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?sTernor (town Ton? dm Goreraor
FJease's Reqaisitisn
FOR ATLANTA LAWYER)
The Decision at Hearing in Atlanta
Thursday Based on Contention of
Felder'ti Lawyers that the Papers
from .South Carolina Executive
Were Inadequate.
?Govern!):: Brown, of Georgia, on
Thursday refused to honor requisi
tion papers, issued by Governor
Blease, of South Carolina, for Thos.
B. Felde::, an Atlanta attorney, for
whom a warrant has been sworn out
in Newbarry, S. C., charging him
with attempted bribery of H. H. Ev
ans, -a former member of the old
State dispensary board.
The contention of Mr. Foldtr's a>
torneys, that the requisition papers
were inadequate because they lacked
affidavits to indicate that any per
son had specific knowledge of the
alleged offence, was sustained by
Governor Brown.
The papers merely included a copy
of a warrant charging that "one B.
F. Kelly, from information presented
to him,, believed T. B. Felder, on
the ? of October, 1905," offered or
promised, "certain gratuities or
gifts," tc iff. H. Evans.
When Governor Brown told Mr
Felder that he had denied extradi
tion, the latter replied that he "prob
ably would be going to South Oaro
lina very soon" on his own accord.
He declared h:'s Innocence of any at
tempt tc ?ribe and asserted that the
?warrant '.pas merely a subtefuge on
the part of his enemies to get him
into the State.
"I would like to see your creden
tials," demanded Mr. Felder, when
W. A. FiOlman, of Charleston, S. C,
arose to address the Governor to ar
gue for honoring the requisition. * "i
want to know who is back of tneae
charges.7
I am here merely as a lawyer re
present! a? the soveri,gn State of
South Carolina," replied Mr. Holman.
"As tc anything hack of these charg
es, I know nothing. My credentials,
as you nil! see, ere signed by Gov
. arnor Blease." r.,.
Mr. Eclman asserted that the Con
stitution of the United States left the
Executive of a sister state no dlsce
tion in the matter, when the Execu
tive of one State issued a requisition
upon the other for a person in anoth
er State.
"I recognize that the Constitution
of the "Jaited States is the principal
compeWing power," said the Govern
or, "but the function of a Governor
Is to protect the intercuts of citizens
of his Statae when that State's laws
are. not complied with."
The uere fact that the papers al
leging the crime charged against Mr.
Fetder were accompanied by a cer
tificate hearing the seal of Governor
Blease, was not sufficient evidence
of crisis to warrant him, he said,
to gra-v: the extradition.
Several prominent members of the
Georgh; Bar addressed the Govern
or in behalf of Mr. Felder, and cited
numerous precedents in which courts
in Georgia and other States had de
clined requisition beoause the papers
did not conform to the laws of the
State upon whose Executive they
were i:js;ued.
The alleged cause underlying the
reques: for extradition?personal an
imosity between Mr. Felder and Gov.
Blease resulting from differences in
connection with the winding up of
the old South Carolina State dispen
sary system?was not brought out
at the hearing which preceeded the
denial of the request. It was allud
ed to incidentally by Mr. Felder, who
declared that he had intended to
make a statement baring the entire
matter, but the attorneys represent
ing hin:, had found sufficient flaws in
the requisition papers as to make it
unnecessary to inject personalities
into the proceedings.
?"It is not a matter in which per
sonalities should enter," commented
the Governor.
Heard Five Miles.
A dynamite explosion in the con
duit >:.' the Commonwealth Edison
Company, at Chicago, broke the win
dows in buildings for several blocks
arourd, causing a panic in several
hotelfi. The detonation was heard
five miles. There were no casualties.
Tillman Has Scholarship.
Sena.tor B. R. Tillman has been
?authorized by Superintendent H. O.
Murfee, of Marion Institute, Marlon,
Ala., to recommend a worthy boy in
South Carolina for a scholarship, val
ued at $100. Senator Tillman would
be glai to consider applications
Better and Ont of Danger.
Mrs. Lea, wife of United States
Senator Lea, of Tennessee, whose
life i.'i believed to have been saved by
the transfusion into her veins of a
quar: of her husband's blood was
pronounced to be out of danger.
Put Out His Eyes.
?At Atlantic 'City, >N. J., Harry
Adara:3, a wealthy bath house own
er, lost his sight by seeing a bolt of
lightning: reflected in a miirror.
Adams fell unconscious though un
touched by the thunder bolt.
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LEADER OF BANDITS
CHARGE MADE /.GAINST RE
SPECTED PHYSICIAN.
In the Daytime a Highly Respected
Clii.zen and Doctor and at Night
a Burglar. >
By day a respected practicing phy
sician and mayor of a Minnesota ci
ty.
By night the brains of an incen
diary and robber band and using i
his scientific knowledge In the prep
araton of explosives to be used in
felonies.
This the Jekyll and Hyde personal
ity the detectives believe has been
revealed by the arre.it of Dr. T. T.
Dumas, mayor of Cam Lake, Minn.,
and owner and manager of the Cass
Lake-.baseball team.
The mayor has bean arrested,' the
warrant charging "wilful, malicious
and felonious destruction of proper
j ty." This followed a battle between
a posse and two men caught blowing
Open a safe at Puposky, near Cass
J Lake.
It was then anouaced by the de
tectives working on ';he case and the
assistant Btate fire marshal that Dr.
Dumas was suspected of leading a
gang which has operated in Minne
sota, North Dakota, Wisconsin, and
ether northwestern states, and said
by the police to have been employed
by merchants to roh safes asd set
fire, to buildings for the Insurance.
It is declared to have Included sever
al men of prominence in northwest
ern communities.
The mayor obtained his liberty by
giving bond. He asserted that he
was the victim of a police conspira
cy and declared "some one" should
suffer. He was present when the
safe at his office was opened and
found to contain six.sticks of dyna
mite and four dynamite caps. He
had hastened from the .bedside of a
patient to give up tb e combination of
.the safe,, so that an expert who had
arrived from ISt. Pauil would not
have to blow the safe open. He jok
ed at the discovery.
"The worst Is tey to come," was
his comment.
The opening of the safe was pro
ceeded by a chase through the woods
near Puposky after "Mike" Davis
who with "Billy" Bean, was trapped
by detectives at Puposky. Bean was
?wounded and captured. Davis is also
wanted on changes of having killed a
policeman in Chicago and another
at LMJnnetonka, Minn., during rob
beries several months ago.
iPInkerton detectives have a sten
ographic report of what they claim
were the plans for the Puposky rob
bery, as given the two robbers in the
John Larson saloon by Mayor Dumas.
A COLUMBIA MYSTERY.
Body of a Negro Man Found in an
Unused Well.
' The State says Columbia has
another murder mystery which ^?'1
probably never be solved. Well clean
ers descending in an old well In the
rear of a house at 1814 Hardin street
Waverly, Wednesday found the body
of Edward Patterson, a negro about
40 years of age, who was employed
by the Palmetto Ice Company as a
driver until December 10 of last year
when he disappeared.
It was generally supposed that he
had gone to Bdrmingham and no In
vestigation was made at the time as
to the cause of his disappearance.
The well is located just back of the
house. The house has not been oc
cupied since last August. Coroner
Walker made a searching investiga
tion as to the cause of the death ana
found that Patterson had been mur
dered. His head was crushed by a
heavy blow. The shirtwaist of a wo
man covered his head. The body
was decomposed almost beyond rec
ognition.
An examination by a physicia^i
determined the fact that the man was
a negro. Coroner Walker found that
the negro had about $150 on his
person the night that he was killed.
He had been robbed. Many theories
have been advanced as to the mo
tive. No announcement has been
made by Coroner Walker as to when
the inquest will be held. He is
working on several theories and will
very probably learn something of a
tangible nature.
Mrs. Lea Gets Bette?*.
Mrs. Luke Lea, whose life was de
spaired of until the transfusion of
blood from her husband, Senator
Luke Lea, of Tennessee, on Sunday,
was decidedly better Tuesday, while
Senator Lea, greatly weakened by
the loss of blood, was able to walk
about They are both in a hospital at
Washington. *. I
Fatal Boating Party.
Lela and Lena Stewart, aged six
teen and fourteen years, and John
Fernhall, aged fourteen, were drown
ed in a branch of the Grand river
near Eaton Rapids, Mich., when a
canoe, which is supposed to have
6truck a Bnag, overturned. There
were no witnesses to the accident,
and the first known of it was when
the boat was found down the stream.
Deaths from Cholera.
Two deaths from cholera and one
death at sea was announced at New
York quarantine. The dead were
passengers aboard the Duca Deglia
bruzzi, arriving from Mediterranean
ports.
Conrads kmdd for Scbcol Bocta by
(he Education Board
FOR NEXT FIVE YEARS
Some Radical Changes Made from
the List of Publications Now Used
by the Children in Five Thousand
South Carolina Public Schools, as
Will Be Seen.
The verdict in the adoption of the
school books of the State was ren
dered at Columbia Thursday evening.
There was a radical change in the
list. Superintendent Swearingen pro
tested against what he terms too
sweeping and unnecessary changes,
but he was in a minority. The books
adopted are these used in five thous
and free schools in the State, but
do not necessarily apply to the grad
ed school districts that have their
own adoptions.
For the past five years the State
depository, R L. Bryaa Company,
managers, handled $50.3,243 worth
of school books on the list in use
during the five year. The present
list will result in many sales.
Thursday afternoon Superinten
dent Swearingen had the verdict read
to the assembled agents of the pub
lishers. The contracts as awarded
and as read follows:
Awards Announced.
Text Books adopted by the State
hoard of education for use in the free
pjublic schools from September 1,
1911, to June 3?, 1917:
American Book Company?Hunt'3
Progressive Course In Spelling, Book
I, Book II, Complete; Milne's Pro
gressive Arithmetic, Book, I, II, III;
Brook's English Composition, Book
I; Maury's New Elements, Maury's
Complete Geo/raphies; White's Be
ginner's History of the United States;
Pearson's Latin Prose Composition;
Gleason's "A Term of Ovid;" Web
ster's Primary, Common School, High
School and Academic dictionaries.
Atkinson Mentzer and Grover?
supplementary drawing, applied arts
drawing books.
B. D. Borrry & Co.?Perry's Writ
ing System.
Educational Publishing Company,
Autgsburg's Cours in Drawing.
Ginn & Co.?Supplementary Read
ers, the Hill Readers, Fourth and
Fifth; Montgomery's Leading Facts
of English History, Collar & Daniel's
First Year Latin Supplementary
Classic; Snyder's Selections from the
Old Testament.
D. C. Heath & Co?Woolley's Hand
Book of Composition, Thompson's
United States History, Well's Algebra
for Secondary Schools, Part 1, Part
2 and complete; Well's new plane
and solid geometry.
Houghton, Mi in Company?Sup
plementary English Clast!rs, to be
selected; Supplementary Reading' for
sixth grade and seventh grade, to be
selected from Riverside Literature
series. ' *
IB. F. Johnson Publishing Company
?Basal Graded Classics, third read
er, fourth reader, fifth reader; Pay
ne's Common Words Commonly Mls
pelled, Supplementary Classic, the
Yemassee, Supplementary Reading;
Hall's Half-Hours in Southern His
tory.
W. H. Jones?Spelling blanks.
The McMillian Company?Kinara
& Wither's Grammar, Book I, Book
II; Duggar's Agriculture for South
ern schools, Bothford's Ancient His
tory for beginners, Tarr's New Phy
sical Geography.
Newson & Co.?Buehler's Modern
English Grammar.
Rand, McNally & Co.?Supplemen
tary, the Story of Cotton, Robinson's
Commercial Geography, Teller &
Brown's Business Methods.
Benjamin H. Sanborn & Co.?Cae
sar's Gallic War, I to V.
Johnston & Sanford?Select Ora
tions of Cicero, 0'Oo.ge; Virgil's Ae
neaid, I to VI.
Chas. Scribner's Sons?Scribner's
Supplementary English Classics, to
be selected; Supplementary Reading,
Mims & Payne's Southern Prose and
Poetry.
'Silver, Burdette & Co?Supple
mentary Stepping Stones to Litera
ture, first reader, second and third
reader;, White's "The Making of
South Carolina."
Parker P. Simmons?American
History Leaflets, Record of My Read
ing.
Southern Publishing Company?
Civil Government of the United
(states, Civil Government of South
Carolina; Civil Government of South
Carolina and the United States.
W. H. Wheeler & Co.?Primer,
basal, first reader, second reader.
World Book Company?Primer of
Hygiene. Primer of Sanitation, Hum
an Physiology.
iBids invited on a history of modern
times and on a Latin igTammar to
be filed with the State Superinten
on or before July 7th
The most important change is
the abandonment of Wentworth's
?.rthmetlcs and the adoption of Milne
arithmetics and the abandonment
of Frye's geographies and the use
of Maury's geographies. Both these
series are published by the American
Book Company. Thompson's United
/States History was readopted. John
eon's fourth and fifth readers were
retained and third reader added to
the baaal readers. Other reading of
Johnson's publications were added.
White's history appears on the list
for beginners.
URG, S. C,SATURDAY, JUNI
A TINY MIDGET FOUND
MAY BE THE SMALLEST PERSON
IN THE WORLD.
Colored Girl, Two and a Half Years
Old, Weighs Only Eight Pounds
Is Only .19 Inches in Helgrt.
About nineteen Inches In height,
two and a half years old, weigh
ing exactly eight paunds, and par
ticularly strong and bright fo{r a
child of her age, Frankie May Ford
ham, a little negresa, living with her
parents at No. 7 Heyward's Court,
is believed to be about the smallest
person in the world, with perhaps
one or two exceptions, says the Char
leston News and Courier. The News
and Courier goes on fo say:
The child is a veritable marvel.
She was born in February 1909 .be
ing the fourth child of Henry and
Kate Fordham, the<husband being a
navy yard employee.- The first three
children, who were born away from
Charleston as the family has been
here only about a year, are hearty
and full sized; but it is the baby that
is the wonder of the family. The
child is not a deformity, but is prob
ably one of t hemo^t perfectly form
ed negro children in the city.
Nothing was known generally ofj
the midget's existence until Wednes
day as efforts were made by the pa
rents to keep the fact of her dimin
utive size secret, as they feared kid
napping; but a reporter, having re
ceived a mysterious "tip" in the form
of an unsigned pencil-written letter,
visited the house Wednesday night
and marvelled at many things he saw.
He was met hy the husband at the
front door of the house, wrich is a
neat two-story affair, and was usher
ed Into the bed room, where the
mother had the little girl in her night
gown, just ready to put her to bed.
As the reporter entered the room,
the child, catching 6ight of the fatn
ex, exclaimed In a sweet and child
ish voice, with perfect enunciation:
"Hello. Papa."
The reporter glanced to see who It
was talking and really had trouble
in locating the owner of the voice,
in locating the owner if the voice,
finally espying the tiny tot on the
floor. She was playing around in
high glee at the prospect of staying
up a few minutes later than her reg
ular bed-time, and danced and sung
at a great rate; showing unusual pre
cocity for a child of her age. ' "Her
eyes which are dark brown, are ex
ceptionally clear and piercing, and
her hair is silky and rather long, ab
solutely unlike a negro's. Yet she is
very dark, and had many of the ra
cial craracteristics.
The child weighed five pounds at
birth, and gained three pounds dur
ing the first six months of her life.
Since that time she has not taken on
an ounce, and several well known
doctors who have examined her, ac
cording to the parents, have stated
that she will never |gain |another
inch in height or another three
pounds in weight. Her parents have]
reoonciled themselves to this, and
lavish their affection on the little
girl, who is ctrtain to make a friend j
of everyone she meets. She dances
prettily, looks intelligent and talks
fluently, being able to string words
together into short sentences al
ready.
The parents sbate that they have
already received many offers from
vaudeville and side show managers,
some having already offered as high
as fifty dollars a week and transpor
tation for the mother under a five
year contract. All these offers the
parents have turned down, hoping
for the! ultimate[ development of
their little one to her full stature,
although they 'have now become al
most certain that their hope is vain.
The father and mother now s?em to
think that they will keep and edu
cate the child until it reaches the age
of seven or eight years at least, be
fore thinking of any vaudeville de
parture.
STORIES ARE UNTRUE.
Confederate Veterans Condemn Them
as Misleading.
Atlanta Cam.i, No. 159, United
Confederate Velerans, has passed
strong resolutions severely condemn
ing the civil war articles now running
in papers all over the country.
At a meeting held this week the
camp heard a paper by Professor B.
M. Zettler, a member, who. denounc
ed the series, as unfair, inaccurate
and misrepresenting the truth as re
gards the confederate side.
The paper was received with en
thusiasm, and was endorsed without
a dissenting voice. A resolution was
then introduced and unanimously
passed condemning the publications
as damning the Southern cause with
faint praise, and magnifying every
thing concerning the union side. It
was pointed out that the harm of
these articles lay in giving the young
er generation of the country an en
tirely false conception of the confed
eracy, and doing terrible injustice to
the brave men who fought for a cause
they beiieved in.
Bandits in Palestine.
In the wilds of Palestine hold-ups
are pulled of in the most improved
style, according <to Dr. Ira Payne of
Des Moines, who haB just returned
from a trip through Egypt and the
Holy Land. He witnessed a battle
between brigands and tourists.
: 24, 1911.
GETS HARD BLOW
Powder Combine Declared a Trost by
the doited States Combine.
ORDERED TO DISSOLVE
The Dupont Company Charged With
Violating Sherman Law by Corn
bin'r g to Restrain Trade and Mon
opolizing Powder and Explosive
(Business and Ordered to Quit.
The United States circuit court for
the district of Delaware Wednesday
handed down a decision declaring
that the alleged powder trust, which
Is dominated by the E. I. Dupont de
Nemours company, Is a combination
in restraint of interstate commerce
in powder and other explosives in
violation of Section 1 of the Sherman
anti-trust law; that it attempted to
monopolize and monopolized a part
of such commerce in violation of sec
tion 2 of the same law, and decree
ing that the combination shall be
enjoined from continuing this viola
tion and that it shall be dissolved.
The action against the powder
trust was begun by the government
in 1907 and was directed against 43
corporate and individual defendants.
The suit as to 15 of the defendants
was dismissed because some of the
concerns are out of existence or It
was not srown that they were parties
to the combination.
The court in an interlocutory de
cree fixed October 16th as the date
to hear both sides in the action as
to the nature of the injunction to be
granted and consider a "plan for
dissolving said combination, which
shall be submitted by the petitioner
and the defendant or any of them,
to the end that this court may as
certain and determine upon a plan
or method for such discussion, which
will not deprive the defendants of
the opportunity to recreate out of
the elements now composing said
combination a new condition which
shall be honestly in harmony with
and not repugnant to the law."
This follows to some extent the de
grees issued by the United States su
preme court in the Standard Oil nnd
the tobacco cases.
There, are. 13 corporate and 15 In
dividual defendants declared to be
in the illegal combination. A major
ity of the individual defendants are
members of the Dupont family, all
of whom except Edmond G. Duckner,
are each director of one of the Du
pont companies.
The corporate defendants are: The
Hazard Powder company, Laflln &
Rand Powder company, Eastern Dyn
amite company, Fairmont Powder
Company, International Smokeless
Powler and Chemical company, Jud
son Dynamite and Powder company;
Delaware Securieites company, Dela
ware Investment company, California
Investment company, E. I. Dupont
de Nemours & Co. of Pennsylvania,
Dupont Indernatlonal Powder Com
pany, E. I. Dupont de Nemours Pow
der company, E. I. Dupont de Nem
ours & Co.
The only mejnber of the Dupont
family mentioned In the suit who is
not included among the found to be
violating the law is Henry Dupont,
one of the United States senators
from Delaware.
The decision written by Judge Wil
liam iM. Lanny and concurred in by
Judge George Gray and Joseph Buff
ing, goes into the history of inter
state commerce in gunpowder and
other explosives back as far as 1872,
when the government charged the
first trade agreement of manufactur
ers was entered into. The court re
viewed the evidence in the case and
fouad when the suit has begun that
the Duponts had acquire dcontrol of
1 902 controlled in the United States
the trade in several varieties of pow
der.
The court also found that the Du
pont company of 1903 and the East
ern Dynamite company controlled by
the Duponts had acquired contro lof
sixty-four different corporations be
tween April, 1904, and September,
1907, and caused them to be dissolv
ed. The court summarized the num
erous companies controlled by the
and the Dupont company organ
ized in 1903, and then discusses
whether the combination it found to
exist was obnoxious to the provisions
i of the Sherman anti-trust act.
The court finds that the case in
hand is obnoxious to the anti-trust
law and then takes up the nature of
j the final decree it shall issue. On|
ithis the court ts guided largely byj
jthe action taken by the supreme court
jin the Standard Oil and Tobacco)
j cases.
"To stop the business of the com
bination immediately," the court says
"might be f.ttended with very dis
astrous consequences.'
Unearth Big Frauds.
Frauds amounting to several mil
lion in duties on cutlery the last
few years were discovered by secret
agents of the customs service who
have been working quietly in this
country and Germany, where most of
the cutlery was shipped from *.
Fatal Election Riots.
A cable from Vienna says it is now
known that IS persons were killed
and 25 injured, some of them fatal
ly, when troops fired a volley into a
crowd of election rioters at Dropobcz.
WILL FIGHT IT OUT
THE ELECTION BILL SENT BACK
TO THE SENATE.
The House Refused to Accept the
Bristow Amendment and it Goes
to Conference.
The house of Representatives ^Wed
nesday by a vote of 172 to 112, a
strick party vote, refused to concur
in the Bristow amendment adopted
by the Senate to the House resolu
tion providing for the direct election
of Senators.
The Bristow amendment leaveB
with Congress the power to regulate
the time and manner of holding
these elections, while the resolution
passed by the House during the early
days of the session would change the
Constitution so the time and man
ner of holding such electons will hs
decided in each SLate by the State
Legislatures.
Representative Dalzell, Republican,
voted against the amendment, while
Mr. Burke, Democrat, of Wiscon
sin, voted for it.
The resolution, therefore, Is re
turned to the Senate for the reconsid
eration .by that body as to whether it
will reverse its former action.
The motion that the House concur
in the Senate amendment was made
by Representative Olmsted, Repub
lican, of Pennsylvania. Several Re
publicans spoke in favor of it while
a number of Democrats spoke against
it.
The Democrats protested that the
people of the States could safely be
entrusted with the pvwer of controll
ing the elections of their Represen
tatives in the upper House, while the
Republicans rented !cd that such df
|f?:,ation oi authority would take from
Cmgress power Which it should re
tain.
Representative Rucker, of Mis
souri, in charge of the resolution, de
clared that It was "the demand of the
American people that the election of
LHited States Senators be takan out
ot the market.
"I have no fear'of the people,*' he
said, "but of the combinations be
hind closed doors which trample on
tre most sacred. rights of the
people. Give the States, just a little
more power and we will take the
lumber trust, the sugar, and all the
other trusts out of politics."
Representative Mann, on the oth
er side; asserted that this was an at
tempt of the Democrats to accom
plish Indirectly what they had been
unable to do directly.
"You are afraid," he said, "that
your grandfather clauses will be
declared unconstitutional."
The resolutiou, when it is returned
to the Senate, is expected to cause a
lively discussion, but it is antfepat
ed that it will go to conference with
in the immediate future.
WANTS HIS SHARE.
Has Wrong Idea of the Farmers Free
List Bill.
The Washington correspondent of
The State says there is much miscon
ception in some sections regarding
the true meaning of the free list bill,
recently passed by the house. A
member from South Carolina receiv
ed a letter from a constituent saying
that he had been waiting patiently
many years for tho Democrats to get
control of the house, so that every
thing would be "free."
He had read of the bill and was
glad that hereafter he would not
have to pay for anything. He asked
his representative to send a horse,
to take the place of the one that re
cently died, a dozen dinning room
chairs, some new chinaware, a new
carpet for the parlor and a few
other incidentals.
After closing the letter he added a
postscript in which he said that he
hoped the congressman would not
forget to send the "old lady" a new
sewing machine to take the place of
one she had used many years.
The recipient of the letter was
touched by the appeal, but had to
renly that if the writer got the
things he wanted he would probably
have to pay good American dollars
for them.
Lost in Canyon.
Five English tourists are believed
to be either lost or have perished on
Mount San Bernardino. The party
left ten days ago to explore the Frost
Canyon, where Ice is perpetual, and
have not been heard of since. The
party included Gus Jbrdjin, Mark
Landon, George McDonald and two
others whose names are not known.
Die From Acid Gas.
Two farmers, Silas and Warren
Hicks, were asphyxiated at the bot
tom of a 75 foot well near London,
Ont. Both were dead when dis
covered. Tt was evident from the
ltosition of the bodies that Warren
was overcome first, and that his
brother lost his life in an attempt
to save him. *
Fatal Political Fight.
As a result of a quarrel o'er poli
tics Monday afternoon in Charleston,
Hugh Hartnett shot Frank Leonard
three times. The men belonged to
opposing political sides. Leonard is
not seriously injured, the wounds be
ing reported to only be painful. It
is the first shooting scrape of the
present municipal campaign. *.
TWO CENTS PER COPY.
WOOL TAX BILL
Brings About a Coalition Bt twccn km
gedts 3iod Democrats*
NOW DEMAND REVISION
Tlie Republicans of the West Declare
that if Reciprocity With Canada is
Adopted There Must Be General
Changes in the Tariff Law Now in
Foree.
The throwing of the Democratic
wool revision bill into the senate on
Wednesday drove the insurgent Re
publicans of 'that body into an open
coalition with the Democrats in a
demand for a general revision of t ^e
tariff, and brought about the threat
ened crisis in the finance committee
in the control of the senate. At the
end of a bitter fight the resolution
by Senator Gore requiring the finance
committee to report back the wool
bill before Jnly 10 was passed by a
vote of 3:> 10 18.
Western Republcans who have
fought the reciprocity measure, tak
ing up challenges thrown down by
the Democratic leader, followed each
other in rapid succession in their
ultimatums to the senate leaders.
These ultimatums were invariably
that before the reoiprocity bill i?
permitted to pass a Republican aer
ate will be forced to undertake at
revision of other schedules of the
tariff, including much more than the
woolen resivion bill and the free list,
which have gone through the house
of representatives.
Of the afllrmative votes cast for
the Gore motion overthrowing the
finance committee, sixteen were Re
publicans. Trey were Senators Bor
ah, Bourne, Bristow, Brown, Clapp,
Crawford, Cummins, Dixon, Gronua,
Jones, Kendon, LaFollette, Nelson,
Poindexter, Townsend and Worha.
This included the full insurgent
strength of 13 and in addition Sena
tors Jones, Nelson and Townsend.
Senator Myers was the only Demo
crat voting with the Republicans
against the motion.
Notable speeches, on . reciprocity
were made in both branches of con
gress. Senator Root, announcing
that he favored the amendment, ad
vocated and explained his amend
ment to the wood pulp and paper
provision of the bill aronnd which
amendment the reciprocity fight has
centered and which amendment Pres
ident Taft opposes on the ground
that it might jeopardize the whole
agreement. Republican leader Mann
in the house attacked the Root
amendment as a violation of the Ca
nadian reciprocity agreement
Wednesday's fight began the in
stant that the wool reviston bill ap
peared from the course of representa
tives. Senator Gore, apparently with
the approval of Democratic leaders,
moved that the finance committee be
instructed to report the bill back toi
the senate on or before July 10.
His admitted purpose was to prevent
the finance committee from holding
the bill indefinitely or from falling to
report it at all.
The result of the Gore motion was
to disrupt so completely the lines,
that have formed in the senate that it
can not be foretold now when a vote
can be reached on the reciprocity bill
or whether enough votes can be mus
tererd to pass it without amendment.
Senators Cummings, Nelson, Craw-_
ford, La Follette, Jones and other
Republican insurgents from North
western States, who have opposed the
reciprocity bill because of alleged dis
crimination against the agricultural
interest, declared that before a vote
would be permitted on the reciprocity
bill they would demand that the other
schedules of the tariff be taken up
and would Insist on an attempt to
tack many of them on the reciprocity
measure.
DROUGTH IS BROKEN.
The Crops Will Be Greatly Beneflttea
in the South.
According to the weather bureau
rainfall has been general in the last
few days over almost the entire cot
ton bolt. The South Atlantic States,
east and middle Gulf States and
southeastern Texas reported good
showers. Only in occasional spots
in the territory named does the lo?g
drought still prevail. Much- of this
section had been without rai nfor a
month and the precipitation of the
past three days has been worth per
haps millions of dollars to Southern
farmers. Some parts of South Caro
lina still need rain. *.
Fatal Train Wi-eck.
Rudd Cleveland and Charles Den
nis, engineers, were killed and sev
eral other trainmen and passengers
seriously injuTed in a head-on collis
ion, which occurred shortly after 4
o'clock Wednesday afternoon at Mill
Creek, on the Tennessee Central Rail
way. ; ,
To Form Great Society.
Steps flowjaird formjnig? a Young
People's society of Baptists in afl
.parts of the world. A committee 'of
25 leading 'ministers and the semi*
naTy leaders were appointed to com}*
plete the work of organization. J
