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; Marshall Called On
To Subdue Wife of
Embryo Postmaster
Women of Indiana Town Declare
Her Social Pretention* Have
Become Unbearable.
PEACEPLAN
President Has Taken First Step,
It Is Reported, for Diplomatic
Arrangement in Which U. S.
Troops Will Guard Americans
Huerta’s Changed Attitude and
Professions of Friendship Taken
to Forecast Armistice Pending
Election of His Successor.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 2.—Presi-
dent Wilson is believed to-night to
have taken the first step toward di
plomatic intervention in Mexico.
Precise details of the plans are
withheld, but it is virtually certain
that it contemplates the tender of the
good offices of tjie United States iu
bring about a truce or armistice
pending final settlement of the civil
war.
By this plan the American army
and navy are to be utilized to safe
guard American lives.
Huerta Heeds U. S. Demand,
y Huerta has heeded the peremptory
demand of the United States for the
immediate trial of the persons who
shot Charles B. Dixon, Jr., United
States Immigration Inspector, at
Juarez, and has ordered the case to
proceed expeditiously.
Huerta has also telegraphed to the
Governor of Chihuahua immediate
ly to release Charles Bissel, Bernard
McDonald and Bissel*? chauffeur, who
are held by the Federals under sen
tence of death at Chihuahua.
Not only did Huerta inform Nelson
O’Shaughnessy, American Charge
d’Affaires at Mexico City, of these
facts, but he sent to the State De
partment an absolute disavowal of
the Dixon shooting coupled with the
most fulsome protestations of regard
for the American Government.
He regrets “very much that the
American Government should as
cribe to the influence of the Mexican
Government any action which might
be construed as antagonistic to Amer
icans during his occupancy of the
executive authority.”
Huerta assures the State Depart
ment "that no injustice or violence
shall be done to Americans with his
cognizance while he is in his present
position.’
The Huerta statement added:
"The Mexican Consul at El Paso
has Informed the Mexican Foreign
Office that the matter of the shoot
ing of Dixon has been satisfactorily
arranged. It is stated that the Gov
ernment at Mexico City seems most
desirous of meeting the desires of
the United States in every way pos
sible.”
House Inquiry Asked.
Representative Stephens, o? Texas
has introduced a resolution pro
viding for a joint Senate and House
committee to investigate Mexican
conditions, report on outrages to
which Americans have been subject
ed, the prospects for establishment of
a stable government in Mexico, and
recommendations for a fixed Ameri
can policy toward Mexico. He be
lieves peace, if brought about, will
be only temporary.
In the Senate Senator Sheppard of
Texas introduced a resolution looking
to the possible recognition of the
Mexican revolutionists as belligerents
The resolution requests the Foreign
Relations Committee to advise the
Senate whether, in its opinion, this
nation should recognize the belliger
ency of the revolutionists in Mexico
and accord them the proper interna
tional status to which they are enti
tled.
The State Department to-day made
the extraordinary announcement that
Dr. Gaza Aldapo, who is soon to be
Secretary of Foreign Affairs for Mex
ico, "has spent much time in the Unit
ed States and is reported as in sym
pathy with American institutions.”
Mexico’s Sudden Change.
It is not known definitely to what
the 'lightning changes are due in the
Mexico situation, bu* it is believed by
many officials it was the prompt and
' effective action of Brigadier Genera!
Bliss, coupled with the dispatch of the
additional vessel, the Wheeling, to
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.—Thomas
R. Marshall, the well-known Vice
President, has been asked to arbi
trate a social war between the women
of Blanktown, Ind., arising over the
nomination of a new postmaster. He
received a letter to-day asking that
he halt the confirmation of the man
because his wife is putting on airs
over the fact that her husband stands
so well with the Administration.
Mr. Marshall declines to give the
real name of the town or the name of
the letter writer. But it ts some town
—the letter says so. Only last week
there was a church social there, to
provide funds for a new sidewalk
around the place of worship, and
$18.19 was netted easily from the sale
of ice cream and cake. There are
a first-class drug store, two grocer
ies and a hardware store. One of
the grocery stores also has a good
line of d 'ess goods The letter says
so. It is some town.
When the news first filtered In that
a certain man was to be named post
master, the wife of the nominee went
to the store and bought some new
clothes. Since then she has been al
most unbearable, according to the let
ter, and Heaven onlv knows what she
will be if there is a confirmation!
The women say that the wife of the
nominee is a social upstart, anyway.
Mr. Marshall is happy that some
use for a Vice President has devel
oped.
Hotel Elevator Is
New Bridal Vehicle
Two on Honeymoon Climb Stairs
Nine Times—Inquires Price
of a Ride.
CINCINNATI, Aug. 2.—They hailed
from Kensington, Ill., so they told the
clerk at the Grand Hotel, and were
on their honeymoon, as the bride
groom informed the bell hop. They
registered as Mr. and Mrs. Bert
Gleason.
"Bert” was a spender. He tipped
the bell hop who carried ice water
to the top floor a whole half dollar.
The day was hot, very hot, and
made stair-climing an irksome task.
Bert knew, for hadn’t he and Mrs.
Bert tried it nine times by actual
count. It was after those hot-weath
er climbs that the call for ice water
came. When the bell boy came along,
the bridegroom, pointing to the ele
vator, asked:
"Say. kid, what does It cost to ride
on that thing?”
And Kensington is only a few miles
from Chicago.
Sylvia Panklmrst
Tries ‘Sleep Strike’
Heavy Police Guard Is Thrown About
Jail to Keep Off the
Suffragettes.
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON, Aug. 2.—Miss Sylvia Pank-
hurst, who is again in Halloway Jail for
inciting to riot, has developed a new
method of worrying tpe prison authori
ties. She Is on a "sleep strike,” be
sides refusing food and water.
Two of the women arrested as the re
sult of the demonstration outside the
jail last night were sentenced to-day to
two months in prison. A heavy guard
of police has been placed about the jail.
Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst was weaker
to-day as the result of her exertions
yesterday at the pavilion meeting.
At 45 Is Graduated
With His Daughter
Missouri Professor, Having Realized
Ambition, Will Resume College
Work.
SPRINGFIELD. MO., Aug. 2.—Pro
fessor J. Turner Horner, president of
Horner Institute, at Purdy, Mo., and
his daughter. Miss Eva May, have
been graduated together from Drury
College, each with the degree of bach
elor of arts.
Though 45 years of age and for
many years engaged in educational
work, Professor Horner had never
held a diploma.
Flying Fire Engine
Predicted by Mayor
Silk Hatted Executive of New Eng
land Town Expects Air Craft
to Fight Flames.
BOSTON, Aug. 2.—A flying machine
fire department for Salem was predicted
to-day by John F. Hurley, silk-hatted
mayor of that city.
"This is the age of the motor-driven
vehicle,’’ he said, "and horses are too
slow for Salem We are going to have
flying machine fire engines, flying ma
chine garbage wagons, etc.”
The Dreadnought of the Future
Expected to Cost Millions More
Than Battleships of To-day.
ENGLAND WORKING HARD
Some of the Features in the
American Construction Which
Now Lead the World.
September Morn
Should Pay Visit
to Atlantic City
Stockings About All Necessary Bath
ing Garb for Women There
Under New Rules.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Aug. 2.—
Women bathers may appear hence
forth on the beach here in the most
abbreviated of skirts. Also they may
wear thos«e garments slashed any
where from an inch above the knee
clear to the waist.
One-piece swimming suits are legal.
! too, as long as there Is a bloomer ef-
i feet from the waist line down.
But there Is one "don’t.” Girls more
than 16 years old can not go about
publicly without stockings. The en
forcement came yesterday when a girl
was banished from the beach because
her shapely nether extremities did not
have the customary encasements.
WASHINGTON Aug. 2.—Englani
and the United States are running a
race in the development of the dread
nought. This ship is expected to be
the last word in marine architecture;
a Titan of the seas which will cost
millions more than the splendid bat
tleships of to-day. It will be an of
fensive and defensive giant.
England recently announced that
her future dreadnoughts will have a
complete torpedo-discharging equip
ment below the armor belt. Rear
Admiral Fiske has just patented a
device for dropping torpedoes from
flying aeroplanes—a method which,
according to naval experts, will prove
to be infinitely cheaper and fully as
effective. England, also, is perfecting
a steel net to surround her battle
ships below the water line, hoping to
render them immune to torpedo at
tacks.
In the meantime American naval
experts are bringing the internal
combustion engine—otherwise the
modern high-power petroleum motor
—to a high state of efficiency. They
hope ultimately to supplant costly
steam propulsion.
Speed is likely to cut a large figure
in the battle fleets of the future. The
former separate functions of the
battleship and cruiser must be com
bined in one ship. Germany already
has recognized this fact by classing
her latest marine monsters as "battle
cruisers.”
The dreadnought must not only be
able to fight; she must also be able to
"run away and live to fight another
day.”
A naval constructor has thus de
fined the function of the naval archi
tect :
"To place the highest possible gun
po^er on the smallest possible ves
sel.”
Although battleships are steadily
increasing in size, the tendency is to
make the ship as small as possible
with the gun power placed upon it.
The new Pennsylvania, planned to be
one of the biggest dreadnoughts ever
conceived, is not large in proportion
to the mighty "muzzle velocity” she
will possess. As a matter of fact, her
gun power will be greater iij ratio to
her size than any other battleship in
Uncle Sam's navy.
Queen and Duchess at
Odds Over Low Gowns
British Royalty Refuses to Counte
nance Fashionable Costumes at
Wedding of Kinswoman.
Special Cable to The American.
! LONDON, Aug. 2.—The antipathy of
i Queen Mary to low-cut afternoon toilets
! has been the cause of some friction be-
j tween her Majesty and the Duchess of
! Fife regarding the latter’s wedding ar
rangements.
! The Queen will permit Princess Mary
I to be a bridesmaid only on condition
j that none of the bridesmaids wears a
frock cut lower than one inch in the
j neck in front.
The Duchess of Fife resents such re
strictions, and has appealed to her
mother and to Queen Alexandra, but
Queen Mary refuses to alter her atti
tude.
Bodies of Dead To Be
Made Transparent
Hospital in Philadelphia Plans To Do
Away With Dissection by New
Method.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 2—A new
method of medlcaj instruction, doing
away largely with dissection, will be
put into practice at the Hahnemann
Medical College next term.
Physicians and surgeons of the col
lege are perfecting a. process, based
on discovery of a fluid by a German
scientist, which will make the human
body transparent.
Students can study the veins, mus
cles and bones far more easily, it is
said. The fluid can not be used be
fore death.
Elopes in Nightdress
To Be Barefoot Bride
Daughter o f Rich Pennsylvania Mer
chant Climbs Out Window
to Join Fiance.
Few Spinsters Among
Red Haired Girls
Missouri Thinks It Will Soon Be
Famous in Other Things Than
“Houn Dawgs.”
COLUMBUS, MO., Aug. 2.—Are red-
haired girls more popular than their
sisters? If not, then think of the
number of red-headed spinsters you
have known. You will have to think
a long time before you can remember
a single Titian-haired wall flower. If
the theory of connoisseurs of feminine
beauty is true, Missouri will become
famous, not for commonplace things
like mules and "houn’ dawgs,” but for
red-headed girls.
This year at the University of Mis
souri there are more red-headed co
eds than, ever before. And, although
they did not monopolize masculine at
tentions, they had to keep date calen
dars at finger ends to avoid misun
derstandings.
WAYNESBURG. PA.. Aug. 2.—
Barefooted, bareheaded, without
money and scantily clad, Lena Cage,
! the 15-year-old daughter of Charles
Cage, a wealthy merchant of this
city, eloped early this morning. She
climbed from the window of her home
shortly after midnight, and getting in
a big motor car with her suitor,
Franklin Hurley, disappeared.
The girl’s father, with several of
ficers, has searched in vain for the
pair.
Aged Thief Is Sent
To Whipping Post
Offender, 65 Years Old, Confessing
Theft of Three Pounds of Butter,
Is Lashed.
Society in Fright Fever
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Mrs. Rumsey Big Loser
Mrs. Charles Cary Rumsey, one of the heaviest losers in the
epidemic of jewel robberies.
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Colonists ;lt Narragansett Pier Believe That
Monkey Is Implicated in Mysterious Thefts.
Wife Grows Tired of
Kisses andBunsMenu
Unvarying Makeup of Bill of Fare
Proves Too Much for Balti
more Woman.
WILMINGTON. DEL., Aug. 2.—
Samuel Patterman, a white man, aged
65, one of the oldest prisoners who
has ever been fastened to the whip
ping post, received five lashes at the
workhouse.
He pleaded guilty in the General
J Sessions Court to the larceny of thr^e
pounds of butter, and in addition to
the lashes he was sentenced to four
months in prison. By order from the
court, no saloon proprietor in the city
can sell liquor to Patterman.
BALTIMORE. Aug. 2.—Kisses ani,
buns for breakfast, kisses and buns
for luncheons, kisses and buns for
dinner.
This has been the menu, says Mrs.
Rosie Schwanke, ever since her mar
riage to Frederick Schwanke on
July 7.
Mrs. Schwanke is the sister of Mrs.
Theresa D^ems, the famous unkissel
wife.
“It’s not that I don’t love my hus
band," said Mrs. Schwanke. " I do,
and love his kisses, too; but buns are
too monotonous.”
i Schwanke will be given a hearing
I to-mofrow.
6,000 Bachelors and
Maids Must Pay Tax
Minnesota Legislature Passes Law
Which Favors Heads of Families
Against Single Persons.
MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 2.—Nearly 6,-
000 bachelors and unmarried women
in Minneapolis will pay taxes on all
their personal property this year un
less they can show the City Board of
Tax Levy that the $100 exemption
available to heads of families is un
fair to the single ones.
The last Legislature amended the
tax laws allowing‘only heads of fam
ilies to deduct $100 from valuation of
theii personal possessions.
NARRAGANSETT PIER, R. I.,
Aug. 2.—The fashionable colony, here
for the polo season, is in a fever of
fright. Dances and dinner parties
nowadays are rather drab affairs,
with the notable lack of jewelry from
the gowns of the women. Nervous
ness everywhere is apparent, and ev
ery other man might be a private de
tective.
The recent series of mysterious
jewel robberies tells the story. One
after another the summer cottages
have been entered and their stores of
gems rifled during the last week. Al
together. jewels to a value of far
more than $250,000 have been stolen.
As a result the society folk have
dispatched their jewels to safety de
posit vaults in New York, or have
locked them securely in household
safes, and have commissioned detec
tives to watch. Many of the cottages
along the Ocean road have been bar
ricaded, and almost all are under
guard against the mysterious robbers
who already have counted several
prominent victims.
The heaviest losers by the series of
robberies were Mrs. Charles Cary
Rumsey, daughter of the late E. H.
Harriman, arid Mr. and Mrs. John E.
Hunan, of New York. Jewels valued
at $76,200 were stolen from the sleep
ing apartment of Mrs. Rumsey.
among them a rope of pearls valued
at $60,000, which was Mrs. Harri-
man s wedding gift to her daughter.
FIRST WEEK OF ERA!
TRIAL ENDS WITH BOTH
SIRES SURE OF VICTORY
Solicitor Dorsey Indicates That Real
Sensation Will Be Developed for
State in Closing Days of Famous
Mary Phagan Mystery Case.
ANOTHER WEEK OF ORDEAL
IN THE HEAT IS EXPECTED
"Shore Acres,” the home of the
Ha nans, was robbed of forty or
fifty pieces of jewelry—brace
lets, earrings, pendants and hair
ornaments, whose value probaDly was
$150,000. Mrs. Walter Ives, ot New
York, is loser by the depredations of
the burglars, having reported partic
ularly to the police the loss of a val
uable pearl necklace.
The police have not made the least
headway in clearing the mystery. The
most plausible theory entertained is
that the robber entered the Rumsey
home one morning, while Mrs. Rum-
sey and the servants were on the
veranda being « ntertained by an or
gan grinder, who was passing through
the village with his trained monkey.
The police thought he probably acted
as lookout while the thief entered the
cottage fiom the rear.
Or, according to the more startling
theory of C. C. Tegethoff, agent of
the Harriman estate, the grinder and
hf- monkey may have been the actual
robbers.
"It is not beyond possibility," he
announced following an investigation,
"that the monkey was the actual
thief I have heard of such things.”
Many people believe the robber en
tered the house one night the Rum-
seys were at the Casino dance. Mrs.
Ives, another loser by the burglaries,
was at this same dance, and thus
color to the theory of a midnight in
truder Is given.
The summer colony probably will
establish a private pojice force as a
result. Last summer this expedient
was observed, after the loss of a num
ber of valuable articles.
Routing of Detective Black and Sur
prise in the Testimony of Pinkerton
Agent Gives the Defense Principal
Points Scored—Newt Lee Hurts.
Slow and tedious, almost without frills, full of bitter squabbles
between lawyers, made memorable by oppressive heat, the first
week of Leo Frank's trial on the charge that he killed Mary
Phagan, the little factory girl, has drawn to an end.
With the close of the week came the promise that still another
six days, or more, will be consumed in taking the testimony.
When the last witness was dismissed just before the week-end
recess was taken, it was realized that few telling blows had been
delivered by the State. However, the promised sensation of the
prosecution still is impending, and Solicitor Dorsey hints at
hitherto unrevealed lines of evidence that seem to point directly
to Frank’s guilt.
SCOTT TESTIMONY HITS STATE.
Thus far, however, the apparently contradictory testimony
of the State’s witnesses, particularly that of Harry Scott, Pink
erton detective, and .John Black, city detective, seems to favor the
defense. The corps of city detectives have told of Frank’s ner
vousness and excitement the day following the discovery of Mary
Phagan's body. The Pinkerton man testified to the prisoner’s
composure and balance. This was but one detail of the difference,
but the lawyers for the defense made much of it.
Frank’s attorneys, Luther Rosser and Reuben Arnold, have
been from the first wonderfully powerful factors in the trial, and
are the agencies about whom the friends of the defense build all
their hopes.
Time and again this hope has been jtrstified. Under the grill
ing administered by Rosser, witnesses have squirmed and twisted
their bodies and their statements as it were a material instead of
a mental fire to which they were subjected.
Detective .lohn Black was one of these. Time and again he
contradicted himself as to 'details, and several times he confessed
that he did not remember. Black it was who, of the city police
force, was among the most zealous in obtaining evidence against
Frank.
Solicitor Dorsey had stated that he expected to show by
Black's testimony that the detectives had gone to Lee’s house only
after Frank had informed him that several punches were missing
from the watchman’s clock; that Frank’s attorneys, even before
Frank’s arrest, had insisted that Frank’s house be searched; that
the bloody shirt found in Lee's house was a "plant” in Frank's
favor. Much of the prosecution's plans in this regard were fruit
less, however, because of Black’s confusion under cross-examina
tion.
NEWT LEE HOLDS GROUND.
One witness, however, and a witness damaging to the defense,
who was unperturbed by a pitiless cross-examination was Newt
Lee, the negro night watchman of the National Pencil Factory.
The negro steadfastly maintained his original story that Frank
was nervous the afternoon of Mary Phagan’s disappearance, that
he had made conflicting statements concerning the watchman’s
clock, and that he had seemed frightened when he found J. M.
Gant iu the factory the afternoon on which the little girl probably
was slain.
An evident attempt was made by the defense to place sus
picion on Newt Lee. The manner in which Lawyer Rosser ques
tioned L. S. Dobbs, the police sergeant who found the body of the
dead girl, seemed to imply that much of the negro's behavior was
suspicious.
Dobbs declared that Lee had read the hardly legible notes
that were found at the side of the dead girl, and had read them
easily. This point the defense urged. Frank’s lawyers also in
ferred that it was strange the negro should identify the girl as
being white in the dim-lighted gloom of the factory basement,
and at e time when he confessedly was frightened out of his wits.
The attempt of the defense to throw suspicion on Newt Lee,
however, seemed to be of no avail. The steadiness and ingenuous
ness of the old negro absolved him, in the minds- of those who
heard, of guilt in connection with the murder.
Except for Lee, none of the witnesses of the week revealed
anything of injury to the defense. Mrs. J. W. Coleman, Mary
Phagan's mother, and George W. Epps, the nswsboy friend of the
little girl, were merely witnesses of incidental facts.
Grace Ilix, a companion of Mary Iji ttn in the; fact^-
by the prosecution, gave evidence
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