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AFTER LONG DEBATE
Investigation to be Conducted by
Sub-Committee on Privileges and
Elections, Four Democrats and
4 Four Republicans, Equally Divided
us to Sentiment in Matter.
A dispatch from Washington says
Oenator Dorimer, of Illinois, faros
another investigation at the hands
of his colleagues. The inquiry will
be conducted by a sub-committee of
the committee on privileges and elections,
composed of four Republicans
and four Democrats, four of whom
voted for the c-onviction and four
for the acquittal of the Senator last
session. The method selected is regarded
as the latest thing in jury
trials.
It took seven hours' debate to
agree upon the system and it was
finally adopted Thursday evening by
a vote of 4 8 to 20, being substituted
for the plan urged by Senator Da
Follette, of turning the case over
to five Senators who were not members
when the oase was voted upon
before, and, therefore were supposed
to be unbiased.
Before the vote was taken, Senator
Bristow, who favored the Da Follette
plan, accused Mr. Dillingham,
chairman of the elections committee,
of having capitulated in the interest
of a Democratic scheme of
turning the investigation over to a
sub-committee. This change was bas!ed
upon the fact that the author of
the resolution 'adopted was Senator
Martin.
Mr. Bristow also claimed that the
old guard Republicans bad formed
an alliance with the Democrats and
that they had placed the mantle of
leadership upon Mr. Martin.
Senator Lea, of Tennessee, said
he would no more turn the case over
to the elections committee for another
trial than he would submit to a
second operation for appendicitis by
a surgeon who had failed on the
first operation to locate the appendix..
Senator Kenyon, of Iowa, recently
assistant to the Attorney General,
intimated that the great trusts
has .busied themselves with the election
of Senators so -as to influence
(the selection of United States district
attorneys, whose friendship
mfght be useful in the case of prosw
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CI. U Lit!HO.
The defence of the Martin resolu{I
tion was conducted by 'Messrs. Dillingham,
Martin, Stone and others
jii from both sides of the chamber.
Most of the insurgent Republicans
voted against substituting the Martin
resolution. The resolution merely
provides that the investigation
shall be conducted by the elections
committee and makes no mention of
|: a sub-committee.
Mr. Bristow said that he had been
I advised that the investigation would
not be made by the committee as a
whole, but by a sub-committee. In
discussing what he termed the ' capitulation"
of Senator Dillingham, he
said he accepted this act as a temporary
transference of leadership to
the Democratic side. It was witn
a feeling of regret, he said, that he
saw the mantle of Alrjrich fall upon
the shoulders of a Democrat.
"Mr, G'sllimser had not been able
to don, the mantle," said Mr. Bristow,
"and it had not been found to
fit Mr. Penrose. But now that a con
Idition has been formed, the man has
been found and the Senate knosve
whence its signals are to come."
The real question at issue, according
to Mr. La Follette, was whether
the lumber and beef trusts could buy
a seat in the Senate. "Tf the Senate
does its duty," he said, "it would
establish these facts, for the prooi
exists, and there should be a result
known. Senate seats should not Ik
on the bargain counter for the trusts
The accuracy of the statement
that an agreement had been mad<
between the insurgent Republican!
and the Democrats regarding th<
selecting of the sub-committee wai
also spoken of by Mr. La Follette.
Denial that there was a forma
agreement made by Mr. Dillingham
,but Mr. Martin said there had beei
s an understanding that the full com
mlttee would be too combersome
that the plan for the committee o
eight had been approved in the can
cue. He said that it would be neces
sary for the Senate to confirm th<
nominations of the members of thi
I sub-committee.
"Then why not elect members a
once, by adopting the La Follett
resolution?'' asked (Mr. Cummins.
Mr. Martin replied that he though
it desirable to place the responsibil
ity upon the standing committee o;
elections. The strictures which Sen
ators had directed as the standin
committee were declared by Mi
Stone, of Missouri, to be an und<?
served reproach.
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It is true that all things come t
who waits, but dt is clear that som
do not always recognize that to
which they have waited when ulti
mately it does come. . t
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SWEEP INTO EUROPE
THE YELLOW PERIL IS NOT A
MYTH/* SAYS AN OFFICER.
Thinks That the Yellow Hordes Will
Eventually Sweep Through Russia
Into Europe.
"It Is the conviction of every Russian
officer on the Chinese frontier
that the 'yellow peril' is no myth,"
said Lieut. P. T. Eth-erton, who has
lust arrived in this country. Lieut.
Etherton is the Indian army oflicer
who recently completed a wonderful
journey across Asia from India to
Siberia accompanied only by his Indian
orderly.
"1 have talked with many Russians
from the Pamirs up to Siberia, and
they were all of the same opinion,"
he added. "It will be a thing, they
say, not of today nor of tomorrow,
but they feel assured that the yellow
hordes will eventually sweep through
Asiatic Russia into Europe. They
have great respect for potential value
of the Chinese as soldiers. Trained
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ana properiy iea uiey uenc?c mciu
to be of the same standard as the
Japanese.
"China," said Lieutenant Etherton
in conclusion, "is desirous of consolidating,
her power, and since the
Russo-Japanese war is awakening to
a sense of responsibilities and the
latent strength she possesses. She
as realized that to get at the root of
the evil she must purify the system
of administration corrupt and rotten
to the core.
"This she is endeavoring to do,
though time is needed to cleanse and
remodel a system in vogue fQr centuries.
With the formation of the
new model troops, the management
of the schools on modern lines, and
. reforms in the administration signs
are apparent that China is desirous
I of developing her illiminitable rej
sources.
"With a view to resisting aggression
along the western, and northwestern
frontiers of the empire, she
is showing great energy and determination
in reorganizing her military
forces under foregn supervision, and
this coupled with the scheme to constitute
a force of irregular cavalry
from amongst the Mongol population
may well give rise to perturbation
in Russian circles. The awakening
of China is at hand! She will be the
predominant power of the East."
LOSES A SMALL FORTUNE.
Jones Was Unsuccessful in Cotton
and Wheat Deal.
The Spartanburg Herald says W.
T. Jones, the wealthy Union county
planter, who will be taken to the
State penitentiary at Columbia next
week to serve a life term for poisoning
his wife, bears no malice towards
anybody, and has decided to submit
to the judgment of the courts gracefully,
although he declares he is innocent
of his wife's murder.
It was learned recently that Jones
had lost an amount estimated at
about $100,000 through speculation
in cotton and wheat. He has appointed
the Nicholson Trust company
of Union, trustee of his estate, and
instructed the company to pay his
debts out of the income of his plantations.
Jones owns about 5,000 acres of
land, 3,000 acres being contained in
a single pantation. The annual income
from his property varies from
$1 2,000 to $15,000, it is said.
According to Spartanburg friends
Jones turned to speculation in an ef
fort not only to recover the attor.
neys' fees and other expenses of his
trial and appeals to the supreme
court, but also to divert his mind
from his trouble. At first, it is said,
he was successful, but later the tide
turned and he sustained heavy losses.
Jones is now forty-one yeftrs old.
He is said to be a tall, handsome
man and is well educated. He nt,
tended the Unversty of South Carolina
and Davidson college, N. C., but
did not graduate from either.
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t GLASS EVE DUKSTS.
(iocs Oflf Like (jii 11 as Man Talked
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3 With a Friend.
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With a report like a Run, Building
j Inspector Frank R. Minner's glass
eye exploded as he sat chatting with
^ a friend in his office at Allentown,
_ Pa. Minner fell to the floor and
sank into unconsciousness,
f A physician was called and Minner
? was rushed to the hospital, where
. he is in a serious condition. It h
Q feared that particles of the eye have
0 penetrated his brain. He had worr
the eye 12 years,
j. Local physicians say this is the
0 first accident of its kind in history
They advance the tneory that cellu.
t loid was substituted for glass in th<
eye and that the heat of the sun'i
n rays, focussed on it hy a mirror un
felt by Minner, caused It to explode
f Killed by Train.
?- The State says Hen Kelly, for th<
past month employed by the Sea
board railway as car repairer's helpei
o In the Columbia yards, lost his llf<
e Monday afternoon at 3:25 o'clock
r when a switch engine backed int<
[- some cars, crushing htm betweei
: them.
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TRAINS COLLIDE
SEVERAIj PERSONS KILLED AND
MANY INJURED.
The Day Coach Was Totally Wrecked
and In This Car Most of the Casualties
Took Place.
At least nine persons were killed
and 20 Injured Monday in a head-on
collision between eastbound and
westbound passenger trains Nos. 9
and 12, on the Burlington railroad,
ten miles east of McCook, Neb. The
engineers of both trains are reported
among the killed.
The members of the Denver and
Omaha baseball teams of the Western
leaeruo were passengers on the
westbound train, the Colorado limited.
A number of members of both
teams were slightly hurt. James McGill,
president of the Denver team,
was among the injured.
The day coach on the limited was
totally wrecked aftd in this car most
of the casualties took place. The
tourist car and baggage car were i
thrown on their sides but, so far as
is known, their occupants escaped
serious Injuries. Surgeons and nurses
have been summoned from McCook
and other nearby towns.
Officials of the Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy railroad have only
meagre information of the accident.
The first report to the Chicago office
said the wreck was the result of a
head-on collision between trains Nos.
9 and 12. Both of these are through
trains, the No. 9, or westbound, being
on its initial run as far as Denver.
No. 9 left Chicago Sunday morning
with a heavy passenger list: Previously
it had only run as far as Nebraska
points, but a new schedule
took it to Denver and it carried a full
list of passengers with through transportation.
It was due at McCook,
Neb., at about 7 a. m. Monday. The
No. 12 train was also a through
train, eastbound, and due in Chicago
at 7 a. m. Tuesday.
BURNED AT THE STAKE.
Body Found Lashed to Post in
Midst of Embers.
Refusing to comply with demands
! for money by a band of bandits at
Ajuno, Michoacan, Robert J. Sweasey,
an American, superintendent of
the Central Railroad of Michoacan,
was burned at the stake on May 16,
according to the story of Joseph
Hansfelder, one of the refugees, who
arrived at San Francisco Monday on
the steamer Newport from Manzanillo.
Hansfelder eays that the bandits
had made demands for money of every
American in the district. Some
complied but Sweasey refused to pay.
Hansfelder declares he made his way
to Sweasey's house, three miles distant
from his own home, on May 16,
and found the house burned to the
ground and Sweasey's body lashed to
a post in the midst of the burning
embers.
Mrs. Sweasey had disappeared and
is believed to have been taken prisoner
by the bandits and he'd for
ransom. Fearing his own house
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WOUKl 1)6 HlltlCKtJU naiioiciuci ,
his family, made his way to <Manzanillo
and took passage for the United
States. Sweasey is believed by Hansfelder
to have been a former resident
of San Diego.
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REGRETS HE IS LIVING
Pennsylvania Druggist Hired a Man
to Kill Him.
In a letter ;signed, "A Broken
Hearted Husband," received in Hazleton,
Pa., this week, Francis X.
Eble, a druggist, who disappeared
two months -aieo, sends his regrets
that he is still living, despite the
fact that he paid a man $250 to
murder him. Eble is now in New
York city. He still desires death but
will not commit suicide.
According to his letter Eble left
Hazlcton because of marital difficulties.
All trace of him was lost
until several days ago when he was
traced to Buffalo, N. Y., by mileage
he had used. From that city he went
to New York whore he obtained em
ployment. In his letter ho rails rmt^rly
at the "coward'' who took his
i money and failed to keep his bargain
by -appearing at the appointed time
and place to do the murder foi
which he had accepted pay.
The disappearance of Eble created
a great deal of interest in Hazleton.
j Searching parties scoured the mouni
tains for weeks after he left home. It
> as believed that he had killed himi
self until several days ago.
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? One l>end and Three Hurt.
Speeding at the rate of sixty miles
. an hour, four motorcycle riders cols
lided in front of the grandstand
i packed with thousands of spectators
- at Chicago, Monday, on the Ilaw.
thore race track. One rider was killed
and three others wee injucd, one
perhaps fatally.
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Made Fatal Mistake,
p Mistaking for salts oxalic acid thai
3 she used for bleaching curtains, Em,
mb. Lee Parks, aged 8 8, the wife ol
> Victor Parks, deputy city collector ol
i Norfolk, Va., died within half houi
after swallowing the fatal dose.
ILLEGAL COMBINE
TOBACCO TRUST MUST DISSOLVE
IN EIGHT MONTHS.
Justice Harlan Dissents as to Bearing
of Extent of Restraint on the
Trusts.
The government Monday won a
sweeping victory over the so-called
"tobacco trust" when the supreme
court held the American Tobacco
company and Its allied corporations
to be operating in violation o fthe
Sherman anti-trust law.
Associate Justice Harlan delivered
a vigorous dissent to part of the decision,
although he agree that the
American To-bacco company and Its
accessories and subsidiary corpora
tlons were members of the Sherman
anti-trust act.
His dissent, as expressed from the
bench, centered around two points,
First, he took issue with the court
for sending the case back to the lower
oourt.
"I have found nothing in the record,"
he said, "which makes me at
all anxious to perpetuate any new
combination among these companies
which the court concedes had at all
times exhibited a conscious wrong
doing."
In the second place, he reiterated
the objection he expressed in the
Standard Oil decision of two weeks
ago to the adoption of the "rule
of reason'' as a standard for ascertaining
what restraints of trade violate
the Sherman anti-trust law.
The tobacco trust decision is characterized
by Attorney General Wickershain
as a most comprehensive and
sweeping verdict for the government,
The trust is held to be a combination
in restraint of trade?a monopoly
in violation of the law.
The decision affects 65 American
corporations, two English corporations
and 29 individual defendants.
An opportunity is given the trust
to disintesrate and re-create a condition
of transacting business not repugnant
to law.
If at the end of six or eight months
the corporations fail to bring themselves
within the law, a receiver and
dissolution will follow.
The trust is held to have been
guilty of intimation, and clearly to
have shown a purpose to stifle competition.
MARRIED SAME MAN TWICE.
Children See Father First Time in
Thirteen Years.
If statements are true, and there
is no reason to doubt them, Mr. Robert
L. Henley and his wife, of Macon,
will be married in a few days for the
second time?to each other. The
Henley family lived in Texas thirteen
y.ears ago. The father of the family
left the mother and three children
and went further in search of
work, the family came Ixiik to
Georgia, and the father was to come
back to s"e them the following
Christmas seaaon.
He failed to come. Also no word
ever came to the family in Georgia
from their father?till the Galveston
flood when it was reported to them
that he had been ;mor.,T the numb, r
who lost their lives in that disaster.
Just previous to that time, however.
Mrs. Henley got a divorce from her
husband on the .grounds of d-eser_
tion.
Thursday night Mr. Henley appear
ori snnnd and well and wrote from
the hotel a note to Ills former wife
asking that he he allowed to call
upon her and see the "children."
The children are now grown?two
arc full grown, pretty young ladies
and the son is a traveling man for a
local wholesale house.
The daughters went to their home
on Pulaski street Thursday evening
to see a middle-aged stranger sitting
on the veranda. For the first time
since they wore tots of six and eight
years, they spoke to their father and
felt his hands upon their heads. Mr.
and Mrs. Henlv, it is stated on goon
authority will remarry. The husband
has heon living at Paris, Texas, and
has had fine success in business.
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miMiliAR FOUND HANGING.
Attempted to Hob New York House
and Met IFis Death.
As an animal might he caught in s
trap in the solitude of woodlands anci
held there until it died, a human be
ing was found in New York rjcentl;
?a man who attempted the burglar;
of a wealthy man's home. The bod;
was identified as that of Joseph Tau
er, twenty-seven years old, who hac
lived at No. 218 East One Hundrec
; and Twenty-third street. Mrs. Ellai
Surut, wife of a woolen merchant
I came from her summer home at Arv
5 erne end discovered 1n h>er towr
house at No. 5 28 West One Hundrec
and Twenty-first. street, Manhattan
? the body of the burgler hanging fron
the skylight. The lid of the skyligh
Ijay across the back of his neck
Slowly he had strangled. Then hii
> body had dangled for daye from the
. roof of the vacant house,
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r It Is said that Texas Is gettinf
ready to repudiate Bailey. We hop<
such will be his fate.
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iy allied with the recent de\
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\K\Y YORK MURDER MYSTERY.
Woman's Body Found in Bath Tub.
Husband Suspected
Detectives delving into New York's
latest sensational murder mystery,
Thursday niiglit succeeded in finding
the remains of a woman in a bath
tub. There were two sets of letters,
one apparently from the father, and
the other from the mother cf the victim,
each writer addressing the missive
to a different person at different
addresses.
The woman who signed herself
"mother" dated her letter from Blue
Island, 111., and forwarded them to
Mrs. Henry A. Schieb, or Mrs. Lillian
Schieb, at 187 West 63rd street.
Letters from "father" were dated 3 7
Thomas street, Springfield, Mass.,
and sent to M&s. Hugh Sherman, to
2 67 West 78th street. The body has
been identified as that of Mrs.
Schieb, by the victim's husband,
Henry A. Schieb, whom the police
have looked up on a teihnical charge
of driving his employer's automobile
without a license.
Schieb was plied with questions
for three hours. He is said to have
admitted that he himself wrote a
letter addressed to himself signed
"Anna," which the police took from
his pocket when he was arrested.
"I was going to show that letter to
my wife when she came back/' he itquoted
as having said, "to prove ttva.
other women liked me." His handwriting
tallies closely with that of
the person who si.gned the letter.
killed by fall from car
John Hutto, Young Man, Meets Instant
Death.
At the planing mill of the Danville
Lumber company, one mile
south of Pelion, at 5 o'clock yesterday
afternoon, John Hutto, a young
white man, was thrown from a train
car and instantly ki 11 led, his neck
and skull being broken by the fall.
The young man was an employe oi
the Danville Lumber company and
was operating the car. The brakes
refused to work, it is thought, and
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the car crasneu mvu u ?|mh
with gr-"at force. The accident was
witnessed by a number who rushed
to aid young Hutto, but he was al.
ready dead when they reached him
John Hutto was the son of Brltl
? Hutto, and was well thought of r
the comunity. His remains wen
buried in th>e cemetery at Good ITop<
Raptlst church this afternoon at foui
j o'clock.
r Nek York's Water Power.
f New Yorw state's water power
r without including that of the Niag
. ara and St. Lawrence rivers, has beei
j estimated at a million and a hal
I horse-pwoer. Right hundred an<
s eighty thousand horse-power of thi
amount is undeveloped. The Nev
. York Water Supply Commission ha
i recently recommended that the etat
I expend $20,000,000 to develop thi
water-power, which, according to es
i timates, would return an annua
t profit of a million and a half dollars?
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9 Preacher Fatally Burned.
J The Rev, J. H. Hastie, a Baptls
minister aged 69, was .burned t
death .early Friday morning at Talla
% dega Springs, Ala., when he wen
b back into his burning home to recov
er some money left in a trunk.
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, Italian Aviator Killed.
The Italian aviator Cirri, while
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f making an aeroplane flight near
a Voghera, Italy, Mbhday, fell from
s a height of 650 feet and was killed,
v Twenty thousand persons, including
a Cirri's wife and children, were view- riA
9 ing the exhibition. Cirri used a ^ "
8 Rleriot monoplane. He had completi
ed a number of evolutions when sud1
denly the motor exploded and in a
, moment the wings of the machine
wene on Are.
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t Submarine to Make 15 Knots.
0 The Skipjack, the new United
. State naval submarine, was launched
1 at Quincy, Mass., last week. It is
r. expected she will make 15 knots an
hour on the surface.