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MARYLAND NEWS
IN SNORT ORDER
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The Latest Gleanings From All
Over the State.
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j William A. Kimble has been ap
pointed constable for Williamsport.
’ The Hagerstown Board of Trade
felected Palmer Tennant president.
An 810-pound bell has been donated
to St. Paul’s Episcopal Church at Ber
lin.
I A misstep resulted in Dr. J. A. Pee
ples, of Rock Springs, sustaining a
frr.ctured leg.
i James Burke has announced his
candidacy for the postmastership of
Havre de Grace.
,1 The net profits of the recent Ha
gerstown Fair were $8,126.17, the larg
est in its 58 years’ history,
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| Thrown from a horse, which tread
Upon him, Alvin McCleary, of An
dora, sustained a broken leg.
Sixty-eight persons have been con
certed t the revival in the Church
of the Brethren at Hagerstown.
f Gorman S. Bussard has been elected
secretary of the reorganized Board of
,Trade of Hagerstown to succeed A. F.
Rothstein.
, Twelve-year-old Gardner Bowers
Was arrested in Hagerstown, charged
With stealing Hiram L. Smith’s S3O
Watch.
An Easton jury gave Mrs. Addie H.
Ford S2BB damages in her suit against
the mayor and council of Salisbury
for running a sewer under her wharf.
Edward Tawes was shot in the hip
Sunday by Ernest McCready, at Cris
fleld. The shooting followed a dis
pute over a game of craps.
Miss Ruth Mentzer, a graduate of
the Washington County Hospital, has
been appointed .superintendent of St.
Charles’ Hospital, Roanoke, Va.
In an encounter with two burglars
Jn his barn near Fountaindale, David
Wilkenson sustained a broken arm
and collarbone and severe wounds on
his head.
A petition asking the Legislature to
tnake clearspring “dry” and foramend
ments to the present high license law
jin Washington county, is being cir
culated in Clearspring district.
The strike of the machinists in the
employ of the Western Maryland Rail
way at Cumberland has not been set
tled. It Is said outside labor is being
secured to take the places of the men
who walked out.
For being disorderly at the Perry
ville passenger station Justice Ash, of
Elkins, sentenced George Jones, Her
man Mclntire and John Smith, all of
Oak Hill, Pa., to six months in the
Hbuse of Correction.
The Cotillon Club of St. John’s Col
lege has arranged a series ,of eight
dances to be given in the college gym
nasium on the following dates: De
cember 12, January 16, February 6 and
20, April 17, May 1, 15 and 29.
At a meeting in the Courthouse at
Elkton local legislation for the county
was discussed and the repeal of the
present Road Engifteers’ law was de
cided upon, all the members of the
Legislature from Cecil having been”"
pledged previous to the election.
The Washington County Commis
sioners received plans from the State
Roads Commission for the construc
tion of three and a half miles of high
way from Smithsburg to the State
line, where it will join the Pennsyl
vania State road.
Caleb C. Magruder, re elected Clerk
of the Court of Appeals, entered upon
his second term of six years last
Thursday. Mr. Magruder appeared be
fore the Governor and took the oath,
the administration of which was wit
nessed only by members of the clerical
force of the executive offices.
After 44 years of married life, Wil
liam C. Beall, of Frederick, has filed
a bill for divorce. His wife was for
merly Miss Theresa Catherine Eaves.
They have 13 children, all of age ex
cept one, -who is 19 years old. In his
bill Mr. Beall charges that his wife
deserted him and that the separation
has continued for more than three
years.
Frank Beard, a resident of the
South River section of Anne Arundel
county, five miles from Annapolis, was
killed under peculiar circumstances.
He had been drinking and was locked
in the house by a brother. Escaping,
he took a gun and started toward the
river. His body was found some time
later, his head in the water. One
barrel of the gun was discharged, but
no shot had entered his body. It is
believed that he was either killed by
the fall or was drowned and it is not
known whether it was a case of sui
cide or accident.
The Western Maryland Railway on
Sunday broke all records in the freight
service for 24 hours by hauling 3,152
cars. Of these 2,212 were loaded and
840 empty. A number of extra trains
were run and every available loco
itoti v was pressed into service.
A memorial tablet to Ensign Charles
E. Hevey, of the navy, killed in an en
gagement with natives in the Philip
mines in 1911, installed in the me
morial room of Bancroft Hall was un
•veiled Sunday. It is the gift of class-
of Ensign Hovey, who graduated
l 1907.
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| ANNAPOLIS NEWS |
GOVEP.NOR PARDONS FIVE.
Longest-Term Prisoner Is Among
Them.
After spending more than 23 years
behind the bars of the Maryland Peni
tentiary, John Shelley Hudson, col
ored, the longest-term prisoner at the
institution in point of time served,
was pardoned by Governor Goldsbor- i
ough. Hudson was sentenced to a life j
term for murder in the first degree by |
the Circuit Court for Worcester coun
ty in May, 1890. He killed another
negro man. The sentence originally
imposed was hanging, but this was
subsequently commuted to life im
prisonment by the late Gov. Elihu E.
Jackson.
The Governor also pardoned William'
E. Penning, serving a term of three
years in the penitentiary for forgery.
A number of citizens of Harford coun
ty had urged the Governor to pardon
Penning, among them being State
Treasurer Murray Vandiver and John
B. Hanna, chairman of the Republican
State Central Committee.
Three other pardons were issued by
the Governor. They are:
Walter Lewandowski, convicted at
the September term, 1908, of the Crim
inal Court of Baltimore on three
charges of burglary and sentenced to
15 years in the penitentiary.
Moses Feinberg, convicted before
the same court last January in two
cases of receiving stolen goods; sen
tenced to four years in the city jail.
Benjamin Cromer, convicted before
the Circuit Court for Charles county
on November 26, 1912, of assault to
kill, and sentenced to 18 months in
the penitentiary.
J. H. TRUITT TO KEEP OFFICE.
Court Of Appeals Decides Worcester
Supervisor Case.
The Court of Appeals, by Judge
Burke, decided that John H. Truitt is
entitled to hold the office of Super
visor of Elections of Worcester coun
ty. The action to oust Truitt was
brought in the lower court by Samuel
J. Price, a former member of the
board. Price claimed that his term in
that office had not expired, that he
had not resigned or been removed,
and that consequently there was no
vacancy to which Truitt was appoint
ed. In affirming the order dismissing
the petition the court held that an in
junction is an equitable remedy, and
the point is well settled that title to
an office cannot be settled in equity.
The opinion points out that mandamus
is the proper proceeding.
MAGRUDER SWORN IN.
Clerk Of the Court Of Appeals Begin*
Another Six-Year Session.
Caleb C. Magruder, re-elected Clerk
of the Maryland Court of Appeals at
the election of November 4, appeared
before Governor Goldsborough in the
Executive offices here, qualified as re
quired by law and entered upon his
second term of six years. Only mem
bers of the clerical force in the
Executive offices were present when
the Governor administered the oath.
New Deputy Game Wardens.
The following deputy game wardens
have been appointed by the Governor:
D. Clinton Smart, Earle Lovell, James
B. Ayres, Clif E. Fisher, William B.
Wade and William Hellboch, Balti
more city; Maurice E. England, Mont
gomery county; Henry A. Minner,
Cecil county; James C. Baldwin,
Howard county; William R. Linthicum
and Roland T. Carpenter, Charles
county.
PACKING PLANT BURNED.
Chesapeake Company’s Property In
, Talbott Destroyed.
St. Michaels. —The oyster and fruit
packing establishment of the Chesa
peak Packing Company, at Lewes
Wharf, Sherwood, Talbot county, to
gether with its contents, including
1,000 bushels of oysters, was destroy
ed by fire. The plant of the Sherwood
Packing Company, which is located on:
the opposite side of the wharf, was
saved with great difficulty. Raymond
Harrison, one of the proprietors of the
latter company, was badly burned
about the face and head while fighting
the flames away from his plant. The
fire started in one of the upper rooms
of the building, which was occupied
by negro oyster shuckers as living
quarters, and a 7-months-old negro
baby daughter of Sherman Whitting
ton, which was asleep in the room in
which the fire started, was burned to
death before its parents, who were
shucking oysters, on the lower floor,
were aware that the building was in
flames. The loss to the Chesapeake
Packing Company will be about $3,000,
partly covered by insurance.
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At a congregational meeting the
Rev. W. D. Quattlebaum resigned as
pastor of the Baptist Church, Havre
de Grace, to engage in work under the
direction of the Baptist Church Ex
tension Society. His resignation takes
effect in February.
The Hagerstown Securities Com
pany has been organized by H. J. Lip
per, of Baltimore, and S. A. Roth, of
Hagerstown.
According to a report recently is
sued, the total value of our agricul
tural products in 1913 will be $5,000,-
000,000 or $296,000,000 more than 1912.
Increased Russian emigration to
America from the Vilno and Kovno
governments has caused a scarcity of
farm laborers, and Vice-Counsul Gen
eral Smith reports that agricultural as
sociations petition for reduced railway
rates for such workmen.
China’s railway history began in
1876, when the Woosung line, built by
foreign enterprise, was opened. In
1877 the road was redeemed by the
Chinese and the rails torn up and the
equipment shipped to Formosa. In
1887, however, a railway was in opera- j
tion betwen Tientsin and Tongshan.
! OVER FIFIY PERI3N
IN TEXASFLOODS
Scores of Others Reported in
Imminent Peril.
RAILROAD OFFICIAL VICTIM.
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Property Loss Will Reach Four or
Five Million Dollars—High Water
Blocks Lifesaving Crew and
Train Load Of Boats.
Bryan, Tex.—A death roll of more
than 50 persons, with scores of flood
refugees in imminent peril, and pos
sibly a thousand others marooned and
'suffering from prolonged hunger and
cold, was indicated by the latest re
ports from the flooded Brazos River
bottoms, in this section of South-Cen
tral Texas. For over 50 miles the
Brazos was three to five miles wide
and running with millrace speed.
The known dead in Texas floods
numbered 33 before reports from the
Inundated territory in this district be
gan coming in. The late reports were
brought by men on horseback, and
indicated at least 20 more persons had
been drowned. About two-thirds of
the dead were negroes.
The courier’s reports indicated that
the property loss would total $4,000,-
000 or $5,000,000 when losses along
the Brazos are added to the already
heavy damage in other portions of the
State.
Henry Martin, vice-president and
general manager of the International
and Great Northern Railroad, was
drowned at Valley Junction, near here,
while attempting to rescue marooned
flood victims. Mr. Martin went to
Valley Junction, where the confluence
of the Little and Big Brazos Rivers
made a swirling lake, six miles across,
to personally direct the road’s relief
forces, and was attempting to navi
gate a boat alone when the frail craft
was upset. His body had not been
recovered tonight.
Six members of the life-saving
crew stationed at Galveston and a
trainload of motorboats from Hous
ton, which started for Bryan, were
stopped by high water at Navasota.
The boats were launched at that point
shortly before dark and started up
stream over the flooded bottoms -to
rescue persons reported clinging to
trees, housetops or occasionally stand
ing in shallow water, cut off from
shore. Bryan had 20 boats out all
day, which brought to high ground
several hundred persons, the majority
terrified and half-clad negroes.
Prominent planters in the bottoms
have refused offers of rescue, sending
out their wives and children to Bryan,
but themselves remaining behind in
the water, tearing down portions of .
their buildings to improvise platforms
for their stock. Anxiety is felt for
the safety of several planters.
WILSON SMILE FOR FUTURE.
Moving-Picture Film Put Away By
Historical Body.
New York. President Wilson’s
smile was sealed up in an airtight,
watertight and fireproof container and
locked in the vaults of the Modern
Historical Record Association in the
New York Public Library Building.
It is proposed that the record of his
facial expressions, which have been
done in moving-picture films, will be
kept in the vaults for a hundred years
and then he brought forth the enter
tainment of the generations of the
twenty-first century.
NOW THE COMMUNION CUP.
Question Of Whether It Should Pass
In Age Of Hygiene.
Philadelphia.—The recent order of
the advisory board of the State De
partment of Health, banishing the
common drinking cup from all public
places, including Sunday schools, has
raised the question regarding the use
of a common communion cup in
church services in this State. Clergy
men and others have made inquiries
at the Health Department at Harris
burg regarding the interpretation of
the recent order, but so far no offi
cial answer has been given.
$140,000 FOR PLANTS.
Finest Collection In England Pur
chased For This Country.
Boston, Mass. —The purchase for
$14,0,000 of the Veitch collection of
lilacs and other plants, reputed to be
the finest collection in England, was
announced by John K. M. L. Farquhar,
president of the Massachusetts Horti
cultural Society, on his return from
London. The plants include many
varieties heretofore unknown in Amer
ica and were bought at the solicitation
of Prof. Charles S. Sargeant, director
of the Arnold Arboretum.
DEFIES U. S. SENATE.
Sutherland, Of Utah, Says He Will
Not Attend Night Sessions.
Washington. Senator Sutherland
got his dander up and announced to
an astonished Senate that he pro
posed to “play hookey” from night
sessions on tne currency bill. He
said, in his opinion, they were de
signed to “wear out” the Republicans.
Senator Bacon told his colleague his
announcement was a “defiance of the
Senate."
MARSHALL’S PORTRAIT SOLD.
Copy Of Painting Of Chief Justice
Brings $1,005. _
Philadelphia.—A portrait of John
Marshall, chief justice of the United
States in the early days of the re
public, brought' $1,005 at a sale of the
furniture and fittings of the home of
the late J. R. Barton Willing, brother
of Mrs. John Astor, formerly the wife
of the late John Jacob Astor. The
portrait is a copy of the portrait by
Henry Inman, an early American
artist.
THE FROSTBURG SPIRIT, FROSTBURG, MD
1 ‘ HOG KILLING TIME
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IRE MILITANTS I
AREJJTWITTED
Wind and Sea Aid in Rearrest
of Mrs. Pankhurst.
TOO ROUGH FOR “WARSHIP”
Leader Taken Off Majestic Outside
Breakwater At Plymouth and
Rushed To Exeter
Jail.
Exeter, England.—Mrs. Emmeline
Pankhurst, the militant suffragette
leader, was lodged in Exeter jail.
The police who arrested her aboard
the Majestic on her arrival from New
York outwitted the women sympathiz
ers who had been watching to resist
her arrest.
After she and the officers landed
from a tug at a dock on the Tamar
river they started off in the direction
of London, but afterward changed
their route and made direct for this
city, which they reached without en
countering any obstruction.
Wind and sea helped the police to
evade the posse of militants who had
planned to prevent the re-arrest of
Mrs. Pankhurst under the provision of
the “cat-and-mouse act.”
A heavy sea was running in Ply
mouth harbor when - the Majestic
anchored shortly after noon. The
waves, while they did not affect the
powerful police tug, were too much
for the little motorboat which the
militants had engaged to head off the
policemen. The occupants, who includ
ed “General” Mrs. Flora Drummond
and other leaders, were drenched to
the skin before they reached the liner.
The Majestic, under police orders,
had anchored outside the breakwater.
The sea delayed the little suffragette
“warship” so much that it did not ar
rive at the side of the big liner until
the police were leading Mrs. Pank
hurst down the gangway. The mili
tants shouted to her through their
megaphones “Don’t land! The ‘cats’
are after you!”
Mrs. Pankhurst protested against
her arrest and asked to see the war
rant. It was explained to her that no
warrant w'as necessary. At her re
quest Mrs. Crild Dorr, an American
suffragist, was permitted to accom
pany her.
Six policemen and a wardress board
ed the steamer to prevent any of the
passengers interfering with the offi
cers delegated to make the actual
arrest.
With the prisoner and the officers
on board the police, tug steamed off
directly for Devonport. Everybody
except officials was excluded from the
Government dock yard and Mrs. Pank
hurst was landed without incident.
Bands of suffragists were on guard
outside all the prisons in the south
west of England to which it was
thought Mrs. Pankhurst might be
taken. During the night at Bristol
the -women who took sentry duty in
relays outside the jails were attacked
by a hostile crowd, and several people
were hurt in the struggle.
REDUCES GASOLINE.
Action Said To Be Beginning Of War
By Standard Oil.
St. Louis. —The* Standard Oil Co.
announced a* reduction of half a cent
in the price of gasoline, the third re
duction, the company has made in St.
Louis in the last month. The cut is
said to be a move in the war between
the Standard Oil Company and the
Pierce Oil Corporation for the Mis
souri market.
TO HAVE COMMUNITY TREE.
Government Officials To Attend Fes
tivities In Washington.
Washington.—There will be a com
munity Christmas tree on the broad
plaza at the east front of the Capitol
Christmas eve, with high government
officials participating in the festivi
ties and the United States Marine
Band furnishing music. Vice-Presi
dent Marshall and Speaker Clark
signed permits suspending Capitol
rules to allow the erection of the tree.
THINKS FINGER PRINTS WILL GO.
Photographing Veins In Hand Better,
Says Italian Professor.
New York. —The finger printing
method for the identification of crim
inals may some day be supplanted by
photographing the veins of the hand,
according to Professor Ta .assia, of
the University of Paduca, Italy. He is
quoted in advocacy of the new plan,
declaring that the merest novice can
detect variations in the veins of the
hand, while long training is necessary
to distinguish in' finger prints.
128 IN PERISH
INJOIEL FIRE
Cheap Boston Lodging House
Proves Fire Trap.
MANY WERE SUFFOCATED.
Only $1.47 Found On the Victims.
Way To Escape Through, Cell-
Like Rooms, With Doors
Locked.
Boston. —The fire which cost the
lives of 28 homeless men in the
Arcadia Hotel, a low-priced lodging
house at Washington and Laconia
streets, in the South End district, had
become the subject of eight separate
investigations by nightfall.
Some of these were aimed at deter
mining where lay the responsibility
for the conditions which made the loss
of life so large, and others were di
rected toward devising measures to
protect hundreds of other men forced
by circumstances to seek shelter in
similar places.
Most important of the inquiries was
that begun by the grand jury. Direct
ed by District Attorney Pelletier, the
jurymen paid a visit to the hotel
while the ruins were still smoldering.
They saw the remains of cots laid side
by side in a general dormitory on the
fifth floor, and narrow, box-like rooms
on floors below in which privacy was
obtained by inmates for a few cents
more than the dormitory occupants
paid.
The cause of the fire was not deter
mined.
A large quantity of painter’s ma
terials, District Attorney Pelletier
said, was found in a closet on the sec
ond floor, but apparently it had not
been touched by the flames.
Nearly All Suffocated.
Later the jury went to the City
Hospital morgue, where Medical Ex
aminer Timothy J. Leary pointed out
that in nearly every instance death
had been caused by suffocation, al-’
though in two or three cases it was
evident that fire ended life.
Other lodging houses in the vicinity
were afterward inspected by the jury
in order to see how those houses were
conducted in reference to the safety
of the occupants at night.
Arson, Says Owner.
Joseph G. Lyons, of Brookline,
president of the firm which conducted
the Arcadia as part of a chain of lodg
ing houses in Boston, New York,
Brooklyn, Newark and Jersey City, ex
pressed the belief the fire started un
der the stairs in the main hallway.
Within a few months three other mys
terious fires had been discovered
there, he said.
“This fire was undoubtedly set,” he
added.
Search of the bodies developed little
to assist in identification. It revealed
the financial circumstances of the men
when only $1.47 was gathered from
tne effects of all the victims.
GRANT SIGNAL OFFICER DEAD.
Capt. J. W. De Ford Received Many
Decorations.
Ottawa, Kan. —Capt. J. W. De Ford,
who in the Civil War received numer
ous decorations for bravery as a signal
officer under Generals McClellan and
Grant, died at his home here of
apoplexy. He was 78 years old. Cap
tain De Ford was born in Uniontown,
Pa. He is survived by a daughter and
a son, W. A. De Ford, an attorney,
of New York.
MEN WANT THE JOBS.
Object To Appointment Of Women
As Election Officers.
Chicago.—The right of women to sit
as judges and clerks of elections here
next spring will be challenged from
both Republican and Democratic
sources. A taxpayer probably will go
into court and start injunction pro
ceedings on the ground that bond
issues or other propositions submitted
at the spring election might be in
validated.
TWO PEACE PACTS ARRANGED.
Nicaraguan and Dominican Ministers
Agree To Treaties.
Washington.—Secretary Bryan has
completed the preliminaries with the
Ministers from Nicaragua and the
Dominican Republic for peace treaties
between those nations and the United
States. Portugal and the Netherlands
are giving favorable consideration to
the proposals made by Secretary
Bryan several months ago, and the
early consummation of similar treaties
with those countries is expected.
THE DOWNFALL
OF MU NEAR
His Army in.the North Goes to
Pieces.
NO MONEY TO PAY SOLDIERS
Oil Companies Cancel Contracts To
Furnish Fuel For Railroads.
Huerta’s Government Will
Be Paralyzed.
Juarez, Mexico. —Seven generals of
the Mexican regular army are ready to
surrender, and the backbone of the
Huerta dictatorship in the north has
been broken.
A peace commission arrived in
Juarez bearing terms of the surrender.
The peace commission was headed
by Odion Hernandez and came from
■ Chihuahua bearing a proclamation
signed by General Salvador Mercado,
Huerta’s military Governor and com
mander of the Federal forces in all
the north.
The proclamation stated that the
Huerta Government was bankrupt and
was unable to pay its soldiers.
Generals Not Taking Chances.
The generals who have signified
tnrough General Mercado, their will
ingness to surrender, but who never
theless are fleeing to the United States'
border, are:
General Salvador Mercado.
General Pascual Orozco.
General Jose Ynez Salazar.
General Marcello Caraveo.
General Jose Manzilla.
General Blaz Orpinal.
General Landa.
The peace commission proposed to
General Villa that all the non-combat-|
ants who sought safety by fleeing to
the border be permitted to go without;
being fired upon, and all the Federals,,
including 200 soldiers left on police'
duty in Chihuahua City, be pardoned.!
It also asked clemency for Federal
officials. '
The peace commission stated that,
before leaving Chihuahua the Federals
destroyed all the postage and Govern
ment revenue stamps; that there ex
isted practically no money in the city,
and that 2,000 citizens had left with
the troops, most of them being those
who were rich and who feared harsh
treatment by the rebels.
The commission started back for
Chihuahua with General Villa’s assur
ances that people of all classes in the
city, and including the Federal police,
would be protected, and that he would
dispatch troops to garrison the place
as soon as possible.
Population In Full Flight.
Fleeing over the desert and pursued
by rebels, several thousand persons,
including some of the richest families
in Northern Mexico, who deserted
Chihuahua City in fear of a rebel
attack, are reported to be nearing the
United States border.
EXPRESS REDUCES DIVIDEND.
American Company Feels Effect Of
Parcel Post.
New York. —Rivalry between the
parcel post and express companies
was reflected in the reduction of the
quarterly dividend of the American
Express Company to 2 per cent. Pre
' viously the quarterly dividend had
been- at the rate of 3 per cent.
ANTI-TRUST MESSAGE SOON.
President To Present Views To Con
gress After the Holidays.
Washington. President Wilson’s'
special anti-trust message will be pre
sented to Congress immediately after
the holiday recess. Attorney-General
Mcßeynolds is expected to testify be
fore the House Judiciary Committee
regarding legislation he deems neces
sary to supplement the Sherman law.
BRUTAL SLAYER HANGED.
Rosario Gygliotti, Who Killed Girl and
Sweetheart, Pays Penalty.
Smethport, Pa. —Rosario Gygliotti,
perpetrator of one of the most brutal
double murders in the criminal his
tory of Western Pennsylvania was
hanged here. Gygliotti shot and killed
Grace Bigler and her sweetheart,
Anthony Kohnen, on the night of De
cember 10, 1911. Jealousy prompted
the crime.
36,000 RUSSIAN EGGS.
Importation Admitted Free Of Duty
May Cause Lower Prices.
Philadelphia.—Thirty-six thousand
eggs were imported here from Rus
sia. They comprise the first of what
is expected to be a big consignment
to break the egg corner in this city.
The shipment was admitted from the
liner Graf Waldersee free of duty,
and will be sent to local bakers.
| TELEGRAPH TICKS
Denver, Col. Mrs. Loretta Van
Pelt, seeking a divorce, says her hus
band is too kind and that she longs
to “lead the sort of life that I have
been accustomed to.”
York, Pa. —Harvey F. Gipe has in
vented a machine that sounds an
alarm and automatically feeds his big
flock of leghorn chickens.
New York. —A letter mailed 30
years ago was returned today un
delivered. It was addressed to Capt.
Larson, of the Swedish bark Superior,
which foundered some years ago.
Paterson, N. J. —Joel E. Crandell
will open a correspondence school to
teach undertakers how to reassemble
mangled bodies.
New York. —Charles Beuret, suing
1 for a separation, declared his wife’s
{“lecture begins at 8 P. M. and lasts
1 until 3.30 A. M.”
CHEAPER RATES
IN PARCEL POSI
Commission Approves Post
master General’s Plan,
CHANGE IN EFFECTJANUARY 1
Fifty-Pound Limit Fixed For First and
Second Zones Twenty In
All Others Books
Admitted.
Washington.—Postmaster General
Burleson’s proposal to increase the
weight limits of parcel post packages
in the first and second zones from 20
to 50 pounds, to admit books to the
parcel post and to reduce raltes in the
third, fourth, fifth and sixth zones was
approved by the Inter-State Commerce
Commission.
The maximum weight of parcels to
all zones beyond the second was in
creased from 11 to 20 pounds.
One of the reasons in raising the
weight limit in the local zones is to
encourage the utilization of the parcel
post as a shipping agency for farm
produce to the cities. After January
1 a farmer living at any point in
Maryland, as far south in Virginia as
Newport News, Petersburg or Lexing
ton, Va., in one-half of Pennsylvania,
two-thirds of New Jersey and all Dela
ware, can sl?ip to Baltimore a “mar
ket basket” weighing 50 pounds for
£4 cents.
The “consent” to the
proposed changes was transmitted in
three letters from Chairman Clark to
Postmaster General Burleson. The
approv'ed changes in rates and
weights, to be in effect January 1,
1914, follow:
Cost Of Service Reduced.
To reduce the rates for the third
zone from seven cents for the first
pound and five cents for each addi
tional pound to six cents for the first
pound and two cents for each addi
tional pound.
To reduce the rates for the fourth
zone from eight cents for the first
pound and six cents for each addition
al pound to seven cents for the first
pound and four cents for each addi
tional pound.
To reduce the rates for the fifth zone
from nine cents for the first pound
and seven cents for each additional
pound to eight cents for the first
pound and six cents for each addi
tional pound.
To reduce the rates for the sixth
zone from ten cents for the first pound
and nine cents for each additional
pound to nine cents for the first
pound and eight cents for each addi
tional pound.
Revenue Will Cover Cost.
“It seems obvious,” says the com
mission, “that the service to the pub
lic will be promoted by these changes,'
provided the revenue from the serv
ice is not less than the cost thereof.
Your experience and statistics seem
tp show clearly that the revenue will
not be less than the cost of the serv
ice.”
Serious objections to the proposed
change in the rates on books and
catalogues were made chiefly by mail
ers of heavy catalogues, but the com
mission says it feels that the changes
are in the interest of the public gener
ally.
SHE WAS FIRST WOMAN LAWYER.
I
Miss Phoebe Couzins Dies In Poverty
In St. Louis.
St. Louis. —Miss Phoebe Couzins,
the first woman lawyer in the United
States and the first woman who ever
served as United States Marshal, died
here. Miss Couzins was 72 years old
and death came as the culmination
of a long illness, which she had suf
fered in poverty in a squalid room in
a crowded section of the city. Ap
peals for assistance recently had been
made by friends in her behalf. Fre
quently in recent years she had sought
aid from the Federal Government and
from breweries, whose cause she had
championed in many campaigns
against prohibitory legislation.
MILLIONS OF EGGS IN STORAGE.
19,383,098 Pounds Of Butter Also Held
In Massachusetts.
Boston. There were 181,200,228
eggs in cold storage in Massachusetts
on October 1, held for use as food,
according to the report of the State
Board of Health. Of this number 37,-
780,200 had been placed in the storage
plants within three months. The re
port did not give the age of the others.
The report says that 19,383,098 pounds
of butter was held in cold storage on
the same date.
TRAMPS HAVE NEW GRAFT.
Given Free Railway Transportation By
Army, Then Refuse To Enlist.
Washington.—A new scheme adopt
ed by tramps to beat their way on
railroads was revealed by the army
judge advocate-general. The grafter
applies for enlistment at a recruiting
station, is given railway fare and sub
sistence to carry him to the recruit
ing depot—and when he gets there he
changes his mind and refuses to en
list.
FOR LITERACY TEST.
Burnett Will Urge Immigration Bill
Vetoed By Taft.
Washington. Representative John
son, of Washington, reintroduced the
Dillingham Immigration bill, omitting
the literacy test. Chairman Burnett,
of the Immigration Committee, has an
nounced he will urge as a Democratic
majority measure the bill, but with a
provision imposing the literacy test.
Such a bill was vetoed by President
Taft.