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j AN D A FIFTY-NINTH YEAR NO. 246. SATURDAY, JULY 30, 1910. -FOURTEEN PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS. THE ROGK R 20 NEGROES KILLED IN A TEXAS RIOT i . .. ' Blacks and Whites En gage in a Bloody Clash at Slocumb. MILITARY IS CALLED Both Sides Arming to Continue Race War Colored Men Surrounded. L Houston, Texas, July 30. Reports from Palastine, Texas, today reportlo negroes killed and one white man bad ly wounded In a race riot near Slo cumb late yesterday. Houston, July 30. Latest advices state that 20 negroes were killed and three white men badly wounded. Itefuaea to Meet ObllKatlon. The trouble seems to have been pre cipitated in a controversy over a note which a white man, Alvord, had en dorsed for a negro and which the lat ter refused to pay. A general fight followed a quarrel between the two and both sides fired scores of shots. Wnltea and Blaeka Arming. Rangers were sent to Slocumb and a company of militia is ready to move at a moment's notice. Blacks and whites are reported arming. Two hun dred negroes are surrounded at Ben Bon Springs and the whites are await ing the arrival of reinforcements be fore opening fire or forcing them to Burrender. COLUMBUS STRIKE SEES A QUIET DAY Presence of Three Regiments Fails to Prevent Rioting During the Night. Columbus, Ohio, July 30. Every thing was quiet this morning follow ing outbreaks of last night and early today consequent upon the "resumption of 6treet car service. Mors troops have been ordered to Columbus for strike duty. The gov ernor has consented to patrolling of the' streets by troops. Columbus, Ohio, July 30. The pres ence of three jegiments of the national guard did not deter the Columbus riot ers' and last night proved the worst since the strike began. A score of Btrike breakers were injured and at 10 o'clock the car service, which had been resumed at 4:30, was suspended. Goverribr Harmon has declared that the militia .could not be used for po lice duty, declaring they should re main in their camps unless summoned where the rioting broke out As the result the union sympathizers attack ed the cars in all sections. EVANS TWO UP ON PHELPS IN MORNING ither of Men in Amateur Golf Championship Finals Play Form Game. Minneapolis, Minn., July 30. Charles Evans, Jr., Edgewater, present cham pion, and Mason E. Phelps, Midlothian, winner of the title in 1908, met today in the final match of the western golf championship. The first ten holes were halved, neither winning a hole at any time. Both were apparently affected by the nervous strain and neither played up to his game. They went out in 39. one stroke above par. At the end of the first IS holes Evans was two up on Phelps. REVOLUTIONISTS RENEW ACTIVITY M'ashington Hears from the United States Consul at Managua, Nicaragua. Washington, July 30. Jtenorwed ac tivity on the part of the revolutionists in southwestern Nicaragua were re ported to the state department today by United States Consul Olivares oi Managua. Washington, July 30. Attorneys rep resenting the Madriz government of Nicaragua today filed protests with the departments of state. Justice and com merce and labor against the sailing of the yacht Hornet, now at New Or leans, with a cargo of arms and ammu nition supposed to be intended for use of the Estrada faction. Carlisle Improved. " New York, July 30. Ex-Secratary of the Treasury John G. Carlisle, who was taken ill recently with an attack of acute indigestion, was resting easy this morning, and was in no immediate danger, his physicians said. THE WEATHER Fair tonight and Sunday; moderate temperature. Temperature at 7 a. m., 66. Maxi mum temperature in last 24 hours, 95; minimum in 12 hours, 62. Velocity of wind at 7 a. m., 7 miles per hour. Pre cipitation, none. Relative humidity, at 7 p. m. 30, at 7 a. m. 59. St. Paul 8 .3 Red Wing .6 .0 Reed's Landing .7 .0 La Crosse 3 .1 Prairie du Chien 4 .0 Dubuque 5 .1 Clinton 5 .0 Le Claire ..' "...,v .1 -0 Davenport .... i .6 .1 Nearly stationary stages in the Mis sissippi will prevail from below Du buque to Muscatine. J. M. SHERIER, Local Forecaster. ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS. (From noon today to noon tomorrow.) Snn sets 7:13. rises 4:51; moon rises 12:02 a. m.; 5:18 p. m.. eastern time, moon at perigee, nearest earth, dis tant 220.500 miles: Mars' disk O.90O; sun's dedication. IS degrees 31 min utes north of celestial eoiintor. SPAIN RECALLS VATICAN ENVOY Clerical Press of Madrid Pre dicts Downfall of Canalejas and Cabinet. LATTER STANDS GROUND Premier, in Statement Today, Ie clares King and Democracy Will Support Him. San Sebastian, Spain, July 30. The difference between the government and the Vatican over the revision of the concordat reached a crisis last night, when it was announced that Marquis Emilio de Ojeda, Spanish am bassador to the Vatican, had been re called. The announcement was made at the conclusion of a night conference be tween King Alfonso and Premier Canelejas at the summer capital. At the same time the opinion was ex pressed that a rupturtt.witli-the Vati can was inevitable,? Preaa Cnnalejan Downfall. Madrid, July 30. The Roman Cath olic press of Spain makes no effort to control its joy over the decision of Premier Canalejas .to recall the Span ish ambassador to the Vatican. The rupture with the Vatican and the pros pective fight with clericalism will, they predict, result in the downfall of the premier. Canalejas telegraphed the following statement to the press today, boldly taking up the challenge of Don Jaime, the Carlist pretender of revo lution: "We do not fear the threat of civil war. The king and the Spanish democracy win support us." Cleric Ready for Conflict. Madrid, July 30. The clerical ele ment shows no hesitation in entering upon a conflict, and it seems to have set its aim not upon the minor con cessions and compromises acceptable to the holy see, but upon the downfall of Canalejas and his cabinet, and the cancellation of the entire program of reform. The withdrawal of the im perial decree permitting non-Catholic organizations to display their insignia for public worship, which furnishes the ostensible cause for the conflict, and for the severance of .diplomatic relations, assumes secondary import ance. For Modernized Spain Canalejas has fixed his eyes upon the modernization of Spain and the complete elimination of the clerical element as a factor in the government of the kingdom and he is confident of the support of the cortes which was elected in May upon this issue. He is determined to carry through his battle for a revision of the concordat of 1851, the registration and regulation of re ligious orders, government control of public education and the recognition of absolute freedom of conscience. WIDER TELLS OF $500,000 STEAL New York, July 30. Erwin Wider, cashier of the Russo-Chinese bank agency, arrested yesterday and held in $25,000 bail, confessed to defalcations of more than $500,000. Wider passed a sleepless night, according to the Tombs keepers, and appears to be on the verge of a physical collapse. POSTPONE CHARLTON TRIAL Lawyers for Both Sides Agree to Set Case Aside. New York, July 30. Prosecutor Pierre Garven said last night that in all' probability the hearing in the case of Porter Charlton, who has confessed to the murder of his wife at Lake Como, Italy, will be put over until Sepz. 20. It had been set for Aug. 11, but as most of the lawyers in the case will be on vacation then both sides agreed to a postponement. DRINK TOLL IN BIG GAIN Group of Cities Over 30, 000 Show Increase of $3,000,000 SALOONS ARE LESS Texas Leads in Largest Number of Licensed Ijquor Places to Population. Washington, July 30. The extent to which drinking men help to pay the expenses of the government in cities is Indicated by the census report covering the finances of the country for 1908 in cities having a population Uncle Sain It's of 30,000 or more. In 151 such cities out of a total 18 of the figures showed licensed drink ing places paid an aggregate of '$44, 950,188. This was a gain of $3,000,000 from the preceding year and $11,000, 000 over 1905. The increase was due to the large fees exacted by most cities. Of the drinking places sanc tioned by law there were 67,131, a de ciease within three years of about four thousand. Number of Cities oG "Ury." The falling off was due largely to t!e fact a number of cities went "dry." The states claiming the largest num ber of saloons to population were Texas, Wisconsin and New York, while Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Nebraska claimed the smallest num ber in proportion to the people to be supplied. Galveston had one licensed bs?r to every 138 of its people, Mil waukee one to every 141 and Hoboken one to 175. In Philadelphia, the freest of the large cities, there was one drinking place to only every 758 people; Lincoln, Neb., one to every 2.038. 13 Per Cent In Ohio.. The liquor licenses and taxes form ed more than 13 per cent of the gen eral revenues In the cities of Ohio. It was more than 10 per cent in Califor nia. New York City received $7,927, 000; Chicago, $7,252,687, and Philadel phia, $1,969,459 from this source. The only cities deriving more than $1,000, 000 from liquor license were St. Louis, Boston, Cleveland, San Francisco and Cincinnati. STRICTLY BUSINESS PROPOSITION THAT PROTECTION MAKES POLITICS BY TAV. (Special Correspondence of The Arg-us.) Washington, July- 28. Protection makes politics a business proposition. In the last congressional election, for instance, the tariff trusts Bpent largo sums of money to bring about the elec tion of candidates who had secretly or otherwise pledged themselves to re vision upward. These contributions to the republi can campaign fund were investments in every sense of the word. The trusts figured that if republicans were elected the tariff on the particular commodi- Ities in, which, tby dealt would be kept SQUEEZE SHORTS IN WHEAT CORNER Chicago Board of Trade in Vio lent Agitation at the Open ing Today. SHOWS A DROP OF 5 3-4 Theodore H. Waterman, Albany, X. Y.t Is Alleged Offender Fight ing Iiig Brokerage House. Chicago, July 30. The July wheat corner, generally , laid at the door of Theodore H. Waterman of Albany, N. Y. was in a state of violent agitation on this, the last day for trading in de livery. The market closed yesterday at 109 '4. At the opening of the board of trade today the quotations ranged f :om 107 to 106. Within a few min utes there was a further plunge to 103, a drop of 594 from last night's closing figure. The fight is said to be between Waterman, with possibly al- TOO HOT FOR POLITICS got to get cooler before I get excited alnrnt politics. lied interests, and a big brokerage he use. Rebound to 107. The opening" decline was said to be tb result of an attempt of a short in terest, said to represent about 500,000 bushels, to shake out any timid hold ers who might be trailing a leading bull, and possibly to impress the latter himself. During the first hour, how ever, the drive seemed unsuccessful, for very little wheat was shaken out, and the price rebounded to 107. All hope of the shorts that the board of trade would relieve the situation by allowing deliveries to be made from v.heat on switch tracks was aban doned, although the board's frequent declarations against corners had led to the belief in some quarters that Waterman's hold would be broken in ttis way. 1-nKt (Chiinee for Delivery. There is a precedent for such action, but no meeting of the directors of the tcard was called today. It was the last chance for making wheat regular for delivery. Normally July wheat should be at discount as compared with September, but the price today v as about 4 to 5 cents premium for July. July opened 2 to 3Vi down, Pt 106 to 7, fell to 3i, rallied to 108. and fell to 107. Other options started lower to ft higher, with September at 102 to 103. An advance to 103 and ' followed. Later the market was bid up to 10S'. and the close was 105 to 105. The shorts bought a half million bushels. sufficiently high to bar out competition and assure them monopolies on Amer ican markets. With this end in view the tariff trusts and combinations of manufactur ers contributed liberally to republican campaign funds. The expenditure of this tainted mon ey enabled the republicans to domin ate congress! The tariff was revised upward! The manufacturers were giv en their monopolies! Prices' were boosted! The result is that the people are now repaying to the tariff trusts, in Increas ed prices, not onty the amount invest HIGHER UPS AREJOUGHT Family Skeletons Guarded in Illinois Central Graft. 0STERM A NN BALKS Refuses Summons of Master in Chancery Who Is Hearing Testimony. Chicago, July 30. Names of myster ious stockholders of the Memphis Car company, for each of whom Henry C. Ostermann held blocks of 100 shares In his own name, are expected to be revealed when hearing before Master in Chancery Roswell B.. Mason 13 re sumed Monday. - The men, to whom dividends of over 400 per cent on paid in capital stock of the company were distributed in ad dition to miscellaneous graft, are said mainly to have been Illinois Central officials. x Rather than reveal names of "men higher up," Ostermann refused to obey a subpopna to appear before the master when the hearing was resumed yesterday, as he had on the day be fore. He is said to have left the city rath er than testify, but is being sought by detectives in employ of the Illinois Central. The road's attorneys have the names in their possession, but prefer to have them made public through Ostermann's testimony. At a conference following the hearing it was decided to ask the master to report the facts to a judge of the "superior court with a petition that citation be issued ordering Ostermann to show cause why he should not be punished for contempt of court. Attorney Snyn He In In City. At his residence, 6534 Monroe ave nue, it was stated that he was out of the city. Thomas B. Lantry, his at torney, said Os-iermann was in the city, but was not obliged to obey the master's subpoena. If Ostermann dos not testify, the Illinois Central has an important wit ness in E. H. 'Ward, secretary and (Continued on Page Six.) ed as contributions to the republican campaign fund, but tliey are also pay ing a profit varying from 100 to 1,000 per cent besides. And in the meantime the big corpor ate interests have taken the reins of government out of the hands of the people into their own for safe keep ing. Such is the milk of the protection cocoanut Government by Money. It cost Joseph C. Sibley $40,698.83 to win the republican nomination for con gress in the Twenty-eighth district of Pennsylvania. Mr. Sibley received 10,- , CCoailuued on Xas Six.). CRIPPEN ON BOAT, INSPECTOR SAYS Scotland Officer Positive Sus pects Are London Dentist and Companion. MESSAGE FROM MONTROSE Captain Kendall Certain That His 4 Steamer Is Carrying the Fugi tive Pair. Father Point, Quebec, July 30. Chief Inspector Dew of Scotland Yard today said he was absolutely certain the suspects aboard the Montrose are Crippen and Miss Levene. This opin ion is based on wireless messages he had received from the Montrose. Father Point, Quebec, July 30. In spector Dew of Scotland Yard wm taken off the steamship Lauren tic at 4:15 yesterday afternoon by a pilot boat. He went to the local hotel, where Chief McCarthy was waiting for hm. With other officers they will board the 'Montrose when It arrives here to morrow, and proceed with their prison ers to Quebec, where proceedings will at once be started to extradite Crippen. Mont roue Captain Wlrea. The Montreal Star prints the fol ic wing message, which it etates it re ceived yesterday morning from Cap tain Kendall of the Montrose: "Steamship Montrose, July 28. To tiie editor of the Montreal Star: Dr. Crippen and Miss Leneve, I am confi dent, are on board. He is still shaving his mustache and he is growing a btard. "Dr. Crippen has no suspicion that bis identity is suspected. The other passengers also are ignorant of his identity. Miss Leneve refrains from talking. The pair have no baggage. "They cannot be parted and are very reticent. Dr. Crippen has said that he has traveled much. He puts in con siderable of his time reading books and is very restless at night. "I first suspected the identity of the couple two hours after leaving Ant werp, when I got th first clue. Crippen Saya "Boy" la III. "Dr. Crippen says with regard to his companion, who is disguised as a boy, that he is taking him to California. The boy, says the doctor, is in bad health. They pass much time together in their room. -. .QrdlnarUy-Jtiey - are bright and cheerful, but at times both show signs of decided worry. Dr. Crippen is booked as a merchant. The woman disguised as a boy Is recorded as a student. "This is the first account given to a newspaper. (Signed) "KENDALL, Commander." WIDOW KILLS HER HUSBAND'S PARTNER Attorney I). P. Thomas, Sturgis, S. I)., Refuses to Vacate Office, and Is Shot. . Sturgis, S. D., July 30. Attorney D. P. Thomas was shot and killed by Mrs, M. McMahon. widow of his late part ner, in hi-3 law office today. McMahon died a few months ago, and it is said the widow wanted Thomas to vacate the law office. Thomas refused, and this led to a wrangle.' DROWNS SAVING ANOTHER Expert Swimmer Meets Death at Chippewa Falls. Chippewa Falls. Wis., July 30. Miss Rose Gaul, it years old, an ex pert swimmer, was seized with cramps and drowned in Glen Loch, north of this city, yesterday after noon, while attempting to rescue Lulu McDonald, 15 years old, from drown ing. Miss Gaul swam a quarter of a mile across the lake and returned without resting. Miss McDonald, who was no swimmer, waded out to meet her and got beyond her depth. A party of boy bathers pulled Miss Mc Donald ashore. HOLD WENDLING; ADMITS -IDENTITY San Francisco, Cal., July "0. Joseph Wendling, wanted in Ixmisville, Ky.. in connection with th murder of Alma Kellner, was taken Into custody today. He admits his identity. Wendling was captured in a Third street lodging house. He made no re sistance, and admitted on the way to the city prison he was Wendling. An effort is being made to secure a con fession from him. Alma Kellner, 8-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kellner, disappear ed from her home on the morning of Dec. 8 last to attend mass at St. John's church, three blocks away. She was last seen alive in the church by two women, who noticed Wendling, th-j Janitor, peering into the church from the sacristy. Wendling gave up his po sition and disappeared in January. It was first thought that the girl had been kidnaped, and a search was Instituted In all parts of the United States and Canada. Last May a plumber, investi gating a leak under the church, found the dismembered and mutilated re mains of a girl which were later fully identified, sa ima Kellncx. TAFT IS TO STAY HOME; HASASCOUT Senator Crane is to Travel in the West and Sound Political Conditions. WILL AVOID ROWS Tires of Being President on Wheels New Policy of Speeches. . . Beverly, Mas., July 30. Presi dent Taft Is tired of being president on wheels and has announced a new policy. Mr. Taft has sent out a cir cular letter canceling or refusing more than 20 engagements for this fall. They ranged all the way from New England to San Antonio, Texas. He will keep his engagement 1 at Provincetown, Mass., Aug. 5 and may speak at the conservation congress in St. Paul Sept. 5, the day before Colonel Roosevelt speaks. In November, it was announced. the president will make a three weeks' trip to the isthmus of Panama to observe the progress of the work on the big canal. In the meantime Senator Crane of Massachusetts will be mustered into, service as the political scout of the administration. After a long con ference with the president yester day It was said that the senator would make a tour of the west and far west for the purpose of feeling the political pulse. Whether the cancellation of the numerous engage ments for the fall means a reversal of the president's travel policy or not could not be learned. Political Consideration Dead. Political considerations may have had a great deal to do with the., president's decision. It would be difficult for the president to travel through the doubtful states in Sep tember and October without being drawn into the campaign, or at least having his speeches construed into polftical utterances. In a speech at Rockland, Me., the other day Mr. Taft said he did not believe a presi dent of the United States had a right to talk politics and that his only plat form should be "patriotism, love of country and prosperity for all." In the list of wholesale cancella tions announced there were three omissions. The president will go to Provincetown, Mass., on Aug. 6, to review the Atlantic battleship fleet and to speak at the dedication of the Pilgrim's monument. . He has left open the question of whether or not he will speak at the national conser vation congress which meets In St. Paul Sept. 5-7 and at the unveiling of the Reed monument in Portland, Me., on Aug. 11. St. Paul May De Exeeptfoa. The chances are that the president will go to St. Paul. There has been so much said and written on the subject of conservation that a desire to place himself on record once for all may impel the president to speak at the conservation congress. If he attends the congress he will have the first say. Colonel Theodore Roose velt will speak on Sept. 6 or 7. Gov ernor Eberhardt of Minnesota, Frank D. Kellogg and others will be at Beverly on Monday to urge the pres ident to speak at theSt. Paul gath ering. Concerning the cancelation of his western and southern trip this fall and his forthcoming visit to Panama it was said that the president finds himself confronted with conditions which have required him to rear range his program for the fall be tween Sept. 1 1 and December, when congress meets. The very great number of Import ant legislative acts of the present congress have imposed upon him ad ditional executive duties requiring a i great deal of . Investigation and ad I ministrative supervision of work. So much is this the case that the presi dent has found It Impossible to make certain engagements which he hoped to make at a time when he could not anticipate the extent of the burden of official duties for the fall. I'lnehot for (Jovrrnorf New York, July 30. Glfford Pln chot, former chief forester under Theodore Roosevelt, took place yes terday upon the list of possible can didates for the republican nomina tion for governor of New York, and Roosevelt was asked to support bis candidacy. Although the ex-president is carefully suppressing every thing which resembles an outspoken declaration in favor of any candidate he showed great Interest In this lat est boom and it is believed he doe not look unkindly upon it. t Fight for Picture. Chicago. July 30. Judge Dupuy oi the superior court today agreed to bear a mandamus suit seeking to comprl the city to permit exhibition of the Jeffries-Johnson fight pictures.