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WANT HIM FIRED DtaacraU PebBik Their Fiadiags ia Ike if - ? BaUitfer Cue. THEY FIND HIM GUILTY Republican Members of the Committee Refused to Take Part in Meeting of the Committee, Rut Will Issue a White Washing State- I - ma * fl inent After HH7 mcoi, "That Richard A. Ballinger has not (been true to the trust reposed in him as Secretary of the Interior, that he is not deserving of public confidence, and that he should be required by the proper authorities tc resign his office." The foregoing sums up the finding of the four Democratic mem'bers of the Ballinger^.. Plnchot Congressional investigating ^ committee, which were, made public late Friday after they held a meeting at Minneapolis, 'Minn. The Republican members issued no report of any kind bearing on the controversy. An independent report was given out by Mr. Madison, the "Insurgent" Republican from Kansas, which declares that Mr. Ballinger "should not be retained that he was an unfaithful trustee of the people's interests and enemy of eonservation," and that the / hnrtfps of Gifford Pinchot should be sustained. These findings will be printed and filed with Omgress. The decision of the four Democratic members, and Mr. Madison to make the reports public followed a session which was unusual. Three Republican memhere, Senator Sutherland, of Utah, and Representatives McCall, of Massachusetts, and Denby, of Michigan, refusing to attend the meeting. Finally the chairman of the committee, himself, Senator Nelson, of Minnesota, left the committee room and failed to return. Chairman .Nelson gave notice that a meeting would be held in Chicago next Tuesday. The Democratic members adjourned to meet again in Washington, December 3. Representative Ollle M. James, of Kentucky, one of the Democratic members, announced that all of the Democrats, wtuM r*?fiih? to attend the meetings, of which Senator Nelson has just ?lven notice. The Republicans will then be in the same position that the Democratic members and Mr. Madison found themselves Friday. The report of the Democrats Is fllgned by Senators Duncan U. Fletcher, of Florida, and William Purcell, of North Dakota, and Representatives Ollie James, of Kentucky, and James M. Graham, of Illinois It says: "Summarized, the Democratic findings declare that the evidence shows: "Th.'it there was no conspiracy against Mr. Ballinger. "That Clifford Piuchot and L. R. <Glavlfi were faithful trustees of the people's interests. "That Mr. Ballinger's conduct on certain occasions was intended to and did have the effect of fooling the President. "That Mr. Ballinger's action in havinig 'cloarified' these so-called Cunningham Alaskan coal tanas aim ordering them patented showed bad faith. >"That ho advocated a bill to validate Alaskan coal claims alleged to bo fraudulent. "That his action in acting as attorney in cases pending in the land offices while he was commissioner wa6 reprehensible. "That he helped to force the Cunmingham coal claims to a hearing before the government was ready to proceed. "That he encouraged subordination in the reclamation service and condoned improper official conduct in that connection." Numerous official acts of Mr. Bul^ linger are attacked. High praise is given Gilford Pinchot, former chief forester, and L. R. Glavis. former: chief of the field division of I he general land office. Mjr. Madison's conclusions are: "That the charges of Messrs. Gla?? nuMmt should he sustained. V1B HI1U X lliu?u? "That Mr. Ballinger has been unfaithful to the public interests. "That in the matter of the Cunningham coal lands he war. not a faithful trustee of the people s mterests. I "That with regard to the reclamation service he has taken action tending toward it? disintegration." Secretary Ballinger's action in restoring water power sites without intention to withdraw is also criticised, along with his conservation policy among other things. A resolution adopted by the Deni ocrats find Mr. Madison provides lor publication of the findings. When Senator Nelson left the committee, Senator Fletcher was made chairman pro tern and the iHenvbers present .proceeded with their work. Earlier in the day an effort *vas made to secure a quorum, but without success, Paul Sleeman. of Washington, D. C., secretary of the committee, was instructed to bring in the absentees after being designated GOING FOR TEDDY ' ROOSEVELT HAS STIRRED UP A HORNETS NEST SURE. Senator Lo rimer's Friends Are Denouncing the Ex-Presklent and all His Works. A Chicago dispatch says the Hamilton Club, of that city, often called the 'banner Republican club of the nation, is greatly wrought up following the Roowevelt-Lorimer incident of Thursday. Senator Lorimer has a host of - 4 " 1 1 1. I-. ~ ? A. 1. mends in me menioersuip ul um cJul), and from tlieae men came rumblings of revolt. All declared they were anxious to rebuke President Halten for acepting Col. Roosevelt's ultimatum regarding the banquet. The Senator's frends say they are only waiting the cue from Mr. Lorim.er and if he resigns his membership from the clujb they will do 1'likewise. So far he not given the word and has refused to talk on the subject. Senator Lorlmer's friends, with considerable effort, maintaned silence when asked by the newspaper men for interviews bearing on the situation. They then relieved themselves by expressing their personal views on the incident and everything Rooeeveltian in words extremely tor rid. President Taft's meeting with Senator Lorimer when in Chicago last March, as tlie guest of the Hamilton Club, is declared by mem,bers to have the Roosevelt move all the more unexpected. When President Taft was here, Senator Lorimer was a conspicious guest at the various banquets and receptions, and the President seemed pleased to have the junior senator from Illinois close at hand. Those club members say that if the President of the nation did not feel there was any official impropriety in meeting the Senator in public, they did not apprehend that a private citizen would consider it impossible to attend the same public function with the Senator. * STARRKD WITH PKXCIL. Jackie on Gunboat Hancock Is Killed With Unusual Weapon. The stab of a lead pencil was the weapon which brought death Saturday night to Albert Curren, a jackle on the gunboat Hancock. Curren had obtained a leave of absence to visit his sisters in Brooklyn. In a saloon near her home he became e * gaged with John Schmidt, an acquaintance in a lively discuss oa as to the merits of the battleships of Germany and the United States. Schmidt declares Curreti struck him. Schmidt said he did not realize that ho held a lead pencil in his clinched hand when, resenting Curren's attack he struck back. The blow caught Curren on the neck an 1 the pencil pierced his jugular vein. A VKIIY SICK MAX. Colonel James If. Tillman Carried to Asheville, X. C. An Edgefield dispatch to the An i. ~ nu U.l ^ %?C3 f 1/\1 I n m o c? H gllSlil * li Mill u M- a<i,j o \ <<i. .h.kivu ... Tillman, who has been in very bad health for a number of years and who is in a very low state of health, was taken to Asheville, X. C.t on last Tuesday to see If the climate there would be beneficial to him. For the past nine or ten months, he has been living in a tent, in order to be in the fresh air as much as possible. He had to be put on the train in a cot. He is exceedingly thin and very weak, being a mere shadow of his former self. Mr. Tillman Hunch accompanied Col Tillman. He has lost his voice almos'. They Wen4 Drowned. According to men landing at Old Point Comfort from the battU snips, the three men who met death aboard the North Dakota were not killed by the explosion of oil as af. first reported. but were drowned when Hie room No. 13 was flooded to pr :\t ? t the spread of the flames and th i ex plosion of the magazine jocated just over the fire. * i Declared Ineligible. At n meeting of tho Greenville County democratic committee Cap/ John G. (Jreer, who was elected *o the legislature in the first primary, was declared ineligible because of the fact that he failed to lile expense account on the day before the el?jtion. John k Harrison way declared elected in his stead. as sergeant-at-arme. He was ordered to arrest them, but it was found there was no power to do this under the resolution authorizing the committee. It was said that the Republicans had remained away from the meeting because the feared the possibility that the action of the Democratic members and Mr. Madison, in adopting a resolution urging the dismissal of the Secretary and condemning his official act, might be ratified. STEAMER SINKS He Werst Disaster ia the History ef Lake Michigan Happens. MANY PEOPLE PERISH Ferry float (Joes to Bottom When Half Way Across Lake.?Heroic Efforts of Crew to Prevent Catastrophe I'nu vailing.?Indescribable Scenes of Horror. Twenty-nine lives were lost near Ludington, 'M/ich., Friday when Pere Marquette car ferry No. 18, bound from Ludington to Milwaukee went to the bottom of Lake Michigan half way across the lake. The dead include Capt. Peter Colty of I.udington, S. K. Sezepanek, of Chicago, purser and wireless operator, whose signals of distress brought assistance to the sinking steirmer, and two members of the crew of car ferry No. 1 7, who lost their lives in an nffrwi im rociMin thn crew of N'o. I S. shrouded in mystery. F. F. Pevin, cal>in watch, said the boat was very low at the stern when the lirst alarm was given. He said they pushed 20 railroad cars into the lake to ease the vessel, but without avail. Seymour Cochrane, of Chicago, another survivor, said he was reading a magazine in his berth when a cabin boy rapped at the door about 4.2 0 a. m. and shouted that the bow was sinking. Cochrane floated on a cabin door until picked lip by No. 17. The purser had given him $1,000 which was due Cochrane's employers after they had delivered the boat to the Pere Marquette company, they having leased her all summer. Hut Cochrance could not load himself down with the coin and tied the money to the stairs rail as the boat went down. Many of the life boats were stove in bv wreckage, tumbling in every direction on the tossinig sea, the occupants of the small boats being thrown in . the water and many d row nod. The sum total of the catastrophe I is told in the fatal figures, 20 lives lost and the financial loss amounts to $500,000. The story of the loss of car ferry No. 18 constitutes the most tragic I and thrilling chapter yet written in the history of Lake Michigan marine. Leaving Ludington Thursday night at 11.30 with a fair but stiff wind and 2 0 cars loaded on deck, the ferry made good weather for five hours on its course to Milwaukee. At 4.45 word was sent to Capt. Peter Colty that his boat was rapidly making water and that the pumps were unable to keep even with the inflow. VV'll full confidence in the stability and seaworthiness of his craft the veteran car ferry navigator headed his ship with all speed to Sheboygan on the Wisconsin side. The pumps were worked to their fullest capacity and all expedients known to a skilled and resourceful mariner resorted to. Hut despite every effort the ter rible fact dawned upon the captain and on all on board that the boat was gradually but surely sinking. An effort way made to run a number of railroad cars overboard and thus lighten the load and gain a few precious minutes. With great diflicultv nine were dropped off the stern of No. 18, but this gave the vessel only slight and temporary relief. The ship was doomed. Yet, notwithstanding this important fact and in the hope of saving both crew and craft, the captain crowded his ship to the utmost limit hoping to reach shoal water. The effort was futile. At 7.2 0 Friday morning time came when the boat's bouyancy was no longer sufficient to sustain it. Suddenly without warning and before the horrified gaze of 50 men on board ferry No. 17, which had just arrived on the scene in response to a distress signal, the big black bow of the ship rose high in the air, the stern settled swiftly toward the bottom and with a roar and crash like an explosion the ship shot downward ? ?wl time 1 Act f a vlow The horrified onlookers on number 17 stood for a moment speechless and petrified. There among the surging waves were fellow beings struggling for their lives. Agonizing cries for help were heard above the sea. All was confusion, indesscrtbable. terror and chaos. In a twinkling 2!t lives were snuffed out and sixty strong men were precipe tatert into a death trap as cruel as it was hopeless. Then began the rescue. Lowering one of her life boats, containing four sailors the crew of Number 17 began a work which marks many of them as heroes. No sooner had the tiny boat touched the angry waves than it was hurled with tor ride force against the side of the steel steamer and crushed to a shapeless mass. Two of the sailors were rescued by those on board while the other two. Jos. Ueterson and R. Jacobson, a scrubber, immediately sank and drowned. After this incident it it said that the men were loath tc QUITS THE RACE GOV. PATTERSON WITHDRAWS FROM CONTEST. ? ?. The Bitter Piglit Against Him Krnts With His Returniug His Nomination to the Party. Gov. M. R. Patterson, or Tennessee, withdrew from the race to succeed himself 011 Saturday night, when he issued a long statement from Nashville announcing the fact. Governor Patterson was the nominee of the regular faction of the Democratic party and has been bitterly opposed by the independent State-wide prohibition Democrats, who, in coalition with the Republicans, elected a State judiciary la3t month, defeating a ticket for which Governor Patterson made a strenuous campaign of the State. On Wednesday, the 14th instant, the independent Democratic meet in Nashville in State convention, a majority of the delegates going instructed to vote for the endorsement of B. W. Hooper, the Republican nominee for Governor. Governor Patterson, in his address announcing his withdrawal, declares he will not be an obstacle in the way of his party's success at Mw? nnllo linr will ho willintrlv coil tribute in any way to the possibility of success of the Republicans in Tennessee. He withdraws in the interest of harmony and that Democratic factions may get together to prevent the loss of the State in November. He makes reference to interference of a Republican President in Tennessee politics. In an interview following the issuanc6 of the statement, Governor Patterson declares that he has no personal preference in the matter of a Democratic nominee and that tie I will take the stump for him, whoever he may be. Patterson's political career has been a stormy one, including his defeat of former Senator E. W. Carmack, for the gubernatorial nomination in a sensational campaign, followed by the killing of Carmack by the Coopers, their trial, which attracted natior.al attention, and Patterson's pardon of 1). 13. Cooper within a few minutes after his conviction was sustained by the Supreme Court. FALLING ROCK. KILLS XIXH. Ten Others Injured at Mouth ol Old Ei'ie Tunnel. At least nine laborers were killed outright .Sunday and ten others seriously injured, in the collapse of an overhanging shoulder of rock above the western mouth of the old Erie tunnel, under Bergen Hill, N. Y. The collapse was directly in ocatli the edge of the Hudson Boulevard, \yhlch, at that point, runs along the inner line of Bergen Hill. Thousands lined the boulevard all afternoon, peeiing down at the wo ; of removal. For seven years the Erie has been working at the giganjtic task of carving an open cut for its paso&nge: trains through the solid rock of llcrgen Hill, which in some spots, is .'loo feet high. The cut was opened for travel not long ago, but there s'iH remains the task of hewing a common portal for the old tunnel an I the new cut. Killed by Fall from Buggy. At Florence Mattie Buchanan, a well known negro woman, wife of a highly respected carpenter, wis killed by being thrown from a buggy. She was riding with another negro woman. The horse took fright and ran away and the occupants of the buggy were thrown out. The Buchanan woman was instantly killed bv the breaking of the base of the skull on the havd pavement. " enter the small boats, but others ol greater courage manned another, which was successfully launched. This boat, in charge of Duncan Milligan, of (aldington, did heroic work and in less than an hour picked U)i I 4 survivors* who were floating about clinging to bits of wreckage, then another Ifffc boat was manned and joined in the work. It was a race for time and m^are than thirty were saved. II I. I 1 ? . 1. ~ tt r? I.* I ? 'i 1 I 1 v\ I I I If lilt" I life a \J, I ITOOIUI , of .Milwaukee, car ferry No. 20, F'ere Marquette steamer No. 6 and a tug from Sheboygan towing the Sheboygan life saving crew arrived on the scent*. They instituted a thorough search for survivors and bodies and succeeded in picking up sev&i of the former and eight of the latter. The cause of the disaster may always remain a mystery. Tlte? lien who know what the trouble w\s are all dead and among the survivors there are only two theories and speculations. The best conclusion seem8 that the car ferry's after wat or compartment til loci through on open or broken deadlight which was followed at the last minute by a bursting of bulkheads. his first assistant. Chretuspec-dirtscc Chief Engineer Ross Leedhuni and his first assistant. Chas. Rosencrans, died at their posts in the en, gine room. STERN REAUTY ? Ike Skeptical Sboald Ertertaii No Firtker Doubts Abort DREAD HYDROPHOBIA Report of l'ublic Health Service of Federal ( overninent Says Ditteu^e Is no "Kcspector of Heuson nor Species of Mamjitnl."? Certain Mad !><>g Fallacies Repudiated. Hydrophobia is a reality and is a respector of 110 particular season nor species of manunval, says a public health service report, issued Saturday from Washington. A. M. Stimson, its author, repudiates certain mad dog fallacies and advices those sceptical of the existence of such a disease as rabie.s to have their doubts dispelled at a soientiiic laboratory. This report from Surgeon General Wyman's bureau admits rabbles may not uniformly be fatal, though it is almost so. Pasteurization generally prevents development. "We do know," says the report, "that artificially immunity can be conferred during the usual incubation period. The possibilities of anti-rabies serum have not been exhausted by trial. It deserves further investigation, but our present data does not warrant us to expect very much benefit from this sou rce. Despite discouraging results or pa?st experiences at cure by drugs, continued efforts to And an effectual remedy are weighed, the most promising lino of investigation appearing "to be based, not upon the phsioligieal action of the drug, but upou its action upon the parasite." Mad (logs are not always wildeyed and frothing at the mouth and | determined upon the attacking of | every person they meet. The report contends that when the attack first begins to develop dogs are frequently more playfully inclined; "the rabid dogs is sick; he is not necessarily running wild and furious; he is frequently obedient up to a late stage, and often seems to have a bone in his throat, or to have sustained injury to the back." Another fallacy is the general belief that rabid dog is sick; he is not necessarily in the summer than in other months. The explanation is that more people are moving abort and become subject to attack. Nor is the malady confined to any climate or region. It is likely to occur in the Artie or the equatorial jungles. Dogs, wolves, coyotes and skunks seem to be especially susceptible. But not even with the canine tribe is the disease of spontaneous origin. This fact renders isolation or destruction ineffective; elimination of infected animals is the only sure preventive. In this way Great Britain has eradicated the distemper. "If all rabid dogs could he prevented from biting other animals," says the report, "rabies would within a year be a historical cusiosity of medicinee, an illegitimate field of research for the investigator in pure pathology, a plaything for the controversialist." The mad-stone and chicken breasts as cures for the madness are arraigned as real dangers because they frequently prevent people from inc. <>i Inn' I'lMimrlinu T.nutlv orerv i \/1.? v>i > * mv\? ?v-m. human hydrophobincs do not seek to bito other persons. The average period of incubation is a littlo over ten weeks, but in some persons the effect of a mad dog's bite is not manifested for more than a year. * FATAL Al'TOMOIilLK SMASH. ?, Compact With Klectric Pole Results in Dentil of Two. Albert. K. Hanna, aged .'18, of Lowell. Mass., and Mrs. Fannie Reed, wife of Charles I. Reed, a manufac turer, of Nahant, Mass., were killed, and Herman Stegeman, of Jamaica Plain, was slightly injured when a.n automobile, in which they were riding, crashed into an electric pole on the Nahant road, early Sunday. The bursting of the tires on both wheels, which caused llanna, the chauffeur, to lose control of the machine, while it was traveling at high speed, was responsible for the rieeident. (bits OIV llis (^ueue. Prince Tsai Tao. the child' of the rt i. i ... .... ... : : ^ .. u .. i. .. . v ninese nuui;u\ iiiismimi, \\ no uas spent two months in visiting America and the principal ICuropean countries has cut off his pintail. The news was received with delight in PelUn, hy the oflicers of the Chinese army, who feel sure that the prince, who is their commander in chief, means to Rive them permission to follow his example. Governor's Daughter Killed. Miss Florence Pardee, the eldest daughter of former Governor Pardee. of California, was killed Sunda\ In an automobile accident at Corle Madeira. The machine went over an cnhankmcnt and Miss Pardee was thrown t*it. * STOLEN IN TRANSIT LKAI> SlTI**TITUTKI> FOR GOLD ON BOARD STKAMKR. Tho Seals of the Boxes Wwt Intact and How the Metal Was Stolen in a Mystery. Gold bullion valued at $57,500, part of a consignment of $170,000 from the Washington-Alaskan bank of Fairbanks to Dexter Horton National bank of Seattle, on the steamship Humboldt, was Sunday stolen in transit. l>ead was substituted in tho strong box. Discovery of the theft was announced Sunday. The stolen gold weighed 2.r)0 pounds. When it left Fairbanks on a Youkon river steamer for Dawson and Whitehorse, the gold was contained in three wooden boxes and was in the care of the Alaska Pacific Express company. When the boxes were opened by the Canadian customs officers at Dawson the gold bars were found to be, as stated, in the express company's papers. The boxes were opened again at tho United States assay office in SeattJe Friday noon and the theft discovered. One contained pigs of lead instead of gold. The seals of the boxes were intact when th^y reached the assay office and it was evident that the rxybbery had been committed on board ship. The gold was insured against loss by the express company. HKTl'ltXKD BY KIDNAPI'KUS. As Much Mystery Surrounds Beaupea ranee as Disappearance. Little Michael Scimeca, the 3-yearold son of I)r. Michael Scimeca, a prominent Italian physician, is now safely in the hand of his relatives in New York after having beer, held for nearly three months a captive by "black hand" kidnappers. Tn 3 abductors of the boy have so far escaped the police dragnet. Much myster/ surrounds the circumstances of the cudd's re i.iueanance. It was paid that a telephone message was received that little Michael would be found wa'k l/ on Fifty-fifth street. The boy u tered a cry of joy when he say his relatives and was soon snngly wrapped up in a carriage and on the way to Petrellas'. Dr. Scimeca's father-iulaw, Brooklyn home. Michael Scimeca was spirited away from his parents' home on Jun? 17. Shortly afterward demands for large sums for his ransom 'began to pou** in on his well-to-do father through the mail and in mysterious telephone messages. Threats that the b?y 'boy would be killed also were re 2 - - ^ ,1 /I bin tt/neo in Q tl I't'l Vl'U <11111 Ilir> |MII cut n VI ^ ill Mil agony of terror lost harm would come to him. MAY I>IK OF FRIGHT. .Murderer Falls in Court Ro<>in liefore Sentenced. It is possible that the negro Bunk Sherard, who was convicted of killing Officer VValdrop at Piedmont, may escape the gallows. When the ne gro was brought in court at Greenville to be sentenced he fell in a dead faint and his groans cause J the spectators to believe that the negro was in the throes of death. He wui carried from Lh?? court room ?} his cell in the cc?Mni* jail and .1 physician lias been in almost constant attendance on him. It seems the negro was literally almost scared to death. The man is still unconscious and the court is in a quauda y as to when he shall be sentenced. Paid Her Good Sum. The Southern Railway has compromised with Mrs. Martha Wyatt, who lives in Cherokee county, in the sum of $10,000. It will be remembered that some months ago the New Or'.'-.ns Limited on the Southern struck a wagon in which "Tude" Wyatt and two of his sons were riding. The father was instantly kill...I M II/I lint It e/niL. U'UI'U it) in Commends Roosevelt. Commending Kx-President Theodore Roosevelt's course in refusing to sit at the same table with I'nited States Senator William Lorimer o Illinois tit the Hamilton club banquet in Chicago Thursday night, William Jennings Rryan said that ths former President's action would elevate society and politics to a marked degree. Moo Nearly Kills I la by. War Kullerton, La., a passerby rescued the baby of Mrs. S. S. McCollough just as a large hog wa? bom to crush it to death with ita tusks. Mrs. 'McOollough had seat her small son into the yard to play >vith the baby and the boy left jt momentarily when the hog sougttY" to make a meal of It. Ileal llim Fatally. While taking a shower bath with two white insane patients nt the Philadelphia Municipal hospital, O.*o. Hill, a negro also insane, was set upon by the white men and given 4 beating front which lie died . A * /