Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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ALL WIPED OUT Ai Ilaliu Fara Bud is Sasptctcd al 4 lardering u Entire Fiaily. KDJLEO FOUR PEOPLE The Bodies Were Not Found Until Twenty-four Hours After the Hor* rible Crime Had Been Committed, But a Bloodstained Hatchet Tells How It Was Done. Some time between last Tuesday noon and evening, an Italian farm hand of de Freestvillo, a Ressenlaer p county hamlet six miles from Albany, N. Y., is believed by the police to have slain Mrs. Conrad Morner,' a -widow, and her daughters, Edith, aged 20, and Blanche, aged 17 and her 28-yeat-old son, Arthur. The bodies of the three women were discovered late last night in the cow barn, on the Morner farm, where they had been so hacked that the murderer had been able to crush all three of tliem into a small manure pit on one side of the stable. y Arthur Mornor's body was missing and traco also is lacking of the farm hand who was known as Phi Dennis. A blood-stained hatchet and a fourfoot ball stick wero found in the pit f near the three bodies and with these the murderer first felled and then murdered his victims, the police believe. Motive for tho crime seems to be lacking. What money there was in tho house before tho reurder was found intact. Indications, tho authorities say, point to tho murderer as being insane. The body of Arthur Morncr, mutilated and with tho throat cut, was found early Thursday under another part of tho barn iloor. Tho police aro searching for an Italian farm hand known as Ed Dennis, who had been employed by tho Mornors since last September. Little is known concerning him. Tho tragedy was not discovered for more than twenty-four hours after it * occurred, when a neighbor remarked I tho failure of Arthur Morner to bring ' to him, according to daily custom, milk for shipment to market. WOMAN FIItES AT GROUP. ? SIiot She Meant For Another Kills Her Husband. At Fort Worth, Tex., Roy Y. Trout, shot by his wife in a grill room tbere late Monday night, as he sat at a table with a party of frionds, died early Tuesday. When Mrs. Trout entered tho door of the grill room sho walked straight to the table where her husband sat. "I've caught you now," sho said, drawing a revolver from her muff. P Trout paled and glanced from tho face of his companions to his wife. The answer to Ills look of appeal was a shot and Trout sank in his chair. A moment later his wife was crying hysterically: "My God, I've killni" rinrti? hnv T TinVj'T mflftlll V V 111 J j/ V/Wl AAl/VAW A v.?- W to do it." Whon tho shot was fired, Mrs. Julo Saylard, who was in tho supper party, sprang from her chair and made an effort to wrest tho revolver from Mrs. Trout's hand. At tho polico station tho repeated statement of Mrs. Trout that she did not intend to kill her husoand led the ipolice to say that it is probable tho bullet was not intended for Trout. COSTS THEM HIG MONEY. w Men Who Tarred School Teacher Will Have to Pay For It. Miss .'Mary Chamberlain, the young school teacher who was so shamefully treated at Shady Bend, Kansas, by ^ a lot of ruffians, will bo paid $25,000 by the mon who tarred her. Miss nhnmhArlnin Intonripri to brinir Riiits for damages against all the participants in the tarring, but proceedings are now under way for a compromise and It Is said that $25,000 Is the least her attorneys will accept in settlement. The threo men, E. C. Clark, Jay Pitzwater and Watson Scranton, who pleaded guilty, and John Schmidt, who was convicted, aro worth in the aggregate more than $100,000, Clark alono 'being rated in excess of $50,000. I FEAT MAKES HER FAMOUS. ( Girl Saves 1,000 Dimes in a Year n<l n ?? ra i??v 1 JJIIJC1 A Ul V/\/C%V| j Deluged with letters and with ! Christmas gifts, Mis3 Ivy Cole, a waitess in a Denver, Col , cafe, who saved up 1,000 dimes received in tips with- 1 in one year to buy a fur coat, is ' amazed at the attention her frugality '< has attracted. She has received let- 1 ters and postal cards from many ] parts of the country and proposals of 1 marriage from East, West, North and 1 South. Miss Cole began saving all the dime tips she received a year ago last Thanksgiving Day. One day before Thanksgiving, of the present ( year, ere had saved exactly $100, or < 1,000 dimes. I 11 :T:T*T ? FATAL TRAIN WRECK ? TEN PEOPLE KILLED IN A REAR END COLLISION. Engine Ploughs Five Feet into Sleeper, Which is Telescoped in Forward End by Diner Ahead. Ten are dead and nearly a score are more or less seriously injured, as a result of a silk train on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul road, which was running as section No. 2 of the "Columbian Flyer," crashing into the rear Pullman of the flyer at the station at Odessa, Minn., Mnn/luv Tho ancino of thfi ?ilk t.raill ploughed for five feet Into tho sleeper, but the greatest loss was In the front end of the Pullman, which was telescoped by the dining car just ahead. Although both the diner and Pullman were of steel, the former sheared the upper portion of the sleeper from the floor as If it had been cardboard. In some manner tho diner's floor became elevated slightly abovo that of the Pullman, at the Impact, and with the force of section No. 2's engine .behind, the Pullman was jammed along for fully twenty feet, while tho diner, as if a gigantic knife, cut away tho upper structure and did its work of destruction. Responsibility for tho wreck Is said 4-./-V h/\f nfAAn f lin /\t?or O f HP H f A ff ATI LU 1 U?31 UOtVYCUli tilv v j[/v/l n bvyi mv aaa v\/m vlllo Junction, who, it is asserted, should not have permitted the silk train to enter the block, in which there was a train; tho operator here, who, it is added, failed to lift tho stop signal for tho Flyer, and tho flagmaif of tho Flyer, who, it i\j claimed, failed to protect tho rear of his train immediately following its stopping at the block. All of tho occupants of tho Pullman but two escaped without injury. Immediately after tho crash tho uninjured assisted in tho work of rescue and many feats of heroism wore performed. G. F. Sinister, a "Jacky" of tho United States battleship West Virginia, on his way to his homo in Toledo, Ohio, on furlough, was conspicuous in tho work of rescue. Nearly all of tho Injured wero taken to Minneapolis and many of thom. continued on to their destinations. Tho bodies of tho dead are being held hero and will bo sent to their destinations as soon as word can bo hoard from relatives. ROW ABOUT DIVORCED WIFE. Tho Present Husband Shot tho Former Husband. "Mysterious Billy" Smith, formerly a well known pugilist, who was shot Sunday night at Portland, Oregon, by Captain A. B. Loomis, husband of Smith's divorced wife, is said to have a fair chance for recovery. Loomis surrendered to the police, claiming ho shot in self-defense. Smith and Mrs. Loomis were walking on the street when Loomis came up. The men exchanged revolver shots and Smith fell with four bullets in his body. Loomis said Smith had been in a grill with Mrs. Loomis oarlier in the evening and that Smith for a long time had been looking for him to shoot him. ? ? ARRESTED IN CHARLESTON. Two Men Suspected of Holding Up Train at Hardeeville. George Beaureguard, William Spencer and C.K. Irby, all white, arrested at Ashley Junction, just outside of Charleston Thursday evening, ere being hold in the county jail at Charleston 011 the suspicion that they may bo tho men who held up the Coast Line flyer near Hardeeville on Tuesday morning. Beaureguard, who I3 short and stout, and Spencer, who in tall and thin, appear to answer to the meagre description of the train robbers. Post ofllco inspectors have been notified and will look tho men over. WHAT FRANCIS HENEY SAYS. +. Thinks Woodrow Wilson Would Beat President Taft. Francis J. Heney, fighting lawyer and reformer from San Francisco, says it is his emphatic belief that if fJnvnrnnr Wnndrnw Wilson and Pres ident Taft aro opposing candidates for tho presidency next year the New Jorsey executive will walk away with tho plum. lie doubts, however, if Taft will even bo nominated, as the office-holders, who form tho backbone of his support at tho present time are likely to become panic-stricken when they discover that the President has little or no chance to succeed himself. ? The action of Governor Blease in refusing to commission Judge Smith ei trustee of a high school becauso he already held an ofilce of profit or honor calls attention to a law that Is violated by many good men. This , law, like all others, should bo onforced or repealed. < ? ? They Were Short in Cash, Thirty hoboes, arrested in Eugone, i 3re., had just 15 cents In their pock- i 3ts. One had a dime and another i i nickel. 1 Pardon Mill Still Grind*. The Calhoun Advance makes a very serious charge against Governor Blease in the two free use of the pardoning power. The Advance, as will be seen by an article we publish on the last page, takes the Governor to task for pardoning a negro fiend of Calhoun County who was suspected of a nameless crime upon a lady of that county. Such pardons as this will encourage every fiend in the State to commit the very crime that this fiend was guilty of. Governor Blease recently "paroled during good behavior" four men who had been convicted of murder. They had served an aggregate of thirtynine years?or an average of less than ten years each. As The State points out a verdict of guilty of murder with recommendation to mercy, means, of course, that the jury be lieves tho accused almost worthy or death. Had tho juries foreseen that these men would bo released after ten years, would a recommendation have accompanied tho verdicts? Tho Governor also paroled at tho same time four men convicted of man-slaughter and sentenced to an aggregate of twenty-seven and a half years Imprisonment. They had served an aggregate of thirteen years. He also granted a full pardon to a fiend convicted about two years ago, with recommendation to mercy, of that crime lie openly condones lynching as a punishment. As Tho Stato says wo will not criticise the Govornor for his wholesale indulgence in executive clemency. (But will content ourselves with pointing out how easily the work of juries, judges and prosecuting officers mnv ho iiridnne. The nnoqtion will occur to thousands, of what value are juries, of what uso is the whole machinery of the criminal law, if what they accomplish may bo cancelled at tho scratch of a pen at a Governor's whim? If tho Governor is to continue to turn criminals loose wo may look for a great increase of lynchings, as peoplo aro bound to protect themselves. If tho Governor Is right in his free use of tho pardoning powers the law sadly needs amendment. Either the power of courts and juries should be restricted so that severe punishments might not be inflicted on mere murderers, or if ho is wrong, tho authority of tho Governor should bo reduced so that ho might not destroy tho work of juries at pleasure. It will bo clear even to tho followers of tho Governor that, unless tho exercise of tho pardoning power is now entirely too generous, tho laws are entirely too harsh towards murderers and other man-slayers. Tho Advance is quite severe In its criticism of tho lawyer who it charges with inducing tho Governor to turn the Calhoun County convict loose. With no intention whatever of defending tho St. Matthews' attorney, who seems to have had such potent influence with tlio Governor as to induce him to turn such a scamp loose upon the public, wo unhesitatingly say that tho Governor is alone responsible for tho miscarriage of justico that so justly stirred tlio Advance. Tho fact that tho Governor did not oven seek tho advice of tho officials of Calhoun County before ho turned tho scamp loose, but rather relied on tho appeals of a paid attorney for tho guidance of his action in tho case, amply proves that Governor Blease assumed all responsibility for pardoning this notorious rascal. Therefore, he is entirely to blame for the freedom that tho bruto now enjoys. Tho attorney may be to blame for his part in tho transaction, but tho chief blame is chargeable to Governor Blease. ? Governor Bleaso declined to commission Judgo II. A. M. Smith, of Charleston, as a member of the high school commission of that city on tho ground that ho is a United States Judgo, and tho Stato Constitution forbids any 0110 holding two oflices of honor or profit at the samo time. Governor 'Bleaso was entirely right - in ins action, uooa men aro not so scarce that any 0110 of tliem should hold moro than ono ofllco. (Congressman Ellcrbo asked Senator Tillman the other day if ho did not agree with him that South Carolina's delegation to the National Democratic Convention should go un- , instructed. Senator Tillman replied that ho did not run the State, and that this matter could best ho left with the peoplo of South Carolina. Senator Tillman is right. The peo- ! plo need no dictation from Senators or Congressmen. ! The pardon of Myers Taylor, a ] notorious negro convict, by Governor , Bleaso, so shocked another convict on } the Calhoun County chaingang that \ ho exclaimed when he heard of it, j "If dat's tho case, why In do namo { of Gawd didn't do Guv'ner send par- } dona for all of wo?" This shocked j convict need not worry. lie will , get his pardon in time. , I The verdict of "not guilty" re- 1 turned by the New York jury ac- i quitting Lillian Graham and Ethel Conrad for shooting W. E. D. Stones, a rich, lechorous old libertine of that 1 city, was a righteous one. Such old 1 scoundrels as Stokes ought to bo < shot by somebody, and we know of ( no one better qualified to do it than < some of the many young women they y have wronged. c HE FEEDETH ALL # Valae ( Crap Eidamc tf CaUca it Nearly F^nr Billies. WHAT THE FARMER DOES Final Estimates of Eleven Most Important Crops Announced bj Department of Agriculture, Showing Increase in Value of Nearly Two Hundred Million Over last Year. With decreases in the production of the eleven important farm crops, not including cotton, the value of these crops this year reached the total of $3,7G9,562,000, according to the final estimato announced Tuesday by the department of agriculture. This is an increase of almost $190,000,000 over their value last year. The department's final estimate of production today differs considerably from its preliminary estimate, made in November, because of a revision of acreages based upon the census bureau's figures, which became available since that time. The important features of the different crops, com -1 lit. 1 .w. 1 pa.ruu vviiii nisi jruai wuiu* Spring Wheat?Ail increase of 2,020,000 in acreage, a decrease of 10,207,000 bushels in production, and a decrease of $14,841,000 in value. Oats?An increase of 300,000 in acreage, a decroaso of 25 8,215,000 bushels in production and an increase of $8,257,000 in value. Barley?A decreaso of 3 1 6,000 in acreage, a docreaso of 13,502,000 bushels in production and an increase of $3 8,75 6,0 00 in value. Rye?A decroaso of 88,000 in acreage, a decreaso of 1,778,000 bushels in production and an increase of $2,604,000 in value. Buckwheat?A decroaso of 27,000 in acreage, a decrease of 49,000 bushels in production and an increase of $1,099,000 in value. I Flaxseed?An increase of 290,000 in acreage, an increase of 6,652,000 bushels in production and an increase of $5,800,000 in value. Rice?A decrease of 2 6,5 00 in acreage, a decroaso of 1,57 6,000 bushels in production and an increaso of $1,650,000 in value. Potatoes?A decrease of 101,000 in acreage, a decrease of 52,295,000 bushels in production and an increase of $39,212,000 in value. Hay?A decreaso of 2,674,000 in acreage, a decrease of 13,53 4,000 tons in production and a decreaso of $53,199,000 in value. Tobacco?A decreaso of 353,3 00 in acreage, a decreaso of 198,306,000 pounds in production and a decreaso of $1 6,932,000 in value. The final estimates of the department of agriculture on the production and value of tho principal farm crops of the United States for 1911, announced today, were as follows: Production. Crop. Bushels. Value. r* n r e 1 i oo a a a o i r a r oro a a a , ?,?)<> I. ,'I O O , U U W $ X ,U U i>, w u o,v uu Wheat 621,338,000 543,063,000 Oats 922,298,000 414,665,000 Barley 160,240,000 139,182,000 Rye 33,119,000 27,557,000 Buckwheat 17,549 12,735,000 Flaxseed 19,370,000 35,272,000 Rico 22,954,000 IS,274,000 Potatoes 292,737,000 233,778,000 Hay 47,444,000 *694,570,000 Tobacco 905,109,000 **85,210,000 Tous. ** Pounds. Cents per Crop? Acreage. Bushel. Corn1 105,825,000 61.8 Winter wheat . 29,162,000 8S.0 Spring wheat. . 20,381,000 86.0 All wheat. . . . 49,543,000 87.4 Oats 37,763,000 45.0 Barley 7,627,000 86.1 Rye 2,097,000 83.2 Buckwheat. . . 833,000 72.6 Flaxseed. . . . 2,757,000 1.82 Itico 696,300 79.7 Potatoes. . . . 3,619,000 79.9 Hay 43,071,000 (a) $14.64 Tobacco 1,012,800 (b)9.4 (a) Per ton. (b) Per pound. PAIIt OF YOUNG FOOLS. ? Seventeen Year Old Hoy and Thirteen Year Old Girl Wed. After pleading in vain with his aiir/\nf R r t 'o 4 r* 1 f 1 R /\ tv* 4- /a aucuiiiuai i n iaiuc;i iu j;ui nut lii^iii iu wed, Kindred Ilartt, seventeen, mot littlo Miss Loulma Bates, a school ojirl, barely thirteen, at midnight, and Lho couple eloped afoot from Sergent, Ky. After traveling all night and next day over muddy soggy mountain roads they reached Appalachia, Va., the nearest railroad station, thirtyfive miles away, where they boarded I train for Bristol, Tenn., sovonty miles. Arriving at Briston, the couple wero married by Squire Burroughs, "the marrying parson." Wed- ; losday a fast express will carry them :o Appalachia, where they will hike back over the mountains to ask parental blessings. ? ? The Governors of New York and Massachusetts are being condemned for granting less than a dozen par- i Ions since their terms began. So- . liety evidently believes that it is a irimo for a Governor to turn con- 1 Meted criminals loose on it, and society is right. How Roosevelt Fooled Harriman. Mr. Roosevelt dismisses Wharton Barker's testimony before the Senate committee with the contemptuous remark that "I would as soon discuss a pipe-dream with an out-patient of I Bedlam as discuss this nonsense." iMr. Roosevelt's sweeping denials long ago ceased to carry weight, and this is a case in which a convincing defense cannot easily be made out i for him. I Mr. Barker says a distinguished financier, now dead, informed him three or four weeks before the 1904 j election that Mr. Roosevelt "had made a bargain on the railroad question." By the terms of this bargain a railroad bill was to bo brought in on recommendation of the President cutting off rebates and free passes, permitting the roads to make pooling arrangements and providing for maximum rates. If E. H. Harriman is tho dis- 1 tlngulshed financier to whom Mr. i Barker refers, a careful study of the correspondence made public from tho ( White House after the New York World printed tho Sidney Webster j letter will prove that Roosovelt made ! Harriman believe that ho would j make certain recommendations in his message in order to got Harriman , to raise campaign boodle for him. As soon as ho got tho campaign boodle from Harriman, Roosevelt went completely back on tho railroad magnate, as tho facts related below will amply show. Juno 20, 1904, Mr. Roosevelt wroto from the White Houso to Mr. Ilarriman: "As soon as you conio homo I shall want to seo you." Oct. 10, 1904, Mr. Roosovelt wrote tc Mr. Harriman: "In view of the trouble over tho State ticket in New York, I should much like to havo a fow words with you." Oct. 14, 1904, Mr. Roosevelt wroto to Mr. Harriman: "A suggestion has come to mo in a round-about way that you do not think it wiso to come to soo mo in tlie30 closing weeks of tho campaign, but that you aro reluctant to refuse inasmucn lis I havo 1 1 r.lM JUU. i-SUW, uuai EJll , JUU and I are practical men." In this same letter Mr. Roosevelt suggested that if Mr. Ilariiman did not think it best to come to Washington at that time, then "before I write my message I shall got you to come down to discuss certain Government matters not connected with tho campaign." Mr. Harriman went to Washington in tho closing days of the campaign. He returned to Wall street at once after his conference with Mr. Roosevelt and raised a fund of $200,000 by which, ho boasted, "at least 50,0 00 votes were turned in tho city of Now York alone, making a difference of 100,000 votes in tho general result." Mr. Harriman was not consulted about tho message, however, as he expected, and telephoned to Secretary Loeb Nov. 30. Mr. Harriman thought "that part of the message could bo sent to mo," meaning the part that referred to railroads. Mr. Uoosevolt wrote to Mr. Harrlman insisting that it was currency legislation that ho intended to discuss with him, and that it was not possible, to send out parts of the message in advance to anybody. IMr. Harrlman did not agree with all of Mr. Roosevelt's railroad recommendations and thought no more power should .bo conferred upon the Intestate Commerce Commission. In 190G ho refused to contribute to the Republican Congressional campaign fund. Whereupon Mr. Roosevelt denounced Mr. Harrlman as "an undo< sirable citizen," and tho Federal authorities pursued him until his death. \ +. ? Harmon and the Trusts. Tho Democratic party cannot afford to go Into tho next Presidential election with a candidate whoso position on the great issues of tho day, tho tariff and tho trusts, is not well defined and publicly known. Its candidate must bo on the side of the masses regarding theso two main Issues, or tho party may as well save 1 the expense of a convention or a campaign, as it would bo fore-doomed i to defeat with any other kind of a t candidate. For this reason wo are n opposed to tho nomination of Gov. ? Judson Harmon, of Ohio. Ho is a most excellent man, but, > as tho Augusta Herald says, "with tho i trusts and tho high cost of living as c issues in tho next presidential cam- 1 paign, Hon. Judson Harmon, Is liav- t ing it pointed out to him, that when 1 ho was Attorney General in Clovo- I land's Cabinet, ho didn't seem to r know there wero any such things as t trusts. It is pointed out that there was llttlo done against trusts by tho c second Clovolaiul administration, and c during a portion of that time Judson rl Harmon was Attorney General, o Would such a record aid a democratic v nomineo for the presidency next year s with tho trust question prominent? 8 "Mr. Cleveland was no trust bust- ? or, and Mr. Olney, who preceded Mr. t Harmon in tho Department of JusI ion rim n r\ f rnfror/l tlirv CIli n n 1 o ur I fl nvvj \4?\? i v^ui vi tnv ?juui iiiau iiiu us a workable proposition. Tho trusts 1 wero In clover. With tho cat asleep, ^ the mice and tho long-tailed rats did b play. At that tlmo tho sugar trust b was at tho head of tho trust pro- 8 cession, and tho open chargo was made that it had power enough to write tho sugar schedule incorporated Into tho Gorman-Wilson tariff bill, y At any rate, it was mightily tickled c with that schedulo, and thrived un- ii dor it." Under these circumstances si wo do not boliovo that it would bo I wiso to nominate Got. Harmon. 1 WANTS CREDIT ' PretMtit Taft Tries la Play a Gaae a f Shabby Palkict \ BOW AND WHY HE DID IT Ho Attempts to Take Credit Froil the Democratic House for Gettiac After Russia for Ill-treating tha Jowra by Turning It Over to thf Senate. President Tajft turned oror to the 3enate Monday the task of completing tho abrogation of the treaty of 1832 with Russia, because of alleged discriminations against American citizens of Jewish faith. The House om Saturday passed a resolution demanding this action. Ignoring the House of Representatives, the President sent a message to tho Senate announcing that on Friday last, ho had caused notice to bo forwarded to St. Petersburg that tho United States desired the treaty to end January 1, 1013. This notification whs nfTlo.inllv hnndori to tho ron resentative of the Russian Government Sunday. Mr. Taft asked tlio Senate to ratify and givo effect to liis action. The foreign affairs committee of the Sen,to voted unanimously to report a resolution of ratification, couched in diplomatic terms, and Senator Lodge offered it later in the Senate. There was every reason to believe that tho resolution would bo pushed through, Inasmuch as tho Senate commit too, as an act of courtesy to tho House, had decided that the lower ranch of Congress should bo asked to concur in tho Senate's action. Senator 1 ley burn, of Idaho, however, took tho floor and after protesting vigorously against hasty action, asserted his right under tho rules and by formal objection threw further consideration of tho matter over until Tuesday, when it was taken up and tho President's suggestions wero carried out. Democratic leaders, both in tho Senate and tho House, are determined to claim credit for tho abrogation of tho treaty. Senators Culberson, of Texas, and Hitchcock, of Nebraska, tho latter a member of the foreign relations committee, served preliminary notice to this effect In the Senato Monday. Senator Culberson accused Prosident Taft of trying to strip the IIouso of one of its prerogatives and assorted that the Prosident was trying to steal Democratic "thunder." In his message to tho Sonato, President Taft transmitted a copy of the letter which American Ambassador Guild, at St. Petersburg, had transmitted to tho Russian foreign offlco. Jn it was expressed tho view of tho United States that tho old treaty no longer met tho political principles or commercial needs of tho two nations and should bo terminated. Senator Culberson said Monday IllgllL tIli.lL IIO UUU1U liut VU1UUIU U pit?diction as to how far tho Democrats of tho Senate would go in their opposition to tho Lodge resolution, or any otlior resolution approving the action of tho President in taking the matter out of tho hands of Congress, following tho adoption of tho Sulzer resolution in tho House. "There is a feeling among the Democrats," ho said, "that tho President is trying to steal their thunder. I think tho country ought to be made acquainted with tho facts." The Senate upon convening lost no time in taking up tho question. Immediately after tho reading of the Tournal, an executive clerk from the White IIouso appeared with the President's message and it was at once read to tho Senate, receiving unusualy closo attention. With tho message disposed of, Senitor Lodge presented tho report of ho committeo on foroign relations, vith tho resolution provided as a subitituto for tho House declaration. In speaking of the matter the Washington correspondent says politcal Washington is an agog over the iffort of President Taft to take the ead in tho movement to abrogate ho Russian treaty, after tho House lad acted for abrogation against the Hxecutlve's expressed wish that the natter bo deferred until after the tolidays. It is understood that a great game f politics is being played, with tho rodlt for abrogation as the prize, 'ho Democratic leaders, while not ibjecting to such alterations in the irords of tho House resolution as may n ?/v t*?Ul iUl V Itfil II II*, il I v 1UH1UUU IU i uent the President's effort to disre;ard the House in the handling of ho subject. There is a feoling that the Preslent unwarrantodly affronted the louse when he sent his message of ioiulay to the Senate only. There will e fireworks in Congress about this ofore the holiday recess, unless all igns fall. ? ? ? Young M m Shoots Himself. At Laurens, John H. Price, al oung white man,, committed suiide early Friday morning by shootlg himself through the head with a hot gun at the home of his father, lenry T. Price, four miles north of hat place.