The citizen., October 18, 1912, Image 2

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ROOSEVELT SOOT BY MADMAN
!Y BE BABE! WOUNDED
The Shot Fired by John Shrank, a New
York Laundryman
RAVES AGAINST THIRD TERM WHEN ARRESTED
An Exciting Scene in the Hall When Audience Learns that
the Colonel Is Shot—He Makes His Speech
Despite All Protest.
Theodore Roosevelt
Milwaukee, Wis. Colonel Roose
velt's condition is more serious than
he himself will believe. His physi
cians here tried in vain to persuade
him to remain quietly at a hospital
here, but be insisted upon going on to
Chicago.
Accompanied by physicians and
other members of his party, he left on
a special train for Chicago about 8
o’clock and will at once be examined
by leading Chicago surgeons.
The surgeons who made the exami
nation here say that the bullet pene
trated three inches of the abdominal
wall and the wound is more serious
than at first thought. This was shown
by the X-ray photograph.
Colonel Roosevelt was in bed. rest
ing quietly, as the special train pulled
out of Milwaukee for Chicago. He
had taken some nourishment and said
he felt at ease and that no one should
worry about him.
Milwaukee, Wis. —Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt was shot in the breast and
wounded as he was leaving the Gil
patrick Hotel for the Auditorium to
make a speech. The wound was ap
parently no: serious and the Colonel
went on to the hall and began his
speech after he had seen his assailant
arrested and taken to the police sta
tion.
Six physicians examined Colonel
Roosevelt's wound. They found it im
possible to determine the depth to
which the bullet had penetrated, and
it was decided to take an X-ray photo
graph.
After the Colonel had completed his
speech, which he made despite protest
of bis friends, he consented to go to
the hospital. At 11.30 he emerged
from the hospital, walking unassisted
and saying: lam feeling fine.”
The prisoner told the police, after
an hour's examination, that he was
John Sehrank, of 370 East Tenth
street, New York.
Colonel Roosevelt's life probably
was saved by a manuscript of the
speech which he delivered. The bul
let struck the manuscript, which re
tarded its force as it passed through
into the flesh. His assailant was pre
vented from firing a second shot by
Albert H. Martin, one of Colonel
Roosevelt's two secretaries. Colonel
Roosevelt had just stepped iato an
automobile when the would-be assassin
pushed his way through the crowd in
the street and fired. Martin, who was
standing in the car with the Colonel,
leaped onto the man's shoulders and
bore him to the ground.
The Assailant Caught.
Capt. A. O. Girard, of Milwaukee,
who was on the front seat, jumped
almost at the same time, and in an
Instant the man was overpowered and
disarmed.
A wild cry of "Lynch him" went up.
Colonel Roosevelt spoke to the people
and told them to spare the man. who
then waa taken into the hotel and held
there until he was removed to the po
lice station.
ALL GREECE IS READY.
No Longer Any Doubt Of War With
Turkey.
Athens.—Everything is ready at the
frontier for the forward movement.
There is no longer doubt in the minds
of the Greeks that war with Turkey is
inevitable. The stir and bustle caused
by the mobilization of the army has
been followed by complete calm. In
Athens all business has stopped: the
bourse and places of amusement are
closed. Athens Is practically empty,
1 The man. who is small of stature,
I admitted firing the shot and said that
"any man looking for a third term
ought to he shot.’’
In notes found in the man's pockets
at the police station were statements
that the man had been visited in a
dream by the spirit of William Mc-
Kinley, who had said, alluding to Col
onel Roosevelt, "this is my murderer,
avenge my death.”
Would Speak Or Die.
In spite of the entreaties of physi
cians Colonel Roosevelt insisted upon
delivering his address.
"I will make this speech or die, one
or the other,” he said.
The Colonel felt no pain at the time
tiie shot was fired, and was not aware
that he was shot until he was on the
way to the Auditorium. His attention
was then called to a hole in his over
coat, and he found that his shirt was
soaked with blood. He insisted that
he was not hurt badiy. A superficial
examination of the wound was made
when he reached the Auditorium, and
three physicians agreed that lie was
in no immediate danger.
Taken By Surprise.
Roosevelt, who had staggered back
into the auto when the shot was fired,
raised himself up and stood looking at
Lyon, who was sitting on the shooter.
The ex-President cried, with a gesture,
"Don't hurt him. I'm all right.”
A captain of police rushed in as
Lyon released his grip on the fellow,
and with Lyon's help dragged the man
into the hotel kitchen.
Colonel Roosevelt sat back in the
motorcar as an immense crowd that
had witnessed the shooting yelled to
him. With rare presence of mind the
Colonel, waving his hat, cried out,
“My good friends, I'm not hurt. I’m
going to the hall to speak. Good luck.”
The whole incident occurred so
quickly that the astonished crowd did
nothing but stand still.
The Colonel turned to the chauffeur
and. in a calm voice, remarked, "Now,
just run the car up to the Auditorium.
I'm not hurt and everything is all
right.”
The car started up and in a moment
Roosevelt was on his way to the hall
i with a bullet in his side.
The Colonel did not actually realize
that he had been shot until lie got to
the Auditorium, five blocks distant.
He knew that the bullet had grazed
him. because he felt it graze him. but
he believed that it had simply gone
through his overcoat.
"No eggs for three weeks" is the bat
tie cry of about 40,000 persons in
Cleveland, 0., who have started a cam
paign of abstention from eating eggs
in the hope of lowering their price.
President Taft has appointed Felix
Frankfurter, solicitor of the Bureau
of Insular Affairs, to the commission
to investigate the Board of United
States General Appraisers, succeeding
1 Chandler Anderson, who resigned.
i
the only noticeable activity is that of
ambulance organizations.
During an outbreak among China
! men in the Chinatown section of New
j York two Chinamen and two white
. men were killed and many persons
were injured by a fusillade of bullets.
I
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The $1,000,000 tax suit of the State
of New' Jersey against the Lehigh Val
ley Railroad Company, in the Supreme
I Court, will probably be postponed an
I other year.
ALLENS TO LOSE
THEIR PROPERTY
Damage Suits Will Take Out
laws' Last Penny.
ARE MEN OF PROSPERITY.
Administrators Of Estates Of Victims
Of Courthouse Tragedy File
Actions For SIO,OOO
Each.
Bristol. Va.-Tenn. —With the trial of
Sidna Allen, chief of the Allen clan,
and his nephew, Wesley Edwards,
whose capture was announced recent
ly. Virginia criminal law will have ex
acted all the toll it can for the bloody
courtroom tragedy of the 15th of last
March, when Judge Thornton L. Mas
sie. Commonwealth's Attorney Foster,
Sheriff Webb and others were ruth
lessly slain at the hands of the Allens.
But there is still another phase of
the law's demand which will have o
lie satisfied. The Allens were thrifty
mountaineers. By farming, merchan
dising and stock raising they had ac
cumulated considerable money.
Sidna Allen occupied a mountain
mansion. He was, prior to the Hills
villo tragedy, one of the magnates of
the Carroll county mountains. He
was looked up to by most of his neigh
bors as being ahead of them from the
standpoint of business and wealth.
This home was surrounded by all
the ordinary comforts of life in the
mountains. Sidna owned valuable
mountain lands, and Iris estate was
worth probably not less than $30,000,
if it did not reach the value of $40,000.
The other Allens were not worth so
much as their chief, but most of them
had comfortable homes, and practical
ly all of them were noted for their
mountain hospitality.
But this property of the Allens, like
the men who possessed it, is doomed.
In Virginia there is a penalty for such
slaughter as was committed at Hills
ville. aside from ihe penalty demand
ed by the criminal statutes. The civil
iaw provides tor the financial side in
the event a life or lives are taken
without just cause.
Consequently, following close upon
the Hillsville tragedy, three civil suits
were filed against the Allens. S.
Floyd Landretb. administrator of the
estate of the slain commonwealth’s
attorney, William -Foster, brought suit
to recover $10,000; S. P. Massie, ad
ministrator of the lute Judge Thorn
ton L. Massie. brought suit for SIO,OOO.
and J. W. Webb, administrator of the
slain sheriff, L. F. Webb, brought suit
for a like amount. The amount sued
for in eaeli case is the maximum that
can he sued for in a death claim in
Virginia.
In aid of these suits, attachments
were issued at the same time the suits
were filed against the property of
Sidna Allen, Floyd Allen, Victor Allen,
Claude Swanson Allen, l'riel Allen,
Sidna and Wesley Edwards and Byrd
Marion. The attachments were issued
on affidavits of the plaintiffs that de
fendants were non-residents; were dis
posing of property to defraud credi
tors, and for other statutory grounds.
The present status is that the at
tachments of the property of the per
sons under arrest or tried and con
victed have been set aside by the
court. Tiie property of Sidna Allen,
whose capture was effected recently,
has for some time been in the hands
of the sheriff of Carroll county, al
though Sidna Allen's wife and daugh
ters have continued to occupy the
property just as though they held it in
fee simple.
CREEK MOBILIZATION.
Expects To Place 170,000 Soldiers In
the Field.
Athens.—The mobilization of the
Greek army is proceeding rapidly. Al
ready. 125.000 men are under arms,
with Greeks arriving daily from
abroad. A large contingent has al
ready reached here from America. With
the recruits it is estimated that 170,000
soldiers can be placed in the field. As
a result of the reorganization of the
last few years, the whole army has
been clothed, equipped and armed with
modern rifles. All infantry regiments
have machine gun sections. Trans
portation by land and sea has been
prompt, and the efficiency of the mobi
lization has raised the morale of the
troops greatly.
ALARMED BY VOLCANO.
People In Ecuador Flee From
Towns.
Guayaquil, Ecuador. —Inhabitants of
towns in the vicinity of the Volcano
Sangay were fleeing for safety Fri
day. The peak showed increasing
signs of activity.
COLLEGE TAKES MATTHEWS.
Noted Newspaper Man Appointed To
School Of Journalism.
Xew York.—Franklin Matthews, a
widely known newspaper mail, has
been appointed associate professor in
the Pulitzer School of Journalism, Co
lumbia University. He will take
charge of the course in practice in
news gathering, reporting, editing and
rewriting in the third year of the
school.
PEACEFUL USE FOR SPION KOP.
Scene Of Bloody Battle Becomes Mis
sionary Farm.
Washington. The scene of the
bloodiest battle of the Boer War, Spion
Kop, a mountain outside of Ladysmith.
Natal, South Africa, is to be used bj
Seventh Day Adventists as a mission
farm for educating and Christianizing
the Zulus. Advices received at the
headquarters of the denomination here
from one of its missionaries there tell
of the purchase of this mountain peak,
containing 2,200 acres. The farm is to
be eelf-supportfn#.
THE 6ITIZEN, FREDERICK, MD., FRIDAY,
fCoprrlirhM
CROPS SUFFER IN I
GREAT BRITAIN
Will Be Necessary to Import'
From This Country. i
STORMS CAUSED DAMAGE.
Storms Have Caused Great Damage
To Crops In a Number of
Foreign Countries. Ac
cording To Reports.
Washington.—Storms have caused
great damage to crops in a number of
foreign countries, according to reports |
to the Department of Agriculture, and j
in some instances material importa- !
tions from this country will be neees- ,
sary to meet the deficiency. Great j
Britain particularly suffered and there j
the harvest has been one of the most j
unsatisfactory in many years in qual- >
ity, quantity, expense and difficulty of j
reaping.
Spoiled hay lies upon thousands of j
acres of British saturated meadows, ,
vast expanses of standing grain have
been beaten down by gales, many j
fields of shocked wheat are soaked j
with rain and root crops are rank with j
weeds. The barley crop has been
partly ruined; the oat crop has de- ;
teriorated more than any other cereal, i
with a below-average yield; potatoes !
have been blighted and hops alone
seem to promise almost a full average
yield. Hay suffered most.
In Canada a deficiency of over 9,-
000,000 bushels of winter wheat is
ascribed almost entirely to the rigors
of winter and the quality of a large
proportion of the Ontario 1912 crop
has been materially impaired by wet
harvest weather. Official indications
point to a slight decrease in the Cana
dian winter wheat yield. Rye produc
tion is estimated at 3,136,000 bushels, t
against 2.694,000 bushels last year, \
The oat production is estimated at al- j
most 29,000.000 bushels greater than :
last year. Canadian hay and clover ;
yielded 1,500,000 tons less in 1912 than
was figured in the preliminary esti- j
mate for 1911. Canadian alfalfa total
estimated production attained 177,300 i
tons, compared with 227,900 pre- !
liminafy last year.
While !lie unusually inclement j
weather in France may not have seri-!
ously diminished the grain yield there |
as a whole, the quality has been ad
versely affected. As the French con
sumption requires over 340,000,000
bushels of wheat, and the carry over
from last year is exceptionally small,
the official prediction is that "it would
seem that rather important imports
may again he necessary the coming
season."
Barley is satisfactory in quantity in
France, but extensive discoloration
may make the supply of good brewing
sorts scanty. Rye, with 37,000 acres
greater area in France, yields almost
51.000,000 bushels this year, compared
with almost 46.000.000 bushels in 1911.
Oats suffered seriously there from rain
in September.
KILLS FOSTER CHILD.
Ethel Hayes Shot In View Of Hun
dreds At Philadelphia.
Philadelphia.—ln sight ot hundreds ‘
of girls who had just left their places
of employment, Ethel Hayes, 19 year,
of age, was shot and killed on the
street here by William Hayes, her fos
ter-father. The latter then shot him
self and is in a critical condition at a 1
hospital. The man waited for the gjr!
and when she left a mill where she
was employed, with a number of com
panions, Hayes approached her and
began shooting.
NOBLE PRIZE TO DR. A. CARREL.
Award In Recognition Of Achieve
ments In Medicine.
Stickholm. —The Nobel prize for i
medicine this year has been awarded ;;
to Dr. Alexis Carrel, of the Rockefeller
Institute, of New York. The award, it ! ;
is announced, is made in recognition of ,
his achievements in the suture of '
blood vessels and the transplantation 1
of organs. The Nobel prize is valued i
at $39,000. i
WOULD TAR THE MAYOR.
Black Hand Angry At Local Option |
Laws.
Wheeling.—Mayor Henry M. Davies,
of St. Clairsville, Ohio, a town near 1
here, has oeen threatened with tar | 1
and feathers by the Black Hand be- j 1
cause of his rigid enforcement of the j ;
local option law. In a letter sent 1
through tlifte mail the gang not only 1
threatened'the mayor, but says it will 1
blow up the county courthouse. The 1
letter has been turned over to the pos- 1
tal authorities.
PUMPKIN PIE TIME
MORE VICTORIES
OVER THE TURKS
Continued Fighting Along Turk
ish Frontier.
iHE PRISONERS MASSACRED.
Montenegrins Capture Forts That
Give Them Control Of the Road
To Soutari Skirmishes
On Frontier.
London. —With the fighting on the
Turkish frontiers steadily increasing
l and Montenegro winning decisive vic
| lories, which will have the effect of
I greatly encouraging the other Balkan
| States, the war situation is more seri-
I ous now than at any time since the
i beginning of hostilities. The Monte
l negrins have won more victories over
1 the Turks.
j Unconfirmed dispatches were re
ceived here, saying that Servia and
Bulgaria had declared war. Why
' these countries are withholding their
! proclamations is a mystery in diplo
i matic circles, but this failure to act is
| not construed as indicating any desire
j fer peace.
Official circles were stirred by the
I direct prediction of a European con-
I flict made at St. Petersburg by the
; Russian minister of war, M. Sucholli
noff, who said:
"The Balkan outbreak is the be
ginning of a great European clash,
into which Russia inevitably will be
drawn.”
The Montenegrins added the cap
ture of Turkish forts at Tuki to their
victories at Podgoritza and Detcbitch
Mountain. The capture of the forts
gives the Montenegrins control of the
road to the town of Scutari. It was
reported that the Montenegrins had
taken Scutari itself, but this was re
garded as an error.
The fighting, according to dis
patches, has developed into the worst
kind of guerilla warfare. Prisoners
are being massacred by both sides and
non-combatants are being slain with
out discrimination.
Several skirmishes are reported
from points along the Turko-Bul
-1 garian raid Turlto-Servian frontiers.
Turking is bringing 140,000 Asiatic
troops to Constantinople, which will
augment her European force to about
400,000 men.
The Montenegrin Consul General
here received the following official
message, from Cettinje:
“Military operations continue suc
cessful. Several important Turkish
positions taken already. Army ad
vancing.”
Unless Turkish reinforcements have
reached Scutari it is considered prob
able that that city will soon fall into
the hands of the Montenegrins. While
the way there has been opened, how
ever, it is pointed out that it may not
be passed without serious fighting, as
the Albanian tribesmen in the
vicinity have been aroused by Turk
ish emissaries and are expected to
join ihe Ottoman troops.
CHARGE GIESON TO STAY.
State Department Decides To Keep
Him At Havana.
Washington.—Hugh S. Gibson, sec
retary of the American Legation at
Havana, who was assaulted recently
by a Cuban journalist, will not lie
transferred, according to an announce
ment made by the State Department.
President Taft has directed, in view of
Gibson’s familiarity with American in
terests in Cuba, that he be retained
there.
-RAILROAD INDICTED.
Interstate Commerce Law Violations
Charged Against Frisco.
St. Louis, Mo.—The St. Louis and
San Francisco Railway Company was
indicted on 11 counts for alleged vio
lation of the Interstate Commerce law
of 1887, by the Federal Grand Jury.
The charges against the railroad set
forth that it made an overcharge in
the tariff on boxed burial caskets de
livered to it from connecting lines.
MASONS CHOOSE SWITZERLAND.
International Conference To Meet
There In May, 1917.
Washington. —The second interna
tional conference of Scottish Rite
Masons, which has been in session
here several days, adjourned Saturday
after a short business session. At the
final meeting it was decided that the
third international conference will be
held at Lusanne, Switzerland, in May,
1917. The supreme couucils of Servia
and Ecuador were formally recognized
•■e'ice.
; NARROW ESCAPE
Of U. S. iKS
Public Square in Chinandega
Had Been Mined.
FOOD RUSHED TO NATIVES.
One Hundred and Fifty Sticks Of
Dynamite That Failed To Ex
plode When the Americans
Entered the Town.
Washington. American occupation
of Nicaragua is complete and while
military law prevails peace has been
restored and the civil authorities are
taking up slowly the reins of govern
ment.
Admiral Southerland, in dispatches
to the Navy Department, stated that
federal Nicaraguan soldiers gradually
. are being paid off by special prociairifc
; tion of President Diaz and that hun
dreds of them are returning to the cof
fee plantations where an abundant
crop is awaiting the harvesting.
American marine officers are in
nominal charge of Quezalguaque,
Posaltega, Chichigalpa and Chinan
dega. Lieutenant Colonel Long is in
control of Leon. Railroad communica
tion has been opened between Oorinto
and the farthest inland town and sup
plies are being rushed to the cities to
relieve conditions. Lake steamers ane
sailing on regular schedules.
When the American sailors from the
Colorado entered Chinandega it was
discovered that the plaza, or public
; square, had been mined with 150
I sticks of dynamite. For some un
known reason the charge was no;
i ignited, thereby preventing a terrible
loss of life among Americans. The
: mine was connected by wire with an
adjacent tower.
Admiral Southerland sent a correct
| ed list of the wounded at Leon as fol
i lows:
Private Wittsmiler, of the Colorado;
Lance, ordinary seaman, Colorado:
Haider, marine trumpeter.
The wounded and sick will he trans
ferred to the Ancon Hospital at Pan
-1 ama by the Colorado.
i Dr. Castrillo, Nicaraguan minister to
' the United States, sent a note of
I thanks to the State Department for the
laid given by the American government
i in quelling the revolution in his conn
! try. He deplores the killing and
wounding of the American marines.
The S:ate Department replied saying
that if through death of the American
marines Nicaragua will become a
united country their loss will not have
1 been in vain.
GIVES LIFEBOAT SEATS.
Japanese Line Attaches Coupon To All
Tickets.
Toliio. Japan. The Toy Kisen
Kaisha Steamship Company has intro
duced a new feature in the direction
of providing for the safety of its pas
sengers. To each ticket sold is at
tached a coupon representing a cer
tain seat in a lifeboat, with a printed
request to the purchaser to acquaint
himseii immediately on going aboard
with the location of the particular
boat to which he is ailotted. Sufficient
lifeboats are provided to accommodate
all the passengers.
BOY CUT IN TWO; LIVES 2 HOURS.
Physicians At Loss To Explain How
Consciousness Was Retained.
Chicago.—Richard Poiland. 10 years
old, his body cut in two by a railway
train, died at a hospital here after a
period of consciousness lasting more
than two hours. Poiland's body was
severed just above the hips. His
mother went to the hospital and talk
ed with him before he died. Physi
cians were at a loss to explain how
consciousness, during which the boy
talked in response to questions, could
be retained for so long a time.
ALBANIAN TOWNS ABLAZE.
Peasants Fleeing To Frontier Killed
By Montenegrins.
Vienna. —Many Albanian villages to
the north of the Boyana River are in
flames, according to a dispatch to the
Neue Freie Presse from Cattaro.
Many fugitives, including some wound
ed men, have arrived at Scutari. Some
peasants, who fled lo the frontier posts
l at Szaraesi, were slain by Monte-
I negrins.
TO ARBITRATE STRIKE.
Service On Georgia Railroad To Be
Resumed Today.
Atlanta, C,a. —An agreement was
; reached between the Atlanta Joint
i Terminal Company and representa
j tives of the striking employes prac
tically settling the strike on the Geor
gia Railroad and Atlanta Terminals.
LOWER EXPRESS RATES LIKELY.
Commission Will Not Heed Com
panies’ Protests. It Is Believed.
Washington.—Belief is strong that
the Inter-State Commerce Commission
will put into effect the new schedule
! of express -rates which the express
companies arc row vigorously fight
| ing. The reductions, based on the
! present business, will save the ship
| pers of the country between $25,000,-
j 000 and $33,000,000 annually.
She Thought They Wanted Graft.
Washington. -A woman seeking ofli
cial action by the Department of Jus
tice cm a question in which she was
interested became considerably con
fused by the franked envelope in
which she received a communication
| from the department, according to a
l letter from here. The warning, “Pen
, alty for private use $300,” must have
given her an unenviable impression.
She wrote: "1 see from the envelope
in which you answered my letter that
you want S3OO for private use. I can
not supply that largo amount, but
might raise $150."
i
SEER SUNKEN C®
English Expedition to Search f or
Lost Continent.
Coast of Yucatan the Scene of the 0
| erations, and Result May Be the
Discovery of the Much-
Discussed Atlantis
J
j London.—Yet another party of treas
ure hunters lias sailed from Knglan l
| This time the search is for no p a j tr
hoard hidden by an old time pi rate ’
nor for a mere million or two of
doubloons sunk in some Spanish
leon. This latest expedition is to g 0
diving for a lost continent, Atlantis
I perhars, and salvage the countless
I millions worth of gold and gems anl
j art treasures of the sunken cities of
region as large as , all Europe.
At the head of the expedition )>
Bernard Meekham, an English explor
er. His plans include the employment
of a huge floating dry dock, at least
a dozen submarines for work on the
sea bottom and a hundred or more ex
pert divers.
For nearly a hundred years, sav 3
Meekham, Yucatan fishermen have
been bringing up from the waters
along the coast beautifully carved
stones, vases and small objects of
gold and silver. These fishermen are
Mova Indians, who believes themselves
to be the descendants of a once
mighty race. They hold these treas
ures of the deep as sacred and when
asked where they get them reply that
they have been given them by their
forefathers.
The reports of these finds led Meek
ham to explore the ruined cities of
ancient civilization scattered all along
the coast of Yucatan. He thus became
convinced of the existence of a once
populous and rich country, swallowed
hv the sea long ages ago, but still ac
cessible.
First of all, engineers and investi
gators were sent to Yucatan. Their
reports showed that the country mark
ed for exploitation had apparently
sunk over an immense irregular land,
surface stretching along the twentieth
parallel and breaking away from what
Is now the northern coast of South
America and the eastern coast of Cen
tral America. Further observations
showed that the temples, palaces and
houses which formed the cities of this
lost country were in far better condi
tion than the land-buried cities of
Yucatan and Guatemala. Several
valuable objects of gold and silver en
crusted with jewels and recovered by
the crude methods necessarily em
ployed by the searchers made it prac
tically certain that the inhabitants of
the doomed land had not had time to
i escape with their wealth before the
1 final catastrope.
These discoveries, together with the
' traces found In the buried cities of
\ Y'ucatan of a once powerful and en
i lightened race, indicate a wonderful
! civilization that was in existence long
i before the days of Egypt or Babylon.
| Even when the Spanish conquista
i dores invaded Y'ucatan these mysteri
ous cities had been in ruins for cen
turies.
| Submarines and divers will be em
j ployed to explore and loot the sunken
cities. These submarines of the curi
j -
. - ,
Ruined City In Yucatan.
i ous Pino type, fitted with steel arms
| ending in immense claws controlled
from within the boat, will crawl about
the sunken cities and carry the treas
ures which the drivers bring them to
the under water platform of the huge
dry dock above. From the surface of
the.sea steel tubes will also drop-into
the depths of the Caribbean, and from
their ends will pour streams of light.
Illuminating street where only the
scaly denizens of the deep have wan
dered for untold ages.
MINT TEA ALL THE RAGE
“Everybody's Doin’ It" in London and
Ordinary Ceylon and Chinese
Brands Are Barred.
London. —If you want to be In the
fashion you must drink mint tea.
Ordinary Ceylon or China won't do.
and, anyway, mint tea is fine for the
complexion. Grand Duchess George
of Russia says so. Mint tea is all the
rage In the fashionable houses of Bel
gravia and Mayfair, and owes its in
troduction to the Russian princess.
Tries Odd Suicide in Jail.
Huntingdon, Pa. — By swallowing
match heads and ground glass, Frank
Ronollo, on trial for murder, tried to
commit suicide. Sticking his hand
kerchief in his mouth when physicians
responded to the call, he ref ll3e<l l °
swallow medicine and be hei
while hypodermics vets used to coni
pel him to vomit. He was gotten out
of danger and then a jury convicted
him.
He Did.
Chicago—James Smiley. allc? p
pickpocket, mistook Dectective Gaiv
roll for one of his pals. “Watch this
he said. The detective did an
Smiley Is in jail.
Went to a Cemetery to Flirt.
Chloago.—Thomas Stams. a waiter,
was arrested charged with hang n*
nbout a cemetery to flirt with P *
and women who came to put
on the graves of relatives.