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i v " "J" 'A &)t hallam Uecorb. w L . ir a 5 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. ?4 f i a j 1 " : ' ' " ' " ... ' k' - " ! , For Larger Advertise- Strictly .n Advance. VOL. XXIX. PITTSBQRO, CHATHAM COUNTY, 0,, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 13. 1906. NO. 18. rnniiio nnnoii it imiinnr inimo mm hi uiinmLi j uu.t feus ex-senator. uftDTU nflnniiuii aceiiidq Another Rear-End Crash and Negligence (he Cause TWO TRAINMEN ARE VICTIMS Engineer George Kinney, of Thonias ville, Brother of the Engineer Who Had Such Narrow Escape Thanks giving Day, and Brakeman W. B. King,, Killed Outright No. 34 Tel escopes a Freight in. the Yards at Danville Fire Follows the Wreck A Number Injured, of Whom at Least One Will Die. Danville, Va., Special. Another railroad horror on the Southern which in many respects resembles that at Lawyers nine days ago, which re sulted in the death of President Speu cer, was enacted in (he yards here Saturday morning at about 4 o'clock. Two persons were killed outright, half a dozen more or less injured, ona of Avhora will die as a result of their injuries. Train No. 34. northbound, a solid Pullman and passenger train, crash ed into the rear of freight train No. $2, which was standing on the main line. The engins ploughed through the caboose and demolished several tars ahead of it. Fire followed the wreck and the local department was call?d out. Four or five cars were consumed and -ethers badly damag ed. The Dead and Injured. Engineer George C. Kinney, of No. 34. was scalded to death and Brake man W. B. King burned to a crisp. The horn? of Kinney, who is a brother of Will A. Krnnej-, the engineer on the train that crashed into Spencer's -aris at Thomasville, ,N. C. King's home is in Danville. The seriously injured are: II. M. Patterson, of Chatham, brakeman, in jured about the head and shoulders and leg broken. O. -L Mull, of Columbia, S. C, flag man ot So. b2, back sprained and hurt about the head. 0. O. Mailer, postal clerk, slightly hurt. ' Robert Ford, colored fireman on No. 34. injured internally and will likely die. Several of his bones were broken. The blame for the wreck rests up on two employes of the Southern. Flagman Mull, of No. 82, who was in jured, and one or the other of the op erators at Danville and Neapoli block stations. When the freight came to a standstill it was the duty of the flagman to go back and plaeV a danger signal for any approaching train and the information ... so far shows that Mull did not do this. Operator Skenille, at Danville, and Operator Clellons, at Neapolis, make, contradictory statements , regarding the sending and receiving of orders of a clear block for No. 34 and only official investigation will bring out the real facts. Dispatcher Skenille, At Danville black station, was former ly at Rangoon and was succeeded by Mattox, who is held responsible for the recent big wreck at Lawyers. An investigation by the local police au thorities will be held in the mavor's court Tuesday morning. Wreck at China Grove. China Grove, Special. Several box cars of southbound freight, train No. 75 were derailed here. " A num ber were completely demolished, but nobody was hurt. Thechief feature of the wreck was the inconvenience t j passenger trains. The main line is completely blocked, and uuabli. to pass at 11:30. ; Young Men Needed For the Navy. Washington, Special. " We want younger men to command the ships of the .navy," said Admiral Dewey, after an interview with the' .president, ''and the only way to accomplish it is to retire officers early." This re sult is sought to be attained by the enactment of the naval personnel bill which the Admiral discussed with the president. ' Discharge! Negro Soldiers Appfr for Re-Enlistment. Washington, Special. At the jriv stance of Secretary Taft 'r Sergeant Sanders and Private Fjtpev Brown, of the Twenty-Fifth Infantry, Colored, filed with the military secretary ap plications for re-enlistmht ; in the army. One of these has been refer red to the President in order that" he may determine whether or not any of the men of the Twentyrfifth Infantry who were recently discharged .with' out honor shall be re-enlisted and if so on what conditions. - ,. ..; ' - ',' John C. Brain Dead. Tampa, Fla., Special.Jobu C. Brain, of the Confederate ijavydi.'d here of paralysis. During the civil war he commanded several Confeder ate vessels. After the war he went to England and. returning a month later he was arrested by order of Secre tary of the Navy Gideon Wells and ,'nh a Prisoner until March, lSb9 , being the last Confederate pris oner to be release, r What Our National Lawmakers Are Doing Frfta Day to Day Taft to Give Information. The resolution of Senator Penrose ?alling the President or all the facts regarding the discharge of the negro troops belonging to the Twenty-fifth Infantry, was received at the White House and at onoa turned over by tho President to Secretary Taft, who will furnish the information desired. The Foraker resolution, which also was passed at the same time, but which' is directed to the Secretary of War, had not been received by Secretary Taft up to a late hour Friday. Sec retary Taft said, however, upon re turning from the cabinet meeting, that he would comply with both reso lutions to the fullest extent. Simplified Spelling. , Simplified spelling received a hard bolw in the legislative bill for 190S reported to the House by the com mittee on appropriations. Which cavs: "Hereafter in printing documents authorized by low or ordered by Congress or either brarrch thereof the Government Printing- Office el.oll CT i & follow the rules of orthography es tablished by Webster's or other gen erally accepted dictionaries of the English language." The bill carries an appropriation of $31,215,525, which is $685,842 less than the estimates made for the leg islative, judicial and executive De partments of the government. An increase from $1,200 to $1,000 is made in the allowance to members of the House for clerk hire, and th requirement that members certify they have spent this amount is omit ted. Efforts to take up the bill confer ring citizenship upon the citizens of I orlo Rico, reported from the com mittee on insular affairs of the House were defeated by objections of the Democrats. An Important Measure. During the three hours the House was in session it passed a bill which has the enthusiastic endorsement of labor as well as manufacturers gen erally, repealing that portion of the Wilson inter-state commerce bill re lating to convict-made "goods and pointing the several States to regu late their competition with "free labor" made grods. The bill was introduced by Mr. Hunt, of Missouri, himself a, practi cal stonemason. Under the Wilson bill, which became a law in 1S93, eon vinct labor-made goods may eater in to active competition with the goods manufactured by "free labor" and urder this Federal law a State could not pass a law that would prevent the shipping into the State prison mado goods of other States. The law which was passed, abrogates the inter State commerce law as at present ap plied to convict-made goods, thereby affording to the different States and Territories the right to inhibit the shipping of convict-made goods with in the confines of any State or Territory-- Senator Simmons gave further at tention to the case which he is to make out against Federal officehold ers in North Carolina, who have been perniciously active in political mat ters. He confered with Mr. Degraw, Fourth Assistant Postmaster general concerning the specific charges which the 'rural free delivery carrier, who, 1 it is alleged, tried to break up a meet ing in Iredell county, at which Mr. Hackett was to speak. Mr. Degraw ?aid that the inspector assigned to look into this matter had not yet com pleted his . report, but he thought it would be at hand in a very few days. Mr. Degraw enfirmed the report given out by the civil service commission that an agent would be sent from the department to accompanj' Commis sioner Green when he starts on hii tour of investigation to the State to look into charges against Federal of fice holders. Minority leader John Sharp Wil liams declared t to be his intention to recommend Representative Small for membership on the rivers and har bors committee, a recognition that i being urged by the entire North Car olina delegation. Mr. Williams is re puted to have said that Mr. Small was his first choice, and that if Speaker Cannon did not approve ot this recommendation he would next endorse Representative Ellerbe of South Carolina. Japs Want Naturalization. Washington, Special. Favorable action by. Congress on the recommen dation of the president in his last an nual message that an act be passed specifically providing for the natural ization of Japanese who come to the United States intending to become Amerisan citizens, will go far toward securing a continuance of the tradit ional friendly relations between this cocntry and Japan, in the opinion of Viscount Aoki, the Japanese ambas sador. The ambassador expressed the be lief that there were not so many Jap aneses in this country to take advan tage of naturalization if it were granted, but he thought that such an opportunity should be afforded them along with the citizens of other coun tries. He said he did liot think it probably that those Japanese who were emigrating in large numbers to Hawaii and the Pacific coast would avail themselves of naturalization as most of them ultimately returned to Japftn, A-rthur Brown, Former United States Senator From Utah Shot and Seri ously Wounded by Mrs. Anna M. Bradley, of Salt Lake City. Washington, D. C, Special. Form er United .States Senator Arthur Brown, of Utah, lies in a critical con dition in Emergency Hospital, from a pistol shot wound in the abdomen inflicted by Mrs. Anna M. Bradley, of Salt Lake, who arrived here Saturday from that city; The shooting occur red in Senator Brown 's apartments in the Hotel Raleigh, where Mrs. Brad ley also had registered under the name of "A. B. Brown." She was taken in custody and was locked up for the night in the matron's room of the First Precinct police station. Two shots were llredj one glazing Brown's left hand and the other en tering the abdomen and lodging in the pelvic cavity. After working over him for nearly two hours, the sur geons decided that for the present at least they would make no further at tempt to find the bullet. It was stat ed that while Senator Brown's con dition was critical, his wounds are not necessarily fatal. No Witness to Shooting. Mrs. Bradley arrived here shortly after noon. After being assigned a room she immediately went to Sena tor Brown's apartment. There were no witnesses to the shooting, but a floor maid heard the shots and noti fied the management. According to her statement, Mrs. Bradley came to Washineton to demand that Senator Brown marry her. She said that tueir relations were well known in Salt Lake. "I asked him if he was going to do the right thing by me," she said, maintaining a remarkable composure. "His reply was that he put on his overcoat and started to leave the room and I shot him. I ab hor acts of this character, but in this case it was fully justified." i. i i i i V hile expressing no sorrow for hei act, she was glad to know that Sena tor Brown might recover. "I was practically penniless when I got hera today," she said, "having only $1.25, and after paying the cabman, all the money I had in the world was $1.00." She said she urged Senator Brown to marry her, that he had been instru mental m the divorce between her husband and herself, and that as his wife was dead he now could "do ths right thing" by her. This she said he positively refused to do. Tells Senator Her Story. Mrs. Bradley .3 a brunette, about 38 years old, and frail of statue. Her first act after being taken to the po lice station was to send for Senator Sutherland, of Utah, who called on her. Senator Sutherland regretted be ing brought into the case, but said that Mrs. Bradley had sent for him because he was the ony man here whom she knew. To him she told the story of her relation with Senator Brown. She alleged that two of her children owe their parentage to Sen ator Brown and that she had nam ed one of them after him. Mrs. Bradley was reluctant to speak of hei former;- husband, but questioning brought1 out the facts that he now is living in Nevada with a second wife. further questioning disclosed the fact that Mrs. Bradley for two years, 1900 and 1902, had served in the ca pacity of secretary to the Utah State Republican .commit tee and also at on. time was editor of the official organ of the State Federation of Women's Clubs. She declared that she had & sister in the newspaper business in Salt Lake City, but that she would not communicate with memberr of her family because she knew that they would come to her assistance. Manager Tatty, of the liaieign, was notified of the shooting within two or three, minutes after it occurred. He hurried to Senator Brown's apart ment to ascertain the facts. Brown Retains Consciousness. Senator Brown, despite the serious ness and shock of the wound, retained consciousness and was perfectly calm and collected. He made no state ment to Mr. Tally beyond saying that he had been shot by Mrs. Bradley. The woman continued in the room while Mr. Ttatly was attending to Senator Brown, but offered no as sistance. Finally, Mr. Tatly ordered her to leave the room. She declined with absolute coolness to comply with the order. ;- . "I will remain here," she said, "1 am the mother of two of his chil dren." " . An otficer from the first precinct police station placed Mrs. Bradley un der arrest. She made no resistance and offered no further explanation ot the shooting. She was sked for a statement of the incident, but referred all those who inquired to Senator ..Sutherland, of Utah. Rawlings Boys Not to Hang. Atlanta, Ga., Special.The pardon board commuted the death sentence of Jesse and Milton Rawlings to life imprisonment. The crime is the sanw for which their father, J. G. Rawlings and Alf Moore, a negro, were hanged at Valdosta, Tuesday. The recom mendation, of the pardon board goes to Gov. Tcrrel, who undoubtedly will approve the decision. nun hi unnuunn n rnmo Items of Interest From Many Parts of the State MINOR MATTERS OF STATE NEWS Happenings of More or Leas Import ance Told in Paragraphs The Cot ton Markets. State Auditor Submits Heport. Raleigh, Special. State Auditor B. F. Dixon transmitted to Governor Glenn his annual report arid recom mendations for the year just past. The priheipal recommendation re garding the inconsistency of 45 couu ties of the State receiving more mon ey, for schools, etc.7 than they pay in in taxes. Mr. Dixon , urges that kind of a tax commission be estab lished to equalize the tax valuation. As it is, in one county tax there may be a tax valuation of 80 per cent of the cash valuation, while in another only 40 per cent. In other words some counties as it is now, are paying twice as much as others. According to the report of the State auditor, a general summary of the State finances shows a balance on hand, general fund, to Dec. 1st, of $338,882, and an educational fund of $56,525, making a grand total of $394,698. The total debt of the State, inter est and non-interest bearing is $6,879,450. - ' Investments of the State aggregate $323,550. 5 During the past year the State has Pahl to the old soldiers in pensions $273,479. These payments are to .' 14j35 old soldiers, an increase in pensioners over last vear of 719. There are now 116 old veterans be ing eared for at the Soldier's Home, and there is a balance due them in the treasury of $2,793 from last year's appropriation. An Increase of $886.45 Charlotte Postal Sales. Charlotte, Special. The receipts of the post office last month from the sale of stamps, stamped envelopes, postal cards and postage on second class matter amounted to $8,312.99. For the same month last year they were $7,426.54, showing an increase of $SS6.45. The money order depart ment deposited during November $29,200.50, for the corresponding month last year $25,400. making ah increase of $3,400. Rural carriers handled during the past month 29,627 peices of first class, 26,224 pieces of second class matter and 14,038 circulars or odd matter, making a total of 69,889. Eun Over and Killed. ' Raleigh, Special. W. A. Stunkle, a prominent young business man of this city, was run over and instantly killed by a dray wagon "early Thurs day morning. One side of his hea was crushed and the shaft of the wag on also penerating the back of his head. He was riding a bicycle, and, turning a corner sharply, collided with the dray. He was a member of the firm of W. A. Stunkle -& Co., steam fitters and plumbers and was well thought of here. Case Workers Meet. Winston-Salem, Special. The North Carolina Case Workers' Asso ciation met in this city Wednesday, the session being held in the assem bly room of Hotel Zinzendorf. There was a large attendance, of manufac turers' arid after a thorough discus sion it was deciced that if the manu facturers would make a profit on cap ital they have invested it would be necessary to advance present prices on account of the continued advances in the cost of material and timber. The Bice Crop. Washington, Special. The Census bulletin says the capital - invested in rice clearing, and ; polishing establish ments for the calendar year, 1904. aggregate $8,821,099. Products were valued at $16,296,916. The cough is .milled was valued at $12,631,13. from which $15,357,133. worth of clean rice and $8S5,200 by-products is obtained. To Build New JaiL Asheville, Special. The Buncombe county commissioners have decided to build a new jail to replace the present very unsatisfactory' struc ture. The estimated cost of the new building will be in the neighborhood of $40,000. A committee will be appointed to visit the jails in many Lof the larger cities and towns, , with a view of obtaining information in regard to modern structures of this character, so that new features may be incorporated in the new building. Briefs of State News. Governor Glenn has issued requi sition papers on the Governor of New York for Graham Farrier, wanted in Gaston county for the - murder of Nash Johnson in 1905. He is now located at White Plains, New York. Wa4esbro Special. Coroner E. F, Fenton received , a phone message from Blewitts Falls stating that a negro. man named Will Huntley was hQt and kilted there Friday-. " SOUTHERN'S DOUBLE TRACK Work on Southern Between Greens" boro and High Point Finished First Train Last Week. Greensboro, Special. The work of double tracking the Southern Rail way between Greensboro and High Point has been finished and the first trains were run over the new track last week. Trains have been usimr the sections of double tracks between Greensboro and Pomona and James town and High Point for several months There 'are now three double traoking crews at work between High Point and Salisbury, and the double track on this section will be complet ed as soon as possible. Work was commenced on that seetion of road Iv-ing- between Greensboro and Pelham. The road has been double fi-ar-lfed frorn Danville to Pelham, a distance ot seven miles. The road is to be straightened in a number of places and steep grades ae to be remedied by cuts and fills. $175,000 For Cotton Seed. Charlotte, Soecial. Mecklenbnr farmers will realize from $175,000 to $200,000 for cotton seed this year. Cotton seed are a product that until recent years was not utilzied at all. Years ago farmers left them at the gins and the gihr.ers burned them to get them out of the way. Later they wore utilized as manure. , Since the dsj of the cotton oil mill seed have inreased steadily in twice, selli no- at first for a few cents a bushel and dur ing the last two or three vears at from 20 'to 25 and 28 cents a bushel. The price at present is 28 cents. It is estimated that close to 25,000 bale. 01 cotton .frave been rcised in Meck lenburg county this. vo&r. There are 30 to 35 bushels of seed to -the bale and the price has probably averas-ed 23 or 24 cants a bushel, making them worth about $7 to the bale. Thus. figured very conservatively, the total would be $175,000. " Growth of Cotton Interests. The fact that 34 new cotton seed oil mills were started in the South in 1906 shows tho progressive character of one branch of the cotton manu facturing industry of that section. Cotton, while still king in a commer cial sense, as respects car foreign trade, is the father of many remuner ative domestic industries. Before the Civil wax cotton seed constituted a nuisance. Mississippi in 1857 passed a law fining ginners $20 a day for neglecting to remove or destroy.it. Yet in 1900 values were extracted from cotton seed to the extent of $42,000,000, including oil, butter, cot toline, fertilizer, soap, lard, paper and batting. The oil when refined is not to be distinguished from olive oil. We use i this country, it i:j said, cot tonseed oil almost exclusively, only Italian alive oil labels being import ed by our, enterpising manufacturers for the delectation of consumers. Baltimore Sun. Open to Women. Wilmington, Special. For the first time in the history of the road the Atlantic Coast Line general office will open its departments to women ste nographers. So far only two of the departments have been authorized to employ women when advisable, but the order will probably be extended to all offices. Scarcity of competent male stenographers is " given as the reason for the innovation. Fire at Tarboro. Tarboro, Special Saturday after noon the cotton house, stables, 30 bales of cotton and the residence of Mr. James Wiggins were destroyed by fire. The residence was. insured for several hundred dollars, but the other property was a total loss. . "Watch Charlotte Grow." Charlotte is just completing a $250,000. hotel and during the coming year will build a $250,000 office building, while the Southern Railway Company will spend a half million dollars in terminals. There is some thing in the watchword of the Great er Charlotte Club, "Watch Charlotte Grow. "Charlotte Chronicle. Serious Charge. Fayetteville, Special. LoUis D. Jones, white, an employe of the Post office Department engaged in trans ferring mail from the depot to the trains was arrested at Wakulla, where he had gone to spend Thanks giving, eharged with the... robbery of pouches, registered packages, etc., of about twenty gold watches, diamonds, and other articles of value. Jones is reported to have made a confession. He will' have a preliminary hearing before United States Court Commis sioner Sutton. Items of State News. The shipments made by the tobac co manufacturers of Winston-Salem aggregated 2,193,534 1"2 pounds. The ninth district returns for Con gress show Webb 12,727 and Roberts S,98S. The completed returns from the 13th judicial district for solici tor show Linney, Democrat, 0,161, ther? being no .opposition an4 14th district, Spainhour, Democrat, 6,430 j Jurist, Republican, f,44S, 0 ROUS MEETS WITH .CCIDENT J ohn H. Sparks Show Ditched at Roberdel Cause lof Wreck is Un known. High -Point, Special. The train hauling John H. Sparks' circus, was wrecked Monday morning at Rober del, a small station on theAberdeen & Asheboro Railroad, 20 miles below Troy. One showman was killed and two were badly injured as a result of the smash-up. . The cause of the wreck' is un known. Several ' cars were badly damaged and two horses and a pony were badly smashed. The blame for the Occident was evidently placed-upon the conductor of the train by the showmen. Immediately after the wreck several of them, infuriated by the death of their companions, turn ed upon ' Conductor Slaek and beat him into insensibility. After taking their spite out on him they escaped into the surrounding timber and have not been seen since. To Look Into Graft Charges at Slor ganton. ! Raleigh, Special. Monday after noon B. C. Beckith, of the State board of internal improvements, N. B. Broughton, John E. Ray and J. N. Holding left for Morganton, to inves tigate charges made against E. McK. Goodwin, superintendent of the State School for the Deaf and Dumb, brought by J. A. Tillinghast, of Con verse College, SQuth Carolina. They embrace favoritism, extravagance and the like. One charge -s that David Tillinghast, who for many years has been teacher and is now about 7Q years old, was displaced by the efforts of the superintendent and given 3 menial position. Superintendent Raj', of the State School for the. Blind goes to act as interpreter, Broughton, as an ex-member of the board of trus tees, holding as attorney for Good win. R. A. Marrom, another mem ber of the State board of internal improvement goes to Morganton. Beckwith will preside at the meeting which will act as a court to hear tha charges, which Broughton stated, just before leaving, did not in his poinion, amount to anything. The Case Continued. Asheville, Special. The important litigation of Westfeldt and other.? against W. S. Adams, having to do with the million-dollar eopper mine controversy, was not called at Way nesville Monday morning bv Judire W. R. Allen, designated to prcsidt at, the special term of Superior Court called for the express purpose .of "try ing the case. After the decision of Judge Pritchard, received here Satur day, in" which the court held for the North Carolina Mining Company oi W. S. Adams, and against the West feldts,. the attorneys for both sides had a conference and signed an agree ment for a continuance of the case- without prejudice in the State courts. This virtually means that the big cop per.. mine suit will not be heard by a State court jury until the higher courts have either affirmed or revers ed Judge Pritchard The attorneys for the Westfeldts during the hear ing before Judge Pritchard gave no tice of 100 exceptions to the court's ruling on the admission and exclu sion of testimony, etc., and it is said that they, hope to secure a new trial on error. Mesenger Boys Strike. Asheville, Special. Manager Cal vert of the local Western Union Tele graph Company's office had a real live messengfer-strike on his hands when eight of his force suddenly con ceived the idea that they were "under paid, and turning in their messenger sheets, watked out. The strike lasted less than an hour and now all is peace and quiet at the Western Union office. Body Brought to Spray. Spray, Special. The body of Mr. Oscar Riddle was brought in on Monday morning's train from Dan ville. An overdosa of laudanum is declared by the coroner's jury to have been the cause of his death. Whether it was taken with suicidal intent is not known. Fire at.Kilgo. Pittsboro, Special. The Alliance cotton gin at Kilgo, in the northern part of Chatham was destroyed by fire at 5 o'clock Monday morning. The cause of the-fire is unknown. Fifty bales of cotton and 3,000 bushels of seed were lost. Mr. J. H. Norwood was the heaviest loser, having Jost 2,000 bushels of seed and 18 bales of cotton Several small farmers Jost their entire crop. ' There was no in surance. It was a stock company, "several-of the farmers in 'that neigh borhood having built it several years ago. - North State Items. Raleigh", Special. The State board of canvassers announces the cotaplete vote for Congressman in the eighth district, Hackett 16,907; Blackburn 15,541; Hackett 's majority, 1,066. Governor Glenn has some Eng lish pheasants sent bys Gould Brok awn, of New York, from his preserve in Randolph county, where there are three thpusand of these birds. One lmndred, were kjllstf Thursday RATES OF ADVERTISING. One square, on i&Mrtioa $1.00 One square, two inter tio&i .. 1.60 On square, one month - 2.51 CORNELL BOYS DIE I CHAPTER HOUSE FIRE Three Prominent Ithacans, Vol unissr Firemen, Also Perish. SEVEN STUDENTS WERE HURT Members of Chi Psi Fraternity Sacri fice Their Own laves to Rescue Comrades Penned in Upper Sto- rics Victims Trapped Asleep. Ithaca, N. Y. Four men students of Cornsll University and three mem bers of the Volunteer Fire Depart ment of Ithaca were killed and seven students were injured in the burning of the Chi Psi Fraternity house on Cornell campus. Two bodies remain' in the ruins. Thirty stxidents lodged in tho house, which originally was the Mc-Graw-Fiske mansion, and was the most palatial fraternity lodge at any college in the United States. All ex cept three escaped when the fire was discovered roaring up both stairways at 4 o'clock a. m. Two of the victims died as heroes, returning to rescue comrades, and the three firemen were killed together under a falling wall. Students Dead. Grelle, Ferdinand W., twenty. South Orange, N. J., freshman in en gineering school; body missing. McCutcheon, James, Jr., Pittsburg, halfback on Cornell eleven, sopho more class; died in hospital. Nichols, William Holes, Chicago, senior class; body not positively iden tified. Schmuck, Oliver Leroy, Hanover, Pa., senior class; jumped from third story after trying to. rescue Nichols; died in hospital. Volunteer Firemen Dead. Landon, E. J., salesman, Ithaca. Robinson, Alfred S.f lawyer, Ith aca, graduate of Cornell. Rumsey, John C, hardware mer chant, Ithaca. Students Injured. Pope, Clarence J., East Orange, N. J., freshman;, football eleven; went back to rescue comrade; probably fa tally burned. Curry, Henry M., Pittsburg; burned attempting with . Pope to rescue a comrade. DeCamp, H. S., New York Goetz, W. W., Milwaukee. Powers, R. R., Atlanta. Sailor, G. R., Pittsburg. Uiblein, H. A., Milwaukee. The fire started in the kitchen, and when H. S. DeCamp, a New York student, who lodged on the third floor, was awakened by smoke and gave the alarm, the flames had reached the halj on the first floor and started up both stairways,' cutting off escape from the upper floors. DeCamp shouted to awaken the men on the third floor and ran through the blinding smoke to the attic. From a window he slid down the vines and ran to another' chapter house and a student there sent in an alarm from the nearest box on the campus. Most of the students roomed on the fchird floor, and they were confronted by injury if they jumped, death if they remained. Oliver Schmuck got safely out of the building before he discovered that his roommate,. Nichols, had not followed him. He dashed back through the flames, but could not find his friend. Driven, finally, to save himself, he had to jump from a third-story window. His charred body was unconscious when carried away and he died within a few hours. McCutcheon gave his life, too, re maining too long to assist other boys to escape. He roomed with Curry and Pope. " McCutcheon was made helpless before he would consent to flea. Then his comrades put him on the coping outside a window, and having nothing with which to' lower him to the ground, had to leave htm there while to save their lives they escaped from the flame3 that drova them out of a window. When men from a neighboring fraternity house got a ladder up to the window Mc Cutcheon was nearly dead. Grelle and Nichols finally retreated to the tower, where from a window they called for help. The volunteer firemen had arrived by this time, hav ing taken a half hour to get their apparatus up the steep hills that aro everywhere in Ithaca. They were stringing a hose alongside the tower when the two" students appeared there. It was impossible to rescue them, and they hesitated to jump. Firemen and students in horror watched the flames, fanned by a forty-mile gale, lick up the structure be low the helpless boys. Suddenly the tower crumbled, the two penned-in' victims fell' with it, and underneath were three of the firemen volunteers. Charged With Embezzlement. Embezzlement of about ?6,000 is charged asainst J. E. Hutchinson, former secretary-treasurer of the Delta Cotton Company at Memphis, Tenn. Russian Seamen Strike. Eleven thousand seamen at Odessa, Russia, struck because of the sup pression by the Government of the Seamen's Union. Italians Improve Railways. The I talis n Government asked for $1S2,000,000 to improve the rail roads. Highest Prices For Cotton. The highest prices of the season have been reached by raw cotton, and manufactured fabrics are strong, with an upward tendency. Church Inventories Resumed. - The toVing of inventories of the French churches was resumed, with out serious disorder. Legislature Nearly Unanimous. Alabama's next Legislature wJU eentAin on Rpi;bllcanu o
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