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' MADE A DEAL 1 Letter Left by T. C. Piatt Exposes Alleged Political Plot. INVOLVES HARRISON ^ , The Communication, Which Has On- . ly Come to Liglit Since the Death ' of the lCx-Senator, Charges Hen- i jamin Harrison, Ijate President, | i?rv mill I)ocention. "" t The controversy as to whether i President Benjamin Harrison promised to appoint the lute Senator Thos. * ^ C. Piatt secretary of the treasury in f return for the support of the New ( York delegation in the national ite- ' publican convention of 1888 contin- ] ues. The story of Mr. Piatt's declaration that such a promiso wus made and broken is itself interesting. tf William E. Curtis, a newspaper writer, of Washington, says that a short while after the publication of the John Sherman memoirs, in 181)5, Mr. Piatt gave him a sealed letter not to be opened until both he, Piatt, and President Harrison should be dead. Mr. Curtis says he opened this letter the morning after Mr. Piatt died, that is Monday morning. The letter ho printed in one of the Washington papers. In substance it says that at the Republican convention of 1 888, Stephen 11. Elklns, now senator from West Virginia, went to Senator Piatt, at the head of the New York delegation and producing a letter from General Harrison, said that if the New York delegation would vote for Harrison, Mr. Piatt would be appointed secretary of the treasury. It further says that for the same consideration, as further payment for his prospective job in the cabinet, JMr. Piatt gave nis personal chuck j?u $150,000 for the election of Harrlboii, which $1 50,000, Mr. Piatt says, was what turned the election in New York for Harrison and elected him. It is all interesting, being very , much like the case of Roosevelt and Harriman. Roosevelt promised Harriman that if he would raise a large fund to bo used in the election in Now York he would invite him to , Washington to assist in the preparation of his message to congress. And f~ as in the case of Harriman, Piatt do- , clared afterwards that the bargain had been violated. First of all come Mr. Elklns and denies that he, in the name of f'en. Harrison, promised Mr. Piatt rhe place in the cabinet. He says that he did promise that Mr. Piatt shon-d be consulted about patronago in New York. Now comes another alleged popthumous letter, this time from Gen. Harrison, saying that he never piomised Mr. PI aft a cab.net ap^ I ointment, and that he never bad ?ny idea until after the election that I Mr. Piatt wanted such an aiv dntment. But J. Sloat Fassett, now a representative from New York in congress, who was associated with Mr. Piatt and the New York machine at that time, declares that the alleged posthumous letter of Senator Piatt is substantially correct, that Mr. Piatt was promised the appointment, and that he himself, Mr. Fassett, went to President Harrison and urged upon him the keeping of the promise. I It is generally believed that there was some kind of a deal with Mr. Piatt for the New York delegation and that when he produced that $150,000 to elect Harrison lie had some such thing in view, doubtless believed he would surely get tho appointment. as secretary of the treasury; hut it is thought to have been a misunderstanding. No such bargain would have been put in writIn. Gen Harrison did write a letter during that convention of 1 888 to Tom Piatt, and sent it by Steve 101kins. But the cautious Elkins instead of delivering the letter outright merely read it to Piatt and kept It. Exactly what was in it IOlkins does not say though he says he has it still. Perhaps he will produce it. And perhaps he will not. It depends upon what is in it. But this is evidence to all of the methods of bargaining and sale used In these Republican conventions. It Is not the first time; and it is doubtful if it will be the last. Heavy Snow. ^ Twelve inches of snow covered the uccks 01 ino steamer uoiuninus arriving at Now York from Savannah. The Columbus ran into a violent storm, off the Delaware capos, with a heavy fall of snow. Hums to 1>< nth. Mrs. U. W. Jackson, wife of a wealthy citizen of Electra, Fla., was burned to death while fighting forest fires near her home Wednesday. vSUBS! T CHARGED WITH MURDER rilE MAX WHO DESERTED HIS WIFE AND CHILD. Vow Under Suspicion of Killing the Young Woman With Whom lie Elopeil. Dr. J. H. Weeks, of Wagener, who i few years ago deserted his wife uid children and w nt off with a ,'oung milliner, who hud been workng at Wagener, is now under sub)lclon of having put the young wonan he eloped with out of the way >y poisoning nor. It is also thought hat he killed a little baby the errug woman bore for him. . Weeks is now in the Spartanburg lail charged with bigamy, ho having married the young woman he is now hought to have murdered in that jounty. Th? people where Weeks ived in Georgia under an assumed [tame are taking steps to ascertain if Weeks did not poison his wife and baby. If they llnd that he did, he will be taken over there and *r'od for murder. It seems that after I)r. Hamilton, the name under which Weeks passed after deserting his wife and chll'lien and going off with the other woman, drifted hack to Georgia and located at Morgan witli his second wife, where he began the practice of medicine and built up a good business. This is where .Weeks was arrested when brought hack to the State. After the birth of a child at Morgan. Mrs. Hamilton died under suspicious circumstances, and also the child, but the people of that place suspected nothing, as his record was unknown to them at that time. Hut now it seems that there is considerable suspicion about the matter, and the indications are that lie poisoned both the mother and child. It is reported that the body is to be exhumed and examined to see if there is any foundation for this suspicion. Under the law Weeks w"! not receive punishment for desert; hu r.? 11.. *? * * <* " .us ma iniuii.v, i.iin ii u ia can lie proved that he poisoned his second wife and baby to get rid of them, ho will get what he deserves if it can be proved. There was $3 00 reward offered for his arrest, raised in the following manner: The relatives of the first Mrs. Weeks offered $100, the Governor of the State $100, and the Knights of Pythias of Wagoner $100' This money will be divided between Mr. J. II. Tyler, the gentleman who recognized him in Morgan, and the Sheriff of that county. * .11 STICK OYEKTA KEK OFFICER. Poli co Inspector Tried to Convict an Innocent Man. A dispatch from Kharkoo, Russia, says Inspector Eagovsky, of the Ruben police department, lias been sentenced to four years in the penitentiray for manufacturing evidence on which three innocent studonts narrowly escaped courtmartial and death for terroists attempts. Lagovsky, hoping to shcure promotion, concocted terroist proclamations and cipher correspondence which he concealed in the houses of the students, showing their connection with the rimes buried a number of bombs and revolvers in their gardens and as s clininx shot himself in the arm tc stimulate an attempt on his life swearing that he had identified on< of the students as a perpetrator. < HAVE PRIVATE PHONE. One Arranged for the President anc His Brother. A private telephone wire from tin home of Charles I*. Taft, in Cin cinnatti to the White House in Wash lngton is being arranged with tin American Telephone and Telegrapl Company, it was learned Friday. Th< 72f> miles of wire will be at the ser vice of Charles P. Taft from 6 p. m to fi a.m. No outside heads will man ipulate the switchboard plugs am no outside ear will hear the persona conversation of the brothers. T.? wire, it is said, will cost Mr. Taf $24,000 a year. 1 Last Legal Hanging. The last legal hanging in Nortl Carolina took place at Ellzabethtoi Friday when Henry E. Spivey, col ored, was executed for the murde of his father-in-law, John Shaw, las November, over domestic difference? The last legislature made clectrocu Hon the legal method and Spivoy wo the last condemned man sentence under the old law. ? ? Strike Settled. The strike of the employes of th Trenton Street Railway company, o Trenton, N. J., which has been goin on "for the last two days, was settle late Friday afternoon. The settle ment resulted in the men gettin practically everything that the asP ed for. IRIBE N LIVELY CLASH ? i SI Between the Chairman of the Investigating Committee and PIXCHOT'S COUNSEL The Attorney Resents "Reflection" > Vpon Him IttH uiiso of His Efforts ) ed to Make Davis Refute Statements is CO of Secretary Da Hinder.?Mr. Davis ^ Flatly Coutrmlicts Dallin^or. sa v Ct' Chief Engineer Arthur P. Davis \ wi of the reclamation service, who Fri- th day flatly denied the truth of many ^ statements made by Secretary Ballin- ^ ger to President Taft and others, 0f continued Saturday as the witness \vi before the Hallinger Piuchot inves- 9, tigating committee. sp Attorney Pepper read a letter re- tu cently addressed to tho house coin- en mittee on ways and means by Sec- ca retary Hallinger In support of the to $30,000,000 land issue and speaking he of the hardships which had result- he ed to settlers on some of the pro- A jects where cooperation agreements of had been entered into by former Secretary tiarlleld. Mr. Hallinger tli claimed inducements had been held w out to settlers to come on the land ai and that at Toluea, Mont., there had ti been erected a large signboard inviting settlers td come there. This 11 sign included the statement: 11 "Settlers can work out their pay- M ments." el Mr. Hallinger said ho ordered thin part of the sign painted out. ' Mr. Davis contradicted practically every statement in the Hallinger letter. He said he was with Mr. Halling< r when he saw the sign; ihal no orders had been given to paint out the words and up to a few days ago they had not been painted our. Mr. Dj vis said there had eon no cooperative agreement or certificates d< at Toluea; that no such signs had as in" II erecieu anywnere eise, an l mat . , undue inducement had never h? en made to settlers to go into the co- or operative work. /.t Toluca tiie ?v- Ti claniation work had been completed and there was mors water availridc 1? than land under cu'tivuHon The lands were public and it was decided M that they should he taken ip. ^ Chief lOngineer Davis was questionod further as to the int' i v iew a with ilt Secretary Ballingcr. lie d-3clareed cc that the head of the interior ?icpartment had continued constantly to s* criticise the reclamation service ti; and that within the last week told 'the witness he thought the snaries s' were too high and that he p" ^posed a new salary scale. Mr. Davis de- ft clared that the rumors had persist- v< ed that Director Newall was slated *o t( go. H The witness referred further to the ci enmity against the service in some hi communities in tho West. Senator h Sutherland sought to sliow that much c< of tho dissatisfaction was duo to ci tho fact that on some projects the P original estimate of tlie cost of waj ter had been increased from $20 to a final charge of $30 per acre. Mr. Davis admitted that this "might" e ' be tho cause of some discontent. c Mr. Davis testified that Director a Newell was repriminded by Mr. Hal- p linger for roauestine the resignation # ' I of E. T. Perkins, who. It was charg- * ed, received an allowance from the I Marriman lines while lecturing to ad- ii vertise the reclamation service. n A sharp clash between Senator v Nelson, chairman of the Hallinger- f 1 Pinchot committee, and Attorney Pepper, counsel for Gilford Pinchot. r] was precipitated near the close of the I sessions of the inquiry, when Mr. f . Nelson accused the lawyer with i "trifling" with the committee. o e White with anger, Mr. Pepper de- i I, manded to know if that was the l a i judgment of the committee, and s when several members exclaimed, "let it pass," he said a reflection, I which lie resented, had been cast v j upon him and he questioned the t j senator's right to make such an as- d b cusation. s t Mr. Pepper was referring to sev- a eral letters in the record in an on- a deavor to have Chief Engineer Davis. 1 of the reclamation service, who was on the stand, r.fute fccvoral state- f 1 ments attributed to Secretary Ballin- t 1 gor fo the effect that restoration of , 1^ certain lands in the west to pub- r ^ lie entry after thoy had heen with-J t. drawn under Secretary Garfield, had | I !' heen made on recommendation of j v the reclamation service, Chairman 1 Nelson thought it was a waste of j v time to go over ground air ady cov- t ered and objected to the reading of a I the letters. In each Instance in I I which the question was 'put. the t o j witness replied that Mr. Bnllingcr v r had made a misstatement. ! t & "Now, I have come to the point f (i f was after," said Attorney Popper. ( ?- "At the conclusion \f your direct 1 g | examination this morning you said, i [- 'I want it understood that I don't > * ! wish to insinuate in anything that i OW TO CREW HEARD FROM U1TOSKI) TO HAVK BEEN LOST BUT WERE SAVED. > hooner Sailed from Charleston and W as Wrecked ami Lost In (iron! Storm. The News and Courier says that , ipt. It. P. Quilliti, of the schooner igar it. Itoss lias been safely landin Buenos AyreB, South America, the substance of a telegram reived in Charleston Wednesday by essrs. Cohen and Wells. The mesgje was sent from Baltimore by ipt. W. J. Quillin, father of the recked sea captain, and master of e schooner Herbert D. Maxwell. The schooner Itoss sailed from larleston on the 22d of last Dcc11 her, with a cargo of 3 75,000 feet lumber for New York. Nothing 1 us heard of the vessel until Jan. when the schooner Minnie Crosby oko to her In longitude GO, latide 39, which is about X00 miles st of Cape May, New Jersey. The ptaln of the Minnie Crosby wrote the agents of the Ross, saying that > had spoken to her and supplied ?r with provisions for twelve days, t that time the Ross had lost part her sails and deckload. Nothing further was heard from le vessel until January the 23d, hen she was reported waterlogged id abandoned In longitude 4 9, latiide 39.4 1, which is about 900 miles ist of Capo May. It was believed tat all on board had been lost, lereforo the news in Charleston on /ednesday announcing the safety p the popular captain will be learn1 with great pleasure by his many lends along the water front. Sl'IClDM RV SIIOOOTIXCJ. aft's lirothei'-in-liUw Shot lliniself With Pistol. Suicide by shooting caused the ?ath of Thomas McK. Laughlin, the isistant treasurer of the Jones & aughlin Steel company, and a broth-* -in-law of President Taft and Mrs. aft, at Pittsburg Friday. Tlio confirmation of mnnv rnmm-a i this effect was made by Coroner iinuel C. Jamison after a visit to r. Lnughlin's home in Woodland oad Saturday afternoon. While r. Laughlin is reported to have died , ten o'clock Friday morning, the >roner did not receive news of it itil 1 p. ni. Saturday when the phycian's certiftcate of death was roirned. This stated the cause of tie ath as cerebral appoploxy and was gned by Dr. T. M. McKenna. Persistent calls |flor information 0111 the coroner caused him to instigate the case, and after a visit ) the Laughlin home he said that le physician's return was technlilly correct, although the cerebral omorrhage had been caused by a ullet. Effort had been made to con3al the fact that Mr. Laughlin had tided his own life because of the roininence of the family. Tons of Hud Eggs. At Boston, Mass., four tons o* ggs Intended "for use in baker's akes and pies, have been taken from cold storage ware house on comlaint of Dr. George II. Adams, govrnment food inspector. have said that Secretary Ballingor las intentially or consciously done , wrong act, I don't believe he had.' Vlll yon explain your statement more ully?" Mr. Davis said ho merely meant to lisclaim any intimation that Mr. lallinger had done wrong. He re erred only to his acts, lie continlod, and not statements, for ninny if them were wrong. Tie did not ndlcate whether lie thought Mr. Ralinger had "intentionally or conciously" made a misstatement. Mr. Davis concluded his testimony icfore the committee Saturday and van excused at the end of the afernoon session. lie flatly contralicted Secretary Itallinger in several tatements and said the two did not gree on many reclamation matters, ilthough both had been and he loped, still were good friends. The so-called "black tent" affair igured conspicuously in Mr. Davis' cstimony. He said that 10. T. I'ercins, purchasing agent for the reeclnmation service at Chicago, went hrough the west lecturing in a dark tent to advertise reclamation vork under orders of Secretary Malinger. The ofllcials of the service vore substantially informed, he said, hat I'1 rlclns was getting an allowin ec of $500 per month from the larriman Railway Lines, in addiion to his $?.,r>00 salary. Mr. Dads said Perkins proved his fidelity o the I landman lines by shipping lfty-nine per cent of material from 'hicago to Me/a, Arizona, where the eclamatlon service has been engaged 11 a project, by way of their lines, vbich made the longest and most ex MMiKive route. THE HI 4 1 WAGES OF SIN Sensational Case of Three Persons Charged With Murder. SCANDAL IN HIGH LIFE The Murder Was the Hosult of the 1 Intimacy of a Doctor and the Wife , of a Prominent Citizen, Who Was ( Slain hy the Doctor and His Accomplices. The Sayler case, which is now on 1 trial at Watseka, 111., is one of the most sensational murder cases ever tried in that State. The intensity of the interest taken by the community in the oase is duo not only to the sensational .details of the crime and of the conditions which led to it, but also to the fact that the murdered man and those accused of being his slayers and their respective relatves are known to everybody throughout Iroquois county and even beyond its limits. Immediately after the crime was committed, on duly 11, 1909, popular feeling in the county was so strong, that it would have been practically impossible to obtain a jury of twelve unbiased men to try the three persons charged with the murder. Hut since then the excitement has cooled down considerably and it is believed that the selection of the jury will not be exceedingly dillicult. The accused, having wealthy family connection, will be represented by the ablest counsel that money could proeue and no effort will be spared to save them from conviction, which would mean hanging or lifelong imprisonment. The persons to be tried for the murder of John Byron Snyler, the Cresont City banker and live stock broker, are II r William e \iiii,-... , , , * . i nun n. , iti inn , Mrs. Lucy Savior, the widow of the murdered man and her father, John Grander. Ira Grander, a brother of Mrs. Sayler, is also under indictment hut merly as an accessory after the fact, IState's attorney John C. Pallissard will conduct tiie prosecution and lie professes to feel sure of the conviction of the accused. John ltryon Sayler was ki'led in his own house by William It. Miller about ten o'cIock. on the nieht of July 11, 1P00 The defeuc; will claim that the deed was an act of self defense and that Dr. Miller di 1 not lire the fatal shots until after Sayler had attacked with a hatchet. The prosecution, however, will try to prove that the act was premeditated murder and was tho result of a conspiracy between Dr. Miller, Mrs. Sayler and her father. It appears that for many years, Dr. Miller and Mrs. Sayler ent rlained Intimate relations which w *re the talk of the town and caused the community socially to ostracise both tho doctor and his affinity. It Is known that Sayler, the victim of the mur der, had knowledge of tho relations existing between his wife and Dr. Miller for many years, hut that for the sake of his daughter he refrained from taking legal steps to obtain a divorce. Dr. Miller's wife, a lovable and hignly respected woman, also knew of tho scandalous relations of her husband, but would not seek sepe*. ! ation, fearing that the scandal connected with a divorce suit would blight the life of her hoy. I It is said that Dr. Miller and his affinity made several attempts to rid themselves of their respective legal partners and even tried to inveigle Sayler into the appearance of an entaglement with Mrs. Miller, but failed in every Instance. It is believed and will be charged by the prosecution that becoming desperate the doctor and his affinity resorted to tho extreme remedy of killing the man who stood in their way. What happened at the Sayler residence on the night of the murder only the persons charged with the murder know. They claim that Sayler came into the room in which Mrs. Sayler, her father and Dr. Miller were about to play a game of cards, that they urged him to join the game, but that he refused and, without further provocation attacked Dr. Miller with a hatchet. They insist that Dr. Miller merely acted In self defense when he shot Sayler. Witnesses who entered the room of the murder shortly after tho shooting, assert that there was no hatchet in the room at that time and if one was found there, it must have been placed there later in an attempt to manufacture evidence. \VolVor<l Summer School. 1 The meeting of tho county school | superintendents at flnlnmhio i w .. ... wi?* ?? i:'inosday endorsed the Wofford College Summer school, and adopted resolutions urging tho district trustees throughout tho State to aid their teachers to attend. WRY HE PATTEN MOBBED IN THE MAXCHE8TEH COTTON KXCIIANUE. ? WliHe I'nliurt .Mr. Patten Wan Creatly Chagrined by Display of Hostility to llini in Manchester. A hostile demonstration on tho lloor of the cotton exchange at Mancluster, England, and one directly contrasting it for friendliness on tho com exchange at Liverpool were met with Friday by James A. Patten, the Chicago wheat and cotton operator. In tho first Mr. Patten was mobbed and probably escaped injury only by being rescued by the police; in tho latter ho was greeted with chee-s and other manisfestatIons of friendliness. Mr. l'atten sailed from Liverpool Saturday for New York on board the Canard line steamer Mauretania. The brief visit to England of tho Chicago operator lias been spent mostly about the Liverpool markets and Friday lie made up his mind to run over to Manchester to sm tho city and visit the cotton exchange. It was known to Mr. Patten that there had been threats of an unpleasant reception should lie visit "Cottonopolis." but lie refused to believe they would lie carried into effect. Those threats, it is said, emanated from persons on the exchange who had lost large sums as a result of Mr Patten's operations in Chicago, and from others, who held him responsible for Thursday's rise in tho price of cotton and v ho bellev? 1 tb.it his visit to England had for 'ts pu'poso the manipulation of the market. Hardly had Mr. Patten touched the floor of tho Manchester exchange before the outburst came. Ho was hooted and jeered by tho throng and then surrounded ami nustlod Iipo this street. The crowd followed even hero nnd <H<1 not desist its manisfestution of dislike until the American had been placed in a cab by the police and started for the railway station, whore he took the first'train hack to Liverpool. While unhurt he was greatly surprised and irritated at the dislike the people of Mai Chester had shown for him. Arriving in Liverpool, Mr. Patten just had time to visit tho corn exchange' before it closed for the day. The floor was crowded with members, who evinced their sympathy for him for tho treatment that had been shown him in Manchester by taking off their hats and cheering him when ho referred to the incident, FAMILY OF MNF IU1LNE1). North Carolina Negro's Mumble Callin Destroyed. John Wagstaff and his wife and eight children, colored, were burned to death at their home seven miles northwest of lioxboro, X. C., on Friday night in a tire which destroyed their home. Particulars of the holocaust are meagre for the reason that the humble Wagstaff home was remote, and no one saw the fire and nothing was known of it until next morning when a farm hand on his way to work found the house in ashes and the charred hones of the occupants in tho ruins. Mow the victims wero ! trapped is a mystery as the house was a one story affair. Tlie theory is that the fire caught in the kitchen and suffocated the occupants before they could escape. The house is on the farm of W. E. Farley, a prominent farmer of Person county, and Wagstaff was one of liis most trusted tenants. * ^ MILLION OF (iHKMS. Found oil the Examination of One I/onoNOPio Dollar Dill. A dispatch from Washington says ninety-two millions of germs, of all varieties were found on a one dollar hill, microscopically examined at the request of Representative Wiley of New Jersey, according to the latter's statement to the house committee j on banking and currency Saturday, i This was his argument in support | of his bill to provide clean currency J for the people. Among the diseases circulating with this money were smallpox, typhoid and scarlet fever with tuberculosis. Kills Self. 4 Mr. J. J. Rushing, a well-known man of South Marshvilie township, N. C., committed suicide about foil** o'clock Monday afternoon at his home, the weapon used being a pistol, the ball going entirely through his head. Wants Her to <>o oil Stage. Mrs. "Jack" Cudahy, whose husband tied and cut banker Jere F. Idllis Sunday morning at Kansna V?VJ, Mo., when tho latter was found in the Cudahy home, says she has received a score of offers to go on the stage but had declined them all. RALD