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THINK BRITISH CABINET FALLS r Question in Every Mind Can Asquith Weather Storm. LLOYD GEORGE RADICALS MAD \ I Reported That Secretary of War Has Resigned—Belief Genera! That Disintegration of the Ministry Has Begun—Great Excitement at Meeting of Parliament. ' London, March 25. —The army -crisis over the mobilization of the army in Ulster has developed into a ministerial one. Nothing was talked of at the politictl clubs or in political circles on Tuesday night but the Question: Will the government outride the tempest which was raised by their treatment of the Irish command? The answer which was confidently given by many experienced observers is that the cabinet is doomed. Il is practically certain that Colonel J. E. B. Seely, the secretary of war, has resigned although his resignation has not yet been accepted. The cabinet which will discuss his retirement today is likely to take other most important decisions. Radicals in a RageThere is unquestionably a serious revolt among Premier Asquith’s parliamentary followers. The whole of the extremists section, including Lloyd George Radicals, the Laborites and the Socialists is infuriated at what they regard as the government’s ! surrender to the king and the army. Officers privilege is declared to have been set id» against the democracy and the democracy is foaming with rage. The excitement in the lobbies of the house of commons has been unprecedented in years. Revolters exchanged among themselces criticisms of Premier Asquith and the moderate section of the cabinet in a manner which showed that allegience to the premier is ended unless the suspicions t f the dissidents is disproved in parliament. CENSURE HELD TOO SEVERE Attorneys Plead Before Committee for McDermott and Emery. Washington, March 25.—James A. Emery, representing the National Association cf Manufacturers, and James A. Easby-Smith, representing Representative James T. McDermott of Chicago, addressed the judiciary committee of the house of representatives in opposition to a favorable report on the Floyd subcommittee report which recommends a public censure of both as a result of the evidence disclosed ip the Mulhall investigation. The plea is made that sufficient punishment already has been administered by the publicity given to their lobby activities MRS. POTTER CRITICALLY ILL Educator Unconscious Twelve Hours —Not Expected to Live. Chicago, March 25.—Mrs. Frances Squire Potter, educator and suffrage ; leader, who has been confined to her bed in her home, 4581 Oakenv.ald av enue, for a year, is in a . serious condition and is not expected to recover. Mrs. Potter was for years professor of literature in the University of ■ Minnesota and also held the chair of etymology in Brooklyn institute. She is completing her fourth year* as chairman of the literary department of the National Federation of Women’s clubs. FIND PROF. HARNACK’S BODY ! iCelebrated German Supposed to Have Jumped Into Neckar River. Stuttgart, Germany, March 25.—The body of Professor Otto Harnack, one cf three celebrated brothers, was y found in the Neckar river. , The professor, who was connected with the school system here, had been missing for a month. It is supposed that he committed suicide during a mental breakdown. SITE OF CITY IS FARM LAND Old Klondike Town of 20,000 Is Claimed by Three Homesteaders. Seattle, Wash., March 25. —The site of Dyea, Alaska, which in the days of the Klondike boom had a population of 20,00’0, has been filed on as farming land by three homesteaders. One is an Indian woman and another is a young man who is founding a fox ranch. i TAKE ALLEGED BANK FRAUD ——— — ( Eugene McCullum Is Accused of Swindling 40 Institutions. Waterloo, la., March 25.—Eugene McCullum, aged thirty, of Des Moines, was arrested here charged with obtaining money from about forty banks in the middle west under false pretenses. A detective agency has been wording on the case nearly a year.

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PROF. H. T. PECK Former Columbia University Instructor Who Committed Suicide. ] W' ■ ’W I I Sii U-’. : J| PROF. PECK TAKES OWN LIFE Euucator Was Facing $50,000 Suit. Brought by a Woman. Harry Thurston Peck, for many STAMFORD, CONN. — Professor years head of the department of Latin at Columbia university and a wellknown critic and author, committed suicide here. His body was found in a rooming house, where he had shot himself, ending a brilliant career which was dimed in its later years by domestic trouble. i New York, March 24. —Harry Thurston Peck was a writer of note and for twenty-eight years was professor of ancient languages at Columbia university. He left the institution more than three years ago m consequence cf unpleasant notoriety incident to a breach of promise suit for 550,000 brought against him by Esther Quinn, a stenographer. Shortly after the filing of the suit Dr. Peck filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy. He gave his assets as $260. MRS. GOELET IS DIVORCED Cruelty Is Ground in Which Court Grant* D»cr*e Separation. NEWPORT, R. I. — Mrs Elsie Goelet was granted a divorce from, Robert Goelet by Justice Barrows in the superior court here after the reading of the depositions for three hours on ground of cruelty, r Counsel had previously agreed as to the disposition of the children, i decree being entered that Peter, now two years o’ji, should remain in the custody of Mrs. Gcelet until he is six years of age, then his custody will be jointly between mother and father. Ogden, now seven years old, is to be jointly in the custody of the father and mother. No mention was made of alimony. CO-EDS ARE STORE CLERKS Former Wellesley Students Helping Raise Funds Rebuilding Dormitory. BOSTON. — Five Wellesley college girls are standing behind the counters of Boston department stores acting as salesgirls to help raise funds for a new Wellesley college dormitory. They will work the regular number of hours, wait on customers, tend the counters, and sell anything that is assigned to them and will be paid $9 a week for their services. They will ‘ work for two weeks and their earnwill be donated toward a fund • for the dormitory. ACCUSED OF KILLING SPOUSE ■ Mrs- Dera Brazzell of Dubuque Indicted for Murder. DUBUQUE, IOWA. — Mrs. Dora I Brezzell was indicted by the -Dubuque county grand jury for the murder of her husband, Charles Brazzell, a motorman, who was found murdered in his home here two months ago. After being absent from Dubuque z for a* week, Mrs. Brazzell returned heme and reported the finding of her dead husband in their home. The body was badly mutilated. STANLEY CASE IS DISMISSED Motorman Whose Car Overturned and Killed Three Is Freed. MUNCIE, IND. — Holding that there was not sufficient evidence to warrant prosecution, Prosecutor J Frank Mann filed a motion te->dismiss the charge of manslaughter against Thomas G. Stanley of Anderson. Stanley was a motorman on the Union Traction car that overturned near Yorktown last October, when j three passengers were killed. FIRE CAUSES $1,000,000 LOSS Durham North Carolina Badly Scorched by Midnight Blaze. DURHAM, N. C. — Fire in the business section of this city which began late in the evening had up to midnight caused a loss of $1,000,000 and the fiames continued to spread. 1 The fire originated in a plumbing. shop on the second floor of the Brodie .* L. jiuke building.

AID OF GOVERNOR i. HITSJERRE HAUTE Ralston’s Secretary Declares It Worries Administration. RICHMOND, IND. — B. B. Ji-hnson, secretary to Governor Ralston, introducing Seaborn Wright, former governor of Georgia, at a temperance mass meeting declared that the liquor business is “just one of the many natural rights that should be prohibited because public policy demands it.” Referring to conditions in Terre Haute, Secretary Johnson said: “Terre Haute has been deteriorating Tor twenty years. Now it is a disgrace to the state of Indiana and we are ashamed to claim that it lies within our borders. I will tell you people that there is nothing worrying this administration at Indianapolis more than this thing. Conditions there are as they are, because no one in Terre Haute has the moral courage and decency to stand up and demand a better type of citizenship. “I know there are “bling tigers’* all over the state. But the complaints mainly come from those places where the county vote put out the saloons and local sentiment did not uphold the county vote.” BIG THEATER TOO EXPENSIVE —. Goshen, Ind., Bank Asks Receiver to Take Charge of Playhouse. GOSHEN, IND. — The Elkhart Trust company, in circuit court, made application for a receiver for the Jefferson Theater company of this city. In 1905 the Jefferson Theater was built by private parties In 1&06 it burned and was rebuilt in 1907 by a stock company. The Elkhart County Trust company had a claim of $37,000 against the company. Stockholders have never received any dividends and the theater company has failed to meet the interest payments, it is alleged. It is said the building cost about $70,000. A $28,000 mortgage was placed on it a few menths after it was opened in 1907. Stock purchasers paid in nearly $40,000. Before the first Jefferson was built Goshen theater goers bought $5 and $lO tickets for Richard Mansfield to the amount of $3,751, and for the second opening the subscription sale was $4,302 for Marie Cahill. ATTORNEY-AUTHOR is dead M. F. Cox of Indianapolis, Succumbs to Nervous Breakdown. INDIANAPOLIS, IND. — Millard F. Cox, secretary and legal adviser of the state board of accounts since its organization in June, 1909, is dead, a nervous breakdown a year ago being :he indirect cause of his death. Mr. Cox was both lawyer and literary man. He was formerly deputy reporter of the Indiana supreme court under John W. Kern, now United States senator and in 1890 was elected judge of the criminal court at Indianapolis. In 1904 he was the chief editorial writer for the Indianapolis Sentinel. He also wrote fiction. He was the author of “The Legionaries,” published by a local publishing company in 1897, and the book had a wide sale. The book was written under the pseudonym of “Henry Scott Clarke.” It is an interesting and vivid story of Morgan’s raid. GIVES BIG HOSPITAL BOOST i Muncie, Ind., Capitalist Gives SIO,OOO a Year Unconditionally. j MUNCIE, IND. — Burt H. ■ Whiteley, wealthy manufacturer of this city, announces that he had de- , posited securities with a local trust I company which will bring an income of SIO,OOO a year to be used in caring ; for all charity cases tnat require hospital treatment. There is no requirement on the part cf the city other than to co-operate with the board of trustees named by M. Whiteley. This board is composed of Elmer E. Whiteley, Karl Oesterle, Mayor Bunch, G. W. Wag- .- ~r and Will F. White. The only condition imposed by Mr. Whiteley is ►hat all this work shall De done at the Home hospital, under the direction of Dr. George Andrews, who saved the life Whiteley from an attack of anemia. MAN TEACHES WHIPS GIRL Assailant Is Arrested but Says Discipline Required Punishment. NOBLESVILLE, IND. — Professor Everett Stroud, a «eacher in the Fisher’S Station schools, was arrested charged with assault and battery on Lilian Sample, a twelve-year-old pupil in the fifth grad*. The warrant was issued on the complaint of W. O. , Sample, a relative of the girl. Stroud admits whipping the pupil ‘ with a switch, but says he did it with the sanction of the superintendent. He asserts that both decided some chastisement was necessary in order to maintain discipline in the school. Scions Caught Rolling the Bones. COLUMBUS, IND. — In a raid made on a crap game in a young men’s club of this city, six Qpns of wealthy parents were arrested. The ‘ officers confiscated the “bones” with j which the youths were playing.

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NEW ILUERROR Oreadnaught Oklahoma Floated at Camden, N. X j ■ . ■ FIRES 1400-POUND PROJECTILE Warship Is Greatest Now in U* S. Navy—Carries Ten 14-lnch Guns, Three to a Turret—Will Use Oil for Fuel and Is Capable of Twenty and One-Half Knots Per Hour. PHILADELPHIA. — The dreadnaught Oklahoma, launched early in the day from the yard of the New York Shipbuilding company at Camden, N. J., will be one of the largest and most powerful ships that has yet been floated for the American navy. Only the Pennsylvania, building at Newport News, and the still nameless battleship No. 39, the keel of which was laid last week at the New York navy yard, will outstrip the Oklahoma in tonnage, displacement, length or the power other great guns. Monster of the Seas. The length of the new giant sea fighter is 583 feet and her displacement will be 47,500 tons, or 500 tons greater than the largest American fighting ship- row afloat. In both armament and armor the : Oklahoma will be far ahead of pres- • ent American ships. Its principal weapons will be ten 14-inch guns, capable of firing sells weighing 1,400 pounds. A feature of the armament will be the placing of three of these great guns in one turret. One qf the three-gun turrets will be on the forecastle deck along with a turret of two big guns. Another two-gun turret will be on the quarterdeck and astern of this will be another turret with the remaining three 14-inch guns. Abcut the big warship will also be distributed twenty-one 5-inch guns and some minor armftnent consisting of three - pounders, one - pounders, three-inch field pieces and machine guns. Ship Well Protected. The armor belt is especially heavy. It is 13 1-2 inches thick and will extend 400 feet alvng each side of the hull from eight and one-half feet below the water Ifce to nine feet above the water. There arc two protective decks to guard, against plunging fire, one three Inches thick and the other of one and one-half inches. The Oklahoma will burn oil, and the engines will have 24,800 indicated horsepower, sufficient to develop a speed of twenty and one-half knots an hour. The supply of oil fuel wiL’ be carried in the double bottom of the ship, which eliminates the necessity ,'f coal bunkers. The gift of the state of Oklahoma to her fighting namesake is a splendid silver service. GUNMEN APPEAL TO PUBLIC Say They Were Convicted on Testimony Declared Unbelievable. NEW YORK. — From the d*rth house at Sing Sing prison, the four young me- who are sentenced to oie during the week of April 13 for the murder of Herman Rosenthal sent out g final appeal to the public for aid. They say they cannot understand how the court of appeals could sustain their conviction on the testimony of Rose, Webber, Schepps and Valon when the conviction of Lieutenant Backer was set aside on the ground that these four men were unbelieveable. CAN- STILL SHAKE HER FEET Dr. Mary Walker Dances Maxixa, and Enjoys IL WASHINGTON — Dr. Mary Walker, who wears pants and a salk bat and believes all women should do the same, fell victim to the Maxixe if ter more than half a century of abstinence from the temptations of terp- i sichore. Dr. Walker atttended a private dan- I sant and went through the whole menu of modern dances under the tutelage of a professional instructor. , WOMAN’S 10 HOUR LAW VALID United States Supreme Court Upholds Massachusetts Act WASHINGTON. — The ten hour woman’s labor law of Massachusetts was upheld as constitutional by the United States supreme court The Michigan local option law of 1909 also was held constitutional. The federal employers’ liability law of 1906, declared unconstitutional as to the states, was held valid as to ter- ; ritorles. , China Brigands Loot Cities; Slay SOOPEKING. CHINA — Outrages by brigands in central China are assuming alarming proportions. Several bands associated with the noted outlaw, White Wolf, are ravaging various sections of the country, ruthlessly murdering and robbing the people, and burning their property. The latest exploit of the bandits was the massacre of 300 townsfolk w£o were resisting their entrance into an important market town close to Siflhg-Yangfu, province of Hopeh. Seven-tenths of the town was burned and the population ruined financially ’

INDIANA STATE NEWS Girls Adopt Simple Garb. ANDERSON, IND. — “We, the’ girls who will graduate from the An-, derson. High school in June, 1914, be- : lieve duty to each other and to the i students of the.future demands that t we reduce the present unnecessary expense of the commencement season. To this end we have decided to w alk to the baccalaureate sermon, to the senior prom, to the junior reception and to commencement, unless rain should prevent. We shall carry no flowers and shall wear simple wash gowns with black shoes and no gloves to either baccalaureate or commencement.” This resolution signed by all the girls of the high school senior slass, was adopted at a meeting at the suggestion of Miss Mabel Thompson, head of the English department. Second Accident Fatal. KOKOMO, IND.—William Crumbaugh, who is a member of the local fire department, diea of injuries sustained Monday night when the chiefs buggy, in which Crumbaugh was the driver, collided with a wagon in front of a livery barn on a run to a fire. I Crumbaugh’s skull was fractufed I and three ribs were «roken. He was in a semi-conscious condition until his death. The ribs were knitting after an accident a few weeks ago and were broken again when Crumbaugh was . thrown from the light buggy. Fire j Chief Shauman was injured in the same accident and is confined to his ■ home. All the bones in the back of one hand were broken and he suffered severe bruises. Silk Is Strewn About Yards. GOSHEN, IND. — When Eugene Zollinger, a Big Four station baggageman, walled along the Lake Shore tracks he found a package containing five bolts of silk which had evidently been thrown from a train by thieves. The silk was turned over to Sheriff Leader, who searched In the railroad yard and discovered another bundle containing ten bolts. The value is estimated at $1,600. Two strangers suspected of knowing something about the theft were arrested in Elkhart. They are in jail here. Man Drowns as Boat Sinks. EVANSVILLE, IND.—Captain Arch Hollerbach, sixty-nine years old, government contractor of this city, was drowned when the steamboat Old Reliable sank in the Ohio river a few miles below Golconda, 111. Nine members of the crew escaped by jumping into the river and swimming ashore. A barge of rock towed by the boat sprang a leak and before the crew eould cut the tow ropes, it sank, dragging the steamer down in thirty feet of water. Man Hit By Train May Die. NORTH VERNON, IND.—As a result of being run down at the Oakdale crossing by a B. and O. freight train while returning to their home at Butlerville from this city. Hiram Collins and Miss Lulu Kibbler, a teacher in the Butlerville High school, were severely injured. The horse was killed and the buggy demolished. Collins received a scalp wound, broken collar bone, several dislocated fingers. He will probably die. Boys Ask Cigarette Cure. FORT WAYNE, IND—Following the announcement of the city health department that it is now prepared to administer the silver nitrate cure to cigarette smokers, sixteen youths have asked to be treated. Some said their “dads’* offered them money to quit and others said their girls did not like to see them smoke. Laporte, Ind., Editor Dead. LA PORTE, IND. — Edward ' Molloy, aged seventy, who for thirtyI three years was editor of the La ’ Porte Herald, died of heart disease following injury received five weeks ago when he fell. He was born in New York city, served through the Civil war and was wounded in several battles. Struck by Train at Crossing. I SHELBYVILLE, IND.—Edward K. Holmes, a farmer living near here, was dragged a block by a freight train , which struck his buggy as he was ' attempting to cross the track at the depot crossing. Holmes escaped with a few minor bruises but his horse was killed and his vehicle crushed to splinters. Girl Shot for Burglar. FORT WAYNE, IND. — The family of Lee S. Jennings of Rome City has admitted after a week of silence, that Marie Jennings, twelve years old, was shot by her father who thought she was a burglar. The little girl had asked that no one be told, “because daddy did it.” Former Mayor Recovering. I FORT WAYNE, IND. — Former. Mayor Jesse Grice, who went out | of office on the first of this year, is ’ just now able to sit up after a severe! 1 injury sustained in a fall down the; back stairs of his home Feb. 18. He broke four ribs and fractured his : i shoulder blade. i " "* ' "■.■■■ l Can’t Find Work; Suicides- ! HAMMOND, IND. — Despondent because he had failed to find : the work he had been told he could i get here, Mathias Dworak of 135] < Bismarck place, Chicago, jumped in ; front of t fast train and was cut to ] « pieces. _ 11

EDWARD EVANS | Explorer Lectures In America; Ship Which He Commanded. /" S \ \ ? J p> - K is . ■ c.,,. Photo* by American Preos Aaaoclation. Commander Edward R. G. R. Evans, second in command of the Scott south pole expedition, arrived in America to deliver lectures in this country and Canada. He went to Washington, where he dined with* the British ambassador. Commander Evans was captain of the Terra Nova during the explorations. He was forced to return to England to recover from scurvy, which attacked him after he left the main body of pole seekers when ehey were within 150 miles of their destination on Jan. 4, 1912. Commander Evans is thirty years of age and is one of the youngest of his rank in the British navy. He was promoted immediately after his return from the antarictic. There is shown also the Terra Nova. | SHORT CUTS TO THE NEWS i: ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ Four women were killed In an explosion of gas at Ardmore, Okla. The Inventory of the Adolphua Busch estate shows a valuation of $17,000,000. Fire destroyed four business blocks in the city of Sidney, 0., causing a loss of $200,000. After a week’s freedom “mother” Jones is again a prisoner in the Walsenburg, Col., coal strike zone. One man was killed and three Injured in an explosion in the Cleveland Brewing company’s plant at Cleveland. United States soldiers fired on Huertaists who crossed the American line. Five of the Mexicans were killed. ' Great Britain has “backed down” in her effort to force acceptance of home rule in Ulster. A compromise is expected. A lone robber held up the express messenger on the Santa Fe railroad, near Beaumont, Tex., and is reported to have got $14,000. Robert Thelen, German aviator, has broken the altitude record, carrying three passengers 12,303 feet at Johannisthal, Germany. A new peace treaty has been signed between the United States and Venezuela. It is the fourteenth of Secretary Bryan’s peace treaties. The official report of the death In Mexico of W. S. Benton is said to contain evidence that. the. Britisher was slain in Villa’s private office. Walter Karant, Chicago jeweler, hurled acid in the face of his wife when she spurned a reconciliation with him and later committed suicide. The Jerome Howe Banking House, of Wenona, 111., has gone into bankruptcy. It carries deposits of SIBO,000 and its liabilities will reach $300,000. Attorney General Mcßeynolds has entered suit against the Lehigh Valley Railroad company at New York for violation of the Sherman antitrust law. S One hundred peraons were routed from their homes in a fire that destroyed a factory building in Girard street, Chicago. Property loss amounted to $50,000. General Huerta has axsed for a conference with John Lind, President Wilson’s" personal representative. It is thought he means to ask intervention by the United States. Florence Gray, eighteen-year-okf school girl whi was missing from a boarding school at New Rochelle, N. Y., found in Chicago. She had eloped but the man deserted her within an hour of Chicago. Robert Lansing, of Watertown, N. T., is the successor to John Bassett Moore at Washington. President Wilson also has chosen Cone Johnson, of Texas, as solicitor for the department, succeeding Joseph W. Folk. President Wilson, in talk to newspaper men, resented the descriptions of himself as a cold, removed person without emotion. He did not recognize himself from the descriptions, he said, and at times more,nearly Ite Mnblvd n bubbling voltano. 7 ■ 77~~~ je , Al* f aaWm

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VILLA ATTORREON Storms Mountain in Attempt to Take the City. MANY KILLED AND WOUNDED Troops Fight Hand-to-Hand in Gomez Palacio, Key to Stronghold—Villa’s Horse Shot Fom Vnder Him and Bullets Pierce Hts Coat—Advance Continues. JUAREZ, MEXICO. — A terrific concentrated attack was made upon the eastern and southern sides of Torreon early in the day by 3,500 Constitutionalists under Generals Benavides and Hernandez. Fierce fighting is *#bing on between rebels, and federals in the irrigated plains , between Gomez Palacio and Torreon cn the west. The northern outposts; are being bombarded. News of the general assault was received by telegraph from Bermejillo. Bloody Fight for Gomez Palacio. BERMEJILLO, STATE CF SONORA—(Constitutionalist base.) —A desperate battle is being fought betwe&h the Constitutionalists and federals for possession of the strategic key of Gomez Palacio, a few miles northwest of Torreon. Throughout the greater part of the night the conflict raged, with the Constitutionalists victorious in the first hours of the fight. The federals were driven from their trenches, but upon receiving fresh reinforcem-mts from Torreon they made a fierce assault upon Villa’s army. According to dispatches from the front, brought here bye itomobile from the battle line, the. Co stitutionalists occupied the suburb >f Gomez Palacio after thirty hours of longrange fighting with artillery. The artillery under Gene al Felipe Angeles, chief artillerist of the rebel army, succeeded in silet ing the heavy guns of the outer wo ks of the federals and the order was ?iven for an advance. With shells ; creaming over their heads, the Cons itutionalists started forward in the iarkness. Behind and before them tte blackness of night was pierced b; the continuous lightning of the artillery. Shouting the rebel yell, the Constitutionalists poured over tie fresh earthworks on the outskirts of Gomez Palacio. Federal* Give Way. Once in the town proper, however, the"engagement gained in violence with hand-to-hand fighting in* tQI the streets. From the nearby hills troops poured a hot fire into the town, apparently careless whether they killed friend or foe. The superior forces of the Constitutionalists finally gained them a victory and the federals gave way In the direction of Torreon. Horse Shot Under Villa. General Villa was on the firing line in person all during the battle, having a horse shot under him. Several bullets pierced his coat. When the federals began to give way Villa send word to all his generals that a general assault would be made on Torreon from all sides. He said he expected tv be in Torreon Wednesday. I Early in the day* Villa came here by automobile and talked over the tele-. graph wire with Chihauhau City and Juarez, later returning to the front. BIG END WAS CONTINGENT President of Shipbuilding Concern Explains $5,000 Lobby Fee. WASHINGTON. — F. T. Bowles, president of the Fere River Shipbuilding company, who was photographed in Washington after he had appeared before the senate lobby investigation committee, admitted that he had engaged Clarence W. De Knight to work for him against railroad owned ship exclusion in the pendency of the Panama canal act before the senate committee and that he had paid SI,OOO to De Knight. A contingent fee of $4,000 was not paid or demanded, he said, because the exclusion clause finally was incorporated in the act. MAYOR IS SUED FOR $190,000 Alleged to Have Beaten Newspaper Editor in Rock Islani. ROCK ISLAND, ILL. — Mayor “H. M. Schriver and six mer bers of the police force were made defendants in a suit for SIOO,OOO dai ;ages by John Looney, former publisher of the Weekly News. Looney alleged he was injur xi when beaten in the city hall by kjhriver two years ago. Looney had ttacked the mayor in his paper. Th ire was rioting at the time, which sed the bringing of state troops to Rock Island. ‘I’LL BURY YOU FELLOWS YET’ Senator Tiltman Makes Exclamation In Elation Over Hl* Health. WASHINGTON. — Senator Tillman had read to the senate a magazine article he had written on the restoration of his health. “I see some of the senator; laughed while the clerk was readir r,” said the South Carolina senator. “*ll bury /oui fellows yet* . , t *.J I

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