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THE ROCK ISLAND ARGUS FIFTY-EIGHTH YEAR. NO. 158. THE ARGUS, WEDNESDAY. APRIL 21, 1909. -TWELVE PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS. PEACEFUL SOLUTION OF TURKISH TROUBLE NEAR RUSSIA DECIDES TO SEND FOOLED AGAIN AM ARMY INTO ASIA HUMOR Passiveness of Sultan Indicates an Early Settlement. WILL BE NO BATTLE Lines of Invading Troops Con tinue to Draw Closer About the City. London, April 21. A dispatch from Constantinople says a definite agree ment between the government and committee of union and progress will be reached. Abdul Hamid is to re main sultan of Turkey, but the pres ent cabinet will resign immediately. Army Draw 'loner. Constantinople, April 21. Lines of the const itutiohal array arc drawing closer and closer toward the Turkish capital toJay and the advance guard of the Macedonans Is practically at th gates of the city. The actual advance Into the city, however, is not yet be gun. - Negotiations for a peaceful settle ment are proceeding with high hopes of success and there are increasing; evidences that there will be no en counter between the army of invesL raent and the first army corps within Constantinople. People l.rnve Cnpilul. Fears of possible rioting, however, became manifest today and us :i result many people are leaving the capital. Everything is quiet at Yildiz palace. The sultan Is outwardly calm anJ awaiting developments with apparent imperturbability. May Vet Settle Trouble. Constantinople, April 21. The cabi net will meet this afternoon and pro claim martial law. The advance guard of the, .constitutional army has arrived on the outskirts of the city. In some quarters it Is believed there is an increasing possibility of an arrival at an understanding which may result in a reconciliation between the young Turks and the. sultan. The cabinet this morning considered a proposal made by the army of investment. Wnltn in Palace. Constantinople, April 21. Sultan Abdul Hamid is waiting in his palace for whatever may befall. He has not taken to fight, and his grand vizier, Tewflk Pasha, has announced that, without fear, the sultan will remain with his family and accept resignedly the fate which has been prepared1 for him and his country. Tewfik Pasha and the minister of war, Edhem Pasha, who sent in their resignations to the sultan late Monday night, decided to withdraw them yes terday, and the grand vizier is spend ing most of the time with Ids majesty. Nazln Pasha still Is in command of the garrison, but no preparations hav? been made to offer any resistance io the advance of the Saloniki troops. SMUGGLED IN A MILLION WORTH GOWNS YEARLY New York, April 21. Further inves ligation of the systematic smuggling of Paris gowns into this port led the custom house officials to declare that the syndicate has probably smuggled in $1,000,000 worth of goods each year for the last 10 years, thus defrauding the government out of $000,000 annual ly In customs .duty. Efforts to avoid criminal prosecu tion and to shield from publicity tliel prominent women for whom the $55, ,000 worth of recently seized gowns were intended resulted in the offer by reputable attorneys, representing anon ymous clients, of $2CC,000 to the gov eminent to drop the investigation. The federal grand Jury is investiga ting the case and it is intimated that the identity of the smugglers will be revealed. POACHER CAUGHT IN CANADIAN WATERS American Pishing Schooner Taken Near Vancouver After Shots Are Fired. Vancouver, B. C, April 21. The dominion government cruiser, Keis- terel. arrived toJay. having in charge !e the American halibut fishing schooner,' a Charles Levi Woodbury, which the cruiser captured after firing four roundsfrom a machine gun and threat ening to sink the alleged poaching vessel unless it surrendered. As no attention was paid the three volleys, a fourth was directed at the schooner which struck and slightly damaged it. The capta:n of the Amer ican vessel did not surrender, how ever, until the schooner was boarded by a force from the cruiser. WOMAN SUPPLIED Supposed Mrs. Boyle Held for Kidnaping of Willie Whitla in Luxury. HUSBAND BORROWING CASH Ohio Authorities Not Disposed to At tempt to Prosecute Unless Pennsylvania Fails Mercer. Pa.. April 21. It was learn ed here last night that the effort of former Judge Miller, counsel for Mrs. James H. Boyle In the Whitla abduc tion case, to have the Ohio courts claim jurisdiction over the woman had fallen flat. The Ohio authorities ex pect to take no action in the case un less the woman's conviction in Penn sylvania should failv A capias from Ohio for the woman and one for Boyle are in the hands of the sheriff to be served if either of them should be released here. IteveliiiK In Luxury. While Boyle is reputed to have call ed on his relatives for enough money to buy stogies with, Mrs. Boyle is said to be reveling in luxury. It is reported that rich relatives have deposited to her credit here $1,000. No one but her . attorney, it is said, knows where it came irom, duc it, is taKen as evi deuce of the truth in the report that d I i2 frnm O rvrrkm i nor f our! u'oaI r t family. That she is best known near St. Louis is evidenced by the quantity I of mail she receives from there. It is said she gets many, letters from East St. Louis, CUMMINS PRESENTS INCOME TAX BILL Has Measure He Believes Will Pro-' diice $10,000,000 Hcvenue Kx empts All Below .$.",000. Washington, April 21 Senator Cum mins today introduced an amendment to the Payne-Aldrich tariff providing for a graduated income tax which he believes would produce $40,000,000 revenue. It exempts incomes below $5,000 and authorizes a deduction of that amount from every dutiable in come. SARAH KOTEN FREED ON COURT'S ORDER Woman Who Killed Doctor She CI largcd Iluil Assaulted Her in Hands of Friends. New York April 21. Sarah Ko- ten, a young Russian Jewess, who shot and killed Dr. S. Auspitz, whom she accused of betraying her, and who last week pleaded guilty of man slaughter in the first degree, was de clared a free woman by the judge yesterday afternoon. Judge Blan- chard who investigated the case, sus pended sentence on the young woman and turned her over to the Society for the Protection of Jewish Women, who took her to the country to re cover her health. Eighty women were present in the court room. The judge declared the woman was far more sinned against than sinning The Woman appeared in the, court room with her child close against her breast and looked frightened. There was prolonged applause when the judge concluded and the women alUkissed her in the court room. HOPKfNS GAINS IN BALLOTS Candidate for Senator Gets 78 Votes on 73d Attempt. Springfield, April 21 The 73d ballot for senator today resulted: Hopkins, 78. Foss, 18. Shurtleff, 31. Alderman Michael Zimmer, 34. Scattering, 10. Car Employes Vote to Strike. Pittsburg, April 21. Employes of the Pittsburg Street Railway company voted almost unanimously to strike unless the company today at a confer ence conceeds the demands for half a cent per hour advance.- ( Roosevelt has said that no newspaper men will be allowed with WIND BLOWS 100 MILES AN HOUR IN SQUALL ON THE COAST OF LAKE ERIE Cleveland, April 21. A squall which swept along the southern shore of the lake today left death and ruiu in llg wake. The wind reached a velocity of nearly 100 miles an hour for a few minutes. The day was as dark as night. Trees and frame houses were blown down in all parts of the city, Lightning started many fires A woman was blown into a lake and ICE 80 FEET HIGH Great Mass at Mouth of Niag ara River Threatens Dam age to Hotels. LEWIST0N BRIDGE IN PERIL War Department and Governor Ask ed to Help May Try to Break Jam With Kvplosives. Niagara Falls, April 21. Thousands of tons of broken ice piled in a con fused mass at the mouth of the Niag ara river today threatens the Lewis ton suspension bridge. Moving pon derously before a tremendous pressure of water, the mass of ice is slicing off the river embankment as it passes and threatens serious damage to some of the hotels on the river bank ordinarily high above the water. Adding; to Accumulation. Great fields of ice are pouring over Niagara falls, constantly adding to the accumulation which clogged the CHURCH ROW WILL WHITE FROM MARRIAGE OF DAUGHTER Paris, April 21. The 'arrangements for the wedding of "Count Hermann Scherr-Thoss and Miss Muriel White, daughter of the American ambassador. which were delayed by certain diffi culties arising through differences in the faith of the contracting parties, are now completed. The civil cere mony, which alone constitutes a legil marriage in France, will be performed by the mayor of the eighth arrondisse ment, in which the ambassador re sides, April 28. The following day the religious marriage will be celebrated at St. Joseph's church, one of the most exclusive Catholic churches in Paris. The service will be simple and will be attended only by the members of the Immediate family, with the excep tion of Ambassador White. As Miss White retains her Protest ant faith, her family greatly desired that both Protestant and Catholic re ligious services should follow the civil marriage, and the groom-elect and fam ily were in full - sympathy with this. Cardinal Kopp. bishop of Breslau, th2 diocese in which the couple will live. declined, however, to grant a dispen sation for the marriage except on con ditions that the groom refrain fro.-n attending any other' religious cere- drowned. The roofs were blown from the main building of the Case school and from Adelbert college. Monu ments and trees were blown down in Woodland cemetery, and telegraph and telephone wires are down. Damage at Wellington. At Wellington the wind unroofed the plant of the American Machine company and otherwise damaged 50 houses. exit of the river into Lake Ontario. The height of the mound of ice at Lewiston is already 80 feet above the usual level of the river. Appeals for help have been made to the war department and Governor Hughes, and the governor sent an ex pert in the use of explosives. The ice is passing over the falls at the rato of thousands of tons a second. MURDER TRIAL IN THEATER Indiana Court House Considered Un safe for the Big Crowd. Spencer, Ind., April 21. The second trial of Emory Cashell for the murder of Thomas Mills began here today in the opera house. In Indiana, at least, this is the first time court proceedings were held in a theater. The old court house is so shaky and interest in the trial so widespread that the county commissioners decided it would not he safe to risk a crowd of spectators as sembling in the tourt room. Ex-Senator Turpie Dead. . Indianapolis, Ind., April 21. Fornv-r United States Senator David Turp'e died today. He had been in ill health some time. Turpie defeated his re publican opponent. Benjamin Harrison, for the senatorship in 1887. KEEP AMBASSADOR mony, and with the usual restrictions concerning the faith of any issue of the marriage. Influences, were brought to bear in an endeavor to induce Cardinal Kopn to concede the service of the Episcopal church, but these failed in their object. Precedents were cited where two ser vices, both in France and in other countries, has been performed, notably in the case of the marriage of the Dutch minister at Washington, J. J. Loudon, and the niece of the late James B. Eustls, one of Ambassador White's predecessors. As the cardinal remained obdurate. Ambassador White finally acquiesced, but as a protest against the attitude of the ecclesiastical authorities, he de cided to abstain from attending the Catholic ceremony. With regard to this decision, he says: "Both my public and my private life demonstrate my freedom from relig ious bias, but under the circumstances and as the representative of a coun try eminent for its religious toler ation, although predominantly Pro- testant, I have decided not to attend the service at St. Joseph'3, the mora'mg from 200 to 500 in a total vote of so a there are several recent preced- ents for a Catholic ceremony and one of another denomination." him in Africa News Item. VICTORY FOR WETS General Results Where Liquor Was Issue in Municipal Elections Against Drys. SENATOR HOPKINS HIT Kewauee Upholds Saloon by a Large Majority Holland Iasps in Bloomington Contest Chicago. April 21. Municipal and township elections were held through out the state yesterday, the question of local option being hard fought in scores of the smaller towns. Returns from these latter towns indicate that the wets won the majority of the bat ties. In many other towns, while local option was not voted upon directly, the forces were lined up for or against license. In these latter tests the re sults appear to be about equally di vided. , Houklna I.NFN Flight. One of the most bitter fights in the state was at Aurora, where Albert J. Hopkins, recently retired from the United States senatorship, was given another hard blow. The faction which was headed by Hopkins was badly beaten. The center of interest in the local option fight was at Kewanee, which was the largest town in the state which voted on the saloon proposition The drys fought a good fight, but were beaten by a heavy majority. There were none of the larger cities which changed from one side of the local option question to the other. Aurora Im Glad. Aurora, 111., April 21. The Hopkins faction was dealt the ' most crushing blow in the Aurora municipal election yesterday it has ever received here Hopkins' candidate for mayor. C. S Battle, was beaten more than 2 to by Fred Fauth, the anti-Hopkins can didate, the vote resulting 3,911 to 1,- 834. Hopkins was beaten here for senator by less than a 2 to 1 vote at the Aug ust, 1908, primary. Last night the city was wild with enthusiasm. Two thousand men formed in line and marched through the streets led by a hack, which bore a coffin labeled "Hop kinism." The marchers sought Hop kins' home, but his house was dark Then they marched to the office of his newspaper, where they deposited the casket. ' Beall Rfflrc(d Mayor at Alias. Alton, III., April 21. Edmond Beall running for reelection as mayor against Charles Clifford, was reelected yester day. His opponent denounced him as being the promoter and author of the na'ure fakes attributed to Alton, and unduly exploiting the stork as the em blem of the city. Beall got 903 ma jority out of 3,500 votes cast, carrying every voting precinct in the city. No liquor issue was raised. Sunday Cloln I.oaea. Joliet. Ill., April 21. Mayor John R. Cronln and the entire democratic city ticket was elected by majorities rang over 7.200. The contest was one of the most bitterly fought in the history! of the city. Back of the republican ticket were the three daily newspa pers of the city and most of the pas tors of the churches. On the other side were the three breweries and the 13C saloons with all the forces they could control. The city is naturally democratic, but party lines were badly shattered. Last night the victors celebrated. Great crowds of cheering, enthusiastic men paraded the streets and serenad ed the newspaper offices. The defeat ed forces declare that the result of the election will be a most bitter local option battle next spring, and that the coming year will be devoted to the liveliest agitation In the city's his tory. The principal issue in the cam paign has been the question of en forcing the Sunday closing Jaw, which has been a dead letter in Joliet for 20 years past. Three In Field. Ottawa, 111., April 21. One of the most exciting municipal elections ever held In Ottawa took place yesterday. There were three candidates for may or. The republican candidate polled nly 49 votes. The fight was between ames Farrell, the present democratic mayor, and ex-Attorney General M; T. Moloney, who ran as an independent andidate. Farrell received 1,330 and Moloney 1,271 votes. Bancroft WIdm In Jacksonville. Jacksonville, 111., April 21. Horace I. Bancroft, republican, was elected mayor here over William C. Osobrne, democrat, by 321 majority. Weta Carry Kewanee. Kewanee, 111., April 21. In a hotly contested municipal election the fol lowing city officers were elected Mayor, Alexander McLean; city clerk, O. D. Peterson; city attorney, H. Ster ling Pomeroy; city treasurer, C. F. Sullivan; police magistrate, Andrew T, Boyle. All the winners, except Boyle, were on the citizens' labor ticket, which was opposed by the citizens' ticket. A total vote of 2.3C8 was polled. The citizens' labor ticket pluralities rang ed around 200. In the exciting wet and dry contest, which attracted state attention because Kewanee was the largest city in Illi nois in which this issue was to the front, the wets won with an estimated majority of 300. Many women worked at the polls. Ed HoMaud lAtnnr. Bloomington, 111., April 21. The re publicans swept Bloomington, Robert L. Carlock, former county clerk, being elected mayor by a plurality of 21 votes over Edward Holland, democrat ic candidate for reelection and who was for years prominent in baseball circles. The principal issue was traction, al though local option cut some figure. The democrats were successful two ears ago upon a promise to secure revenue from the city railway system for use of the streets. Two years passed with controversy still unsettled, the company refusing to pay the sum demanded. Holland made a great race against heavy odds, as the city is normally re publican. Carlock promised to en force ordinances strictly. The entire republican ticket was elected by heav ier pluralities, with the exception of Louis Fitzhenry, democrat, who was chesen city attorney. Democrat Winn at Danville. Danville; 111., April 21. Louis Piatt, democrat, running on the citizens' tick et, was elected mayor of Danville over William F. Baum, republican, by a ma- ority of about 800. There will be no change in the complexion of the city council, which stands 12 republicans to 2 democrats. LAKE SAILORS FOR STRIKE Union Members Hold Ships Cannot Sail Without Them. cieveiana, otno, April 21. By a unanimous vote the 207 members cf the Lake - Seamen's union decided to go on strike here yesterday. It is said that with the present number of non union engineers under contract it will not be possible for the vessels con trolled by the Lake Carriers associa tion to carry over 10,000 000 tons of ore. . Yesterday in Congress' - Washington, April 21. Following is a summary, compiled from the official proceedings, of the - work of both houses of congress yesterday: SENATE The census bill was sent back to conference by the senate In or der mat its amendments relating to the civil service law and requiring the construction of a building for the work of the census In this city mlirht be fur ther considered and insisted upon. The conferees had agreed to strike out the senate amendment requiring domicile In a state for one year as a prerequisite for the establishment of residence as a basis for apportionment- of appoint merits among the several states, bu they were instructed to Insist upon this pr rovision. senator stone spoke at length In favor of free trade with the Philin &8nadn Vthfn im agreel upon. Adjourned at 4.20 p. m. slr" Huusii me nouse was not in sea- At Instance of England Invasion is Arranged For TO GUARD INTERESTS Americans Feel More Secure With Two Cruisers on the ' Way to Scene. , Tiflis, April 21. General Smarky, who commanded the Russian punitive expedition in Julfa in 1908, has been designated to lead the proposed Rus sian expedition into Persia. The ex pedition will be organized at the sug gestion of Great Britain for the relief of foreigners at Tabriz. SUah I'leadn nine. Teheran, April 21. The shah today declined to receive British and Rus sian diplomatic representatives, giv ing illness as an excuse. KanaliclNiu Extending. Constantinople, April 21. Late re ports from the Syrian coast say racial fanaticism is extending in the cilayet of Alpho. Disturbances have broken out at Antioch and Birejik and for eigners have taken refuge at the Brit ish vice consulates. ( Killed with Baakervllle. Tabriz. April 21. The nationalists lost GO men killed and 100 wounded in the sortie yesterday, in which H. C. Baskerville, an American school teach er, lost his life. Americana Keel Secure. Constantinople, April 21. N e w s that the American government had or dered the cruisers Montana and Nona Carolina to Alexandrette for the pro tection of Americans, brought a sense Beirut and Alexandrette. The trouble the Syrian coast cities of Mersina. Beirut and Alexandretta.Uie-troiibla may be over before the cruisers ar rive, but there is also a chance that the present war may be only the be ginning, in which event the vessels will be invaluable for the protection of Americans. ,. England and other powers already have warships on the coast J. B. Jackson, American consul at Alpho, ex presses some concern for missionar ies in the outlying stations who have given asylum to Christian refugees. PATTEN TAKES HIS LIFE IN HIS HANDS leader of Wheat Bull Movement (iocs Out lo Personally Inspect the Crop. Chicago. April 21. James A. Pat ten, the bull leader hi wheat, left the city today to personally inspect the crop outlook in Illinois and ad jacent states, particularly as it bears on the amount of wheat which may be delivered to him on July con tracts. HOLDS NINE-HOUR. LAW GOOD STATUTE Judge liandis Decides Case Brought Against the Santa Fe ICoatl to Test Law. Chicago. April 21. Judge Landis, in the federal district court here today, in a test case against the Santa Fe road in the 9-hour law governing the telegraph, upheld the law. ae decis ion will be appealed, as the case la the first one started under the "hour of labor" law. THE IS SIGHTED OFF MOMBASA COAST Mombasa. April 21. The steamer Admiral, with Theodore Roosevelt and party on board, has been sighted oft. this port. The .Admiral arrived at Mombasa on scheduled time and Roosevelt will to day land in Africa to begin his hunt ing and collecting expedition and his caravan march north to .Egypt. Roose velt will be welcomed and entertained in Mombasa by the acting governor of the protectorate, P. J, Jackson, , who received special Instructions from King Edward to show every consider-' ation to the distinguished traveler. ADMIRAL IT