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MARYLAND NEWS
IN SNORT ORDER
The Latest Gleanings From All
Over the State.
AT ANNAPOLIS
F. E. COX ACQUITTED.
Former Game Warden Cleared On
First Of Five Counts.
Franklin E. Cox, of Somerset coun
ty, the former deputy State game war
den, who was removed from office by
was acquitted;
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SENHOJEAICO
Villa’s Troops to Attack Federal
Stronghold at Chihuahua.
| NO ALARM OVER TAMPICO.
Constitutionalist Forces Are Reported
To Be Advancing Toward
Tampico From Vic
toria.
El Paso, Texas.—The movement of
Gen. Francisco Villa’s troops to the
south to attack the Federal strong
hold at Chihuahua was begun when
nearly 1,000 men under Gen. Rosalio
Hernandez departed from Juarez.
They accompanied a work train used
to repair the railroad line which was
destroyed in places below Juarez by
j the Federals when they retreated
southward after the Tierra Blanca
battle.
I Rebel leaders believe they will have
I a fight with the Federals at Villa
I Ahumada, 83 miles south of Juarez,
I as the Federal troops defeated at
I Tierra Blanca are marooned there.
J Villa said he had plenty of ammuni-
I tion for a field fight or for a siege of
I the State capital. He said he captur
| ed 1,122 shells in the recent fighting,
I besides 1,300 rifles and 23,000 cart-
I ridges.
I Villa stated that not more than 80
I of his men were killed.
I NO ALARM FELT OVER TAMPICO.
I Washington Gets No Word From Lind
j Or Fletcher.
j Washington.—Secretary Bryan has
I no official communication from Rear-
I Admiral Fletcher or John Lind, the
special American envoy in Mexico,
relating to conditions in the oil fields
near Tampico.
The fact that no report had been
! received since the cable from Admiral
Fletcher relating to conditions in the
vicinity of Tuxpam several days ago
was regarded in official circles as an
assurance that there was no immediate
cause for alarm.
Secretary Daniels early in the day
issued an order directing the fourth
division of the Atlantic fleet, now in
the Mediterranean, to proceed to the
east coast of Mexico via Guantanamo.
The ships to make the trip are the
Connecticut, Kansas and Ohio, order
ed to replace the Louisiana, Michigan
and New Hampshire, now in Mexican
waters. The division left Mediter
ranean December 1, and should arrive
off Vera Cruz about two weeks later.
Rear-Admiral Badger, commander-in
chief of the Atlantic fleet, will direct
this maneuver.
ASKS $306,000,000 FOR MAILS.
JMO- -
Burleson’s Estimate For Next Year
Largest In History.
Washington. Estimates totaling
1306,000,000 for the postal service for
the next fiscal year have been sub
mitted by Postmaster-General Burle
son to Congress. This total, if em
bodied as framed in accordance with
the growth of the Postoffice Depart
ment, would make the greatest appro
priation ever made in a single appro
priation measure. Hearings on the
administrative provisions of the bill,
together with bills recently introduced
by Chairman Moon, of the House Com
mittee on Postoffice, regarding parcel
post, indemnification, extension of
money order paying business in every
postoffice and other matters will be
held by the committee this week. The
estimates contemplate a substantial
extension of the parcel post service,
which branch is credited with a large
part of the surplus of? 4,500,000 earn
ed by the postal service for the fiscal
year just closed. One-cent postage
promises to be one of the live issues
to be fought out in the regular ses
sion of Congress.
T. M. EMERSON DEAD.
Atlantic Coast Line Head Passes Away
At Wilmington, N. C.
Wilmington, N. C.—President Thos.
M. Emerson, of the Atlantic Coast
Line Railway, died at his home at
Carolina Heights, a suburb, following
an attack of acute indigestion which
he suffered at Dupont, Ga., while on
a tour of inspection of the system with
other officials of the road.
GAINED $76,406,657 IN A YEAR.
Personal Property Assessment In
Pennsylvania $1,402,511,272.
Harrisburg, Pa. —Personal property
assessed for State taxes in Pennsyl
vania in 1913 aggregated $1,402,511,-
272, according to figures made public
at the Auditor-General’s Department.
This is an increase of $76,406,657 over
1912.
SHE PREFERS JAIL TO FINE.
Forbes Robertson’s Sister, Militant,
Smashed Window.
Birmingham, England.—Miss Forbes
Robertson, sister of Sir Johnston
Forbes Robertson, the actor-manager,
was sentenced at the sessions here to j
a fortnight’s imprisonment for smash
ing a window on the occasion of
Premier Asquith’s visit to Birming
ham in July. The judge offered the
defendant the alternative of a fine,
but she declined to pay.
ROSES BLOOM AT NEWPORT.
Surf Dipping Also In Vogue At the
Exclusive Resort.
Newport, R. X. —Full-bloom roses on
the estate of Mrs. Elsie French Van
derbilt at Harbour View; strawberry
plants in bloom in Mrs. Frederick
Prime Garretson’s garden, and dahlias
of many colors in various parts of the
city were pointed out Monday as in
dicating possibilities for Newport as
a winter resort. The unusually warm
i weather has also led a number of per
* jsons to take a dip in the surf.
THE FROSTBURG SPIRIT, FROSTBURG, MD
ALMOST OUT OF SIGHT
(Copyright)
Eggs Soiling at 75 Cents a Dozen in New York.—News Item.
IST EXPENSIVE
OF AIJJINNERS
Thanksgiving Day Has Become
a High Priced Holiday.
MEALS NEVER SO COSTLY.
Not In 25 Years Has the Average
American Been Obliged To Ex
pend So Much For His
Stomach.
Washington.—Thanksgiving dinner
was the most expensive meal the
average American has eaten during
the last 25 years. It cost from 35 to
100 per cent, more than it did 10
years ago, and from 15 to 50 per cent,
more than many Thanksgiving Days
during the last six years, according to
recently gathered government sta
tistics.
Thousands of turkeys spoiled by
having been shipped to market dur
ing the unseasonably warm wave
which overspread the country a week
ago; the drouth of last summer which
shortened crop yields, particularly
white potatoes; an alleged cold-stor
age combination, which Attorney Gen
eral Mcßeynolds now is investigating
to find if millions of dozens of eggs
and millions of pounds of dairy prod
ucts have been withheld from the mar
ket by middlemen to force high prices,
and the steady soaring of prices gen- |
erally during the last decade are
among the contributing causes to
Tvnit'fi.- ■eeagefltisfe-foo&i'fe -
The great American hen, however,
is somewhat responsible for the
extraordinarily high price of eggs, ac
cording to Department of Agriculture
officials, who are reluctant to place all
the blame upon cold storage. Heat
and drouth of the last summer, they
say, caused the hens to stop laying
sooner than usual. As to turkey, the
rise in price seems to have extended
all along the route to the consumer,
beginning at the barnyard, where the
farmer received an average of 15
cents a pound for his birds, about half
a cent more than he got last year.
But turkey is not a Thanksgiving
bird at all, according to the experts.
“The Lord never intended turkey to
be the Thanksgiving food of the coun
try generally,” says Dr. Mary E. Pen
nington, the expert in food research in
the Federal Bureau of Chemistry.
“Christmas is the time for turkey.
Green goose is the Thanksgiving bird,
and is generally used in Europe,
where St. Martin’s Day is celebrated
about this time of the year. In colonial
days in New England, where the win
ter season sets In early, It was dif
ferent and more favorable to turkeys,
but such conditions do not prevail
over the United States as a whole.
UPSIDE DOWN WITH PASSENGER.
Garros Accomplishes This Feat First
Time In Monoplane.
Villacoublay, France. —Roland G.
Garros accomplished for the first time
in a monoplane a flight head down
ward carrying a passenger. During
the maneuver the machine made sev
eral loops.
HALDANE PLEASED WILSON.
Officials Express Appreciation Of Vis
count’s Speech.
Washington.—White House officials
informally expressed their apprecia
tion of the speech of Viscount Hal
dane, Lord High Chancellor of Great
Britain, in London last night, in which
he lauded President Wilson’s inter
pretation of the Monroe doctrine.
MRS. GAY’S SLAYER TO HANG.
Lawyers Will Appeal On Temporary
Insanity Plea.
Los Angeles, Cal.- —Burr Harris, the
young negro convicted 10 days ago of
murdering Mrs. Rebecca P. Gay, the
Christian Science practitioner, who
was beaten to v death September 26,
was sentenced to be hanged on a date
yet to be set. Harris’ attorney filed
notice of appeal. Harris admitted the
crime when captured and pleaded tem
porary insanity at his triil.
THIEF GETS $200,000.
Union Pacific and General Electric
Securities Taken From Bank.
New York. —The theft 'of more than
$200,000 worth of Union Pacific Rail
road Company and General Electric
Company securities from the Farmers’
Loan and Trust Company of this city
became known when James E. Foye,
35 years old, a former s7o-a-month
clerk of the trust company, was ar
rested as he stepped from a train in
Philadelphia. Foye was charged with
being a fugitive from justice.
CROSS ATLANTIC
I INJEROPLANE
i Arrangements Being Made in
London and New York.
PLANNED BY GLEN CURTIS.
: To Be An Anglo-American Venture
and Financed By a Prominent
New York Sportsman—To
Start In August.
Paris. —Preparations are being made
' in London and New York for an aero
plane flight across the Atlantic Ocean,
to take place next August. The proj
ect is being planned by Glenn Curtiss,
the American aviator; John Dale
Cooper, one of his chief assistants, and
an Englishman, whose identity has not
been made known, but who is said
to be a leading British aviator. A
prominent New York financier and
sportsman is furnishing the financial
backing.
The plans in their present stage call
for a flight from the Newfoundland
Coast to the Irish Coast. The ma
chine decided upon is a hydro-aero
plane, which has been designed, but
not as yet constructed. This machine
will embody both American and Eng
lish ideas and the flight in every
sense will be an Anglo-American ven
ture. It was said that when the at
tempt is made Americans and British
warships will line the route to be
riSHMi miiCtP ‘“g" jk.
Fuel sufficient to last 36 hours will
be carried and it is planned to com
plete the flight in this time. The ma- '
chine is expected to average between
65 and 70 miles an hour.
The chief plans for the undertaking
have fallen upon Mr. Curtiss, who has
made a thorough examination of the
conditions and he is confident that the
trans-Atlantic flight will be made with
in the next 12 months. He has looked
up the weather records for the past
20 years and found August to be the
most favorable month frofn a meteoro
logical standpoint.
NEWS BULLETINS ON TRAIN.
Received By Wireless While Going
Sixty Miles An Hour.
Scranton, Pa. —News bulletins re- j
ceived by wireless telegraph were dis
played on a moving passenger train
on the Lackawanna Railroad. The
train was traveling 60 miles an hour
between this city and Binghamton,
N. Y. A Scranton newspaper sent
250 words from the Lackawanna wire
less station. One of the dispatches
was on the battle in Mexico, another
regarding the threatened strike in
Schenectady and another from Wash
ington relating to the Mexican situa
tion.
EX-MAYOR GUILTY OF ASSAULT.
Confesses and Is Sentenced To Five
Years In “Pen.”
Roanoke, Va.—Wesley H. Terry, 63
years old, of Floyd Courthouse, who
was arrested October 30 charged with
attempted assault upon a young wom
an of that place, appeared before
Judge Moffitt at a special term of the
Circuit Court and pleaded guilty to
■ the indictment. He was sentenced to
five years in the penitentiary. Terry
was former Mayor of the town and the
young woman, whose room he entered,
was the daughter of the Clerk of the
County Court.
BLOW UP TROOP TRAIN.
Mexican Rebels Kill Three Hundred
Federal Soldiers.
! Mexico City.—A troop train carry
• ing 300 Federals was blown up by
1 dynamite near Laventura, on the Na
-1 tional Railway, south of Satillo. The
i rebels are said to have shot and killed
* every one of the soldiers who escaped
■ the explosion. About 100 women,
! known as soldaderos, who were on the
■ train, were also killed, as were several
children.
HUERTA TO GIVE PROTECTION.
: Says Government Controls Oil Regions
and Will Win.
1 New York. —A dispatch, bearing on j
■ the situation in the Mexican oil fields |
■ and the attitude of the Mexican Gov-1
emment toward the Constitutionalist'
r movement, has been received in this I
■ city from Victoriano Huerta, Pro- I
1 visional President of Mexico. In this !
' ' message General Huerta says official
-1 : ly that his Government controls the
1 oil regions of Tamaulipas, Tampico
jand Tuxpam.
SOUTHERN ROAD’S
PRESIDENT DEAD
William W. Finley Succumbs
After Appopectic Stroke.
THE END COMES SUDDENLY
Complained When He Rose Of Slight
Pain In Head and Immediately
After Lost Conscious
ness.
Washington.—William Wilson Fin
ley, president of the Southern Railroad
and a leading figure in movements for
the development of the South, died
here as a result of a stroke of apoplexy
which he sustained a few hours be
fore. He did not regain consciousness
after he was stricken.
Mr. Finley’s family, friends and as
sociates were wholly unprepared for
his sudden death. It came absolute
ily wit&out warning. Scarcely yet past
| the prime of life, he was vigorous and
energetic and seemingly in the best
of health until a moment before he
was felled by the stroke. He passed
the evening quietly with his family and
retired apparently in the best possible
physical and mental condition.
When he arose about 7 o’clock in
the morning he casually observed to
Mrs. Finley that he felt a feeling of
slight oppression in his head. She left
the room for a moment to obtain some
mild remedy and when she returned
he was leaning over a dresser with
his head buried in his hands. She at
tempted hastily to assist him, but she
found him in her arms unconscious.
Aid was summoned hurriedly and the
family physician was called. It was
evident that Mr. Finley was suffering
from a stroke of apoplexy and all ef
forts to restore him to consciousness
were made.
At 1.50 he passed away, with Mrs.
Finley, three of his daughters and his
son at the bedside.
Until the end not even Mr. Finley’s
most intimate personal and business
associates knew that he had been
stricken.
Mr. Finley was born on September
2, 1853, In Pass Christian, on the Gulf
Coast of Mississippi. He was educat
ed in the private schools of Pass
| Christian, and grew to early manhood
in the atmosphere of this picturesque
section of the South. At the age of
20 he entered the railroad service as a
stenographer, and by 1889 he had filled
almost every minor position in the
clerical department of various rail
roads. During the succeeding six
years Mr. Finley served several rail
road systetns in important executive
capacities. He became on October 1,
1895, third vice-president of the South
ern Railway. Later he was second
vice-president of the Great Northern
Railway, but on September 15, 1896,
m tli e Southern Railway
—xen ytA--
later, in December, he was chosen
president of the Southern in succes
i sion to Samuel Spencer, who was kill
ed in a rear-end collision on the morn
ing of Thanksgiving Day, six years
ago.
MRS. PANKHURST GOES HOME.
Says She Collected $20,000 On Her
Lecturing Tour.
New York. —Mrs. Emmeline Pank
hurst, England’s militant suffragette,
sailed for home, taking with her, she
said, $20,000 collected during her re
cent lecture tour in this country. She
will devote the money to the cause of
woman suffrage in England. Mrs.
Pankhurst said that on her arrival in
Plymouth she expected to be arrested
and sent to jail to serve the remainder
! of a sentence uncompleted because of
her hunger strike.
TERMS TO BEGIN JANUARY 1.
Radical Changes Proposed In Bill Now
In Senate.
Washington.—Efforts will be made
early in the new session of Congress
for a favorable report from the Sen
ate Judiciary Committee on the Sha
froth resolution to begin the terms of
President, Vice-President, senators
and representatives on the first Mon
day of January immediately following
election. The resolution was report
ed favorably some time ago by a sub
committee, and has been under con
sideration by the entire committee.
TRANSPORT PRAIRIE SAILS.
Orders Naming Pensacola May Be
Changed By Wireless.
Philadelphia. —With 800 marines
and a full crew on board, the trans
port Prairie left the Philadelphia Navy
Yard at 1 o’clock Thursday for South
ern waters. The transport carries
stores and ammunition for a three
months’ cruise. The marines are com
manded by Col. J. A. Lejeune.
TQLMAN MUST SERVE 6 MONTHS.
Sentence Imposed On “Loan Shark
King” Affirmed.
New York. Daniel H. Tolman,
“king of the loan sharks,” must serve
six months in the penitentiary for
usury. In so deciding the appellate
division upheld the lower court which
imposed sentence. Tolman based his
appeal on the ground that the act of
usury was committed by a woman em
ploye without his knowledge or con
sent.
TO TAX SINGLE BLESSEDNESS.
France Will Put Up Rate On Spinsters
and Bachelors.
| Paris. —All French spinsters and
| bachelors over 30 years old, unless
they have at least three persons de
' pendent on them, are to be subject to
j an increase of 20 per cent, in the in
i come tax imposed by the new bill now
I under consideration. The Senate
committee in charge of the bill intro
duced this clause when it terminated
its examination of the measure which
has taken four years to prepare.
IKE SAIKES AS
JABTFUL DODGERS
Cleverly Put Aboard Ship With
out Being Seen.
ELUDE THE WAITING CROWD
The President Was In the Dark and
the Captain Was Warned But
the Bridal Pair Were
Finally Found.
New York. The elusive Whitt
House bride and bridegroom—Mr. and
Mrs. Francis B. Sayre—avoiding the
gaily decorated gangway and bunting
bedecked pathway arranged for them,
slipped quietly on the liner George
Washington through the second cabin
Saturday and sailed away for Europe
on their honeymoon. A great crowd
that gathered on the docks at Hoboken
was keenly disappointed at not seeing
them, and even President Wilson did
not know of his daughter’s and son-in
law’s arrival on the ship until he found
them in their cabin five minutes be
fore sailing time.
Mr. Wilson, accompanied by Miss
Eleanor Wilson and Dr. Cary T. Gray
son, reached the boat half an hour be
fore the George Washington was due
to start. The ship’s officers stood at
attention as he came on deck, and the
band played The Star-Spangled Ban
ner. The crowd cheered. There was
a wait of 15 minutes for the Sayres.
Nobody seemed to know w r here they
were. The captain of the liner was
growing nervous.
Finally, the President entered the
suite assigned to the pair and to hia
surprise there they were, with a few.
friends and many flowers. The band
struck up Mendelssohn’s Wedding
March as the hawsers were cast off.
Among the floral pieces presented toi
Mr. and Mrs. Sayres was a cluster of;
American Beauty roses, given by a 1
committee representing the Hoboken 1
(N. J.) letter-carriers on behalf of all l
letter-carriers in the United States.
Washington. Letters from Mrs.
Francis Bowes Sayre thanking mem
bers of the House and Senate for their
wedding gifts were received at the
Capitol. Letters were addressed to
Senators Clarke and Martine, who
were in charge of the, movement for a
present from senators. A letter to
Speaker Clark, written the day before
the White House wedding, was read
to the House. It follows:
“May I not express to you very
warmly my deep feeling of the honor
the members of the House have paid
in presenting me with the beautiful
diamond necklace which was brought 1
to me yesterday in a setting worthy
of its beauty. I shall treasure this gift
-all mv life not onlv as an ev denpft of
“gen , . Courtesy
and thoughtfulness on the part of your
self and the other members of the
House. I beg that you will convey to
the members my sense of deep obliga
tion and lasting pleasure. Mr.
joins me in warm appreciation and
thanks.”
ARMY CONQUERS NAVY.
Cadets Spring Surprise In Annual
Football Struggle.
New York. —Breaking in upon the
conservative East, a Western brand of
football swept across the Polo Grounds
here and the Navy goat, bewildered
and blinking at the dazzling array of
plays and passes it had not learned to
eat, was prone upon the field, while
the Army mule kicked its heels high
in the air and celebrated the first vic
tory over the fighting forces from
Annapolis since 1908. The Army de
feated the Navy 22 to 9, in one of the
most spectacular games of the year.
Forty-five thousand persons, including
President Wilson, his Cabinet and high
officials of the government service, as
well as foreign diplomats, cheered on
the two teams as they bitterly fought
out the issue.
MARLBOROUGHS REUNITED.
Duke and Duchess Bridge Over Dif
ferences.
London. —It is learned from high au
thority that as soon as certain matters
can be arranged, without attracting
too much notoriety, the Duke and
Duchess of Marlborough will start
tneir lives anew and resume together
their recognized position in society.
Public indications are not lacking to
support this, and lead to the inference
that the serious differences that:
caused the Duke and Duchess unoffi
cially to dissolve matrimonial part
nership several years ago, are being
bridged over.
HEAD OF POLICE RESIGNS.
Action Follows Exoneration Of 30
Policemen From Charges.
Indianapolis, Ind. —Superintendent
of Police Martin J. Hyland resigned
when the Board of Public Works
exonerated the 30 patrolmen whom
Hyland had charged with insubordina
tion for failure to ride on street cars
during the recent street car strike.
Capt. George V. Coffin was named act
ing superintendent of police by Mayor
Shank.
BANK ROBBERS GET $2,900.
Vault At Ellenboro, N. C., Blown Open,
and Thieves Escape.
Charlotte, N. C. —Robbers blew the
safe in the Bank of Ellenboro, a small
town 50 miles west of here, and got
away with $2,900 in cash, leaving $7.76
behind. Citizens say nine explosions
were heard. One man approached the
bank upon hearing the explosions and
was driven back at the point of guns.
The robbers constructed a defense ol
heavy wire fencing in front of the
bank. The vault was entirely de
stroyed.