The Syracuse Journal, Volume 6, Number 39, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 22 January 1914 — Page 1

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CULLOM’S LIFE IS FAST EBBING .Former U. S. Senator from Illinois Sinking at Capital. HAD A REMARKABLE CAREER Political Life Began with Organization of Republican Party—Legislator, Congressman, Governor and United States Senator —Is Over Eighty-Six Years of Age. Washington, Jan. 21. —Ex-Senator Shelby M. Cullom of Illinois is in a dying condition a’ his i ome here. The end is expected at any moment. His physicians, Drs. Henry P. Parker and Z. T. Sowers, gave up all hope for his recovery ea’«y in the evening, while his son-in law, William Barrett Ridgeley, in a statement issued to the press, said that Mr. Cullom would not survive the night. Mr. Cullom’s condition became alarming, although he had been in a decline for a number of years, due to heart disease and complications. At 4 o’clock in the afternoon Mr. Ridgeley issued the following statement: “Mr. Cullom is sinking so rapidly we do not believe ho can live more than a few hours. His heart is very weak. He breathes with great difficulty. He has Tallied three times recently when death seemed near, but his vitality has been drained, and we do not believe he can rally this time.” Early in the evening Dr. Sowers issued a bulletin stating that Mr. Cullom still retained consciousness, “but was gradually losing strength.” Beside Mr. Ridgeley, Miss Victoria Fisher of Springfield, a sister-in-law, was called to Mr. Cullom’s bedside. Wonderful Career. The last survivor of a remarkable period in national political history, exSenator Cullom’s career is remarkable. One of the sponsors and found ers of the Republican party, he held almost every office within the gift of the people, rising from a member ot the legislature to congress, to the governor’s chair, and then to the senatorship. He retired last year. He was eighty-six years .old last November, being born in Monticello, Ky., November 22, 1829. Closely allied with the Republican party from the outside, Mr. Cullom was high in its councils. His only close relatives are Miss Fisher, Mrs. Brown of Springfield, Ill.; Mrs. Henry P. Parker of Washington and Mr. Ridgeley. HALF OF ESTATE TO FIANCEE Girl to Whom He Was Engaged Remembered by Railroad Official. New York, Jan. 21.—Nearly half the estate of Richard D. Lankford, vice president of the Southern railway, who was asphyxiated by gas last week at his home in Brooklyn, goes to Miss Nellie B. Patterson, the Brooklyn girl to v.homvhe was engaged. The will divides the property equally between Miss Patterson and Lankford’s mother, after giving the testator’s' home in Princess Anne, Md., to Mrs. Lankford and leaving his brother, Columbus, SI,OOO. BARR IS TO BE RETURNED Texas Authorities Will Send Him Back to Indiana Reformatory. Columbus, Ind., Jan. 21. —Having decided that Mead Barr, whose home is in Elizabethtown, did not tell the truth when he said he murdered Miss Florence Brown, at Dallas, Tex., last July, the Dallas authorities will send him back to Indiana. He will be returned to Jeffersonville reformatory, where he was serving a sentence for manslaughter when taken to Dallas. FOUNDATION OPPOSES TAX Altman Executors Object to Inheritance Assessment in New York. New York, Jan. 21. —The Altman Foundation, chief beneficiary of the will of Benjamin Altman, who left an estate estimated at from $40,000,000 to $50,000,000, will resist the attempt of the state comptroller to collect an inheritance transfer tax. The executors of the Altman estate object on the ground that the Altman Foundation is a charitable institution. MISERLY CHARGE IS DEAD Woman WJw Dies in County Hospital Had $5,000 in Bank. Portland, Ore., Jan. 21. —Lena Cariscn, who died at the County hospital and was supposed to be poor, left more than $5,900 in cash. It was revealed when a wallet she had left was produced. Shoots Father and Brother. t South Bend, Ind., Jan. 21.—Becoming suddenly insane, Edward Meighan, twenty-two, probably fatally shot his father, John Meighan, sixty-five, former city engineer, and seriously wounded a brother, John Meighan, Jr., thirty-one. The victims were asleep when the shots were fired.

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JOHN SKELTON WILLIAMS Assistant Treasury Official Is Named Currency Comptroller. ■ @ 1913. by American ITess Association. WILLIAMS IS NAMED FOR CURRENCY JOB He Will Officially Help to Put New Act into EM WASHINGTON — The name of John Skelton Williams, assistant secretary of the treasury, was sent to the senate as comptroller of the currency by President Wilson. The nomination was determined upon at a conference between President Wilson and Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo. It is expected that a fight will be made upon the nomination in the senate, as Mr. Williams has many opponents among the southern senators. However, it is generally believed here that the nomination eventually will be confirmed. its comptroller of the currency Mr. Williams will be on the organization committee charged, .with putting- the new currency act into effect. The other two members are Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo and Secretary of Agriculture Houston. Mr. Williams’ nomination has been expected" generally Vor ten days, as Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo was his principal backer. GREAT STRIKE IS ON Delaware and Hudson Railway Employes Cease Work. ALBANY, N. Y. —Approximately five thousand men employed by the Delaware and Hudson Railway company walked out quietly at 5:45 a. m. The strike order was issued to every union engineer, fireman, conductor trainman and telegrapher at work along the line from Rouse’s Point N. Y,., to Wilkesbarre, Pa. Crews brought their trains to terminal points, took their engines to roundhouses and then went to their hemes to await the result of a conference between union leaders and officers of the company. G. W. W. Hanger of the federal board £f mediation, telegraphed to Martin C. Carey, in charge .of the strike, but Carey replied: “The die is cast. Only the concessions we ask will bring about a settlement.” The men demand the reinstatement of two men who were discharged for alleged disobedience. BIG LOOT HELPS VILLA Captured Arms Enables Him to Increase His Army. EL PASO, TEXAS—Pancho Villa is to increase his rebel army by the addition of 10,000 men. He declares the recent capture of arms at Ojinaga together with arms and ammunition he had previously taken from the federate will enable him to fully arm and equip that many men a'nd recruiting was commenced in Juarez. Local army and Red Cross officers are making active preparations for the reception of the 4,419 Mexican refugees and federal soldiers when they arrive from Presidio. The quartermaster department is wiring to St. Louis and other quartermaster depots for tentage, bedding and other supplies as there is not sufficient in the local depot to supply the refugee colony. MRS. S WEIR MITCHELL DIES Taken 111 with Pneumonia After the Funeral of ’Her Husband. PHILADELPHIA, PA. — Mrs. S. Weir Mitchell died of pneumonia. She became ill after the funeral of her husband last week. Mrs. Mitchell, who was seventy-sev-en years old, was Mary Cadwalader, member of a famous Philadelphi* family. She was prominent in social affairs longer than half a century. Earthquake in Italy. LEGHORN, ITALY—Six very violent earthquake shocks caused a panic among the inhabitants of this place and people rushed in terror into the streets and gathered in groups on the squares and other open places. No casulaties are reported.

DESERTING HUSBAND MADE TO SETTLE UP Wile Halts His Flight Until He Divides Money. LOGANSPORT, IND. — Bank Carver, a Burnettsville farmer arrested here on the charge of wife desertion, has been released from custody following a settlement made with his wife in jail. The charge was preferred by his son-in-law, who declared Carver had sold off his stock, converted everything into cash, and was leaving foi parts unknown. Carver was arrested while waiting for a train at the Penn sylvania depot here and his wife net F tied. When he was arrested he had on him $609 in cash. Mrs. Carver held a brief consultation with her husband in the jail and when she came out she had $305 in bills in her hand. “He can go where he likes now,’ she "told Sheriff Stanley. “I don’t mind him deserting, but I object tc him leaving without me getting mj share of the m.oney from the sale.” WIFE SLAYER REMORSELESS He Tells Jail Attaches He le Willing to Suffer Penalty. NEW ALBANY, IND—Apparently undisturbed by any feeling of remorse, William Schray, who brutally murdered his wife, Rosa Adams Schray* at the home of her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Adams, late Saturday night, passed a quiet day In jail. He related the harrowing details of the crime to the attaches of the jail and declared that he was satisfied with what he had done and was willing to suffer the extreme penalty for it. After finding his wife in .conversation with another man on the street, Schray followed her to her parents’ home, where, according to his own story, he beat her brains out with an iron pipe and cut her throat almost severing her head from her bodj*. He is a former convict. STUDENTS HONOR POET RILEY Seniors of Indiana University Dedicate Year Book to Him. « BLOOMINGTON, IND. — The senior class of Indiana university decided tt> dedicate its year "book.” Arbutus,” to James Whitcomb Riley, the Hoosier poet. It is the first time the honor has been conferred on a person not connected with the university. Among others to whom the book has been dedicated are Joseph Swain, former president of the university and now head of Swarthmore university; David Starr Jordan, another former president and now chancellor of Leland Stanford, Jr. university; Robert J. Aley, former member of the faculty and at present president of the University of Maine, and William Lowe Bryan, president of Indiana. SETS FIRE TO CELL BEDDING Insane Woman at Tipton May Die of Her Burns. TIPTON, IND. — Mrs. William M. Malston, an insane woman from Windfall, who has been confined in the jail here for several days, set fire to bedding in her cell and was so badly burned that her life is despaired of. The fire was discovered by another ’""mte of the women’s section, who broke a window and gave the alarm. Mrs. Malston started the fire by tearing the gas fixtures from the wall, using an electric light wire to start the blaze in clothing and bedding which she had piled up in the center of her cell. THEFT OF MAIL IS CHARGED Boy Learns Combination to Lock Box and Took Letters, Charge. BLOOM FELD, IND—U. S. Postoffice Inspector William T. Fletcher arrested Ernest Kidd, sixteen years old, on a charge of stealing mail. The boy was taken to Terre Haute and arraigned before United States Commissioner Hall. It is charged that the boy learned the combination of the lock box of the county clerk and stole letters containing money orders and money amounting to from SSO to SIOO. He was trapped by a “decoy” letter. PHONES TO CALL TO JHURCH Logansport Laymen Arrange Plana for Sunday Attendance. LOGANSPORT, IND.—The delegates from every Protestant church in the city made final plans for “go-to-church” Sunday which is to be observed here Feb. 1. Among the plans devised to have as many as possible attend church on that day is an arrangement with the telephone company which is to call every person having a phone early on that morning and suggest that the subscriber go to church. Poison Dose Is Not Fatal. MARION, IND.—Miss Freda Prail, who is nineteen years old, was found by a neighbor on the floor of her home unconscious and suffering from chloroform poisoning. It is thought the poison was taken with intent to commit suicide, but the physician says she will recover.

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INDIANA STATE NEWS — Father and Daughter Die. BLOOMINGTON, IND.—The Rev. J. H. Garrison, eighty-four years old. and for fifty years a Methodist minister and presiding elder, died here, just four days after the death of his wife. In the afternoon Mrs. Hester Taylor, fifty-two years old, the daughter of the Rev. Garrison, died lyThe Rev. Garrison was born in Johnson county and moved with his parents to Indianapolis at the time his father had the contract for making the. brick out of which the old State House was built. He had been a Mason for fifty years. ' , ; Alarm Clock Save* Four Lives. FORT WAYNE, IND.—Overcome by gas which escaped from a defective stove in their home, the lives of four sisters, Grace. Erma, Julia and France Brannan, were saved by the ringing of an alarm clock. The jangle of the gong aroused Grace sufficiently to make her realize that something was wrong, and she staggered to an outside door, screaming for help, pitching forward into the dooryard as she did so. Her calls brought assistance and all savj Frances had been restored to consciousness later in the day. It is believed all will recover. Warrant* for “White Caps.** SOUTH BEND, IND.—Eleven warrants charging attempts to intimidate by force and coercion were sworn to against eleven farmers, prominent in the North River valley by Mrs. Margaret Ross, who with her two sons was driven Sunday night from her homestead in the valley by fifteen armed and whitecapped men. Mrs, Ross could name only eleven of the men, who, after setting fire to her home, drove her miles through the rain and left her with a warning not to return on penalty of death. High Court Add* to Verdict. INDIANAPOLIS, IND. — The Indiana supreme court upheld the Fulton circuit court in awarding Henry L. Lain, a railroad employe, judgment against the Chicago and Erie Railroad company for $7,000. A penalty of 10 per cent was added because the company prosecuted an appeal held to be without merit Lain was injured Nov. 24. 1900, at Huntington. He first obtained a judgment for $14,771.50, but it was reversed. | ■ “ V»e Weapon*. SOUTH BEND, IND.—There Is a lull in the Czleseyolskl-Dubitski feud after five yeaYs of incessant fighting. Both principals are in jail following an attack on each other in which a hatchet and carving knife figured, and both combatants were badly used. The men are charged with assault and battery with intent to kill. One of the exhibits at their trial will be a piece of skull as large as a quarter, which was carved from one man’s head. | Warner Much Wanted Man. ANDERSON, IND.—Jesse W. Warner, who last summer assaulted a patrolman in Muncie with a buggy whip, was fined $lO and costs and given a sentence of sixty days in jail for the theft l ot a pound of coffee from the Scampmorte grocery on Main street. Word was received from Alexandria and Muncie that Warner is wanted in both places for larceny. He will be surrendered to the authorities of these cities when he has served his time here. Ineligible to Be a Justice. INDIANAPOLIS, IND.—Because of a constitutional provision, which prohibits the governor or lieutenant governor of Indiana from seeking any other elective office, Lieutenant Gov ernor William P. O’Neill withdrew as a candidate for a member of the Indiana supreme court. Mr. O’Neill announced his withdrawal in a telephone message from his ' home in Mishawaka. He was elected lieutenant governor in 1912. Negro Die* at Age of 102. ANDERSON, IND. — Edward W. Jackson, colored, who alleged he passed the century mark two years ago, is dead at his home, where he lived for the last fifty years, in this city. Jackson was brought to this city in 1865 jby T. N. Stilwell, Sr., at that time in 'congress and who employed him in Washington as his valet. Road Ordered to Pay Woman $1,500. No Citizen*’ Ticket at Gary. GARY, IND.—The prospects of a citizens’ ticket in Lake county in the coming county election were shattered at the county committee meetini of the Progressive party, held in Gary. After a hot fight it was voted that the Progressives place a full ticket in the field and decline to affiliate with any other party. Faces Seriou* Charge. ANDERSON, IND. — Lester W. Shinkle, twenty-five years old and married, was arrested charged with having furnished intoxicating liquot to fourteen-year-old Mary Hann. Be cause of the prominence of the Shinkle family the matter is creating considerable interst here. Third Paper Proposed. CRAWFORDSVILLE IND. — A project is under way to establish a third paper in this city to promulgate the principles of the Progressive party.

MOYERJNDICTED President of Miners Federation Charged with Conspiracy. ANTTILLA ALSO IS CAUGHT First Count Charges Plot to Prevent , “by Force and Arms” Pursuit of Vocations by Workmen—“No ’ B'lls” Result of Efforts to Indict Many Others. HOUGHTON, MICH. — Charles H. Moyer, president of the Western Federation of Miners, was indicted for conspiracy with other officials ,of the federation in connection with the strike of the copper miners. The first count of the indictment charges conspiracy to prevent by force and arms the pursuit of their vocations by employes of the mining companies. The bill against Moyer and the other officials of the federation charged a misdemeanor. It was brought out that several “no true bills” were included in the grand jury report and the court ordered these made public. The jury exonerated H. Stuart Goodell, an oil merchant, of complicity in one of the strike shooting affrays. The indictment against Anttilla included the charges against Charles H. Moyer, president; C. E. Mahoney, vice president; Guy E. Miller, Yarco Terzich, J. C. Lowney and W. P. Davidson, members of the executive board of the W’estern Federation of Miners. In addition Lynn Sqllivan, William Richard, Ben Goggia, Frank Altonen. Charles E. Hietala and other local union leaders were named, the list including thirty-nine individuals. Conspiracy Is Charged. The second count was similar to the first, but the charge was broadened to include all classes of workmen. In the third, count it was charged that the union men had, by their conspiracy and attempts to intimidate, interfered with the rights and property of nonunion men. The jury made no reference to the Moyer deportation, so tar as could be learned. Court officials promised that as fast as warrants were served the names of the indicted men would be made public. One guess as to the nature of the concealed charges had it that they related to the four guards and two deputy sheriffs who are charged with what has become known as the “Seeberville murders” Thwe mea have been out on bonds awaiting disposition of their cases by the grand Jury. HUNDREDS BURIED BY FALLING CLIFF Refugees from Sakura Crushed to Death by Earth. KAGOSHIMA, JAPAN—Over three hundred refitgees from Sakura were buried under a falling cliff in a neighboring village. One hundred bodies have been recovered. This new disaster Is a result of the volcanic erputiens and earthquakes which for a week have devastated the island of Sakura and made a wreck of the city. The eruptions and earthquakes continue, but with activity much subdued. There is great suffering in the entire section, for it has been found impossible to give shelter or food to the thousands who lost their homes. SEEK CHICAGO BANK PLACE -<r lowa Business Men Say They Wish to Be Within Local Jurisdiction. CHICAGO — lowa bankers and business men are united in wishing that state to be within the Chicago reserve bank district, according to J. G. Rounds of Des Moines and John McEwen of Sioux City, who made their plea before Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo. Mr. McEwen further said that he believed it highly desirable that Kansas and Nebraska should also be in the Chicago district. CULLOM IN DANGE3 Former Illinois Senator Seriously 111 at Washington Home. WASHINGTON — Hon. Shelby M. Cullom, for thirty-six years United States senator from Illinois, is seriously ill at his home in this city. Mr. Cullom is eighty-four years old. He is suffering from general debility and his friends fear he may not recover. Since his retirement from the senate Mr. Collum has been resident commissioner of the Lincoln memorial commission. IOWA Ü BLUE SKY” LAW VALID Validity Sustained In Decree Filed by Federal Judge McPherson. DES MOINES, IA. — The validity of the so-called “blue sky law” of the State of lowa was sustained in a decree filed in federal court by Judge Smith McPherson. The law seeks to control the sale of investment securities in the state, and it* constitutionality was assailed.

MISS EVA BOOTH Salvation Army Commander Is Reported Very 111 in Buffalo. ■BEgaß^*p :Z :.. .

BUFFALO, N. Y. — Miss Eva Booth, commander of the Salvation Army in the United States, is confined to her room in a local hotel with a serious attack of bronchitis. Physicians attending her said pnemonia was likely to develop, but later she i seemed a little better. She caught severe eolld in Elmira last week. --- * - ■■ - ■ — ; ...... : GENERAL NEWS. : • • CALUMET, MICH. — That the Western Federation of Miners, with the backing of the American Federation of Labor, proposes to continue to fight against the mine operators of Northern Michigan was the statement of James E. Roach, personal representative here of Samuel Gompers, and this statement is borne out by preparation for the fight being made not only in the copper district but in the iron mining district. KANSAS CITY, MO.—The workings of an alleged syndicate of white slavers, which according to government investigators, involves a score of members of the Greek colony here and ha* ramifications extending into a half dozen cities of the middle west, were described at a hearing of Frank Reo and Joseph Amatos, saloonkeepers, before Harry C. Allen, United States immigration inspector. CHICAGO — Isaac M. Jordan, prominent lawyer and clubman and former son-in-law of ex-United States Judge Peter S. Grosscup, committed suicide in Parlor J, !of the Palmer House. He shot himself and his lips showed indications of having taken poison. One theory for the suicide, advanced by friends, was that Jordan had been brooding over the seperation from his wife and child. LAPORTE, IND. — Lloyd Gilderman, nine years old, was drowned in Lake Wawasee at Syracuse. While playing on the ice he ran into., open water and sank before assistance could reach him. George Gilderman, the father, formerly lived in Indianapolis, and Is now at the head of a factory at Syracuse. WASHINGTON — Bishop Oliver C. Sabin, of the Evangelical Christian church, who was an Illinois lawyer before he dedicated his life to Christian Science, died here. Bishop Sabin was born in Bladenburg, Ohio, in 1840. He studied at the Ulihois Normal college and practiced law in Bloomington, 111. HALIFAX, N. S.—All on board are safe, according to information received here on the stranded steamer Cobequid. Nearly all of those aboard have been landed at Yarmouth. The ■teamer Westport brought seventy-one ashore and the others came on the steamer John L. Cann. ST. LOUIS, MO. — Mistaken tor a burglar when she was bidding a sweetheart good-by on the back porch of her uncle’s home, Miss Lillie Weldele, sixteen years old, was shot and probably fatally injured by her cousin, Chester Stutte, fifteen years old. HOUGHTON, MICH.—The local relief committee which raised a fund of $30,000 for the Italian hall disaster sufferers met and decided to return all contributions. Officials of the miners’ union refused to permit its members to accept outside aid. CUMBERLAND, MD. —lt is reported here that the big dam of the West Virginia Pulp and Paper company, near Dobbin, W. Va., lias giveta way ipith resultant heavy property loss and possible loss of life. SPRINGFIELD, ’LL. — Governoi Dunne left for Pontiac, where he will make a personal investigation of the Pontiac reformatory. This is the first penal institution to be visited by the governor since his election. BLOOMINGTON, ILL. —The will of Daniel Sharpe of Cooksville, admitted to probate, leaves $20,000 to the home and foreign missionary boards of the Presbyterian church. ; Mi I. i 1 AUfc fa»

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CONVICiyEVOLT Former Illinois Congressman and Judge Among Slain. WOMAN IS ALSO SHOT DOWN Three Prisoners Make Escape, but Are Afterward Overtaken and Killed by Pursuers—Three Prison Guards Slain and Two Other* Wounded— Men Not Trusties. M’ALESTER, OKLA—At ler.st seven men are dead and one woman injured as the result of an attempt on tha part of three prisoners to escape front the state penitentiary here. The dead: P. C. Oates, deputy sheriff; P. C. Godfrey, guard; H. H. Decover, Bertillon man; Judge John R. Thomas, formerly congressman from Illinois; China Reed, prisoner; Tom I-ane, prisoner; Charles Kuntz, prison-# er. The injured: Miss Mary Foster. pt»> on stenographer, shot in leg; J. w. Martin, turnkey, shot in cheek; c. B. Woods, guard, shot in arm. Judge Thomas, a Muskegee utterh/y, was formerly congressman from Illinois, a federal judge and a member of the state code commission. He served five terms in congress from the Ngvpt (111.) district. Shoot Prison Official*. Reed. Lane and Kuntz, the three prisoners, stormed (he gu ird, shooting the three prison oft'cials and Judge Thomas, who was in the penitentiary consulting a client. The prisoners then rusbed to the penitentiary office and at the point of rexolvers forced F. C. Rice and Miss Mary Foster, the latter a p -nitentiary stenographer, to go with hem in a buggy near the penitentiary and get in. A bullet from one of the prisoners’ guns entered the leg of M .ss Foster. She fainted in the buggy. An alarm was sounded and guards on horseback were sent in pursuit of the fugitives. Battle on Highway. In the meantime the sheriff of Pittsburg county had been notified and asked to quickly summon a posse of gunmen. Before the prisoners had gone more than a half mile from the penitentiary, however, they were overtaken "by the penitentiary guards. A battle took place on the highway in which all three of the convicts were shot\ death. ♦ - Governor Lee Cruce was notified ox the outbreak pver long distance by Warden Dick. Dick told the governor that none ot the men were trusties. They were, regarded as being desperate characters, one of them serving a forty-year term. How the prisoners got possession of the pistols Dick does not know. They Open Fire. The first intimation "prism officials had that anything was w~ong was when the men grabbed £he two guards and marched them in front of them into the penitentiary office. Deputy Warden Oates was in the office talking with Judge Thomas of Muskogee. As the men entered they poirted their pistols at Oates. Oates jumped to his feet and began to fire, but his aim was poor, because he was afraid of hitting the guards, who were serving as breast works for the prisoners. At the second shot from Oates’ pistol the men shot Oates and the others to death. While they were fleeing in the buggy. pursued by the mounted posse. Miss Foster fell out of the vehicle. Then the*guards closed in and shot the prisoners to death. PRESIDENT READS MESSAGE Gives to the Congress His Views on Trust Legislation. WASHINGTON — The house and senate held a joint session in the hall of the house at 12:30 p. m. to hear President Wilson read his message on trust legislation. The galleries were packed and there was a full attendance of members of both houses. In the galleries reserved for them were members of the diplomatic ?orps, the supreme court, cabinet members and many notables. The president delivered his message from the speaker’s stand, as he had on other occasions. The joint ses sion showed marked evidence of approval of his recommendation of a board to keep corporations from violating the law, and defend that ground known as the “twilight zone” in operating their business. The president served notice on “big business” that it must alter its methods to coincide with public opinion. He expressed his wish to have corporations shown how to comply with the law. At the same time he manifested his desire to have the business law breaker treated as any other criminal, holding that guilt is personal. Congressional compliance with this declaration means jail terms for violators of the anti-trust law. General Picquart I* Dead. AMIENS, FRANCE — General Marie Georges Picquart, commander of the Second French army corps, who was ohe of the most prominent figures in the Dreyfus case, died here at the age of sixty years.

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