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I WILL DR OP THEM ? Idiaftf ni Otfceri Will Bm to Wilk ; Ac Piuk to Sace | ?the grand old party 14 ' , .1 . ,y Hlf| ' _ *he Republican Pa:ly Is Facing One i / ;# el the Most Critical Campaigns In Its History This Fail, and All ' Dead Weight Are to be Removed ? ^L^Fosdble. Certain events of Friday at Bever- < ly following incidents of the past week or so lead inevitably to the ( Eg conclusion that a complete political 5$; toadjusment In circles close to the President is in progress Senator Aid rich, of Rhode Island, led to see the President early today. The President was gratified that Senator Aldrich had replied to Senator Bristow's charges regard) g the tariff. In doing so.lt is said that Senator from Rhode Island per-1 formed an act which fitted exactly Into a programme which has been framed bv party leaders close to the ; President. Although .he is not to retire until March. 1911, the readjustment plans which plainly are in progress, apparently treat with the influence Mr. Aldrich may have had with the President as a thing of the past I The elimatlon of Mr. Aldrich, acf cording to close political advisers, | Is soon to be followed by the retirement of Secretary Richard Ballinger from the Cabinet. The Republican party is facing one of the most crucial campaigns in its history this fall and the leaders who have been coming more and more into the influence with the Pdesident are arriv^ inr Haiiv to do all they can to bring about an adjustment of the differen-1 ces within the party. j Mr. Ballinger practically has losts J all his personal fortune in defending / himself from the attacks that have I been made upon him. If the Secretary is to recover these loses it is said he must assume the lucrative practice of law which he left in his home State to take up the arduouos duties of head of the interior department. ! The retirement of Mr. Ballinger is fixed for September 15. The Con-1 gressional committee will have reported by that time and the date is sufficiently early to take the so-cali-1 ?d Balliuger issue out of the campaign. Ience with the President are arriv-| is said to be directed against Speak-1 er Cannon. It is not admitted in Beverly that Mr. Cannon will even > } be a candidate for the Speakership. Once it is known that President Taft would like to see a change in the Speakership, however, it is believed The third move in comtemplation be removed. That Beverly is being made the | headquarter** of the movement to set the Republican House in order <s now generally admitted. The variw oua moves are made quietly, but eff festively. Reports have reached Beverly that the recent results in Kansas and Iowa were due largely to the activity of Spoaker Cannon in Kansas to the charges against Senator Aldrich and doubt in the West as to whether he actually intended *o retire. The sit> uation developed in these two States evidently has made an impression ! upon the party leaders that has stirrer ed them to action. Mr. Aldrich has to-day told Mr. _ Taft of his plan to make a speech I during the fall in one of the Western States defending the PayneAldrich Act as a whole, and particularly replying to the charges made In reference to the cotton schedule. Senator W. Murray Crane, of Maa*ar_husetts. has been one of the ac five forces in the new political move-1 ment. It was he who went West to see Secretary Ballinger and it was 11 also he who went to see Senator Al- J1 drich at Warwick, R. I., last Sunday. ' Postmaster General Frank Hitch-1, cock, former chairman of the Nation-1' ^ a! Republican committee, has been I' ' at Beverly twice within the week.) There have been stories in progress I' of friction between Mr. Hitchcock ' and Senator Crane and some political I' jealousy ?s to their influence witli | the Administration. Mr. Hitchcock has also been hav-1 Jng a series of conferences with New I \ York State leaders, which may have); an important bearing upon the cam- J r ?,j paign. 1 Senator Dick, of Ohio, came to I r Beverly Friday, but decided to await c the arrival of Warren G. Harding, 1 the Republican nominee for Gover-Jl or in Ohio, before calling on the JPresident. g Although admitting that the fight j: in Ohio is going to be a hard one, I that the campaign must begin early I p and be carried into every part of the b ) SllbM ' V\ J I V?v. ' ] # /. 2 4 I 1 STARTED HERSELF MISS W/RDLOW INDICTED FOR MURDER, IS DEAD. ? She is Reported by the Jailer to Have l>eliber*tely St raved Herself to Death. Miss Virginia Wardlow, one of the , mysterious sisters under indictment for the murder of Mrs. Ocey W. M. Snead, the East Orange bathtub victim, died in the house of detention at Newark, N. J., Friday. Death was due, in the opinion of physiclaus, to starvation. The fa'.e of the aged woman in this respect paralleled that of her alleged victim, for doctors who examined Ocey> i Saiead before her leath said he ailments weie all due to lack of nourishing food. In the opinion of jail attendan-s, Miss Wardlaw deliberately starved herself to death. This has revived rumors circulated at the time of Ocey Snead's death, when the history of the mysterious household was under investigation, that a suicide i act existed between Miss Watdlaw and her neice. For several weeks the woman's condition has been growing worse, and last Monday she was removed from the jail to tbe house of detention. In the cell she had occupied war found a quantity of stale food, which the prisoner had concealed. At the aged woman's bedside when she died were her sister, Mrs. Richard Prir.gie of Chrisiansburg, Vu., and her i rother, the Rev. Albert Wardlaw 01 South Carolina, who had been called when her condition became alarming. But he.* other sisters, 'Mrs. Caroline B. Martin and Mrs. Mary VV. Snead, jointly indicted with her, were in their ceil as she expired. Th?y wer" sent for, but the jailer refuser to allow them to visit the house ot detention without the vor-.' of a physician that 'heir sister was at the po . f death. What effect Virginia Wardlaw's death will have on the fate of he' sisters is still to be determined. S i was the ri; n g influence of 1 strange household and pred'Ctiors were made that Mrs. Martin and Mrs. Snead may never be brought 10 trial. * POUND nil. COOK'S TRAIL. Hut Does Not Think He Reached the Highest Peak. The members of the New York ' Herald and Portland Oregonian party which atteinnted t lie ascent of Mount McKinley returned to Seattle last night. Their mission failed, C. E. Rusk said, because the party was Insufficiently provisioned. The Rusk party ascended to a height of 7,500 feet and oil July 12 met the Parker ' Drown party, well equipped for the 1 ascent, and in good spirits. Mr. Rusk says he believes they will make the top. "We took the route followed by Dr. Cook on the east side of 'he 1 mountain to Ruth glacier. On the route we saw abandoned camps and much of the scenery pictured in Dr. Cook's book. That far Dr. Cook's statements are authentic. Furthe'*, I would not say, but I do not believe he ascended the mountain to the top." HOLLY HELD FOR MURDER. Coroner's Jury Refuses to Allow Bond to Suspect. A special to the News and Courier from VVilmingtou, N. C., says J. C. Holly, proprietor of the Rock Springs Hotel, which was burned sever*'' nights ago, and where the dead body Edward Cr ?: ?sol ? . o found several hours after the tire, 1 was committed to jail to-day by cor- 1 oner s j?.r> without bond. The ver- < diet being "that the facts and cir- ' cumstances introduced before this jury warrant the holding without 1 bond of .1. C. Holly for the Superior 1 Court." 1 Holly had the boy's life insured for $2,500, and the furniture in the ouilding insured also. Cromwell is laid to have come from Charleston.* 1 . ? ? KH1<h1 While With Woman. ( C. W, Turner, of Paris, Kentucky, * vas shot and killed at Hot Springs, ? \rk.. Thursday night by J. C. Put- c tell, a hotel proprietor. Turnell and 1 * 11 riie 11h wife were returning form a 1 noving picture show when Purnell * opened fire, killing Turner instant- v y. Purnell surrendered to the poice. * Itate, Senator Dick believes the Ke- I ublicans will win. c "It's going to he an old fashion li Ight and an old fashioned victory," <i ie declared. v ill % RUNS DOWN TOTS Twa Little Girls Killed by Passeifer Taaia Near ffigb Peial. THE MOTHERS ESCAPE The Children Were Walking Along The Ilalfroad Track Watching a Freight Train When a Passenger Train Caine up from Behind a Very Sharp Curve ., . ? A dispatch from High Point. N. C., says that city was shocked Sunday morning when the news of the horrible accident at Lake reached there. telling of the killing of two small girls by train No. 4 4. Little Vada Cook and Hazel Myers left High Point on train No. 11 Suuday morning with th i* mothers to visit relatives at Lake and after leaving the station at Lake they were walking >?lcng the track watching a freigut ;iain going South when 4 4 came along running them down. It seems that the children were up n front of their mothers *?nd could warned of the approach of the tra.r which wa . reining around a sharp curve. 'Mrs. Cool: and Mrs. Myers returned High Point on train 4 4 but could not bring the bodies with them on account of the coroner's inquest having to be held first. both girls were about 9 years of age. Hazel Myers was the daughter of ex-Policeman James Myers, living <in Tate Street and Vada Cook is the daughter of Mrs. Flora Cook, a widow living on Tomlinson street. The bodies of the children were badly mr.ngled and from the appearance the skulls of both were entirely crushed on the back side where they were hit by the engine. The same engine that killed Ihe^-tchildren was the one that some months ag> vas being driven by Engineer Sebe Perry, when he met his death. it is reported that several other engineers have met with severe acidents while running the eu~iu?. lost his lij'k in i jhi:. While Waruing Other People of Their Great Danger. W. E. Itobinson, mayor of El Paso, Teras, lost his life at 9 o'clock Sunday morning, while endeavoring to warn a number of firemen of imminent danger from a tottering wall. At the same time, Todd Ware, a lireman, was instantly killed and \Vm. Robinson and Dave Sullivan, aiso firemen, were Injured, the latter perhaps fatally. The casualities followed a fire which broke out in the stoie of Calisher Dry Goodsss Company and ruined it. As the mayor approached the building a large portion of brick wall fell, crushing Robinson and Ware, also knocking the ether men down. Mrs. Robinsson witnessed the accident. Conservative estimates place the loss at $225,000. BREAKS LOOSE AGAIN. Strains of Dixie Clauses Hcybuin to Cut the Fool. Senator W. II. Heyburn, of Idaho, makes a fool of himself because a band plays Dixie. At a reception given to Congressman T. R. llamer, at Wallace, Idaho, last night, Col. llamer had just finished his address and the orchestra had started a medley of well known airs. About the sixth number was "Dixie." The Senator leaped to his feet', strode across to the musicians and cried out: "This is a Republican meeting. We cannot have such tunes here." The amazed musicians stopped immediately. The Senator strode back to bis seat. After a moment of silence Mayor Hanson arose and closed the 1 meeting. Such foote as Heyburn are liable to exhibit themselves at any line. * Iti ute of a Father. ] Thomas Jarvis, a young farmer o 1 )avie county, was killed by his faia- l >r, William Jarvis, near Advance, N*. < Sunday. The father and son got t nto an argument, which ended ?\ t he elder Jarvis drawing hiss knife, c utting his son across the abdomen, t rom hip to hip. He then stamped t ipon the young man as he lay bleedng on the ground until the victim vas fearfully inang'.ed. i Women Challenges Twldy, I In a speech Friday night Miss r vate Barnard, Stale commissioner ti f charities and corrections of Okla- 1 loma, Issued a challenge to Theo- < lore Roosevelt to debate with her 1 L-hon J10 I'lcHa OL'lnlmtii'1 thio Poll ? * VII v ' U vy VUIO I (i it* t )W TO USED MONEY FREELY THB LUMBER TRUST LOBBY GAVE SWELL DINNERS To Which They Invited Members of Congress and Others Who Favored Duty on Lumber. As an evidence that the lumber trust makes a good thing of the tax levied on that universally used arti cle of necessity we publish below .how the lumber lobby at Washinton spent money last year when the tariff law was being made. The action of the lumber lobby in spending big sums of money to have the lumber tax put on shows the duty was a protective duty and not a revenue duty as it claimed. Zach McGee, the wide awake Washinton correspondent of the Columbia State, saye it develops now that the lumber lobby, which has been operating with considerable energy during the present tariff-maKing session of congress, has been supported most lavishly by the lumber manufacturers. An asscsment was made on each sawmill in the various associations of $1 for each $1,000 feet of daily cut. The lumber manufacturers of the State of Oregon and Washington belonging to one particular association were assessed $28,000, but so far they have paid only $12,000, and they are being vigorously pressed to pay the rest. Some of the advocates of free lumber here are declaring that the failure to pay the assessment is evidence that the real pressure for protection or lumber is not so much from the sawmill people as from the timber syndicates, who own most of the st urn page. There is plenty of money, however, for the lobby. It is estimated that $100,000 was raised to malutain the special lobby here to try to keep the present rates of $2 a thousand on ?ough lumber and the corresponding high rates on other grades. This does not include the expenses of social delegations sent here by lumber organizations in various States and the expenses of individual lumberman who have come here for the purpose of influencing congressmen from their own State. A number of lobbyists have been in and about, the capital ever since last fall. Some weeks ago, while the bill was before the house, the lobbyists gave a series of expensive dinners at the Willard hotel, to which they invited members of congress ond others whom they thought whould be in 11 lien tial. TWENTV-NINTH MEANT DEATH. Nine of One Family Died on Twenty, ninth Birthday. Frederick W. Cooper died at At1 ant a Friday, his death being remarkable because it occured in his twenty-ninth year. That was the age at which his father and eight of his father's brothers all died. Illuess and not age was the cause of each of these deaths. Recently Cooper became uneasy as his twenty ninth year approached its half wav mark; a presents meat seemed to couie to him; and he said speaking ol his thirtieth birthday next January: "If I can only live until then, why I'll live to be a thousand." A short time ago when Cooper was taken sick with typhoid the inevitable brooding over the fate of his father and his uncles hastened the progress of the disease. He died while his near relatives were too far away 10 r>e summoned. His mother, .Mrs. <M. J. Cooper, is returning from Europe on the steamer St. Paul due in New Yark to-mormorrow, and his sister, Miss Katherine C. Cooper, is in Paris, Cooper was prominent here, a member of the Capital City Club and connected with a large cotton firm, lie was born in New York. * i Lightning Itreaks Safe. Dispatches from McFall, Ala., say lightning played the role of s ?e breaker there early Wednesday. It .ore a hob1 in the roof of P. L>. Sny- ] ier's sto"e ran down a post orotic i ?pen the safe and stole awa; At < .he .home of Toon i n. ; at Vosnii- ] iria, the family clock was demolish- a m1 although the hous* w;n comparn- c ively n a injured. * < ? ? ? t Leopard Kscaprtl. . t Nine persons were injured durns a short spell of freedom o"joyed >v a leopad who escaped from a me Hfteric al Vega Portugal. The 1 tninial after mauling two womei:, 1 nade oft with a child in its paws, but a .ropped it when the chase came i lear. The child was scarcely injur- v td at all. c THE Hi BROKE UP COURT Palice Rtterves Called by the Jadye to Stop Hatty Mm. THE COURT ATTACHES Were Unable to Cope With the Situ* at ion When Seventy Religious Fanatics Burst Into Frenxy and Began to Scream at the Top of rhcir Voice and Boll About, Atlanta had a funny experience last Saturday when seventy frenzied and fanatical negro members of the religious sect known as the "Holy Rollers," became possessed by what they call the "Holy Ghost," in recorder's court. The court proceedings came to a sharp halt and for ten minutes the police were unable to cope with their fury. This outburst of religious fervor real or feigned, came during the trial of Nelson Shorter, one of the leaders of the sect, who had been arralnged at the complaint of a number of residents in the neighborhood of North Boulevard and Irwin street, who have neen continually disturbed for tliej past few months by the nightly outbursts of members of the sect, who hold their meeting in a little church" at the corner of Irwin and North Boulevard. A negro woman, rising in her seat in the back of the court room, commenced yelling at the top of her voice. Instantly the court was thrown into the wildest state of chaos. Seventy negro fanaticss attending the trial began to scout, screaming, yelling, moaning, groaning, crying, and laughing all at the same time. They waved their arms, their bodies swayed to and fro, and many of them in their frenzy lay down on the court room benches and rolled over and over. At the first outburst the patrolmen in court seemed daed by the power of the fearful din. There were only a handful of officers in the room at the time to control the crazed negroes. T.he chaotic yells and shouts of the "rollers." however, brought nr> a squad of the evening watchmen on the run, headed by Chief Jennings, from the first floor. Despite his broke shoulder the chief, followed by his men, threw himself upon the yelling mob. Jerking, pushing and pulling, the patrolmen managed after about seven minutep to clear the court room. The negroes did not attempt in any way to resist the officers of the law, but they seemed to ignore the officers, and several of the latter bear bruises that were inflicted by tne wildly wav'ug arms and legs of the negro crowd. Some twenty of the fanatics were finally shoved into cells by the officers, but the fact that they were incarcerated did not induce them to moderate the loudness of their religious zeal. So great was the din that the inhabitants of Decatur street, near police quarters, accompanied by alarmed patrolmen from their bents, rushed up, fearing that the world was coming to an end. Commits Suicide. At Washinton John E. McLaren, aged forty-seven, member of a real estale firm, committed suicide today by throwing himself from the fourth story window of the residence of his cousin. Dr. A. It. Shands, and A. M. Harrison, another guest were discussing McLaren's nervous condition in the library below, when they were interrupted by the thud of the latter's body striking in a flower bed outside the window. .. ? Dies at Old Age. Turner Drowning, who had lived in perfect health for 115 years died to-day on a farm, six miles from Durham, N. C. He had recollections of the war between the United States and Great Britain and Washington, Adams and Jefferson. He was born in 17 9G. * Killed in a Wreck. An excursion train from Bordeaux, Prance, with 1,200 passengers running at a speed of 50 miles an hour, i jrashed into a freight train at Saukion Saturday. Thirty-two persons'' >vere killed and 100 injured. Many, >f t-he victims were school girls. Several of the passenger cars were torn ; i o splintetf. A misplaced switch was i !-e cause of the accident. ltrutal Husband's Deed. Will Milfred, residing at East < ^ake, Ala entered his wife's room S Friday morning before she was up < md bent her into insensibility with a ; I naiohinists' hammer. The woman i vas rushed to a hospital and physi- * dans say she cannot recover. * i IRRY HE FLOOD IN JAPAN THK CITY OF TOKIO If AS WHOIJi W Alt IKS 81BMKKGKD. ThouHnncbi Starve m the Rivera Rise tiuij Deplorable Sights are Seen ft! Relief Stations. Great floods are sweeping over parts of Japan, and gres* damage Has been done to life and property. Ttie Hon jo and Kukadawa wards of Toklo are nearly completely submerged. Tens or thousands of persons are homeless and starvug. of ot three more imi>ortant embankment# guarding Tokio has been broken. Should the second and third dykes break, half the capital would be submerged. Owing to the Inundation of the buildings of the Kukadawa gas and e'ectric lights are failing. Thousands of homelesss persons are now being sheltered in the temples and schoolhouses at which relief station# the most deplorable sights are witnessed. The victims of the flood are wholly dependent upon public relief. Thouu&ands more have been unable to find shelter, owing to tuo insufflclency of boats to convey them to places of safety, and they are exposed to the rain and hunger. Every available boat is being employed in the work of rescue and to convey food whet* it i? mo<.. needed. The question of feeding the stricken peopi} is c-4 ? rg anpr The vegetable < nd fisr suppf4 s are failing and the stock of biscui-s Already is nearly exhausted. rhe**e Is no fear, however, for the supply of rice. The water of the Sumida river is almost washing the bottom of the bridges. The mountain flood in the neighborhood of Karuisawa has destroyed the Mikasa hotel. Many forol&iiem were stopping there, but fortunately ro fatalities have been reported 10 far. - ? 0 MANIAC SHOOTS UP UNION. Happily He Selected the Midnight Hour to Do It. The Union Times says: T. B. Davis shot up that town Tuesday night about midnight. It seems that he became mentally deranged, and while in that condition got out on top of the small ollice building which adjoins the Mutual Dry Goods Co.'e store and from there proceeded to shoot up and down the street wiia a 3 8 Winchester and also a Swift army gur and also with a double barrel shotgun. He fired about twenty-five shots, some of the balls taking effect, one breaking a glass in G. W. Going'a store, one striking the side of Buiris Furniture store, one striking the^ drug sign hanging in front of the Ft ice Drug Company, breaking several small places of glass, three balls struck the side of the F*ledmont Pressing Club building, while another struck the side of the Bobo Undertaking building near the front. When oliicers entered the premises occurred by the elemented man about 3.30 a. m. o'clock he was sit tiug at a table writing a letter.'Mr. T. J. Vinson was the tirst to enter the room and he sat down and began talking to Davis. Policeman C. B. Gregory entered at the front and was followed by Policeman W. D. Dove. Policeman Giegory arrested Davis and lodged him in jail. Preparations are being made to take the unfortunate man to Columbia. It is a great thing that the occcurenee was at night when there were no people on the street, otherwise the might have been a multiplied tragedy. DUO PS DKAD AT PARK. Ralls Lifeless Just After Crossing; Route Plate. Sherman K. Hoot, a bugkrr rn the United States Marine Corps, stationed at the Charleston Navy yard, died this afteroon just after crossing the home plate in a game of base ball between the navy yard team and & team from the army post on Sullivan's Island. Heart failure was the i-ause nf his ritvifh Hvstnnd^rs: htuirri Root exclaim: "Oh my heart!" as h* dropped to the ground. He had been pl.ying a star game and gave in previous sign of being ill. Root's home Is Louisville, Ky. He had been stationed here about three years. Heavy Rains in Japan. A torrential rainfall has caused devastating floods principally ia Shiuzuoka province, on the southern joast. Hudreds of houses have ^ been submerged and one occupied by students in the province of Shiuzuoka was buried with its tenrmts beneath a landslide. ? BALD r % ' HK <?! ^ V,: " '-i ' ' ? ' ' I Ae*