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SHOWS FIGHT Mays Refuses to Notice Officially Knox's Ulttimatmn and APPEALS TO CONGRESS I*reskle.nt of Nicaragua Will, it is Reported, Ask Congress Co Interfore With the State Department Program?Men Supposed to he His Agents Reach Washington. President Zolaya has not only refused to take official cognizance . of Secretary Knox's note, which was pracucauy an ultimatum, uut u? in declared to have dispatched special agents to Washington to endeavor to have the 6tato department's ultimatum set aside, first by appeals to the department, and seondly bydirect appeals to members of Congress. The Btate department is entirely aware of the presence und Identity of these emissaries. These special agents are being watched in a general way. It was reported that any attempt that Zelaya might make to escape from the country would receivo the direct and vigorous attention of the American warships now lying off the coasts of Nicaragua. Secretary Knox has intimated in the plainest language that the State department looks upon Zelaya as tho man responsible for tho torture and death of the two Americans, Groco und Cannon. The plan to deflect the United States government program with reference to Nicaragua came to light when Senor Fernando Sanohez and Dr. V. M. Roman arrived at Wushington. Neither Senor Sanchez nor Dr. Roman would talk. They gave their address as.Now York. Members of tho Central American diplomatic corps, however, were in ? <1 , tK/v.. 41..v d uuiivi nuuu iuot uidv;u> riru iuc new arrivals. Bon or Sanchez, they declared, is a partner of Zelaya in many of the latter's business ventures in Nicaragua, and ho has managed to amass a fortune of botweeu four and five million dollars in gold. Dr. Roman, the report continued, long has been Benor Sachez's busi< ness adviser, and he also is a close friend and adherent of Zelaya. During Friday afternoon and early evening more than a score of telegrams were dispatched from Bouor Sanchez's rooms. Almost an equally large number were received. This telegraphic activity , tho Central Americans insist, is aimed at members of Congress, with a view of winning over enough of them to render the Administration's present program Inoperative in the event if Is presented to Congress. Dr. Salvator Caetrlllo, tho diplo matlo agent of the provisional government of Nicaragua and representative of the revolutionists, here, made formal request to Secretary Knox that he be received on equal terms with the agents of the Zelaya government. It is genorally believed that Dr. Cautrlllo's request will bo granted. While making all preparations for action, this government has resumed tho claim that preceded tho issue of Secretary Knox's note. There were na Hntfnlenmnnla In iKo Cite /l/k MV UV7U1V|/LUUU%? IU V LA U UKIVU U'/ partment Friday. To all appearances the department la "marking time' until occasion arrives for furthei action. * THod From Shock. At Evansvllle, Ind., Mrs. Willlarr Butler, while witnessing tho oper ation of her son, swooned and dlec before the physicians revived her. * i SUBSC Baking Pcrvder Is the B test of time and labor 11 vers to the pastry cook* B onomizes flour* butter 9 eggs and makes the Wj digestible and healthftil jjj W7AL a KflwrnMal most healthful food I -no lime phosphates | r baking powder made I Jrape Cream of Tartar H GAMBLING IN COTTON GO V KItNMF.NT DFTKltMlNKD TO MOVE AGAINST KV1L. 1'litnning an Investigation?If a IxK>|iholo is Found the Sherman Ami- Trust Law Will be* Invoked. Tho Rambling In tho cotton crop in tho financial exchanges throughout th? country may become tho subject of legal action by the Department of Justice, according to reports emanating from Washington, and the move may result in landing lu Jail some of the biggest cotton specula-tors of the country undor the provisions of tho Sherman anti-trust law. While no action ho? vet been taken by Attorney General Wlckerflhum, it is known that President Taft ban dlecuksod the matter with him with a view to planning; a thorough ihvestigatlon in which the Department of Commerce and Labor will act in conjunction. From New York comes the rumor, which has not been denied in oflleial circles here, thut such an invebtlgntion has already been ordered by President Taft and is about to begfn in New York, under the direction of Herbert Knox Smith, commissioner of corporations. It has bebn learned that if this work has be eh undertaken by the government, i secret agents of the Burnea of Corporations will bo employed, and for the present nothing will be divulged in regard to the work. Behind this latest move on the part of the Federal government are tin; congressional delegations of all of the cotton States of the South and of the Nj;w Fngluud States in which the groat textile mills are located. One man who Is largely responsible for tU? interest which members of congress and the President have shown in cotton speculation is Senator John Walter Smith, of South Carolina, who for many years has been prominently identl Hod with tho cotton growers, and went to the Senate with the avowed purpose of "going after" the manipulators of the price of the South's greatest prodhct. His cotton speeches in the Senate last winter attracted wide attention and greatly impressed his colleagues. Cotton mill owners w ho are' ready to furnish the government with information and are determined to wage the fight to the very end are said to represent a capital of $2G0,000,000. Their interest and that of the cotton growers is practically the same in this instance, and the fact that they have Joined forces to old the government in its proposed Investigation and probable legal action is taken to mean that the work will be done thoroughly. Officials of the Department of Justice who refuse to discuss what the government is doing in this connection nevertheless declare that cotton gamblers could be reached under the Sherman law if it can he established that .their schemes are resulting In prices that have no relation to the value of a hale of cotton Clearly, say thoBo officials, thai would be restraining trade withii the meaning of the anti-trust law. This much is certain, that thus fin the matter Is in a preliminary stage : and the President and the attorney general are not certain themselves how far the work will ho carried If Mr. Wickersharn believos, aftei ' the Bureau of Corporations' inqulr: is complete, that there is a chanc< of snccess In the courts, proceeding! will be begun. If he does It is rnon 1 than likely ?that Mr. Taft. will asl - congress to enact legislation undo I which this practice may hi ' j stopped. RISE NO BLIND TIGERS Heavy Hit by the New Federal Code Which Regulates the SHIPMENTS OF LIQUOR Into I*rohibltion Territory, Which Ooos Into Kffect on (ho First of Jununry?Kalhouds und Kx press <V>in|mnJes Incur Bevero Penalties If They Violate the Now Code. Another phase In the great campaign against liquor will come to the fore the first of next month, when the revised penal code of the United States Is to become effective. Many of the changes made in the penal laws by the Sixtieth congress were of tnluor interest, but the section relating to tho shipment of intoxicating liquors Into "dry" territory contained new legislation, the result ot' which will be to make the Uuited States u factor in prosecuting violators of the act. In thickly settled communities the local authorities, as a rule, are able to deal effectively with offenders, but in certain sections of the South and West, whore settlement is sparce, the task is not so easy, and tho members of congress from those sections insisted that the federal government should come to the aid of the local nut horities. Three sections of the new codification relate to the liquor traffic. The most Important provision is that on and .alter January 1, every shipment of Intoxicating liquor shall bear the name of the consignee, the nautre of the contents of the receptacle and tho quantity contained therein If ? ? ?> v* nwvwi ?v# uo 4 tiv.: I f ryKJ say persons who have had experience in attempting to drive out "blind tigers." that practically all the liquor now shipped into prohibited territory la labelled as some other commodity, or not labelled at all, and frequently addressed to persons other than the consignee. The federal authorities already have sent out notice to all manufacturers of intoxicants that their wears must be labelled on the outside of the package on and after the llrst of the new year, aettlug forth the nature of the contents and the exact amount in each package. It is believed that If the local authorities co-operate with the federal government in the enforcement of the law It will be a comparatively easy matter to suppress the "blind tigers." It Is pointed out that from now on they can not exslt without violating the federal statute, and the assumption of the department of justice is that would-be violators will not care to take the chance of falling into the clutches of the federal courts. It bos been alleged from time to time that in some of the Htat?sa where the sale of intoxicating liquor, has been prohibited in one way or another the railroads and express companies assisted the'violators of I the law by acting as buying or selling agents, or both. Congress, with the idea of putting a stop to this practice, provided as follows: "Any railroad company, express, Company or other common narrier, or any other person, who, In connection with the transportation of any spirituous, vinous, malted, fermented, or other intoxicating liquor of any kind, from one State, ter rltory or district of the United States, Into any State, territory or district of the United States, or from any foreign country Into any State, territory, or district of the United States, shall collect the purchase price or auy part thereof before, on, or after delivery, or shall in any 'manner act as the agent of the buyer or seller of auy such liquor, for the purpose of buying or soling or completing the sale thereof, saving i only In the actual transportation and delivery of the same, snail he fined not more than $f?,000." * i ? ? UNUSUAL OLD AUK. ' John O. Calhoun, Negro, Named for 1 Ills White Master. John C. Calhoun, colored, 1J G * years old, died lu Pensacola, Fin., , a few nights ngo, and the death cer* f tifleato, as sworn to, gives the daV \ of the negro's birth as 1704. Cai. houn lived In Pensacola for forty r years and uutll loss than fourteen l years ago made his living by daily ? inoor in a sawmill. Ho was on the 4 payroll ns a yardman for Wright & 9 Co. at the ngo of 101. c In roinlnlscout moods the old nor gro would toll stories of tho life of o his master, John C. Calhoun. HIh * eyesight and hearing were good. IW TO WHOLESALE POISONING | MIIS. MA11Y KKM.KMKU CilAIUJKI) V WITH KILUNG SIX PKllSONS. Is the Wonuw a Fiend Inhuman, or nn Innocent Victim of Unusual Circumstances? Is Mrs. Mnry Kolloher, who Is _ 1 about to bo placed on trial in East Cambridge, Mass., a vloitin of a strange combination of circumstances, or is she a fiend lit to be classed with Mrs. Guinness, H. II. Holmes and other notorious characters who made murder their profession? Attendants and others who have had opportunity to study the woman during the year she has spent in the East Cambridge) Jail declare that she tl does not betray any of the usual |j traits of a murderess. On the other ^ hand, physicians who have examined the stomachs of her alleged vie- ? tims are saJd to have discovered ? unmistakable traces of arsenic. Sextuple Murderess? ? Mrs. Kelleher is accused of murdering six persons ..and all were u members of her own family. The 0 detectives found evldenoo of the 11 payment of life Insurance to Mrs. Kelleher after the death of each member of her family. The case of " the prosecution is based on the claim ' that Mrs. Kelleher was the person ^ who had exclusive opportunity to 11 administer the poison, and that ah'? was the only person to benefit In a Q pecuniary way from the death of those who died. It is also alleged that during the brief Illness of each n one, Mrs. Kelleher employed no nurs? *J and had only occasional assistance 11 from friends and neighbors. Five of the deaths in the Kelleher f family occurred in tin; woman's home In Somerville. The sixth occurred 11 In the Carney hospital in South 1 Hoston. tt The first death of the Bcries was ? >11, f * r- I - - ' -a vi ?i lUKu ivuowii's, Bimer or Mrs. Kelleher. Sho died on June JO, 190C?. Tho cause of death was fl set forth as rheumatism, nephrltlsh ami a disease of the hourt. On ,l March 1, 1906, camo tho second ^ death, that of Annlo T. Kelleher, sister-in-law of tho accused woman. ? Tho third death was that of Mrs. ft Kelleher's husband, who died less r< than three months after Annlo Kel- t( leher. Six months later Mary Kol- *c leher, a daughter, "died, and the following January occurred tho death , of William Kollohor, a son. The ^ sixth death was that of another 11 v daughter, Catherine M. Kelleher, whose sudden death was ascribed to ptomaine poisoning. * d 1IHITISH ST F.AM Kit SINKS. d h ? (l Tlihiy .Men Perished in Storm Off js Fngllslt Const. ^ In s terrific gale that raged Fri- c day over the Britisfi Isles the steamer Thistlemor went to her doom off f Appledero in Barnstable Bay. It is e believed that her entire crew of thirty men perished. Four bodies T from the steamer already have been C wasired ashore. The Thistlemor was c In command of Capt. Yoo, and was c bound from Liverpool for au American port. 1 Small vessels everywhere were at ( the mercy of the elements, and c Lloyds reports eight of them hav- t ing been driven ashore at various t points. Their crews, however, all c i;nui|)ru. Tho ItritI?h steamer Congress, ( which arrived at Falmouth a few f days ago, reports tliat during the t storm her captain, the mate, and < oik' seaman were washed overboard f by mountainous sous. Tho seaman i was picked up, but tho captain and ( mate perished. t Tho Hrltish HteaniJnr Thistlemor < was of 4,008 tons, and was built i in 1006. at Stockton, England. She ' was owned by tho Albany Lino, of Sunderland. * OIUL I/OST IN MOUNTAINS. < Posse Finds Her in an Almost Frozen Condition. < Miss Mary Ov or street, a well- I known young woman of ltoanoke, < Va., was found on the sldo of Mill ] Mountain, near there Friday by a 1 posse of searchers, her body being stretched on tho frozen ground and her head resting on a pile of stones, i She was so numb from exposure that she was almost unconHClouB. She visited tho homo of a friend In the southern section of tho city the day before, and instead of returning to her own home after leaving the friend's house, wandered into the country. Bailors Lost. Hone of tlmllnc thr? fli/? " iani, i/w." - , - -r- ? ..v vi?v ii ? ?Mirr\ l%r-n j J <?f the gunboat Marietta off Port LI* 1 I nion, who were driven to boo In hi i helpleaa whaleboat on Pi Id ay night I han boon abandoned. I THE HOI COTTON GROWER Ktim of die System of Trading io Vogue on the Exchanges. NEW YORK THE WORST no ixxnmLsHionor of Corporations Condomiu Their Methods and Do. | nouncos Future Trading?He Says Hystem Works Harm to legitimate ' ( IVodiMNHs and Consumers of Staple , ( Hoth the producers of cotton and Ho dealers in that commodity are He victims of the system of trudlng l i vogue on the cottou exchanges of f ho country. This Is the burden of parts 1 and , of the report of the commissioner t' corporations, Herbert Knox Smith, n the conduct of such exchanges, j 'he practice of dealing in futures, a It is carried on at present, is ! ondomned, although the rej>ort does ^ lot condemn the existanco of the xchange. "The brief discussion of general peculation In this report," says Mr. tmith, "recognizes the possibilities or good Inherent In a great central narket like a cottou exchange, and ho need that this good bo developed nd evils eliminated by regulations a lino with ecouomic law." Tho report is especially condemn- i latory of tho dealingH In futures, randlng this form of speculation as , ?uro gambling and highly injurious o legitimate trade. In quotations or "future " deliveries of cotton, ho market is so uncertain and so lany elements of chance enter Into , he transaction that (ill bids are made j t a much lower figure than those , e. ??? ? ' " * UCICU IUI UClUHIiy 111 OXlttt- , nco. i Tho elYect of these fictitious j notations, tho roport pointH out, . mds to mislead tho cotton planter , s to tho true, value of his crop, . om?stly grown. In addition, it j \adrt brokers to "play" l>oth sides f tho market to protect themselves j, gainst loss in such trades, with tho t esult that tho producer in forced j i pay in the end, while the farmer ? >ses likewise. < The roport, while recognizing that. ^ \e exchanges in New Orleana and , lew York are necessary, does not % ilnce worda In criticizing the New v ork exchango. After declaring that f tie Now Orleans methods of con- , ucting the tranaactlonH in cotton ( [>11ow<k1 natural lines, tho report , raws attention to tho fact that It t as. been proved that tho abnormal . opresslonw in the futuro price in . Jew York "were almost wholly duo 1 a Improper artificial conditions now maintained by tho New York exhange. Py maintaining them, tho low York exchange Is responsible or a very real Injury to tho produc- . r and merchant." In closing tho letter to President ^aft which accompanied his report, 'ominlssioner Smith again takes ocasion to roprovo the New York exhange. Ho says: "After tho publication of the earier parts of this report, tho New )rleans and New York cotton exhanges established special commiteea instructed to consider tho sysoms of their exchanges and to cciperate therein with the comnilsdoncr of corooratlons. f!onfer??nr? 6 have beeu hold by the com misdonor with both committees. On ho part of New OrleauB th!a Cvjiporatlon was very complete, relulting In certain important Improvements In the rules of that exchange. \fter more than a year's lnvesugv :lon, the committee of the New Y >rk xchango has not yet made any riual report or tahen any substantial ac don." WASHINGTON'S TKNT SOLD. [km. It K. Lee's Daughter Receives Mve Thousand for the Heirloom. Miss Mary Custls l^;e, the only laughter of Oenerul Robert IC. I/Oe, the Confederate leader, has sold the door go Washington tent, in which piece of canvas the Father of IIIh Country lived during the Revolutionary war, to tho Valley Forge Museum of Pennsylvania, for live thousand dollars, which proceeds have been donated by Miss Lee to tho Homo for Needy Confederate Women In Richmond, Va. The tent has been an heirloom In tho family of the Virginia Lees since the Revolutionary days. Practiced Surgery In Itowhoat. John Dayton, a constable of Port Jefferson, I., caught himself In the face while flshiag. Another salt saw the man's plight and entered his rowhoat. Bracing himself with legs far apart ho began to rut and slash and removed tho hook. * DRY HEP CANT USE THE MAILS THAT RIGHT TAKKN FROM A SIIODY CHICAGO COMPANY, Which lias IkHm Swindling the I'uwary by PunIiIhu On on Then Plmhlmck Jewelry. I'oHtmastor-Cb'noral Hitchcock haa litTUixl f? Cruiiil v. .. UUU uiun urr^l IVkUK IUV -,rio Manufacturing; Company, f>64o >Vest Lake street, Chicago, of furh?>r use of tho malls. Under this tume E. F. Hansell has been engag'd In a scheme for obtaining moo y through tho malls by means of also and fraudulent pretenses in dls>osing of u Hue of cheap Jewelry. On investigation tho Inspector earned that Hansell had boon engaged for several years In selling ho trashiest kind of alleged Jewdry, exclusively through tho malls. !!o advertised to give free ft solid <old-plated watch, to boys or girls jr anyone soiling 2 0 pieces of hU handsome Jewelry at 10 cents each. When the addresses sent In name, the Jewelry was to be sent postpaid, and when sold the $2 was to be sent to Ilausoll and tho free gold watch would be forwarded. For sometime complaints have been received at tho postollico department from parties having fallen Into the clutches of Hansell by remitting their $2, and who were unable to get the promised watch, and from some, having sent tho $2, who were subsquontly annoyed by letters. Intimating that they wero withholding the money to defraud tho Erie Company. Among tho more recent coiuplaluts reaching the deiuirtment was one from the British ambassador at Washington, In which It was stated that an Fngllsh lad at school In S'?w Jersey had received, unsolicited, i package of this alleged Jewelry ind had at once returned It to tho Brie Company. Nevertheless, the ad continued to receive threatening til TIM lllitll ft no II o I" I ~ V. ' ....v.. ?<!/, til mil itlon, he attempted Bulcide, and by ho meroHt chnnoo he was prevented rom accomplishing it. It haa been dlHeloHod by the Inipector that the traah sold by Han(ell oh Jewelry la manufactured at Providence, It. I., and coats him 12 for 144 pieces. The 20 pieces, or which he rocelves $2, costs him, vlth the three cents postage, when nailed to the party who Bella It for llin, about 16 cents, whilo the gold vatches which he offered and only >ccABionally sent ub premlumH cost 10 cents apiece. Ilanaell admitted .hem* llgures were corrent. showing loncluslvoly the mendacity of hia itutemeuta when disposing of hlw tooda to the public. The postmaster at Chicago haa reported that the Erio Company received on un average of 1,2 8 4 pieces of mall a day. IIAKKlt'8 SIiAYKIt AKHK8TKI). Nashville Man and Wife of His Victim I'luccd In Jail. At Nashville, Tenn., Jamog Campbell, aged 2f?. was arrested Friday afternoon, charged with killing Adolph Mayr, an ag?*l baker, who was mysteriously murdered In i&uft Nashville one night threo weeks ago. Tho murdered man's widow, Aged about 30, was also arrested, charged with being an accesory to tho murder. Htato warrants were sworn oat against them by Marshal Gross, who alleges that Campbell told him ho killed Mayr. Statement** claimed to nave been made by Campbell to Oroen In regard to the alleged relation,* between Mr?. Mayr and Campbell are the basis of ttyo woman's ar-'est. Both persons are In Jail in dofault of ball. Prof. Itiggs in Charge. Col. M. B. Hardin, director of th* chemical department, who was elected acting prcBident of Clemson to succeed I>r. P. H. Meil on Januar7 1, until the board can find a president, haa declined to serve. At i second session Friday morning the board elected Prof. W. M. Hlggs Instead. Prof. Hlggs Is director of the mechanical department. Mistakes Brother for I>eer. Mistaking him for a deer, Ol? Moo, 20 years old, Monday shot and killed his brother, Alfred Moe. aged 2 4, while they wore hunting in u swamp near Duluth, Minn. Several years ago Olo Moo accidentally shot and killed Richard Jen tot, aged 8 years, while they were hunting rabbits. Daring Little Girls. Two little girls, Annie Smith and Lucie Leuke, in escaping from the I reform school at Milwaukee, took a daring forty-mile ride to Jefferson Junction clinging to tho rods underneath a passenger train. The Smith girl is not expected to llvo as a result of her experience. IALD %