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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. § R e ——_l_——————— diffe Gk POST CAMDS 27 T 6 & 00., 3347 WOOD 6T, cl.wmo.“l'm’ THE GEORGIAN’'S NEWS BRIEFS SOLDIERS INTO HUERTA DEATH TRAP OSCAR W. UNDERWOOD . v . ! Who is recognized as the most powerful as well as the most | popular man in the House. 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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 7