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MT. VERNON, 0., FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1912-No. 30
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COLONEL TALKS
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Attacks Union League Clubs at
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Consfifutionai Convention Adopts
Peck
Will Expedite Court Procedure in Ohio If Ratified By
People-Permits Only One Trial And One Appeal
And Changes Circuit Courts To Courts Of Appeals
Effort To Incorporate Dank Deposit Guarantee Sec
tion In Constitution Fails
Columbus, O., April 11. In the
face of bitter opposition fiom law
yers throughout the stato, tho con
stitutional convention adopted tho
Peek Judicial rofonu proposal, em
bodying one or tho most Important
subjects jot taken up by It. Judge
Peck of Cincinnati, a retired jurist,
led the laymen, who put tho proposal
through. The proposal, if approved
by the people, is expected to do away
with many of "law's delays."
Ono trial, before either judge or
Jury, and one review by a higher
court, is tho essence of tho proposi
tion, in briaft tho. proposal, leaves.
the present supreme court of said
judges unchanged in number,
changes the present circuit courts to
courts of, appeal and gives them final
jurisdiction in all cases save folonics
and those involving constitutional
questions. It retains common pleas
and probate courts. Reference to
justices of the peace is stricken
from the constitution and the legis
lature Is thus given power to estab
lish courts inferior to the common
picas and probate courts.
The legislature also is given powor
to piovide that proceedings of ad
ministrative officers may be reviewed
directly in stnte offices.
It Is prmldcd that when supreme
judges divide equally on any case
from the courts of appeals, tho di
vision shall constitute an affirmance.
It is provided that all save one of
tho judges or the supromo court shall
to necessary to hold a statute un
constitutional oxcopt In affirming a
conrt of appeals which holds a law
valid. In this Instance only three of
the judges would be necessary to
knock out a law.
The supremo court is given Juris
diction to issue writs of prohibition,
directing inferior courts to abstan
from certain proceedings. The court
Is given in addition the writ of certi
orari, a power long possessed by tho
United States supreme court, by
which it may take from Inferior
courts to itself cases of great public
Interest.
Courts May Be Increased.
The number of courts of appeals
may be inoi eased from eight to such
number ns tho legislature sees fit.
Their original jurisdiction shall not
bo different from that of tho circuit
courts ovcept that they are given
the writ of orohlbltlon. Trial as In
the first instance of equity cases,
which they now have, is denied
them. Upon weight of tho evidence
the judges of tho courts of appeals
way reverse the common pleas
courts only by unanimous decisions.
In case a decision upon which a
court of appeals has agreed is in con
flict with a decision in another clr-
New York, April 11. The White
Star liner Olympic brought in a va
riety of rumors about the death of a
flrst cabin passenger, Barton G, Har
rey, whose cards gavo his address
us "Pasadena Country Club, Paaa
fena, Cal." One story was that ho
irus a professional gambler and that
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JUDGE PECK
Former Jurist, Author of
Judiciary Reform Proposal.
cult, the judges are directed to cer
tify the lptord to the supreme court
for derision,
The convention adopted the Earn
tart, proposal to establish double lia
tlllty of stockholders In state banks,
the same liability as Is enforced
Against stockholders In national
banks. The proposal carried an
amendment nltned at private banks,
which provides that no Individual or
institution which is not subject to
state inspection shall use the term
"bunk."
An effort to get through an amend
ment to permit the general assembly
to establish some form of bank de
posit guarantee failed.
Wu Coming Back.
Shanghai, China, April IV. Wu
Ting Pang, for years minister to the
Onlted States from the old Chinese
tmpire. was nominated by Yuan Shi
Kai, president of the Chinese repub
lic, to represent the new government
in the United States.
Woman on Long Jaunt.
New York, April 11.- -Mrs. Uavid
Beach, who proposes to walk from
Mils city to Chicago, subsisting en
foute on a diet of raw foods, loft on
Her 1,000-mlle walk. She hopes o
reach Chicago by June 1.
he had been done up by another
gambler, or a group of gamblers, for
welching, and had gone to his berth
ml died of his hurts. Another story
was that he had been done to death
m his stuteroom. The fact Eecm.'t to
be that he hud been drinking hca;lly
jmd that his heart gave out.
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.Montauk Point, N. V.. April 11 -The steamer Ontario, belonging to the
.Merchants and .Minors' line, remains firmly on the beach a mile west of here,
where she was run-after tire was discovered in the bales of cotton In her
hold. Thiity-slx hours after .-she was ueached smoke was still coming from
her lonvanl compartments nnd lines of hose carrying water to the smolder
ing cotton stoied near the bow. Her crow of llfty men were hard at wotk
hoisting the cargo over the side to (he big lighter that lay to leoward or
trundling back from the neat of the tire the turpentine, rosin and whisky,
of which there had been large quantities on board. Two dangers con
fronted Captain William .1. llond of the stranded ship. One was that lire
might reach thu olatile stuff and either cause an explosion or send tho
tluincs through the entire vessel. The other was that the wind might
change, and an olTsea gale might make tho saving of the liner impossible.
Kverything was in readiness, on-board the. Ontario tdunake a-qulckgejj
inwij milium uie occasion attse. ine lines of the breeches buoy were
ati tunc from the top of tho tlfty foot promontory to the foremast liend of the
snip. The buoy itself was slung near the nmtU, and on the shore Captain
Carl Hodges and the men from the Uiteh Plain lite saving station were
wailing for any emergency. Three of the Ontario's lifeboats laj in the wat
er to tho starboard side of the vessel, and on the pott side the others were
slung outboard on the davits. Hesides, there was the lighter to leap to, and
standing by was tho revenue cutter Aeushnet, which had come down to aid
in rehoue work if needed.
MUG DISCOURAGING
Columbus, O., April 11. Hon A. L
Vorys, Republican national commit
teeman from Ohio, made the follow
ing statement on the result in Illinois:
"Because of local conditions and
prejudices In Illinois and the cam
paign of misrepresentation, we have
been apprehensive about that state.
The result Is not surprising. The
Ohio supporteis of the president who
have assumed Ohio would be for Taft
without effort, will be spurred to
greater activity. The campaign tor
Taft in Ohio will go forward with
redoubled energy. . It will be aggres
sive and President Taft will have the
Ohio delegation to the Chicago con
vention. Such pretenses as that tho
president and his friends are afraid
to trust the people and the like, in
tended to divert tho public mind from
the meritorious Issues, will not suc
ceed In Ohio, Four years ago Illi
nois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Pennsyl
vania and .Nw York were against
Taft In the preliminary campaign,
tut his friends were alwavs confident.
CHINAMAN
IN THE PEI
Coltimhub, 0 April II. The llrst
Chinaman who has been In the peni
tentiaiy for four tears past was re
reived at that Institution when Yew
Pang, u young Oriental, neatly dross
id, walked into the pilbon detaining
room, handcutfed to another prison-1
ftr. Until of them were brought In !
from Cleveland by the deputy sherllf i
uf Cujahoga county, Pang to seivo'
thine j ears for shooting to kill one
Uur Cin, a Chinese moiu limit, wlin re-
fitted tn pay tribute to the Hop fc"i:ig
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LLINOIS FIGHT
The convention nominated him and
he carried all these states at the
election. So now we are not discon
certed by the Illinois primary: but
iow, as then, we confidently oxpeot
his nomination and election."
Sundusk), 0., April 11. The third
suicldo by hanging within 4S hours
was discovered when the body of
fJharlea Schuster, a wealthy farmer,
nged 30, was found suspended by a
rope in bis barn. Schuster, it is be
lieved, had brooded over the hanging
of John Helling, a neighbor. John P.
Drown was tho third suiciue.
Newberry Unseated.
Day City, Mich., April 11. Tiuman
II. Newberry, selected temporary
chairman of ,tho Republican stato
convention, was unseated at a meet
ing of 1C members of the state com
mittee. The committee also passed
on the credentials of tho delegates
from Wayne and Calhoun countios
and voted to seat the Taft men. As
a result two conventions, one of
Roosevelt and the other of Taft dole
gates, 1b the outlook for today.
Pittsburg April 11. William Tar
lis, an inspector of tho Pittsburg
Railways company, died in a hospital
from injuries lecelved whilo ho was
examining the track in Ktna. Ho
bad stnoprd over, when a mun, whoso
ldeiil!t Ims not been learned, slip
ped up from bohlnd and drew a razor
atioss his throat. Tnrrls ran arter
hln atsallant and chased him through
th MwfcU uutll be fell fiom loss of
blood.
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RAPS CORPORATION LAWYERS
In Comment on "Independent Judi
ciary Association" He Declares
That Men Who Have Served Big
Interests In Legal Capacity Are
Unable to Think of Judge Except
as an Instrument to Protect Privi
lege Against Rights of People.
Philadelphia, April 11. Colonel
Roosevelt's opening attack In his
Philadelphia speech before 5,000 peo
ple in the Metropolitan opera house
was on the Union League clubs of
New ork and Philadelphia, which
have condemned his new doctrines
of government and Indorsed Presi
dent Taft.
The colonel applied a quotation
fiom Lincoln condemning the "silk
stocking Whiggery" of his time for
obstructing tho Interests of the peo
ple to the two Union League clubs.
"It is treachery to the past for
those two clubs, now in their old
age, to rank themselves with the
bosses against the plain people,"
said the colonel.
The colonel put Dr. Nicholas Mur
ray Butler in the class of his "em
battled attorneys" representing spe
cial privilege, including him, not by
name, under tho head, "an embat
tled college president who was stand
ing for tho special interests." The
colonel's falsetto brought a big laugh
from his audience.
Colonel Roosevelt said In part:
"In the New York World appears a
detailed statement that some very
eminent lawer? of New York have
undertaken the formation of what
.they style the Independent Judi
ciary" association " THej1 propose," IS
use their own words, 'to combat the
spread of two ideas, namely, the re
call of judges and the referendum to
the people of n certain class of cases
of judicial decisions, and they assert,
in President Tuft's words, that
'these ideas lay the axe at the root
of the tree of well-ordered freedom.'
Known by Their Company.
"Many of the signers are distin
guished men, standing high in their
community; but we ran gain a clew
as to just what kind of well-ordered
freedom to the defense of which
they aie rushing when we see among
the signers of this call the names of
attorneys for a number of corpora
tions i.ot distinguished for a high
keyed sense of civic duty or for their
disinterested conduct toward the
public, such as for instance, the
Standard Oil company, the sugar
trust, the American Tobacco com
pany, the .Metropolitan Traction com
pany of New York and certain de
funct corporations the looting or
which has passed into the history of
financial and stock-jobbing scandal
and forms one of Its blackest chap
ters "Let me repeat that I do not ques
tion the good purpose of some of
these gentlemen. But it is impossi
ble to credit them with good faith in
the fear that they have expressed in
the sentences I have above quoted,
excopt on the supposition that their
long expei ience as attorneys for cor
porations has finally rendered them
genuinely unable to understand jus
tice and genuinely unable tq think of
a judge excopt as an Instrument de
vised to protect privilege agsinst the
rights of the people by Invoking tho
technicalities of the law for the pur
pose of preventing the obtaining of
Justice under the law."
GO UNINSTRUCTED
New York's Big Four Can Vote as
They Please.
Roche-tor, N. Y April 11. Aftor
nearly three hours of speech-making,
the Republican state convention
adopted a platform urging Now
York's delegation to the Chicago na
tional convention, to favor the re
nomlnation of President Taft, elected
four dolcgiites-at-large and alternates
to that convention and adjourned
sine die.
The delegates chosen are United
States Senator Kllhu Root. State
Chairman William Barnes, Jr., Wil
liam Herri of Biooklyn and Edwin A.
Mcrrltt, speaker of tho assemhlv.
Negro Cleared; Is Then Lynched.
Shrcnoport, III., April II. Dis
missed because positive proof was
lacking when arraigned on a charge
of having written letters to a young
whlto woman, Thomas Miles, 24, a
negro, was lynched near the city lim
Ito. When the body wns found It was
swinging from a tree and had been
riddled with bullets.
Operators Agree To Submit Con
troversy lo Commission
Hard Coal Diggers Not Ready To Drop Their Fight For
Recognition Of The Union And Philadelphia Confer
ence Turns Wage Agreement Over To Subcommittee
In Hope That Scale Will Be Signed Without Refer
ence To Outside Parties
Philadelphia, April 11.- As the re
sult of the conferences held In this
city, a settlement of tho differences
between the anthracite operators and
miners seems inevitable.
The coal operators let down the
bars of their absolute refusal to con
sider the demands made by the Unit
ed Mine Workers and offered to Sub
mit the entire differences to the an
thracite strike commission appointed
in 1D02 by Former President Roose
velt, for arbitration.
This offer will be held in abeyance
by President White of the mine
workers until a subcommittee of tho
miners .and operators can further
discuss -the nine demands wade, Jur.
we miners. The committee is in ses
sion today in the Reading Terminal
and carefully go over the demands
made by the miners, with a view of
reaching an agreement without re
course to the t.trike commission. If
an agreement is reached the oper
ators and miners will again meet and
consider their findings. In event of
a failure to report a satisfacto
Columbus. O.. Apill 11. The state
public utilities commission has called
a meeting of passenger traffic man-,
agers of the Pennsylvania, Baltimore J
& Ohio. N'ew York Central. Chesa- '
peake &. Ohio and Hocking Valley '
lines for April 1C, In Columbus, to In
quire if the report that no summer
excursions will be run this summer ,
Is true.
Attorney General Hogan will be
present at the conference, and if tho
Cincinnati. O., April 11. Ilecause
she says she was Joked about being
a big eater, Helen Meyers, 1C, ran
way from her home in Sistersvllle,
VV. Va and was arrested here and
ncld for her fnther. She was found
bslccp by detectives In a car bound
for Versailles, hid., where she ex
pected to get work.
Dayton, O., April 11 Ilonry Myer,
CG, was killed and his son Harold fa
tally Injured tn an automobile acci
dent en tho Alexandila pike, near
lore, .Myer was formerly a tobacco
merchant or Cincinnati, but retired
.ately and lived on a farm near
Dayton.
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FROM HOME; WANTS OUT
ACCIDENT ESCAPE
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agreement, the general question of
the strike commission will be further
discussed.
Hoth miners and operators ex
fres8ed their satisfaction at the turn
of conditions and voiced the expres
sion that p. strike may be averted.
INE DEAL
FLOATED
. SL Clalrsvillc, O., April 11. The
property of "h Belmont Co'al Mining
company, consisting of 8,000 acres of
land nnd three modern mines and
raluahlc surface land, was transfer
red to a company called the No. 8
Coal company, said to be composed
of Cleveland and Pittsburg capital
ists. The consideration named Is 51,
but the deal Involves $3,000,000 or
more.
COMMISSION
AFTER ii III Jill 1
railroads lffime to operate excur
sions, Chairman Gothlin of the com
mission says that Hogan will be ask
rd to take legal steps, it possible, to
ompel tbom to do so.
"A large proportion of Ohio's poj
ulation cpu not afford to pay 2 cents
a mile straight, and excursions give
them their only opportunity to visit
other cities," said Gothlin. "Wo in
tend to protect tho common people's
Interests "
Columbus, 0., April 11. -Renewed
efforts to obtain the release from tho
penitentiary on parole of 'Mark Sta
ler, former superintendent of stato
printing, are expected as a result of
recommendations of several physi
cians who have visited him at tb
penitentiary. Slater's sentence would,
expire Fob. 2, 1013.
YouugBtown, O., Aprfl 11. The
home of Vic Loptlnco at Hlllsvillo
was wrecked by an explosion of
lynamlte, and the nine members of
Loptlnco's family narrowly escaped.
Im, Tomlssio, with three others,
have teen arrested,
