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MYSTERY SHROUDS FLIGHT OF MEXICAN FEDERALS
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Public Mearings To Be Held for
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Twe Weeks—Bristow Would
Call Bryan and Knox.
WASHINGTON, Arril 7.—The Sen
ate Committee on Interoceanic Ca
nals, to which was referred the bill
for the repeal of the tolls exemption
clause of the Panama Canal act, to
day agreed to hold hearings on the
bill beginning April 9 and to end not
later than April 24. The result of
this, the first meeting, was a victory
for the anti-repeal forces.
Senator Brandegee, of Connecticut,
was the only member who voted
against the motion for hearings. |
Senator Thornton, of Louisiana, as
serted that the demand for delay
came from shipping interests.
Would Call Bryan and Knox.
Senator Bristow insisted that the
committee summon former Secretlary
of State Knox, Secretary of State
Bryan and other officials that had to
do with negotiations of the Hay-
Pauncefote treaty or the recent move
ment for the repeal of the free tolls
clause to examine them on the ques
tions, involved.
The committee had before it ten
bills introduced by various Senators.
It was decided that pending the ar
rival of witnesses the authors of
these bills should be heard. They
were Senators Norris, Chilton, Owen,
L.ewis, Reed, Fall, Thomas, Weeks,
Newlands and Root.
Many Request Hearings.
Special requests for hearings from
M. B. Trezevant, general manager of
the Association of Commerce of New
Orleans, and J. D. Hardin, president
of the New Orleans Board of Trade,
were presented by Senator Ransdell;
from the West Coast Lumber Asso
ciation and commercial bodies at
Portland and Seattle, by Senator
Jones, and by Chairman O'Gorman
from chambers of commerce in San
Francisco, Tacoma, Aberdeen, Ranier,
Raymond, South Bend, Centralia,
Wash.,, and Astoria, Oreg.
Senator Thomas suggested that one
representative be heard from each
State,
“The discussion two years ago was
devoted almost entirely to railroad
owned ships,” said Senator Page, who
thought there should be limited hear
ings. .
Committee Changed.
Chairman O'Gorman reminded the
committee that its personnel had
changed in the last two years, and
some Senators might be unfamilair
with the facts. Senator Crawford in
quired if repeal were not a question
of Governmental policy rather than
one of the details of shipping.
Senator Borah denied that hearings
would militate against calm and dis
passionate discussion of the ques
tion.
The Senate to-day by a vote of 35
to 27, referred to the Committee on
Foreign Relations the Poindexter res
olution calling on President Wilson
to explain to the Senate what “mat
ters of nearer consequence and great
er delicacy” are involved in the Pun
ama Canal tolls question. i
Husband, Locked Out,
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Needn't Support Wife
ORANGE, N. J, April 7.—Because
his wife locked him out after putting
his bedding in t! - grape arbor, the
court ruled that George Rosenwald
need not pay for her support.
WOMEN VOTERS LOSE CANDY.
OROVILLE, CAL. April 7.—The
Butte County Democratic Central
Committee has passed a resolution
calling on all candidates to refwgin
from giving drinks and cigars to nrale
voters and candy and gum to women
voters. Candidates are still to be al
lowed to kiss the babies.
The resolution asks that the com
mittee of other parties take like ac
tion. Buch gifts are condemned as s
cheap form of bribery.
WANT 1,500 DANCERS.
WASHINGTON, April 7.—Fifteen
hundred maids and matrons have been
callad for by Preston Gibson, director
general of “Fire Regained,” a Greek
pageant to be given here in May, to
take part in the dances. The danc
ers will be clad in diaphanous mate
rial, no matter what the weather, and
many of them will be shod in san
dals only.
“DEAD” LINEMAN WALKS HOME.
HARTFORD, CONN,, April 7.—Just
as the Coroner was examining the
body of Carl Lundell, a lineman who
“had been shocked to death"” on tie
New Haven Railroad electrificatin
system, Lundell revived and walked
home.
HOW TO FIGHT LIVING COST.
CHAMPAIGN, ILL. April 7.—The
country must cut down on its eox
penditures for clothing, housing ani
amusements in order to combat ihe
high cost of living, according to Dean
Davenport, of the University of Illi
nois, in a speech here, ‘
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Miss Marguerite Chaffee, High
School Graduate, to Appear in
Long Run at Lyric.
After following far afield the call of
[a. dramatic instinct that had its
iprompung while she was a student in
‘the Atlanta Girls’ High School, Miss
Marguerite Chaffee, an Atlanta girl
bas come back home, an actress well
on her way to stardom and to a brii
liant career. Her presence in the
Lucille LaVerne Cempany, which
opens at the Lyric April 13 for an in
definite run, assures that organization
a considerable element of attraction
for Atlanta people.
Miss Chaffee began her career as a
reader. In the High Schoo! she was a
student star in elocution and recita
tion, and soon after graduation fo'-
lowed her natural bent and became a
professional reader. It was then but
a step to the legitimate stage.
PLAYS CUPID TO FIVE.
EDWARDSVILLE, ILL., April 7.—
Five marriages of Edwardsviile resi
dents have resultéd from the late
Henry M. Flagler's construction of a
$9O 000,000 railroad aceoss the Florida
Keys to connect the mainland with
Key Waest,
The latest is that of Roger N.
Clarke, of Edwardsville, and Miss
Margaret Baird, of Toledo. 0%%.
The romances all started in Florida
and were engineered by William
Krome, son of Judge W. H. Krome, o!
Edwardsvilie.
MAYOR'S HOME BURNS.
WINTHROP HARBOR, ILL., Apri]
7.—Mayor George Kirk's home burned
to the ground here yesterday whiie
the village Constable, who had th
key to the fire gtation, preventing vol
unteer firemen from reaching . the
chemical engine, was visiting in Zion
City.
TO EDUCATE PRISONERS.
LAWRENCE, KANS, April . 7.—A
college education by correspondence
for every prisoner in the Kansas
State Penitentiary is contemplated in
a plan proposed by Frank Strong.
chancellor of the University of Kan
sas, to the board of administration.
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6,792,360 Chinese
VANCOUVER, B. C, April 7.—A
shipment of 6,792,360 eggs arrived
here on “oard the steamship Empress
of Russia from China. This was'the
largest consignment of Chinese eggs
ever shipped from the Orient.
U. 8. BUILDING FOR FAIR.
WASHINGTON, April 7.—With the
approvat of the Cabinet, President
Wilson is about to recommend to
Congress that $500,000 be appropriat
ed for the construction of a building
to house the Government exhibit at
the San Francisco Exposition. The
Government exhibit board is prepar
ing a comprehensive exhibit, and the
need of a special building is regarded
by them as imperative. It is under
stood that the Housz leaders wiil in
terpos~ little okjection to the appro
priation.
TILLMAN APPROVES DRY ORDER
WASHINGTON, April 7.—The or
der issued by Secretary Daniels to
abolish liquor in the navy was warmly
approved by Senator Tillman, chair
man of the Senate Naval Affairs
Committee, to-day.
“I am not a prohibitionist, and nev
er have been,” said the Senator, “but
I approve i(his order. There is too
much drinking in the army and navy
especially among the officers.
“The great difficulty about this or
der will be its enforcement.”
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$lOO,OOO TO FLY WITH COFFIN.
ST. PETERSBURG, April 7.—Al
though he had often refused to ridé in
an automobile, Ivan Sopornowski be
queathed $lOO,OOO to the aviator who
would ca:ry his coffin to the cemec
tery in an aeroplane.
Aviator Pasoff earned the bequest.
but was nearly killed in landing at
the cemetery.
TEN-FOOT SKELETON FOUND.
LONDON, April 7.—Actcording to a
dispatch published here, the skeleton
of a person who had been apparently
ten feet in height has been found at
Dysart, County Louth, Ireland.
The skeleton was unearthed with
that of two others supposed to have
been buried in prehistoric times, |
Reported Reinforced Army of
Huerta Is to Try to Recap
ture Torreon.
JUAREZ, MEXICO, April 7—Late
dispatches received here from Tor
reon have failed to clear up the mys
tery surrounding the movements of
Federal and Contsitutionalist troops
on the desert east of that city, but it
is the general belief here to-day that
General Velasco, the Huerta com
mander has escaped with “his main
army. ‘
It is rumored that the rebel cav
alry of General Hernandez was forced
to abandon its pursuit of the Feder
als at San Pedro after reinforce
ments, headed by General Maas and
General DeMoure, had joined Velas
co’s men, and that the united Fed
era] foerces of 9,000 men are moving
to assail General Villa in Torreon.
Some doubt was cast on this rumor,
however, by a brief announcement
from General Villa that he would soon
return to Chihuahua and then come
to Juarez for a conference with Gen
era] Carranza.
To Have American Cannon.
“After that,” he said, “we shall at
tack Monterey. In my assault upon
that city, I expect to have my artil
lery division armed with the latest
American cannon and good ammuni
tion, which will make the capture of
that city less difficult than was the
overthrow of Torreon.”
Advices received here state that
pathetic scenes attended the expulsion
of Spaniards at Torreon. Men, chil
dren and women wept and begged
Villa not to seize their possessions
and drive them out penniless, but he
spurned all pleas, and urged all sol
diers to drive the supplicants into the
railroad cars provided for their use.
The first train of refugees is expected
to arrive to-night or early to-morrow,
Railroad officials were notified that
there were 300 Spaniards on the train
when it left Torreon.
Why He Expelled Spaniards.
A dispatch to Torreon asking Villa
why he had expelled the Spaniards
brought this reply:
“It is contrary to the nature of the
Spaniard to attend to his own busi
ness. Americans, English, French
and Germans come to Mexico to make
money, and devote all their time to
making money. They do not mingle
in politics. The Spaniards are not
content with making money—they
want us at their feet.”
Villa has received hundreds of
congratulatory messages from the
United States since he captured Tor
reon.
“The Americans have certainly
shown great fairness during our
troubles in Mexico, and I shall not
forget it,” he said.
CLARK’S “SHOOFLY"” STICKS.
WASHINGTON, April 7.—Persist
ent telephone inquiries for “Mr. S.
Fly,” letters addressed to the Hon.
“Shoofly” Hardwick, and even tele
grams reading the same way, have
made the life of Representative Hard
wick, of Georgia, a burden since
Speaker Clark’'s caustic comment on
him last Tuesday. -
Gentler forms of torture, such as
brushing away imaginary flies when
he approaches, are among the meth
ods his fellow-statesmen are employ
ing to make his life interesting.
MORSE BUYS HOUSE.
NEW YORK, April 7.—Charles W.
Morse admitted that he had pur
chased of the Holder estafe property
at Bay Shore, L. 1., one of the finest
small places on Long Island.
The place was first owned hy John
J. Ryan, once a well-known Brooklyn
contractor. After his death the prop
erty passed into the hands of the
Musica family, who had dealings in
hair goods and drafts about a year
ago that got them into trouble with
the United States authorities.
NOW WEARS HANDCUFFS.
WASHINGTON, April 7.—“ Han
dcuff” bracelets, composed of two plain
platinum bands, worn on both wrists
and connected by hangingz platinum
chains, are being worn by Miss Julia
Meyer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
George Von L. Meyer. They do not
interfere with the freedom of the
hands,
The chains are long enough to al
iow Miss Mever to go through even
the most difficult figures of the
maxixe, at which she is an expert.
SEABOARD MUST PAY INTEREST
WAGHINGTON, April 7. —The
Seaboard Air Line must pay interest
on debts against it which were car
ried along by creditors while the road
was in the hands of receivers, accord
ing to a decision of the United Sta‘es
Supreme Court to day.
The railroad's property passed from
the receivers to the stockholders some
time ago. The dec’sion was rendered
in the case of a claim of the American .
Iron and Steel Manufacturing Com
pany against the road.
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