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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1912. TWELVE PAGES.
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BRYANTAKES
TRAIL AFTER
THEJCOLONEL
Nebraskan Will Tour for
Wilson at His Own
Expense.
The Weather
J
TO START SATURDAY
Forecast Till 7 P. M. Tomorrow for
Rock Island, Davenport, Molina,
and Vicinity.
cay. Not much change in tempera
ture. Highest temperature yesterday, 79.
lowest last night. 65. Temperature a
7 a. m, 59.
Wind Telocity at 7 a. m., one mile
per hour.
Precipitation In the last 24 hours,
none.
Relative humidity at 7 p. m., 58, at
7 a. m., 67.
Stage of water, 6.8, with a rise of
.2 of a foot In the last 24 hourB.
J. M. S1IEKIEH, Local Forecaster.
A8THONOWICAL EVENTS.
(Trom noon today to soon tomorrow.)
Sun acta 6.14. rte 5;39. Evening
stars: Mrrrurr. Tenns. Mars. Jupiter.
Morning star: Saturn.
Democratic Candidate Speaks CRAMPTON FOP. A BUREAU
ATTORNEY IS
HELD SLAYER
OF AWOMAH
Formal Murder Charge
Against B. W. Gibson
in Gotham.
PROTESTS INNOCENCE
to Biggest Crowd of Cam
paign in New York.
ON CREDIT PROTECTION,
Detroit, Mich., Sept. 12. Organiza
tions affiliated with the American
Accused Takes Client Boating
on Greenwood Lake and
She Is Drowned.
FLYER PAUL PECK
KILLED 111 A FALL
Aviator Tries Corkscrew Glide
From 1,000 Feet Up and
Dashes to Earth.
IS WITNESSED BY CROWD
First Fatality on Eve of the Opening
of International Meeting at
Chicago.
New York, Sept. 12 William Jen
nings Bryan today notified democratic
national headquarters here hp would
start, next Saturday on a speaking
tour, following closely on Colonel
Iloosevelt's trail, lie makes the trip
at his own expense.
Wfl.tO T TTE FAIR.
Syracuse. N. Y . Sept. 12. Governor
Wilson reached here thin morning
with ActiriK Chairman McAdoo of the
nat ional commit ten and Norman E.
Hackers' association are expected to
conclude their conventions today. A
number of reports remained to be dis
posed of and several addresses are
scheduled to te made. Among the ad
dresses before the savings bank sec
tion was one on "The Savings Rank
and the Community," by John J. Pul-
leyn of New York. !
I Speaking before the rational con-!
! vention of state secretaries today, '
; Richard L. Crampton of Chicago, sec-:
' retary of the Illinois Bankers' associa-
tion, proposed a central bureau of!
Chicago, Sept 12. Paul Peck, prac
ticing In bis Columbia-Gyro biplane at
Cicero field for the international avia
tion meet that begins today, dove
rpirally Into the ground to his death
at twilight yesterday.
From an altitude of 1,000 feet Peck
entered the perimeter of a corkscrew
glide that alarmed aviators below for
its abruptness,- Descending faster
than 100 miles an hour he found his
tilt so steep he could not "come out
of the spiral." :
New York. Sept. 12. Burton W. k UIldred at the aerodrome was held
Gibson, a New York lawyer, whose i motionless for a minute after the rip
client, Rosa Menschik Szabo, lost her ping crash. Then all swarmed to the
life while hunting with him in Green- i inert debris of man and machine.
REBELS PLAN
FIGHTTODAY
EARBORDER
Federals Rush Thres
Loads of Troops to
Meet Attack.
ENTRAINED AT EL PASO
REPUBLICANS IN
MARYLAND SPLIT
Regulars Put Through State
Slate and Remove Roose
velt Electors.
MOOSE TO GET BUSY ALSO
J.JOHNSON'S
VHTE
II
WIFE
Petitions In Circulation to Put
Colonel's Name on the
Ballot.
the
IS ASUIGIDE
Shoots Self While Gay
Party Drinks in Hus
band's Cafe.
Insurgents Lose Heavily
Couchillo Forced to
Wade a River.
at
Marfa, Texas, Sept 12. The battle
of Ojlnaga s still In progress, ac
cording to reports received today. The
federals defending the town are ex-
UNITED THEY STOOD
credit to "protect commercial bank
Mack, former national chairman. The, 1 lr-""
party went to a hotel. where they met The clearing house sect.on today
Governor Dix am! his staff. D.x and -lted Ralph Van echten of Ch.ca
the presidential nominee chatted a . g' president.
few minutes before leaving for the
dei.v-i $400,000 IS NOV RAISED
state fair grounds, where they
red an address.
Wilson talked politics at the state j
fair before the largest crowd that has'
jet gathered to hear him in his cam-1
plum i lie speech wan devoted cnier
ly to the tariff.
Illl. II T4KII-K PRICES.
Wilson said: "They nay prices have
ritien all over the world. Yes, they
have, and they have risen faster and
higher iu high tariff countries than 1n
low tariff countries. Statists s show
the I'nited States is burdened with
the high cost of living as no
country in the world Take the price
of meat, for int-.tane.o The price of
meat has gone up I'.O and 4o per cent
in lit years in this country and the
price of American n eat has not gone
up ft fraction of
London markets."
i. a Koi.i.K.Trr. o Torn.
Washington. Sept 12.--Senator I .a
I'ollette left Washington for a west
ern tour wher.' it is expected he will
enter actively into the campaign for
the progressive camlldat.es on the
mule tickets He made no comment
ueiion ,,f the wiMconHin nro-1 -;-8 this morning. Ihe movement
gressives vesterday in declaring tho 1 occasioned no damage or excitement,
lew progressive party represented thi:iht h"(k were reported as far as
'tiationnjization of Wisconsin progres-
Metfiodists Have This Amount To
ward Large Fund for Education.
Decatur. 111., Sept. 12.- Tlie Illinois
conference of the Methodist Episcopal
church yesterday opened its formal i
business session. Dr. Joseph Har-i
kert, president of the Illinois Wo- I
man's college at Jacksonville, an-j
nounced that $Sfifi.nnn had been raised;
' in personal gifts the past year toward j
the educa! lov.al fund to be raised
I jointly by the Central Illinois and Illl- j
other nois conferences In five years. Gov-1
ernor J. Frank H.tnley of Indiana ad-1
dressed the l.iy men's col, Terence, and j
I'r. Thomas Nicholson of New Yorl:
city spoke to the conference las-t ,
night. Hishop William F. Matthews
a rent per poirna in or i mcago, wno is prPB'.aing, is presi
dent of the national board of education.
SLIGHT EARTHQUAKE IS
FELT AT SAM FRANCISCO
San Francisco, Cal., Sept. 12. A
slight earthquake was fel there at
The
San Jotso.
mi is in.
Hopvr.l.T i oni-.;o
l.agrundo. Ore. Sept. 12. Roosc
x 1 1 spoke on irrigation hero today.
He speaks In llois-e tonight.
JOHNSON ltll IKI TOIH.
Milwaukee, Wis. Sept. 12. Govern
or Johnson today started across Wis-
(onsin on a speaking tour. During the!
Cay tie win spcuK Ul .viauisou, nara
boo, Keedsburg. Elroy, Sparta a.id j
Crosse, and tonight at Winona, Minn.
RAYMOND MURDERED, IS
CORONER JURY VERDICTi
Chicago, Sept. 12. Arthur Ray-
moud, known to the baseball public!
as "lings.'' died of "internal hemor- j
rages and Injuries to his brain due to
external violence." according to th-
erdict of a coroner's Jury to:ay. Fred
( v(CTOY ) p2i
Clgrang was held to the grand jury
accused of causing Raymond's death.
Taft and Roosevelt followers
over the presidential electors.
in Vaine united on the governorship, but are now preparing for a bitter fight
FORMER RICH MERCHANT
SLAYS WIFE; SUICIDES
Wallace. Idaho. Sept. 12. The body
of Charles Keil. 74. said to have been
a vivs.lt hy Minneapolis merchant at
one time, and thut of his wife were
found in a mountain cabin near Mur
ray today. Keil evidently shot his
wife, washed the wounds, banked her
body with flowers, knelt by her side
and blew out his brains.
CRUSHED TO DEATH ON
15TH FLOOR OF BUILDING
Chicago. Sept. 12. While standing
on an iron beam swung above the 15th
floor of a building under construction.
Nets Nelson, au iron worker, was
-rushed to death today. The beam
slippod through a sliug of a derrick
and foil.
NAME RECEIVERS
FOR U. S. MOTORS
542,500,000 Automobile Hold
ing Concern Is in Finan
cial Difficulties.
wood lake. New York, July 16, was ar-
rested today by Deputy Sheriff De
graw of Orange county on a warrant!
charging Gibson with murder in the !
lirst degree. i
Gibson issued a statement reassert
ing his Innocence and insisting there'
had been no struggle either in a boat j
or in the water. Gibson, speaking of!
incidents attending the drowning of
Mrs. Szabo. declared that when she ;
came up from beneath the surface;
of tie water, ha "certainly did not ;
clutch her by the throat, and there
was no war bv which she could have '
r.et8 session of the national encamp- die(1 in that mainer." Evidence sub-i
ment of the Grand Army opened to-;n.inf)j before County Judge Rovce of
,day with the annual address of Com-, Middletown was to the effect thati
n.ander in ( hier Trimble and reports ' Mrg SzaDO was so Injured before she ;
of other officers. Committees were fell into the water she never breathed
il.feO tlCara. sf.,.r sl-u ,aA ci.nlr lulnir tha enrfue .
GRAND ARMY BUSINESS
SESSIONS ARE OPENED
I.os Angeles, Sept. 12. The btisi-
New York. Sept. 12 Receivers
were appointed today for the I'nited
States Motors company, a $42.50u.O0U
holding corporation organized ia liiOS
t control ten automobile and gas en
gine mauufacturiug companies. Its
directors number some of the best
known capitalists in the country.
Hanker idenUl'.ed with the com-
BALDWIN IS RENOMINATED
Is
Unanimous Choice of Connecticut
Democratic Convention.
rany say proceedings are frienuiy ana or wa unanimoutJ,y r,Mlom.
..rouMu .mi me yujp.. ; cad today at an adjourned
up me company s ar.airs na a ie
to protecting creditors, i ions ior re-(
organization are said to be under way.'
The receivers. W. E. Strong and
Kol.ert Walker, were appointed by j
Ji.dge Hiugh. in an insolvency suit!
tieught in the federal d. strict court j
by F.rown. Sharre & Co , of Krovi-1
dence. R. 1. in Its own behalf and
ItlANUb btrtUM bAVINU ! COLORADO NOT TO HAVE A
STRICKE' FARM HORSES B. M00SB STATE TICKET
Holdrege. Neb.. Sept. 12. County ! Denver. Col., Sept. 12 Returns to-
llealt-h Officer Palmer announces tha , , . . . ,
, , , . , . dav from Tuesday s statewide primary
successful use of tetanus serum in the
treatment of horses stricken with a reversed the victory indicated for the
new disease d.agnosed as meningitis. ' progrtssive republicans by the pre-
! vious returns. The progressive repub
licans nominated only two candidates
Phillip B. Stewart, for governor,
and Attorney General GritfUh, the in
cumbent. It is said today the result
precludes the launching of a complete
Roosevelt progressive party state
ticket. Progressive democrats were
chosen for all state offices, including
Flias M. Amnions, for governor. There
were no contests for presidential elec
tors, the democratic and republican
parlies each selecting six.
John Shaffer lifted Peck from the
wreckage. Chauncey M. Vought, a
young flyer of several weeks' experi
ence, dashed up with a racing auto
mobile he had found in the paddock.
HI Ml IN A I TO XO HOSPITAL.
Shaffer, tall and strong, carried the
living flyer to the car, where he held
him in his lap. Vought drove the
stranger's machine at limit speed out
of the field and down Forty-ighth ave
nue to the St. Anthony de Padua hos
pital at West Nineteenth street and
Marshall boulevard.
On Marshall boulevard three motor
cycle patrolmen attempted to stop the
flying automobile. The aviators paid
no heed to the shouts of the pursuing
men.
At the hospital the motorcycle
squad arrived several minutes after
Shaffer had carried Peck into the in
stitution. The car had gone as fast
session
the democratic state convention.
Other stale officers and presidential
electors were also named and a plat
form adopted.
that of other creditor. In addition
to the appoin' ii'ei.r of tho two re
lilver for the holding company. A
cf its constituent companies were In
volved, namely: Alden Sampson Man
ufacturing company, Detroit; Colum
bia Motor con n.ii . li;tr,Tord. Conn :
Iion Votor o'P..iiy, llajinn.
Ohio; Maxwe'.l T-r.coo coii'.putij. Tar
rjtown, N. Y.
Brakeman Killed.
St. Joseph, Mo. Sept. U. J. E.
Johnson of St. Joseph, a brakeman,
was killed: G L. Williamson, a brake
tr.an. was fatally hurt, and five other
trainmen seriously injured today in
a rear cud collision lt?ten freights.
SCORE OF AVIATORS ARE
AFTER CHICAGO PRIZES
Chicago. Sept. 12. A ten day meet
haiiBted of ammunition supply.
Washington, Sept. 12. Kiigadier"
General Steever telegraphed the war j
department today that Mexican rebels '
under Rojas were planning to finally j
attack Agua Prleta, opposite Douglas,
Ariz., at 10 this morning, mountain'
time. Mexican federals entrained last I
night at El Paso and are being rushed i
to the defense. Coincident with the j
dispatch of reinforcements for the i
i
Mexican federal garrison at Agua Prie-
i
ta, General Steever reported the ar-
i rival at Maco, Ariz., of lmO rifles and
! 500 carbines, with ammunition. They
j will be available for arming Ameri- i
, cans on the border.
j HKIIEI.S l.OfcR AT I Illl I .
I Late advices concerning the fight at
as 65 miies an hour, according to the Couchillo indicate the rebels lost heav
tpeedometers on the motorcycles. !y ln mf,n and suppliM. FwU.raI forc.
Peck, in the relentless spiral, was j
hurled to the ground at 5:45 o'clock, j fc8 drove the enemy before th"m and
He died w ithout recovering conscious- J frced him to ford the Concho river on
ness His wounds consisted of a frac-1 rafts. The rebels, 1.000 strong, were
tured skull crushed arms and legs j beiieved to have been comma bv
and internal injuries. His glasses and ,
goggles w ere ground Into his head. . f)rozco. and were last reported retir
hfoardeo as EiPEKT. in toward Cuahuila,
Peck was 22 years old and a native tiihf.r th.im of fkiikk i..
of Charleston, W. Va. He was re- El Paso, Texas. Sept. 12 Three
rarded as one of the best aviators ; trains bearing about Mexican fed
in America. In memory of his young ralg rft htre i.fcretly during last
wife, who died in childbirth five,nif:hl for Douglas. Ariz., from which
months ago. he wore a band of crape ; tney wm tr0S8 to AKUa i.rie.,a,
.on all his coats. The bsby girl sur-in,,0, K - ot.ci i ;.
tenant Colonel Roberts of the 22nd In
faatxy is in charge of the escort ac
companying th; troop trains The
Baltimore, Md, Sept. 12 An ties
binding the Roosevelt men ln Mary
land to the republican party were sev
ered, yesterday. W nlle tne recon
vened republican state' convention was
In session the progressives were meetr
ing in their headquarters mappfng out
plans for a fight throughout the state.
Progressive leaders, backed by opin
ions of lawyers, declared the recon
vening of the state convention Illegal,
and many delegates elected as Roose
velt men reiusd to attend the session.
The republican convention put
through a state slate without a hitch.
Roosevelt men still remaining on the
electoral ticket were ousted and Taft
men selected.
As soon as Charles J. Bonaparte re
turns the progressive electors will be
chosen. Petitions asking that Roose
velt's name go on the official ballot
ln November are already being circu
lated and a legal fight will be made
for it
MOOSERS FEAR I. A FOI.l.FTrTB.
Milwaukee, Wis., Sept. 12. Fear of
a contest with l nlted States Senator
Robert LaFollette yesterday prevent
ed Wisconsin's first state progressive
convention from naming a state tick
et.
Progressive leaders were foarful
that the nomination of a complete
list of candidates In opposition to the
republican state ticket would not
alone precipitate a bitter state fight
with Senator LaFollette but also
would kill the possibility of support
for the progressive cause of Governor
Francis E. McGovern.
As there was considerable senti
ment in the body of delegates for a
complete ticket, the meraberB of the
committee on nominations last, night
decided on a course of delayed action
to meet the complicated situation.
NOMINATE 1 CONXECTICVT.
Hartford, Conn., Sept, 12. The re
publican state convention yesterday
nominated this ticket,:
For Governor John P. Studley,
New Haven.
For Lieutenant Governor Charles
H. Peck, Danbury.
For Secretary of State Gustaf B.
Carlson, Middleton.
For Treasurer Walter W. Holmes,
Waterbury.
,A platform was adopted which.
aside from praise of President Taft
and his administration, dealt with
state matters, especially thoee having
to do with agriculture and remedial
legislation for workingtnen.
Looking forward tothe renomlnatlon
of Governor Simeon E. Baldwin, dele
gates to the democratic state con
vention gathered in Foot Guard hall
last night. Homer S. Cummiugs, the
national committeeman, who address
ed the convention, aroused the assem
blage to enthusiastic cheers with an
attack on Roosevelt and the progress
ives. THIRD PARTY IX DEI, A V. RE.
Dover, Del., Sept. 12. The progres
sive party in state convention yester-
clay named three presidential electors
and a state ticket, nominated State
Senator Louis A. Drepler of Sussex
ccunty for congress, adopted a plat
form and selected the figure of a bull
: moose as the party emblem,
j The state ticket is headed by
George 11. Hynson of Milford for gov
ernor. Other nominations were:
Lieutenant governor George W.
I Tebo, Dover.
I Attorney general Robert G. Houb
i ton. Georgetown.
' State treasurer Henry Thompson,
i Wilmington.
; Insurance and banking commission
er Arthur A. Wllmot, Claymont.
The platform indorses the declara
tion of principles of the national pro
j gressive party and pledges support to
, Loosevelt and Johnson.
POSITION- OK IIAIM.EV.
Jefferson City, Mo., Spt. 12. In a
BEEN ASOCIAL OUTCAST
Few of Former Friends Had
Anything to Do With Her
Since Marriage. t
Chicago, Sept 12. Mrs. Jack John
son, white wife of the heavyweight
champion pugilist, who shot herself
through the head last night died this
morning, without regaining conscious
ness. Mrs. Johnson's act is attributed
by her husband to a nervous attack,
one of a series from which, she had
suffered for two years. Mrs. Johnson
is also said to have shown symptoms
of tuberculosis. She was to have left
for Las Vegas. N. M.. last night but
decided to abandon the trip. It was
while Johnson was away notifying
friends of the change ln plans that
his wife shot herself.
Last night In her room over the
Cafe de Champion. 41 West Thirty
first street with blacks and whites
singing and drinking ln the saloon be
low, she said to her maids, "Pray for
me," dismissed them, and shot herself
through the head. She was taken to
Provident hospital, where physicians
said there was no chai-e for her re
covery. OltTAIXED DIVORCE IN CHICAGO.
Etta Duryea was for six years tho
wife of the wealthy Clarence Duryea,
who was a member of the clubs In
New York City and lAng Island. In
the spring of 1910 she obtained a di
vorce and the decree was signed by
Judge Cooper in Chicago.
Duryea, a son of John Duryea of the
commission firm of Duryea & Co.,
New York, was then in the Adlron
dacks, where he Is understood to be
now undergoing treatment for tuber
culosis. The woman Is a cousin of
F'oretta Whaley. the girl who eloped
five years ago with the Rev. Jere
Cooke of St. George's Episcopal,
church at Hempstead, N. Y.
Johnson Is understood to have
known the woman for some time be
fore their marriage in Pittsburg, In
January, 1911. She had been popular
in the east and was widely known
among her husband's racing friends
and a considerable circle of her own
friends. She was originally Etta
Terry. Mrs. Johnson has often told
acquaintances of the misery of her
married life.
"Few of my former friends of my
own race will have anything to do
with me," she said at one time. "The
people of my husbaud's color seem to
hate me. His own family treats me
as an interloper, merely seeking his
money. It Is misery."
PRESENT TO SECRETARY
KNOX FROM Y0SHIHIT0
Toklo, Sept. 12. American Secre
tary of State Knox, who Is here to at
tend the funeral of the late emperor,
was today presented with a handsome
ly embroidered screen by Emperor
Yothihilo.
GARB QUESTION IS
A CASE FOR TAFT
President Takes Persona,'
Charge of Indian S&hool
Controversy.
Washington, Sept. 12.--Presido
speech to the republican platform com-: Taft has taken personal charge of the
vives. Peck was a colonel on the staff
of Governor Glasscock of West Vir
gicia.
Bismark Was a Cock.
J. M. Piemark. new manager of the
fra room at the Ynutis & McComhs de
partn.. r.t s'ore v. as no! a chef at the
New Harper before taking up his new
duties. lie was a cook.
mittee yesterday afternoon, after the
adoption of the platform on which the
state campaign will bo waged. Gover
nor Herbert S. Hadley unequivocally
declared for the state ticket, an-i
promised to explain later his attitude
on the national ticket.
A resolution demanding that A. D.
Norton resign as judge of the St.
Louis court of appeals because he had
accepted tha nomination for governor
or, the progressive ticket was defeat
ed at the soli-iT-atioii of John G. Mc
Kinley, republican candidate for gov
ernor, w no reirea s-.icn a resolution .
would only advertise the progressive Chicagoan Acquires Mineral Lands
party. j Wisconsin Failed to Provide for.
, ikmocrih AIo meet. j Madison, Wis, Sept. 12-Hundreds
The democrats aluo held their plat-! of thousands, if not a million dollars,
form convention yesterday. Alter in- have been lost by Wisconsin as a re
tention of permit ting religious garb
to be worn in Indian bchools and at
his-- request Secretary Fisher's utian
I'Mimccd decision and accompanying
papers have been referred by the iu
terior department to the summer
While house at Loverly. Commission
er V 'ntine of the Indian bureau di
rected discontinuance of the wearing
ot religious insignia in Indian Insti.
ti.tions, but on appeal of Catholic
authorities the order was held up.
STATE IS A HEAVY LOSER
I dorsing the records of state and na
tional candidates and democratic
slate officials, the democratic platform
declares for the election of I'nited
States senators by direct vote; home
MANY QUESTIONS HEARD Uu morning.
of the Aero club of Illino1? started D T CUbnAnld I IU bUUTi 1 Krr imr-rn.
this afternoon on Cicero field. More' Vienna. Austria, Sept. 12. Debates: Btverly. Sept. 12 President Taft
than a score of American and foreign j Cn various topics occupied the atten-i today received Chandler P. Anderson,
aviators entered for the prizes, a cere- tion of the Eucharastic conference to- counselor for the state department, j rbie for cities; workmen's compensa-
cat'.r.g j.4.'x". ire rompc-nioD me nay. A papal letter called special at- -no. n is unaerscoou. was preparea 10 ; t,on jaw; commission form of govern
ors! fcur days w il be at Cicero field. tntion to the need for care or the .discuss the Mexican situation. Attor- j ment ; public utility commission: lar.
ar.d w ill be between afrci'tan?. Nest , jo-jr.g lest they be led astray by de-'r.ey Genreal Wickersham and Secre- j erforcement. and removal of derelict
Monday the meet will t to theUeitful teachings and temptations of : tary Macveagh also bad a conference ; clTici.'tls. .The democrats came out: ment of land believed to contain Iron
'(!aie front for the hydroplane races. ' fieeh. 'with the president ' j against the single tax amendment deposits.
Milt of too small i.n appropriation to
the slate, forestry reserve. This fact
has jiii t developed by purchases of
lare tracts of mineral lands In Iroa
and Vilas counties by a Chicago man.
Options upon all this land were held
by the state, but the appropriation by
the last session of the legislature was
not sufficient to permit the acquire-