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MARYLAND NEWS
IN SHORT ORDER
The Latest Gleanings From Alt
Over the State.
■ Tlie Cecil county School Board has
appointed Miss Olive Oldham princi
pal of Earieville public school, to suc
ceed Miss Ethel DurameU, resigned.
E. M. Hess & Co., of Lancaster, Pa.,
have bought the bankrupt Eureka
Fertilizer Company, of Perryville, for
$10,250.
In a fire that destroyed the barn on
the farm of Abraham Heefner, north
of Ringgold, six horses, two cows and
seven hogs perished and 100 tons of
hay, s*o bushels of wheat, 40 barrels
of corn and all the farming imple
ments were burned.
The Newfoundland Industrial De
velopment Company was incorporated
In Hagerstown, with an authorized
capital of SIOO,OOO. It will deal in
securities, including bonds, notes and
mortgages, trade in lumber and metals
and do a general mining business in
Newfoundland.
David Riley, released from jail at
Frederick, after serving a sentence for
disorderly conduct, is wanted by Sher
iff Fagan on the charge of stealing a
horse and buggy from Noyle Walsh
near Araby. The team was found near
the Monocacy river. Riley had disap
peared.
A new ice plant will be started at
Ellicott City by Otto Wunder, former
ly manager of the Bloede Electric
Light Company. He has purchased
the late Thomas H. Hunt property, lo
cated near the Baltimore and Ohio
depot, and will build an up-to-date
plant, with an output of about 16 tons
daily.
Complying with the request from
the ladies in charge of an oys; ir sup
per and festival to be given by the
volunteer firemen, of Eastport. Annap
olis, Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, wife of
the President, donated a handkerchief.
This makes several* donations of a
similar nature that Mrs. Wilson has
made to bazars given in or around
Annapolis.
Returning from another fire, George
Scott, proprietor of a dyeing and
cleaning establishment at Federals
burg, found his own place of business 1
in flames. - The property of Joseph i
Smith' caught fire and Scott hurried to
the scene. When he returned and
found his own place burning, he
fought his way through the fire and !
smoke and extinguished -the flames.
Woodlawu Campmeeting Associa
tion has elected the following trus
tees and managers: H. H. Kirk,
president; E. M. McCullough, vice
president; C. S. Abrahams, secretary;
R. G. Terry, T. Morgan Owens, Benja
min McVey, E. Wtimer Jackson, Er
nest Brickley, William D. Ewing, Phil
lip Craig, George Tyson, Mrs. Ernest
Brickley, Mrs. R. G. Terry, Mrs. T.
Morgan Owens and Miss Virginia
Abrahams.
In accordance with an order by
President Wilson on May 7, bringing
postmasters of the fourth class into
the competitive classified service, a'
postoffice inspector will visit Bagley,
Bush River, Castleton, Clayton, Fiint
vllle, Jerusalem, Mountain, Pleasant
ville, Scarf, Sliure’s Landing, Sewell,
Vale, Van Bibber and Wilna, Harford
county, and make report for appoint
ment from among the persons filing
applications for postmaster of the
above named places.
The Woodlawn Campmeeting Asso
ciation has elected the following trus
tees and managers for 1914. The next
annual camp will open August 6, 1914:
H. H. Kirk, president.; E. M. McCul
lough, vice-president; C. S. Abrams,
secretary; R. G. Terry, T. Morgan
Owens, E. Wilmer Jackson, Benjamin
McVey, Ernest Brickley, William D.
Ewing, Philip Craig, George Tyson,
Mrs. Ernest Brickley, Mrs. R. G. Terry,
Mrs. T. Morgan Owens and Miss Vir
ginia Abrams.
Robert B. Morse, chief of the Bu
reau of Sanitary Engineering, Mary
land Department of Health, and As
sistant Chief Engineer H. R. Hall af
ter a conference with Mayor Dr. J.
McPherson Scott and County Health
Officer W. D. Campbell relative to the
purity of the water supply being fur
nished by the Washington County Wa
ter Company made an inspection of
the mountain watershed. An analy
sis of the water taken from the pub
lic tap at the Cavetown reservoir
showed pollution. The State board
reported that the mountain water
was more contaminated and danger
ous than the Antietam creek water,
as the latter is now being purified by
a disinfection and filtration plant.
Centreville Lodge, Patriotic Order
Sons of America, is planning to raise
a flag on the new primary school
building at Centreville, tvhen it is j
completed. The principal, Prof. H. T. *
Griffith, is State president of the or- j
der and will make an address. The !
State secretary, William James Heaps,
of Baltimore, also will speak.
County Health Officer Dr. J. M.
Goodman has closed the public
schools of Lewistown, Bloomfield,
Bethel, Shookstpwn and Araby ow
ing to scarlet fever and diphtheria.
The Montgomery County Anti-
Saloon League lias offered a reward
of SIOO for information leading to a
conviction for a violation of any of
the provisions of the Corrupt Practices
act at next month’s election in that
county, and has also, it is stated, -taken
other steps to prevent and detect vio
lations of the law.
The outbuildings on the Merritt
farm, Chestertown, owned by William
H. Bonwill and tenanted by Raymond
Bonwill, were destroyed by fire, en
tailing a loss of SI,OOO.
PROSPECTIVE LAND SEEKERS.
Mr. Tschantre Suggests Hew They
May Be Brought To Maryland.
Jolin-A. Tschantre, secretary of the
State Bureau of Immigration, has re
turned to Baltimore after a trip
through Western Canada, which he
made in connection with his,, duties.
He has submitted to Governor Golds
borough a report of his observations
and information gained. He says
there is a large drift of Americans to
Canada.
Continuing, Mr. Tschantre says:
As far as Maryland is concerned I
am decidedly of tlie opinion that two
courses are open: First, that the
State may continue her efforts,
through her immigration bureau, along
the same policy as heretofore pursued
—that is, that the bureau acts mainly
as an advertising agency or clearing
house between the prospective seller
and the prospective buyer, merely list
ing the lands for sale, printing a gen
eral description of the advantages of
the State and disseminating periodical
ly the Information.
This is, of course, productive of
some results, but it will never be pro
ductive of great results. If the State
is to actively reach out for those who
would settle and develop her agricul
tural lands it must be done, and be
done only as the result of an active,
energetic campaign, by which the
claims and merits of Maryland agri
cultural areas shall be brought home
forcibly to those who are prospective
land seekers. This can be accomplish
ed only by a thorough reorganization
of the bureau and a thorough revision
of its policy, and, most particularly, a
very marked increase in the appro
priation made by the legislature for,
this work.
In my travels I was also greatly im
pressed by the advertising methods
employed by several immigration'
bureaus of Western States. In St.
Paul, for instance, I visited the- exhi-:,
bition of the Bureau of Immigration, '
where 1 found displayed in systematic
order all -the resources of Minnesota.
This exhibition is open all the year
around. It is located on one of the
main streets, in the business section,
on the main floor in one of the largest
buildings. The exhibition is visited
daily by hundreds of people, and the
attention tlms attracted, aside from
the educational value, ultimately
brings the bureau in touch with the
homeseeker. This idea is worthy to,
be adopted by our State Bureau of
Immigration and should be exploited.
GOVERNOR PARDONS ONE.
Orders Lawrence Staniewski, Of Bal
timore, Set Free.
Governor Golds borough held a ses
! sion of his “pardon, court” in the
Executive offices here and granted one
pardon. Several other cases were con
sidered. The Governor pardoned Law- 11
rence Staniewski, who is serving 15
! years in the penitentiary for burglary.
Staniewski was convicted before the
Criminal Court of Baltimore at the
September term, 1908. By commuta
tion for good behavior his term would
have expired July 12, 1921. Staniewski
is a German and was but 17 years old
when convicted. The order for his re
lease was signed by the Governor and
will be forwarded to State Senator
Albert M. .Sproesser, who was the
soliciting attorney in the case. The
Governor ordered the petition for the
pardon pf Charles Degrau advertised
for final consideration this week. De
grau was convicted before the Crim
inal Court, of Baltimore ait the Jan
uary term, 1912, of burglary, larceny,
etc., and sentenced to the peniteitiary
for four years. There was strong op
position to clemency for Degrau when
application was made to the Governor
a few months ago, but now, it is
stated,the protestants have withdrawn
their objections. The Governor an
nounced his intention to examine pa
pers in the case of Richard Allnut and
James Frazier. The former was con
victed by the Montgomery County Cir
cuit Court at the November term,
1911, of second-degree murder and sen
tenced to a term of 18 years. Allnut
killed his sister, Mrs. Valeria Viers,
and also attacked his aged mother,
and Miss Jane Rawlins, a friend of the
family. Frazier was convicted in Som
erset county and was given a com
bined sentence of three years.
UPBUILDING OF MARYLAND.
Greater Publicity Of Its Advantages
Needed.
Governor Goldsborough will include
in his next message to the legislature
a recommendation for the establish
ment in Baltimore of a publicity
bureau with an appropriation of $25,-
000 to keep it going for the first year.
Governor Goldsborough said that lie
believes Baltimore must and will
secure a large share of the Panama
Canal trade when that waterway opens
and it is to let the business men and
the people know just what conditions
are in Maryland and Baltimore that he
wants to establish the bureau. He
said that the State and city undoubt
edly needs more advertising, for from
personal observations he knew that in
some sections of the country people
had never ever heard of Baltimore
and that in parts of Canada they did
not even know there was such a State
as Maryland. With this bureau hav
ing as its head a capable business man
and an able writer, the city will be-
I come known throughout the country
1 and its advantages as a seaport and
j manufacturing city will be explained
i if the legislature • supports Governor
Goldsborough in this plan. The Gov
ernor said that it is his belief that Bal
timore will, become the main inlet and
outlet for the Panama Canal trade of
the East, for statistics show that it is
the nearest point on the Atlantic sea
board to cities in he Middle West and
South.
NEGRO ACCIDENTALLY SHOT.
Struck by a bullet from a .38-calibre
revolver that had ploughed Its way
through the side of a barn, John Park
er, a negro farm band, is in a critical
condition at Emergency Hospital.
The shooting occurred on the farm of
Welsh Mitchell, near McKendree. Mr.
Mitchell, who fired the shot, surren
dered himself to the county police au
thorities and says the shooting was ac
cidental.
Pennsylvania has more than one
million public- school pupils.
THE POWERS MUST
MTERFERE
Action Antagonistic io U. S. Will
be Regarded as Unfriendly.
GREAT BRITAIN MAKES DENIAL
In Sending a Warship To Mexico
It Does Not Intend To Em
barrass the United
States.
Washington. - The United States
Government is preparing to notify the
nations of the world generally that
any interference in Mexican affairs
will be regarded as unfriendly to this
Government.
President Wilson, Secretary Bryan
and Counselor John Bassett Moore, of
the State Department, has exchanged
ideas on what the proclamation to the
world should express. It will be com
municated to foreign governments
everywhere, in line with the policy
established earlier of keeping other
nations informed of every step taken
in its handling of the Mexican prob
lem.
The proclamation, or note, also will
serve, it is understood, as an explicit
definition of the policy of the United
States toward the de facto authorities
in Mexico, reiterating the principle
that recognition can only be given to
governments on this hemisphere
founded on law and order.
Two things, it is known, have con
tributed to the determination of the
government to define its policy—the
' presentation by Sir Lionel Carden, the
British Minister to Mexico, of his cre
dentials immediately after Huerta had
proclaimed himself dictator and the
dispatch of several war vessels to
Mexican waters.
The British Embassy here at the
direction of the Foreign Office officially
advised Secretary Bryan that the Brit
ish Government pronounced as unau
thentic the now famous interview
credited to Sir Lionel expressing the
view that the United States did not
understand conditions ill Mexico.
The British Foreign Office based its
denial of Sir Lionel’s interview on “a
denial from Sir Lionel himself.” The
published interview represented the
Minister as unsympathetic with the
policy of the United States.
Another incident that was regarded
with significance was the assurance
that came from Ambassador Jusserand
to the State Department that the
- French Government in sending a war
ship to Mexican waters did not intend
in any way to embarrass the United
States. Officials indicated satisfac
tion over the apparent trend of ,the
French Government’s attitude.
There is a possibility that if' the
powers indicate further an unwilling
ness to embarrass the United States
that this government may withhold its
pronouncement, but some officials were
of the opinion that sooner or later
such a declaration, which they regard
ed as tantamount to a reafirmation of
the principles of the Monroe Doctrine,
would be required.
TO PERPETUATE G. A. R.
Movement To Take in Descendants Of
Veterans.
Harrisburg, Pa.—The Central Penn
sylvania Association of the Grand
Army of the Republic named a com
mittee to embody in a formal resolu
tion, to be submitted to kindred organ
izations, a suggestion that the Grand
Army be perpetuated by the election
of the eldest sons of deceased veterans
or their lineal descendants. This
proposition was made by E. W. Jack
son, of this city, and was heartily in
dorsed.
HOUSE’S GIFT TO BRIDE.
Committee To Be Named To Remem
ber Miss Wilson.
Washington.—Democrats, Republi
cans and Progressives of the House
are going to unite to preesnt. a wed
ding gift next month to Miss Jessie
Wilson, the President’s daughter. Re
publican Leader Mann gathered a hun
dred or more members today and pro
posed that Miss Jessie be remembered
with a fitting gift. The suggestion met
with instant favor and Speaker Clark
was designated to appoint a commit
tee to carry out the plan.
ONE OF THE FAMOUS “306.”
Judge Slavens, Who Voted For Grant
For Third Term, Dead.
Kansas City, Mo. —Judge L. C.
Clavens, prominent in Missouri politics
30 years ago, died suddenly in a hotel
here. He was one of the famous “306”
who voted steadily for General Grant
for a third Presidential term in the
Republican Convention of 1880. The
judge was 77 years old and had prac
ticed law here since 1865.
FIGHTING AT MONTEREY.
Important Battle Between Feaerals
and Rebels In Progress.
Mexico City.—Fighting is reported
to be in progress in the outskirts of
Monterey. Rebels are said to have
made a dash into a suburb and taken
possession of some of the outlying
positions. The attack on Monterey
began Thursday morning, tjie first
shots being fired about 10 o’clock.
Shortly afterward the telegraph lines
were cut and communication ceased.
TO EXHIBIT COLUMBUS’ BONES.
Dominican Republic Will Send Them
To San Francisco.
Santo Domingo. The bones of
Christopher Columbus, now in the
Cathedral here, will be sent to the
Panama Pacific Exposition in San
Francisco as part, of the Dominican
Republic’s exhibit, according to plans
just announce?. The exposition com
missioners sailed for Colon, taking
with them the assurance that this
country will be adequately represented
at the e"position.
THE FROSTBURG SPIRIT, FROSTBURG, MD.
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!■ INDICTED
FOR*?*
Four Others Named in Document
By Grand Jury,
NEW WEAPON FOR JEROSV;:.!
Governor To Be Asked To Send Addi- i
tional Papers Based On New :
Charge To New Hamp
shire.
New' York. —A blanket indictment
charging Harry K. Thaw and four
others with conspiracy in connection
with his escape from the Matteawan
State Hospital for the Criminal Insane
in August, was returned by tlie grand
jury here. It will be used as a weapon |
by William Travers Jerome in his ef
forts to extradite Thaw from New
Hampshire.
The others indicted w'ere former As
semblyman Richard Butler, Michael
O’Keefe, “Gentleman Roger” Tliomp- 1
son and Eugene Duff, who are alleged
to have been Thaw’s companions in
the automobile in which lie escaped.
These are the same men for whom
warrants were issued in Dutchess
county after Thaw’s flight.
Bench warrants on' the indictment
were issued by the court and turned
over to detectives of the district at
torney’s office.
Mr. Jerome announced that he
would at once ask Governor Glynn for
extradition papers based on the new' ,
charge to be sent to the governor of
New Hampshire.
Moses H. Grossman, counsel for
Thaw, was in the building when the
indictment was returned. He de
nounced it as a subterfuge.
“A person who has been committed
to an asylum as insane cannot be ad
judged guilty of conspiracy,” he said.
“I do not believe the indictment will
stand and I seriously doubt if it w'ill
in any way affect the status of the
case in New Hampshire.
"I have all along contended that it
is not the intention to try Mr. Thaw
on any indictment, for the very obvious
reason that no conviction could -be
had.”
SHAKE-UP IN PHILIPPINES.
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Two Officials Of the Public Printing
Office Dismissed.
Washington.—Edward E. Gessler,
craftsman instructor in tlie public
printing office of the Philippines, has
been appointed to serve temporarily as
director of printing, to succeed John S.
Leach, who resigned at the request of
Governor General Harrison. James
Hoggsette, assistant director, also has
been removed. Leach and Hoggsette
ignored Governor General Harrison in
sending to President Wilson and to the
president of the Typographical Union
in the United States a protest against
an alleged contemplated salary cut.
Officials here say no such cut was con
templated.
STATUE OF BIG CHIEF UNVEILED.
f
Great Grandson Of Keokuk Delivers a
Message.
Keokuk, lowa. —On the site where
three quarters of a, century ago his
war councils were held, a bronze
statue of Chief Keokuk was unveiled
in Rand Park. The unveiling cere
mony was held in connection with the
conference of the lowa Daughters of
the American devolution. John Keo
kuk, a resident of the Sae and Fox
agency in Oklahoma and great-grand
son of tlie noted chief, delivered a
message from his people.
SHE GETS $35,000 HEART BALM.
New York Supreme Court Places
Value On- Teacher’s Affections.
New York. —A jury in the Supreme
Court placed a value of $35,000 upon
the affections of Miss Mary' Mclntyre,
a Brooklyn school teacher. A verdict
awarding her this sum was returned
in her $150,000 suit against William
Hughes, a manufacturer of paper
boxes, for alleged breach of promise
to marry. Miss Mclntyre is about 40
years old, Mr. Hughes 65.
POLK MILLER DEAD.
Author Of Plantation Stories Dies In
Richmond.
Richmond, Va. —Polk Miller, a Rich
mond business man, known throughout
the South for his plantation stories of
war time and his preformances on the
banjo at many Confederate reunions,
died suddenly at his home here. He
was 69 years old.
More than six hundred thousand
men are employed in working the
railways of the United Kingdom.
11 OF DEAD
IS ABOVE m
But 23 Taken From Dawson
Mine Alive.
BODIES OF 14 FOUND.
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j Smoke Seen Issuing From Second
j Level Not Believed To Have
Come From the
Fire.
Dadson, N. M.—Two hundred and
thirty miners were l entombed in Shaft
No. 2 of the Stag Canon mines here
when an explosion occurred at the
property, according to an unofficial
estimate.
} General Superintendent Prank Mc-
Dermott, of the mine, and several
American miners are among those en
tombed.
Meager advices received were that
only five miners had been taken alive
■ from the upper level. These reports
stated that most of the day shift were
employed below the second level,
where the shaft was blocked with
debris resulting from the explosion.
Immediately after the explosion all
shafts were called to the work of
rescue and those miners who were
employed in other shafts were put to
work drilling through the debris which
was said to have blocked the mine be
low the second level.
The United States rescue car sta
| tioned at Trinidad was summoned, and
| every available man in Dawson was
aiding in the attempt to reach the
entombed miners.
Rescuers worked heroically to sup
ply air to the men. Reports from the
mine did not state at which level the
explosion occurred, simply that the
mine shaft was blocked from the sec
ond level.
The mine property is owned by the
Phelps-Dodge Company, of New York.
Five mines are connected in the
workings, and it is thought that if any
of the miners escaped death in the ex
plosion they should be able to reach
safety.
In the relief camps situated several
yards from the entrance to mine No.
2 are''gathered the women and chil
dren of the entombed miners. The
miners’ families are cheered by the
knowledge that Superintendent Mc-
Dermott is among the main'body of
miners entombed, and they have con
fidence, as have mine officials, in the
superintendent’s resources in such a
disaster.
DIAPHANOUS SKIRT HEALTHY.
Public Health Service Approves the
Latest Styles In Gowns.
Washington.—Without attempting to
pass upon questions of state or mod
esty the United States Public Health
Service has put its stamp of approval
upon all slit skirts and diaphanous
gowns from the health standpoint. As
sistant Surgeon General Rucker an
nounced that “women wear too many
clothes, any way,” and that the woman
who dresses in up-to-date style is less
liable to catch cold these chilly days
than one who loads down her body
with heavy clothing.
SQUELCH SUFFRAGE.
Mild Resolution Introduced At Epis
copal Conference Soon Dies.
New York. —A mild woman suffrage
resolution introduced in the House of
deputies at the Episcopal General Con
vention met with such violent disap
proval that it was smothered in the
committee on social service before it
could be read.
NO POLICE WOMEN UNDER 30.
Must Weigh Between I*ls and 180, Chi
cago Also Specifies.
Chicago.—Women under 30 years of
age need not apply for positions on
the Chicago police force. Applicants
must be between 30 and 40 years of
age, 5 feet to 5 feet 9 inches in height
and must weigh betwen 115‘and 180
pounds. These specifications for ap
plicants are laid down by the Civil
Service Commission in announcing a
coming examination for police woman.
SUES RAILROAD PRESIDENT.
Man Wants Damages Because a Trunk
Was Smashed.
Minneapolis. Thomas G. Shaugli
nessy, president of the Canadian Pa
cific Railroad, was served with papers
in a damage suit when he arrived
here. A man in Chicago brought the
action against the railroad because a
trunk had been smashed. The action
was unique, it being brought under a
new law under the head of a foreign
corporation temporarily within the
State.
WILSON PROCLAIMS
THANKSGIVING
DAY
Washington.—President Wilson is
sued his first Thanksgiving proclama
tion as President of the United States,
as follows:
The season is at hand in which it
has been our long-respected custom as
a people to turn in praise and thanks
giving to Almighty God for his mani
fold mercies and blessings to us as a
nation. The year that ha-s just passed
has been marked in a peculiar degree
my manifestations of His gracious and
beneficent providence.
We have not only had peace
throughout our own borders and with
the nations of the world, but that
peace has been brightned by constant
ly multiplying evidence of genuine
friendship, of mutual sympathy and
understanding and of the happy opera
tion of many elevating influences, both
of ideal and of practice.
The nation has been not only pros
perous, but lias proved its capacity to
take calm counsel amid the rapid
movement of affairs and deal with its
own life in a spirit of candor, righte
ousness and comity. We have seen
the practical completion of a great
work at the Isthmus of Panama which
not only exemplifies the nation’s
abundant resources to accomplish
what it will and the distinguished skill
and capacity of its public servants, but
also promis.es the beginning of a new
age, of new contrasts, new neighbor
hoods, new sympathies, new bonds and
new achievements of co-operation and
peace.
“Righteousness exalteth the nation”
and “peace on earth, good will toward
men” furnish the only foundations
upon which can be built the lasting
achievements of the human spirit.
The year has brought us the satisfac
tions of work well done and fresh
visions of our duty which will make
the world of the future better still.
Now, therefore, I, Woodrow Wilson,
President of the United States of
America, do hereby designate Thurs
day, the 27th of November next, as a
day of thanksgiving and prayer and
invite the people throughout the land
to cease fi'om their wanted occupations
and in their several homes and places
of worship render thanks to Almighty
God.
In witness whereof I have here unto
set my hand and caused the seal of
the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this
23d day of October, in the year of our
Lord, 1913, and of the independence of
the United States of America the
138th.
WOODROW WILSON,
By the President.
W. J. Bryan, Secretary of State.
GOES TO CHILD’S AID; KILLED.
Young Girl and Her Niece Struck By
Train.
Altoona, Pa. Miss Mabel Keller,
aged 21 years, was killed at the East
Altoona passenger station while try
ing to save the life of her four-year
old niece, Marjorie McCarthy. The
little girl was also killed. While the
two were waiting at the station for a
local train the child ran across the
tracks as a fast express train ap
proached. Miss Keller rushed in front
of the train and had just caught the
child in her arms when the pilot of
the locomotive struck them and threw
them aside. Both were dead when
picked up.
SAY HANS SCHMIDT IS SANE.
Four Alienists Who Examined Him
Make Report.
New York. Hans Schmidt, the
priest who confessed slaying Anna Au
muller and dismembering her body,
was sane when the murder was com
mitted, according to the report of four
alienists who examined him. The re
port was made public by District At
' torney Whitman, who is preparing to
bring the priest to trial.
HOSPITAL COWS SICK.
Nearly One-Third Of Matteawan Herd
Affected By Tuberculosis.
Beacon, N. Y. —Twenty-six of the
68 cows at the Matteawan State Hos
pital have found to be suffering with
tuberculosis by Inspector Jackson, of
the State Department of Health, who
made an inspection of the stock last
week. The condemned cows have!
been separated from the herd and will
be treated by a veterinary surgeon.
LIGHTNING KILLS 3 SOLDIERS.
Bolt Strokes Wagon Train Of Cavalry
On March.
Houston, Texas.—A bolt of lightning
struck a column of the Sixth United
States Cavalry, on marcn between
Texas City and Galveston, killing
Privates Monroe Morris, George Mor
ris and John Zimmer. Veterinary Sur
geon Devine was slightly injured. Sev
eral horses and mules were killed.
MILITANT OFFICES WRECKED.
Bristol University Students Avenge
Burning Of Sports Pavilion.
Bristol, England.—Students of Bris
tol University avenged the burning of
the sports pavilion of the university
by suffragettes by smashing the win
dows of the offices of the militants,
dumping the furniture in the streets
and making a bonfire of it. The stu
dents were cheered by large crowds
as they wreaked their vengeance upon
the suffragettes.
7 ENTOMBED MINERS RESCUED.
Men Had Been Imprisoned In Texas
Shaft Since Thursday.
Rockdale,- Texas. —Seven Mexican
miners, entombed a week ago in the
Vogel and Lawrence Lignite workings
here, were found alive when rescuers
gained the mine interior by drilling a
90-foot shaft. The men were im
prisoned by a cave-in following a
cloudburst which flooded the mine.
In Berlin passengers often tip street
ear eonduetoriu
GUIDED BY DUTY
NOTEXPEDIENCY
Wilson’s Poor Opinion of Man
Who Works for Re-election.
SPEAKS IN CONGRESS HALL
If You Think Too Much About Re-
Election, It is Difficult To Be
Worth Being Re-Elected,
He Says.
Philadelphia.—Evidently desiring to
give his hearers the impression that
he is a man doing his duty now as he
sees it and is willing to let the future
take care of itself. President Wilson
enunciated a new epigram:
"The President who is too intent
upon re-election is seldom worth re
electing.”
Making two speeches, greeting thou
sands of people in a downpour of rain
and planting a tree on Swarthmore
campus, the President was tired when
he left for Mobile, Ala. President
Wilson came to Philadelphia to attend
the re-dedication of Congres Hall,
recently restored to its original form.
“The fundamental business of self
government,” he said in one speech,
“is not only to establish, but to alter,
so our business today is as great as
that of those gentlemen who sat in
Congress Hall a hundred years ago.
They taught us not what to do, but
how to do it.”
Congress Hall, where many historic
events in the early days of the re
public transpired, was re-dedicated in
the presence of President Wilson and
a great crowd of people. Rain, which
fell during the morning hours and
continued intermittently in the after
noon, did not interfere with the
patriotic exercises, which were held
in the hall where Congress met from
1790 to 1800.
The old structure has been restored
to a-lmost its original appearance, after
years of patient efforts on the part
of architects, who searched all exist
ing records to make the building look
as it did when Washington delivered
his farewell address within its walls.
President Wilson, who was accom
panied from Washington by Secre
taries Wilson and Houston, Speaker
Champ Clark, Ambassador Jusserand,
of Prance, and a delegation of mem
bers of the Senate and House, was
given an enthusiastic reception by
the people of Philadelphia. The rail
road station was jammed with an im
mense crowd and the streets to the
hotel wihere he was a luncheon guest,
and the route from -the hotel to Inde
pendence Square were packed with
men, women and children.
THIRD GOVERNOR IN YEAR.
Fielder Will Turn Affairs Of State
Over To Leon R. Taylor.
Trenton, N. J. —Tbevthird
New Jersey has had during the pres
ent year, and the youngest Chiel
Executive in the history of the State,
■Leon R. Taylor, of Monmouth coun
ty, now Speaker of the Assembly, .will
succeed Acting Governor Fielder this
week, when the latter resigns office.
Taylor is barely over 30 years of age,
and follows both President Wilson and
Fielder into the “little White House”
here.
TEMPERANCE IN ALL.
W. C. T. U. Says Its Principles Do Not
Apply Merely To Alcohol.
New York. —“We want to impress
upon the whole world more than ever
before that there is a great body of
women in every country working for
total abstinence by -the individual and
prohibition for the world,” was declar
ed to be -the chief object of the ninth
triennial convention of the World’s
■Women’s Christian Temperance
Union by the presiding officer, Mrs.
■Lillian M. N. Stevens, of Portland, Me.
COTTON CROP IS GOOD.
October Ginning Better Than Last
Year, But Less Than Amount Of 1911.
Washington.—A special cotton crop
report just issued by the Census
Bureau shows that on October 18, 6,-
956,583 bales of the 1913 crop had
I been ginned, compared with 6,874,306
bales last year and 7,758,621 bales in
1911. Round bales included in the
report were 49,024, and Sea Island
30,880 bales.
QUAKE .N ’FRISCO.
Severe Shock Scares Residents Today,
But No Damage Reported.
San Francisco. —A severe earth
quake shock shook San Francisco. No
damage is reported, but persons who
went through the “big quake” several
years ago were panic-stricken.
EXPRESS COMPANIES GIVE IN.
New Block System Will Be Put Into
Effect At the Earliest Opportunity.
Washington.—All express companies
have advised the Interstate Commerce
Commission that they had decided to
drop their opposition to the commis
, sion’s orders radically reducing ex
press rates over the entire country.
“The block system of rates and rea
sonable rates and practices will be
put into effect at the earliest possible
■time,” the commission announced.
WILL PAY $15,000 RENT.
Ambassador To Germany, Takes Home
In Berlin.
Berlin. —The New American Ambas
sador to Germany, James W. Gerard,
rented for the embassy premises a
house on Wilhelm Platz known as the
Von Schfabach Palace. The-NAmbas
sador is to pay a yearly rental of $15,-
000 instead of the $22,500 at first de
manded. The new embassy is finely
situated within a short distance of the
Imperial Chancellor’s palace and the
German Foreign Office.