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I FULL ASSOCIATED PRESS SS2VIC3 BY LEASED WIR3, 11(1 r f. mmn AM fin , jw LAST EDITION 4:00 P.M. Weather Forecast SHOWERS; COOLER. VOL. XVIII, NO. 45. ASHEVILLE, N. C.;" FRIDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 4, 1913. PRICE THREE CENTS DEMZ&5UATOR IS UUJER FIRE Unnamed Western Man Alleg ed to Have 'Acted Impropl " erly Toward Wife of . Office Seeker. CASE OF. BLACKMAIL ASSERTS ACCUSED Unconfirmed Report Current that Washington Grand Jury Is Investigating ." the Allegations. v EMERSOII CASE IS COIISHED HEiriZES FIIH 1PIRTEDJV DEATH As Copper King and Wife Ef fect Reconciliation, the Woman Expires. Secretary Bryan Will Await Further Advices from London before Deter mining Course. . - NO KNOWN PRECEDENT BEARING ON CASE ( Ry Aftsoriittcd Press) : Washington, April 4. Charges ln volving the moral conduct of a demo cratic senator from a ' western state hove been presented to United States Attorney Wilson here, who la investi gating them. A man seeking fed eral office charges that when his wife Went to the senator- In his behalf the senator acted in an improper manner and later repeated this action when lie cnlled upon the woman at a hotel, where the husband claim's to have posted Witnesses, The. senator ' declares ' that" the charges are blackmail and part of a plot to ruin him politically. He de clares that, the witnesses against him are persons who have been his politi cal enemies In his own state. The affair charge-1 against ' the senator Is alleged to have happened a week ago. No attempt to keep it mlet was made either by the woman concerned, her husband or the wit nesses, but no official Bteps were taken at that time. Later the parties stated that they Intended to drop the affair, 'but finally decided to get the advice of a lawyer. .-. The charges Were then brought to the attention of the United States attorney ' United States Atorney Wilson will no. Jlintlrm a report, that he has pre sented the 'witnesses to then, grand Jury.. -.A. grand Jury would have no jurisdiction over a senator, after con greEti, .goes Into session - next Mon day, The. name of the , senator Is withheld -by the authorities,, as. the rase is. under investigation and no official,, action yet taken. . By A8ociuted Press. New York, April -I. The court that parted F. Augustus Heinze, the cop per king, and his wife, Bernice, will be besought to restore her to him in death. . It was Mrs. Hienze's dying Wish thnt this, be done for the sake i of' her child. Her lawyer, Benjamin P. SpelUnan; yesterday began prepara tion of a remarkable petition a few I hours after his client's death, to ex- It Is Thought Unlikely that This , : Government ' Can Take Official Cogni- , ' zance of Case. By Associated Press. Washington, April 4. Officials at the state department today uaid the punge the record of the Interlocutory I attitude of the United States In ,the decree already granted.' LVIES OH GALLOWS PRESIDENT TO FOR SjJIIillTES MAY YIELD Deputies Hold Man from Floor a m tta ciW tw Congress Is Unlikely to Grant aav .ww BMjivui s, vua , Hanged. -Both Free Sugar and Free Wool, as He Desires That It Do. By Associated Press.. . . Montgomery, Ala., April 4. Four persons; convicted of murders In Mont gomery county, were executed in the CONCESSION LIKELY county Jail early this morning. The first person to mount the scaffold was TO CANE GROWERS C, A.' Walter Jones, a white man, con victed of the murder of Sloan Brown, In a railroad train at the terminai sta- SUgar Tariff Cut and ItS Eli- nun. i nu imp : wua sprung . unuer Jones at 6.18 o'clock. In rapid suc- cesMon Arnold Gilmer, John Adam?! and Coleman German' gave up. theirl lives in expiation of their crimes. - . A grucsomespectacle was presented to those who by law were allowed to I witness the execution. The rope slip- pel when Jones fell and ' gradually I PROGRESSIVES HOLD iiciispuif GROWSJHESPERATE i Downpour and Wind Make Ef fort to Curb River Seem ingly Hopeless. mmation in Three. Years Wilson's Compromise Offer. ' "I have always loved you. Frits; 1 have always hoped something would happen to bring you back to me" the dying woman's words of reconciliation with her husband; the death bed scene; her tears and embraces; his as: siirances of love; his promise to try- By Asfoclated Press. Til U 1 . ...11 A MM W Jone strangled to death, the fall fall- aem-atuT congVeeonal lead- mg to oreuK nis neck. When Jonenlers practically agreed upon free wool case of 'Miss Zelle Emerson, the Amer- dropped his toe touched the cement and a very low duty on sugar, eventu lean mflitant suffragette Imprisoned In floor and deputies had to hold his body "y to become free, the ways and London-; would oe aeterminea ur olT the fl)iM.r- Mklf-aroiin. e..id the receipt of a runner report irmwlth tne Kaaw of the uvm ,. ins uinuun emuiunj, wne-.. aa heiird -Jw IhU'MMllnr. a. 11 tiu io iuvi.iKa.iB vmu.bc minutes Jones' body quivered and young woman had been BUnjectea to jerked. Thet rap was sprung at :lg mmcus Less Than a Score of Congress Members Present When the House Faction Or- ganizes Today. . ' BOTH OLD PARTIES FLAYED BY MURDOCK cruel treatment. It was pointed out today that if Mrs. Emerson, mother of the young worn Ttt-DIVIDE THE OFFICES AND PHEVENT II FIGHT This Is Advice Being Given to President as to North Carolina. ' to fulfill her last wish all these will lan, has complained to the embassy, It be written Into the .-Jurisprudence oflmunt have been subsequent to the the state, together with the testimony, under oath, of Mrs. Helnze's mother, her sister and the nurses who stood nearby. Never before has the Supreme, court of New York been petitioned to ex punge the record of a divorce by a voice from the grave. "Had she lived It would have been possible for Mrs. Hienze to discon tinue this action," Mr. Splllman said. "Because of her love for Heinze and her hope that something would bring about a reconciliation, she postponed taking the final decree which might have been entered last month. She had only, until April 17 to decide whether the decree would be taken. Again and again she told me: 'Walt, wait; that decree meansdeath, be tween my husband and me. . To take It-would tear my soul from its body.' "During the last minutes of her life she repeated over and over again the request that the record be expunged. I am convinced that there must he some - method for the greaj chancel lor 10 reacn out ana aesiroy or seal those records." Mrs. Helnze's body was sent yes terday afternoon to Toledo, O., for burial. MISS ETHEL ROOSEVELT sending of ' Charge Laughlln's report of yesterday, which said .the. mother had filed no charges, although she was granted an hour's interview with her daughter. '. -j ' .. . - Secretary Bryan will immediately take up with Chandler Anderson, the ?ounsellor of- tho department, the question of- what is to be done. Prac tically there are no precedents bear- ng closly upon it, the nearest being the Maybrlck case,, when some of the highest officials In the United States petitioned -the British government to relet", j, the woman from the . prison where she has serving a life sentence. It was held by. various secretaries, no tably Blaine and Hay, that there was no warrant tor a direct official request Cronv the .United 'States .- government for clemency in Mrs. Maybrick' ease, so these representations were unoffi cial, ' although . made through ' the American embassy in London. Secretary Bryan wishes first to es tablish the complete regularity of tho Judicial proceedings in the case of Miss Emerson, and If he follows the ordinary course and ascertains there tins been no discrimination - against the woman on account of her nation ality and that she has not been treated In a cruel and Inhuman manner, for- bldden by the principles of the law common to all nations, he likewise probably will confine himself to the exercise of his functions -in m un official way to secure, an amelioration of Miss Emerson's condition. means committee today began draw ing ' its - report " on the ' ; new tariff bill, estimating the loss of revenue from the new rates at $80,000,000 a year. The revenue from the Income tax will be estimated at a like amount, to be' derived in this way:.-. - Incomes of $4000 to $20,000, one per cent; $20,000 to $50,000, two per cent; $50,000 to $100,000, three per .. . . ., 1 1 nnn ' . MalUA- , " n-eui, till uyw fivv,wvv, luur irt?r cciil, Madison avenue, December 23. 1911.1a.. . . ; r ........ . , 4 . ,. - - niii iaA nil turuui nuuiu, iitu utji ueiiu fol, n. th! door The exemption will be , all incomes looee at 7:18 oclock and physicians . . " " - I UI1UCI f,WW. A Jill 1,111 11 II o'clock? and Jones was not pronounced dead until :64 o'clock. une .next man to mount the: scaf fold was Arnold OHmer, a white man, condemned for the murder of Mrs. Lucille Tippetts.ln a rooming house on 'Keynote" Speech from Col- Monvpiiis, Tcim., April 4. a lomr onei Kooseveit xteaa Tne lluttnwA nuMiyfliMt fMktn ITI1rmm 17 V stated that the city levee there went Conference Is Open out Hiiortly after 12:30 today. UoodliiR 1 " the factory district. So low of life 10 IU6 JTUDUC. was rcporu-d. Hickman, Ky., April 4. Contlnu nils rain throughout the nierht, accom, pained by a hard up-stream - wind y Associated Press. combined to render the situation des- Washington,- April 4. The unprece- perate here today. Officials in dented spectacle of a oartv leelslative charge of the city leveeB declared this ' caucus, open to the public and at. morning the banks hardly would hold taA t -,. .. iL , ' , . , , , , . tended uy women, was seen at the through the day and all those work- . ' , men who had remained In the dis- caPol today, when the house prog trlct protected by the embankment ressives called their first conference.' were forced to leave. I Iess than a score of members of the Reports from points along the Heel- nw hnnS. h. ... foot levee state that the water had ,. .. reached the top of the banks and Is enee, but Representative Murdoch being held back only by the sand bag- of Kansas house leader of the new glng. Hundreds of men are at work Party, declared that many new mem- rushing from point to point where the 1 , ,cttl!" wlnrf and Kilter are eiltttnir into the " """"" iiou -biiv pronqunced Gilmer dead at 7:25, vision now stands this way and Is not a subcommittee went Into con ference with-Chairman Underwood of the ways and means committee. There J" ' Gazette-News Bureau. - ,., -,- . Wyatt Building. . .- Washington, April 4. Colonel A.' H. Boyden -of Salisbury, candidate for collector of Internal rev enue for " western Nortlr Carolina, came' to Washington today td Confer with senators and representatives in regard to matters In connection with the aluminum plant wblch 1b In oper ation near Salisbury. Colonel Boydon, when asked In regard to his candidacy for the CoileCtorshlp said If his friends wanted to give him the place ne would not object. He said, however, that he had not asked any of his - friends to support him for the place, and did not Intend to ask either Pres ident Wilson or Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo to consider his ap plication nor any one else.. In other words Mr. Poyden la In a receptive mood, but will not mske a fight to land the place. It la being rumored around Wash Ingtnn that Colonel Boyden will be of fered the postmastershlp at Salisbury. The place pays about $2500 a year, not near aa much as the collector- ship, but as postmaater at Salisbury Colonel Boyden would be' at home and It Is believed If he Is offered this place he will accept In the meantime Pres Ident VBilson la turning over In hit mind What was said to him by E. J Justice, of Greensboro, In regard to "reactionaries" and progressives In North Carolina. It Is ..authoritatively stated at the White- Houne thut whllir Mr. Wilson was much Impressed with what Mr. Justice told him the president has not as yet made up his mind as to who will be given the biggest end of the state's federal patronage. Colonel A. D. Watts' indorsements have not been (lied and probably will not be for sev ernl weeks, but Senators Simmons and Overman at the proper time will go to the White Houxe and suk the president to appoint the Iredell man. Hhould Mr. Wllimn refune It would b conclusive evidence that Secretary Diiniels has the president's ear and that he, snd not Senators Simmon and Overman, will dictate pHtrnnag for North Carolina. KorrwHin a npllt In the drtnwratl i rnnks nhmilil ITcftlilent Wllmiti dii'lil to ptirniio thin lntL'r rotirwe, frloml of the pipulilf-nt are itlreHily hukki m'. Ing nys snd nifitrifi for averting lou row. One l.Hin miKKxtid v liuin vrrv Hi!- to the (u eUd.vjil Is tl lit the ' be ") u H v dh l.l.-.l By Associated Prese. Oyster Bay, N. Y.i April 4. Miss Ethel Roosevelt, daughter of Theo dore Roosevelt, was married in Christ Episcopal church here at noon today to Dr. Richard. Derby of New York. Two hundred close friends and rela tlves of the bride and bridegroom saw the ceremony. - , .-. Rev. Dr. George E. Talmadge, rec tor of the local church, assisted by Rev, Dr. Cotton Smith of Washington and Rev. Dr. Endicott Peabody, of Groton, Mass., performed the cere mony. The bride attendanta were the Misses Helen Coster, Josephine Osborn, Margaret Tucker, Mary Derby and Cornelia Langdon. The bride groom's brother, Roger A. Derby was the best man. Dr. and Mrs. Derby will sail for Europe tomorrow. T! Li EXCELLENT QUEENS Egyptologist Says That Wom en Were Respbsnible for ' Prosperity in Former ;-' , Times. '. - ti, , , i i i m w 1 1 nil n nviiiiu', l 1 1 1 n w John Adams, a nesrro who - Irllloii I v. j TJ 1 1 rrr H. . , . . CA)n-lCU IU 1 1 U 1 111 11 fll. ' uerry almost threel Amnno.. ,,mr,, ri,H.i- --:-..," fery person "good- thn free list will he Htaet rnll Ciitu i.7 .L' TJ' OMMle to metal schedule. After the senate 1", , V," . , " . worla- re- finance committee reviewed the bill to- naiira mat ne wasldav Pnlni. ohnUA .1 . 1 1 J o-.-.n nwure ,uu muue a speecn In which he requested all to ma him in tne other world. The Iran wmanrim. i. j , .' at 7:50 o'clock and A,m.. :r "V "","7,cu."' a g". : -... vi. o.ui i ment an around. ' 1 I Washington, April 4. President "lu,sc vreiiimn. a nefi-ro tvoa n..t I ll'll u ,11, - ' to htsend..t i :i:r. . - , .,,. . " ";' .' - a,,u n'a neariinut recognizes that a concession may stopped beating.a. .. He- was wn- be necessarv to southern nla.ter. and Mciea or the murder o his paramour, would consent to a duty of practically one cent net per pound provided all duty would be removed within three years. This would mean for the present a duty of l.iu to all countries except Cuba. If the president can arrive at an agreement with the Louisiana sena tors on the sugar schedule, there will be -enough votes. It is generally as sumed, to pass a tariff bill with free wool. On all other schedules there Is substantial agreement between the president and congress. The president has been told that elfher free wool or free sugar might pass but that both could not. This was the status today of the In formal tariff conferences between the president and members of the con gress. The president canvassed the skua tion first today with Representative Threat to Inaugurate Reign of Terror Is Executed Two Arrests. By Associated Prom T-nnriAh. A it a . . vuuiu, Auni . two Klrl una. pected or being militant suffragettes Broussard, senator-elect from Louls ut' fommit an outrage, were ar- 1ana. Mr. Broussard told the presl- "",leu ueiure aawn tnis morning. Thevl a. th.t ..t,n hi. onnntiinfa xnniit "arrlnd bagj contaln'ng parafflne, pa- ,tand a tariff cut, they believed the per saturated with oil, candles, match- gUgar industry of Louisiana would be es, etc. Ill; each Of the bags was a I Hagliiv.d hv th cnmnlete removal of vojicr umoiig me scrawl. Beware 1 the duty. now you treat Mrs. Pankhurst." I Trto nrealdent declared he had no The glrlsi when brought up at the I rtBire in destroy Inv business, but police court, gave their names aa Phil- hoDed that within three years such a NEGRO WOMEN ATTEND SUFFRAGE MEETING ' (By Associated Press) . . St LouU. Mo., April 4. The Miss Isclppl SufTrago Conference began Itt closing session today with Its doors wide open to negro women despite protests of the management of the hotel where the conference Is being held, that rules of the house pro hlhltel the presence of negroes. At the closing of the meeting yes terday, Victoria Aali y. the negresi whose presence caused the commo tion, was asked by several of the suffrage leaders to attend the confer ence today and to bring several of her negro friends with her. She promised to do so. HELD FOR MURDER ' By Associated Press. . " Philadelphia, April 4. The history of Egypt Is replete with proofs that the feminine secretaries and girls of the working classes In the - ancient times were responsible for the growth and prosperity of that country. Such was the declaration by Dr. Max Mul ler, Egyptologist of the University of Pennsylvania, In an address yester day. He lauded Tula, the first queen ever chosen from the common ranks In Egypt. Amenophls IIL, king of Egypt 1400 years before the Christian era, became enamoured of Tala, a plain, old-rash loned working girl, and from the mo ment he declared her the official queen, Amenopnis naa prosperity. Dr. Muller said that the old Kings used to approve of the harem but po lygamy ended when Amenophls gave Tain a regal wife's right. The speaker allowed a picture of the king and queen eating at the same table and one of Amenophls holding his wife on his lap. The successor of Amenophls III. married a Working girl also and his reign lasted for many years. lys Brady and Mllllcent Dean. They had explained to the policeman who arrested them that thoy were return ing from their Easter holidays. Warnings were sent out today by the directorates of all the railroad systems In the United Kingdom to the effect that militant suffragettes had threatened to burn stations In various parts of the country. Patrols will be readjustment of the sugar business In Louisiana could be effected that the rest of the United States could have free sugar and the Louisiana planters continue to take part In the Industry. This, Mr. Broussard told the presi dent, was a practical question whlcn he would have to discuss further with the business men of his state. The president has been canvassing placed at all stations and In turbulent I the senate and has a general Idea of sections. : ' I the extent to which a free sugar or Home empty train were dynamited I free Wool bill would be opposed. near Stockport, Cheshire, during the I He expected to hear more definitely night. Suffragettes are suspected of I on the attitude of the senate after the having committed the outrage. I senate finance committee met today to Militant TartUn Not Combined, I hear reports from Senator Simmons, Chicago, April 4. The woman's party I its chairman. Senators Hoke Smith of Cook county here today expressed ymputhy for Mrs. Rmmellne Pank hurst, the English suffragta sentenced to Imprisonment, but the tactics of the militant women abroad were not condoned. and Stone, members of the committee. and Senator Kern, the majority leader ill of whom conferred with the presl dent last night. The ways and means committee also resumed Its deliberations. Chair Mrs. Georre.W. Trout, president of I man Underwood expected to havei the Illinois Equal Huflrrg association, I much to guide his committee when said: - I he received the report of the demo "Knocklng-ln-the-head tactics never I cratlo senators and the revenue com would . be employed In this country. I mlttees of both houses and checked up Such tactics mav be neeesary there, on Just where they stood and Mrs Pankhurst s repeated declar- I Senator Simmons and Chairman atlon that the women of England are I Underwood both expressed the hope in a stute of war against the author ities mny to some extent excuse their actions." , J. Ireluin AmirtedJ an the Slayer of . Mrs. C It. Turner, (ion Id Employer's Wife. By Associated Press. Toms Hlver, N. J., April 4. T. Lechan, formerly employed as a prl vate secretary by Mrs. E. M. Horn, of Pittsburgh. Is In Jail here charged with the murder of Mrs. Charles L Turner of lkewood, N. J. Mrs. Tur. ni-r was tlie wife of an employe on the entitle of George J. Gould. On April !, 1(11, her body was found In clump of woods at Ikewood. lihun lived at Ijikewood n' the litne, but lalr moved to White Plains, N. Y. Me Is marrli'd. IMvuto detec tives Imv been on !, trail for sixteen ini.nlhK. One of them guineil hi ron li.li in r nu. I 1 1 1 e. il hnn loin N w ,lr-"-s f..r n i n I II"' "Mul 'I, li"t ilenli I Trial Marriages Legal In New York, Court Rules By Associated Press. New York, 'April 4. Trial mar riages for young women under 18 years old are legal In New York, ac cording to a decision by Supreme Court JuHllee .('ohnlnn yesterday. If hn mnrrles with the consent of her parents and leaves her hiiMtmnd before ulie attains '.yrt m; the present law In efreei permits her to come Into i-iiurt soil ohtn'ii a it-rrin of fthnu! iiiclit ih n runt , hi' 1 -- i !:,n il. "TI.- ! 1 1 llli'l purposes providing In such cases for trial marriages," he said, "but It Is a condition the remedy for which lies with the legislature and not with the courts." The decision was In the Awe of Mrs. Iva Mtindell Coster, who ailed -to An nul her marriage with N.-TBiun H. I ('oi-ter. The Justice found that al though Mrs. Coster's mother had run. sented to her jiiarnnKO as she wasj only 17 when she h'-i-iiioe Coster's wile, ulie wh enilii I In niiilntiiin an ;n i inn fur ml imiHil ' !. that a tariff bill might be Introduced by the ways and means committee which can be passed In both houses without material change. Such a bin all are agreed, must have the approval of the president and assurances suDoort from democratic senators who oppose free sugar. Although there still- Is opposition to free wool, particularly among western senators, It seemed practically assured that tn ways and means committee would leave wool on the free list as agreed to yesterday, White House) Baby to Spend Slimmer In KraiK-e. By Associated Press. New York, April 4. Miss Josephine Wilson Cothian, the White House baby, grand niece of President Wilson will sail for Chorbough toda. til Infant will be' accompanied by h mother. Mrs. P. ( Cothran, and Mrs. Annie Wilson Howe, the president slNier. They will spend tho sumnn In l-'ntnce. banks, There are now about 2500 refugees in the camp on the hills above the city, , a majority of whom are being well cared for. An .additional sup ply of tents was received late last ight, but this still was Inadequate, more than GO families spending the Ight without shelter. ' , The food supply Is said to be sufficient for several days unless the number of refugees Is greatly In creased. Steps have been taken to rush food, clothing and tents to the city as fast as they are needed. Memphis, Tenn., April 4. (Bulletin, a. m. The local Mississippi river gauge today registered 40.9 feet, a rise of 1.6 feet In the past 24 hours. New Rise at Cairo. Cairo. 111.. April 4. Flood waters In the Ohio 1egantaxflse' again- today at 7 o'clock, the gauge reading 64.7, The water had hovered about the 54.6 mark for nearly 12 houra despite a steady rain. The banking of sandbags at Four teenth street was found to be per mitting a considerable amount of seep age -early today and all the workmen available were gathered there to re inforce It. The condition was not con sldered serious. '. Reports from Reel foot levee district said that 1000 men were working to save a brack in the dike of that sec tion. A break there would bring relief here within less than an hour. The weather today was chilly and the wind had swept to the north. Con sldered from every standpoint, condi tions were regarded as hopeful for at least another week. Cairo Again Threatened. In their anxiety to prevent ' the levee from breaking on the Ohio river side of Cairo, citizens over-looked any danger which might come from the Mississippi river side with the result that a force of workmen had to be rushed there early today, when a washout was threatened between Nineteenth . and Twenty-fourth streets. High winds have caused the river to cut Into the bank to such en extent that danger was imminent before It was discovered. Several hundred bags of sand were hurriedly carried to the place from the Ohio river levee In au- tomobllles and further erosion of the bank was prevented for the time. The water on the Mississippi side Is well below the levee top. Refugee Camp In Want, dhawneetown, III.. April 4. Near ly a thousand of the flood refugees behind the hills here are In serious (Continued on page 3) INIIM BYSTANDER" GETS 515,000 OF LOOT Thief Expressed Jewels to Fictitious George Robin son and Loses Them. listed in the progressive party by let ters. "; ........ ... I The proceedings at today's confer ' ence Included the reading of a "key note" speech from Col, Roosevelt, and addresses from other leaders. v V Representatives Hlnebauch t and Murdock, the- most active In -the-- movement, expect an Increase in membership later on and are pressing for recognition In Important commit tees. They demand the rights of a. distinct party In congress. They have legislative program, a candidate for speaker and count on the backing of the national party organization. with the personal Influence of former ' President Roosevelt. -" ' - "We constitute a new party be cause the old parties are outworn," - declared Mr. Murdock in hia 'n npunceraent as speakership candidate,, - - '"The elements which , con'Ef ill the "'.? democratic party come half-heartedly, - Incompetently and with . inadequate weapons to battle with the powers that prey and pillage. Those who' . have perverted the purposs of the re- publican party are In league' with privilege and at heart distrustful of all majorities. ; , .- "Our war is with an enemy that . fears neither the republican nor thei . " democratic party. Our struggle lif j with the forces of privilege: There Is' a new party in the land; the tramp of four million citizens, who without time for organization marched to the polls In November to vote for Theo- dore Roosevelt, Is heard." Predicts Party's Growth The caucus was called to order by Representative Hlnnebaugh of 11)1- nols as temporary chairman. "t esteem It- a great honor," said Representative Hlnnebaugh, "to have the privilege of calling to order the first conference of representatives of the progressive party. "Four million five hundred thou sands attended the birth of our party and a much larger number have slg- ' nlfled their Intention of guarding and directing its growth. The nation will little note nor long remember what we say here; but what we do in the sixty-third congress, if we earnestly endeavor to carry out , the Instruc tions of those who sent us, will never be forgotten. .- .- v "We stand for the open caucus. We will not be bound by the party whip. We believe the people are entitled to know how their business U transact-'' ed." Representative Murdock, accepting the nomination for speaker, closed hut address as follows: "Of every American citizen, man and woman, we ask co-operation. Of every American who Is seeking tt restore, through the intricacies and complexities of the day, the lines that . divide right from wrong, we ask help. If he is able to see through the spec tacle of material prosperity the wan face of the child factory worker; If through the darkness he can feel the distress of under-paid and over worked women; then his place Is In the ranks of the progressives. "Wet set the publlo welfare in first place. To those who are hesitant be cause of party ties and traditions, ws hH welcome to our ranks." (By Associated Press) Tampa, Ala., .April 4. A special from Key West says that a few days ago George Robinson, treasurer of a large cigar manufacturing concern there, received a small parcel by ex press. It was labeled "spark plugs," but on opening It Mr. Robinson's eyes were fairly dazzled by a rich assort ment of Jewelry. The box had been shipped from 81 WIDOW AND ANOTHER ARE HELD FOR MURDER By Associated Presi. Chlckasha, Okla., April 4. Mrs. R. 8. Woodward and John Costlngllo were arrested today charged with the murder by poison of Mrs. Woodward's husband, who died a week ago. Woodward had been a grocer here for several years and was widely known. He was 80 years. old. , His Augustine, but did I wife was of about the same age. He not bear the name of the sender. Mr. I loft a 110,000 Insurance policy in his Robinson got In touch with Chief of i wife's favor. Police Qulgley of St. Augustine, fur nishing a description of the Jewelry and the chief Informed him that the homo, of a prominent cltlcvU the.-e had bee robbf d of the Jewelry on Mnrcn. II. A Pwnllar Funeral. (By Associated Press) London, April 4. A peculiar fnner The owner went to Key al wns held at Ilartlntor-Uniry. 1 -.in- West and wss given the Jewelry af-1 fond, yesterday for the Count'- ter llentlfvlnr it. It wat valued at Cowner. who died at Cannes on - tlfi.eoo. Mr. Robinson supposes that the thief. chose his name at random, ex pecting to be t Key Weal to rlnlin the packiiKe. which vim Inmlvert'-ntly delivered to ltol.ln.min. 2S. The oomn was token to timber wminn hiir", n. T he w i .-!-- ; t w . r r.il e. rortnUiii 1!,. 'fl- 1. . .. 11 I. t! I 0
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