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SOLVEDAT LAST The Mysterious Disappearance of a Little Girl Cleared Up. BODY FOUND IN CELLAR Of St. Joseph's Catholic School, at Louisville, Ky., Where the Victim Lived With Her Parents When She Disappeared a Few Months Ago Suddenly. That Alma Kellner, the eight-yearold daughter of Fred L. Kellner, of Louisville, Ky., was murdered and not kidnapped, was proven Monday when her mutilated and dismembered body was found in the cellar of St. John's Catholic School, at Clay and Wialnut streets, scarcely five blocks from her home. . The mystery surrounding the girl's disappearance, on December 8 last, completely baffled the police, and notwithstanding a search in all parts of the United States and Canada, no tidings of her whereabouts was received until about 10 o'clock Monday morning, when a plumber, searching for a leak in the basement of the school, discovered the body. The detectives are working on the theory that the girl was murdered in the vicinity of the school, and after attempts had been made to burn the body it was surreptitiously buried in the sub-cellar and quick lime j ? -" 1 A ~ .1 t?l ? i 4 4 V? n no Tl I USt'd IU UlbiiiLC^i aiu 1,11c iico"> j Every bone in the childs body was broken and the skull was crushed and charred, showing that the attempt to burn the body, if such was made had been interrupted or the perpetrator of the crime had changed his mind regarding its disposition. The finding of the body has aroused intense excitement and a large crowd surrounded the school all day. .The child's mother nas not yet seen the body, but after she recovered from a collapse, she merely said: "I have been relieved." The torso was found wrapped in a piece of carpet, save for one limb, which was later discovered in a corner of the cellar and buried in the clay floor of the basement to a depth of perhaps three feet. The leak in the water pipe, the cause of which has not yet been learned, had caused the water to flow until the floor was covered to a depth of three feet. The scene of the discovery is only Ave blocks from the Kellner home, and the school adjoins 'St. Johns church, where the Kellner family worshiped. The body was very badly decomposed, and had probably been in th e basement five months. It was to attend services at St. John's church on the morning of December 8 last, that Alma left home about a quarter before 9, and seen a few moments later as she neared St. John's by a druggist, who noticed her stopping for a moment to play with a cat which was sitting in the window of his store. The durggist was the last known person to see the child alive. The police are looking for Joseph Wendling, former janitor at St. John's Church, who since January 14, a little more than a month after the disappearance of the Kellner child, has been missing. Mrs. Lena Wendling, wife of the missing man and housekeeper for Father Schumann, pastor of St. John's Church, is under surveillance. In a sworn statement made before | Capt. Carney, chief of detectives, Mrs. Wendling admitted washing muddy clothes of her husband shortly after the disappearance of the Kellner girl. The detectives have these clothes, trousers, shirt and hat, and declare there aro still blood stains on them. Wendling is described by the detectives as being 27 years of age, about 5 feet 10 inches in height, weight about 160 pounds, a small black moustache and dark hair and eyes. 'Mrs Wendling is 4 2. A Htthnn n vpflr ago Wendling I LIC tii\'i v> v>> ?? ? u _ was arrested and fined for Improper Pt ? conduct with a young girl. Wendllng's parents live at Genlis, Cote d'Or, France. According to the wife's statement to Capt. Carney, Wendling was a deserter from the French army. Father Schumann said he had learned since Wendllng's disappearance that .he had left several positions without notice. His departure from the church was a surprise to the priest. ^ HEIFER BROUGHT BIG PRICE. Cattle Raising In South Carolina Proves Profitable. South Carolina's place in the cattle raising Industry is shown in the sale in New York recently at the Cooper's cattle sale of a 14-months' .heifer for $1,150. The heifer was grown near Columbia. "Emlnents "' 1nf "Hnldon-ferns i\H IllflCOD \j ? ? v,* Nameless" by Eminents Goldenmont Lad," a bull from Mr. Thomas Taylor's cattle farm, was the heifer which sold for $325 more than her mother sold for at the same sale. The mother, "Ooldenferns Nameless," brought $825, and the 14months' heifer brought $1,150. This shows the progress of cattle raising in South Carolina. ? _ . ~ ' .... - ? *- * HELP THE GOOD WORK THE CLEAN SPOUTS LEAGUE OP THE CAHOLINAS. Has Been Carefully Organized and Arrangements Made to Put It Into Effective Operation. The Clean Sports League of the Carollnas has been carefully organized and elaborate arrangements have been made to put Into operation an effective working machinery. T\his organization will have no legislative power per se but will direct its efforts along educational lines. The headquarters are in the Y. M. C. A. building, Charleston. It has been organized to popularize athletic sports and to improve the standard of athletic activities, so as to harmonize them with the high purpose of education and good citizenship. "Sport for sport's sake" is its motto. In 1909 one hundred and nineteen professional players of the National League were suspended for rowdyism and other offences. Undoubtedly many offences were overlooked. Similarly in amateur ranks there is a continual violation of rules and principles which reflects upon our boast of being true sportsmen. Amateurs too often do things they hope will not come to ligJht. Frequently spectators and rooters are unjust in their actions not always in accord with what is known to be right. The Clean Sports League of the Carolinias is an educational organization composed of the leading colleges and Y. M. C. A.'s of the Carolinas. Tf In AnHnrsart hv f hfi 1. Southern Jnter-Collegiate Association. 2. Athletic League of North America. 3. South Carolina Inter-Collegiate Association'. 4. Carolina Federation of Y. M. C. A.'s. 5. Charleston Amateur Athletic Federation. The following adopted code of ethics is simple?fair to the individual to the large as well as to the small colleges, schools or other organizations. It appeals to the manhood in man, and all lovers of clean sport are asked to support it. 1. Both the home team and the home town should treat the visiting team as a guest. 2. Both players and spectators should recognize good plays of the visiting team by suitable cheering. 3. Players should play ball fair and be good losers. 4. The umpire and referee have difficult tasks to perform. Spectators should accord them their moral support. TJie players should extend them hearty thanks as they leave the field. 6. Condemn all use of profane language on the field. Lists will be circulated in every town in the Carolinas, and every man and every boy big enough to Bwing a bat is requested to add his signature, with the understanding that an honest effort will be made to live up to these principles. Such action will add greatly to the pleasure and dignity of athletic activties of the Carolinas. KILLED BY BURSTING TIKE. Flying Inner Tube Almost Severs Man's Head from Body. While seated on an embankment near his .home at Marcus Hook, Pa., watching his brother-in-law, Charles Ouyer, pump air into the tires cf bis automobile, Frank D. Marshall, aged 4 5 years, was struck in the face by be inner tube of the tire, which exploded with a loud report. The tire cut his face horizontally across the bridge of his nose and it was found necessary to tie up his head to keep his feature in act. He died within ten minutes after the. accident and before he could be taken to the hospital. The accident was witnessed by he dead man's wife, who was standing in the doorway of .her home. MUHDER HANI) SENTENCED. Twenty-Nine Men to Die for Their Crimes in Russia. Penalties of death or life imprisonment have been meted out at St. Petersburg, Russia, to the youthful band of men and women, who for eighteen months during 1 907-08 committed a series of murders and robberies that terrorized the residents of a considerable territory. Twentv-nine men. aged from 18 to 25 years, were sentenced to death. Eight women escaped hanging because of their sex, but were sentenced to imprisonment for life. ? ? Three Were Killed. When a northbound freight train on the Mobile and Ohio railroad was wrecked Monday, near Scooba, Miss., three men lost *heir lives, considerable property was damaged and several are reported injured. Thirty Suicides in May. With one day to heard from, the month \of 'May contributed a ghastly record of 30 suicides in Philadelphia. LAST HOPE GONE PINK FRANKLIN IA)SES HIS CASE AND WILL HANG. The United States Supreme Court Has No Jurisdiction in the Case and Dismisses It. Pink Franklin, the South Carolina negro, whose conviction for the murder of Special Constable Valentine led to an attack on the so-called la 1 A- % - ? A. 1 C% .iU Dor coniraci laws or ine ouuiu, will suffer the death penalty, according to the decision Tuesday of the supreme court of the United States. It was claimed by Franklin that the constable came to his home at night and entered without announcing himself as an officer of the law. It was while in Franklin's cabin that Valentine was mortally wounded by a shot. Former Attorney General Bonaparte became interested in the case and after the negro lawyers for the condemned man had appealed the case to the supreme court of the United States, Mr. Bonaparte filed a brief in Franklin's behalf. He contended that Franklin had a right to resist arrest, which was sought to be made on a warrant issued under an unconstitutional law. This law was the so-called "labor j contract law," which provided that agricultural laborers under contract to work were guilty of misdemeanors if they break their contracts after receiving wages in advance, Mr. Bonaparte denounced this law as an attempt to reduce the negroes of the South to captivity. I Justice Day, in announcing the decision said the court could inquire only into federal questions. He said the question of resistance of arrest 11 n a or fin n neonst 11 ntional law was not raised in time in tlie State court. Mr. Bonaparte's connection with the case was confined to the filing of a brief for the defense. Soon after his brief was filed, the two negro lawyers for Franklin announced that Mr. Bonaparte was not of counsel in the case. Jacob Moorer, one of Franklin's lawyers, said that Mr. Bonaparte had been employed by rich negroes in Philadelphia, without any knowledge of the two who had taken the case up to the supreme court of the United States. MEETS DEATH ON TRACK. Two Young Men Run Over and Kill] ed by a Train. Shuford Abernethy was instantly killed and Robert Hodges perhaps fatally injured by westbound through freight No. 7 5 at Bridgewater, N. C., Monday evening at 8 o'clock. Two trains, 72 and 75, were to pass at Bridgewater. Abernethy and Hodges ( were walking along the sidetrack, , keeping out of the way of train No. 72 on the main line, and evidently , did not see train 75 as it rushed up on them. Abernet.hy was irigntruny , mangled and was doubtless killed instantly. One of Hodges' feet was , cut off and he is otherwise seriously injured, but there is a fighting chance for his recovery. CUPID GOT REAL 11USY. And Captured All the Lady Teachers in a School. A triple wedding occurred at Westminister on Tuesday. Miss Eva Martin of Cross Hill married Hurt Mitchell, a prominent Westminister merchant; Miss Gussie Harper, of Clinton married A. W. Lathem, a progressive farmer of Westmister; Miss Augusta Smithson of Westminister married Dr. Samuel C. Moon, a pop- 1 ular Westminister physician. The ceremony occurred at two o'clock and the three couples boarded No. 3 8 going to Asheville for Uieir honeymoon. The three briores were teachers the past session in the Westminister high school. This is believed to be the first time on record w.hen Cupid has invaded a school and captured the entire teaching force with ' the exception of the superintendent, who in this instance is already married. SOLONS LOSE THIR JOBS. ? ? ' Nearly All Alabama Legislators Were Left at Home. A 'Montgomery dispatch says showing, it is claimed, the reversion of sentiment since the last Legislature, which enacted the State-wide prohibition and other laws, only eleven ' men out of the 105 composing the Alabama Legislature will be returned to office. This fact developed Monday in the first official compilation of names of the new solons. Two preachers were nominated In the recent primaries and will be elected. In three counties the Democrats put no candidates forward, and the Republican nominees will be elected without opposition. ? ? ? Long Itallot. It is said an eight-foot ballot will be required in the State election in South Dakota next November, owing to the large number of measures to be voted 011 under the initiative and referendum. u KILLED THE PRIEST WHO HAI) HAI) CRIMINAL RELATIONS WITH HIS WIFE. - Before Killing the Guilty Priest, the Outraged Husband Killed His Wife After She Confessed. At South St. Paul, Minn., J. P. Gibbons, a live 6tock comission man, shot and killed his wife at their j home in that city. A few minutes later Gibbons rang the door bell at the residence of Father E. J. Walsh, the young pastor of St. Augustine's Rnmnn r^ithr?Hr? rhnreh. and as the door was opened Gibbons fired two s.hots into the priest's head, killing him almost instantly. Gibbons was arrested and brought to St. Paul, as there had been talk of lynching at South St. Paul, where the priest was popular. At the jail Gibbons said his wife had made a confession in w-hich she used the name of Father Walsh. "It is a peculiar world, looking at it from my Nangle," he said. "I've viewed it in several ways and don't know much about it yet. I had a wife once who did not care for me but liked the companionship of others. "When Father Walsh came to South St. Paul I was jubilant. He appeared such a nice fellow and I went to him and volunteered what support was in my power to give him. He thanked me and w e became fast friends. T.hen followed a game of treachery and deceit?a fnrno that I was not in on. vet deeply interested in. "I had invited Father Walsh to my home and introduced him to my wife. Whenever he called a box of cigars were at his disposal. Mind you, they were not the brand I smoked, but much better. "The calls of Father Walsh were becoming too frequent to please me. He appeared at my home afternoons when I was at my otlice, and spent several hours in the company of Mrs. Gibbons. Sometimes my children were present, but more often were not. "I said nothing to my wife, never mentioning that I thought anything of the frequent visits. I had planned my little game, which worked so successfully." GiblKms has lived in South St. Paul for twenty-five years. For a r?.:g time he was chief of police. GOING FOR HIS RECORDS. Explorer Cook Getting Ready to Go to Greenland. The New York American says the mvsterv of the whereabouts of Dr. | Frederick A. Cook has been solved. He is in Scotland preparing for his trip to Etah, whence he plan's to bring back his records of his discovery of the North Pole and his instruments which are cached there. He also intends to bring back the two Esquimo boys who accompanied him on his dash to the North Pole. Chester Beecroit, of Pelham Manor, N. Y., has announced that he will sail from EtaJi 011 June 15 with the Bernier expedition to the Arctic in the hope of finding the record, which Dr. Frederick A. Cook left in the North. DIED WHILE RAISING FLAG. Flag Wire Got Crossed With a Live Electric IWre. The patriotism of John Gieriowski, a middle aged Polander, has cost him his life. While trying to hoist the Stars and Stripes for Memorial Day on the roof of Turner Hall, in Glendale, Pa., a copper wire, 011 which the flag was strung, came in contact with a live light wire. The shock which travelled to Gierlowski knocked him down, and entangled him in the flag and wire, he rolled to the ground, tliirty-five feet below, lie died half an .hour later, either from the electric shock or the injuries received in the fall. GRIPPED BY FIERCE BLIZZARD. Damage Done by Storm in I.ake Superior Section. A special to the Detroit News from Calumet says that Lake Superior and the surrounding country arc in the grip of a fierce blizzard, with .high northerly winds and a heavy snow. All boats are seeking ports of re fuge from the gaie. a neavy sou is running all along the southern coast. NTo boats are reported within reach of the wireless. Wire and train service are practically demoralized. ? ? Lived Without Work. The only man in Indiana who could live without working, Thomas Fields, died at Hartford City, Ind., last week. He was a waif in New York and 55 years ago was shipped West. He was .honest, sober and lazy and bummed his meals for over half a century. Blew Open Safe. The state bank of Unity, Wis., was robbed Tuesday of $2,000, the safe of the bank being dynamited. The robbers escaped. The bank was established in 1905 with a capital of $10,000. HYAJT IN THE RACE MAKES FORMAL, ANNOUNCEMENT OF HIS CANDIRACY. Statw That There Should be Uess Politics and More Effort to Run Matters Along Rusiuess IJnos. (F. H. Hyatt, of Columbia, one of the State's best known and most successful business men, has announced his candidacy for governor of the i State. In announcing the candidacy of Mr. Hyatt the Columbia State says: , M \1 ' : ? U b ^ n r t 4 \\ f\ 4 Vf f > \ 1 HI LIU' (II.IlUUilLL-IliClil UIIU mi. Hyatt intends to make the race is the opening of a campaign along different lines from that of any other candidate in the run for gubernatorial honors. 'A business man's government,' is Mr. Hyatt's slogan for the race and in his platform he says: "As a business man my chief aim, if elected, will be to conduct a State government along business lines.' The following is the platform: "I beg to announce my candidacy for t.he office of governor, subject to the decision of the Democratic voters of the State. Campaign promises are easily made. My purpose is, if elected, to give the people a plain, honest and business-like administration. Of course, I shall advocate good roads, good schools and good government; my attitude to the same being well known to the public for many years. "I consistently advocated prohibition and was among the first to give money and lend influence to push that movement more than twenty years ago. As a business man my chief aim, if elected, will be to conduct a State government along business lines." F. II. Hay It has been associated with Columbia's and South Carolina's interests for many years. He has lived in Columbia since the beginning of .his business career and as manager of the Mutual Life Insurance company for this State has become known throughout South Carolina. For ten years he has been president of the Good Roads association and had advocated good roads even at a time when t.he general movement had not thought of being launched. He built the first macadam road in Richland county. In the Southern Cotton association along, witTi E. D. Smith, now United States senator, Mr. Hyatt was a conspicuous figure in t.he successful efforts to secure higher prices for cotton for the farmers of the State. Several years ago he was urged to enter the race. "Recently," said Mr. Hyatt, "the sentiment has been very strong for a {candidate to enter the race on such a platform as I have entered. T.he question of sale of liquors in South Carolina is, apparently, doomed to a second rate place in the campaign issues. Good roads, education and like matters are likely to attract the attention of the voters in the approaching campaign more so than the much mooted whiskey question, in the opinion of many w-ho have closely followed the situation in this State." * SAYS THEY ARE ALRIGHT. Supreme Court Upholds Jim Crow Car Law. An attempt to have the Supreme Court of the United States pass on the authority of common carriers in inter-state commerce to make "Jim Crow" regulation met with failure on Tuesday when the Court dismissed the so-called Chiles appeal from its docket. The question arose in a suit w.hich J. Alexander Chiles, a negro, brought suit for damages against the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company. 'Chiles bought a through ticket from Washington, D. C., to Lexing ton, Ky. At Ashland, Ky., all the passengers except those in a sleeper were required to take other coaches. Over the objection of a brakeman, he insisted on riding in a coach set aside for white passengers. He was compelled by t.he conductor to go into the coach for colored persons. In the suit for damages t.he railroad relied on the defence that it had acted in conformity with its regulations. The supremo court of Kentucky found these regulations in regard to t.he soperate coaches for the two races to be reasonable. Inasmuch as Chiles had been furnished accommodations equal to those provided for white passengers, according to the trial jury, a verdict was rendered for the railroad company. From this Chiles appealed. The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the State Court. ? ? ? l>ry l>ock Was Sunk. A Manila dispatch says the exam ination of the United States dry dock Dewey has strengthened the belief of those of the navy who .have held that the damage was done deliberately by conspirators against the govern ment. Could Not Get Work. Albert lletts, aged 67, despondent over not being able to get employment, committed suicide in Greenville on Tuesday by drinking carbolic acid. He left a note stating his ! reason for the act. I MANY iN RACE For the Different Offices to be Filled in This State This Fall. READ OVER THE NAMES & Others May Enter I>ater, as tffto First Campaign Meeting Will Not Be Held Until the Twenty-Second of the I*resent Month, When All Pledges Will Be Filed. Candidates for state and congressional oflices are beginning to pop out lively with the near approach of t.he eounty-to-coiinty speech-making tour, which opens on June 22, a?lthouig.h the candidates are not rushing forward yet to get in their pledges and checks with Chairman Jones. Surprises may be looked for therefore in the nature of "dark -horses" and other kinds of entries up to the very hour of noon on the 21st, which is the last minute in which a candidate may get in the race, Chairman Jones firing t.he starting gun at that minute. There are going to be several very lively races for state offices and some entertaining little congressional scrap on t.he sid?, all the congressional men having opposition Willi tutr |/uooIUIC ivmi wi u. x Johnson in the fourth district. There are now six candidates in the field for governor, ail definite announcement and all working hard to get their organizations in good trim. These are C. C. Featherstone of Laurens. John G. Richards, Jr., of Kershaw and F. H. Hyatt of Colurnihia, nil advocating prohibition. iCole. L. Bl'ease of Newberry and Thomas G. McLoed of Bishopville, for different sorts of local option, and Editor John T. Duncan of The Columbia Reporter. Mr. Duncan has not yet announced his platform, but says he has definitely decided to make the race. For lieutenant governor, C. A. Smith of Tinvmonsville, one of the authors of the house prohibition bill, will be opposed by E. W. Duvall, a member of the house of representatives from Chesterfield, a banker and president of the state association of retail hardware dealers, and possibly by M. S. Connor of Dorchester. The secretary of state the incumbent, R. M. McCown of Florence, will be oppossed by J. M. Moss of Walhalla. So far as can be learned W. A. Jones has do oppossition for comptroller general, and state treasurer R. H. Jennings and state superintendent of education Swearinger are in a similarly happy situation?for the present. At present J. Fraser Lyon is unopnosed for Attorney General. Ri Speaker of the house, M. L. Smith of Camden had intended running for the office, but that was it the event that Mr. Lyon became a candidate for (governor, a thing Mr. Lyon has decided positively n )t t?> do. For adjutant general there are four candidates, and possibly ihoe will be others. The four positively announced and actively at work are the incumbent, Gen. J. C. Boyd, his assistant, Col. W. T. Broca, Cant. J. M. Richardson of Aiken and Maj Charles Newsham of OolumoU. For railroad commissioner tho son of a United States senator, c?. McDuffie Hampton, is trying to soeceed the son of a United States senator, Aiaj. jonn n. wane, wnuse father, Judge J. H. Earle, succeeded Gen. Wade Hampton. Mr. Kmc, however, will not offer for re-election. Other candidates for the place are .Tallies Canzler of Tirzah, ex-Mayor G. Heyward Mahon of Greenville, and Representative O. C. Scarborough of Clarendon. T.he pn sent congressmen from this state are: From the First district, Geo. S. Legare; Second, J. O. Patterson; Third, Wyatt Aiken; Fourth, J. T. Johnson; Fifth, D. E. Finley; Sixth, J. E. Elilerbe; Seventh, A. F. Lever. The present line-up of those looking for these gentleman's honors and salaries looks like this: Kirst district, J. n. liesene, or Manning. Second district, Solictor J. P. Byrr.8, of Aiken, and C. W. Garris, of Bamberg, former railroad commissioner and present member of the house of representatives. Third district. Solicitor Julius E. Bo|gg8, of Greenville, and Dickens and Rev. Coke D. Mann of Oconee, member of the board of trustees of Clem son. Fourth district, ex-State Senator T. B. Butler or Gaffney, and Solicitor J. K. Henry, of Chester. Fifth district, State Senator T. I. Rogers; P. A. Hodges, former financial agent for Columbia collego; exState Senator W. A. Brown, of Darlington and ex-Representative Ben B. Sellars of Sellars. Sixth district, Dr. W. W. Ray, of Richland. ? It is predicted that trolley fares must rise, but as almost everyone feHc that they can afford automobiles, That do we care? / esHHH|