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FINISHES LETTERS ? SENATE COMMITTEE REACHES ENU OF MULHALL LETTERS UNDERWOOD GIVES EIE + Democratic Leader Also Calls Him Blackmailer and Denies Having Had Anything to Do With Him? Identification of Letters lias Been Completed. Martin M. Mulhall practically flnishecl Tuesday at Washington his identification of letters ho wrote and received in the ten years lie claims to have been the lobbyist for the National Association of Manufacturers. Now the Senate investigation com mittee will turn its attention to examination of Mulhall and attorneys for the association and for the American Federation of Labor, also involved in the correspondence, will begin cross-examination of Mulhall. Members of the committee will attempt to strengthen Mulhall's story of his political activities in Washington and throughout the country, while the attorneys will endeavor to break it down. Questions by the lawyers, under the committee's rule, will be filtered to the witness through its chairman. MiilhaH's last day as an identifier of letters proved the most exciting of his two weeks on the stand, lie was called a "liar" and a "blackmailer" by Majority Leader Underwood of the House and lie swore he had tried to get Chairman Wilson of the labor committee interested in the story he is now telling and that Speaker Clark and Representative Mann, minority leader of the House, and turned down an opportunity to conduct an investigation of his activities. The speaker and Mr. Mann, lie said, had been approached on this subject by Representative James T. McUermott of Illinois. "Neither Mr. McDermott nor anybody else ever showed me the Mulhall letters and papers," said Speaker nark 111 a statement issued taie Tuesday. "Neither Mr. McDermott nor anybody else ever spoke to me about them. T never knew that Mulhall had any letters or papers until I saw in a newspaper that he had sold them to a New York paper." Mulhall brought the day to a climax by swearing that McDermott had acqnowledged to him that he had signed Mulhall's name to a check for $2f>0. Mulhall made this statement when he was questioned about a trip to Chicago in April, 1012, to lielp McDermott in the primaries. He said Harold F. McCormick, son-in-law of John D. Rockefeller, had promised to contribute $200 to the McDermott campaign. He said McCormick made out a check to him for this amount, but that he did not receive it until after he returned to Baltimore. He cashed this check in Baltimore, but later the bank there and the one in Chicago on which it was drawn informed him that a duplicate hearing his signature had been honored also. He told the committee he never knew what had happened until McDermott told him. A letter read later showed that Mulhall took the $2f?0 given him by McCormick and used it himself, although he said McCormick had given it for the McDermott campaign. Mulhall explained that he had spent a lot of money in Chicago and that McDermott had never paid him back. Mulhall told during the day that ho loft tho Nattonal Association of Manufacturers late in 1911, l>ut letters of 1912 and 1913 showed him still about Washington interested in the makeup of committees and in legislation. Tie apparently was lobbying on his own hook and other letters showed an evident desire to get back with his old employers although he did not admit that he wished to secure his old berth. One of the last letters put in the record was dated May 2d, 1913, and addressed to former Representative James E. Watson of Indiana, whom Mulhall frequently during the inquiry has mentioned interms far from flattering. In this letter Mulhall asked Watson to interest himself himself with D. M. Parry, former president of the association, in his behalf. It was only a few days later that the Senate committee started its lobby investigation and that he began to negotiate for the disposal of his correspondence. Representative Underwood appeared before the committee to deny that Mulhall had ever talked to him about legislation before congress. After one look at the witness he said: "I never saw him before in my life." Ti'fiiri Kills Mini. h. IT. Hammond, a farmer residing several miles north of Hasley, met instant death Monday afternoon when ho was struck by a southbound passenger train. The details could not he ascertained, but it is believed that the man stepped from the track and thought that he was far enough away to allow the train to pass when the step of the engine's tender struck him in the back of his head. Lii REMEDY FOR SOCIAL ILLS (X)MMOX GOOD MOV KM FAT (JAINS (JII10AT IMFKTIS. +. I'rospwts Kvcollciit and Hearty Willingness to llelp is Shown by Leaders in Various Fields. "Prospects for the approaching Conference for the Common Good are exceedingly bright and encouraging," according to a statememnt issued Tuesday. "The movement is steadily gaining in weight and momentum. Messages of sympathy and cheer are being received from all sides. The hearty support and willingness to neip which are everywhere being manifested are most hopeful and stimulating. As one of the pamphlets which is being widely circulated by the committee puts it: "In every man there exists a willingness, even the desire, to help, could be found an easy, practical way to go about it.' "We love our State and want to serve her. Service is simply love in harness. South Carolina is blessed with many constructive men and women, and all are proud of our progress in many directions: but there is a great deal of waste and lost matter in the movement for State betterment. "Now, nearly all the special problems and difficulties we have to face | elsewhere. The thing to do is to take stock of our chief needs and then to find the most effective remedies the I collective experience of the world can offer and apply them patiently and hopefully for the betterment of our State and for the common good. "It is to find these most effective remedies that the conference has been called. Much thought and careful planning have gone into preparing the program. The leading points to he discussed are: Co-operation for rural development, permanent homes for our people, education and child welfare, problems of citizenship. Besides these topics, special minor conferences are being arranged as follows: On the work of the church in county development, on health, con ference of farmers and business men on marketing, and credit on woman's work, on co-operation between colleges and high schools, co-operation of chambers of commerce for rural development. "From these various and important subjects every one can find work to do and an opportunity to aid. Men of national reputation have been secured to give the fruit of their ripe experience and wisdom in short, live addresses. It is certain to he a notable and inspiring body of men and women that will gather in Columbia on August f. and 7." lvILLS 1IHK lirSUAM). Then Young Cuban Woman Shoots Herself, Dying Quickly. First tying him securely in bed as lie lay asleep, Mrs. Avelina Rodriguez, a comely young Cuban woman, shot her husband to death at their home, in the eastern part of Tampa Saturday morning. When she saw his life had fled she cut the bonds from the body and, stretching herself beside him, fired the remaining shot from the pistol into her own heart, and was dead when neighbors rushed into the house. The pair lay side by side, and the slender ropes which still partly held Rodriguez's body to the bed, and the pistol grasped in Mrs. Rodriguez's hand told the story. CIIRfi SLAIN IN OFFICII. Shocking Crime Mystery ICngagcs Dallas Police Force. Police were called upon Monday to Investigate the death of Florence Brown, aged twenty-seven, whose body was found in the wash room of a real estate ofllce at Dallas, Texas, with the throat cut. When discovered the body was still warm. Blood was spattered over the walls and floor of the room and discolored water had been left in the wash basin where some one had apparently washed bloody hands. No instrument with which the act could have been committed was found. Miss Brown reported for work at 8:30 and was known to have been alone in the ofllce for half an hour. Policeman is Killed. Policeman Harry Cook was shot and killed at Dalton, (la., Sunday by Clem Poole, a desperate character. Poole was creating a disturbance at his home and Cooke was called upon to arrest him. Poole placed a pistol against the officer's body and fired, a bullet through his heart. Tender Cut in Two. The tender of the Government lightship off Capo Lookout., N. C., was cut in two by tho Savannah Lino steamer City of Atlanta, and three of Its occupants were drowned last Friday afternoon. ? Fulls Under Train. A. Richard Heard Jr., aged twentyReven, a shoe salesman, died at Nashville, Tenn., Sunday from Injuries received late Saturday night when he fell under a passenger train at War. trace. i BANKS HURT BONDS * SECRETARY l)F THE TREASURE M'ADOO ISSUES STATEMENT + PROTECTS SMALL BANKS Declares That Decline of tiovernment Two Per Cents, is Due to Campaign Waged by New York Hanks to Cause I'neasiness About Securities in Order to Defeat Currency Hill. Secret are Me ?i 1.1? . .?VX IUUUVVI CI OltllU" ment Monday llatly charging that the decline of government two per cent, bonds to 5*5 and a half?a new low record?was due "almost wholly to what appears to be a campaign waged with every indication of concerted action on the part of a number of influential New York city banks to cause apprehension and uneasiness about these bonds It* order to help them in their efforts to defeat the currency bill." Hanks throughout the country own almost entirely $730,882,1.10 of the 2 per cents. Their market value today was approximately $30,000,000 less than when the banks bought them. Almost all the entire issue is used as security for national hank notes. At the present price, however, the discrepancy between the market value and the issues of notes against the bonds is covered by what Is known as the five per cent, redemption found, deposited by the hanks with the treasury to care for retirements of national bank notes. Secretary McAdoo announced it was not his intention to require the hanks to charge off the present depreciation below par, but that the banks might continue to put in the bonds at par in their statements to the comptroller of the currency, at least "until some material change in conditions should compel the adoption of another course". In his statement Secretary McAdoo declared two per cent, were worth par?notwithstanding their decline in the New York market, and continued : "The idea seems to be that the country banks which hold about two thirds of the 2 per cent, bonds, and use them as the basis for tbeir circulating notes, may be induced to unite with the New York city banks in opurtui t i r?n t r? flm Kill if tlinv fin Kr? made to believe that (he proposed currency measure is going to injure these bonds and cause losses to tho hanks. This is, of course, unfounded. "Meantime, it is folly for any bank to sell government 2's at a sacrifice because of any apprehended legislation adverse to government bonds, as no such legislation will result. In the 124 years of its existence the government has kept faith scrupulously with its creditors, and it is not going to change its honorable character now. If the necessities of any hank oblige it to sell bonds at depressed prices, that, of course, is another matter?a matter solely for the bank to determine." The secretary said that not only had nothing occurred to impair the value of the 2 per cent, bonds, but that the amendment already adopted by tho banking and currency committee of the House enhances their intrinsic worth: "1. Because the hanks and all other holders of 2 per cent, bonds are given a privilege, not now possessed, of exchanging the 2's for 2's without the circulation rights at the rate of f> per cent, per annum of their holdings, present or hereafter acquired. So long as they do not make the exchange, they may retain or sell and buy the 2 per cent, bonds and exercise the circulation privilege attached thereto. "2. At the end of twenty years, the government will pay at par and interqst all 2 per cent, bonds which at that time remain outstanding. In view of the fact that the 2's have no due date, and are payable after 1920 only at tho option of the government, (lie definite promise of payment at the end of twenty years is distinctly beneficial to the holders of the 2 per cent, bonds." The secretary spoke with amusement of the grave statements sent out from New York to the effect that if the currency bill shall pass and government deposits are put in the federal reserve hanks, the 2 per cent, bonds now used to secure deposits will he thrown on the market and their value thereby impaired. As only $12,000,000 of tho 2's out of a total of $780,882,120 are used to secure deposits, they can be used for additional circulation. "Nearly all of the 2's are owned by the banks. If the price is marked down, it is because the hanks them Volvos am putting the pressure on tho market and depressing tho value of their securities. The fault 1r their own. Tt would seem that part of good RonRe and good husinoRs not to do it." The secretary expressed the hope that tho process, if continued, will not he carried to a point where the department will have to take action. "There is and always has been a narrow market for the 2 per cent, bonds, just as there is for many inac NEGRO IS ARRESTED * NO KXCITKMKXT I'OI.LOWS, Al.Tll<)l (.ll OlAlUiM is sumors. ? IlIoodliotiiKls From Penitentiary Successfully ! '< Ilow Trail of the Intruder Nrar Itennettsville. A man en'ered the homo of a citizen of Itrightsville in Marlboro Conn'y. Sunday niylit and attempted an issault upon his daughter as she slept in her room. She was awakened by the man and jumped from the be 1 and called her father. The man ran from the back door of the house ttirniM'li U'tili'li lin V? n /I im( !?* breaking the lock. This occurred about 2 a. 111. Henry Hubbard, deputy sheriff, received a telephone message at. the jail about 2. a. m. lie immediately telephoned to the penitentiary in Colombia for bloodhounds and Ofllcor Kobbins left with the dogs on an early train. They arrived at about ten o'clock and left immediately for Hrightsvillo. Sheric Patterson, Deputy Hubbard, T. C. Chavis, rural policeman and a large number of citizens from Prightsvllle, Dennettsville and other parts of the county joined in the hu nt. The dogs were put on the track and followed it for over a mile eastward. te "bbard's creek. They lost the trail where the man had apparently entered a buggy. Suspicion had pointed to Wilson Rogers, a six teen-vear-old negro, son of Jake Rogers, who lived on 10. W. Idles* place about two miles from the scene of the attempted assault. Deputy Hubbard went to the house and as he approached Wilson asked, "Are you looking for me?" Wilson and two or three other negroes were told to go to the creek. The (logs followed Wilson until they caught him. llo was then arrested and brought in an automobile to Ponnettsville and put in jail about two o'clock. The negro denied all knowledge of the crime. ? FATIUK FAMILY \V1PK1> Ol'T. Police Say it May Have Ilocn Mur dor or Suicide. George Robinson, bis wife and (wo children were found shot to death in their farm house near Huinsey, Alberta, Monday. The bodies of Robin, son and bis youngest child, a threeyear-old girl, were in one room, bis wife and twelve-year-old son were in another. There was a shotgun across Robinson's body and three empty shells lay on the floor nearby. The house showed evidence of a fierce struggle. The police have not determined whether the family was attacked or whether it was a case of murder and suicide. STRUCK FIVH Tl.MKS. Lightning Hits Arkansas Home Many Times in Hour. In an electrical storm Saturday the home of J. W. Baxter, of Fayetteville, was struck by lightning five times within an hour. The first bolt knocked off a chimney. The second entered through a telephone and knocked Baxter unconscious. Scarcely had he recovered before the third knocked his wife senseless. The fourth stunned his mother, and the fifth hurled the house from its foundation. Accidentally Killed. As she was packing away laundry in a trunk in which a revolver was kept, Mrs. Beulah Alridge, wife of an employee of the Southern railway at Spencer, N. C., was instantly killed by the accidental discharge of thr weapon. Ifer six-months-old baby was in the cradle nearby. ? ? Fifty-Foot Fall Fatal. Joseph Echols, aged sixteen years employed by the Rirminghom Roilei Works Company, while at work al Thomas' furnaces of the Republic Iron and Steel Company, fell off tin structural work Monday morning and was instantly killed. lie fell fifty feet. tivo although high grade corporator bonds, and every one knows how eas> it is to put up or down the quotations for such bonds, especially when r favoring state of mind has been skil fully created. "The department has, because o! its relation to the hanks and its no cessarily important part in the flnan cial affairs of the country, a deep in tercet in the welfare of the banks, ir the stability of the financial situatior and in a continuance of the prosper ity now attaching to agricultural am: . industrial enterprises and genera business." For those reasons, the secretary said he had hoped that the bank4' would not eonsider a suggos tion from him impertinent. In ''onrlusion, the secretary saie with ^moh^^is that there is not goinr to bn any financial trouble anel tlia the 'o-rro frons now in prosnect nn 1 goin" *o be moved without difficulty and 'bat the powers of the depart men* will be exorcised in their great l est amnlitltude. for the protection o , the business interests of the coun try." WIFE KILLS SELF WOMAN LEAPS TO HER DEATH IN CHESTER MILL STREAM ?*? J TIES ROCK IN APRON Then .lumps in Water Attracting At- < 1 tention of lloys Fishing NceiiIej ,, Who Make Search ami Find llei li Shoes?They Spread Alarm ami f s Search Hcveals llody. With the strings of a gin,rh:nn ^ nnrim tin.l n > <>< ><<i i.-.. t > ' ' itX'UIIII IK'I llfi u it 11(1 il | seven pound rock secured in the body ' of her apron, Mis. Mary Robertson, ! wife of Sain Robertson, leaped to hei H death from the bank to fifteen feet of ' water in the mill race at the M inolta ' mill at Lando, near Chester, Monday. After much diving by Fred llefley the *' body was recovered thirty-five feet 1 down stream. The village of Lando. in Chester County, was stirred by the ' affair. r Mrs. Robertson left Wylie Camp- 1 bell's house at Lando about thret o'clock, apparently in a state of great 1 nervousness. She borrowed an apron 11 from Mrs. Campbell, which was af- !1 terward found tied around her neck 1 at the bottom of the stream. Mrs. Robertson is said to have ' made threats recently to kill herself hut the villagers paid little heed to ' her. On Sunday her husband left for Columbia to stay some time and this seems to have precipitated the ' deed. She is said to have claimed 1 that she had no friends and that thoi' only and dearest friend in the world ' was going and she thought the sui- N cidal course the speediest way to end 1 her suffering. ' She removed her shoes and had 1 she not left this clew it might have 11 been a week before her body would ' have been recovered. When she ' leaped into the stream the noise at- ' tracted considerable attention from ' some boys that were fishing furthei 1 down the stream. They immediately made an investigation, which led to the discovery of the shoes on the bank. t The alarm was spread and an immediate search instituted. Mr. Hefley, an expert diver, was near, and ' he began diving and soon brought the body to the surface. This made the eleventh person that he had pulled from the water. It was at first thought that the drowning had been the result of violence on the part of some outsider and Sheriff I). E. Colvin and Coroner J. Henry Chidden, along with Deputy C. Y. Young, were rushed to the scene in an automobile. Coroner Gladden made a careful investigation of Hie body after empaneling a jury, with G. Th Heath as foreman. He could find no marks of violence save a contusion on the nose which was attributed to its striking a root. ? PEACFJ-MAKFJt HA* TO FIGHT +. Is Attacked While Stopping Fight So He Takes a Dig Hand. A few miles east of Landrum, near Collinsville, there occurred a shooting affair Sunday. It. is said that while Melvin Patterson and a Mr. Robertson were engaged in a fight in his front yard, C. Foster ran out to act as peacemaker. Just then Patterson turned on him with a knife, inflicting several uglv crashes in the * i neck. Foster, it is said, .acting in ( self-defense, drew his pistol and shot three times, each shot taking effect, | the last perforating the left lung. Dr, L. J. Wall was summoned, but the wounded man only lived a few hours. ' Patterson was considered a desperate m a 11. ? Killed by Old I'istol. A rovolver which was hanging be- i hind a picture on the wall of a room > at the home of (luiseppe (Jastano, at Tampa, Fla., accidentally exploded < and killed six-year-old Rosia (lastano. With a playmate the child had been swinging the picture by push- ! ing it with a broom. The picture and ' the gun came down from the wall I and the revolver exploded as It 1 struck the floor, the ball entering the i i little girl's brain. i r ? 4 ? * Shoots Two Negroes. i Vernon Hough, a negro eighteen - years of ago, was lodged in jail at Lancaster Sunday, charged wjth f shooting two other negroes, Yandel - Adams and Amos Adams, one day - last week near the Taxahaw section - of the county. ' Arrested in I'ulpit. I With a Bible in his hands and in I the act of delivering the invocation > at the evening services in church, j Rev. Virgil B. Slater, of Yougstown, . O., was arrested Sunday ni,,ht by detectives on the charge of non-sup j port or nis who ana two children. ? 1 Mad I>og Riles I>ok. '' F. L. Lane and Minor Malinffey, of the Camp Creek section of Lancaster - county, two of Mr. Lane's daughters and two other young girls of the f same neighborhood were bitten by a - mad dog one day last week and are now taking the Pasteur treatment. * HUSBAND CUTS V/IFE KillT I>KADliV IfATTLK Afr'TKR CI'STOM or Til Kilt Tit I IlK. ? Inn llail (^iM'N(ii)iit(l Faithfulness of tlio Woman and Sin* i)<'iiiandcd tho Tost of Itlood. Samuel Palecia and his wife, Yecutalia, are in a hospital in Denver, 10th suffering from wounds sustain(1 in one of the strangest duels ever ought in this country. The husband iad accused the woman of unfaithulness to lier mari iage vows, and ho demanded that they settle it as hey do among tho tribes in Mexico, rom which both come, by a fight to lie death with knives. They fought mt i 1 tlie police, summoned by neighiors, broke hrough the locked doors, epnrated them and called an am bounce. Kach received many, hut not langerous wounds. When the woman demanded tho luol in defense of her name, and tho nan acquiesced, they locked tho loors of their home, cleared an enire room of the scant furniture It ontained, took off their ou'er garnents and began the carving match. Palocia had given his wife tno on goat and sharpest knife, and ho ilso had asked her to tie one of Ida irms behind Ida hack, In order that hey should he more evenly matched. \s the result the woman got. In the irst hlow, a slash across the back of he man's free hand, from which the ilood 11 owed freely. Put she held the advantage only or an instant. The man made a 'pint, then recovered quicker than lie woman and drew the razor-like dado across the entire length of her orohead. Plinded hv the hlood rhich gushed into her eves, the wonan threw caution to the winds and eaped upon her hushnnd. Her slash Ipped open his forearm, hut she aid dearly, for Pnloeia st^'h-oi her ignln and again, nil til she ' >' *o tiie loor. She Rrr^^'o-I as hev '"isband irepared to finish her. N^'ehbors lonrd her and summoned a passing lollcenin n. Progress of the Smith Plan. The News and Courier says "the eport of the Federal experts that 'a oss of almost $1 OS,000,000 a year to otton growers in Alabama, (Jeorgia, Tennessee and Florida would result rom the adoption of the plan projosed recently by Senator 10. I), linitli, of South Carolina,' for clieckng the boll weevil is not to he Interireted as meaning that it would cost lie C.overnmont at Washington anyliing like this amount of money to int the Smith plan into operation. Oo estimate as to this has yet boon urnished. The present report has pferenco only to the loss of revenue rom cotton which the growers in the States named would experience ihould they ho restrained from plantng cotton. It leaves out of account he fact that the lands would not lie die hut. would be turned at once to itlier purposes. Of course It would lot he an altogether easy matter to liscover at. once crops which could bo aised and markotod at a profit on all ho hundreds of thousands of acres tow devoted to cotton In the area which would he affected; b\rt the first roar would undoubtedly prove a hard >no for many farmers. The experience pained the first year, however, would prove very valuable and thoreifter the cost, of the undertaking diould he materially reduced. One >f the chief difTlculties would he Mi at >f securing an honest and equitable distribution of the Government funds." PKLTjAGKA moves on. Incurable Disease Invading Territory in the West. Pellagra, for which physicians have found no cure, is invading new territory, according to officials of the I'nited States public health service who base their belief in tiie statistics of the prevalence of the disease in Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas from 1007 to 1012, which were made public Saturday. The figures indicated an increase In the disease during 1012. The total number of cases in Oklahoma during the six years was 472, with a death rate of 100 cases of 54.91; in Texas 2,028 cases, death rate 40.61, and in Arkansas 04 5, death rate 0 1.00. The figures for Arkansas for 1012 were incomplete. Snirs of Aocidontsi CJeorgo Hogg, a farmer of Seari, Tuscaloosa county, Ala., lost three children in a series of unusual accidents. While he was cutting wood his axe flew from the helve and struck his infant in the head, killing it instantly. He carried the body to his home, and there learned tha* two of his young sons had been kicked to death by a mule. ? Struck by Train. Mrs. flattie Ryan, her five-year-old son, Stewart, and three-year-obl daughter, Idllian, of Jerseyville, IH.. were killed when the carriage in which they were driving to church, was struck by a passenger train. The engineer fainted, and the body of the boy was carried on the pilot of the engine for a quarter of a mile before the fireman could stop the train.