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VOL XV. r COLUMBUS, POLK COCJNTY. N. C.1 TH (TRSDA Y. APTHT. 7. 191ft. - NO. 47.
C A.n nni nirnn' lirrritin
-U dUUlip mm
be Hefd at Mobile, Ala.,
April 26-28
HE APPOINTMENT OF OFFICERS
j5 iiucy ivxa ujtcb, oxuixsui
Acting - Safford , , ;
Montgomery, Ala. Dr. Clarence J.
krpns, commander-in-chief of the
fnited Sons of Confederate veterans,
Lates public the sponsors and maids-
r. 1 j.' - .i
if-bonor ior ine organization at tne
eseral reunion to be held in Mobile
(pni -o io -
Xfce'y are as follows: -Matron
of honor, Mrs. B. B. Ross,
.Anm Ala ? hnrrnn ATts "M .TK '
orrest, Memphis; sponsor in chief,
iss Georgia Whiting Saffold, Mont-.
menr ; maids of honor, Alabama,
iss Clara Ellen Forbes, Montgom-
ry; Mis:j Mary Henry Ruffin, Miss
Dannie Goodbard, Miss Lillie Ratl-
life, Mobile; Miss Mary Rosalind
ardy, Birmingham ; Miss Annie Lyde
mith, Tuskegee. Georgia, Miss Lylia
IHutchins, Athens. Louisiana, vMiss .
iGladys Broadway, Monrot. Mississip-'
pllliss Sallie Hunt, Greenville; Miss
Mildred Merriweather Sledge, Como;
Miss Cornelia Wallaee, Como. South
Carolina, Miss May belle Weathers-
bee, Williston ; Miss Ruth Kennedy,
Greenville. Virginia, Miss Avis 't Wal
ler Grant, Richmond.
Maids of honor for the general
staff for states not listed will be
named later. !
Miss Frances Alexander Duncan of
Auburn will represent the Children
of the Confederacy. ;
Appointments for the Louisiana di
vision, named bv Commander B. H.
Kiehardson, are as follows :
Sponsor, Miss Caroline A. Reanaud,
Jew Orleans; maids of honor, Misses
Georgia Richardson, Andrea Freder-
eiehs, Leila Riddell, New Orleans ;
Miss Georgia McDonald, Mobile :
fkperon, Mrs. P. J. fredereichs, New
Orleans.
Northern Virginia department, by
Commander C. M. Felder; Sponsor,
Hiss Lila Li. : Jamison, Roanoke ;
maids, Miss Grace G. Jinkard, Reho
both Church, Va.; Miss Annie Baker,
Lamar, North Augusta, S. C; matron
nd chaperon, : Mrs. L. F. Fleming,
Augusta. Ga.
Vir:iriia department,' by. Comman
der T. W. Spindle; Sponsor, Miss
Mary Darnell, Roanoke ; maid, Miss
ilary Hunter Bethel, Sawville ; ma-
ion, Mrs. William L. McGill, Peters-
Kew Orleans. La.. Special. The
following annointments were, made
William E. Mickle. adjutant t gen
eral and chief of staff of the United
Confederate Veterans: ,
Brigadier generals ) and assistant
Mutant generals, Julian W- Whiting
and price Williams, Jr., of Mobile,
Ala. '
Colonels and aides-de-camps, C. C
Settles, Robert Middleton, D. P Bes-
Ed T. Toomer, Wm. F. Johnston,
of Mobile, Ala. ; George W . Taylor,
uemopohs, Ala. ; John H. Leathers,
J Louisville, Ky.; John W." Tench, of
Gainesville, Fla.; R. Preston Crew,
J Charleston. W. Va.; E. L. Cpnally,
0 Atlanta, Ga. '
.Mobile, Ala. Commander-in-Chief
ment A. Evans has named Miss
cy Davis Haves as sponsor for the
ual reunion "of the United Confed-:
efae Veterans, to r: be held in this
ey April 26 to 28. Miss" Hayes is
jje second daughter of the late Mrs.
pes, daughter of the only presi-
of the Confederacy, Jefferson
,rk on the ' Merited city" for
mc' the war department has loan
a te"ts and cots for the use of the
..tJtrans, began -wfth the erection of
e kitchens and ' dining rooms and
Ellrl-., The Rented city" faces
inni ?R Mobile 5ajr and will accom-
; die -000 feterans. . -
THE HEWS MINUTELYTOLB
Thft Heart of Happenings Carved
. Proa Cio TOiola Country.
The Senatehas confirmed nomi
nations of the fiye men who are to
constitute the new Court of Customs
Appeals. ; They are Robert H. Mont
gomery, of Michigan, to be presiding
judge and William H. Hunt, of Mon
tana; James F, Smith, of California:
Orion M. Barber, of Vermont, -and I
jaanon jjevenes, oi uaiuornia, tc
be associate judges. . ;
A 37-inch copperhead snake, the
first killed in Cecil county, Mary
land this year, was beaten, to death.
! Police are searching for Miss Sarah
Morales, a beautiful iV-year-old girl
from New Orleans, who disappeared
rather suddenly over a month ago.
. The "entire Knoxville, Tenn., plant
of the Standard Oil Company with
the exception of one eighty thousand
gallon oil tank, was destroyed by
fire. . Fifty thousand gallons of .a
in seven tanks were consumed. A
wood fibre plant located nearby was
consumed as were four or five small
cottages.
Friend W. Jenkins, the "flag officer
of the battleship Maine, who lost
his life when the Maine was blown
up in Havana harbor, ' will be com
memorated by a statue in Pittsburg.
The bill, which purposes to appro
priate $20,000 for the statue, was in
troduced by Representative Graham,
of Pennsylvania. C
Statistics compiled by the officers
of the senior class at Princeton
show that the average expense of a
college student at Princeton, N. J., f or
the four years of his course is $3,675
or about $919 a year. The minimum I
four-year expenditure ' reported is 1
$800 and the , maximum $10,000. I
Mrs. J. R. Etchmgs rushed in
front of a passenger train at Ada,.!
Okla.r to rescue her 3-year-old boy, I
who was playing , on the track, t and
she and the child were killed. I
The colored State fair will be held I
in Columbia. S. C- November 7-12. I
The scout cruisers Birmingham and I
Salem fwill try to communicate over
aiJ distance: 0)f 1 3,000 miles -with the
new naval wireless station at Brant-
rock, Mass; j
Miss Constance Hovt, daughter of I
the Counselor oi the State Depart-
ment and Mrs. Henry M. Hoyt, was I
married at , Washington on Wednes-
day to Mr. Ferdinand von Stumm,
lately promoted lto second secretary
of the German Embassy.
Twimrwere born to Old Bel Afns, I
a Siberian camel, in the winter quar-
ters of a circus at Baraboo, Wis. It
is cam iuav . uiis xs me urst ume
camel twins ever made their appear-
ance in this country. I
In a dispute in New York with
Benjamin about his wages, two of
Uoldberg's teeth were knocked out.
o.4ie jury awaraeq mm a veraici ana l
the Lourt hxed the damage at $400.
, The Secretary of State of North 1 The President reiterated to his vis
Carolina "finds that 1,387 automobiles itors previously expressed views to
have been registered. It is said that the effect that he favors the prac-
there are five times as many auto-I
mobiles in the State at present as
there were two years ago.
feister Aureaa (i. Mace, bead or the
Shaker community at Sabbath. Day
Lake, Maine, is dead, aged 80. Sister
Aurelia was the author of several
books and many' poems.
Becowitz is from Philadelphia, and
be says the street car, strike' made
it impossible for beggars to make
more than $30 a week at the "please
Governor Kitchin. of North Caror
i; i i i
iuia, some time ago accepiea an in-
vitation to deliver the Memorial Day
address berore the Daughters of the
lyonieaeracv ana onreoerate vet-
n f i : . n . -.
erans at Raleigh, May 10.
Consress' session mav end bv Mav
' ' w mJ J
iu.- oeuaiur aiuiicu Bipresses "if I states were represented, tne univer
belief that adjournment is not so far 1 3ity of Virginia won first place,
away. '
The thirteenth annual conference
for education in" the South will be
. . . i
held at Little Rock, April 6, 7. 8.
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The, Mississippi legislature has
adopted a resolution favoring the in- TT T
come tax amendment to thl Consti- had mplet i and evi
ction of the United State, . , rSffS ?.sZ
Physicians and health officers are mo ti-fBt-tit: is readv for pre-
mystified by the spread of an un-
laemuieu maiany at, uiuc,vn,j-, xa.,
which caused the , death of several
p6T wSM wlfln A TTftVisfi noshed & bill
prohibiting wearing : of hats by wo-
men in theatres and similar public
nlaoes. y 1 .
"i Andrew McMuliin visited his in-
sane mcther at the Eastern Ken-
tucky Aaylura, at Lexington. Short-
ly after leaving the institution he be-
came violently insane, and it was
necessary to incarcerate him in the
i !f . , .
asylum. , . t . 41.
Rising from the confessional in the
Jesuits church, at New Orleans Mrs.
lndii. m ' Louis Mathis fell to the noor un- be in. danger.- Anotner stream is
cWr i ,use of their Suuday conscious. She died , before, medical advancing slowly, toward Mount
of th tr? s rooms for the use aid reached her.' V,; v'..-.- r !Nocilla.-f; , f
HIGHER UP"
Arrested for Wholesale Stock
1 Gambling,
FIVE OF THEM MILLIONAIRES.
Twenty-Nine Indictments Returned
Against Prominent Brokers in the
Business World Tor Conducting
"Bucket Shops' From Missouri
River to Atlantic Coast Placed
Under Heavy Bonds Trials at
Early, Date.
Washington, Special. -The govern
ment of the 7 United States Saturday
made its first rigorous onslaught
upon stock gambling which in scope
practically covers the country from
the Missouri river to ". the Atlantic
-eoast. - :.
Brokers' offices in New York, Phil
adelphia, Jersey City, Baltimore, Cin
cinnati and St. i Louis were raided
simultaneously at 11 o'clock Eastern
I time Saturday by special agents of
the Department of Justice, who were
armed with bench- warrants issued
by the Supreme Court of the Dis
trict of Columbia. V
Conspiracy indictments in which
twenty-nine persons are named- five
of them said to be millionaires, and
all interested in brokers ' offices in
large cities of the United States,
were returned by the Federal grand
jury of the District J of Columbia
jupon evidence whieh agents of the
Department of Justice had. been
gathering for more, than a year. The
indictments were withheld on the re
quest of Attorney General Wicker-
sham, so that the Department of
Justice detectives might make the
raids simultaneously upon the places
suspected of being bucket shops."
The theory of the conspiracy m-
dictments.is that every man who was
connected in anv- wav with the ot-
eration of the firms which did busi-
ness in the district, had entered into
a ? conspiracy -.tp ; icelieve people of.
their money. ' V - "
Violationof the law. upon convic-
tion, entails a maximum penalty of
IU,UUU nne and two years imprison
ment. 5
All of those arrested were placed
under heavy bonds.
President May Visit Durham.
Washington. Snecial. President
Taft may visit Durham the latter
part of May or the first of June to1
iay me corner-sione , oi me JManonai
Religious Training School and Chai
tauqua for the colored race. An in-
vitation to be present on the occasion
of the dedication of the proposed
building was extended Saturday by a
aeiegation oi prominent wnite cixi-
zens.
tical training of the colored race.
Six Banks to be Indicted.
Pittsburg, Pa., Special. All of the
nrese.nt and " former couneilmeh
bown as the Bi? Five have now told
their stories to the graft investigat
ing committee. The indictment of
j 3jx banks as corporations -and other
startling sensations are expected as
a result. ' The graft prosecution is
1 now hnsilv 'ene-aced nreDarinsr cases
for the trials. It is possible that three
Judges will sit in criminal court dur-
If . . . . ... i
ine the opening davs of the trials.
J '
First Place For Virginia.
i tii.x tt. d t
hlfl Southern TntereolWiate track
m. ho Rtnrlnv. in whih fivA
I U1VVV UWAV MMf . . - ' '
JClemson second, Wake Forest, with
I siv representatives, won fifteen
points, which gives her third p
ace
and carries away five medals.
1 . .
District toyt Ja.saidJhjt
Investigation -by the Federal Deparjt-
rTWl.
3eotation to a special grand jury
which had been drawn. x
.
Volcano's 'Horrible Roar.
Professor Ricco, director of the
Mount Etna Observatory,, has been
forced to abandon his post after
passing' hours of terror at the yol-
cano. JHe says: . I
. "One could not stand he deafen-
mg and horrible roar of the volcano
for more than one day. It would cer-
tainly drive him mad." A river of
lava from the active craters of Mount
Etna ' has invaded Iisi Plain, fiow-
:no. ;n the direction of Cisterna and
I Regina. . Borrello does not appear lto
MEN
TnELIBERIAtfl TROUBLE.
United States Will Block Interven
tion European ! Powers.
Washington, Special. The; Iibe-
xian trouble is causing apprehension
here. . The attaek by the native tribes
from the French side of the southern
boundary along the Cavalry river up
on the English factory; and the Iibe-
!rian troops . would be J in itself dan
gerous to the existence of the little
republic: , ., ; jf ; .
All factories might easily serve as
a pretext for intervention by some
of the European powers. Such in
tervention usually leads to 1 perma
nent ; domination and J' the state de
partment - is resolved that this shall
not be. '. ... j-
-Already British arid French war
ships are on ' their, way to the seat
of trouble. The gun boat Des Moines,
in ' TTnTnrkf rw "RrvorJa SSwoa TViTlTSlftV
ordered to the Norfolk navy j yard to
get - into condition to proceed to
Africa and relieve tile Birmingham.
The Des Moines should be at Mon
rovia by May L j i
Pursuing Pittsburg Grafters.
Pittsburg, Special:j Wm. Birand,
former president of common I council,
who was brought from the peniten-
tiary to testify before jthe grand jury,
contributed his full confession to help
the graft probers in trailine the
"rnlin liiirlia rv' " . If i
Three more councilmen took the
immunity .bath by K pleading no
defense to charges of ! taking! bribes.
To strengthen the evidence already
obtained about the transfer of $45,000
to Stewart at the Hotel Imperial in
New York in May, ; 1908, for alleged
use in - bribing Pittsburg councilmen
to vote for the bank prdinance, the
grand jury is said to have asked for
the , 1908 registers of several New
York hotels. Handwriting j experts
are to be employed, it is said, to de
termine definitely what Pittsburg men
were in that city .- at the time the
money was paid to Stewart. It has
already been published here that the
unnamed man who paid Stewart the
money is not known to be a banker,
but i one of the most prominent bu
siness men In tbi entire country; ttXi-?,
... Great Rural Route System, v
Washington, ' Special. Postmaster
General Hitchcock, in his annual re
port, says that rural delivery has de
veloped in 12 years from an experi
ment, involving the disbursement of
less than $15,000, to one of the larg
est branches of the postal service,
with an annual expenditure exceed
ing $35,000,000, and says: '
"Rural delivery- service is now in
operation throughout the United
States on 41,094- routes. . j
- "During the present fiscal year,
up to March 1 readjustments have
been made involving the discontinu
ance of thirty routes, effecting a sav
ing of $26,000. In one county alone,
by the readjustment of the routes and
a net decrease in ( the number of
routes of four, an annual
$4,000 is possible. I
saving: of
Dr. Waltersilndicted.
.. Pittsburg, Speciaii-Dr. E. R. Wal
ters, former president of select coun
cil, who is now director i of. public
health and charities; has been indict
ed as the alleged recipient of $1,0.00
in bribe money, and 15 other former
selectmen from $500 to $250. The
indictments make a x total of 91 in
three reports by the grand: jury with
in two, weeks and' there are more to
come, says District- j Attorney Willam
m rv ' . t .4' i
A. ciakeiey.
Advertise for New Bids.
.- : i 1 - . .
Washington, Specials A suspicious
uniformity in the bds for supplyin
1 half a million tons of New River and
Pochahontas coal for the
use of the
Panama 1 Railroad, together with the
average high price demanded, led the
directorate of that corporation to re
ject all of the bids, offered . and to
order a readvertisement. r
No Contamination for Oysters.
Washington, "Special. Oysters can
no longer be: fed tor as the trade
term goes 1 floated i in brackish wa
ter" before they'-' are 'offered for
sale. The Department of Agriculture
has ordered that the practice : must
stop , at . once. To float j an oyster
when ' it is taken from its bed, pro-1
vides means for 5 the oyster to . take
in contamination from the water and
offers risk of typhoid. ;
Fighting to Tree Morse.
Atlanta, ' Special.--Habeas corpus
proceedings has been instituted in the
Federal Court here this week,vby mo
tion W. Littleton," lawyer, for the re
lease from the Federal prison of Chas.
W. Morse, the New York banker.
Curtailing Sale of Liquor.. ,
Boston, Special. The - Massachu
setts lower" House" passed to third
reading, the bill, which prohibits the
selling of bottle-goods of an intoxP
eating nature by holders of licenses
which, permit them 1 to sell , liquor to
fes drunk on tne premises.
REFUSES TO VISIT POPE.
Col Roosevelt Declines to Ac
cept Conditions Imposed.
Rome, By Cable. The audienci
which it was believed :ex-President
Roosevelt .would have with the Pop
on Tuesday, will not occur, owing to
conditions which the Vatican has im
posed, and, which Mr. Roosevelt re
fuses to accept. ' '
" The Holy Father will be delighted
to grant an audience to Mr. Roose-
velt on April 5, and hopes thai
i," .,v" . ' i t t
nothing will arise to prevent it, suci
as the -uch-regretted mcident which
made the reception of Mr. Fairbanks
Roosevelt's reply:, "I in my turn :
must decline j to make any .rItaov
or submit to any conditions, , which
S any W would linutj my freedom
of conduct. I trust that on April 5
it convenient to receive)
me. ; I
Pour Boats at $2,000,000. 1
" f,w,ww. , i
Washington, Special. On the fact
of the bids, the Lake Torpedo Boat
company, oi enagepon, L,onn., oai-
urday , submitted the lowest proposal
for building four submarine boats foi
the United States, navy. This was
for a type of boat of 450 tons dis-
placement ana xne price ior me ioui
boats would be $424,500 each, de-
hvered on the Atlantic seaboard, and
to be constructed at the Newport
NeWS WOrks. !
Congress- authorized an expenditure
of $2,000,000 for the construction of
these four boats, so that the bids
are within the limitation for boats
of moderate size.
Great Reception to Ex-President.
Naples, By Cable. No American
ever got a greater reception than
Colonel Roosevelt did Saturday wheL.1
with his family, he arrived here on I
the Priz Heniznch. I
Mr. Kooseveit, attirea in a gray 1
sack suit and wearing a soft black I
hat,-appeared in splendid health and!
spirits.--His weatherbeaten fase. ave I
him the, appearance of. a" tramedl
abuiete. xxc . spu&e ; witu a uuyisu i
pleasure oi setting nis loot again upon l
European soil and of feeling that I
at last he was homeward bound.
Postal Granted Injunction.
Nashville, Tenn., - Special.--Judge
Edward E. Sanford, of the Circuit
Court of the United States for the
middle district of Tennessee, hand-
ed down an opinion Saturday grant-
ing to the Postal Telegraph Cable
Company an injunction against the
Cumberland Telephone s and Tele-
graph Company, "a Bell Company,''
discriminating against the Postal in
the matter of charges for telephone
service. The decision tolds that the
Postal Company is entitled to tele
phone service at., the same rate charg
ed other business subscribers. '
Maryland Senate Passes Disfran
chisement Bill i
Annapolis, Md.. Special. The
so- J
called Digges bills for the disfran-1
chisement of the negro in all state I
and municipal , elections in - Maryland
were passed by the senate at a later
nour oaturaay mgnt. iney now go
to me uuuse wuere ineir passage is
assured Decause oi , tne large demo-
crauc majority in inat oooy. it is
uuw pxupuseu tu aiweuipt iu prevent
aegroes vo mg ai congressional ; or
presidential elections; the restriction 1
applying oniy to state and municipal
uauuiwg. , v.
Ballinger Will Seek Redress,
Washington, Special. Secretary of I
the Interior Balhnger j announced Sat-
urday that; in due time he would in-
stitute proceedings in law , against
Collier's Weekly as the result of the
publications concerning, him which
:J iL-i ,
are appearing in that paper.
The Czar in Public.
St. Petersburg, By Cable. For the
first time i in many years 1 Emperor
Nicholas Saturday night attended a
brilliant concert at . the Imperial
Opera House, given in aid of various
military charities. The intention of
his Majesty to attend the function
had been kept secret, Jalnd, there
fore, no crowd collected to witness
his arrival r and departure. i
Church's Crusade Against Fight. ;
" Qakland, Cal., Special. The church
federation of this district has begun
a crusade against the holding of the
Jeffries-Johnson , fight at Emeryville
July 4, by instructing counsel to
take legal ; steps to prevent the. con
test.' Coal .Miners on Strike.
Washington, Special. Two hundred
thousand organized miners of 'the
bituminous coal fields of Pennsyl
vania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,' Iowa,
Missouri, Kansas . ' Oklahoma ( and
Arkansas are out on strike. -
ROBBERS ARRESTED
Two Men Charged With Rich
mond Postofftce Burglary
TRUNKS FILLED WITH STAMPS
Postal Inspectors Trace Safe Crack-
ers to New York by Means ; of
Trunks Put up Pesperate right
Third Man Escaped -One Believed
to Be "Fay," a Wealthy and Bad i
ly Wanted "Crook." .
New York, SpeciaL Two men
charged by postal inspector with rob-
binsr the postoffice at Richmond, Va, i
T UwMn SflfnTjav '
aa ,MaV mo were
rested af the Grand Central station
"SJr J-ZS
;TO;tt!wert. knocked senseless. A '
fVii , .anan0A .n,.- -
to New York by means of three'
i t j i r:.i. j
m, S?JLM M
I . iiic ill iiiiir.i n avc lug uoiiica
i m i. ci - . u s o.
I Tans. Ksii ester, y ears uiu ux oi.
i au1' v-"?""?
uaTT, 34 -poors nlrl Cnnnme-ham main.
.;, that he is a. banker and that
his home is in London, Eng.
Qne 0f the men arrested for the
Richmond burglary, the police believe,
is Eddie Fay," whose picture is in
every rogue's galery of importance
in the country, and for7 whose ap-
prehension $20,000 in rewards have '
teen offered in various citiesj - The
Richmond exploit netted $85,000 in
Stamps and $3,000 in cash.
Pa ic vaiA tn ha watK fwwn
$300,000 to $400,000.
Allds Dishonored and Disgraced.
Albany, N. Y., Special. Jotham
Allds went to his home in Norwich
Tuesday night & ' private citizen,
branded as a bribe-taker by his f orm
er colleagues in the - senate and by
his own act no longer a member of n
that body.
Senator Cobb introduced a resolu
tion nrovidine for the appointment.
of a committee .to present to the
senate charges against Conger ' grow-
ing out of his connection with legis-
lation and the use of funds to influ-
ence the members 'of-aeleslSBytari V;
or oiner ; persons witn . reierence
thereto. 7 f
There seems to be no longer any
doubt that the present , legislature will
conduct a general "graft" investiga
tion, t. . -
Roosevelt Stirred Em TJp.
Cario. Eevpt. Bv Cable. Ex-Presi-
dent Roosevelt's speech before the
Egyptian university has aroused the
extreme Nationalists to a state of
fury.
' Seven
evening
hundred , students Tuesday
marched to his hotel and de-
monstraid against him, shouting in
Arabic : j Down with autocracy I ' '
' Give us a constitution. " -1
Determined efforts were made toi
dissuade Col. Roosevelt from referring!
to the 1 assassination of Premier
Boutros Pacha Chali, and the politi- i
cal situation, but Colonel Roosevelt
determined a scathing denunciation i
nf the assassin, and as strongly con-
demnedi those who would condone
such an act.
Another Grafter Found Guilty.
Columbus, O., " Special Mark -
Slater, supervisor of public printing
0f Ohio from 1901 to 1906, Wednes-
day was found guilty of certifying
as correct a false voucher for $5,-
501. Slater's total thefts from tbe
state are alleged have amounted
to nearly $40,000.
"Anihilate Graft' Says Hughes.
New York SpeciaL Governor
Hughes was cheered at New Rochelle
Tuesday night as he advocated annihi-
lation of graft in politics in an ad-
dress at a banquet of the Merchants '
Exchange.? He did not refer specifl-
I cally to scandals at Albany -at any
I .. " . . . - , . ... r. ,
time during his speech
King Men elik is Dead.
Addis Abaeba, Abyssinia, By Cable.
Menelik Ilj King of Abyssinia, is
dead at the age of 66 . years and in -:
the 21st year of his reign. ' , , ,
Roosevelt Party Gone to Naples.
Alexandria, Egypt, By Cables
Former President Roosevelt, Mrs
Roosevelt, Kermit and ) Miss Ethel; .'
salied for Naples Wednesday after-
noon on the steamer Prinz Heinrich.
i ' I ' ' . - ' ... ' : -1 . " -
Guns on Street Cars. -
Pittsburg, Special. On account of
bold holdups in outlying! districts the" .
-treet railway officials have furnished
arms to motormen and conductors, :
and given orders to "use them with ,
discretion ' ' in case the cars are stop-'
ped late at night, or otherwise molest- -
ed. . - ,;:
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Being "Forced" to Kill Ballinger.
Cleveland, Ohio. William Scheld- ,
knecht,46 years old, who declared
he was. being" forced by anarchists to
assassinate Secretary of the Interior I ,
Ballinger, was arrested here and car-v '
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