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BITTER FIGHT
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Is On Between Speaker Cannon
And The Insurgents.
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DEMOCRATS JOIN IN
The War on the Speaker and He May
lie Defeated?The Allien Lack
Only One Vote, Which They Hope
to Get From Four New
Members.
Washington, March 10.?Republican
leaders In the house of representatives
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. Failing
to change the rules on the day
preceeding the adjournment last ,
week, the insurgents gave notice of '
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inuii uiunovuDie purpose tnereafter
to -enow the fight with vigor when
the extra session is rapped to order
next Monday.
In the next house there will be
219 Republicans and 172 Democrats.
The insurgents will have 2 2 hold
/Over members in their ranks with !
certain addition of Judge Irving
I^ent 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 estimates,
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 be desired.
The insurgents claim four new members:
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 purpose
and the loyalty of the insurgents
become that each man is constituting
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.i^he Democrats, as they
are to thos ^.'Republicans who are
leading the movement for certain
radical reform. (
The changing of the rules along (
radical lines is not the only aim of ,
tho insurgents. They mean, if pos- (
sible, to depose Speaker Cannon, 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 l>e elected Speaker with (
the aid of the minority. The plan j
is to al^^the Democratic leaders (
to select candidate from among f
the insurgents, who will then support (
him. It is not believed that the f
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|M w[mim i 11?11 win ut? nixr|ut?u, as SUillO j
of tho Democrats regard it as involv- t
ing bad policies, and might result
in the insurgents being repudiated
by their party as going too far in
their opposition to the Republican
leaders of the house. Whether or '
not Mr. Cannon is defeated for reelection
as Speaker, every indication
points to the success of the movement
against the existing rules in j
At a banquet last Saturday night In ^
At a banquet last Saturday night In
honor of Vice President Sherman, 1
Speaker Cannon took occasion to say I
what he thought about the insurg- \
ents, saying,^ong other things, that 1
henceforth. ZlPrie of them would be ^
recognized by the house Republican ?
regime. He also referred to them a
as bullies and bluffers, whp were <i
absolutely without the courage of f
their convictions. r
It will be seen from this that a 1
good-sized vote, at least, may be t
polled against Mr. Cannon next Mon- t
^ day.?News and Courier. t
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TRAIN 1IANI) KILLED.
Will Campbell Run Over by IOtigino
?t Greenwood.
Greenwood, March 11.?Will
Campbell, a negro train hand employed
in the Seaboard local yards,
had his legs cut off while at work
t 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.
I It appeared that Campbell was at
the switch waiting for the engine
to go up to the tank and return. It
would seem that, as the engine came
hack, he attempted to jump on. hut
missed his footing and fell underneath.
Both legs were cut off.
The switching crew was in charge
of Yard Conductor Meaders and Engineer
Pittman. Mr. Pittman stated
that the engine was going about
two or three miles an hour. Camphell
was an excellent train hand,
knew his business well, and it seems
more than likely that it was a case
of accident. It was said at the inquest
that Campbell said before he 1
died that he did not see how he could
get hurt.
A coroner's jury was impanelled 1
and the following verdict was render- 1
ed: "Will Campbell came to his (
death by accident on his own part." 1
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CHLOROFORM CRIMINALS.
Favors Elimination of Hanging and
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Electrocution.
Atlanta, Ga., March 11.?Gen.
Clement A. Evans, commander-ln- :
chief of the United Confederate Vet- <
erans and chairman of the prison i
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 death itself and should die
painlessly and alone. Any other
death punishment is nothing short
of barbarous. Even this is bad
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Gen. Evans had already qualified j
this statement by declaring himself
opposed to capital punishment for j
any crime save that of attack upon j
women.
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THEOLOGY AND A DUO KEN HEAD t
How One Led to the Other in Clierokee
Negro Cliurrh. I
Gaffney, March 10.?At a row
which occurred in a colored
church, a few miles in the country
on Saturday, a negro named Wat v
Gist was arguing some theological ,
questions, when a negro named e
Thomas Jeter took issue with some ^
of the doctrines promulgated by the n
aforesaid Gist, calling him a liar, r
whereupon Gist seized e chair and
jppiled same with such force to the p'
iranlum of Jeter as to bring him to B
lis knees, and pursuing his advan- t|
age, struck him in the mouth and g
tnocked several front teeth down his (j
hroat. As soon as Jeter recovered S(
mflieiently to come to town he in- j,
licted Gist for asault and battery
)f a high and aggravated nature, and
he matter will be threshed out in
he Courts.
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WEATHER CLERK EXPLAINS
Tow lie Made Such a Mistake About
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the Weather. n
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Washington, March 8.?Just how
t happened that there was such a st
>lizzard in Washington March 4, and P<
n the fact of his telegrams to Mr. n
Taft, on the night of 3rd that the ^
veather would be clear, was ex- .
>lained to the president today by r
Villis L. Moore, chief of the United "
>tate weather bureau. Prof. Moore
idmitted he had waited for several
lays with some timidity beoro
attempting to "pay his
espects" to Mr. Taft. Mr. Moore tc
las an explanation which he brought
o a climax with all sorts of proof d'
hat no such "highs" and "lows" ever a
lefore produced such a snowstorm, cl
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GOES SCOT FREE
STANDAllI) OIL ACVl'lTTKD OF
ALL CHAIUiKS.
The Verdict Wiw Returned On Instruction
of l ulled Stales Judge
Anderson in Chicago.
Chicago. March 10.?The Standard
Oil Company of Indiana was today
found not guilty of accepting rebates
from shipments of oil from Whiting,
I lid., to East St. Louis, 111. The
verdict was returned by a jury in
the federal court on instructions of
Judge A. G. Anderson, who averred
that ho 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 assessed
a fine of $29,24 0,000.
Judge Anderson's decision was not
unexpected as he had yesterday told
the government prosecutors that the
proof relied on in the first trial was
incompetent, and that it must he
complemented or fail. It was with
something of an air of hopelessness
that District Attorney Edwin W.
Sims, and his assistant attempted to
show the admissability of the Illinois
classification to prove the existence
of a legal rate of 18 cents,
which was a vital point in the government's
contention.
It was after Assistant District Attorney
Jas. II. Wilkerson had argued
for two hours and in the end admitted
that the prosecution could
not furnish the further proof deemed
necessary by the court for a continuation
of tlin finoo ?l,o?
?..v nidi. >) nii^u /vuuerson
announced his decision.
Mr. Wilkerson said that the government
could proceed no further
and suggested dismissal of the case.
Attorney John S. Miller, chief counsel
in the case of the oil company,
immediately moved that there he an
instructed verdict of not guilty. The
court so ordered and the Jury, which
had been excluded during the arguments
by the attorneys, was called in
and charged.
The decision of Judge Grosseup,
Haker and Seaman, of the United
States circuit court of appeals, reversing
Judge Lnndls, together with
the decision of the court of appeals,
was assigned as authority for today's
iecision.
THIS IS <iOOI> NEWS.
Scientists Say the Earth Won't Have
Collision. |
Cambridge, Mass., March 11.?
Commenting on the assertion made
ecently by Dr. Percival Lowell that
he earth was in danger of colliding
vith some large astral body and thus
)G destroyed, Prof. William H. Pickering,
of the Harvard Astronomo;al
Observatory, says that the chance
>f such an event is about "one in
>ne hundred millions, raised to the
me hundred millionth power."
"A more possible danger,' he added,
"but nevertheless an improbable
>no, Is that the solar system In Its
ourney through space may come
dose enough to some such a dark
>ody as to cause a disturbance in the
irbital motion of planets and perlaps
carry some of them, the earth
ncluded, into space. The danger is
o remote, however, that there need
>e no popular apprehension about
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THEY DESTROY CROPS.
'oisoned Wheat to Rait Prairie Dogs
in tlic West.
Washington, March 11.?Poisoned
/heat is to be used as bait to kill off
he prairie dogs, the ^stockmen's enmy,
that now infest Arizona and
lew Mexico and have become a meace
to the forest ranges there. On
anch lands prairie dogs have proved
estructive to a variety of crops, inluding
wheat, grain, potatoes and
ugar beets; while on grazing lands
hey destroy so much grass that the
razing capacity of the land is reucod
50 to 75 per cent. The forest
srvice is employing every effort to
revent range deterioration.
STARRED HIMSELF
Hth Scissors While Riding on a
Georgia Train.
Savannah, Oa., March 10.?Recom- i
lg violent on a Southern train last <
ight between Atlanta and Jesup, i
nd claiming he was being shot, Dr.
T Tlalrfl r\f
. ? v., > ivuviiknouiHK, Vtt.f '
abbed himfielf in the chest with a 1
air of scissors, then attacked the
egro porter and other trainmen, i
e was found dead this morning in I
Is berth on the arrival of the train i
i Jesup. It 1b presumed he was I
nder the influence of some drug,
he body was taken to Jacksonville.
Twenty-Seventh. j
The home of Morris Conner, of Al- i
>ona, Pa., was visited by the stork
>r the twenty-seventh time a few i
ays ago. The blessing this time was i
girl. Conner has now had ten i
llldren by his second wife. i
GOES TO WORK
IN DEAD EARNEST TO FIGHT
CONSUMPTION.
A ikon Employs u Trained Nurse Who
Will Dovot? All of llor Time to
Tuberculosis.
The Columbia Record says Miss
Susie S. Uuvenel lias been employed
by the Aiken County Antituberculosis
TjeaRue, as a trained nure, to assist
in its work of prevention of the
white plague. The league has been
very active in its lunuguration of a
war against consumption. Although
the league has been organized only
a 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 knowledge
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 niomimrahin ??. n.~
V...uv?wui|/ til 111 VT
league, but voluntary subscriptions
are being received by the officers for
the prosecution of the work. Many
of the Northern visitors have liberally
helped in this work.
Miss Havenel has already commenced
her work. She devotes tlm
forenoon to the work, making visits
to all parties who may need her
assistance. No charge is made for
her assistance, which Is given not
from a charitable standpoint, but
as a matter of giving valuable suggestions
for the caring of patients
and prevention of the spread to other
members of the family, and the
iblic, with whom infected persons
1 v come in contact. Miss Ravenel
has had long experience as a nurse,
and she has entered the work with
a spirit. She will make periodical
reports to the president of the
league, Dr. Filmore Moore.
The trained nurse will conduct
her work in conjunction with, and
in 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, she
will visit. The object of thlR is r?f
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 tuberculosis,
such eases will he referred
to the hoard of health, to lake such
action ns they see fit for public
safety.
TRAIN WRECKER CAUGHT.
Arrested on Charge of Causing Wreck
at. Harhins.
Greenville, March 10.?John Tarrell,
colored, was arrested near Seneca
this morning by Special Agent
Alton, of the Southern, and Sheriff
Kay, of Oconee county, charged with
wrecking train No. 35, near Iiarblns,
on February 22.
It will be remembered that Engineer
Will O'Neal lost his life in
the wreck. A warrant has also been
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.......v.. ,wi ui?j u?wif>, colored, charging
hlni with being a party to tho
deed. The grand jury at Walhalla
returned a true bill against both negroes
this moring. Tho sheriff of
Oronee has gone to Georgia looking
for Lewis.
BOAT TO BE RAISED.
First. Confederate Torpedo Boat on
Bottom.
New Orleans, March 11.?That arrangements
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 hero last
night. The boat is lying near Spanish
Fort, where it went down years
ago. It is proposed to place this
vessel on the lawn of the Confederate
Soldiers' Home in New Orleans.
WANTED TO LYNCH HIM.
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Was Pursued All Night by an Angry
Mob of Men. 1
Siccurney, Towa, March 11.?After j
a ten-mile drive over the worst roads
experienced in Iowa, on tho darkest (
night imaginable, and then a twenty- f
mile ride upon a handcar, Sheriff
Grimes, with his prisoner, John Dunken,
the confessed murderer of Cara
H Aaon V\/\ /"\ ft.. ??? ?- ? - * *
me vuuiuwa cnoir singer,
managed to escape with what is he- <
lieved to be the approaching of a mob
find landed his prisoner in the penitentiary
at Fort Madison today.
Several Drowned. ,
Montgomery, Ala., March 10?Five <
persons wore drowned Wednesday in I
the Alabama river here in the rising 1
waters which followed Tuesday <
night's storm. Three white and1 a I
negro were drowned from the ferry, '
and William Dillard, a white boy, <
tlio doors and windows. '
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FOUND CJl'ILTY OF Ml'KDKU.
Laurens Break* a ltccord Covering
Fifteen Years.
Laurens, March 10.? For the first ,
time In about fifteen years a Lau- 1
reus jury has returned a straight ver- j
diet of murder without a recommon- j
dation to mercy. This occurred tills
afternoon in the Court of General
Sessions, when the Jury returned a
verdict of guilty in the case of the I
SLito vs. John Henry Anderson for
the murder of ids father-in-law. it
will bo recalled that Anderson shot I
and killed old man Joseph Carter
at the Cedar Grove church at the
funeral of one of Anderson's child- i
ren. lie shot him In the back, and
without immediate provocation. (
Anderson will very likely be seatenc- 1
ed on Saturday.
Two cases of attempted criminal
assault were tvle#l ? -
.. . . ? ...... II/iiii; in 1 111'
General Sessions Court, one against
a young white man, Albert Duncan,
accused of attempting to ravish a
young girl in Waterloo Township,
the home of both. Duncan was
found guilty with mercy recommended
i>y the jury. The other case was
against Will McCollough, colored,
charged with attempting to ravish
a young white girl in Sullivan's
Township. The Jury returned a verdict
of not guilty.
MUlll>Elt WOMAN'S HUSBAND.
"Hcv." Wolfram ami Mrs. Mnlindn
Lockhart liockrd Up.
Atlanta, On.. March 1ft.?Charles
IT. Wolfram, whom cnlims to he an
ordained Holiness preacher, and Mrs.
Malinda Lockhart are being held In
the county jail on charges growing
out of their discovery together in
the former's room on Marietta street.
The arrest was caused by woman's
husband, James J. Lock hart, whom,
the two prisoners claim, they had
planned to murder.
Wolfram Is author of several socalled
religious books, and earned a
livelihood selling them on the streets.
Mrs. Lock hart Is a strikingly handsome
woman, and apparently intelligent.
She has not lived with her
hushand for two years, became, as
sho claims, Wolfram was found to
bo her "soul-mate" or "affinity."
Religious attraction led to their
association, Is is claimed, and to remove
all carnal barriers they had decided
to remove Lockhart hy 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.
VERY QUEER TALE.
Told by Escort of (JUi Who Was
Hliot.
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Baltimore, March 9.?Jennie Reed,
aged 21 years, of this city, was mnr
dered Monday by a highwayman at
Mount Washington, residence suburb.
She and Joe Mueller, to whom
she was engaged to be married were
on the way to visit friends at Mount
Washington, according to Mueller's
statement and left the car at Seventh
avenue.
When they had walked half a
block and were In a lonely place,
they were stopped by a man, who,
leveling a pistol, called for their valuables.
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
strlklncr tlio iriri l.nsirwi ?-?*
? ,-> uvmiiu nit; it!11 oar,
She was carried into a nearby house, i
but death had been almost install- ,
taneous. The highwayman disappeared
and Is being diligently sought
by the police. .
Mueller, who appears to have been |
the only witness to the shooting was ]
placed under arrest. ]
ONE HUNDRED MEN !
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From One State Caught Pneumonia '
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At Inauguration. f
Washington, March 10.?A letter *
e
received here states that of the 800 f
men which represented the Massa- t
chusetts coast artillery in the inau- ,
gural parade, 100 of them are suffering
from pneumonia, one has died
from typhoid pneumonia and another
Is dying from the same disease.
The Massnehlianf la nnnut ' ?
uunm at uuery
was quartered in National Rifle's armory
and like many of the other
troops were not supplied with coats,
but slept on the floor with only a thin (1
mattress to protect their bodies from ^
the drafts which swept in through 'v
Tell in and was drowned.
POWDER MILLS EXPLODE. ^
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Only One Man Was Killed In the y
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Accident.
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Wilmington, Del., March 8.?One n
man was killed and several others
dlghtly injured early today in an
ixplosion which destroyed two mills
n the ITagley yard of the Dupont s
Powder Company, near here. The h
lead man is George Whitman, aged r
50 years, an employe. The accident s
was caused by the explosion of an o
experimental barrel. The country 1
was shaken for miles around. c
WELL ONCE MORE
Senator Tillman and Mrs Tillman
Spent Short Time In
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THE CAPITAL CITY
Tho Senator Talks With Much tutor*
( Nt Almut Ills on ('ruin am!
How llo Hold 1'p Sixty Senators
!>y Keluting Iteniiiiiscciiccs of
Hccoiisl ruct Ion.
Columbia. March 11. ?Senator and
Mrs. Tillman spent a couple of hours
in Columbia today. Senator Tillman
I was on his way home from the meeting
of the trustees of Clemson College.
Mrs. Tillman had been on <u
visit to relatives at Greenwood.
Senator Tillman looks remarkably
well. lie said thnt ho had never
felt, better. Ills face is well filled,
his complexion ruddy and healthy,
and altogether he looks well. He is
devoting himself to indoor exercise
and says it is tine.
Senator Tillman says that the
Clemson board transacted considerable
business. The board has asked
that Major Marcus B. Stokes, originally
of Hampton county, be detailed
to Clemson College as commandant
to take the place of Capt. Minus,
i i rniHIMMl,
I Senator Tillman expects to spend
a month In Trenton, as he does not
think tho Democrats can do very
much in tho tariff situation, and he
Is satisfied that the Republicans will
carry out their policies.
Senator Tillman said he did not
know what President Taft would,do
with Dr. Crum. He had heard nothing
whatever about any appointment
for Dr. Crum and would not be surprised
if he wero not appointed to
any place, nor would he be surprised
if he wero given somo place in
Washington.
Senator Tillman talks with much
Interest about his fight against tho
confirmation of the appointment of
Dr. Crum, and said that one of tho
remarkable things about his fight
wns for hours he held up sixty senators,
while he was relating his reminiscences
of reconstruction and his
fight with McLaurin.
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 h? f?#1 1 1 ?* '*
milieu wniie on his lecturing
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
tours, but she is quite willing for
him to go to Europe again.
Senator Tillman continues to bo
much interested in the Navy Yard
at Charleston, and says that he had
the work there well cared for in
the appropriation bill, and that "an
long as he is alive the Charleston
yard has nothing to fear."?News
and Courier.
SHOULD SHUN SOFT IHlINKJ.
Government Pure Food Expert Warns
Girl Students.
Washington, March 10. ? The
dangers of "the soft drink habit"
and the innocence with which girls
become addicted to it, were emphasized
tonight by Dr. Harvey, with W.
Wiley, the Government's pure food
expert, in a lecture before one hundred
girl students at Holy Cross
Academy.
"If you only know what I know
about what those soft drinks contain
you would abstain from them,''
he said. "It will surprise you to
know that most of them contain
m w-'
..w.u uiiueine than coffee, and a drug
which is more deadly. So bewaro
>f the soft drink. It is more harm'ul
than coffee, and I advise all
'oung people against the use of this
itlmulant. Perhaps you would be
nterested to know I have collectid
more than one hundred samples
>f soft drinks sold at soda founains,
and each contains caffeine, and
nany of them a deadly drug."
WANT SOLDIKIIS ARRESTED
"or Robbing an Eagle's Nest oni
James Island.
Columbia, S. C., March 11.?Presient
Taylor of the State Audiihon
oclety has secured warrants from
laglstrate Fowler here, against tho
leven federal soldiers stationed at
'ort Moultrie, accused In an article
n the News and Courier of today, of
aving robbed an ??* -* "
v>D>V o IICSl OI lis
oung on James Island Sunday . Mr.
aylor Is having papers sent down for
ervlee. Tho warrant charges the
len with violation of the act of 1905.
Three Men Rurled Alive.
Hamilton, Ohio, March 11.?A
ewer trench eight feet deep caved
n today, burying three men. When
escuera reached the bottom of the
ewer they found the dead bodies
f James Robinson and Alexander
loward. Thomas Revera was renued
alive, but will probably die.