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Show CALEB POWERS NOW A REFORMER Washington, June 10. Electrocution Electrocu-tion may be submitted for hanging for capital offenses In the District of Columbia, If a bill Introduced yesterday yester-day by Representative Calob Powers of Kentucky becomes a law. It further contemplates commutation of the death sentence to life Inrnrv onmont In case of female offenders. The bill was inspired by tho enso of Mattie Lomax, a negro" woman now under sentence to bo hanged for tho murder of her husband. oo |