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ROCK ' ISLAND AR rnnr SIXTIETH YEAR. NO. 208. FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1911. TWELVE PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS. nn HE IS ADOPTED VIRTUALLY UNCHANGED Deneen's Waterway Bill Triumphs in the Senate. AMENDMENTS ARE FEW Effort to Make Radical Trans formation Balked by Bare Majority. Springfield, June 16. State ad ministrations waterway bill, amend ed in minor details, was passed by senate at 1:30 this morning, 30 ayes, 1 nayes. Senate adjourned immed iately after the vote was announced. c;oi;s to nor SB. The waterway Mil passed by the senate was reported to the house to- j day. Next week the bill will be read i the first time and referred to the house waterway committee. BAKKI.V EM APRS. The bill wont through 'a scathing fight in a late session of the senate. 1? escaped transformation just befoje midnight from a waterway and walr-r-power bill to a purely conservation measure by a vote of 19 to IS. After the transformation resolution had been declared lost, the senate vot ed 21 ayes to 19 nays, to reoonsidj: Then the amendment was placed upon its passage a second .time. The vo'e reslted 20 to 20, and the amendment was declared lost a second time. On motion of Senator flnrk, the Johnson bill was finally advanced, j-!tt before midnight, to third reading, poc tically without change. BFXiAN KAIll.V IN I V. The efforts to transform the water way bill into a conservation raeaj-'e began early in the afternoon, when a special committee of seven membets was named by the waterway commit te of the senate to pass upon several amendments twh'.ch different senators had to offes. The special committee was composed of Senators Barr. Pi iv lap. Bailey, Magill, Manny and Waagc Under the changes which the spe cial committee recommends, the Johnson bill would not have been rec ognizable by its closest friends. It was proposed In four amendments to limit the commission to be appointed under the bill to an expenditure of not to exceed $50,O00. out of the $2J 000,000 bond issue, in purchasing pow . er sites, and specifically provided tnat no contract should be left for the con struction of the waterway or any of he works until further authority was Kiven by the next legislature. m . f i . i . more smm iiik sceues nave noi neej j witnessed in the senate chambers in recent years than those which accom panled the late night waterway flgin TWO LINES COME TO TERMS Ptrlke of Seamen fiets Results and Traflic Will (Ut On. London. June 16. It was announced last evening that the While Star line I and the seamen"s union had arranged j a settlement of their differences, the i White Star conceding nn advance of $2.50 a month in wages to all em ployes involved. This is one half the amount demanded by the strikers. The Canadian Pacific railway made a similar advance to the seamen's union, and it is stated that these con cessions will enable the Teutonic, the Baltic and the Empress of Ireland to tall on time. PET SNAKE USED AS CLEW Hoy Bandit Traced and Surrounded Workmen, engaged in the liquor bus iu a California Swamp. , iness, but continued to pay premiums Yal!ejo, Cal., June 10. Alter a ser-j regularly and at death the order re ies of running battles with officeit, in ! fused to pay the $2,000 policy on three counties yesterday, Frank Me:-j the ground that, according to the ville, believed to e the boy banOU i laws of the order, a liquor dealer who h:m held nn a dozen saloons in- could not carry life insurance. The California towns recently, is surround ed in a swamp on Carquinez straiifc. It is thought Melville's ammunition H almost exhausted and it is believ.;! his capture is certain. Melville w-s traced to Vallejo last night through a1 pet snake he was carrying. j NICK SCORES WOOL TARIFF! Con jjress man Says It Is Founded on j Itutmtrs or Inoraiii-e- j Washington, June 16. Kepresen- ' tative Ixmgworth of Ohio denounced: the democratic wool tariff revision j bill in the house today as "founded j on vague rumors or total Ignorance" j and he made a plea for the scion-j tific framing of tariff schedules. Auto Fatality at Bloominaton. Bloomicton. III., June 16. Louis Orr, a prominent young man of Dwight, was7 killed and Arthur Kem was ser iously injured whn their autoroViUf. poing C5 miles an hour, jumped froai an iron bridge, acd turned turtle in a cieek. i The Weather ForeoMt Till 7 M. Tomorrow for Rock Island, Davenport, Mollmo and Vicinity. Showers this afternoon and prob ably tonight, cooler tonight. Satur day generally fair. Temperature at 7 a. m. 71. Highest yesterday 88. lowest last night 68. Precipitation -06. Velocity of wind at 1 a. m. 5 miles per hour. Relative humidity at 7 p. m. 34, at 7 a, m. 63. Stage of water 5.2. no change in last 24 hours. J. M. SHERIER, Local Forecaster. ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS. (From noon today to noon tomorrow.) Sun sets 7:29, rises 4:24; moon rises 11:20 D. m. REFORMS WILL HIT AMERICANS Sale of Privileges to Foreigners Will Be Stopped in Mexico. UNDER THE NEW REGIME Claimed That Politicians Have Kept People in Hondas for Private Benefit. Chihuahua. Mexico, Junt 16. Re forms immediately affecting millions of dollars' worth of American property !in Mexico were announced last night, ! Governor 'Abraham Gonzales declar- ed that under the new regime foreign concessions which might be considered monopolies wouia noi oe exnueu u. renewed, ana mat every legai tuun would be made to restrict foreign mo- nopolies now existing in Chihuahua, one of the richest statc-s in mineral and timber, which is practically con trolled by Americans, British and Ger- man interests, largest holders. The Americans are the Americans may GRIEVE. ; excitement in the street was so in "All Americans that grieved at the 1 tense and the crush so dense the po downfall of the Diaz administration ; lice reserves had to be called out will find that their grief was well j from the nearest station to restore founded," said Governor Gonzales, order. -We do not intend to take away the riches of any foreigner who legally holds them, but we realize that unde the Diaz system the granting of cou cessions with theirrjuiooiisj)anients of large sums of money to Mexican politi- ! clans was a virtual selling out of Mex ico. "For years Mexico has been exploit ed by foreigners until the great body of the people have" nothing. We were on the verge of becoming a nation of paupers. Now all special privileges Khali cease if we can accomplish it. WILL HE KIUENOI.Y. "We hope to maintain the friendliest relations with Americans and we sha'l invite all foreign capital to come in, but there will be no more selling out of tho country by piecemeal. We will invite competition, not monopoly. "What is known as the company stores In towns where large numhers of men are employed will be abol ished." Governor Gonzales said that, begin ning yesterday, the export duty on cat tle shipped into the United States would be removed. It has also been de cided upon by the government to allow General Orozco to bring his insurrecto army into the city with their arms. POLICY OF LIQUOR DEALER HELD VOID Connecticut Supreme Court Derides Insurance in Kratemal Order Xot Collectable. New Haven. Conn.. June 16 By ; decision handed down by the I preme court here it is established that an insurance order is not ob- 1 ; .4 1. I 11 w yar i" V"l of a member who engages in the 1 liguor business. John Burns, after j becoming a member of the United ! order was upheld on the appeal. New Heads Credit Men. Minneapolis, June 16. Harry New, of Cleveland was today elected prW dent of the National Association o Credit Men. Cfl QEMATflPQ uu UL-nniunu WILL VOTE FOR RECIPROCITY Washington. June 16. Chairman j Penrose of the senate committee in conference with the president today confirmed the report that few sena tors are expected to vote for Canad ian reciprocity and predicted that wijhin two weeks the date for a vote would be agreed upon. He declared the bill would be passed without 1 aecdmecu DODY FALLS 28JT0RIES Horrible Spectacle Seen in Busy Hour in Wall Street STONE CUTTER VICTIM At Work on Bankers' Trust Company Building When He Loses Balance. .New York, June 16. The financial district witnessed a gruesome inci dent at the busiest hour this after noon, when William Anderson, a stonecutter, fell from the 2 8th floor of the Bankers Trust company build ing, nearing completion at Wall and Rrflfl H ctraot a 1 eAtn ot a ctnnn Anderson clipped and fell. His one wild cry, as he realized his doom, at tracted the attention of bankers and brokers as the body came hurtling through space. STRIKES COPIG. On a stone coping at the fourth floor the body struck and its impact at that point was so tremendous that an arm was torn off and left lying on i ue Bin as me uouy uouuutn ui j and crashed upon a heavy wire net - ting at the first floor which had been ; Bpreaa over vv au street to protect iramc wn:ie tne uuuaing was ueing j erected. LIKE SPRING BOARD. The screen acted like a spring j board and threw the body in the air again. It dropped finally, horribly j i mangled in front of the Wall street ! entrance of the stock exchange. The i ORDEAL IS SEVERE Mrs. Ford Forced to Bare All Her Relations With Cooke at Trial. FINISHES IN A COLLAPSE Admits That Her Daughter Is Child of the Defendant lioin Out of Wedlock. Cincinnati, Ohio, June 16. Mrs. i Jeannette Stewart-Ford was the cen tral figure yesterday of a series of circumstances that transformed a courtroom into a stage and a sordid story of theft into a drama. Mrs. Ford, who has confessed that she helped in the downfall of several Big Four officials, underwent a crueler ordeal than has been the fate of any of ber confederates in the railway scandal. The woman, a physical wreck, and occupying an invalid's chair, was j compelled under cross-examination to acknowledge that her 6-year-old daughter was born out of wedlock and that the defendant in the pres ent trial, Edgar S. Cooke, is the child's .father. E EHY IIODV EEPS. After Mrs. Ford had pronounced her daughter an illegitimate child, she burst into violent sobs and tears streamed down the faces of the Ju attorneys and spectators, The lother, clasping the girl in her ernis, collapsed and the cross-examination ceased. She is in a hospital nhv.iri9n Ka r the relapse may prove fatal. This climax was only one of sev eral dramatic scenes during the day. Another came when Cooke's wife ap peared in court and the two women were confronted. ADMITTED MTCJI The cross-examination of Mrs. Ford was merciless. Under the fire of questions she admitted having shot and wounded Cooke, of having had him arrested for assault in Chi cago and later for nonsupport of their child. Letters that had passed between the two were read, and then it was Mrs. Cooke's turn to shrink, for in many of them ber husband bad re ferred to her as "O. H..." which Mrs. Ford testified meant "old hag." There was another agonizing mo ment for the wife, when the woman In the wheel chair declared that Cooke had taken her to New York after premising to marry her. This brought out an exclamation from Mrs. Cooke and as Mrs. Ford told cf her relation with Cooke the wife's first glances of pity for the woman turned to flashes of scorn and anger. See Jury Completed. Chicago, June 16. The jury to try Evelyn Arthur see. founder of the "ab solute life" curt, was completed today. The first testimony was Leard tins afternoon. BANKERS OUT ON DISABLED BOAT Two Hundred Members of Michigan Association in Peril on Lake. CYLINDER HEAD BLEW UP Wireless Brings Help, However, and They Are Transferred Without Loss of a Man- Cleveland, Ohio, June 16. Two hundred members of the Michigan Bankers' association, who started on a pleasure jaunt leaving Detroit yes terday afternoon on the Detroit & Buffalo line steamer, Western States were sent to Buffalo on the steamer, City of Cleveland, this morning, af ter having been transferred from the Western States following the disabling of that boat In midlake last night. CTLITOER BCRSTS. The Western States was disabled by the bursting of a cylinder off Am herstburg, Ont. The engineer was scalded, but no other person was in jured. A wireless call for help was je,nt out immediately and the City of Cleveland and Eastern States re sponded. The transfer to the City of Cleveland was made without acci dent, the boats being lashed togeth er. The Western States started for Detroit by means of the low powered engines. son ENJOY IT. Buffalo, June 16. The steamer, City of Cleveland, arrived here this , . cm, f th a-r. 1 ged themselves as having rather j enjoyed tne experience of being : transferred ln mldiake from the dis abled steamer. KANSAS VICTOR OVER OIL TRUST Three Subsidiaries of Standard Com pany Enjoined From Doing a Number of Tilings. Tcpeka, Kan., June 16. The Kan sas supreme court yesterday handed down a decision in the state's suit against three subsidiary companies of the St andai-i Oil company of New JeTse, prohibitIntfifmvfrom com- toning to stifle competitors. ' ,The three companies are the Stan dard Oil company of Indiana, the Standard Oil company of Kansas and the Prairie Oil and Gas company. The defendant companies are en joined from owning stock ln each other. They are enjoined from sell ing petroleum or petroleum products cheaper in one part of the state than ln another for the purpose of driv ing out competition, and from mak ing contracts with any persons to cause the latter to refrain from sell ing oil in Kansas. The Standard Oil company of In diana, the selling company, is re- 6trained from selling under diner ent brands or trade names oil of the same quality and value. DIAZ AT VITERB0, BUT DOESN'T LAND Threatened Demonstration Against Deposed President of Mexico Is Xot Made. Vigo, Spain, June 16. Diaz, for mer president of Mexico, arrived to day from Mexico. The steamer, after a stop of two hours, proceeded to Corunna. Dia did not Sand during the stay in the harbor. No unpleasant incident oc curred. It was reported last night the progressive party and workingmen had arranged to express an unfavor able opinion toward the former presi dent In the event he came ashore. The authorities placed a naval guarj around the vessel as soon as it arriv ed. Diaz's health is not satisfactory. He has suffered greatly from abscess of the jawbone. QUITS TEACHING ENGLISH Cuban House Aholihh.es Language In Schools by Large Majority. Havana, June 16. The house of representatives yesterday passed by a large majority the bill abolishing the instruction of English in the publ'c schools and refused to authorize th- payment of It he salary of Miss Abbie Phillips, who for many years has been supervisor of English instruction la Havana. The measure was advocated on the grounds of economy, iut was severe'y reprobated by the minority as an ex pression of ingratitude toward lbs United States. RECEIVER FOR OHIO WIRELESS PROPERTY Cleveland, June 16.- A receiver was today appointed for the Ohio properties of the United Wireless eompany. The receivership, it is said, was ma'fle necessary by the recent conviction In New York of the offic ials of the company on charges of using the r&a?!5 to defraud. KEEP BIBLE FROM SCHOOL Dr. NoreIius,atAugustana Synod Meeting, Also Attacks Dancing IN FINAL ADDRESS Will Be Succeeded as President by Dr. L. A. Johnston, Elected Yesterday. Duluth, Minn., June 16. Today Au gustana synod of the Swedish Lutheran churches of America continued in ses sion. In an address Dr. Norelius, the retiring president, dwelt upon the school work and deplored the teaching of religion in the public institutions; spoke against dancing and the teaching of it In the public schools, and advoca ted the organization of the parochial schools similar to those maintained by German Lutherans. Twelve hundred organized congrega tions with pastors in 10 conferences were shown to be ln a flourishing con dition. ELECTION IS HELD. Duluth, June 16. The business ses sion "of the Augustana synod of Swed ish Lutheran churches of America opened yesterday. Dr. Norelius deliv ered his annual message and report. The following officers were elected: President Dr. L. A. Johnston, St Paul. Secretary J. L. Dahlberg, Winnipeg. Vice President Dr. G. A. Brandelle, Denver. Treasurer Rev. C. G. Bergston, Mis soula, Mont. English Secretary Rev. C O. Lund quisU IS BADLY DAMAGED Wreck of Battleship Maine in Worse Shape Than Had Been Expected. EXPLOSION FORCE SHOWN Water in Cofferdam Lowered Far Enough to Permit of Partial Inspection of Hull. Havana. June 16. That the shatter ing of the hull of the battleship Maine, expressed by the mute testimony of steel ribs bent apart, decks upheaved and hurled far from their original pos ition, bulkheads crumpled like sheets of paper and apparently Inextricable and hardly identifiable masses of con struction material, is evidently lar greater than supposed, was revealed yesterday afternoon as a result ot a superficial observation made posfb1e by the lowering of the water in the cof ferdam a total depth of seven feet. VPSETS PLANS. On account of this unforseen reve lation of the terrific character of the explosion which sent the battleship to the bottom of the harbor, all plans heretofore proposed for dealing with the ultimate removal of the hulk have become merely conjectural until a con siderably greater amount of water haa been pumped out. WORSE CONDITIONS SEEN. As the water receded, every succes sive foot revealed worse and worse con ditions in that portion of the hull for ward of amidships which was subjected to the main force of the explosion. The bow section is still nearly 20 feet below the surface, and hera it Is believed the destruction will be found to have been even more complete. HAVE MUCH MONEY TO LOAN Cash for China Oversubscribed in England and Germany. London, June 16. Subscriptions to the British portion of the $30,000,000 Hukwang railway loan to China we. -3 opened today and immediately closed, having been largely oversubscribed. Advices from Berlin state the Huk wang loan there was heavily oversu, scribed. The loan was made by groups of financiers representing thi United States, Frances, Great Britain, and Germany. Fined for Census Fraud. Fort Smith, Ark.. June 16. J. T. Spark. J. P. Condlt and William Henry confessed making false cen sus returns as enumerators in this city at the last census and each was fined $150 and costs yesterday by Judge Trieber in the federal court. Suffragists for Cooperation. Stockb61m, June 16. The congress of the International Woman's SuffriR? alliance yesterday adopted resolutions favoring the cooperation of the alli ance with the Socialist women's orgai. iations as well as with other wemcu'j unions. Is Elected Head of Augustana Synod 1! Dr. It. A. Johnston of St. Paul. ST. LOUIS FIRE LOSS IS LARGE Four Woodworking Plants and Iron Works Are Destroyed by Flames. FOUR BLOCKS DEVASTATED Twenty-five Engine Companies Suc ceed in Keeping Blaze From Spreading Further. St. Louis, Mo.. June 16. Losses es timated at more than $1,000,000 were sustained in a fire which raged for four hours last night In a manufacturing district bordering for four blocks the Terminal railroad yards in the south western, part of the city. The plants of the Huttig Sash ana Door company, Fatham & Miller Plan ing Mill company, the Missouri Stair company, the Koken Iron works, a subsidiary of the American Bridge company, and the Mound City Box company were practically wiped out. Sl'ARK STARTED IT. What appears to be the most reliable information concerning the origin of the fire is that it started in the Hut-" tig plant from a spark emitted by a switching locomotive. Twenty-five engine companies and all available pipe lines owned by the city firemen were used in tho fight. There were no accidents. HIGH SCHOOL. BL'RXS. Mason City, Iowa, 'June 16. Fire early today destroyed the high schcoi building here, causing a loss of $100,- 000. Lightning 13 believed -to be the cause. GEORGE REED, THE MISSIONARY, SAFE Nebraskau, However, Is Held a Iris oner by Rebellious Moroccan Tribesmen. London, June " 16. Advices frcm Fez, Morocco, under date of June 12 state George Reed of Weeping Water, Neb., secretary of the Moroccan mis sion of Gospel tinion, is safe but i Btill a prisoner of the rebellious tribes men in the mountains near Sefroo. U. S. Makes Protest. Washington, June 16. American Minister Carpenter at Tangier has made vigorous representations to the Moroccan government in regard to the capture of Reed. The British consul at Fez informed Carpenter on June 7 that the tribe which holds Reed had assured him the American would be safely taken care of. Oppose Deep Waterway. .Springfield, 111., June 16. The deep waterway plan was opposed yes terday at a meeting of the Sangamon county board of supervisors. A reso lution was adopted by a vote of 39 to 6 condemning the plan on the ground that it would mean added taxation to farm and city property. ANTI-CORNER RULE ADOPTED BY BOARD TRADE Chicago, June 16. The board of trade by a vote of 3i8 to 191 today adopted a drastic anti-corner rule. The rule is the outgrowth of the re cent Investigation into the alleged manipulation of May wheat. BIG PROFIT GUARANTEED BY COJBINEj Sugar Trust Paid $750,-, 000 for a $200, 000 Plant, FORMER OWNER SAYS' Claimed That Havemeyer Was Given $10,000,000 Bonus , For His Work. - Washington, June 16. Hair a million dollars profit was guaranteed by Oxnard brothers almost overnight when they put their Brooklyn sugar refinery, valned at $200,000, into the sugar "trust" in 1887, according to the testimony of Henry T. Oxnard. vice president of the American Beet Sugar company, before the sugar! trust Investigating committee today. Had the Oxnards held their f trust" certificates until today, witness said, the deal would have netted them $800,000 besides dividends on cer tificates. They sold the certificates two years after they received them for $750,000. GLAD TO SKIX. "We were glad to sell otrt," said Oxnard. "Cut throat competition ex isted in those days and unless the beet sugar business turned ont as we thought it would, it was doubtful about our keeping going." . Witness said the capitalization of the Brooklyn factory was only $100, 000, but the plant was worth $200, 000. "You would have been satisfied to get out what you had put Into It. wouldn't you?" Inquired Chairman Hardwiek. "Well, I don't know, was th re sponse. WANTED THJS WAJTB. "On this little transaction rev cleaned op half a minion. Now, how much water was In the other deals?: How much did Captain Thomas make?" "I don't know. We probably were treated a little better than the others." "Why?" "They wanted the name." said Ox nard. "They really bought out the Oxnard Brothers." He said he did not stay with thfl "trust" but went abroad and after studying the beet sngar Industry In Europe returned to ..merlca to en gage In that buslnefls In earnest op position to the "truBt." rOTTBOl, SWAM, PART. After a long discussion of the beet suger Industry and the tariff on raw and refined sugar, Oxnard asked to be allowed to make a statement. "Quite a little has ben said about the trust controlling beet sugar re fineries." he said. "The trust does not control all told more than 20 per cent of the beet sugar and th beet sugar people compete with the output of the other sugar refining companies. There is no such thing as restraint of trade between beet sugar and the other people. f'RKDIT WIIERK IU'13. "I think you should give the devil his due. If the trust had not gone Into the beet sugar business In this country It would not have advanced as It has. It had money and brains and chemists to put Into the work." BIO BOMS TO HiVEMKVEIl. Lowell M. Palmer, a director of tha American Sugar Refining company, hinted before the house .Investigating committee yesterday that $10,000,000 worth of stock of the National Sugar Refining company of New Jersey had gone to H. O. Havemeyer as promo ter's fees. Mr. Palmer also said he understood that $7,600,000 value of it was still in the possession of tho Havemeyer family. In connectin with the Issuance of $50,000,000 common stock of the Amer ican company, Mr. Palmer confessed that be did not know wbat became of $8,000,000 of it. He said he believed the stock of the American had been watered, but he was not willing to es timate how much. Mr. Palmtr told In detail how tha sugar Interests combined ln first one form and then another, and bow the American Sugar Refining company achieved power in the sugar world. MOKMO I.KA UCH CALLED. In point of interest this story was rivalled In the day's proceedings only by the refusal of the committee to ex cuse Joseph F. Smith, bead of the Mormon church, from responding to the subpoena to testify before the com mittee. He must appear next week. Senator Smoot made a vain effort to have Smith excused. Hopper Heads Travelers. Philadelphia June 16. Charles 1 Hopper, of Omaha, was today elect' U president of the Travelers' protectir Hssoclatloa. ' . . ' 1