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THE ROCK ISLAND ARGUS.
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SATU11DA V, JUXK 20, 1914. SIXTEEN PAGES.
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THE WEATHER
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SALARIES ARE NOT CUT
forecast Till 7 P. M. Tomorrow, 1r
Rock Island, Davenport, Molina
and Vicinity..
; 1'aseUled tonight and Sunday;
j warmer.
j Highest temperature yesterday, 68;
J lowest last night, 45; temperature at
i 7 a. in., 61.
Wind velocity at a. m. nine miles
per hour.
Precipitation, rone.
Relative humidity at 7 p. m., 44; at
7 a. m., 74.
Kiver stage at a. m., 9:6 feet with
a rise of .2 of a foot in last 24 hours.
J. M. SHEIUER, Local Forecaster.
ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS.
Evening stars: Mercury. Venus,
Mars. Morn! riff stars: Jupiter. Saturn.
The Sickle formed by six stars In con
stellation Leo sets at 11 p. m., nearly
due west.
Efforts of Insurgents to Reduce
Pay cf Officers Defeated
by Convention.
There was great rejoicing
among the employes of the Wood
men head offices when news of the
admm.stration victory, conveyed
to heads of the different depart
ments by telegram, was told today.
Among the first methods of cele
brating the event was to suspend
"Old Glory" from the flagstaff in
front of the ma.n entrance of the
offices.
Many of the employes gathered in
a parlor in the main building and
pano numbers were rendered, songs
sung and dancing indulged in.
It s planned to arrange for some
sort of a celebration when the head
officer, delegates and others of
the administration forces arrive
home from Toledo. While no defi
nite plan has been decided upon
that which is advocated by many is
a huge parade in which a'l of the
"regulars" will participate, meeting
the head officers at the train and
escorting them to the head offices.
tand offered merely as a matter of
form.
James Mc.N'amara of Rock Island,
for head clerk, obtained the largest
vote of any officer elected outside of
George S. Summers of Missouri for
member of the board of auditors,
whose home Insurgents lined up for
him. Mr. McXamara received 300Vi
to IS:;1, for Harry F. Hooper of Okla
homa. Head Consul A. R. Talbot was
j reelected by 292i to 134' for E. S.
' Smith of Illinois.
I The vote on the others varied but
slightly from those given. Following
NAONCLAIMS
PEACE SURER
TH AH BEFORE
Argentina Envoy Talks of
His Meeting With Wil
son and Bryan.
OVERCOME OBSTACLES
i are the officers:
! Head Consul A. Ii. Talbot,
t
Angeles Reported to Have Been
Named by Villa to Suc
ceed Carranza.
BY E. E. EUFFUM.
(Pfx-iitl t 1 I Ant-.
Toledo. Ohio, June -'. Efforts to
speed up the business of the modern
Woodmen head cair.p this mornintr.
with a view of possibly finishing be
fore midnight, struck a fna when the
part of the law committee's report
leaiir.g with rates was readied. The
camp had only fairly gotten to the sub
ject at trie noon recess.
In.'urent leaders in their opening
tontentlocs aj-ked for the obliterating
f old factional lines and the elimina
tion of anything which might breed
Neb.
Head Clerk James McNatuara,
j Rock Island.
I Head Adviser Dan B. Home, Dav
! en port. Iowa.
Head Banker John D. Volz, Indian
apolis. Ind.
! Directors A. N. Bort. Beloit. Wis.;
J E. E. Murphy, Leavenworth. Kansas;
It, R. Smith. Brokfiell. Mo.: F. R.
Korns, Des Moines. Iowa; S. S. Tan
ner. Minier. 111.
Auditors W. D. Nelson. Pierre. S.
D. ; C. F. Lauderback. Fort Scott. Ark.;
M. R. Carrier. Lansing. Mich.; George
S. Summers. Cape Girardeau. Mo.;
George L. Bowman. Kingfisher. Okla.;
J. G. Dickson .""Spokane, Wash.; ii. F.
Turner. WickHfle. Ky.
Head Hscort R. M. McCrackcn,
Grand View, Idaho.
Head Sentry" Frank L. Bennett.
iiage rstown. Md.
Head Watchman J. L. Mayfield,
Granada. Col.
Chaplain Rev. Ilcjiry E. Dunnat-k,
Augusta. Me.
Best of Feeling Prevails.
The election was characterized by
the best of feeling. The evening ses
sion opened with the ringing of pat
riotic air.-s, flags having been passed
out to the delegates. The head consul
accepted a red cedar gavel made at the
sanatorium and given by the Colorado
! delegation. The order of business and
Buffalo. X. T., June 20. "I hare nev
er have been more confident than I
am today of the .ultimate success of
mediation." said-Minister Naon, after
his arrival this morning from Wash
ington. Naon predicted the negotia
tions would continue at least another
twn weeks.
Lincoln. "While I recard the difficulties which
have been encountered as serious."
Naon continued, "there are always dif
ficulties in mediation, and it is the
duty of the mediators to find a way
to overcome them, so peace may be
accomplished."
Naon said he would consult his col
leagues at Niagara Falls tonight, be
fore making any announcement, and
that probably there would be no full
session of the delegates and mediators
until Monday. He found Wilson and
Bryan anxious for the pacification of
Mexico and ready to listen to further
compromises or suggestions out of
which a solution might be found.
The president authorized a brief
statement concerning his .conference
last night with Naon: "The entire Mex
ican question was discussed, wtb the
result that the outlook is more hopeful."
Angeles Proclaimed.
Niagara Falls, Ont.. June 20. The
Mexican delegation here received a
telegram from the consul of their gov
ernment at KI Faso that Villa issued a,
r
WHERE WILL HE KEEP IT?
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A LOOK
MAJES I IU UN
bu 1 1 Uivi; uiMt
LIFEJS10ST
New Steamer of Wisherd
Line Meets Disaster
At St. Louis.
AFTER AN EXCURSION
NEW LEAGUE TO
FIGHT. FEDERALS
Circuit Is to Be Made Up From
Clubs From the Interna
tional and American.
New York, June 20. President Bar
row, who, with other members of the
International league, conferred with
statement to the American people say-
(CoiiiinuM on Page Three.)
197 BELIEVED TO
HAVE DIED IN MINE
luture litigation or contention ana ir-jrules w.re tnPn adopted. The latter
tualiy promi-lng to return home mere- ,.,lniInatod nominating speeches and
3y as Woodmen working together for ; f fforts to amPnd lhem falIed. Past
tr.e unity or tlje society ir in canipj
:;ould adopt their plan which included i
totting more than a return to the old
rates exlstine prior to the Buffalo ;
head camp. ,
For Optional Assessments. j
The sole icsue they had taken with j
tne report of the iaw committee when!
the noon recess came was tiiat tliey
wished to make the monthly assess
ment optional with the directors in-
Head of obligatory, the board to levy,
as formerly, as many as necessary to I
meet the obligations They did not do-!
inand that the $9,000,000 surplus now J
on hand be dissipated. However E. S. I
Smith cf Illinois is contending that the I Lethbridge, Alberta, June 20. After
flxed monthly assessment plan dtter- recovering 20 charred bodies at 9 this
mine tt e society a rate basis under j morning rescuers were driven from
the Mobile law as Inadequate while If : fire Mon BOOQ at the
toe levying were left optional the rate I , ,
would be held adequate under that mln- where an eplioa
act. Past Head Consul Northcott took J yesterday wrecked underground prop-
Issue with Smith on this point and the trty and is believed to have killed 137
men. The bodies cf James Quigley,
mine superintendent, and Fire Boss
i Taypor was recovered. Several bodies
! found erect with picks In hands pinned
Fire Stops Rescuers After 20
Charred Bodies Are Re
covered at Lethbridge.
litter's motion to substitute the old !
Section for the one reported governing
the matter was lost overwhelmingly
by a viva v-e vote. With the subject
till under di.-cusi-ion it is doubtful if
the business of the cariip can be con
clude tonlirht. The dove of peace
was tenrorarli'y driven aay tills
Tiornir.g when a resolution giving
those vofiriR for a $3 per diem rate
pertr.isiion to accept that amount If
they rHW f t Ha;J ,rougct up end finally
pfcfcted
Pay Per Capita Monthly.
Efforts of the insurgents to reduce
tKe salarien of head officers from one
ti.ird to or.e-i.aJf were defeated 300 to
1-9. Ti.e recommendation that mem
bers pay theilr per capita beginning
Jan. l monthly instead of quarterly at
t-e rata of jo t,.uts D"-r inontii was
to walla by timbers and rocks, indicat
ing they had no warning of death.
Later rescue work was resumed and
a total of &5 bodies had been removed
this afternoon. leaving 102 entombed
and given up for dead.
Uege. Belgium. June 20. Two hun
dred coal miners had a narrow escape
from death in the Viellie Marihaye col.
liery near here yesterday when fire
broke out and penned them inside.
iFour hundred men were in tne pit at,
the time, but 2r'0 managed to get out.
The entombed men remained in their
perilous position for hours with the
( fire racing inside the mine, but finally
ade their escape with the aijJ of rea-
ing he had proclaimed General Ange
les provisional president of Mexico.
Washington. D. C, June 20. Min
ister Naon, returning today to Niagara,
bore to the mediators and Huerta del
egates President Wilson's personal ex
planation why the United States
stands squarely on the position out
lined in the recent note of the Ameri
can delegates. Naon, It Is understood,
was much impressed with the force of
the president's views. Hope of offici
als here that a breakdown of media
tion may be averted is based upon the
attitude with which Naon received the
president's reasoning and the manner
he will present it to the other media
tors and the Mexican delegates, at a
meeting Iafe today, which many have
feared would be the final session of the
conference.
Karly today the constitutionalist rep
resentatives. Zubarab and Cabrera,
were attempting to arrange telegraph
ic communication with Carranza, ap
parently to report last night's confer
ence between Cabrera and Naon.
Chao Reported Executed.
Saltillo, Mexico, June 19. General
Felipe Angeles, acting secretary of
war in the constitutionalist cabinet,
was deposed from that position today
by order of Carranza for disobedience
oi or-rs. ine action nas caused a
sensation. Angeles is general of ar
tillery In Villa's army and a strong
Villa partizan. His removal from the
cabinet reduced Angeles to the rank
of general. It is reported General
Manuel Chao. former governor of
Chihuahua, wh'o was replaced by Villa,
has been executed on Villa's orders.
Saltillo. June 18. Carranza' s reply
to the Niagara mediators declining to
arrange an armistice, will be dispatch-!
ed ton!ght or tomorrow. Officials take
the stand that if the constitutionalists
the national commission today, said
the .commission favors establistfment
of a third major league to combat the
Federals. The project is tentative and
is fathered by President Johnson of
the American league.
Confirming Barrow's statement John
son said: "The deal is as good as con
summated. There will be an announce
ment probably within a week."
Clubs from the International league
and the American association will
make up the new circuit.
ilG FIGHT
IN SKY FATAL
TO 9 AIRMEN
Dirigible Ripped By Bi
plane During Austrian
Army Maneuvers.
PREMIER ASQUITH
HEARS SUES' PLEA
Visited at Official Residence by
Deputation of Six Work-,
ing Women.
ALIGHT ON A MOUNTAIN
EXCURSION BOAT
IS LOSTIN HUDSON
T. Havemeyer Party Rescued
by Scow Which Had Caus
ed the Wreck.
Fire Follows Explosion of Big
Ballon and Victims Are
Terribly Mutilated.
Yonkers, N. Y.. June 20. The Tour
ist, an excursion steamer, sank in the
Hudson river, off here, early today af
ter being rammed by a scow. The 30
passengers were transferred to the
scow. The Tourist was a small steam
er and had on board an evening Tiver
party given by J. T. Havemeyer.
GIRL SUES SCHOOL'S HEAD
m
tiw gangs.
SCHOOL CENSUS IS
(Jopt.j ir;,,,ut oppofttion.
.!. ng Woodmen at noon saw prar--icaiiy
ti.e entire f.re department of
Toledo lo as.-1 ion combatting a serious
TolSlngeri NEARLY COMPLETED
Toledo. Ohio. June 20. The ad j The taking of the school census 'a
tn nbstratlon caucus nominees wer' i.i Tk. u .ir n.hi-h
... ai iii ---.'- .
is in charge of F. 9. McCall and K. L.
Phllbrook. will prohably be finished
In another week. The canvassers start
ed In the eat nd of town and have
progress'd as far as Twelfth s'reet
are not represented In the conference
the fault lies with the mediators, as
an armistice Is impossible under ex
isting condition.
Torreon. Mexico. June 20. The last
organizations of the divisions of the
north left here today for Zacatecas.
Villa probably will leave early tomor
row. "In the attack on Zacatecas 2o,-
I 000 men will be employed,' said Villa.
I "I prefer Mexican patriots who en
gage In politics to take the rifle and
help fight Huerta."
elected at last nights
sfclon of thf Woodmen head camp
:thout a hitch, the choice being ef
fected eo t'.at installation took plareat
"'idnight. The insurgents had a com
Mete tleket, evidently arranged hastily
G. F. Baer Estate $2,000,000.
Philadelphia, Pa., June 2. The In
ventory filed in Reading by executors
shows that George F. Baer. late presi
dent of the Philadelphia & Reading
railway, left personal property worth
$.1,055,000 and real estate valued at
1 1 00,000. Mr. Baer left his estate to
j hie family.
Asks $25,000 Damages From Michigan
Normal's President.
Ann Arbor. MJch., June 20. Miss
Mildred Everest sued President
Charles McKenny of the Michigan
Xcpjsjsa.f jjOBilsdA j-8 looqjs reujJo.V
for $25,000 damuges. She alleged she
was dismissed from the institution be-
i cause of malicious gossip and that her
life ambitions were wrecked. Besides,
she ascribes "scandalous utterances"
to President McKenny regarding her
character and nintal condition. In a
similar suit a year ago against Edwin
Chapman, a former fellow student, she
gained a verdict of $400. President
McKenny was a witness for Chapman.
TO INDICT ONE IN
BIG BANK FAILURE
Chicago. III., June 20. Indictment of
at least one official of the ItSalle
Street Trust & Savings bank, the Ixir-Imer-.Munday
Institution, which is in
the hands of a receiver. Is certain, ac
cording to State's Attorney Hoyne.
Vienna, Austria, June 20. Nine
aviators were killed when a mimic war
in the air suddenly turned into tragiq
reality by the accidental ripping of a
dirigible airship by a biplane while
both were flying at great height during
Austrian army maneuvers. Both craft
were destroyed and the occupants, nine
military and naval and non-commissioned
officers, burned and mutilated
beyond recognition.
The Austrial army dirigible balloon
Koertling ascended at Fischamend. 12
miles from Vienna, where there is a
military aviation station. It was the
intention of Captain Hauswlrth, com
mander, to take photographs of the
movements of troops below, then join
the maneuvers. An aeroplane started
a half hour later from the same spot.
It was manned by Lieutenants Flatz
paid Hoosta. The mosquito craft soon
overtook Its big sister and immediate
ly began an attack.
At Height of 1,500 Feet.
After encircling the airship several
times at a height of 1,500 feet the bi
plane's pilot suddenly maneuvered the
craft with th object of taking a posi
tion directly above the airship. The
navigator evidently miscalculated the
distance or speed, for the nose of the
biplane was grazed enveloping the
ship and ripping it wide open. There
was a terrific explosion of the dirig
ible, which took fire. The flames en-
guirea the biplane and in a few
moments the remnants of both crash
ed on the slopes of the mountain with
the occupants.
The victims were Captain Haus
wlrth. Lieutenants Hofstetter. Flatz,
Hoosta. Bruer and Hadinger. Corporals
Hadina and Weber and Engineer Hammerer.
London, Eng., June 20. Premier As
quith fulfilled his promise to receive
a deputation of suffragets that he made
to Sylvia Pankhurst after her recent
temporary release from jail. Six work
ing women, members of Miss Pank-
hurst's east end federation, visited the
prime minister at the official residence.
They came in taxicabs accompanied
by George Lansbury, former socialist
member of parliament, and urged the
cause of woman suffrage from their
special point of view. Miss iTankhurst
was not present, as Asquith insisted
the deputation be genuine working
women. He promised consideration of
the women's representations and said
he would present to Home Secretary
McKenna the deputation's request for
the unconditional release of Sylvia
Pankhurst.
Had Just Landed Several Hun
dred Women When She "
Strikes Intake Crib.
BURNS IS OUSTED
BY COPS' SOCIETY
Noted Detective Dropped by In
ternational Chiefs' Asso
ciation In Session.
Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
Cervantes.
Grand Rapids, Mich., June 20. Two
of the. final acts of the International
Association of Chiefs of Police before
the annual convention adjourned here
yesterday were to drop Detective Wil
liam J. Burns from the list of honor
ary members of the association and to
vote against amalgamating with the
national organizations of sheriffs and
railway detectives.,
A committee prepared a new honor
ary membership list, and the conven
tion adopted it. Burns' name did not
appear among the members. The de
tective, however, did not escape crlti
cism for the Frank case on the floor
of the convention. His firm and him
self were assailed by delegates for us
ing the Insignia of the chiefs associa
tion on the firm's stationery. Chief F.
. Hill of Chattanooga, who intro
duced a resolution authorizing the
president of the association to take
steps to prosecute non-members who
make use of the Insignia, declared that
Burns had violated his rights as an
honorary member of the association.
The Hill resolution was passed. Sev
eral of the chiefs, Ihowever. said the
principal reason for removing Burns
from their membership was caused by
criticisms he Is alleged to have made
concerning methods of various po'Ice
departments In the United States.
St. Louis, Mo., June 20. The Majes
tic, the largest excursion steamboat
on the Mississippi, struck the cribbing
of the new intake of the waterworks
tower near here at 1:33 this morning
and sank in ten minutes. . Of 30 people
on board three were unaccounted for.
The others swam ashore, or were tak
en on lifeboats, of whicli the steamer
carried six, or found safety on the
upper deck,- -which, remained abova
water. "
An hour before the collision the Ma
jestic had disembarked 900 excursion
ists, mostly young women, at Alton,
111.
One man, "Watchman Cuthbert of
Peoria, is missing. The others have
been accounted for.
The accident occurred at the chain
of rocks, a natural formation of rocks
that starts from the Missouri side at
ttm extreme northern limits of St.
Louis, and runs 2,000 feet Into the
stream, offering a barrier to navigation
around which steamers must pass. The
city intake tower is at the end oi this
barrier.
The boat was owned by the Wisherd
line, Quincy, 111. All on board were
members of the crew or of the ship's
band. There was a momentary panic
as the vessel struck and the wleepinjr
crew and band tumbled lrvw tnelr
berths and rushed to the uppc-r deck.
The main deck caught fire, but thes
flames were extinguished when the
vessel listed. The vessel then righted
herself and sank.
Deck Hand Swims Three Miles.
About twenty took, to life-boats and
several leaped overboard. Clyde Wil
son, a deck hand, swam three miles
in a swift current before he landed
ashore. A nephew of one of the own
ers of the vessel and a musician, swam
two miles to an island.
The steamer is on the rocks, threat
ening to part in the middle. Captain
Gill considered the vessel to be a to
tal loss. Pilot Winthrop, Winona,
Minn., who was in charge while pilot
Pearson was receiving pay below, said
he did not know St. Louis was building
a new Intake tower near the old one.--
Practically New Boat. ';'
The Majestic was practically a new-
boat, having been built at Peoria last
summer, and only the hull of the old
Keystone State being used in its con
struction. The excursion to Musca
tine on this boat was its Initial trip,
and nearly 2,000 passengers were
aboard. Monday afternoon and even
ing the same boat was used by the
Fez club for its excursion. The boat
left Rock Island Monday night for St.
Louis. v
The Majestic was a five-decker and
the largest excursion steamer on the
Mississippi, with a capacity of 2,500
passengers, and was equipped with
every modern feature that an excurs
ion boat could be provided with. The
steamer was 225 feet in length and 43
feet wide, with five decks, all support,
ed by steel structural work.
The main deck was equipped with,
dining room, cafe. lunch counter nd
soda fountain; the cabin deck had '
large promenade guard outside nins),
feet wide and 200 feet long; the cabin
had level hard maple dance floor
30x165 feet, without a post, also a large;
soda fountain, cigar stand, check room.'
and candy stand. The texas deck waj
supplied with chairs and tables, while,
the observation deck was 30xlS0 feetl!
The boat carried a steam calliope and!
us own orcnestra. I
The boat was valued at $70,000, o4
which two thirds ,1s covered by zna4
rine insurance. . . i.
M0LINE WOMAN GETS
MOTHER'S PENSION
Mrs. Bridget Dally. Moline, was this
morning awarded the sun of $5 a
month for the support of her child..
Raymond, aged 14. by Judge B. S.
Bell in the county courts