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NEW CONGRESS IN Steps from Extraordinary into Regular Session. USUAL INTEREST IS ABSENT Status of Legislation Shows Little Variation from What It Was When Senate and House Adjourned Saturday — Representative Underwood to Continue As House Leader. WASHINGTON, D. C.—Only a few minutes separated the first, or extraordinary, session from the second, or regular, session of the Sixty-third congress, which opened at noon. The regular session was ushered in by the formal proclamation of Vice President .Marshall in the senate and Speaker Champ Clark in the house. Outside of these formalities there was little difference in the session from those -that have preceded it in the special session. The status of legislation showed little variation from what it was when the senate and house adjourned Saturday afternoon. Usual Interest Is Absent. As a result the interest usually surrounding the opening of a new session of congress was absent. This is the first time in many years that congress has stepped over from one session to another without a break in the routine of business. The senate met as usual at 10 o’clock in the morning, and after the intermission of a few minutes at noon the regular session was on in full swing, and the business of legislating went on as if it were an ordinary daily session, instead of the beginning of a new cougress. Asks $1,108,681,777 for Expenses. Estimates calling for appropriations to run the government for the fiscal year beginning July 1 were submitted to congress by Secretary of the Treasury MeAdoo. The amount asked is $1,108,681,777. Items which appear in the estimates include improving Waukegan harbor SIO,OOO, improving Calumet river SIOO,OOO, improviug Indiana harbor $25,000. The President's Message. In his message, delivered at a joint session of the houses of congress, President Wilson urged immediate currency legislation, devoted considrable space to the needs of the farmers and referred to the Mexican crisis, predicting the downfall of Huerta. The Sherman anti-trust law, he said, should be changed so that its exact meaning would be clearer. The president also urged the choice of presidential nominees by the direct vote of the people expressed at primaries. President Wilson’s policy toward the Philippine islands was made clear. He urged the development of the Philippines, always keeping in view the ultimate independence pf the islanders. The message also urged legislation to safeguard workmen both or land and sea. Representative Oscar ,W. Underwood of Alabama will remain on the Job of house leader this session. It has just become known that Mr. Underwood plans to remain in the house until the expiration of his term in March. 1915. Associated to some extent with the work of congress this sssion are plans for party reorganization that are now in progress there. On Dec. 16, the Republican national committee will meet in Washington for the purpose of determining whether a special national convention shall be held to minimize the influences of the south in party councils. To some extent the progressive plan of campaign in next year’s election will be mapped out in Washington this winter. OUR TARIFF IS NOT LIKED Sir Wilfred Laurier Says It Makes Canadian Food Higher. OTTAWA, ONT. — “Free food before dreadnaughts” was the text of a speech of Sir Wilfred Laurier, the liberal leader before a great meeting in the conservative city of Hamilton. Sir Wilfred said: “What is of immediate interest to the people of Canada is not the price of dreadnaughts. There is one thing which at this moment engages the minds of the common people from the Pacific to the Atlantic coasts. It is a far more prosaic and far more vital question. It is the question of the high cost of living. “And we have not reached the end of the high cost of living. The cost of living will be higher in two or three months than it is today. What is the cause The recent reductions in the American tariff.” AFTER BUTTER AND EGG WEN Chicago Board Is Charged With Price Fixing. CHICAGO — The suit of the federal government charging the Chicago butter and egg board with violation of the antitrust law will be brought to trial here this week, it was announced by James H. Wilkerson, United States district attorney, in this city. The determination to rush the case to trial came on the heels o! a report by Charles B. Morrison, master in chancery, favoring t}ie contention of the government that the quota-, tions committee of the board arbitrarily fixed the price of butter and eggs. The suit was filed a year ago, and shortly after the board voted to abol* J«b tba ~ - *

••••••••••••••a••••••S3*•• j 6ENERAL NEWS. j •••••••••••••••••••••••••a WASHINGTON— AII of the railroads operating east of the Mississippi river and north of the Ohio and Potomac rivers completed the presentation of the preliminary testimony before the interstate commerce commission in their application to increase freight rates five per cent. Adjournment was taken until Dec. 10. The carriers will then put on the witness stand witnesses to corroborate and drive home statistical matter already filed. It develops through statements of witnesses that the carriers, in makign the increases, had used every endeavor to preserve competitive conditions among shippers and that differentials in export and import rates would not be disturbed by the increase because all are advanced five per cent. SOUTH BEND, IND. — Portions of a rich consignment of oank letters and other mail stolen at Dowagiac, Mich., the value of which is estimated at from $15,000 to $30,000, was recovered in South Bend when a large package of drafts was deposited in the postoffice shortly before noon. The drafts were enclosed in a sealed envelope, which was dropped through the regular mailing window at the office. They were discovered a short time afterwards, when the clerks emptied the box. The postal officials checked up the drafts and learned all of the consignment, $10,248.99 of Lee Brothers & Co., bankers of Dowa giac were recovered. WASHINGTON— The sum of $4,500 which was awarded to Authur Beauchamp of Chicago, fifteen years old, from the Sturges & Burn Manufacturing company, because his hand was lacerated in a press in the plant of that concern, must be paid, as a result of supreme court action. Constitutionality of the Illinois child labor law was upheld by the supreme court of the United States in a decision handed down by Justice Hughes in the case of the Chicago youth. CHICAGO — Fairfax Harrison of Chicago, president of the Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railway company, the Monon, was elected president of the Southern Railway company, to succeed the late W. W. Finley, at a meeting of the directors in New York. Mr. Harrison was also elected president of the Alabama Great Southern, the Mobile and Ohio and the Virginia and Southern, of which Mr. Finley was president. WASHINGTON — Josephus Daniels, the secretary of the nary, has made public his first annual report, one of the chief features of which is the announcement of his “buildiug program'' for the navy and his recommendation of the authorization by the present congress of the construction of two dreadnaughts, eight destroyer* and three submarines. CINCINNATI, OHIO — Mrs. Carlob ta Thompson Brown, who was convicted of having embezzled $21,000 from a customer while in the brokerage business with her husband, was sentenced by Judge Wade Cushing of the common plea court to an indeterminate term in the state penitentiary. EVANSVILLE, IND— For the injuries received when a heavy piece of lumber crushed his leg while at work at dam No. 48 near here, Richard Raymond filed Buit in the circuit court against the Ohio River Construction <-r.mi .-i nv for $15.000. NEW YORK — The news from Paris that Sam Schepps, the most important witness in the trial of Lieutenant Charles Becker for the - mu? der of Herman Rosenthal, is willing to make an affidavit which he says will free Becker will have no effect on the hearing in Albany on Becker’s appeal. Schepps, it is learned, wants SIO,OOO for the affidavit, in which he admits perjuring himself at trial. i <'scsi ■ \ LIEUT. C. A. BECKER ] Appeal Unaffected by State Witness Perjury Admission.

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SEEK COMRADE OF, YOUTH FOUND DEAD Coroner’s Jury Find Tragedy Not Due to Accident. LAFAYETTE, IND. — The sheriff, a number of deputies and the Lafayette police are making a county-wide search for Edwin Lucas, seventeen years old, in connection with the finding of the body of Clarence McCormick, fourteen years old, in a patch of brush near this city. Saturday morning Lucas called at the residence of A. J. McCormick, who resides on a farm a mile west of Purdue university, and asked for Clarence, saying he wanted him to go hunting with him. The two left, apparently on the best of terras. Young McCormick carried a single-barreled breach-loading shotgun. Lucas had a revolver. When the supper hour came the boys had not returned and the McCormick boy’s father became alarmed. The neighbors were called in, and parties started out in search of young McCormick. Otto Becker and Clyde Carnell, two boys, discovered the body of the missing youth lying in a patch of brush ,and guarded by his shepherd dog. He had been dead for some tiifie. He had been shot through the heart. His own gun was still loaded. The feeling here is that the death of McCormick was not due to an accident. Lucas has been in trouble before and was looked upon as incorrigible. He was recently before the juvenile court, and, on promise of better conduct, was released. The police learned that Lucas was in Lafayette the afternoon of the tragedy. He is the adopted son of J. Lucas, who lives three miles west of Purdue university. His name was Edwin Mack, before being adopted by Lucas. CITY OFFICIAL QUITS HIS JOB Alfred M. Sucez Is to Become Police Superintendent. LAFAYETTE, IND. — Alfred M. Sucez, Republican member of the board of metropolitan police commissioners, tendered his resignation to Mayor George R. Durgan to take effect today. It is rumored that he has given up his post in order to make ready for his appointment to the office of superintendent of police under the Bauer administration. He is at present employed as foreman of the Big Four railroad roundhouse here. Roy S. Walker will succeed James W. Schooler as city comptroller. He will serve until the first Monday in January, when the comptroller will be named by Mayor-elect Thomas Bauer to succeed him. Comptroller Schooler, who resigned at the direction of Mayor Durgan, will go over his books this week with the field examiners of the state board of accounts and then the alleged shortage in his accounts will be definitely agreed upon. EVANSVILLE GETS TEACHERS 1914 Convention Goes to City on River —Miss Rose President. EVANSVILLE, IND. — After selecting officers and choosing Evansville as the convention city for 1914, the seventh annual convention of the Southwestern Indiana Teachers’ association closed here. Miss Helen Rose, superintendent of schools at Ireland, Ind., was elected president. Other officers follow: A. E. Knowles, Vincennes, permanent treasurer; Andrew Jewell, superintendent of Pike county schools, recording secretary; executive committee; H. J. Tomlin, Evansville, chairman; W. Hough, Oakland City; E. Llewellyn, Mt. Vernon; Miss Margaret Hill, Boonville; Miss Helen Posey< Cannelton.

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TWO YOUNG HUNTERS SHOT Hartford City Youths Injured 'Accidently by Companions. HARTFORD CITY, IND. — Two youthful hunters were shot, but not seriously injured. Earl Ford, fourteen years old, of Millgrove, lost a toe when shot accidently by Brainard Barley, a hunting companion. Parnal Bales received a load of shot in his right arm when Clarence Mansfield attempted to shoot a rabbit. SEEK CALL FOR LIQUOR VOTE Columbia City “Drys” Circulate Petitions to Oust Saloons. COLUMBIA CITY, IND. — Petitions for an option election for this city are being circulated by the ’’dry” forces. If 177 signatures are obtained the petitions will be filed with the commissioners , apd action taken at their Decexnher*fe®ssion. • This city went “wet” three years ago by more than 200 majority and the city has had four saloons. Black Hand Shoot Italian. HAMMOND, IND. — Trapped ..by ambushed enemies, Frank Russo,\ a wealthy fruit importer of Hammonid, was shot and mortally wounded. Ke is dying at St. Margaret’s hospital. Russo before lapsing into consciousness accused “blackhanders” of shooting him. Two suspects have been arrested. Falls Dead Before Family. ■ BEDFORD, IND.—John Hix, fortyeight years old, who is a resident of Oolitic, arose from his chair about 10 o’clock at night and started to his bedroom to retire. He fell dead at the feet of his wife and children. Heart failure was the cause of his death. Pick Violets on River Bank. WABASH, IND.—In spite of the lower temperature school children picked violets which they found along the Wabash river in the city limits. Several large clusters of the spring flowers were gathered, having forced their way through the leaves. Letter Gives Identity. WABASH, IND.—It was learned here that the mangled body found along the Erie railroad is that of Karl Haug of New York city, a deserter from the German army. His identity was established by means of a letter found near the body. Two-Pound Baby Will Live. WABASH, IND. —Mr. and Mrs. William Morrison, residing south of here, are the parents of a two-pound babe, which physicians declare is the smallest child ever born in Wabash county. Dies at Brother’s Home. VINCINNES, IND. — Nora May Robb, eighteen years old, died at the home of her brother, Albert Robb, after draining a two-ounce bottle of carbolic acid, because she was “tired of ;ife.’ The egg laying contest which is being conducted at Storrs college, Connecticut, has passed the forty-ninth week. The two pens of English White Leghorns are still far in the lead, with no prospect that any pen lower down will overtake them. In the contest so far ten pens of White Leghorns have laid from 900 to 1,169 eggs each (pen of five fowls), three having passed the 1,000 mark—Barron’s. 1,169; Cam’s, 1,089; Sleegur’s, 1,011. White Wyandottes make the next best showing. Cam’s pen having laid 948 eggs and Mrs. Haynes’ 918. In the contest at Mountain Grove. Mo., Barron’s pen of White Leghorns lead any other pen of any breed by 271 eggs, one of his pullets having laid 205 eggs and having a month more in which to add to the record. She will have to lay twentyseven eggs in this thirty days to beat the record of the Oregon hen C-543 that recently broke the world’s record with i|H

INDIANA STATE NEWS New Cave Is Discovered. BLOOMINGTON, IND. — While workmen were blasting out rock for a pike road in the south part of Monroe county they discovered a new and unexplored cave on the Smith farm, near Raccoon Creek. The explosion tore a hole in the bottom of the quarry and revealed a cavern larger than the Boone cave. The opening was large enough for a man on horseback to ride into. Those who explored the cave for a few hundred yards say the floor Is dry and that the cavern revealed many beauties. It has been reported to the geology department of Indiana university and a party of students and professors will make a full exploration. Evansville Lawyer Gone. * EVANSVILLE, IND. — Local relatives say William Reister, attorney, who left the city suddenly last week, presumably for Bellingham, Wash., failed to account to Mrs. C. F. Dick of Indianapolis for a $1,500 judgment in an insurance case. The attorney, it is said, told her he had taken the case to the supreme court, while a recent examination of local court records showed that a settlement had been made. Reister’s daughter says he is away on a visit while his associate in a law firm does not know his whereabouts. Sullivan For Attorneyship. WASHINGTON, D. C. —It transpired here that with both Senator Kern and Senator Shively lined up behind him and with the indorsement of the attorney general practically assuredState Senator and County Chairman Reginald H. Sullivan of Indianapolis is likely to be Indiana’s next district attorney. The developments in the bidding for the district attorneyship are understood here to mean that Mr. Sullivan will become Charles W. Miller’s successor when the department sees fit to make the shift. Waste 3,360 Pints of Beer. BLOOMINGTON, IND. — Three thousand three hundred and sixty pint bottles of beer were emptied into the gutter in front of the county jail by Sheriff Jones and his deputy, who pulled corks until the arms were tired. The “suds” flowed down the street and found its way into a “branch” below the jail. The liquor was a supply that had collected and had been stored in the basement from “blind tiger” raids. Refuse to Sell to Peddlers. EVANSVILLE, IND.—The commission merchants here have refused to sell produce to peddlers who avoid payments of license fees and violate the weights and measures laws. Nine turkeys scales were confiscated by City Sealer John C. Wallenmeyer, who found farmers giving local people short weight in holiday fowls. Farmer’s Child Drowns. RACINE, WlS.—The little six-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas orVpagel, farmers of the town of Lyons. was drowned in a horse watering trough, which contained two feet of water. The body was found by the parents, who had searched for hours Loses Arm in Corn Shredder. WABASH, IND.—Paul Jones, sov enteen years old, will lose his right arm as the result of getting the member caught in a corn shredder which he was operating on a farm near here. Before the machine could be stopped the arm was broken in several places and was stripped of the flesh. Starts Fire with Gasoline. TIPTON, IND. —Charles Anderson who i% assistant wreck master of the L. E. and W. railroad, was seriously burned when he ysed gasoline in place of kerosene to start a fire in a car. When reached by workmen Anderson’s arms were so badly burned that the flesh fell from the bones.

[1913 DECEMBER 1913 1 s 1 M l tTwH t I f I s I '■ |1 )2|3.|4 f 3[6l 7 819104112113 141151617181920 21222524P2627 2812913031 H M MITC H eTOFFERSwTIEYIOB Former Chief of Chemistry Bureau Admitted to Have Qualifications. NET YORK — Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, formerly chief of the bureau of chemistry in the department of agriculture, has been selected, it is said in authoskative circles, by Mayorelect Mitchel to succeed Ernst J. Lederle as health commissioner. Whether Dr. Wiley will accept the position is not known for a certainty but he is reported to be making arrangements to give up his position as editor of a magazine. It is generally admitted that Dr. Wiley has had the training and has the qualities such as Mr. Mitchel has set as his standard for the health commissioner. TEAMSTERS STRIKE AT INDIANAPOLIS 3,000 Men Ordered to Quit Work at Midnight. INDIANAPOLIS, IND. — An order for a general strike of all drivers of commercial vehicles and auto trucks was declared at a meeting of the general membership of Local Union No. 240 of General Teamsters and Chauffeurs at the Labor Temple in West Washington street. The strike order went into effect at 12 o’clock last night. The membership of the organization includes drivers of bakery wagons, meat wagons, coal and ice wagons, drivers of laundry wagons, general transfer wagons, truck drivers and draymen, commission wagon drivers, furniture wagon drivers, sanitary teamsters, excavating teamsters, and drivers of sand, cement, stone and lime wagons, packing house teamsters, department store drivers and all drivers of commercial vehicles. More than 3,000 men are scheduled to quit. A special dispensation for milk wagons driven by union men was declared at the meeting, on the recommendation of Farrell. Milk wagons driven by men wearing the union button will be allowed to run. Farrell also announced that there must be no interferences with mail or other government wagons or automobiles or with the wagons or automobiles or with the wagons or machines of the various express companies in the city. Farrell said that arrangements would be made to deliver milk, meat and other necessary produce to the hospitals in the city, in order, he said, that there would be no suffering imposed on the sick and needy. Shank Quits Mayoralty Job. INDIANAPOLIS, IND. — Samuel Lewis Shank has resigned as mayor of Indianapolis. The resignation is the result of labor troubles in the city and a threat of impeachment proceeding by a committee of business men unless further disorders were averted. Harry R. Wallace, city comptroller, succeeded to the mayor’s chair. Purcell Must Face Trial for Murder. NEW YORK — James Purcell, the gambler who testified as the original “squealer” during the aldermanic investigation a year ago that he had paid upward of $50,000 for police protection, must stand trial for the murder of his daughter Agnes. CHAMP CLARK Latest Picture of Noted Speaker of the House. Photo 9 hf American Pmi AaaoaJatioit •mm**' - mmv fr+> ihinw—« »

LEAVE CHIHUAHUA * * Evacuate Northern uapital as Rebels Draw Near. - VILLA CONFIRMS THE REPORT Federal Troops Flee to the SouthMany Americans in Peril in Battle* Swept City of Victoria—Automobile* Sent to Aid U. S. Citizens by Bryan’s Orders. t EL PASO, TEXAS — A report reached here that Chihuahua city, capital of the state of the same name, has been abandoned by its federal defenders, that part of them have left for Ojiuaza, on the Texas border northeast of Chihuahua city, and that the others are attempting to retreat south. Pancho Villa, rebel commander in Juarez, declared when told of the report that it was true. He said his men who went south Saturday have wired it to him. Francisco Escuadero, foreign minister in the Carranza provisional cabinet, confirmed it also. THe reports say the evacuation took place Sunday, following the return of the federals defeated by Villa, near Juarez last week, and that tbe citizens have placed Frederico Moye* a business man, in temporary charge of the city pending the arrival of the rebel army of investment. The only way the ne’ws could have been brought out would have been by courier to Carrizal, ninety miles south of Juarez, where Villa’s rebel advance is located. From that point to Juarez the wires are working. Villa says that is the way he received it. No wires are operating out of Chihuahua city in any direction. Without seeing a single federal, the advance guard of Villa’s constitutionalist army reached the station of Garrlzal. According to telegraphic advices received by General Villa, Garrizal is ninety-seven miles south of Juarez on the Mexican Central railway, and is nearly half way to the city of Chihuahua. Federal Trains Collide. Confirmation of the report that two federal trains collided Thursday night south of Rancheria. sixty-one miles from Juarez, has just been received by Villa. When the rebel advanc* guard reached a point seventy mile* south of Juarez they discovered two abandoned federal trains which had been almost destroyed by fire. A number of dead and injured Huerta soldiers, victims of the collision, were lying where they had fallen, It is said. To add to the horror of the catastrophe, the trains caught fire and many of the soldiers were burned. Those who were detrained continued the retreat southward, it is reported. INDIANA GETS NO NEW CONSTITUTION U. S. Supreme Court Upholds State Tribunal. WASHINGTON—A new state constitution, proposed for the state of Indiana by the legislature of that state and which had been prepared under the direction of Thomas R. Marshall, then governor, now vice president, was put to sleep permanently when the United States supreme court dismissed a petition filed by attorneys appointed by Governor Marshall for a writ or error to the supreme court of Indiana. The latter court had affirmed the judgment of the lower court enjoining the governor and other officers of that state from submitting the new constitution to the voters for ratification at a general election. RAILWAY OFFICIAL SLAIN Shot by a Bandit Who Raided Westbound Overland Train. LOS ANGELES, CAL. —H. E. Montague, traveling passenger agent of the Southern Pacific, was shot and instantly killed while trying to disarm a bandit who was holding up the passengers in the Southern Pacific westbound Overland train, No. 9. The desperado boarded the train at Pomona, thirty miles east of here, and jumped off at El Monte, sixteen miles out, securing SSOO from passengers, BLEASE SETS HUNDRED FREE South Carolina Governor Has Given Nearly 900 Convicts Freedom. COLUMBIA, S. C. — More than a hundred convicts have just been paroled by Governor Cole L. Blease. This number includes twenty-six convicted of murder and twenty-six convicted of manslaughter The governor siftce coming into the executive office three years ago has granted nearly 900 pardons, paroles and commutations. W. W. Finley Dead. WASHINGTON — President W. W. Finley of the southern railway died suddenly of apoplexy at his home here. Members of his family vho were in the city were summoned to m hi VM striekea- *,

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