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COLUMBUS, POLK COUNTY, N.'C, TH URSDAY, APRIL 28, 191 0.
NO. 50.
Throo Gong tno VjO
B TWAIN DIES
AT RE
orn will uy unui ciuu nguiiy j
Seventy-four.
I STRESSED AT JEAN'S DEATH
hive Me My Glasses, Written in
Bed, His Last Words Laying
Them Aside the Humorist Sank
Into Reverie.
Redding, Conn. Samuel Langhorn
emens, marK iwain, aiea irom
ngina pectoris. It was the end of
man outworn by grief and acute
ony of body.
For many hours the gray aquiline
eatures lay molded in the inertia of
eath, while the pulse sank lower and
bwer, but late at night Mark Twain
hassea irom stupor iuiu iub urst u
1 A. S X A 4 MM
ural sleep he had known since he
eturned from Bermuda, and next
Jnorning he woke refreshed, even
beerful and in full possession of all
his faculties. He recognizee nis
daughter Clara, Mrs. Ossip Gabrilo
Witsch. snoke a rational word or two,
and. feeling himself unequal to con
Versatlon. wrote out In pencil: "Give
me my glasses." They were his last
words. Laying them aside, he sank
rst into reverie, and later intd final
consciousness dead.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens was
nrn n h inrina. rvio.. on iNuveuiuer
n his own Burlesque Auuooograpny,
were, neither very poor nor conspicr
mnslv honest. The -ear-
iocf ancestor the Twains havte any
h-ecord'of was a friend of the ' family
hay the name of Higglns." Tnecoun
ty chronicles have it that the elder
!ii.mna tailaA Iti " hiiatrtacc ami ritart.
leaving his son the ample world to
make his fortune In...
Accordingly Mark Twain s ac
quaintance with literature -began in
cutting woras into - type, noi laeas
into words. Educated only in-. the
public schools, he was apprenticed
n nrinter at thirteen and worked
fat his trade in St. Louis, Cincinnati,
(Philadelphia and. New York City, un
kil at eighteen he could gratify a boy
fish ambition to become cubto a Mis
sissippi River pilot. Both these "des
perate happenings reacted profound
ly on his later life. Varied: and
"eventful as that life waa. It mignt
i almost be said that only two things
happened to MarkTwain -he learned
the river and he learned to set type.
His knowledge of river life, ac
quired when be was a pilot, took
form in "Tom Sawyer," "Huckleber
ry Finn" and "Life on the Mississip
pi." regarded abroad as his surest
title to fame. It even suggested his
pseudonym,l for "Mark Twain" is a
linesman's cry to the pilot in shallow
stages. And his familiarity -witn
printing turned him naturally-, first
into newsnatier work then Into crea
tive writing, and finally into-the pub
lishing business. wherein, like Sir
"Walter Scott, he suffered a bank
ruptcy, disastrous to everything but
his honor, and. like Sir Walter again.
paid off by his pen debts not of ms
ewn making.
In due time Mark Twain became a
full fledsed pilot. He tells the rest
himself in a chapter or life on tne
Mississippi. v f
By and by the war -came, com
merce was suspended, my occupation
was gone. - .
"I had to seek another livelihood.
So I became a silver miner in Ne
vada; next, a gold miner in Califor
nia; next, a reporter in San Fran
cisco; next, a special correspondent
in the Sandwich Islands; next, a rov
ing correspondent In Europe and the
East; next, an instructional torch
bearer on the lecture platform, and,
finally, I became a scribbler of books,
and an immovable fixture,among the
other rocks of New England,"
This was in 1872, two years after
he had married Miss Olivia L. Lang
don, of Elmira. N. Y., who brought
him an independent fortune. At that
time his writings were in growing de
mand, he had . an assured income, ,his
own homeland seemed indeed a fix-
ture But in 1885 his popularity as
an author and his acquaintance with
the mechanics of the publishing trade
besides being a practical printer
he had beenpart owner of the Buf-
laio Exnress before ' his marriage
drew him into the, firm of C. L. Web
ster & - Co., publishers. The firm
brought out the memoirs of General
Grant, and paid his widow $350,000.
but its prosperity was short lived and
it failed with liabilities of. $96,000.
The failure had already sucked in
565,000 of Mark-Twain's cash, but
he determined also, to .shoulder the
debts, and to pay them off undertook
1Ji 189 3-G a lecture trip around the
Mark Twain was an Inveterate
SIIioker and one of the most leisurely
en in. the world. An old pressman
"o was once printer's devil in an
."ce where Mark Twain was edito
writer tells this anecdote of his
oits 0f work:' "One -of ' my duties
a? to sweep the room where editors
forked. Every day; .'Mark would
J'.ve me a nickel ttf ge.t away from
. He would, rather die in the
"l,st than uncross hia legs. -One day
f? gave. me a nickel to dot an T in
nis copy for hinf. He certainly did
en!y life, that man did."
et this easy-going dawdler ac
2f tted himself of a prodigious deal
vork in his. life, and bounfThim
thA vuoluntarlly to pay off the debts
0t he-could have discharged wlth
thr V" to his sood name by passing
trough bankruptcy. He did not
DDIfIG
HOmE
practice as he preached . "It don't
make no difference," he had Huck
Finn say, "whether you do -right or
wrong, ; a person's conscience ain't
got no sense and lust goes for him '
anyway. If I had a yaller dog that
didn't know no more than a person's
conscience did, I'd p'ison him. It
takes up more room than all the rest
of a person's insides, and yet ain't no
good, no how." ! . y i
Business -reverses were encoun
tered by Mr. Clemens about seven
years ago, when his friend, Henry H.
Rogers, went to his aid. His publish
ing anairs, managed by nimseir, nev
er were a success, and at this time
other friends came forward to reha
bilitate the author's fortunes. He
lectured and he ,wrote and again
emerged from his troubles. At this
time he cruised with Mr. Rogers on
the Tlatter's yacht and was often in
his company. ,
With Mark Twain's lecture trip
around the world began his interna
tional celebrity and his gradual rise
into a figure taken in some sense to
typify the' American spirit. From
humorist he became the kindly but
mocking moralist -and philosopher of
"Puddinhead Wilson." i His literary
output became more occasional, and,
though written with more ' finesse,
more critical and less creative. His
public appearances grew more fre
quent; . his whimsical utterances
gained greater currency, and a whole
literature of anecdotes about him
grew up. v ;
Yale gave him the degree of M.
A.,and later of L. H. D.,-in W0X;'
the University of Missouri, his native
State, followed with LL. D. in 1902.
and in 1907 the University of Oxford
with great . ceremony made, him
Litt. D. V
Indeed,' , serious appreciation of
Mark Twain as an 'artist and not a
mere jokesmith began abroad, but
his true worth has long been recog
nized in this country. VMark Twain's
humor," said William Dean " Ho wells,
"will live forever. He portrays and
interprets real types, not only wifi
exquisite, appreciation and sympathy
but with a force anI . truth of -drawing
that makes them permanent. He
had the true humorist's tender heart
and deep : seriousness. Like Bret
Harte, -vith! whdmhe worked,' like
the great- West, that "bred "him, his
most audacious sallies were terse and
sternly grave. As a moralist, love of
humanity, hatred of sham and the
sense: of duty informed his most
ironic and debonair preachments."
Four, children were . born to Mark
Twain, of whom , two, a son and a
daughter, died ; early. One other
dauter,rJean;'rwho'bd-bcttaiv-lBt
valid for life,, was found dead in her
bathtub last fall in her home at Bed
ding; Conn. Her- tragic death sad
dened, her father, who declined in
health from that moment. A third
daughter, Clara, is Mrs. Ossip Gabrl
lowitsch, -wife of the pianist, who
married her last year?
Mark Twain's first book was "The
Jumping Frog.'- His best known In
this country was possibly "Innocents
Abroad." His surest title to fame is
generally believed to be "Tom Saw
yer" and its companion volume, "The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
In all, his books had a sale of . more
than 800,000 copies and were trans
lated- into 'sir languages. Others
among the better known are "A
Tramp Abroad," "The Prince and the
Pauper," "A Yankee at the Court of
King Arthur." "Puddinhead Wilson"
(dramatized), "Joan of Arc," "A
Double-Barreled Detective Story" and
"Eve's Diary."
WOLTER GUILTY OF B1URDEB.
Body Found at Murderer's Rooms
Partly Burned in New York City.
New York City. -Albert W. Wol
ter, eighteen years old, was found
guilty of murder in the first degree
after two hours' deliberation on the
part of the jury. Wolter killed Ruth
Wheeler, fifteen years old, in his
rooms just thirty; days ago. 'v For
speedy Justice this is the j-ecord, not
only for the county, but for the State,
in a murder case. The prisoner
showed no signs of emotion. 1
. The partly burned body of the girl
was found in the fireplace. She had
been outraged and strangled.
"Poor little girl," exclaimed Mr.
Moss, the prosecutor. "Thrust in
there she was while still J alive. ,
hope she did not feel the fire, though
she breathed It this child who had
died because she . fought . for her
chastity."
Mr. Moss dangled Wolter's blood
stained and soot-marked shirt before
the jury and -before the eyes of. Wol
ter himselfrf Wolter sat with an arm
flung over the back of his chair.- His
tears of self-pity had dried. The new
parade of horrors was without effect
on him. . ' j i "r ...;:;r;r : ';'
"The man who wore the shirt car
ried the body," declared Mr. Moss;
"and that's . Wolter's shirt. , Fred
Ahrens wasn't wearing, Wolter's
shirt. : ,.: -..;: .:;.v . '. .''.--
"They say we have not proved
fuel. Whyf here is a, jarful of ashes
the ashes of wood. Her clothes
were soaked with; oil. Hefe remains
her little hand; . look at it. It is
clenched and holds a remnant of
this monster's , hair. ' It was a delib
erate crime by burning to hide the
other crime. . : "'' ' :- , -'
'I beg you to be resolute as we
have had to be:' A great duty is on
vou, pointed out to you. step by step.
The web is complete. The protection
of out young women; the lessbn to
our young men; the vindication of
justice demand a verdict of murder
in the first degree." ,
Lord Kitchener at West Point'.
Field Marshal .Lord Kitchener vis
Ited the Military Academy at West
Point; there was no demonstration,
at his own request. . ' . .
HUE TAX BILL FAILS
New York Assembly Tables Meas
ure After Four Hours' Debate.
Hesolnticn . Offered by Andrew
Murray and Advocated in Speech
v Quoting Senator Root.
Albany, N. Y. The proposal for a
national income tax amendment was
defeated in he Assembly after a long
debate. Th resolution for an In
come tax was offered by Andrew F.
Murray, , Republican for the , Nine
teenth "Manhattan district, and he
made a (long speech sustaining the
position of President Taft and Sen
ator Root on the proposition. The
resolution 1 as required by' the' rules
was in the form of a bill and .required
76 votes. Even after a-call. of the
House. Assemblyman Murray could
only obtain 74.: The. vote against the
income tax ;. was 6 6 and there were
ten absentees. Murray gave noticg
that at some future time hewoula
move to reconsider the vote by whiohi
his motion was lost, and this means
that If - within any time before ad
journment he is sure of 76 votes he
will call up the resolution.
The opinion herer Is that New York
State is not likely to be committed,
this year at least, to a Federal income
tax, but it is in the Senate probably
that At will have to be defeated. As
semblyman Murray, Republican, of
New York City, who has charge of it,
is confident that the two votes which
he lacked will be on hand to pass the
resolution when he calls It up again,
before the end of the session.
Assuming that the Assembly will
pass the Murray measure, all "signs
point to its defeat in the State Sen
ate. It will be recalled that six. weeks
ago the Republicans, . by almost a
unanimous vote on their part, refused
"to invite Elihu Root, an advocate of
the tax. to address It in reply to the
objections advanced by, .Governor
Hughes in his annual message; there
fore, it Is believed here that, should
the Murray resolution get as far as
the SenateT it probably will find few
friends outside of the sixteen mem
bers of the Democratic minority.
; The vote on it, which came after
more than four hours of earnest, and
at times bitter, debate, stood 74 in
favor," 66 against, two short of, the
seventy-six votes necessary, for pas-
several u Republicans .. voting for. the
proposition and . two - Democrats
Chanler, of Dutchess, and Shortt, of
Richmond -voting against it.
Assemblyman Murray followed the
announcement of the result by a mo
tion to reconsider the vote and to lay
that motion on the table. This was
passed, 97 to 16. ,
PRICE OF LIVE HOGS DROPS.
Decline of $1 a Hundredweight Shows
in Three Days.
Chicago. -Recent heavy arrivals of
hogs are - reflected - ln"a . decline In
prices ot $ 1 In (the last few -days. A
few weeks ago hogs sold at the high
est since the Civil War, thus attract
ing heavy shipments, in view of which
the present reaction is not regarded
as remarkable. ; .
Salt pork on the Board of Trade
recently underwent a decline of $3,
but the market 'steadied on buying
by packers, who were able to pur
chase the cured product on a basis
of 8 cents a pound, as compared
with nine cents for the live article. -
Cleveland, Ohio. Hogs fell off
sixty cents a hundred pounds here,
making a total , drop in the market
of more than 1 a hundredweight in
the last three days. "v
Pittsburg. There was a drop of
forty cents a hundredweight in the
price of live hogs in Union Stock
Yards here. The fall ijupriee is said
to be due to reduced consumption.
BOY SHIPPED AS COLLATERAL.
Sent to a Bank as Guarantee of Pay
: ment of a Board Bill.
St. Louis, Mo. A shipment of one
boy, six years old, was received in the
Union Station here from Monroe, La.,
consigned to the National s Bank of
Commerce for collateral for a board
bill to be remitted j by the Bankof
Monroe. ! - j
Mrs. Fi J. Koontz, acting as agent
for P. J. Koontz, whose name is Ar
thur, called in the" Union Station for
the consignment, but the officials of
the Iron Mountain, mindful of their
obligation as common carrier, refused
to deliver him into her handsy be
cause she was, not the-consignee
named in the bill of lading. The! boy,
elill tagged, was taken to the National
Bank of Commerce in a taxicab.
The bank gave its receipt, to the
railroad company and the by was
timed over to Mrs. Koontz. Hie
bank in Monroe wasthen told by wire
jto pay Dempsey the $52.80. ( ; v
PITTSBURG LOOTER CONVICTED.
Jury Recommends Mercy in the Case
of M. L. Swift, "Jr.
Pittsburg, Pa. Guilty as indicted,
with a recommendation - for extreme
mercy -from the court, was the verdict
returned in, the case of former Coun
cilman M. L. Swift, Jr., the first of
the victims of the graft scandal to be
put on .trial on the.charge of bribery,
Immediately after .the verdict "was
read- Rody Marshall, attorney, for the
defense, announced a new trial.: will
be asked. Assistant District Attorney
Warren I. Seymoursald Judge Fraser
has signified his intention of consid
ering the recommendation for mercy.
NORTH STATE NEWS
Item of State Interett Gathered
and Told la Briet
Wadesboro Knocks 'Em Ont.
In the Superior Court Wednesday
R. J. W. Bedfern,; for many years si
business man of Wadesboro, and man
of considerable property, plead guilty
to violation of the prohibition law in
one? case, and four other cases
against him were dismissed on the
payment of eosts. ; ' Redfern" is in a
pitiful physical condition and was
brought to court by the sheriff on an
ihstanter capias. Redfern agreed to
close his - near-beer place and sent
ence was suspended until the next
term of court on account of his con
dition. The convietion of Redfern
and the closing of j his place of busi
ness is a knock-out blow to the blind
tiger business. V f
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Mining Company vs. Westfeldts.
Judge Boyd has signed the final de
cree ' in the suit o the North! Caro
lina ' Mining Company against West
feldts and others dismissing the com
plaint from the Federal -courts and
taxing Circuit Court costs amounting
to more than $8,000 against the plain
tiff The total court costs in the case
wee more than $12,000. If the plain
tiffs do not preselute an appeal no
ticl of which wasfgiven the case will
come up in the State courts of Hay
wobd county. - f:f ,
j iChampnion Dewbeary County.
The Moore Couity. Dewberry jAsso
cialion, representing 90 per cent of
the acreage devoted to this fruit in
th$ premier dewberry county of the
woHd,' at a special meeting solved the
prdblem of distribution of this sea
son's crop and completed-all prelim-,
inary arrangements before the annual
advent of the dynasty of the , dew
berry, 'which holds j absolute sway in
Moore during the' month of June.
?...-;,,.' . . ; j .
1 Great North Carolinian Dead.
, . Col. Paul Barringer Means, for 40
years one of North Carolina's j most
prominent attorneys, and a gallant
ex-Confederate soldier, a native of
Cabarrus . county , passed peacefully
away Wednesday. He was 66 years
old at the date of his death. "Col;
M?yn-was--JcOrmeeted--with-the Uest.
families of North Carolina. X. '
Conductor j Seduced GirL u
Acting under instructions " from
Sheriff McKenzie, of Rowan county,
B. Hi Pinson, a; freight conductor,
whose run is from Spencer to Green
ville, was arrested in Charlotte Fri
day for seducing! Miss Pearl Scott, a
16-year-old girl I of Spencer, under
promise of marriage.
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30,000 Gallons: Whiskey Seized.
Announcement I is made at the rev
enue agents office at Asheville of the
seizure Thursday of 30,000 gallons of
whiskey in . the warehouse of P. E.
Foster, at Williams, for alleged ir
regularities. The-' value, of the prop
erty seized, exclusive of tax, is $25,
000. . :: , r-
: Memorial to Worth McAlister.
The Brotherhood of the First Pres
byterian ChurchJ'at Wilson, has de
cided to establish a medical dispen
sary ; at some point in . China, as a
memorial to late; J. Worth McAlister,
of Wilson.
$100 Reward.
Governor Kitchin offers a reward of
$100 for the captWe of Sylvester Par-
ham wanted m Pender county for the
murder of Preston
Johnson Feb. 23,
last ' " f
Postmasters Appointed.
! Green, Chatham county, Archie H.
Olham, vice G. N. Mclver, resigned;
McDonald, Robeson county, Spurgeon.
McLean, vice J. L. iTownsend,. resign
ed. .- i
Patents Granted.
Messrs. Henry W. Bason, Mebane,
wood-bending machine; John E. L.
Yinecoff, Whtteville, violm
! Cobb WithersGranted Reprieve.
i Death under trie law. in the electric
chair is toipassj byj Cobb Withers, a
negro, of - Mecllleriiiurg county1, wf or
the ' time beingr whose sentence for
murder was elirocution, ah appeal
to Gov. Kitchin & commute sentence
life imprisonmerjt to be giyen consid
eration.N Beeauof this appeal and
in I order to hear; the matter Governor
Kitchin has granted a reprieve until
Friday, May 27h. . . ,
X;f. Canned Etaut Killed Her.
" ' ... is , i .
" Mrs. Alpheus Dixon died Wednes
day from the result of eating canned
kraut. Ptomaine ; poison developed
immediately and she died in great
agony. Mrs. Dixon was the daugh
ter of a liveryman of Durham, I and
leaves a" daughter about three months
old. . ! ; .
HendersonvUle for Mill Men.
' HendersonvUle was chosen as the
place 'for holding, the annual conven
tion of the r South j; Carolina ; Cotton
Manufacturers 1 : Association on June
10, at a meeting of 27 mill men at
Greenville Wednesday. .
TAR HEEL CHRONICLES
Kews Notes Gathered From A3
Parts of the Old' North SUta.
Asheville Methodists Busy.
At Asheville the committees
charge of the general , conference o
the Southern Methodist church are
attending to many matters of detail
in conection with handling the great I
garnering oi meinoaists me . nrsij
general conference ever held in rrorth;
Carolina. Reception eommittess were!
appointed to go to Old Fort; Hender
sonviUe and Hot Springs, May 3rd,
board the incoming trains and attend
to - the wants of the delegates and
visitors. . . i .
The ladies of the various Metho
dist churches of the city will give!
the visiting ladies a large reception
one afternoon during the conference I
at the splendid green of the Albe
marle park. Special trains have al
ready been chartered from Texas and
St. Louis, while an excursion will be
run from Richmond. Special trains
will originate at Birmingham to bring
the Southern delegates.
The Asheville committees have
just had issued a handsome direc
tory containing; the names of all the
delegates and addresses ; much in
formation about Asheville. A num
ber of distinguished men will address
the conference at nights besides the
bishops and ministers of the church.
Three of national prominence, Sena
tor Gore, of Oklahomha; Governor
Hadley, of Indiana, and Dr. Cadman,
of Brooklyn, have" already been an
nounced. Business sessions will be
held at the morning session, 'and
lectures, addresses and sermons
night. "
at
For New Court House.
I do not think there is another
county in the State that needs a new
court-house as much as this county,"
said Judge C. C. Lyon on the bench
at Wadesboro when the grand jury re
port came to him. To the clerk of
the court he said, "Read this report
to the assembled people and spread
it on the record and serve a copV on
the county ' Commissioners : at their
next meeting' r ,
TJjeclerk read the ff rrtaloud. It.
called attenHon" to the f acthat 'the
court house was entirely too small
for the, work "and recommended that
the . court house and site be sold and
another location be purchased and
more modern buildings be "erected f or
the court house and jail. The grand
jury thought that the present site
would sell for almost enough money
jto buy a site and erect a new build
ing. The present site is very valuable
property and would sell for a .fancy
price. Several parties are ready to
makei the county an offer and their
purpose is to erect a business block.
r-. Boys Will Get Certificates.
Certificates of merit signed by Gov.
Kitchin and Superintendent of Pub
lic Instruction J. Y. Joyner and bear
ing the great seal of; the State are to
be issued this fall to boys in the
Boys' Corn Clubs organized under the
auspices of the demonstration depart
ment for the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture and the State
Department of Agriculture provided
certain rules are complied with and
fixed high results are attained.
Engineers Assist on Roads.
The Highway Division of the -North
Carolina Geological and Economic
Survey has been giving engineering
assistance during the; past two
weeks in Cleveland, Forsythe and
Yadkin counties. Mr. W. L. Spoon,
road engineer, is in Forsyth .,and
Yadkin counties investigating the
best location for a road from , Winston-Salem
to Yadkin ville.
, Boy Shoots Little Sister.
- A 12-year-old son of Gus Sears,
colored, who lives twelve miles from
Kinston, shot his little 2-year-old sis
ter to death with a Flobert rifle.
Shepard With a Razor.
Solomon Shepard, the desperate
neero from Durham count v. who is
in the penitentiary tor the murder oi
Engineer Holt and who made his es
cape in the early spring and was
captured after a long chase, hurst
forth into an angry mood Saturday
and came near fatally injuring one
of his fellow prisoners by cutting him
severely .with a razor.
" Must Pais "Examination.
Col. W-:. G. Smith, Maj. Lawrence
Young and Maj. S. C. Jordan, of
Asheville, have been appointed by Ad
jutant General Armstrong as board
of examiners to j examine applicants
for commissions , in . the ' guard that
arise in the Asheville -section. ,
, , . '
- May Lose -a Congressman.
There is some doubt in Washing
ton as to whether or hot North Car
olina will, have nine or ten Congress
men after the -. next census'. It was
by the smallest margin that the State
got ten ten years 'ago ami, while
cities have grown sdme of the country
districts have los in population..
HAVENS DEFEATS ALDRIOGE;
SLUMP IH REPUBLlCAfl VOTE
Change, of 16,000 Ballots in
Rocli&ter, !l Y, District
CLOTHING MAKERS' ANGRY
Democrat, Elected to Congress by
Plurality 5835, Succeeding a Re,
publican Who Won by 10,000 in
1008 Complete Reversal.
Rochester, N.' Y. -In the special
election for representative in Con
gress in the Thirty-second District be
tween ' James S. - Havens, Democrat
and George W Aldrldge, Republican; i
Havens defeated Aldrldge by a plur
ality of 5835. Inasmuch as the late -Representative
Perkins, Republican
carried the district in 1908 by 10,167 -the
result shows af change of 16,002 i
votes. Mr. Havens carried the city j
of Rochester by 3746, when in 1908 I
Mr. Perkins carried it by 62 16, which
records a change of 9961 votes.
The result is similar to that in the
Fourteenth Massachusetts district,
where at a recent special election Eu
gene N. Foss, Democrat, overturned i
a Republican plurality in 1908 of
14,000 and won by 6000, making a
change of 20,000 votes. The last
Democratic Congressman for this dls-
trict was Colonel Albert S. Qreenleaf,
elected in 1890. ! r -
Mr. Havens carried all of the Re- s
publican strongholds not only in the
city of Rochester, but the country
towns of Monroe County, which make ,
up the Congress District. He carried i
seventeen of the twenty-two -wards
in the city of Rochester: and all but I
one of the nineteen eountry towns, i
Aldrldge carried his own ward by 88
Perkins carried it in 1908 by 900. 1
The reversal of Republican votes
Is even greater than seems " on the
surface, for despite the slump, Ald
rldge gained in several of the Demo
cratic wards in Rochester. It is a
fair estimate that there was a change
of frem 11,000 to 12,000 in the Re
publican, votes of the city. But the
great significance of the vote lies in
the tremendous changes in the strong
Republican wards in 'Which the Re
publican majorities have always been
piled up. Some of these wards have
never before given a majority against
: aRepubllcan candidate in the history
of local politics. ' ' - ' 'f ; w-...'
rThe atmosphere has been- heavy
with the complaints of manufacturers
over the wool schedules ln the.Ald-
jrich-Payne tariff bill and clothing
manufacturers abound in the district,
indeed general dissatisfaction baa,
been heard over national policies and
the feeling over the attitude of the
administration's tariff policy toward
Canada has been pronounced, tZ not
downright bitter. .
Washington, D. C. Republicans
jwere' amazed when the news was re
ceived from Rochester that George
W. Aldrldge had been defeated for
Congress by Havens, his Democratic
opponent. They insisted that Ald
rldge was defeated for reasons purely
local and that his defeat could not
be accepted as having any bearing on'
national issues. .
HALE AND. ALDRICH TO RETIRE.
Important Bearing of News on Lead
ership of Senate.
Washington, D. C Senator ' En
gene Hale; of Maine, next to Senator
Aldrlch, the chief figure on .the Re
publican side of the Senate, will an
nounce his retirement from the can
vass in his State for re-election.
Coming so soon after the news that
Senator Aldrlch, of Rhode Island, ,
will hot be a candidate for re-election,
the news about Senator Hale was
nothing short - ot sensational ; in Its
bearing upon the political situation
here. '.""-''"' ' ;'''!
It has an important effect upon the
Republican organization in the. Sen
ate, upon the situation In the "party
throughout the country, and especial
ly upon the relations of the adminis-"
tration with Congress. -
TWO BALL PLAYERS KILLED.
Freeburg (ni.) Man Struck'. Over
Heart and Troy Lad on the Temple. .
Troy, N. Y. John Fv Burns, of
this city, a member of the freshman
class of- the Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute, died .as the result of being
struck on the temple by , a pitched
ball in a baseball game between the
freshman nine of the R. P. L and the
Troy High School team.
-Freeburg, 111. William Schmi(t,".
twenty-eight, 'a member of the Free
jburg (111.) "Nine Stars' ball team,
was killed " by being struck with a
ball over the heart. The team was
playing with a St. Louis team and
Schmltt was at the bat. ! ( t
Louis Unzle, of St. Louis, was the
! pitcher. :"f.'-: -;
NO-SEAT-NO-FARE" CARS A GO.
Trenton's Test of New Law a Big Sue- '
cess in Two Days' TriaL
Trenton, N. J. Trenton's new "no
seat hp fare ordinance worked won
ders fn the way of improved , trolley (
service in two days. .
rj The company ran more cars during .
fusa hours than ever before, as it did
not want to face heavy fines, the new
ordinance providing ;that whenever :
the corporation, fails to provide a seat
for passengers during rush hours It is
liable' to a penalty of ?50 for each
I complaint. . ,
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