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.-: V ' -. ':"'' ' v -'' O . ' "t ' - vf"- - i ..;,.yV-- THE WEATHER. Fair; rising temperature today and nrobably Thursday; light variable winds, v ....... . ,.r. ;: JO SUBSCRIBERS :; Subscribers not receiving The Star promptly and at i reasonable hour are requested to telephone No. 51. : - . - v Is . v. a, VOL. LXXXIX-KO. 100. FOUR KILLED SEVERAL INJURED I, & N. and C. & O. Trains in : Head-On Collision Near Louisville. ALL THE PASSENGERS INJURED 2oih Engines Exploded and the. Pas sengers Were Thrown Into a4 Panic Some of the Injured' Will Die ' Loulsvillp, Ky., 'jan. 16. Four tiiiininen re .dead and two perhaps f.'tiilly injured as a result of a head ,,: . collision at Long Run, is' miles ti st of here this afternoon, between a Louisville & Nashville passenger train and a Chesapeake & Ohio train o. empty cr. rraciicauy an me . i.ssengers on the Louisville & Nash Mile were more or. less Injured. Two j. & O. brakeman suffered severe .n juries. I Both engines exploded, according to .ssengers, bits of the wrecicage fal itg on the roofs of the coaches, ter rorizing the passengers who had been thrown into masses. The.C. & Oj train, running on th Louisville & Vishville tracks as do all Chesapeake Ohio trains from Lexington, to Lou fcrille, was "$ead heading" back to . xington. Several hours previously :fe same train Parting out, had col .uled with a cut of freight cars in East ,uisville and had to put back for . pairs. Louisville Nashville oflf oials tonight express their belief that Le wreck was due to misunderstood jiders. ; ! . The dead are: ' i' Charles O. Lee, Chesapeake & Onio engineer, Lexington. J. L. Mehorney, Louisville & Nash ville engineer,' Louisiana. Charles Marcus, Chesapeake & Ohio .'veiuan, Lexington. - Thomas L. Jones. Louisville & ' MEhville fireman, Lexington. Among the Injured are: F. W . Anderson, , Chesapeake . & rio conductor,: LxThgtdu seriously, j B . Pilyer, Chesapeake ' ' Ohio '.rrakeman, Lexington, seriously. . V. W. Peak. , Chesapeake &, Ohio, jiakeman. Lexington, seriously. , James Darling,' Louisville, cut about. m ad. ' ! ..i ' :. . ... Stanley Milward, j Lexington, right l:i.ee wrenched. ) - - C. E. Kelly, .Cincinnati, bruised fit-out body. i H. W. Grashorn, .New York city, jniised. - ! : . . HEYBURN MEAT BILL Aould Drive Packers Out of Business All Over Country . Washington, Jan.l 16. The meat pf.ckers of the country would be driv er out of business and there would t)e a neral business demoralization all mer the country If. the Hcybura Cold iiorase Bill, now pending in Congress vire adopted, was the declaration of A. B. Hayes, Washington representa i e of the American Meat Packers' A sociation, at its convention here to il y. The bill, he I declared, would the object sought by it. A resolii: inn was adopted approving the Fed eral meat inspection! law after, its five vtars trial. It called attention,, how vi. to the fact that the packers must t'.ad the loss of cattl econdemned 'ite r being killed and urged that this los bo met out of tae public funds. Another resolution called the attention ' the spread of bovine tuberculosis find urged that Congress adopt effec nve means of eradicating It. Officers 'wore elected, which. Included Benja min J. Cor.kran, of Baltimoxe, Us pres ident. -..' John T. Russell, president;' of the' "'aster Butchers' Association 'of -Am-tvica, insisted that heUEheC . the paok !s nor thsir retailors wre fespon fihle for the high cost, of living,- but the main trouble laj In ,tlie ' shortage 1 1' live stock. : '-v. : - V AFFIDAVIT AGAIN ST RICHESON. 4- Minister Was Engaged to Young Lady In Mictfurl. i ' 4 " Colorado Springs, I Colo., J'an.;. l6. n athdavit made here February ' HO. before L. P. Lawton. ,a notary 1'i.blic by Miss Patsy Felts, of " Salt l-Jike, daughter of a Kansas City, Bap 'int minister, regarding her relations v ith the Rev. C. V. T. Richeson,, con ' ( murderer of jhis fiancee,' Miss Avis Linnell, of Hyannis, Mass,;,was T-iade public here today. s A certified copy ""of the affidavit has Ucn requested by tbe State attorney f the purpose, it is! said, for combat- any attempt to" save1 Richeson li'om the electric chair. It sets forth '"ng other things that Mi8s: Ww ame engaged to Richeson " r 29. 1003, when '"dent in William i-ibcrty, Mo. Richeson" rwks. 'a Jewell College a Washington, Jan. 16. A suspension kix months of the tariff duty, of -rents per bushel ion notatctss. was i-oposed in a bill introduced by Rep- -.uianves Ayres, of New York.. The stated that the scarcity of pota- ..' ,s in the markets of the United jates has raised the price to a point ""i M-onibitlve to the consumers FREE! t , vo ' niade a guess on that jar; at a. c. Sneed & Co., fur ,Ue Etore yet? Better investigate AND S!" UNITED lillflE WQBKfel MEET V'.:v.:;- Annual 'Convehtbn of Mlnerl'n' Ses ' sion at Indianapolis Will ke r Up Matter of Signing Ne A "! , Contracts. . Indianapolis, tnd., Jan. 16.DivisiQn of opinion as to the, policy to be pur sued by tba bituminous and anthracite coal rnjners unions of the country in attempting to enforce a "demand for higher wages, appeared : alnong the leaders o? the United Mine Workers qf America, when its annual conven tion opened here today. The question wnicn win be brought befort the con ventlon is whether the individual dis tricts of the miners' general union shall slgnew wago contracts with mine owners as they' can be negotiat ed, or whetAerthe miners as a Nation al organization shall refuse to sign any contracts until the operators of all the districts have agreed to the min ers terms. Thomas L. Lewis, of .. Bridgeport, Ohio, former president of. the miners' union, declared he would press' a reso lution that no district should sign wage contracts until tbe operators of all the districts were willing to sign. "The surest way to avert a long and costly strike." said .Mr. Lewis, Is for the bituminous and 'anthracite miners to agree on what they will demand in this convention and then stand solidly together until we have won a Nation al victory." ; President AVhite said he would pre sent his. plan to the scale committee and would not announce it before hand. "The scale commute must de cide upon tho terms of the contract we shall offer to succeed the present contract, expiring March 31st," he said, "and. also must frame the policy of enforcing pur demands for better wages and working conditions." He advocated a stand for higher wages in his annual report delivered today. - - Vice President Frank J. Hayes said that, opposition to the policy of a Na tional strike, if. it can be averted, will come largely from officials of districts bof derlhg on unorganiaad coal fields. It must be remembered that, while the United Mine Workers have a member ship of nearly 300.Q00, there are about 450,000 coal miners. that are unorgan ized." said Mr. Hayes. "The question as to whether we should hold out for a National agrehjent though in some districts the . operators 'nme ' to-our terms;, A verr sertoug one." ;'..!'. The Bcale committee will go in ses sion "torn or row and is expected to re turn a report befpre January 25th, on which date a convention of miners will meet to consider the proposed new wage contract, r He has not paceived from the operators word as to wheth er they will or will not join in the con ference: ; ; . . ' BIRDS STARVING. 1 Audubon. Society Calling on Public to Feed Hungry Birds. Now York. Jan. 16. Reports ' re ceived at .the headquarters of the Na tional Association or AuauDon socie ties in this city indicates that over a large area of the United States, birds are suffering for lack of food caused by the heavy snows. Telegraphic in structions have been sent to the offi cers of the State Audubon Societies and all field agents In the danger zone, asking them at once to provide food for the hungry birds and to call upon the" public- to. do. likewise, . It rriar be recalled that in 1895 a heavy snow, similar, to. that at pres ent prevailing, . aimosi , eiiermmaieu the bltje birds in ' Eastern United states. Fearful, of a similar disaster, the officers of the National. Associa- IIQU OI AUUUUUU . pukicuca w putting Into motion every wheel of the .r.iHii mafhinerv of their organiza- tidn to guard against a similar. catas trophe. v''Berore tomorrow nigni, ow, 000 earnest bird lovers will be distrib- iitincr pro in and tvinsr suet to" limbs Of trees to feed our Winter bird life," said Secretary T., Gilbert rearson, ai the office of the association, - 1374 Broadway, this city, today, i ' ' WILL NOT RAISE RATES. Chicago Hotel Rates During Republl- "carir Convention to be Unchanged. Phii.arn .Tan 16. Hotel rates will not be Tajsed during the Republican Mntinnai rnnvfintion nere in June, ac cording td John C. Roth, secretary of tha Untai Mnn'a enmmmee. rne an' V AAV VV i A.wa H - V nmmpmiit waft made after official ap proval had been given at. the omce 01 ha RiihnmmittM on' arrangements for the National convention of a list of rates which had been submitxea ior consideration.: '"V '- 1 V ' 1 ' : ;' sin thf last convention three new hotels have been erected in the down f rt,h m strict said Mr: Roth. "Rates I'i'w it.. lAnn iHetHM will raflte fTOm $1.0 to 5. The downtown noieia alone can accommodate' about 50,000 guests." ."': " '' ''-' ' - .';': '' ' ! ' 'OThfwi.the hotel men were giving as- efi-onto that.' thta -comfort of ;guests would be attended to, Architect Arthur 0 Brown was busy .Arranging the coli seum so-, that the increased number of delegates due to the recent Con gressional ' apportionment,- might , be properly seated.,, , , . , '- :.' t ., v -Washington. Jan. 16. The . Senate Commltte on Immigration today agreed to report favorably the hill in troduced by Senator LlllingtOn for the regulation of immigration to the Unit ed States. Tho committee struck out the provisions which excluded all all en ts unable : to read or write. This feature-will.be introduced as a sepa rate measure. - ' '. " !'..' ;'' 1 . , v - " . 1 1 ' :: Men's higil cut shoes, rubber nd leather boots, , aV Oarl F. Strunck & Co. J-4T : Je 162t- WILMIKGrTOK, N. EQUITABLE TO BUY ITS LARGEST RIVAL Proposition to Purchase The Trust Company of America. BIG FINANCIAL DEAL ON TAPIS Combined Deposits of Two. Institutions Will be Sixty-Eight Millions . General Policy of Consoli dation Carried Out. New York, Jan. 16. A proposal by Alvin W. Krech president of the Equi table Trust Company, for the pur chase of the Trust Company of Ameri ca has' been submitted. The offer which is to pay $375 for all the shares of the latter company will be submit ted to the stockholders. The exact purpose of Mr. Krech's offer is not disclosad, but Wall Street assumes that it. is made in the inter est of the Equitable Company. The Trust Company of America was or ganized by Mr.Thorne and associates in 1895. It was the center of much in terest in the panic of 1907 and with stood a "run" by its depositors which asteu for almost a week. The part played by the trust cdm- any in that crisis led to the taking over by the Steel Corporation cf the i stock of the Teurssce Coal & Iron Company, which the trust company held as collateral., , The capital stock of the Trust Com pany of America is $2,000,000, with a surplus according to last year's re port, of $6,000,000. Its deposits, ap proximate $30,000,000, with assets in excess of $40,000,000. K The Equitable Trust Company, was organized in 1902 and had always teen regarded as an off-shoot of the Equita ble Life Assurance Society with close Gould and Harriman connections. ' The capital is $3,000,000; surplus $10,000,000; undivided profits about $1,200,000, and deposits $36,000,000, wital total assets of about $60,000,000. The Equitable Trust Company was made,, hometess . by ... . the ; Equitable building fire. Should It acquire. jcon- trol of the Trust Company. of America, of which there seems to be little doubt, it will probably move to the Trust Company of America's building, one of the largest and: most hand somely appointed in the financial dis trict A' so-called community of interest has existed between the Equitable and American companies for some time. There will probably be a disposition In some quarters to regard the acquisi tion of the Trust Company of America by the Equitable as a natural result of the recent consolidation of a num ber of trust companies in which the Morgan influence has been paramount. ' The combined deposits of the Trust Company , of America and Equitable Trust Company aggregate $68,000,000. TO POPULARIZE AGRICULTURE Bill Introduced to Appropriate Large Amount AnnuaMy I Washington, Jan. 16. Provision for general agricultural extension work by which it is sought to revolutionize farming ; throughout the-country, is made in a bill introduced in theHouse today by Representative ' Lever, of South Carolina, and in the Senate by Senator Smith, of Georgia. The, bill contemplates the carrying on of this extension, work through agricultural schools by instruction and demonstra tion not only in agriculture, but In home? economies and rural affairs gen erally, through field . demonstrations, publications, and otherwise. By this means, it is sought by first hand pre sentation to popularize scientific ag riculture. , To carry on the work an initial ap propriation of $500,000 is asked in the bill for the first " fiscal year, this amount to be increased each yar for cine years by an additional sum of $j00,000 over the preceding year, and to the States assenting to the pro visions of the act is to bSJS3,000,000. The movement which the proposed legislation would advance has the en dorsement of senators and representa tives, irrespective of party affiliation as well as the unanimous endorsement of the agricultural colleges of the country; ; .'."";'"' " DURHAM tVOTES BONDS Issue of $50,000 for Needed Public . . School Buildings (Special Star Telegram,) Durham, N. C. Jan. 16. By a ma jority of 74 ..votes Durham today vot ed $50,000 in -bonds for the erection of new school buildings. The total registered vote was 651 and 326 votes were necessary to carry the election in favor of the bonds. The total cast for, the -bonds was 399. The school board has not yet decided whether new. buildings will be erected or addi tions made to present buildings. FOR WOMAN SUFFRAGE Amendment for Woman Suffrage In- . . r troaucea cy-.Berger ' Washington, Jan. 16. A-constitutional amendment for woman suffrage was introduced today by Representa tive Berger, of Wisconsin. A great petition is now being circulated by the Socialist party, and Representative Berger declared today that a million petitioners ; would be on the roll in favor of votes for women when -the document finally is presented to Con gress. - U4 - C, WEDNESDAY HOB3Srm FURTHER DYNAMITE EVIDENCE Ortie M$Manfflal Continues to Teli the ; Federal Grand Jury Who Helped Him to Destroy-Open . ' Shop" Jobs. V v '.vt-.- . "( Indianapolis, Ind., Jan, 16.-MWhen you arrived in Omaha to blow up the power house you will ba'met by some body who will show, you where it is." That statement by Ortie McManigal, the confessed dynamiter, said to have been made, to him, by John J. McNa nkra, the convicted secretary treasur er of the International pridge & Struc tural Iron Workers, was- Inquired jjxtp at the Tederal grand. Jury's investiga tion of the dynamite conspiracy to- rfiay. McManigal says m response to the instructions f rom McNamara, he went to Omaha in July, 1910, to blow up the power plant of an open shop" contractor and was met by a man whose name he gave. 1 McManigal said the man told him he had conimunicated witn McNamara about the job to be blown up; that the man himself could not do it. because he was not experienced in explosives and so McManigal was chosen. V . The evidence was in line .with that being heard by the government to as certain who, if any one besides those already known, were implicated in the hand red or more explosions scattered over the country in the last five years. It was about the time, of the Omaha "job" according to McManigal, , that McNamara said to him, "I am -going to get six or eight good fellows and sta tljm .them about thta country so that explosions will take place irr different cities all, in one night and they "won't know who-is doing it." McManigal is to be kept continuous ly before the grand Jury for the next three days, describing orally and more in detail than -was given In his writ ten confession, his movement from the time he was imluced to go into the -dynamite business at Detroit, in July, 1907, down to his arrest- lat April. , : The 19 days sessions of the grand Jury so far have disposed of about 200 witnesses. More than" 100. witnesses are still to testify. EXPENDED ' MILLION ILLEGALLY. In Payments to Railroads for, Railway Mail Cars. . Washington,' Jan. 16. Charges that Postoffice Department officials illegal ly expended $1,000,000 In payments to railroads , for,, railwayuiail cars that did 'not come up to- theggaf standard. were made before the-'House Commit tee on Reports in the Civil Service to day, by Erban A. Walters, or Denver. Mr. Walters declared that the Post master General and his assitants had compelled subordinates to certify that specified services had been received, wsa as a matter of fact, they had not been. His particular charges were that the "cars - furnished for railway mail service were "unsanitary, unsafe, and worked hardships, upon the mail clerks, resulting in loss of life, limb and health." The committee .directed to report favorably the Lloyd bill protecting government, employes against dis charge when they petition Congress in their own behalf. DISTRESS OFF BEAUFORT Large Three-masted Schooner Display ing Signals Yesterday Afternoon Beaufort, N. C. Jan. 16. Life savers from the Fort Macon station made heroic efforts today to reach a large three-masted schooner oft the tar flying distress signals, sice - and cold drove them haick repeatedly and finally the stranger worked, hr way off shore without her Identity being known. Shortly before dark the ves sel was again sighted. It was. a mass of ice but had taken down her signals and had hoisted a white flag. The intense cold has prevented the wreckers from proceeding with their work on the British steamship Thistle roy, which was stranded on Cape Lookout shoals. OU T LINES A sharp note of warning was issued to Cuba yesterday by the State De partment on account of the political activity of the Veterans' Association and the United States may intervene in Cuban affairs. '- . In a head-on collision between a C. & O. and L. & N. train, near Louis ville, Ky., yesterday, four trainmen were killed and a large number of pas sengers injured. . The United Mine Workers of Amer ica are in annual session at Indianapo lis for the purpose of making new wage contracts.. The striking mill operatives at Law rence,. Mass., resorted to nonviolence yesterday and officials are endeavor ing fo settle the strike by arbitration. Chas. IJ, Jacobson, aged 65, a truck er,near Newbern, N. C, slipped on the ice in front of a Norfolk .Southern train yesterday and was almost-in stantly killed. An editorial in the current Issue of Harper's Weekly carries the informa tion that Governor Wilson's name was taken from the top of its editorial col umn because he requested it. deeming it injurious to his candidacy. . Durham, N. C; yesterday voted $50, J 000 for new school buildings. 1 Many disorders are reported in Chi na and the consuls at all the Chinese ports are calling for warships.1 Lee county, N. C., yesterday voted a $100,000 bond issue for good roads. New York markets: Money on call steady, 2 to 2 3-8: ruling rate 2 1-4; closing bid ; offered at 2 1-8 per cent. Spot cotton closed quiet. 10 points higher. Flour steady. Wheat firm; No. 2. red 98 1-4, elevator export basis, and 100 1-2 -foy h. afloat Corn fifm ; export new, 70 J.2 f. o b anoaL Rosin easy. Turpentine quiet. JANUARY 17, 1912. DISORDER REIGNS -SUPREME III CM All he bonsuls of Chinese Ports are Calling for Warships. GRAVE DISORDERS REPORTED Chinaman Who' Attempted to Assas sinate the Premier and KiHed Two Men Will Be Executed Today Peking, Jan. 16. Premier Yuan Shf Kai was today congratulated upon his narrow escape this morning from death at the hands of would-be assas sins. Congratulations from all quar ters including the legations, have been pouring in upon the Premier through out the day. The attack made on Yuan Shi Kai occurred while he was on his way from the Imperial court in a carriage with open windows. The carriage was preceded and followed by an escort' of c&valry. When the president's -carriage arrived opposite to the resi dence of Dr. Morrison, correspondent of the -London Times at the corner of which the assailants had been observ ed standing, a bomb was hurled. The Premier escaped unscratched but two soldiers , were killed and 17 were In jured. The perpetrator endeavored to escape,- but Was captured, and will be executed tomorrow. He- is a China man. The belief is general that Yuan Shi Kai Is necessary to the transition from the old order, otherwise a change would make a shambles of Peking It is believed that three Republicans cruisers are" conveying troops. ,The three , hundred Revolutionists, who yesterday seized Tenghofu in Shan? Tun, were transported to the landing I'Y a Japanese steamer. Grave disor ders are reported fn Ho Nun, particu larly at Cheng Chow, whe.re the min ister Is considering, the advisability of 'calling in.-the emplftyes from thS taiiroaas.- ' ' - rttv Warship's in Demand' -"' Honolulu, Jan. 16, Officials of the cruiser 'New Orleans, which arrived here today from Shanghai, reported warships In . general demand by con suls of the Chinese ports who asked protection from the rioting and disor der whfch has endangered many for eign, residents. The New Orleans which was reliev ed on the Asiatic squadron by the cruiser Cincinnati, will go to Mare Is land for repairs. ' Russians to Patrol Railway Washington, Jan. 16. The. Rus sians will join with the American, British, French, German and Japan ese forces in keeping railway commun ication open from Peking to the sea. Already the Russians are occupying the east station of the Imperial Rail way of China, at Tien Tsin and all the various sections of the railway line from Peking to the open port of Chinawantao are now being guardecL Minister Calhoun reported tnese facts to the State Department today bul did' not record any marked develop ment In the efforts for the restoration of peace. ' ' Bomb Factory Discovered. London. Jan. 16. The bomb throw er who attempted the life of Yuan Shi Kai yesterday, has confessed that the assassination f the Premier was to have been the signal for a general rising in Peking, says a Peking dis patch to the Dally Telegraph. The whole southeast portion of the city 13 now picketed with troops, and a house to house search resulted in the discov ery of a bomb factory and the arrest of several men having bombs in their possession. There are persistent rumors oi an attempt to poison the Empress Dowa ger, who, becoming suspicious, refused to partake of the fatal cup. Ring Down Curtain on Manchus. . Paris. Jan. 16. A secret cabinet council at Peking yesterday, prepared an abdication edict which probably will be promulgated today, according to a dispatfch to the European edition of the New York Herald. The attempt against Yuan Shi Kai has forced the hands of the obdurate princes, who, fearing attempts against themselves, have decided to ring down the curtain on the Manchu dynasty." Yuan him self is authority for stating that he again tendered his resignation, but It was not accepted. , j To Cede Mongolia? '' London; Jan. 17. A rumor is cur rent in Peking; says a dispatch from the St. Petersburg correspondent, of the Daily Telegraph, that the Chinese government has offered to cede Mon golia to Russia in return for a lopn of 100,000,000 taels (approximately $70,- 000,000). ' ' ' . " k : PICTURE AGENT DEAD . Young Man Died Suddenly in, Durham While Delivering Portraits ' j ( Special. (Star Telegram.) ' Durham, N. C, aJn- 16. M:-J. Stickle, an agent for a picture en larging concern, dropped dead at the home of Miss Chloe Evans, on Mark ham street here this morning as he was deliverini a, picture to Miss Ev ans. It has not been definitely as certained, .to where the :'jroxng Ton'a hnm is. but it is thought that ,o uraa 'from Columbia. ' S .' C. It is supposed- that death resulted from heart failure. ALL QUIET Ifl LAWRENGE, f.USS. Officials Busied Themselves Yetter day In Trying to Bring About a Settlement Among the Strlk . Ing Operatives." ' Lawnance, Mass., Jan. 16, With a return of quiet conditions in the inlll district of the city through the pres. ence of eight companies of .militia, State and city officials busied them selves today, to bring about a speedy settlement of the difficulties existing between th 15,000 striking textile workers and the jmill owners. The strikers, through" their executive com mittee, agreed late today to meet the mill agents, before the State oard of Arbitration and Conciliation to discuss the points at issue. ' -i Although John' J. Etter, of Nw York, directing head of th ufHW4 h. clared his belief that the strikers could not gain by. arbitration other members of the executive committee favored the proposition' and Etter agreed to it. President William M. Wood, cf tfie American Woolen Company, which controls four of the largest mills af fected by the strike, was quoted by Mayor Scanlon today as beine oDDosed to a conference, declaring Chat there Is no strike existing, but a state of mob rule, and that the company doea not consider Itself responsible J"or the conamons. in spite of this assertion, Secretary Supple, of the State Board of Arbitration, said tonight that . he would make every effort tomorrow to induce the mill owners to enter the conference. , .. '. The strikers demand that the mill owners shall grant them an increase of 15 per cent jn the wages which tney received last week under the -54 hour law, and double pay on all over time work, and the abolition of the bonms or premium system. These de mands have not yet been presented to the mill owners, it is understood. The original grievance' which precipitated the strike last . Friday . 'was that the strikers wished to be paid . for 54 hours work at the same wage . scale which prevailed for 56 hours. - Only three mills, the Everett, Law rence and-Duck Pemberton. were closed down ; entirely today At the others about one-quarter cf .the regu: lar working force appeared for work. Tomorrow more operatives are expect ed to report lor duty.,,. fHE LORIMER INVESTIGATION. Senator Maintained His Composure . Throughout the Day. . ;' Washington. Jan. 16. A day's ex amination of Senator Lorimer, of Illi nois, before the Senate investigating committed, failed to develop any sen sations. Apparently it had' not tan gled his story and certainly it did not ruffle his temper, for he maintain ed his composun3 throuighout, Most of the cross, examination was directed "to Mr. Lorimer's recital of political conditions in Illinois when the Legislature was electing a Sena tor in 1909, the personal assertions of Democrats with. Republicans and the subsequent reasons why he believed the Democrats voted for' him. When Senator Lorimer got to" talking poll- tics he coined a few -epigrams. The direct primary in every North ern State destroys the cohesiveness of the majority of the party," was one of them. Others were "i never go arouna trying to pick quarrels with people opposed to-me. I usually go and do something to off set what they are trying to do." "When I have anything 'to do, I have a habit of getting up in the morn ing and doing it." y ... . i Counsel for the committee got into the record the fact that . after 101 votes had been cast in the Legislature on the day Lorimer was elected, seven Republican, senators, who. had not vot ed for Lorimer, changed their votes in his favor, making 108, which elected him; Regarding the opposition to Gov ernor Deneen Mr. Lorimer declared there were men. in the Legislature in 1909 who would have ben willing to elect Deneen senator if only vto gel him out of the governor's chair. Mr. Lorimer will continue in the witness chair tomorrow. INDICTMENT RETURNED. By Grand Jury Against Rev, Dr. W. D. McFarland for Ferany. Pittsburg,, Jan. 16. An indictment was returned by the grand jury late today against the Rev. Dr. W. D. Mc Farland, minister and educator of Ce dar Creek, Greene county, Tenn... for merly of this city, charging hi with a felony in committing two operations upon Miss Elsie Podds Coe,. his for mer secretary, which resulted in her death last Friday in a local hospital. - . According to a report here tonight. Rev.J McFarland has.. been arrested by the Tennessee authorities and will be held at Knoxville until the arrival of a Pittsburg ofllcer. , Rollin McConnell, of . Chicago, , wno represents a local firm in . that city, mentioned in Miss Qoe's dying state ment as being responsible for her con dition, reached, here today, and conferr ed with" District Attorney Williamf A: Blakelev. 'Lter McConnell went be fore the grand jury and testified of his relations with the deceased. . There is no charge against McConnell. . Rev. McFarland was formerly head of the academic department of the Pittsburg school. C Miss -Coe,' aged 28, had been Dr. McFarland's secretary. He is about 60 years old and married. : '.- V : v- . " Your only protection1 against a dark future is knowledge. Visit the I. C. S. exhibit now in town at A. C. Sneed & Co.'s furniture store and learn how thousands are changing poor jobs into good- positions and "wages into salaries without having td lose ah hour from their present work. WHOLE 1TUMBEB 13,800. , ISSUED TO CUBA ' ' Possibility of United States Intervention hi Cuban Affairs. CAUSED BY VETERANS' ACTIONS Stat Department Has Ssrved Notice on President Gomez That the Actions of The Veterans ,Must Cease ' Washington, Jan. 16. The State Department has served, notice on President Gomez that the. .United States will intervene in Cuba If furth-, er attempts' are made by the veteran organization to nullify the law pro hibiting the interference cf the mili tary in political affairs in Cuba. The attitude of the United States ts shown. in tne following note presented today to the Cuban government: "The situation in Cuba, as now re ported, causes grave concern to the government of the United States. "That the laws intended to . safe guard free republican government shall be enforced and not defied lu obviously essential to the mainten ance of the law, order and stability, indepensable to the status of the re public of Cuba, in the continued well being of which the United States has always . evinced and tcannot escape, a vital interest. , "The President of the United States therefore looks to the President . and government of Cuba to prevent tho threatened situation which would compel the government of the United States, much-against its desires, to consider what measures it must take in pursuance of the obligations of its relations to Cuba'--'.- y The notification , of the- .American government was" served upon Presi dent Gomez. through American Minis- Lter Beauprie, at Havana, benor Mar- ess?. rtavercr Jan- mmwter o : th-; action declined "It wai filter Be&upre that today's note -was based. . Minister Beaupre reported to day from Havana that, in defiance of h decree issued by I'resident Gomez, for bidding officers of the army and rural guard to participate in politics which also is prohibited by military law. many army officers and rurales at tended a meeting Sunday night of ta xational Council of Veterans, an or ganization of veterans of the Cuban war for Independence. The veterans have been active in the past three months in attempting to have displac ed from the civil service, persons who sympathized with the Spanish caus? !n the rebellion! Press dispatches to day indicated that the veterans wfero threatening . to coerce members of . Congress, now in session, to nullity the law regarding the participation oi" the military In politics. , : This move convinced the State De" partment that the sltuni . a was thj most serious that has presented It self since the veterans' cove began. It has been evident to the department that. President Gomez was practloally powerless to resist the movement un less he had received substantial sup port from the outside. The declared purpose from some of the veterans to mailte Ineligible from public service a large element of the population be cause they sided with Spain in tne revolution, has been pointed out as in consistent ' with the Individual ireer dom and rights guaranteed by the con stitution of Cuba. The united states regarded the activity of tbe veterans therefore, as. likely to threaten tne stabiyty ofthe republic and hence the ' sharpness of the warning issued to dav. the United States being by treaty bound to see that the , Cuban constltu: tion Is observed. ' The Denartment of State has turn ed to the treaty and, after a careful study of the obligations Imposed, it was concluded that . the time had come to serve .waAlng that f or the second and perhaps the last time tne unit ed States was prepared to intervene in -Cuba if necessary. The officials here entertain no doubt over the result of this note of warning. President Gomez will enforce his de cree against the military In politics and it is expected . there will be ; decided abatement of ,. the ' raid of would-be officeholders upon the places now . filled by members of - the conservative .- element. - If these ' re- ?ults are not obtained then " it may eaonably be expected, that within short time the American nagj again will be hoisted over the; government house in Havana. ; -The eeneral staff long ' has-. had plans prepared for lu$t such. a ma neuver as this. Maj6r. GenerafcWood asked to. be excused-from discussing this at this stage, but it is known that' within, a very few days aftar the word -was given several thousand troops -would be marching - aboard army transports at Newport "News to sail tor Havana. . Meanwhile, practically ., the wholo Atlantic Aeet, which is now cased at , Guantanamo on the southslde of Is land,' would . spread out and en velop Cuba ; so completely that' there could not b$ & thought. pf successful. armed reslstlance. ; The ifcuthoritlts ' do not' expect to be called upon to do this r"Contlnned on Pat Eight). - ,;' -J'L'li-' i-.-'-y'J , ,rr.aies was wnappraisea oi ine T v . ,';; f, u except through the press anl ' ; : ;,!) ' to comment upon it.' . ": ',''. , , . :.'.'v.!(i,;(j i on reports of American Miri- ' H i m r -7"i jv km r m V4- ,. i r . f . ' ' I- - .-v-r '. .,i ' i ! i- f.; .;. (.. ! 1 .;;it; Km i : r, ml -il ..'v'V M -i - V '. ".V ( : ''. . ': ' ! V