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SIXTY-SECOND YEAR. NO. 195.
WEDXKSDAY. JUXE 4, 1913. -FOURTEEN PAGES.
PRICE TWO CENTS.
AD NEWS TO ifiEW TURN BY
YS WIN IN
TRUSTS HARD
STOCK BLOW
LXlHi
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i THE MOUNTED ELK IN GRAND COURT !
STATE CIVIL
SERVICE BILL
UP TO HOUSE
DR
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FIRST CLASH;
BILLPASSED
Residence District Meas
ure is Adopted by Illi
nois Assembly.
LOBBY PR RE
V
New York Exchange Has j
Wildest Hour Since
1907 Panic.
FLOOD FOR THE MARKET
Declines Greatest in Standard '
Shares, Quotations Being i
Ignored.
Kev York, June 4. Excitement on
the rtocl: exchange during the f.rst
hour of today's market was probably i
Ilt'.Jt parallel siinco the panic of 1
Stocks U'erally poured rut re
gardWs of quot.'d jirh-.es wih de-
rliri's prr-atest In the Standnrd .
tharcs. Or.o of the main factors m;;k-,
lr:g for liquMatlon was th over night :
news from Washington it.d.cuiing a ' tors and will plunge into the exaraiua
radical attitude of the ndniri.-tration ; tioa of eo-cslled lobbyists.
in connf't.lou with American Tobacco I
conmanv and the Standard Oil rom. I
panv. Another n.f!uenee was decid-''
ediv lower prices in London before :
the hour of oi'T.it.. All nd'.lces from :
London and vt)li:;;.ntal fmamial eea-: retary of the so-calird wholesale gro
tern indicated lucre.-d ie; ImiHin. c-rs' committee: Henry G. Oxnard,
Inquiry anion;; lo-al banka ami trust
comiiaiii.n f. tn eii.it nr.v R,ni.!Kao G. Fclrncr are smo'ig those fori
faory explanation f r a further
slump of prices abroad excent th".
note of extreme, conservatism sounded
In those quartern.
Within tho tlrst hour fuIs of stocks
were ."00,000 shares, end 00 new low
records tv Hip year were made., with
losses of 2 to 4 poluts a-:iong stand
ard iues. Averar'- prlres were at
the lowest point uince tho p;.r.ic of
19'7.
There were several feeble ralbe
after an hour, but seNrig
Kithpred
greater merueiituui- before nr-ou and
lower pr.e" r r'-tt!r"d prn tit-ally
throughout the lit. The agi-regate t
sal.s of the t.ioni'n spt;'on was well
in cx'-eFs f a half null'on shares.
Miti:voi.n. 11 s skw im.av
Washington. J). ('., June 4. Attor-
r.ey General Mcltevnolds has a nlaa
to cure aomo of the allege evils of i 'na:-;r I.ar.e pr.ld ho did not con
the tobacco trust which be believes j f'lrr ,T:P" who rnllpd on h,ra lobbyists,
the suprenie courts dissolution did not bl1t i'1 110 believed monpy wns being
reach.. lt Is to tax the output of to-! ,,SP'1 ,r-v to convince th people that
baceii fuctoii.-s on a sliding scale ia j ta(i tfects would fellow the tariff bill,
such a way that the bl- manufactur- : McCuirber said no one attempted to
ers will pay more and mors as their j Influence him. and he kn( w of no raon
output Increases. U Is said McRpy-jCy or maintenance of a lobby,
nolds talked the plan over w ith Pres'-! Newland and Perkins said th
dent V:lon and tho cabinet, and ; lnew no'hing of any lobby.
fhortly will submit it tx rhairman
Muitnons of the senate finance com
mittee. IM1KPKMIFAT OV PI. IMVO.
While uth a plan of taxation could
not be called a tariff for revenue only
measure. Mclteynotla conttnds It is
an emergnecy measure devised to
meet plena of th independent tobacco
manufacturers that the dissolution of
the "trust" has not relieved them of
a situation which, they say, threatens
to place thim as much in danger as
they were from th "tnut" before It
dlsrolved. McKeytioIiis is still consid
ering the advisability of beginning an
Investigation to determine whether
the decree of dissolution of the tjbac
co trust Is being violated.
McRoynoiia today declared te had
always regarded the final decree In
tended t dissolve the "tobm co trust"
as an obvious subterfuge and miscar
riage of Justic and that if tjiere was
nuy proper and just way l.e could cure
it he would do (t. As an immediate
?ep hn is considering proposing to
i'gress a raduutecT"axiia tax oa
tobacco manufacturers.
BURGLARS START
A S20MJ00 BLAZE
Chicago, Jucp 4. A four-story build
ing in Kittofc avenue extending three
blocks along Wade street, was de
Uroyed tarly this morning by a sp
taeu'.ar f.re, cntatlmjr a loss c,f.$2.0.
000. The fctructure was unoccupied,
having recently been vacated. The
blaze is believed to have been started
by thieves. Occupants of 20 dwellings
In Wade street Ced from their homes,
several of which caught fire. One fire
man was severely injured.
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II
'HELLO BILL!''
Sixty Men Identified With j
Suqar Interests Are
Called.
SENSATION IS CAUSED
Wilson's Answer to General I
' Denials Given by Senators
on Stand.
Washinston, D. C, June 4. Tee i
lobbyhunt took on a new and seusa-'
1 tional f,;rn today when the senate be-I
I gan issuing subpoenas for nearly sixty
men, said to be idcntrGed with sugar
interest.-, a i:nnii); r of sergeants-at-I
arms started out today to summon the
'witnesses for next" week, by whien
time the investigators will nave Iin
ithed taking the testiniony of sena-
It is generally , assumed here that
Prerid - - nt Wilson furnished the namos I
01 thofce about to be subpoenaea.
Prank C. Lowry. known in legislative 1
circles aa a "free- sugar" man and sec-
of tiJ, bof'1 Sugar men, and Tru-
w hom rummonses have been issued.
Many ct me pres.dents triends pre-
diet the new turn of affairs will
the president's rnswer; to the testi
mony of many senators that they have
seen no lobbyists in Washington end
know of 011 attempts to influence
congressmen against the, Underwood
bill. While the committee Is prepar
ing for the examination of new wiv
netees, eenators will continue to be
examined. When the commi'tee reas-
rembiea today it hp.d nearly call or
me.
tenate still waiting.
lT.HtH (.iks xmi:s.
fvrrf se today vj l-'i a list of l..f0
Bdi'ouaI mmxf. ew"rin-r
Iirf - rso - i who visited him
vhil'1 the
! I'ayne-A' lrlch was being framed,
at.d all his allers ditrlriR the rfi-
Sanatcr Xorris sa'd, "In a general
way. I assrme there is and has been,
a lob')y here." Stephenson said he
was Intere sted in the lumber business
and was in favor of free lumber. H
knew nothing cf mc.ney beir.? us?(j and
never met any one he considered a
lobbyist.
Senator O'Gorrnan said frcm Z'l') to
400 manufacturers, importers, attor
neys and employes .had calied cn him,
tut he had not tried to keep a 1-st.
"I-obbyist, as i understand it. Is one
who makes a business of inducing cr
preventing legislation. I have met no
such person since the beginning of
thU tariff discussion."
THINKS HUSBAND
A BURGLAR; KILLS
Chicago, June 4. John Van Keuren,
52 years old, was shot and instantly
killed today by his wife lxjuia, from
whom he had been scparat.d. when
he attempted to force an entrance to
her heme in East Sixty-tirst street.
Mrs. Van Keuren told the police she
believed a burglar wes attempting to
break into her home when she fchot
her husband.
Hrry Var. Keuren. brother cf tho
laln man. called at the police static?;!.
In a hysterical manner he demanded
that the police arrest a man he said
was in the apartment when the shoot
ing occurred and who, he declared,
l.rcd the fatal shot. The pol.ee Ee-r.t
for George Penrose.
Tenrose told the police he had been
lti .Vrs an Keuern's apartment up to
midnlghu but bad bee:, ia no trouble, i
The woman waa locked v.p bv tt9,
lice "
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KING ELh",;
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IllilrlliUkla
IN BALLOON TRIP
Rome. June 4 King Victor Ercman-
uel. together with the principal aide
de camp. General Brusati. today made
a f.ight In a military dirigible balloon
at the army flying ground at Brec-
clano, 20 miles frcm the city. The , raoned tie parliamentary police, who
king was greatly interested la the ! ejected some of the more disorderly
throw-leg of bombs from the balloon ! deputies and persuaded others to de
against fixed and movable urgeu on j part The fiiltia later forraaliy ad
the ground. ' jjourned.
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VAR ' PENALTY
Peris,
the grc;
Jur.e 4. Fifty delegates of
I Kuropean powers and the
Balkan stales met at the French for
eign oliie, today to settle financial
Questions arising in Turkey and espe
cially to determine what portion of
the Ottoman debt nusijje taken over
by the Ua'.kar. ar.is.-s. They will con
sider the question of war indemnity.
s rr "7 r. s f?
San Antcr.io. Texas, June 4. It is
repcrted that Matamoras, Jiexico has
surrendered to Gtneral Blanco, com-
I nsaader of tl.e constitutionalists at
C:'6i) this moiaing without further
t.ghtiug. '
5Tex.co Cty, June 4. . thousand
federal rolUiejs luc.iidi:; a detacn-
ZJt Li z mi r.
db Mm
ri'Mi". cf artillery will l?ave today on ! and Boyeur and a n.-ck Let ween Aboy
a -gunboat for Matamoras in in at- j eur and Louvois. The 15 runners got
tempt to reotct.ry the ;on.
W;.:hIngto:i. 1. C, June 4. Artaj
officers and dip'.o;nutjj foro"e in the
rebel capture cf Matamoras a tre
mendous vantage for the Carrunza
ccnsUtuticridliets agcinst the Huerta
government. Agents of Carrar.za ia
thi? country have beta accumulating
thousands of dollars worth of onwiii-
nilie-ns cf war awaiting the capture of;
a pert of entry. ;th Matamoras ia
tr.eir pessefsien, tho rebels would have
a gateway .
WILD SCENES IN
HUNGARY'S HOUSE
Bud&cest. June 4 Scenes of (rreat
disorder occurred when the Hungarian
premier, ur. iaai.-;u.us von L."j-.&a, to-
; djy amtcuuc. d Lis resignation from
- .,
,li T,f . , w01'"
cf t!,c .tt.r? c! to ctae: o!,
dfputies. Tiie premier deterraiae.d to;
resign owing to ths aciiuittal of Depu-1
ty I)efi'-S ln a i';t tar criminal libel;
jbroug.it against him for accusing the!
jprem:er ct corrupuoa m connection'
with some contracts w iih the bank of I
Hungary- j
I A violf at uproar arose v. hen the pre-;
mier speko today. Von Lukas and;
1 Ccur.t Ti -::a speaker of the chamber, j
were greeted with insulting epithets.!
; The speaker waa utterly unable to!
; Veep order, members bringing their !
j desks atd shouting ir.ceti-Aitly. Tis;a '
j order the sitting 6ut traded and sura-
m
I Epsom, England, June 4. A sensa-!
i tional suffragt-i outra3e involving the
! death of a woman occurred during Uie
, . . .. , , . , I
running of the derby here todav. i
w uiie -rung ueore r norse Anmer
waa rounding latieuham corner,
woman rushed onto the course and;
clutched thi reins of uii hrtrsp uhicli
clutched the reins of the horse, which
fell and tramplc-d her so badly she
died shortly afterwards from the in
jury. .
Jockey Jcnes was unable to disen
gage himseif i'rom the stirrups and
fell to the ground racily injured. The
woman was uaidentiied.
There were 34j original entries for
stakes of $;j2.50i. The time of
Ciaganour for the mile and a half
was 2 minutes 37 3-5 seconds. There
was
away to a good start. Johnny Reitf
rode Craganour. The race was wit
nessed by a brilliant party, including
the king and queen, Duke of Con
uaught, the crov n prince and rrincess
cf Sweden, Prince Christian and Prin
cess Victoria of Schteswig-Holerein.
The king's horse is not dead but i3
seriously injured.
Emily Davidson asFauUod the B
: I'si minister at Aberdeen station, mis-1
j 'aUing h!m for David Lloyd George,
j She has been fo'ir.d hidden in the
ho:;e of common three times.
l"p?oin. Eaglar.d, June 4. C. Bowe.-
Iniay's Criiganour, the f ivorite, won
I the derby today. A. Royeuer was sec
j ond and LiOuvois tV.ird. Fifteen ran.
i Today's race shattered two Icr.g
j standing precedents. There was no
i American-owned, horse among the
1 starters end no "oddrs on" favorite for
the classic event. Betting was heavy.
Cmgar.our was quoted at 5 to -
ag .inst. The weather was perfect- this
morning and all routes leading froa
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London to ti e historic Eosom n,wr.tl1'ortMst Tl" ' P
were crowded from the earliest hn,.r
Thcuspnd-- of American visitors f.ock
(1 to the ccurse. T113 king and queen
'HELLO BILL!'
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LGIM HOSPITAL
S;jringfield, III,
Drks, assistant
June 4. Dr. B.
surerintendent of
tho Elgin state hospital, was today re
moved from that position by the state
civil service commission for insubor-
U"""K,U towaru UT- "lnw" bu,'",m'
indent of the hospital. Charges were
! Purred against Dr. Dirks by the 6jts
board or administration,
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Miss Estella X if richer of Chicago, a
special inspector in the state factory
& I h- :riection denartmrnt waa alsn re.
- ,oved bv the btate civil service com-
niisEion toaay ror lnsuoorainaiion to
ward Harney Cohen, state factory in
spector. The charges were preferred
by Cohen.
joined the throngs of their subjects
gathered to see the king's horse Amen-
tr, compete."
An objection was lodged against
CragaTionr lor bumping in the
Ktraights, and it Has sustained by the
stewards, who awarded the r3ce to
Aboyeuer. Louvcis was placed second
and Nimbus, a French horse, third.
The starting prices were: Craganour,
G to 4 against; Aboyeuer, 10 to 1
against; I.nuvois. 10 to 1 against.
Later the stewards issued a correct
ed summary in which they placed
Great SpOt third and Nimbus fourth.
SOU SQUAD
HNE-HOEI
London, June 4. Damage ercecdin-;
? 73,000 was done early today by the
i suff rage t "arson fcquad," w hich set fire
to a newly constructed but unoccupied
mansion at Westv.ood, near Trow
bridge, Wilt.ii.lre.
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THE WEATHER
II
Forecast Till 7 p. m. Tomorrow, for
' Rck 'eland, Davenport, Moline,
r.d Vicinity.
resettled weather with probable
showers late tonight or Thursday.
i Warmer tstv'sLt with moderate wind.
t i euaixri Till u. k ai i i- in. ux, j.if-ur-i,
-7-.. . - . .. . f I ..,...
SIIFAR
rlRhS
j,V yesterday, 21;. lowest last tight, 54. 1 maTiufacturer wag the vlc'hn of an faf
I Velocity of wind at 7 a. m., 4 tailes I leged attempted blackmail by John J.
aa hour.
) Precipitation, nore.
Relative tumidity at 7 a. m., 7, and
'at 7 p. m., 4S.
Stage of water, 8.6. ' No change ia
last 43 hours.
J. M. SHERIEE. Local Forecaster.
ASTRONOMICAL EVENT8.
Eveain? star: Mercury. Jloreltii !
rtsrs: Venus. Sntnrn. Mam. .lcplTer. j to get $30,000 frcm Atteaox. When
PUcet Saturn ia conjunction with tie j be refuzed Breea resorted to b:ack
Kooa. 1 maiL .
is
Reported Favorably by
Committee.
DEMANDS EXAMINATION
Employes Blanketed by Deneen
Required to Take, a New .
Test.
Springfield, 111., June 4. The house
i civil service committee, today report
ed, with a-favorable recommendation,
Kasserman's civil service bill, making
the tenure of civil service office hold
ing four years.
The bill also requires nil civil serv
ice employes blanketed in two years
ago by the Deneen administration to
pass examinations. Two senate bills
were also Reported favorably by the
civil service committee. One increas
es the salary of the president of the
I civil service commission from $3,000
to $4,000 and provides that the com
mission may fix the salary of its sec-
t retary. Another gives veterans of the
Spanish-American and Phillipine wars
the same civil service rights as are i
enjoyed by veterans of the Civil war.
The bill introduced by Harris before
lie was unseated designed to correct
evils in the civl service laws and
striking particularly at 60 day appoint
ments, was reported back with a rec
ommendation that it do not pass, and
the bill was ordered upon the table.
UKAItV WIXS FIGHT.
Senator Hearn made a fight and .got
his bill making a $0,000 appropriation
for the strengthening of the Illinois
river levee .at Naples on the calendar
after the appropriations committee
bad recommended tabling the measure.
All house bills passed yesterday, In
cluding the act revising the Chicago
LrauniclpaL court, were reported to the
senate this morning. The municipal
court bill was sent to second reading.
together with Representative Pldg
eon's bill carrying an appropriation for
county fairs. All others were referred
to the appropriations committee. ..
nn. is awaxt.d.
Among bills advanced from second
to third reading in the senate this
morning were:
(Campbell) Requiring health cer-
'tiflicates before marriage.
I (BcalU Increasing the cost of prlnt,-
ling tax assessments from 3 and 5 cents
to 5 and 10 cents.
(Madigan) Giving garage owners a
jlien on automobiles for pay for repair
supplies.
A ni--riTi n irvTic nnm mt'f too'l - A r nrn.
priating $30fl,wo for the Panama - Pa -
ciflc exposition.
NEW MKASCIi.ES OFFERED.
Rills were introduced in the senate
and referred to committees as follows:
(Canaday) Appropriating $5,000 for
a monument to former Governor Car-
'lin at Carrollton.
(Womack) By
request, repealing
the harbor act.
j (linrrt Giving the sanitary district
of Chicago authority to contract with
the Illinois and Michigan commission-
ers for power.
FURTHER CUTS IH
TARIFF MEASURE
Washington, D. C, June 4. Con
trary to expectation and . precedent,
the tariff bill, when It comes from the
democratic majority cf senate prom
ises to carry lower rales than when i
it passed the house. There will be'
some increases in rates on cotton 1
yarns and more expensive textile fab-j
rics, such as tapestries, greater than
agreed upen by the subcommittees,
but in chemical, mettl, agricultural
and sundries schedules, practically all
the revision has been fcr decreases
ond the free list wi'.l bo considerably
enlarged.
HEAR BLACKMAIL
CHARGE AT TRIAL
The defense
Boston, Mass., June 4.-
of Frederick Atioaux In the dynamite
. ... .i ..IT... V. . . . . V, . ,t .-
; j.i cil j iitai .ucgea tuai iiik ujd
I Breeu, who confessed to planting dy
! aamite at Jawreace to throw sus-
plrion of contemplated violence upon
the textile strikers. Attcaur tooi ihe
stand- in hia own defense today.
Attorney Oakley said it would bo
shown that after civil suits had bees
instituted against Brecn by persons
arrested when planted dynamite was
fcur.d ca their premises. Breea scusht
Kasserman Measure
CAMPBELL SUPPORTER
Net a Single Vote to Spare in
Adoption Row Over
Utilities.
Springfield. 111., June 4. The drys
won the first scrimmage today in the
"wet and dry" fight in the nous
when'they succeeded In passing the
residence district bill without a sin
gle vote to' spare. The measure re
ceived 77 affirmative votes, a fair
constitutional majority, while 69
votes were cast against it Camphell
voted for bill.
MINISTER OPPOSES.
Representative Lloyd of Chicago, a
progressive and a clergyman, voted
against the residence district bill. Ex
plaining his vot", he declared he was
more a man than a clergyman, and
said he would rather see Illinois free
than sober. "I always have been on
the side of the warmhearted good fel-
lows," continued the clergyman-legislator.
'T have sat with my friends
and drank a glass of beer and will do
it again. I am here to serve my in
dependence and maiihood. I have done
more In 30 years to rescue drunkards
than most men, but 1 would rather
see Illinois free than sober."
block' at a time.
The residence district-bill was de
clared by its enemies the worst thing .
that possibly could have happened to
Chicago. Under it the city can be
gerrymandered one block' at a tima
into dry territory. Whar a block be
comes dry under the bill, a resident ia
the block cannot even give, an ortffer
from his house, nor ctr-trsy-dVlivery
be made within a block. It is said
the district bill is far more severe
than either tho search and Belzure bill
or the county option measure.
The "drys" declared that the resi
dence dlstrkt bill is only one of a
dozen "dry" measures that will pasa
the house.
Members of the house public utili
ties committee at the morning session
got into a row over the question of
lemoving the "home rule" clause from
the administration bill and the meet
ing was adjourned by Chairman Rapp
under the gavel, after the committee
13 said to have voted to strike out
section 82, the "home rule" clause.
Gorman made the motion to strlka
out section 82. A motion then was
! .ada to .table Gorman motion
The motion to table was lost by 13 to
11. With the purpose of saving the
bill until more members of the com
mittee could be present, Rapp ad
journed the meeting summarily over
the protest of the 13 comimtteemen
who had voted against tabling th
Gorman motion.
I(tlla BODY (OVTIMED.
The house committee which 'Inves
tigated home finding institutions and
made its report yesterday is to ba
continued for the next two years, un.
der a resolution adopted by the house .
today, providing the joint commis
sions of the house and senate mem
bers carry on a more extended in
quiry than the house committee wa3
able to make In its limited time. Tho
resolution that passed the house pro
vides for a joint commission of eight
members, five from the house ap
pointed by the speaker and three from
the senate, appointed by the execu
tive committee. The resolutions
among ether things direct the commis
si' n to ascertain If corporations or
ganized not for profit are engaged in
proper charitable pursuits. The com
mission In emnnwered 10 mimmnn wit.
j ... ", nrrvWtlnn of
locks.
papers and documents. It is
prebabie the senate will concur with
the house In adoption cf the resolu
tion. Sr. Paul After dally appeals
through the marl to Mrs. Marguerite
Logan Curl, recovering from wounds
inflicted by ber husband, Mrs. V. J.
Curl of Paris, III., mother of John
I Curl, obtained permission to bury ber
i son. 1 uri snot tils bride ana commit
! ted suicide while being eought by fed-
t eral officers for misuse of the malla.
' The bo!J be 6f'ni 10 Paris.
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'HELLO BILL!'