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THE CHATHAM RECORD H. A. LONDON; . EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR , Terms of Subscription $1.50 Per Year Strictly in Advance THE CHATHAM RECORD Rates of ertisvng One Square, on insertna v.,:w;. . One Square, two msrtxM '.J. j Slip ' One Square, one month . '. For Larger Advertisements Liberal Contracts will bo made. J VOL. XXXV. PITTSBOaO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. '.C, APRIL 9. 1913. NO. 35. IWI11E BRIEF NEWS NOTES FOB THE BUSY MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN CONDENSED, FORM. WORLD'S NEWS EPITOMIZED Complete Review of Happenings of Greatest Interest From All. Part of World. Southern. As a result of the terrific beating of the waves against the dikes pro tecting the lower portion of Hickman, Ky., the levee gave way, and the Mississippi river poured through the ga pat a mad rate of speed. All per sons employed in the district had been warned out earlier in the day and no loss of life is reported. The break will not relieve the river sit uation at other points, the water! com ing through being turned back to the main stream by the government, or Reelfoot lake, two miles below the low the town. The section flooded is occupied by several factories, and the homes of several hundred workmen. Disastrous consequences to the health of Griffin, Ga., are feared by the medical profession from the des ecration of ghouls of the graves of two white children who died of scar let fever in 1S55. Protest has been made to the police against the graves continuing open a minute longer than is necessary and demand 'has been made that the bodies be reMnterred at once. A doctor says : "There ' were enough germs in' those coffins to kill a city." ' Wrecked and battered until she was almost a- derelict and foundered by huge seas until all hands thought that the vessel would go to the bottom, the British steamer Astotia has arriv- ed at Savannah, Ga. She had encoun tered a hurricane that tore the fun nel out of the ship, smashed in the officers' quarters and the saloon, rip ped off the bulwark, destroyed the four lifeboats, injured seven men and drove the vessel to - seek shelter in the Azore Islands. Governor O'Neal of Alabama ap peared as a witness for the state in the trial of Henry F. Va'ndiver, a for mer member of-the executive's ' staff , who is accused of complicity in the murder of Sloan Rowan. His evidence was damagingt othe accused man. It was brought out by the state in re buttal, after the defense had rested. Lester Canady of Mount Vernon, Ga., will probably inherit a share of the fifteen million dollar estate left by James Tyson, who died intestate in Australia. Having found several bombs in an old fort near the jcity of Fernandina, Fla., Gianniamo and Tony Francisco, fishermen, took on measuring five inches in diameter to Calvador's fish house on the wharf. Securing ham mers they commenced to beat on the metal. Suddendly there was a ter rific explosion. The commission form of govern ment has been adopted by Raleigh, N. C. by a majority of 685 votes. Three commissioners at a salary ef S3,0(S0a year are to be elected on the 3th of May, the primary election to be held on the 21st of April. General The Eternal City gave its last fare Well to J. Pierpont Morgan, whose body was conveyed from the Grand hotel to the railway station and there placed aboard a train for Havre. It will be transported to the United States by a steamer, The France, sail ing for New York. The Turkish government declared that it unreservedly accepted the terms of peace proposed by the Eu ropean powers. The foreign office handed the Ottoman's acceptance to the dean of the diplomatic corps ac companied by an expression of thanks to the powers for their mediation. On March 28 Bulgaria notified her ac ceptance of the , offer of mediation, but persisted in her demand for a war indemnity. Dayton, Ohio, is facing one of the gravest problems that any city of the world ever faced and it wants the world to know that it needs money and food for its stricken people. At a meeting of bankers and officials of the building association, it was decid ed to make an appeal for federal aid. It is felt that this is an emergency which will justify extraordinary ac tion on the part of congress. Secretary Daniels of the navy de partment has announced that he had taken- a decided stand against accept ing the resignation of midshipmen and other naval officers before they fulfill their contract with the govern ment. . ; Old scores were forgotten and all honor was paid a former foe when Camp , Jones, United Confederate Veterans, Selma, Ala., buried Joseph Meyer, 102 years old, of Indianapolis, Ind., formerly a federal soldier, v Four Montgomery men and one Bir mingham, Ala., man were hanged for murder in one day. Secretary of the governor of Ore gon at a salary of $3,000 a year is the position which has fallen to Miss Fern Hobbs, -heretofore chief stenog rapher in the governor's office. IN The German military dirigible air ship Zeppelin IV landed in the mili tary parade grounds at Luneville, France, and was seized by the French authorities. The incident caused tre mendous excitement, notwithstanding the German officers aboard the air ship explained that they had been lost in the clouds and did not know they had cross the Freuch border. T satisfy all factions in the Mexi can melee, it is announced that Gen eral Huerta has agreed to the nam in gof Pedro Lascurain as . president. Lascurain will serve out the unex pired term of the late President Ma dero. The English suffragettes,- sontlnu Ing their campaign of retaliation against the sentence of Mrs. Emme line Pankhurst, their leader, to a term of imprisonment in London, suc ceeded in destroying another large country house by fire. As in senveral previous cases of the kind, the resi dence, which was situated at Cherley wood, Buckinhamshire, was unoccu pied, but was being prepared for the reception of a tenant. The owners of the building, a firm of contractors, es timate their loss at $12,500. Pennsylvania joined the ranks of the states that have ratified the pro posed amendment to the Federal Con stitution providing for the direct elec ion of United States senators, making the thirty-fifth to fall in line. The United States government has decided to recognize the new Chi nese republic. Secietary Bryan con ferred with President' Wilson, com pleting the details and a note is be ing prepared at the state department to be addressed to China through the Chinese minister. Great Tarabosch Fort, which for months has held the allies off Scutari, is now in the hands of the Montene- 1 grins, thanks to the - sacrifice of 200 bomb throwers, every one of whom lost his life in a last desperate effort to clear the way to the town for the fpossession of which Montenegro is ready to give up everything. But just as . Montenegro had scored her first real success by getting a foothold at Tarabosch, the key to Scut2ri, the warships of the powers are gathering along the coast to compel her to give up the most precious fruits of five months' fighting. The cordage strike situation, in volving more than seventeen hundred operatives at the International Har vester company and Columbia Rope company shops became acute at Au burn, N. Y. After a series of riots in which eleven persons were hurt, Chief of Police Bell said he would put his entire force at the doors of the mills. Two operatives hurt were tak en to the city hospital. Several hun dred women participated in the trouble-making. Strikers out. -at the In ternational Harvester company mills have announced that the recognition of the union has been added to their demand for better wages; Accused of attempted extortion by George H. Kendall, preident of the New York Bank Note company, Sen ator Stephen J. Stillwell of New York, refused to resign at the sug gestion of Governor Sulzer and de manded a thorough Investigation of the charges. The senate ordered an inquiry and directed the judiciary committee to report a .method of pro cedure. - . The United States battleship Ohio was in collision with the steamship Frederich of the Merchants and . Min ers' line, while proceeding up the Delaware river. In passing the Fred erich, which was ' then steaming in the same direction, the battleship, on her way to the Philadelphia - navy yard was drawn toward the steamer by suction. The contact was not very heavy. The most serious damage done was the dismantling of a 6-inch gun om the Ohio and a rent in the plates of the Frederich above the water line. Lieutenant Perlovsky of the Rus sian army committed suicide by de liberately shutting off the motor of an aeroplane in which he was flying and dropping from a height of 600 feet to the ground. r Washington President Wilson has indicated in formally what the atttitude of the United States government wil be to ward Mexico, China and the Philip pines. Pending a settlement of affairs in Mexico, holding of elections and establishment of astable government, recognition probably will be withheld. The Chinese republic, however, will soon be recognized. . Hereafter postmaster in the larger offices of the country are to be held strictly accountable for the time and personal attention they give their of ficial duties. Postmaster General Bur leson has announced that he propos-. es to stamp out the practice of post masters imposing part of their duties upon subordinates'. "Clerks and car riers are required by law to serve eight hours daily,' said an official statement, "and the postmaster gen eral sees no reason why the postmas ter should not give at least an equiv alent Hn time and effort." Walter H. Page, editor of the World's Work, has been offered and has accepted the ambassadorship ' to Great Britain. White .house officials confirmed the news, and Mr. Page will start for London within ten days. It was stated at the white house that with the exception of Mr. Page, no offers had been made for any, "other diplomatic posts. The president has had under consideration a list of men to whom he s favorably inclined. Mr. Page is a man of a national reputa tion, and his appointment will give satisfaction to all parties. He Is com naratively a young man. . " FIRST MESSAGE IN WILSON WASTES FEW WORDS IN TELLING CONGRESS WHAT IT . -j SHOULD DO. TARIFF REVISION HIS TOPIC President Says the Schedules Must Be Radically Changed to Square With Present Conditions, but Work Re quires Careful -Consideration. I ' Washington, 'April 8. President Wilson's first message to the Sixty third congress, assembled in extraor dinary session, was read in the senate and house today. It was, surprising ly short, being In full as follows: To the Senate and House of Repre sentatives: ,' . , ' - I I have called the congress together in extraordinary session because a duty was laid upon the party now in power at the recent elections which it ought to perform promptly, in order that the burden carried by the people under existing law may be lightened as soon as possible and in order, also, that the business interests of the country may not be kept too long in suspense as to what the fiscal changes are to be to which they will be re quired to adjust themselves. It is clear to the whole country that the tariff duties must be altered. They must be changed to meet the radical altera tion In the conditions of our ecnomic life which the country ha3 witnessed within the last generation. While the whole face and method of our industrial and commercial life were being changed beyond recogni tion the tariff schedules have re mained what they were before the change began, or have moved in the direction they were given when no large circumstance of our industrial development was what it is today. Our task is to square them with the actual facts. The sooner that is don.3 the sooner we shall escape from suf fering from the facts and the sooner our men of business will be free to thrive by the law of nature (the na ture of free business) instead of by the law of legislation and artificial arrangement- Business Not Normal. We kave seen tariff legislation wander S'ery far afield in our day very far indeed from the field in which our prosperity might have had a nor mal growth and stimulation. No one who looks the facts squarely 'In the face or knows anything that lies be neath the surface of action can fail to perceive the principles upon which recent tariff ' legislation has been based. We long ago passed beyond the modest notion of "protecting" the industries of the country and moved boldly forward to the idea that they were entitled to the direct patronage of the government. For a long time a time so long that the men now active in public policy hardly remember the conditions that preceded it we have sought In our tariff schedules to give each group of manufacturers or pro ducers what they themselves thought that they needed in order to maintain a practically exclusive market as against the rest cf the world.v Consciously or unconsciously, we tyave built up a set of privileges and exemptions from competition be hind which it was easy by any," even the crudest, forms of combination to organize monopoly; until at last noth ing is normal, nothing is obliged to stand the tests of efficiency and econ omy, in our world of big business, but everything thrives by concerted ar rangement. Only new principles of action will save us from a final hard crystallization of monopoly and a complete loss of the Influences that quicken enterprise and keep inde pendent energy, alive. It is plain what those principles must be. We must abolish everything that bears even the semblance of priv ilege or of any kind of artificial ad vantage, and put our business men and producers under the stimulation of a constant necessity to be efficient, economical, and enterprising, masters of competitive supremacy; better workers and merchants than any in the world. Aside from the duties laid upon articles which we do not, and probably cannot, produce, therefore, and the duties laid upon luxuries andf merely for the sake of the revenues they yield, the object of the tariff du ties henceforth laid must be effectivl competition, the whetting of Ameri can wits by contest with the .wits of the rest of-the world. ' Development, Not Revolution. , It would be unwise to move toward this end . headlong, with reckless haste, or .with strokes that cut at the very roots of what has grown up amongst us by long process and at our own invitation. It does not alter a thing to upset it and break it and deprive it of a chance to change. It destroys it. We must make changes in our fiscal laws, in our fiscal system, whose object is development, a more free and .wholesome development, not revolution or upset or confusion. We Woman In New Sphere. Oporto is the only city in Portugal that can boast ' of having a feminine health inspector, a . woman having been appointed by the; government to a subinspectorship In, the department" of public health.. Another striking ap pointment by the government comes' with " the selection of a well-known woman scholar to a professorship in ordinary at the Universities of Colm bra and Lisbon. The lady professor In question has been appointed to fill the chair 4n. Germanic philosophy. must build tip trade, especially for eign trade. We need the outlet and the 1 enlarged field of energy more than we ever did before. We must buiJd.up industry as well and must adoit freedom in the place of arti ficial stimulation only so far as it will build, not pull down. In dealing jvith 1 the tariff the method by which 'thisf may be done will be a matter'bf judg ment, exercised Item by item. To some not accustomed to the ex .citements and responsibilities' of greater freedom our methods may in some respects and at some points seem heroic, but remedies may be heroic and yet be remedies. It is our business to make sure that they are genuine remedies. Our object Is clear. If -our motive is above just challenge and only an occasional error of judg ment ' is chargeable against us, we shall be fortunate. We are called upon to render the country a great service in more mat ters than one. Our responsibility should be met and our methods should - be thorough, as thorough as moderate and well considered, based upon the facts as they are, and not worked out as if we were beginners. " We are to deal with the facts of our own day, with the facts of no other, and to make laws which square with those facts. It Is best, Indeed it is neces sary, to begin with the tariff. I will urge nothing upon you now at the opening of your session which can ob scure that first object or divert our energies from that clearly defined duty. At a later time I may take the liberty of calling your attention to re forms which should press close upon the heels of the tariff changes, if not accompany them, of which the chief is the reform of our banking and cur rency laws; but Just now I refrain. For the present, I put these matters on one side and think only of this one thing of the changes In our fiscal system which may best serve to open once more the free channels of pros perity to a great people whom we would serve to the utmost and throughout both rank and file. . WOODROW WILSON. The White House, April 8, 1913. FAMILY NAMES OF ROYALTY Royal Personages .Descended Mostly From Counts, Existing Long Be fore Surnames Came Into Use. The royal families of Europe have not generally a surname becaus mostly (unlike the English houses ol Stuart and Tudor, which were the re spective surnames of the first king ol each house before he ascended the throne) they are descended in th male line from some territorial counts existing long previous to the period In which the somewhat mod ern custom of surnames prevailed. King Georoge V "derives In the mala line from the ancients counts of Wet- tin (flourishing In the tenth century), afterwards electors of Saxony, dukei of Saxe Coburg, Gotha, etc. His an cestors in the male line were of th house of Este, one of whom, Azo ol Este, married 'early in the tenth cen tury the daughter and , heiress . ol Guelph, duke of Bavaria, from which match sprang in the male line the dukes of Brunswick-Lunenburg, after wards electors of Hanover, and kings of Great Britain. The members of the royal family are described by their princely titles in proceedings in the house of lords, and no allusion is made to any , surname for In stance, they sign the test roll merely by their personal or Christian name, and we know nothing of any surname which appertained by right or by usage, to her late majesty, Queen Vic toria, or to his majesty King George V. Bermuda Fish. - At the market during a recent weeV many handsome fish were to be seen, several of them taken by American tourists, and afterward presented to the fisherman who "took them out." Large amber-jacks and oonitoes, splen did game fish and chubs, as plucky and "flghty" a fish as ever took bait. were well represented. Among the others seen on the mar ket hooks and elsewhere were blue fish, yellowtails, . red snappers, gray snappers, butterflsh, gags, hamlets, "nines," salmon and black rockflsh, porgies and red ' rockflsh. "Nigger fish," the long ago despised finny midget, has been metamorphosed to the now much sought after "choicest of the choice" of sea delicacies, the "butter fish." Bermuda Colonists. "Soft" Job for Constable. Pension are not the only things com- manded and forgotten; An Inquisitive member of the British house of com mons was struck one day by the pres ence of a policeman in one of the lob bies. He wondered why, this particu lar lobby should always have a guar dian strolling up and down, and made inquiries. ,The records of the house were searched and it was found that 50 years previously, when the lobby was being decorated, a policeman had been stationed there to keep members from soiling' their clothes. The order never having been countermanded? the constable had kept his beat for half a century. . Keeping Mind in Condition. No mind is first class that is . not continually reading books and con versing with men that require an ef fort to be understood. The novel- soaked intellect, - gormandizing upon easy reading, grows flabby. . Of the "Bacchae" of Euripides.' A thing never to be done again, scarcely to be understood, recognized as the last witness to a beauty of which the secret was lost and the an cient mold broken. Gilbert Murray. STATE 0FIC.LE OS NORTH CAROLINA IS AHEAD IN THE NUMBER OF WOMEN'S INSTITUTES. HOW FEATURE HAS GROWN The Most Significant PaYt of the Re port is the Rapid Growth of These Institutions in the Last Few Years. Raleigh. Growing from 28 instV tutes in 18S8.to 502 in 1912 and shpw- ing an attendance of -60,069 last year, the current bulletin of the department of agriculture brings out the further fact that North Carolina leads' in women's institutes. . . The growth in the. farmers' meet ings is pronoune'ed phenomenal, but the women's feature has been made more and more popular. T. B. Park er, who conducts these institutes gives the authority upon which is made the Claim that North Carolina leads, the whole sisterhood of stains. J5 says: "The most significant part of tht. re port in the growth of the women's institutes from 21 fn 1906, the first year we held women's institutes to 231 in 1912, with an attendance of 18,341, which, according to the report of director of institutes of the nation- 1 department of agriculture at the last annual convention held in At larita November, 1912, puts North Car olina ahead of any other state in the union as to women's institutes, both as to numbers held and total attend ance. Women's institutes mean a great deal to the uplift and betterment of the rural districts of our state. Their importance and value are be yond computation. Attendance upon them will mean better kept and more cheerful 'homes, stronger and healthi er children, better schools and better social advantages, more prosperous farmers and better contented people on the farm. , More Railroad Talk Heard. Clinton. All rumors as to the pro posed extension of the Durham and Southern railroad into Sampson have been set at rest, and it has been defi nitely , settled that the ' road Is to go from Dunn to Mount Olive. As to whether it will go via, Clinton is still a matter of speculation, as two pro posed routes have, been surveyed, one by Clinton and the other through Newton Grove. The latter is the short est route but the people of Clinton are making every effort to have the road come through here. Wants Large Attendance To Go. Raleigh: The conference of educa tion in the South meets in Richmond, Va., April 15 to 18, and Dr. J. Y. Joy ner is making a special effort to get as large an attendance of county su perintendents and 'other educators in North Carolina as possible. He is sending urgent letters and responses indicate that he will succeed in hav ing an especially creditable North Carolina representation. He says this conference will be the most important of-its kind yet held. Has Granted Commutation. Raleigh Governor Craig granted a commutation of sentence in the case of Latham Spencer. Beaufort ' county, convicted of assauit with deadly weap on and sentenced to 6 months in jail The commutation is that he pay the costs, this being the recommendation of. the recorder and the prosecuting attorney." The prisoner had maintain ed a good character up to the devel opment of this case. Warehouse for Catawba County. Newton. The meeting of the Far mers' Union here was the forerunner of the building of a large farmers warehouse here. ' About twenty local unions were represented and all were enthusiastic over the prospects that developed at this meeting. Newton being -the most central point, the warehouse . will be located here.- The Farmers' Union is strpng in Catawba county and a progressive movement s generally carried through. Canture Still in Guilford. Greensboro. 'Sheriff Stafford of Guilford county and his three deputies returned several days ago from Sum ter township, where, in the vicinity of Deep River, they located and cut up one of the largest' stills ever discov ered in Guilford. The still was all in readiness for operation with wood and all other necessary things near at hand to make a run. The blockaders discovered 'the officers' approach and made a safe get-away. The Guilford officers had a rough time in the Deep River section. Barfield Prevatt Surrenders. .Lumperton. Barfield Prevatt,, who shot Emery McNeill, Jr., several days ago, causing ' the latter's death, has surrendered and is in jail. A rela tive of Prevatt informed Sheriff Lew is that the" man was at the home of his father, ready to give himself up and the sheriff and informant went to the home of the accused man and brought him in. When the officers ar rived, Prevatt came out and got into the sheriff s automobile, having little to say. He made no statement, what- NEWS OF NORTH CAROLINA Latest News of General Interest That Has Been Collected From Many Towns and Counties. Asheville. Cavalry troop B, of the North Carolina National Guard, was reviewed recently by Governor Craig. The mounted men made a very im posing-appearance and were the ob jects of many complimentary remarks. Salisbury. The Salisbury Aerie of Eagles has just forwarded $100 to the flood sufferers : in Ohio. The money was transmitted by wire through Grand. Secretary J. S. Perry of .'St. Louis. ' Washington. Representative Webb recommended F. M. Williams for post master at Newton. It is expected that Mr. Williams' name will be sent to the senate shortly after the extra ses sion meets. Charlotte. Owing to the failure of a number of magistrates in the county to qualify, a spe-ial act had to be passed by..,the recent legislature to give permission to them to take the required oath before Clerk of the Court C. C. Moore. ; Lenoir. The Caldwell County Bap tist Sunday School convention con vened recently with the Whitnel church. Delegates from all churches of the county were in attendance. An interesting -program with . strong speakers had been prepared. Spencer. The Spencer board of al dermen called an eelction for May 6 to vote on a bond issue of $60,000 for water, light and schools. Of this amount $50,000 is for the "purpose of securing water and lights for the town and $10,000 for building and equipping an addition to the Spencer graded school. Asheville. For the sum of $30 031 and . accrued interest, the firm of N. W. Halsey & Co., of New ; York has purchased . bonds to the amount of $30,000 issued by this city under an act passed at the recent session of the general assembly. Five bids were opened and the New York firm's was the highest. Kinston. Col. W. C. Bradman, the new commander of the Second North Carolina Infantry, will inspect the fourteen organizations comprising his regiment during this month, according to information from him to officers of the command here. This will be the first time in many years that the col onel in command of this regiment has paid the companies a visit at their home stations. Asheville. A. L. Roder, employed in one of the machine shops at Knox ville, Tenn., was killed here recently by being struck 'by a freight engine on the local yard3 of the Southern Railway. It is said that the unfortun ate man was making an effort to board the moving train when his foot slipped and he was thrown - beneath the wheels of the engine. He was severe ly crushed and died instantly. Newton. County Commissioner of Agriculture H. K. Foster reports great interest among the farmers along the newly established cream routes in the county. He .has spent several , days among them trying to create . greater interest and get them to keeping more cows to furnish cream to the Catawba creamery at . Hickory, which is a co operative concern run by the farmers of the county. , ' ' Durham. With the complete over throw of the proposed commission form of 'government several 'days ago local politicians " are turning their attention to the. regular biennial city election, which comes off May 6.. The city Democratic executive committee has been called to meet next Satur day at noon to name the time for hold ing the primary and adopt the rules that shall-govern it. At the coming election 'a mayor, full set of aldermen and one fire and police commissioner are to be elected.. V - Reidsville Reidsville claims the distinction of being the first town to make an arrest following the opera tion of the state search and - seizure OfficersDa visa ndBr county.one Jswti law, which went into effect April . 1. Officers Brown and Davis went to the home of Mack Hairston and captured six gallons of corn liquor, which was found buried in the ground In the cel lar of his home. Solicitor Glidewell w,ill prosecute Hairston in the record er's court. ' . Raleigh.- The state insurance de partment . begins its new .year and over 15,000 new licenses will be mail ed out from the department during the next few days. Clerks have been extra busy, and 12,500 were prepared in one day. Each license adds $1 to thev receipts of the department. Spencer. Mr. Peter E." Swink, aged 68 years, a Confederate veteran, well known in this section, died at his home near the city limits. He suffer ed a stroke of paralysis a year ago and never regained his health. He lost a . leg in the Civil War. He is sur vived by a wife, but no children. Wilmington. Hugh MacRae and wife executed and delivered to five trustees, as representatives df the people of New Hanover county, a deed for 155 acres of beautiful long leaf pine forest at Winter Gardens to be used as a public park for white peo Pie. . Winston-Salem. Mr. Leon Cash was sworn in. as the first auditor of For syth county, the office having been created by the recent legislature. The oath of office was administered .by Clerk of Court Transou.. Auditor Cash will have offices in the court house. His term of office is tor two years. ALLIES CONTINUE THEIR DEFIANCE PROGRESS OF BALKAN" AFFAIRS GIVES EUROPEAN DIPLOMACY V TROUBLE. )EMANDS OF THE POWERS VIII the Profits of Victory Be Taker 'Away From Montenegro, Who Has Made Many Great Sacrifices, Is the Question Being Asked. y " London. The propress of Balkan af fairs Is giving Eureopean diplomacy some uneasy moments. The allies tave taken a stiff-necked independent attitude and refuse to accept orders from the powers. The question is, if it becomes necessary to coerce them, how 'can that be done? The allies real- ize this and realize that the concert -of Europe is not as harmonious as a month ago. The present policy of the Balkan States-is to debate the peace terms and continue the war, at least until Montengero has caputred Scutari. ' The smallest kingdom . in Europe continues to defy the six great pow ers. King Nicholas talks . freely to interviewers, declaring that he will take and keep the town, which he considers necessary to the prosperity of Ms, kingdom. ' Eight, warships are blockading his port, but with the ex ception of Austria-Hungary and Ger many this measure .Is being executed , reluctantly. These two powers alone demand that Scutari be incorporated iu the State of Albania, and the oth er, four powers, have joined with them apparently merely for the sake of preserving harmony. ' Public opinion of Great Britain and Russia Is strongly in favor of Mon tenegro! The British newspapers are almost unanimous in expressing ad miration and sympathy for the brave , mountaineers. , Montenegro has made the greatest v sacrifices of any of the allies and gained the least and the English peo ple do not .want to see the profits of victory taken from her. They remem- ber the Greeks' declaration rly in the war that the allies should keep vhat they gained. Alleged Army Scandals. .; Brussels. The official inquiry re cently Instituted here in connection with certain alleged army scandals has disclosed some startling, facts re-r fleeting on a number of high military officers, who were responsible for the purchase of guns and ammunition. It appears that guns " for which orders had been placed in 1908, and for which $1,000,000 . has been paid, have not been delivered. - It is further alleged -, that even had these orders been ex ecuted the guns would have been use- less for the Scheldt fOrts for which they were intended. No Basis For Charge Against Senator Washington. United States Attorney Wilson, who has been investigating certain 'allegations of .impropriety against a western senator, made this statement:. "I have heard the. state ment of the complaining witness and her " friends, whom she brought to this office to support her accusations I find no justification whatever for laying lany . complaint against iany United States senator '.before the' grand jury.". The district attorney's statement was made after a confer4 ence with Attorney, General McRey- -nolds. v Olympic to Blame For Collission. London. The British courfr of - ap-, peals sustained the decision of the admirality court that the White Star' liner Olympic v was to blame for her collision i with the pritsh cruiser Hawke off the Isle or Wight on Sep tember 20. " The court held that the pilot of the Olympic could have., avoid ed the accident. The admirality court blamed the Olympic and the White Star appealed. , Third ' Party Plans Strenuous Times. Washington. Plans for strenuous legislative campaigning during the coming session of Congress were out lined by the new organization of the ' progressive party in the house. The 15 progressive members spent the day in a series of conferences to perfect plans. Recognition of the new party in the house was assured, when Ma jority' Leader Underwood, 4n consul tation with ' Representatives Murdock, Hindebaugh and Stephens, agreed to allot to the new party its proportion of committee places. ' Judge Frees W. D. Haywood. Patterson, N. J.-The 15,000 silk mill strikers ' of this city claimed a signal victory when Justice James F. Minturn of the supreme court, .freed William D. Haywood and Adolph Les-s-Ig,1 labor' leaders, from the charge of "unlawful assembly" on which they were, held in $5,000 ; ball each and hundreds of their followers had also been arrested. Haywood and Lessig, both., looking a little haggard from their week in jail, but confident, were cheered as they were driven from the srinrfs to the "court house. ' ' 1! - i It i if II! -. :1. :3 i
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