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Wilier Dies Vswirg He Had Net Killed
I, the Yinag Sirl, Ruih Whttltr,
BELIEVED HIM GUILTY
The Young Man Was Put to Death
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^ ' Legally for a Double Crime oil a
Young Girl Who Was Lured to His
Rooms, Mistreated, Strangled and
llurned.
Albert Wolter was put to death in
the electric chair at Sing Sing prison
at 5:41 o'clock Monday morning, for
the murder of 15-year-old Ituth
Wheeler, nearly two years ago.
The girl came to Wolter s flat in
New York in search of employment
and he was convic.'od of having killed
her after she had been mistreated.
Wolter left a statement with Warden
Kennedy, denying that he had com/
mitted the crime.
JThe execution was without feature
and Wolter was declared dead aftor
.. one contact of 1,96 J volts. The State
|r electrician said that Wolter showed
less resistance to the electric current
than any other murderer put to death
" by electricity at Sing Sing prison.
Wolter spent Sunday night quietly,
y .* resting only part of the time. At 2
o'clock Monday morning he wrote his
denial of the killing. It was on a
* single sheet and bo even and clear
yvere the letters formed that the writing
had the appearance of copper
plate. The* statement reads:
Warden J. S. Kennedy:
To ho given to the public. January
4 29, 2 a. m. Now that 1 am depart.*.
lug from this earth to go into the
presence of God, 1 wish to niako this
last statement. The world refused
me justice, hut ou; Father in Heaven,
who knows our innermost
thoughts, Ho will give me pure and
undeliled justice. I wish to State
that 1 am iiinocont of the crime 1
was convicted of. I have been a
victim of circumstantial evidence. I
J ' hope there may come a time when
the conscience of Hi j perpetrator will
4 overpower him and he will coine to
tlie front and acknowledge his guilt.
it is my honest prayer to God that
he may bring the person guilty of
the crime to justice, that my name
may he cleared of this stain and that
the people may see the injustice done
ihe and that they killed an innocent
boy.
To those who have given me their
kind assistance an 1 have trusted in
me 1 give my sincere thanks. To
those who have maliciously persecuted
and killed me, for them I pray
God's forgiveness.
Albert VV. YVolter.
Although YVolter was convicted on
circumstantial evidence, the court of
appeals reviewing the case after a
^ series of legal delays, declared that
he was fairly tried and Justly convicted.
Ruth Wheeler met her death on
March 24, 1910, in Wolter's apartment
on the fourth floor of ?. house
on Kast Soventy-flfth street, New
York city, where she had gone to
seek employment as a stenographer.
^ Iler charred body was discovered
later.
The evidence indicated that the
girl had come to her death by strancmlnHnn
nnd hummer after huvimr
been ravished. The body had been
, thrust into a fireplace, where it was
^ partly burned and concealed until it
became convenient to remove it in a
bag to the fire escape from which it
was thrown to the ground below.
Wolter admitted that he wrote the (
postal card which led Ruth Wheeler
to visit his apartment and in a book
kept by him was found in her handwriting
an entry of her name and ad- .
dress. , I
A hatpin and a r'ng which the girl ,
had worn on the morning of her dis- <
j appearance were found in the fire- j
* place and in a house to which Wolter ^
had moved on the following day was ]
discovered an umbrella* which the (
girl was known to have had with her i
when she left homo. (
^ Wolter claimed he had never seen f
the Wheeler girl and that he was not f
at home until late in the afternoon c
on the day the crime was committed.
Me sought to account for the entry
of the girl's name in his book by
saying be wrote It tbere at the dictation
of a man named Fred Ahner, f
who was desirous of starting a school
of shorthand and told him he was
going to engage Ruth Wheeler. No
one could be found to testify as to the n
existence of Ahner. r\
Wolter was, found guilty and was c
sentenced to bo electrocuted on June s
6, 1010, but the exception was ^
-a ? ? .1 n ? ? nnnnn! Alfhnnirli tho i,
BUtyUU 17 Mil ?|<1?VHI. - C-l -- ,,
law allows but six months In which c
w to argue such an appeal, the case did c
not reach the court of appeals until j,
December 4, 1911. The court af- j
firmed the Judgment of conviction lc
within ten days. Governor Dlx re- f
fused to Interfere. j,
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Nig Elk Drops Dead.
B. E. McLln, Orlando, Fla., state
commissioner of agriculture, after a 11
strenuous day spent Inspecting ex- e
hlblts, fell dead umle delivering an , p
address In Elks hall on "Fraternity. f<
as Exemplified by Elks." Icj
PftAIStS WlliON
lilt VAX POINTS WITH PRIDE TO
GOVERNOR'S CANDOR.
Says Wilson's Action Since He Wrote
the Joplin Letter Proves His Genuine
Conversion.
"In the Harvey-Watterson matter,
so far, Mr. Wilson has been helped
rather than hurt by the correspondence.
Mr. Wilson ii right in believing
that a man is some t.mes hurt
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by tne sort or men clamorous m mo
support."
Win. J. Bryan made this comment
Tuesday night with regard to the
controvers ybetween Governor Woodrow
Wilson, of New Jersey, and Col.
Henry VVatterson, of Kentucky. Mr.
Bryan was in Dallas, Texas, for several
hours between trains en route
to his farm at Mission, Texas, and
discussed the political situation in
general.
"I am under no bond to keep the
peace," declared Mr. Bryan in discussing
the political situation In genoral
while waiting for his train en
route to his farm at Mission, Texas.
"Harmony is not the most desirable
thing in public life. The organization
proceeding upon that principle
can progress only as fast as the slowest
of its elements."
The contest in Missouri between
Speaker Champ Clark and former
Governor Jos. W. Folk, he described
as "distinctly unfortunate."
"Whatever the result of the primaries,"
Mr. Bryan said, "it is to be
feared that either of tho contestants
will have weakened his chances of
carrying Missouri in tho general election.
"It was a mistake that the Clark
men would not accept'the Stephens
suggestion, a thing 1 heartily approved
that the two divide the vote of the
State on tho first ballot in the National
Convention and that the one
of them who shall have received the
larger support in the delegations
from other States take the full vote
of the delegation afterward.
"About the letter Governor Wil
son wrote to a. it. uopimu several
years ago?" 'Mr. Bryan was asked.
"A shining illustration that Mr.
Wilson is the best modern example of
Raul of Tarsusu." Mr Bryan exclaimed.
"He has been soundly converted.
Anyone who talks with him or hears
him will be convinced of that. Mr.
Wilson's sort of p'-ogressiveness is
best demonstrated in the Smith incident
in New Jersey."
At this time Mr. Bryan will not
make any announcement as to his
choice of candidate for the Democratic
Presidential nomination.
"There will be a campaign in my
State in about two months, Mr. Bryan
continued. "I expect Jo be in that
campaign, and before that time to decide
between the Democratic Presidential
candidates. We have a splendid
opportunity to win and I hope for
the seleotion of that man who can
unite the Democratic elements."
Mr. Bryan also expressed his approval
of Presidential preference primaries.
"While primaries are still in the
experimental stage to a large extent,"
be said, "I favor this method of selecting
candidates. Ultimately I favor
the making of a majority vote the
deciding method in primaries."
NOT A SUNDAY SCHOOL HOY.
Among Nearly Three* Thousand Criminals
He Had Tried.
In sentencing George H. Lott, nineteen,
to a term in Elmira for burglary.
County Judge Fawcett of
Brooklyn said Thursday: "Of all the
undesirable professions, that of burglary
Is the worst. No matter how
irood a burglar you may be, you will
bo caught and sent to prison sooner
Dr later. I have seen your friend3
tvho wished to speait to me about you,
md I find that all attempts to have
rou go to Sunday school have failed.
In the five years I have been sitting
)U this bench I have had 2,700 boys
)efore me for sentence and not one
>f them was an attendant of a Sunday
ichool. Had you gone there I am
sure you would not be before me tolay."
HOKSRS A\l) MCLRS IUHNEI).
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)t1ier Property Pestioycd in Fair field
County Fire.
Twelve head of stock, ten mules
nd two horses, were burned to death
"hursday morning in a fire which
ompletely destroyed the barn and
tables on the Cathcart farm, at Ader's,
three miles north of Winns
oro. Mr. l'. Ij. carter, or cnesier
Jounty, had been living on the Cathart
place for about a year, and the
ess, which included, in addition to
he stock mentioned, two cribs of
orn and several other outbuildings,
nils on him and Mr. Cathcart jointy.
The general feeling is that the .
re was of incendiary origin. .
As Governor Riease's pardon mill
t idle during the session of the Genral
Assembly, the convicts in the i
enitentiary are no doubt praying 1
:>r the session to end so as the mill <
an start up once more. i
BURN TO DEATH
Four Children Loose Their Lifts Whtn
Their House Was Bar Did
,
RESCUE TRIAL FAILED
?
Three Were Hurned Up With the
c
House and the Fourth, Who Was t
s
Rescued by Neighbors From the
Huriiiug House, Died a Few Hours 2
fi
9J
After lleing Rescued. > t
Three children of Walter J. Gibson r
perished in the dairies, and a fourth r
was fatally burned when his home,
three miles from CampoLelio, in t
Spartanburg County, was burned 1
down at ono o'clock Monday morning .
in his absence. A fourth child was (
saved through the courage of a neigh- j
bor, but received burns which caused j
his death.
The dead are: Hugh Gibson, 16 t
years old; Annie Thomas Gibson, 14 (
years old; Laura Gibson, 10 years (
old; James Gibson, eight years old. t
Walter J. Gibson, a prominent j
farmer and former member of the \
legislature, went to Greenville Sat- t
ui day on account of the death of t
P. P. Gili'eath, a kinsman, leaving ^
the four children alone at home.
Their mother died several years ago >
and their stepmother last winter. \
The children spent Sunday with t
ihei?* sister, 'Mrs. Clinton Ralney, who s
lives {.bout a mi'e away. Tliey re- i
turned home at 10 o'clock. The j
lioiihe was a large two-story frame ^
building of nine rooms. t
Tho children were all accustomed j
to fleet) up stairs, but it is believed, f
Hugh, the oldest, either went to bed
down stairs Sunday night or started j
to do so, as the cover of his father's j
bed on the first boor was later ob- ^
served to have been turned down and t
part of Hugh's clothing was found i
lying on a chair by the bed. 1
It is thought likely that after the r
fire was discovered he ran up stairs
to tave his sisters and brother?only \
to die himself. How th? fire origi- t
nated is not known, but it it tup- &
posed a coal fell from a grato. t
About one o'clock th? attention of t
neighbors was attracted to tho flamet. *
When they reached the scene the
Gibson home was already a roaring t
mass of fire. c
Amid the crackling of the flames d
was heard the screaming of the ch 11- h
dren, whose figures were soon de- (
scribed in the lurid glare tr.ipped on t
the upper floor and running franti- c
cally hither and thither in vain c
search of escape. ci
Tho horror-strlskon onlookers were c
helpless. Helton Reid, at the great i
risk of his own life, undertook to e
rescue the children As he dashed
into the house, James Gibson, the
youngest child, fell through a hole in
the upper floor.
Mr. Reld lifted th? child up, ex- ^
tinguished th? fire on his clothing,
and carried hiin to his own home
nearby. James wore a suit of woolen
underwear and it is believed he start- ^
ed to dress after waking, and finding
the house on fire, stopping to dress, (
may have caused the death of the
other children.
The little boy, terribly burned, remained
at the home of Mr. Reid all
day, attended by Dr. Burgess of c
Carnpobello, and Dr J. R. Gibson v
of Inman, an uncle Ho died Mon- 8
day night. No attempt was made to
gain any information from him con- 1
cerning the fire.
A few minutes after Mr. Reid's a
rescue of James Gibson, the sagging
walls of the house collapsed, the roof
fell in, and the bodies of three other '
children, whose cries had by this time n
ceased, dropped into the ruins, while a
sparks and burning brands were *
showered around foi many yards.
Tho fire did its v/ork quickly, and 1
as dawn broke the cold rain made it sl
f c
possible to explore the smoking ruins.
Within .a few feet of each other were <e
found three charred bodies. They ai
* ?- ? * . i? y<
were carried 10 r/ie uume ui a, remlive.
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COTTON MILL STRIKE. a|
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There Was Much Rioting at Law- n<
1?,
renco, Mass., on Monday.
er
At Lawrence, Mass., the worst riot- of
ing in the fortnight of the textile to
strike involving 20,000 persons oc- Sfi
curred Monday, when street cars were th
held up and stoned by mobs, which by
refused to let operatives go into the
mills. One woman was killed by a
stray bullet, a patrolman was slabbed
in the back, but not seriously; a mi- of
litia captain was badly cut by a brick nij
and several others were hurt by So
stones, as well as by the clubs of po- f(c
lice and soldiers. Gov. Koss ordered Rf
Monday night 12 additional compa- on
nies of infantry and two calvary irp
troops to proceed at once for Law- he
rence to reinforce the nine companies
already there. All the troops arrived
shortly after midnight.
bei
Fcnmlo CoIIokc Assured. f|1(
The Lutheran From ale College is as- pfr
sured for South Carolina. A well This
known philanthropist has given $50,- ut<
000 for the institution on tho condi- mt
Lion that the Lutheran church raise ab<
MANY ARE SLAIN /
\ANATICAIj SKCT Jtr.AMIOI) Foil
n
THE AWFUL CHIMES.
iOiiisianu Is Stirred by the Series of
Murders in Which Whole Families
Have Ileen "Sacrificed."
Stirred by a series of atrocious
>rlmoH \ nwhlfh 24 nperoos have lost I
heir lives, the entire population of
outhwest Louisiana is aroused to a
vide movement for quick vengemce.
The murders are all traced to
i fanatical sect among the negroes
cnown as the "Sacrifice Church"
ind it is believed leaders of weak
ninded members of the sect are com- ^
nitting the crimes. t x n(
In every case whole families havo c0
>een wiped out an 1 their bodies horibly
mutilated. The latest crime rejorted
is at Lake Charles, where Fe- j,
ix Biroussard, his wife and three '
ihildren were hacked to pieces ^
wringing the total of those slain to
!4- cl
The murders had been confined to (j.
he towns of Crowley and La Fay- r
tte, until this week when the bodies
)f Felix Broussard, his wife and
hree children were found mutilated ^
p their home in Lake Charles. The *
j i
Irst murder occurred in Crowley
learly a year ago, when a family of
our were found chopped to pieces
vith an ax.
Then the Andrus family of five
vas found chopped up in their home j}
n Lafayette, and a few months later
he Randall family of six was found gc
ilain and mutilated in Lafayette.
..ast week a family of four was found
nurdered in Crowely. The victims ?'
t V
,vero in nearly every case slain in 1
heir beds. The murder of a family
if Bayne i3 also attributed to the 8t
lame man. (
The authorities at Lafayette are al
nvestigating on ciie theory that the at
nurders are the work of a fanatic ?*
vrouglit of frenzy by a strange doc- ?*
rine now being preached among the
*?*- - '> T r 1 XT 1_ t >1
legroes. ine uev. ivmg nariits, -eader
of a sect known as the "Saciflce
Church," is under arrest. ^
On the door of the Broussard home Cl
vas found the following text from 11'
he Bible: "When he maketh lnqul- *H
iltion for blood, ht forgettetli not
he cry of the humble." Just beside w
his quotation appeared the words,
'Human, five."
Besides the preacher there are
hree negroes in jail in Lafayette in
onnection with the Andrus and Ranlall
murders. The Randall murder
>as been charged to a young negress,
Clementine Benrabet. Her father was t*1
ried for the Andrus murders and sc
onvicted, but obtained a new trial ai
?n the ground that he was drunk one
lay during the trial and therefore th
ould not comprehend what was go- nc
ng on. His second trial has not tak- to
n place. ve
FATAL MISTAKE OF A LADY. U<!
of
* th
L Very Sad and Distressing Accident bi
at Blackville. ^j3
A very sad and distressing acci- co
fi i
lent occurred in Blackville last Fri* .
ni
lay a week ago, which resulted in the j((
leath of Miss Katherine Baxley _
hird daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. V.
Caxley, who by mistake took sevral
strychnine tablets instead of
alomel, and the lamentable error jin
/as not discovered until too late to L.?
El1
ave the fair young life, so bright! .
Mth itn hannv n:i9f. so radiant with!..
'? ' 111
ope of a future of unclouded sun- n ^
nine, so sweet to her loving family
nd devoted friends.
Idle Blackville Builder says when
:ie news spread over the town every-1
ody was shocked and could hardly
realize that the young lady was dead,
s she had visited friends only a
lw hours before her death. Miss'^.j
axley complained of feling ill about (.;i
1:30 o'clock Friday night and it is
ated that she was given strychnine (.j
>r calomel by mistake. Shortly af-jjia
irwards she was heard to scream j
id Dr. Briggs was sent for but the (>((,
lung lady was dead when he ar- Qrl
* ac
ved. Ilo
Miss Baxley was eighteen years of S)i(
;e and is survived by her father ^
id mother, Mr. an 1 Mrs. J. V. Rax- j*
y; four sisters Misses Alva Olive.
ertha, of Blackville, and Mrs. W. '
Benson, of Greenville; four brothi
P cr J)
s, Paul, Adrian, Jacob and Bryan, ^
Blackville. Miss Baxley was laid ^
rest in the Blackville cemetery
iturday afternoon at four o'clock;
e funeral services were conducted i j '
Rev. Snyder, of Barnwell.
^ BtO<
Found Beside Railroad Track.
At Spartanburg Fd Gresham, son jagt
T 1 T-? /I 1 1 Tl-.i .1 ~ ..
I'j. n. urusiium, n\ <ih i u u 11 i rrmay!sj.j..
?2;ht lying bcoide the trackd of the roc(
uthern in an unconscious condi- Bet
m. Passershy board his groans. nex
; loft the botel that morning with-|wjn
t telling anyone where he was go- j ari
;c and the theory is advanced that jcri0
fell from a train 1<oll
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Falls Dead In Pulpit. r^lf
Rev. Marion IT. TOakes, one of the T
st known Methodist ministers In hav
* North fJoorgla conference was old
icken Sunday while preaching at i and
shop, On., and died In a few min- Pnrl
5S. He had served churches In of t
my parts of the State and was pre*
out 70 years old. the
I WEIRD STORY
ie Nightly and Gisly Bombatdnen! of
a Liltile Tailor Shop
EVER WAS EXPLAINED
?
muks of Mortar and Wood Came
Out of Space Into tlio Kooins tor
Several Nights, and Was Witnessed
by a Great Many People of the
oln liYwt>?lwwi/l
VI^UIL#?/K j
A letter from Great Harrington,!
ass., to the New York World says
>w and then that section of the
untry produces happenings of a
eird nature. New Yorkers who anjally
come up hero in the Berltilres
to pass the summer months,
iy* the letter, are Tamiliar with the
nder Mountain road, that delightful
iral drive that is one of Sheffield's
larms, but probably few if any of
lein are aware of the incident here
corded.
Not far from the premises now
erned by a summer resident of Shofsld,
known as the John Shepard,
r., place, is a deserted cellar excaition.
There is nothing about the
utward appearance of this place or
>ot to excite public interest at the
resent time, or to create wonder,
st 110 years ago there stood upon
lis excavation a 1 ouse that was the
:ene of a mystery that was never
>1 red.
There are living today descendants
' these families who no doubt recall
I? facts handed down through famy
traditions. The house that once
ood there was occupied in those
iys by Ezekiel Landon. A oescendlt
of his lives in Salisbury, Conn.,
. the present time and is a partner
' Donald Warner in the law firm
! Warner & Landon.
On the night of Nov. 8, 1802, on
ie Salisbury side of the State line
vidiug Massachusetts from Connec2ut
there stood a small building ocipled
as a tailor's shop. On the
glit in question a man and two
)ya slept in the shop in which
irough the day they worked. It
as between the hours of 10 and 11
M. Without, tne old-time neigh
irhood was as siier.t as a tomo.
Suddenly, without warning, a block
' wood came whirling through the
lop window, shattering glass into
agments and scaring the inmates,
eces of hard mortar began falling
trough tho window, projected by
mie unseen and unknown power,
id tho mystery of that fact so afcted
tho inmates of the shop that
ey ran to the house of a neighbor
lined Sage and got him out of bed
go with tliom co the shop to in-1
istlgate. !
When Mr. Sage reached the place
o disturbance began again. Pieces
dry mortar were thrown through
e windows, lights of glass were
oken, and, although those inside
iuld see without not a soul was in
ght, nor was there any way to acniint
for the goings on. Until early
iwn this condition lasted. The next
ght It began again and for two
>urs there was the liveliest kind of
mortar fusilade upon the house.
The charcoal and wood an 1 mortar
ternated in the bombardment. It
as repeated on the succeeding night
itil midnight. Hy this time the
ory had been ncised abroad and
e hundred or more men, some of
em clergymen, gathered Ft the shop
d its vicinity and saw tho building
nln acsenllort itr I t Vi m Icciloci of vni'l.
a kinds, but not one of the crowd
onlookers could detect whence
ey came or by whom they were
rown.
"It is witchcraft," they said, and
e superstitious Logan to wonder
.at it all foretold. Still another
y this unexplained bombardment
tho tailor's shop was kept up, unby
count eighteen panes of glass
d been broken from the windows
the morning the missile throwing
.sod as abruptly as it had begun,
the tailors, but that night the
use of Ezekiel London, on the <
sfheld side of the line, that then
od on the site of this ancient eel t
hole, was made the po'.iil of at- I
k.
\gain the neighbors rallied and
iin were mystified, but even while
investigators were searching for ^
cause win lows were broken and |
rtar of a *kvd unknown to thai ,
I . - -1 4 U ,?V. 41%
I Oil WilH VII l I! I 'JUfc, II lilt- 1
ken window nnnm, wlnl 3 people
3d beside the windows. yet not a v
ng soul could be seen. v
>is attack upon tbe T.andon house v
ed several houiv then ceased as s
mgely as lf had begun, < nly to 'j
imnience again an hour after sun- ^
and continue foi two hours the
t night. Thirty-eight panes 01
dow glass Wire broken in the
don house. To this day no one
ws what caused the demonstra M
i or by whom they were perpo
ed. It is a matter of h?o?orica' s
>rd. t(
hose connected with the Incidents ?
e long since passed away The ?
Idandon house has gone to decay. ^
only the cellar cavity on the ?
ler Mountain road marks the spot a
his ancient mystery. Simh an im- y
is did the incident make upon d
minds of the people of that day k
J2
AUNII BETTING BILL
PASSES ITS SECOND HEADING IN
THE UPPEK HOUSE.
Will Com? Up Next Tuesday for Final,
Action on the Part of the Sen*
ate.
The anti-betting race track bill,
introduced in tho senate by Senator
Carlisle, went to third reading during
the inattention of those members
of the senate opposed to it in ita
present form. Mr. Appelt moved for
a reconsideration of the vote, upon
which there was much discussion.
Senator Clifton requested that debate
be deferred unt'l night as he had
?. ? J /v?? f r* /\ tYoi* tlifit* h n pati?
till (Ullt'lUUllt'lIt lu uuti muv "V uu U
sidered would be acceptable to Mr.
Carlisle, who said that he anticipated
the nature of the amendment, and
would not agree to it. Mr. Carlisle
also said that the question had been
pending for some time and that he
desired the flght to begin at one. The
amendment, he said, can be ottered
on third reading.
Senator Appelt made a motion to
postpone action on the bill. Upon
which Senator Carlisle moved that it
be tabled. A viva voce vote being
had, Senator Carlisle was sustained?23
for and 13 against?as follows:
Yeas?Ackerman, Bates, Black,
Carlisle,'Christensen, Carle, Cpps,
Ginn, Green Hall, Hardin, \V. J.
Johnson, Alan Jonstono, Laney, Lawson,
hide, Manning, Montgomery,
Rainsford, Sulliva 1, Summers, Waller
and Wharton.?23.
Nays?Appelt, Clifton, Cresson,
Dennie, Ilough, Mars, Mauldin, McCown,
Sinkler, Spivey, Stewart,
Stuckey and Young.?13.
Upon Senator Young's motion to
strike out the enacting words of the
I bill, which was killed, Senator Clifton
requested that the bill be read. Upon
the bill being read, Senator Clifton
objected to it being a printed bill and
that there were some typographical
errors In it, end he then asked the
j president of the senate to have the
written bill read, wnicli was complied
with.
Senator Appelt offered an amendment,
abrogating tlie injunction feature
of the bill, which he discussed.
! lie contended that the promotors of
th? Charleston race track had solicited
and accepted money from the
'people who are behind this enterprise
in good faith, having been granted a
charter by the legislature during its
last session. He did not thins: it was
quite fair to put these people out of
business becauso a sentiment had
lately arisen against racing. The legislature
had given the race track people
an assurance of safety when the
charter was granted to them;now it
is endeavoring to take this assurance
from them, he said.
After some other discussion, a compromise
was agreed upon, and the bill
was passed to third reading with notice
of amendment by Senators Clifton
and Appelt. It was agreed that
the debate on the bill will bo con'
tinued next Tuesday night, February
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FOUR ARE DONE TO DEATH.
Mysterious Quadruple Murder in a
Tenement House.
A mysterious quadruple murder,
in which two men and two women
were killed, was revealed by the discovery
of the bodies of the victims
in a tenement house in the heart of
Lawrence, Mass. The dead are Mrs.
Annie Denis, aged 35 years; Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph Favias, aged 35 and 30
years, respectively, and an unknown
man.
A disturbance was heard in the
Favias' apartment about 3 o'clock
Saturdav mornimr hv the familv
which lives downstairs, but 110 investigation
was made. When 110 member
of tho household appeared during
the day, however, the police were
called in.
The unidentified body was found
I p. the kitchen with the throat cut.
In a corner were the bodies of .Joseph
Favias and his wife, both of whom
evidently met death in a struggle.
In a bedroom adjoining was found
he body of Mrs. Denis, ller throat
tad been cut
Senator Tillman Praised.
The Washington correspondent of
Phe News and Courier says Senator
rillman is receiving letters in large
lumbers, not only from South Caroina,
but from all over the country,
ipproving his attitude and utterances
vith roirnril fn tho \V;i t f r??'snn-1 I sir?
py-\Yilson affair. In some cases the
writers say that they were rot Wilon
men before the publication of fho
Mllman-Wattorson correspondence,
?ut that they are Wilson men now,
Man Falls Ten Stories.
Max Sellgman, fifty, a carpenter,
ho lived on bouth First street, near
ted ford avenue, Brooklyn, was intantly
killed Monday afternoon. We
>11 while working cn the tenth floor
f the twenty-two-siory loft building
f Browning, King & Co., at No. 145
I'ost Thirty-sixth street.
nd age that while tho facts were
et fresh in mind they woro handed
own in the archives of the town to
iter generations.
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