Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 234, Hammond, Lake County, 22 March 1907 — Page 8
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THE LAKE COUNTY TIMES
UilCLE SAM, THE COP
He Is Now Engaged in Police Duty Down in Central American Territory.
HE WOULD KEEP EUROPE OFT
Consequently He Must Guard Europe'u Interests Himself!
Landing Parties Xow Ashore at Two Points-Probability That the "Big Stick" May Get Into Action.
Washington, March 22. Blue jackets and marines have been landed from the United States gunboat Marietta at Trnjillo and Cciba, and probably at Puerto Cortez, Honduras, in order to protect United States interests in those ports. Advices to this effect have been received at the navy department from Commander Fullam, of the Marietta, and they were at once transmitted to the state department. As yet no word has been received as to wbether forces have been landed at Centra! American ports on the Pacific coast side, but undoubtedly this step will be taken If United States Interests are considered in danger. International Significance. The navy department feels that the action taken by Commander Fullam brings the situation completely in hand bo far as the safeguarding of trade interests is concerned. In addition to the protection given United States interests it is felt that the action of this government will relieve foreign governments of the necessity of taking any steps toward making a naval demonstration. The landing of blue Jackets and marines, and the policing of both shores of the Central American republics with United States gunboats before trading vessels had been molested in any manner, or foreign interests jeopardized, is regarded here as a diplomatic move that will prevent any international complications growing out of the policy of the United States not to permit European demonstrations in Central American or South American waters. It Is Different from Manila. The Niearaguan commander n charge of the invading force at the Ilonduran port Trujillo gave Commander Fullam his promise that all foreign interests there would be protected, and that trading vessels would be permitted to enter and leave the pert without molestation, the same as before the capture of the port by tho Niearaguan navy.
JOINT INTERVENTION COMING?
Unci Sam and Diaz Likely to Use the "Big Stick." Joint Intervention by Mexico and the United States in the war which threatens to involve Central America is now regarded as probable by diplomatists. Tenders of good offices on the part of the two great governments have not been heeded by Nicaragua, Honduras and Salvador, and it has been suggested to the state department that Mexico and the United States should 6end plenipotentaries to the warring countries to investigate the causes of the present war and order an immediate cessation of hostilities. Secretary Root and Creel, the Mexican ambassador, have been in conference frequently since the outbreak of war in Central America, and Latin'American diplomatists would not be surprised by the announcement that Mexico and the United States have decided that the war must cease. The state department is in dread cf the claims which inevitably arise out of a war such as Is now being carried on, and the protests of European nations against the destruction of the property of their citizens in countrieo where Europe cannot interfere are having their effect on the administration. Diplomatists have pointed out to the Washington government that ito position at the approaching peace conference at The Hague will be peculiar if it permits a war to progress which It might stop, and which the Monroe dectrine prevents European powers from stopping. Already the United States has four warships patrolling the coast of the belligerent republics, and it is generally believed in diplomatic circles that a joint demand on the part of Mexico
and this nation that righting must
cease would result in immediate peace and the settlement of mooted questions through a tribunal created by the joint action of Mexico and the United States, and so constituted that justice to all
the belligerent powers would be in
sured. VICTORY FOR NICARAGUA
Managua Dispatch Says the Honduras Have Been Defeated. Managua, Nicaragua, March 22. A dispatch received here from the front says: "The Ilonduran and Salvadorean army, numbering over 5,000 men, attacked the Nioaraguan positions at rortlllos de Namasique, and after three days and two nights of fighting the Houdnrcns and Salvadoreans were completely defeated, leaving hundreds of dead and wounded on the battlefield. The Nicaraguaus also captured many prisoners, among them being several high officers, besides 2.000 rifles and great quantities of all kinds of war munitions. "The defeated Salvadorean officers Included General Presa.General Avola.
and General Colocho. The Ilonduran
commander defeated was General LiconJa. -The Niearaguans lest many men wounded, and had a few killed.
"General Lopez Garcia and Colonel
Pedro Nolasco have been defeated at
Maraita by the Ilonduran revolution
ary and Niearaguan forces. Manv Ilon
duran soldiers and. a number of rifiea with ammunition were captured by the
allied troops. LaCeiba, a Ilonduran pert on the Atlantic, has been captured by the Niearaguan forces."
ANOTHER UIJI01I OF SECTS
Congregational, 3Ioravian and Meth
odist Protestant Agree to "Jine Drives." Chicago, March 22. An act of union
by which the Congregational, United
Brethren and Methodist Protestant churches of fourteen states are formed
into one religious organization to be
known as the United Churches ha?
been consummated here bv a ceneral
conference of delegates from different
parts of the country. The final vote on the polity report was taken after a strenuous session, in which the Meth
odist Protestant delegates from Louis
iana and Mississippi "bolted" the conference and refused to have anything
to do with the union as planned.
The unification of the three
churches unites more than 1,200,000 communicants, and the new church
will be about the fifth largest protestant church organization in the United
States. The secession of the southern delegates came as a complete surprise to the conference, as it was thought
that the entire assembly was In harmony. It was because the report on policy did not specifically agree that tanctification follows regeneration.
BIG EYPTIAN ENTERPRISE
Proposed Increase in the Nile Reservoir That Will Add a Million Acres of Irrigated Land. , Cairo, Egypt, March 22. The coun ell of ministers has adopted the proposition to increase the height of the Assouan dam sufficiently to raise the water stored in that reservoir by nearly twenty feet above the present maximum. It Is calculated that this will give sufficient new water to Irrigate another million acres of northern Egypt. This, it is estimated, would yield an Increased cotton crop to the value of $17,500,000 to $20,000,000 annually. It
Is stated that the work will take six years to complete and that it will cost $7,500,000. Chinese . Destitute in Revolt. London, March 22. A special dispatch from Shanghai, published here, says that Viceroy Tuan Fang, of Nanking, predicts a general uprising in the famine-stricken districts unless relief is provided. The viceroy has memorialized the throne for $1,000,000 to purchase rice in Slam and Annam.
Another Death from Hiccoughs. Norfolk. Va.f March 22. Denni3 Simmons Biggs, aged 35 years, a prominent lumber merchant and banker of Williamston, N. C, died suddenly of hiccoughs while on a business trip to Washington. He was president of the Bank of Williamston.
Speaker Cannon at Kingston. Kingston, Jamaica, March 22. The steamer Bluecher, having on board tha congressional party headed by Speaker Cannon, has arrived here from Venezuela. The travelers spent last evening on shore, and today they are sightseeing. Big Theft of Jewelry. New York, March, 22. Eighteen thousand dollars' worth of jewelry was s-to!er from the home of Charles Morgan, sen of the founder of the Morgan steamship lines, at his home in Orange, N. J. NEWS FACTS IN OUTLINE
March temperature record was broken yesterday all over the west. At Chicago it was 73; at St. Louis, 90; at Topeka, Kan., 91; at EI Paso, Tex., 92. Continuous heavy rains, washouts, wind stores and a wet, clinging, snowhave combined to produce a complete telegraphic tie-up in the Pacific northwest. President Roosevelt has designated Major General F. C. Alnsworth, the adjutant general of the army, as acting secretar of war In the absence of Ing secretary of war while Taft and his assistant are absent. Ole Brunson, of Janesville, Wis., tried to pull his ulcerated tooth with blacksmiths' nippers and is dying of blood poisoning. The Erie railway has stopped all new construction work. Too much "regulation." Referring to the death of General T. J. Wint Secretary Taft said: "He was a quiet man who did things." The British government has definitely decided against the channel tunnel project. Over 5,000 cars of coke are tied up in the coke region at Connellsville, Pa., on account of the recent floods. Owing to floods in many parts of California there practically is no railroad communication between San Francisco and outside points. The Berlin municipal council fca3 adopted a measure that provides for the taxation for the so-called "unearned increment." The Spiess anti-gambling bill prohibiting gambling throughout NewMexico after Jan. 1, 1903, has been signed by the governor. Brigadier General Theodore J. Wlnt, U. S. A., is dead at Philadelphia. He was 62 years old, and rose from thu ranks.
TRANSVAAL PARLIAMENT
First Things Are a Contest Over Lan
guage and Anti -Asiatic ImmigrationEnglish Versus Dutch. Fretoria, Transvall, March 22. The first meeting of the parliament of the Transvaal colony was opened by Lord Selborne, the governor, who in full uniform and attended by his military and personal staff was seated on the throne, flanked by black gowned judges and the foreign consuls. Lord Selborne ordered the members of the lower house to retire and elect a speaker. As soon as they had assembled In their hall a language controversy sprang up, the Afrikanders persisting in the use of Dutch. Of course the Dutch candidate was elected speaker. He ij General Beyers. After the organization a recess wa3 taken and parliament reassembled in the afternoon. Colonial - Secretary Smuts introduced the "Asiatic ordinance bill" in the lower house, expressing at the same time his belief that the entire white population of the Transvaal was in favor of it. The bill was passed through all stages and cent to the upperhouse with the urgent request that it be passed forthwith. The upper house declined to be hurried, however, and put off the discussion of the bill.
BURTON IS OUT OF JAIL
Ex-U. S. Senator Has Served His Time for Violating a Law of the United States. St. Louis, March 22. Ex-United States Senator Joseph R. Burton, of Kansas, who has been serving a sentence cf six months' imprisonment in the Iron county jail at Ironton, Mo., was released early this morning. He was convicted of having appeared before the postofiice department In behrdf of the Rialto Grain and Securities company, of St. Louis, whiie a member of the United States senate, and having received compensation for so doing. He stated over the long-distance telephone from the Ironton jail that he ex. pected to come to St. Louis today, stop a few hours, and then proceed to Abilene, Kan., where he will make a pubiic statement tomorrow night.
VALUAELE PAINTINGS STOLEN
Summer Home of a Merchant Prince
Looted While the Family Is Absent Therefrom.
New York, March 22. The summer
home at Mamaroneck of Henry Siegel,
the merchant and proprietor of depart
ment stores in New York and other cities, has been looted by thieves. The
house was occupied by caretakers,
Siegel being in Boston and Mrs. Siegel in New York. Six or seven valuable oil paintings were cut from their frames, and costly bric-a-brac wThlch adorned the house was thrown about. Closets and bureaus were ransacked and their contents were scattered about the floors. The head gardner, wiio was in charge of the house, said it could not be stated before Siegel arrived in New York how much the robbers obtained. Railway Expenses Increasing. New York, March 22. In his annual report to the stockholders of the Texas and Pacific railroad President George J. Gould pointed out that of the increase of $1,G64.757 in operating expenses 54 per cent, represented the Increased cost of labor and of fuel. Gould added that the labor question in the southwest continues to present a serious problem, as it does all over the country, and that the demands of labor aro growing a burden which it Is more difficult to carry from year to
year. Aged but Physically Tough. St. Paul, March 22. Ernest Adam, aged 74 years, a contractor, while engaged In cleaningout a deep well about four miles outside of the city, was buried under tons of earth which caved in on top of him. He was taken out alive twenty-two hours later. The only Injury he sustained was a slight bruise on the head, and he is apparently no worse for his experience. That Slump Hit Merritt. Duluth, Minn., March 22. Fred H. Merritt, probably the largest dealer in curb stocks in Duluth, has closed his doors, and his affairs are now in the hands of trustees. Merritt was reputed to be worth $500,000, made in the last two years in copper, but he was very heavily hit by the recent slump on the New York and Boston markets. He will pay all debts.
Lands Reopened to Entry. Washington, March 22. The general land office has issued a statement giving the location of the following yiqlic lands reopened to entry by the president's order of March 12 last: Colorado, 1,250.000 acres; New Mexico, 2,000.000 acres; Montana, 2,100,000 acres; Oregon. 710.000 acres; Utah, 138,000 acres; Wyoming, 1.240,000 acres; Washington, 320,000 acres. Costly Prairie Fires. Chicago, March 22. Prairie fires are reported from Bonesteel, S. D., where Mrs. C. B. Yoakum and daughter were burned to death; Hemingford, Neb., and Chappel, Neb. The loss of farm property will be away up in the thousands of dollars, but except in South Dakota no loss of life Is reported. Ex-President Going North. Georgetown, S. O., March 22. ErPresident Cleveland, Rear Admiral B. P. Lamberton and Commodore E. C. Benedict have reached this city, coming from the Santee Gun club, where they have been for the past several davY shooting and fishing. The party
J left later to' 'itiu
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BE0WKSVILLE IS INDIGNANT
Resents the Imputation That Her Citizens Shot Her Up Themselves Poraker Invited There. Brownsville, Tex., March 22. At a mass meeting of the citizens of Brownsville resolutions were adopted expressing the indignation, of the people of this city because of what ?s termed an attempt being made both before the court martial proceedings now in progress at Fort Sam Houston and before the senatorial committee at Washington "to clear the negro soldiers of the Twenty-fifth Infantry of the crime committed against the town
of Brownsville on Aug. 13 last by fastening the infamy on the townspeople themselves." The resolutions declare that "such a consummation would be a grave miscarriage of justice and an outrage upon a wronged and innccent people, who know beyond the shadow o? a doubt that the outrage was committed by the soldiers." The senatorial committee is urged to come to Brownsville and make a thorough investigation. BTJTL0SS MAKES A CONFESSION
One of the Gang That Stole a Pouch of
Mail Matter from the Liner La Savoiee. Paris, March 22. The man named Buttloss, arrested here with $42,000 in United States securities in his possession on the suspicion that he was an accomplice of the thieves who stole a mail bag containing about $400,000, which arrived at Havre from . NewYork, has made a confession implicating a gang of international robbers. Others arrests are expected soon. The stolen securities are not negotiable. It developed that the stolen mail bag was not on board La Provence, but on La Savoie, which left New York Feb. 14 and arrived at Havre Feb. 21, and it was virtually established that the registered mail matter was abstracted after the bags reached th railroad station here.
maehr, the government commissioner to observe the Berlin bourse, to proceed to the United States for the purpose of studying, the New York and Chicago stock exchanges and to obtain material with which to establish reforms in the German bourse law.
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"Boss" Tweed's Son Dead. New Haven, Conn., March 22. Charles C. Tweed, son of William ("Bees") Tweed, of New York, is dead at his home in this city of pneumonia, aged -14 years. He came to this city from New York six years ago.
Coming Over Here for Ideas. - Berlin, March 22. II err Delbrueck, the Prussian minister of commerce1, h a s directed Priv; Councillor gmoten-
Fire In a Navy Yard. Pensacola, Fla., March 22. Fire completely destroyed building No. 1 at the Pensacola navy yard, entailing a loss estimated at $175,000. Rough on the fiiind. There is a movement on foot to prevent the blind from marrying the blind. If the blind lead the blind to the altar there Is said to be reason to fear that they will be leading blind children about in a few years. It is said that love is blind, though the neighbors are not. That is the reason It so carefully pulls down the blind. However, it is not this kind of blindness that the legislators are asked to deal with.
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