WORLD HAS HAD A
FORTUNATE YEAR
No Terrible Catastrophe Has
Marked the Twelvemonth.
DEATH TAKES NOTABLE MEN
General Success of the Democrats and
Startling Developments South of
the Rio Grande Chief Events
in Western Hemisphere.
New York.—Taken all in all, the
year 1913 has been a happy and rather
fortunate one for the world in gen
eral. It was not marked by any great
catastrophe, such as the San Francisco
earthquake or the Titanic disaster; it
saw the end of the wars in the Bal
kans, it witnessed the inauguration of
a Democratic president in the United
States, followed by genuine tariff re
duction without financial panic.
The death roll for the past year has
hit the financial world rather hard, in
cluding such notable figures as J. P.
Morgan, Henry M. Flagler and James
R. Keene. The Roman Catholic
church also lost two of its most ven
erable cardinals, Oreglia, dean of the
sacred college, and Rampolla, once
secretary at the Vatican and who
would have been pope instead of Pius
X had not the emperor of Austria vot
ed against him.
In the United States political de
velopments have been extremely in
teresting, but not startling. Every
thing seems to have gone the way of
the Democrats. Democratic victories
were won last November in New York
city, the state of New Jersey and
state of Massachusetts. Congress has
passed the currency bill, and the bank
ing interests of the country are ad
justing themselves to it
As alarmed as high finance may
have been when it was learned that
President Wilson believed in Sherman
law should be "clarified,” business and
financial Interests have apparently be
come convinced that the president’s
attitude is not one of opposition, but
rather an attitude in which he would
consult and confer with business and
finance to remedy evils generally ad
mitted to exist.
Doings in Mexico.
South of the Rio Grande develop
ments have been startling and rapid.
The year 1913 saw in Mexico the as
sassination of President Francisco Ma
dero, Vice-President Pino Suarez and
Gustavo Madero, brother of the presi
dent, the usurpation of the presidency
by Gen. Victoriano Huerta, boosted
into that position by General Felix
Diaz. Then came the rupture between
Diaz and Huerta, with the practical
banishment of Diaz. Later in 1913
came the rise of Venustiano Carranza,
leader of the constitutionalists in the
north of Mexico, with the result that
the powerful northern states of Mex
ico are now under his control. Scarce
ly had Carranza become famous than
Francisco “Pancho” Villa, former ban
dit, with a price on his head, leaped
into the limelight as a rebel leader
serving Carranza, and it is now ques
tioned whether Carranza or Villa is
the stronger in the leadership of the
constitutionalist forces.
In its relations with Mexico the
United States has stood firm. Early
in his administration President Wilson
announced his determination to with
hold recognition from the Huerta ad
ministration, and although much
pressure has been brought to bear,
the president has refused to change
his attitude. Efforts have been made
to induce Huerta to retire and allow a
fair and honest election, without re
sult. Today the United States has a
heavy armed force at the border and
an impressive array of battleships off
the coast.
There have been several marriages I
of importance in the past year, and
a number of engagements of promi
nent persons announced. Foremost in
the minds of Americans, of course, is
the wedding of Miss Jessie Woodrow
Wilson, daughter of the president.
Assassinations of the Year.
Barring Mexico’s barbarous achieve
ments, there have been few assassina
tions in countries generally recognized
as being civilized. George I, king of
Greece, was assassinated by a mad
anarchist in Salonika, March 18. In
Turkey the commander-in-chlef of the
Ottoman forces In the Balkan wars,
Enver Bey, was slain on February 17.
This was followed soon after by the
assassination of Nazim Pasha, Turkish
premier. Turkey and Mexico appear
to have been contending with each
other for honors in the line of assas
sination, with Mexico slightly in the
lead.
European affairs have gone along
rather as usual, barring a few extra
startling outbursts by suffragists in
England, such as the sensational sui
cide of the young suffragette who
threw herself before the king’s horse
in the derby and was killed. Politi
cally England has been in a furor,
which, however, is nothing out of the
ordinary. The year has seen the very
remarkable "rebellion” of Ulster, un
der the direction of Sir Edward Car
son. and the organization of an "army”
of Ulstermen to resist enforcement of
the home rule bill should It pass par
liament
England has also had its share of
labor troubles. There have been large
strikes at home and in Ireland, not
ably the Dublin riots, led by Jim Lar
kin. All of the European powers have
gone on as heretofore in the construc
tion of battleships, and the “armed
camp” policies of Germany, England,
I
France and Russia are stronger than
ever, possibly made so by the Balkan
wars.
There have been some few epats be
tween France and Germany, but noth
ing in any way approaching a breach
of diplomatic relations. The falling of
a couple of German war balloons on
French territory created some little
excitement, as did the mobbing of
some German subjects by French citi
zens in border towns. France, as well
as the United States, underwent a
presidential election in 1913, placing a
very democratic and s' very diplomatic
person in the office of chief executive
—President Poincare.
In the Far East.
id toe tar east several things of mo
ment occurred In 1913, among them
the Chinese rebellion and establish
ment of a republic, and in Japan the
death of the Mikado and the succes
sion of his son and the anti-American
demonstrations and riots as a result
of the adoption of the anti-alien land
owning law in California.
In the realm of science and explora
tion there have been but few develop
ments that could positively be desig
nated ae history-creating.
The discovery of the south pole and
the disaster to the Scott expedition
both occurred in 1912, although the
fate of Captain Scott was not made
known to the world until 1913. Dr.
Fredrich Franz Friedmann, discover
er of a "cure” for tuberculosis, made
his appearance in 1913, but the value
of Dr. Friedmann’s “cure,” and other
“cures” for that, dread disease an
nounced at about the same time, are
very much open to doubt. Great strides
have undoubtedly been made in the
treatment of cancer, but no positive
cure has yet been discovered, although
much has been learned about the value
of radium.
Aviation is progressing rapidly.
Much attention to aeronautics has
been paid by the various European
governments from a military stand
point, but no means of making aero
planing anywhere near safe have yet
been discovered. France ha6 organized
and trained a military aviation corps
that would unquestionably be of great
value in case of war, and Germany
has devoted much time and money to
dirigible ballooning. The United
States has spent some $50,000 during
the year in military experiments in
aviation.
The number of deaths resulting from
aviation has not been especially large.
Aviators have died, just as aviators
died in 1912, and Germany suffered a
number of disastrous accidents to Zep
pelin dirigible balloons. Many of the
accidents of aeroplanes resulted from
fancy exhibition flying and military
experiments. The year 1913 saw the
first aeroplane flight over the Panama
canal.
On the Panama Canal.
In Panama great developments have
taken place. October 10 last saw the
dynamiting of Gamboa dike, being the
removal of practically the last serious
obstruction in the big ditch. The ca
nal is now almost completed, so far as
a trans-continental waterway is con
cerned, although not yet prepared for
the passage of steamers from ocean to
ocean. Work has also been begun on
the buildings and grounds for the great
Panama-Pacific International exposi
tion, to be held in San Francisco in
1915, as a celebration of the formal
opening of the Panama canal, in this
connection it may be mentioned some
slight international ill feeling may
have been caused by the refusal of the
British and German government to
participate officially in the San Fran
cisco exposition. German and Eng
lish merchants, however, will take part
on their own accounts.
The United States may congratulate
itself that, barring the case of Hans
Schmidt, the New York priest, there
have been few gruesome and startling
murders during the year.
New York state furnished the most
sensational bit of local politics of the
year in the impeachment and removal
of Gov. William Sulzer, followed by
Sulzer’s nomination by Progressives
and election to the state assembly.
In the world of 6ports the United
States still stands supreme. In addi
tion to humbling the British polo cup
challengers, the Ignited States further
shocked Johnny Bull when Francis
Ouimet, the youthful golf wonder,
walked away from the English experts
in the national open golf championship
at Brookline, Mass., and by the win
ning of the international Davis tennis
cup. America's supremacy in sports
was further recognized during the year
when King Gustave of Sweden pre
sented the American athletes with the
medals and trophies won at the Olym
pic games in Stockholm in 1912. The
sporting world suffered a shock, how
ever, when it was learned that “Jim"
Thorpe, the famous Carlisle Indian
athlete really belonged in the classi
fication of “professional.” He volun
tarily renounced the trophies he had
won as an amateur in the Olympic
games.
Here are the leading events of the
year:
Disasters, Fires, Floods.
Floods in Ohio, many killed, much
suffering and great damage done.
Floods In the Mississippi valley as a
result of Ohio floods.
Tornado destroys part of Omaha,
Neb.
Zeppelin L-2 exploded October 7.
Twenty killed.
Gas explosion near Pittsburgh kills
120 miners.
Long Beach, Cal., pier gives way,
killing 35 persons.
Disastrous floods in Texas, early
part of October.
Firedamp in Welsh mine entombs
931. Five hundred rescued alive.
Two hundred and eighty miners en
tombed following mine explosion at
Dawson, N. M. Twenty-three rescued
alive.
Steamship Nevada strikes a mine in
Gulf of Smyrna. One hundred and
twenty drowned.
Steamer Volturno burned at sea Oc
tober 19. One hundred and thirty-six
drown, 625 rescued.
Fifty girls die in factory fire at Bing
hamton, N. Y„ July 22.
Storm at Nome, Alaska, kills 11,
destroys 500 houses, 11,600,000 loss.
The Death Roll.
Enver Bey, chief of staff Turkish
army, assassinated February 17.
Henry N. Flagler, one of founders
of Standard Oil company, and financial
magnate, dies.
George L, king of Greece, assassinat
ed by mad anarchist at Salonika,
March 18.
James R. Keene, financier, dies Jan
uary 2.
Deaths of Cardinals Oreglia, dean
of the Sacred college, and Rampollo,
within a few days of each other at the
Vatican.
Luther McCarthy, pugilist, died at
Alberta May 24.
Death of emperor of Japan.
Nazim Pacha, Turkish premier, as
sassinated.
King Menelik of Abbyssinla report
ed dead. His death confirmed on De
cember 23.
Whitelaw Reid, American ambassa
dor to Great Britain, buried at Sleepy
Hollow cemetery, N. Y.
Adolphus Busch, millionaire brewer
of St Louis, died October 10.
Charles G. Gates, son of the late
John W. G.ates, died October 2S.
Ralph Rose, famous athlete and
champion shot putter, died October 16.
Timothy Woodruff, New York poli
tician, died October 12.
Anthony N. Brady, died in London,
July 22.
Col. S. F. Cody, American aviator,
killed in England by fall from aero
August 7.
Mayor Gaynor of New York died on
way to England.
Timothy D. Sullivan, New York poli
tician, found dead on railroad track
after escaping from an asylum.
Alfred Austin, poet laureate of Eng
land, died June 2.
Crimes and Execution*.
Mrs. Fannie May Eaton, wife of
Rear Admiral Eaton, acquitted Octo
ber 31 of murdering her husband.
Rev. Hans Schmidt, discredited
Catholic priest, arrested in New York
for the murder of Anna Aumuller, his
sweetheart
Floyd and Claude S. Allen executed
at Richmond, Va., March 28 for par
ticipation in the famous Allen court
house shooting affray.
Henry Spencer, confessed murderer
of many persons, is convicted of kill
ing Mildred Alllson-Rexroat, a dancing
teacher, in Chicago. Appeal pending.
Mrs. Bessie Wakefield is convicted
of murdering her husband and sen
tenced to hang in Connecticut on
March 4.
Leo Frank, wealthy manufacturer,
convicted in Atlanta. Ga., of murder
ing girl in his office. Appeal pending.
l}r. Frank Craig acquitted in Indian
apolis of murder of Dr. Helen Knabe.
Political Development at Home.
Inauguration of President Woodrow
Wilson on March 4.
United States Judge Robert W.
Archbald removed from office by
United States senate after impeach
ment trial.
John Purroy Mitchel elected mayor
of New York on the fusion ticket,
destroying Tammany’s power.
David I. Walsh, Democrat, elected
governor of Massachusetts, a victory
for the Wilson administration.
Acting-Governor Fielder elected
governor of New Jersey. Fielder is
a Democrat and was the Wilson ad
ministration candidate.
Minnesota legislature adopted equal
suffrage measure February 11.
Passage of Wilson tariff bill.
Passage of the currency bill.
Inauguration of Vice-President Mar
shall. his address to the senate and
administration of oaths to the new
senators, March 4.
California legislature adopts equal
suffrage measure.
Illinois passes equal suffrage bill.
Japanese land law in California ap
proved by Governor Johnson, Febru
ary S.
William Sulzer of New York im
peached and r noved from office and
succeeded by Lieut. Gov. Martin H.
Glynn.
Political Development* Abroad.
King Otto, known as the "Mad King
of Bavaria,” removed from throne and
succeeded by his son.
Sir Rufus Isaacs made lord chief
justice of Great Britain, being the first
Jew to hold that office.
Election of President Poincare in
France, January 17; inauguration Feb
ruary 18.
Election and installation of Sir Van
sittart Bowater as lord mayor of Lon
don.
Victoriano Huerta proclaimed pro
visional president of Mexico Febru
ary 18.
Tuan Shi-Kal elected president of
China October 6; inaugurated Octo
ber 10.
Sir Edward Carson gathers together
an "army”- of Orangemen in Ulster
to resist enforcement of the home
rule bill should it pass parliament.
Japanese mobs in Tokyo demand
■war on the United States over the
California land question.
United States forces Great Britain
to give up attempt to gain oil mon
opoly in Colombia.
United States warns Santo Domin
go "No more revolutions.”
Rebellion and overthrow of the Chi
nese empire and establishment of a
republic.
Kfripp scandal in Germany. Disclo
sures made April 18.
Sports.
American successfully defends the
international polo cup against Great
Britain.
Syracuse wins the intercollegiate
regatta, June 21.
Harvard eight-oared crew beats
Yale, June 20.
Francis Ouimet wins the national
open golf championship at Brookline,
Mass., September 20.
America wins the Davis tennis cup,
July 28.
Horse racing resumed in New York
state on May 30.
Jim Thorpe admits he is a profes
sional athlete and resigns Olympic
trophies, January 27.
Philadelphia Athletics defeat the
New York Oiants in the world's cham
pionship baseball series, October 11.
Sir Thomas Upton's challenge for
the America’s cup is accepted by New
York Yacht club.
Invention and Exploration.
Vihlijamar Stefansson Bails from
British Columbia on Arctic Expedi
tion June 17.
Robert G. Fowler flies cross the
Panama canal April 27.
Crocker Land Exposition Bails from
New York July 2d.
Dr. Hudson Stuck reaches the sum
mit of Mt. McKinley June 20.
Dr. Simon Flexner announces the
discovery of the germ of infantile
paralysis.
Arrival of Dr. Friedrich Franz
Friedmann—government test of his
tuberculosis serum started March 11.
Discovery of radium as a cure for
cancer announced, doubt cast upon the
discovery by the American Associa
tion for the Cure of Cancer.
Aviation death list in Germany for
1913 reaches 30; France 37; England
10; Italy 4; Russia 8; Argentine Re
public 4; Japan 3; Turkey 3; Aus
tria 1; Brazil 1; Switzerland 1; Scot
land 1; Canada 1; Portugal 1; Moroc
co 1: China 1 and United States 25.
Marriages and Engagements.
Wedding of Princes Victoria-Louise,
only daughter of the Kaiser and
Prince Ernst of Cumberland May 24.
Miss Jessie Woodrow Wilson, sec
ond daughter of the president, mar
ries Francis Bowes Sayre at the
White House Nov. 25.
Engagement of Vincent Astor to
Miss Helen Huntington announced.
Duke of Croy marries Miss Lelsh
mann, daughter of the American am
bassador to Germany, Oct. 27.
Prince Arthur of Connadght marries
the Duchess of Fife, Oct. 15.
Dethroned King Manuel of Portugal
marries the Princess of Hohenzollern
at Singmaringen, Germany.
Miss Helen Gould married Finley
J. Shepard.
Mexico.
General Felix Diaz released from
penitentiary in Mexico City and at
tacked the National Palace. Feb. 6.
President Francisco Madero forced
to resign and is imprisoned at the Na
tional Palace, Mexico City.
Gustavo Madero, President Ma
dero’s brother, is arrested by General
Huerta and imprisoned in the Na
tional Palace, February 19.
Gustavo Madero is executed by the
order of General Felix Diaz Feb. 19.
President Madero and Vice-Presi
dent Pino Suarez are shot down while
"trying to escape.”
i General Victoriano Huerta proclaim
ed provisional president of Mexico,
Feb. 19.
Rise of General Venustiano Carran
za in the north of Mexico.
Capture of Juarez and Chihuahua.
Rise of General Francisco ("Pan
cho’> Villa as a leader of Carranza’s
Constitutionalists in the north of
Mexico.
Felix Diaz stabbed in Havana, Nov.
6 th.
President Woodrow W’ilson declines
to recognize Huerta as Constitutional
president of Mexico.
Mexican rebels fail in attack on
Tampico, but resume assault.
United States battleship Beet and
international squadron gather at Vera
Cruz and Tampico to protect foreign
Interests.
Balkan Wars.
Adrianople falls, March 26.
Scutari surrendered to Montengro,
April 23.
Peace treaty of Balkans signed in
London.
Miscellaneous.
Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst visits the
United States, Oct. 18
Gettysburg encampment of confed
erate and Union veterans fifty years
after the battle of Gettysburg, held on
July 1-5.
Harry K. Thaw, slayer of Stanford
White, escaped from Matteawan In
sane asylum and flees to Canada. He
Is ejected from Canada and seeks ref
uge In New Hampshire, where the
case is still pending in the U. S.
courts.
Steamship Aquitania to be the larg
est steamer In the world, launched,in
England, April 2.
Colonel Roosevelt starts on South
American hunting trip, visits Rio
Janeiro, Brazil; Sao Paulo, Brizil;
Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic
and Valparaiso, Chile.
Mendel Beilis tried and acquitted
of ritual murder at the "Holy City”
of Kiev, Russia.
Gamboa dike last obstruction in the
Panama Canal blown up with dyna
mite on Oct. 10th.
Buildings of the Panama-Pacific Ex
position started at San Francisco. Ger
man and English governments decline
to participate.
Labor Disputes.
Indianapolis street car strike be
gins Oct. 31.
Copper strike in Michigan started
July 23.
' Prisoners in the Indianapolis dyna
mite conspiracy spend the first day in
Ft. Leavenworth penitentiary Jan. 1.
Firemen, engineers and trainmen of
Eastern railroads deniand Increase
and better hours. Matter adjusted by
arbitration.
Hotel waiters’ strike in New York
city Jan. 1st.
One hundred thousand lady garment
workers strike in New York Jan. 10.
Are Twice Two Four?
A German mathematician named
Fred Bon has just published a book
entitled "1st es wahr dass 2 plus 2
equals 4 1st" (Is It true that 2 plus 2
equals 4?). The first volume Is out
and has 523 pages; others are to fol
low.
The axioms of Euclid have been at
tacked by mathematicians and there
are shelves full of books proving that
they are false. But this is probably
the first assault upon the multlpUca
H"n *°hl° -
A Gusher.
"Keep quiet Spouters is going to
make a few remarks.”
"Impossible!”
"You mean he can’t talk?”
"No. I mean he can’t make a ‘few’
remarks."
No Chance for Him.
"If he keeps up in this manner, he'll
never make a name for himself.”
“What’s his failing?”
“Writing anonymous letters to the
editor.”•
Art Defended.
Another echo from the loan exhibit.
The man was from out of town, and
rather inclined to be critical. The
girl was a Clevelander, and filled with
civic pride.
They paused in front of a striking
picture.
“Ah, that’s .an old master!” ex
claimed the man.
“Maybe it is,” defended the girl,
“but you can see for yourself that the
frame is perfectly new!”—Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
—-- ■ ' - - __
Mounted.
Farmer Hawbuck—What do you
charge for pictures like them?
Photographer — Eight dollars,
mounted.
Farmer Hawbuck — All right.
Where’s the horse I’m to set on?
Tedious.
"Has anything happened while I
hare been away?"
"Not a thing that I shall have to
whisper to you. Everybody has been
tediously decent for months.”
FROM MANY POINTS1
■VENTS OF THE DAY HELD TO A
FEW LINES.
UTE EVENTS BOILED DOWN
Personal, Political, Foreign and Othar
Intelligence Interesting to tho
General Readers.
WASHINGTON.
Manuel L. Quezon, resident com
missioner from the Philippines in con
gress, asserted upon his return frpm
Manila that since the announcement
of President Wilson's policy tho Fili
pinos are more friendly toward the
Americans than they ever were.
* * *
Edwin P. Grosevenor, who for a
number of years has been special as
sistant to the attorney general at
Washington and special counsel in
important anti-trust cases, has re
signed from the Department of Jus
tice to engage in private law prac
tice in Washington.
* • * •
Liberal concessions to the home
steaders of Alaska, on whom the fu
ture development of the natural re
sources of the territory depends, are
recommended by Clay Talman, com
missioner of the general land office,
In his annual report submitted to the
secretary of the interior.
• • •
The historic old painting, ‘‘The
Signing of the Emancipation Procla
mation,” commemorating President
Lincoln’s action in 1862, which for
years has been one of the show fea
tures of the capitol, has been temp
orarily put out of sight. It is under
going a ntce, clean bath, the first in
years.
DOMESTIC.
New York legal aid bureau for a
fee of 10 cents furnishes a lawyer to
assist immigrants and poor persons
in obtaining justice.
• • •
New York’s newest hotel, about to
be opened, covers a block, cost $10,
000,000, has 1,000 rooms, each with a
bath, and rises twenty-six stories
above the street.
• • •
A formal charge of murder was
placed against Robert Maloney, an
actor, who shot and killed his wife
and 1-year-old daughter in a Cincin
ati hotel Monday.
• • •
A grand jury investigation of the
mobbing of Charles H. Moyer, presi
dent of the western federation of
miners, will be demanded at the coun
ty seat of Houghton county by O.
Hilton, attorney for the federation,
when the inquisitorial board meets.
• • •
Copies of the federal reserve act
the resolution to be adopted by banks
which wish to enter the system and
the blank drawn by the organization
committee for use of applicants for
membership, will be mailed to every
national bank in the United States.
• • •
Flefty Department company, one of
the largest of the Milwaukee down
town stores, filed a voluntary peti
tion in bankruptcy. The firm has
been in business six months. The lia
bilities are placed at $209,980, the
assests, $226,016; cash, $1,000.
* * *
The United Railroads, which owns
many of the San Francisco street car
lines, has presented to 1,587 of its
employes, who have been with the
company three or more years, life in
surance policies aggregating $1,250,
000.
* * *
Legality of the ousting of four mem
bers of the Chicago Board of Educa
tion in order that Ella Flagg Young
might be reinstated as superintendent
of schools will be tested in the courts,
it was decided when Maclay Hoyne,
state% attorney, said he would sign
a petition asking for leave to file an
information for quo warranto pro
ceedings.
Governor West of Oregon has order
ed his private secretary. Miss Fern
Hobbs, to proceed at once to Copper
field, a mining fown in Baker county,
and close the saloons and gambling
houses.
• * •
The Chicago Great Western railroad
recently at St. Paul was granted a
temporary injunction restraining the
state of Minnesota from enforcing in
its case the Cashman distance tariff
law which becomes effective January
1. The injunction will be effective un
til April.
• a •
Because of a decision of the Minne
sota state supreme court, the city of
Virginia will be prevented from an
nexing 240 acres of iron ore land ad
joining its limits and valued at $10,
000,000.
• • •
To provide shelter for the overflow
of the unemployed who cannot find
places In Chicago lodging houses and
police stations. A. A. McCormick,
president of the county board, has
ordered Sheriff Zimmer to open the
first floor of the county building to
them as sleeping quarters.
* • •
Ben F. Moffatt, a promoter of Chi
cago was fined $1,000 and sentenced
lo one year and a day in the federal
prison at Leavenworth, Kan., by the
United States district court at St.
Jxiuls.
• • •
Stolen goods valued at $6,000 were
recovered and 4even men and • one
woman were arrested in two raids on
West Side Chicago houses. Elizabeth
Baker, 32 years old, was the woman
arrested and the police said she was
the directing figure of the men to
whom many robberies were traced.
• • •
Search for Frank Hoehn, a young
bank clerk, charged with- embezzling
$46,000 from his employers, the Loan
and Credit association of Heppen
heim, Germany, ended with his ar
rest in New York.
Brooklyn Elks have laid the corner
stone of a $400,000 lodge building.
• • •
During the holiday crush in New
York City $20,000 worth of automobiles
were stolen from Broadway alone.
• • •
■With the filing of petitions from
ten counties. aggregating 25,693
names, the proposed law providing for
total prohibition in Carolina will go
on the general election ballot in 1914.
The total number of names now rep
resented on the petition is 41,045.
• • •
Seventy-two witnesses were sum
moned for the trial at Macon, Ga., of
John W. Nisbeth, a merchant of Be.
vier, Mo., charged with having caused
the death last June of his young
stenographer. Merle Orinkard, through
the agency of a drug.
* • •
Adjutant General Hillis in charge
of the pursuit of “Happy” Jack Hend
rickson and members of his clan, in
the mountains near Pineville, Ky.,
has ordered the militiamen and depu
ties to their homes. The search will
be conducted by individuals.
* * •
Stories printed in the United
States that Great Britain and Ger
many had concluded an understanding
aimed to curb the financial and com
mercial activites of the United States
in South America were characterized
by the British foreign office as pure
inventions.
* * *
The American embassy at London
has presented to the British foreign
office a statement for its information
relative to the clause in the new
American tariff act providing /for an
increase of customs duty on articles
sent to the United States by foreign
exporters who refuse to show their
books. The statement suggests that
the government may desire to insti
tute legislation to meet this situation.
* • *
There is not an idle working man
at the head of the Great Lakes is the
statement of leading Duluth employ
ment agencies. It was estimated that
500 men have been given employment
in the lumber camps since Christmas
day. Large numbers of men are being
recruited and are given free fare to
the camps. Wages are the best that
they Lave bc-en'during the present
season.
• • •
Warrants for the arrest of Miss
Alice E. Malone and Sidney B. Harri
son, former employes of a Washing
ton branch of N. L. Carpenter & Com
pany, New York stock brokers, have
been issued. Miss Malone is charged
with embezzlement of Philadelphia &
Reading stocks valued at $8,100,
while Harrison is charged with -em
bezzling 300 shares of the same stock
estimated to be worth $24,000.
FORFIGIM.
All Germany is in the grip of vio
lent storms, accompanied in many
places by heavy snowfall. Berlin it
self is thickly covered with snow.
* • •
Eighteen weaving mills in the dis.
trict about Blackburn, England, have
been closed, owing to a slump in the
cotton trade. It is understood that
many other mills are about to cease.
• • •
The basement portion of the grew’
some Tower of London, wherein Sir
Walter Raleigh, Guy Fawkes and other
historic characters were confined, will
be open to visitors next summer.
• • •
There is an enormous demand for
nicotine for spraying grapevines and
fruit trees in the Lyons district as
well as elsewhere in France. Nicotine
has been found particularly efficaci
ous as an insecticide.
• * *
Lord Northcliffe, acting on medical
advice regarding his eyesight, is re
linquishing some of his responsibili
ties and is going abroad until Easter,
accrding to advices received from
London.
• • •
News of the escape of Dr. Deininget
and Dr. Kempf, German government
foresters, reported to have been killed
by cannibals in the interior of Neu
mecklenburg, in the Bismarck archi
pelago, was telegraphed to the gov
ernment from German New Guinea.
• • •
Because the Peruvian congress
failed to sanction the budget for 1914,
which was submitted to it in August,
the government issued a decree de
claring that the old estimates would
remain in force for tLe next twelve
months.
• • •
Fire tn the section of Montreal suff
ering from a water famine because of
a broken supply main caused damage
estimated at $100,000. The firemen
were compelled to stretch lines of
hose almost a mile to get water.
• * *
Pope Pius X is in excellent health,
despite reports which have been cir
culating that he is indisposed. Re
cently the pontiff received the diplo
matic corps, accredited to the Vatican,
headed by the dean, Prince von
Schonburg-Hartenstein, the ambansa
dor of Austria-Hungary.
• • •
Intense ccld, the like of which has
been unknown during the last decade
in France, Spain and Portugal, has
caused numerous deaths, as the pop
ulations of the three countries were
unprepared for such a rigorous winter.
• • •
Montreal was put on short water
rations by a break in the intake pipe
connecting the municipal water works
with the St. Lawrence river. About
200,000 persons who depend on the
city’s water supply have been urged
to limit their baths for a week until
the break is mended.
• • •
In Paris the briandist party, a new
political organization has been formed
by 106 republican senators and mem
bers of the Chamber of Deputies. As
its name indicates the party is beaded
by Aristide Briand, former premier.
• * •
The emperor of Japan personally
opened the Japanese Diet, at Tokio
In his speech from the throne he em
phasized the friendly relations exist
ing between the powers, the strength
of the alliance between Japan and
England and the cordiality of Japan
ese relations with China,
HITS LIDJN TIN
OREGON HEAD’S SECRETARY OR
DERS MARTIAL'LAW.
COPPERFIELD EXCEEDING DRY
Official* Accused of Violating OrdL
nance Arrested and Not Allowed
to See Attorneys.
Copperfield, Ore.—Martial law wa»
declared here by Colonel B. K. Law
ton, superintendent of the state pen
itentiary. Five members of the coast
artillery tacked up the proclamation.
This action followed a demand made
by Miss Fern HoBBs, private secre
tary to Governor West, for the reeig
nations of members of the city loun
cil and other city officials who are ac
cused of violating an ordinance regu
lating county antisaloon laws. When
her demand was refused the govern
or's representative ordered Colonel
Lawton to place the town under mar
tial law. Then she boarded a train
to return to the state capital.
Colonel Lawton's small force be
gan operations by closing the sa
loons of which they took charge. All
of the city officials were placed under
arrest and were held incommunicado,
not being permitted to communicate
with attorneys.
Governor West received two weeks
ago a protest signed by more than
half the residents of Copperfield
against alleged law violations by sa
loons here, one of which was owned
by the mayor and another by a coun
cilman. It was charged that liquor
was being sold to minors and that
closing hours were not observed.
The governor called upon Mayor
Stewart to close the saloons and he
refused. When Sheriff Rand also re
fused to act, Governor West sent Miss
Hobbs to take charge of the situa
tion.
Affinity Earle Arrested.
Paris.—Advices were received here
that Ferdinand Pinney Earle, the
American artist, and a woman named
Mrs. Evans had been arrested in Nor
way on a charge of abducting Earle's
8-year-old son, Harold, from a school
at La Motte Beuveron, France. A
private detective, who is said to have
tracked Earle and Mrs. Evans to Nor
way, is reported to be on his way
back to France with 1 the boy. The
Norwegian authorities are holding
Earle and his companion.
The alleged abduction of young
Earle occurred last November. Har
old's mother, who was the first wife
of Earle, has been known by her
maiden name, Fischbacher, since her
divorce.
Won’t Swear Non Members.
Berlin.—The newspapers here say
that the judge of a municipal court re
fused to administer the oath to wit
neses, in a court proceeding, because
they were not members of the church.
The judge said he doubted the valid
ity of an oath administered to sued
persons. ,
The incident is considered im
portant because of general movement
throughout the country of members u>
withdraw from the state church in or
der to escape payment of compulsory
church taxes. The withdrawal*
reached such proportions that scores
of extra officials were on duty reg
istering them.
Longest Name Seen in Court.
Decatur, 111.—The longest name
ever seen on a court document in
Macon county is that of Daniel Boone
Michael Stoner Peter Trible William
Clinton Smith, whose mother filed suit
against the father for separate main
tenance. The boy is 11 years old.
Atchison Defeats Commission Form
Atchison, Kas.—Commission govern
ment was defeated here upon the
proposition of its adoption. The
majority against it wras 813. This was
the third time the Question lias been
before the voters.
Wolgast Defeats Redmond.
Milwaukee, Wis.—Ad Wolgast of
Cadillac, Mich., former lightweight
champion pugilist, defeated Jack Red
mottd, Milwaukee, In five rounds of a
ten-round boxing contest
Against Strings to Chairs.
Washington,—Steps to insure per
feet freedom of thought and speech
for professors of’ political science in
ail American universities will be un
dertaken by a committee appointed
here at the session of the American
Political Science association.
General Manager Cook Retires.
Chicago.—T. H. Cook, general mana
ger of the western division of the
Western Union Telegraph company,
with headquarters in Chicago, has re
tired after 50 years service.
Aviator at Pool of Soloam.
Jerusalem—Gen. Francois Xavier
Bonnier, another French aviator mak
ing the flight from Pahis to Cano,
landed near this Pool of Siolam ca
New Year’s eve. The arrival of the
first aeroplane ever seen by the in
habitants created great excitement
New Mayor of Cincinnati.
Cincinnati, O.—Judge Frederick 3
Spiegel, who was elected on the re
publican ticket, was inducted into of
fice as mayor of Cincinnati in the
presence of friends and relatives.
Brakes on Nevada Divorces.
Carson City, Nev.—Conditions which
have made Reno the Mecca for the
dismated are no more. There cjiuo
into effect the Barnes amendment to
the diVoree law, which requires an
applicant for divorce to reside in Ne
vada a year instead of six months.
World’s Highest Building. .
. New York.—Plans for a new high
est building in the world have been
filed with the bureau of building'
The structure will be 894.6 feet high j
and will have fifty-one stories.
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