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jR'i ?W4&: "BIG TIM" SULLIVAN IS DEAD; WAS KILLED BY TRAIN New York, Sept. 13. "Big Tim" Sullivan, formerly one of New "York's most noted politicians, beloved by the lower East Side by reason of the free shoes and coal in winter and clam bakes and picnics in summer, is dead. His -body was found at Pelham Bay, where he had evidently been struck by a train on the day he "disappeared, two weeks ago. The body was taken to the morgue, and when the rumor of his death cir- culated the place was besieged by ( men, women and children, many cry ing hysterically, the women openly wiping their tears on their aprons, the men furtively brushing their hands across their eyes. "It ain't him at all," was heard on all sides. "Big Tim couldn't die. They've -gone and found some other guy and think it's him." Lawrence ("Larry") Mulligan, half brother of Sullivan, was admitted to the morgue and after one look at the dead man, he broke into sobs. As he stumbled out of the place, with the tears running do-n his cheeks, the crowd outside knew there was noth ing more to be hoped their idol was dead. Several months ago Sullivan was adjudged incompetent by a court and his affairs placed in the hands of a committee, For many years reputed a millionaire, it is claimed he died "broke" and alleged that- among his accounts were many forged notes, executed by unscrupulous people whom he .had, helped many times. "Big" Tim" twas 51 years old and .has been a New York political leader since 1SJ92, when lie obtained leader ship of the" Third District, including 'the Bowery. He died a number of ' congress, though, he, had not attended a single session of the body. o o- TROOPERS' HORSES TRAMPLE DOWN WOMEN AT CALUMET Calumet, Mjch., Sept. 13. State 'troopers, "with, drawn sabres- today rode down a mob of copper strikers in Eighth street. Many persons., a goodly portion of them women, were knocked down and trampled, upon by the horses and several were injured, none seriously. The rioting started early in the morning when strikers and women sympathizers from all over the copper country gathered 'in Calumet for a big demonstration. COLLEGE PRESIDENT ADMITS HE WHIPPED FATHER Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 13. Elijah A. Hanley, president of Franklin (Ind.) College, a Baptist minister of national prominence and fonrierly pastor to John D. Rockefeller, in a signed statement today admitted that he switched his aged .father and, when the switch broke, spanked him with the hands. Calvin H. Hanley, 65, the parent, is seriously ill at his home near Terre Haute as the result of the. punishment administered by his spn. Abuse of his mother is President Hanley's excuse for taking such severe measures. " "I owe everything to my mother?' President Hanley" declared. "Many are the times when I was a boy my father would want" me to leave school to help in the work of the farm, and mother has picked'the apples or gath ered a load ofcorn that I might not miss a day from school.' "I have seen her deprived of all reasonable privileges until .she wish ed for death. I have offered again and again to take her to my own home, but she has felt under obligations to remain with my father until they shall be' separated by death. "For twenty-five years I have kept my hands off of father, but when, I learned" he had called mother an un speakable name and wished she were in Hell I could not stand it any longer. "I do not know what it will mean to my future. I love my father and am willing to forgive him if he adopts the, proper attitude toward my mother I i fet- -J! . &?5a