Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1911-06-08
General.

. John Delaney, quoted in a confes'
sion as having said he was employed
By John J. Mcnamara. secretaly-treas-
urer of the international Association
of Structural Iron Workers, as spy
upon non union work and that he 10
Gated the places where the dynamite
was to be placed, talked with visitors
In Jail at Muscogee, Okla. He still
maintained he was paid by John j.
Mcnamara to spy upon non-union
work. The statement, which was made
to a detective from Oklahoma City, is
locked in the cault Of bank.
John Delaney, who was reported as
having confessed in Muskogee. Okla,
that he had been employed by John j..
Mcnamara, secretary OF the
International Association OF Bridge
and Iron Workers OF America, to in
spect non-union structures an dsupply
information as to where dynamite
could be most easily and effectively
placed. served a short term in jail In
Salt Lake City for completely in the
dynamiting of the Hotel Utah. The
steel work of the hotel was slightly
damaged by a dynamite explosion De-
cember 29, 1909, as stated by Delaney.
The confession Of John Delaney, as
far as II relates to Cincinnati, is fiat
" contradicted by labor leaders, con-
tractors and by the police records of
Cincinnati. NO explosion occurred IN
any Vine street building in January,
1907, as reported in Delaney5s state
1ent.
A severe storm, whose center in
creasing in intensity in Ontario, rush
ed down the ST. Lawrence valley,
caused showers and thunderstorms
everywhere east of the Mississippi riv-
err The disturbance wound up another
hot day in the East and South, fea-
tured by a new record for high tenn
peratures fer May established at Fort
Worth Texas. where the official rec
ord was 104.
Gen. Porfirio Diaz sailed from Vera
Cruz, Mexico, on the steamer Yplr-
anga for Havre, France. The steamer
goes by way of Havana and General
Diaz ultimate destination is Spain.
The last words of the eXpresident
spoken TO those he had left on shore
were: IL shall die in Mexico.
Four dead and score injured was
the toll of the terrific wind and rain
storm which swept over Cleveland.
Ohio. and vicinity wrecking buildings
oyerturning boats IN Lake Erie. break
ing down wire poles, tearing up trees
and smashing windows and signs on
the streets. The storm was general
in northern Ohio and very destructive.
Three lives were lost at Lorraine. All
of the dead were in row boats
Sir William Schwenck Gilbert, the
British writer of comic opera libret'
tos, died in London. He was born in
1886 and was knighted by King Ed
ward He was collaboration of Sir
Arthur Sullivan.
The Tennessee Bankers association
adopted a resolution approving the
Aldrich currency plan.
Refusing to comply with demands
for money by band of bandits at
Aiupe. Mexico, Robert J. Sweaney, an
American railway superintendent, was
burned at the stake on May l6. ac-
cording to the story of Joseph Hans
fielder. one OF the refugees
Several Americans were presented
by Ambassador Reid to King George
at a levee held at st. James palace.
They we're ]. Pierpont Morgan Albert
Cook Myers and Edward Bringhurst
OF Philadelphia.
AT the close Of an address to the
university dons and undergraduates at
Cambridge. England. on The Future
of Religion, Bernard Shaw made a
sensational reply TO a questioner by
declaring that Christ was a failure,
and that any man who believed that
Christ was the highest possible being
was not working with. He urged the
abandonment OF legends.
Prince Joachim. the youngest son
of Emperor William, was seriously In
jured during sham battle exercise
OF the second guard brigade in Berlin.
The princes foot 10 thought to have
been broken,