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CORNERS TEDDY I Mrs Bellas? Storer Shows Him Up ia a Bad Light bj Pablishiog THE IRELAND LETTERS Tbfee Letters, Which ere Now Published for the First Time, Raises a Direct Question of Veracity Be ^ - A .okkL tiwen Roosevelt ana um AI VMW<- I bbop and Mr. and Mrs. Storer. As told in the press dispatches, Mrs. Bellamy Storer, "My Dear Maria," has written a letter to the Springfield Republican from France In which she reviews in detail the famous Cardinal's hat episode, which made such a stir four or five years ago. The Storers have been friends of the Roosevelts for years. Mr. Storer, a man of medicore abality, was ^', a Congressman when ?Mr. Roosevelt was police commissioner of New York, and it now appears from Mrs. Storer's account of the matter that it was Mr. Storer who secured for Mr. Roosevelt, at the latter's urgent solicitation, the appointment as assistant Secretary of the Navy under President McKinley. When Mr. Roosevelt went to | Washington as Vice President Mrs. i Storer sets forth that he accepted their house in Washington at half the rental Mr. Olney had paid for it, Mr. Roosevelt explaining "We are so fond of yon that we don't mind being under sbligations to you." Naturally, therefore, when Mr. Roosevelt succeeded to the Presiden- J cy the Storers, who were then' in Spain, to which country Mr. Storer I had been sent ?6 ambassador, felt that their star was in the ascendan- I cy. Mrs. Storer quotes in full two I letters from Archbishop Ilreland to J how the substantia 1 basis upon I which their hope rested. Mr. Itoo3e- I velt, it will bo recalled, sneered at I the Storers for having aspired to the I court of St. James or to Berlin. Here I Is what Archbishop Ireland wrote I Mr. Storer two months after Mr I Roosevelt became President: St. Paul, November 3,1901. My Dear Friend: I have had I two most pleasant meetings with I the President at the White House. I He Is decidedly your friend, ana resolved to give you the best there Is. "Even," said he, "if Berlin comes first, and Bellamy wished it for a little while, pending Choate's retention of London, I would give It te him and change him shortly afterward to London. Let him trust me." With kind regards to Mrs. Storer, I ain very sincerely, John Ireland. (Mr. Storer did not get either of the poets he sought. Instead, he was transferred to Vienna. Mrs. Storer alleges that in September, 1903, she and her husband spent a day with Mr. Roosevelt at Oyster Bay, while on a visit to America, and that Mr. Roosevelt at that time requested Mr. Storer to go to Home &nd urge the new Pope to make Archbishop Ireland a cardinal. Mr. Roosevelt has denied emphatically that he ever \lid anything of the " - " - * < - -1 ! ? 1 t sort. In the ligat or nm uemai ?.?*?. following letter from Archbishop Ireland is of interest: St. Paul, October 23, 1901. My dear Mrs. Storer: ? I was In Washington last week and, of course, saw the President, j I spoke with him of Paris and reJmoved from his mind all suspicion that a Catholic would be there a "persona non grata" as embassador. He promised me that the next embassador to Paris would be (Mr. Storer and furthermore expressed the belief that General Porter would soon retire. The President also told me that he had commissioned Mr. Storer to speak fo him viva voce at the Vatican. He seemed rather proud of having done so. Give my love to Bellamy, and believe me, very . sincerely, John Ireland. Here Is another letter from lue -Arch bi shop to Mrs. Storer, written a month later than that just quoted: St. Paul, November 23, 1901. My dear Mrs. Storer: ? The President said to me: "Mr. Storer has told you what I said to him about you, Archbishop ?V 'Well," I replied, "1 do not remember." >, "About his going to Rome?!!,,the President then asked. I said "No." "Well." he said, "I told him I would not write a T v- letter to the Pope, asking for honors for you; but I said that he 1 could go to Rome and say?viva ' voce?to the Pope, how much I wish you to be cardinal, and how grateful I personally would be to him for giving you that "honor." I am most clear in my memory as 1 to every word. I will write about American politic* to Bel SUBSI A STRANGE OCCURENCE. Covey of Fat Partridges Caught in Hotel Iledrooiu. Messrs. Sheffield and Wolf, two well known traveling men from Savannah, had a rather unusual experience In Mr. Wolf*8 bed room at the Pfelffer hotel in Sylvania, Ga.f Tuesday night, when they flushed up a small drove of partridges Jn the room, about midnight. The two gentlemen had been sitting up talking shop, and taking an occasional drink of ice water in Mr. Sheffield's room, until about twelve o'clock, when Mr. Wolf went across the hall to his own room and struck a light. As soon as he did so, he was startled to hear the well known whirr of partridges, as they rose from the floor at his feet and saileo across the room. Rubbing his eyes to see if he was dreaming of being out in the woods with gun and d >g, he was fully convinoed when another large, plump partridge rose from the floor and, in its flight, struck him on the head. Messrs. Wolf and Sheffield succeeded in catching the covey and they proved to be large, fat ones, nearly grown. It is supposed that they flew in at the open window late the afternoon before, and were roost lug in tne room, as uiey ur? mui? plentiful than chickens in the field and gardens around Sylvan la. IjOOTKI) AM) HUKNED. ? Owner of House Was Held While the Burglars Worked. Burglars burned the $50,000 residence of W. E. Muse, of Hindedale, 111., early Saturday morning, after stealing thousands of dollars worth of silverware, jewelry, rugs and tapestry, according to the owner's report to the police after the fire. The thieves loaded the plunder into an express wagon, he claims, then set fire to the house and prepared to fire an adjacent barn, but fled without having done so. Muse was alone in the house, the domestics having gone with IMrs. Muse on the summer vacation. The attorney claims he was forced to lie in bed by one of the burglar's while others carried out the property. * Shoulder Dressed, Not Head. John Young, a negro hod carrier at work on a scyscraper, at Denver, Col., was tilling his hod when a fellow workman dropped a brick eleven stories above. The brick hit Young on the head. Looking up to ascertain the source of his intruption, he saw a second brick speeding toward the same mark as the first and he ducked. The brick hit his shoulder. Then they took Young to the hospital, where they dressed his shoulder?not his head. * lamy. With most affectionate regards to him and to yourself, I am, sincerely, John Ireland. When Mr. Storer went to Rome and the report was cabled to America that he had visited the Vatican as the representative of the President, Mr. Roosevelt, according to Mrs. Storer, became alarmed lest lie might incur the wrath of the AntiCatholics, vehemently denied that he had ever suggested such a mission to ?Mr. Storer, and later, following the consistory in 1905, flew Into a passion when Archbishop Ireland was not honored as he had requested, wrote Mrs. Storer a most insulting letter, denouncing her in the public prints and brutally dismissed Mr. Storer from the diplomatic service. The public is not especially concerned about the Storers and their fate, but Mrs. Storer's revival of this particular incident of the Roosevelt Administration makes interesting reading, in view of the fact that the citation of the Ireland letters makes the issue of veracity lie not between the Storers and the Ex-Presideni, but between the Ex-President and the Storers plus Archbishop Ireland. It now appears that either Mr. Roosevelt was guilty of bald misrepresentation or else the Archbishop misstated the facts. "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned," and when that woman is possessed of the patience which has been exhibited by "My Dear Maria," coupled with the instict to know just when and h >w to give reign to her pent-up wrath, she become a dangerous adversary for even so seasoned a controversialist as Theodore Roosevelt. Mr. Roosevelt's popularity has oozed from him recently in a runner ami degree which have amazed veteran observers. Thus to be pitted against a leading oflVcer of the Catholic Church will advantage him nothing among the Catholics of America, the more especially in view of the Vatican incident of last spring. The hero of San Juan Hill is not the first man of his type to be nnddne by a woman, as history, sacred nvnfnnn will abundantly testify. " " I ?The News and Courier. ' mh FATAL WRECK SIX PKBSON8 AKK KILLED IS TKOLLKY CAI* CItASH. Freight Cur Fjuwm'n Stopping Place and Collides With Passenge-. Ati.ling to Death LiNt. (Disobedience of orders by the crew of a freight car is said to have been the cause Saturday of the second nterurban traction wreck in three days in Indiana. Saturday's disaster cost the lives of six persons and the serious injury of six more. The southbound freight car crashed head-on into a northern passenger car 011 the Indianapolis & Peru division of the Indiana Utah Traction company shortly after noon, two miles north of Tipton, Ind. The freight car had been ordered to stop at the first switch north of Kessler's crossing, but tried to make the first switch south. A clump of trees hid the limited and the crew of the freight barely had time to jump. The front end of the limited was shattered and all passengers in the smoking compartment were killed. Farmers living in the vicinity of Kessler's crossing heard the crash and after telephoning Tipton for tthvoioiatvu u. un t f r% t lu> n i/I t lui TTV1AW IV t?l V (VIU V/ & til V injured. Nearby homes were thrown open and the injured made as comfortable as possible. One of the sad features of the wreck is that Dr. W. C. Holshauser, of Brooklyn, N. Y., who, with his brother, Walter, was killed, was on his way to Kokomo, Ind., to be married tonight to Miss Nellie Coxen, daughter of the secretary of the Great Western Pottery company of Kokomo. The brother was to have been best man at the wedding. Miss Coxen was prostrated when she heard of the death of her fiance. "I guess we over-ran our orders," said Motorman Lacev or the freight car, who, with Conductor Sebree, jumped when he saw the limited bearing down upon them. Just three days ago, almost to the hour, occurred the fatal wreck near Kingsland, Ind., on the Bluffton division of the Wabash Valley Traction company, which caused the death of 4 1 persons, with three more still in the hospitals of Fort Wayne, w'th barely a chance for recovery. * GOVKKN MENT FIGL ItES. (iivcn Out in Itogard to Pellagra and Infantile Paralysis. The mortality report of the census bureau, covering investigations for 1909 takes cognizance on infantile paralysis and pellagra as diseases to which the flesh is heir. The record shows 569 in the former and 11 6 in the latter class. The statistics cover only slightly more than half of the population, extending only to States or cities which require the registration of deaths. As comparatively little of the area in which pellagra is most prevalent is included in the reglstation section it is suggested that the report on that malady scarcely gives an adequate idea of its real ravages. Owing to the fact that the deaths of infantile paralysis were widely distributed the inference is drawn by the report that the disease exists either in epidemic or endemic form in many parts of the country. * ? CHAlUaKl) TO OPRKATOH. Four Killed and Two Injured in a Freight Collision. Four men were killed and two Injured in a head-on collision between a Mobile and Ohio and Iron Mountain freight train, Sunday near Heeeh Ridge, 111., The dead: Claud Rollins, engineer; VI. and O.; A. S. Rossner, tlreman, M. and O.; W. K. Stevenson, brakeman, t.M. and O.,, all of Jackson, Tenn.; unidentified negro. Witnesses testified before the coroner's jury Sunday afternoon that Operator Charles Clark, who was on duty at Beech Ridge, had been drinking and failed to transmit train orders. Clark was arrested, charged with responsibility for the wreck. Cholera's Toll. A dispatch from St. Petersburg, Russia, says the figures available at the sanitary bureau show that during the present cholera epidemic there have l>een 101,076 eases with 88,716 deaths throughout the country. In the week ending September 17 there was a total of 4,412 cases! and 2,071 deaths. Tn the last six, days there have been 201 new cases and 63 deaths in the city. OW TO THEY ARE NO GOOD INSURGENTS HAVE DONE NOTHING IN CONGRESS. So Says Congressman Ilainey, Who Arraign* the Republican* Generally for Plundering the People. Congressman Henry T. Rainey, chairman of the Illinois Democratic State convention, declares that the efforts of the "insurgent" Congressmen had been purposeless and fu tile, and predicted general Democratic victories throughout the country in the coming election. He said in part: "The Democratic party is united today as it has not been for fourteen years and the Republican party is divided as it has never been in all its history. The Republican party leaders stand today ui)on more thoroughly discredited than the leaders of any party have ever been during all the decades uf our history. "A great leader among the insurgents in the recent disturbance in the House might have been able to accomplish something for the country. During the last session of Congress insurgent Republican members professed to be against the PayueAldrich bill. They professed to be against the Speaker of the House of Representatives and they insisted that there were in favor of revising the rules and enlarging the committee on rules in order to make the House a deliberative body. "Recently we have given them a chance to vote to repeal the PayneAldrich bill and every one af them voted for it. The Speaker of the House charged them with being traitors to their party and insisted that they ought to be hanged, not shot; they ought to receive the punishment usually given to traitors and we then gave every one of them an opportunity to depose the Speaker. Almost without exception they voted for him, and so the present Speaker of the House of Representatives has the honor of being twice elected Speaker during the life of one Congress. "When the Democrats succeeded in enlarging the committee on rules the insurgents at once held a caucus and refused to accept positions on that committee, but declared themselves to be in favor of going into a Republican caucus and abiding the result and they did. The effect of this action on their part was almost to completely nullify the fight made by the Democrats at the last session of Congress for the establishment of a deliberative body. When the speaker continued his denudation of the insurgent members, they finally fiercely retaliated by shutting off the gasoline from the automobile purchased for him by the Congress, and this is the only victory that can be credited in any way to the insurcent members of Congress un to (ho present time. "The regular Republicans have failed to accomplish the things the people are demanding. The insurgents have failed miserably and the people are about to give the Democratic party a trial. "I do not desire to attack the administration of President Taft, it is not necessary to do that. In all our history as a nation no administration has been so thoroughly discredited. He has surrounded himself by an ofllcial family who represent and who stand for those criminal trusts against which the people cry out in vain at the present time. He has been subservient to those interests which prey upon the country, and has been controlled by them as no other President has been in all of our history as a nation. He has been most aptly described as being "a largo body surrounded by men who knew what they want.' " * Death of an Old Lady. iMrs. Fannie Leonard Wight Cleveland. of Marietta, Ga., died at her home Friday morning, after a short illness. She was ninety-four years old and one of the few surviving actual daughters of the American Revolution. Mrs. Leonard was the mother of Mrs. .1 no. H. Cleveland of Spartanburg. * How Over a Dog. As the result of a quarrel at Perryville, Ark., over a dog, Dub Thurman, aged 18, died Tuesday night, and Rob Owen, aged twenty, is charg- 1 ed with the killing. Thurman was fatally stabbed on Saturday night in a tight which followed Owen throwing a rock at the former's dog. Twelve huh Gun Rvplodes. During target practice of the Atlantic fleet of the Virginia capes Friday one of the big 12-inch 50-ton guns of the battleship Georgia burst on the first range shot. The muzzla as far back as the forward end of the jacket was blown off. The crew miraculously escaped injury. THE HI PUT IN THE PEN. < "Broker in Hearts" Paying Penalty for Defrauding. Isaac R. Warns, a "broker in hearts," as he termed himself, was Friday sentenced by Judge Landis, in Chicago, to serve 14 months in the federal prison at Fort Leavenworth for using the United States mails to defraud. Warns confessed that he had used the mail in earring on the business of his marriage bureau. His circulars depicting the sadness of lonely old n.arc wero road in court. Ono of his books sent to prospective customers was entitled "The Way to Win a Woman's Heart." It contains the following passage: "You do not know what it is to live alone, uncared for; unknown when old age overtakes you. Solitude fills one with horrible agony. Solitude at home by the fireside at night is so profound, so sad." * LOW DEATH HATE. Kor the United States Reported by Census Bulletin. The death rate in the United State3 in 1 900 was fifteen in each one thousand, according to a bulletin issued by the census bureau. This is the lowest average ever reported for this country. The figures cover only the cities and State havIn cr 1e ti/n ro/ni i ri ti o* Vi ?\ rncrt af t*Q f inn ill f-t I ? " a IV V( wn Iiif, VHV i vhlovl of deaths. These represent 65.3 per cent of the estimated total population. In addition returns were received from fifty-four cities having local registration laws. The total number of deaths recorded was 732,538, of which 398,597, or over 54 per cent were of males. The greatest mortality occurred in March, and the lowest in June. ? WANTS HKlt DIAMONDS BACK. . llomarkuble Suit Filed Against Columbia lawyer. Seeking to recover a necklace containing 21 diamonds and a solitaire diamond ring alleged to have been given as a fee in a case which she had instituted against her husband, Mrs. Alice D. Whittle, of Columbia, Hied a suit against Frank G. Tompkins, one of the leading members of the Columbia bar. Perhaps the most remarkable grounds ever given in a civil suit in South Carolina are named in this unique case. Mrs. Whittle claims that when she gave the two articles worth a small sized fortune to the attorney she was not in hpr rijrhf mi mi Th? suit, to recover the diamonds or to be paid the sum of $1,000 was filed at the office of the Clerk of court for Richland county. The attorney representing Mrs. Whittle is A. H. Ninestein of Barnwell county. * MKKT WATER Y DEATH. Four Autoists Drowned by Blunging of Car into Canal. All four occupants of a large touring car, returning from a lake shore resort to New Orleans early Saturday, were drowned when the car, rounded a curve in the West End shell road at a high rate of speed, shot straight ahead and plunged into the New Basin Canal. A laborer on his way to work was the only witness to the accident. He said the car passed him at such a clip that he was unable to note how many persons it contained. It was at first reported that the car had seven occupants when it left West End and, the canal was dragged for several hours after these four bodies had been found. Late Staurday afternoon it was definitely established that two men and two women were the only persons in the car when it went into the canal. * Many Kept from School. At Washington five thousand children, it is said, are being kept by their parents from school for fear of infantile paralysis. An order has been issued bv the health officer barring from school for two weeks children who have been exposed to the disease. * Tried to Fat Rooster. At Dos Moines. Iowa, a handsome ..\ il. l ... I. _ a . ? a .1 A _ I I'UHIIMCICI lini \NilS UIIUOSl (lOHl lOVlHI, < and its wearer, Miss Mary Livings- j ton, severely injured about the face j when a big cat which had been hid-| ing in a tree overhead leaped upon J her with the evident intention of j eating the rooster on the hat. * ^ ^ ^ h'stal Family Fued. As a result of n family feud, Isaac Pass shot and killed his brother, Samuel Pass, near Cardiff, Tenn., on Saturday afternoon. The slayer tied. moth men were married with families. * )RRY HE # ONE NEGRO SHOT As the Result of an Attempted Assaak oo a Married Womaa. SEVERAL SHOTS FIRED Small Son of Nef?ro Couple Wona4? ed During Melee.?N egr?, Hit Wife and White Man Arrested.? The Fiend Laid in Wait for the Woman Ilehind Some Weeks. a row Dciwe<;n wune men ttuu u?groes in which several shots wera fired and a small negro boy wounded resulted from an attempt by a negro to assault a white married woman at Lancaster on Saturday night and the subsequent effort to arrest a negro man suspected of the crime. Tbe suspected negro and his wife gave battle and their son was shot, presumably by the mother, though unintentially. Later the negro, Ma wife and a young w hite man were all arrested. j The woman in question, whose home is in the suburbs of LancaeI ter, was returning rrom a visit to a nearby neighbor, when a negro mai sprang out from behind some tall weeds and seized her. She screamed with fright and broke loose from, his clutches and ran, but the brute soon overtook her and caught hold of her again. For the second time she succeeded In getting away from him and finally reached her home la safety. Falling in his purpose the negro quickly disappeared in the darkne^ss. A ? * >a It?n af f ho a/i/?,i ,?nn/vn lha m mu luiv v/jl v uv; uwuiunw lady's husband was up town, but be soon returned home and upon being informed by his wife of what had happened started out, accompanied by some three or four friends, in search of the negro fiend, obtained from his wife a description of her would-be assailant, his dress, etc., and the direction in which he disappeared. The party went to the house of John Mackey, a negro tenant on one of Chief Justice Jones' farms east of town, and, pretending to want to buy whiskey, engaged Mackey in conversation, after calling him outside the building. While talking to him one of the party seized Mackej at the same time remarking, "Yon are the nigger we want." Mackey jerked loose an ran haek into his house, where, it is said, he got his pistol and his wife a shotgun. A row was socm in procesa. a nunVber of shots being fired, but 110 one was hurt except Muekey's son, a boy about 10 years old, who was shot in the hand, presumably by his mother, as the wound was inflicted by a shotgun, and she is said to have been the only person present armed with such a weapon. Later in the night Policeman Hell and Constable Hunter went out and arrested Mackey and his wife; aleo a young white mnn, Hob Hunter, who is said to have been a member off tho party that went to Mackey's hems. The ourtles arrested are now in jail. - ? PKOl'LIAK AOCIDBNT. v (iun Falls from its luting flat# and Kills Child. Eric Boswell, ft five-year-old girt, met a tragic death at Honifay, Kla.t Wednesday night when a shotgun, which her father had placed on som# peps nailed to the wall, fell from lfts resting place and was discharged. The entire load of squirrel shot struck the child in the abdomen as she was lying asleep on a couch. Th* father had been out squirrel hunt* ing during the afternoon and on returning had failed to take the shells* from the gun. . ? Ciruesome Proposition. Rather gruesome is the proposition advanced by Indiana health authorities to try the effects of tuberculous milk and cow meat upon * life-term convict. The life-tenner, it is proposed, shall drink infected milk and eat infected meat, and if he survices. he will get his freedom. Shots from Ambush. Ed Slier rod and J. F. Hewitt were shot to death from ambush, at Cooks Camp, twenty miles north of Huntsvillo, Tenn., Sunday. Pending Investigation. John Runch and son, Joe Low, Nelson Low, Jack Low and Jack Rradley are In jail. Kills at Postotllce. At Vernon, Texas., in the midst of ;i mrorm waning for ine aunaay man at the postoftlc? Sunday morning, I>r. A. P. Howard, a prominent physician, shot and killed H. A. Rums. The cause is not known. Dr. Howard surrendered. RALD