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THE BIRMINGHAM AGEHERALD
VOLUME YYYYTT BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 1913 NUMBER 266
BALKANS DECLARE PEACE
CONFERENCE MUST NOW BE
CONSIDERED BROKEN OFF
—
Appoint Committee to Draft I
Note to the Turkish
Delegates
POLICY OF ALLIES
IS TO GAIN TIME
Two Distinct Views Held By Balkan
Delegates—Reason for Demand
of Adrianople and Aegean
Islands Set Forth
London, January 26.—The Balkan pleni
potentiaries, who have received^ull pow
ers from their respective governments,
appointed a committee today to draft a
note to the Turkish plenipotentiaries, ex
plaining why the peace conference must
now be considered broken off. Jt is
hoped the draft will be ready for ap
proval by the full delegation Monday
Eight.
This action of the allies is part of a
series of well considered forms of pressure
with Which the Balkan delegates hope to
cbialn their object without resuming th?
■war.
The meeting today lasted for an hour
and a half, and the course to be followed
was given earnest consideration. Two
ehBtinct views were manifested, one for
the immediate rupture of the negotiations,
leading to a resumption of the war, and
the other favoring a temporizing policy,
in order to avoid irrevocable steps. The
latter course triumphed and a commlt^e
was appointed, consisting of one member
from each delegation, as follows:
Michael Madjaroff, Bulgarian minister
at London; Prof. Georgios Slreit, Greek
minister to Austria-Hungary; Count Voy
novitch, chief of King Nicholas' cabinet,
representing Montenegro, and Dr. M. R.
.Vesnitch, Servian minister to France, with
the addition of M. Politis of the Greek
delegation, owing to his knowledge of
French and his thorough acquaintance
with international law.
Arguments Set Forth
General lines were laid down on which
the note is to be drafted, comprising the
arguments already set forth many times
at: to why the league demands the sur
render of Adrianople and the Aegean
inlands as an indispensible condition to the
conclusion of peace.
That the policy of the allies Is to gain
time is patent, and does not deceive any
body. The delegates decided that the ad
vantages to be derived from the resump
tion of hostilities would be in proportion
to the risks they ran, and they would not
take that step unless absolutely forced *o
do so. It is realized that even a partial
1 e\ erse would have grave moral and ma
terial consequences, apart from the loss of
thousands of men.
In addition the fact is not overlooked
that there is danger of Rumania advanc
ing from the rear and of Austria imposing
Am fifeavia and Montenegro her conditions
lor remaining neutral. The only disad
vantage in delaying decisive action is !n
keeping large armies inactive and on a
■war footing for a long time, thus heavily
taxing both the financial and agricul
tuial resources of the countries.
Refuses Portfolio
Constantinople. January 26.—Hakki
Pasha has definitely refused the port
folio of the foreign ministry and it has
been offered to Prince Said Halim, who
is expected to accept. Said Halim is
an Egyptian prince. He is president
of the council of slate and secretary
cf the committee of union and prog
ress.
Big Loan Acquired
London, January 27.—The Constan
tinople correspondent of the Daily
Telegraph learns that a contract has
been signed under which the Ottoman
government will obtain an advance of
$10,000,000 to be reimbursed out of the
next loan in connection with the new
concession for the Metropolitan rail
ways of Constantinople.
Killing Was Premeditated
London, January 27.—Uncensored
Constantinople dispatches received in
London confirming the previous ac
counts of the revolt against ihe gov
ernment and the shooting of the war
minister, Nazim Pasha.
The dispatches add little to the de
tails already known, but state that
the autopsy on the officers killed dis
closed that the bodies bore dagger
wounds, as well as bullet wounds,
thus throwing doubt on the assertion
tfcat the killing was unpremeditated.
According to the Daily Mail, the Bal
kan ultimatum to Turkey will give
four days grace to enable the powers
to devise any possible menas to bring
pressure upon the porte.
The Mail also says that Colonel Jos*
toff, chief of staff of the third Bul
garian army before Tchatalja, who is
now acting as military adviser to the
peace mission, will leave London for
the front tomorrow and that all the
powers, including Russia and Austria,
have given assurance that the hostili
ties shall he limited to the Balkan
•tates and Turkey.
Speaks Against Turks
Ran Francisco. January 27.—Dr.
Benjamin Ide Wheeler, president of
the University of California, and a
close student of European politics, de
clared this afternoon in an adress be- |
fore the San Francisco Y. M. C. A., j
that the Turk must be driven from
Europe at any cost, “if you cannot
get arbitrators to do it, then let the
sword be drawn streaming blood red."
be said.
“It is a struggle of a liberty loving
people," he continued, “to free itself
from the incubus Turkish domina
tion. In essence this war is a strug
gle of the freedom of the will as rep
resented by European peoples and the
fatalism of the Orient.”
Vienna. January 2C.—The Tageblatt's
Constantinople correspondent asserts
that the sultan and the ex-sultan ef
fected a reconciliation at the palace
the day before the coup d’etat.
Investigate Bank Charge
Paris, January 20. -The French Judicial
authorities are investigating charges
against the directors of the South Span-1
1th Agricultural hank, among whom ate
eminent Frenchmen and Spaniards, in
cluding Senor Seeasta, governor of the
Pank of Spain. J. Perex-Caliallero, was
lor a time president of the hunk, but as
he Is now ambassador of Spain tn France,
he cannot be Inculpated it is alleged
that the ban'; obtained large sums or
jftoney from Investors on false statements
tn lta prospectus.
New Ski Record
Chippew a Fails, Wis.. January 2* .-A n.
Oerst Haugen of Chippewa Falls today e*-J
tatlished a new hill record at the skll
meet here, jumping a distance of lt!h feet ’
■ad patting Uie former record by U ft'.'.
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TALKS TO GATHERING
Expresses Interest in Sub
jects Treated—Talks of
the Health Depart
ment
Hoboken. N. J., January 26.—Presi
dent-elect Wilson today addressed a
private gathering of prominent social
workers at the home of Mrs. Caroline
B. Alexander, where he and his family
were week-end guests. Tn a statement
given out by Mrs. Alexander setting
forth Governor Wilson's remarks, he
is quoted as declaring that in forward
ing the movement for a national bu
reau of health it van desirable to re
move the impression that the govern
ment expected to set iip “a medical
trust.'1 The governor is reported as
having said that there was no inten
tion to put any school of medicine In
charge of national health projects but
that all schools of medicine should
work in harmony on the question of
sanitation, which he considered most
important.
Several speeches v ere made embrac
ing immigration, child labor, prison
contract labor, workmen's compensa
tion and industrial lelations. No news
paper men were admitted and Governor
Wilson could not be reached tonight to
make any'comment on the conference.
The statement given out at the Alex
ander home quotes the President-lect
as saying:
Interested in Topics
“Evry subject treated here today en
gages my* deep Interest and enthu
siasm. My enthusiasm is in proportion,
generally to the practicability of a
scheme. I htave always been eager to
forward general principles, but I do
not feel the breath till my lungs until
I see the practical plan. 1 hope you will
always come to me with plans and you
may depend upon me to consider those
plans with interest and friendliness.
‘ Most of the things that you have
spoken of are without political embar
rassment. One that does have political
embarrassment is the health department
pioject. Already, In dealing with medi
cal education in New Jersey, we have had
political difficulties, because of the vaii
ous independent schools of medicine that
have sprung up c>, all sides. There is a
fear in many minds that we are about Jo
set up what has been called a medical
trust, and it is very desirable to remove
that idea. I have never seen any serious
proposal to put any particular school <>f
medicine in cntu'gfe of the natHoral
health
Difficulty Exists
“With regard to the children's bureau,
another similar difficulty exist?. My own
party, in some ot its elements, represents
a very strong slate's rights feeling. At
Is very plain that you would nave to g«»
much further than most interpretations
of the constitution would allow, if you
were to give *o the government general
control over child labor throughout the
country. It is important to make it gen
erally understood that the purpose c£
your bureau is to collect and co-ordinate
information on the subject.
“I want above all things to enjoy the
confidence of and to have at my service
the information and counsel of those who
are engaged in these fundamental thing*.
Most of the vita’ity of public action corr.ee
from outside the government.
“The government does not originate. It
responds to public opinion. You all try
to regard yourselves as forces playing
upon the government and A hope that
during the next four years you will lind
*•. sensitive part of the government at
the top.”
A. J. McKelway, secretary for southern
states of the national child labor commit
tee and chairman of the juvenile advisory
committee of the children's council of
Washington, D. O., while speuking on
‘ Washington as a Model City,” criticised
ihe system of government of the District
of Columbia, as controlled by men “with
connections in speculative real estate. ’
In commenting on this. Governor Wil
son is reported in the statement as say
ing:
“Dr. McKelway excited me because he
j ut under my nose a fresh trail and the
l ind of a trail that A always will follow
with zest.''
SOUTHERN BAPTISTS
CLOSE CONVENTION
Nashville, January 26—A mass meet
ing at the First Baptist church here
this afternoon marked the termination
of the three-day meeting of the South
ern Baptist Educational assocciation,
which was attended by leading Baptist
educators of the south. Nashville was
sleeted as the next meeting place of
the association and officers were elect
ed as follows:
Dr. E. M. Potcat, re-elected presi
dent; Prof. J. Henry Burnett, re-elect
ed secretary: S. P. Brooks, D. M. Ram
sey, Edgar God bold, members of the
executive commlt'ee. A committee was
named to urge the southern Baptist
convention to consider the advisabil
ity of establishing an educational
board in the south.
John T. Whitney Dead
Glassboro, N. J.. January 26.— John T.
Whitney, a former president of the Na
tional Association of Glass Manufactur
ers, died at his home here today. He.
was one of the iotinders of the Whitney
Glass company and was 56 years old.
Air. Whitney's only child, Mr.s. J. Boyd
Nixon, lost a race with death across the
continent. She arrived here from her
home in Berkeley, Cal., two hours after
her father's death.
Will Soon Make Recommen
dations to the President
Elect
TO START WORK
ON TARIFF BILLS
Currency Problem and Question of
Liberating the Philippines To Be
Included in New President's
Scheme of Action
Washington, January 26.—Although the
scope of the legislation to be taken up
at the approaching extra session of ^’on
grtss has not yet been outlined, Con
gressional committees are rapidly push
ing their preliminary work to a point
where recommendations can be made to
I’iesident-elect 'Wilson and plans laid he
ir rt- him for the early work of his admin
istration. Work on tariff bills will soon
b»- started, the hearings reaching an end
this week. The * money trust” end of the
Mouse banking and currency committee Is
p.ready working on u report while the
"currency” branch of the same commit
tee will push its investigation this week
Into other branches of the currency ques
tion in the effort to secure comprehensive
suggestions for euriency reform.
Legislation Unsettled
Senate ami House leaders do not yet
k iow what legislation, If any, beside the
work of tariff revision, will be taken up
at the extra session. Several who have
t.'.’ked with Governor Wilson express the
confident belief that the currency question
and the question of liberating the Philip
pines will be included in the new Presi
dent's scheme of action for his first con
rritfesional session.
St Is the general opinion in democrat®
circles in Wasnington that President
Wilson will at ieast not ‘ foreclose” Con
gress against acting on everything but
the tariff at the special session. A ma
jority of the democrats in the Senate ex
p-ct little legislation but the tarltr to
be taken up, but they believe President
Wilson in calling the extra session will
l ot specifically limit its work.
Postpone Currency Action
An effort is under way by some demo
ciatic senators to postpone action on the
currency until the next regular session,
unci it is expected that a movement will
be promoted to secure an extension of the
present Aldrioh-Vreeland emeigency cur- j
rency law for at least a year, so that'
h\j emergency measure will still he at !
band in case of Industrial or financial ,
disturbances. Under this plan no at- j
t* nipt would be made to tefcisjete on cur- i
rency questions until nexFwitiftr. *. j
The full extent of the llg*ht between the j
republican and democratic factions In the ,
Senate over President Taft’s appoint- I
nients is expected to develop this week. ]
A republican caucus, the first of the ses- I
sion, probably will be held early In the j
week and the majority of republicans now
ii sist there will be no concessions to the
democrats, but that* the demand will
again be made for confirmation of all of
the appointments now before the Senate
The House will devote Its lime this week
to the consideration of appropriation bills
and by the end of the week It Is expect
ed that several big supply measures will
! e ready for the consideration of the Sen
ate.
MEXICAN REBELS
Peace Negotiations Are Not
Progressing Very Fa
vorably
El Paso, Tex., January 26.—Rebels
early today cut the Mexican Contra!
railway a few mil •» below the border.
The rebel general, Marcelo Caraveo,
with 500 men. la reported to be operat
ing south of Juarez in retaliation for
yesterday’s movement of troops out of
J uarez.
Related reports from Jlmlnez below
which point the Central railway was
out last week, say rebels under Checho
Campos,' have tak^n Esealon on the
Ohihuahua-I mrango state boundary.
A small federal garrison resisted brief
ly.
Peace negotiations are progressing
unfavorably. Telegrams said to come
from President Madero today request
the place of Ahuamaua between Juarez
and Chihuahua City. It is offered to
withdraw the federal garrison and al
loxv the rebels to occupy the town. The |
rebelH Insist on Guadalupe on the Texas
border. 30 miles east of El Paso, as
the point of meeting.
Manual A. J,ujan, who was General
Orozco’s representative at Washington,!
arrived here today from Los Angeles.
He doubtless will hear the rebel dele
gation should actual negotiations oc
cur. He will visit Guadalupe tomor
row to confer with General Salazar.
Judge Platt Dead
Meriden. Conn.. January 26.—Judge
jatnes P. Platt of the United .States
district court died at his home here
this afternoon after a long illness of
throat trouble. He was 6° years old
and had occupied his position on the
federal bench since J902.
TO PROVIDE ADEQUATE
SPACE FOR PARCEL POST
Washington. January 26.—To provide
adequate spare for handling parcel post
business it will be necessary to revise
plans of many public buildings in which
postoffices are located ami negotiations
to this end already have been instituted
by Postmaster General Hitchcock. To
day the Postmaster General invited the
supervising architect of the treasury
and his assistants to co-operate in tiie
►matter with the building committee of
the postoffice department and the spe- j
jpial parcel post committee.
At present 174 public buildings arc1
under contract and 233 additional have i
been appropriated by for Congress, j
They approximate in cost $50,000,000. |
The plans for these buildings have been ■
prepared without regard for the needs
of the parcel post system and it now is)
essentia! that changes lie made in their I
construction in order that the increased
volume of mail may he handled advant
ageously.
Iri 75ft postoffices located in govern
ment buildings, it will he necessary to
make alterations to meA the require
ments of the panel post. In some in-;
stances the purchase of additional
ground on which to construct annexes
will have to be made.
Denies Government Power
to Regulate Its Affairs
BRIEF IS SUBMITTED
Claims No Regulation Whatever Is
Within the Hands of Congress.
Present Rules of Exchange
• Are Defended
Washington, January 26. Members of
the Houae money trust committee who
are to draft a report on results of the
Inquiry into financial affairs thus far
conducted hffVe before them for con
sideration a brief just filed on behalf
of the New York stock exchange by
Its attorneys, denying that the federal*
government has power to compel its
incorporation or to regulate its af
fairs.
Tiie state of New York, it is admitted
In the breif, has power to enact laws
for the guidance , of the exchange,
though the belief Is expressed in the
argument that no law either by state
or nation will stop certain transactions.
It is further asserted that the members
of the stock exchange are better able to
control Its affairs than any legislative
authority.
"We assert. saj'S the brier, that no
regulation whatever is within the power
of Congress. But we are far from as
serting thru the state is without any
power of regulation.
"That the state muv legislate with re
spect to transactions, such as improper
manipulation, is unquestionable. How
effectively it can legislate as to such
matter is another question. Hopes and
expectations in that direction are apt
to be in adverse *rfttto of accurate
knowledge and experience. It is a regu
lation interfering with and diminish
ing the responsible self-government of
such an exchange that we argue against
as detrimental in an incalculable de
gree as well to the interests of the pub
lic as those of the exchange."
Defending the rules of the stock »>x
ehange, thq brief declares that its bus
iness is of either interstate or of for
eign character, “nor do Its operations
In any respect come within the sphere
of the federal jurisdiction.“ Rules of the
exchange, the brief declares, prohibit
manipulation, short selling and general
gambling, reports of which are said
to be exaggerated by the general pub
lic. The answer to all charges against
the exchange is s«Jkl to lie in the
statement that all transactions are mat
ters between customers and broker with
which the exchange l^as nothing to do
so long as highest standards of business
honesty are maintained.
The brief also cqtttainsy many legal
decisions submitted ip prove that the
stock exchange <ap,nkt b# subject to
the interstate cwiftm v
TO SETTLE GARMENT
Confe-®nce Proposes Sliding
Scale of Wage In
creases
New York. January 26. The strike
of garment workers of this city seemed j
tonight in fair way of settlement so ;
far as the larger portion of the 1
strikers is concerned. At a conference
today a proposition providing for a
sliding scale of wage increases to l»e
applied to both regular and piece
workers and a 52-hour week was made
by representatives of manufacturers
employing about 75,000 or the more
than 100,000 garment workers who
have been on strike for four weeks to
leaders of the Uni'ed Garment Work
ers of America. Th it ihe union repre
sentatives tentatively accepted the
proposal, agreeing to place it before
their executive board for final action,
is accepted as a favorable develop
ment.
The proposition of the Manufactur
ers and Merchants’ association and the
Clothing Contractors* association as
tentaivel.v accepted calls for an imme
diate Increase of 10 per cent for all
workers receiving $12 a week or less;
7*4 per cent for all workers receiving
more than $12 an*l less than $16, and
for all receiving more than $15 an in
crease of 5 per cent. In no case is
the increase to b • less than $1 per
week.
The New York <‘lothlng Trades' as
sociation. which has refused to recog
nize the union or to deal .with its rep
resentatives, is not a party to th»
agreement. A letter addressed to the
union officials an! signed by the rep
resentatives of the two manufacturers'
associations, agre.-ing to carry out
their part of the new contract, will 1m*
delivered tomorrow. The annwer of the
union executive »<>ard Is expected to
be made early this week.
TO INVESTIGATE
GUGGENHEIM CASE
Chicago, January :18.—The divorce In 1901
of William Guggenheim of New York and
Mrs. Grace Brown Guggenheim, will he
investigated further tomorrow in the su
perior court neve before Judge Heard.
All partie* to ho suit will be called on to
show why the proceedings should not be
cancelled and Hie Guggenheim* restored
tc their original mate of wedlock,
TODAY’S AGE-HERALD
1 —-Balkans declare conference must
now be declared off.
Governor Wilson talks to gather
ing of social worker*.
Mounter action by stock exchange.
Plana complete for big corn con
vention.
House committee to conclude tariff
hearings this week.
Crevasse In Beulah levee Is slowly
widening.
2— Investigation **f social evils nearly
complete.
3— Auburn prepares for “Home-coin
ing" week.
4— Editorial comment.
f>—Chamber election may be contest.
Birmingham's traveling salesmen.
But six more days to pay poll tax.
8— Kports.
T—Kaiser is angry at loss of Diary.
8—Expect agreement in waiter's strike. .
dUix.'* *
THE POWERS HAVE GIVEN
UP ALL HOPES FOR PEACE
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OF SERVIA
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Following the revolution at Constantinople, which has resulted in the
overthrowing of the Cabinet of kiamil Pasha and the formation of a new
Cabinet, Turkey is again clamoring for war. Unless the powers again
interfere and force Turkey to yield, the Balkan States will be obliged to
resume the war and begin hostilities once more.
PLANS COMPLETE ,
FOR BIG NATIONAL
CORN EXPOSITION
Exposition Will Embrace
Exhibits from Twenty
seven States—Starts
Today
Columbia, SC., January 26.—Withprac
tlcally all preparations completed, the
Fifth National Corn exposition will
open here tomorrow. The exposition
will embrace exhibits from 27 states,
the federal department o? agriculture
fnd ot her ,rfources.'r dearting- with practl
cally every phase of agriculture.
The formal opening exercises will
take place tomorrow afternoon when
addresses will he delivered and an In
spection made of the buildings and ex
hibits by a body of men representing
the various agricultural colleges of the
country. At the exercises tomorrow
afternoon addresses will he made by
Mayor T. II. Thompson of (Miattanooga.
Mayor W. H. (Jlbbes of Columbia anti
probably Dr. S. C. Mitchell, president
of the University of South Carolina.
The state exhibits for the exposition
were made up at the agricultural col
leges and experiment stations and pre
sent the results of their research work
along all lines of agriculture. All of
the exhibits are devoted to a funda
mental treatment of vital problems In
the social life of the rural community.
There are Individual exhibits from
farmers in 30 or more states, selected
to insure on aggregation representative
of the best in each state. These are
entered in competition for honor cer
tificates and trophies.
The exposition programme Includes a
number of feature days with addresses
by prominent speakers. Tuesday is
South Carolina day, Wednesday is Jive
stock day, Thursday is National farm
ers’ union day. Friday is national edu
cation day, snd Saturday Is boys’ day.
Sir Horace Plunkett, the well known
leader of Irish agricultural reform, will
visit the exposition on Thursday, and
James Wilson, secretary of the agricul
tural committee of the House of Rep
resentatives. will be here Saturday,
which will be celebrated as the lari day
of the prize winners' school, conducted
during the first week.
A large number of prize winning corn
club boys from various southern states
have arrived at tin* exposition grounds
for this school. The membership will in
clude prize winning tomato club girls
from 12 states, and the student body
when complete tomorrow night will be
representative of every southern state.
The exposition will continue through
February 8.
Railroad Shows Deficit
Paris, January 26.—The report of the
genera! man a.-' «>f the western section
of the state raUioad, published in the of
ficial Journal, ►hows that the service for
the year 1f*11 u s ilted In a deficit of ?J8,
911.7H6- Tiie total deficit for ♦ he service
for the three years the railroad has been
under < ontrol of the state amounts to
188,846,865.
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A. J. Mathewson Dead
Perth, Ont.. January 26. A. I. Mathe
son. treasurer of the Province of On
tario, died suddenly at. hi3 residence
here late last night. He was 70 years
old. His father, Roderick Matheson,
was head of the Scotch clan Matheson.
Colonel Matheson was elected treasurer
in 1805.
HEARINGS THIS WEEK
Lively Session Predicted
When the Wool Schedule
Is Taken Up For Con
sideration Today
Washington. January 2*1. The tariff
hearings, covering the 11 schedules of
the present law along with the free
list and miscellaneous articles m>,1 gen
eral administrative prtfvl’sdons will come
to a close wjt'i tho,ew •!*» ,’V‘ek.
Tffe Wool *chWhile. p#rlw\pjr fhr* v«Wv«t
formidable of all from the tariff makers*
standpoint, will bo taken up tomorrow
with prospects for a lively session and
plenty of arguments from wooj grow
ers, manufacturers, importers and cloth
iers.
The importance of the schedule Is
shown by the average of *>0 per cent ad
valorem as n barrier for protection of
the big woolen Industry of this country.
Tlie imports under the schedule last
year produced 9 per cent of the total
government revenue, covering the im
portation of more than $48,000,000.
Representative Underwood, chairman
of the ways and means committee, has I
frequently voiced to witnesses the com- j
niittee's policy regarding the tariff.
“We cannot," lie said, “consent and
allow tuxes to be.so high that they pro
jhibit importation, where the taxes will
'go to the manufacturers and none into
the government’s pockets. We are not
complaining against taxes where there
is a reasonable amount of Importation
but we are protesting against those
i taxes where they are prohibitive and
j where, therefore, practically nothing
iconics In. If we pull down the prohibi
tive wall so that there is some com
Ipetition and the government gets some
j benefit, the public will be benefited by
I the gathering <>r these taxes for- public
I improvements, military maintenance and
5 the courts. There is no intention of
reducing the tariff along competitive
lines so low as to disturb business pros
perity. Tills is the general position o£
the democratic majority of the commit
tee that will set about during the first
week of Uebruary the framing of the
entire new tariff law in a tentative way
for the Im-omlng Congress."
Many of the witnesses have indicated
that they represented virtually all of
their ’respective Industries . as well as
their individual concerns.
CALIFORNIA MEMBER
OF LEGISLATURE DEAD
Isis Angeles. January -6.—Represen
tative Hlyvester Clark«Smith of Ra
k« rstteld, member of Congress from the
Klghth California district, died here
today after a long ISlhess.
Representative Smith was born near
Mount Pleasant. Fa., August 2<». 1858.
| and camp to California nearly 38 years
ago. ID* was elected-to the Fifty-ninth i
Congress and had s< rved consecutively
since, although because of Illness he
spent but little of his last' term In the
national capital.
Fire Causes Panic
Omaha. January >1) A fire which
started in the basement of the slx
siory I’a-.ton hotel early today caused
a panic among the 100 guests. All es
caped but nearly 10 of them, Includ
ing K. II. Shaw of Staunton, Miss.,
bud to t»e taken out, scantily dad, on
| ladders set up by firemen. Damage to
l the building was small.
BODY OF JOHN PAUL JONES
LAID TO ITS FINAL REST
Annapolis, .71*1., January 20.— \\ ill) j
simple but Impressive ceremonies, the
body of John Paul Jones, first admiral
of the American navy. was today
placed In Us final listing place In the
new crypt under the Naval Academy
chapel Secretary of the Navy Meyer,
French Ambassador Jusserand and
Governor (loldsborough were among
those present.
Kscorted* 1» a brigade of 700 mid
shipmen. Ht whose head was the naval
academy hand playing a funeral dirge,
the casket was transported fruxu Ban
croft hall to the chapel on a car drawn
by a squad of bluejackets. Ii was then
carried on tin* shoulders »»f the •Jack
ies’ into the crypt and lowered ini »
a receptacle chiseled out of solid mar
ble. A heavy marble lid was placed
over it.
Afterward memorial services were
held in the chapel conducted by Chap
lain Scott Of the naval academy and"
Chaplain C. (1 B. Pierce of the Coil
ed States Senate. 'Die eulogy was de
livered by Chaidain pierce.
The bod\ of the famous sea tighter
bail lain in the rotunda of Bancroft
hall since it was brought to this coun
try from France soveral years ago.
I CREVASSE IN THE
BEULAH LEVEE IS
Six Feet of Water Is Pouring
Through the Crumbling
Breach
TRAIN SERVICE
IS INTERRUPTED
No Lives Vet Lost as Water Is
Spreading * Slowly—Farmers
Preparing lor Emergency.
Ohio Stationary
Greenville, Miss., January 26 At a late
hour this evening the crevasse in the Beu
lah. levee was widening very slowly after
having reached a width of 125 feet. It
pouring out at a depth <»f six feet of
a a ter. Train rfarvlee on tire Riverside
division of the Vasoo ami Mississippi Val
ley railroad, running within a few mile*
of the Beulah levee, had not been Inter
rupted. It Is not believed any lives have
been lost as the water Is spreading very
slowly, filling up the depressions and the
natural streams.
The planters In the Pogue Phalia baun
have been preparing for emergency and
little loss of stock and cattle Is antici
pated.
Efforts will be made to tie the ends
of the levee at the break, and as the
levee is constructed of stiff buckshot
earth, the belief Is expressed that the
crevasse will not widen to any great ex
tent. The serious feature of the break
1* the fact that, coming this early, the
chances are that it cannot be closed dur
ing the high water season, which may
last until May, and the expense of caring
for stoejt and labor In the overflowed sec
t on for two or three months will be
heavy and a great burden.
Heavy Rains Continue
Vicksburg, Miss., January 26.—Heavy
rains continued today In the lower Mis
sissippi valley and federal and state engi
neers have ied their efforts to re
pair and Hucueui^u the levees along the
big river and prevent another crevasse.
Maj. J. A. Woodruff, in charge of the third
federal levee district, stated tonight that
prospects of tying the ends of the Beti-e
luh crevasse ore favorable and by to
morrow, he .said, he hoped to have 'lie
Fitters levee In shape to withstand the
expected further rise in the river.
I Tomorrow citizens' mass meetings will
j he held in Greenville, Vicksburg and
other Mississippi cities to consider plan*
i(for the relief of t h*. pef/pW >rbo \v,tu bn
jFN*yas*te.
r Col. C. D. Townsend, president of the
MbsleGppt rl\Mr commission, will meet.
Major Woodruff and other army engi
neers at the Beninh crevasse Monday to
Consider the feasibility of tying the ends
of that break and to map out a definite
plan of action with regard to the general
ipee sltuatiton.
The Mississippi river rose seven-tenths
of a foot here today.
Memphis. January 2C.--Dlspttchea re
ceived tonight from Modoc, Ark., report
residents of that vicinity moving their
stock to high grounds and building rafts
as precautionary measures, although with
•issurwnces of I’nitod States engineers
that the levee at that point can with
stand all the water now in sight.
At Modoc and Ferguson, south of
Helena, Ark., the crevasse last spring
has not been completely closed.
No alarm Is felt at other points In
tills district.
A slight rise w is reported today at
all points south of Cairo. At Mem
phis the stage at 7 o’clock tonight was
38:3. a rise of one tenth in 12 hours.
Paducah reported a fall of one-tenth
and, with the exception of Parkers
t burg. where the river rose three-tenths,
| the Ohio is failing. The Tennessee and
(Cumberland rivers, tributaries of the
Mississippi are rising
Ohio Stationary
Cairo, 111., iatmaty 2b. The Ohio river
temained stationary today, but reports of
j widespread damage both north and south
[ «'i* Cairo were received. The Cotton Melt
j railway was forced to suspend traffic be
| tween Jllrds Point and Malden. At Hen
I ib rson Mounds, Mo., the track was cov
I cred by two feet of water.
Investigate Situation
Washington, January 26. MaJ. William
Fillott of tlir quartermaster’s depot in
St. Louis, lefl here today under order*
from the war department for Evansville.
Jtarl., to make a thorough investigation of
ihr flood situation and to report hli find
ing!, to the department. Me was auttior
ixed. if hr found that the flood stricken
t ofugees needed immediate attention, to
order supplies from the quartermaster’s
department hi St. Louis, officials here
expert Major Elliott to report in u day
o- two.
Evansville. 1ml., January Ji <’apt.
William Elliott, assistant to the depot
quartermaster of the 1 nited States army
ar St. l.onlv. arrived in Evansville todas*
under assignment from Major General
Wood to survey flood conditions in this
vicinity and to furnish any relief from
federal re*ourcc*B th.r may be needed. Me
ha.** authority to draw upon army funds.
Vhe assignment came In response to hp
teals from Kentucky, and Representative
A. o. .Stanley'* proposal in the Mouse
i flday for a $1 appropriation for
food relief.
( aptain Elliott spent tne anernoon wim
Mayor Heilman and other flood relief
workers, who are familiar wifh conditions
U\ the Evansville district.
Mayor Heilman believes that federal aid
will be most acceptably In the Ashbys
burg, the Walnut Uottoms and Union
town districts, vo • dies below Evansville,
in Kentucky. Captain Elliott will a'®**
go .to ShaWnectown, 111., before he re
turns to 8t. Lolfls Captain Elliott spent
two months hi flood relief work on ?h<
lower Mississippi liver last yen*.
The expected ris tn the river here to
day did not ma». idallze. The effect of up
river rains inert Iv checkd the rate t i
fall. The stage tonight is 44.4 feet.
COLUMBIA SHOOTING
RESULTS FATALLY
Nashville. January 2d.—Rufus Hunt,
who with Miss Hassle Hurt was shot •» i
one of the mai l streets of Coluinl ia.
Trim., last night l»,v Peter Haimway, who
then com mil lad s'Vcide, died this ranru
ing. Miss Hurt, vho. it is sail, was the
innocent cause of the tragedy, will e
tover. The shooting created i senna Molt
at Columbia, aim hundred* of persona
v baited the scone today.