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THE ROCK ISLAND ARGFS. Mm Associated Press Exclusive Wire SIXTV-TIIIRD YEAR. NO. 208. THURSDAY. JUXK 18, 1914. TWELVE PAGES. ' PRICE TWO CENTS. LEGATES MEET AFTEI OF 233 T0 12 INSURGENTS DE WOODH HEAD GANIP R STORMY SESSION BY VOTE POLICE HAVE CHARGE HALL DURINGTEST All but Those With Busi ness There Denied Ad mittance to Floor. THE WEATHER J TESTIMONY COLORED? Anti-Administration Men Con demn Reports Given to the Credentials Committee- Forecast Till 7 P. M. Tomorrow, for Rock Island, Davenport, Molina and Vicinity.. Probably cloudy tonight and Friday; probably local showers: somewhat I higher temperature tonight. Temperature at 7 a. tn. 62. Highest yesterday 77: lowest last night 60. Velocity of wind at 7 a. m. one mile per hour. Precipitation .04 inch. Relative humidity at p. m. 32; at 7 a. m. Si. Stage of water 9 feet, a rise of .6 in last 24 hours. J. M. SHERIER, Local Forecaster. ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS. Evening stars: Mercury, Venus, Mars. Morning stars: Jupiter. Saturn. The red star Ad tares of constellation Scorpio seen newl? rliten above the southeastern horizon after dark. INSURGENTS WIN IN BUTTE VOTING By E. E. BUFFUM. 4 y ! lal ti The Argus.) Toledo. Ohio. June IS. At the Mod ern Woodmen h-ad camp today the re port of the committee on credentials mis accepted after a stormy session. The report bars from the convention the contested insurgent delegates by vote of 233 to 125. Consequent upon adoption of the re port adjournment was taken until this evening. Hall Amply Policed. In :he lipe of -.preventing a repeti tion of yesterday's demonstration, ad mln'stration Woodmen leaders this morning mafie every effort to keep Large Majority in Favor of Abolishing' System of Show ing Union Cards. Butte, Mont., June 18. Two meet ings of insurgents of Butte local of the Western Federation will be held today and tonight atwhich reports of voting on the question of showing cards of the Western Federation at mines will be officially announced. Two meetings are necessary because of two shifts at the mines. Voting, as an nounced early today, was 6,3 4 S in favor of abolishing card sliowing and j 243 in favor of cards. The meetings MEDIATION IS NEAR BREAK; HUERTABALK Dictator Holding Out for One of His Adherents as Successor. WILSON STANDS FIRM S. O. S. FROM THE LAND Declares Rebels Must Be Con sidered in Scheme of Pa cification of Republic. from the Coor of the hall those not also will consider what action to take HeifjraTes officers, committeemen or members of the press. The hall was amply policed. Administration leaders claimed that yesterday's resistance of the will of the convention officers was due to those really who had no right to take part in the deliberations. It was meant obviously as a protest against delay in the credentials com mittee's work, the disposition of the insurgents evidently being so violent ly opposed anything the administration may offer. Illinois and other insur gents involved in the contests last r'ght sa.d the credentials committee had worked conscientiously to give both bides a fair hearing, and they were well pleased with the treatment received in taking evidence. They as erted. however, that administration witnesses' f-j'imony had been general ly lighly co.'ored. thcugh they did not use that term. Administration Caucus. The credentials committee finished j in regard to organizing a new union. Insurgents announced that in the in terest of peace there would be no pa rade today in celebration of the over whelming victory or rescinding of the" rule regarding cards, which was one of the main causes of the split in the union. The vote in favor of abolishing pre sentation of cards at the mines will re sult in the formation of an independ ent organization with no affiliation with the Western Federation, said William O'Brien, who is temporary chairman of the meetings. In a state ment the committee of the Butte mln-i ers' union said the operators will re- randum from Rabasa. spect the contracts of the Butte union and if an independent union is form ed it will call out the engineers and others affiliated. Th's will close the mines. warning, but as he was not in uniform and the chauffeur knew no reason why is work eir;y in the evening and spent j he should halt, the warning was dis- neany ail or trie nigai preparing a re- '"u. port. After the tempestuous session) Murphy immediately drew a revolv jesterdav the insurgents paraded the;-1" and nred at the car the bullet going rreets. following the Wisconsin ban- 'lde. While Murphy asserted ne had ipr iiPmri'r i,.-ice. owine to the onlv Cred l " "res, Mr. Meeker blank at the car. The car continued to the university, 'where the address was delivered to S43 graduates and their friends. The count's address dealt with the move- act that there was an administration caucus Iat evening, exempl.fica.tion of crt work to have taken place at lImorial hall was called off. There m a theatre party for the ladies. The hull ........... I.. ..... . . - . , Vi n fAMatAPi men,s ln Germany for social and i ler.j.-... -o o u-ft sduetrial welfare. M was attended by thousand. More j whpl) Mayor vMua CouDt can .'" m n were in line ana me evoiuT ons eiunea praise irom me the jncidt.nt tho diplomat assured him T'Sular army officer. This afternoo , that understood that the affair was 9 I in- von Bernstorff to convey his regret at took plac. trio "rainbow parade o: foresters and cU.er In the bufcines tr-u. parsing the review stand near the convention hall, on which were eated head officers and delegate. Thtre were f,,fiio men and w omen. 10 land, a iir.2a busle corps and many in line. Thi evening is "Vene t'an night." with a pageant on the Jfa'JfflK) river. The camp will have a r.nes session. CANS COP FIRING ON CAR OF COUNT Champaign Mayor Revokes Commission of Policeman Too Free With Gun. merely the work of a subordinate. ! "I am surprised, however," he said, "that policemen are allowed to carry revolvers loaded with ball cartridges instead of blanks. I appreciate how dl-s agreeable the incident was to my good hosts." Because of the position taken by Count von Bernstorff no state or in ternational apology will be required. according to the international law ex perts of the university. President James and other universl ty officials were greatly indignant at the affront and its possibilities of dan ger to the life and limb of their dis tinguished guest. After his call on the count Mayor Dobbins revoked the commission of Officer Murphy and took away his star and revolver. Murphy some time ago was removed as merchant policeman for promiscu ous use of firearms and drunkenness. He was reinstated when merchants signed a petition to the effect that he iiad promised to quit drinking. Mur phy's defense is that he was asked by Champaign, I.'l , June IS. Count Jotacn von Bern .-.tori?, German am- dor to tiie I'nited States was in the city police to see that automobiles nl yesterday afternoon when a spe- f1 Policeman fired on the automobile which he was riding. In the machine with the diplomat Arthur Meeker, the Chicago kr. and Vice President Kinley and EhaoE B' GreeDe of lhe University of Count von Bernstorff and his party on the way to the University of 0', where the ambassador was to kJrf th 'ommencement address, iciael Murphy, the officer stood on a comer as the car came by. He op ti hand for some kind of kept on the right side of the street and obeyed the speed laws. His action was repudiated by Chief of Police Keller. Nicholson Heads Cornell College. Cedar Rapids, lows, June 18. Rev. Thomas Nicholson of New York, sec retary of the board of education of the Methodist church, wm elected presi dent of Cornell college at Mount Ver non, Iowa, to succeed J. B. Harlan. Helnze la Dying. New York. June 18. F. Augustus Helnze, the copper magnate, la dying. Washington, T. C, June 18. While administrations officials said they still hoped for a successful outcome of med iation, they are more doubtful than they have been at any time probably since the conference began. President Wilson is determined that a man ap proved by the constitutionalists will be chosen provisional president. Offi cials close to the president feel that Rabasa is 'holding out for a Huerta ad herent, despite the fact that many such men have been mentioned as neu trals. White house officials said when the reply of the American delegates to Rabasa's note was published it would be sufficient explanation of the attitude of the United States. Has Election Fraud. Niagara, Ont., June 38. Justice Lar mar was at work early today on replies f to a statement issued last night by Emilio Rabasa of the Mexican dele gation. Rabasa's statement was a par aphrase of a memorandum given to the American delegates Friday, which de clared insistence of the United States on a consitutionalist for provisional president would be "tantamount to abetting and even exacting fraud and violence at elections." It was made known that American delegates an swered almost immediately the memo- It is said to de clare that the Mexican delegation had not taken into consideration the fact that the United States had no candi date for a permanent president in Mexico, and that tinder no circum stances would the American govern ment be a party to any influence on the election of any country. Must Consider Rebels. Its preference for a constitutionalist for provisional president was due wholly to the tonviction that men from that party must be taken in order to insure disarmament of all factions that otherw ise would menace the new Mex ican government If a man rot satisfac. tory to the constitutionalists should succeed Huerta. The Mexican delegation gave out a report from their consul at El Paso claiming 25 Carranza ofteiais were shot by Villa's men in connection with the forcible seizure of the business of fices of the constitutionalist govern ment at Juarez, and that a number of women were p'.aced In Jail along with the men taken. Carranza Get Villa Ultimatum. Eagle, Pass.. Texas.. June 18. That Villa has presented an ultimatum to Carranaa demanding absolute separa tion of the civil and military branches of the constitutionalist governmen was the substance of dispatches re ceived at constitutionalist headquar ters at Piedras Negras today. A com mittee of three officers is said to be in conference with Carranza at Saltillo presenting Villa's plan. According to constitutionalist offl clals at Piedras Negras, Villa agrees to recognize Carranza as his superior provided Carranza accords him rccog. n I lion as supreme military chief. "Interests" Cause of Break? San Antonio, Texas, June IS. Offl cials in San Antonio last night wired to Washington information that the rupture between Carranza and Villa is the result of financial help and politi cal intriguing on the part of Standard Oil and American Smelting & Refining company interests as tne basis or a pigantic scheme to dominate the oil and mineral wealth of Mexico through concessions by Villa. Though every official declined to discuss the matter, several of them ad mitted that they regarded the data placed in their hands a conclusive. It is told that the agent whose busi ness it was to delve into such matter name the El Paso hotel and the num ber of the room where the conferences relative to the financing of Villa' re volt against Carranza took place. He give the Identity of every man who bad part, and ln this Interesting list BOMB MISSED BY EMPEROR'S -TRAIN Piloting Coaches Receive Blow, Number of Passengers Being Injured. VARSITY CONFERS DEGREE ON MANY Largest Class in History of Illi nois State School Giv en Diplomas. WILHELM'S HULL IS BENT IN CRASH Steerage Passengers Grow Pan icky After Ramming by the Ship Incemore. Berlin, Germany, June IS. An at tempt was made near Tschudnow, Rus sia today to blow up the Russian im- Jperial train carrying the Emperor of Russia and his family. According to dispatches from St. Pet ersburg postal train preceding the Imperial train as pilot struck a bomb and caused it to explode. Many coaches on the mall train were shat tered and several persons injured. The imperial train passed the spot a few minutes later and arrived at Tsarskoe Selo without further incident. The imperial family was on its way from Kisinev, on the return journey from a recent risit to King Charles of Roumania, at Kustendjo. St- Petersburg. June IS. That an attempt was made to kill the Russian imperial family at Tschudnow, is offi cially denied. The wreck of the postal train was due to a defect in the loco motive. Three employes were injured. are Included several United States of ficials. Whole Thing Private War. The advices that are on the way to Washington start at the beginning of the Mexican trouble. They are said to show that all the trouble in Mexico is due to a "private war" of the in terests Pornrlo Diaz s D'g concessions to Lord Cowdray and Sir Westman Pearson, it is alleged, caused Standard OH and the Guggenheim to rally around anybody to oust the former president. Madero, It is contended, pleased some of the interests, and when Cowdray and Pearson promoted Huerta there was none to interfere. Later, however, it is asserted. Stand ard Ol and the American Smelting & Refining company began to chafe and another revolution was born. The Americans are said to have had no complaint against either Carranzn or Villa until, the success of the rev olution Beemingly assured, the "first chief" began talking of "Mexico for the Mexicans" and issuing formal proc lamations to the effect his country's natural resources would be conserved. Seek to Cause Quarrel. Then, this agent says, "big business" began looking for an opportunity to further muss up the situation. Their representatives are said to have sound ed Villa. The report goes on to affirm that practically every mineral conces sion in Chihuahua and Sonora was granted to the representative of the American Smelting & Refining com pany by orders or , ma in return for remunerative allowance. Champaign, III., June IS. The larg est class in the history of the Univers ity of Illinois was graduated yesterday. Degrees were conferred upon S43 per sons. Two hundred and ten of these graduates come from thirty-one other states; thirty-six from Canada, China, Cuba, Egypt, India, Japan, Mexico, Peru. Cuba, Egypt, India, Japan, Mexi co, Peru. Roumania, Russia, South Af frica and Turkey. Cook county with 125 graduates, led the state. Count Johann Von Bernstorff, im perial ambassador to the United States from Germany, was the commence ment orator. Headed by President James and the ambassador, the academis procession marched to the auditorium, where Rev. I J. F. Lockney, Ph.D., rector of St Mary's Roman Catholic church of Champaign, offered the invocation. Count Bernstorff's address dealt with the achievements of the German Empire, in solving problems of social and industrial life. "No better proof can be given," said the Ambassador, "that idealism is still the chief characteristic of the German soul and that righteousness is the dominant motive in the will of our na tion than by the social legislation ini tiated by Emperor William I and Prince Bismarck and continually de veloped by our present sovereign with the assistance of the whole nation. This legislation throws a heavy bur den on the taxpayers in general and the employers especially, which they, however, have gladly taken on their shoulders because it has furthered the social, moral and intellectual Interests of the working classes." President James lauded Homer Still well of Chicago for his gift of $25,000 for the Gregory Memorial and Captain T. J. Simth of Champaign, who has willed $200,000 fo a music building. The rule against applause for gradu ates was relaxed when 100 members of early classes received belated degrees. President James was presented with a gold watch and chain in honor of his nrst decade of administration and a sil ver teaset was given to Mrs. James by uie iacuuy. Former Senator Hitchcock Dead. Syracuse, N. Y., June 18. Former United State Senator Frank Hitch cock 1 dead. here. SHOT KILLS POULTRY KING Woman and Farm Hand Are Arrested as Suspects. Santa Fe. .N. M., June IS. Ralph S. v ouiien, me poultry king." owner of lo.ooo chickens, at Tularosa. N. M., was shot from ambush and killed yes terday as he was riding to the home of J. U Porter, ln Tularosa canyon. Connell and three companion were driving cattle up the canyon. Sheriff Hunter arrested Mrs. Porter and a farm band. Connell and the Porter, it 1 said, have been litigant over a er eupply. Southampton, June 18. The Kaiser Wilhelm II, entered the docks today. Divers began to examine her hull to as sertain the extent of the damage sus tained below the water line in the col lision yesterday with the steamer In cemore. Damage to the upper works apparently is only trifling. Arrange ments were made to transfer passen gers to the Imperator. The first class dining saloon of the Wilhelm was bad ly drenched by water. A. G. Eames of California said: "I was in my cabin when I heard a sound like the report of a cannon. My Stewart entered Immediately and be gan speaking in German, I said I want eV to dres-, but he pushed me out, saying they were closing the water tight compartments and if I did not hurry I would be shut in. When I reached the deck I found the first and second cla?d passengers behaving very coolly, but great excitement among the steerage passenger:, women shriek ing and crving and men running aim lessly wiving their hands. I can't understand how the collision oc curred because our fog signal was sounding all the time. We were al most u.t a standstill and had just started moving again when struck." D. M. von Schilling of Virginia said he was on deck when the collision oc curred. "Discipline on ;the Wilhelm was perfect," he said. "Life boats were cleared and ready for lowering within 10 minutes. The first and sec ond class passengers were calm, but tuere was considerable commotion among tteerage passengers, who were provided with life belts. The Wil helm slopped for half an hour after the collision, while the Incemore slipped back into the fog, and we did Dot see her again." .Weymouth, England, June IS. The steamship Buelow, with 102 passen gers, is ashore on rock at the foot of high cliffs dominating Blackner bay. and west of Portland Bell, due to a fog. Plenty of vessels are In the vicinity, There was no damage to the passen gers or crew. STATE SEEKS RECEIVER TO HANDLEBANK Lorimer-Munday Concern Is Found to Be Hope lessly Insolvent. FALSE VALUE ON BONDS Loans, Improperly Secured, Are Made to Various Enterprises ; . Prompted by Owners. Chicago, m., June 18. Application for a receiver for the LaSalle Street Trust & Savings bank, the Lorimer Munday institution, was made today by Attorney General Lucey In the Cook; county circuit court. The petition 1 based on a report of a bank examiner bank assets. The petition, filed ln the name of State Auditor Brady, Is set for hear, ing tomorrow. In his report on the bank Examiner Harkin declared 10 "wholly and irretrievably insolvent" and the appointment of a receiver nec essary to conserve the remaining as sets .for the benefit of depositors and stockholders. The document states the book val ues accorded the assets, particularly bonds held and outstanding loan. greatly exceed their actual value. Of bonds listed by the bank as worth $917,000 the petition declare only $255,000 are of value. Out of $3,291,000 tn loans $1,746,000 is declared of no - vuu ivciiig jiaicu a. k f xo J ,uuu the petition asserts to be only $32,000. Particular attention is directed to loans to various Lorimer-Munday en terprises which the examiner found largely financed by the LaSalle Street bank and to which the petition de clares large loans, improperly secured, were made. The petition sets forth that President Lorlmer and Vice Pres ident Mu'nday have been ln active con trol and management of the bank since its foundation. Two More Failure. Alton, III., June 18. The People' - uaus at ivasi Alton, one. oi me 'Mun- day chain, has closed and a receiver has been appointed by the federal court at Springfield. The capital stock is $25,000. Litchfield, III., June 18. A receiver has been appointed for the Litchfield Mill & Elevator company, a Munday institution. EMPRESS NEARLY. STILL BEFORE HIT Steamer Passenger Describes Impact of Storstad Colli-' sion as Not Great. FARMER AGAINST RECALL Chief Justice Oppose Making Court Servant of the Majority. Edwardaville, 111., June .18. Chief Justice William M. Farmer of the au preme court ln hi address at the lay ing of the corner stone of Madison county' new court house yesterday de clared against the recall. "I believe," he said, "in an elective judiciary, and I also believe an Independent Judiciary 1 the bulwark of permanent personal and property right. The experience of governments where it has been at tempted to make judge the servant of the majority, ha demonstrated the unwisdom, of .the Judicial recall." Quebec, June 18. At the Empress of Ireland Inquiry today George Smart, a passenger on the lost steamer, con firmed Captain Kendall's assertion that the Empress was practically sta tionary at the time of the collision w ith the Storstad and that the impact of the collision was not severe. After John Black, another passenger, had testified, Lord Mersey ruled it would be of no value to examine any more passengers. Second Engineer Bren nan of the Empress was the next wit ness. Counsel Haight for the collier Stor Btad, startled the commission with. the. statement he had been informed by Quartermaster Golway of the Empress that the night of the disaster her steer ing gear was disabled. Captain Ken-; dall took the stand and repudiated Gol way's story. Golway will be called this afternoon. s TWO ROBBERS BIND WOMAN Tie Mrs. Catherine Buckley of Aurora to Post nd Loot Heme. Aurora, ia. June 18. Mr. Cather ine Buckley was bound and gagged and then tied to a post la the base ment of her home at 548 Superior treet. yesterday, by two robber. why wer admitted to the house a gas meter repair men. The men then ran- rkil f hA irbiiflA anil flail wftfe mxm. " - . " - " "v.. panlon in an automobile toward Chi cago. The robber obtained $90 and a gold watch and chain belonging to Sir, ugwey, . . -