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BRIBE CHARGE
Most Vehemently denied in a Speech
X by Senator Lorimer But i:
ANOTHER BRIBE TAKER
Confesses In Illinois Immediately After
the Senator Delivers Speech
on the Floor of tlie 8enute in
^ Washington, Which Fastens the
Crime on Him Again.
For just two hours Saturday Senator
Lorimer of Illinois stood In the
senate and In vigorous language denounced
as untrue the charge of
bribery made against him in connection
with his election to the senate.
Upon leaving the chamber at tho conclusion
of his speech, Mr. Lorimer
hurriedly put his affairs in order and
caught a late afternoon train for
Chicago. In his addresss Mr. Lomimer
made emphatic denial of all the
allegations of corruption and sought
to turn the accusation of wrong-doing
upon tho Chicago Tribune, in
which newspaper the charges first
were published.
The speech was devoted to a review
of (charges and Illinois politics
for te past 25 years. He charged
Tho Tribune with sinister motives
in its attacks, and, saying that
it had been fighting him every since
1884, charging that its action was
inspired by its failure to control his
course as a public man. Mr. Lorimer
gave many particulars concerning
ihis senatorial election, saying
that after persuading him to enter
the race, Gov. Deneen had deserted
him and sought to turn against him
those whose support he had formerly
procured for him.
At the close of his speech Mr. Lorimer
offered a resolution directing
that an inquiry into the charges be
made by" tho committee on privileges
and election. Under the rules of
senate the resolution was referred to
the committee on contingent expenses
to consider the question of cost.
Tn p!iko nf n. fjivorahln renort from
that committee, of whicvh there is no
doubt, the resolution will go to the
committee 011 elections for consideration
of the merits of the matter. Upon
report of that committee the senate's
action will largely depend.
Bribe Taker Confesses.
Bursting1 like a boom within a few
Jiours after United States Senator
Lorirner's speech at Washington,
came the indictment of State Senator
John Broderick, a leading Chicago
Democrat, 011 a bribery charge by the
grand Jury at Springfield, Illinois.
Broderick's indictment was the result
of a confession made to the
grand jury by State Senator 1). W.
Holtslaw, of Iuka, 111., w.h o says
Broderick paid him $2,500 to vote
for Lorimer for Senator.
Senator Holtslaw had been indicted
011 a perjury charge in connection
with tlio furniture contract and upon
advice of his lawyers, when offered
Immunity, agreed to make a confession.
Ho told the grand jury that
ho received $2,5 0 0 for his vote for
Lorimer; $700 as his share of a
legislative, "jackpot" and a promise
of $1,500 as his share of'tho State
house furniture deal.
Senator Holtslaw's confession regarding
the furniture deal was corroborated
before the grand jury by
Otto Freier of Chicago, who as
agent for the Ford-Johnson Furni^
ture, obtained the furniture conV
tract. The two confessions regarding
the furniture contract resulted In
two additional Indictments on a conspiracy
charge. These were Senator
S. C. Penzerton (Republican) of
Oakland, 111., and Representative Jos.
J. Clark (Democrat) of Vandalia. j
Bench warrants wore immediately issued
for their arrest.
After conferences with Attorney A.
M. Fitzgerald, his lawyer, lloltslaw,
worn, hazzard and driven almost to
distraction during a sleepless night,
told Prosecutor Burke he was ready
to confess and all liability to prosit
edition and punishment was waived
when immunity was offered and later
granted because lloltslaw was a
material witness. Before going to
the grand jury room, lloltslaw made
a preliminary statement to State's
Attorney Burke as follows:
"In making this statement to the
Sagamond county grand jury regarding
payments of money to secure
contracts for furniture and for olocti
ing William Dorimer United States
-^U senator, I have been governed by a
firm belief that my actions in this
mattor have been reprehensible and
in this connection I offer no defense.
v?tirtwflvnr Hntnrmlncd to make
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such reparation as 1b within, my power,
and the only means by which I
can do this, as it seems to me, is
toy fully and honestly stating w.hat I
know about these transactions.
"I voted for William I^orimer for
United States senator and received
thorefor $2,500. I also received $700
which was given me without explanation,
with the statement that it
was coming to me. I was promised
$1 ,500 for my connection with tho
letting of the furniture contract "
Following his appearence before
the inquisitorial body Holtslaw
repeated his confession to the
Associated Press, and told of the
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BRIBE TAKERS
LIST OF MEN WHO WERE PAID
TO VOTE FOR LORIMER.
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They Got Various Sums for Selling
Their Votes to the Corrupt Crowd
of Politicians.
Senator Holstlaw's confession, resulting
in the indictment of Senator
Broderick, of Chicago, is the fourth
confession obtained since the exposure
of the alleged Lorimer bribery
scandal on April 3 0 last.
The first confession was made by
Representative Charles A. White, of
O'Kallon, 111., who declared he has
received $1,000 from Lee O'Neli
Browne for his vote for Lorimer and
$900 as his share of the Legislative
"Jackpot."
Although stigmatized as a blackmailer
by the men w.hom he involved,
White's confession resulted in
grand jury investigations in Cook
and Sangamon counties. In the Cook
County grand jury room on May 5
White's confession was substantiated
by Representative H. J. C. Beekmeyer,
of Carlisle, 111. This second confession
resulted in three indictments
in connection with the Lorimer case.
These were: Lee O'Neil Browne, t.he
leader of the Democrats in the Legislature,
011 a charge of bribery.
Representative Robert 15. Wilson,
Democrat, on a perjury charge.
Representative Michael S. Link,
Democrat, charged with perjury.
Following an offer of immunity,
Link made the third confession and
the indictment standing against him
was nollied.
Browne and Wilson were arrested
and gave bond in the sum of $15,000
and $5,000 respectively.
The confession of Holstlaw created 1
the greatest sensation of the Senatorial
bribery scandal, as he until
Saturday had not figured in the 1
Lorimer case.
News of Senator Broderick's indictment
and search for him by the
police caused a commotion in politi- '
cal circles. Senator Broderick could
not be found at his place of business !
or his residence up to a late hour 1
Saturday night. Members of his family
were plainly woried as they .had '
expected him home to dinner. Sevoral
detectives have been detailed to
searoh for him. 1
STKANGK IMIENOMENOX.
Stones Thut Are On the Ground
Hurled in the Air.
A curious seismic phenomenon has
been observed mcar Cantillana, at a
place called Mesa Itedonda. From
ten o'clock in the morning until noon
stones lying on the ground at a certain
spot within a circumference of
over 5000 yards were torn from the
ground and hurled into the air. At
the same time subterranean noises
were heard. Traces of an extinct
volcano are visible at the spot, and
it is Ik Moved that a new crater is
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Had a (lose Call.
Aroused by flames and smoke in
their home at Branford, Fla., Tuesday
morning the family of A. L. Burton
escaped just in time to save
their lives. The .home adjoined and
and was partly over the store operated
by Mr. Burton. Burglars, shortlj
before, the fire was discovered, entered
the store, robbed it and set it on
fire.
Think Girl Kidnapped.
At New York Amelia Diamee, a
pretty three-year-old child, is missing
from her father's home on the
Fast Side. The police are searching
in tJie belief that she was kidnapped.
They have a description of
Mian five years. *
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liig Price for Horse.
H. C. Hildreth, of New York, who
f I m n o cr-n anlil )hn irrojlf hni'SO.
C>\ J 1I1U H MI V, W ?VIU V?? vy {-) V??<
Fitzherbert, to J. E. Madden for
thirty-five thousand dollars, it is announced,
has purchased a horse for
check, caused death. *
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A woman can forgive her husband
most anything if anybody else will.
meeting with Broderick the day before
Lorimer was elected. Hoitslaw
says Broderick told him t.hat if he
woul 1 vote for Ivorimer there would
, be $2,500 in it for him. Hoitslaw
says that he then, agreed to cast
his vote the next day, May 28, for
Lorimer.
Hoitslaw aaid that tip to this time
.he had voted consistently for the
111-1. T _ T?
Democratic candidate, nswruuw x>.
1 Stringer.
I Later, he says, he received a communication
from Broderick, and on
June 17th he visited the Brodoriok
saloon in Chicago and was there paid
the $2,500 for his vote for Ix>rimer.
Most of the money was in $1000
bills, he said.
In regard to the "jackpot," Holtslaw
says that a month after he was
paid the $2,500 he received a letter
from Rrodorick, asking him to
come to Chicago, which .he did, meeting
Hroderick again at his saloon.
He was then handed $700, Broderick
remarking casually "this is coming
to you."
Holt9law said that he asked no
questions and soon afterwrads left
1 for his home.
SOME HOT TALK
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la the House About the President's
Tarrelliac Expenses.
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THE DEBATE WAS WARM
Hot Words Pa??od Hetween Demo*
crnts and Republicans Over the
Question of Making "Immediately
Available" Another $23,000 to
PiH'Kidont's Traveling Expenses.
President Taft's traveling expenses
and the fact that already he had over
drawn his allowance of $25,000 a
year voted by congress, led to acrimonious
debate in the house Thursday
and a refusal to nermlt him to
use the next year's allowance to
meet the deficiency.
As reported from the house committee
on appropriations the item of
$25,000 for the fiscal year beginning
July 1 next, would have become "immediately
available" except for the
protests of Democratic members. The
words "immediately available" finally
were stricken out by the action
of Mr. Mann of Illinois, t.he occupant
of the chair, in sustaining a point
of or Ter made by 'Mr. Macon of ArknnsflR.
;i nnmnnrnt
It was the western and southern
trip made by Mr. Taft last fall that
exhauster! the White House traveling
fund. During the debate. Chairman
Tawney, in c.harge of the bill,
criticised Southern Democrats for
their attitude in objecting to an appropriation
to defray the expenses
of a trip on which they had been the
president's guests.
Representative Hardwick of Georgia,
drew from Mr. Tawney the admission
that Secretary Carpon.ter
had furnished him a list of names of
Democrats who ha 1 accepted the
president's hospitality. In connection
with the use of the names of
such Democrats, Mr. Rarlett of Georgia,
charged that "the president has
violated both the rules of hospitality
and of decent conduct."
T.he president, Mr. Tawney said,
had made his trip through the west
and South at the Invitation of senators,
governors of States and civic
organizations. "Thin trip," said Mr.
Tawney, "was not made for his own
yl ensure. Congress was in session
when delegation after delegation
from t.his Mouse, from the senate and
from the different States visited him
urging him to make this trip."
At that time, Mr. Tawney said,
there was no appropriation to meet
the traveling expenses.
"The president informed the chairman
of t.he committee on appropriations,
explained Mr. Tawney, "thai
personally he would rather remain
at his summer home after adjournment
than to make that trip and that
the only way lie would he able to
make t.he trip would be through congress
giving him an appropriation
which we failed to make at the close
of tlie sixtieth congress. Now after
the president has accepted the invitation
of members of this .house and
visited their States, after senators
and governors invited him, and while
on that trip ho accepted their hospi
talitv, they turn around and criticise
.him."
This statement served as a firebrand
upon the Democrats, several
of whom vainly attempted to interrupt.
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.vi r. inwnev ?<nu uiwt nmw
ocratlc governors invited the Presi
dent to visit thoir states, the states
being Texas, Colorado. Indiana. Mississippi,
Louisana, Montana, South
Carolina, North Carolina and Arkanso
s.
"How many Republican Governors
invited .him?" inquired Mr. Fitzgerald
of New York.
"They are not refusing to pay
these expenses," retorted Mr. Tawney.
He addod that Democratic senators
from Collisions, Mississippi,
Tennessee, Georgia, Missouri, North
Carolina, Florida, Colorado a nd
South Carolina, together with 25
Representatives had extended to the
president t.ho hospitality of their
States and districts.
"Is this Southorn hospitality?"
shouted Mr. Tawney, looking towards
the Democrats. "Can t.here he
a meaner man," ho asked, "than the
man who invites another to acjeot
his .hospitality and then kick** tiaother
because ho accepted thj hnv
pitality "
"Hit him again," interposed Mr.
Stafford, of Wisconsin, amid Rom?mlioan
laughter and Democratic
wrath.
r- TXor'?ft nf HrwirtHn dorna nd
ed to know what representative \ had
accepted the hospitality of the president
on that trip, as stated hy V.r.
Tawney. Mr. Tawney promptly named
Mr. Rartlett and his colleague,
Mr. Hardwiok, of Georgia.
"That is not true; that is false,"
exclaimed Mr. Bartlett. The Georgian
added that he did ride li\ the
president's car, but he paid his own
flare.
Mr. Tawney said three Democratic
senators had been the guests of the
president on his Western trip.
"The expenses of this trip will be
justified by the people of this country,
I care not whether they are
Democrats or Republicans," declar
TAFT TAKES A HAND
,
PRESIDENT WRITES A IJETTER
TO CHAIRMAN TAWXKY.
He Is Deeply Distressed lit the !! flection
on Southern Hospitality,
Which He Highly Praises.
President Taft Friday sent to
Chairman Tawney of the hous<> committee
on appropriations a letter
expressing deep resentment at the
criticisms in the house in the debate
on the traveling expenses of
the president. The president says he
is especially distressed by the "suggested
reflection on Sunthern hospitality."
The president's letter follows:
The White House, Washington, May
27th, 1910.
My Dear Mr. Tawney: I am deeply
grieved over the phase which the discussion
of the appropriation for the
traveling expenses of the president
took yesterday. I think it is a legitimate
argument in favor of such an
appropriation that congressmen and
many others press the acceptance of
invitations to visit their sections and
districts, because the urgency of such
requests indicates the opinion on the
part of the people that one of the
duties of the president is to visit
the people in their homes.
But the intimation or suggestion
that the acceptance by congressmen
of the president's invitation to travel
on the train with him in their respective
districts or States was a
reason why they should not voice
their free opinion on the question of
such an appropriation is to me a
most panful one.
In traveling upon the train they
were not receiving my hospitality?
they were only making a little more
elnborate the cordial welcome which
they as representatives of their districts
wished to give.
The feature of the discussion yesterday
w-hich was especially distressing
to me was a suggested reflection
on Southern hospitality. The intimation
that somewhere in the South
boarl was charged has no foundation.
in fact, and I never heard it
intimated until I saw it in this morning's
paper.
. In all my experience, and I have
enjoyed the hospitality of many sections
and countries of the world, I
never had a nvcre cordial, generous,
open and lavish welcome than I had
in the Southern States during my
trip, and t.he slightest hints that
outs me in the attitude of a critic
of that hospitality gives me great
pain.
I am ?oing to take the liberty of
making this letter to you public.
Very sincerely yours,
(Signed) William II. Taft. *
OPENING INDIAN GRAVES,
' founds Found Containing Hundreds
of Skeletons.
Or. ,T. \V. -McNeill and Prof. Chas.
Peabody of Harvard University, who
are interested in archaeological discoveries
in Cumberland county, N. C.,
passed through Hope Mills on their
way to the Davis Bridge, about six
miles from Hope Mills, to engage in
excavating the large Indian mound
near t.hat point. Six or seven men
were secured to do the work of
excavation and as the mound is
'*0 feet wide and nearly as long and
many feet deep, it will take several
lays to reach all parts of it..
A number of skulls and bones
have been uncovered, and it is estimated
that fully one hundred and
dftv 'mUans were buried here long
before the advent of the white man.
A pipe made of a substance that
'ooks like soapstone. and a well-define
! tomahawk were also found.
I There ore a number of Indian
| pounds in this county, and most of
I hem are familar to Dr. McNeil, who
has been investigating mo niouiius
f-cr several years.
In one grave, Dr. MeNeil found
where more than one hundred Inlians
.had been burled, evidently the
victims of a sanguinary bottle. One
of the skulls still had a tomahawk
sticking in it, while there were arrow
heads in a number of the skeletons,
showing that they had been thrown
into the grave as they fell on the
battlefield with the weapons that
caused their death remaining in their
bodies. *
vi Mr. Taw rev.
"The president may think It is
p,s pfr to furnish my name as one
who was on his train," said Representative
BarHett. "If the president
Is satisfied with tho propriety, with
the decency of furnishing the names
of myself and my collagues to the
gentloman from Minnesota in his
sneer'ng attack upon what he calls
the .hospitality of tho South, that is
a m*t*or for him. But tho president
tw-kth thn rules of hoe
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pitalitv and of decent conduct."
"If a gentleman is the guest of the
president must that fact he reflected
in 4iis rote hereupon an appropriation?"
inquired Mr. Hard wick, of
Georgia.
Mr. Garrett, of Tennessee, suggested
that objection to the appropriation
was that the money hai
been used by the president to pay his
expenses "in making partisau and
political speeches." *
MUST WIN OHIO
To Win and Republicans Will Make Hard
Fight on Gov. Harmon
IN THE BUCKEYE STATE
Result of Recent White House Conferences
is that Defence of PayneAldrich
Tariff Daw Will Re Principal
Factor in Ohio Congressional
Campaign.
P. H. McGowan, in his Washington
letter to the News and Courier,
says the determination Just reached
between President Taft and the leading
men in the Republican party to
start the tariff issue in Ohio, with the
fight against Governor Harmon and
the Buckeye Democrats, is taken at
Washington to mean that not only
will this be the great and all-absorbing
issue in the Congressional elections
of the present summer and fall,
but this feature will also come to
the front largely in the national election
of 1912.
When President TafC's brother?
Charles P. Taft?came to Washington
last week and spent several days
at the White House holding conferences
with Senators Dick of Ohio;
Aldrich of Rhode Island, and others
high in the Republican councils, it
was believed that something of importance
would develop and this has
proved to be the case.
The announcement made that a
clean-cut defence of the tariff bill
and the general principle of protection
would be the slogan of the Ohio
Republicans in the coming campaign,
and Governor Harmon and his Democratic
lieutenants would be given
all they could do answering the onslaughts
of the Republicans, came as
no surprise.
This announcement is Important
for many reasons. Not only is it
pointed out that Republican leaders
believe they must take a firm stand
in the Buckeye State now in order
to save tho members of Congress,
because of the opposition to the tariff
in that section, but it shows also that
if success is secured from the present
number of Republicans returned
to Congress as are in it now, which
would virtually bo an endorsement
of tho tariff and protection, that a
knock-out blow would thus be given
the Presidential hopes of Governor
Harmon.
He would see his own States return
Republican members of Congress
to their present seats in spite
of t.ho fact that the opposing Democrats
are basing their hope of election
on the tariff question. For Ohio
to endorse the tariff now, it is believed,
would be a long stop toward placing
that State squarely in tho Republican
Presidential column in
1912, and none know this better than
President Taft and his brot.her,
Charles.
That this programme will go
through is not doubted, unless the
President should InteV on veto it and
direct that tho fight proceed along
other lines. Rut there is little probability
of a change in the present
nlan being made. Tho President,
however unwilling he may he to enter
into local politics in O.hio, is the
man looked to for setting the pace,
and it is to him that the Ohio voters
look to givo the word that will put
the political machinery in t.he Huckeye
Statu in motion.
The President is considering the
various suggestions that have been
made to him, and is greatly interested
in tho claims of those w4io believe
that a straightout Republican
victory can bo made an a straightout
defence of tho Aldrioh-Payne tariff
law, with tho promise t.hat whenevor
tho tariff is revised again it will be
upon a scientific basis, leaving no
doubt as to tho fairness or justness
of tho schedules.
Such action will be entirely in line
with his own views on tho tariff.
Me has defended the present tariff
law in his speeches in different parts
of the country, but it is said that
this would not commit him to a policy
of standing pat upon the law, if
facts to be gathered by the tariff
board indicate that there are inequalities
in the measure of protection afforded
to different lines of business.
Undoubtedly Ohio is to be made
the main stamping ground not only
of the Congressional olections of the
present year, but of the national elec
tion two years hence also. Already
the signs point that way. *
Knds His Own Life.
At Pickens Enoch Lawson. an oi l
Confederate soldier, about 7t> years
years old, committed suicido Friday
morning by shooting himself through
the head with a ahot gun. He arose
at his usual time, and taking his
gun, walked out to the corner of the
house and shot himself. When t-ho
members of the family reached him
he was dead.
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"White Slaver Sentenced.
At New York Hello Moore, the negress
convicted In th? "whlto slave"
trial for placlftg two girls for immoral
purposes, was Friday sentenced
to the Auburn prison for not less
than two and a half years nor more
of Virginia.
CONTROL OF ALASKA
SENATE COMMITTEE HEARS HOW
Gl'GCEN HEIMS OPERATE.
The Trust Control Federal Officials
and Spend Large Sum to Corrupt
the Courts.
Investigation by a sub-committee
of the 8enate pudiciary commltee of
of the Senate jdiclary committee of
the latest Alaskan scandal produced
startling revelations last week of
the power and the methods of the
Morgan - Guggenheim combinations,
and Bnmo corlnnu r>ho rirao nnnlnr.t'
?vHiui 5V0 a^aiuou
Federal oftlcers in the territory, as
creatures of this combination. The
proceedings so far have been secret.
^)ut an effort will be made to have
them thrown open to the public, or
to have the testimony published Im- #
mediately.
The matter under investigation is
the removal of John S. Boyce, United
States district attorney, and Daniel
A. Sutherland, United States marshal
at Juneau, Alaska. These two men
had prosecuted employes of the Morgan-Guggenheim
combination for
murder, and were reaching out for
general oliicers of the combination
suspected of instigating the murder.
ITnnn t Ti rnnnm nf Wnltnr
E. Clark, governor Gf the territory,
the two men were summarily discharged
from office on the eve of
the proposed action, and their successors
were nominated to the Senate.
Boyee and Sutherland are not seeking
to be restored to office. They
say t.hat they desire nothing more
than to place before the Senate the
facts, as they see them, connected
with their removal. According to
their story, they incurred the enmity
of the Guggenheims because of t-heir
prosecution and conviction of Ed ..
Hasey on the charge of having shot
and killed two men in Keystone canyon
in October, 1 907.
Hasey was employed by the Guggenheims,
and it was charged that
he shot the two men while trying to
g ard Keystone pass against the invasion
of the representatives of a
rival concern, which was seeking entrance
to the pass as a route for a
railroad line. Hasey was convicted
n.nri sontenend to serve 18 months iu
a federal penitentiary.
'Boyce and Southerland claim that
they discovered that "men higher
up" in the Guggenheim services were
responsible for the affair at Keystone
Pass. The two Federal officials say
they were removed from office on
the eve of bringing proceedings
against others believed by them to
have been implicated in the Keystone
affair.
A young man named Douglass, who
had been an auditor in the employ
of tlie Guggenheims, was called before
tlie committee last week. Ho
testified that $7 0,000 had been expended
prior and during the Hasey
trial and lie charged that the expenditures
had been made for the
entertainment of jurors and otherwise
as a corruption fund to defeat
the prosecution by Federal oflieers.
Delegate Wickersham, the representative
of the territory in (-he
House, charged before tlie committoo
that Gov. Clark and any other
Federal officeholders in the territory
are creatures of t.he Morgan-Guggenheim
combination, and that the control
of the combination over the government
of the territory will lie absolutely
complete if the new district
attorney and marshal I are confirmed
by the senate.
Kills Wife and Child.
At Montgomery, Ala., said by other
negroes to have been crazed by
the comet, Milton Hughes, a negro,
Sunday night killed his wife and
child, near Ashland, Talladega
County. On his way to the jail, he
broke from his guards and ran, handcuffed,
down the principal streets,
pursued by a mob, and breaking several
large plate glass windows before
being caught.
Turned the Tables.
In a family row Saturday after.'???
rWnal townshin. Anderson
county, Lawrence Edwards, colored,
>.shot and killed by his mr,?erin-law,
Risa Walker. The nevs of
the killing was not made known until
Monday morning.
Auto Turned Over.
Miss Lillian Wright and Miss
Flossie Herman wore instantly killed
at Logan, by their automobile
turning turtle. Several other persons
were reported to have neon severely
Injured. The occupants of the automobile
were returning from a party
at midnight.
doing Too Fast.
Tn trying, it is believed, to drive
the eighteen miles from Marlanna to
Washington, Pa., in thirty minutes'
time, a party of three men, in an autAmrthl
lo wurn wrecked early Sunday,
two being instantly killed, and tho
I other fatally hurt.
Chinese Killed.
A number of Chinese have been
killed, and a chapel destroyed, by
r'otors at a village between Yt Yang
and Ningsiang, a little to the north
of Chang Sha. It Is reported that an
armed ban J is marching on Yl Yang.
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