OL.S. C. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13,P910

BRIBE MUEYToaed to a 1hOWN hResS In in

by Jary.

LARGE SMS WEREGQMTo 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 whichis recommended the indictment ofFrank N. Hoffsot. president of thePressed Steel Car Company. oub ofthe most prominent business men inthe country.

Simultaneously in the open courtMme a plea of Emtl Winter. presi-dent of' the Workingman's Savingsand Trust Company. that he ha4 no

defense to make to the charge thathe gave a $20.000 bribe to FormerCouncilman Morris Einstein.The following In abbreviated form

are some of the most startling fnd-ings in the grand jury's presentmentmade public Thur-4aY night.

1. That Frank N. Hoftstot, presi-dont of -he Pressed Steel' Car com.

pany and president of the GermanNational* Bank of Allegheny andprominently identified with otherbanks 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 namingthree banks In which Hofistot w"sinterested. as oficial depositories ofthe city's mIllomn.

3. That the arrangement for thepaynwnt of the money to Stewartwas made in the spring of 1908 andthat the late James W. Friend atthat time an offiial of the PressedSteel Car Company, was an associatein the transaction.

4. That the original plan whichFriend had was to obtain the ser-

vices of Wiliam A. Blakeley. whowas then a practicing attrney. butwho is now the district attorney incharge of the graft prosecutions, as

a . stake-holder of the brible moneyuntil the ordinance had passed.

5. That Attorney Blake41 declin-ed to act in the capacity .need and 1

warned aH partka of the cdminalityof the proposition and of their liabH-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 Icaue to be paid to Stewart the sum

named-452,500.7 That the transeacon waS arrang-

took place there in June, 1908- Inorder, if possIbhe0.o a-void serimlnalability In Allegheny counltt.3. That Wasunt did also sol~cit

and secure from one James SL Young.cashier of the SecondNatonal bank1of Pittsburg. the sum of $11.000to besaidSwrt toinure these-lection 'of the Second 2eetanna1 asone of-the favored city depqsitories.

9. That Stewart did demand fromthe Inow deceased friend, who was

atng as agent for the Second Ni-tional bank, a bribe for St~wartsavote in favor of the bank ordinances.10. That In accordance with the

findings, it bes reommended that in-dictments charging conspiricy andbribery be returned.The banks named as ultimate

principals to profit by the bribe a1-leged to have been paid by Hoffstotto Stewart are:The 1'-rmers' Deposit Neaoa

bank, the Second National bank ofPttburg, and the German Nationalbank of .Allegheny. In additoin tothese three, the Columbia NatinalBank of Plttsburg. the German Na-tonal bank of Allegheny and theWorkigman's Savings and Trustcompany of Allerheny were named as

city depositories in the ordinancepassed July 9, 1908. over the Mayorsveto.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 thanthe report of the grand jury, lHewas charged with the paym.an: of$20000 In bribe to Morris Entein.a former select councilman. When ..

Winter appeared in court. JutaCc ltS. Fraser, who is presiding in th"graft cases, asked to be excus'4 fro-o2ering the plea. Judge, Fia.er ex-

plained that on account of his longand Intimate friendship with Winterhe wished to have nothing tgdo withthe case. Winter was then takenbefore Judges Thomas D). Carnivanand J. M. Swearengen and enteredthe formal plea. Sentance was post-poned. :Frank H. Hofsatot. as president of

the Pressed Steel Car Company. oneof the largest industries of Its kindin the country, recently-figured prom-inently In the public eye while astrike 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 SavingsBank and Trust company at Alle-gheny. had also pleaded nollo con-tendre to a charge of falsifying thebooks of the bank in ecnnection withthe payment of $20,000 tn :Einstein.The pleas of Winter and Andersozlcame opportunely, for the district at-torney said that otherwise theyv wereto have been Indicted Thursday.

Found Out at East.The military court of inquiry has

found out--what the great Americanpeople knew nearly four years ago-that the negro troops did "shootnn" Brownsvlle

ILED IN WRECKCNDUlCTOR 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 aboutthreeo'clock city time, at a shortdl-:nce above Berzella. The con-

ductor and engineer of one of thetrains were tilled and the fireman ofthe same crew is not expected tolive through the day. Out of a totalof 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 milepost, which is just west of Berzeliawith 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 wererunning at about the same rateof speed and it is estimated that theywere making about 35 miles perhour. The two trains completelytelescoped each otber, and about a

dozen freight cars were reduced toindling splinters. The general mer-

chandive in the cars was scattered allover the ground for some'distance.The accident was on a curve and

an escending grade; also an embank-ment. The heavy loaded outgoingraln was given a seere blow by theighter extra coming east.Whle the cause of the accident is

mt given out at the headquarters ofthe 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 haveto be held to see just where thelame would have to be laid.It is known that the west bound

reight was due to stop'at Berzellaolet extra No. 6: pas-. but as thetra train did not reach the pointn the schedule time the crew of therestbound freight decided to makeEarlem If possibre. The collisionwas 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 twogme. Thxse men were on the

ar of the trains and of course didot get in any of the swashed upart 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 overlnnace creek about six miles abovereenwood at -one o'clock Thursdayoning. 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.Ulof the wounded men were hur-

ed to a hospital In Chester. It isald that two tramps were burnednthL fire. Barmere Mayes. who

uns a brick yard near m'ere thereck occurred endeavored to exting-

aish the burning trestle but withoutal. ie then sent several negroesith lanterns to flag the freight, but

theengineer failed to see the dangerlgnal on account of the light beingim. A negro was also sent toreenwood with a note but unfor-unately arrived a few m'autes af-terthe train had let.

WATCHntAN Ass&ssIYATEAD

Us Head Almost BIown Off by Load

of Shot.

Assassinated while makingc his-ounds. William M. Haland. nightatchan at the Atlanta Ice and

C-al comipany plant. was found deadearly Friday morning, with his headlneIt blown off by a heavy load ofshot. Holland had pulled the boxesn his three o'clock round and wheno further calls came in the tele-raph signal company made an in-estigation and it was found thewires had been cut. There is no

clue to the murderer. About a yearago Holland was firei on by un-known parties while miaking hisrounds 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 yearsyears ago for $117.25. The discov-ery of oil by agents of the StandardOil company was the reason for theenormous increase in the value ofthe land which Dent had supposed tohave been almost worthless.

Goes for Life.Refusing to grant a new trial,

Judge McDonald at Anderson sen-tenced Webb Simmons. a youngWhite man. to spend the remainder ofhis life at hard labor in the StatePenitentiary. Simmons killed UnitedStates 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-aiso tightly wedged into the car th

thweckage had to be cut away.*

HAVE AlHOT TIMESeuaimal 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 andTucker made frantic efforts to layhands upon one another's during theinvestigation late Friday, and a per-sonal encounter between the angry.shouting men was only averted bystrenuous work on the part of theirfellow Senators. Tucker. who iscounsel for Senator Bilbo. angeredby the use of the shorter and uglierword, rushed at Banks. Banks, whKItwit~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 paidbim a bribe. bad been on the stand.He had denied the charge flatly. aniwas being cross-eramined by Sena-tor Tucker. of counsel for SenatorBilbo.The witness-was unshaken In his

denial of any crookedness, but de-clared that Bilbo repeatedly hintedthat he could be bribed, and repeat-edel asked fbr and received bottlesof liquor. He declared that Repre-sentative Cowart intimated that hewould not bie averse to selling hisTt&.Then came the explosion. Duanev

was asked by Tucker if Percy hadnot 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 couldhe heard the treembling voice of Sen-ator Anderson. shouting."I resent that question: I resent

the insinuation .that I permitted anyone to pay my expenses."From the rear of the Senate. slen-

der Senator Banks came rushing tothe front Hi got the foor andshouted:"Any man who says or insinuates

that anybody paid the expenses ofmy friend. Congressman Byrd. is a

liar. as false as hell."Senator Tucker 1nade a rush atanks, and Baniks charged to meetim. Senators turnred over tablesand chairs to get between the angryolons. It looked like a personaliEculty could not be averted, butome rough handling of the two bel-igerent Senators, ended in their be-ng jerked apart. .After anotherrangle, the question was with-drawn.Then several Senators demanded

that the newsg.aper men be "instrnet-ed" not to mention either the quar-relor the wrangle between Senatorsanks and Tucker."It was stricken from the record."

said President Pro Tern Dean. "anrdthe 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 testimonywas resumed. Several wktnesses tes-tified to Dulaney's good reputationforveracity andi integrity.At the night session W. W. Mit-

cheli. circuit clerk of Poolarville.Senator Bilbo's home. testified thate knew Senator 'Epitbo's reputationfortruth and veracity, and that hewould not believe the Senator on

oath.W. A. White. an attorney fromloxi. told of trying out Senatorio in 1998S. A bill was drawn'ndsent by a man named Bob Mose-

leyto Bilbo. Moseley returned andsaid:"Bilbo did not give me a chance

to make him a proposition, he madeus 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 hea~sid he wanted money."After &roseley had ttstified the

Senate adjourned.

Want Girl Babies.

Girls are In demand In Georgia.Tennessee. North Carolina. SouthCarolina and Alabama. according to

Dr. W. F. Summera~ll. superintendentof Grady Hospital of Atlanta. Dr.Sumerall had two babies to giveaway, and said he received more thansixty requests, the majority of thempreferring a baby girl. Diost of therequests came by special deliveryand registered letter, few using theordinary mails.

Nio More Tips In Washington.The House of Representatlves is

considering a bill which will makeit a misdemeanor to give or receivea tip in the District of Columbia. Anoffense will be punishable by a fineof $500.

Quits Pulpit for Politics.

The Rev. W. Lathrop Meaker. p3s-totof the Revere First Unitalranchurch. In Boston. Mass., has lefthis pulpit and will seek election to

coge in the CNa Cod district.*

ASSAULTED IN EROMUTERRIBLE 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, OlindoSceser. an Italian dressmaker em-

plyed in the establishment of N.Netzkar. on Hampton street, has beencommitted to the county jail to awaittrial on a serious charge- -the penal-ty upon conviction being death. Itis alleged that be committed a crim-inal assault on a well kucwn mar-

ried woman who resides in ShandonjThe assault is alleged, to have beencommitted a month ago at the vic-tim's bome. where Seaser boardedbut the charges brought to light atthe preliminary- hearing before Mag-istrate Fbwles did not become knownuntil Wednesday. The woman saidshe dared not -tell her husband be-cause Sceser threatened to kill herif she mentioned the matter to anyone.Her husband said that for several

weeks his wife acted strangely, as

though there was something of a

serious nature on her mind. Finallyshe told him of her accusationsagaint Sceser and the arrest of theman followed.The parties Invofted in the case

are well known In Columbia. Thebusband of the woman is employ-ed at one of the leading stores Inthe city.At the preiminary hearing of the

case there was an incident out ofthe ordinary. When Sceser enteredthe court room In the company of a

Ionstable the husband of the womanleaped on Sceser and would havestruck him several times. but for theinterference of the officed and somef the court attendants.The charge under which Sceser is

being held is not bailable, so he musteesarily remain in jail until the

term of court, which convenes nextDmoth.The victim's story is that on theay of the assault Sceser came in toxiner and finding her alone, draggeder 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.iyoung Buglar. have caused muchrioting on the streets of Russezuk-,n-the-Danube and the death of 16itens and seven soldiers. Crowds

iave taken sides with the father ofe 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 isaMoametan, he isGreek Catholie. She fell in love

rith him but her father would notanction a wedding. One night thewo eloped to Stefandoff's mother.nd according to an ancient Bulgar-

ancustom this Is equivalent to mar-

iage. Furious ..at this the bride'srather stole his daughter and placedter In jail.''be bride-groom gathered 2.000,stormed the Sail and carried thebride away in triumph. The soldiersere called out and stormed hisose and a bloody battle followed.n its midst the 'bride disappearedud two officers of the army wereynched on suspicion of having kill.

4dher. The whole country Is tak-ugsides in the quarrel.*

CORNS LEAn TO MURDER.

A Man Forfeits His Life in a Quarrel

on the Street.

Stepping on a stranger's corns oncrowded street car in 'Minneapolis.in.. cost the life of A. B. John-

son, a native of Montreal. Can. Hewas shot through the head by theoffended 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;. threemen got on the rear platform theyostled Mr. Johnson and in recov-

ering his balance again he steppedn some man's foot. An altercationallowed and the 4,rio left the plat-

form. but as they stepped to theground one turned and fired a shotInto 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 IdahoSupreme court. swooned suddenlyand fell. From that day until thepresent IMrs. Stewart has remained ina condition bordering on coma andall efforts to arouse her have failed.Her symptoms resem~ble paralysis.but she Is not paralyzed. Expertssummoned from Spokane. Wash..Portland. Ore.. and Salt Lake City.Utah. have sought to arouse the wo-man but none has succeeded. Twiceshe has attempted to speak but wasnot successful. The only sign of lifeis 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 fsatallyduring a panic In a crowd that wasleaving 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 takehorse race in St. Augustine last week.showing That Henry Wagne-. nf Ne-.York. who lost $10.000 in a similarmanner. was not the only victim ofone of the most famous original andspectacular confidence games ever re-

corded.Jacobson practically retold the

story of Wagener. only varying inthe manner In which ne was luredInto the game. He said be met theswindlers on the smoker of a pull-man car one night several weeksago. The men represented them-selves to be race horse men andasked about accomodations on theFlorida tracks. One thin.; let to,another until Jacobson consented togo 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 onlythought 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 cameoff with the speculators making lay-lah bets on the resultA 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 andwhen Jacobson's acquaintances ap-peared shouting that he bad betterrun for his life, he was glad to turnthe heavy satchel over to them. Theswindler's parting words were:"We"' meet In Washington." It

appears that the swindlers had fx-ed up a .complete racing plant inSt. Augustine. the magnitude ofwhich settled all inquiries as to theirfinancial standing. Many personsare thought -to have been fleecediithout ever making a complaint.

RURAL MAIL BOXES

Some Valushi Suggestions About

the Rural MaiL

It is the desire of the Post OffieDepartment that postmasters ear-

nestly request patrons of rural deliv-eries out of their offices to paint theirboxes and the posts to which :neyare attacked a pure white color. Thiscourse. if pursued. will not only re-ult in benefit to the patron fr. ser-

ing to protect his box and postfrom damage by the weather, but willgive all boxes a uniform color anderve to fix their Identity in all parts'f the country as United Sta.-s mail>oxes; and will givo them a munheter and slghtlier appearance thaihey now possess. It Is also dedre.ihat patrons be Induced to imprint-heir names and box numbers inlack block letters about two inchesigh.It is also desired that pestm.cstersndeavor to Induce road offlieal toaint upon the posts of boxes whichre located at crossroads (but nc~tttach signs thereto) the names ofhe towns or villages to whica:erosroads lead, with an Indicatorhowing the direction.Posts to which boxes should at-

ach shall-'be set in an easily acces-ible position at the side of the roadand boxes securely fastened to a pr-.ecting arm of wood, or to a bracketf band iron about three-slxteenthsf an inch thick, or, if preferred, aaiautomotic extension arm may beused.-*

KIND OF C'OW TO HAVE.

Produces Nearly Thirty Pounds of

Butter a Week.

The world's record for milk andlbutter production was smashed re-ently by a cow belonging to EugeneLamunion. living near Solsrille. N.J. In a thirty day test i- whichdairy sharps from the Cornell Agri-cultural college 'had charge of theaniuml, she made a record of $0

o'sof .

"i a day and 29,27pounds of butter a week. She notonly broke the world's record for acow of under three years of ace butshe raised the world's reco.,.d forany cow which had been ::7.06 poundsof butter in seven days. Lockhartde Kol No. 101.544 is the poeticname of the extreme~ly practical cow-Farmer Lamunion has been offered!$2,5('0 for his animal but refusesto look at that amount.**

Mouse Solved Ranflng Problem.A tin mouse, with a thread tied to

its leg, solved the problem of gettingan electric wire through a 197-footpipe in the Vinery building in Nor-folk. Va.. last week. Tape was tiedto the thread and the' wire tradn.Miechanics had been trying to get thewire 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 twoprisoners.- both negroes. one a -o-man, and shot them to death. afte.rwhich the'ir bodies were strung up.The victims were charged wit-h kill-ing the husband of the woman andwife of the man.

Misken for Burglar.At Harrisburg. Pa.. Mirs. Catherine

Bomgardner. wife of a well knownplumer, was shot by her husband.John W. Bomgardner, in mistake fora burglar at their home early Thurs-day morning. She imed in a few

BLEW UP BANKFive Bandit Who Didit Pursd by Een

in Automebile and

THREE ARE CAPTUREDThe 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 CoalCity. at Coal City. Illinois. exchangedshots with a posse Thursday. threeof the robbers being wounded andcaptured. Coal City is sixty-threemiles southwnst of Chicago. The en-

tire population was aroused by theexplosion in the bank and the ensu-

ing pursuit.The marauders entered the town

on a passing freight train and beganoperation by tieing Barney Ghetto.the night watchman, and Washing-ton Frye. the night engineer of theelectric plant._ They eben blew upthe bank building and shattered thesafe with a charge of nitro-glycerine.and after seizing the contents of thesafe. leape. on a Sante Ve train withtheir plunder, which was partly instamps.As the train carrying the bandits

pulled out of town. Ghetto succeed-ed in cutting his -bonds and rushedto the telephone, notifying EugeneMiller, the night watchman at Mas-on. seven miles south of Coal City.and he with Dr. E. D. Watts, whowas at tb station at the time, laidin wait for the robbers. Watts wasarmed with a repeating shot gun andMiller carried a revolver.At afason the freight train stop-

ped to switch cars, the bandits leap-ed from the train and hid In a clumpof shrubbery near the track.Miller and the doctor discovered

their biding place and opened firewhich was promptly returned, about25 shots being exchanged. When thetrain started the bar fits leaped or.

board and again escaped.Immediately the sheriff at Morris

was notifled. Several automobileswere pressed into service and the>ursuit beran. the machines follow-ng a road along the Santa Fe rightof wayFor a time the motor cars sper!

directly alongside thba train, raem-bers of the posse occassionallv f!ringit the dark objects which were tak-en to be the bandits. W.iEn thetrain came 'n a stop at Verona. near

Morris. the cr is were searched by thsheriff and his men.Three of trie fugitives were found

in an empty baggage car. Al werewounded. The other two ha-i 3--1.t is believed that they -leap'-d ofihe moving train from the side op-posite the posse and escaped withhe booty.T'he prisoners were taken to Mor-

is. where they refused to diset:ss theobbery. The prisoners admittedhat their homes were in Chicag4and gave the names of John Hoyt.awer Tonaszewskl and Josephrowlick.

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 belowground in the foundation of the,unicipal 'building under Brookciyn

Uridge terminal. Dense volumes ofsmoke poured from the shaft, whe' e

electric wires had become crossedand 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 thear shot them up through the smokeThey 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 hisbrother. Eugene N. Foss. of Massa-chusetts, a democrat, to the speakersdek to take the oath of office. Thenew 'Massachusetts member succeedsthe late 1Mr. Lovering, a republican.The republicans remained quietly intheir seets as the democrats arose

enmasse, applauding and ch'e -'g onthe front row of the speak. gai-lery. A sweet faced old lady. joineda the ipplause. she was the motherof the two brothers. w-ho were thecenre of attraction. Never befor--have brothers of opposite politicalfaith b.en members of the house atthe same time.

On Trial for Murder.

Irvin Hlatchett. 18S years old, charg-ed with the murder of a 1 4-yeit-e'dgirl. Clovie Tedder. was plac'd o'strial Thursday at Deland. Fla. Thetirl's body was placed near the road-ide and on the body were more than60 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-olddaughter of Inspector Williams. ofthe Atlanta waterworks departmentwas ground to death under a streetcar Thursday night. The child hadw 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 Rooseveltand the manifest effort to make hima 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 hishome on Wednesday.

"I think the Idea of Roosevelt Y,coming a candidate for the presi-d'-ncy or an important factor Instraightening out the Republicanparty is absurd. In the first place.Taft would be more than human ifhe did want vindication and a se-

cond term."His alliance with Aldrich and the

money powers will 'Insure him thes-Ipport of Wall street. whose cap-tains of finance would give up mil-lions to encompass th4 defeat ofRoosevelt.

"In the second place, the Idea ofRoosevelt straightening out the Re-publican party Is absurd."He is not so clean and straight

himself. He has bamboozled thepublic time and time gain.

"Roosevelt Is the creation of thenewspeprrs and little else. Theylent themselves to his making in themost. remarkable manner this coun-try has ever known. No. I do notthink Roosevelt can be resurrected.What will be als future?. Thatis hard to forecast. Doubtless. hewill have to adjust himself to thediffculties of private citizenship."This will be hard. and It will be

a pretty physchological study forthe country to watch. But othershave 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 killedlate 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. Whenthe cashier awakened him he stag-gered toward the door. The cashierstopped him and demanded paymentoyden fumbled in his pockets andfound them empty. He tried to leavrthe place and Schwab grappled withhim.They fought their way out to the

sidewalk. when the cashier releasedis hold. Runing back mnto the res-aurant he got a revolver and shotoyden through the heart.

SAILORS MURDERED.

Lecomplice in the Crime Makes Con-

fession.

Retribution for the mysteriousurde's of sailors, long a puzzle at

he ports of Puget Sound.semms nowlose at hand. Giving alleged- detailsf the killing of John Hoffman andharles Hedberg. John Klingenberras made a sworn confession to

rosecuting Attorney Campbell atAerdeen. Wash.Klingenberg says that he. undertreat of death at the hands of WII-1am GohI. killed Hedberk. The state-ent charges the slaying of Hoffmanirect to GohI, who is a forn.aeragent of the Sailer's Union,~ and isnder arrest at Monte Sano. wairirztrial for wholesale slaying thattrial.As in many previous cases twe

sailors. Hedberg and Hoffman. dis-appeared mysteriously. Hedberg's

bdy was found,. but search failed inreveal Hoffman.

CASH TO BACK COOK.

has Pledged Over $100.000 to Heipthe Explorer.

On the authority of Capt. B. F.

shon. one of the most active sup-porters of Dr. Frederick A. Cook, tieexplorer it was announced In NewYork. last wee., that about $173.-003~had been guaranteed toward a

fund to help Dr. Cook prove hisclaim to discovery of the North Pole."A promhnent Western man."

Capt. Osbon said. "h i pledged~$100.000 of this sum and Easternfriends 'of the exploror the re~naIn-dar. M::ch imore would te fnrthcoing ir -&ded." he declared. C p:.Osbon said that he was in crorres-pondence with the explorer, but hewould not indicate w-here letters toDr. O->ok were addressed. The cap-tan state-i. however, that he exenet-ed the doctor home by the latterpart of the present month.*

The Texas Way.Polcwing his sensat.ional escape

from jai!. Frank Bates was lynchedby hanging in the jail at Centerville.Texas. last week. Dolly Bates. hisson, was also strung up. but was cutdown before life was extinct. Thetwo Bates were ringleaders in thejail delivery. The were both wound-ed as was also Jailer St. John. Allf 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 beenissued in regard to this decision. Itis believed to be the direct result ofthe events at the Indlana State Re-pilican convention, where the In.surgents had things thei own way.

THAT MAN FOSSEis Cmg Eagerly Lookel For by the

RECALLSNOTED SPEChMade 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 comingto the house of representatives inrecent times has been looked for-ward to with more Interest than thecoming of Eugene N. Toss, the Dem-ocrat who overturned the hide-boundRepublican district In Masachusetts.The advent of Foss is much talkedabout and the speculation as to thesignificance of his election goessteadily on.

It Is interesting in connection withit to recall a speech made In thehouse 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 hewas here. Cunaman was the "funnyman" of the house also, and alwayswhen be arose to speak there wereas many members In their seats ascould be there, as well as clotse at.tention In the galleries.Speaking of Canadian reciprocity

and of the reciprocity conventionwhich had just been held Cusnm .-

mid. "One of the prime moemight say, one of the major propbets-of the late national recipro-city convention was one -Eugede N.-Foss, a free trade theorist fromBos-ton, and a tarif egitator by pro-fesion. It has never bee-my-pleas-ure to meet that man Foss, -buthave growing and an almost un-conqueible desire to see hm. Hmust be~ wonderfully and fearfully;'made.'The brilliant and satiric C'nhmw

died two years ago; else be.have 'been now able to grati hsiesire. That Is unless smethifgelse had overtaken him as has verztaken several otiner stand-pat Repub-JIcans to whom In the same speecl-he paid glowing tributes. Pr ifCusbman had lived he would haveseen- other alarming things besldesthe coming to congress of thlsJ"woo- -

derfully and fearfully made" Foss.Notable among the strange happ6nIngs 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 hadtonned a protection coat in order togain admittance. underneath thatguise; but underneath the coat--down next to his hide-was a freetrade shirt. In that gathering: thetree traders tasted a, congenial at-mnosphere and felt that their feetwere planted on familiar ground."Chief among them was .Gov. Al-

bert B. Cwomns of Iowa, the mostpromineht political orphan thatAmerica has produced in a geneel-tion."Dear Old Iowa-the common-

wealth that gave me birth. an(around whose groves and orcrardsthe gentle landscapes are clusteredth 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 helpedto guide and guard the destines ofthe American republic."There is William Peters Hepburn,~

the elearest-minded statesman andythe greatest debater upon this floorof the greatest parliamentary body.on earth."They Is Jonathan P. Dolliver, a

patriot and an orator. whose famehas reached two continents." He-mentioned also John F. Lacy and,Leslie M. Shaw."And legions more of heroic

names coming trooping to' my mindtoday 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 expectto live to see the day when thegreat State that bore me would electa Republican gouernor, the backdoor of whose executive chamberopened directly into a Demeratic freetrade convention.

Poor Cushman! But he wasspared the humilaiton of seeing thissame Cummins succeed hi:, reveretAllison in the United State senataAllison died in time to pre -ent hisown 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 privatelife; Jonathan P. Dollvier join theCuma.ns forces to prevent his owndefeat by the coming storm; and.alas, this man Foss converting a14.000 Republican majority into a6,000 Democratic majority.

And, perhaps, If he bad lived, hemight have seen more before thisyear Is out. It is thought so InWashington, 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 Seventeenthdistrict court. They were married In1880 and their domestic life, accord-ing to the allegations of the petition,had been extremely peaceful untila few months ago. The plaintiffcaresnirely