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will try to fiftd out the cause of the fire. The crimes for which those burned to death were in prison are as fol lows: Dudley Reed, criminal assault, sent up in 1909 for life, the death sen tence having been commuted. George Baker, murder, sent up for life in 1908. Will Suggs, murder, sent up in 1911. St. Clair Collins, attempted crim inal assault, sent up for life this year. Ezekiel Francis, assault and bat tery, two years, criminal assault, twenty years, sent up in 1907. Tom Barnes, attempted criminal assault, sent up for ten years in 1908. Alvin Rutherford, murder, sent up for life in 1912. Tom Haynes, manslaughter, sent up for twenty years in 1911. Ed Lewis, burglary, sent up for seven years this year. Walter Sykes, burglary, sent up for seven years in 1910. Peter Butler, burglary, sent up in 1910. Ernest Brown, crime against na ture, sent up for one year this year. J. Sheppard, grand larceny, sent up for four years in 1912. The balance of the dead are: Sam Todd, Robert Jackson, Jesse James, Mannie Washington, Isaac Smith, Willie Marson, Andrew Jackson, An derson Smith, Lenox Lewis, Henry Davis, Ernest Richardson, Frank Al len, Ed Brown, Greevy Havis, Tony Clark, Charles Shows, John McDon ald, Will Union, Jesse Young, John Hays. o o HOLD FIRST SESSION OF VOTING MACHINE FRAUD PROBE Two members of the state voting machine commission testified before the Butts legislative-committee to day, when the first session of the probe into the -1,000,000 Chicago voting machine deal was held. Morris Emerson, Vernon, HL, de clared that neither the machines bought from the Empire Voting Ma chine Co., nor any other, could meet the requirements of the Illinois prim ary law. Emerson gave it as his opin ion that the machines could be manipulated before they were taken from the warehouse so as to prevent balloting for any candidate or set of candidates their custodian wished to injure. After the machines had been installed at the voting places, he said, more than one man would be neces sary to "fix" them. Amos Miller, Hillsboro, second member of the commission, testified that the machine purchased for use in Chicago was a standard type, and that the same machine was furnished by other companies besides the Em pire. He said it met with the require ments of the state voting, machine law. Harry W. Barr, Chicago agent of the Empire Co., who is wanted by the committee, still eluded a ser-geant-at-arms, who has been search ing for him with a subpoena for two weeks. LATENEWS Kansas City. Gustav Adolph Schneider kissed wife, then shot and killed her and himself on crowded street car. St. Louis. Fight between crew of street car and negro driver of street flushing wagon became race riot when Conductor James S. Cude shot the negro. Negro probably will die. Washington. Senator Chamber lain has reneged on his declaration fro mfloor of senate yesterday that he was not bound to support Demo cratic tariff bill by caucus proceed ings. Duluth, Minn. Firemen Gus Carl son and Albert Happleback, killed, four trainmen injured, in ore train collision on Duluth Iron Range near Colby. Pekin. The Fukien province has joined Kwank-Tung in secession.