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Speaker Champ Clark Says It Is
Easier To Be President Than
Lawmaker,
NEW YORK, March 29.—Champ
Clark, Speaker of the House of Repra
sentatives, spoke in optimistic vein
to-day at the Bedford brancn of the
Young Men’s Christian Association, in
Brooklyn. Optimism was the Speak
er's teopic, his discussion covering a
wide range of subjects. Asked, before
he began to speak, to say something
about the tolls question, Mr. Clark
replied:
“There’s been ton much said about
it already.” He said he knew Ceon
gress like a book, and a more honest
set of men never congregated.,
“It doesn’t take as much sense to be
a good President,” he said, “"as it does
to make a good Congressman. A Pres
ident has his Cabinet to advise him,
while a Congressman has to think for
himself.”
Speaking of the Monroe Doctrine,
Mr. Clark said that not one of the
South American republics would havs
existed fer six months without it.
“The Monroe Doctrine is not dead,”
he asserted, “and my answer to those
who say it is, is in the answer of that
great President, ('leveland, that we
are the sovereigns of this continent
and that no foreign nation shall col
onize without taking the chance of
getting a licking from us.
“There is civil war in the Mexican
republic,” he went on, *but didn’t we
have a civil war which destroyed
more property and lives than the
Mexicans can destroy in 40 years? We
came out stronger and better, and so
will they."”
MME. CAILLAUX AIDED BY REST.
PARIS, March 29.—Mme. Caillaux has
been greatly benefited by her two days’
rest in St. Lazare prison, while M. Bou
card, the investigating magistrate, has
been examining witnesses at the prelim
inary inquiry into the Kkilling of Gaston
Calmette, editor of Figaro. She has re
gained much of her serenity and, it is
said, has expressed strong criticism of
the prison arrangement. The prison
director, in his own behalf, says he has
not had a minute's rest since Mme. Cail
laux was brought to the prisen. His
telephene, he declares, rings ceaselessly
and an endless file of messengers deliver
lelegrams to Mme. Caillaux all day long.
A few curious spectators gathered
around the entrance to the prison to
day.
ATTEMPT LIFE OF ZELAYA.
MADRID, March 29.—A dispatch re
ceived here from Barcelona says an at
tempt was made to-day to assassinate
Jose Santes Zelaya, former president of
Nicaragua, at Casa Torres, where Ze
laya resides. A man who said his name
was Rosas, and who declared he was a
Nicaraguan, entered the residence of
Zelaya, drew a revolver and fired at the
former president. Zelaya was not hit
by the bullet. Rosas was arrested. He
told the police that Zelaya, when pres
ident of Nicaragua, was responsible for
the death of Rosas’ uncle, and that he
had been pursuing him ever since to
avenge the death of his kinsman.
PRAISED FOR KILLING A MAN.
BUFFALO, N, Y., March 29.—Edward
T. Tigue, a patrolman, was commended
to-day by Chief of Police Michael Re
gan for killing Charles G. Keller, 27
years old, a stationary engineer. The
f\ollcvman interfered in a fight between
{eller and another man, and Keller
turned on him. Tigue was being beaten
when he drew his revolver and shot Kel
ler through the heart. *“lt's hard to be
forced to kill a man,’”’ said Chief Regan,
“hut there are toughs who thimk their
purpose in life is to beat a policeman.
Once in a while they buck the wrong
man.”
RACE RIOT QUELLED.
SEDALIA, MO., March 29.—A race
riet here early to-day was quelled only
after the fire department was ordered
out to aid the police and sheriff’s depu
ties drive the combatants to their
honres. The trouble arose at midnight
between whites and negroes at a merry
go-round. Armed with brickbats and
clubs, several hundred persons battled
in the downtown district for two hours.
After several arrests were made the
crowd dikpersed. Neo one was seriously
injured.
FIVE PERSONS DROWNED.,
. FRESNO, CAL., March 29.-—The
breaking of a supension bridge across
the San Joaquin River last might
plunged four men and one woman,
crossing in an automobile, 50 feet into
the swift stream. They were drowned.
Amon?' the occupants of the machine
were L. U. Peart, general superintend
, ent of the San Joaquin Light and Pow
er Corporation, and J. . Burgess, as
sistant superintendent,
SEEKING A PREMIER.
TOKIO, March 29.--The Emperor has
offered the premiership to Prince lye
sato Tekugawa, president of the House
of Peers, but it is believed the Prince
will dectine, Should he accept, the
hopes of the Radicals for a pure party
cabinet would be greatly lessened.
Since the resignation of the Yamamoto
ministry March 24 names of several
statesmen, including Count Okuma,
have been mentioned in connection with
the formation of a new cabinet,
BANDIT WARS ON MISSIONS.
LONDON, March 30.—The Peking cor
respondent of The Times says that Dr.
Parker, of the China Inland Mission,
who had a narrow escape at the recemt
sacking of King-Tze-Kwan, Province of
Ho-Nan, declares that “White Wolf,”
the notorious bandit, has declared war
on the missions. §
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popular man in the House. The Currency Bill and the Income {
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Cornea of Pig's Eye
Gives Child Sight
BALTIMORE, MD., March 29 —Sight
has been given to the left eye of David
Kane, Y9-month-old child of Mr. and
Mrs. Herman Kamne, of Gettysburg, Pa.,
through the grafting of the cornea of a
pig's eye to the child's eyeball, acecard
ing to physicians at a hospital here.
Certain tests, they declare, have brought
out this fact without a doubt.
When the bandage was removed from
the eye, it was declared the child fol
lowed the course of a lighted candle
which was moved in front of him. An
other test that brings out the fact more
clearly is that the child now winks his
evelid if a finger or a small ohject is
moved close to the eye. The move
ment of the eyelid is the natural one.
The disease from which the child has
been a sufferer since he was 3 weeks old
is known as staphyloma of the cornea.
Both eyes became affected. Sight was
partially Bestored to the right eye after
treatmnent, but the left seremed to be in
a hopeless condition, and it was only as
a last resort that the operation was
decided on,
The cperation was performed a week
ago Monday and the gornea of the pig's
eve was use] hecause it is said it more
closoly resembles the human cornea
than that of any ctrer snimal,
The child ard plg were j.aced and'r
an amesthetic and the outer covering
of the amimal's eye was removed, It
m‘quickly placed in the eyeball of the
The child’s eye to-day is said to be
perfectly clear and free from inflamma
tion,
WOMAN IS SENTENCED.
Mrs. Sam Stoe was sentenced Mon
day by Judge Newian, in the Fed
eral Court, to eight months in the
county jail, following her conviction
March 11 on an indictment charging
violation of the Mann white slave act,
Mrs. Stoe since her conviction has
been in the county jail. She was un
able to give bond.
In passing sentence upon Mrs. Stoe,
Judge Newman said the date of her
sentence would take effect from the
day she was oconvicted. The count
upon which Mrs. Stoe was found
uilty charged her with taking Annie
%ond to Birmingham for immoral
purpeses.
Mrs. Stoe’s husband, who was
found gulfty on the same charge, i&
now serving a five-year sentence in
the Federal prison. .
NEW YORK, March 29.—Ten of the
twelve trial jurers who feund the four
gunmen guilty of the murder of the
gambler, Herman Rosenthal, have
signed a petition asking Governor
Glynn to stay the execution of death,
set for mext month, until after the
Second trial of Charles Becker, the
former police lieutenant, whose con
viction was set aside by the State
Court of Appeals,
In view of the mew trial that has
been granted to Becker, the petition
sets forth, “the interests of justice
may reguire that the execution of
judgment of death premounced upon
these defendants upon our verdict be
stayed until there is final determina
tion of the guilt or innocence of the
said Charles Becker, or other dispo
sition of the case.”
H. Lionel Kringel, of counsel for
the gunmen, will present the peti
tion, together with a statement mak
ing reference to the opinions of the
(‘eurt of Appeals in the Becker casec,
and various petitions, among them
one by the gunmen, “Dago Frank” Ci
rofici, “Lefty Louie” Rosenberg, Har
ry Herowitz (“Gyp the Blood”) and
“Whitey Lewis™” Jacob Seidenshner.
The four gunmen request, first, that
the judgment of death be commuted
to “such term of imprisenment as to
the Governor may seem just and
proper,” and, second, that the execu
tion of judgment be stayed and re
prieves be granted “until after the
final determination of the indictment”
against Becker. =
WICKERSHAM AND CHILD HURT.
NEW YORK, March 29.—George W.
Wickersham, formerly United States
Attorney General, and his 4-year-old
granddaughter, Winifred Akin, were cut
on the face by glass from the windshield
when the automobile in which they
were riding dashed into a trolley pole
to-day. Neither Mr. Wickersham nor
the child was badly hurt.
THIRTY.-FIVE HORSES BURNED.
RALFIGH, N. O, March 29 —Thirty
five horses were burned to-night in the
fire that destroyed the Parham Supply
Company.s livery stable in Henderson.
Several small Buildings caught, but the
fire was held to the stable. Five car
loads of feedstuffs burned.
DOWAGER EMPRESS STRICKEN.
TOKIO, Mareh 27.~Dowager Kmpress
Raru Ho, widow of the late Pmperor
Matsuhito, was sulcke{l with heart dis
asd to-day. Her condition is critical. 1
DEAD PLENTIFUL
\ROUND TORRECN
JUAREZ, MEXICO, March 2%.—An
official message from the front teo-night
states that fighting is still going on fer
the possession of Torreon.
The telegram says the rebels now
heid all positions except the main bar
racks and two smaller barracks. In the
last twenty-four hours it is reported
that General Villa took Cerro Dela Cruz
and the Torreon Foundry.
Another telegram admits a rebel loss,
in the last few days of 900 Kkilled and
wounded, and places the Fedreal loss at
2,000. As there already are at Chihua
hua 0 wounded, the report of rebel
losses is thought to have been mini
mized. Among the repbelr wounded is
General Tomas Urbina.
It Is said that private soldiers taken
prisoners are being taken inte the rebel
ranks, but their officers are executed,
unless they take the oath of allegiance
to the Constitutionalist cause. All ir
regular troops in the Federal garrisen
are executed on capture.
Last Word from Villa,
It was believed here to-day that Gen
eral Villa's assault on Torreon last night
was repulsed, or that some incident had
prevented the attack. The last word
fromn the rebel general came at 11
o'clock last mnight, when a telegram
from him was quoted as saying that the
taking of the city was not a matter of
hours, but of minutes.
This was premature.for even General
Carranza, on his arrival to-day, said he
had received no word from the front,
and that evidently Villa had not taken
the Federal stronghold.
There have been no newspaper dis
patches dealing’ with this attack, and
the similarity of this situation with that
at Gomez Palacio is pointed out as sig
nificant. When Villa was successful
there he permitted the newspaper men
to send their dispatches, but when he
was repulsed, as he was twice, press
messages suddenly ceased.
In Juarez, it was confidently expected
that news of the caplure of the city
would form the chief feature of the wel
come to General Carranza, and the fact
that no message of success of any kind
was a\_vait'ing him was accepted to-day
as indicating that the fate of the city
was still in the balance.
NOT FAVORABLE TO REBELS.
CHIHUAHUA, MEXK'O, March 29—
Such news as reached here from the
front to-day was unfavorable to the eb
els. Wounded rebel soldiers continued
‘to arrive by train, bringing the num
ber now here to 588. Several hundred
other wounded were being provided for
at Jiminez and batches of wounded were
iiiistrlbuted at Parral and Santa Rosa
a.
This evidence of the sanguinary con
f{ict at Torreon, with the suggestion
that the list of dead .on the rebel side
necessarily would be great, tended 10
make headquarters reticent sbout the
progress of the battle, Officers admitted
they have received dispatches from the
front, but declined to reveal the con
tents.
The report originated from one of the
‘hospitals after more wounded came in
that General Francisco Villa had been
wounded slightly and compelled to re
tire from the frent. The report was
based merely on the word of a wounded
soldier who. however, insisted he had
seen Villa wounded. He declared that
for moral effect the news was withheld
from the rank of the rebel army.
SUNDAY WEEKLY.
X $12,500,000 GIVEN BOY.
NEW YORK, March 29.—John Nicho
las Brown, Jr, a 14-vear-old great
grandson of Nicholas Brown, after
whom Brown University was named,
becomes the “richest boy in the world,”
under a Supreme Court decision handed
down Saturday and made known to-day.
The decision unravels a legal tangle
that had tied up a large pertien of the
$25,000,000 estate left by John Carter
Brown, son of Nicholas Brown.
Mrs, William Watts Sherman, mother
of Lady Camoys, is the only living
child of John Carter Brown. Her in
terest in the estate of her father also
has been tied in a trust she had cre
ated upon bher marriage. It was de
cided in the present case, however, that
this trust terminated with the deatn
of her husband in 1912, and the court
directs that she receive ber half of the
estate. The other part will go under the
court order to her nephew, John Nicho=
las Brown, Jr.
PROSPERITY IN PHILIPPINES.
WASHINCTON, March 29 —Appar
ently complete recovery from drouth
and storms that paralyzed trade and
farming activities of the Philippines last
year was announced to-day by the Bu
reau of Insular Affairs.
Customs returns from the islands
show the total imports for the calendar
year just ended amounted to only $53,-
312,786, or $8,355,165 less than feor 1912,
while the exports show a reduction of
!’I.Oll.?!l'l from the 1912 total of $47,-
774,958,
The 1914 sugar crop, now in process
of harvesting, however, is expected to
surpass all recent records, while the
cocoanut and hemp plantations are ex
aocted soon to resume normal produc
ons.
NO FRANK CLEW FOUND.
Dispatches from Chicage Monday
denied the report that clews to a
possible solution of the Phagan mur.
der mystery has been found in Chi
cago. The report had gained consid
erable circulation upon the mews that
Herbert Haas, of counsel for Leo
Frank, had been in Chicage confer=
ring with the head of a national de
tective agency. The rumor declared
that the conference had to do with a
witness believed to be at present in
one of Chicago's suburbs
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