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The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-03-14
DR.. PARKHURsT A PROBER.
Inquiries Into Albany Assembly and
Makes Result n Secret.

New York. March 1S.-Dr. Charles II.
Parkhurst. in his sermon to-day at the
Madison Square Presbyterian Church. said
he wrote a letter the last week TO Speak
er Wadsworth, of the assembly, as fol-
lows:
Sir: am informed that the statement
has recently been made by a man OF
credible authority that a member Of the
assembly has confessed TO his acceptance
of brides. l am taking the liberty to ask
you whether you do or do not consider
this is matter OF sufficient Importance to
merit your consideration and action"
II got an answer" said DR.. Parkhurst,
after a pause, but I won't say what it
was
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Khartoum. March ia hearty vel
come and huge quantity of letters AM
kilograms await Col. Roosevelt on his
arrival here, which will probably be to-
morrow.
There is a possibility. however. that the
arrival of the steamer Dai, on which he
is travelling. will be delayed. owing to low
water in the Nile. The steamer from the
South ran aground on a sand bank and
was two days late in getting here.
II Col Roosevelt arrives at the schedule
hour. p. m. he viii go first to the
Sirdars palace and then TO the railway
station to meet Mrs. Roosevelt and Miss
Ethel, who are due from Alexandria at
5 p. m.
EagernesS Among People.
The people OF Khartoum and great
to accord the ex-President welcome. The
arrangements for his reception have been
ANNOUNCED. Capt. Clayton, of the staff
of the Slrdar Mai. Gen. Sir Francis
Wingate, viii so in a launch to meet
the steamer Dial and will conduct the
party to the palace, where tea will be
served. Then the party will so to the
depot to meet Mrs. and Miss Roosevelt.
Apartments are in readiness FOR Col
Roosevelt and his family at the palace.
and they will dine there in the evening
alone.
Tuesday will be devoted to sightseeing.
Visits will be paidto the Gordon Memorial
College and other noted Institutions. In
the evening government officials and their
wives will meet the Americans at din
ner in the palace Among the guests will
be Slatin Pasha. the writer who vividly
described the massacres in the Sudan.
TAV Visit Old Battle Grounds.
On Wednesday morning Col. Roosevelt
will visit OmdUrman. on the hills of
Kerrei, seven miles from Omdurman, was
fought the great battle of Omdurman
September .. 1898. when the Khalifa s
army was annihilated and his rule ended.
Col. Roosevelt will see the khalifa's house
and meet local celebrities In the after
noon a game has been arranged for his
benefit at the Gymkana Polo Grounds.
after which he win visit the American
mission. In the evening he will be the
guest OF the Khartoum Club at dinner
for sixty.
Thursday Is a free day. but it is prob
able that the ex-President will attend
the Masonic lodge and witness the Suda-
nez drill.
Col. Roosevelt and his family viii leave
here by special train Thursday night to
visit Assuan. Luxor, and Edfu on the
way TO Cairo. His visit here will be un-
official He will enter Europe either by
way of Naples or Brindisi.
Many OF the streets OF Khartoum have
been decorated and the American flag Is
flying from various buildings
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Bogota Riot Explained. .

Panama. March 1S-The last reports
received here concerning the troubles OF
the American Tramway Company in b.
gotta state that II was caused by the
manager OF the company striking police
officer. which caused general indignation.
Thomas Dawson. the American Minister,
interviewed and had the manager ar
rested which prevented further serious
trouble. The antl-American feeling is
subsiding and no further disorders are
feared. The American Legation was re-
spected by the rioters. it not being in
tsrfered with in any way.
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YALE CAPTAIN CRITICALLY ILL

Winston. Conn.,, March 13.-The con-
dition of James J. Hogan, Yale's former
football captain, who is dangerously i'll
with acute kidney trouble at his parents
home in Torrington. is extremely critical
to-day.
A consultation of physicians was held
at noon, those present being DR.. L. NJ.
Mooney and DIR. Conner OF New York
DR.. Whittemore. of New Haven. and DR..
". J. Hogan and DR.. J. D. Hayes, OF
Torrington.
The verdict was. nephritis, with the out
look unfavorable
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ROCKEFELLER FUND TOO BIG.
President of Boston University Says
1t VIII Fail

Boston, March ls.-Dr William E.
Huntington. president OF the Boston
University, has this TO say Of the Rookie
Teller Foundation:
Great aggregations of wealth under
private control are not desirable. How
ever philanthropic and wise the trustees
might be of a fund such as the founda-
ton proposed by Mr.. Rockefeller, "A vast
monopoly Of financial power would not
seem 20 be the best thing to be per-
manently established.
There are enough institutional chan
nels already in active operation to make
use of this mans riches, colossal as they
are. Religion. education. charity, re-
form. are all great and commanding in
terests that are looked upon by good
men everywhere as deserving of imam
cial aid in carrying out the benefit pur-
poses that each embOdies
"A prompt and wise distribution of the
Rockefeller wealth among weil-estab-
lished Institutions would seem TO be bet
ter Request to the country at large than
10 form mammoth trust controlled by
a very few men"
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Two ESCAPE MINE BLAST
Seven Bodies at Wilkesbarre Are
Dragged to Surface.
Others Had Gone for Supplies and
Absence Saved Them-MeddIer
May Have Caused Tragedy.

Wilkesbarre, March I9.-By o'clock
this morning the bodies of seven mine
workers. killed by the explosion in the
No. ) colliery OF the Lehigh and Wilkes
barre Coal Company last night. were
brought to the surface. There were no
injured. every man in the zone of the
explosion meeting death. Only two men
Of the gang Of nine escaped. They were
James Hayes and Martin Williams, who
few minutes before had gone for sup
plies Shortly afterward they heard the
roar of the explosion and felt the con-
cussion. They rushed 10 the assistance
Of their comrades. but were driven back.
weak and faint. by the afterdamp They
then gave the alarm.
The bodies were found lying along the
plane They had been suffocated by the
fire damp The explosion had been con-
fined to a small area. but the air con-
ditions made it possible for the suffocat-
ing afterdamp to gather so quickly that
the men had no time 10 run far before
they were overcome. Most OF the men
hands covering their faces as if to shut
out the fumes
Six widows and twenty-four children
are mourning the victims to-day All
but one Of the seven men were married
The men were owen Griffith, who leaves
wife and one ehilds Hugh Price. wife
and six children; Condy Gaffney, wife
and three children; William jenkins,
wife and two children; Evan Williams.
wife and seven children; William Jones,
wife and five children, and John owen
Jones, single.
General Manager Charles Huber is I'M
able to account for the accident. The
fire boss reported the place safe a few
hours before the accident. It may be
some one meddled with door and di-
verted the air current. allowing a body
of gas 10 accumulate.
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shop wage dispute Nor set,Ied.

Chicago, March 13.-Negotiations over
the demands for increased wages by 10 COO
machinists and shopmen. employed on
twenty-seven western railroad systems.
which have been in progress in Chicago
for six weeks, terminated without a set
tlement The men demand an increase
OF cents an hour for all classes of ma
chinists and shopmen. An effort will be
made to negotiate with the roads in
dividually.
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give THIS
exhibition
SIAM HELPS LONDON POOR.
Heathens' Contribution Shames Civ
liked Recipients.

London. March 13.-News of the dire pow
erty of London's lower classes has reach
ed even far-away Siam, whence a do
nation has been receive by the vicar OF
one Of the poorest parishes in Southwark
This unique gift which amounted to about
$50. was sent by Bible class in Bangkok,
Siam.
The vicar distributed 1t among $50 men.
all fathers of families. who were I'M
employed and practically starving. Rev.
Henry Pitt. the vicar, in announcing the
receipt of the donation. expressed shame
that money should come from heather
Siam to feed the starving poor of the
capital OF Christian England.
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kills Grill Eat. Matches.

Fort Wayne. Ind. March 13.-Sanford
Love, of Marion, Ind, who last Wednes
day killed Dottie Murden. seventeen
years old, because she refused TO marry
him, died in the Allen County Jail to-
night from eating the heads of matches
He was brought here from Marion to
avoid mob violence.
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MISS MOORE TO LOSE EYE.
Eject of Afghan Fanatics Bullet
Told in CabIagFam.

Terre Haute, Ind. March 13.-A cable
gram received to-day from the United
States Consul at Jerusalem, Palestine, ex-
plains that Miss Agnes Parker Moore. of
this city. who was recently shot at the
Mosque of Omar, in Jerusalem, by an
Afghan fanatic, will lose the sight Of one
Of her eyes as a result Of the attack.
She also was wounded in an arm, but
that wound is not serious.
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Cornell students Fined-

Ithaca, March 1S.-Clarence J. Pope, oil
East Orange, n. j., and Sam and Paul
Williams, of Salt Lake City, Cornell stu
dents charged with disorderly conduct,
were found guilty by City Judge Bost-
wick last night. and sentenced to pay a
fine of $50 each or go TO jail for fifty
days Their attorney Immediately served
notice of intention TO appeal.
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BERLIN POLICE FOIL MOB.
Block Bridges and Prevent Socialist
Demonstration.

Berlin, March 13.-The Socialists held
a franchise meeting in the Palace Thea
ter to-day. After leaving the theater,
which is only separated from the imperial
castle by the River Spree, they tried to
reachsthe castle to make a demonstration.
The police held the bridges, however, and
prevented them from crossing. The dem
onstrators subsequently held a parade on
the far side of the river waving red flags
opposite the castle. and singing the work
mems "Marseillaise
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WILLIAM S. BARNES DEAD.
Noted Lawyer of San Francisco III
Several Weeks.

Sap Francisco. March 13.-William ).
Barnes died to-day, after several weeks
Of illness. Barnes father was Col. w. H.
L. Barnes. for years leader of the San
Francisco bar and one of the most elo-
quent orators of the West He was coun-
sci for former Senator Sharon in the
famous divorce case. The son, as San
Francisco's district attorney, gained a
great reputation by his successful prose-
cution of Theo Durant for the murder OF
two school girls in a church.
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MINES TO BE SHUT DOWN.
president of the Illinois Operators
Confirms Report.

President of the Illinois Operators
Confirms Report.
Springfield. ILL.,, March 1S-Donald Nc
Donald. president Of the Mine Workers
of Illinois, to-day confirmed the Oper-
ators statement that there will be sus-
pension Of mining in this State April !.
when the agreement between the oper-
atOrs and miners expires.
Technically speaking. it viii not be
either a strike or a lockout. There will
simply be no contract between the men
and the mine owners. and work will
cease until a new agreement is reached.
The shutdown will not be distasteful
TO the operators. as large stocks are now
on hand at all the principal centers. and
prices are up as a result OF advances
made during the cold weather this win
ter. The miners are insisting on an ad-
vance in wages. and If this were the
only demand it would be easily met. but
they are again demanding that the OPP
orators pay the shot-hrers.
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AUTO KILLS BOY OF TEN.
Official OF American Wooden Com
pany Is Arrested.

Cambridge. March 13-George Simp-
son. OF Andover. assistant treasurer of
the American Wooden Company, Was ar
rested here to-day on a charge of man.
slaughter, after his automobile had
knocked down and killed Timothy Lane,
ten-year-old boy. The latter was on
his way home from Sunday school, and
was crossing the street when the auto
mobile struck him. The boys neck was
broken and his skull fractured.
Simpson, who is twenty-one years old.
was released in $500 bail.
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Fleet Ready to Start Homeward.

The Atlantic battle ship fleet, now Ut
Guantanamo. Cuba. has completed its
miscellaneous drills preliminary to target
practice. The fleet viii soon leave Guam
tanamo for Hampton Roads. The spring
target practice will be held on the
Southern Drill Grounds off the Roads.
beginning about April 5 next.
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TiIIman Way Go Wednesday,

Senator Tillman has so far recovered
his strength after an Illness of more than
a month that in all probability he will
be able to leave Washington either We'd
nesday or Saturday for his home in
South Carolina to recuperate.
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Special to The Washington Herald.
Warrenton. Va. March 13.-Mrs. Sarah
Spindle, aged eighty-six years. Formerly
of Amisv:lle. Va, died here to-day after
a lingering illness, at the home of her
niece. Mrs. Sarah Hoge.
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st. Louis, March 1s-President Edward
f. Cost, of the Midland Securities Com
pany, a Slo00000O holding company. re-
Gently organized by the John w Gates
interests. died at the Washington Hotel.
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Lecture On California Tonight.

Under the auspices Of the California
State Association. F. n. Poster will de-
liver an illustrated lecture tonight at
the Public Library on "The land Of a
thousand wonders"
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.KHARTOUM AGOG
FOR ROOSEVELT
Arrives To-day with Big
Welcome in Store.
WIFE AND DAUGHTER THERE

Apartments at Palace Prepared for
His Stay, Which viii Include on
Programme Much Sightseeing aud
CeremoBy-MOuntain of Mail for
Former President After Big Hunt.
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HURT In AUTO CLASH
DR.. Lewis ]. Battle May Be
Internally Injured.
sUsTAINS NUMEROUS BRUISES

william EngeI Guides HIS Machine
Into Street Car to Avoid Collision
with Physicians Auto, But Vehicle
9kids and Knocks DIR. Battle I'M
eonsciOus-Friend Escapes.
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An automobile accident in Fourteenth
near Shepherd street northwest yesterday
afternoon may result fatally for DR.. Lew
is J. Battle thirty-eight years old. q
wall-known physician of this city.
lie is at his home. 2S1 Fourteenth
street northwest, in a critical condition.
Physicians fear he is internally injured.
Hs sustained cuts and bruises about the
head, body. arms. and legs.
Or. Battle had been motoring through
the northwest with a patient and was re-
turning to his home. when the engine Of
the machine broke. He stopped the car
NEAR the intersection Of Fourteenth and
Shepherd streets. between the curbing and
the car tracks.
Another Auto Approached.
The physician was examining the engine
when city-bound car and an automobile
operated by William Engel, of 80 Second
street northwest. member Of the firm OF
c. Engers Sons, merchants in Center
Market. approached. Engel saw he could
not pass the car at standstnl in the
street without a collision.
The merchant guided his machine into
the street car. The automobile struck
the car. skidded, and hit Or. Battle. He
was picked up unconscious. Engel re-
moved the physician to his home in the,
automobile. The patient who was with
the physician escaped injury.
Physicians were summoned to the Battle
semi-consciousness. He did not remember
anything of the accident, and asked how
he had been hurt. If internal injuries
were not sustained, physicians say, DR..
Battle may recover.
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GERMANS ARRANGE
ST. PATRICK'S FETE
Irish Celebration at Saenger-
bund Thursday Night.
TURNvEREIN PLANS A DANCE

Germania Club Adopts Resolutions
of Coincidence at Death OF Edward
f. Abner, Its Former President and
Founder-Charter Draped in Mourn
ing for Thirty Days Out of Respect.
Evening journal., 1910-10-20
MIDDLETOWN

Special TO THE EVENING JOURNAL.
MIDDLETOWN, Del, Oct. 20-The
second local option mass meeting will
be held in the Opera House on Friday
evening. The speakers will be the
Rev. Sampel McWilliams, of Philadel-
phia; the Hon. Walter o. Hoffecker,
of Smyrna, and possibly Joseph E.
Holland, Of Milford.
The members of the Woman's Home
Missionary Society, of Bethesda NJ. E.
Church. will hold their annual supper
in the Opera House this evening.
The members of Armstrong; Chapel
will give an oyster and poultry sup
per this and Friday evenings, in the
chapel.
Miss Eugenia Beasten spent Monday
and Tuesday i'm philadelphia
Mr.. and Mrs. Horatio n. Willis and
daughter, of Philadelphia, will spend
Sunday with his father, NJ. n. Willis
and daughters
Mr. and Mrs. w. S. Evans. of Elkton
Nd, spent last Sunday with Mr.. and
Mrs. J. B. Foard.
Mrs. L. G. Sterner, Of Camden, Wis.
tied her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. c
Parker, last week.
Miss Laura Cochran is spending
some time with her sister, Mrs. w. T
Comedies.
Mrs. j. f. McWharter is entertain
ing her cousin from Ocean View, Va
Mr.. and Theodore Kumpel, of Odes.
sa, have rented the Merritt home on
Crawford street, and will soon oc-
cupy it.
Evening journal., 1910-10-20
ORCHARD BOATS
WINTER QUARTERS
Nearly All the Small River
Craft Will be Under Cover
Next Week

Wilmingtons boating community,
the Orchards, below Eleventh street
bridge, will begin the activity pre-
ceding the housing of its numerous
power-boats, canoes, skiffs and other
light craft for the winter. Already
goodly number of the craft that ply
from the Orchards have been tied up
for the cold weather.
It is not probable, however, that
the greater number of Orchard boat
men will withdraw their craft until
the last races Of the Wilmington
Yacht Club at Gordan Heights on Sat
urday, in which a number of Orchard
boats are entered, and in which all
of the owners of Orchard boats are
interested. A fleet of power boats
goes from the Orchards every Satur-
day to witness the races, and the en-
thusiasm for which the Orchardists
are noted, wouldn't allow them to
miss the races.
The Wilmington Canoe Club has
locked up it's craft for the winter.
and the Senator and Olive Clubs and
individual owners have their boats
tied up preparatory to their winter
storage Among these boats are The
Senator, owned by the Senator Club (;
Cadet, Olive Club; Claremont, Stanley
Hammond; Minqua and Nimrod, both
owned by William Baxter; Sea Kid,
Martin Beadenkopf; Rose, Henry Par
sons, and the Lex, James Gillespie.
Next week most of the other boats
of the colony will be brought I'm for
the season.
Evening journal., 1910-10-20
HIBERNIANS In
GRAND BALL HERE
National Officers Will Attend
Reception Here on Thanks
giving Eve

Members of the Ancient Order OF
Hibernians are arranging for the an
nual state ball to be held I'm Irish
American and German Halls on
Thanksgiving Eve. National Prest-
dent James j. Regan, Of st. Paul,
Mimi, National Vice-president Joseph
Mclaughlin. of Philadelphia, and
several of the national directors will
be present. A banquet will be tender
ed them at the Clayton House. The
affair promises to equal if not surs
pass the one held last year when the
national officers were entertained
here and state county and city
officials we're present at the banquet.
John r. Healy is the chairman of the
general committee.
County President Edward Norton
has the degree team practicing for the
comforting of degrees in Irish -Ameri-
'can hall on November 20. when the
Pennsylvania state and county officers
Will be in attendance.
Arrangements will be made at that
time for, the degree team to visit
Philadelphia and confer the degEees
there on a class of candidates.
Evening journal., 1910-10-20
GROWING CHILDREN

play hard and work hard at school.
and rapid growth uses up an enorm-
Gus amount Of energy and vitality
that needs replacing.
This accounts for the many deli
cate, sickly and ailing children we
see on our streets.
We wish the mother Of every such
child would come to our store for a
bottle of Vinol, as it is a delicious
cod liver and iron tonic which chill
dren love to take, and It is easily as
simulated.
A grateful mother in Durand, Mich,
says her little girl was weak, pale,
and had no appetite. She gave her
Vinol and she began to thrive at once
and she gained rapidly in weight.
color and strength. Name furnished
on request)
Vinol builds up good healthy flesh
and muscle tissue and makes thin
little limbs round and plump.
Try a bottle of Vinol with the un-
derstanding that II il does not bene-
fit your child your money will be re-
turned.
Evening journal., 1910-10-20
RHEUMATISM
MARYLAND NEWS NOTES

His motorcycle colliding With
telegraph pole at Pleasant Hin. W.,
X. MADDOX sustained serious injuries.
Governor Crothers started yester-
day on a tour of inspection of the
State roads in Cecil and Hartford
counties.
Frederick Cornelius has been elect
ed president and Robert r. Hill. sec
retary of the Still Pond Farmers
Club
Miss Mollie Rigney, of Wiseburg,
has gone to Chicago to prepare to
enter the missionary work of the
Methodist Church.
The Rev. and Mrs. William w.
Green, of Church Greek, will celebrate
their golden wedding anniversary Sat
urday afternoon.
Farmers in the lower districts of
Cecil county find it so difficult to get
labor that they are paying from $1.50
to 81 per day to corn-huskers,
Awakened by the barking Of a pet
dog, John Johnes, Of Mount View,
found his residence on fire, the family
having a narrow escape The build
ing was destroyed
Struck by an automobile driven by
Miss Toliver. of Kingsville, while rid
ing his motorcycle. Edward Coleman
clung to the car until It stopped and
avoided serious injuries.
Evening journal., 1910-10-20
WIN Not FIJI Yacancr.

It is understood that the Southern
Pennsylvania Traction Company will
not hll the vacancy caused by the re-
moval Of Secretary NJ. j. McDonough
from Chester to Wilmington. That
work will be done at the Wilmington
headquarters. The bookkeeping and
clerical work was formerly executed
al the Chester car barn.
Evening journal., 1910-10-20
GEORGETOWN METHODISTS
GIVE PACKAGES TO POOR

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL.
GEORGETOWN. Del. Oct. 2O.-A
Pass It Along Social" was held at
the home of Miss Sallie Messick, on
Pine street. last night, under the
auspices of the Epworth League OF
Wesley NJ. f. Church. Everybody who
attended carried a package which will
be given to the poor of the town.
Many of the articles will be kept until
this winter, but those of a perishable
nature will be donated to the poor inn
mediately. A larder full of packages
were carried. The Wesley Church Or
chestra was present and gave musi-
cal program.
Evening journal., 1910-10-20
SiekIY Smile

Wipe it off your otherwise
good looking face-put on that
rood health smile that CAS-
CARETS will give you-as
a result from the Cure Of
Constipation-or a torpid liver.
It's SO easy-do it-you'll see.
CAsCARETS loc a box for weeks
treatment all druggists. Biggest seller
In the world. Million boxes a month
Evening journal., 1910-10-20

In 1910 fiscal year Mexico's imports
were $97,42S,7OO gold, increase
S19,00O,000, and her exports were
$13O,O2s, 900. Increase $14,5OO,OOO.