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VOLUME XXi. GAM DKN, 8. C.. FRIDAY. APRIL l.r>. 1010. NO.13. fflUI DEFENDS JIFF'S FIRST YEAR Declares Chronic Insuisents Should Quit the Party. TRUST FIGHT WILL GO ON Determined Policy of Government In to Attack Kpeclttl Privllegt'i Whether Illegal Conibluatioiw or Obtained i>> llribery. It is not essentlHl to American progress or American prosperity that ono group of men shall con trol tho entire business of tlie United Btuies in oil, in sugar or iron, or any other commodity, and no bound principle of economic law is offended by striking down all such artificial combinations. C hicago, Ml. * Altorney-Gcneral ?Gorge W. Wickersbam delivered a defense of the first year of tho Taft Administration in a speech before the Hamilton 0,111b here in tho gold room or tho Congress Hotel. Mr. Wickersham's speech had been approved by thfe President and waa therefore the next thiiiR to an utter ance hv Mr. Taft himself He made what is practically a pre diction that the Tobacco and Stand ard Oil siiIts will bo decldcd by the Ktiprome Court in favor of tho Gov ernment and announced additional Biiits against, corporations for viola tion of the Sherman act and further announced "the determined policy of the Government to attack all special privileges and undue preferences, whether obtained by Illegal comblna tlons, by bribing public officials, by rebates or special advantages In trans portation or by any other method." Mr. Wlckersham reviewed In detail the accomplishments of the Taft Ad ministration, declaring In effect that no other administration could point to a brighter record in the same pe riod. An interesting part of his spce.ch, however, from a political standpoint was what he had to say of tho Insurgents who have combated President. Taft's legislative program. He mentioned no ono by name, but there seemed to bo little doubt that Cummins, Dolliver, La Foilette and others in the Senato who have fought tho Taft measureswere included with in the scope of his condemnation. The Attorney-General declared that It Is time now for Republicans to choose either for or against the Presi dent of the United States and the Re publican party, and added that if. they can't make a positive choice it is | up to them to retire from tho Repub lican party. "I speak to an assembly ofv loyal Republicans," said the Attorney-^3en eral. ','i am sure I voice your thought when I say that the time of running with tho hare and hunting with the hounds Is over, and every one must choose whether or not he is for the President and the Republican party. 'He that hath no stomach to fight' let him depart. Treason has ever con sisted in giving aid and comfort to the enemy. If any one wishes to join the Democratic party let him do so. But let him not claim to bo a Republican and in and out of season work to de feat Republican measures and to sub vert tho Influence of the Republican President." It would be a strained analogy, the Attorney-General thought, to liken too closely the task confronting the adiminstratfon of President Taft with the work of reconstruction following the Civil War. "The terms which General Grant had advised General Lee would be acceptable," ho said, however, "were as simple and con clusive as those which nearly half a century later President. Taft offered to the managers of great trusts and monopolies." Ho added: On thin anniversary of the peace of Appomattox the. mind naturally turns to many point3 of similarity in tho conditions prevailing in these two different epochs. The danger from armed resistance to constituted au thority is open and manifest, and is met by simple obvious methods. The danger to free institutions arising from tho concentration of vast wealth and great power In few hands Is far more Insidious than that ailsing from; open revolt against government, and the methods by which these dangers may be met and averted aro less ob vious and more subject to misunder standing than tho work of resisting force by force. The dally work of endeavoring to carry on the great and Increasingly complex business of government with out perpetual turmoil and commotion, but nono the less efficiently and ade quately, Is far less attractive to spec tacular imagination, and can only be done by men who are content to en dure misrepresentation and misinter pretation of th^lr acts, and to loolc to the future, rather than to the pres ent, for a vindication of their motives and a justification of their deeds. The administration of President Tart has been In office, a little more than a year. That it has accom* plished much In that time is abun dantly attested by the volume of criticism and' by tho Increasing ve hemence of attacks upon it. But it certainly has been ltd fixed purpose since the enactment of the Sherman law. In 1890, to prevent the perversion of laws of corporate or ganization through . intercorporate stockholdings to the accomplishment o? schemes of monopoly. ' These organitfttlona present the most obnoxious form where they con trol subjects of such vital Importance 1 '.LOUISE WfcVBRKCHT D?AI>. Pierre Killed Her and Then P6 rVank N. Pierre KIIU Committed Suicide. ? Weal Palm Beach, frla -^Xoolae Welbrccht, twelve yeara old, who, with her mother, Mra. O. W. Wey brecht. wa? shot by Frank V. Pierce here, la dead.? - ?- r Mr*. Weybrecht has a fighting chance to recover. The body of Pierce, who committed suicide, will bo taken t > Alhana. Vt. where his mother livca,.~fcr burial, H la fci Jioved he waa Inaano. to tho ontlro community as the pro ?11;ct!on and marketing of coal; and tho Dopartipent of Justice has recent ly argued and submitted to the Cir cuit Court of the United States, in I'hlladolphlu, a proceeding brought to break up a combination under which tho great anthracite coal production I of 1'ennsylvanlR is controlled by au intercorporate organization of rail road and coal mining companies, and the department lias now under prep nratlon a proceeding against a similar combination affecting bituminous coal, b/slloved to bo equally reprehen sible In its character and obnoxious In its effect. ~ The Standard Oil end Tobacco cases In the Supreme Court of the United Slates he referred to particu larly, saying tliov constituted the moBt comprehensive attempt ever made by the Government to deal with tho question or monopoly. "lu effect," he declared with em phasis, "they involve Uio question whether or not tho orlli'o Industries of this country may bo legally con trolled by one group of men. It Is not essential to American prosperity that one group of men shall control the entlro business' of tho United States In oil. In sugar, or Iron, or any other commodity, and no "Bound principle of economic law Is offendod by striking down all such artificial combinations." When he had finished reciting the administration's campaign against corruption tho Attornoy-Gencral said: "All theso represent tho deter mined policy of tho Government to attack all spcsiai p"iv 111,^cb n.uu uu* due oreferences whether obtained by illegal combinations, by bribing pub lic officials, by rebates, or special ad^ vantages in transportation, or by any other method." ASSASSIN KILLS MISSIONARY. Frank Skaln Shot After Sermon Oi Early Christian Martyrs. Plttsburg^Pa.?As ho was leaving the Httlb Congregational Church In Wood's Run. a suburb of Pittsburg, after an eloquent sermon on the early Christian martyrs, in which he had expressed his willingness to fay down bis own life for tho Christian cause, Frank Skala, a prominent mission worker, wbb shot down and killed instantly by Jan Itadovitch, one of. tho men to whom he had beon preach ing. Two bullets pierced his brain and fully a hundred members of hI6 congregation stood around, appalled and motionless, as he fell dead. Then the murderer turned his re volver on John Gay, another mission worker, who had been walking arm in arm with Skala. Before any of , the bystanders could raise a hand two rao.ro shots had been fired and Gax fell across tho body of Ills friend and follow worker with a bullet'In hi3 head. Gay's wound was danger- , ous, but hope of his recovery was held out in the St. John's Hospital, ] where he was removed. KD BY GAMBLERS. Victim Lost 84800 on i* Fake Race After Also Holding Real Money. Jacksonville, Fla.?Simon Jacob son, of Tarboro, N. C.. told the police that he was swindled out of $4300 on a fake horse race in St. Aygustlno In a manner similar to that in which Henry Wagner, of New York City, lost $10,000.? Jacobson, according to his story, .consented to the request of several men to act as a stakeholder. The amount given him to hold, he. said, amounted to "hundreds of thou sands." As his expenses were paid he put $4 300 in tho satchel with the stake money. Tho swindlers bet lavishly on tho race.. A Jockey fell oft their horse apparently dead. A fusillado of revolver shots rang out, and his acquaintances, shouting that he had better run for his life, ho turned the heavy satchel over to them. The swindlers' parting words were: "We'll meot in Washington." WALSII DIES IN WASHINGTON. Millionaire Was One of the Foremost Mining Men of (ho Country. Washington, D. C.?Thomas P. Walsh, the millionaire inino ownor, died at his. l.orao here. Although the "Silver Mining King," as Mr. Walsh was known, had been ill for the past three months, the end came suddenly and peacefully. Thomas F. Walsh was tho owner of some of tho richest mines In tho country, and his income was often referred to as the largest received by any one man In the weftid. Mr. Walsh was born In the County of TIpperary, Ireland, In 1851. He learned the millwright's t.ade in that country and emigrated to tho United States at the age of nineteen. The gold fever was theu at Its height, and Mr. Walsh immediately set out for the Western section of the country. He sattled in Denver, where he ob* tglned omployment in the office of a mining concern there. DIES FROM GAS AT 81. Husband and "Wifo Found Lifeless | From Asphyxiation. Providence, R. I.?With his wife, Harriot, seventy-nine, sitting uncon scious in a chair near by/ the body of Charles Eddy, eighty-four years old, was found lifeless on a couch In a gas-filled room-in the Eddy npart JWfet*. No. 12 Ring street, here. Roth persons apparently had been overcome by gas from aa open Jet Just as they were preparing to retire for the night. Mrs. Eddy waa-taken j to the Rhode Island Hospital, where 1 it was said that she had but slight! chance of recoverj^.^ ? J | Money Fot New Cbutb,^-|^ L%J4Jfc#*?ty-elght minute* 9324,000 wm raised for the new edifice of the Fifth Avenue Baptist Chuecfa, New < York City. John -Sb ftoekefeffer gtrtng dollar for .dollar ror the f!4t.?00 pledged by the congregation. This offer holde good np to f *60,000. . British ?German Wnr MH Sir Henry Trlekett In New York City expressed emphatic l.ellef that *?*.to threatened between JJrcat Brl Uta?nJ ternwfc- v-. SOUTH CAROLINA AFFAIRS TM Cream of Kiwi ItMU OaUnrod From All Qvt ftontt Carolina and Boll* Down. Congressmen Working for Building. Representative Lover appeared bo faro the house public buildings com mittee and urged a favorable report Xn hi* bill to appropriate $500, for a new postoffice and federal court house in Columbia, lie also asked the committee for an increase Of $20,000 for the Orabgeburg build ing. Mr. Kllerbe also appeared bo fore the committee, urging the claims of Marion and Bennettsville to post office buildings. Representative Johnson of the Fourth district, who is a member of the committee <i?nd "wlipse lecom i^pcndations have been generally ac cepted, is strongly iu favor of doihg something for Columbia at this ses sion. Good Showing of Sumter County. In the# Sumter commissioners' re port submitted to the court is noted the fart that during the past yeur the collection from commutation tax was nearly twice what it has been heretofore; that $7,.r)09 was spent on Iiri(la0? njwi r?aitu during ihs year; that the almshouse cost $><,842, and that tho number of inmates leveraged 20; that the county pensions 40 Confederate veterans at #36 per an num each; that $7,294 was repaid to tlie sinking fund, and that $647 was collected as interest on county funds in bank; that tho county's in debtedness is $42,107.88, and that the total income during the past year was $83,400.78. Charleston After Bell People. At a meeting of Charleston city council'resolutions wero adopted de claring tho telephone service in Char leston to be "miserable" and refer ring the matter to the corporation counsel and the committee on elec tric wires to take the complaint up with the Bell Telephonp company and secure an improvement of the servio by,, such means ,as may be deemed necessary and proper. Young Girl Raises $2 Bill. Rosa Trotter, a 13-year-old girl, was arresteH at Greenville charged with raising a 2 bill to $20. The money had been sent in a letter to ft Chicago firm, and Special Govern ment Agent Thomas, worked up tho case. The girl was held on $500 bond. She is from the mountains. The letter to the Chicago house con tained an order for a hair switch, hair tonic, rat, freckle lotion, safety razor and a trunk. Third Bank for Hartsville. The Secretary of Stule has issued a commission to Messrs. II. M. Par rott, H. J. Nettles and others, of Hartsville, for the organization of the Merchants and Farmers Bank, capital stock to be $25,000. This in stitution will probabfy open its doora about August 1st, next. Most of the stockholders are representative farm ers from various sections of the county. Southern Trestle Burned. Fire Saturday completely destroy ed the Southern Railway trestle, sev enteen feet high and fifty feet long, at Montgomery, 10 milcV west oI Columbia, on the Spartanburg, Union and Columbia line. No trains were endangered by the fire, the origin of which is unknown. The Judge Takes Action. Judge Davis in orders issued in structions to the clerk of court of Sumter county to serve certified copies of so much of the grand jury's presentment as pertained to the bonding business of H. T. Edens on all the magistrates in Sumter coun ty and on the commissioner of in surance. Head Hit by 200 Pounds. Charlie Meetze, ex-captain of the county chaingang, came) very near losing his life at Lexington. While at work on one of the boilers at the Saxe-Gotha cotton mills, a piece of iron weighing over 200 pounds fell and struck Meetzo squarely on the top of the head. Dr. Derrick says while the wound is a very p^ful one, it is not neces sarily fatal. Tried to Influence Juror. A signed statement was given out at the Chester court by a juror, N. W. ftigham, that on the opening day of the term he was approached by a man who talked with him with a view of influencing him in behalf of Jim Stevenson who was to be placed on trial during the term on the ebarge of murder; This jnror states (hat another jnror told him that.be, t oo, had been approached by the same man for the same purpose. Solicitor Henry has tftken the matter in liand and will conduct a rigid investiga tion by the grand jury of the whole business. , ^ Policeman's Advice Costly. The jury of the Criminal court was dismissed in Sumter Saturday. The moat important cbnvietion waa that of Jctartpn?y. Ixmey killed another negro in trying to arrest him. Loney claimed that, one of the 8nmter polieemen -I old 111 ?S>4 h s t if he or reeled this other negro and brought him into town be wbold give him 92. He was found guilty of man slaughter and waa sentenced to tve -years the pwblie works. -rr $128,037,602 VOTED WITH TWO miTLESHIPS 33 Democrats For Big Navy, 24 Republicans Oppose. TWO FLEET COLLIERS ALSO Oil Fltzgcrnld'tf Motion Kill Was Amended lo Make ICiffht lluurH lluildcrtt' Working Day at Ship l'ardl, Washington, D. C.^?By tho deci sive voto of 162 to 110, fourteen be ing present and not voting, the Ilouso authorized the .construction of two battleships to co*t $6,000,000 each. Thirty-three-Democrat voted for two battleships and twenty-four Republi cans against the proposition. This action whs taken 'previous to the pasBago of tho Naval Appropria tion bill, carrying $128,037,602. This amount la about $3,000,000 less than was recommended by the Navy De partment. In addition to the battle ships tho bill also provides for the construction of two fleet colliers and four submarine boatc. The Committee on Naval Affairs had reported \n fa?or of authorizing two battleships.' Tawney (lien., Minn.), chairman of tho Appropria tions Committee, offered an amend ment providing for only ono battle ship, while Hobson (Pern., Ala.) pro posed an amendment providing for three. Hobson contended that three battleships would give no increase, but would provide only for tho ordi nary depreciation in tho naval force. By an almost unanimous voto tho House rejected this proposition. Speaking in favor of his one-battle ship plan,-Tawney reiterated his state ment that seventy-two per cent, of the rovenuo of the country was being .expended for wars that had passed and for preparation for wars to come. Ho thought opo battlcp'nlo sufFcient to ma'lntaiu tho proper strength of tho navy. Thomas (Rep.. Ohio) proposed an amendment for four bat tleships. but the House voted It down almost unanimously. Tawne.v's amendment for one battleship also was lost by a vote of 104 to 13 8. At least thirty Democrats voted with the Republicans against Tawney's plan. Fitzgerald offered an amendment, which was adopted by a voto of 131 to 15, under which two battleships and two fleet colliers must bo built by firms working under the eight-hour law. Thirty-three Democrats voted with the Republicans for two battleBhi] s, whjle twenty-four Republicans joined the Democrats in favor of one battle ship. , Democrats voting for two battle ships were Aiken (S. C.)t Alexander (Mo.), Ansberry (Ohio), Bartlett (Ner.), Burleson (Te::.)f Car'.in <Va.), Clark (Fia.), Cox (Ohio), Craig (Ala.), Cravens (Ark.), D. A. Drlscoll (N. Y.), Gill (Md.), Gillespie (Tex.), Goldfogle (N. Y.). HamftMNi J.), Harrison (N. Y.), Hobson (AlaO, Hughe3 (N. J.), Humuhrles (M'ss.), Jones (Vn.), Martin (Col.), Maynard (Va.), Moon (Tenn.), O'Connell (Mass.), A. Mitchell Palmer (Pa.), Pou (N. C.)t Pu Jo (La.). Ranch (Ind.), Robinson (Ark.). Rothermel (Pa.), Sherle.v (Ky.), Sulzer (N. Y.) and Talbott*(Md.). Republicans voting with the Demo crats for one battleship were Bar tholdt (Mo.), Crow (Mo.), Davis (Minn.), Gardner (Mich.), Gocbel (Ohio), Grenna (N. D.), Ilamer (Idaho), Henry (Conn.), Howland (Ohio), Lawrence (Mass.), Leriroot (Wis.), Lindbergh (Minn.), McCall (Maes.), Mors? (Wis.), Murphy (Mo.), Nelson (Wl3.), Norrls (Neb.), Nye (Minn.), Prince (III.), Stafford (Wis.), Tawney (Minn.), Terrill (Mass.), Volstead (Minn.) and Wil ton (111). FOSS BROTHERS SIT IN HOUSE. liny State Democrat Lc<l to Desk by Republican From Illinois. Washington, D. C. ? Tho Demo crats of tho Hoiiss indulged in a de monstration when Eugeno N. Foss (Dem., Mass.) v/as escorted by his brother, Representative Foss (Rep., 111.), to tho Speaker's desk In order that tho oath of oillco might bo ad ministered to tho new member, who succeeds the lato Mr. Loverlng, Re publican. Republicans remained in their seats Quietly as tho Democrat** rose en masEo applauding and cheering. On the front row o* tho Speaker's gallery a sweet-faccd old woman Joined In the appl?uee. Sho was tho mother of the two brothers who were tbo centre of attraction. Her two daughters-in-law sat on either sid? of her and joined In the demonstration, i DESTROYER MAKES 30 KNOTS. Tlio Reid Establishes n New Rocord U For Nnral Vessel*. Pensacoln, Fla. ? Maintaining; a arced of thirty-sit knots an hour for four hours tho torpedo-boat destroyer Reid, Lieutenant Doddridge, estab lishes a new world's record for speed by a naval vessel. The vessel was on her final ei>eed test and aboard were representatives of the Naval Board of Inquiry of Washington, D. C. Vhe Reid is one of the new type of vessels recently completed and more than exceeded the Government re* quirements. c Her record exceeded the previous world's record by more than a mile an hour. _ JLu Hartford Elects Democratic Mayor, By a plurality of 8*0 votes. Edward L. Smith, a young Democratic lawyer, of Hartford, Conn., and on* ot Tale's .beat known graduates of reoent years, was elected Mayor over tba present Mayor. Edward W. Hooker, au Insur ance agent. Mine President 0?lltf. Noah E. Barnes, of New York City, was found guilty of stealing |30,000 of the funds of the copper, company ?t which ** nBMiill INDICTMENT OF GLASS TRUST Pittsburg Concern and 16 Offi cials Charged With Conspiracy. Organized Co Control Trad??Hcnl? feed a Profit of 50,000 iu I/V8S Thau u Year. Pittsburg, Pa.?The Imperial Wh. dow Glass Company, a corporation of WcBt Virginian birth, which lacks but ono week of being a year old, and slxtoen officiate wero Indicted by a Special Federal Grand Jury here on three counts: First, conspiracy in restraint of tho band-blown window glaBS trade In tho United Mates; bcc ond, engagement in illegal competi tion; third, attempt to monopolize interstate trade, < . Tho officials and directors of the Imperial Window Glass (Company, an named In the indictment, are: Pres ident, Myron L. Cane, of Maumee. Ohio; vlce-prosldent, M. J. Ilealy, Bradford, Pa., and treasurer, J. 0. Sayre, Morgantown, W. Va. Directors ?Thomas Splllaue, New Hcthluhom, Pa.; G. W. Morenus, Kane, Pa.; Thomas Camp, president Smithport Window Glass Company; W. L. Gra ham, Masontown, -Pa.; F?ilx Stoin berger, Clarksburg, W. Vu.; J. II. Drowsier, Wcstbil, W. Va.; J. G. Sayre, Morgantowu. W. Va.; C. P. Cole, Lancaster, Ohio; O. C. Tongue, Utiea, N. V.; Frank Hnstin, Vin cdnnes, Ind.; P. It. Wear, Kansas City, Mo.; A. Hudson, Chanute, Kan., aud U. C. Daker, Carey, Kan. Tho secretary of the company, J. It. Johnston, of Pittsburg, whs not named Ih tho indictment. IIo ap peared ns the principal witness for tho Government, and may receive im munity from criminal prosecution. He produced before tho jury a mass of books and papers, letters and other data. The presentment, however, was based as well on tho testimony of a number of ether witres.-e?, who had been summoned from many WeBtorn cltics.' The Indictment pets forth, that tho company, incorporated in West Vir ginia, has acted as a" Belling agency and has prevented competition "by persuading and inducing corpora tions, partnerships and Individuals in the window glass trade to enter Into contract with tha agency to.sell its entire outputs ot hand-blown window glass," and that the defendants were able "to establish, fix and maintain arbitrary, unreasonable and non-com pctitlvo prices for window glass, greatly In execss of prices which would prevail if taid defendants had not engaged in unlawful conspiracy." The Imperial Window Class Com pany Is capitalized at $250,000, of which amount ?176,000 is paid in. During the four days' inquisition, tes timony, It was officially learned, was to tho effect that tho company had cleared $150,000 net over and abovo all expenses. Tho companies which were per mitted by tho alleged agreement to B3ll only to the Imperial Company number sixty-six all told, represent ing a capitalization of between $7, 000,000 nnd $8,000,000. Of theso companies it was testified that twelve were kept closed, tho idleness involv ing an expense of $137,000 a year. ROOSEVELT'S MAIL ALL FREE. Franking Privilego ,For All Former I'l'Mldcnti and Their Widows. ; Washington, D. C.?Former Presi dent RooHovelt and .ill other former Presidents of the United States or their widows will have tho franking privilege under the terms of a bill passed by tho Houee by a vote of 120 to 76. Mr. Sisson, of Mississippi, offered an amendment excluding from the franking privilege all political corre spondence. It was voted down, 4 4 to S6. "Knowing the former President as well as wo do," shouted Kucker, of Colorado, "wo should provide an ad? ditiornl appropriation for the post offico eervice!" Sisson then moved the recommit ment of the bill, with instructions to tho Committee on PostoflWs and Pont Uop.d3 to report it with an amendment etcludlng political correspondence from tho franking privileges granted by tho bill. The motion was defeated on a roll call, 91 to 16 6. many Democrats vot ing in tho negative with tho regular Republicans and "insurgents." SPENCER CONFESSES MURDER In Resilience of Mrs. Dow When Re Killed Miss Rlackslonc. Springfield, Mass. ? Bertram O. Spencer, who was arrested at Handy's meat packing house In Hampden street, confessed to Captain John H. Doyle, of the .Detective Bureau, that ho is tho murderer of Miss Martha B, Dlaokstone, whom ho shot and killed In the home of Mrs. Sarah J. Dow on Round Hill, at the ramo time shoot ing Miss Harriet Dow in tho head. He declared that he fired on im? pulso and without wishing to injure either woman. Tho many burglaries, however, to which he alro confessed were committed, he said, partly to procure money, hut principally to gratify A desire for excitement. Spencer's confession clears tip a long list of burglaries In Springfield. Greenfield. Brattleboro and other near-by cities, which the police ha4 i i? m ?? i*i ? ? DBCn HDRDIQ in m/lTr. Tnft Recalled His Decision. President Taft, at the Instance of the Republican leaders In Congress, D. JC.. reconsidered at Wash lngtoa, his decision, not to go to Indianapolis t* May. Mr, Dslzell said no self-re specting Republican could ?6te for Senator Brverldft? j|fc# said Indiana ought to elect a Democratic Lefistat* urs and Senator. 'fi .?f Battleship Delswsro in Commission. The Delaware, first of the Awiert* if" ififi iiMir JHM HBCKjUl F IH0FF8T0113 INDICTED AS BRIBE GIVER Accused of Paying $52,500 to Pittsburg Councilman. CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD CITY Transaction Occurred in Now York to Prevent Indictment?-Kmll Win ter, Hank President, Acknowl edges In <5ourt Ills (Juilt. Pittsburg, Pa.'?Tho promised uen Batlon In Die graft crusade came, and oven Pittsburg, accustomed an It is to revelations. of moral turpitude on tho part of lty leading citizens, was astonished. The Grand Jury indicted tho following: Frank N. Holfstot, president of the German Nutioiial llank of Allegheny, and president of iho Pressed Steel Car Company; ,Kmll Wlntor, president of the Workingmen's Savings Dank nnd Trust Company, of Allegheny. Another senwillon followed. In ojien court Presidont Winter acknowl edged the (ruth of tho charge that he had given 5 20,OOv td iJfiuu formor Councilman Morris ISlnBloln, by say ing that !ie had no defense to offer. Bentonco was postponod. Tho indictments against lloffstot tnclude two counts of bribery and one of conspiracy to defraud tho city. Tho presentment reads that lloffstot shall bo ordered to appear as witness, "and In chso ho Toes not do so Immediately that the District Attorney of Alle gheny County proceed forthwith to extradito him." The more startling findings of tho Grand Jury's prf?sentment, raado pub lic. are: 1. That Frank N. lloffstot paid to Charles Stewart, a former Select Councilman, $.i2,G00. 2. That the money was a bribe used In Influencing tho votes.of Coun cil men to iiasa an ordinance naming three banks In which Hoffstot was Interested as offtrlnl depositories of the city's millions. 3. That tho late James W. Friend, at that time an ofllelal of the Pressed Steel Car Company, was an associate in tho transaction. 4. That the original plan which Friend had was to obtain tho services of William A. Blakeloy, now graft prosecutor, as a stakeholder of tho bribo money; but Dlakeley declined, and warned all parties of tho crim inality of the proposition. G. That the ' ansactlon took placo In New York City in June, 1008, in order, f possible, to avoid criminal liability In Allegheny County. Mr. HofTslot, who lives at No. 145 West Fifty-eighth street, New York City,t nnd has^ a summer homo at Sands Point, I/ I., when asked what he had to say in reference to his In dictment, said: "I always leave business behind mo at the office." Tho ofllce of the Pressed Stoel Car Company is at No. 2 4 Droad Btrcet. District Attorney Whitman would not deny that Indictments were In preparation against Mr. Hoffstot In New York County, but said anything on tho pubjcct must come from Dis trict Attorney Dlakeley, of PlttBburg. Special Prayers For Pittsburg. Pittsburg, Pa.?Bishop Cortland Whitehead, of the Pittsburg Diocese of tho Protestant Episcopal Church, appointed a day to bo observed by > Episcopalians throughout Allegheny County "with special prayers and ser mons on civic righteousness, cor porato repentanco and con?esslan, in temperance and political chicanery, graft and fraud?on any topic, in deed, which boars on the present de plorable situation In Pittsburg." Tho Bishop sent long notices to all tho clergy of tho diocese, and sug gested the ,uso of a series of special prayers which iio sent. SOCIAL DEMOCRATS WIX. Milwaukee Carried by tho Largest Plurality on Record. Milwaukee, Wis.?Social Demo crats, led by Emil Seldel, candidate for Mayor, swept Milwaukee in tho municipal election by approximately 8000 votes, the largest plurality ot any party in a similar contest in the history of tho city. Tho Social Democrats Will control tho Common Council, having elccted all six Aldermcn-at-Large and carried fourteen wards out of twenty-three. V. J. Schoenecker, Jr., Democrat, who ran second, was about 8000 ahead of Dr. J. M. Boffel, Republican. The platforms of all three parties rwero similar. They advocated homo rule, Initiative and referendum and regulation of tho liquor traffic. WILL OP JUSTICE BREWER. Home Left to Widow and Provision Made For Dauglitsrs. v Washington, D. C.?No estimate of the value of the estate of tho late Jus tice Brewer, of tho United States Su preme Court, was given in his will, with a codicil, which was filed for probate here. His home In this city, with most ot his personal property, Is bequeathed to his widow. His cottage at Thomp* son's Point, with Its content*^ also $30,000 life insurance, are 6S$| to his three daughters. His watch he left to one of his grandsons and hie ring to another. Each of his grand ch i id ray Is to select some keepsake from lb personal property. Died Rather Xtiatf JSrtfe. * Joseph Taylor, ot Brooklyn, N. Y* killed himself^ with gas rather thai leave his "home of many vaara lhaL. wee made uncomfortable for him by tk* opening of the Williamsburg Bridge. Brooklyn Bank Closed; The Union Bank ot Brooklya, N. Y., and its seven branefte* closed, ow ing some 10,000 depositors about ~ will JBMKBH Latest News. BY WIRE. John W. Allwugh, Jrii Dead. Baltimore, Md.?John W. Albaugh, Jr., actor and manager, and a mout her of u widely known theatrical fam ily, died from Blight's disease at a hospital whore he was a patient. Ha wok forty-three yoars old. (irHiiddniightei- Horn to Mr, Bryan, Tuceon, Arias. ? A daughter was horn to Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Bryan,. Jr. Tho baby has beon named Mary Sholes Bryan. Mary Sholes was the maiden namo of tho mother of Mrs, William J. Bryan, Jr. lIulley'H Comet Reappears. Ban Jose, Cul. ?? Hulloy's comet whh observed through the Lick tele scopo on Mount Hamilton, but only tho head could bo seen, ?u. the tall wait lost In tlio bright background of tho rising hiiii. Tho comot will not bo vlHlblo to the naked oyo for several days. Brother* ill Suicide Pact. Kansas City, Mo.?Financial losses, Incurred In a partnership brokerage business, arc mOmoTou to hdvw caused tho double 'suicide of Nels aud C. W. Olson, brothers, whose bodies were found on tho bauk of the Missouri River throe miles east of here. Governor Supports tho Negroes. Baltimore, Md.?Governor Croth nrn announced that ho will not sign the Dlgges bill, depriving negroos of tho right of registration for city and State elections, which was*paBsed by tho Legislature. Actress in Fatal Full on Stage. Peoria, Til.-?Mrs. Henry Potter, known on the stage ns May Harris, fell twenty feet to the stage lri a voudovlllo thentro and sustatned fatal injuries Iler husband failed to catcb her as she leaped through tho air. Wants to Adopt Yaqul. Los Angelen, Cal.~Dr. M. Schulz, of Long Beach, Cal., seeks to acquire another member for his International family by applying for permission.to adopt Raymond Palamoris, a Yaqul Indian boy, eighteen months old. Dr. Schuls 1m a Russian and has two chil dren of his own. He has adopted a Korean and a mulatto. He beltoVes that racial differences can be eradi cated by providing a proper environ* ment for the children. ? . . .. William Grnyson Dead. Bt. LouIb, Mo.?William Grayson, millionaire president of the Graysen McLeod Lumber Company, died Sud denly from heart disease. He war sixty-flve years old. Commander F. W, Coffin Dead. Haverhill. Mass. ? Commander Frederick Wellcsley Coffin, U. 8. N? retired, who was lloutcnant-comman der of Admiral Sampson's flagship New York at Santiago Bay, died hero. In tho home of his sister, Mrs. A. B. L. Gllmau. He vas fifty-seven year* old. Ulotv at "Loan Sharks." Washington. D. C.?A bill fcrolilb Itlng a rate of interest greater then two per cont. per month on snma of less than 9.100 in the District of Col* urobla was passed by the Senate. ? ^ ?" First Commission Election. Topeka, Kan.?"This city held U? first election under the commission form of government, and eleoted J. B. Billard for Mayor over William Green, tho incumbent, by about 1000 majority. Partisan tickets are im possible under the commission cbar* ter, BY CABLE. Countess Clare Acquitted, Pari?. ? The court acquitted the Countess Clare and Count Ladislaois Zoltynskl of the charges brought by Mile. Wilhelmioa Kemper, who claimed that she was victimised out of $97,000, *'hlch was to'have been used to finance the matrimonial pro jects of Prince Victor of Thurn and Taxis. The court found that the Countess was not responsible for the loan. $40,000,000 More Taxes in Prance. ^ Paris.?Tlio Senate passed the bud get bill, which carries $40,000,000 additional taxation, the new taxee be ing principally levldd on automobiles, tobacco, wines and Inheritances. - ? \ JV. V'*. ? 535S ' Explosion Kills Three Persons. Toklo.?A lighter loaded with dy namite in the harbor of Kobe caught (Ire, causing ai| explosion that killed three persons, wrecked mfcny house* on the water front and caused a mon etary damage of 9250,000, Seek Pirates' Treasurer. Rio Janeiro, Brati 1.?The steam ship Oceano left here for/a little Isl and called Trinidade, situated In mid ocean, to search .for treasurer sup* posed to have been hidden there by pirates. \ American Sculptor Fined, Paris.?Edgar MacAdams. a sculpt tor, of Pittsburg, Pa., was fined $40 and sentenced to sonment for r< at a dance. The sent ^sonment conduct.