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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1906-05-15
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-13
RADICAL DEPARTURE
 FRON USUAL CUSTOM
Catholic Educators Declare for More Extensive Reading of Scriptures
 In Parochial Schools.

Cleveland, Ohio, July 12.-The convention of the National Catholic Educational as- sociation today declared in favor of wider and more extensive reading of the scriptures in the parochial schools. This was, in fact, a declaration in favor of the reading of the New Testament in those schools. In that respect it marks radical departure from established policy.
 The Pope today replied to a message of greeting sent to him at the opening of the meeting The cablegram read: '''rhe holy father returns thanks for the senti- ments of f1lial devotion manifested toward him by the Educational association, and most lovingly imparts his blessing. CARDINAL MERRY DEL VAIL"
 The election of officers resulted as fol- lows:
 Right Rev. D. P. O'Connell, Washing ton, D. C., president general; James A.. Burns, Brookland, D. C., vice president general; Rev D. c. Moran, Cleveland, Ohio, treasurer general
 School Department-Rev. Louis S.. Walsh Salem, Mass, president; Rev. P. R. McDevitt. Philadelphia, vice president; Rev. w. H. Howard, Columbus, Ohio, secretary; Rev. Walter J. Shanley Hart ford, Conn.,, treasurer.
 Seminary Department-Rev. NJ J. Ryan, New Orleans. president; Rev. Thomas D. O'Reilly, Cleveland, Ohio. vice president; Rev. John F. Fenton. Baltimore. secretary and treasurer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-13
SEVEN LITTLE GIRLS DROWN
 WHILE WAD|NG One Slips Into Hole and tho Others Try to
 Save Her BODIES RECOVERED TOO LATE FOR RESUSCITATION Entire Party Except One Drowned Within Three Blocks of Their
 Home Near Cedar
 Rapids, Ia.

Cedar Rapids, Ia, July 12.-Eight child ren at picnic on a river bank only three blocks from home went a wading this afternoon. The smallest one slipped into deep hole in the river and was drowned and in trying to rescue her. six others were drowned The dead:
 Lucille Sweeting, z.
 Hazel Sweating. IA.
 Gladys Sweeting, 10.
 Josie Sweeting, 12
 Ruth Coyle, II, Sioux City.
 Cora Coyle, g. Sioux City.
 Clara Usher, IS.
 The Sweating children lived with their father near Ellis park in the outskirts of the city. Clara Usher was the daugh- ter of Sweetlng's housekeepess ands the Coyle children were her nieees Wno were here on a visit. Ruti Klersey Hhe only survivor, said they were wading when little Lucille Sweeting slipped into a deep hole. Hazel Sweeting rushed after her. and so they kept trying to save each other until all of the girls except Ruth K1ersey had been drowned. She then ran home and gave the alarm.
 Four of the bodies were quickly re- covered from the water, but 1t was too late to resuscitate them. At o'clock all of the bodies had been recovered except that of Clara Usher.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-13
CANADIAN PUTS
 ECAN OUT OF GAME
Lyon Led Almost Every Inch at Engio- wood and Was Out on the
 Twentieth Green.

Englewood, N. J.. July 12.-George S. Lyon of Toronto, put H. Chandler Egan of Chicago, out of the amateur champion ship In the second round at match-play on the Englewood Golf Club course today. Egan was fighting hard to retain in the championship title, but Lyon led him al- most every inch of the way, and finally won out on the twentieth hole. There have been many upsets in this year's s championship tournament but the defeat of the champion by the Canadian player was the greatest surprise of all.
 Egan played poorly this afternoon and by missing a seemingly easy put on the home hole lost the match after he was one up at the seventeenth hole, where by good work Lyon should have had half. Both players drove to the home green. Lyon then had a treaeherous approach put to make. Egan trimmed the cup on his third shot. while Lyon got down in three, making the match tie. They halved the nineteenth hole in fours and Lyon won out with well played four on the twentieth green.
 The defeat of the champion was not the only feature of the days play, as Walter J. Travis. the former American and British champion, made a new anna teur record of "A for the rearranged course.
 Travis did this in the first round of match play in which he had Archie M. Reid of St. Andrews as an opponent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-13

Nashville, July 12-Henry Clay Evans of Hamilton county, former commissioner of pension, nd recently American con- sul general in London, was tonight nomi- mated for governor by the republican state convention. c. Swab of Claiborne county was nominated for railroad commissioner.
 The nomination of Evans for governor came after a most exciting session, and marks the transfer of republican leader ship in Tennessee from Congressman Wal ter P. Brownlow of the First district to MT. Evans. Fractional differences arising from rivalry between these two have been sharp at times, and served to accentu- ate interest in the convention. Harmony was indicated this morning, when Mir Brownlow declared he would not oppose man, and the temporary organization, with T. Asbury Wright presiding, was quietly effected. Then came long waits for the committee on credentials, and to- night the storm broke over Its report
 Platform Endorses Administration.
 There was a division over some of the contested counties, and the attempts of each faction to seat its choice soon changed the convention into a bowling mob. Delegates crowded the speakers stand, ran over the press tables and threatened to engage in a fist fight Quiet finally being restored, the contests were taken up separately and arguments heard.
 The roll call soon showed the Evans men in the ascendacy, and the Evans report as whole, was at length adopted on motion of a MT. Brownlown man, the result arolsing a wild demonstration The report of the committee on permanent organization, naming Congressman Ma than w. Hale for chairman, was adopted and the remaining business of the vention quickly and harmoniously dis patched.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-13
CONTRACTS LET FOR
 TWO EMPHASIZES
South Carolina and Michigan Are to Be the Latest Additions to
 the Navy.

Washington, July 12.-Secretary Bona parte today awarded the contracts for the two 60o0-ton battleships South Carolina and Michigan one to the Cramps of Phila- delphia and the other to the New York Shipbuilding company of Camden. N. J.
 The Cramps bid was $3,540,000 and that of the New York Shpbuilding company $3, 3,585, ,00e
 The secretary of the navy was obliged to distribute the contracts in this way, because Congress provided that not more than one ship would be built by any one concern. The boats are to be of the reciprocating type so far as engines are concerned, the secretary having approved the finding of the board on construction to the effect that 1t would be well for the department to await the completion of the turbine scouts now under construc- ton before embarking on another ex- pertinent of that kind.
 It is believed the battleship Michigan will be built by the Cramps, and the South Carolina at Camden.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-13
VIOLATION NOT WILFUL.
And Therefore Thls Judge Fines Santa
 Fe Lightly.

Las Vegas. N. M. July 12.-On the ground that their violation of the law in granting rebates on coal shipments was technical and not wilful. and that, there fore, only a moderate penalty should be imposed. Chief Justice Mills in the United States court here today imposed a fine of 5000 on each count of the indictments against the Atchison. Topeka and Santa Fe Railway company, and the Corolado Fuel and Iron company. A total fine of s15.0OO and costs was imposed on each of the defendant companies.
 When the cases were called up for hear ing today, a plea of not guilty was en- tered on behalf of the defendant com panies, following which an agreed stlpu- lation of the facts in the case were sub mitted and filed.
 Mai. w. H. Llewellyn, United States district attorney for Mexico, represented the government in the prosecutions in the rebate cases which were instituted upon instruction from Attorney General Moody.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-13
TAGGART WILL NOT
 COMPROMISE CASE
HE SAYS HE HAS TRIED TO sUP- PRESs GAMBLING AT FRENCH
 LICK AND HAS NOTHING TO COMPROMISE. .

French Lick, Ind, July 12.-Thomas Tag gart, president of the French Lick Hotel company, tonight denied the existnce of an arrangement with the state whereby the French Lick and West Baden gamb- ling cases are to be compromised.
 "I have endeavored to suppress gamb- ling at French Lick" said MT. Taggart. feeling that having done my duty have nothing to compromise
 MT. Taggart denied that he was going to send John W. Kern to Europe to hold a conference with William J. Bryan regarding the French Lick gambling de- velopmepts, and the effect on MT. Tag gart's availability for the national chair manship.
 When asked if he would go to meet Bryan when the latter returned to New York, MT. Taggart said:
 Some time ago I wrote that I would be there to welcome MT. Bryan, provided engagements were such that I could get away from Indiana I expect to keep that promise"
 The case of the state against the hotel company will be called tomorrow morn- ing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-13
WILL RECEIVE PROXIES.
Administration Ticket of New York
 Life Names It's Friends.

New York, July 12-The board of trus- tees of the New York Life Insurance company today announced the appoint ment of the following committee to re- ceive and note proxies for the adminis- tration ticket on December IS, next:
 Alba B. Johnson of Philadelphia. asso- ciated with the Baldwin Locomotive Works; Rowland G. Hazard of Pecadale, R. l., president of the Pecadale Manu- featuring company, and J. Horace bur- tin of the United States circuit court of Nashville. Tenn.
 Judge Lurtin, who was nominated as trustee on the administration ticket, has been transferred from that ticket to the proxy committee. His resignation from the ticket was due to the fact that his judicial duties would not permit him to attend the meeting of the trustees. It was announced that the vacancy caused by the resignation of Judge Lurtin has been filled by John E. Andrews of Yonk- CTS, N. Y.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-13
H. CLAY EVANS WINS OUT
 OVER BROWNLOW FACTION
Report of Credena Committee Tennessee Republican Con- yention Causes Storm in Which Frenzed Excitement
 RegnS Platform is Strongly Temperance

MT. Evans appearance before the con- vention was the signal for frenzied dem onstration.
 Turned Into Rowling Mob.
 The platform congratulates the people of the country on the continued domina- ton of the party in the affairs of the na- tion, indorses the administration of Roose- velt his war on trusts, his maintenance of the Monroe doctrine, his action in set ting the coal strike and in bringing about peace between Russia and Japan, and declares that the future historian will record Theodore Roosevelt as the great est statesman of the twentieth century
 On the tariff the platform declares that i've are not adverse to a revision of schedules from time to time as changed conditions may demand but such changes should be made by the friends of pro- tection, to the end that capital may con- tinue to seek investment, and labor may find employment with remunerative wages"
 As to temperance the platform says: ''We expressly indorse the four-mile law and the amendments thereto now on the statute books as having decreased drunk enness crime and vice, and we oppose any step backward along the line, and since 1t Is the duty or Ine spdle to leSiS- late against vice. crime and drunkenness in every community, we favor an ex- tension of these laws to all towns and cities of the state. as now provided, re- gardless of the number of inhabitants.
 The Hepburn-Do -Dolliver bill to prevent the shipment of liquors from another state to dry territory and an ant-jig law was indorsed.
 Tributes are paid to the valor and heroism of both the Union and Confed- crate soldiers Legislation by Congress providing for the care of Confederate graves is commended.
 On insurance relief is asked from the Oppressive rates' that now obtain in the state. The platform demands the enactment of a stringent law to prevent gambling on race tracks, either in or out of the state, licensed or unlicensed. The present system of back tax assessments is vigoroaIsly condemned.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-13
TO PROSECUTE PHYSICIAN.
Louisiana Man Failed to Report Case
 of Yellow Fever.

New Orleans. July 12-Steps 10 prose- cute Dr. Montigul of LaPlace, La. who failed to report a case of yellow fever to the health authorities until after the pa tient's recovery were taken today by Dr. C. H. Ir1on, president of the Louisiana state board of health.
 pr. Irion was informed by counsel for the state board that the physician can be proceeded against under a provision in the state law making 1t a misdemeanor to violate the sanitary code. The present code requires that contagious diseases be reported within twentyfour hours after discovery Dr. Irion ordered the prosecu- tor at LaPlace to file information against Dr. Montigul.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-13
BOILERS ARE DEFECTIVE.
Cruisers Pennsylvania and Colorado
 Investigated By Board of Inquiry.

Philadelphia. July 12-An investigation by board of inquiry appointed by the navy department into alleged defects in the coverings of the boilers in the United States cruisers Pennsylvania and Colorado was concluded here today. The mem bers of the board include Rear Admiral Sigsbee, Captain Ward, Captain Win chell and Captain Bailey.
 The inquiry has been of an exhaustive character and may have an important bearing on future construction work. Ad- miral Sigsbee will leave for Washington tomorrow and the report will beturned into the navy department.
 The Colorado and Pennsylvania are comparatively new ships, and only re- gently returned from their first cruise It developed on the cruise that the light iron or steel castings of the boilers have warped out of shape in an unprecedented ly short time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-13
MISSISSIPPI BRIDGE
 AT BATON ROUGE
Four Railroads Are Behind the Project To Do Away With Ferries
 at New Orleans.

ocrat tomorrow will say:
 A bridge across the Mississippi river at Baton Rouge Is practically assured The Southern Pacific, Texas and Pacific and Colorado Southern and New Orleans and Pacific are the roads said to be be- hind the undertaking.
 The trains of these lines will be run across the river at the state capital, com ing down the east bank to New Orleans instead of being ferried across as at present at Avondale. Gouldsboro and AL giers. The river at Baton Rouge is 3495 feet wide at high water, and about S8 feet deep. There is now no bridge across the Mississippi below Memphis, Tenn.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-13
NO DIssENsIoN EXISTS.
Comm ission VIII Submit Harmonious
 Report On Municipal Ownership.

New York, July 12.-M. F. Ingals, chair man of the commission which the national civic federation ant to Europe last spring to study the operation of municipal own ership, passed through New York today en route to his home in Cincinnati.
 While MT. Ingalls, declined to reveal in detail the report of the commission he made the annuncement that upon all ba- sic matters 1t would be unanimous
 "All talk" he said, that the members of the commission are at sea. and that several conflicting reports are to be made are entirely untrue"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-13
.,IKERS TAKE
 CHARGE OF CAMP
ACTION OF CODY, WYo., HAS GRE ATED A REIGN OF TERROR AND FURTHER TROUBLE IS Ex- PEcTED TODAY.

Denver, Col, July 12.-A Post special from Cody, Wyo., says
 One hundreds strikers have taken pos session of the government camp at Cor bett tunnel in the Shoshone reservation works, eight miles from Cody, and have created a reign of terror. They threaten the lives of five hundred other men if they return to work.
 Sheriff Halmette of Cody, with fifty mounted deputies, heavily armed left here at o'clock for the scene of the trouble.
 battle Is sure to follow, as the strik- CTS are armed and are incensed highly at the officers because they drove them out of Cody July 4.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-13
Threats Made Against Americans.

New Orleans. July 12.-Threats against Americans in Mexico are reported as be- ing widespread by F. A. Sturtevant of the Mexican Central railroad. who ar rived here today. He said that in Chihua- hua, Mexico. notices have been posted warning Americans to leave the country by September 4. a Mexican holiday. He said that he believed these posters orig mated from efforts made by agitators to stir up i'll feeling against Americans with the purpose of making political capital against the present government out of this agitation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-13
PORTO REGAIN JUDGE
 REMARRIES WIFE
A Reconciliation Is Brought About Through Efforts of Son and
 Daughter.

Philadelphia, July 12.-Judge James Harvey MacDeary of San Juan, associate justice of the supreme court of Porto Rico, was married here yesterday to Mary King MacLeary of Auburn, N. Y, from whom he was divorced in 1901 The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Fred Clark, assistant rector of Holy Trinity P, E. church. Judge MacLeary is 60 years old and his fiance 49. After the death of his first wife in San Antonio, In 1871, he married Miss Mary King in this city. and was divorced from her in 1901 by the San Antonio courts on the ground of abandon ment. The reconciliation is said to have been brought about through the efforts of the son and daughter of Judge Mac Leary.
 For a number of years he resided in Texas, where he was a member of the legislature, attorney general of the state and grand master of Masons.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-13
MIR. METCALF LOSES
 HIS THEATRE SUIT
Court Holds That Manager Has Right to Exclude Whom He Pleases
 From Building.

proprietor of a theatre has a right to say who shall enter his place of amusement and who shall not, his playhouse being a private and not public place. Is the gist of a decision handed down today in the appellate division of the supreme court.
 The decision dismissed the complaint of James s. Metcalf, a dramatic critic against Charles Burnham, a member of the Theatre Managers association, for excluding Metcalf from Burnhams busi- ness. Metcalf charged that Burnham and other theatrical managers had entered into a conspiracy to prevent him from ex- ercisng his lawful calling.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-13
Will Support PolicyhoIders' committee c

London, July 12.-The British policy holders committee at a meeting today decided to await the arrival of the cir cular issued by the international policy holders committee and to send out sim liar one to the policyholders in the Uni ted Kingdom. In applying for proxies the British pclicyholders' committee wili advise the policyholders that they intend to support the trustees nominated by the international policyholders committee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-13
MOULD USE BOMBS TO KILL THE FISH
ITALYS KING PREVENTED FROM LAYING CORNER STONE OF Hos- PETAL BY THE DISCOVERY OF BOMBS.

Rome. July 12.-Three more bombs were found today at Ancona, where on June 26 police discovered in the house of a barber named Gabbianelli a quantity of explosives in the process of manufacture, and three completed bombs. In conse- quence of the earlier discovery King Vic tor Emmanuel abandoned his intention to go to Ancona early in June to lay the corner stone of a new hospital
 Since that time the police have main- tained vigilance In searching for further evidence to establish their theory that there existed at Ancona a plot against the life of the King, and this was re- warded by the finding of three bombs today in the house of Annibale Perretti. Perretti however, declared that the bombs were intended for killing fish, and as he had been once condemned for ille- gally killing fish with dynamite, his ex- planation is regarded by the authorities as a plausible one.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-13
Bradford on Retired List.

Washington, July 12.-orders issued from the Navy Department today detach from duty as commander of the third squadron, United States Atlantic fleet. on July 22 Rear Admiral Royal B. Brad ford and order him placed on the retired list He is at present in command of the training squadron, which was last reported at Fayal. Azores.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-13
Hundreds of Patients Are III.

Terrell. Tex. July 12.-Between four and five hundred patients and many of the physicians of the North Texas insane asylum are i'll, suffering with an attack of what shows many symptoms of cholera morbus, although a positive diagnosis has not vet been made. About 2000 pa- tleuts are confined in the asylum.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-13
Bridge haS Gone but Train
 Went Ober 0n Hanging Rails

on a full head of steam and the engine and pay car fairly 1eaped across the bridge without leaving the track. The track sagged at least four feet in the center and when the train struck on the opposite bank the tender left the track and went into the ditch. None of the train crew was hurt
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-13

Louisville. N h.. July PA terrific rain storm whchS N 5t over here this after noon sweptA . the supports of bridge in Burlin9 one mile west of town
 causing t reck of the pay train. The rails wt2 < it spanning the stream and the eRo 9 did not see the danger until 1t wa <.S late to stop the train He threw
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-13
SALVADOR TROOPS
 INVADE GUATEMALA
cABRERo's FORCES OBTAIN CON- PLETE VICTORY AT JlCARO, WHERE CHIEF OF SALVADoRAN ARMY IS KILLED.

Panama. July 1.-Zenor Barrios. foreign minister of Guatemala, cabled to the Panamanan government this afternoon as follows:
 "Guatemala City. July 15.-The salvado- rean government has invaded Guatemala territory, compelling us to make an en- ergetic defense. We obtained a complete victory yesterday at Jicaro, where Gen eral Thomas Regalado, the chief com mander of the Salvadorean army was killed"
 The United States cruiser Marblehead left Panama tonight for Guatemala.
 New Orleans, July 12-An official cable gram to the Guatemalan consul here says that the battle in which Regaldo was killed was fought Wednesday after noon at Fl Jicaro. place about five miles from the frontier in the department of Jutiopa. Guatemala, and twenty-five miles from the Pacific coast. The dis patch says that the Salvordeans were de- feated
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-13
Jerome Takes Up Thaw Case.

New York, July 12.-Distriet Attorney Jerome returned to New York today from his summer home in Lakeville, Conn. and plunged into the Thaw murder case With his assistant district attorney, Gar van, he spent several hours up town and it is said that the prosecutors had interviews with important witnesses Neither Mr. Jerome nor his assistant would discuss their conference when they returned to the criminal courts building but 1t was rumored that important de- velopments soon are expected
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-13

restores me to my old place in the army, but I am not aware of the intentions of the government regarding my advance ment in rank.
 "I have nothing to say against my &C., cusers. Being again an officer. I am obliged to obey the army regulations of silence, and am inaccessible but thank ful to all those who have assisted in the maintainanco ef truth"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-13
prevfus Has Nothing to Say.

Paris, July 12-In course of an inter view today, after the announcement of the supreme courts decision in his favor, Dreyfus said This has been long and terrible ordeal. began to feel 1t would never end. It is clear the decision