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' ' ; s; I I'lll II lllllll'l' Hill II I I raflbtiuttbULr Dropping Anchor About Mid night Off Ship Isand, Mis sippfCoasf TO BREAKFAST WITH V THE PRESIDENT 'AT PASS CHRISTIAN Naval Greyhound Made About 23 Knots.f or 24 Consecutive Hours Lind Comes To Re port That .His Excellency's &umbW Reached the - Point - Where the Huerta Governmental Structure is Soon to Topple PRESIDENT-SLEPT LONG V ' Wanhington, ' t)ec. 81 . With . John ll-lnd br4. th Untied ftatej yacht trutaer Chter w Hpeeding bctom be Gulf of Mexico tonlKht dueto drop anchor about midnight oft Ship llBiand, on the emt et MiMiMlppi. I.Mr. Llnd, President Wilson' Pr LionaJ ijriiitatlv in oxico, ! Wt Paw. hrttian' tomorrow and lay for htm a full report on the Mrxl- btu situation. To make the run from ft era Crua to Ship Island, as plan ned, the Chegter will have to maln KMin a ped of 21 knots an hour for ore than 34 hujlra'. Und's llnact Object. There has been much speculation As to the exact object of Mr. Und s Kourney: He Is coming, oiflcials say, ;o make a verbal report to the rresi jf lit and in some quarters it has been Suggested that, convinced that the crumbling" of the Huerta regime is early linlshed,. Mr. Lind desires to onfer with President Wilson as to fche course to be pursued when the t-nd comes. Unbryo New l"rovlnlonal (Govern ment. In this connection belief has been I expressed here that the administra- tlon's objei-tion to provisional of , nclaW in Mexico t'lty does not extend i to all of Huerta's adherents and, that iln the creation of a new provisional ' government In Mexico some of the ; capable men now associated with Hu erla, might take a leading part with the approval of the t'nited states: s Anxiously Awaiting Oilnuga News. Th State and War Departments , tonight were anxiously awiyiing news from OiiliBga, Mex., where the last remnant of General Huerta's north ern army was making Its Anal stand. The American garrison at Presidio, Tex., is comparatively small and It is believed this explains the action of the officer in coitunand In driving back into Iexlco individual Federal soldiers trying to find safety in flight across the line. Reports today told of continued - .rebel. .movements against the jown of Nuevo Lraredondicating a purpose " .to occupy that place at the earliest possible moment and. with l ie fall of OJinaga. to establish an unbroken line of Constitutionalist authority alomr the whole northern border. The armored cruiser South Dakota has been placetf In reserve at Itiget Bound to utilize her personnel to man smaller gunboats required on the west coast of Mexico. Tlif IVwkleot Went t Bed Early in lit What He Niwled Most The "Cloak of Mystery" Kurrouiuling l.inij( b-il. T'uss Christian; Missw Dec. t. - frestdent Wilson did not sacriflcf his ' program of nth hours' sleep to the custom observed by thousands throughout the country of watching vne oia year pass. He went to bed early,, as usual, and hoped t get i good night's- rest befor his confer -.ence tomorrow With John .UmlL who wilt 'report In jfull his observations during six-months In Mexk-e. The I'resldent declined to say to ; night vijhethcr he Would go aboard the revenue cutter Winona or the fcco'iit cruiser Chester, : aboard wlflch Mr, Lind sailed from V era Ous; but int dies lions were- that the conference would taRe place at the. eHage where the- 'resident is spending -his Vaca tion. (loaknl In Ioen Mvslerv. '. The entire affair is cloaked in deep mysterv, every effort balng. made to keep secret all phases of Mr. L.ind'8 arrival or departure. After the Vresi dent had played his usual game of golf, he met Representative Harrison on the links, and the latter carried ' meseaiio to the commander ot the Winona which waa lying off the pier It On) fport;tmrndTsrtgy the little vessel turned her prt to sea, ant! was cruising tonight aoout Bmp Island, eight rpiles south "of here. Mr. Harri inn said be was unanle to talk About the incident , ' ' , W hat Will He Do Today T - At The -'resident a cottage it was slated that Mr. Wilson had not yet decided what he would do tomorrow. John Purroy Mitchel Takes Oath of Office Today UPHEAVAL OF THE FOLICE Marked Closing Hour of Ad ministration of Mayor Kline Removes Waldo for Insubor dination Would Have Left City Without Civilian Head On New Year s Eve. (By Um AwwUtnl !f.) - New York, Dec. II. John Purroy Mitchel, elected mayor on the Fusion ticket, will take office at noon4 tomor row, HueceediiiK. Adnlph U Kline, who asKumed the mayoralty w,hen William tember. ' On the eve of his city hall tenucy Mr. Mitchell tonight announced jomenf hla appointments. Hg will ntee r: uUea-rWithr-Biii-atrtnet incomplete; retaiiynn, however. Mime of the department heaaa choeen by Mr. (iaynor. A police upheaval marked-the clos ing hour of Ihe adminlKtratlon of Mayor Kline, wno insubordinate for resigning after ac xuj4uiht.teaS.Jialtl1nq of jILb!".i."'l!; ufies. Waldo's actum, if was i6itfifei out. Would have left the police with' out a, ctvtmtn head-on New Year's eve when the closest supervision of Jhe department was required. The may or appointed nm teptty McKay commission to serve unut Mr. Mitchel selects a permanent police head. Three present department heads re-appolnted by Mayor-elect MUchel are Iiwson Ptirdy, president of the tax commission; John J. Murphy, tenement house commissioner and 11, A. O. Smith, docks and ferries com missioner. Robert Adamson. secre tary f a iayra nSyn'oi MCStSaiCiniT, manager of the Fusion campaign, was1 mnjoiiited five commissioner, F. J. II. KracTte, bridge commissioner, and Henry Bruert. city chamberlain. Mayor Kline, elected to Hie hoard of uldermen in November, was ap pointed tax commissioner of Brook- lyn. E. M. K00NCE GETS IN RACE FOR CONGRESS Well Known Mate Ijt-gbilator An nounces He Would I.lke to Have a I I.i nd in National Ijivi -Making. (Kpwial in Tin- NVws il OhHrwr. I Jacksonville, Dec. 81. Hon. B. .M. Koonce of this place announces that he is the race for nomination for Congress by the. Democrats of the Third District. He has mailed notices of his candidacy to all the papers In the district. Mr. .Koonce has rep resented Onslow county In the Gen eral Assembly for four terms and has ranked high amotig the law-makers. He is chairman of the Onslow Count Democratic Kneeutiv'e Committe. Manv friends in this and other coifii- tles have- prtHnise& Mr.- Koonce their support. HH.KD IN JAIL He end HIa victim "Mad Been In a (lame nd Had Fallen Out." I My lh Awnr1l l'rf ( Bristol. Va.. Dec. 31; Charles Pip. pen. 2b year old, was lodgea in tall at Abingdon, Va. today charged with the murder of William rDorton, aged 30 and -a-wealthy cltisen of Kusselll county, va. According to the news of Ihe trsxedy rece bred tod ny by Hns tol relatives of the-dead man, the two had been in a game and had a falling out. - Itppen declared rhat -:if he had a gun be- would kill Dorton, whereupon the latter loaded shot gun and handing It to him, defied him to make good his threat. Pipnen stepped back and shot, killing Dor- ton almost instantly. 'fcVGKXIC MARItlAGK. LAW. Hush to Kvade New Statnle, lffettlve j Tpday,! at Milwaukee, i 4K iw Avmnum. ntm.t 'lAlwtfukee, Wis.. Dec. it. A rush to evade the new Eugenics marriage law. effective -tomorrow, made today the busiest day oin record for the MIU waukee count)' marriage license clerks, -At th-egularclosttig time M llcnaa had been isaaVd aud the office was so crowded It was decided to issue licenses until midnight. LOST WClFE IN Carl Graham, of Robeson Co., Acciueniauy Miiea oy uis charge of His Own Gun, " (Stxrlal ts Tbt Mm sad Olaernr.l ' Lumberton. Dee. ' H.--Yeaterdajr afternoon neat Lumber Bridge . Carl Ornhum a vouna white man. wu ar- eomrany with Baxter McMillan, a I you -ig -friend, Oraham started out, hunting; and while in-a friendly tussle with his friend over gun It was discharged, the load entering the fac and rang ing upward. - McMillan did. not kno the gunl had been loaded. Coroner Rancke and County Physician Page went tor the scene this morning and 'upon their return this nftermmn - stated! FRIENDLY TUSSLE the? T tto w" pv, w oamm, From the Tqp of the Great Naval Radio Tower ACROSS , LAND AND SEA Told All Within Range of the Passing of the Old Year How Blueish Flash Spark led and Fled, for Which Great Care Had Been Taken at the Seat of Government. Ill J im AwcllH('rML) WaahtnKton. D. C, Dec. 31. Fol- towing custom, WaKhinglon tonight olser'ed the advent of the New Tear without ostentation. With but one exceptton-'-the bluish flah that spar- 4iles't44Ifi great naval radio towers at Arlington small nope oi ncuunH ubck me i acrossand and sea telling all within I tacktnn force. ranee of the passlnx of the old year I General Ortega's army of 6,000, t he- iisnal , jp rngram was Mrictly foi - - - At churches, hotel, duns, lodges and- other gathering places elar.onite pro grams had been prepared. The as sembled crowds watched the -passing 1'ainstaking preparations had ben made for'thc wireless New Year flash at ArTirrgriintiava47iH'eir recognising the importanie . of their task to the eyes of the srtentitic world. Although the naval observatory for years past had undertaken to transmit such messages ' by linked cables and telegraph wires, tonight was the sec- on time in the history of science that me leal was aiiempiea ny wireless. According to schedule the signals began at 11:56 p. m meridian time. The beats of hs transmitting clock at the naval observatory, corrected by stellar observation to Un most exact time possible connected by wire wltii matlcally by. delicate instruments arid translated into radio rjasnes. These, backed by the powerful volt age of the Arlington plant, were dis patched In message form over a wave length of 2,500 meters. The last beat announced the arrival of the New Year in the capital of the United Itutes. Offieers said it possibly would be a week before they could 'ascertain Juat how far the signal reached. It was not doubted that the Eiffel Tower in i'aris. 1.000 miles distant, received the signals. It was believed, too, that ihey reached the Isthmus of Panama, the Pacific coast and the Hawaiian Islands. Because of the cancellation of the annual New Year reception tomorrow at the White House, the receptions of Secretaries Osrrison and Daniels, of the War and Navy Departments, re spectively, will be more elaborate than usual. Secretary Kryan will enter tain members of Ihe diplomatic corps at breakfast in the morning. The Secretary of the Navy will entertain his personal friends. speaser isrs. ana sirs, v mrs. ana their daughter. Miss. Genevieve,-will hold open house diirins the dsy. Statements From- Leading Cities Have No Indications of a Money Panic. (11 UM AwcllUtl Krea.) Detroit, Mich., Dec. Detroit bank clearings for IS 13 broke sll local records with rrovat of $I.381,05.95. This waa an incrtise'of 1208 078,335 over lastTefl- S- liKTease at tlen-rtaiid. , Cleveland. Ohio, Defl. 31. Hank clearance here will net a new record in 1913. It a was announced today, when the gfotals for the year were given as '$1.276.601,014. -IS against 1,150.397.52.86 for IS12. . " Sew Hei'orrfat PHUhurg, Pltuburg, De. 31. Bank clear ings here for the year 118 set a new record with a'lotal of 12,332,402,611 against S2,78,B0,2I4 for 1913. Big Jump In Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Dc. IL--Total, bank clearings in Philadelphia for - 1813 I were greater man ,inai pi any tuner year. The total was 1,2 R08.J33 as I against f ,1,Z8B,bii in , 1ST Milliitna IrM-reasei -at Kannas I'lly. KaiisiisClt. Dec, 3T7:aTl!rr1t,ar1 Ings here for;the year-1 1 3 established a new record with a total or 2.o.- t2,ll, which was an Increase of tll7.334,SS over 1811 lUrmlnsham Millions Greatec Birmingham, Ala., Dec. 81. Hlr- hiingham'g bank clearings for 113 were 23.540,01. greater than for 1813 and last year s elearlngs were the largest in the city's history up to I that time. me total tor me year l jun enu-u - SCHMIDTS eTCOV TIIHU na January Twelfth, the Date Be. Ins Agreed ?n lesterdsjr. New Y'viki Dec 1, Hans rtehmidt. In whose trial .for the murder of Anna Aumuller. the lury disagreed y ester- day will be tried for the second time beginning January IB, before the criminal branch of the Htate Supreme 5 Huerta's Army Entrenched in The Village ALMOST j WITHOUT HOPE Of Beating Back the Carranza Rebels, Numbering 6,000 Who Begin to Advance Arti- lery On the Federals Many Officers Killed tory of , - Day's Fighting. I'renldio. Tex;. Dec. II. After with Klandlnc bullets, shells and shrapnel poured in on them from the rebels, the Mexican Federal army at ujin ujru. Mexico, tonight still was en trenched within the villaae, but In scUre4 - oV4iT th .sarrrmn rt i n g hilts. driving the 4.000 Federals from all their outposts and Into the shel ter of the adobe buildings anil Inner trenches, at sundown were beginning to advance their artillery with a view of-- htmMW.4..Uorft.xul rill D A bulk of relteraifl were' -trnwu-ih. Mailt Olllccr. Rlll.I. den. Mafcello -tVavenf,-commnTrh-r of volunteers. Vere reported killed oT wiJUflded. . Much of the rebel cav alry Are" ' of no effect, but when Ueii. Ortega put field pieces into c t Ion the outlyingr fthodf hous crum Wed Into heaps of dried mud, teav ing a clearer rang into the heart of the settlement. The fiumbef of dead and wonnded la not known hut losses wers not he lleved to be heavy, as most of the huts had beeivabandoned by the Fed ersls for anler wisiiions. tlft JCfderalshs-d he pdvantagm they wereable to sweep the valley, commanding the . approach. Despite the- belief that they were running short of ammunition they showed revived determination to make plucky stand. A Federal shell burst on an opposite hill where a body ot rebels had asoencled to command i-aiiBg :iiirhB Ftiieiahc The explo sion caused a scurrying of rebels and left a number on the crounifr Th sixty hours of fighting, so far as was observable, has been indecisive, ex cept that the rebels steadl'.y are gain ing ground, while the operation of th federals Ik becoming more limbed Frighten Federate. To frighten the Federals into a re trent across the border tnto Tcxi and thus end the huts, without prolonged sttRe or without the fatal results of a close encounter, was th obvious purpose of rebel conirnamb-rs who repeated their promise not to rll rect their ore Into Fnited States ter rltovy, Three or four Federals who lfn wuued through the muddy river said they had seen as many as severs hundred dead lyln nrnr r-ne place Tiny snid the rank of the Fedural ar my waj fighting wlihoul eiilhuabiH and that all the ''"wounded were left undated for. .Msiny wished to desert j across the border but were prevented I by tear that the would be shot, by ineir own nmeors, tney saio. The events of the day cuused little uneasiness among the Cnit'-d Slates border patrol. More supplies for Rd Cross Held service were brought to Presidio and a hospital tent is to be erected on this sid-. (iKNKHAI. FHANCmtl IUa. Arrites From nittiinttiua" With Ilnoiil Madcro, I'.rotlicr of Late i'resldciit Juarez M.ei. Dec. . 81.- (ieneial Francisco Villa, commander of the h - Raoiil : Madcro, brother, of the late President, arrived from Cihuahua ttalay to in cloaer commuiiicutlon pith the situation at OJinaga. "My advices are that the Ftderab. at OJinaga clready are. fiefrated," said (Seneral Villa. "Thert- is-no chance for their escape, except to flee to the Fnited States, which I ntn cunfident they will do." s.'-o,ouo ianom. Advices from Chihuahua were that Oenersi'l Villa had come to the berder partly in eonmwtlon with the colleo tlon of a 8250,000 ranHom for the re lease of i.tiii; Terrsxas. Jr.. who Is im prisoned in the'Slate Capital. It ts tintlerstod that as khh as Hie OJinafa battle is decided Oeneral Villa will return to Chihuahua to prepare for his campaign Houthward. iTrn inn White People of New Hanover Give a Dinner To 300 For mer Servants. U 1l to Tlx Kjra nd Otmcrwf .) Wilmington, Ije-K. Il.-r-Thre hun dred ex-slaves of New Hanover-were made hippy this atternooh -wheTr a stiniiluous dinner Waa glveti them, by white people of, th -city at St. SJeph- enhTf 'chufcTT Tcolt-Tedt-1 -": . Preceding the dinner there were exelrlHes lu wTaiciv several old iMiue darkeys and a number of prominent etiaeos -of the ttlty mada short ad- ni r in i ii it Utt ,,,;v. . Be Better for Pockets as Well as Peace of Mind FOR GREATER PRODUCTION And Enhance Ability of This Country's Manufactures To Compete With All (Jomers of the World Address Before American Association for Labor Legislation. IH) uV swodtlKl PK ) Washington, Dec. St.t Becretary of Commerce Kedtleld today expressed the belle-that ''It would he "far bel ter for the pockets, as well as the peac tf. mind "of employerslf they nrkprt;,.,are)c,irirff of day. He Was speaking hef.ire the. American Association for I-abor I-eg lalatipn. which is wcting hate with the American oHtlcai Bclerice-A tion. I believe," said the secrnlary,- "that when our factories are run so that the wH-trvnt viuuiii.. without being fa- wtmimm,m.imwmx,ixir-. - till men win oe ue uoie w "imi" 1 markets of the world. - , lecretary-Redtleld said there should be a thoroirgh study made ot the con ditions under whieb nil fork beat. This subject of the human element 1ft manufacturing, he added, could not be treated from 'the mathematical standpoint. Austin B. uarretsoit. presioeni oi the Order of Hailway Conductors, told the association that in there had fciMttitolatlnwg-xiilhe-lKWjme: hlbWng the wwkln-of-,-traioman more than 1 hours In one day. Tim law of averages, he mid. Would show this was but a -small proportion ot the number of men employed. "And yet the law of averages," he declared, "cannot restore Itv'a lost through ac- clde.nts due to futlgue. During the .,,,y v..-jr mi army of men running into the millions have worked In ex cess of ten hours on a stretch. "While I have been talking to you," said Mr. (Jarretson, "four trainmen have been carried away on Btretchej-s. kllird or Injured. We are Wlllmg and injured them at the rate of 125 day." That the popularity of compulsory insurance aBafnst accidents has been astonishingly rapid In the past three yoirs und is bound to be followed Quickly by other forms of social in surance, was the aeclaralion of Jos eph P. Chamberlain, of New York. Present insuialicb of the poor, he said. Is hopelessly expensive. (Senator Owen, of Oklahoma, advo cated a nulionul It;islatlv6 reference bureau to prepara bills so clear of expression, "that even the Supreme Court could not misunderstand them," HIE PEDDLER KILLED BY HEGROSI Slayer Surrendered to Gran ville Sheriff and Stated the Circumstances. i . (Sp.,rUl lo Tlw Ntw aiuj iHmmr.l Oxford..- Dec. 31. A sti-anger ped- dl!ii iipe'cfacles and gIVtlig (its name as W. M. Sullivan from haanokt. Va., was killed last ' night near Oxford by a nc((ro named Ham Tsylor. The slayer, came to Oxford ami surrendered voiuntF-ri'y. saylnir .the pedfller forced his. way Jnto the back room of his home and "mlK a fire in the kltchln and when ne reached his home and ordered him to leave he approached him as if intending to fire, having his hand - nemna mm. whereon Taylor fired and wounded the peddler- then kicked him out of the door and --wounded mm rataiiy with n second shot ,The peddler's remains were brought to Oxford to n undertaking llobej-; Wood, . burial., - establishment of J. and prepared .for - A telegram Was sent to' BuHiVali'I wife in lloanoke Va.7- who seni a reply requesting that the remains he sent to his home in that place. Sam Tavlor la now. In oxford -Jail. MXTlKVSK IN .IiARKAS" MINKRAli OFTVtT. Due". : KciMirt -as, to Lack of Ade quate Transportation Kysteni. R; UK Ainrlll iTiis.) Washington, Dpe. 1 1. Alaska's mineral output decreased 83.600.000 in 1913 ss' compared with the ,1912 fin urea.. This territory's total produo. tion was valued at 18.O0,000 -as against 822,&J5.fcJl In MM.- .. Accounting, for tne oecrease-. m ge- oloirlrsl survey renort KU'I that since Tnore thatrftei n nillllonnrfthe total mineral output it In gold and that two-thirds of that was produced by placer' mince, the working out of old ttotiaxaK-th-excepttonally-ryt"m-' mer of lll, and other local eauses fully explain the figures. The report says no marked prog ress can be exchahg ihged In lode mining, and regions until a! enterprise In iajiind irunmont tRilon sv' item Is provided, That Is the Open Verdict of Coroner's ury ; --r-' - - DEATHS BY SUFFOCATION Caused By the Panic-Stricken Jam On Stairway at Calumet Christmas Eve Night None Save Holders of Union Cards - or Those Vouched for There, It Adds. " IH llw AuarlalMl Pfrt.l Calumet. Mich., Dec. 31. An opel verdict, including a fi)lng that the Christmas Kve panic which cost sev enty-two lives In Italian Jlall, was caused by an alarm of fire raised Within the hall, was' returned topight Wyhrwtiiiiei'g jurj.1' siiU''l) 'l'l days has been hearing evidence. Every allegation tltot enemies of the Wentern Fedejailon u" Miners were i-eyoislble was rejf d by the jury. ie Taking orTesrmToTty was con eluded sherlly after midday and It was well along In the afternoon be i-fore .consideration of the testimony was begun. The jurymen wrestled with their oroblems for sin-hours. tmv, - m,t..m,'m we lind that the cause of death was M'TrTa'atToR nie"'same"''l)5'Tng'''. caused by ,a 'jatiTW TW stirtrwar h-idtmrte the euirance of the Italian Hall, whpre- a Christmas" celebration was being held.'-' said the verdict. "The stanuMtde waa caused by me person or persons, 'uiiknown to the- Jury at this time raising" an alarm of fire within th hnll The Jury decided Theevlrtence showed that only those possessing union cards or vouched for by some member of the union, entered the ulace. Selection of charge, thf. .&?PUi;.fcrUf,; rniijtf . euarda und compsny tloctt had- hW mlt.woUd.. be; reWHM ivaa contained In . para graph .commending the work of man who cleared the stairway of IU mass of dead and Injured 5 W itnesxcM Gave Their Version. 8ome,slty-five witnesses told their versions or Ihe calaslropne. wit nesses disagreed us to where the jnan stood and because of this the Jury concluded "f Kr""TTsytha-'-trr--'difrerent parts of the hall took Up the cry. The practical unanimity ot tertimon from loose near the doorway that n stranger rushed into the placa as the panic started, was another of th underlying cause of the Jury's find Ings. -, , , N ne of Optlmlf.ni. An intaiigllilc note of optlini.ini de veloped In the et'flke situation today. John H. Densmore, .f the Federal 1 lepartmeut of lalor, said he had oeen encouraged; V. J. MarDonald, who ii pressing a resolution fur a Congressional Inquiry, said there was a lift in the clouds, und attorneys for the Western Federation of Miners thought a way of settling the dittl i uitv might be. found soon, la com pany circles, siso there wire more cheerful coiintenanci s in evidence. Moyer IW-rmrtathtn-wlik'nt. The Moyer deportation Incident slumbered: Striking miners of the Hancock district have called a mass meeting for tomorrow afternoon to (rot.-! agttint the action against iheir rhteflain. ;rand jury investi gation waits the ability of -Moyer to nppear In person ICdtrors and other emploe- of the paper arrested on barges of publishing statements cal culated to Incite riot, were released on ball and the paper was again cir culated, - oSllLLE OF IMPEACHMENT Investigating Official Record of City Police Court Judge Adams, - t8pM4ai-fe Th NM ftmi tw.or 1 Asheville, Dec. 31 Rapid progress was made st v-slerdy afternoon's susiun of the mayor and-jumuber- of the board of aldermen sitting as a court ofJ Impeachment to investigate the official reccrd of Judge Junius O. Adums of the city, police court, who demanded the Investigation following charges of the. Asheville Gaxette- News to the effect that the -presiding olllcer'a useftilneea on t he hem-h -1 ended .and'that his "voluntary or In voluntary retirement" from office is in order. ' Many witnesses were ex mined, although noThlng-waa-lfojijrhl, tol show that Judge Ailams -Has con doned the illegal wale ot whiikey In this l-ity. ' - I'robably the most sensational fea ture of the hearing yesterday was the testimony of W. E. 4 Hete) Sevier, who eonaVicted the bar. at the Battery I'ark hotel. He swore that IV H', Thrash otTered to pay him "for his time" If he would make an affidavit charging Judge Adams with" official misconduct. Mr. Thrash denied the allegation when he took the witness stand ter In the afternoon. The famous -'Thrash letter"! pub lished In the Cazette-News.waa aired. at Ieimt-Hea-4n attorneys for Judge Adanis kept the author uf rthe'.rom munlcatlon on the stand longer man nv other witness in an effort to show that-Mr. Xhrasn's action In- prosecut ing the investigation was one 10 nis desire to seek revenge for the action of Judge 'Adams' ttrm in instituting bankruptcy proceedings peerless Kashrrm Klore aKalnsi the Company, of Which the writer is president, .-f COURT II -M UNITED STATES Probably More Far-Reaching the Past Year Than Any Year in Quarter Century --..j - POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL Epitome of .ft More Important Events, Following the Inau gurati'on of Woodrow WH son, First Democratic Presn dent Since Grover Cleveland -ArBatkwarctHjlaTTce'''' Over Memorable Events. In All - Branches: of -Governmental-.: Activity. -V, ATmerlvarr hoifite weVrBtwiBaialtrKproWblf mor far-reaching than any other year sf . the last Tiuarer-Cnturyr .Thl waa apparent tod8.S-lJi.ilj backward lanc over memorable, ewenta of the, past twelve month In all bratichei of gov. ernmental aetltrtty. A Democratic administration In na tional affairs came Into power, a Democratic Congress at the back ot a Democratle president for the first . OtnH etnee Orrwe Ctvelanl occupied - the-Wrrfte-ouse. - The fwst-taUtuttonaA rnmdnienta tnce 17 were perfected, providioa two radical changef In the fundamen tals of gnvernment an income UiU nd the direct ejection of U, ,. cna tors. '.:'"",? Natlonai Bank ami Currencf Sfsttnit Hworganled. r s, t The-jiaUulial bank , and currency svstem. which "was devTieartO-float the debt of the Civil War and hae-np-erated ever' since, waa reorganUl Into a Federal Reserve system in which the central bank plan, the dom inant svstem of Europe, was rejected and a vast echwne of financial reor ganization perfected. iH-mocralic Tariff A Democratic taritt taw became ef fectlve, the first ince 13 and one ot the most comprehensive tariff meas ures eve enacted. A parcel poet system was brought. : jnto successful operation. The Interstate Commerce Commla sion began a physical valuation ot railways a project which will cost millions and take year to complete, but which is expected to ultimateJy provldi5 a basis of rate-maktng Meanwhile, the fifty-two treat eastern ral I ws y system renewed applloatlon. for a five per cent general lncr In freight rates and th commission directed reductions) In express raten which are expected to save the pub- -lie Riiuroxlmatejy 330.000,000 a year. i - j utf-os in building the Panama' . Canal were taken with tffe probability that the greatest engineering teat C he age wllbe In operation In the Bivf Vear. t .wind of riiiuppuics U wauvwi. Practical control of . th Phlllppln . aovoriiment waa deUvered to tha na- tlves of the Island by -Preaident WU son s appnntment or a native roajoruy , on the. Philippine Commission. : What promised a new era in reia-. tions of the, povernment with rreat - corporations' in the enforcement of. the Hherman Antt-xruet taw, waa broui'ht about by the "bloodlew" dl solution of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company' 'relations With the Wtern Un!n. Preaident Wilson's open declaration that the ad ministration desired to co-operate; with "big businesa" In a peaceful ad ministration of the law, was received In business and financial circles with, evidences of optimism. - Validity Kherniun Act as cnmlnal law . The Supreme Court laid down val uable decisions of deep-seated im portance, it sustained tne validity oi the Hherman law as a criminal meas- ' ure for the first time in the "turpen tine, trust" case. In the cotton cor ner case it laid down the principle that a "corner" lit any- commodity is a violation of. the anti-trust law. In the Htate rate case it decided that.' Btates through thetr railroad commie-- sion have antrol over- iha-ratea, of lines within their horde, Irrespec- , tive of the Interstate Commerce Com- mission: ,- 1 1 . Bryan's I ntcmtttioiiftl I'tNctj J'ltin, 1 ' In foreign relations, affairs of th year hardly were less eventful, tenr retary Brj'an's plan for International peace was accepted In principle; by more than thirty nations and treuVlcs with ifhe United States actually were, signed, by the Netherlands and Nlca- ' rngua. ? ...v '.' . ' ' "Only jtkvt-rhnicnt.l'HtHled on Daw. The - most Important pronounce- menu of the administration's foreign policy -were made by President-WiU. son when- he withdrew' the support of the United Ktates from the bank-' eralu Oie so-called-six- power Chins loan,; in his Latin-American statemeju in Which-he- froolalmed.th Intsntion of the I'hited Btaiesto recognlxe on th western herfitspheTetmly-thw governments "founded on law' and order; and in hi noted Mobile speech. In which he pointed out the mcnuos Cuatmu4 pn,' Two.) . . (' Continued on Page Two.). 1 h i'