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THE
ROOK
SLAND
ARGfUS.
FIFTY-EIGHTH YEAR. NO. 2U.
THE ARGUS, FKI DA Y. JULY 30, 1909. TWELVE PAGES.
PRICE TWO CENTS,
TROOPS GAIN TEMPORARY
CONTROL OF RARGELONA
TAFT VICTORY IS SEEM Itl
THE FINAL TARIFF REPORT
A Harvest-time Straw, Showing Which Way the Money Bloweth
;v
1:
Only Encouraging Feature
of Situation forjpan
ish Government.
DONE WITHHEAVY LOSS
Reports From Africa Indicate
Moors Are Preparing for
Fresh Attack.
The Spanish crisis at home and
abroad presents many alarming feat
uies, with Barcelona still In the throes
of a revolutionary movement and the
army of 30,000 Moors pressing Spain's
defeated and exhausted force3 in Mor
occo. Reports from Barcelona . are
ominously meager and from rounda
bout quarters, but the revolutionary
movement appears to have passed the
climax.
Troop Have I'pper Hand. ;
The government troops are now re
ported to have the upper hand. Artil
lery has been used with merciless ef
fect, driving back and capturing the
main body of the rioter3 and forcing
the remnants to the outlying stations.
luMiirKrnt Number 10.OUO.
Scattered fragments of information
coming through Madrid and frontier
points are doubtless censored and lack
ing in exactness, but thoy give-details
of at bloody conflict between 10,000
armed revolutionists and Spanish ar
tillery and cavalry.
From many interior points come re
ports of rfbts and incendiarism, but
the movement is scattered without ap
parent central organization or leader.
Kear t'arlixl Movement.
In the north there are foars that
Don Jamie, the new CarliFt leader,
will take advantage of the situation' by
renewing the Carlist mrr$gient against
the dynasty. . -
linn Heen Perfoeif Hell.
Barcelona, via Cerbrrer'J-uly CO.
Barcelona has been a perfect hell.
Half the population was terrorized and
the other half mad with blood. Troops
of the garrison, amid shouts of ap
proval from the mob, repeatedly refus
ed to fire on the people, and the work
of repression fell upon the police and
city guard. These charged the revolu
tionaries and used their firearms free
ly everywhere, but numbers were
against them.
Famine In SljtM.
As this dispatch is sent the streets
are in possession of the barricaded in
surgents. The destruction of property
has been great. . Barcelona is com
pletely isolated and running short of
food. s
Innnra;rntM Keported raptured.
Madrid, July 30 News from Barce
lona that the cavalry and troops have
gained the upper hand and captured
the main body of the insurgents and
that only isolated bands are holding
FATAL QUAKE IN
CITY OF MEXICO
Mexico City, July 30 Two severe
earth shocks occurred here early this
morning. Four persons were killed
and several wounded and some dwell
ings in the poorer quarter were de
stroyed. Telegrams from various parts
of 'the republic indicate earthquakes
were widespread and severe.
: Washington. July 30. An earth
quake of considerable intensity and
duration was recorded this morning
by the weather bureau seismographs
From the records the earthquake ap
pears to be about 2,300 miles distant
from Washington, possibly in Ecuador
or off the western coast of Sou.h
America in the Pacific ocean.
THREE SOLDIERS MADE IVIMUNE FROM
TYPHOID FEVER
Omaha. Neb., July 30. The three
Fort Omaha soldiers, Sergeant Fuller
and Privates tibodman and Schmidt,
who submitted themselves to typhoid
fever tests, have heen pronounced im
mune by the medical department of
the garrison. On June 17 these men
were vaccinated with typhoid seruni
and went into the hospital. In side of,
seven days all three developed symp
toms of the fever. They had typhoid,
hut in a mild form. They recovered
and again were vaccinated, but no ty
phoid symptoms reappeared.
Ten days ago the last and most se
vere test was applied, and since then
the physicians of the post, the head
quarters staff, and 'the city have been
out in the suburbs, creates the greatest
relief in official circles here. The work
of repression will rapidly be followed
up throughout the Catalonian captain
cy general. No figures are given of
casualties at Barcelona, but they were
heavy.
General Marina, commander of the
Spanish forces in Morocco, reports
there is momentary quiet outside of
lilla.
Nuv Kseeullnu Leader.
Madrid. July 30. The captain gen
eral of Barcelona has telegraphed the
general .staff at Madrid that the revo
lutionists have surrendered and that
he is now master of the situation. The
number of victims asya result of the
fighting in the streets is very high.
Twenty three buildings were destroyed
by artillery. Leaders of the rebels
are now le:ng tried by court martial
and summarily executed. There is no
train service between Barcelona and
Madrid.
Order at FlKiierttH.
Cerbt re, July 30. Order" has been
established at Figueras. footers are
being arrested in large batches and
are l'd off to prison with bayonets at
their breasts.
Shelling the Height.
Madrid., July 30. Dispatches from
Melilla say at noon today the Spanish
cruiser Xumansia is shelling the
heights of Mount Guruga, which is
swarming with Moors.
Preaea Holy Mar.
Ceii'te. Morocco, July 30. Natives in
the region surrounding this seaport
are preparing to join their fighting
brethren on the heights before Me
lilla. Holy war is being preached and
the whole country is aflame with fa
naticism. Hum and llury the Head.
Melilla. July 30. The Moors have
withdrawn from the outskirts of the
city. It is believed they are concen
trating for new efforts. They burned
hundreds of their dead whom they
were unable to carry off. After the
tribesmen had retired, the sad work
of hnrymg the Spanish dead, which
already were rotting in the sun, was
hurriedly accomplished in a ravine,
where two columns of Spanish troops
were ambushed while trying to rescue
a convoy. J he ground was covered
wiih heaps of corpses, many of whom
weie mutilated after death.
Haunted by Two Fear'
Madrid, July 30. Spain is rent by
two fears the fate of the army in
Morocco and the situation in the Med
iserranean provinces in Catalonia. ' At
th' outskirts of Melilla the Spanish
anus have suffered a serious check.
Three thousand soldiers have either
bei n slain or wounded and the Moor
ish hordes are fighting at the very
wals of the city itself.
News from Barcelona, the center of
tht revolutionary outbreaks, is ex
ceedingly meager and unsatisfactory.
On. rciHirt is that the revolutionists
are using bombs and that 100 persons
wei- killed and 200 wounded during
the earlier stages of the conflicts.
Some Siipce Claimed.
It was officially announced last night
that the cavalry engaged at Barcelona
kucc eded yesterday in driving into
St. Jlartin square the principal bands
of revolutionists, against whom the ar
tiller opened fire, causing great
losiet. The survivors surrendered.
Th official statement further says
that t now remains only to master
small groups of revolutionists in the
villag i in the vicinity of Barcelona.
Origin of the Trouble.
In 5'drid, as well as in other cities
throug out the country,, there have
been 1 id mutterings for a long time
past, a 1 the serious situation in Mor
occo g:,ve he opportunity for the ris
ing of the revolutionists at Catalonia
in protest against the sending of fur
ther troops to that country. The re
cruiting system has served to increase
the dissitisfaction of the Spanish peo
ple in general. All Spaniards 20 years
of age inust report for military duty,
but the ich usually manage to be ex
cused, f in subsequent drawings by
lot, however, they are unfortunate they
can buy -xemption for $300. Only the
poor peqde, therefore, serve. More
over, of lecent years, in order to econ
BY VACCINATION
anxiously' awaiting developments.
Million derm Put In. ,
The last was the drinking test. Or
dinary water was left for three days
fn an open vesseT. Then more than
1,000,000 typhoid germs were placed
Into a gallon. This mixture was al
lowed to stand four hours longer, af-
ted which the three soldiers drank of
it freely. One who was not Immune
would have been strlcxen with fever
from three to five days ago, say the
physicians ho have . been watching
the tests. Now that this time has
passed and no symptoms have develop
ed, the medical men feel -satisfied the
subjects wouV be unable to contract
the disease."
EVELYN THAW TO
HARRY INDICATES
White Plains. July 30. Neither
Harry K. Thaw nor his counsel, Clnr-
los Morsochauser showed much inter
est today in the report that Evelyn
Thaw intended to begin suit for di
vorce as soon as the present proceed
ings are closed.
Not Yet Through.
Although District Attorney Jerome
announced at the clo:;e of yesterday's
session of court he was through Willi
w, he recalled him to the stand
ibis morning. He started his exam-
iitat ion- along fhe iine.r -that -thus fa r
have yielded his side the best results.
lie probed into. Thaw's own idea cf
liis mental condition and contrasted
his answers with, those of 11 alienis.a
who at various times pronounced him
insane.
Thaw Primed for Qui.
Thaw clung to his oft-repeated phrase
that he was not "medically" insane.
although he might have been "legally"
so when he killed White. Jerome was
primed with various opinions of ex
perts, but Thaw r.eemed to have them
just as accurately fixed in his mind.
and once or twice corrected the prose
cution. He admitted some of the phy
sicians may have been right, and oth
ers, he said, were "mistaken." One,
he declared, wilfully presented a dis
torted verdict.
Thaw Well Satisfied.
Thaw and his attorney were well sat
isfied with yesterday's work. Thaw show
ed even more confidence than he ex
hibited during the first encounter; -in
fact, his self satisfaction at one time
almost cost him dear, when he ventur
omize, the recruits who were supposed
to servo three yeajs in the army and
three years in the reserves, were given
unlimited leave at the end of the year.
Next Year" lire roll Called.
When the war broke out in Mor
occo, therefore, the battalions, with a
nominal strength of 830 men, had only
200 to fill the gaps, and not only were
the reserves on leave recalled, but on
July 2C the next year's recruits were
called out. Most of the reserves are
married and have children, and the
despair of their wives is pitiful. The
soldiers insist that the only fair way
is a compulsory service, which takes
rich and poor alike.
"Besides," say the men, "they are
sending us like dogs to be killed in
Africa to please the bankers."
Feeling: In Capital llltter.
Madrid is not an industrial center
like Barcelona. The workmen are less
perfectly organized, but the feeling is
exceedingly bitter, and they hold Pre
mier Maura responsible for the pres
ent conditions, as he has been repeat
edly warned that the country' would
not submit to a military adventure in,
Africa. On his part the premier at
tributes the criticism to politics. -
FORTY MEN ARE
OVERCOME BY GAS
Pittsburg, Kan., July 30. Forty min
ers were overcome by gases in a coal
mine here today. Twelve are serious
ly and three perhaps fatally- hurt.
Nearly all are foreigners.
SUE FOR DIVORCE?
H DOESN'T CARE
ed into a heated passage at arms with
the district attorney. But he checked
himself when he realized that he had
nothing to gain and everything to lose
by a show of temper. Except for this
squall, the exchange of questions and
answers, with here and there an occa
sional sally of wit. progressed smooth
ly until the adjournment.
AVIfe to Sue for Hivoree.
Reno. Nov.. July 30. Evelyn Nesbit
Thaw will come to Reno in a few
weeks for the purpose of obtaining a
ilivorce. Rumors ., ju. circulaMonfor ,
some 'time' were verified yesterday
when it was learned that she had been
in correspondence with local attorneys
relative to her case. It is stated that
she will be represented in the. local
courts by Attorney General Richard
Stoddard. Private advices received
here state that Mrs. Thaw has given
orders to have her trunks packed pre
paratory to a trip here, where she will
establish a legal residence in order to
bring suit for divorce. To her closest
friends she confided her intentions
some weeks ago, but she has delayed
in the hope that she could make sonte
satisfactory financial arrangements
with the Thaw family before her de
parture. Apparently she has failed in
this endeavor and lias now decided to
come west and fight the Issue in the
courts.
Fatal Wreck at Memphis.
Memphis, Tenn.. July 30. One man
was killed and 10 people more or less
Feriously injured when a Frisco switch
engine crashed into a street car at
Kayburn street early todav.
WOMAN HEADS
CHICAGOSCHOOLS
Chicago, July 30. The superin
tendency of Chicago's great school
system has fallen into the. hands of
a woman for the first time in its
history. Mrs. Ellen Flagg Young,
principal of the Chicago normal
school since 11103, and an educator
of national reputation, was chosen
last night by the newly organized
board of education to head the pub
lic schools. John D. Shoop, super
visor of the vacation schools, was
named as assistant to the superin
tendent, s'
Mrs. -Young is C4 years old and
has been engaged in teaching since
18C2.
INDIANS LEFT STARVING
Government to Feed and Shelter
1,300 Left Destitute by Floods.
Washington, July 30. Commissioner
of Indian Affairs Valentine today tele
graphed Superintendent Campbell of
the La Pointe Indian agency in Wis
consin to take every possible means
to relieve the 1.200 destitute Indians
left without shelter and food as the
result of the recent series of cloud
bursts in that state. -
High Honor for Roosevelt.
Leipsic, July 30. The University of
Leipsic today conferred the degree of
doctor of laws on Theodore Roose
velt. He Is the only foreigner thus
honored.
ARE ON BAD ROADS
Glidden Tourists Try to Make
212 Miles Over Region of
Many Rains.
TO FINISH THEIR LONG TOUR
Take Kaily Start from Nalina Sev
eral Additional Penalizations
Are Announced.
Salina, Kan.. July 30. On the last leg
of their 2.C3C.8 mile journey the Glid
den tourists" left Salina aTC: :20thir
morning for Kansas City and hope to
reach Kansas City by 5 this afternoon.
The distance t,o Kansas CUy is 212.S
miles. The route of today's run lay
through a part of Kansas that has ex
perienced heavy rains of late, and the
roads are in bad condition.
laNN Topeka at Noon.
Topeka. July 30. The Glidden pilot
car reached Topeka from Salina at
noon and 5 minutes later departed io
Kansas City. The first of the other
cars followed the pilot through Topeka
at 1 o'clock.
Have Hot Day of It.
Salina, Kan., July 3U The Glidden
tourists reached here last night after
a long hot drive of 199 miles from
Oakley. The occupants of the cars
suffered more from yesterday's run
than the cars themselves. The roads
were excellent most of the way, and
excepting the strain of pulling up a
few high hills the machines found the
travel easy.
No further reductions were made in
Hie list of perfect score cars, but addi
Hons were made to the scores of three
cars previously penalized. The No. Ill
Jewell, contestant for the Glidden cup,
had 2.C points added for repairing its
gasoline line, and the. White No. 14,
also a Glidden car, was assessed four
tenths of a -point for wiring on a mud
guard.
Several Tanked On.
The No. 53 Premier, one of the three
cars seeking the Detroit trophy, also
suffered a penalization for repairing a
spring, the amount to be announced
later. The penalizations for Wednes
day's run which were not given out
last night add 2.3 points to the score
of the No. 7 Jewell and 32 points to
the Glide No. 10. The No. 112 Mason
was penalized 353.2 points.
MIDLOTHIAN PAIR
FAIL TO HOLD OWN
Kd wards and Hunter Behind in First
Hound of Keiiii-Finnls for
Western Golf Title.
Flossmoor, 111., July 30. At the
morning round in the semi-finals "f
the Western Amateur Golf association
tournament today Albert Seckel of
Riverside led Kenneth P. Edwards .-f
Midlothian by 5 up, and Charles Evans,
Jr., Exmoor, finished 3 up on Paul
Hunter of Midlothian. ;
Edward Breaka Coarse Reeord.
Ken Edwards was the hero of the
day yesterday. In his morning round
with Robert Gardner of Hinsdale, tin?
Midlothian youth smashed the record
of the course, setting an even 70. A
little more luck In his puts would have
given Ken a count in the CO's. Strange
as it may appear, the former record
of 71 was also crushed by Warren K.
Wood of Homewood during the morn
ing in the consolation.
SUDDENLY BOBS UP
Noah Marker Alleged Bank De
faulter, Appears at Indi
ana Home.
HAD BEEN ABSENT A WEEK
Refuses to Discuss His Affairs The
Neighbors Congratulate Him and
Promise Kupiort.
Tipton, Ind., July 30. Noah R. Mark
er, assistant cashier of the First Na
tional bank, appeared at his home ear
ly today, after having been missing
since last Saturday," when it is charg
ed he carried away with him $GO,000
of the bank's funds.
On the advice of an attorney, neith
er he nor his brother. William II.
Marker, until lately cashier of the
bank, would discuss the allegations of
defalcations. Noah would only say he
had been in St. Louis. """"
People Congratulate Him.
A crowd of townspeople assembled
at his home, shook his hand, and con
gratulated him on his return. Many
business men assured him of their sup
port. Marker awaited the coming of
the United States authorities.
Arretted for I-'raiid.
Marker was arrested this after
noon by a deputy United States mar
shall charged with having "fraudu
lently taken a sum of money from
the funds of the bank." He was
taken to Muncie later fpr a hearing
before a United States commissioner.
FREIGHT RATES ARE CUT
Tar ill's on Foreign ioods Xow Jxnver
Than They Have Ever liecn.
Washington, D. C, July 30. Import
freight TatP-rTroflriAtTantlc seaboard
points to Chicago and Central Traffic
association territory were reduced
again yesterday by a tariff filed with
the interstate commerce commission
ay the Chesapeake & Ohio railway.
The tariff restores the differential
heretofore existing for many years on
import rates between Eo?ton and the
ports of Now York, Philadelphia and
Baltimore.
The filinp; of the tariff will he fol
lowed in a day or two by the filing of
similar tariffs by the eastern trunk
lines, and means a continuation of the
rate war between theni and the B.isto:i
& Maine.
The rates on import traffic now aro
lower than they have ever been in the
history of American railroading.
YESTERDAY IN CONGRESS
Washington, July 30. Following is
i summary, compiled from the official
proceedings, of the . work" of both
houses- of congress yesterday:
SKVTF The senate spent half nn
''.our discussing the question whether a
unanimous consent asrrtement of the
senate can be abrog-ated by a unani
mous consent agreement. The point
was raised by the presentation bv Sen
ator Hailey of a request for the eaii-
?ellation or the agreement to transact
ao general legislation while th con
ference report n the tariff bill was
pending:. Objection was made .and -Mr.
LSniley withdrew his proposition. Iur
ng the discussion it appeared that one
f the measures which it was desired
to have taken up was an omnibus
Uridse bill, which was beinpr pressed
y Senator Frye. Senator Nelson ask
d whether, if Mr. iiai ley's request
;hould be granted, the bill known as
he South Carolina dam bill would be
ncluded. Mr. Frye replied: "It is very
mportant that that dam bill should be
Kissed." The remark of . the senator
rom Maine came so unexpectedly that
he senate was convulsed with lauffh
ter. At 12:4S p. m. the senate adjourn
ed until today.
HOI SK The republicans showed upJ
n the house in prreat numbers, having
ecn notified to be present in anticipa-
ion of the reception of the conference
-eport on the tariff. The report, how
ver, was not fort hcom ins. and Mr.
Mann of Illinois promptly moved nn
idjournment until today. In stentorian
tones the democrats sent up a series of
"Noes." but the speaker In the midst of
he din announced that the motion had
""n o--ied. The house accordingly
adjourned.,
BLERIOT GLAD TO ENGAGE WRIGHT'
BROTHERS IN AEROPLANE SPEED TEST
Paris, July 30. Louis Bleriot, the
French aviator, appeared greatly pleas
ed when Informed that the officials of
he Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition had
iffered a purse of $25,000 for an areo
)lane race between hira and the Wright
brothers. He said that if either of the
Wrights challenged him under the Se
ittle conditions he would accept,
Alfcer Preparing to Fly.
Detroit, Mich., July 30. Russell A.
V1?r is 1mmnrf-rir tVa- a Initial arn.
. .--O-- " It -'- If-) vt utiiiur tk V, x-r
I plane flight. He hasn't a machine yet;
..,.': ... V ' ..'
President Wins on Lum
ber, Hides and 0th- ;
er Schedules.
PAPER PULP IS FREE
Congress Has Its Revenge by
Changing Administrative
Features. A
Washington, July 30. President
Taft expressed himself today as Im
mensely pleased with the tariff bill a
it was finally agreed to by the con- -ferees
last evening. It is known tie
net entirely satisfied with all of the
bill and he told several of his callers
today it would be the greatest miracle
of the age if a tariff bill could be de
signed that would please everybody.
Pnyne Preneatn Report.
Washington, July 30. Payne, head
of the house conference, today present
ed the report of the conference com
mittee on the tariff bill. He made an
exhaustive analysis of the bill, and un
dertook to show it made a marked de
crease in the rates on the necessaries
of life, while admitting there had been
an increase on some of the luxuries.
iJirne Cot In Metal. -
Probably the most marked reduc
tions are found in themetal schedules.
Beginning with a decrease in the rate
on iron ore from 40 to 15 cents a ton,
there is a general reduction through
out that portioh of the bHl, pig iron
going from $4 to $2.50 a ton, and scrap :
iron from $4 to $1. The reduction on
many items of tne iron schedule
fi mounts to about 50 per cent, and in
cludes steel rails. There is an In
crease on structural steel ready for.
use.
Lumber Cut Conttlderaltly. '
Rough lumber Is. reduced from 2 to
$1.25 per thousand, with a correspond
ing reduction in the differential on
dressed lumber. . , ,
The wool schedule underwent no
change of consequence "but the entire
cotton schedule was reconstructed and .
the phraseology greatly changed. It
is estimated the rates fixed by the bill
are about 3 per cent higher on the
average than those collected on cot
ton last year.
llije IncrenKe on Hosiery.
The rates on cotton hosiery are
greatly increased.
Only one change is made in the glove
schedule, that being a slight reduction.
The silk schedule will be somewhat
higher than at present. Oil cloths and
linoleum are heavily cut, but other
wise the changes in flax, hemp, and
jute provision are not material.
Snitar and Tobacco Same.
The sugar and tobacco duties re
main substantially as they are. There
is a uniform increase on spirits, wines
and liquors of 15 per cent. Hops are
increased from 12 to 16 cents per
pound. There is a general decrease in
common window glass and chemical
schedules.
Third Cut la Paper Palp. .
Publishers win in their fight , for
lower wood pulp and print .paper, the
rate on ordinary newspaper print pa
per being fixed at $3.75 per ton in
stead of $G under the Dingley law.
The higher grades, of print paper are
at $3.75 instead of $$. Mechanically
ground wood pulp is to come in free
of duty, but provision Is made for a
countervailing duty in case it becomes
necessary to protect this country
against Canada's inhibitions upon'ex
portations of woods to ' the United
States.
II idea Come Free.
Hides of cattle come in free, and
there is a corresponding reduction on
leather and leather goods. The house ,
rates are practically retained on sole
leather, leather for uppers, hoots,
shoes, and harness, but the free hide
provision is based on the condition
that on and . after Oct.' 1 next sole
leather from hides that, are to be ad- '
(Continued on Page Four.)
But he had. the Wright brothers here,'
as guests a short time, ago and por
chased one of their machines. , It will .
be delivered this fall." " Vi
Wind Preventa Wright Teat.
Washington,, July 30.-A squally '
wind caused another postponement of
the 10-mile official speed trial of Or
ville" Wright's aeroplane last night.
: It-had been "announced that Wright
would jnake the test afterisundffwn if
weather permitted,-and a, large crowd
had gathered at Fo,rt Myerl; rT;' ,
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