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WELL ONCE MORE goes scot free
Senator Tillman and Mrs Tillman
Spurt Slmt Unit In
STANDARD OIL ACQUITTED OF
ALL CHARGES.
THE CAPITAL CITY
The Senator Talk*1th Mach Intor-
The Verdict Was Returned On In
struction of United States Judge
*
Anderson in Chicago.
Chicago, MarcV 10.—The Standard
j Oil Company of Indiana was today
e*t About HI* Fight on Crum and found not guilty of accepting rebates
™ ‘ rr„ Senstors from "h'P^n 18 of oil from Whiting,
How He Held Up Sixty Senators Ind > Eagt st Louig jj, The
by Relating Reminiscences of Ter(llc i Wtt8 returned by a Jury In
1 the federal court on instructions of
Judge A. G. Anderson, who averred
that he followed the circuit court
of appeals decision as to the verdict
returned at the former trial of the
same case and on which verdict
Judge Kensaw Mountain Landis as
sessed a fine of $29,240,000.
Judge Anderson’s decision was not
•wir
Reconstruction.
Columbia, March 11.—Senator and
Mrs. Tillman spent a couple of hours
In CMumbia today. Senator Tillman
was on JUs way home frorii the meet
ing of the trustees of Clemson Col-j
lege. Mrs. Tillman had been on a
^ B ir™r..*L^rL M ,ir wc,ed aa , he ,,ad ,oid
senator inim j the government prosecutors that the
proof relied on in the first trial was
« . ... | incompetent, and that It must be
hi. complexion ruddy “^^[' complemented or fall. It was with
and altogether he loo B ' . something of an air of hopelessness
devoting himself to indoor exercise ^ Au Edwin W
and says it is fine. 1
well. He said that he had never
felt better. His face is well filled,
Senator Tillman says that the
Clemson board transacted consider
able business. The board has ashed
that Major Marcus B. Stokes, origi-
naHy of Hampton eouhlf. be detailed
to Clemson College as commandant
that District
Sims, and his assistant attempted to
show the admlssabllity of the 1111-
nois classification to prove the ex-
istance of a legal rate of 18 cents,
which was a vital point in the gov
ernment’s contention.
to take the place of Capt * lnu8 - torney Jas. H. Wilkerson had argued
resigned. »**- . f° r two hours and in the end ad-
Senator TUlman expects to spend that ^ progecutIon ^
a month in Trenton, as he does not not furnl8h thp r , irther proof deemed
think the Democrats can do v ^[ necessary by the court for a contlnu-
mnch in the tariff situation, and he ation of the case that Jt]dgo Ander _
is satisfied that the Republicans w sQn announce( j decision,
carry out their policies. M r. Wilkerson said that the gov-
feMtor Tillman said he ernment could proceed no furfher
know what Pre » ldpnt Taft J° U,d d h ° and suggested dismissal of the case,
with Dr. Crum. He had heard noth- Attorney John s M(1Ier chlef coun
tng whatever about “[ Uel in the case of the oil company,
Tor Dr. Crum and would ^ ^ “ r ~ Immedlatelx moved that there L an
prised If he were nf a PP° lnted ^ Instructed verdict of not guilty. The
any place, nor would he be •urpris- court so ordered and the [
•d If he were given some place In had been excl|]ded durj ^ the argu h
Washington. 1 aents by the attorneys was called in
Senator Tillman talks with much and cha [ ged y8 ’ wa8 cal le d
Interest about his fight a^tost^the I The depl8ion Qf Judge 0ro8scup
confirmation ° f thaTone of th» R ® ker an<1 spaman - of th e United
Dr. Crum, and said t J at f on . e . SUtes circuit court of appeals, re-
remarkable things about his Lersing Judge Landis, together with
was for hours he held up 8lxty sp ° the decision of the court of appeals.
atom, while he was r ® a . hU was assigned as authority for today’s
mlniscences of reconstruction and his j deplBjon
fight with McLaurtn
The senator says he feels quite
well enough to go out on another
of his lecture tours, and Incidentally
he thinks that the ‘‘wild talk” In
which he Indulged while on his lec
turing tour had done much to clear
up the atmosphere with regard to
the race question.
Mrs. Tillman says that Senator
Tillman Is not .to go on any lecture
toura. but she Is quite willing for
him to go to Europe again.
Senator Tillman continues to be
much Interested In the Navy Yard
VERY QUEER TALE.
Told by Escort of Girl Who Was
Shot.
Baltimore, March 9.—Jennie Reed,
aged 21 years, of this city, was mur
dered Monday by a highwayman at
Mount Washington, residence sub
urb. She and Joe Mueller, to whom
she was engaged to be married were
on the way to visit-friends at Mount
BITTER FIGHT
It On Between Speaker Cennen
And The Insurgent*.
DEMOCRATS JOIN IN
The War on the Speaker and He May
Be Defeated—The Allies Lack
Only One Vote, Which They Hope
to Get From Four New
Members.
. . Washington, according to Mueller’s
at Charleston, and says that he had j statement and left the car at Seventh
the work there well cared for in
the appropriation bill, and that as
long as he is alive the Charleston
yard has nothing to fear.”—News
and Courier.
THIS Tft GOOD NEWS.
Scientists Say the Earth Won’t Have
Collision.
avenue.
When they had walked half a
block and were in a lonely place,
they were stopped by a man, who,
leveling a pifctol, called for their val
uables. Mueller said he gave up
what valuables he had and then the
highwayman demanded a necklace
worn by Miss Reed. Her reply was
a slap In the face, upon receiving
which, the man fired, the bullet
striking the girl behind the left ear.
THEOLOGY AND A BROKEN HEAD
Cambridge, Mass., March 11.-
Commentlng on the assertion made I She was carried into a nearby house,
recently by Dr. Perclval Lowell that hut death had been almost instan-
the earth was in danger of colliding taneous. The highwayman disap-
with some large astral body and thus peared and is being diligently sought
be destroyed. Prof. William H. Pick- by the police.
ering, of the Harvard Astronomo- Mueller, who appears to have been
cal Observatory, says that the chance the only witness to the shooting was
of such an event is about “one in | placed under arrest,
one hundred millions, raised to the
one hundred millionth power.
"A more possible danger,’ he add
ed, ‘‘but nevertheless an improbable
one, Is that the solar system In its
Journey through space may come
close enough to some such a dark
body as to cause a disturbance in the
orbital motion of planets and per
haps carry some of them, the earth
included. Into space. The danger Is
so remote, however, that there need
be no popular apprehension about
it.”
WANT 8OLIMER8 ARRESTED
For Robbing an Eagle’s Nest on
James Island.
Columbia, S. C., March 11.
-Presl-
How One IxmI to the Other in Chero
kee Negro Church.
Gaffney, March 10.—At a row
which occurred in a colored
church, a few miles in the country
on Saturday, a negro named Wat
Gist was arguing some theological
questions, when a negro named
Thomas Jeter took issue with some
of the doctrines promulgated by the
aforesaid Gist, calling him a liar
whereupon Gist seised a chair and
applied same with such force to the
cranium of Jeter as to bring him to
his knees, and pursuing his advan
tage, struck him in the mouth and
knocked several front teeth down his
Washington, March 10.—Repub
lican leaders in the house of repre
sentatives are gravely discussing the
insurgents movement, which has
evolved sufficient strength to make
Imminent a change of the house rules
despite the resistive efforts of the
Cannon-Payne-Dalzell combine. Fall
ing to change the rules on the day
preceeding the adjournment last
week, the insurgents gave notice of
their immovable purpose thereafter
to renew the fight with vigor when
the extra session Is rapped to order
next Monday. .
In the next house there will be
210 Republicans and 1T2 Democrats.
The Insurgents will have 22 hold
over members in their ranks with
certain addition of Judge Irving
Lent Lenroot, of Wisconsin, who was
elected on an Anti-Cannon pledge.
United with the solid Democratic
forces they will be able to muster
195 votes, according to present es
timates, while the total opposition
strength will be 196. It requires the
vote of only one Republican for the
insurgents to change the house rules
to any extent that may he desired.
The insurgents claim four new mem
bers: Picket and Woods, of Iowa;
Plumly, of Vermont, and Kopp, of
Wisconsin.
They have been working earnestly
to make their converts and unless
the leaders stick close to their guns
the movement will undoubtedly be
recruited. So intense has the pur
pose and the loyalty of the insurg
ents become that each man Is con
stituting himself a “whip” and is
doing strenuous service. Minority
Leader Clark says that every one
of his men shall be present in the
house on March 15, to vote for a
change in the rules, which are as
obnoxious to the Democrats, as they
are to those Republicans who arc
leading the movement for certain
radical reform.
The changing of the rules along
radical lines is not the only aim of
the insurgents. They mean, If pos
sible, to depose Speaker Gannon, and
that progress in that direction is co
equal and co-extensive with their
campaign for a change of the unpop
ular rules.
A proposition has been submitted
to the Democrats by which an in
surgent may t>e elected Speaker with
the aid of the minority. The plan
is to allow the Democratic leaders
to select a candidate from among
the insurgents, who will then support
him. It is not believed that the
proposition will be accepted, as some
of the Y)e«iocrafs regard it &s involv
ing bad policies, and might result
the Insurgents being repudiated
by thelp party as going too far in
their opposition to the Republican
leaders of the house. Whether or
not Mr. Cannon is defeated for re-
election as Speaker, every indication
points to the success of the move
ment against the existing rules In
At a banquet last Saturday night in
At a banquet last Saturday night in
lonor of Vice President Sherman.
Speaker Cannon took oecasion to say
what he thought about the insurg
ents, saying among other things, that
henceforth none of them would b'
recognized by the house Republican
regime. He also referred to them
bullies and bluffers, who were
absolutely without the courage of
their convictions.
It wiM be seen from this that a
good-sized vote, at least, may be
polled against Mr. Cannon next Mon
day.—News and Courier.
A MYSTERIOUS CAVERON.
A HUGE CAVE
Two Dogs Are Lost in It and Can’t
Be Found.
Found In Tti« Atfiron dseke Up-
~ per New YorK ~ ~
Farmers of Weldon Spring, in St.
Charles county, Mo., strove for two
days to rescue two dogs that had
been Imprisoned for three weeks in
a cave. Spurred by the piteous bark*
and whines of the dogs, the men dug
down until they were stopped by
solid rock. Dynamite was used with- | Extensive Rooms Under the Mountain
out avail. One man risked his life
RIVAL THE MAMMOTR
by crawling 150 feet at the end of
a rope into a cave, but was unable {
to rescue the dogs. The effort was
then abandoned, because the cries
of the dogs could no longer be heard,
and it was concluded that they had
perished.
Three weeks ago Bob Tarbel and
Sam Pitman were hunting on John
Burton’s farm, when their dogs start
ed a coon, which sought safety In a
cave. The dogs, Intent on the chase,
followed It In through the narrow
entrance and disappeared from sight
and hearing. They did not return,
and It was three weeks later, that
their whines were heard near an old
sink hole 500 feet away. Digging
began but was soon stopped by solid
ock and dynamite was then used.
Fully 100 men, women and child
ren gathered and urged the workers
to greater endeavors, but they could
do nothing except to try to explore
the cave. Finally Howell risked his
life in an attempt to reach and res
cue the dogs. He volunteered to
crawl Into the cave with a rope tied
to him. One 150 feet long was
brought and an end of It tied around
his waist. He crawled Into the cave
and went the length of the rope.
He found the passage at that depth
so small that he could not have gone
further, even if the rope had been
longer. He could hear the dogs and
called loudly to them, but they seem
ed to have fallen over a declivity,
and could not come to him. •
BOAT TO BE RAISED.
First Confederate Torpedo Boat on
Bottom.
New Orleans, March 11.—That ar
rangements have been completed to
raise the first torpedo boat of the
Confederacy from the bottom of Lake
Ponchartrain was announced, at a
meeting of Confederates here last
night. The boat is lying near Span
ish Fort, where it went down years
ago. It Is proposed to place this
vessel on the lawn of the Confed-
A
erate Soldiers’ Home in New Or
leans.
Near Stnndlsh, N. Y., Which Are
Yet to Be Explored—Veteran Gives
Home Measurements and Tells of
the Pits Which Are Deep.
Saranac Lake, N. Y., March 10.—
Capf. E- E. Thomas, an old-time
woodsman, has discovered a great
cave in a secluded part of the Adlron-
dacks which may rival the famous
Mammoth Cave of Kentucky. Thom
as chanced to strike the entrance to
the cavern on the summit of a moun
tain seldom visited by travelers, or
sportsmen, some time ago, but kept
the matter secret until he could make
an investigation.
Taking a companlnon with him,
he entered the cavern for 1,000
feet, and as the end was not reached,
the extent of the cave from that
point 6n is as yet undetermined. It
is situated on a mountain known as
"W” Mean tain, not far from Bland
ish. N. Y.
In describing his discovery, the
old woodsman said: “The mouth is
about fifty feet wide. The first room
Is fifty feet long, twenty feet wide
and thirty feet high. It swarmed
with bats, which lined the walls and
seemed scarccdy able to move. There
was a decided smell of sulphur. In
the next room, which was about
forty by fifteen feet, we found pas
sages branching tn many directions
and were unable to explore aH of
them.
“With only the feeble rays of a
.lantern to guide us, we several times
narrowly escaped falling into pits.
You can Imagine how deep some of
these were, when I say that we bad
time to count fifteen and twenty be
fore rocks we dropped into them were
heard to strike—and we did not
count rapidly. An elk’s horn was
found by us far Inside the cave.
“After going a short distance from
the mouth there was no vegetation.
There is no opening at the base of
the mountain and there are no
streams in the cave so far as we
have yet discovered.”
TRAIN HAND KILLED.
CHLOROFORM CRIMINALS.
dent Taylor of the State Audubon t ^ roat Ag goon ag j eter recovered
Society has secure warran .^ sufficiently to come to town he in
Magistrate Fowler here, against the
eleven federal soldiers stationed At
Fort Moultrie, accused in an article
In the News and Courier of today, of
having robbed an eagle’s nest of its
young .on i**"” Island Sunday • Mr
Taylor is having papers sent down for
service. The warrant charges the
men with violation of the act of 1905.
dieted Gist for asault and battery
of a high and aggravated nature, and
the matter will be threshed out In
the Courts.
ONE "HUNDRED MEN
WANTED TO LYNCH HIM.
Favors Elimination of Hanging and
Electrocution.
Atlanta, Ga., March 11.—Gen.
Clement A. Evans, commander-in-
chlef of the United Confederate Vet
erans and chairman of the prison
commission of Georgia, advocates
chloroforming criminals who have
received the death sentence.
“I believe the law has no right
to do more than take a man’s life,”
said Gen. Evans. ‘‘No living man
should witness it. The death cell
should be air tight, and the man who
is to die should inhale (the very
breath of.(i^rdth itself and should die
painlessly and alone. Any other
death punishment is nothing short
of barbarous. Even this is bad
enough.”
Gen. Evans had already qualified
this statement by declaring himself
opposed to capital punishment for
any crime save that of attack upon
women.
MANY WANT JOBS.
Will Campbell Bun Over by Engine
at Greenwood.
Greenwood, March 11.—Will
Campbell, a negro train hand em
ployed in the Seaboard local yards,
had his legs cut off while at work
in the yards early Wednesday morn
ing, and died several hours later
from the effects of his injuries. He
was run over shortly after 2 o’clock
and died at 5 o’clock Wednesday
morning
GOES TO WORK
IN DEAD EARNEST TO FIGHT
CONSUMPTION.
Aiken Employs a Trained None Who
WHI Devote AH of Her Tim# to
Tuberculosis.
The Columbia Record says Miss
Susie S. Ravenel has been employed
by the Aiken County Antituberculo-
sls League, as * trained nure, to as
sist in its work of prevention of the
white plague. The league has been
very active In its Inauguration of a
war agatnht consumption. Although
the league has been organized only
few weeks, practical results are
now being obtained, and the people
are being Instructed In the means
of preventing disease.
It is only recent years that means
for cope with this dreaded disease
have been discovered and this knowl
edge is not yet prevalent among the
people; and the dissemination of this
knowledge is the primary object for
the league In this county. No dues
are paid for membership in the
league, but voluntary subscriptions
are being received by the officers for
the prosecution of the work. Many
of the Northern visitors have liberal
ly helped In this work.
Miss Ravenel has already com
menced her work. She devotes the
forenoon to the work, making visits
to all parties who may need her
assistance. No charge Is made for
her assistance, which Is given sot
from a charitable standpoint, but
as a matter of giving valuable sug
gestions for the caring of patients
and prevention of the spread to oth
er members of the family, and the
iblie, with whom infected persons
av come In contact. Miss Ravenel
has had tong experience as a nurse,
and she has entered the work with
a spirit. She will make periodical
reports to the preilffbfit of the
league, Dr. Fllmore Moore.
The trained nurse will conduct
her work In conjunction with, and
Tn harmony with the board of health.
Miss Ravenel will also consult with
the physicians of the city, and work
In conjunction with them. Such
cases that are reported to her, as
needing assistance, advice, or In any
manner that she can help them, ahe
will visit. The object of this Is, of
course, to prevent the further spread
of the disease, and it is stated that
where persons refuse to heed friendly
and voluntary suggestions for the
safety of the people against tuber
culosis, such cases will be referred
to the board ot health, to tak* such
action as they see fit for public
safety. /
MURDER WOMAN’S HUSBAND.
‘Rev.” Wkdfram and Mrs. Mslinda
Ixx'khart IxK’ked Up.
SHOT ATW0M
fyWJWT.
Throe Men Walk Into Roc
Rev. Erasmus Ansion ■
Him to Death—Dead fete*
Ousted Several Trustees,
Mach Dissatisfaction.
Newark^ N, tltrek 10:
men whose features appear to hovo
been concealed by their heavy over
coats and slouch hats, wslked Into*
the study of the Rev. Erasmus Awl-
on, pastor of the Polish Church of
St. Stanislaus, this morning and
opened fire upon him. Tkroo bul-
• ■ *A(
Atlanta, Ga., M^rch Id.—Charles
H. Wolfram, whom callms to be an
ordained Holiness preacher, and Mrs.
Mallnda Lockhart are being held in
It appeared that Campbell was at the county Jail on charges growing
the switch waiting for the engine out their discovery together in
to go up to the tank and return. It | the former’s room on Marietta street,
would seem that, as the engine came I The arre&t was caused by woman’s
back, he attempted to jump on, but husband, James J. Lockhart, whom,
missed his footing and fell under-h h « tw <> prisoners claim, they had
neath. Both legs were cut off. planned to murder.
The switching crew was in charge Wolfram is author of several so-
of Yard Conductor Meaders and En-l eaned religious books, and earned a
gineer Pittman. Mr. Pittman stated I livelihood solljng them on the streets,
that the engine was going about Mrs. lx>ckhart is a strikingly hand-
two or three miles an hour. Camp- 8 °me woman, and apparently intelll-
beil was an excellent train hand, {Rent. She has not lived with her
lets from their three revolvers hit tke
priest, killing him Instantly.
The trio turned to make their es
cape and found their way blocked
by Mrs. Antonio Sewrsytska, the
housekeeper. One of the •vialtor* * ^
turned his revolver upon her. Inflict
ing a wound which is likely to provo
fatal. Then all three dude their w»
cepe. #
The police were put Ao TTOrtnifl -
ttve case within a few minntee of
the murder and by noon had
ronnded up four suspecta. one of
whom the housekeeper, now in St.
Barnasbas Hospital, thought bore S
resemblance to the leader of the trio
who had done the shooting. The oth
ers she was unable to Identify. AU
four dented any knowledge of the af
fair.
No adequate theory to account for
the attack upon the priest has bees
presented to the polled. It was learn-
?d that there has recently ***** **“-
aider able factional trouble ta me eua-
gregation, and Father Anslon, when
he came from Paterson to toko
charge of the church five months ago,
made several changes which nr* enld
to have caused widespread
faction.
AU the men arreeted are
of St. Stanislaus church, and the
police ordered the a treat of oH
former trustees, whom the
priest ousted when he took c!
of the parish.
The police tonight arrested three
men, suspects, all Poles, who reetd*
near the church. At the earn* 41m*
It was announced that the belief was
growing that the prieat's aaeaaatna
wera not Newark men. although it
was thought that the murder hoe
been planned here end that some of
those nnder arrest may be obi* to
shed light ofi thee* plena.
A crowd of 6,000 Poles gathered
early tonight in front of the rectory
la which lay the- body of the murder*
ed priest, expressing their grief and
demanding to seo the body. The
police succeeded in getting It under
control by promising to grant Its de
mand. Accordingly, a double line of
police was arrayed from the street
through the house, and for two hours
or more the Poles marched in single
file past the casket in which the
body lay.
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FOUND GUILTY OF
Laurens Breaks a Record Covering
j. . —»' ’* ■ ‘ Vv s ..
Fifteen Years.
THEY DESTROY CROPS.
Poisoned Wheat to Balt Prairie Dogs
in the West.
Washington. March 11.-—Poisoned
knew his business well, and it seems
more fhan likely that It was a case
of accident. It was said at the in
quest that Campbell said before he
died that he did not see how he could
get hurt.
A coroner’s jury was impanelled
and the following verdict was render
ed: “Will Campbell catfie to his
TRAIN WRECKER CAUGHT.
wheat is to be used as bait to kill off | d < !a, h by accident on his own part.’
the prairie dogs, the stockmen’s en
emy, that now infest Arizona and
New Mexico and have beconae a me
nace to the forest ranges there. On | Arrested on Charge of Causing Wreck
ranch lands prairie dogs have proved
husband for two years, becaute, as
she claims, Wolfram was found to
be her “soul-mate” or “affinity.”
Religious attraction led to their
association, is is claimed, and to re
move all carnal barriers they had de
cided to rtmove Lockhart by the
poison route. Their nerve failed at
the last moment and Lockhart still
lives to enjoy his estate of $10,000
| or $15,000.—Augusta Chronicle.
w.
SHOULD SHUN SOFT DRINKA.
From. One State Caught Pneumonia
At Inauguration.
■4..
Washington, March 10.—A tetter
Was Pursued All Night by an Angry I received here states that of the 800
- ’ j men ’which repreUbhUd the MaUsa-
Mobof en. . chusetta coast artillery In the Inau-
Siccurney, Iowa. March 11.—After gural parade, 100 of them are suf-
a ten-mile drive over the worst joads I ferlng from pneumonia, one has died
experienced in |owa, on the darkest from typhoid pneumonia and another
night imaginable, and'thea a twenty- is dying fwup the same disease,
mile ride upon a handcar. Sheriff | The Massachusetts caast_ — A ‘ r
One Hundred and Thirty Apply for
Two Positions.
Columbia, March 9—Commissioner
Watson has already received one
hundred and twenty applications for
the two positions of inspectors tliat
he is required to appoint under the
provisions of the act recently passed.
He hopes to be able to find two men
who- have bad some training along
the lines expected, or who will be
willing to work along modern lines.
Mr. Watson hopes to make these two
places serve those for whom they
are Intended, and to get data and
do Inspecting along proper lines, and
he does not want men who simply
destructive to a variety of crops, in
cluding wheat, grain, potatoes and
sugar beets; white on grazing lands
they destroy so much grass that the
grazing capacity of the land is re
duced 50 to 75 per cent. The forest
service is employing every effort to
prevent range deterioration.
at Harbins.
Greenville, March 10.—John Tar-
rell, colored, was, arrested near Sen
eca this morning by Special Agent
Alton, of the Southern, and Sheriff
Government I’are Food Expert Warns
Girl Student*.
Washington, March 10. — The
dangers of ‘‘the soft Arink Juthit’
and the innocence with which girls
Kay, of Oconee epanty, charged with I become addicted to it, were empha-
wrecklng train No. 36, near Harbins,
on February 22.
It will be remembered that En
gineer Will O'Neal lost his life in
the wreck. A warrant has also been
issued for the Lewis, colored, charg
ing him with being a party to the j about What those soft drinks con
deed. _The grand Jury at Wslhalla I tai n jr 0U would abstain from them,
Savannah, Ga., March 10.—Becom-I returned aJrue btU against both no-j h e Bal(1 ..j t win g urpr i Be you t o
ing Violent Jin 0 Southey train last gioes this inuring. The sheriff _ol
night between Atlanta and Jesup, j Oconee has gone to Georgia looking 1 mor e caffeine than coffee, and a drug
and claiming he was being shot, Dr. *— ’
STABBED HIMSELF
With Scissors While Riding on
Georgia Train.
sized tonight by Dr. Harvey, with W,
Wiley, the Government's pure food
expert, in a lecture before one hun
dred girl students at Holy Cross
Academy.
‘If you only know what I know
Laurens, March 10.—For the flrat
time In about fifteen years a Lae-
rens jury has returned a straight ver
dict of murder witbpat s recemmen-
dstlon to mercy. This occurred this
afternoon in the Court of General
Sessions, when the jury returned |k
verdict of guilty In the cose of the
State vs. John Henry Anderson for
the murder of his father-in-law. It
will be recalled that Anderson shot
and killed old man Joseph Carter
at the Cedar Grove chnrch at the
funeral of one of Anderson’s Child
ren. He shot him in the bock, and
without immediate provoeg^iom.
Anderson will very likely be senteno-
ed on Saturday.
Two cases of attempted criminal
assault were tried today la
General Sessions Court, one a
a young white man, Albert Dj
accused of attempting to
young girl in Waterloo
the home of both. . Duncan
found guilty with mercy
ed by the Jury. The other
against Will McCollonffh,
charged with attempting to
a young white girl in
Township. The Jury
diet of not guilty.
■SPG
R. T. Baird, of Fredericksburg, Va.,
stabbed himself in the chest with a
pair of scissors, then attacked the
negro porter and other trainmen.
He was found dead this morning in
for Lewis.
Killed and
Brinkley, Ark., March\
which is more deadly. So beware
of the soft drink. It is more harm
ful than coffee, and I advise all
Twen-1 young people against the use of this
in-1 stimulant. Perhaps you would be
ty-nlne dead and seventy-four
, I JuredJe’Brisiajf's 1 X-fmra #oll**4-
want the places for the salary 111-“ his berth on the arrival of the train T from the tornado of Monday* Out-1 ed more than one hundred samples
In Jesup. It is presumed he was B |d e 0 f Brinkley thirteen persons of soft drinks sold at soda foun-
under the Influence of some drug. | were killed and forty-six wounded, tains, and each contains caffeine, and
Mr*!
r the approaching of i
volved. He is in ^ hurry about
making the appointments, and ex
pects to get first class men, at least
as good as the moderate salary will
permit
Dies of OM Age. -
11.—Mrs. Ruth
at the
8b
and
The body was taken to Jacksonville.
Three Men Buried Alive.
Hamilton, Ohio, March II.—A
sewer trench eight feet deep caved
In today, burying three men. When
rescuers reached the bottom of the
sewer" they found the dead bodies
* James Robinson and Alexander
several of whom may die.
many of them a deadly drug.** _ -
W FATHER ‘CLERK EXPLAIN8
How He Made Such a
the
Washington, March 8.—Just
i
Several Drowned.
Train Wrecked.
New Orleans, March II.—I* is\re-1 Montgomery, Ala', March 16-
ported that an Arkansas, Louisiana persons were drowned We
and Gulf passenger train, boutfd the Alabama riv^r here In
south from Little Rock, was demUcdJ waters which followed
it happened tha^
bllssmrd tn — “
In the fact of
Taft, on the night of
weather would be
plained
Willis ]
Stafe/
ewmsMt'tr Am*''
by train wreckers during the
storm. Thr
with