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OL.S. C. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13,P910 BRIBE MUEY Toaed to a 1h OWN hResS In in by Jary. LARGE SMS WERE GQM To Buy Up the City Ocials for aU Sorts of Favors,-Cihax In the Graft am..na1 long Promised. Oomes With Disclsure of Biggest Deal of Whole Oeruptio System. The climax promised in the Pitta burg graft exposures came as prom Ibed late Wednesday with the -pre sentment by the grand jury in which is recommended the indictment of Frank N. Hoffsot. president of the Pressed Steel Car Company. oub of the most prominent business men in the country. Simultaneously in the open court Mme a plea of Emtl Winter. presi dent of' the Workingman's Savings and Trust Company. that he ha4 no defense to make to the charge that he gave a $20.000 bribe to Former Councilman Morris Einstein. The following In abbreviated form are some of the most startling fnd ings in the grand jury's presentment made public Thur-4aY night. 1. That Frank N. Hoftstot, presi dont of -he Pressed Steel' Car com. pany and president of the German National* Bank of Allegheny and prominently identified with other banks paid to Charles Stewart, a former select counnlmn-the sum of $52.500. 2. That the money was a bribe used in Infiuencing the votes of coun cilmen to pass an ordinance naming three banks In which Hofistot w"s interested. as oficial depositories of the city's mIllomn. 3. That the arrangement for the paynwnt of the money to Stewart was made in the spring of 1908 and that the late James W. Friend at that time an offiial of the Pressed Steel Car Company, was an associate in the transaction. 4. That the original plan which Friend had was to obtain the ser vices of Wiliam A. Blakeley. who was then a practicing attrney. but who is now the district attorney in charge of the graft prosecutions, as a . stake-holder of the brible money until the ordinance had passed. 5. That Attorney Blake41 declin ed to act in the capacity .need and 1 warned aH partka of the cdminality of the proposition and of their liabH- I Ity to poseation if it went further. I . That subsequent to 06. Blake- I loyes refusal. Friend and 'Hofftot I completed an arrangement with Stew- i art whereby Hofstot would pay or I caue to be paid to Stewart the sum named-452,500. 7 That the transeacon waS arrang took place there in June, 1908- In order, if possIbhe 0.o a-void serimlna lability In Allegheny counltt. 3. That Wasunt did also sol~cit and secure from one James SL Young. I cashier of the SecondNatonal bank1 of Pittsburg. the sum of $11.000 I to be saidSwrt toinure the se- 4 lection 'of the Second 2eetanna1 as one of-the favored city depqsitories. 9. That Stewart did demand from the Inow deceased friend, who was atng as agent for the Second Ni tional bank, a bribe for St~warts a vote in favor of the bank ordinances. 10. That In accordance with the findings, it bes reommended that in dictments charging conspiricy and bribery be returned. The banks named as ultimate principals to profit by the bribe a1 leged to have been paid by Hoffstot to Stewart are: The 1'-rmers' Deposit Neaoa bank, the Second National bank of Pttburg, and the German National bank of .Allegheny. In additoin to these three, the Columbia Natinal Bank of Plttsburg. the German Na tonal bank of Allegheny and the Workigman's Savings and Trust company of Allerheny were named as city depositories in the ordinance passed July 9, 1908. over the Mayors veto. The plea of nollo contendere by President Emil Winter of the Work lngman's Savings and Trus* c-ra pany was no less a sensation than the report of the grand jury, lHe was charged with the paym.an: of $20000 In bribe to Morris Entein. a former select councilman. When .. Winter appeared in court. JutaCc lt S. Fraser, who is presiding in th" graft cases, asked to be excus'4 fro-o2 ering the plea. Judge, Fia.er ex plained that on account of his long and Intimate friendship with Winter he wished to have nothing tgdo with the case. Winter was then taken before Judges Thomas D). Carnivan and J. M. Swearengen and entered the formal plea. Sentance was post poned. : Frank H. Hofsatot. as president of the Pressed Steel Car Company. one of the largest industries of Its kind in the country, recently-figured prom inently In the public eye while a strike was on at his plant In Mc Kees Rocks. 'Just before President Winter's ap pearance in Judge Fraser's eduixt. James Anderson, tbhe general bo keeper of the Workingmani's Savings Bank and Trust company at Alle gheny. had also pleaded nollo con tendre to a charge of falsifying the books of the bank in ecnnection with the payment of $20,000 tn :Einstein. The pleas of Winter and Andersozl came opportunely, for the district at torney said that otherwise theyv were to have been Indicted Thursday. Found Out at East. The military court of inquiry has found out--what the great American people knew nearly four years ago that the negro troops did "shoot nn" Brownsvlle ILED IN WRECK CNDUlCTOR AND ENGNEiR DIE IN COLLISION. The Trains Went Together on a Sharp Curve and the Cictims Had No Chance to Escape. The Augusta Chronicle says one of the most serious collisions in the history of the Georgia railroad oc curred Thursday morring at about threeo'clock city time, at a short dl-:nce above Berzella. The con ductor and engineer of one of the trains were tilled and the fireman of the same crew is not expected to live through the day. Out of a total of ten members of the two crews. there were only three who were not !njured. West bound freight No. 209 with engine N. 1 with Engineer G. E. Downing and Conductor B. E. Mc CuRtum. collided at the 22d mile post, which is just west of Berzelia with east bound extra freight No. 62 in charge of Bugineer E H. John son and Conductor Charles Fitzger ald. Conductor Fiztgerald was riding on the engine with his engineer at the tim'e of taae collision and he was instantly killed. The two trains were running at about the same rate of speed and it is estimated that they were making about 35 miles per hour. The two trains completely telescoped each otber, and about a dozen freight cars were reduced to indling splinters. The general mer chandive in the cars was scattered all over the ground for some'distance. The accident was on a curve and an escending grade; also an embank ment. The heavy loaded outgoing raln was given a seere blow by the ighter extra coming east. Whle the cause of the accident is mt given out at the headquarters of the Georgia railroad, still it is ad mitted that the ord-s were aisun aerstood and that inasmuch as both )f the head'men in charge of one f the trains was dead, that an ex baustive Investigations would have to be held to see just where the lame would have to be laid. It is known that the west bound reight was due to stop'at Berzella o let extra No. 6: pas-. but as the tra train did not reach the point n the schedule time the crew of the restbound freight decided to make Earlem If possibre. The collision was just about a mile west of Ber Of the ten men on the two crews ,e only persots not injured were ionductor McCullum and 'the two gme. Thxse men were on the ar of the trains and of course did ot get in any of the swashed up art of the train. PLUNGS INTO TRESTLE. ra Burned and Two Tramps Said to Have Perished. A northsbound Seaboard freight rain, consisting of twenty4wo cars. unged Into a burning trestle over lnnace creek about six miles above reenwood at -one o'clock Thursday oning. The entire trian was con mied by fire. It is indeed .a mira '. how all of the train crew escap instant death. The following were njured: C. H. Hinnant, engineer. olmnba; Fireman Kemp. Georgia: ondutor Carroll and a brakeman. Ul of the wounded men were hur ed to a hospital In Chester. It is ald that two tramps were burned n thL fire. Barmere Mayes. who uns a brick yard near m'ere the reck occurred endeavored to exting aish the burning trestle but without al. ie then sent several negroes ith lanterns to flag the freight, but the engineer failed to see the danger lgnal on account of the light being im. A negro was also sent to reenwood with a note but unfor unately arrived a few m'autes af ter the train had let. WATCHntAN Ass&ssIYATEAD Us Head Almost BIown Off by Load of Shot. Assassinated while makingc his -ounds. William M. Haland. night atchan at the Atlanta Ice and C-al comipany plant. was found dead early Friday morning, with his head lneIt blown off by a heavy load of shot. Holland had pulled the boxes n his three o'clock round and when o further calls came in the tele raph signal company made an in estigation and it was found the wires had been cut. There is no clue to the murderer. About a year ago Holland was firei on by un known parties while miaking his rounds at the same plant.* Made Him Rich. Warren G. Dent of Dayton. Ohio. a brewery wagon driver, received $41.500 for 70 acres of West Vir ginia land which he bought 20 years years ago for $117.25. The discov ery of oil by agents of the Standard Oil company was the reason for the enormous increase in the value of the land which Dent had supposed to have been almost worthless. Goes for Life. Refusing to grant a new trial, Judge McDonald at Anderson sen tenced Webb Simmons. a young White man. to spend the remainder of his life at hard labor in the State Penitentiary. Simmons killed United States Deputy McAdams in 1908. Horse In a Street Car. A runaway horse jumped through the rear entrance of a street car at Fourth and Main streets. ijuring a dozen passengers. The horse v-ai so tightly wedged into the car th th weckage had to be cut away.* HAVE AlHOT TIME Seuaimal Scens Are Emacted by T" NEARLY COME TO BLOWS Bribery Investigation in Mississippi Has Engendered Much Ba. 11.iod and Some of the ParticipantiG Seem to Want to Fight. it Out in a Fisticuff. The bribery invvstigation of the Mississippi Senate at Jackson is get tint warm. Senators Banks and Tucker made frantic efforts to lay hands upon one another's during the investigation late Friday, and a per sonal encounter between the angry. shouting men was only averted by strenuous work on the part of their fellow Senators. Tucker. who is counsel for Senator Bilbo. angered by the use of the shorter and uglier word, rushed at Banks. Banks, whKIt wit~h anger, rushed toward Tucker. Other Senators intervened and rough ly pulled the men apart. The quarrel came suddenly and unexpectedly. L. C. zaianey. charg ed by Senator Bilbl with having paid bim a bribe. bad been on the stand. He had denied the charge flatly. ani was being cross-eramined by Sena tor Tucker. of counsel for Senator Bilbo. The witness-was unshaken In his denial of any crookedness, but de clared that Bilbo repeatedly hinted that he could be bribed, and repeat edel asked fbr and received bottles of liquor. He declared that Repre sentative Cowart intimated that he would not bie averse to selling his Tt&. Then came the explosion. Duanev was asked by Tucker if Percy had not paid the erpenses of all Senator al candidates except VardaMan. Sen ator Anderson. who was a candidate. arose, stern and angry. "It is an absurd and insulting question," said Dulaney. A number of Senators were on their fee demanding redognition. '-c.iedert Pr- T-m Dean was pound ng for order. -a dozen men were shouting. and aN ve the uproar could he heard the treembling voice of Sen ator Anderson. shouting. "I resent that question: I resent the insinuation .that I permitted any one to pay my expenses." From the rear of the Senate. slen der Senator Banks came rushing to the front Hi got the foor and shouted: "Any man who says or insinuates that anybody paid the expenses of my friend. Congressman Byrd. is a liar. as false as hell." Senator Tucker 1nade a rush at anks, and Baniks charged to meet im. Senators turnred over tables and chairs to get between the angry olons. It looked like a personal iEculty could not be averted, but ome rough handling of the two bel igerent Senators, ended in their be ng jerked apart. .After another rangle, the question was with drawn. Then several Senators demanded that the newsg.aper men be "instrnet ed" not to mention either the quar rel or the wrangle between Senators anks and Tucker. "It was stricken from the record." said President Pro Tern Dean. "anrd the newspapers cannot print any thing not in the record, or the re ult of anything not in the record. nluding our little personal disa :reerents." Then every one apologized. Dlul aney was excused, and when things uitted down a bit. the testimony was resumed. Several wktnesses tes tified to Dulaney's good reputation for veracity andi integrity. At the night session W. W. Mit cheli. circuit clerk of Poolarville. Senator Bilbo's home. testified that e knew Senator 'Epitbo's reputation for truth and veracity, and that he would not believe the Senator on oath. W. A. White. an attorney from loxi. told of trying out Senator . io in 1998S. A bill was drawn' nd sent by a man named Bob Mose ley to Bilbo. Moseley returned and said: "Bilbo did not give me a chance to make him a proposition, he made us one." Robert Moseley, form-cely town marshal of Biloxi. said. "I went to see Bilbo, and wben I explained the bill he took out a lit tle book, figured a while and said. "It will cost you three hundred dol lars.' I offered him a check. but he a~sid he wanted money." After &roseley had ttstified the Senate adjourned. Want Girl Babies. Girls are In demand In Georgia. Tennessee. North Carolina. South Carolina and Alabama. according to Dr. W. F. Summera~ll. superintendent of Grady Hospital of Atlanta. Dr. Sumerall had two babies to give away, and said he received more than sixty requests, the majority of them preferring a baby girl. Diost of the requests came by special delivery and registered letter, few using the ordinary mails. Nio More Tips In Washington. The House of Representatlves is considering a bill which will make it a misdemeanor to give or receive a tip in the District of Columbia. An offense will be punishable by a fine of $500. Quits Pulpit for Politics. The Rev. W. Lathrop Meaker. p3s tot of the Revere First Unitalran church. In Boston. Mass., has left his pulpit and will seek election to coge in the CNa Cod district.* ASSAULTED IN ERO MU TERRIBLE STORY TOLD BY LAD OF SHANDON. Italian Is Held to Answer Charge. Victim Kept Her Awful Secret Un der Threat of Death. The Columba Record says, Olindo Sceser. an Italian dressmaker em plyed in the establishment of N. Netzkar. on Hampton street, has been committed to the county jail to await trial on a serious charge- -the penal ty upon conviction being death. It is alleged that be committed a crim inal assault on a well kucwn mar ried woman who resides in Shandonj The assault is alleged, to have been committed a month ago at the vic tim's bome. where Seaser boarded but the charges brought to light at the preliminary- hearing before Mag istrate Fbwles did not become known until Wednesday. The woman said she dared not -tell her husband be cause Sceser threatened to kill her if she mentioned the matter to any one. Her husband said that for several weeks his wife acted strangely, as though there was something of a serious nature on her mind. Finally she told him of her accusations againt Sceser and the arrest of the man followed. The parties Invofted in the case are well known In Columbia. The busband of the woman is employ ed at one of the leading stores In the city. At the preiminary hearing of the case there was an incident out of the ordinary. When Sceser entered the court room In the company of a Ionstable the husband of the woman leaped on Sceser and would have struck him several times. but for the interference of the officed and some f the court attendants. The charge under which Sceser is being held is not bailable, so he must eesarily remain in jail until the term of court, which convenes next Dmoth. The victim's story is that on the ay of the assault Sceser came in to xiner and finding her alone, dragged er into a room and there accom plished his purpose. Sceser has cou nued to live in the house. LOVE LEADS TO RIOTS. rwenty-three Jves Have Been Lost Becaue of Them. 'he love affairs of Saofet. a beau ful Turkish maiden, and Stefandoff. i young Buglar. have caused much rioting on the streets of Russezuk ,n-the-Danube and the death of 16 itens and seven soldiers. Crowds iave taken sides with the father of e bride or with the young Bulgar. ho is a populair man and a bank :lerk. and are fighting and quarrel ug because the parents will not al low his daughter to live with an infidel"'Greek .Catholic. Saofet is 16, Stefanoff is a widow ~rof 30. She isa Moametan, he is Greek Catholie. She fell in love rith him but her father would not anction a wedding. One night the wo eloped to Stefandoff's mother. nd according to an ancient Bulgar an custom this Is equivalent to mar iage. Furious ..at this the bride's rather stole his daughter and placed ter In jail. ''be bride-groom gathered 2.000, stormed the Sail and carried the bride away in triumph. The soldiers ere called out and stormed his ose and a bloody battle followed. n its midst the 'bride disappeared ud two officers of the army were ynched on suspicion of having kill. 4d her. The whole country Is tak ug sides in the quarrel.* CORNS LEAn TO MURDER. A Man Forfeits His Life in a Quarrel on the Street. Stepping on a stranger's corns on crowded street car in 'Minneapolis. in.. cost the life of A. B. John son, a native of Montreal. Can. He was shot through the head by the offended man and died before med ical assistance arrived. His three as rrilants escaped in the riot that fol lowed the shooting. The car on which the shooting oc curred was crowded and whe;. three men got on the rear platform they ostled Mr. Johnson and in recov ering his balance again he stepped n some man's foot. An altercation allowed and the 4,rio left the plat form. but as they stepped to the ground one turned and fired a shot Into Johnson's forehead.* PECULIAR MALADY. Lady Lays In a State of Coems for Over Four Months. the prominent homes in Boise. Ida te prominent homes In Boise. Ida ho. Mrs. Stewart. wife of Chief Jus tice George C. Stewart. of the Idaho Supreme court. swooned suddenly and fell. From that day until the present IMrs. Stewart has remained in a condition bordering on coma and all efforts to arouse her have failed. Her symptoms resem~ble paralysis. but she Is not paralyzed. Experts summoned from Spokane. Wash.. Portland. Ore.. and Salt Lake City. Utah. have sought to arouse the wo man but none has succeeded. Twice she has attempted to speak but was not successful. The only sign of life is a twitching of the eyelids. Nine Killed at a Bull Fight. A special from Zacatecas. Mexico. says that nine persons were killed and 20 others injured, three fsatally during a panic In a crowd that was leaving the scene of a bull Aight there RACE TRACK SWINDLE ORIGINAL. SPECTAC'LAR, CON F'IDENCE GAME. One .Man Buncoed Out of Nearly Fire Thousand Dollars by the Sharpers Who Escaped. At Jacksonville. Fla.. Simon Jac obson of Tarboro. N. C.. reported to the police Thursday that he had bee: swindled out of 34.300 in a take horse race in St. Augustine last week. showing That Henry Wagne-. nf Ne-. York. who lost $10.000 in a similar manner. was not the only victim of one of the most famous original and spectacular confidence games ever re corded. Jacobson practically retold the story of Wagener. only varying in the manner In which ne was lured Into the game. He said be met the swindlers on the smoker of a pull man car one night several weeks ago. The men represented them selves to be race horse men and asked about accomodations on the Florida tracks. One thin.; let to, another until Jacobson consented to go to St. Augustine and act as stake holder for the other men. The victim stated that the money given him to hold amounted to hun dreds of thousands of dollars and as his expenses were paid he only thought it just to give the gamb lers security, placing in the same sat chel with the other money, his $4, 300. When the race finally came off with the speculators making lay lah bets on the result A jockey fell off one of the horses apparently dead and with blood stain ed clothes. Just then a ge'etal fus lade of revolver shots rang out and when Jacobson's acquaintances ap peared shouting that he bad better run for his life, he was glad to turn the heavy satchel over to them. The swindler's parting words were: "We"' meet In Washington." It appears that the swindlers had fx ed up a .complete racing plant in St. Augustine. the magnitude of which settled all inquiries as to their financial standing. Many persons are thought -to have been fleeced iithout ever making a complaint. RURAL MAIL BOXES Some Valushi Suggestions About the Rural MaiL It is the desire of the Post Offie Department that postmasters ear nestly request patrons of rural deliv eries out of their offices to paint their boxes and the posts to which :ney are attacked a pure white color. This course. if pursued. will not only re ult in benefit to the patron fr. ser ing to protect his box and post from damage by the weather, but will give all boxes a uniform color and erve to fix their Identity in all parts' f the country as United Sta.-s mail >oxes; and will givo them a munh eter and slghtlier appearance thai - hey now possess. It Is also de dre.i hat patrons be Induced to imprint heir names and box numbers in lack block letters about two inches igh. It is also desired that pestm.csters ndeavor to Induce road offlieal to aint upon the posts of boxes which re located at crossroads (but nc~t ttach signs thereto) the names of he towns or villages to whica:e rosroads lead, with an Indicator howing the direction. Posts to which boxes should at ach shall-'be set in an easily acces ible position at the side of the road and boxes securely fastened to a pr-. ecting arm of wood, or to a bracket f band iron about three-slxteenths f an inch thick, or, if preferred, aai automotic extension arm may be used.-* KIND OF C'OW TO HAVE. Produces Nearly Thirty Pounds of Butter a Week. The world's record for milk andl butter production was smashed re ently by a cow belonging to Eugene Lamunion. living near Solsrille. N. J. In a thirty day test i- which dairy sharps from the Cornell Agri cultural college 'had charge of the aniuml, she made a record of $0 o 'sof . "i a day and 29,27 pounds of butter a week. She not only broke the world's record for a cow of under three years of ace but she raised the world's reco.,.d for any cow which had been ::7.06 pounds of butter in seven days. Lockhart de Kol No. 101.544 is the poetic name of the extreme~ly practical cow Farmer Lamunion has been offered! $2,5('0 for his animal but refuses to look at that amount.** Mouse Solved Ranflng Problem. A tin mouse, with a thread tied to its leg, solved the problem of getting an electric wire through a 197-foot pipe in the Vinery building in Nor folk. Va.. last week. Tape was tied to the thread and the' wire tradn. Miechanics had been trying to get the wire through the bent pipe for sel' eral days.* Negroes Lynch Negroes. A mob, composed entirely of ne .rr-s. overpowered Constable Mali lory of Keo. Ark., seized his two prisoners.- both negroes. one a -o man, and shot them to death. afte.r which the'ir bodies were strung up. The victims were charged wit-h kill ing the husband of the woman and wife of the man. Misken for Burglar. At Harrisburg. Pa.. Mirs. Catherine Bomgardner. wife of a well known plumer, was shot by her husband. John W. Bomgardner, in mistake for a burglar at their home early Thurs day morning. She imed in a few BLEW UP BANK Five Bandit Who Did it Pursd by Een in Automebile and THREE ARE CAPTURED The Masked Robbers Overpower the Watchman and Engineer and Rob bed the Bank of Two Thousand Dollars, but Were Chased and Three of Them Captured. Five masked bandits escaping wit. $2.000 stolen from the Bank of Coal City. at Coal City. Illinois. exchanged shots with a posse Thursday. three of the robbers being wounded and captured. Coal City is sixty-three miles southwnst of Chicago. The en tire population was aroused by the explosion in the bank and the ensu ing pursuit. The marauders entered the town on a passing freight train and began operation by tieing Barney Ghetto. the night watchman, and Washing ton Frye. the night engineer of the electric plant._ They eben blew up the bank building and shattered the safe with a charge of nitro-glycerine. and after seizing the contents of the safe. leape. on a Sante Ve train with their plunder, which was partly in stamps. As the train carrying the bandits pulled out of town. Ghetto succeed ed in cutting his -bonds and rushed to the telephone, notifying Eugene Miller, the night watchman at Mas on. seven miles south of Coal City. and he with Dr. E. D. Watts, who was at tb station at the time, laid in wait for the robbers. Watts was armed with a repeating shot gun and Miller carried a revolver. At afason the freight train stop ped to switch cars, the bandits leap ed from the train and hid In a clump of shrubbery near the track. Miller and the doctor discovered their biding place and opened fire which was promptly returned, about 25 shots being exchanged. When the train started the bar fits leaped or. board and again escaped. Immediately the sheriff at Morris was notifled. Several automobiles were pressed into service and the >ursuit beran. the machines follow ng a road along the Santa Fe right of way For a time the motor cars sper! directly alongside thba train, raem bers of the posse occassionallv f!ring it the dark objects which were tak en to be the bandits. W.iEn the train came 'n a stop at Verona. near Morris. the cr is were searched by th sheriff and his men. Three of trie fugitives were found in an empty baggage car. Al were wounded. The other two ha-i 3--1. t is believed that they -leap'-d ofi he moving train from the side op posite the posse and escaped with he booty. T'he prisoners were taken to Mor is. where they refused to diset:ss the obbery. The prisoners admitted hat their homes were in Chicag4 and gave the names of John Hoyt. awer Tonaszewskl and Joseph rowlick. FIRE ABOVE AND BELOW. lescued From Perilous Position Un der a Bridge. Fire in the shaft above their heads treatening tab~ lives of five men working in a caIsson 125 feet below ground in the foundation of the, unicipal 'building under Brookciyn Uridge terminal. Dense volumes of smoke poured from the shaft, whe' e electric wires had become crossed and bad ignited comibustibles near by. Fearing the men would be suffo aed, the foreman on the work has tily ordered the steel bucket lowered. T'he men scrambled into it and the ar shot them up through the smoke They reacbed the surface in faint ing condition. but were soon reviv ed. Fireman flooded the caisson, putting out the fire. MR. FOSS SWORN IN. Lead to Speakers Desk by His Broth er, a Republican. .The democrats of the house in dulged in a noisy demonstratiion on Thursday when Representative Foss. of Illinois. a republican, escorted his brother. Eugene N. Foss. of Massa chusetts, a democrat, to the speakers dek to take the oath of office. The new 'Massachusetts member succeeds the late 1Mr. Lovering, a republican. The republicans remained quietly in their seets as the democrats arose enmasse, applauding and ch'e -'g on the front row of the speak. . gai lery. A sweet faced old lady. joined a the ipplause. she was the mother of the two brothers. w-ho were the cenre of attraction. Never befor have brothers of opposite political faith b.en members of the house at the same time. On Trial for Murder. Irvin Hlatchett. 18S years old, charg ed with the murder of a 1 4-yeit-e'd girl. Clovie Tedder. was plac'd o's trial Thursday at Deland. Fla. The tirl's body was placed near the road ide and on the body were more than 60 wounds, made by a pocket knif'. Hatchett is said to have confessed.* Ground to Pieces. In fuill view of a large crowd. SaI~e Williams. the two-year-old daughter of Inspector Williams. of the Atlanta waterworks department was ground to death under a street car Thursday night. The child had w ande~red away from home when the GOES FOR TEDDY --- SENATOR TILLMAN GIVES HIM A GOOD ROAST. Says the Rought Rider Hax Bamboo zled the Public Long Enough and 'He Must Be Still. "All this hurbh about Roosevelt and the manifest effort to make him a presidential factor irritates me so that I do not like to discuss it," said Senator Tillman. as he was leaving Atlanta for a visit to his home on Wednesday. "I think the Idea of Roosevelt Y, coming a candidate for the presi d'-ncy or an important factor In straightening out the Republican party is absurd. In the first place. Taft would be more than human if he did want vindication and a se cond term. "His alliance with Aldrich and the money powers will 'Insure him the s-Ipport of Wall street. whose cap tains of finance would give up mil lions to encompass th4 defeat of Roosevelt. "In the second place, the Idea of Roosevelt straightening out the Re publican party Is absurd. "He is not so clean and straight himself. He has bamboozled the public time and time gain. "Roosevelt Is the creation of the newspeprrs and little else. They lent themselves to his making in the most. remarkable manner this coun try has ever known. No. I do not think Roosevelt can be resurrected. What will be als future?. That is hard to forecast. Doubtless. he will have to adjust himself to the diffculties of private citizenship. "This will be hard. and It will be a pretty physchological study for the country to watch. But others have had to tackle It, and why not *oosevelt?" SHOOTS PENNILESS DINER. Dispute Oveg Ten Cent Debt Ends in a Fatal Affray. . In a quarrel over the payment of a ten cent meal. James H. Royden, a marine fireman;-was shot and killed late Thursday night by Frank Sch wab, calser at a "Pittsburg Joe" restaurant at Chicago. Schwab w-.. Lrrested. Royden ent-.'ed the eating house shortly before midnight and perch-. ed himself on a stool at the counter. He fell asleep after eating. When the cashier awakened him he stag gered toward the door. The cashier stopped him and demanded payment oyden fumbled in his pockets and found them empty. He tried to leavr the place and Schwab grappled with him. They fought their way out to the sidewalk. when the cashier released is hold. Runing back mnto the res aurant he got a revolver and shot oyden through the heart. SAILORS MURDERED. Lecomplice in the Crime Makes Con fession. Retribution for the mysterious urde's of sailors, long a puzzle at he ports of Puget Sound.semms now lose at hand. Giving alleged- details f the killing of John Hoffman and harles Hedberg. John Klingenberr as made a sworn confession to rosecuting Attorney Campbell at Aerdeen. Wash. Klingenberg says that he. under treat of death at the hands of WII 1am GohI. killed Hedberk. The state ent charges the slaying of Hoffman irect to GohI, who is a forn.aer agent of the Sailer's Union,~ and is nder arrest at Monte Sano. wairirz trial for wholesale slaying that trial. As in many previous cases twe sailors. Hedberg and Hoffman. dis appeared mysteriously. Hedberg's bdy was found,. but search failed in reveal Hoffman. CASH TO BACK COOK. has Pledged Over $100.000 to Heip the Explorer. On the authority of Capt. B. F. shon. one of the most active sup porters of Dr. Frederick A. Cook, tie explorer it was announced In New York. last wee., that about $173. 003~ had been guaranteed toward a fund to help Dr. Cook prove his claim to discovery of the North Pole. "A promhnent Western man." Capt. Osbon said. "h i pledged~ $100.000 of this sum and Eastern friends 'of the exploror the re~naIn dar. M::ch imore would te fnrth coing ir -&ded." he declared. C p:. Osbon said that he was in crorres pondence with the explorer, but he would not indicate w-here letters to Dr. O->ok were addressed. The cap tan state-i. however, that he exenet ed the doctor home by the latter part of the present month.* The Texas Way. Polcwing his sensat.ional escape from jai!. Frank Bates was lynched by hanging in the jail at Centerville. Texas. last week. Dolly Bates. his son, was also strung up. but was cut down before life was extinct. The two Bates were ringleaders in the jail delivery. The were both wound ed as was also Jailer St. John. All f the jail breakers were recaptured. Youngr Bates was reviveCd. Made Taft Mad. President Taft has cancelled his engagement to visit Indianapolis on May 3. While no statCeent has been issued in regard to this decision. It is believed to be the direct result of the events at the Indlana State Re pilican convention, where the In. surgents had things thei own way. THAT MAN FOSS Eis Cmg Eagerly Lookel For by the RECALLSNOTED SPECh Made b, C .us-an. te -Funny Man' of the House, from Washington, Who Said He Wanted to See Foss, and Ridiculed Him and Other Re form Republicans. In his letter to The State Mc.hee says scarcely any member's coming to the house of representatives in recent times has been looked for ward to with more Interest than the coming of Eugene N. Toss, the Dem ocrat who overturned the hide-bound Republican district In Masachusetts. The advent of Foss is much talked about and the speculation as to the significance of his election goes steadily on. It Is interesting in connection with it to recall a speech - made In the house of representatives on June 28, 1906. by the late Francis W. Cush man, a representative from Wash ington, and one of the most-bril liant members of the house while he was here. Cunaman was the "funny man" of the house also, and always when be arose to speak there were as many members In their seats as could be there, as well as clotse at. tention In the galleries. Speaking of Canadian reciprocity and of the reciprocity convention which had just been held Cusnm . mid. "One of the prime moe might say, one of the major pro pbets-of the late national recipro city convention was one -Eugede N. Foss, a free trade theorist fromB os ton, and a tarif egitator by pro fesion. It has never bee-my-pleas ure to meet that man Foss, -but . have . growing and an almost un conqueible desire to see hm. H must be~ wonderfully and fearfully ;' made.' The brilliant and satiric C'nhmw died two years ago; else be. have 'been now able to grati hs iesire. That Is unless smethifg else had overtaken him as has verz taken several otiner stand-pat Repub JIcans to whom In the same speecl he paid glowing tributes. Pr if Cusbman had lived he would have seen- other alarming things besldes the coming to congress of thlsJ"woo- - derfully and fearfully made" Foss. Notable among the strange happ6n Ings is with respect to Senator Cum mins of Iowa. In that speech- Cush inan further said: "And who were the blen that at bended this so-called 'reciprocity. convention?' Nearly all of them were. tree traders. Some few of them had tonned a protection coat in order to gain admittance. underneath that guise; but underneath the coat down next to his hide-was a free trade shirt. In that gathering: the tree traders tasted a, congenial at mnosphere and felt that their feet were planted on familiar ground. "Chief among them was .Gov. Al bert B. Cwomns of Iowa, the most promineht political orphan that America has produced in a geneel tion. "Dear Old Iowa-the common wealth that gave me birth. an( around whose groves and orcrards the gentle landscapes are clustered th richest and happiest memories of mry life," etc. "And what great names has Iowa given to the world and to fame? Their names are legion: "There is William B. Allison,,who for more than forty years bas helped to guide and guard the destines of the American republic. "There is William Peters Hepburn,~ the elearest-minded statesman andy the greatest debater upon this floor of the greatest parliamentary body. on earth. "They Is Jonathan P. Dolliver, a patriot and an orator. whose fame has reached two continents." He mentioned also John F. Lacy and, Leslie M. Shaw. "And legions more of heroic names coming trooping to' my mind today like the doves to the windowr -names that Iowa has given to the world and to fame. "And then-and then, there 1s Cummins! Ye gods. I never expect to live to see the day when the great State that bore me would elect a Republican gouernor, the back door of whose executive chamber opened directly into a Demeratic free trade convention. Poor Cushman! But he was spared the humilaiton of seeing this same Cummins succeed hi:, reveret Allison in the United State senata Allison died in time to pre -ent his own dfeat, for Cummins was sure-: ly headed this way-the great stand pat giant. Col. "Pete" Hepburn, de feated by a Democrat;John F. Lacy, laid low by a Cummins follower; Leslie M- Shaw. retired to private life; Jonathan P. Dollvier join the Cuma.ns forces to prevent his own defeat by the coming storm; and. alas, this man Foss converting a 14.000 Republican majority into a 6,000 Democratic majority. And, perhaps, If he bad lived, he might have seen more before this year Is out. It is thought so In Washington, anyway. Old Couple Seeks Divorce. P. B. Alverson, aged 94 years. Is the defendant in divorce proceedingia. instituted by Mrs. Luck Alvrson, aged 68 years. in the Seventeenth district court. They were married In 1880 and their domestic life, accord ing to the allegations of the petition, had been extremely peaceful until a few months ago. The plaintiff caresni rely