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The Detroit times., 1910-08-08
KING GAVE 300 - -. & Z
YEARS fHrEDoM,'. Y.

King George v. gave a slight
impetus to prison leniency
when he came to the throne.
Il had been the custom on
auch occasions to release a GER
tain number of persons definite
", but IN the present instance II
NJ thoueht better to reduce
III sentences OF all prisoners
o6neWhat. This decree struck
o. 500 years sentence from H.
~ parsons.
The Detroit times., 1910-08-08
SEES DEMOCRATIC VICTORY.
Judge Parker Expects Next HOUSE
viii Be Controlled BY His Party.

NEW HAVEN, CT, Aug. SIT
would surprise me II the Democrats
did not have a substantial majority In
the next house." said Judge Alton B.
Parker, yesterday. He said the change
would come largely over the agitation
regarding the revision of the tariff.
The Republican insurgency was
brought about because the @. o. p.
did not revise the tariff according to
the platform pledge.
Judge Parker said the New York
state Democracy was never In better
shape and II the proper Candidates
are nominated success In assured.
The Detroit times., 1910-08-08
GIRL swIMs IL MILES.
Seven Men Competed Against Her But
Are Forced TO Give Up.

Are Forced TO Give Up.
BOSTON. Aug. S.-A 15year-old
Dorchester girl Rose Pitnoff, yester-
day swan from Charlestown bridge
to Boston light, feat attempted many
times by most Of the best distance
swimmers of the east, but heretofore
accomplished by but one person, Alois
Aaerle. of New York.
Steven men competed against Miss
Pitnoff, but the cold and the batting
this Emile course one Of the severest
attempted by swimmers In this coun-
try, forced them out OF the water.
The girl was In the water hours
80 IL minutes, as against the hours
3S minutes of Aderle, who swan on
August 20 last year.
The Detroit times., 1910-08-08


Some foreign women. prominent
here. have been known to smoke
cigars. Though these facts put the
washington situation in light diff
ferent from that in other American
cities, the local clergy fails to find
any defense for the habit.
THE habit of cigarette smoking
among women, IL to my mind thor
oughly pernicious one from any stand
point" said Canon Austin, OF st.
Thomas Episcopal church today. AS
to cigarettes l personally dislike them
and when a man does smoke, prefer
his using the homely pipe. In women
the habit Of cigarette smoking Is to
be more strongly condemned because
of their greater standing in the socia
scale"
Father Eugene Harmon. of thu
church Of the Immaculate Conception
was equally severe In his criticism
Of the cigarette.
The habit Is obnoxious all arount
and with women, despite the fact tha
the law from a gospel standpoint ID
the same for both sexes, cigarette
smoking Is worse than with men. be
cause OF the example they set. SO
ciety demands q different ethical code
for women for It's own protection. II
in worse for a woman to smoke In pub
lie than in her boudoir. BY this
don't mean that II is not O thoroughly
bad practice even in private, but
wish to show that II Is the bat
example OF woman who smokes tina
makes the habit worse with them"
The Detroit times., 1910-08-08
The Wherefore.

THAT fellow watches the clock a
good deal"
ITS excusable in his case" ex.
planned the indulgent boss. He's
somewhat deaf and can't hear the
whistle. kansas City Journal.
The Detroit times., 1910-08-08
NEW CORPORATIONS.

LANSING, Mich. Aug. 8.--(Special.)
The Campbell wyant and Cannon
company OF Muskegon, capitalized nj
1000, filed articles Of incorporation
with the secretary Of statAs 50.
The Detroit times., 1910-08-08
BURROWS INvADEs U. P.
Nc cts Cannon and Fairbanks at Mack
mac Island Sunday.

MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich, Aug. s.
Senator Burrows today began his
campaign In the Upper Peninsula,
starting at st. Ignace this morning.
He was scheduled to wind up today's
trip with speech In the 500 this
evening.
Supreme Court Justice Day, Speak,
er Cannon and Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
w. Fairbanks are resorting here and
the senator called on them Sunday.
Mrs. Burrows and Mrs. Fairbanks
spent most OF the afternoon together.
The Detroit times., 1910-08-08

who elects the governor Of Call.
fornia7" an Ookland, Cal, Judge asked
an italian immigrant who sought cifi.
zenship papers.
The simple foreigner was daxed.
Then ne remembered something he
had heard on the curbstone.
The Southern Pacific railroad,- he
answered.
He was denied papers.
The Detroit times., 1910-08-08
CAPITAL WOMEN
SMOKE REGULARLY
Criticism Of One or Two individuals
Il Termed Unjust by Wash
ington People.

WASHINGTON. Aug. SIN this
city, where society 10 tinged with the
! habits OF the diplomatic set and where
cigarette smoking IL 90 common
among society women that IL Is no
longer q matter Of comment. there ID
. strong feeling that the anti-cigarette
crusaders have been unfair In direct
Ing their criticism at one or two In
dividual women smokers. Among the
clergy, no one could be found today
to defend or condone the practice but
there IL O general opinion that recent
criticism has been unjust In a personal
way.
The practice, II was pointed out,
was notSonfned to any especial few,
but was quite general among fash
ionable women. AS a regular feature
Of practically every ultra-fashionable
dinner party here cigarettes are usual
" provided for the women. The old
fashioned idea OF the women leaving
the men ut the table to smoke their
cigarettes has almost entirely disap-
peared. and now the men have their
cigarettes and liquor In one room and
the women have theirs In another.
When the occasion is informal and
the company Is intimate II 10 not un-
usual for the women to smoke at the
table with the men.
A cigarette case as a feature OF the
fashionable women's toilette is not a
rarity here. At q recent amateur
theatrical performance purse was
stolen from q prominent feminine
member of the younger set" The
loss was advertised In the papers and
among the contents of the purse was
a jeweled cigarette case. The name
OF the owner was given without any
apparent thought Of embarrassment.
All the fashionable jewelers. here car
ry a large stock of women's cigarette
cases. AS, presents from men, they
are quite common. II 10 not uncom-
mon to see a wife OF foreign diplo-
mat smoking as she sits on the lawn
before her home on a pleasant eve
III -
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-07-08
INSURGENT CONGRESSMAN
is ROOSEVELT GUEST
Poindexter Of Washington VIII Have
ColonePs Support in His Sena-
torial Campaign.

Oyster Bay, n. Y. = Theodore
Roosevelt has espoused the cause
of Representative Miles Poindex-
ter, foe of Secretary Ballinger, and
will take an active part in the fight
Of the Washington insurgent congress-
man for seat in the United States
senate.
The former president made clear
the fact not by direct statement, but
by implication SO strong that it admits
of no misinterpretation Colonel
Roosevelt and Mr.. Poindexter had
luncheon together and conference at
Sycamore Hill, and the Washington
man departed jubilant.
Mr.. Poindexter, after his visit With
Colonel Roosevelt, said: HE Is the
same old president. The man I have
worked with and loved, and l am still
going to work with He is just the
same as ever He is wonderful
leader, and he is still the leader. l am
tremendously pleased with my talk
with him. He must tell the details, If
he wishes, of our conversation. Col.
leOooCf GU anu anu lily dSSCCidtCS
have always worke dtogether, and he
assured me that we will continue to-
gether."
Congressman Poindexter represents
the district from which Secretary Bal
finger comes.
In speaking of the visit of Mr. Pom
dexter, Mr.. Roosevelt said:
Representative Poindexter and
went over together the political situa-
ton in the northwest He assured me
that he is in hearty sympathy with my
conservation policies. Mr.. Poindexter
is candidate for the position of
United States senator and he Is pollt-
lcally opposed to that wing of the
party headed by Secretary Ballinger
Mr.. Po!ndexter Is fine type of a
man"
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-07-08
CROSSED LONG BRIDGE FIRST
One Of General kearney's Men Relates
Entertaining Tale Of Events of
Civil War.

Let me give the true statement OF
the first soldiers that crossed the long
bridge in 1861. The writer was a
member of Company A, Third New
Jersey, portion of the New Jersey
brigade, credited with helping save
Washington, writes Joseph Lawton, in
National Tribune. Our regiment was
the first to cross the long bridge on
the night of May, %, 1861. at about
eleven o'clock and as we carried
company flag ours was the first flag to
cross that bridge. A portion OF this
historic flag Is still In Aaron Wilkes
post room. at Trenton, in glass case.
The passing over the bridge was
witnessed by President Lincoln and
General Scott. When we got to the
bridge General Scott called Captain
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-07-08
BATTLE AT PARIS BEHEADING,
Mob Tries to Rescue Apache at the
Guiliotine.

Partisan attack with revolvers and
bayonet charge on rioters marked
the gu1llotining at daybreak today of
L1aboeuf, the apache who killed po-
nceman several days ago.
The Socialists had attempted to get
reprieve for the assassin, but This
failed, and a violent manifestation by
the revolutionary Socialists occurred
at the scene of the execution At the
moment the blade fell several of the
rioters fired revolvers. Then the po-
lice charged repeatedly with bayonets.
police captain was shot IN the throat
and more than eighty persons were
wounded
The Guerre Sociala issued a violent
pamphlet inviting all workmen So
ciaiists to meet at the Sapte prison,
where the guillotining took place. Pre-
feet Lepine hastily summoned the po-
lice commanders and drew up a plan
to resist any attempted invasion OF
the precincts of the prison or the gull
lOtine
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-07-08
SAILOR DEFENDS COOKS CLAIM.
Says He Climbed Mount Mckinley and
Found Doctors Flag.

Colorado Springs, Col. - P. P.
Carrigan, a seaman and former Alas
kan miner, who is here searching for
former mining comrade, made the
claim that he had assembled Mount Nc
Kinley In Alaska and had there found
the records which Doctor Cook, the
discredited arctic explorer. claimed to
have left on the summit.
Carrigan says that while placer
mining in the Mount Mckinley dis
trict in June, 1907, he struck what he
thinks was the Cook trail, and fol-
lowed it to the top Of the mountain.
Carrigan claims that he had met Doc
tor Cook when the latter was return
ing after the failure of his first Mount
Mckinley expedition and at that time
had suggested to the explorer the
feasibility Of the route by which Cook
claims he afterward reached the sum
nit
According to Carrigan's story. which
JOHN H. Bradley, the milIi onalre and
former hacker CT Doctor Cc,k is In
clined to believe is trua, he found on
reaching the summit OF M unit McKtn-
ley a copper tube containing records
and AT American flag. He says that
not until his return from Alaska re-
Gently did he learn that Doctor Cook
story az his ascent Of Mount Mckin-
ley was doubted.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-07-08
RAILROAD RATES ARE LOWERED.
interstate Commerce Commission
Takes important Action.

Interstate commerce commission
Takes important Action.
ington.-Decisions handed down
by the Interstate Commerce commits
sion are countrywide in Importance.
They reduce freight rates-both class
and commodity-on all transconti-
mental lines operating between the At
lantic and Pacific oceans.
These reductions run all the way
from 20 to SO per cent The commits
sion decided that the capital invested
in railroad property and betterments
shown by reports to the commission
did not justify the advance In rates to
the point marked in the new schedules
filed by the railroads
The decisions are of what popularity
are known as the Pacific coast cases.
They were heard last autumn by the
commission On it's six weeks trip to
the Pacific coast and intermountain
territory and have been under con-
sideration ever since.
The commission realized the i'm
nense Importance of the cases, not
only to the railroads, but to the ship
ping public throughout the country,
and it prepared it's opinions with the
greatest care. In every instance re-
auctions in the existing rates COM
planned Of were made and in some in
stances they amounted to nearly so
per cent
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-07-08
BABY SITS NEAR BIG
FOUR WRECK FOR HOURS
Infants Parents Are Slain-killeo
Number %, Two More Are
Dying.

Cincinnati-Three more persons
injured in the wreck of the Big Foul
Limited near Middletown have died
making twenty-three killed. Two 9th
ers are not expected to live.
Those who died were:
Anniger, William, Springfield.
Unidentified white man
Lloyd. Evelyn, Round Point, Ne.
Oscar Coloweise, a negro, and A. P
Dayton Of Latonia, KY, are not eX
pected to recover.
Officials of the Big Four say that
the cause of the wreck can be found
in the fact that train dispatcher Smith
Of the Cincinnati. Hamilton & Dayton
road in Dayton, is alleged to have
busted" or revoked an order giving
the freight train until 1907 p. ID. tc
make the siding at Poasttown, and Is
ger a copy Of this order. Had he
given Pilot Wall copy of this order
the passenger train would have re
NAMED at Poast-Town until the
freight passed it. General Manager
Gould Of the G. H. G. D., replying tC
The statements made here by Wall
says the case was something like
that, but he would not say SO pos
itively.
An eleven-mcnths-o baby hurled
100 feet from the telescoped second
car Of the wreck was found alive In a
L
the accident. The baby was orphaned
by, the wreck, both parents having
been killed in the wreck. The child
has been adopted by a Middletown
family.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-07-08
EWING WATTERsoN GOES CRAZY.
oon OF Louisville Editor Morally
Mounds Hotel Rrnnriefnr

II
Saagerties, n. Y-Ewing Waiter
son, eldest son of Henry Wat
lerson, editor Of the Louisville
Courfer-J ournal, who has been suffer
ing from an affection of the mind for
several years, became violently in
sane and shot and lnortally wounded
Mlchael j. Martin, proprietor Of the
Market Street hotel. The shooting
was done in the cafe of the hotel and
was without provocation Watterson
ran up the street waving his pistol
Wildly In the air and firing at every
one who crossed his path. He was
pursued by friends of Martin, several
OF whom had guns which they fired
at Watterson, none of the shots taking
erect Watterson was finally over
taken and captured by a policeman
and Is now in the Saugerties Jail,
"nere he raves constantly.
Young Watterson owns a farm
ABOUT five miles from Saugerties
where he lives with his wife and
three children.
New York, July 2.-Henry Waiter
son received the first news Of his
sons trouble at the Manhattan club,
Where he makes his home when in
New York. The colonel was greatly
downcast. He said that he and Mrs.
Watterson had been expecting trouble
from Ewing for years.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-07-08
ELEPHANTS IN WILD CHARGE.
Mammoth Beasts Charge Through
Streets OF Greeley, Col.

Greeley, Col.-Angered by the eff
forts of trainers to separate them
from two small epehants, two big ele.
plants belonging to a circus engaged
in a wild charge down The main street
of this city.
The elephants, which were chained
together, finally crashed through a
fence into the front yard of a resi-
dence, tearing up lawn and shrubbery.
They were making straight for the
house, which would in all proba bility
have been wrecked in the collision,
when they were brought to a stop by
a stout maple tree on either side Of
which they attempted to pass.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-07-08
bALL|NGER SAYS
WILL NOT RESIGN
Secretary Has Conference With
Taft at Beverly.
DECLARES HE'S MO GUTTER
Carrying Out of Legislation Adopted
by Recent Session of Congress
Is Subject of Dis
cussion.

Beverly, Mass. = Richard A. Bal
linger, secretary OF the interior, an
nounced after his conference with
President Taft, that he will remain in
the cabinet. No matter what the YER
dict OF the congressional investigating
committee the secretary decided that
he will not resign.
Secretary Ballinger announced that
the policy toward public domain would
retain the spirit Of conservation, but
would also encourage the privilege of
development. When some one re-
ferred to it "and the Taft-Ballinger
policy" he said:
You may call it what you like, but
! will tell you one thing-it will follow
the lines of the law"
Earlier In the day, before seeing
Mr.. Taft, Mr.. Ballinger said that he
was not gutter" but would not
discuss a resignation. After his talk
with the president, Mr.. Ballinger an
nounced positively that he would not
quit
Il am going to see things through"
he added, referring to the reorganiza-
ton of reclamation work.
The discussion with Mr.. Taft was
entirely on carrying out the orders
signed by the president Saturday, and
on carrying out legislation Of the re-
cent session Of congress.
The ten-day seclusion of the presi-
dent has begun. Senator Warren Of
Wyoming got as far as Boston and
telephoned for an appointment. He
was told that no engagement would be
made with any one for ten days, and
announced over the telephone that
he would take a train home at once
and return later.
Just before the bars were put Beck
man Winthrop, assistant secretary Of
the navy, and Representative John
Dwight Of New York, Republican whip
of the house, slipped into the Taft
cottage, each accompanied by his
wife -.t
Governor Hughes, who has gone to
Sorrento, Me-, to attend the funeral
Of Melville w. Fuller, is not expected
here. No engagement has been made
and nothing has been heard from the
governor by the president
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-07-08
CYCLONE SWEEPS MINNESOTA.
Disastrous Storm, Extending Into
South Dakota, Reported.

st. Paul, MINI. = Reports of a
disastrous cylone in western Mime
sofa and South Dakota were received
here late last night. All wires are
down west Of Benson, MINI. A tele-
phone report from Brookings, S. D.,
says Ringing Brothers menager1e tent
was torn to pieces, but that no one was
injured. The storm at Benson was
accompanied by heavy rain. Two
inches fell in short time. One build
ing was struck by lightning. many
trees were uprooted by the wind and
telegraph and telephone poles were
snapped off like matches. Many shop
windows were broken.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-07-08
GARFIELD SENDS WARM LETTER
Sounds Insursent Slogan in Accepting
invitation to Speak.


Cleveland, ON accepting an in
vitation to speak before the new
progressive Republican organization
of Cleveland on July II, James R..
Garfield, former secretary of the In
terror and warm friend of Theodore
Roosevelt, wrote to the organization a
letter defining his attitude on progress
sive Republicanism.
ut Is most timely to consider what
the progressive movement means and
what action 1t calls for," wrote MI.
Garfield. To-day political liberty is
at stake, and the life of the nation is
threatened by great special interests,
who would control our political activi-
ties for their own benefit. regardless
Of the common good. There is no half
way ground In the fight of today. The
special interests must be driven out
Of politics and kept out. The progress
sives OF today will win the battle"
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-07-08
HAVE FATAL BOXING MATCH.
One Brother Kills Another in Friendly
FroIc With Gloves.

Quincy, Illinois. - Coroner Mi
chael HALEY Of Adams county made
a hurried trip in answer to a call
stating that young man has been &C
cidentally killed Upon arriving at
West Quincy, where he had been sum-
moned, he learned that the dead man
was his own son. James HALEY, aged
twenty, and Michael HALEY, aged six
teen, sons of the coroner, were en-
gagged in a friendly frolic without
gloves. Michael received a blow over
his heart, which caused him to fall to
the ground
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-07-08
PRINCE HENRY<pFF FOR ARCTIC.
ksiser's Brother Heads Expedition te

n GISST oFCLnCT flSd06 EXPEDITION 10
Arrange for Flight to Pole.
Bremerhaven.-Thep preliminary expe-
dition TO observe conditions in
view of Count Zeppelins polar ex.
petition In 1912 sailed from this
port today on the North German
Lloyd steamer Mainz. The members
of the expedition. who with their
servants. total "a, include Prince
Henry of Prussia, brother of the kali
ser: Count Zeppelin. Councillor Lee
valid, who was commissioner from Ger
many to the worlds fair at ST Louis
Professor Hergesell and Explorer
Drigalski
When the expedition arrives in
Spitzbergen it will t-arship to the arc
tic steamer Phoenix. The first OBJ.
ject of the expedition Is to find a suit
able headquarters for the Zeppelin di-
rigible expedition.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-07-08
DIPLOMAT DIES OF APOPLExY.
Owe GUIDE, Norway's Minister, is Vic
tim of Swift Death.

White Sulphur Springs, w Va,
Mr.. Owe GUIDE, the envoy ex-
traordinary and minister plenipoten,
tiary of Norway, and one of the most
popular members of the diplomatic
corps at Washington, died suddenly
of apoplexy last night in his summer
residence in this resort.