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V-N * MERCHANT IS SLAIN NTICED TO HOTEL ROOM BY A FAKE SALESMAN SOSfiEU AND MURDERED ? Indianapolis l'olico Were on Murderer's Trail While Crime Was lleing Committed.?Had -Worked Similar Trick on Merchants of Other Cities. Convinced that the young man who Monday brutally murdered and robbed Joseph Schlaneky, a clothing merchant, In a hotel at Indianapolis, is the person who has committed similar crimes in several Eastern and Middle Western cities, tho polleo department of Indianapolis Tuesday nicht Hsked ntheera in ? - - " v> ? ? . I .1 HUftU city cast of the Mississippi river to ay a tcli for the slayer. They believe tho murderer is Joseph Kllis, about twenty-one years* old, of Richmond, Va. Investigation of the murder of Sehlanssy showed that it had been coolly planned and the escape so cunningly carried out as to throw off suspicion temporarily. The body of Joseph Schlansky was found lato Monday night in a hotel at Indianapolis, which hafl been occupied by a man who had registered as "\V. R. Anderson, Louisville, Ky." A strong cord had been tied around the merchant's throat and ho had been shot through tho head. Anderson is said to have told that ho was a salesman, called at Schlansky's store and asked him to to go his room in tho hotel where he said he had some goods to show tho merchant. When Schlansky failed to return his family notified tho police. 'The merchant's watch and about twenty dollars also Avero missing. Tho slayer left two notes in which ho Raid ho had started to rob the merchant and then killed him. After murdering the merchant the man discarded a collar spotted with "blood, walked to a nearby store, where ho purchased another, and then returned to tho lobby of the hotel wherein his victim lay dead, remained for an hour or more. Late in tho afternoon tho slayer returned to his room, and then going to tho union depot obtained his suit case from the check room and is believed to have caught an east-bound train. From information gathered by the police, Ellis, known also as Brokaw and Robert Duncan, committed similar crimes in Louisville last week and left there Saturday for Indianapolis. Previous to the Louisville robberies "the man is supposed to have attacked clothing merchants in Cleveland, Toledo, Philadelphia and Pittsburg. In each town where tho man -onernted his scheme wns tho sumo I lo would register fit a hotel under *in assumed name, call on eithor one of the small clothing merchants or a second-hand dealer and, explaining that he had some samples ho must get out of his possession at once, ask the dealer to go to his room. Once in the man's room the victim either was struck down or forced at the point of a revolver to submit to being bound and gagged. Then his valuables woro stolen; then the robber, leaving the merchant to bo discovered by hotel employees, departed. In every case that was oaMed to the attention of the polic it was Raid the boldness with which the robber worked had thwarted suspicion until his victim was found. The man did not attempt to uso any disguisos. That the murderer of Schlansky is Joseph Ellis, tho police say they feel certain. ITo was identified at Louisville by photographs sent from his homo and also from photos sent out by the Pittsburg police, who wanted tho man, under the name of Brokaw, for an attack on a merchant thero. At the time that Schlansky was murdered four squads of detectives were seeking Ellis. A telegram from tho Louisvillo police department had been received earlier in the day asking the Indianapolis police to arrest m Ellis. The squads mado an investigation throughout the afternoon and night. At the hotel where Schlansky was killed tho clerks did not remember a guest answering Ellis' description. I Joy Hitlers Are Siiliot. At San Francisco, Kate Coulson, tliirty-fivo years of ape, was shot In the neck Friday and George Kovack, night watchman in a garage, and William Acker, a chauffeur, were shot dead after the three had been ridinp most of the nipht in an automobile. A. It. Coulson, husband of the wounded woman, is beinp soupht by the polico. Mrs. Coulson is believed to bo fatally wounded. ? Striking Pupils Suspended. One thousand pupils of tho three Syracuse, N. Y., hiph schools were ind 'finitely suspended late Monday following a striko in the morning as a protest against new hours of study, nine o'clock in tho morning to twothirty o'clock in tho afternoon. Tho striking pupils, many of whom wero girls, escaped through windows and side doors, paraded tho business streets and held an indignation meeting. * ?- u . . . I HOT TIME IN TENNESSEE rrjirfi ? * * iy** 5: ' *, SPEAKER OP HOUSE SAYS GUN MEN A HE AROUND. Members Pull Off Coats to Show Themselves Unarmed and l>oiiottnco Others as Cowards. Sensational charges of tho bringing of two suit cases of guns Into tho office of the superintendent of tho capltol at Nashville, Tenn., and of the presence of gunmen in tho hall of tho Tennessee House of Representatives, were made on the Uoor of the llouso Tuesday by Speaker Stanton. Serious trouble at one timo looked certain after the speaker's charges. Several inllamatory speeches were made. At tho afternoon session Tuesday a motion to investigate tho speaker's charges and to bring George C. lteufro, superintendent of tho capitol, boforo the llouso was voted down. Speaker Stanton, after charging that scurrilous articles had appeared In newspapers threatening to unseat him and that threats and efforts of intimidation had come to him for the past several days, said: "There aro two suit cases of guns now in tho oflice of tho superintendent of tho capitol sent thero by friends of tiov. Hooper, and even this will not Intimidate or scaro mo. I am spoaker of this llouso and propose to remain so to tho end. 1 do not propose to he Intimidated by Gov. Hooper or his Cllllmen and their nffnrla r\ fnynn ..... I to mako rulings will do thorn no good." Representative MeFarland, following Mr. Stanton, after pulling off his eoat to show that lie was not armed, denounced the man who "rnms down weapons in his pocket" and declared that any man guilty of such a practice was "a coward." Representative Rex Stono threw hack his coat to show that he was unarmed, turned to Mr. MeFarland and said: "Any man who would call a set of armed men to guard the door of tho legislative hall is just as much a coward as tho man referred to by Mr. MeFarland. Why not send the gunmen out and let honest men have a chance?" shouted Mr. Stone, llo declared that if the house was to he cleared all armed thugs should he included and not just "those who sido with tho fusionists." After many speeches, some of them conciliatory, tho house adjourned. Tho so-called law enforcement hills, tho consideration of which has) brought feeling to a high tension among members of tho House, probably will bo carrlo<\ by the fusionlsta. On all test votes it was shown that they probably will have tho necossary votes to pass the measure. * INVITATION TO WILSON. Columbia Offers Boyhood Homo n? Winter Residence. Mayor W. II. Gibbs, of Columbia, former Governor I). C. Ileyward and Messrs. Christie Benet and James A. Hoyt Monday extended to President Wilson, at tho White House a renewed invitation on behalf of tho city of Columbia to make his winter homo in tho South Carolina capital. Tho president was told that tho committee had secured for his accommodation, if he would como, tho house on Hampton street which was designed by his mother and built by his father, while tho latter was a member of tho faculty of tho Columbia Theological Seminary and in which the president himself had live^l when a boy. Mr. Wilson said that if he made his winter homo anywhere else than in Washington, it would be in Columbia, hut that it looked as If he would spenu iut) tuiuuig wuiiur nam iti work at the White House. Tie expressed the hope that he might be ablo to accept the invitation after the next winter. Tho delegation was presented to the President by Representative A. F. Lever. ^ ^ ^ NO NOMINATIONS. President Wilson Does Nothing About South Carolina Ofiicos. Although it was expected that President Wilson would send to tho Senate nominations of a district attorney and a marshal for South Carolina Thursday this was not done. When tho senato on Monday remain ca in session lor such a Drier length of time that no nominations could bo received, it was generally supposed that action on the South Carolina matters would he taken Thursday and there was some surpriso hero that nothing was done. Nothing of a definite kind having transplrod in this matter Thursday It is not known whether the president will send these nomination in when the sonato moots again or whether ho will wait a few days. ? + Finds AVifo nn<l Child Dead. When Carl Hirsch, a glass cutter, entered his home at Monaca, Pa., ho discovered the dead body of his infant son in the bath tub, and Its mother, Mrs. Ida Hirsch, hanging to a beam In the collar. Tho woman had drowned the child and then committed suicide. COTTON SEED MARKETING PROPOSED HULKS FOR GRADING ARE DISCUSSED. Further Action Toward Establishing Cotton Seed Marketing Division in ? Agricultural Departmeut. * ? VV A conference Wednesday afternoon at Columbia between representatives , of the Cotton Seed Crushers' Association, independent cotton seed buyers-and representatives of the State Farmers' Union with Commissioner Watson over tho proposed grading and rules for marketing of cotton seed in this State resulted in a decision to leavo 'the next stop in tho hands of tho joint committee of tho , Farmers' Union and Seed Crushers' Association, which is called to meet in Columbia next Tuesday for tho purpose of passing further on tho matter. Besides tho marketing committee, of the Seed Crushers, B. F. Taylor, secretary, and W. B. West, the assistant secretary, wore present; Dr. Able, of St. Matthews, representing the independent seed buyers, while President Dabbs, Secretary Ueed, H. M. Cooper, B. Harris and H. M. Morrison, of the executive committee of tho Farmers' Union, attended tho conference, which was hold In tho library at the Capitol. Commissioner Watson explained that while thero was no law directing his department to take charge of the cotton seed marketing, still, in the interests of tho great mass of producers and the cotton seed oil mill business, which la large, and both consumer and producers, and acting on revests ho had formulated the rules and regulations for grading and marketing after a conference between himself and representatives of all Interests. In formulating this tentative plan, ho said, ho had delayed putting it into effect and given out the proposition In order to got the drift of popular sentiment. Having gained considerable information on it ho had called this supplemental conference. He said he did not propose to do ....in ?i.~ *-i- * i*' mi > i inns uniii i utf juiui roiiiiiuupo or tho wood cruaherB and the Farmers' Union mot, and unless tho.r present a written request with resolutions attached signed by every member, ho, aa eommlsaloned of agriculture, would do nothing further in the matter. He says the State has tho machinery and is ready and willing to do the testing and grading of seed, provided the mills promise to abide by such grading. Tho subject will bo threshed out at tho joint meeting Tuesday of the seed marketing committee of the Seed Crushers and the exoeutivo committee of the Farmers' Union. Further action toward the organization and establishment of a cotton seed marketing division in tho State department of agriculture will depend ?- 11.1. ti on fi iciiuuai, 11 uiu min juiiil cum i1j11too meeting. ? .? TniUOK DIE IN OAtt CRASH. ? Electric Railway on Cong Inland is Scene of 1 load-on Collision. Throe persona woro killed and twenty Injured early Monday in a head-on crash of two Long Island railroad electric trains at College Point, Long Island. Of tho Injured one will die. The dead are: Conductor George Porckel, Motorinan Fred Loder, and Motorinan Charles Hotallon. Moat of the injured were mill employee on their way to work. Tho trains running forty miles an hour, rounded a eurvo near tho station from opposite directions and tho accident was unavoidable. The steel cars baoklod, but did not telescope. This fact doubtless uavod many lives. A hotel near tho scene and n number of residences nearby were thrown open for use as emergency hospitals. Many ambulances and a corps of physicians were summoned to the scene. The Pennsylvania railroad Issued a statement. saying tho accident had been caused, no far as could be determined, hv tho negligence of the operator at Whitestone Junction, who allowed the train hound for New York to leave the double trnck hnfnro tho other train had cleared. Oftynor'8 Friend Suicides. Morris Metrzgar, a wealthy resident of Far Rockaway Beach, and a lifelong friend of the late mayor, hanged himself in his barn Monday afternoon as Mayor flaynor's body was being carried to the grave. Tho floor of tho barn was littered with newspapers, giving accounts of tho last honors that were being paid Mayor CJaynor. Friends of Metzgar attribute his suicide to grief Rt the loss of his friend. ' ? Win or lose, wo take pleasure in the fact that wo have conducted an honest, fair campaign for tho marshal ship. Wo made no charges against any of our competitors, and would scorn the ofhco if we had to resort to such mean, low methods to win it. ? Mother nnd Babe lhirried. . Mrs. M. ITiitchlnson and her infant son, of Foss Valley, Oal., were found dead Wednesday in tho cellar of tho Hutchinson homo, which was destroyed by a forest Are. DEPEND ON FARMERS MUST AVERT HEAT FAMINE BY RAISING BEEVES . < TWO EACH EVERY YEAR American Meat Packers Declare if Decrease in Production is Not StopI?ahI Question of Supply Will Ik> Sorious?Suggest Substitution of Corn for Cotton. The responsibility of averting a futuro meat famine was p<U up to small farmers by.speakers at the eighth annual Convention of tho American Meat Packers' Convention at Chicago Monday. All the speakers ngreod that if the decrease In meat production of tho last ten years is not stopnod t lin miniil inn 1 , . vi vll V-' IIH;ul on^l'l Jf for tho people of tho United States will bo most serious. Among the i* remedies suggested by tho speakora were: Every small farmer should ralso at least two beef steers a year to ofTsot tho decreased production of tho groat ranches of tho West. Tho remaining ranges should bo cut up in farms to put all farmors on an equal footing. Development of tho hills of Now England with their bountiful springs and prevailing shade as a beof-proil uclng country. Substitution of corn for cotton in tho Southern states and tho consequent development of cattle and hog production. Tho report of the executivo committee sounded a note of the danger of famine. "Tho American meat packing house situation and that of consumers of meat food products in this country aro both in a condition more precarious than at any other time In our history," tho report stated. "Wo arc facing conditions in the production of meat food products XV f\ 111 #1 linvn linnn * .. ...v.. ii U,?vj i nullum. 1111 ? possible ton years aso. Tho shortage 3 of live stock, which 1ms been ini- ^ pressed upon us as packing house 3 producers for several years, has boon ( intensified during; the last year. Our 1 population is growing at its normal rate. "The farmers are not furnishing 1 nearly a sufliciont number of animals 1 to keep tho packing houses in operation on anything like full tinio, and this results In heavy losses, owing to lack of volume of business, and there seems to be no prospect of relief. Despite tho higher prices for live stock of all kinds statistics show that tho farmers not only are not increasing their production of meat food animals, but that such production Is decreasing at an appalling rate." Among other causes for the shortage of meat tho report pointed out another loss of mo.it fnmi ntwi <???? mala through preventable diseases and "the unthinking slaughter of calves, and especially heifer calvoa." Tho committee appointed to confer with government officials regarding pure food laws In Its report challenged the wisdom of tho federal government dictating what ingredients shall he used in moat productions. "Our principal difficulty has been that thoso in power know practically nothing of the peculiar condition! in packing house operation. Wo have been in tho hands of capable, wellmeaning scientists on one hand and political office-holders on tho other." The report declared that the action of tho government in changing tho character of labels on canned goods, after once they had been accepted by the government, cost the packing industry $2.10,000 annually. Speakers at the National Convention of butter and egg men urged tho need of national legislation to regulate tho storago of theso products in order to avoid repeated charges of price raising and monopoly. ? ? . TOAU'r WITH W I ? j ii i i l tv ;i J I'il i* I>i-iiiik to President Wilson and President Pofncaro. A toast to President Wflson and President PoiTicaro and tho traditional friendship between Franco and the United States was drunk in water Monday night by Secretary Bryan and tho visiting French commission selecting a sito at tho Panama-Pacific fair. The news leaked out when Maj. J. J. Dickinson, who was host, made a positive denial of a published story that Mr. Bryan had not drunk when tho ehampagno glasses wero raisod for tho toast, and that tho French visitors wero offended. Maj. Dickinson explained there was no champagne at tho dinner, merely an old fashioned cocktail, which tho French-* men had expressed a curiosity to taste, and that as Mr. Bryan proposed the toast near the end of tho dinner it was drunk with water. > fJives Life to Savo ller Baby. Chased by a cow afflicted with rabies while sho was carrying her baby to tho hospital, Mrs. Mary Arlisll, of Plttston, Pa., saved tho lifo of tho little one by throwing it into an open store door. Tho next minute the woman was fatally gored. MAGNIFICENT FUNERAL rr t GAYNOU'S llODY PASSES DOWN CROWDED STREETS. +. )ver rt Million View Cortege on Its Way to Cemetery?Kx*Preaideiit Tnft n Pulllx\arer. Historic Greenwood Cemetery, the ostlng place In Hrooklyn of many 'anions (lead, received the body of S'ow York's lato mayor, William Jny Jaynor, at mid-afternoon Monday, afer funeral Bcrvicoe in his honor that vere without, parallel in the history >f tho city. In tho presence of tho 'amily, the honorary pallbearers, lududing William Howard Taft and dty officials, among them Mayor \llno, tho flag,draped coffin was comnitted to tho grave in the Gaynor 'amily plot. The brief Episcopalian lervice was road by tho Rev. Frank A'. Page, former pastor of St. John's, ,ho cliurch where the mayor worshipped. A million people, It in estimated, ?nw tlio funeral cortege move slowly, Irst from tho city hall, where thousands had wltuessed tho body lying n state Sunday, fco Trinity Church, ,vhore Rifthot) Greer rondiiotnrl tb?> solemn services: tlion back past the 'ity Hall across Brooklyn Bridge, hrough Klghtli avenue homo, and on .o tho comotery. I'pon tho brldgo, hung In black, raflic did not move. City employees stood six foot apart, heads uncovered, is the police-escorted catafalque proneeded into tho mayor's homo bor>ugh. Below, the river noises wero Billed. Not a craft blew its whistle, iot> a gong was sounded. The funeral rain across the bridge and for a dlsanco In Brooklyn paralleled a fovirite route of the mayor, who in all ilnds of weather was accustomed to walk to and from City Hull. Tho bell in the tower of tho bor>ugh hall in Brooklyn tolled for tho list time In many years. Numerous diurch bells also sounded their measlred beats, Trinity's first and then in Brooklyn. In Brooklyn public schools turned forth their pupils, who stood among the mourners in the Htreets. in the mayor's own neighborhood "dubs and residences were draped In srepe, wbilo flags fluttered at halfmast. Heading the throng of marchers was a single line of eight mounted police. Behind thorn came, in tho order named, the police band playing the measured strains of tho Dead March, a regiment of mounted police, twelve abreast, and another regiment of polico on foot In lines that stretch, T A 1 " ud iktokh nroaiiway rroni curt) to curb. Next was tho co(Tin. With tho ofTioial flag of tho,mayor draped ovor Its head, tho coffin lay, ton foot above tho roadway, upon a catafalque whoso sombre folds of rropo wore unrellevod by color. A groat, wreath of whito chrysanthomumfi lay on tho right of tho casket, another wreath of orchids and ferns lay on tho left and a third rotted at the dead mayor's feet. Sixteen coal black horses, heavy with black trappings, flanked on tho right by a single fllo of polioo and on bo loft by firemen, drew the catafalque through tho street, as the casket passed through two walls of spectators, held to the curb by an unbroken line of police .every man bored his bond and only the bluo-capped patrolmen remained covered. Of these there were 3,000 in the line of march or on duty along th? way of tho funeral train. When the church servicea had ended tho great masses of flower? that, had boon in Trinity and the City Hull were sent to various hoenltala. the choicest among them, orchid* aiul chrysanthemums, to St. Mary's the Hoboken, N. J., institute, whoro Mr. Gaynor lny after being shot down tlireo veara ago. CONFESSES TO MURDER. Alanialm Roy Said to Havo Admitted Killing Ilia Father, Essick Gibson, sixteen years old, has confessed to the murder of his father, Alex Gibson, at his homo, near Greenville, Ala., iswhat they say, who Monday arrested young Gibson and placed him in jail. The boy is said to havo declared ho crept into his father's bedroom and crushed the sleeping man's skull. Then ho closed tho door, locking a littlo dog in the room with tho body. Young Gibson, according to tho alleged confession, then went to his brother's homo and told lils brother of tho crlmo, roquestlngtthat ho ho allowed time to make his escape. A neighbor Is said to havo discovered Olbson several days later. Officers say tho boy charges his father with cruelty. Accidentally Kills llrothcr. While playfully snapping a pistol at Ills brother Sunday night, Samuel Knight, aged twelvo years, shot and killed Paul, two years older. Tho boys, sons of Ilenry Knight, a farmor of the Ilarksdalo section of Laurens county, wero at the homo of a neighbor, Edgar Tumblln, when tho accident occurred. It seems that tho boys thought the weapon was not loaded, but after snapping It a few times one chamber was discharged with the result as stated. ' MAYOR GAYNOR'S WILL ; 1 IIK LEAVES AS ESTATE VALUED AT $2,(*><>,OOO. His Two Sons, Three Daughters, arvl Widow Hliare Wealth?Married OaiiKhtora (Jot Lit Mo. Tho will of William J. Gaynor, lata mayor of Now York, as filed Wednesday at Now York, loaves to tho widow his Brooklyn residence aud GOO shares of Royal Raking Powder Company stork. The remainder, with tho exception of minor bequest* of tho estate, is divided, two-sovonths to each of two sons and one-seventh to eacli of three unmarried daughters. The value of tho estate Is estimated at $2,000,000. Tho two married daughers, Mrs. Harry Vlngut and Mrs. William Heward W'Hil) Jr. received $1,000. The share of Uufus Gaynor, a son, who was with the Into mayor when ho died aboard tho steamer Baltic, is placed in the hands of tho trustees, who aro instructed to pay him tho income until he is thirty years old and then to finrronilfti' tlm ??? ' ??** 1 " ll-? 1 * ..." n mcy juugo lilrn capable of handling it wisely. la a codicil Mayor (laynor describe* Rufus as "a good boy always, without bad habits, but. It. may bo, too easy, and liable to lot go of what ho has, not knowing how hard it Is to accumulate property." The will directs the trustees to end tholr trust, for Rufus "provided they are satis-; fled from his past life and business, capacity and habits that lie will not let It slip through his fingers, and I. want him judged fairly la this rospect." Rufus Is now twenty-four years old lie Is the oldest son. N'orman (laynor is just twenty one. "When the will was made, May, 1909, ills father directed that his share of the property be held In trust until bo became of age. The only other beneficiary mentioned In the will is the Into mayor's maiden sister, Mary (lavnor, of rtlca. Miss (laynor receives a house her brother owned in 1'tlca and the Income of 1 1 r? share of Raklnp Powder ntnrk r? n<> iw.i.i p..?? ? ? ----- vv, ?,,, >*. %& k\> I u t'l 11M trust during her 11 f? time. I The legacies to three nnninrricill daughters, Helen, Marlon, and Ruthl ui jo are placed In the hands of a truss tee to bo held until they are twenty! five years old. Until they are twenty! onh those daughters nro not to re! ceive more than $l,r.oo a year; uftol that, and until they come Into posl seBBlon of their full shares, they shall receive the entire Income. ! No explanation Is gtven of the apl parent discrimination against tho twl married daughters, both of whorl eloped and married without thdl father's knowledge or consent. Thl will provides that any heir who curl tests the. division of tho estate shal automaMcally forfeit his legacl Mayor (laynor prepared the :r'l ment in his own handwriting. It coil ered ten pages of foolscap. I NKCHHKN I1I HNS TO DEATH. I Unlf-Wittcd Camden <lirl Ik>sc? II<I Life in Fire. I lacked In a house .while h<H mother was picking cotton In a !1<! nearby, an eighteen-year-old negil girl was burned to death TuesdtB morning at her home, on lower Mai ket street, near Vaughan's glnneil at Camden. The girl was half-witt<l and at one time was an Inmate of til insane asylum. Tho supposition H that sho set flro to some cotton, whld was piled 11 p in a corner of the rooiH Mr. Carrier, wlio operate a ginne^J nearby, together with noveral handH naw anioke emitting from the eraelM of tlio house. They knocked <ln?^| the dooi'B and when Ceorgo nuRoso.H negro, attempted to rescue the she riiHhed into another room, in n few minutes was calling for hel^J hut no one could enter on account tho flames and smoke. WILL GI:T I A\(>K VBLI: uiroul Lever Agricultural Extension IiH Said to Please. [H Tho IIouso coinmitteo on agrici^B turo held a hearing Tuesday flj Chairman Lever's agricultural extcH| aion bill, as as modified after his cent conferences with Senator Smlt^Rj of Georgia, and agreed almost unai^| Iliouslv that it should hrt ronnrtH favorably to tho House the first thifl| aftor opening of tho December si on. Tho committoo had tho plei^| uro of having Secretary Houst^B present at its sessions for the fl^H time. Ho and B. T. Galloway,, Assistant Secretary of Agricultu^H both addressed tho committee In l^H half of tho Lover bill, and rcp^| sentatlvo of tho American Federati^H of Labor assured tho committee tl^J tho measure had tho endorsem<^M of that Important organization. ? Ohio Flood Loss. total money loss of $ I 03,000, was caused by tho Ohio floods March. The United States woaF^M bureau estimates that sum, which eludes loss to ratlroad, telegraph ? ? ? It must throw a coolness ovc^H eugenic courtship when grandfatflfl complains of the rheumatis.