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MARYLAND NEWS
IN SNOUT ORDER
The Latest Gleanings From All
Over the State.
Fifteen shares of Washington Coun
ty Water Company stock, par $lO, sold
at auction Wednesday for $10.50 a
Share.
W. F. Miller, a Western Maryland
■Railway fireman of Hagerstown, was
run over by a locomotive at Wayne
castle, and the Altenwald cut-off, and
seriously injured.
Miss Pearl McLaughlin, 18-year-old
daughter of William-McLaughlin, of
Oldtown, wno had been missing from
her home for two months, was appre
hended at Hagerstown upon her ar
rival from Cumberland.
The position of commandant at
Charlotte Hall Military Academy is
filled by Capt. R. G. Bates, a gradu
ate of West Virginia'University. For
the last two years he has been prin
cipal of Hedgesville High School.
The barracks on the farm of Andrew
J. Miller, near Antietam, were burned
with the season’s wheat and hay crops,
entailing a loss of several thousand
dollars, which is partly covered by
insurance.
The new Church of God (Wine
brennerians), near Blue Mountain, on
the Edgemont-Rouzerville road, will be
dedicated October 5. Rev. L. F. Mur
ray, of Uniontown, Md., will preach
the dedicatory sermon. Rev. W. S.
Sbimp is the pastor.
The School Commissioners are ar
ranging to establish a public school
at Somerset to accommodate the chil
dren of Somerset, Drummond and
Friendship Heights, who were exclud
ed from the public schools of the Dis
trict of Columbia.
With a preacher as one of the prin
cipal witnesses against him, Ernest
Stevens, of Kaisiersville, was arrested
on the charge of carrying concealed
weapons. Arraigned before Justice
Miller, at Clearspring, he was found
guilty and fined $75 and costs.
The Washington County Realty
Company has been incorporated with
a capital stock of $12,000, divided into
1,200 shares. The incorporators are
ex-State Senator Norman B. Scott,
Jr„ ex-State’s Attorney Alexander
Armstrong, Jr., and Ralph L. Boyer.
Attorney-General Poe in the contest
ed election case in Kent county, has
decide that tickets voted in one
precinct and marked for another can
not be counted. This condition arose
through marked tickets labeled for
wrong districts or precincts being sent
'to voters.
Two of the most valuable pieces of
property in Ellicott City were sold.
One, known' as the Angelo Cottage
property, was purchased by Samuel
Watkins. It is more than 100 years
old and derived its name from a
Frenchman, who erected it. The other,
the bank property, erected by the Elli
cotts, who first settled here, was pur
chased by Daniel Hewett.
Capt. Whitfield Stansbury is critic
ally ill at his home, near Hampstead.
Driving some stock from his lower
farm to the home place, the horse he
was riding slipped and fell on a bridge,
throwing Mr. Stansbury. He was
found unconscious. His face was bad
ly cut and bruised. A clot on the
brain caused by the fall produced
paralysis.
Frederick county will be represented
this year for the first time at the
Maryland Week celebration of the
State Horticultural Society to be held
in Baltimore November 17 to 26. A
committee from the Farmers’ Associa
tion, with Lewis F. Kefauver, Middle
town, chairman, will arrange for the
display. Apples and other fruits will
be made a special feature.
J. Vincent Jamison, Jr., an official
of the Jones Cold Storage Door Com
pany, of Hagerstown, was seriously in
jured by an explosion in the galvaniz
ing department at the factory. Damp
coke thrown into a tank exploded,
the firagments being hurled all direc
tions. He was struck on the arms,
shoulders and face and was badly
burned.
The coroner’s jury, empaneled by
Justice W. A. Britton to inquire into
the death of Fred Cullen, finished its
investigation and placed the responsi
bility for Mr. Cullen’s death on the
New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk
division of the Pennsylvania Railroad
and characterizes the affair as criminal
negligence of a fearful nature. His
wife has just passed through a serious
operation in the hospital and is pros
trated by her husband’s death.
The report of the Elkton grand jury
for the September term of the Circuit
Court calls attention to the condition
of the Courthouse. It is declared to
be “old and dilapidated, unsafe and
unsanitary, and that the east wall is
liable to fall out at any time.” The
jury requests that the court appoint a
committee of nine citizens, one from
each district, to visit the courthouse,
make a thorough examination of the
building and report to the court not
later than the December term next.
Because he cannot be postmaster
and hold a State position at the same
time, Harry Ward, of Jarrettsville, has
resigned as a candidate for the Leg
islature on the Republican ticket, and
will be succeeded by Nelson O. Merry
ar.an, near Cooptown.
Mrs. Geo'rge H. Jefferson has a prize
pet hen which probably holds the rec
ord for Federalsburg She says that
on two successive days the hen laid
three eggs each day Though Mrs.
Jefferson is from a lifelong Republi
can family, ska na . christened the hen
Wilson.
ANNAPOLIS NEWS
OYSTERMEN INDIGNANT.
Protest Against Leasing Bottom In
Severn River.
Annapolis.—Oystermen of Annapolis
and vicinity are indignant over the
fact that bottom in the Severn River,
between Horseshoe Bar and the bridge
of the Maryland Electric Railways
Company has been leased for oyster
cultivation. The lessee is an owner of
an adjacent shore property and a prac
tical oysterman. The oystermen claim
that the portion so leased is natural
bed, though it is not included as such
in the survey of the Shellfish Commis
sion. As there is no remedy for the
condition under the present law, the
oystermen will probably appeal to the
Shellfish Commission to, refrain from
leasing any more bottom in this sec
tion, as tney hope for the passage of
the law promised In the platform by
both parties, by which the commission
ers may declare additional bottom as
natural beds if the facts warrant it.
The oystermen have prepared a state
ment of the case, and it has been
signed by many oystermen of the
vicinity, who claim that they have
made good catches of oysters on the
bottom, which is now made the subject
of lease.
POLICE CHIEF UNDER FIRE.
Irwin, Of Brooklyn and Curtis Bay,
To Have Hearing.
Annapolis.—Dr. W. W. Davis, super
intendent of the Lord’s Day Alliance
of Maryland, and Rev. W. S. Hanks, a
minister of the Brooklyn section of
the county, t have preferred charges
against Thomas Irwin, chief of police
of Brooklyn and Curtis Bay, and the
county commissioners have set the
matter for a hearing this week. The
clergymen charge Irwin with conduct
unbecoming an officer in using abus
ive language to Dr. Davis during a
trial before a justice of the peace and
with failure to perform his duties by
allowing the sale of intoxicants at
Flood’s Park on the Sundays of the
present summer. Miss Eliza Ridgely,
of the women police force, appointed
by the commissioners this summer,
has reported that she is confident that
liquor is sold on Sundays at Flood’s
Park. She has also reported that bad
conditions exist in regard to the pres
ense of young girls at Flood’s, Yockel’s
and other places in the county near
Baltimore city.
Captain Gibbons Returns.
Annapolis.—The regular adminis
trative heads of the Naval Academy
have resumed their posts after com
pleting their summer leave. Captain
John H. Gibbons, superintendent, as
sumed his duties after an absence in
Michigan. He relieved Commander
George W. Logan, who had been act
ing superintendent for one day, hav
ing relieved Commander Guy PI. Bur
rage, head of the Department of Eng
lish, who has been acting superintend
ept a large part of the summer. Lieu
tenant Commander Adolphus Andrews,
aid to the superintendent, also re
turned to duty, relieving Lieutenant
Chauncey Shackford, acting aid.
St. John’s College.
Annapolis.—At a meeting of the
board of governors and visitors of St.
John’s College, John B. Rippere, pro
fessor of Latin, was elected vice-presi
dent to succeed Dr. B. V. Cecil, re
signed. Second Lieutenant C'. S. Mc-
Neill, Fiftieth Cavalry, United States
Army, as military commandant at the
college, assumed his duties on Wed
nesday, relieving First Lieutenant D.
Murray Cheston, who has been order
ed to join his regiment. Frank C.
Mellon, captain of last year’s football
team and member of the baseball and
basketball teams, was elected athletic
director.
Naval Academic Board Meets.
Annapolis.—The Naval Academic
Board met Tuesday. The board is
composed of the heads of the several
departments of instruction, Superin
tendent Gibbons being the presiding
official. Arrangements for the re-ex
amination of a number of midshipmen
of the first, second and third classes,
who were found deficient at the tests
in June, were made. Promotion of
the delinquent ones to the next high
er class is dependent upon the result
of these examinations.
The twenty-fourth annual reunion of
the members of the First Eastern
Shore Regiment, Volunteers of the
Civil War, was held at Easton. It was
called to order by John E. Rastall, of
Washington, president of the associa
tion, with Joseph T. Kenny, of North
East, as secretary. T*e address of
welcome was delivered by J. Frank
Turner, bn the part of the citizens of
Easton, and responded to by President
Rastall.
pany, recently incorporated in Balti
more, has purchased the mineral
lands and equipment of the defunct
Potomac Refining Company in Sandy
Hook district. The company, of
which Louis Plack is president and
Hugh J. Gallagher secretary, executed
a mortgage Thursday for $20,000 on
the property to Henry C. Pfaff.
At a meeting of the Washington
County Medical Society, a committee,
composed of Dr. J. McPherson Scott,
Mayor of Hagerstown; Dr. W. B. Mor
rison and Dr. A. C. Maisch, was ap
pointed to make arrangements for the
semi-annual meeting of the Maryland
Medical and Chirurgical Faculty to be
held in Hagerstown, October 21 and 22.
The Hagerstown Fair Association
has arranged with the Eleventh United
States Cavalry, now encamped at Win
chester, to encamp on the Hagerstown
Fair Grounds during the exhibition,
October 14 to 17. Exhibition drills
will he given daily in the track in
closure before the grandstand.
The frame barn, owned by J. D.
Wine and tenanted by Homer Taven
er, two miles east of Lovettsville, was
destroyed by fire, with this season’s
wheat and hay crop, feed, farming im
plements and harness, entailing a loss
of $5,000, partly covered by insurance.
TRAIN HELD UP
BE BOY BANDITS
Daring Robbery Successfully
Accomplished in Alabama.
NINE FORCED TO LINE UP.
In Most Approved Style the Two
Youths Stopped the Express Train
By Showing the Danger Signal
and Awed Engineer.
Cottondale, Ala. —Two mere boys
were the bandits who rifled the mail
car and dynamited the express safe
on Alabama Great Southern train, No.
7, near this place and escaped with
booty variously estimated at from a
few hundred to fifty thousand dollars.
In the search for the bandits Deputy
Sheriff James Bonner, of Birmingham,
was shot and killed by a member of
another posse from Montgomery, who
mistook Bonner for one of the robbers.
After stopping the train at Bibl)-
ville Siding at 12.30 A. M. by means of
a block danger signal the young ban
dits, with drawn revolvers, forced the
engineer, fireman, express messenger
and six mail clerks to leave their
engine and cars and line up at the side
of the track. The robbers then com
pelled one of the trainmen to detach
the engine, express and mail cars,
whereupon the bandits boarded the
locomotive, and with one robber at
the throttle drove the front part of
the train several miles down the track,
where the express safe was blown to
bits with dynamite and the registered
mail pouches were rifled.
The robbers then threw open the
throttle of the. engine, leaped to the
ground and escaped with their booty
into the swamps, while the runaway
engine and express and mail cars
dashed on down to the track through
several towns, until the steam in the
engine was exhausted and the run
away train came to a stop at Engle
wood, Ala.
Trainmen who witnessed the hold
up said they believed the robbers were
well paid for their daring.
One of the trainmen told the follow
ing story of the hold-up:
“The train was stopped by means of
a danger block system, which had been
tied so that the red danger signal
faced the train. As soon as Engineer
Daniels saw the signal he stopped the
train, only to be confronted with a
brace of revolvers in the hands of
an 18-year-old boy. He was made to
leave the train with his fireman.
“L. Pool, the express messenger, was
eating his lunch at the time the two
robbers entered his car. The messen
ger sard to them: “Go away from
here or I will throw this hot coffee on
you.” As he made a motion to carry
out his threat a bullet fanned his cheek
so closely that he tVil to the
under the impression that he had been
shot. Six mail clerks were made to
leave their coach and stand on the
right of way with their hands up.
Then the bandits forced the porter to
cut the two front coaches and engine
from the sleepers. The front section
pulled away from the other section
with one of the bandits at the throttle.
Conductor Cook already gone
through the sleeper locking the doors,
arousing the passengers and advising
them to hide their valuables. With
the throttle wide open the runaway
train passed station after station until
It stopped at Englewood, when the
engine went dead.”
GIVES LIFE FOR CHILDREN.
New York Official Checks Runaway
Horse, But Is Killed.
New York. —Edward Scully, a super
intendent in the Street Cleaning De
partment, sacrificed his life to save
a crowd of school children from a run
*
away horse. The horse, driven to a
truck, was headed toward a corner
in Brooklyn occupied by two public
schools. On the sidewalk were some
300 children. Scully dashed out of
his office, seized the bridle and turned
the animal into the curb. Although
he had checked the runaway he \yas
carried under the horse’s hoofs and
Instantly killed.
ULTIMATUM TO CHINA.
Given Three Days To Comply With
the Japanese Demands.
London. —A dispatch to a news
agency from Shanghai says the Japan
ese minister has presented China with
an ultimatum which gives China three
days to comply with Japan’s demands
for satisfaction for the recent attacks
on Japanese in Nanking. The corre
spondent says it is believed China, will
find it impossible to concede Japan’s
terms. He adds that the nature of
the action contemplated by Japan in
case her demands are not fulfilled
has not been disclosed.
$1,000,000 MANSION BURNED.
“Arson Squad” Of Militants Scatters
Much Literature.
Liverpool.—Militant suffragetes set
fire to Seafield House at Seaforth,
four miles northwest of Liverpool,
causing $400,000 damage. The mem
bers of the “arson squad” left a quan
tity of suffrage literature strewn about
the lawns. The building was former
ly used as a convent and was under
going reconstruction at a cost of
$130,000.
REBELS CAPTURE JEREZ.
More Than 100 Federals Killed Or
Wounded, Is Report.
Piedras Negras, Mexico. —Constitu-
tionalists have captured the city of
Jeirez, State of Zacatecas, killing or
wounding more than 100 Federals, ac
cording to a report brought by a Con
stitutionalist courier to their lines at
Aura. The insurgent losses were not
given. The courier reported the Con
stitutionalists captured four cannon,
I three machine guns and other muni-
I tions in the fight.
THE FROSTBURG SPIRIT, FROSTBURG, MD.
MYSTERY OF THE CORN FIELD
(Copyright.l
GIRLS NEEDED
UNJE FARM
Vigorous Plea Made at the
National Congress.
WHY THE BOYS DO NOT STAY
Secretary Of Agriculture Of Ohio Says
Poor Cooking Is Sending More
Men To Hades Than
the Saloon.
Plano, 111.—A resolution demanding
an amendment of the federal banking
laws providing for the establishment
of rural banks which will have funds
that may be loaned farmers for long
periods at a nominal rate of Interest
was adopted today by the resolutions
commitee of . the Farmers’ National
Congress in session here.
The resolution was drafted by a sub
committee composed of H. E. Stock
bridge, of Georgia; Frank G. Odell, of
Nebraska, and Mrs. Marshall Holt, of
California.
Another resolution rebuked the
banking interests “which seek to
fasten their own rural credit system
on the people.” The centralization of
banking power was also assailed. The
discussions were greatly enlivened by
an address of A. P. Sendell, Secretary
of Agriculture for Ohio, who declared
that "the cultivation of woman is a
bigger job today than the making of
poor grpund yield.”
“We can’t keep the boys on the
.Jarjn/lJl£-.„we^ the
girls there. T'”"
“Modern education must not take
away the cornerstone of motherhood.
The present price of women’s hearts
and poor cooking ard sending more
men to Hades than all the saloons.
Good cooking, good baking, sewing and
the other arts of our mothers are
necessary to make the home a decent i
place in which to live.
“Our statistics show that three
fourths of the convicts in the Ohio
penitentiaries are men who went from
the country to the city. In the girls’
reformatory there are ten girls who
came from the country to one who
was reared in the city. The propor
tion in the boys’ reformatory is 12
to 1.”
When farmers in the States east of
the Missouri river have learned to re
store their sour and poor fields by
scientific fertilizing, they need no
longer fear competition from abroad,
Joseph E. Wing, of Mechanicsburg, 0.,
told agriculturists. The financing of.
this general soil enrichment could be
done after same plan formulated by
the American commissioners who
have made a study of the agricultural
credit systems of Europe, he asserted.
“The farmers must learn the basic
principles of soil fertility," Mr. Wing
said. “American soils are not, east
of the Missouri river, by nature filled
with the amount of lime that they
need, and they also are deficient in
phosphorus. When we have learned
to satisfy the lime hunger of eastern
soil, then they will grow legumes.
When we have given them the phos
phorus that they need, then the
legumes makes meat cheaply.”
FOR OPEN-AIR SCHOOLS.
Tubercular Pupils May Be Segregated
In Washington.
Washington.—Removal from public
schools of pupils infected with tuber
culosis of communicable form has been
recommended by the District Health
Department, with the approval of the
Board of Education. Open-air schools
for tubercular students probably will
be created.
VIRGINIAN HEADS P. O. S. OF A-
J. W. Alexander Elected Commander-
In-Chief Of Order.
Trenton, N. J. —Election of officers
and the selection of Brooklyn as the
next place of meeting featured the
twenty-third annual convention of the
Commandery General of Patriot Order
Sons of America here. J. W. Alex
ander, of Oak Grove, Va., was unop
posed for commander-in-chief, as was
Charles H. Davis, of Philadelphia, for
senior vice-commander-in-chief.
ADVISER TO CHINESE REPUBLIC.
Prof. H. C. Carter, Or Ann Arbor,
Accepts Position.
Ann Arbor, Mich. —Henry Carter
Adams, professor of political economy
at the University of Michigan, con
firmed the Washington report that he
has accepted a position with the Re
public of China. He said that he will
act as adviser to a Government com
mission appointed for the standardiza
tion of records and accounts of Gov
j eminent railways. He will sail Oc
; tober 9.
BIG WRECK DUE
ID ill FAILURE
New Haven Scored by Interstate
Commerce Commission.
NEGLIGENCE ALL ALONG LINE
Wallingford Accident Was Directly
Due To Failure Of Flagman,
Enginemen and Conduc
tor to Obey Rules.
Washington. “Man failure” all
along the line, from officials and di
rectors of tlie New Haven Railroad
down to its trainmen, is held by the
Interstate Commerce Commission to
have been the cause of the Walling
ford wreck .September 2, in which 21
were killed and 35 injured. In its re
port just made public the commission
blames the crews of the wrecked
trains for lapses and scores officers
and directors for “inefficiency of man
agement.”
Operating officials of the New
Haven and the officers and directors
of the system are grilled scathingly
for promulgation of regulations that
were permitted to become practically
“dead letters” and for not seeing to
it personally that operating conditions
were what they had directed them to
be.
“Man failure in this case,” says
Commissioner McChord, who prepar
ed the report after an exhaustive per
sonal investigation of the accident, |
“began high up in official au hority
J not' ail’ uei £=
that it reached down to those in posi
tions lower in official rank, but still j
weighted with great responsibility.”
Demands Adequate System.
In use at the time of the disaster,
the report points out, were antiquated
signals condemned by the locomotive
enginemen as well as by the Public
Service Commission of Connecticut,
and old wooden cars, unsuited by con
struction for such traffic as they were
expected to accommodate. These were
held to be contributory reasons for
the excessive number of casualties.
Commissioner McChord indicates the
results of a similar recent accident at
Tyrone, Pa., in which the equipment
was all-steel, and in which none of the
passengers was killed as an object les
son in favor of the use of modern
equipment.
The commission demands of the
New Haven road the immediate adop
tion “of an adequate system of super
intendence and supervision which will
give those in authority definite and
positive information as to whether or
not the safety requirements and rules
of this railroad are observed.”
FAJALLY SHOOTS FIANCEE.
Young Man Says He Didn’t Know
Rifle Was Loaded.
Redding, Conn. —Marguerite Gilbert,
17 years old, daughter of a wealthy
farmer, was shot and fatally wound
ed shortly after midnight by John
Todd, her fiancee. Todd declares’" he
pointed a rifle at her as a joke and
pulled the trigger, not knowing it was
loaded.
OFFICIALS IN WRECK.
Four Prominent Railroad Men Are
Seriously Injured At Indiana, Pa.
Indiana, Pa.—Four prominent offi
cials of the Buffalo, Rochester and
| Pittsburgh Railroad were seriously in
jured near here when a passenger
train sideswiped a freight train in the
Creek Side yards. Five other persons
were hurt, but not seriously.
SPAIN IN PANAMA EXPOSITION.
Decides To Participate and Will
Name Commissioner.
San Francisco. —Spain officially has
decided to participate in the Panama-
Pacific International Exposition in
1915. President Moore received this
cablegram from Former Mayor James
D. Phelan, who was appointed by
President Wilson as special commis
sioner for the exposition:
“Spain decided to accept. "Will ap
point commissioner.”
DIPLOMATIC POSTS.
Illinois Editor Linder Consideration
For St. Petersburg.
/
Washington. —H. M. Pindell, news
paper editor of Peoria, 111., is foremost
among those being considered by
President Wilson for ambassador to
Russia. His friends expect his nomi
nation will be made within a short
time. Mr. Pindell was prominent at
the Baltimore convention and was
largely instrumental in swinging the
big vote of the Illinois delegation for
Mr. Wilson at a crucial time.
A CLOSE ITCH
KEPTjyiEB
President Must Be Assured Elec
tion Will Be Constitutional.
HUERTA’S DECISION PLEASES
His Withdrawal Regarded As Due •
To Lind’s Suggestion.
Gamboa’s Election
Doubted.
Washington, Sept. 25. —President
Wilson has taken the position that
the policy of moral suasion adopted
by the United States toward Mexico
had accomplished its two cardinal pur
poses, “to obtain assurances that
there would be a constitutional elec
tion and that Provisional President
Huerta would not be a candidate to
succeed himself.”
Advices received here describing in
detail the preparations being made for
the election of October 26 and stating
also that General Huerta would not be
a candidate, but would support Freder
ico Gamboa, Mexican Minister of For
eign Affairs, the nominee of the Catho
lic party, encouraged President Wilson
and Secretary Bryan to believe that
f the Huerta government was carrying
out what the United States had em
phasized in the Lind negotiations as
the 1 essential features of a satisfactory
settlement of the revolutionary trou
bles.
The President realizes that it will
not be immediately possible to judge
whether the processes of the election
are actually constitutional, and will
withhold decision for some time as to
whether the choice of that election
will be recognized by the United
States.
The likelihood that foreign Govern
ments will await the judgment of the
United States before extending rec
ognition is being impressed upon the
Mexican authorities, it is said, with a
view to insuring free choice. How
ever, doubt as to the value of the
coming election as expressing the will
of the Mexican people was cast by
constitutional headquarters here in
the issuance of a statement saying its
supporters, extending over many
Mexican States, would not go to the
polls.
Many persons, familiar with the
purposes of the Administration here,
predicted that the next step in the
policy of the United States would be
an effort to show indirectly to the con
stitutionalists the necessity of par
ticipating in the election.
Administration officials let it be
known that the United States was not
concerned with the personnel of the
candidates beyond its opposition to
General Huerta’s, continuation in
j power -a position justified in their
use of his irregular as
sumption u; a “uonty 59 '* overthrow
of Madero. This attitu; was declar
ed necessary to further the cause of
stable government in Latin-America.
A feeling of relief that the situation
was adjusting itself is apparent here.
From high Administration officials
came the statement that, while no
change in orders had been sent to
consuls about Americans leaving Mex
ico, the disposition of President Wil
son always had been to leave the ques
tion entirely to the discretion of the
Americans in Mexico, still urging those
in the trouble zones to depart and of
fering them pecuniary assistance.
PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATIONS.
Byron R. Newton, Assistant Secretary
Of the Treasury.
Washington. President Wilson
made these nominations:
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury,
Byron R. Newton, of New York.
John A. Thornton, postmaster,
Philadelphia.
Assistant Appraiser of Merchandise,
district of New York, Christopher C.
Keenan, of New York.
Byron R. Newton is a former news
paper man, now private secretary to
Secretary McAdoo. As assistant sec
retary of the Treasury he will have
direct charge of the revenue cutter
service, public buildings, internal
revenue and miscellaneous bureaus of
the department.
SHAFT ON HISTORIC SPOT.
That Marking Place Washington
Crossed Delaware Dedicated.
Trenton, N. J.—A monument at
Washington’s Crossing, N. J., marking
the spot where George Washington
crossed the Delaware River in 1776,
was dedicated by delegates to the Na
tional Camp Patriotic Order Sons of
America. The organization held a
i two-day biennial convention here with
■ more than 300 delegates in attendance.
; Fred A. Pape, of Somersville, N. J.,
national president, presided at the
opening meeting.
SAUERKRAUT GOES SOARING.
Cabbage Advances to sl7 a Ton, An
Unprecedented Price.
Fremont, Ohio. —Kraut cabbages
reached the unprecedented price of
sl7 a ton here. Kraut makers in this
city, which is the centre of the Ameri
can kraut industry, had hard work
getting material at that price and sev
eral suits have been instituted against
growers who contracted to sell their
■ cabbage at a low figure and now refuse
to deliver at the contract price.
NO QUARTER GIVEN.
i AH Prisoners Taken By Albanians Or
Servians Shot.
Vienna, Austria. —No quarter is be
: ing given in the fighting between the
• ! Servian troops and the Albanians, ac
i j cording to dispatches from Belgrade.
- I All prisoners taken by either side are
: : instantly shot. The Albanians besides
: j taking Dibra have stSrmed and cap
; | tured the towns of Struga, Jakova,
! Kitckevo and Jabovetza, but they fail
• j ed in their attack on the important
I town of Prisrend.
INCOME TAX TO
YIELHIG SUM
Number of Americans Taxable
' Estimated at 425,000.
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WILL PRODUCE $82,298,000.
Those Persons Coming Within tha
Law Must Keep a Close Account
Of Their Incomes From
March 1 Last.
Washington.—According to esti
mates just completed by treasury ex
perts, 435,000 American citizens must
keep such accurate account of their
incomes this year that they will he
able to report to the income tax col
lector next spring exactly how much,
they owe the government under the
new Income Tax Law.
So far as the taxable American is
concerned, the Income Tax Law is now
practically In force against him.
While the tariff bill, in which the law
Is embodied, will be signed this week,
the first returns do not have to be
made to the internal revenue collectors
before March 1, 1914. But when the
returns are made they will cover the
income of citizens from March 1, 1913,
to December 31, and the first payment
of tax will be for money received dur
ing this period.
Every single person (citizen or for
eign resident) whose annual income
exceeds $3,000, and every married per
son with an income above $4,000 is ex
pected to report his or her receipts in
detail to the government agents March
1 of each year. The estimate com
pleted indicates that the income tax
will produce $82,298,000 from the 425,-
000 persons- taxed. To this -will be
added the $35,000,000 or more pro
duced by the present corporation tax,
which is continued as part of the law.
Estimates Of Tax.
The income tax estimates follow:
Incomes. Number. Total Tax.
?B,uuu to $5,000 126,000 $630,000
5,000 to 10,000 17<5,000 1 5,340,000
10,000 to 15,000 53,000 4,240,000
15,000 to- 20,000 24,500 3,185,000
20,000 to 25,000 10,500 2,100,000
25,000 to 50,000 21,000 9,600,000
50,000' to 75,000 6,100 6,832,000
75,000 to 100,000 2,400 4,776,000
100,000 to 250,000 2,500 13,775,000
250,000 to 500,000 550 8,505,500
500,000 to 1,000,000 350 13,653,500
1,000,000 or above 100 9,301,000
Total 425,000 $82,298,000
President Wilson, the federal judges
of the Supreme and inferior courts
now holding office, and employes “of a
state or any political subdivision .
thereof,” are the only persons specific
ally exempted from the tax by the new
law. The President and judges now
in office were made exempt to escape
any questions of the constitutionality
of the law, and their successors in
office will be compelled to pay the tax.
Exemptions Allowed.;
Necessary _exj,)e v ises of .carrying, on
not including
or family expenses
Interest paid out on indebtedness.
National, state, country, school or
municipal taxes paid within the year.
Trade losses, or storm or fire losses,
not covered by Insurance.
Worthless debts charged off during
the year.
A reasonable allowance for the de
preciation of property.
Dividends from companies whose in
come has already been taxed.
Interest from state, municipal or
government bonds.
It is a clear provision of the law,
however, that the taxable person must
make a return to the internal revenue
collector for his entire “et income,”
and exemptions claimed under the law
must be submitted to the federal offi
cers for them to determine upon their ;
reasonableness or legality.
The amount of the income tax as
finally agreed upon follows: From
$3,000 to $20,000, one per cent.; from
$20,000 to $50,000, two per cent.; $50,-
000 to $75,000, three per cent.; $75,-
000 to SIOO,OOO, four per cent.; SIOO,-
000 to $250,000, five per cent; $250,-
000 to $500,000, six per cent.; above
$500,000, seven per cent.
A single man with an income of $25,-
000, for example, would pay one per
cent, on $17,000 and two per -cent, oh
$5,000, a total tax of $270. If married,
the first tax of one per cent, would
apply to only $16,000 of the income.
MISS BREHM’S TALK.
Tells Alcohol Congress About Tem
perance In America.
Milan, Italy.—Miss Marie C. Brehm,
of Pittsburgh, Pa., read a paper on
Temperance Teaching before the In
ternational Congress on Alcoholism.
She urged that temperance instruc
tion should be based on strictly
scientific grounds. The fight for tem
perance in the United States, she said,
had given encouraging results during
the past 30 years. Workmen in Amer
ica were more temperate than in any
other country, she declared.
AMERICA SECOND IN AVIATION.
International Contest Ends, With
England First.
London—The international aviation
contest between America, England and
France, which began at Handon, Sep- _
tember 25, ended Saturday. The
American team, G. W. Beatty and W.
L. Brock, finished second to England
in the speed test and cross country.
The positions in the final aggregate
were: England, America, France
flight. Brock won the altitude flight.
DEATH FOR HUERTA CANDIDATE.
Will Be Tried As Traitor, Declares
Governor Carranza.
Douglas, Ariz. —--“I declare that who
ever proclaims himself President of
Mexico as the result of the elections
‘ Huerta promises in October will be
considered a traitor to his country. If
he falls into our hands, he will he
tried under the law of January 25,
1862, and the same treatment will be
accorded to all who recognize him as:
President.” J