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ROC THE K AND ARGU SIXTIETH YEAR. NO. 77. SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 1911. -TWELVE PAGES. TRICE TWO CENTS. BUZZARD IS THE WORST IPJ20YEARS Fearful Conditions Re ported in the Rocky Mountains. The Weather THE COLD IS EXTREME Forecast Till 7 P. M. Sunday for Rock Island, Davenport, Moline, and Vicinity. - Generally fair tonight and Sun day, 'colder tonight with the lowest, temperature near zero. Temperature at 7 a. m., 17. High est yesterday 32, lowest last eight, 17. Velocity of wind at 7 a. m., 1 1 miles per hour. Precipitation .78 inch. Humidity at 7 p. m. 97, at 7 a. m. 90. J. !M. SHERIER, Local Forecaster. ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS. (From neon today to noon tomorrow.) Sua sets 4:52. rises 7:18: moon riser. 4:37 p. m.; 5:17 p. m., eastern time, full moon. Hundreds of Men and Many Snowplows Fight to Keep Big Rail Lines Open. Work of Day in Congress FIND FRAUD ATJRISCO Customs Officers Cause Arrest of Two Big Importers. ONE HANDLER OF TEA "Washington, Jan. 14. Following are the proceedings briefly told of the two hnuFes of congress yesterday. SEWTK In ?pitc of th effort of Senator Hale the senate voted down. 43 t 7. his motion to adjourn and took up the Horah resolution amending the i constitution so as to provide lor the Jan. 14. Hundreds ! elert ion of I'nited states .senators by i airfi vote o: me people. Alter an hour's debate the senate went into ex - M"iiivc pesFion. but Mr. Borah declared he wi'ilil 'all up the resolution in the 1m- rpediate future and woud press it. Dur '. In? th general discussion Senator Bail- - eff.'-'-t ually blocked one administra tion bill providing for the enlargement of tii" insrfntci' corps of the army and ri'markd cnificantly that lie was pre Mfii to onpos- the administration's sciieme for t"be creation of a tariff com-mi-ion. 11(11 SK The house devoted the en tire day to consideration of the army appropriation bill. It carries approxi mately !t3.lniO.0f'i." Sacramento, Cal rif men are s'lll struggling with huge snowdrifts in efforts to clear the rail roads In the Sierras. Stalled over land trains were released during the night. A driving blizzard again threat ens traffic. STM.tKn l III. I K ( AMOV San Francisco, Cal , Jan. 21. Reports received at the Southern Pacific gen eral offices here today showed that a TKmllPT "if U'Mt bonnr! tvor'ltiil (Mint: Idreds of men and several snow plows on that system were stalled in Ulue'and r,trinC ripnn:. tho h'nnbo canyon. It was cxpcted by railway officials these trains would arrive at HKAVIKST I. SO 1KARS. Reno, Xev., Jan. 14. With more Oakland Mole Borne time -today. Most 'than two feet of snow on the level of them were due yesterday. and with drifts piling, th.:s city is moiist is or.H. j experiencing the greatest storm since The storm still continues hut tbelt,lt! hloekade of 1SS9 and 1R90. ui uri'j bucks spom to ne over. Estimated That Government Has Lost $200,000 a Year in Customs Cheat. San Franolsco, Jan. 14. Serious charges of attempting to defraud the United States customs by underval uations of Imports occasioned the ar rest last night of two prominent mer- OFFERED NURSE A $1,000 BRIBE Eleanor Zockler Says Mrs. Schenk Asked Her to Ad minister Poison. liniRinnrnn irvi nuNUittua in CHINA DYING COULD DO IT HERSELF In Case of Husband's Death She Would Wear Double Veil to Hide Her Laugh. Wheeling, W. Va., Jan. 14. In the Schenk case today the court room was crowded two hours before the trial be gan. Many spectators arrived at 6 In the morning. Eleanor Jockler, the detective nurse, put on the stand by the prosecutor, testified Mrs. Schenk had offered her $1,000 If she gave John Schenk a "pill." Mrs. Schenk said: "I could easily put poison in his medicine and place it fce- ! side the bed, and he would take it him self." VEIL, TO COVCEAL LAl'GHTKR. Asked how she could stand it If John died, Mrs. Schenk replied she would Plague Getting Firm Hold in Harbin and Mukden. DRAW LINE AT WALL Peking Government Prepares to Fight Invasion of Bu- bonic Epidemic. CONFESSES SHE POISONED BOY Mrs. Edith Melber's Confession Clears Mystery of Death of 5-year-old. COULD NOT CARE FOR HIM Forced Him to Drink Carbolic Acid When He Wanted a Drink Left Body in Swamp. Rochester, N. Y., Jan. 14. Ar rested as she claimed her trunk In the New York Central railroad sta tion yesterday afternoon, Mrs. Edith Melber, a widow of Schenectady, who says she is 23 years old, con fessed, according to the police, that in a swamp near Albany last Friday afternoon she gave her 5-year-old son. George, carbolic acid from the Tekin, Jan. 14. Thirteen hundred I effects of which he died GREAT SHIP, ARKANSAS, CHRISTENED State Officials Fail to Take Part in the Ceremonies. FUSS OVER THE DATE, Chinese have died from bubonic plague at Harbin. There have been only sev en deaths in the foreign colony there. Owing to the spread of bubonic plague In Manchuria there was a con- SOMETHING OF A HOT TAMALE More than :;oo feet of Southern -Near Horbrook. Cal, a buggy, occu- la-ific snow sheds are down west of pied by Alexander Uui ties arid son Tn,rk"' CaL Eiht foct of Fnow Clarence, was run dowu by plow and both were Killed. WIHK C (Mil-imi-.h sti r ChlcaKO, .Tan. J 1 Tcleeiaj;i telephone companies found their . i nt Summit and six feet at Truckee is reported. Snow is still falling ai II. in. I both places. The storm. which is (throughout Nevada, is the In 2 0 vcars. severely orippUd today in Inwa, western Illinois, at.d southern .Minn iota by ,a sleet and r;iiu storm wlii rwept across the country. Train vice Is delayed. ITESE t'OLD l VAX Kits'.' " Winnipeg," Manila, Jan. 14. 'in tense cold from the great lakes to the Rocky mountains prevailed again yes terday and o sunny Alberta a;;a!n falls the record of coldest temperature, in fact, a record for many winters. At Edmonton It was 52 below zero on of ficial registration, which has not been equalled since Christmas eve. IST'J. I'rince Albert resistered 50 below. I.KTS TIIIWM Oil IU!KT5. Vancouver. B. C, Jan. 14. As the result of efforts of a big rotary and x Iocwaotlres, -the ' Canadian Pa- r.'flc railroad succeeded yesterday in general heaviest SBLAMES THE HELP -Oara effftr Tcil s Civic Federation .Assistants Cause Most of Strikes. IS NOT THE BOSSES' FAULT .Manufacturer Wlto Takes Best Care of His .Men Is One V1io Heaps the Kiggest Irofit. New York, Jan. 14. Nine out of ten strikes are due to employers' asslst- gettjog the first delayed express train ; att-ss. not to any question of the money Biggest Battleship Ever Built in America Broadside Power Excels All. She was then locked up on a charge of murder In the first degree. CARE TOO HEAVY. In explanation of her crime, Mrs. Melber says she has been a widow four years, during which time she has had a struggle to care for her self and her child and that this bat tle for an existence drove her to take the boy's life. She Is an unusually attractive young woman and at the end of her examination was unnerved and weep ing hysterically Philadelphia. Jan. 14. Washed with the traditional bottle of cbampagn. the battleship Arkansas, the largest warship ever constructed in this coun try, was launched this afternoon at Camden. X. J. Miss Mary Macon, daughter of Representative Macon, of Helena, Ark., was sponsor for the ship. GREATEST nitOfIDK POWER. When complete the Arkansas will have the greatest gunpower In broad- The police were able to make the; side fire of any ship afloat. The main arrest by keeping watch over a (armament la twelve 12-lnch breach-, cheap new trunk that had been j loading guns mounted In six heavy ar checked from Schenectady and which mor protected turrets; also a battery was believed to be the property ofjof 21 5-inch rapid fire guns, two sub Mrs. Melber. When the woman ap-j merged tjipedo lubes, jnd 1C iicail peared to get it sue was taKen into guns. The revolutionists in Chihuahua are making it hot for the .-...ican government- involved, in the opinion of Andrew Car inegie. Mr. Carnegie said so yesterday 'chants of oriental goods in this city I addressing the delegates to the Nation- o.e tea importer. trains will arrive here this evening, al Civic .federation. j The prisoners are Carl J. Cutting This train was due last .Monday. It I "The more capital does for labor the I rhn has a atnro in hia fitr- nnH w through the drifts in the vicinity or North Bend, 13. C. The first of the delayed westbound wear a double veil so people could not . ference yesterday of physicians of the see her laugh. j foreign legations and mission and sev- Miss Zoeckler then told how she had era, chinese wno decided to reeom asked Mrs. Schenk if he had been pois- I wvn quite genran neiieved ; more pront me employer makes,' said a. Wilson of Oakland, who operates oned with arsenic and if she had nut that the 50 or more passengers and Mr. Carnegie. "I have not had any ) between this Dort and Yokohama as ! anv in his food, as Mr. Schenk looked .guarantee of first-class passengers at crew memoers on tne two trains i strikes -in 26 vears. I have nor let anv must have perished, but fears are lone have anything to say about labor now practically at rest as a result of ! but myself." the release of the snowbound express; He thought that the workingmana trains. ' compcnsatim act was a steo in the MT4I.I.EI) M"E MOIMY. i riht diteetion nnmrn MfSW-lT f The two trains have been stalled j ,,m:ilT a speaker. CARRIED AGENT OF leh,'nd mountains of snow close to ' . , , , , ,, , I , r . , . i v uiuiic, uoo.--e'ii loiiow ea -ir. t ar an importer and tea expert. LOSS H20O.000 A TEAR. Customs officials estimate the gov ernment's loss at $200,00 a year. Nothing direct from j early Monday the trains had been heard for five lays. A furious blizzard which has raged for rive days in' the moun tains had blocked rail and telegraph communication on the main line of the Great Northern inegie. He was Corted to the speak-' DEATH IN POCKET ier's stand by John Mitchell, formerly president of the I nited Mine Workers : of America. '"I want to see this movement take the form of evolution rather than ! revolution." Mr. Roosevelt said, refer- The Great Northern track has been ;rinS To ,he P'""Pose of the federation. Mocked by slides for 70 miles. Twoi'1 wifh lo soe la,,or legisia-Ion al resruers were causlit in an avalam lie WJ,-VS enacted after conferences be and crushed to death. twevn wise leaders of labor and those Both trains were due here Mon-!"'on who are interested in labor for day night. They are fast mail No. j the best interests of the country." 27, four coaches, carrying only mail I Colonel Roosevelt was positive in his clerks and train crew, and No. 3. j belief that the federal government was the Oregonian, a train of seven the only power in the land capable of couches, which is lir!ieed to have 'dealing with great corporations. 0 or more passengers aboard. The! scores deiio9. train did not have a diner with it. I in the oom-se of his remarks, Col Two hundred men and five rotary om. Roosevelt renewed his attack on ):ons n,ne teen worumz day and fcow servant decisions by the courts . i HiKiu to rescue the snowbound ras-, .-The judicial detis-Ions." he said, fencers. ; "hae worked gross n justices. So has Tno rehef trams from Ka Vsnell I ,h 1ih,rrv f onntrsr.t Iaw... una navre, ..join as if he had been poisoned. Mrs. Sihenk did not reply, but only tosecd her head. She could not get anything further out of Mrs. Scnenk. Cuts Thousand Off. Washington, Jan. U. Corrected fig ures announced by the census bureau today give the population of Cincinnati Mining Kngineer Killed by Own 1'x- some time ago. The uhii. .... i.--.. inouncement included Ferry. i " the great wall until observation camps can be established at Harbin, Muk den and Shanhikwan and the Immedi ate cessation of second and third class pas.seuger traffic. 11. 1. ( OMI'KXSATE FAMILIES. The Chinese government will com pensate the family of the French iJap-iie exrert hn Tece.ntlv aneeiimli. jas 363.591 instead of 3CI.4C3 .given out'ed to tn disc8LSe and also the families of every other doctor who may be taken down while administering to custody. fOMPOSED AT FIRST. Mrs. Melber maintained consider able composure and said she had given her child to an uncle, who was going to take him to Chicago and care for him. When she made her confession she said she gave the child the acid when he asked ifor a drink. Tlio nnlino cm tbr Is SI hlim. AS I if by acid, on the woman's hand, and that other stains are on her clothing which indicate, they allege, that the child did not take the acid without struggling. Mrs. Melber said she left Schenec- tady Thursday afternoon aud came to Rochester to look for work. She stayed In the rooms "of the Young Women's Christian association Thurs day night and says she was looking for work yesterday. In the woman's trunk were her clothing and that of the little boy. Pl'TS BOY IV A HOME. Albany. N. Y., Jan. 14. The Identification of the body of Georgie Melber, found murdered in a Schen ectady swamp, was made yesterday by his grandfather and uncle. The former is George Melber, a black smith, and the latter Is Charles S. Smjth. The boy's father, a well-to-do ma chinist, died in 1907. Mr. Smith said yesterday that from the first there waa friction between Mrs. Melber and the husband's family regarding the care of the child, and that In September, 1909. notwithstanding the desire of the family to take charge of the lad. his mother placed him In the Schenectady Children's home. SO OFFICIAL DELEGATION. There was one unusual feature to the launching:, the absence of an offi cial delegation representing the state government of Arkansas. The 'aMure of Gevernor Donaghey or other otlKlal representative to attend was due f a contioversy between the governor and the navy department at Washington ov" the date of the launching, the govrp.or wanting the launching pot.' ponei so that, the .state coull tuaka adequate arrangements to send la olll cial rarty. HUNDREDS KILLED IN ASIATIC QUAKES Earth Shock" Frequent of Late Kebery lleing the Latent City Damaged. REBELS MARCHING ON TEGACI6ALPA? previous an-i Delhi village! j w hich was not formally annexed. San Francisco, Jan. 14. A bottle of chemical compound dropped by or crushed in the pocket of John O. Nor- FAIL TO SETTLE BLAME FOR FIRE IN STOCK YARDS plague stricken patients. The foreigners in Peking and Tien tsin are not alarmed over the plague epidemic, though they are taking pre cautions to prevent possible infection.' .HI IJEITHS AT M I K HE V. I KefKrted That IVmllla's Army Sweeping All IWorc It In Honduras. In Chicago, Jan. 14. Responsibility j Nicaragua, Jan. 14. It Is reported here General Duron has captured prac tically the entire province of Cholu teca. Honduras, In the name of Manuel Ilonilla, leader of the revolutionists. Mukden, Manchuria, Jan. li. There Duron's army is now said to be march have been 30 deaths from bubonic j ing on Tegucigalpa, the capital. plague here. St Petersburg, Jan. 14. A dispatch received here yesterday from Vyerny. capital of the tcrtitiwy of Semtryet chenck, Asiatic Russia, says that a vio lent earthquake occurred Thursday night in Kebery, in the Ilshpek dis trict of the territory, and that the bod ies of 204 Kirghiz have been taken from the ruins of fallen buildings. MAHM0UT BONE CRUSHER Pow-n PetnetraJ With Leg Hold in 23 Minute and lO Heoonrf. Kansas City. Mo., Jan. 14. Dur ing the first fall of a wrestling match at Convention hall here last night Ynslff Mahmout in using a toe bold on the left foot of William Demetral, fractured a bone. A few minute later, after the men bad ben on the mat 23:10. Mahmout downed De metral with a leg bold. So badly was Demetral's foot injured that he was unable to compete further and Mahmout was declared the winner. bad to return without reaching the sufferers, after1 battling in freezing weather and in driving snow storms. Since Mondavi the weather near the summit where the trains were s'alled has never j b en better than 2-t below zero. For the last 4s hours the weather has Covered around .r0 below zero, with; ierrific winds blowing. j STORM Mil l, H.r.S. j Late reports from Whitefish,-' Mont., say the storm is still raping, The colonel added that the state; s-hould refuse to recognise such contracts. bon, a well know-n mining engineer, is believed to have caused an explosion late yesterday on the Southern Pacific j ferry boat Berkley, bringing instant j death to Norbon. seriously injuring ; two other men and creating a panic j among tne z.ouo passengers. j Tor the stock yard6 fire Dec. 22, in i Norbon was Identified by a letter in which Fire Marshal Iloran and 23 ! his Docket and a note book which others lost their lives was nor fK-ed i ' .... ,,f , iic fnin.iv. rw, k.. ..- Ju:u . J . . reports from tfenton, Ark., today say These chemicals are thought to have! verdict today. Many recommendations ; two nvZro( are ,,ead ari1 a ,llirl ,' been carried in a compound on Nor-'for safer conditions in the yards werej,aI1-v injured as a result of a race! ban's person. made. I riot there NEGROES KILLED IN A RACE CLASH Hot Springs, Ark., Jan.. 14. Meager) I Govern State by Commission. Olympia, Wash , Jan. 14. Bills have been introduced In the legislature pro viding for a commission form of gov ernment for this state. JEALOUS AFTER 20 YEARS Middleaged Couple Turn on the Qm After a Quarrel. Philadelphia, Jan. 14. Found uncon scious today in the bedroom of thertr home in this city, with gas escaping from three open burners, John Ernest and wife Lottie, are in a hospital and will die, physicians say. The tragedy, which it is said, followed a quarrel, is enveloped in mystery. The police say Mrs. 'Krnest waa Jealous. They have been married 20 years. velocity, covering the I a fearful track for a distance of CO miles with banks of snow and making it impossible except for plow s. ADD $10,000,000 TO POSTOFFICE APPROPRIATION SENATORS MAY DUMP LORIMER TO SAVE SELVES IN PRIMARIES COUNT D'AULBY HELD GUILTY IN PICTURE FRAUD BY TAV. (porting Uorimer. But tSpecial Correspondence of The Arg-us.) (shown EO conclusively SUDDEN WEALTH KILLS Poorhoniwt Inmate I.p4 rr on lnv ing Sister IWt Him fl.OOO, Fremont, Ohio, Jan. 14. Ira Hawkins, aged 70, had been an In mate of the poorhouse for 10 years when be was notified bis a' iter had left bim J4.000. The shock of sud dent wealth unnerved the old pastor and he died yesterday. FIND 100 NEGROES GUILTY ! Tours, France, Jan. 14. "Count" ! D'Aulby De Oatlngny was convicted to- it uas been and thU3 Impair their usefulness to the ' day and sentenced to a monih's 1m- j by Senators ' lj'g interests. "If public sentiment ! iirlsonment. H( has been in lail nine Washington, Jan. x.'. inat Lorimer ! Owen. Beveridee and Crawford that ' againut Loruner gets much stronser." mom ha u An in trb.l ii'Anlhv i c ' nf Tlltnrtta will ho nfRfratMl a m mom. mnniki' mrnt raA tnr rnfoa for Irinicr (declared a liroZTeSui Vf rnnKlipun .f k... l.. f ... r i. , . I . , 1 i beetl jber of the United States senate, be- hat many of the senators who had in- member of the house. "I would not be. praslin with fraud in the sale to her j ',lnB- Tnre not Te lnn Bv Icause his election was aided by "cor-itenued sunding by lum. have decided j surpnsea 10 see tne republicans Hee;and her late huband, Charles Hmil-1 U,,,C,B 1 " v,"' Wasliinstou. iJan. 14. The postofflce ! P1 P"ctJces, is a conviction mat """" "e ' ' o.niucu,ioii ra:ne ai isootor.. or a collection or rotary snow : appropriation bill, carrying 1233.000.- i ,s Raing groina. ; ' b " "u-u , ! pictures. Iater tbe ducness withdrew i evidence tnat coitudi Drac-i" ii i iiicnus auu v - 1 "."'"o - . j iaji 1- All hut Five rtlaks In Adams County Sold 'llielr Votes. West Union, Ohio, Jan. 1 i. Inquiry I has developed that 100 negroes have disfranchised because of vot'j -'") was completed by the bouse com- THAI t lC TIK.n I P. Sacramento, Cal , Jan. 14.- 1 tices- were resorted to Is so slmule I enemies alike. This is likely if it is-mer may be ejected is because in so 1 f,, tn Ktf.n t,rreHlneS ; .... . ' Jlnnwn fr- . f,. .h. eW: I man V Of fh RtafA. .pn.lAr, .,.,nn. 1 . . . 7. "7 ana positive ioai qui iew senators """" , . . c fondant maintainea li tne Peoria Distiller Dies.. Peoria. III.. Jan. 14. Samuel Wool- the complaints, but the prosecutor re-: nr ai?ed C4, millionaire, aud a vetcr- -With ; Monday. The amount is an increase ..11 ,1....- ..V. .. Jk ! . i i . a.a ... n . . . . . hgrk tho Tiarra tA f rv in mak-a tha rn ... it iv a i . n it u I I r- 7 nr i ii i i i u i nvar I it a la ct b nnrnrw ...v. .... vj- m j . - v i into the Sierras dow n, the Southern ' Hon i lie think otherwise. Many members ;eel1 8 Pciai b-j has enough votes to defeat him. Sot re-election maat take their chances in , were not whal n2 represented it was' I he do-an distiller, died today. pictures Pacific ml Woriot-ii P. ifii nffieM ' here can obtain but meager reports i of the extent of the blizzard that is rapine in the mountains. privilege servers hare itEe primaries. The senators from the Arrest Train Robbers. Ogden. I"Uh. Jan. 14. The I of the senate who bad intended voting ' for Lorimer"s retention were under the train ; impression that the entire controversy any heart to fight for a lost cause. ' a a- v because he had been deceived himself. I i-u more than a ! woti. ua'KAT fEi-VES. jtorial primary laws, including those j montn fn jaJ, awai,lllK trial he was By voting for Loriuier after it is j from New nngiand and from Penns j robbers who held up the Overland li'.i-lwas more or less complicated, and! certain he is to be defeated the mem-jVanla' are tor Lorfmer his freedom. The Judge an-' GALESBURG TO VOTE ON COMMISSION FORM (Jalcftbusg. 111.. Jan. 1 1. Petit riii ' rivpn "W ' t a t m O V lt1 IPW X 1 ,.,Itl t.A hA K.'jI friinri Tt'AtilftV truiltv a kwin 4HU. aakln frr flu lxrt Will . aii overiana tranic Ijas Keen tied;. ted on tne outuern Pacific a weekihat it would be a matter of com par-1 bers of the old guard only still further ?"1J" 6rnt11' iri ine aiea f frai( jn conucg.tioa yjth the Bale ot tn !h fornrobfalau form of governnr ut iip, wLile both cocaines Lave bua-iago were arrested today ia Uus cltf. iaUve eas to find some excuse for suj discredit Usenelvea wKli Uit, yeoie tcontiuued oo Fate rvarli 'nuu uittuie. 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