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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
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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.
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?The News and Courier. '
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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. *
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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.
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"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.
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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. *
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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.
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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.
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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