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The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-04-05

the stand later aud testify as to
these matters, saying that Mro
Stackhouse's statements were very
misleading, Mr.. Stackhouse had
been asked to explain certain mat"
tiers in connection with the contract
referred to. lie said he would pre-
fer that Mr.. Lyon give this testi-
mouy, saying that the attorney
general could better make this ex-
planation. 1t was at this point
that Mr.. Lyon attacked Mr.. Stack
houses statements as misleading.
Mr.. Abney and Mr.. Holman had
each been employed by the COM
mission as counsel.
Chairman Carlisle asked the wit
ness if he did not think Attorney
Abney had had an "easy time, .
taking up work that had already
been carried to good length. Mr..
Stackhouse referred to the comniss-
ions report.
Mr.. Stackhouse told of the Ansel
commissions refusal to turn over
to the Blease commission its papers
and records. He said otherwise
the Ansel board had done nothing
to "obstruct" the winding-up. He
said that the Ansel board had been
courteous towards the last COM
mission.
Senator Carlisle asked Mr.. Stak-
house if Attorney General Lyon
had offered his assistance to the
commission. The witness replied
that he had, adding, II do not wish
to do Mr.. Lyon an injustice, but
I thought that he meant what he
said" He vent on to say that the
attorney general had offered his as
sistance to the commission but that
he (Stackhouse) had felt that the
attorney general "was not with US. "
He said the attorney general had
offered his services in a way. -
Ask why he thought the attorney
general was not with" the COM
mission, Mr.. Stackhouse replied
that he judged this from his gen
era1 demeanor. He said the at
torney general had not offered his
assistance in a sympathetic way,
especially in the RichIand Distilling
company matter. He said that the
attorney general had, however,
been courteous. He said he had
not gotten the permission Of the at
torney general to employ the ser
vices of Mr.. Abney,
Mr.. Stackhouse stated that in
the past year the matter of Attor-
ney General Lyon towards him had
been rat0er strained, rot having
been as cordial as previously. This,
he said, he could not explain.
Asked if he knew anything of
the character of the members of
the Ansel commission, Mr.. Stack
house said he knew only one, Mr..
McSwain, and he knew him to be
a competent and high-toned man
He knew little of Mr.. Brice and
said he believed hin competent.
A letter to the Blease commission
from Attorney General Lyon was
in which the attorney gerenal had
formed the commission that the at
torney general was expected to act
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-04-05
SAYS SENATOR JOHNSON
RELATED STORY TO HIM
so SAYS FORMER EDITOR RANTIN AS
TO FaRNUM.
Dispensary Investigation Again Resumed
EChairman StackhouSe, of Late COM
mission TeStif1eS.
Columbia, April 3.

SO4u4AOAoJ <AP4 D
Contrary to testimony given rec
entity by Senator W. J. Johnson of
Fairfield county, H. D Rantin of
Clinton, formely editor of the Fair
field News. at Ridgeway, on the
stand Wednesday before the legis-
1ative committee investigating char
ges made by the governor as to GER
tain connections with the late State
dispensary, said that certain ed
itorial published in the Fairfield
News during his editorship had been
based on statements made by Sena-
tor Johnson, that James Farnum
had paid $50, 900 for his immunity,
but that only $1,000 Of this amount
ever reached the State treasury.
Farnum had been prosecuted in
connection with the State dispen-
sary and the editorial said that seven
indictments against him had been
cancelled.
On the stand before the investl-
eating committee several weeks ago,
Senator Johnson stated that he
knew nothing of editorial in ques-
tion and knew nothing of the charge
that Farnum had paid large sums
for immunity.
When this testimony was given
by Mr.. Rantin, the committee ad-
journed, proposing to look up the
testimony given by Senator Johnson
and see how it conforms with that
given by Mr.. Rantin.
This statement as to Farnum' S
immunity is one the source of which
the committee has been striving for
long to ascertain. Now that its
source has been found and that the
alleged originator of it has denied
knowledge of it, it is probable that
interesting development will follow.
The committee will be desiraus
of learning the truth as to the state
ment alleged to have been made by
Senator Johnson.
sTACKHoUsE ON STAND
Mr.. James Stackhouse, chairman
of the Blease winding-up commiss
ion, was the first witness Wednes-
day. He told of the contract the
commission had made with Mr.. B.
L. Abney, attorney, in connection
with the Richland Distiilery case,
and said the commission had been
Informed by Attorney General Lyon
that it could not employ any other
counsel without his approval. He
said the commission had also made
a contract with Mr., w. A. Holman
and that it had paid him $500 re-
tanner for his services, which he
said last5d only for short period.
During Mr.. Stackhouse's testi-
mony, Attorney General Lyon
stated that he would gladly take
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-04-05
NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT.

Notice is hereby given that I will
make final settlement of the estate Of
J. H. Dominick, deceased, in the Pro-
bate Court for Newberry County South
Carolina, at II O'Clock in the forenoon,
on the fourth da: Of April, 1912, and
will Immediately thereafter apply for
. final discharge as administratrix Of
tne estate Of the said deceased.
Mrs. Alice Dominick,
Administrators
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-04-05
NO SIR, I CAN'T
GET APPENDICITIS
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and draws off all impurities. A SINGLE
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A short treatment often cures an ordinary
case Of appendicitis
n w. G.. MAYES.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-11
SCRUB WOMEN
ALL RESCUED
Million Dollar Fire In Hotel and Tall
Building Gave Police OFFICER
Opportunity to Act
the Haro.
NO LIVES WERE LOST
Blaze Was Famed BY Brisk Breeze
I and Burned All Night In Hotel
and Upper Floors Of Trust
skyscraper.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
CINCINNATI, O., Dec. 11.-When
fire that destroyed the Gibson house,
Quilted upper floors of the seventeen
story Union Trus. building and dam
aged several other downtown struc-
tures was brought under control early
today the loss was estimated at $780,
900. Many thrilling rescues were per-
formed by firemen and police and, 1t
was believed, no lives were lost. For
~ scrub women and janttors were
rescued from perilous positions in tho
Union Trust building.
The fire which started at 8 o'clock
when the streets weres crowded with
theatre-goers, is believed to have orig
mated in the rear of the Gibson
house from a torch or bonfire left by
workmen, building a new wing TO
that hotel. Famed by stiff breeze,
the flames spread so rapidly that
many of the. guests in the hotel We're
trapped in their rooms, and in the top
floors Of the Union Trust building
/ uOiS ludu lUILy cGiuU WOhISn anu
janitors were cut off by the fire.
Firemen and policemen we're the
| principal sufferers. Four firemen and
one policeman were painfully hurt.
The losses estimated early today
are 100000 to the Gibson house;
| $15O.000 to the Union Trust and an
equal amount to the tenants; between
! s150,o0e and 100000, on the Rendigs
and Lothmann Company, dealers In
/ dry goods and furs, and fifteen other
| mercantile establishments suffered an
aggregate loss of 100000.
| Police Lieutenant Thomas Hall was
the hero of the fire. With full know
:! ledge that he was risking his life IN
a possible collapse Of the building he
ran an elevator five times up through
! fourteen stories Of the Union Trust
building, each time descending with a
cage full Of hysterical scrub women.
Only four OF them were hurt and
those slightly.
On account of remodeling work,
only about eighty guests were in the
Gibson house. Most Of them fleo
| through the smoke-filled doors before
the flames swept the building.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-11
HER CELLAR
WAS CEMETERY
Woman Z s ney confesses to One
Murt 4 ID Polioe Think That
Has Committed
e. Several Others
- 1GING FOR coRPsEs
Quick Limo Found In Cellar and
Bodies Arc Expected to be Found,
Revealing Terrible
Story.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
LANSING, Mich, Dec. 11.-Police
today continued their digging for bod
les in the cellar of the House Of
Mystery" home of Mrs. Mary Lucas,
an attorney, the confessed murderer
of Mrs. Pauline Singel That other
bodies will be revealed the police say
they are certain. In fact they claim
that their investigation will disclose
a case rivalling the famous Murder
Farm Of Mrs. Guinness.
Digging in the cellar disclosed
quick lime in one corner, the police
theory being that it was used to de
stroy bodies buried there.
Mrs. Lucas today denied being JIM
plicated in any of the crimes of which
the police suspect her, with the ex-
cep.ion of single murder. She has
admitted placing poison in coffee
which she gave to Mrs. Singel to
drink but claims Justification. She
does not say what that justification
yHs.
The authorities today centered their
investigation upon the mysterious
disappearance seven months ago of
Carl Miller, boarder in the Lucas
home. They assert that Mrs. Lucas
attempted to obtain possession OF
Miller's property after his disappear
ance.
4 Nebraska authorities We're today re.
quested to cooperate with the local
police in obtaining evidence against
! tie accused woman. sorae tfrne ACC
! Mrs Lucas and her husband went to
/ Nebraska where they expected tc
make their home. The woman return
ed to Michigan alone saying her hus
band had died suddenly in the west
| The Lansing police want this death
! investigated
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-11
WILL soon HAVE
MEN STARK MAD
London suffragettes Lay Awake at
Nights Thinking Of New Ways
Of Setting Whole City In
an uproar.
FALSE FIRE ALARMS
Firemen and Police Exhausted by
Useless Runs With Big Sur
prise Promised by the Wo-
mon for Christmas.

[United Press Leased Wire Service.l
LONDON, Dec. 1.-Two months in
prison was the sentence today i'm
posed in police court on Miss Elsie
Howey, the only suffragette partici-
pating in the false fire alarm plot
whom the police were able to catch.
The young woman was seen to turn
in an alarm from corner box. The
offense was only a misdemeanor and
two months imprisonment was the
maximum penalty.
The police were unable to appre-
hend any other offenders because the
false alarms mostly were reportd
from public telephone boxes in pay
stations and the suffragettes were
gone before policemen, sent to investi-
gate, could reach the place.
All yesterday the nerves of London
were strained almost to breaking
tension by the continu us fire alarms,
all of which proved to be suffragette
hoaxes, and by night the firemen
were exhausted.
The policemen and firemen were
strong in their denunciatioas of the
women and declared that the false
alarm scheme was "the most provok-
| ing of all the outrages perpetrated by
the militants." Paint and acid in the
letter boxes, said the tired policemen,
did not make men run about the
streets all day for nothing.
Something awful" That phrase
| rings in the ears of every spprehen
/ sive policeman in London and the
officers would like to know what IT
means. The suffragettes have given
fair warning that they have thor
ough surprise for Christmas time, but
they refuse to give any inkling OF
what it will be except that 1t will be
something awful If the police dc
not soon learn what these words
mean, it is feared that some OF the
department heads will fall victims to
nervous prostration.
The gleeful suffragettes are boast.
ing that their Yuletide performances
will eclipse all of their past pranks.
4 what will they do next?" is ques-
ton that all London is asking and
the would-be voters answer:
Something awful"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-11
District Attorney Miller in Dynamite
Conspiracy Trial Is Aroused
Over Brazen Denlals Be-
Ing Made.
Union Carpenter, Witness for Do
fense, ls Placed In Charge %
Federal Marshal Until
RaIled Out.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.]
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. Dec. IL
Perjury was charged against William
II. Quigley, a union carpenter, OF
Detroit, Mich, who was defense
witness in the dynamite conspiracy
trial today, and he was placed in the
custody of the federal marshal until
bond could be arranged.
Somebody's lying" was all Dis.
trict Attorney Miller would say.
This has been evident for a week.
The defense was not expected to ad-
/ nit the allegations of tn government,
of course, but denials of supposedly
bomb-proof evidence introduced by
Miller has aroused him and he must
either impeach some of the witnesses
or see the prosecution fail. The
next few DAYS were expected to be full
of possibilities.
Defendant Michael ]. Cunnane of
Philadelphia took the witness stand
in his own defense shortly after ten
o'clock today.
Bond was fixed at $4,000. The in
lternational carpenters union Is en-
1 deavoring to raise the money
"This wilful perjury has got to
stop" declared District Attorney Mill
er, in moving Quigley's arrest in open
court
The witness steadfastly refused to
admit having written letter in June
y ~
Muncie, Ind, about Defendant Char
4 !. les Wachmeister of Detroit, in which
4 1t said. We have made a mistake in
our man and i. is all off with the
Irbig shoe He was flashing the cen
Ktury you left" The government tried
to SHOW that this referred to W.
meister and the $10O Cline was al
legged to have given him for a whole
sale dynamtting in Detroit, which was
! called off after Wachmesiter talked
too much Quigley will be given a
preliminary hearing at the close OF
the present trial.
Defendant Michael J. Cunnane OF
4 Philadelphia, testifying in his own be
half denied knowledge of alleged con
4 spiracy. He denied knowing Ortie
i McManigal and j. B. Mcnamara, con
4 fessed dynamiters.
THE job at pier 46 did not come
off on Saturday. was a passage In :
4 letter from Cunnane to union head
4 quarters, he was asked to explain or
j direct .3amination.
Il meant our men did not go tc
work" replied Cunnane.
i Obscure passages in letters From
4 Mcnamara to Cunnane were not un
4 derstood by the witness at the time
and Mcnamara never replied to re
! quests for explanations, testified Gun
i name.
4 Five hundred dollars received fol
Organization purposes" from the in
ternational union was spent lawfully
/ Cunnane swore.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-11
MARRIED HER SON-IN-LAW;
SHOT BY NEW STEP-FATE1ER

nice Coffman- Wasson are dying from
bullet wounds at local hospital.
o. E. Wasson is held at the county
Jail for shooting his former father-in-
law. A heavy fur coat prevented Coff-
mans instant death. Cofrman shot
his former wife once through the
body. o. f. Wasson, vaudeville con
tortionist, married Minerva Coffman
when she was fifteen years old. He
divorced her within year. Three
weeks ago Mrs. Coifman secured a
divorce and few days later married
her former son-in-law. Wasson. which
makes the latter step-father Of his
former wife.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-11
Queen Of Norway.

TUnited Press Leased Wire Service. !
CHRISTIANA, Dec. lit became
known today that Queen Maud of Nor
way recently underwent an operation
in London. The nature of her ailment
was not revealed, but it was said that
her condition was not serious and
that she would soon be fully recover
ed. The queen has been staying a. the
Appleton house, near Sandringham
which was given to her as a wedding
present by her father, the late King
Edward of England.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-11
TWO IOWA BANKS
CRACKED in NIGHT
$4,000 Secured at One By Rob
bers Who Escaped on a
Handcar.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
DEs MONIES, iowa, Dec. IL;
Local police were notified this morn
ing of tive bank robberies, one at
Goldfield, Iowa, where $4,000 was Sc
cured and another at Percy, Iowa.
where the amount stolen is unknown
Sheriffs of both places notified the
police that the robbers were headed
toward Des Moines Notice Of the
Percy robbery came from Knoxville
The Wabash depot was also robbed
The robbers took a hand car and
started toward Des Moines. Before
leaving the town the robbers cut the
telephone and telegraph wires.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-11
IOWA MAN KILLS
WIFE BY BULLETS
Was Captured by the Police After
Firing TWO Shots Into
Her Body.

limited Press Leased Wire Service.1
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, Dec. IL
Mrs. Charles Highly is dead with two
bullets in her body. and her husband
is in the county jail, held as the mur-
lderer. Highly went 10 rooming
house where his wife was stopping
and started a quarrel. Pulling SO
calibre revolver he emptied it. two
shots taking effect. He ran from the
house but was Immediately captured
by the police.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-11
PRESIDENT TAFT
GOES TO PANAMA
Will Arrive at the Canal on
the Night Before
Christmas.

.IUnited Press Leased Wire Service ]
WASHINGTON, Dec. President
Taft today definitely announced that
he would sail for Panama on a two
weeks trip for Inspection of the can
al on Dec. 81, returning the last day
OF the year. The president will
leave Washington on the midnight OF
December 1s for Key West. Fla, ar
irving there Dec. 81. and with his
party will embark Immediately on
the q. S. ship Arkansas, II is ex-
peoted that he will reach Panama the
afternoon OF Dec. "a.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-11
PEORIA HOSPITAL
SWEPT By FLAMES
Ninety Patients Were Carried
Out While the Fire
Blazed Fiercely.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]
PEORIA, H., Dec. 11.-A score of
patients were carried to safety by
sisters when flames attacked St
Francis hospital at 9:45 today. II
was believed that all were saved
The flames attacked the fourth floor
and at 10 a. M, were burning fierceIy
At 1915 ninety patients, all In the
building, had been carried out and
taken into nearly residences. The
fire then was under control. Six doc,
tors in the hospital directed the work
of rescue. The entire wing of the hos
pital was flooded
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-11
ENJOY HONEYMOON ON
ESPECIALLY BUILT YACHT

powder king OF that name and heir
TO his entire estate of s2O,Ooo,9oo, was
married at noon today by Rev. George
Vandewater of st. Andrews to Miss
Gladys Watson at the st. Regis hotel
The couple left shortly afterward for
their honeymoon on a private steam
yacht constructed especially for the
occasion.
Zeigler was adopted when five years
of age by William zeigler who left
him his entire estate.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-11
Biggest Noise At Progressive Pow
Wow Comes When the Colonel
Is Mentioned for the Race
Again In Four Years.
SESSION ENDED TODAY
Bull Moose Conference Got Down TO
Business After Day and
Halt 4 Night Of oratory
and Lows FeastIns.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
CHICAGO, Dec. 11.-Following an
entire day and half night of love
feasting and oratory, the national pro
gressive conference today got down
to business and prepared to adopt
series Of resolutions to express in
concrete form the ideas that were ex-,
pressed in addresses yesterday. The
delegates planned to end their two.
cial train that brought the New York
and New England delegations was
scheduled to leave the Park Row sta
tion at $3.50 this evening.
Resolutions to be adopted at to-
days session contained the recon-
mendations of DIR. Walter Weyle to
adopt the plan of the socialist party
In the United States to organize the
party into the largest dues paying
association in the world; the idea Of
former Senator Beveridge expressed
In his banquet speech last night to
work toward the wiping out OF the
sectional lines created by the civil
war; the continued speaking and
propaganda spreading advocated by
DR.. BENJAMIN Fay Mills, Of Chicago
and the plan Of establishing bureaus,
urged in the address OF Miss Jane
Adams
It was not at all unlikely that the
enthusiasm aroused late yesterday
by DR.. Mills when he predicted the
election Of Roosevelt in 1915, would
find expression In resolution en-
dorsing the chief bull moose as the
party's next candidate for the presi-
dency.
Meetings of nearly every state dele
cation We're held before the session
was called to order in Orchestra hall
Very few Of the delegates left the city
last night and another large attend
ance was assured today.
The leaders who nave been advo.
eating peace within the ranks of the
party were fairly certain that there
would be no friction during the
closing hours of the conference.
Rules were in force that none but
national committeeman and chairmen
OF state organizations had the privik
4 ege of speaking on the floor of the
conference
While the general conference OF
delegates to the progressive party
conference was listening to
oratory, to executive commit
tees met to transact the more serious
business of the new party at noon to-
day. The national executive commit
tee was expected to recommend to
the general conference la.e today the
\ new plan Of party organization The
executive committee of progressive
II editors celebrated the establishment,
q of a progressive national press
bureau
q The principal things to be decided
q iby the national executive committee
u are.
81 Plan Of a due-paying membership.
# Establishment OF permanent head
quarters.
q Scheme of perfecting countrywide
81 organization.
81 Program of education and publicity.
Establishment Of legislative reform
81 and bill-drafting bureaus.
u Selection of leaders to be placed
n in charge of headquarters.
Il Plans for annual state and national
conferences similar to the present
one.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-11
Home comino pay.

PORTLAND, Ore, Dec. 11,--A state
wide crusade to bring citizens from all
parts of Oregon to Salem on Thursday
TO demand that Governor West re-
prieve the five murderers doomed to
die Friday. was started today.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-11

VERSAILLES, Dec. 1.-THE body
of young woman, found murdereo
in the forest of Fontainebleau, today
was Identified as that of Gabrielle
Eude, daughter OF retired surgeon
genera She disappeared several
months ago.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-11
Darrows Second Trial.

rUnited Press Leased Wire Service ]
LOS ANGELES, Calf. Dec. H.
The second trial Of Clarence 8. Oar
row on charge OF bribery will begin
January 9. Deputy District Attorney
Ford announced today that the state
had decided to try the lawyer on the
charge that he bribed Robert Balm
one of the Jurors in the McNamara
case. DarTow was acquitted last
summer of bribing George N. Lock
wood, prospective juror.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-11
Farmers Are Thfck.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]
LINCOLN, Neb., Dec. 11.-Farmers
will out-number members OF every
other profession in the next Nebraska
Legislature, according to data com
piled today. OF 125 members, forty
five will be farmers. There will be
twenty-five merchants and eighteen
lawyers.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-11
Two People Lie Dying in Hos
pital With Bullet Wound
in Bodies.

TUnited Press Leased Wire Service.l ]
DIES MONIES, Dec. IL. Because
Pie objected to the marriage of his
divorced wife to his former son-in-
law, Samuel Coffman, and Mrs. En-