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THEY WERE HUNG
Twt White lea Lyachd at Tanpa, Fla.f
Far Sheetiag a White Mai.
PROMINENT ITALIANS
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Were the Victim* of the Lawless
Bftob.??They Had Been Arrested
and Were Being Cai'ried to Bur
racks When Small Mob Hulted the J
Conveyance and Procured Tlicm.
While being transported to the
oounty jail Tues-day night about nine
o'clock at Tampa, Fla., Castenge
FIccarotta and Angelo Albano, two
prominent Italians, who have made
themselves conspicuous in the cigar
strike here, were taken from deputy
sheriffs at Howard and Grand Central
avenues, hurried to a heavily
wooded tract nearby and hanged to J
the same limb.
Both men were arrested about six i
o'clock in the afternoon by a deputy
sheriff charged with being accessor- |
les to the shooting of J. D. Easterling,
the bookkeeper of Bustillo
Brothers and Diaz several days ago.
They were locked up in the west
Tampa barracks for a short time and
after nine o'clock were taken out,
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placed in a hack ana srurteu towards
the county jail in Tampa.
They were accompanied by Deputy
Sheriffs Evuns and Bryan. When {
the hack in which the four men were '
riding reached Howard and Grand 1
Central avenues a squad of armed '
men, estimated in numbers from 5 0
to 75 halted the party. The officers '
were told to get out, and the driver
ordered to turn around. The pris- 1
oners, handcuffed to each other,
were then ordered to alight.
As the two prisoners were marched
off the two officers hurried to the
nearest telephone and sent a mes- 1
sago to police headquarters.
When Police Chief Woodward ar- :
Ived at the scene no one was in
Sight. He was greeted with the
gruesome sight of the dangling bodies
in the moonlight.
A hasty examination was made but
there was no clue upon which the
officers could proceed. The two deputy
sherics, when questioned stated
that they believed the lynching party
was composed of Italians and Cubans,
and would be able to identify
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HOIDO Ol tuoui 11 iuo; wuiu uc
. brought face to face with them.
iWhen the bodies were cut down at
11 o'clcok it was found that the necessity
for hanging both to the same
limb arose when the mob failed in an
effort to sever the chain connecting
the handcuffs. Ficcarotto had hif
pipe gripped firmly in his teeth and
wore his hat.
Following the discovery of the
bodies wild excitement reigned. At
midnight a crowd estimated at 2,000
persons had gathered and the real
tensity of feeling, resultant from the
strike now on in Tampa was evidenced.
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Ficarrotta and Albano, it is charged,
have made themselves conspicuous
recently in the labor troubles between
the manufacturers and cigar
makers. 'Marshal Logan, of the West
Tampa force, stated that he has an (
eye witness who will testify that Al- j
bano was the man who fired the
shot which seriously wounded J. D.
Easterling, and that Ficarrotta was a j
conspicuous member of the crowd
gathered in front of the Bustillo *
brothers factory at the time of the
assault.
Eight months ago Ficarrotta was J
tried on a charge of murdering his
uncle, G. Ficarrotta, a prominent
wholesale dealer of West Tampa. He
was acquitted for lack of sufficient 1
evidence, and as he was being carried
to jail Tuesday night he made the re- !
mark that he had escaped hanging
on a charge of murder, and that he
supposed he would escape on this
minor charge.
The police do not believe that the '
execution of these two Italians has
any bearing on the local striko situation,
alleging that It is rather the
result of recent feuds between certain
elements of the local Italian colony.
Deputy Sheriff Keaggin, however,
who arrested the two men earlier
in the evening, stated that he
was approached by a number of people
who asked at what time the two
men would be sent to the county jail.
Shoots Little Brother.
At Amorlcus, Ga., seven year old
Johnnie Medlin, clim'bed up to the
mantel in his father's home Saturday,
took his father's pistol which
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put a bullet through the body of his
22-months-old brother, who was
alone with him in the room. The
baby died almost instantly. The
children had been left playing alone
for a few minutes.
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Daring ltobbery.
Four masked robbers, all believed
to be white men, Saturday night
entered the home of Stuart Southers,
at Wytheville, Va., beat his wife, tied
her to a bedpost, stole $700, that
was hidden in a mattress and escaped.
Southers was absent from home.
He does not believe in banks. *
THE WAGES OF SIN
A MAN SHOOTS WOMAN FRIEND
AND HANGS HIMSELF.
Mysterious Double Tragedy Is En*
ncted in Cleveland, Ohio, Hotel
on Thursday.
As the end of a close acquaintanceaMrk
of unknown duration, B. Yat
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es, a wealthy Detroit business man
Thursday shot and seriously wounded
Mrs. Fred Singer in a Rocky River
wine room and two hours later
hanged himself in the county jail at
Cleveland, Ohio.
Thursday night the woman's attorney,
Frank Billman, was closeted
with Yates' two sons for several
hours. The result of the interview
was not given out, and the three refused
to discuss the shooting or its
cause. The young men, A. W. and
H. F. Yates, hurried to Cleveland
from Detroit as soon as tho news
of the shooting reached them, and
the body of their father was shortly
afterwards identified as it lay in
a private morgue.
Yates was 4 8 years of age and
married. Ho was chairman of the
board of directors of the Business 1
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MOI1S fU 011SU Illg V_,uui yuiij , vji awtrlot,
was owner and manager of a
hotel and possessed extensive lumber
holdings near Bradford, Out. It is
to to this latter place that his body
will be removed by special permit of 1
the coroner's jury. 1
Mrs. Singer, formerly a resident of 1
Detroit, but lately residing in a '
Cleveland hotel, is the wife of a traveling
salesman, and is related by '<
marriage to men prominent in Cleve- !
land affairs. 1
The couple spent Wednesday afternoon
and evening in an automo- (
bile. At midnight Thursday night <
they went to a road house at Rocky
Kiver, a western suburb of the city.
Four hours later a quarrel occurred
in a grill room across the street from '<
the place first visited. Mrs. Singer,
according ?to the barkeeper on duty,
ordered a taxicab by telephone
against Yates' protest, and ten min- '
utes later the shooting occurred.
Mrs. Singer was shot through the
back and through both legs. A policeman
and the barkeeper disarmed
the man. "I fired two of the five
shots at myself, but missed," Yates
told Marshal Roy Martin, according
to that officer.
While the woman was borne to a
Cleveland jail, and there he hanged
Cleveland pail, and there he hanged
himself to a low iron rod in the
wash room, using his handkerchief as
a noose.
Considerable mystery surrounds
the relations of the man and woman,
who have been acquainted, it is ad- i
mitted, for some time. She has been
estranged from her husband for
months. Her condition is reported 1
at the hospital as serious, but it is
added that she will recover. She i
was unable to make a statement, it
was announced.
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POLITICAL REFLECTIONS. i
rraveling Men Say Democrats Will '
Sweep the Country. '
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In his letter to The State from
he West Zach McGhee says Illinois
lid nothing surprising. Boutell, one <
)f the most scholarly men in th? 1
louse, and one of the most subser- 1
/ient adorers of Cannon, was defeat- c
?d for the nomination in the Repubican
primary. He says he will run 1
is an independent candidate. That <
neans the strong probability of a t
Democrat in his place. It is a curious
thing that these Itepubliafens, j
leretofore so shrewd about ajuch 1
natters, should in their quarrels ]
forget that there is a Democratic ]
larty. I
Jamee R. Manning, another Can- 1
ion lieutenant, was renominated, i
beating two opponents at a clip, but <
that only makes his seat doubtful 1
for Mann happens to hold a seat i
which represents a district much in- i
clined to insurgency. Ho will, however,
in all likelihood, be reelected,
Money will talk.
Everybody is talking of the somewhat
astounding result in Maine, although
traveling men say it is not
astounding to them. They say the
Democrats are going to sweep the
country like a tornado in November,
and that this Maine business is but
a circumstance.
The Republican insurgent leaders
at Colorado Springs heard of the
election in Maine after the meeting
the other night. I was walking to
the hotel with some of them. "It
vindicates the insurgents' position,"
they agreed. "The only salvation for
the Republican party is in the Progressive
movement."
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Gantt Goes Free.
Claude C. Gantt, of Swansea, was
acquitted by a jury at Lexington on
Thursday for the murder of Fred
Caughman on the streets of Swansea
on January 29, last. The Jury remained
out one hour. Later Gantt
was convicted on the charge of carrying
concealed weapons and was
sentenced to pay a fine of $100 or
serve 30 day in the county jail. The
fine was paid and Gantt was immediately
released.
SIGN OF THE TIMES
REPUBLICAN PARTY TOO LONG
IN POWER.
Democrat* Practically Certain Now
to Control the House and a Faint
Hope of Senate.
It begins to look as If the people
have made up their minds to have
an accounting at the hands of the
Republican party, which has been in
power entirely too long for the country's
good. In fact, it has been in
power much longer than any party
should be allowed to remain in power,
if we want a clean, honest administration
of affairs. Here is a
eiimmintr nn of the uolitical events
? I' ? - ? of
the year:
C. C. Atkinson, Democrat, was elected
to Congress from Missouri on
February 1, 1910, by a plurality of
3,117, the Democratic plurality in
1908 being only 1,995.
Eugene N. Foss, Democrat, was
elected to congress from 'Massachusetts
on March 2 2, 1910, by a plurality
of 5,640, in a district that had
gone Republican two years before
by over 10,000 majority.
James S. Havens, Democrat, was
elected to congress from New York
over Boss Aldrich in April, 1910, by
a plurality of 5,831, in a district
that gave a large Republican vote in
the election of 1908.
In the recent election in Maine ,
that State went Democratic for the
first time in over fifty years, electing
the governor, two congressmen and
the legislature, which will elect a
Democratic United States Senator
and Democratic State officers. Be
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abandon what they term the "howling
farce" of prohibition, and return
to some saner way of regulating the
sale of alcholic drinks. Some of the
strongest antl-dispeneary men of former
days are interesting themselves
In behalf of the present effort to
have a vote and, It is said, that the
petitions are being more readily signed
a this time, than when an effort
was made about two years ago, to
have an election on the question.
Four Men Drown in Wreck.
Four men were drowned and two
others barely escaped death when
the power boat Comfort was disabled
and foundered off Plum Island, near
Newburyport, Mass., Saturday. *
WRITES OF THE SHOOTING
MAYOR GAYNOR RELATES HIS (
IMPRESSION OF IT. '
After Being Shot W?8 Conscious of /
Terrible Metallic Roar Which Fill- (
ed Head Almost to Bursting.
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'Mayor William j. uaynur, ui i>ew
York, in a letter to his sister, Miss
Mary E. Gaynor, of Utica, New York,
which is printed in the Evening Post,
tells in an interesting manner of his
impression at the time he was shot
on the steamship Kaiser Wilheim
Der Grosse. The mayor says that
he has not read a line of what has
been published of the shooting, nor '
does he remember the name of the '
man who shot him. Going over the
incident of the shooting, Mayor Gaynor,
after stating that Robert Adamson,
his secretary, pointed out that
the ship was dressed with flags for
him, said:
"My next consciousness was of a
terrible metallic roar in my head.
It filled my head, which seemed as .
though it would burst open. It swell- '
ed to the highest pitch and then fell. [
and then rose again, and so alternated
until it subsided into a continuous
buzz. It was sickening, but my
stomach did not give way. I was
meanwhile entirely sightless.
"T do not think I fell, .for when
I became conscious I was on my feet.
My sight gradually returned. I be- ]
came conscious that I was choking. ]
Blood was coming into my mouth (
and I tried to swallow it so as those
around me would not see it. But I ^
found I could not swallow and then
knew my throat was hurt. It seemed
as though it were dislocated. I j
struggled to breathe through my
mouth, but could net, and thought
I was dying of strangulation. I kept
thinking all the time the best thing
to do. 1
"I was not a bit afraid to die, if
that was God's will to me. I said to
myself, just as well now as a few
years from now.
"In some w&y I happened to close ^
my mouth tight and found I breathed
perfectly through my nose. I
then believed I could keep from
smothering, but I kept choking, and
my mouth kept opening to cast out ^
the blood. Though the thing had
not entered my head that morning
I wap not surprised when I reali/.ed
1 was shot. I had had a feeling for
some weeks that I might be assaulted
on account of the annoymous
threats I was getting by mail."
Mayor Gaynor, in the letter, scor- v
ed certain newspapers for the mau- J
ner in which they had criticised him, \
saying that "the time is at hand c
when these journalistic scoundrels
have got to stop or get out, and I v
am ready now to do my share to a
that end." e
Robert Adamson, the mayor's sec- c
rotary, said to-night that the mayor's
condition continues to improve, '
and that he plans to return to his 1
desk at City Hall on October 3. t
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GEORGIANS IN FATAL DUEL. t
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Bullets of Each End Lives of Both.
Wives Witnesses. P
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Stopping their buggies when they e
met each other in the public roi-d n
near Pelhani, Ga., Wednesday, Char- 1(
les Tate and John Marchant, both ^
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prominent men of this county, fought ^
fi duel with j)istols, both dropping e
fo the ground dead after half dozer v
shots had been fired. The wives of ^
the men sat in the buggies while the c
tight was in progress and saw their f(
husbands kill each other. ^
Tate was a bridegroom of two
months and his bride was the wi *ow ^
of Frank Marchant, a brother of the v
man whom he killed and who killed t
him. The fight grew out of an old
grudge, which at first was hscween c
Mrs. Tate's first husband and her ^
second husband, later, it is said, be- ^
ing intensified between Tate and Jno. a
Marchant, who opposed his sister-in- ^
law's marriage with Tate, and took ^
up the old quarrel. t
When they met Wednesday Mar- v
chant called Tate to his buggy. The a
men exchanged hardly a word when ^
the shooting began. Tate fired three t
times, every bullet finding its mirk. c
While the bullets were cutting into
his body, Marchant fired twice, one j
bullet striking Tate's hand and the j
other passing through his heart. The ^
wldowo called aid and the bodie3 g
were removed. It was said that Mar- ,
chant lived a few minutes after he j
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reil lO llie grouiiu. X)C?iueo ma wuc I
ho leaves two small children. The |
men lived four miles from Pelham, j
owned good farms, were of proml- j
nent families and well respected In (
that section.
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Hurt in Oar Panic.
One woman was fatally injured, i
and a number of other passengers
were more or less seriously hurt as
the result of a panic incident to a
controller box bursting into flames
on an electric car at Knoxville,
Tenn., Friday night.
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Lightning Kills Four.
Lightning killed four persons duringn
a storm in the vicinity of Eastonvllle
and Elbert, 22 miles northeast
of Colorado Springs, Col., Friday
evening.
sides two members of the State Supreme
Court will be appointed by the
Democratic Governor. The Democrats
carried about four-fifths of the
counties in the State.
United States Senator Julius C.
Burrows, "stand-pat" Republican,
was defeated in the Michigan primaries
by Representative Charles E.
fownsend, progressive Republican.
"Stand-pat" Republican senators
who have announced their retirement
are:
Eugene Hale, of Maine.
Nelson W. Aldrich, of Rhode Island.
Frank Flint, of California.
Samuel il. Piles, of Washington.
Regular machine Republican representatives
in congress who have
been defeated for renomination are:
Duncan McKinley, James McLachlin,
of California.
John A. T. Hull, of Iowa.
Charles S. Scott, James M. Miller,
William A. Calderhead and William
A. Reeder, of Kansas.
Ralph D. Cole, of Ohio.
William H. Stafford, of Wisconsin.
Jas. A. Tawney, of Minnesota.
Joseph Sibley, machine Republican,
forced to retire from ticket in
Pennsylvania after buying his nomination
for Congress.
Cannon Democrats defeated for renomination
are:
Leonidas Livingston, William M.
Howard, of Georgia.
The Republicans carried Vermont
by the smallest majority since 1 872.
La Follette, progressive, was relominated
for Senator from Wisconsin
by a majority of 40,000 over his
'stand-pat" opponent.
iBass, progressive Republican canlidate
for governor carried the New 1
Hampshire primaries by a vote near 1
y double that of the regular machine ]
candidate. j
Thomas Leary was elected to the i
Vermont legislature, the first Demo- <
jrat from Crittenden county in fifty- i
,wo years. I
In the wake of such significant 1
signs as the above we are looking
'or a regular Democratic deluge in ]
Movember. The people do not pro- (
bose to be plundered any longer and i
Lhey are looking to the Democrats ]
Tor relief. If the party can regulate ,
its members who voted for any part
3r parcel of the Republican protec- j
five tariff, and give the people the
relief they jeed, it has a chance of
remaining in power for many years.
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THEY WANT IT HACK.
A Movement in Darlington to Vote
on the Dispensary.
A special dispatch to The News
and Courier says petitions addressed
to the county supervisor, praying for
an election on the question of dispensary
or no dispensary, are being
circulated and freely signed In
Darlington county. Thero are those
who profess to see in the recent election
returns in that county a willImirn/tDa
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ln issue of veracity raiser
by mrs. b. stoker.
ihe Challenges Roosevelt's Truthfulness
in the Archbishop Ireland
Controversy.
The resignation of Bellamy Storer,
is ambaesador to Austria-Hungary
vas transmitted to Washington on
larch 7, 1906, and was accepted,
lis resignation was requested by the
>tate Department, and it later developed
that serious difficulty had
irisen between President Roosevelt
inh th? nmhfissarior. drimarily be
ause the latter had failed to answer
l communication from the President.
The communication enclosed a leter
to Mrs. Storer, calling upon her
o give a written promise not to inerfere
in Vatican politics.
The point at issue was that Mrs.
Jtorer had used the official position
f her husband to forward the aplointment
of Archbishop Ireland to
he cardinalate. The Storers respond- ?
d to the action of the State Departnent
by giving out for publication
etter? from Col. Roosevelt when he
r-as Governor of New York, in which
le expressed high appreciation of
irchhishop Ireland. Mrs. Storer in
xplaining this letter said it had been
written to her so she might show it
o the Papal secretary in order to
onvince the Vatican of the friendly
eelings of Americans toward Archishop
Ireland's policy.
Following the sending of a letter
y Mr. Storer to President Rooseelt,
members of the cabinet and of
he Senate committee on foreign reations,
the President gave out the
orrespondent between him and Ainlassador
and Mrs. Storer in which
ie said that Mr. Storer's refusal to
.nswer his letters and the publicaion
of various private letters justiied
that ambassador's removal, and
hat he (the President), had stated
vith absolute clearness his position,
md the reason it was out of the
luestion for him, as President, to
ry to get any archbishop made a
ardinal.
Now, after four years of silence,
drs. Bellany Storer comes back at <
ioosevelt, by writing a letter which
vas published Thursday in the
ipringfield Republican. This letter
vas written from France on Hentom>er
6, and in it Mrs. Storer reviews
he controversy of her husband and
herself with Roosevelt, concerning
the former President's alleged authorization
of the former ambassador
to Austria-Hungary to visit Pope
Pius X, and ask him as a personal
favor to the President of the Unted
States to make Archbishop Ireland of
St. Paul, a cardinal.
letters written by the archbish
op in 1903 and 1904 hitherto unpublished
are quoted by Mrs. Storer
to show that at repeated Interviews
in the White House between the
archbishop and the President Col.
Roosevelt acknowledged that he had
commanded Mr. Storer to act as his
personal envoy at the Vitican in bohalf
of the archbishop. Col. Roosevelt
has hitherto publicly denied that
Mr. Storer was ever authorized to
represent him in this manner, and
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Maine's Fatal Waters.
Sixty-one persons, all but sev^n
of them residents of Maine, lost their
lives by drowning in the waters of
that State during the summer just
closed.
the Ireland letters now published by
Mrs. Storer have the effect of making
much sharper the issue of veracity
between the Storers and the ex-President.