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Greenville, The Gate-Way to Get There Local Showers Sunday and Monday. VOL. XXXVII NO 297 THE LEADING PAPER OF THE PIEDMONT FOURTEEN PAGES. HV Ulll 7 annum dally and Sunday. 01 111 AIL 16.09 pes annum wltliout Sunday.

Full Leased Wire Scrvlca. Tbe Associated Press. GREENVILLE, S. SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 24, 1911. PRICE tc a epy In Greenville daily; 6c Sus.lsy.

Hotels and Hallway tc daily and SutiaaJ CENTRAL BUREAU FORIilER TREASURER TARIFF BOARD DEMOCRAT WILL WILL STAND PAT MORGAN ARRESTEO SUCCEED FRYE GOVERNOR PI.AISTED OF ME. APPOINTS OltEDIAII GARDNER AS' SENATOR. EIGHT MEN ARRESTED ON CHARGE OF FRAI DI LENT. LV I SING THE MAILS. PRESIDENT TAFT.

HAYS' CKIjXV C1SM.S OF BODY' ARE IN. FOl'NDED. "-r DESPITE REJECTION BY CER. TAIN SOITHEHN BUIPPERS PLAN IS NOT ABANDONED. APPOINTMENT FOR UNEXPIRED TERM Coming Through Thl Umbrella! I'll Soon He Wet To The Skin." RAID ON STOCK INVESTMENT CO Jared Flagg and Seven Others Arrested in Raid of Flagg's Offices Including Former' Treasurer Morgan Another of Priaoiiprg Said to Have Been a Minister, and Otherg Were All More or ltesx Prominent Had Scheme to IX'-fraud Investers No Hall Secured New Yorfl, Sept.

23. In a raid on th0 stock investment offices of Jared Flagg on West 40th street Flagg and seven other men were arrested on a charge of frau lulently uing the mails in a species et endless chain schemes to defran 1 investors. Among the prisoners were former United States Treasure Dani -l X1. Morgan of Hridgeport, Jas. K.

Fchoek, said to have been a minister of the Dutch Keformed church; F. Tennyson Neely, publisher on Fifth avenue, this tity; Joshua frown and Harol 1 Jackson, brokers; Alvin M. Higsfitis, lawyer, and Edward L. Schiller. The prisoners wiien arraiii-vl pleaded not guilty.

Hail was fis Flagg at 23.000, Assistant District Atturnc- asking for hlth itall i-eciuise. he s-iid. he understood that Flagg had NVciy, and llisg'ns were re. uLvd 'o furnish lu'i the amount tf Jld.000 each, while was lixel at and that of Brown, and Jackson al $2,500. Thev will be given a bearing next Wedm sday w.ie.i thf.v will answer to the charge of violating section 21G of States penal code.

PostomVe Inspector F.lmcr Kln-caid made tho conip'aint in the Mr. Kincaid state 1 today tbc.t thousands of customers of the I'lagr enterprise, had aboil! i in the scheme. Fl it-'K. it charged, had claimed that he would incest their money in gilt edged securities wbl would pay them hinb. dividends.

Early investors it is alleged, were eab" their dividends from the money which cume to the concern from new customers. According to Cr.ief 1'ostolli Inspector Warren V. Dickson, his attention was drawn to Flagg's busi-ncs by a con" -rs wito yo.in4 woman calling herself Lilbii.t 'i'bbs Keyes. who re'errcu to Fl.ig as "financial wizard." Inspectors who made a secret investigation reported that Flaw w.iis conducting boi-ness alter tin- fashion of "Miller syndicate." They" Iso reoor ed that former St u-'S Treasurer Mor-an was interested in tbe ent -rprise to the extent of 1 The sen me according to authorities, has been in operation for more -Jinn is months. When nrrest'-l Flagg is defiant and th.it he had in-lated no postal law.

At a late hour bail had not been secured for any of the prisoners and they were iockod up in the Tombs prison. IN SPARTANBURG STRIKE Spartanburg, Sept. 23. A day of conferences has ended with an agreement between the locked out employes of tlje street railway and the management as remote as at any time since the trouble started Thursday. The assault of a strikebreaker on a Main street car by sympathisers of the locked out men this afternoon caused the complete suspension of the car service after five o'clock.

It is understood that no effort will be made to operato cars tomorrow. There has been much criticism of the police force, which has shown decided sympathy with the former employes of the company, according to reports, and have allowed crowds to gather on the principal streets of the city. RACE RIOT Clcveliiiid 1)1-1 lulled Over Trixihlo Between While People anil Cleveland, Sept. 24. A race riot between whites and blacks broke out In this city shortly before midnight Saturday.

The riots In less than two hours occurred, knives and revolvers being used. Of three sent to hos pltals up to 1 o'clock this morning Joe Cnrtlna, a rorto was slab bed rrobnhly fatally. All available policemen were sent to the district In which the fighting occurred! When a patrol wagon load ed with officers arrived crowd of men unhitched the horses, leaving the wagon stranded. Several hun dred people tilled the street and blocked efforts of the police. Patrolman M'-Nally wss severely henten up when be arrested Charles Lyons, white, said to have been leader nf the giing which started the fighting.

Candidate On Trial. Alexandria, Sept. 23 James K. Clements, candidate for common, wealth's attorney of Alexandria county, who fired a sot at Amos Donaldson of Cherrydale, Va yesterday following a political quarrel, was In police court today In answer in ih. eharue of assault.

The case was coutlnued Until Oct. 4. he hsd received from Mr. Cannon lllease. an oIIIcIhI of Newberry coun-tv that everything was quite lit the scene ot the crime but that the hud not been cslitlired.

"We sre doing evr thing possible hi capture the negro," snld Governor Blciise tonignu PRESENT BOARD IS NONPARTISAN Tariff Bills Slmuld Not be Framed, Mem berg of Congresx as The Are Apt to Ik More or Less Biased, Says the President-- Vf toed Recent Bills Because SuffU dent Investigation Had Not Beest' Made. St. Louis, Sept. 23. Jn his speech tonight President Taft declared attacks made upon the tariff board were not candid criticisuas of that' board's work, based on the showMnf made, but came "from the thoughtless heat of political controversy and ought to have no we'ght with unbiased lriends of the public weal." His speech in full follows: My Fellow Citizens: The isa' which has arisen in respect to the wisdom and propriety of the'--veto of the three tariff bills which pass-d Congress at the last session and were presented to the Executive f.

signature has brought iuto greater prominence than ever before ths iiucstion of the necessity for. a Tariff Hoard to ndvlse the Executive and Congress as to the facts jn reference to the present operation of an exist- in? tariff and the future operation of a proposed tariff. The heated discussion that follow- ed the passage of the Payne bill de- veloped among the people of this1 country a deep feeling that never again ought tarilf legislation to bs nttenipted without a fairer nnd imW-InipuiYial investigation than had been possible under the sysiem which prevailed in the making of the Mc- Kinky bill, the Wilson bill, the Ding- ley bill, and the Payne hill. 'The' bills were prepared by men of great ability and large experience, but they were Members of -Th investigation devoted to the work did not exceed more than a fr. months, the witnesses who were Vallv ed were generally Interested in tba matter and prone to give colore view of the facts in reference to ths protection needed, the tariff itself was a complicated matter, the terms used were not easily understood, and while the nuestjnn was of the ut- most Importance to the people' large the people ut large hod littln opportunity to know what th changes were which were being actually effected ajid what their operation would be either upon the in dnturiea protected or upon the colt of living to the consuming public.

This sense of Inadequacy of information in respect to the operation-of tariff changes naturally, roused the business men of the country, who could appreciate more than any other class the possible injury an disturbance of business by ill-advised legislation, to the necessity for a reform. An association was organs ixed among the commercial bodies of this country to promote the passage of a hill providing for a permanent Tariff Commission or Board which be constantly engaged In tha investigation lnta trade relations. should have on hand the data from which the omparative cost of production of dutiable articles at home and abroad could be promptly stated, could furnish to Congress the revenue-producing capacity of all rati i of duty, and give all the other fuels with reference to the cftecL-Of the operation of the tariff whicll Congress ought to know in determining whether changes were needef-r not und in determining how best taxes might be reduced If there was surplus or how best they might iiu nascd if there was a deficit. Through a provision In the Battt bill, I was able to appoint a honnj if three, and with appropriations furnished by Congress to direct them to make a glossary of the tariff, or an encyclopedia, by which any Ir- man might Inrorm himself as to to meaning of the terms in the tariff nnd as to the actus! ad valorem rales Imposed, although speelflo rates were provided, and all ths other facts enabling one to take up a tariff and Intelligently tq study meaning. The movement for the permanent organisation of a Tariff, Commission, after the passage of a bill for that purpose was put through1 "beta Houses, failed by reason of a filibuster and the shortness of the last session of the Sixty-first Congress, RufJ fleient money was given me.

however, to continue the board which I had already appointed. 1 Inorensed Its membership by two. In order make It nonpartisan board, and.I directed It to do the work that th bill which failed had prescribed for the permanent Tariff Hoard to ni pointed thereunder. At the in-slance of emocrntlc Senator, pcrmnnent Tariff Knnrd, in nn impropriation bill which Is now law, was directed If established, to mak a icport on Schedule on the December next. I Issued an order to the Tariff Hoard, newly luted, to prepare a report on Schedule and Schedule 1.

the woiilM and the cotton by tlutt date, which bring in the reports at the opening of the regular session, pf Congress. In order to secure an adoption or the Canadian reciprocity rslleilra special session to dlscharg the promise I had made to the Canadian hnthorlties. At this special essicn the Hirer tariff bills wera passed which 1 clued, and I vetoed thim chletly on the ground tht.M time hsd been taken to Investtgats the erieel of the changes which were proposed and that they ought to await the coming In of the report In December, when we should lsys full information at least nn ihs question of wool and woolens ami cotton manufactures. There other grounds for withholding my npprnvnl from the bills, which ar set forth In the hut, tot the present 1 do nut wish to conldw (Continued on Reeond Page.) MOST SHIPPERS FAVOR COOPERATION Chas. S.

Halght, Attorney For Liver pool Committee Says Action at New Orleans Did Not Reflect Opinion of Southern Shippers Only 11 of the 50 IKiegntes Who Attended Conference Voted For I Others Declining to go On Record. New York, Sept, 23. The central bureau for the validation of cotton bills of lading, recently established in this city for the prevention of frauds in connection, with forged bills, will not be abandoned, despite the recent rejection of the plan by a conference of shippers in New Chas. S. Haight, attorney for the committee of Liverpool cotton buyers, on his return from New Orleans, uaid today that the action of the New Orleans mealing did not fairly reflect the opinion of southern shippers.

Of the 60 or more shippers und bankers who attended the meeting, he said, only 11 voted to reject the plan, while the others refused to go on record, either for or against it. "The answers received from shippers, In reply to letters sent out to them explaining the new rules, and the advantages to be obtained therefrom," said Mr. llalght, "show an overwhelming majority in favor of cooperation. "The facilities of the central bureau are at the disposal both of shippers und of exchange buyers, and they have been so advised, but those; who do not wish to avail themselves of the facilities offered and insist uron trying to keep alive the old, loose and risky have- complete freedom of action. In contrast to the attitude taken by the Liverpool committee, men, representing less than a dozen of the many hundreds of shipping points In the many cotton states, assembled in New Orleans for the avowed purpose of.

opposing reform, have undertaken to say that, if they can help it, they will not allow shippers to cooperate whether they desire to do so or not. That sounds whit like dictation. "Tho New Orleans opponents of he new rules have reiterated again and again, the statement that it is unnecessary to take any precautions against forgery. With nothing to suggest of a constructive they content themselves by expressing their determination to oppose the central bureau plan not only by refusing to comply with the requirements thereof, but by organizing among their severul constituencies a militant resistance to the proposed reflection upon the rights of the Southern cotton trade. The New-Orleans shippers and bankers can speak only for themselves, however loudly they may speak.

The interior shippers, to whom a railroad through bill Is a vital necessity, will appreciate the fatal Injury which would be done them if New Orleans could prevent safeguards against and the European interests shouid. for that reason, carry into effect their statement without some safeguards, through bills of lading must be discontinued. "The interior shippers will see 'heir own salvation, und are seeing it In the successful operation of the new rules and they will express their willingness to cooperate In greater number.1? every day. "It will not take long for the committee and tho European buyers to ascertain, exactly who those shippers re willing to cooperate. When that Information htis been obtnincd, we shall all be able to quiet down and the cotton shippers who are so violently opposed to safeguarding American and European bunkers and European buyers against forgery can sell the'r cotton to American spinners: while those who do not feel 'Insulted' by being required to help keep the forgers out of the trade can to the Europeun spinners and everyone will bo hnppy and better at IT! everyone will be safe." LARGE FINANCIAL DEAL IN GEORGIA Georgia Hallway and Power Company Will Receive Charter Noon Capitalization Is $27,000,000 Hacked by Canadian and English Capital, Atlanta, Sept.

23. One of the largest financial deals to be consummated In Ucurgla In recent years will he concluded within the next' few days when a charter Is granted to the Georgia Itullway and Power company, with capitalisation of Among tho water power developments be consolidated under the new company are the plants at Hull Sluice, the Etowah Power Plant and the Talullah Plant now In course of construction. 1 The company Is backed by Canud-litn and English capitalists mid plans to absorb hydro-electric development projects throughout (he Piedmont section of Ocorgla and to operate In connection therewith the rtrcet railway, lighting, healing and power companies now consolidated In the Georgia Hallway Electric company of this city. FAVxlrKAIx'wHKCK KO Fiver From Plltshnrg CrnnlMn into Freight Train Killing Engineer and Flremitn. Plttshurr.

Sept, 2, the Pennsylvania railroad IS Flyer leav ing hern for the east 12.50 was wrm ked at Larimer, 20 miles from this city, about 1.15 this morning. It reported the Flyer crashed Into lrelifht trnln Killing engineer and fjrsmcil u( the passenger train. The Naming of a Democrat to Fill Out the Unexpired Term of the Late senator Frye Will Mean Much to the Democrats of the Senate During Coming Sessions Will Lark Only Four Votes of a Majority. Portland, Sept. 23 Governor PlaiBted today appointed Obediah Gardner of Rockland United States senator to succeed tbe late Senator William P.

Frye. This gives Maine two Democratic senators and reduces the Republican majority in the senate to seven. Mr. Gardner wag Democratic can. dldate tor governor In 1906 and was in the race for the senate when Senator C.

F. Johnson was elected last January. He has a large farm near Rockland and has served several terms as master of the State Grange. The appointment is for the unexpired term ending March 4, 1913. Party candidates for the full term will be nominated in primaries next June.

Washington, Sept. 2'i. The accession of Obediah Gardner of Maine as a Democratic appointee 'from a Btate for many years a stronghold of the Republican party will have -a material effect on the voting strength on important questions in the senate. When he. takes the oath of office the Democrats In that body, lacking but four votes of a majority on any, matter, will be nearer to control of the upper branch of congress than at any time for a decade past.

The Republican representation will stand at 49 and the Democratic at 42, there being one vacancy from Colorado. In the recent extra session tbe tariff measures were put through the senate by alignment of progres. sive Republicans with the Democrats and the aid of even four of progressives would enable the full Demo. cratic strength of the senate to carry out its will on all issues. While Mr.

Gardner i8 not known to members of either house of congress who happen to be in Washington now, it is expected that his course will be aligned with that of his Democratic colleague, Senator Johnson. Representatives Hinds and Guernsey will at the next es. sion be the only Republicans in the entire Maine congressional delegation of two senators and four representatives. FIRST U. S.

MAIL EVER CARRIED BY AEROPLANE New York, Sept. 23. The first United States mall ever transported by aeroplane was enrried today lrom aviation field on Nassau Houlevard, Long Island, to Garden City, a dis tance of live miles by in a Kieriot midline. His flight for this purpose wac the leading feature of the international meets opening day. Ovlngton took only one bag of mall, held It between his knees and when he was over Garden City he dropped it on the signal of a man who waved a flag as prearranged.

This bag contained about 75 pounds of letters and postcards. lie left behind fully 300 pounds or mall mutter which was later sent by automobile to the Harden City postofflee, although It bore the special postofflee stamp of "aerial station No. acriit special service." The flying comists today were mediocre, the most interesting being the search by a number of aviators ror a detachment of the 18th infantry, 11, a. which had been secreted In a clump of woods three miles southeast of the field. Six of the most prominent aviators, including Turn of England, Uraham White, Eugene Ely, J.

A. D. Ak'Cur-dy and lleatty scoured the countryside for nil hour but none was abie to find the soldiers. Eugene Ely made spectacular flight late in the afternoon, showing the pirfect control of his machine, lie dazzled the crowd by turning his machine head down and dropping 800 feet Hnd then checking his night when near the turf and floating off. Miss Mntllde Mnlsant was the only woman to make flight In the 24 mile litnezn which prevailed, during the afternoon.

She circled the course sevrrnl times in a monoplane and mr.de a safe landing. Ir. Ilen'v Watdcn, who has had a number of rails before nun a nan spin inn ai-ternonn on the northeast turn when lie tried to cut under I.ce Hammond's machine In the finish of the cross-country flight, NO MOHlTltKCII'RtK ITV. Mr, I'lidimood Hays Mi-Hsmt Will Hnii'ly Conn II" Hi Next Hrxxlon. lllrmlnitliam.

Sept. do tfot believe anything will he done In the next congress over the pro position of Canadian reciprocity," said Chairman t'nderwond of the house ways nnd means committee, today when asked what disposition would be made of the matter at the next session. "The reciprocity net could hardly come Into congress tittlos thi two governments make negotiations and this not being possible now, 1 do not brlieve.ib.eri will anything said or dona. MAINE: "The Dampness Seems to be TAFT ADOPTS THE "STRENUOUS LIFE" HE DELIVERS SIX SPEECHES, SEES BASEBALL GAME, PLATS FOOTBALL, AND ETC. WISHES REFORM IN LEGAL PROCEDURE The President Advocates Impeachment In Place of Recall of Judges Says Laws Delay is One Onnxe of Unrest lu This Country Judges be Held More Responsible Twice Introduced as "Greatest President of the Country." St, Louis, Sept.

23. President Taft enrried out a strenuous program here today. He made six speeches, took a forty mile automobile ride, opened the local rootbali season by tosslmr the ulg skin onto the grid iron at St. Louis university, laid the cornerstone of a new Y. M.

C. A. building, sat through nine innings of exciting baseball between the St. Louis and Philadelphia National lenmie teams, visited the Masonic club to be made a life member of that organisation and addressed a vast throng In the coliseum tonight. Then he sought his private car to travel all night In order to be in the insurgent state of Kansas tomor row.

On the eve of entering this hostile territory the president put forth the suggestion of a wider power of Im peachment as a sui'Stitute lor ine more radical proposal of a Judiciary recall. The president declare that the law's delay unquestionably was one of the great causes of unrest in this country and said that undoubt edly the recall idea had grown out of the fact that the courts in many Instances are not performing the functions that they should. should be held more re sponsible, the president declared, and the metnod oi ltnpeaonmeni maue more simple. Mr. Taft said the de-lav In administering Justice In this country should bring the blush of shame to the cheeks of all good Americans nnd that the courts of this country made a very poor showing In comparison with those of F.nglsnd.

where the Judges keep up with their dockets and where criminals find swirt punishment awaiting them. Reform In Judicial Procedure. The president spoke with much eurnestness on the subject of reform in Judicial procedure. He said It was something with which he was most familiar and that both as a lnwvcr and a Judge he felt free to discuss the matter from the frankest possible standpoint. The speech on thlB subject was entirely Impromptu nnd followed the conclusion of a luncheon at the City Club.

The president's set speech of the day was on the creation, the -work au4 the purpose of the tariff board, Mr. Taffs reception throughout was tho most cordial and demonstrative he has received on any of his previous visits to the city. Ho was the guest of the Million Population club and during his long atttomobli-ride snw nil of the territory thut Ht. Louis now covers and nil Its cltisens expect It to cover In the next few years In their climb toward the milium mark, At breakfast with tho Mercantile cluli the president referred briefly to Canadian reciprocity. He declared, himself conlcnt with the outcome, for as lawyer, he hnd learned that "when a decision hits you right between the eyes, the best tiling to do is to sit Mr.

Taft said he believed nnd still believes that reciprocity will Insure to the benefit of both countries. "Greatest Prtwldonl," Twl-e dtrrlng the day tho president wns Introduced as the "Im-rt und greatest president of the coun try. He modestly protested on eacn occasion. At the MHsonlc club the president said he hud on two occasions worn the Masonic apron had belonged to Oenrge Washington, "who was the greatest man In the history of the en tin try." In his speech on Judicial reform lie wild: "one of the real reasons for discontent Is the character of the procedure and the administration of (Continued; Second Pg.) FAIRFIELD NEGRO KILLS WHITE MAN JAMES HOI' KNIGHT KILLED BV NEGRO NAMED WILL Nl'BER AT LAIRS. GOVERNOR BLEASE SENT BLOODHOUNDS Posses Searching For Negro Who Killed Bowknight Who' Was a Blacksmith at Blnirs Quarrel Said to Have Followed a Gambling (Janic Negro Slightly Wounded But Made Escape.

Newherrv, Sept. 23. (Special) News reached Newberry tnis afternoon -of the kiliuijr of James llouk-nlght, a white man, by Will Huuer, a negro at Blair's, across the line In Fairfield county today. The reports seemed to indicate that trouble was feared as a result of the killing and that there was possibility of summary vengeance being mi ted out upon the negro. The sheriff of Fairlield county 'phoned Sheriff Jlu-ford to come to tbe scene, the Fairlield sheriff saying that he was leading in an automubile.

Sheriff Hu-ford immediately sent Deputy Sheriff Pope Huford and in a few minutes sent another -deputy in company with S. K. Bouknlght, lha father of the young man who was killed. Constable Cannon G. Hlease, accompanied hv several gentlemen also left immediately in nn automobile 1'orthe purpose of seeking to prevent further trouble.

S. K. liouknight the father of the young man who was killed, lives at Irmo, near Columbia. He formerly conducted a blacksmith shop In Newberry and happened here today when the news of the killing of his son wns received. Mr.

oxner, carried Mr. liouknight and a deputy to the scene In his automobile returns! tonight. He stated tonight he had not crossed the river to llialr's but thr. information which he hud re ceived was to the effect that tile dif- llcultv in which the negro shot liouknight occur'd In Itouknlght's bint ksitiith shop at llialr's and that the negro was also woundwd. He s.iid the Fail-Held sheriff and the Newherrv officers were on tile scene nnd thnt' the Fiilrileld nllieer had brought bloodhounds with him.

The negro bud not been caught when Mr. Oxner returned. Young liouknight the deceased, formerly llwil in Newberry ami sometime ago moved to llialr's and establshed a blacksmith shop, He lived on this side the rlv.v In Newberry county and his shop was In Fairlield. liouknight leaves a wife and four 'children. Sheriff HuCurd who was keeping In touch with the situation by telephone, phoned to l'n-nuirla and to Caldwell's for poises to go to the scene.

Munso liuford. a son of the sheriff who returned tonight from near tin-scene of the killing of James Muiik nlght by the negro Sober says tile Information the community Is -bat liouknight was gambling with a crowd negroes, Sober being urn mg thi ni, that liouknight went bro le and then went for the police and when he returned with the police the shouting occurred liouknight 'being killed nnd Suber wounded in the leg, The nigro escaped up the river and tbe Fairfield sheriff and deputy sheriff are In search or mm ami a large posse Scouring the side of the river. It Was the Intention of the Fairlield lake the negro to the nenlti utlafy If he succeeded In catching him. Munso Iluford did not cross the river Into llialr's bill says the facts given to him are generally accepted by those with whom he talked ns nccounthig for the illillculty. Columbia, Sept.

2H, -(Special Hy order of Governor lllease, blood hounds nerr sent this afternoon from the peiilletitlnry here to llialr's In Fairlield county to aid In the pursuit of the negro who killed a young white man named Hniiknlght, a son nf Mr, U. liouknight there this afternoon. News of the crime was received here 'this afternoon "ty Gov. Hlease and he Immediately ordered oHIclals from Newlwrry to proceed to proceed to the spot. No details of the occurrence are-learned here, Three dogs Were sent down In an automobile this afternoon from the nenltenlliirv In care of Mr.

Hohhlns. Governor Ulc staled tonight that DEATH OF ALLEN WAS ACCIDENTAL Coroner Expresses Opinion That (Tins. W. Allen Came to His Death as Result of Acrldent Was Subject to Attacks of Vertigo. Chicago, Sept.

23. Coroner Hoffman afttr spending several hours investigating the death of Chas. W. Allen, the wealthy leather manufacturer of Kenoiha, who was killed yesterday afternoon in a fall from the winnow of his room in a downtown hotel expressed the opinion today that death was result of accident. Coroner Hoffman upon questioning relatives and employes of the hotel learned that Mr.

Allen had been subject to attacks of xcrtigo for several years and on several occasions had suddenly been taken ill -m the street. "I am convinced that Allen accidentally fell out of the window." Said the coroner. "He had no financial or other troubles wfich would lead him to commit suicide." The body wus-jdilpped to Kenosha, for burial today. WILL PROSECUTE GARLAND'S SLAVETl Mrs. 3.

MfCec Will Certainly be Prosecuted According to State, inent of District Attorney Dcsk. rate Legal Battle Probable Woman is Still Confined in Jail. Opelousas. Sept. 23.

The prosecution began lts preparations today for what is expected to be the most bitter legal battle ever fought In this section of the Btate as a result of the killing of young Allen Garland laBt Tuesday by Mrs. J. P. a young society woman of this city, In a room of her residence. District Attorney Iee Garland, a near kinsman of tbe dead man, declared today that Mrs.

McCrea would certainly be prosecuted and disclaimed tbe slightest Intention of allowing her liberal on Tail. It Is expected that the district attorney will personally conduct the prosecution. Mrs. McCrea still re. fuses to discuss the details leading up to the fatal shooting of young Garland.

SIR WILFRID TO BE MINORITY LEADER "I Should be a Deserter of My Party If I Han Away Now," Says Venerable Canadian Statesman Government Will Resign us Soon as Possible. Ottnwa, Sept 23 "I will re- tntti in loirllsn-intlt ns leader of the opposition for gome time. I should be a deserter or my party ir ran ftwsv now." snld Sir Wilfrid Lnttrlcr to the newspaper men today. fllr Wilfrid snld thnt he had In. tended to retire and no doubt would do so after some time, but not Immediately, lie undoubtedly will on thrmiirli the next, softslon ns leader of the opposition and he may continue there a good many sessions.

Though 70 years old, his health I. ennd. The nrlmn minister stated that the government will resign as soon as possible to enable Earl Grey to leave Canada and the Duke of Connaught to succeed him governor general. BEATEN TO DEATH. Mayor of OHkhurst Fatally Wound- Man and is Mimscir hilled.

Atlanta, Oa Hepi. 23. W. Johnson, mayor of Oukhurst, a su burb of Atlanta, was beaten to death with a scantling this afternoon by T. V.

Hubcr, after the latter had been shot and mortally wounded by Johnson, Zither wss rushed Into Atlanta for medlesl attention, while Johnson a led at his home about fifteen mlmtlea after tht fight. The disputa, It It stated, grow out of small bill which Zubef claimed i Johnson od Ulia..