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U. S. SOLDIERS MAY CROSS LINE Depredations by Mexican Bandits Growing Intolerable. REBELS FAIL TO STOP RAIDS I ■ — Rodrigo Quevdo, Leader of Band, Threatens to Kill All Americans —British Cruiser Ordered to Tampico—Fighting Continues at Mazatlan—Silliman Reported Freed. El Paso, May 13. —American troops may cross the border into Mexico to capture Rodrigo Quevdo and his band lit the constitutionalists do not quickly put a stop to the depredations by the bands on American owned property in Western Chihuahua. This is the belief on the border and was strengthened when a detachment of United States cavalry was ordered to the vicinity or Gibson’s ranch on the New Mexico border, where it was reported Quevdo and several members of his band had crossed to the American side snd then returned to Mexico. Quevdo threatens to kill all Americans. He has been devasting a wide territory for weeks. Rebel troops have been sent to capture him, but have been unable to do so. Silliman Reported Freed. El Paso. Tex., May 13. —John R. Silliman, American vice consul at Saltillo, has been freed by the Mexican federals who held him prisoner, according to a special dispatch printed fry the El Paso Times. The dispatch, which came from Monterey via Brownsville, Tex., said Silliman was held prisoner in the state penitentiary at Saltillo and was daily threatened with execution. The official is free in response to demands of the Brazilian minister at Mexico City. British Cruiser to Tampico. London, May 13. —The British cruisei Bristol, now stationed at Portsmouth, was ordered to proceed to Tampico as speedily as possible. Howard Reports Battle. Washington, May 13.—Admiral Howard. commanding the American fleet off the west coast Sf Mexico, reported a battle between Mexican federals and Zapata revolutionists, twenty miles from Acapulco. Admiral Howard said sixteen Zapatlsts were kiled. The fighting at Mazatlan continues, the report declared. MOYER TRIAL IS POSTPONED Head of Copper Miners’ Case Comes Up July 1. L’Anse, Mich., May 13. —The trial of Charles H. Moyer, president and thir-ty-seven other officers and members of the Western Federation of Miners, •who are under a joint indictment in Houghton county on the charge of conspiring to interfere with nonunion copper miner workers, probably will not begin before the latter part of July. Judge O’Brien has set the case for trial at the May term, beginning here iiext Monday, but owing to a heavy docket it probably will not be reached until late in the term. FEAR FOR MAGAZINE WRITER Gregory MaSon Roasted Villa in Out- „ 100k —He Is Missing. El Paso, Mex., May 13. —Friends of Gregory Mason, a New York magazine writer, fear he either is in a Mexican jail at Torreon or has been made way with by rebels. Since May 1, when Mason left El Paso for Torreon, nothing has been heard from him and all efforts to reach him with telegrams and letters have failed. An article, by Mason, recently published in the Outlook described Villa in a manner not very complimentary. BUILDING COLLAPSES IN GALE Fifty Residents Are In Death Peril, but Only One Is Killed. Pittsburgh, Pa., May 13.—George Johnson was killed and five other persons were seriously injured when a tenement building at New Kensington, Pa., collapsed in a storm. Fifty' persons lived in the old building and it was not until many hours after that the fear that many might have been killed was dispelled. BIRD APPROPRIATION STANDS Senate Restores Amount as Passed by House to $50,000. Washington, May 13.—The senate by a vote of 45 to 17 rejected an amendment to the agricultural appropriation in the bill as it passed the house from $50,000 to SIO,OOO for enforcing the migratory bird law. The effect of the vote was to re-, store the house appropriation of $50,€OO. Two Die In Biplane Crash. London, May 18.—Two army airmen >—Captain F. B. Anderson and a mechanic named Carter—were instantly frilled and Lieutenant C. W. Wilson was gravely injured when two biplanes collided in the air at Aidershot

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MME. LILLIAN NORDICA DIES Prima Donna Succumbs to Long Illness Following Wreck. BATAVIA, JAVA. — Mme. Lillian Nordica, the singer, died here Sunday night. She has been ill for a long time and never recovered from the effects of the wreck of the steamship on which she was a passenger. SECOND QUAKE SHOCKS SICILY Disturbance Violent but Result Is Not Known. ROME. — There was another violent earthquake in Sicily Sunday afternoon, but it was in a different section from the one of Friday night. The shock was most severe at Randazzo on the northwestern slope of Mount Etna, some fifteen or twenty miles from the section affected by Friday’s t hocks. There was a panic at Randazzo which is a town of 10,000 inhabitants. It is not known as yet whether there were any casualties as the result of Sunday’s shock. AH the news in regard to Friday s shocks north of Catania is still confused and incomplete. The telegraph lines have been partially repaired, but are working badly and are congested with government messages. Moreover Ihe survivors from the various villages and hamlets are still paralyzed with fear and are unable to describe the disaster. The injured children will not allow the doctors to attend to their wounds. Others are clamoring helplessly for relief, but will make no attempt to help themselves. The great heat now prevailing makes matters worse and is the cause c.f increased trouble for those who are trying to succof the injured and homeless. Water ip scarce as well as food and the rations distributed by the soldiers are not sufficient to go around. The area of the zone devastated by Friday’s earthquake is about two square miles. It is reported that the villages of Linera, Passopomo, Bongiardi, Pennisi and Zerbati were practically obliterated. The rescuers have not as yet reached many scattered farm houses. NEW GOVERNOR FOR CANADA Alexander, Brother of Queen Mary of England, Is Appointed. LONDON. — Prince Alexander of Teck, third son of the late Duke of Teck, is to succeed the Duke of Con-’ naught a s governor general of Canada Official announcement of this appointment has been made. Prince Alexander is 40 years old. He married iu 1904 Princess Alice of zLnany and has one son and one daughter. He is a brother of Queen Mary, wife of King George of England He will take up his duties in October at the expiration of the term of the Duke of Connaught. The prince has done much in the cause of chanty, especially in behalf of hospitals and In the furtherance of cancer research. JUDGE IS AFTER PERJURERS Jurist, Who Denied Frank New Trial, Will Probably Instruct Jury. ATLANTA, GA. — It is announced that Judge Ben Hilt of the superior court, who denied a new trial to Leo M. Frank, under sentence of death for killing Mary Phagan, a factory girl, will instruct the grand jury, which begins its sessions a week from Monday, to investigate charges of perjury. coercion and Intimidation of witnesses made by both sides in the famous murder case. Dan Lehon, a detective, has been held in SI,OOO bail for appearance before the grand jury and it is believed several other detectives and agents for both state and defense will be summoned. ■;, .■mW, i.'-iiii ■■ ■ a—-

NOWMRS.M’ADOO Secretary Leads the President’s Daughter, Eleanor, tn Altar. IN MAY DAY FLORAL ATTIRE Presents Galore Fill Rooms — Dais In Blue Room Erected for Bride to Stand—Presents for Flower Girls— Several of McAdoo Family Absent-* Mrs. Sayre Arrives Early. WASHINGTON. — The famous and beautiful blue room of the White House has been transformed from its stilted and formal appearance into a bower of green and white springtime loveliness, for the wedding ceremony c.f Miss Eleanor, the youngest daughter of President and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, and Secretary of the Treasury W. H. McAdoo. In addition to the blue room, which is the scene of the nuptial ceremony itself, both the red and green parlors and the state dining room also were filled with May blossoms and greenery for the occasion of the second White House wedding of the present social season. Owing to the exclusive smallness of the wedding group, however, the east room where every previous wedding of a daughter of the White House has been held, was well night overlooked. The two towering mantle pieces and the deep bays of the windows were filled with palms, ferns and lillies, but otherwise the great apartment was neglected. A dias constructed about ten Inches high to the southward curve of the blue room furnishes standing place for the members *of the bridal party. It is covered with rich oriental rugs upon which the bride and bridegroom knelt for the prayer and benediction. The Rev. Sjlvanus Beach read the service at u p. m. Tharsiay. The dainty little flower gir’s, little Sally McAdoo, future step-daughter of the bride, and Miss Nancy Lane, daughter of the secretary of the interior, have been carefully instructed in their parts and the president’s military and naval staff are on hand as ushers with the other assistants of the bride. Mrs. Sayre arrived in ths morning. Others who are guests are Mr. and Mrs. Joseph S. Wilson, Professor Axson, brother of Mrs. Wilson and Mrs. Kelllogg of Atlanta, Ga„ Miss Hunter, of Portsmouth, Va.; Miss Duffield and Nils Fine, of Princeton; Miss Majorie Brown, of Atlanta, cousin of Mrs. Wilson ,who was one of the bridesmaids at the Sayre-Wilson wedding and Miss Stattleman, of Wilmington, who was also one of the guests at the SayreWilson wedding. Miss Eleanor Wilson ordered the gifts of her flower girls. They are >ittle gold lockets suspended from Vendor gold chains. The lockets each las a diamond in the center and on the backs, the Wilson-McAdoo monogram and date and the name of the receipient. Part of McAdoo Family Absent. Miss Nona McAdoo, the elder unmarried daughter of Secretary McAdoo, returned to Washington from a visit with her sister-in-law, Miss 'Mrs. Francis H. McAdoo, in Green Spring Valley, Md. Mrs. Francis H. McAdoo has arrived in Washington.’ Mrs. Martin, Secretary McAdoo’s eldest daughter, whose home is in Arir.rna, will not attend the wedding. She has sent word that her husband i s ill. Thus far no word has been sent regarding the prospective presence of Wm. Gibbs McAdoo, Jr., the second eon of the secretary, who is at Princeton. Robert McAdoo, the youngest son, is still in preparatory school. Gifts Selected. Two important gifts were selected for Miss Wilson and are being suitably Inscribed. One is a diamond bracelet selected as the gift of the senate and sent with a letter from Senator Martine, chairman of the committee. The other gift was that given by the New Jersey delegation In congress. It was selected by Mrs. Thomas J. Scully, wife of Representative Scully of that state. It is a Sheffield tray, oval in shape, of burnished silver with a rose garland design. In the center is inscribed in clear script “E. R. W.” An appropriate inscriptior not yet decided upon, will be engraved under the bride’s initials in the center of the tray. The gift of the cabinet members tc their colleague and his bride, is a set of one dozen silver plates and a pah rs silver vases. RUMOR OF M’ADOO QUITTING High Official Denies Story Secretary Will Retire From Cabinet. SHARON, PA. — The Sharon Herald prints the following: "There is much speculation in Washington as to what disposition is to be made of Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo, who, It is said, will relinquish his position in the cabinet. "There is a well-found-ed story in the capital that McAdoo is slated for ambassador to France. As to the successor of McAdoo, men close to the administration say Congressman A. Mitchell Palmer has the best chance for the appointment.” WASHINGTON. — “Mr. McAdoo will stay in the cabinet.” This emphatic statement came from a high official source at the White House during the night in answer to rumors that Mr. McAdoo would resign as Secretary of the Treasury. — 1 — —r gjhS *

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INDIANA STATE NEWS bly Rat Open* Gas Valve. WABASH, IND. — A rX that had long avoided traps and refused to partake of poisoned bread almost caused the death of Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Brown at their home here. After supper a piece of bacon of liberal proportions was left on the gas range. Crawling up the side of the stove, the rat attempted to drag the piece of >-eat off, and in so doing caught it on the valve, permitting the gas to escape. Later Mr. Brown was sufficiently rroused to realize the presence of the g,is in the room. Before he fell unconscious to the floor he was able to call for help. Occupants on the second floor heard him and went to his aid. Physicians worked with both Mrs. and Mr. Brown for two hours before consciousness was restored. Fast Train Kills Two Men. EX’M.HTSTOWN, IND. — C. W. Cobb, thirty years old, of Piqua, 0., and Lark Kebbell, thirty-five, of Caneyville, Ky., were instantly killed shortly before noon when struck by the Penn >ylvania-New York-St. Louis limited, due here at 11:26. The train was going seventy-five miles an hour. The men were walking along, the track inspecting the signs! work. Cobb was signal foreman and Kebbell a signal repairman. Frank Voorhig of Centerville was instructing the two men in their duties. The men were on the high grade and Voorhis was down the embankment. A freight train was coming west and it is presumed that the men did not hear the limited back of them. Cobb was married. Early Victims of Baseball. LAFAYETTE, IND.—The opening of the baseball season was responsible for two boys being badly injured. Robert McMahon, the fourteen-year-old son of Mrs. Helen F. McMahon, fell from the ladder of a Lake Erie & Western freight car west of the city and his left foot was crushed off under the wheels. He was stealing a ride to the West Side Baseball park when the accident happened. Henry Snyder, sixteen years old, son of Matthew Snyder, was struck on th* head by a pitched ball while playing ball at Columbian park and is suffering from concussion of the brain. He Would Change Landmark. KOKOMO, INui — Fran* D. Miller, the largest property owner in Kokomo, offered the county commissioners $l5O, oooAn jcash mid the half block between Main and Union streets south, with all buildings now on it, in exchange for the Court House square. Miller desires to tear down the court house, which has stood tor more than fifty years, and erect a modern business block. The ground he offers in exchange is one square south of the present court house site. The county already owns the other h’lf of the square offered by Miller, it being occupied by the county jail and the city market. Beat,, Isaac Walton Plan. CONNERSVILLE, IND. — Killing fish by electricity is the latest form of law breaking brought to the attention of the Fayette county authorities. A party of fishermen found, hundreds of dead fish in Williams Creek, three miles west of here, and it was first thought that dynamite had been used, but the men later discovered wires and mher electrical apparatus concealed near the I. & C. traction line, which passes over the stream. It is said that the perpetrators had installed a switch under the trestle with which they could turn the full power into the stream. Appraisers Are Criticised. ANDERSON, IND—The fact that the board of appraisers from the Indiana public utilities commission, which came here to make an appraisement of the various telephone properties, has accepted the courtesy of the Central Union company and established headquarters in the company stockroom has caused much unfavorable comment. It may lead to the local citizens telephone committee asking the commission for new appraisers. Fill in Time with Kniv e s. SOUTH BEND, IMO.—J us t because their hostess would not serve them with ice cream until the hour for serving refreshments arrived, Josephine Lopoy and Edward Wroblewski turned a Polish wedding party into a ter-ror-stricken company by attacking Steven Witucki with pocket knives. Witucki was badly cut and was taken to a hospital. The two are be ing held by the police on charges ol attempted murder. Child Burned to Death. SOUTH BEND, IND.—Little Apal Thomas, two years old, of Laporte, was burned to death when playing near an open stove. His clothing caught a spark from the fire and before his mother, attracted by her child’s scream, could reach the house from the yard the child was fatally burned. Win High School Honora. PRINCETON, IND.—Princeton high school took first in oratory and Evansville took first in reading in the quadrangular high school oratorical and reading contest held here. Julius Schwartz was the winning orator and Miss Marjorie Legler was the Evansville winner in reading.

MINISTER CRITICISES 1 WHITE HOUSE MATCH Indianapolis Pastor Doubts If True Love Entered It. INDIANAPOLIS. IND., — Declaring that Eleanor Randolph Wilson married William Gibbs McAdoo, secretary of the treasury, for the luxury and honor Lis wealth and position will bring her, the Rev. John C. Bickel, pastor of the Irvington M. X church, said in a sermon that he doubted if love ever will enter the McAdoo home. *“Contrast th e marriages of the two Wilson sisters,” said the Rev. Mu Bickel, pausing in* the midst of a Mothers’ day sermon to discuss the recent White House marriage. “Miss Jessie Wilson married a comparatively poor man. She went with him when he accepted a position as instructor in a college. Love, and not wealth, was her object and she remarked on her wedding day, ‘We’ll be lovers forever.’ “Miss Eleanor Wilson married a man twice her age, for wealth, luxury and honor, I have no doubt. She went into a home with daughters of her own age. Better a poor man with love than such a match. I doubt if love ever enters the home.” The statement caused a stir in the quiet congregation and was the subject of much discussion, both favorable and unfavorable. After making the remarks, the Rev. Mr. Bickel retvrned to the subject of Mothers’ day and completed his sermon. TO CELEBRATE CENTENNIAL Princeton, Ind., Will Unveil Monument in Honor of Founder. PRINCETON, IND. — Princeton the county seat of Gibson county, in lhe pocket district of Indiana, will celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the founding of the town and county during the week of May 25. On the last day of the centennial celebration, May 30, in connection with the Memtrial day exercises, a monument in honor of Judge William Princeton, for who the town was named, will be unveiled. The “Big Day” of the celebration v ill be Thursday, when the Industrial parade, societies and degree teams d T ill will be held. AU of the business firms, manufacturing companies and business enterprises in the city have promised to participate in the parade. This part of the rogram is in the hands of the Retail Merchants’ association and the Commercial club. READING RECORDS IN ASHES Accountants Wear Overalls to Examine Charred Public Bookc. PORTLAND, IND. — Clad in jumpers and overalls, Field Examiners F. D. Himebaugh of Muncie and Mack Pogue of Winchester began their investigation Thursday of the city clerk’s books and records. The mysterious fire last week which started among the records charred and burned many of the books and made ui-ty work for the representatives of the state board of accounts. Both men ' came here in response to calls issued immediately after the fire. The financial affairs of the city are all a matter of conjecture and It is thought some of the more important records are so badly burned that it will be impossible to decipher them. The examiners will examine the books of clerk and treasurer.. POLICEMAN SHOT IN BAGNIO ! Versions of Affair Differ; Slayer Is an Ex-Convict. MADISON, IND. — Charles M. Clay, a policeman, was shot and killed at an early hour by William McCoy, t.u ex-convict, in a house of ill repute said to be conducted by a woman of i the name of Sullender. i It was first said that Clay had gone to the Sullender place to raid a blind I tiger and met his death in the course «-.t the raid. According to the testimony of two other men and a woman, who were in the house at the time, the policeman, as well as the other occupants, had been drinking, and ths murder was the result of a drunken brawl. SLAW ISNIADE ON THE RAILS Freight Train of Cabbage Wrecked Near Bloomington. BLOOMINGTON, IND. — An e> tra freight train bound for Indianapolis ove rthe Illinois General raili oad was wrecked near Mt. Gilead in this county. The track was torn up for about 200 yards and cars loaded with cabbage from the southern states were demolished. It was necessary to send for the Monon wrecker in this city to right the cars and clear the track. All traffic was delayed for several hours. Milk Blamed for Death. SOUTH BEND, IND.—William, the two-year-old son of Harry Brown, is dead as a result of ptomaine poisoning. The case developed about two weeks ago and turned into spinal, meningitis. The coroner is investiga-1 tlon to trace the source of seme milk 1 i which proved te be bad. I

F. W. LEHMANN One of Mediators Named by ,U. S. in Mexico Squabble.

OS WASHINGTON. — The United States will be represented at the Niagara Falls mediation conference by Supreme Court Justice Joseph Rocker Lamar and former Solicitor General Frederick W. Lehmann of St. Louis. This government will have only two representatives in spite of the fact that Huerta already has named three, to confer with the A. B. C. mediators at the conference beginning May 18.

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The English house of lords voted down suffrage by a vote of 104 to 60. Charles H. White, Kansas City, Mo., fell nine stories to death in an elevator shaft. The official estimate of the dead in the Catania, Sicily earthquake has been given as 200. The two-battleship feature of the house appropriation bill won on a test vote. The vote stood 148 to 91. Epirotes, In Albania, aftersetting fire to a town crucified two hundred and fifty residents by burning them in a church. Mrs. Harriett Lee, who claimed to be the original of Charles Dickens’ “Little Nell,” in “The Old Curiosity Shop” is dead in London. Great Britain has reconsidered its action to not be represented at the Panama-Pacific exposition and will be represented in modified form. S. P. Warner, United States consul at Harbin, Manchuria, committed suicide in a hospital in that country. 11l health was supposed to have been the cause. Colonel J. C. Calhoun Mayo, Democratic national committeeman from Kentucky is dead in New York, after a long battle for life, in which blood transfusion failed. President Wilson forgot his Mexican trouble and legislative program and attended the circus. Bag of peanuts in hand, he seemed to thoroughly enjoy the performance. > Chinese pirates boarded the Shingtai and when the vessel was three out looted the ship and killed one of the soldiers who defended it. They escaped with $30,000 plunder. Four persons were drowned in the Mississippi river near Moline 111., when a rowboat containing Jack Smalley, his 10-year-old son, Henry Powell and an unidentified man capsized. The Suffrage and Prohibition bills have been reported to congress. It brings the question up to the legislators and precludes any chance for those who wished, to “duck” the issue. Miss Ethel Griffin of Marionville, Mo., was shot and killed and her mother was fatally wounded. The shooting is supposed to have been done by a former sweetheart of Miss Griffin. Mrs. Robert LaFollette, who has just arrived in the United States from a trip to Costa Rica, brought back a reputation for mountain climbing. With a friend she ascended Mount Irasu, a height of 12,000 feet. Seven persons were killed and a number injured when a boiler explod-, ed in the Old Domanion ship Jefferson near Cape Henry. The ship returned tc Norfolk, deposited the dead and injured and resumed its trip to New York. At a banquet in London United States Ambassador Page declared a literary career foolish. He said that gambling would be more likely to provide an income. “No one should give liis life to writing, if there is any way to avoid, it” he concluded. C. W. Post, millionaire food manufacturer, committed suicide at his home in Santa Barbara, Cal. 11l hqaltb is supposed to have driven him into temporary insanity. He recently underwent a major operation and was supposed to be convalescent. Kermit Roosevelt, on his way from South America, will be married to Miss Belle Wyatt Willard, daughter of the United States ambassador to j Spain on June 11. The Rev. Dr.‘ Sam-; uel Watson, pastor of the American Church of the Holy Trinity, Paris, will perform the ceremony.

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HONOR JEAD TARS President Wilson Deltas Impressive Address. SERVICES HELD AT DAVY YARD Several Hundred Thousand Witness in Silence Procession from Battery to Navy Yard—Chief Magistrate Waives Salute—Montana Arrives on Sunday— New York in Mcurning. NEW YORK. — The nation’! dead, the seventeen blueja' kets and marines, killed at the occv nation of Vera Cruz, arrived at Sa idy Hook Sunday on the funeral ship, the U. S. S Montana. At the prescril ed clip of twelve knots the U. S. S. Wy >ming led way. The Montana ct me along ten ship lengths away. T1 e regulation distance also separated the president's private yachts flying t io flag of the secretary of the navy. At Fort Hamilton great crowds in automobiles and afoot lined the shore read. The caskets were laid ov; in rows of four on the boat deck ; rst about the bridge on the port side. The bluejacket guard of honor stood at attention during the passage th pugh the lower bay. As the Montana came to anchor in midstream of Communipaw with her head against the fast-rum ng tide, two launches dropped fron. her side to the water and immediat 4y began patrolling to ward off any v sitors. Just as the Mayflower swv ig around into her anchorage position he Spray, the commandant’s barge rom the Brooklyn navy yard, put ofi Srom the Battery. She carried Capt. id Albert Gleaves, the commandant, a d Colonel R. A. C. Smith, commission* • of docks and ferries, the latter re resenting Mayor Mitchell and the clti ens’ committee of 200. They made heir way immediately to the Mayflov ar to pay their official call upon the st .retary of the navy. Following a procession from the battery this morning, mew rial services were held at the nav. ward, at which President Wilson del .'ered the address. The procession v,s viewed Ly 500,000 persons. President Wilson arrived a the city at 7:55 o’clock this morni: and attended the funeral servi- s in the navy yard. He came in over the Pennsylvania and went to reakfast at the home of Colonel I !ward M. House in East Thirty-fifth reet. He icmained there until shon y before eleven o’clock when he w. it direct to the navy yard. The president was ente ained at luncheon in the yard b Captain Gleaves, the commandant ho also had Secretary Daniels as h. guest. The presidential party re urned to Washington on the Con ressional limited, leaving here at thr* e o’clock in the afternoon. The president directed the s . the customary president’s salute b» given in honor of the dead and no alute be given him. The president r so made it understood that the sen ceg were memorial and not funeral. T> o funeral services were held at Vera Jruz and nther services will be hr d at the homes of the dead. The memorial services we e attended by state and city officials, Secretary Daniels and many notables tnd were impressive. The entire city was in mourning and flags were hrlf-masted everywhere. BECKER WILL TAKE STAND Facing Graft Attack Better ’ k 'han Failing to Testify on Murder Charge. NEW YORK. — Charles Becker means to risk the greatest <>f all hazards in his case, meeting t’ e leveled eyes of twelve jurymen whii i he testifies in his own defense an i endures the district attorney’s sever- st attack. Becker knows that the district attorney will take up graft an,: the matter of where he acquired so much money on a police lieutenart’s salary Becker’s determination tc take the stand is the result of Mrs Becker’s persistence that he should stand up himself and say to the jury hat Rose, Webber, Vallon and ScL apps are liars. | ROCKEFELLER, JR„ V IRY ILL Has Been Threatened with P neumonia —No Mourners Are Appearing. TARRYTOWN, N. Y. — t has become positively known tha John D. Rockefeller, Jr., is very ill with a heavy cold and at one tiiA v as threatened with pneumonia'. His family all were ill ’zith colds first and then Mr. Rocke aller was taken down. A heavy guard 1 8 still on duty at Pocantico Hills and ?very ( precaution is being taken to keep out suspicious strangers. No mourners have appeared lately CUT PRICE JUMPS BUSINESS London Times’ Circulation Tripled Since Reduction to Twc Cents. LONDON. — The Tim s prints statistics showing the resul. of its reduction from 4 to 2 cents a copy. « The average dally circular: n in I>* J was 53,130, while the avera e for ti;e first week in May exceeded 170,000 ejpies a daj-

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