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AM MEMBCR OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ALL TODAY'S NEWS TODAY. THE WEATHER. Snow Tonight and Colder, Generally Fair Sunday. VOL. XXIII. CALUMET, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 8, 1913. NUMBER 20 1 tiiiiim f?w "V I J I I I I I lit ii ii ii ii ii CARRANZA IS MUCH CHEERED OVER OUTLOOK Leader of Mexican Constitution alists Optimistic Regarding Success of Revolution IS HOPEFUL OF RECOGNITION Believes Such Action by the U.S. Would Result in Defeat of Huerta Regime GCTS RIFLES AND AMMUNITION Nogilff, Sdiora, Nov. s 4 irner.il Venusliano Carran.u i )' un-111-11, illy optimistic today regaining Hi"' MICceSH of the Constitutionalists' rev olution. Dispatches it 1. 1)1 his Ugl-lllS at W nbhlngton a til Nv York indicat ed t b-i t official Washington wanted (, kimvv llu' exact extent and strength of 111" insurrection against the HuiTtil gov eminent. This Carrun.u. and hi follow n Interpreted jih a st roiiK In timation that tin- Wilson administiH tlon Ih considering recognition of the .'.M xiimi liiKiirgeiit. Such actum, the rebel chief considers, would Insure the tiii'ViMH or Ihe revolution, and h" asserted lie could pnl ldo.ooo men In the tield. Carransa wns cheered today by the news of tlie successful smuggling over the line at Nuco of large shipment of rifles Hiid ammunition. Dr. Henry Allen Tapper, field oHi cer of the international peace for not, wan in Tucson. Arizona, todey on ;i mission said to have tome direct eon neetlon with an anticipated Investiga tion by Washington authorities. Tap per, according" to rumoi, la the unof-J Mi.ii representative or Feeretaiy Hry (iii. Ultimatum Before Nov. 22. Mexico City. Nov. N. Un willing lo admit another failure to brim; abou; the elimination of President Huerta. Mr. IJnd failed yesterday to manifest "ii.- enthusiasm over the prospect of Huerta giving up office. From hi manner and his eon versa t ion. he hull- atcd that he believed the negotiations are nearly at an end. Ther,. was nothing at the American mbassy today to indicate that a moi fmoroule .turn 1 events is expected iiiul there is reason to believe that an ultimatum, in its full diplomatic sense. Mn will he handed Huerta. the lime limit oeiBg brief. ' H Is expected that this new docu ment will be mo written as-to bring an "il to tit relations Ittwrcn the two ountrles before November 22. the lute nxed for the convening of the new congress. inlcs.s Huerta sees lit to ngrre to the terms of the U ashing o" eoinmunlcntloii. Mr. Mud today saw no .Mexican gov. rnnient official dnd piooahly will nit. any during hi slay in the capital He hadd a long conference with Nelson O'Shaughnessy; the American ch nge d'affaires. STOP BOXING IN VENICE. VoteB Decide to Abolish Sport in Cali fornia Town. Wnloe, I'al.. Nov. 8. Prizefighting in all its phases was abolished here by a majority of 75 votes In an election es PeduMy called to settle the ipiesllon in which J:io voters purt lcixt led. , Boxing matches and even the main tenance or training (piarters for pugi lists who light elsewhere are prohib ited. The ijiietdlou came before the voters Ihrnugh the use of the Initiative by tho.se opposed to prlzeMglitiiig. A pre ponderance of the women's vote Is be llved have iieep cast against pu gilism. To date Township 'erk (r-orge Martin has issued 115 deer license to 'aluniet hunter. ii.li mmmmmfm 1 STRIKING IT RICH SPENCER TOJAVE HEARING MONDAY Case of Confessed Slayer o'f Woman to Be Opened AVhaion. ill. Nov, s All prelim inary ai ra nsementfi liae been com pleted for, the opening, next Mondav, be lot e .lodge .lami Slusser ot' file Iu Page county court, of the trial of Henry Spencer, charged with the mur der if Mrs. Mildred Allison IJ'-xroat, a tango teacher. vlin to tin- atroc ity of I be crime and Hie M-nsation;: history of the prisoner, who has con fessed not onlv t.i the murder of Mis. Ilexroat .but several id her murders committed In various parts of thin Mate lioing the past year or more. Is attracting countrywide ."Iteniinn and promises to lie extremely M'lisational. The murder foi whit b Spencer is !o be tried, was committed on the eve ning of Ft Ida v Sepie.ol-er Jti. of this year. Mrs. Mil. lied Al'ison K.-xroit of I'hicatjo, a teacher of bingo dancing. was Itn il In a dirk pot near W'.ivne. HI., murdered hv bemrr choked and shot through the bead and then place! class which be said be bad formed Kastern lailioul. where a trnui man gled bet body. The riinie was dis covered b'- the engui"er ol the liatn wbieb ran over the bodv ot the woman and h- promptly notified the ;oitlidii- lies. The sheriff of I hi Page count suoie In a liiiii'lreii iiepioy suerills who searcbed the whole roiinlrv for Hie in l t derer. Difficult to Trase Clues. The body of I he vb''im was crushed bevond 1 ecogntt Ion. bill by means of l bracelet and her bag, eontainiu' her card and some papers, the vidlm was Ideiilllod as Mrs. l:roat. Il was also ascertained that the woman ha I la-en vobbeil of her money and of the valuable (ewe'ry she vole. l vvas learned that the viclini was known as Mis Allison, but 1 1i.it she bad been divorced from Mi. Allison, b"f Pi-it husband. (Mid bad recently married K. V Ilexroat. a farmer rear Macomb, III She W'l-S Sllppie-eil to make her living iis a daneina teaehei. The oliee 'ol lowed several lus and made several arrests, but the ar rested persons were abb- to prove alibis :.i'd not until .some time during the tirst vvel of October did the Oil cago podce succeed in arresting Henry Speiicr. who Is said to be a Hohein. Inn named Shell na. following a dew f lirnlshi d hv some frb nds of the innr dered woman. It eppe.ired I hat Mr Kexioi' had an appointment with a man mimed Spencer for the evening f September 'JH. Slu wap to lucom pany Idm to Wayne to teach a tango class which lie said he bad formed there. The woman and Spencer were jioen bv severe I persons near Wayne who furnished n good dcsctlptlon of the man. Confetses to Wholesale MuroVrs. After his arrest Sp'neer was taken to the Cook county Jail and there he latT made i full confession of the murder of Mm. Rexroat. Rlvlnsr all the detail of the case and a graphic des cription f the miirde- Itie'f. He also clnlmed that lie had committed a num ber of other murders and robberien In varlou sections of tb state and cre ated a tremendous sensation by giving detailed accounts of the numerous Continued on 8th Page, 1st Column. RIP GOATS OF COPS AND GOT SUSPENDERS Suffragettes Adopt New Scheme to Save Them From Arrest Ivondon, Nov. . The police have bpn Kiibjeci to coubiderahlc tntnisiu for the small number of arrests they made at the recent i)v piths riot in the east em', when Sylvia Pankhiirst W IS rescued hv lie followers, but Inod tsty bee prevented 111.- london police man f;oin coming forwatd with a. per fectly iideiiiate excuse for his small slllTragclte bag. The stolV of Ihe newest form of militant strategy might never have. been made public had not some of the victorious silffraselti s boasted jehruit it to their friends. According to these fighters every time a policeman grasn ed a sin'f ragel te one of her comrades, told off for that purpo'e, would tin .tpeii 'he officer's coat and cut his sus penders. Torn between coiifiii ting senses r.f duty flnd modesty the con stable bad to sacrifice bis capture or bis dignity, and everyor.e who knows th" London "hobby" will gn ss Ih it the pri.oni escaped The troubles of th'- much -a bused police did not end With the escape of their prlsonei lr when they wri" lined up hi fore the Inspector to report off duty, tbev got a rating for their failure o Maud al attention with bands at their sides. The chad Inn of their comrades in the station liotis--. when they discovered the cause' fur Ibis slackness, did led add to their happiness. II is said that when Miss pankhiirst was arrisfeii the. cex night at I'opiar Town hell, her captom bad provided for a repetilii.il of the attack 'by an choring their trousers so securely that a mere clpi.ini; of llv suspenders did not eai'.se them any concern. VINCENT ASTOR TO TAKE BRIDE IN THE SPRING New Voik, Nov., S. Vincent Atdor today confiriued tlie announcement be is engaged to marry MIsk Helen IHnsnioie Huntington, eldest daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Hubert P. Hunt' Ington, of Statts-b org. JV'. Y. The wedding, it Is undertoiMl, will be next spring. Young Astor Inherit ed th" sixty-five million dollar es tate of Lis father, who perlslied in the Tit a nlo dlsutder. He Is -2 and his bride-to-be is 20. They have known each olbcf since childhood. FOREMAN OF ARSENAL AT ROCK ISLAND IS MURDERED Rock lil.ind. III., Njv. 8. John 11. ychoessel. aged 51. foreman In the ma chine shopa of the government arsenal, wan murdered on the doorstep of hin home In this rity last night, while re turning from practicing- with a clnirch choir of which he wan a member. He was accosted by tlire. men and the gang Blabbed him. In the heart. His assailants escaped,. . , T. R. OUTLINES HIS POLITICAL GREED Tells Argcntinos of Work lie Has Set Out to Accomplish i Buenos Ayrcn, Nov.. 8. Theodore I Poosevlt rccitfd hi.s political creed jlffore an audienie of Argentiiios here la.' t night and outlined, in a sjieech I lasting more than an hour. Ihe work jthal he and his followers had set i thctny lves to act ompllsli iu the United j Stall. j "We do not sec ull the tdeps that I it will be necessary to take in the fu ture in older lo realize our Ideals." be ..... . un ..... i ...lM,i or ;i ii...cn steps which it is now iksj- ossary to take. These we shall take; and then the further steps will become clearer to us. We welcome the aid of those who believe in our taking' these tirst steps, even though it may be that our whvh shall be sundered from their ways in the remote future.' Colonel itoosevflt spoke ot length on the topic of recalling Judicial decisions in be l'nit, states, he paid, certain gieat pi iv il . ::ed interests had sought lor two genei itions to rob the people ol their sovei i ignty by dividing It be tween courts and legislatures a ndtin, il ly by placing it in the courts through living the com ts political and non judicial power. This was one of the grave evils whn h he and his folliovetH sought lo wipe out. Among tlio many reforms written on their prouram, be said, were these: Outlines Intended Reforms "We propone lo make the process of const it ut ional amendim nt far easier, speedier ami fimpler than at present. "We wish to make the people the supreme arbiters between their ser vants, the court and the legislature, when the court and the legislature dif fers as to the nioper interpretation of the Constitution wlih'h the. people made. "We know tli.it ii is folly lo try to make the fool I lie equal of the wise man. but we Intend to control greed and cunning and brutality in high places just as vvn control greed and cunning and brutality In low places. "Wo intend to provide for the moth er whose husband, the breadwinner, has died. "We intend to protect Hie right of children to their childhood. "From Ihe men and women who work hard with clean ham! we intend to try to lift the burden of hauntlng- fear of an old age of undeserved pen ury and misery. "Wo intend that machinery shall be the handmaiden and not the mistress of humanity. "We intend to inak the government n most (Httent instrument in working for tlie uplifting of mankind." SULZER TO BE WITNESS. New York. N. Y.. Nov. ft. William Sulzer will be called bv District At torney Whitman In the John LVe In vestiagtion of graft charges made by John A. Ilpnnessy, Sul.ir's former graft Invest Ige lor, according to announce ment made at the dlctrict attorney's oltlcet yesterday afternoon. It wen reported that Charles K. Murphy, leader of Tammany hall, also will be called. The Inquiry will b resumed Tuesday. GREAT CROWD AT MICHIGAN GAME Cornell Eleven Is in Excellent Con dition, But Star Player Is Missing BIG CONTESTS IN THE EAST Harvard Conceded to Have Strong er Team Than Princeton YALE HOPES TO COME BACK FINAL SCORES Michigan, 17 Cornell, 0. Harvard. 3; Princeton, 0, Yale, 17 Brown, 0, Dartmouth. 3; Pennsylvania, 21. Ithaca, Nov. s A record-breaking iiovvd for the annual football game between Cornell and Michigan Is on hand. Si vera I hundii-' Michigan root. ts arrived last night, accompanied by a baud. Cornell' eleven is in excel lent condition. The line-up vviP be the name its against Harvard last Satur day witli the exception of ohearne. star right end, who is missing. He Is recovering from severe injuries to his eyes suffered In the Harvard game. McHalTey, who will play right end, is not comparable to Oheariu Harvard Versus Princeton. Princeton. Nov. 8. Light intermit tent rain this morning: was not ex pected to Interfere much with the Princeton-Harvard game. Harvard wd conceded by in my critics to have the Ktronger team, but rrlnceton tup porters took nearly all of th Har vard money offered, the odds varying from ten to six, to four to three. The twenty-six thousand seats in the tem porary htadlum were old last night. Brown Expects to Beat Yale. New Haven. Nov. ft. The largest crowd of the season filled the held for the football battle between Brown and Yale. Drown undergraduates are con fident that Yale will be defeated, as was the case three years ago. In the Yale camp the feeling prevailed that the Blue, smarting from Its defeat by Colgate last week and the fctorm of caustic criticism that followed, would "conie back." Dartmouth Meets U. of P. - Philadelphia, Nov. 8. Dartmouth and the University of Pennsylvania met on the football field here today for Ihe lirst time In sixteen years. Tin supporters of both teams are contl dent of the. ability of their respect ive elevens to win tlie victory which wiP put them in line for the cham pionship. ' Western Tears Crippled. hicago. Vov. 8 With telative standings only at stake tn the games played by the western conference teams todav, and with the Drake Missouil meeting the only title con test, the coaches and players are look ing forward to decisive battles a week hence. Most of the teams are attempting to play todav with but part of their usual strength. Minnesota, crippled to an exteme. Is not playing " At Mad ison, the much battered Wisconsin eleven meets the Ohio State, whose players are in good condition. Chi t ago plays Northwestern ot Kvanston. At Iowa City raw winds promised to Interfere w ith the annual Indiana -Iowa game. SAYS MISSIONARY WORK IN INDIA IS FAILURE, Minneapolis. Mint... Nov. 8. Dr. Kehavn D. Snastn of Benares. India, who eanie all the way to Mlnneaiolis to deliver an address before the Inter national Purity congress, which open ed here yesterday, aroused the ire of many delegates and it was demanded that Ids nam be stricken from th program. At a husiness meeting H was decided not to do so and the doc tor will probably deliver his sched uled speech today. The trouble grew out of an Inter view printed In a local newspaper whoch was construed us an attack on the Christian mission In his native land. Among the statement attribut ed to Dr. Shastrt In the published In terview were: "If Americans knew how much mon ey Is lielng- spent In missionary work and how little Is beinff accomplished the donations for proselyting would stop at once. "Christianity has gained practically no headway in India. There Is little pits pert that the Hindus In any great number will ever be converted to the Christian religion. As to th low tlass Hindu, the missionary system is one of bartering material aid for con vert. The missionary lives llk Jlcrd with a retinue of v,nts.,, EGGS SEVENTY. FIVE CENTS A DOZEN IN NEW YORK CITY. New York. Nov. s. A R' arc ity of egss lias caused retailers to put tli price up to seventy live cents a dozen for the best, and Ihe prospects ere the price will jmi three to five cents high er. The wholesale price is sixty-two, tli. oigh certain west erns nie obtainable at forty thrfe. AVIth the tariff off, the wholesalers aie planning to bring egs from abroad, hellev ln' it to lie profitable. S 4 4 ORGANIZED LABOR OF AMERICA MEETS Over Two Million Workmen Repre . sented at A.F.of L. Session Prattle, Wash. Nov. . The largest tongiess of labor leaders ever held on the Pacilic toast, so far as the nuin tieis represented and the Interests! in volved are com-erned. will begin in this ity Monday with the ojK'iiliig of the I annual conv ention of the American Federation of Labor. Nearly U.ihui.COo organized worklnginen In the I'nited States and Canada are sending then deb gates -several bundled in number to represent them. The convention will have as ils spe cial guests Secretary of Labor William li. Wilson and Messrs. l!vviine and Creenall. two well known English labor leaders who have come over as frater nal delegates from the Pritish Trades L'nlon Congiess. Secretary Wilson will deliver an address before the conven tion. Labor Heads Are Present. Among the well known labor leaders who will be in attendance, in addition to President Samuel C.ompers and the other general officers of the federation, President John P. White of the I'nited Mine Workers, former President John Mitchell of the same organ Uation, President James Klrhy of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Join ers. President A. P. Sovey of the In ternational Hrotherhood of Hookblnd ers, Secretary-Treasurer J. W. Hays of the International Typographical Union, President Sam C.riggs of the Journey men Stonecutters' Association, and President Prank. Ryan of the Interna tional Association of Bridge and Struc tural Iron Workers. Plan to Obliterate I. W. W. Question of unusual importance are scheduled to come before the conven tion. The operation of tlie new work inmnen's compensation laws in the various states will tie discussed. Moral and financial support probably will be extended to the striking miners in Col orado and Michigan. Plans to extin guish the Industrial Workers of the World iis a trades union movement will be considtred. Questions affect ing the standing of subordinate na tional unions will be taken up. and some long-standing lights between rival organizations will be discussed. EXPECT VERDICT IN RITUAL Kiev. Kuistj, Nov. s The fury t? expected to return a verdict tomorrow In the trial of Mendal Heiliss, for the alleged murder of a Christian Boy, An drew Yushinsky. The speeches of the counsel were finished today. Attorney (irunsberg, for the defense, opened tlie dav's proceed ings arguing the defendant was made a scapegoat for the mistakes or offi cials. B-ferring to the Vera Toheberiak band of criminals, the lawyer said he was convinced of their guilt, for "all loads of evidence led to Vera Tcheber- Iak and not to the brickworkers where Beiliss was employed." The activities of the anti-Semetii "black hundred" continue without ces sation. The secretary of the "Two Headed lvaule" today Issued an asser tion that the Jews spent $K, :,(, mm dur ing the trial for counsel, press, police and witnesses. NEGRO IS ARRESTEES MISS LEEGSON S MURDERER Chicago. Nov s. Tlmm k- L'i laco. a copper colored negro, was jirrested to day in cornection with (he murder of Miss Iiia Iegson, the femur Doiltr Bay, Mich., school teacher, t month tigo. Chief Detective Ilalpln announc td tint Briscoe was identified by a man who was riding In a bnggv the night of the murder and saw the ne gro wit!: Miss Ieegson. Hi'lpin I'dded that Briscoe was Iden tified, as the man who attacked Mrs. Tamllla Rosslter In the basement of her home last July. PINDELL AGREEABLE TO RUSSIA AS AMBASSADOR Washington. Nov., 8. The Russian 'cvernment has notified the United States that Henry M. Plndtll, ot Pe oria, will be agreeable to the St. Pe tersburg court. Plneil's nomination iis expected to gt to the Senate noon. 5 THAW CASE IS TRANSFERRED TO U.S. COURTS This Is Automatic Result of Gov ernor Felkner's Decision to Extradite Him HONORS REQUEST OF NEW YORK New Hampshire Executive Bases Action on Indictment Charg ing Conspiracy HABEAS CORPUS WRIT PENDING ''rnvf N. H. Nov. tjovcrnoi r'elknei today honored the lequibition r New York for the extradition of ll'ily K. Thaw. The case Is now transferred automatically to the td "ixl courts, where a writ of habets corpus ui behalf of Thaw U pending. The governor based big decision on the indictment returned against. Thaw in New York county, which charged Mm with i uiidpiraey to escape from Matttawan asylum, to wheh lie wad committed after Ids second trial for tlie killing of Stanford White. T.iaw made a sensational tight on August 17 and a few days later was arrested at Coaticook. Canada. Thaw's attorneys announced tiiey would immediately file an amendment to their petition for a writ of habeas corpus, which was originally based on the allegation that Thaw was indicted for conspiracy by the Dutchess &ranJ Jury. Because the extradition haw been, granted on the strength of th New York county indictment It will tie netes?ary amfnd the petition accordingly. Thaw was not present when the gov ernor announced his decision. He will lemaln in custody here peiicing tho federal proceedings. Governor States Reasons. tJovernor F elkner raid: "By petition of Governor Ulynn, ai.d accompanying- papers, it appears that the grand Jury of the county of Ne.v York iiad duly returned an Indictment against Thaw. That is sufficient war rant for the arrest, arraignment and trial of the respondent, if lie may bo found within the state wherein tlie indictment is pending. It fuit'iertnoi is suttii-utit to establish that Thaw i. if fo'ind in any state or country while such indictment i- pending . fugitive from Justice "I i'vi unable to view mv Jutv in the primises as including an investi gation of Thaw's mental condition, o. tt the counsel fr the state of New York or of the probable guilt or inno ee nee of Mie accused " The governor rnjde public an opin- i'Ml by Attorney General A'lttle ,dv i.- ing him to giant the requisition Thaw's mother issued a five hundred word statement, in which she said the governor's decision was not a shock to tier, although a disappointment 5C0TT CHEERFUL AS PARTY FACED DLATH. Planned to Kid Selves WHen AH Hope Was Lost. Lond'-in. Nov. S The following1 words aie pnrt of a letter written a few daya before the end of the ling struggle nude by Capt. S'-ott in bi3 ill-tated antarctic expedition. The let -te, was to pis friend. Sir James Bar rie. and is part of two la.e volume:; ! v Smith. Ulder "o.. issued today The letter said. "We are very near th end. but we have not and won t lose our good cheer "We have bad four days of storm in the tejit and iiowb're Is there food or fuel. "We had Intended to finish mirseh ei when things proved like this, but we. have decided to die naturally in our tracks. 'We are fhowin- that Hnglthnien still can die with a bold spiitt. fighting to the end. "It will be known we have accom plished our object of readdnc the p.l and thnf we have done everything pos sible even to sacrificing ourselves in order to save our ill companions. "I may not have proved a great ex plorer, but we have done the greatest march -er made and -ouie very near to success." CASE TO JURY TUESDAY. Chicago. III.. Nov. S. The ca.es of Attorney Daniel Donahoe and Detec live Isac St.iM. chargedd with having conspired to defame Clatence S. Punk. will go to the Jury next Tuesday, ac cording o the predictions of attorneys after the presentation of evidence clued yesterday