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SCORES THEM I McMaster Takes Cooper and Lacy Severely To Task For OF THEIR ACTS - 5 In CVmnecUon With the Southern ! .1 A* CI 1 < *? ? uuu ui? svuiiiioio vompnuies ?He Ilevokes the License of the Former und Shuts It Out From Doing Business Here. / Columbia, March 25.?Mj^nimiasioner McMaster this aftern<*>n in a letter to the Southern Lite insurance Company, of Fayetteville, N. C., revoked the license of this company to do business in this State. The time for the renewal of this company's license was lixed for April 1, but the commissioner felt that he should take immediate action in the matter. The facts in the case are generally familiar. The controlling interest in the Southern Life Insurance Company was purchased by the Seminole Securities Company, of th/sf city, the price paid for the stock being in exoess of its par value and alleged to be far in excess of its market value. The transactions of the sale were conducted through General Manager C. J. Cooper, of the insurance company, and 13. W. Lacy, the actuary, and C. J. Herbert, one of the principal stock promoters of the Seminole Securities Company. It was chargthat enormous commissions were paid in the transfer. When these matters came out in the proceedings brought against the Seminole Securities Company, Mr. McMaster ordered the insurance company to show cause why its license should not be revoked. Two or three hearings were held. Mr. McMaster states in his letter that he has no desire to alarm the policyholders, but the evidence shows that enormuos commissions were paid those directly interested in the deal, the other oflicers and directors of the Southern Life Company being In ignorance of the details. The deal, he said: "Was permeated with evidence of stock jobbing and high finance," and both Lacy and Cooper are condemned as mm ,nnworthy of the management |V of such a concern. Commissioner McMaster says in his leter to the Southern Life: I The Commisioner's Letter. ' "Due to the fact that from the evidence before me, and from the best obtainable information, the policyholders in the Southern Life Insurance Company are protected by the deposits in the hands of the insurance commissioner of North Carolina and other assets of the company, I have felt that it was not necessary to take more prompt action in this matter, nor did I desire to alarf the minds of the policyholders unduly, which would have been done if n nH rtn Iwwl l\iu\n f o Ir/ill /IllV* pu^UiTU nuviuu uau uc^n tauuu u u? ing the time of uneasiness caused by revelations of the dealings with the Seminole Securities Company and the legal proceedings incident thereto. But I do feel that it is a duty this department owes to the public to make a declaration on the subject. "I make no criticism of the several general officers, the executive com mlttee or the board of 'irectors ol the company, who were in ignorance of the dealings between Mr. C. J Cooper, treasurer and gemd'al manager of the company, andffcMr. C. J Hebert, appointed by hi-i^as sales agent of the stock of the company and Mr. B. W. Lacy, vice president and actuary of the company, witl the officers of the Seminole Securities Comapny, these four parties being apparently privy to the transaction of each other and more or lest concerned therein. Indeed there is no conclusive evidence of the faci that the o'ber officers of the com peny had an> means of knowing > the dealings of C. J. Cooper and B W. Lacy, Jr., with the other parity / named. The evidenceyi4^B to prov< that the executive committee an? directors of the Southern Life In Biirance Company were intentlonall; kept In ignorance of the purpose an< extent of the dealings of C. J. Coope and B. W. Lacy with C. J. Heber and the officers iof th^e Seminoh Securities Company. "Without going into the detail of the matter other than to say tha A the offering to make C. J. Coope general manager of the Souther Life Insurance Company; a contrac W wltn U. J. neneri iur iuu naic *j stock In the Southern Life Insui ance Company before the same wa authorized by the stockholders of th Southern Life Insurance Compan; and of the making of this contrac with C. J. Hebert, and not reportln the same to the execute commltte m/' SUE MANY LIVES LOST BY THE SINKING OF A SMALL SLOOP. Nearly All Tl*?se Who Were Drowned Were Women uiul Children of Nicaragua. New Orleans, La., March 2 8.?A special to the Times-Democrat from Ltluettelds, Nicaragua, gives the details of the loss of the sloop Kearsarge, on the night of March 13, bef U'Pon MotiL'nv* P/\lnt n n<l n ervvi n v tf vv k* *.?yy II I\v- J m. Wilt V UI1U Mi CJ VUTT U, Nicaragua. The report states that twenty people perished when the boat went down. The captain, cook, two sailors and five passengers succeeded in reaching shore in a small boat. The following is a list of passengers reported lost: Mrs. Sofia Carter. Mrs. Clida Hodgson. Mrs. A. Cassiuova and daughter. Mrs. Ersie (Jaro and four children. Filimenia Blandford. Imogene BlandfordAlverda Howard and daughter. Mrs. Newball and three children. Mrs. Tereca Cassanova, all residing in Nicaragua. Two Columbians whose names are not known. The Kearsarge was a small boat of about 25 tons. It went to Bluellelds from St. Andrew's Island with a cargo of cocoanuts and took on 25 passengers at Bluetields, it is stated. bound for Bocas del Tore, Colon and Jamaica. * AXCLLS WKAK CLOT1IKH. The Spiritualists Declare They Have "Sensed" (lie Spirits. Kansas City, March 2 0.?The progressive Spiritualists of Missouri, in session at Kansas City.say they have seen, that is "sensed" the angels and that these creatures wear clothes, trousers if they're masculine and skirts if they're otherwise. "A lack of education letids lots of people to believe things that aren't true about the life hereafter," explains the Rev. Thomas Clrimshaw. Spiritualist, of St. Louis. "In all my life I never saw an angel or any other kind of spirit in beautiful draperies such as we see in t lie pictures. And as for wings and harps?well, they're ar probable in tno after me as tuey are here on earth. "It would be as embarrassing to go without trousers in lhe spirit world as it would be to apear without them in the flesh. "As a matter of fact, angels don't roam about in trousers and while away eternity by playing on a harp. They wear astral clothing?garments like they wore on earth. If, as a spirit, you wear an astral cellar, you'll button it with an astral col'ar button.' Other spiritua'Ists attending the convention support Mr. Orimshaw's heroy that the angel life isn't a mere matter of wearing wings and playing a harp. Humans who look forward to what one Spiritualist calls "flowery beds 1 of ease," in the hereafter will be disappointed, they say. In addition to wearing astral clothing and keeping it astrally neat, they probably will : have astral work to do. * LETTER FROM KIDNAPPERS. I ? Hide's Family Cited to the Wliitla Case and Warned. New York, March' 20.?A letter . from supposed kidnappers, in which > the Whitla case is mentioned, has , been received by tlie family of four; year-old Tony Redes, who mystei riously disappeared from in front. of his home in Seventh avenue, on February 12. This is the letter, which has arj rived: "Just because you have that j foolish stubborn character and oft fered $50 for your boy, you will nev er seo him again. Think a little f of that kidnapping in Sharon. After . this you will hear from us." 3 5 and directors of the company; the 1 dealings between Messrs. Cooper and - Lacy on the one side and Ilebert and 1 the Seminole Securities Company on 1 the other, whereby enormous com r missions were to be paid and stock t to be sold to the public at enormous e prices, indicate an utter disregard of the principles of fair dealing and s were so far permeated with the est sentlals of stock jobbing and disrepr table high finance as to utterly conn demn C. J. Cooper and B. W. Bacj it as men unworthy of being entrust if ed with the management of an in > stitution of so sacred and conserva ,s tive a nature as a life insurance com e pany. 7, "This department is of the oplnioi ;t that an institution in t>e hands o g two such men is untafe and unroll >e able." ' ISCRIBE I COGENT REASON, Why The South is Democratic Given By a Georgian WANTS EQUAL RIGHTS Congrcssmnn Adamson on the Floor of the House Says Joffersoiiian Principles of Government Keeps o tlio South in tlio Democratic O-' vt u 11111, Where Site Will Stay. Washington, March 26.?Judge Adamson, of the Fourth Georgia district. is nitfl f!l?nnuln rmnornanonvnn v v V*v V?. 0I?? vv/u^l VOOUIU1! who takes his Democracy straight and who has been able to give a sound reason why the South Is Democratic. It has been a rather noisy claim by Republicans of the North, and to a too large extent acquiesced in by public men of the South, that the South is Democratic because of the presence of the negro and the necessity of preserving white civilization. Judge Adamson in his speech in the house on the tariff gave a more intelligent and a more accurate view of it. Said he: "The Republican party and protection are so mixed up and interwoven that the party could not live beyond an election without the doctrine of protection, and protection could not survive a single session of congress without the Republican party. Sometimes through ignorance, but oftener from malice, people deplore the Smith's sectionalism and partizanship, basing the slander on our steadfast adherence to the party of tli>? (constitution audi its consist* nt and perainount demand for local self-government and honest taxation. I is true that we tire more solidly and permanently Democratic than some other States, hut it is because from environment, education and conditions affecting immigration we have a greater per cent of native, upright, intelligent, honest voters than favor most other States. (Applause.) Kererring all questions to fundamental principle, we not only vote right on political questions, hut present the best and purest type of Americanism now extant. Our integrity, purity and unswerving devotion to principle will prove the bulwark of conservatism and good government, the mainstay of the republic in dark days that may come when madness, confusion, malice and reckless desperation destroy peaceful conditions in some regions and plaigue our country. (Loud applause. ) "We have suffered most grievously and without provocation the shafts nf srw't inn!i 1 i?t>i nlniml nl "u /-?,??? cial conditions and our commercial and political ascendency. It has afllicted us with every conceivable form of insult, indignity and robbery. We have calmly, firmly, honestly and bravely resiled sectionalism, and for this have been called sectional. We ask nothing inconsistent with the good of the people of all parts of t lie republic. We want no special favors and advantages, but, in turn, we object to their being conferred on others. We support the only national party ever prominent in this country, the only part that offers fair conditions and honest government and equal protection to all parts of the country alike. Wo do not care what you call a party. If other people prejudiced against the name 'Democratic' would only open their eyes and wake tip their conscience so as to co-operate with us in restoring the application of correct principles to the administration of this government, wo would, if necessary to please them, he willing even to go back and take up our old name 'Republican,' which we discarded long ago, though the practices of the party in power under that name have brought it into considerable disrepute. (Loud applause 011 the Democratic side.) "The enormity of protection might in some measure be mitigated through some device permitting the treasury to share the profits the privileged class is enable to extort from the people. Fifty per cent o( the net profits ought to provide the beneficiaries princely incomes; the other half would keep the treasurj I overflowing with money. The necessity for further exactions upor 1 the people to replenish the treasurj 1 would be eliminated. The automatic arrangement might prove more pop ular and even remove the system from partizan politics. For such i ' soft snap in perpetuity as the trans ferred power to levy tribute on al our people ad libitum the baron - should be willing to divide profit - with the treasury. In kingly coun tries it used to be fashionable b i farm out royal prerogatives, some f thing being paid to the crown fo - the concession. If it is competen to transfer the taxing power gratuil NOW TO MURDER AND SUICIDE MllS. CUL1JKHTSON TOOK llKlt OWN LIFE AI TKll ArritiiKiiiK u Orumutic Situation Calculated to Throw Suspicion on Another Woman. Vincenuos, Ind., March 2G.?Mrs. Jessie Lee Overton Culbertson, young woman of mystery, a bride of throe months, was i*ot murdered. She slew herself after arranging an ar,ideally dramatic situation to throw the murder on another woman, ller husband ami relatives tearfully acknowledged today that their suspicions that she was killed at the Instigation of another woman for jealous revenge wero unfounded. The body of a mi nature skeleton, which had been attached to a skull found in the pocket of Mrs. Culbortson's apron when she was discovered gagged in a shed near her home, last Wednesday, after swallowing carbolic acid, was found late today m ar the shed beneath a pile of debris. This toy skeleton Mrs. Culbertson had in her possession months ago. Proof that the suicide wrote the anonymous threatening letters to herself was also established today. A letter she wrote to her husband ai miugepon, 111., is inscribed on stationery just like that on which was penned the aiionyomus notes. When the wator mark of the letter was shown to the husband and his parents they asserted their belief that no murder hail been committed. It was Miss lOtta Dongwell of Chicago, formerly of Vinctnnes, whom the Culhertson charged with causing the death of Mrs. Culhertson. Now they wish it made plain that they were mistaken. "Her name should lie cleared by all means," said Culhertson. "1 can not understand why Jessie should kill herself. She was strange, though, now that till this has happened to recall many things. She never would tell me about, her past. She said her father and mother were dead. 1 have heard that she formerly lived in Waco, Texas, and in Dublin, Texas, where she is said to have had a brother. I have tried to communicate with relatives but can not get any word from them." WIND PLl'CKKl) DI CKS. A Storekeeper Has Itrokcii Window to I'rove Story. Kansas City, March 2<?.?Jules Kuermunn, constable of Meranee township, and a storekeeper in 101lersville, Mo., tells a wonderful story .. i *?! I wi ? iitu u iukii winu in i>iihsuu 11 niay do. He says that he was sitting in front of his store one day last week watching a gathering storm and that shortly after he went inside he noticed feathers flying through the air. A second latjar three ducks broke through his display window and lay breathless on the floor. Bnermann says all he had to do was draw the ducks and cook them. After the storm had passed he found two more picked ducks on the garbed wire fence in the rear of his store. They too were lacking of all feathers. * DKAI) AS KKSri/r OF KISS. Nurse Is Infected From Kiss Bestowed on Patient. Cumberland, Md., March 28.? Having become infected from a kiss bestowed by request on a patient dying of blood poisoning, Miss C. Spier, a trained nurse, died here last night. Miss Spier nursed Mrs. Virginia Callan Carder, wife of I)r. Geo. D. Carder, a prominent society woman at the Allegheney Hospital, and was so kind to the sick woman that the latter asked her to kiss her as she was dying, i The request was granted and, in a few days, Miss Spier was stricken with the same malady. * ously, it would certainly be equally proper to farm it out on halves or ? some other reasonable per cent. It is thought the steel trust could ' easily support the postfflce depart> meat; the Standard Oil Company > could finance the army and navy; the r spool-thread trust and all other thriving brood of protection i could easily meet the expenses of ' all the other departments of the 3 government, improve all our rivers - and harbors, connect them by canals. i restore and maintain our merchant i marine drive from the seas by pro -1 tection, erect a public building at 1 every county site in tho United a j States, dig Panama canal, in a few h j months pay off the public debt, and - leave in the treasury at all times r> sufficient loose change for spending - money. (Laughter and applause.) r "Let those who at first blush ret gard this as a joke analyze It and > satisfy themselves." * THE 1 READY TO FIGHT The Greek Indians Are on the Warpath in Oklahoma TROOPS AFTER THEM The Indian Forces, Composed of i Indians, Half-llreeds and Negroes, Lend by Crazy Snake, Are Making a laist Stand Against the law of the White Man. Oklahoma City,, Okla., March US. ?"Chief Crazy Snake" and one >1 II tl<l fixl f.O <1.? .. U..V11 vu iuin/nvio it'Uunit'U UVtl I'OIIIpalnes of Oklahoma, militia, deferring an expected battle. Hastily setting lire to his topees and tents, the Indian leader, with his mixed company of Snake Creek Indians and negroes, lied from their camp as the troops advanced. They took up a strong position between the North Canadian Kiver and Deep Fork Creek, about seven miles east of llenryetta. Col. Hoffman, in command of the State troops, decided it would be un wist' to push the pursuit and engage the Indians in tho darkness. Accordingly he bivouacked for the night. Karly tomorrow, reinforced hv a company of cowboys, all crack shots, he will lead his forces against the Indians. "Crazy Snake" and his braves will have a chance to surrender. It' they refuse, the battle will be on, unless the red skins again retreat. Six men have been killed and a dozen wounded since the trouble began on Thursday. This is the olllcial report, but Dr. I. M. Wallace, of Dustin, Oklahoma, who went to tins Hickory Hills with the troops today, declared more than twenty negroes and Indians were killed on Thursday and Saturday and were rudely buried, without collins, in the held where the troops camped tonight. "Crazy Snake' is in personal command. This was established by testimony choked out of his collegebred son by means of a nice new inch rope. Young liarjo, strung up by the determined deputies until nearly dead, gasped out that his father was in command; named the Indian who killed the deputies, told the oflieers luiw to trsiil tlu> ? ml did everything which a stocial rod man is supposed not to do. This iirst real indication of the uprising in years has held this region on edgo three days. It broke out last Thursday when several deputy sheriffs went to HourycLta to arrest negro cattle thieves. They were fired on by negro halfbreed friends and forced to retreat. Returning with additional forces, they were fired on by the band, then augmented by some of Crazy Snake's 1 udians. i nrt't* negroes wore Killed and live wounded, according to tlio ofTlcial reports, although it is thought thai many more Indians were wounded, This clash resulted in forty-one arrests. After tho posse of deputies had surrounded Crazy Snake's home last night, they called on tho Indians within to appear. They appeared with repeating rilles. Charles Coker killed Damn at tho first volley. A moment later, he shot Odom through the heart. The other Indians fired repeatedly, but when Coker shoots, something fails. When Sheriff Odom saw the body of his slain son, lie broke down and wept bitterly. Sadly he directed thai the body be placed in a wagon and taken to Checotah, and then grimly insisted on retaking charge of the chase, deferring further display ol his fatherly grief until some mort opportune time. "I'll g t them, though," he said between his set teeth. "Those red devils will pay for this with bif interest." A posse from Muskogee reached Crazy Snake's house and search ed the place. They found the recort of enrollment of Indians whom Crazj Snake has been organizing to figh for what he regards as liberty. Th< documents furnished Indisputable evidence that the old chief was trylnj to incite a general uprising. No negros wero involved in yester day's fight, and none could be seei in the vicinity of Crazy Snake's horn today. Sheriff Odom tonight announce* that he would attempt to arres Crazy Snake, under the protectio of the troops. He has a great de \ slro to have this honor, he said, o ; account of his son's death. Citizens of Honryetta declare th trouble is largely due to negro ou I laws from other States, chiefly Te: ' as, Arkansas and Tennessee, wh I0RRY H F WAR IN THE AIR __________ CAST HO HAS PLANS TO START A KKVOI/r. It In llollevwl That llo In on lib* Way to Venezuela to I/oad a Rebellion. Bordeaux, March 26.?"If I ata a criminal, why haven't my accusora the courage to allow mo to return to Venezuela and defend myself?" exclaimed Clprlano Castro this morn. lug, when an agent of tho French steamship Company officially Informed him that he muat leave the steamer Guadelope, on which ho sails today, before the steamer reaches Venezuela. The former Venezuelan president was furious at the action taken by the steamship company. Me entered an automobile and was driven to the otllces of the company, where ho Indulged In a tlrado against Juan Vicente Gomez, president of the republic. "All I ask Is the right to a fair trial," he declared. "1 am prepared to accept the result. The refusal of Gomez to permit me to return to Venezuela Is overwhelming proof that they have no caso against me, but realize that if I set foot on Venezuelan soil their game Is up." Castro's protestations wore all in vain, however, and ho had to accept tickets to Port of Spain, Trinidad, only. His words here leave no doubt <)f his! Intnnll/.n ? ? ' ?.? ii-v u) organize a revolution to overthrow his enemies and reestablish himself at Caracas. After Castro returned to his hotel from the steamship ofTlco he had a long conference with a Mr. Itov, the agent of a Paris company engaged in the manufacture of arms. It Is believed that the matter of a shipment of arms was discussed. As the party was leaving for Pau11 lac, where they will go on board the (Juadaloupe, Carmol Catsro,, the former president's brother, said the "president" was waiting important telegrams which might affect his plans. Castro then asked the Associated Press to announce that ills brother desired to enter a worldwide protest against the refusal of tho French Steamship Company to convey him to Venezuela, declaring that the world appreciates t lie llagrant violation of international law involved. FAT 1110 It l>i:ili:i> KIPXAPPFItS. Will Not l>eal With Pluck Hand or Others. Now York .March 2 0.?Six weeks have passed since the kidnapping of Tony Redes who disappeared from a group of children in front of his father's butcher shop. In all that time the family had not heard a i word about the lad nor even has a i demand been made on tho parent i for money. Pletro Redes declares that should tho Black Hand or any > other band of kidnappers write him I and dictate terms ho would turn . the matter over to tho police and . urge them to take the outlaws. "I am nearly crazy," ho says. "So Is my wife; but what can wo do? The I boy has not been hurt and taken to a hospital. No accident has he\ fallen him so we can only think that 1 someone has stolen him and wait to see what will happen." NEGRO PREACHER HELI). Charged With Asnulting I.lttlc? Girl in Cherokee. I Gaffney, March 20.?Sheriff Thom[ as has been notillod that a negro ' preacher named Elijah Jackson has i been arrested in Greenville county [ and is being held for him. Jackson j Is charged with an attempt to commit a criminal assault upon a little I girl, the child of respectable whit* I parents, who reside a few miles from ; Gaffney. The attempt was made last fall and Sheriff Thomas has been I unremitting in his attempts to lo cato Jackson since that time. Jack1 son fled immediately after the comr mission of the crime and it is thought t that he has been in hiding in Ander3 son and Greenville counties ever - since. 5 Father Grief Stricken. _ riLi, ? - | ^nicugo, March 26.?That WUi llain McDermott, a retired member of e the Chicago fire department, la the father of "Mrs. James H. Boyle, d who, with her husband, Is charged it with the kidnapping of Willie n Whitla, was confirmed today by the J- grief stricken father. A son of Mr. n McDermott is a bank clerk. ie are wanted in their homo States for t- various crimes. These negroes readlx ly fell in with tho dissatisfied Ini r> .11? ~ ' -? * * ukiua lutjus oi insurrection. i ERALD