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Spartanburg Boey, Convicted of
Drowning Infant, Appeals to
S. C. Suprenie Court,
SPAHTAN[?UR(%, S C, May 1. —
Clyde Caldwell Clement, the former
Wofford College youth, convicted and
recommended to mercy by-a jury here
for the murder of his illegitimate
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infant daughter, Virginia Virl Pen
dleton, who was drowned in White's
mill pond, on the outskirts of Spar
tanburg, on the night of January 30,
was sentenced to life imprisonment
this afternoon by the trial judge. The
young man took his sentence with a
haif smile on his face, and an
nounced to the judge that he had
nothing to say. The mother of the
child, Laura Fleda Pendleton, a 19-
year-old telegraph operator, who was
jointly charged with the death of the
child, was cleared by the jury.
Counsel for Clement made 3° mo
tion for a mew trial on five counts.
The motion was overrujed and an ap
peal will be made to the South Caro
lina Supreme Court. §
Court Approves U. P.
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$80,000,000 ‘Melon
NEW YORK, May I.—The appel
late division of the Supreme Court
to-day handed down a decision de
claring that the Union Pacific Rail
road may distribute to its stock
holders, without reference to the
preferred stockholders, $80,000,000 of
accumulated dividends.
The Equitable Life Assurance So
ciety, which holds $1,600,000 of the
preferred stock of the Union Pa
cific, brought suit to force the Union
Pacific directors to make the pre
ferred “stockholders participants in
the dividends, Justice Grenbaum
decided against the preferred stock
holders and the appellate division
sustains him. X
Noted Tennis Player
Runs Down 0 4 t
TUXEDO PARK, N. Y, May 4—A
touring car, driven and owned by
Robert D. Wrenn, of Tuxedo Park,
ran down a group of persons at the
entrance to Tuexdo Park early to-day,
kim;g one f"d injuring three. The
dead man Is Herbert Loveday, - or
ganist and choirmaster of SL Mary's
Episcopal Church.
Wrenn is president of the United
States Lawn Tennis Assotviation, and
has an international reputation as a
player. N
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CHICAGO, May 4.—After living for
ten years within three blocks of each
other here, Mrs. Alice Lawder and
Mrs. Mary C. Dawes, sisters, were re
united by a newspaper story telling of
the former’s son being missing in
Mexico.
The women had not seen each other
in fourteen years.
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DENVER, May 4.—Miss Helen Ring
Robinson, State Senator, and Mrs
Ani® Lafferty have gone to Ludlow to
make an investigation of the mine
situation. Mrs. J. J. Brown, who Is
worth several millions, and who was
one of the leading figures in the Ti
tanic disaster, has telegraphed from
Newport that she is on her way to
aid in the strike investigation and re
lief work. She will join the Women's
Peace (‘ommittee in the work.
Olney Picked for -
WASHINGTON, May 4.—Richard
Olney, Secretary cof State in the
Cleveland administration, has bpeen
selected by President Wiison to be
governor of the newly cre;ated Reserve
Currency Board. : %3
Paguu. Marburg, of New York, has
also n decided upon as a member,
When Secretary Tumultv was
questioned ‘as to the reported selec
tions of Olney and Marburg as mem
bers of the board, he replied that the
names of the members will be made
public “some time this week.”
It was learned at the White House
that no member of Congress will be
on this board.
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Roosevelt Better
ill Suff
But Still Suffers
SANTAREM, BRAZIL, May 4.—
(*olone! Theodore Roosevelt, who is on
his way home from the Brazilian jun
gles, will reach Para to-morrow,
His health is much improved, but
he is still suffering from a wound
which he sustained while saving three
membeis of his party from going
over a cataract in their canoe on the
Duvida River, The colonel jumped
into the water, and, in saving the ca
noe from a dive over the falls, sus
tained a gash in the foot. This wound.
became infected. -
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Mystery in Attack
On Home of Farmer
DALTON, May 4.—Mystery shrouds
the attack made by unknown parties
on the home of Tom Grey, a Murray
County farmer, who lives a few miles
gouth of Spring Place.
Good Samaritan Is
LADENTOWN, N. Y., May 4-—
Hearing groans in a wood, Albert
Knowlet investigated, A highwayman
knocked him down and stole $l7,
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, May 4.—A militant suf
fragette, armed with a hatchet, raid
ed the exhibition at the Royal Acad
emy of Art to-day, smashing several
glass cases and slashing a picture
painted by John Sargent, R. A, the
American artist. The woman was
seized by attendants before she could
do any more damage, and was turned
over to the police.
This was the opening day of the
spring exhibition at the Royak Acad
emy, which is the most important of
all British art institutions. Because
of the attack upon the famous Rokeby
Venus and other outrages of the mili
tants, speeial guards were posted
about. the academy to watch out for
suffragettes,
On account of the size of the crowd,
the guards had a difficult task. The
woman had concealed her weapon be
neath her jacket, and, with her cata
logue in hand, was walking through
the crowded gallery, with the appear
ance of an interested art lover,
Suddenly there was a crash of fall
ing glass. The woman was seen vio
lently wielding her hatchet in one
corner of the room, where there were
few spectators, Instantly she was
seized and disarmed.
NEW YORK, May 4. --Two men, one
a policeman, were ghot to death early
to-day during an attempt by two drug
craged gunmen to hold up a Brooklyn
lunchroom,
The manager was shot through the
heart when he refused to turn over the
contents of the cash regimen The two
men fled, but their flight attracted the
attention of a policeman, whose beat
was nearby, and he ordered them to
stop. One of them drew a revolver from
his sleeve and fired upon the officer at
short range, inflicting a mortal wound.
Grand Opera, Report
NEW YORK, May 4. Word was re
coived from Philadelphia that Miss Mary
Garden will not be re-engaged by the
Chlca’?o Grand Opera Company,
E. T. SBtotesbury, the banker, who has
been a liberal supporter of the Chicago
company’'s concerts in Philadeiphia, Is
sald to have favored the submission of
no new contract to the noted singef:
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Ammons, of Colorado, Collapses
as New Legislature Pre
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pares to Accuse Him.
DENVER, May 4.-—Governor Am
mons broke down to-day as a resuit
of worry over the Colorado strike sjt
uation and his threatened impeach=-
ment by the Legislature, and was
forced to his bed, e was unable 10
prepare his message to the Legisla
ture, which met to-day in special ses
sion,
That the Executive will ask both
branches of the Legislature to meet
in joint session, at which he will ask
them (0 enact a 4 measure permitting
the issuance of bonds to pay the ax
penses incurred by tne State in main.
taining the militia in the strike zone
was announced at the execulive of
fices. The debt now has reachel
$1,000,000, it was said.
Governor Ammons collapsed while
consulting party leaders. The killing
of women and children at the Ludlow
tent colony affécted him greatly
The Governor's friends fought des
perately to-day to stave off the im
peachment proceedings which it
seemed sure w‘puM ba introduc=d
when the special session of the Leg
islature convened, as a result of "us
handling of the recent strike situation
in Colorado.
Equally busy were the supporters
of the movement te-push the im
‘peachment plans. Lengthy confer«
ences which ran into the early hours
of the morning were held, at which a
draft of the charges which will be
made against the executive was pro
pared,
Mine Workers Talk
Nation-Wide Strike. -
. INDIANAPOLIS, May 4.—The ex
ecutive committee of the United Mine
Workers of America met here to-day
to discuss the advisability of calling a
ngtion-wide strike in protest of ton
ditions in the Colorado mining dis~
tricts.
WASHINGTON, April 30.—The re
port of the subcommittee of the
House Judiciary Committes on the
investigation of the charges against
Judge Emory Speer will be made
within the next three or four days.
The report is already in the hands
of the printers, but its nature is not
discloged. o G
Representatives Webb, Fitz Henry
and Volstead, the three probers, will
not say, in advance of the delivery of
the report to the full committee,
whether they are unanimously agreed
or divided. It is believed that the
report will probably be made Satur
day. y
Dixie Negress Sends
RALEIGH, N. €., April 30.—-Mary, the
negro cook, who has served the Page
family, of which Ambassador Walt'c
Hings Page is a member, has receivod
notice that the pair of Carolina hams
recently gent to Queen Mary of Eng
land have heen received.* The cook was
working for Northern capitalists when
Ambassador and Mrs. ’age were here
some time ago, and when Mrs. Page
commented upon the meat the Ambas
sador's wife said:
“It's fit for a queen,’
The negress then bought a plg, fed it
ard recently killed it, sending the two
hams to London.
Kaiser Ruins Trad
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0f Marriage Brokers
BERLIN, May 4.--The Kaiser has de
livered a crushing blow to the hitherto
fidurishing marriage brokgr business by
forbidding the officers of the army and
navy to obtain wives through such
agencies.
Recent triale revealed that many im
pecunious officers seek “wealthy brides,
the agenis gommf a handsome commis
sion from the bride's dowry.
Mrs. Stetson Sags
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Mrs. Eddy Is Guide
NEW YORK, April 30.--Mrs. Augusta
. Stetson, excommunicated from the
Mother Church of Christ, Scientist, in
1909, announces in a hew book, “Vital
[ssues in Christian Secience,” that she
18 rcveivlnh the spiritual co-operation
of the late Mary Baker Eddy.
Mlinois Convicts
To Build Highwa
JOLIET, April 30.- Two hundred and
fifty convicts from the local State Peni
tentiary will be sent out to work on the
State roads as soon as the weather will
permit.
The uprln% road squad will be an
increase of 200 over the experimental
camp of 60 men sent out last fail,
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