr
llali- i> lln-ri'loi'i- assuioil Tli?. aotion >
m fhoso Ni w l-'.nelaml stalos natiirillv
tilloil flu- honris of flu* liortio
rat-- ifu-ouehout the country wiln !
ho|io
Kveu without tho Mii>j>urt of Tito
HEAVILY PADDED
?
thk <i:xsis i\ somk \vi:stki:\
citiks a swinih.i:.
It Is Itelieved Tlial (irios frauds
Have Keen l'er|?et rated ami an
Investigut bin is (halfi-ccl.
Staggered t?v tin* mormons growl o
?howu V?.\ the rc'iii'iis oi ine new
ivnsus for a number of W'csi > i. ?ji ies.
Director Durund, of the census
bureau, has ordered an investigation.
the result of whirh appeared
in the announcement Sa'-iirda> night
that gross frauds had been perpet.ai
rtl.
Cities specifically mention" ' i * '
being affected by the frauds. ar>- Taroiua.
Seattle and A'tfrilcfa. V. asiiington:
Portland. Oregon: Minneapolis.
Minn.; Boise. Idaho, and Fort :
Smith. Ark., hut is is staled tliti
tlwre art* many others.
The result of a second ?*n >iiie?-t-|
ion of Taiotua. Wash.. was ami >.m.
red. The cit> shows a population I
of S-.ft7'J, an increase of t *>.-?. j
nr ll'it per cent oxer the poptilati it; j
of 1 firth.
The first tip tires turned in fot Taenia
were tltl.ltJS. Itt other wor I.;
i lie aetual population was padded to!
the extent ot Jlt.'.'ilti. whieh would
have meant a further addition of ? '
per cent. 1
These additions were made in .1. !
out of enumeration distrie s jut
Tacoma. In some of these distrb,;, j
the number reported pro I <? :oi
several times greater th >t. the ,u - |
tual population. In ten districts the I
lirst enumeration showed 2fi.
names, whereas the eorreet ttuniher
was found to In- I 1. ?4tl.
Director Durand's statement consists
ntaiuix of a letter front Itiuisi
addressed to Secretary Nagel. of the
department ot ctinimeree and laltor.
dated Oct s. in which the whole ease
is presented.
Director Durand's letter sets fot tit
that attempted "pudding" was mainly
through the use of slips printed
by private individuals and tout.lining
the census questions.
These were debar* <1 freely on t It
street colliers ami elsewhere and
were tilled out by thousands ot people
xv ho either hud already been
nenierafed oi who were not perm.,
nent residents of the city ami 110
entitled to -iiuiiiorat ion there It i.possible
tlia in some eases Die names i
were XX lit?l IX lieliliotIS
These uaiii<-s were tinned over by:
the private iutlivitltials win. eolle. letl
t In-ni, through special agent St ace;.
Il t'asei li> til III ill"
and thrv. under 111st met ions of Special
Agent Corwin. added the names
to tin- enumeration 1 ?y assigning them
as "boarders" or lodgers." to various
houses in their districts.
In other words, the director states,
the numerators deliberately made
the false statement that these persons
were residents at this or that
patuieuiar street number although
the enumerators knew nothing whatever
with regard to the natrnt.
Sleeps With fauns.
At raid to face his wife when he
returned to his tent at the fair
grounds in Detroit. Mieh., .lames
Swonson. a lion tamer, crawled into
the cage with his lions and sl--pt.
There his wife found him, and (nodding
him with a lent poll, declared '
he was the biggest coward she h .u
ever k now u. |
Death in Shirt Itosom.
A stiff .-Dirt bosom and neckband j
caused the death of Frank Amiel
Johnson, of Hartford. Conn. He oecame
111 and fainted and while his J
head was pitched forward on his j
chest he strangled to death. * j
odore itoose v el t. i he 'insurgents" in!
'lie Itepuhlica u rank- had reached
high water mark in the states 01 j
litornia. Washington, Oregon Wis-'
cousin. Minnesota. Iowa, and Mich;- j
gall. Ill everv state battle had raged
between tin- two wings of the pari> I
uid evcrv inch id ground was eon
... t ...i
.-.-I <-11
lii \?-? 11 a 111 |isli iri> ilw Progress
i v ? had in n li Mm n llii- old Miai'iiiiii
at tli>- ??!? 11 primary, nominal ing Mr |
llaNS. a Ufpulilira 11 not represent ing
I In- railroad interests, lor governoi.j
In Now York state, Tlieodoi ? j
Htiosi'Vi'li, aided hy many oltieiais. j
del'eatnl tin- Vim*-I'ro-uli nt tor t? in- |
oorary chairman ot t ho Itepuhlica >t
stat?' convention. dictated the plat-i
torni. and nanioil tin- ticket. tlins ;
-coring .1 strong: point lor the "in
-ureonrs.' Ileveridgo has won in Indiana.
another "insurgent" point. j
The Progressive Kepiibllcns were!
heaten. however. in Ohio. The "np|
guard" ot Kepii .ileans practically
won out in Missouri, and West Virginia
Itepuhiieaiis have hacked up j
Senator N It Scott, seeking re-eloc- i .
tion The "insurgents" were routed;
in North and South Itakota an.I n>
Nt'l?rnnk:i. Marvland and 1 ?ela wan-, I
Colorado. Idaho, ami Wynmini;. considered
radical. were now in oienecd
in tin- conservative U-|oihlican 1 in
as (11 r a- nominations wore concerned
This -urns it|% the critical politi- j
ctil situation in a nutshell There I
are three groat factors. Iieinocr.i s j.
old-line Itepnhlicans. and insui ,
gent" Republicans in the figlf io>the
next (louse with the odi- favor-I
ing the democrats.
DOES THE WORK
t j
Cotton Picking Machine Invented by an
Augusta Boy Said to be
A WONDERFUL SUCCESS
I>?*v?-ri|iti<>n of the thicker nml How
It (>ut hers tli?' Klpof)' Staple?4'an
He lajuipped W'itli Klectrie l.iglits
Kor Work at .Night?To In- Math*
ill XtlgllstM.
It is here at last. The Augusta
Chronicle says, the Foureher cotton
picking machine, that marvelous
creation of inventive genius by a
bright young \ngnstu boy. was given
a practical demonstration in the
presence of a number of cotton growers
and business men in a nourishing
cotton Held on the farm of Mr. Kohl.
Fleming, four mites from the city.
All who witnessed the demonstration
agreed that Foureher cotton picker
is the invention of the age. and that
a great future awaits the machine
and its maker
The new cotton picker is the invention
of Mr. Harry K. Foureher.
of Augusta. Four years ago he coneeived
the idea that a machine could
In* made to take the place ot the
slow and. too often, unreliable negro
cotton picker, upon whom the southern
farmer depends to harvest the
world's greatest staple Mr. Four>
her began to work quietly and said
nothing of his efforts unit I he had
his machine patented and ready for
operation In the meantime cotton
picking machines were invented and
some were actually put on the oark.t.
Mut none were built upon the
Foureher plan, and he was enabled
to eontiuue his work indisturbed by
the tear of having his ideas "stoleu.
Fatly in the summer of 11?01* Mr.
Foureher exhibited his invention.
The eottou picker was a very crude
affair, luit the idea was there, and
his friends were confident that lie
world sonic day ;o tiic\>' success. The
machine vv;is given si'voriil tests during
the following tall. ami. iltliough
i picked cot lon. the invention was
still in tin- rough." Since that time
Mr Fourcher lias Imsied hintselt improving
upon his < riixiti: 1 idea, and
now he announces that the cotton
picker is alioui eoniyh-te.
The cotton picker used for the demonstration
is only a rough model o|
what the finished machine will he.
Other improvements have heen made,
ami the machines thai will In- put
on the market will he lighter and
more eoiupact.
The Fourcher cotton picking machine
is very simple and wr) pructlral.
A little narrow wagon gears a
small gasoline motor, which operates
a tiny electric generator. This in
turn applies the power whicli works
the picking machine carried In the'
hand hy The laborer Upon the little
wagon is a frame from which flexible,
wires connect the generator in tinwagon
to little dynamos carried on
the backs 01 the men who operate
tlie pickers. The little dynamos
weigh about two pounds each, and
ire attached by leather straps to finbacks
ol the workers. The pickers
carried in the hands of tin- men. are
operated hy flexible shafts connected
with the dynamos on their hacks
The picker is a small simple little
device. A little metal box with revolving
burrs snatches the cotton out
of tlie boll without any injury to the
line and throws it hack info the
cotton sack, to tin- month of which
the machine i> attached, and which
tin- worket draws along behind him
Tin- p'c.ker will not gather leave* o.frast
and the cotton is remarkably
clean Koch picking machine in. y i
he e11iiipped with apparatus foi eight {
pickers. Duly one picker was used i
iii ili<- demonstration. ami no effort .
was made io show tin- capa* i. > oi tin 1
machine. a- a 'crei a' necm who had
?e\er pieto-d a II nl loilnn in his
lit.- Iian.l ! <! (In- picket
\s tin- |iM-l??-r> work i w11 in i-.n I.
row, with .1 in!1, int.. nl i- nil I 11 a k
rs atfai in-d to each iii i.-liiin . In
lift 11* wacon is drawn >\ ha ! ilow .1
tin- miililli- row Tin- w a con is lich;
an.I <-:iii In- iI > iiio\ I*.! o.tin 1
lii-lil When II i- Hi operation i .ilii >>1
i-iirlains jiroti-.-t tin machiner. Irmnf
contact with i >111 >ii stalks weed
i-'i Tin- iii.i- I. in.- is i-i|.ii11. -ill s it a
elect rir licht. anil it is pos-nhii
io altarh -.inall ini-aiiili-si-i-ai lichts :
to tin- hats o! tin- workers. s.i tha
i-otion ina.v In- pii-ki-rt at nifrhi. just j
as coal iiiim-rs an- i-r|nij j>i-cl for their |
work in tin- tihnk depthIt
was shown b> tin- lest that each
picker can easll\ gather .".hii pounds
i?t' cotton :ii i-ai-h win kmc <la> of
I hours This means a caj>acit\ of
t.ioin |io ii nets for the machine Nil !
l-'ourclo-r declares that his finished'
machine, hantlled i?v v.j-rt i-ott.ip :
'.in mniii'i *111111 111>?1 j
11. t \ III 1" lllMlls I'll"' I'liln nil!
lit* can ! >i1111 for Il'.'i" I'jo-ii .m l
allow a good proili in thi' loiik' i
The lull valio- oi tin* inwniionj
lo (In* t'ainiors nl tin- South -; 1111 < ~
hr> osf i mat -ft When tin- srnrritv ol j
labor i* et'ii.-idi'i'i il. and the tnatti i
of rdim iiii-nri' m k?*tli?-rIiik and mar j
kofinn tin- crop is un<1?-r inntl, tinimportant*'
of tlo- invention is road I
| BLOWS HOT AND COLD
I:I:\ I:I:IIH;I: donk MOKK IIAIIM
TII.W
liooscvrlt's Incoasistennes Art- n>
Potent That the l(cm(Mi ?t> I m*
Them to Their Ailvnntnfi**.
The Washington correspondent of
The State says already I >e moo rats of
Indiana have begun to make use of
the material which was furnished
them by Uoosevelt on his recent visit
to the State. The ex-president went
into the iloosier Stat*- for the purpose
of aiding Albert Jeremiah lt?veridge
in his up-hill race for the
senate. He gave Meveridge his unqualified
indorsement. and therein
lies the material he furnished to the
Democrats who are tightint lleveridge's
re-election in the hope of substituting
John Worth Kern for tits
grand young man.
In his endotBomet of B?veridge.
Uoosevelt indorsed the action of
Meveridge in voting against the tariff
law. which, according to a signed
editorial of Uoosepelt's in The Outlook
some time ago is a better tariff
law than was the last one. There is
where the Indiana Democrats hate
a good chance to trap the KooseveJt
hurrah for Meveridge in the following
particular:
It w-ill be recalled that the colonel's
New York convention discovered
that the new tariff law reduced
the average duty on imported goods
about 1 1 per cent. D was very
strange, ol course, that this fact had
been previously discovered, but the
colonel's New York convention was
the only genuine, official and infallible
authority on the subject, and
so. epen if other findings had be-n
made, they were of no force after
the convention ot Uoosevelt Had given
its idea of just what the new tariff
law had done.
In so far as the new law. according
to Uoosevelt, reduced duties, .??
far was it an improvement over the
Dingley law llut lleveridge supported
the Dinglev law and opposed the
Payne law because it did not reduce
the duties enough' Yet ltoo*ev?>'.i
indorses tin* action ot' Iteveridge. ta
his Outlook utterance. he il1;?r?-d
t he present law is belter than it?<
predossor. hut Iteveridge was in favor
of t 1k> old law and was opposed In
tho now. Yet Koosevelt indorses
him
Thorn i> no dangei of t it*- people
ot Indiana forgetting that Iteveridge
lias changed front absolutely Kern
and tho othor big Democrats of ibe
State are not losing tho opportunity
to show up his inconsistency. as well
as that ot Ituosevclt. Tho ta> t that
Iteveridge was in favor ot high piotortion
until ho found that he could
not ho reelected on such a platform
is being worked with groat energy
in tho Kern campaign
As some oi the lionioeratie papers
re putting it. the Kern candidacy
is based u|ion convictions of a litetinie.
and not upon expediency for the
time being, a* oppoeed to lifelong
convictions. .Mr. Kern is not holding
a debate with his past speeches,
it is declared his present campaign
is not in refutation of his previous
record, as is the case with Bevcridge.
TUP CICOI'S AKK I'TXK.
S?id to In* tin- lies! Kvcf Known in
Thi>t ('(iiukitry.
The government crop report ithnvj
that 4!) records tor corn ind oatn
have been broken despite >onie high
figures in Hip past Indication
arc that corn will reach
lions are that rorn will reach
IV4.t?rt(i ln?.-hols atraiiist a imp
of 'J. b77 mot last year. The re.
ord-lire;iking oats crop is 1
:i!!i,iiiiii bushels, compared with 1
017ono in ibob. the yield pt-r
acre being III.!* hn-bels. com|>ar-?l
with ::0 iii l ! *? and 2 ! ..* , the ten
vein* average
The prod net ion 01 >prirg wheat
- e-iiniated hi tlie Crop Keportitic
i'.o iril, lor 191" was 17.
e die Is. compared with iMHI.vjl'.hOO
nslo Is in 1 bn'.i The production of
ill w heat tor I'.1 I" was t>9 1.7ti9.1111
it bushels, compared with 7--'. 7.|s?i
IIIUI tilisllel ill IbOJl The pro
.i -lion 111 iiiii irv i or I i? 1 U Alls 1 ;.S.i::
viiiift bushels compared wirn
I 7 * J .nun (msle-ls mi l ! i 1*
Incomplete i?-iiirn from tin* toluici
ii hull indicate the > ield will be far
>n\v the ten year avruI'i'iius. i\ania
showing a notable iiiiipmsi'. *
Slioois 11 i *> Kihiiii Male.
.1 11. ORlesby, a voting \tlantn
rheinlst, went Ilium- late Kriday ni^hi
.lint was shot in tin- thigh by lohn
Hasten, a hoarder, who thought his
friend was a burglar The wound
a ill mil prnvf fatal The two men
had liwn rooniiiiR together ai the
home o! Oglesln's mot lor 111 I ivi'i m
tlo- host llil'lnl Till* ili'i -111 < -111 w
deproed lit all i oimerted with it.
>nt nobody blaiio'it either of the
voting men as it seems to hate been
tin a i idable.
ily appremated Mr Konri iu-r plans to
m ii facturc tin- machines in \uriita
ami it is understood that a local
company a ill lit- organized tie for
the purpose.