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CLEAN PAPER FOR THE HOME CITY EDITION VOL. 1.—No. U2. THE WEATHER—Probably Showers. RICHMOND, V A., F R 11) A Y, J U L Y 29, 1910. 10 PAGES ntr Mlttn.1 gmI Malt F.«Klea....I Caau nr Malt, Oh Tht. .MM COLONEL TO KEEP OUT OF CONTEST Denies He Has a Hand in California Gubenatoral Fight WILL NOT ESTABLISH ENDLESS PRECEDENT Roosevelt Declares it Should be Unnecessary for llim to Re peat Denials—Many Visi tors See Him. NJSW YORK, July ZS>.—Colonel Roosevelt to-day took occasion to re peat his assertion that he Is not aid ing any particular candidates for nomination In the Republican party in a statement regarding the rival candidacies of Philip Stanton and Hi ram Johnson for Governor of Cali fornia. Stanton is the Republican nominee and Johnson an independent candi date. The latter is being boomed by Gifford Plnchot, which fact has given rise to statements in the California press that Johnson was also Roose velt's candidate. Issues Statement. E. D. Stanton, a brother of Philip bl&nton. called on the colonel to-day, and after hie visit the colonel issued the following statement: "1 have told Mr. Stanton that 1 had refused to take part in the con test for nominations in California, and in all other States. No man rep resents me, or has authority to speak for me in the matter, or any similar matter, concerning a nomination. And 1 wish to state with all possible em phasis that I lia-.e not taken part one way or another In any similar contest.' "1 would like to add that it ought to he unnecessary tor me to repeat this statement o\cr and over again, for should 1 lake part in any such contest 1 woul dbo expected to take part in hundreds of similar contests.'' Roosevelt Man. Philip Stanton is known as a "Rooaevelt" man, and wad largely re sponsible for kUling the anti-Japanese legislation la the California legisla ture two years ago at Roosevelt's re quest. Senator Beveridge, of Indiana, was air unexpected vtutor at the oflics to day. He spent an hour with the colo nel. It was announced that Roosevelt's Indiana speech would be made in In dianapolis on October IS, the date previously decided on. •'Trust liust-r" Prank B. Kellogg; Marcel! Zernet. a French newspaper man; Judge A- C. Dayton, of New York; E. J. Wendell, of Boston; Dr. Lindsay, of the Pnlverslty of Penn sylvania; Governor Post, of Porto Rico, and State Senator Davenport, of New York, were among the colo nel's callers to-day. !»TO^F, \>D Ml** SM 11.1. HCLE VItKI) l> M:nVGR*. NFnVBERN. X. C., July 2».—-Mine Kelts Small and William Stone who were arrested In this city yesterday on 'nformstton received from Halttmoro from which city they are alleged »o have eloped, wore this morning released from custody. The warrant upon which they were being held charged them with Immoral ity and a» there was no evidence they could not be held. COLONEL'S NEPHEW GETS IT IN NECK Hopelessly Heaton for Congres sional Nomination But Oon tinueso IIis Fight. DITTLE FALUi X. Y.. July 29.-— Although badly beaten for the con gressional nomination from this dis trict on the face of complete primary returns available to-day. Theodore Douglas Robinson, nephew of Colonel Roosevelt, will go Into the convention to-morrow and make a forlorn hope tight. Robinson controls about twen ty delegates to the convention, and the organisation, led by State Committee man Strobe I, controls twice as many. Congressman C. S. Millington, « candidate for renomination, who is backed by Vice-President Sherman, will undoubtedly be the choice. THIRTY PITERS AT WORK ON ROME Capitol Building to be Scraped and Repainted. Many Im provements Planned. WASHINGTON. I). Cl, July 29.— Thirty painters and ten laborers aro to-day acalinK the dome of the Capi tol, with the difficult task before thorn of removing fifty layers of paint, stop ping up every leak in the historic structure, and redecorating tt both in side and out. In all more than a million dollars' worth of repairs are to be-madh nl the Capitol, the Senate and House office buildings, and the new munici pal buildings. Fourteen new suites of offices are to be fitted out in the basement of the Senate office building. The cost of these la estimated at 190,000. Upon the House office building 130,000 Is to be spent In refitting and painting. The work on the Capitol -dome is ‘ j most hasardout. From the tiptop of i the Goddess of Liberty, 300 feet above the ground, to the Supreme Court room, the painters must go over every e inch with chisel, scrubbing brushes CAPT. M’DOWELL MAY FACE COURT MARTIAL Commander of Company A, Blues, Alleged to Have Acted Unfairly MAJOR BOWLES INVESTIGATING 1 ! _ _ ■ ' | I Court of Inquiry Acquits Corporal; -Martin, and Recommends Probe | Into Alleged Deterimental .State of Atlairs. "Tlip court is of Uie opinion tiiat Captain Tluaiias IV, McDow ell, Company A, It. 1j. I. Bluh' Battalion, h«« acted w IUi unfair now toward untl prejudice against (•aid Corporal Martin in request ing tils diceliarge, contrary to reg ulations, Virginia tolunteers. Tile court is furtlH-r of the opinion tiiat good feeling does not exi»t in t ompany A, and cannot be expected to exist under tin- pres ent administration; that tills lack of co-operation Is detrimental to tin? servlet*.—Opinion of the court of inquiry which recently Investi gated the case of Corporal Mar tin. Every indication points to a court martial '* Captain Thomas B. Mc Dowell, Company A, Richmond X.ight Infantry Blues, upon a recommenda tion of the court of inquiry which Investigated the ease of Corporal Carroll F. Martin, whom Captain Mc Dowell alleged was unfit for military se rv Ice. Carroll Martin was fully exonerated by the court, the findings of which pronounce the charges to be unprov en. To Go Over JEvidcnc**. •'The covurt's findings have been turned over to me, and their recom- . mendation Is very strong,” declared , Major E. W. Bowles, commanding the Blues' Battalion. "But 1 shall take no steps In the matter until I have thoroughly considered the testimony as given at the trial. 1 will probably be In a position to make an announce ment Monday." The reeomme.ndation of the court i Is as follows “The court rtoommend* that the commanding officer of the battalion take steps he may deem expedient j to correct the existing state of af- • fairs, respectfully calling his atten tion to the sixty-second article of i I war.” The sixty-second srticle of war. j Virginia regulations, prov ides for a I field officer s court-martial when there is reason to believe that there Is a ■ disrupting influence at work In any j military organization. Captain McDowell takes the situa tion philosophically. ”1 believe.” he said Friday, "that (Continued on Third Page.) AUTO LOSES TIRE ! AND CRASH GOMES! [ Breaks to Pieces on Telephone • Pole and Three Staunton Men j Injured, One Fatally, i i Special to The Richmond Virginian.) STAUNTON. YA.. July 19.—\Y. G. Moffatt, of this city, was probably , fatally Injured, and D. U Porter and : r„ L. Bowman seriously hurt In an automobile wreck shortly after mtd ! night this morning two miles this aide | of Harrisonburg. The chauffeur es j raped Injury. They were returning from Harrisonburg at a good speed In : one of Mr. R. D. Atkinson's ninety horse power Palmer linger machines j and a tire flew off as they turned to j | one side to escape a pile of rocks, j j when the chauffeur lost control and ] I the machine struck a telephone pole | I shattering It and demolishing the car. . Mr. Moffatt had a leg broken and I was otherwise injured. Mr. Porter 1 had three ribs broken and Mr. Bow- j man was scratched, bruised and j shocked. Messrs. Moffatt and Bow- ■ man are In a hospital here and Mr. j Porter at Harrisonburg. All are promt- j nent business men. NOMINEE DECLARES HE WILL NOT RON Selected by Minnesota Democrats for Gubernatorial Race, But Declines. EVERETT, WASHINGTON. July j 29.—John Lind..nominated for gover- 1 nor of Minnesota yesterday by the j Democrats, announced positively to- ' j day that ho would not accept the, nomination under any circumstances. : declaring his declston to remain out I i of politics was irrevocable. “The fact that the Democratic con- 1 • ventiorn nominated me in spite of myi ■ announcement that I would not accept j j docs not change my attitude in the ! • least.” Lind told the United Presa ”1 will not re-enter politics under i any circumstances. Two weeks ago I I wrote to the chairman of the M'nne- 1 I r.ota State Democratic committee stat- : | ing that I would not re-enter poll- ' | tics. This decision on my part is ! irrevocable, and I am surprised that j the convention went ahead and nomi I nated mo Anyway. 1 will not tic j cept." i AN AMERICAN GIRL WILL WED AMERICAN. NEW YORK. July 29.-^t)lapatChes received here to-day from Vienna an- , nounce the engagement of Miss Gladys ; Kerens, daughter of Richard C. Kerens, j United States ambassador to Austria, j and George H> Colket. of Philadelphia. ' The wedding will take place next fall ! Jn Vienna. j (apt. Tkoa. B. McDowell. | KUEN, LOEB & CO. BACKS SYNDICATE Takes Over Heavy Blocks of; Stock to Help Control Koads. i — MANY ISSUES BOUGHT' ; Got in On Falling Market and. Made Big Haul—'Won't T rans-Cont mental. NEWt YORK. July 29.—That the Pearson syndicate, which was secur ing immense blocks o£ stocks in i American raiiroaas for the purpose i of organizing a new trana-continental system, was not squeezed out and : forced to sell to Kuhn, Loeb and Company, ts a statement made to ; day by well informed financiers. These same authorities declare fur ther that the Pearson syndicate is still extant and that Kuhn, Loeb and Com ; pany aha merely identified itself with the syndicate in furtherance of a well organized plan to tret control of the roads needed for the new system. The . Immense block of stock taken over by ■ Kuhn. Loeb and Company, it is stated ; in Wall street, did not come from the Pearson syndicate, but from other interests. Pearson is said still to be in i the syndicate and still holds an lm ■ mensc block of Hock Island preferred, I to be used in accordance with the 1 plans formulated, which included an .alliance with Kuhn, Loeb and Com pany. It is also said to be unlikely to assume that Kuhn, l.oeb and Cora 1 pany appeared in the dead for the [ first time, merely to save the market. Letting Control. As a matter of fact. Wall street 1 believes Kuhn. Loeb and Company has long been identified with the foreign syndicate In its efforts to secure control of American railways needed for the transcontinental line, and has been a heavy buyer of Kock Island, Lehigh Valley and Missouri Pacific. It is said in the street that the hanking firm and its foreign oon (Conttnued on Third Page ) PROFOUND SECRET SURROUNDS DEATH Deep Mystery Unsolved by .Sui t-id e of Young Man in Norfolk. ^Special to The Richmond Virginian.) NORFOLK. July 29.—-Whether hi« name was Frederick or Shrock and whether he had been to prison or was in fear of going there for killing o man. are things yet to be learned In connection with the suicide of the young man supposed to be E. H. Shrock, who ended his life Wednesday morning in his room at 211 Liberty street by tiring a bullet through his temple. Miss Mary Elisabeth Butler, who was engaged to marry the man and who professes to know ail his secrets, declares his real name was Frederick. She says she promised her sweetheart not to divulge the secret that caused ! him to end his life. She says he killed | a man out West and served two and a half years in prison, was pardoned and enlisted In the navy Fears of having violated conditions | of his pardon are said to have weigh* i ed on the man’s mind so much that he i preferred death to its torture. { It is reported that there may ba ! some highly sensational developments ! in conection with this case. The | police located a brother of the dead man who answered a telegram ad dressed to John Shrock. The brother ! was located at Marlon. O., and the i dead man also has a sister and mother ln Cleveland. The body is being held | by the police pending the arrival of ; the brother of the deceased who 1g expected here to-day. Shrock or Frederick is reported to have had a considerable sum of money on deposit in one of the local banks. BALTIMOREAN WANTS INFORMATION OF STANLEY. Mr. Walter H. Wellman. 1104 North Montford avenue, Baltimore, has wrlt , ten the police of Richmond asking for | Information regarding E. F, Stanley, j who has been reported as being dead in this city. Tha police here do not know of Stanley. On the record the name of E. I S'. Stanley appears. He wea burled in | the city cemetery about a ptpnyft ago, < ■ I ,4:* t±‘t A iSk AGED MIA IS SHOT Body of Meredith McGann Found by Neighbor Calling in Early Morning NELSON COUNTY STIRRED BY ANOTHER MYSTERY Shot Heard "Near Humble Home in Late Evening and Visit Next Morning Reveals What Seems to be Murder. ! (Special Jo The ^tit.hmond Virginian.) LYNCHBURG® V.V.. July 28.—An other mystery Stirred the people of Nelson county, when the body of an old man named McGann. whose first name is thought to be Meredith, was found lying on the porch of his lonely hut about two tulles from here this I morning by a passerby. The brains of the dead man's head covered the j floor There was a hole in the top of ! his head. Although no weapon was found I near It is supposed that he was killed ! by a charge from a shot gun, and , the absence of a weapon leads to the l belief that he was murdered In cold j blood as he sat upon his porch. This ! belief is strengthened by the fact, that a neighbor heard a gunshot In I the direction of McGann's place last 1 evening about -#usk, and It was this same neighbor who took the pains this morning to come to the hut, . which Is oft of the road, and see whether all was weU with its lonely Inhabitant. McGann was betwene sixty and sev i enty years old and from all accounts I was a respected citizen of his nelgh | borhood. No possible clue to the cause I of the tragedy has been found' this morning. He was not known to have i any enemies, for he had been living on | hia little farm for many years and was 1 well regarded by his neighbors. Not I much is known of his past history , here, however. It is thought that he j has several children, and his w ife l Is believed to be dead. He had lived : in a small house by himself and was ' to all appearances a harmless and decent old man. No inquest "has yet been held, as . the matter has lust been reported to ; the authorities here. The entire ab ■ snoe of any reason for the murder, as the circumstances seem to unquestion ably indicate, was the case, leaves the authorities wt. vmt a single clue to follow. to mmm Father ami Son Convicted of Ar son, Robbery and Murder, Must Serve Their Terms. | Governor Mann has refused to par don Wesley and Warren Craig. father and son, who are serving twenty-one and eighteen years, respectively, in the penitentiary for robbery, arson and murder. The wife and mother of the imprisoned pair has petitioned three i governors to pardon her loved ones, in sisting that they are innocent and that their trial was not fair. Time and again Governors Montague and Swan son reviewed the papers In the case and sought a reason for exercising clemency, but the unyielding record was against them and they declined to Interfere. Governor Mann, after studying the papers closely, arrived at the same conclusion—the law. the cir cumstances and the facts were against the two men. The father and son were convicted in Bhenandoah county nine years ago. They were accused of robbing the safe In the mill owned by Bruce Lomas i and' Setting fire to the structure after ; murdering him. The Jury convicted ; and the judge sentenced the father to j serve twenty-one years and his son i three, years less. Mrs. Craig has been a pathetic, care-worn figure around the j Capitol for many months seeking com | fort an£ a pardon for her relatives, j Petition for a pardon for Clarence ! Woodward, convicted on a serious I charge in Newport News five years | ago, was also denied by Governor i Mann. The young man, who hss serv : ed five years, will have to spend the ; remainder of the ten-year sentence in ' the penitentiary. OH! GIRLS, JUST LOOK AT THIS! Here’? Beautiful Husband, Rut "Wants Krai Complexion or Nothing Doing. ST. LOUjS. MO.. July 29 —Any Kir! I who wears a. blonde complexion that Is i all' her own, 1/as blue eyes, can ride a horse. catch bunkhouse (leas and cook may find a husband by writing; to Jack Robinson, hunter. Hot Springs, Mon tana. Robinson is a cowboy, and In a let | ter to Postmaster Aikers he says he is thirty-one and ia known as the ugliest man in Montana. Robinson asks the postmaster to do what ho can toward landing him a wife. Among other things, she must bo between eighteen and twenty-eight years old and one who wants to lend a ranch life and follow him over the plains for amusement. YYaddr—JUrklr. I (Special to The Richmond Virginian.) I HARRISONBURG, July a».—Miss j Kathryn T. Zlrkle, daughter of H. ML i Zlrkle. of New Market, Shenandoah county, dnd Edward M. Waddy were • married Monday, In Norfolk. The groom, who Is an insurance man, la a son of the late Col. J. R. Waddy, former postniasts< *t KorfQlkf i, Haag POLICE ARE WAITING FOR CRIPPEN S ARRIVAL U ; CRIPPEN ON BOARD “Meantahlp Mont roar. 125 nll«« off Canadian roust, July 28.— ( rtppra aid Mini 1/rarrr on t board. P'1 rot auaplcloa whan Montroaa taro hours from Ant | Ttarp. Watchrd couple rloarly. Came to conclusion man wan Crlppen. Hooked aa merchant. Girl, din vulsrd aa son. Crlppen rrarflag constantly. Is nrrroua not sleep well. Mias Leneve gar at timesi at others worried and watches Crlppen with tears la eye*. Hare watched man closely eeer since he came aboard. Sure he la Crlppen. Had read of cause when In Ragland and had arm ptcturea of fnjrttlyes la London papers In Antwerp.Identity of couple posit I tc. •RFADALL, Capt. Montrose.’4 WARM B CLOSE Captain Lamb and Judge Wiok-j ham Talk Spiritedly to Voters i of Barton Heights. _c i MUCH INTEREST SHOWN j ! — I Rivals Work Voters Up to En | thtisiasm—Disloyalty Charge Reiterated. Sume warmth characterized the joint j * debate between Captain John Lamb i and Judge T. Ashby Wickham, rival ^ j candidates for the nomination for rep- j j resentatlve from the Third district, at ' Barton Heights Thursday night, j i About three-score men, a dozen wo- | | men and a number of school children j i heard the speeches. Although a de- : bate was scheduled, the issues were not I argued, but each aspirant gave his 1 views. Judge Wickham got a rise out of j Captain Lamb by repeating his charge. | "He Is not a good Democrat nor is he I a good Republican or representative." | Captain Lamb forcefully replied to the allegation that he was a mugwump. Three Reasons. Captain Lamb said he had heard but i three reasons whv he should not be i returned to Congress. He then began . to dissipate the reasons. One of them ■ was that he had already served long , enough. Replying to this, he asked if ] it would be right or reasonable for an i employer to discharge his skilled work- j man because he had served him long ] enough, or for a merchant to lose his j trade because ihe people felt that they had patronized him long enough? An other reason was that he had voted agRlnst a bill allowing Confederate veterans to enter national soldiers’ homes. Captain Lamb said the North i ern and Southern veterans would have fought and argued all the time and ha voted against the bill. The third, and perhaps moat Important, reason was that ho had voted for a tariff on turn* | ber. Captain Lamb said the no tariff ] on lumber plant was Inserted In the • Democratic platform simply to catch the vote of four doubtful States and that it was unjust to accuse him of disloyalty to the party for voting for a tariff on the commodity. Captain Lamb suggested that the voters go fishing on election day if they did not Intend casting their ballots for him. Urges All to Vote. Judge Wickham said It was the duty of every man to vote, and counseled the citizens of Barton Heights not to go balling, but stay at home and cast their ballots for the man they thought would prove the best representative of the district. Judge Wickham said he understood there was to be a de bate, and he asked his auditors how many of Captain Lamb’s views they had heard. He said It sounded to him like an eulogy. Judge Wickham said the issues In the campaign were the tariff and reduction of the cost of liv ing. He said he was prepared to de bate these issues with Captain Lamb at any time and to prove that the lat ter had not worked for a reduction of either the tariff or the cost of living. Both speakers mad# a good impres sion on the voters and worked up con siderable enthusiasm. Captain Lamb became eloquent on several occasions and spoke with great emphasis. Judge Wickham, however, was as mild-man nered and complacent us ever and said he felt satisfied that he would get the nomination. Dr. Hllrman Rwrerti*. j Dr. J. A. Hilsman, who underwent > serious operation at St. Duke'* hospi i tal two week* ago, haa been removed j to his home at 300 North Lombardy l street. He Is progressing nicely, his ! physician says. !fme destroys home ! Of 0. E SATCHFIELD i __: Blare in South Richmond Caused by Explosion of Oil Stove Friday. Fire destroyed the home of Mr. R. K. Satchfield, Fifteenth and Everett streets. South Richmond, Friday be tween twelve and one o'clock. An oil stove In the kitchen of the residence, a cottage of six rooms, ex ploded. and when the lire depart ment arrived on the acene the flames had consumed the structure. Mr. Satchfield .was away front home at the time and did not come to the street until his home was in aahes. Neighbor* saved a little of the fur niture before the biases had eaten i their way through the front of the house. i Chief Joyner, of Richmond, answer ' ed the alarm, making a record run In ' his buggy across Mayo’s bridge to the ■ Are. South Richmond firemen used their helmets fort he Am time. .A*,:<±:y. . ,<itiiife..iivu; Wireless Messages Practicallyj Confirms Identification— i Ship Will Arrive Sat urday Night GIRL WITH FUGITIVE FREQUENTLY IN TEARS Aa Soon as Arrested They Will Be Declared “Undesirable Cit izens'' and SoDt Back to England Where They Will Bo Tried. FATHER POINT. QUEBEC, July 29. The world-wide, cross-ocean hum for Or. Harvey Hawley Crippen and Mis* Clare Leneve centers to-de.y on the fog ?»hrouded St. Lawrence village As fast as a slow vessel con pick her way through the thlrty-mlle-wlde i river, Crippen and Miss Leneve, sus picious of nothing, are coming to their doom. The great hand of the wireless has stretched across the sea and ln i tercepted the alleged wife murderer and his companion. At midnight Saturday or early Sun day, probably while the unsuspect ing pair are sleeping, officers will climb I over the side of the Montrose off Father Point and ptaee them under arrest. They will be rushed to Que ! bee. arraigned, and then ordered de ! ported to England as •‘undesirable i aliens," In this way extradition will l>e ctr ‘ cumvented. and Crtppen and Miss Le neve will be bound back for England by August 4 aboard the fast turbine steamer Royal George. In a little room beneath the ligbt i house here, atop of which the officials of the Marconi wireless system snatch messages from the air. Chief McCar ' thy. of the Quebec police; Police Chief ! Iienis, of Levis, and Chief Constable | Gauvereau, of the Dominion police, of ; Ottowa, are conferring as to plans for | making the arrest. Put Inspector Ashore. Some time this afternoon the pilot i boat Eureka will draw alongside the 1 White Star iAurentlc and put a pilot aboard. The same boat will bring ashore to Father Point Chief Inspec | tor Dew. of Scotland Yard, who will I act as an aide to the Canadian police i in arresting Crippen and Miss Leneve. ; Dew will take no hand in the actual j arrtst, which, by Canadian law, must I be made by Canadian police, i McCarthy will read the warrants to j Crippen and Miss Leneve, after Dew has Identified them, and while Denis ■ and Gauvereau stand close at hand to ! prevent possible efforts at escape or j suicide. j Father Point contains a light-house. , a wireless station and a land wlrs tele (Contlnued on Third Page.) SPAIN AND POPE STILL AT ODDS Cabinet Incensed, and Break With Vatican is Likely to Follow. MADRID. July 29.—Premier Canale 1 las Is In conference to-day with King 1 Alfonso at San Sebastian regarding the threatened rupture of diplomatic relations between the Vatican and the government. It la not believed that the government will recede from Its position of increased religious toler ! ar.ce. ! EI Liberal, the newspaper which I yesterday announced the receipt by the i government of a curt note from the ! Vltlcan. to-day declares that the note | greatly offended ttie cabinet, which now plans a drastic program against the State church in the event that the king approves the move. "Premlei Canalejas will initiate a series of measures." El I.lber&l says, "which will prove a most disagreeable surprise to the Vatical,” but what these moves are the paper does not intimate. 1EICHEL CELEBRATES SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY At Three-Score and Ten foreign Born Citizen is Hale and Hearty. Hate and hearty. Mr. A. Eichel re ceived many congratulation* upon his seventieth birthday Friday at his stand In the Sixth Street market, and Frl | day night he will tender, a reception I to all of bla friend* at hie home, No; 407 West Grace street, Mr. Eichel is one of Richmond's old est foreign-born etttae-ns. He was born In 1840 In Alsace Lorraine, at that time FYance. but now German terri tory. In 1S58 he came to seek his fortune i In America and settled at Fort Gib son, Mississippi. When the war be I tween the States was declared he join ed the Sixteenth Mississippi Infantry I and served with distinction throughout ! the four years of strife. At the end j of the war he received his discharge I without returning to his adopted State and since that time has been a resident of Richmond. He entered business as a butcher shortly after the close of tlie^ four years' struggle, and has been hfird at work ever since. He has been suc cessful in hla chosen work. Mr. Elche’. appears twenty years younger than he really la. Ha Is ec ! tlve and Jolly and goes about his work | with an alacrity which is ustonlshlng. ; be much merry-maklngeetaoshrdlucmf Surrounded by his friends and fami ly Friday night at his home, there will be much merry-making celebrating the three-score and tan year* of his . natal dear. Policeman John Duffy Both Animals After Thrill ing Experience FELINE IS SHOT IN NICK OF Leaps at Patrolman’s Face Latter Ducks Head, Barely Escaping—Animals Own ed by Neighbors. Screaming women, tcrrifled children and hlancli-faced men in the neigh borhood of Eighth and Leigh street* were saved from two hydrophobia vic tims—a frothng collie dog and ft rabid cat—early Friday morning, when Po liceman John Duffy with two ballets from his revolver killed the erased ani mals and ended r reign of terror ot more than two hours' duration. The oat, the property of Mrs. T. H. Parkinson, of SOB Bust Leigh street, was bitten by a supposedly mad dog about one week ego. Early Friday morning, while breakfast war being prepared, the feline began to run about the kitchen bowling. A mo ment later it began to froth at the mouth. After rushing madly about the kitchen several times, leaping In the air, and clawing fiercely at chairs, it leaped through a window Into the back yard. There It leaped on a fence, back to the ground, up a small tree, then jumped over to a wood shed, and then back to the ground. A11 this time It howled, frothed at the mouth, claw-* ed at the air and bit at Itself. The terrified screams of Mrs. Park-* fnson attracted a large crowd of neigh-* bors. who. rushing to rear windows, watched the cat as with biasing eyas and distended, sporadically snapping Jaws it leaped wildly about the yard. Soon the entire neighborhood was in a furor of terror No one ventured outdoors, for none knew when the cat might leave the yard. Finally some one telephoned to the first prsclnct and Policeman Duffy was sent to the scene. Arriving, he found the cat crouching, emitting terrible wild : howls. Despite the protests of onlookers. Duffy went out in the yard, revolver in hand. Before be could get close enough to make his aim sara the cat sprang at his face. He duck ed and the animal sailed over hla head. The cat did not land squarely on it* feet, but soon gather Itself together with eyes biasing in another tourch. Before it sprang a second time Putty shot. His bullet went home, and the cat, Its heart pierced almost In the moment of leaping, fell over, dead. The policeman was still receiving the thanks fo the residents when * new outburst of screams from women and children arose. Neighbors of Mrs. Parkinson, en route to her houa* - to look at the dead cat, noticed that the collie dog in the front yard of S07 East Leigh street, occupied by Mra James and Mrs. Pritchett, wag also frothing at the mouth. Thera followed another scampering within doors as the dog, panting deeply and audibly trotted about the enclosed «a yard, with flicks of foam drippings from his Jaws. Policeman Duffy says he Is not ear tain that the dog was actually suffer ing from rabies, but the owners of th* animal thinking it quite possible it might have been scatched or bitten by the mad cat next door, and wishing to take no chances, insisted that it bn killed. This time there was but littia trouble. The dog made small effort to get away from the policeman’ gun and a moment later the collie wag dead, with a bullet in Its brain. Policeman Duffy, in describing hla experiences, says there is no doubt in his mind but that the cat was mad. The dog, he says, might have been too. "But that cat" said he, "I almost tremble when I think what might have happened to me if I had1 missed that shot." STORY PURE ROT DECKJPI Former United States Senator D«* nirs Bribery of Votes for Him. DKXTtU, COL. July t*.—'"Th* c-Usrge that friends raised a fund of 135.000 to bribe Democratic legislator* to vote for me ta pure rot. The flret In timation I had of the thing was threa weeks ago. when James Keely, manag ing editor, of the Chtoago Tribune, gj called me up and asked about th* story I told him I had never hear! of It before and that It was absurd." This was the statement made Imt Ate bert J. Hopkins, former United Stab Senator, from Illinois, before leaW here for Chicago. DUST ON DROVE ROAD BRINGS FORTH PR Residents Will Complain to St Committee and Ask That Tlighway Be Oiled. Gitlsen* who live on the Grove At nue road are up in arm* and are pr paring to enter a protoat with Street Committee of the Council failure to oil that highway from l Boulevard to the city limit*. On i count of the great cloud* of4i which tile* about In the wak speeding automobile* and vehle all descriptions It la Impossible Grove road resident* to have I eflt of the evening! bream* ting on their poTeh+a, At th* present time the Cary road and Monument avenue cloeed to traffic, and thoroughfare in queatton tor a tto&'g ahara «* i