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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-03-25
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Methodist EPISCOPAL Church.

Sunday school 9.15 a. m. Special
exercises. Mems Bible class taught
by Mr.. Geo. r.. Gehr. Preaching 1890
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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-03-25

daughter, Mrs. Gates Smith, of Blake
ly, Ca, she is survived by two sisters,
Mrs. Philip Tilyard and Mrs. Alfred
Tilyard, both of Baltimore.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-03-24
$1OO REWARD, s1OO.

The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages. and that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Ca. tarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internal 1y, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system there by destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the const!tu- tion and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in it's curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials.
 Address F. J. CHENEY & CO, To- ledo, o.
 Sold by all druggists, 75c.
 Take Halls Family Pills for consti- patton.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-03-24
:T,AKESIDE SCHOOL
 HONOR ROLL

Room Hunter Woodbridge, Lau- ra Gengrich, Carleton Woodbury, Ar thur Lane, Will Sallee, Ovey Story, Lewis Payne, Cliff Turner, Francis Sheppard. Class leaders. Hunter Woodbridge, Carleton Woodbury and Cliff Turner.
 Room 2-George Payne, Leslie Thomas, Callie Holcomb. Thelma Ow- en, Charley Davis, Wade Dalrymple, Bennie Sanders, Tom Wilson. Class leaders, B-2nd, 1st. div, George Payne; 2nd. div, Thelma Owen; A. 2nd 1st div,, Wade Dalrymple; End. div, Charley Davis.
 Room 3-Richard Flournoy, Robert Byrd, Harry Stewart, Melba Hestand. Rosa Poynter, Willie Sanders. Yer ma Williams, Angus Parker, Hubert Roberts, Harry sivess Class leaders, Robert Byrd and Angus Parker.
 Room Aubrey Spears, Ava Cald- we'll, Hazel Moseley, Sibyl Redman, Joe f16uSleF. N1dSS 1cduSI Sul oCtai McDaniel and Merle Smith.
 Room 5-Garlena Howie, Marguer- ite Brewster, Gordia Hess. Class leaders, Gordia Hess, and Lillian Gilbreath.
 Room 6-Neil Hanf, Lula Dalrym. pie, Mary Henry, Mack Little, Edith Little, Jessie Williams, Adele Hud- son. Clara Langford, Grace Steed. Glass leaders, B-7th, Mac Little; A 9th, Grace Steed.
 Roome S-Grace Beard, Mary Gen. rich, Willie Jack Helton, Winnifred Jenkins, Dorothy Matthews, Ida May Wilsog Class leaders, Mary Gen. grich, Ida May Wilson.
 Room Ambrose Mayhugh, Ben- nie Christopher, Harlow Sanders, Edna Blackburn, Winnifred Thomas, Gretchen Williams, Etta Winters, Grace Wyatt. Class leaders, Am prose Mayhugh.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-03-24
patton

We are headquarters for Gar den tools". Poultry Wire" heavy or heht, high or low. also Square Mesh and Diamond Mesh ''fteld fence" In all nights. See Cleveland AGatthews Hardware 60.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-03-24

The Defendant, Alice Virgil is warned to appear in this court with in thirty days and answer the om- plaint of the plaintiff, S. A. Miller. Given under my hand and the Seal of said Court this 2nd day of March, 1910.
 EDGAR BREWSTER, Clerk. F. E. RENFROW, D. c.
 8 3 10 F "A q.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-03-24
WARNING ORDER.

In the Chancery Court of Jefferson County, Arkansas.
 S. A. Miller, Plaintiff, vs. Charlie Virgil and Alice Virgil, Defendants.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-03-24

We give you the best process of cleaning and pressing in the city. American-Excelsior Ldy. Go.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-23
CLOWERY QUITS
WESTERN UNION

New York, Nov. 23.-President Glow.
ry of the Western Union resigned to,
day. and Theodore n. Vail, president
of the American Telephone e Tele-
graph company, which controls the
Western Union, was appointed to fill
the vacancy.
Clowry, in his letter of resignation,
says that, having been continuously
engaged in the telegraph business for
more than 30 years, he feels he is en-
titled to retire from the service and
take a much needed rest. Clowry, in
a message to the employees of the
Western Union, bespoke for their new
president their hearty cooperation and
support. Newcomb Carlton of the
British westinghouse company, was
elected vice president of the Western
Union.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-23
GROWING BETTER
Civil Service Has Improved
State Charitable Institutions
Officers Agree.
MEET IN A CONFERENCE
Governor Deneen Compliments the
Board of Administration Upon
Showing 1t Has Made.

Springfield, ILL.,, Nov. 23.-Civil
service in Illinois has improved the
service of the state hospitals, es-
pecially in the medical branches.
This is the opinion OF DR.. Frank P.
Norbury, superintendent of the Kan
kakee state hospital, as expressed
yesterday at the joint conference of
the state board of administration, the
charities commission, the pellagra
commission and the managing offic-
ers of the IT charitable institutions
of Illinois.
Deneen Pays Compliment.
Governor Deneen, addressing the
conference, complimented the board
of administration on the excellent
condition in which 1t had placed the
state institutions during its brief
existence of ten months. The gov
ernor returned from his Minnesota
ranch for the meeting.
w. B. Moulton, chairman Of the
civil service commission, told those
at the conference that the greatest
problem in the state institutions was
one of cooks. He said that while
Illinois purchased good foods for its
W dI us II udu OCCll uhcADlt " SCI SOON
cooks to prepare it.
Dr. Frank p. Billings of Chicago,
President Sherman of the board of
administration and number of
others addressed the meeting.
Recommendation Made.
AS a result of the conference the
following recommendations were
made. Creatinn of school -5or- i'm
provable feeble minded patients, es-
tablishment of a colony of improv-
able epileptics, segregation of the
epileptic insane, erection of separ-
ate homes for nurses and superin-
tendents and special quarters for
medical stRffs in connection with
hospitals. erection of a receiving
psychoopathic hospital in Cook
county and establishment of an ad-
ditional hospital for the insane with
a capacity of 800.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-23

Taft arrived here at $50 last night
from Hampton Roads to remain until
today
Friday night last, about 140 miles
south of Guantanamo. Cuba, the cruis-
er Tennessee, with the president
aboard. narrowly averted a collision
with a German training ship supposed
to be the Freya-
A heavy squall had shut in around
the presidential squadron, the weather
being so thick that the steersman
could hardly see ships length ahead.
The storm was brief, and, as it clear
ed, the big German ship was cutting
directly across the Tennessee's steel
bow, not a quarter of mile away.
The helm of the Tennessee was put
hard over. The Freya continued on
it's course. There was no exchange of
signals.
Good Start Message.
The president spent three of the five
days of the homeward voyage at work
on his message to congress and dicta-
ted the first draft of most of it.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-23
MEND THE BREACH
Threatened Split Between
United States and Canadian
Unions Averted.
TEACHERS CAUSE URGED
Higher Salaries Demanded-AppeaI
for Aid in Sale of Red Cross
Stamps Adopted.

st. Louis, Nov. 23.-A threatened
split between the labor unions of the
United States and Canada was
smoothed over yesterday afternoon
in the American Federation of La
Dor, by the action of President Sam
uel Gompers and his friends.
The convention adopted a resolu-
ton favoring local self government
for the District of Columbia and the
city of Washington
The resolution indorsing the bill
before congress for the creation OF
a "chi1dren's bureau" in the inter
ior department was referred to the
executive council for investigation.
higher standard of salaries for
teachers of the country was urged
in a resolution. in which specific ref
erence to the efforts of the Buffalo,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-23
THIS BLACKMAILER
ANSWERS FOR CRIME
CIevelander Who Demanded 5000 for
Suppressing News Story Is
Found Guilty.

Chicago, Nov. 23.-Leaying the hear
ing of her suit for slander and black
mail against John Feller, editor of a
weekly paper in Cleveland. Ohio, Mrs.
Grace Sturtridge yesterday came to
the bedside of her husband, who is
seriously i'll in a Chicago hospital. a
few hours later the jury found Editor
Feller guilty of the charges. Mrs.
Sturtridge declared Feller demanded
5000 for suppressing a story regarding
d dinner that lasted until the wee
sma' hours"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-23
ILLINOISAN KILLS
WOMAN AND SELF
Charles Eeathers, Former GlasfOrl
Merchant, Commits Double
Crime at Peoria.

Peoria, ILL.,, Nov. 23.-Charles Leath.
ers, aged As, once a prosperous mer-
chant of Glasford, H., shot and killed
his supposed wife, Anna Leathers. at
the residence of Harry Willis in Tri-
City today, and then committed sui
eide. Since Leathers arrived in Pc
oria the woman made frequent visits
to the Willis home. where she was in
troduced as his wife.
1t developed later the murdered
woman was a milliner at Litchfield.
Ill, and came to Peoria seven
months ago. Her name was Mrs.
Iva Cantrall. According to a dis
patch from Glasford, Mrs. Leathers
died six months ago.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-23

n. Y, teachers to better themselves
was made.
In Tribute to TOIstOI.
AS a tribute to the memory OF
Count Leo Tolstoi the delegates
stood for an impressive minute of
silent meditation. This action fol-
lowed the adoption of a resolution
which said that Tolstoi's death was
an international loss.
John Mitchell's resolution, which
recommended that laboring men use
every effort to promote the sale of
Red Cross Christmas seals, the pro-
ceeds to be used to fight tuberculosis,
was passed unanimously
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-23
TAFT AT RICHMOND
President Spending Strenuous
Day at the Virginia
Capital.
NEAR COLLISION AT SEA
Cruiser Barely Missed Hitting Ger
man Ship in Storm-Message
Well Begun.

Richmond, Va, Nov. 23.-President
Taft's Richmond hosts had the chief
executive up bright and early this
morning and started on a program
which gave no promise Of a spare mo-
ment up to the hour of his scheduled
departure for Washington this even
ing At $50 he breakfasted with Gov
ernor Mann at the executive mansion.
Reviews Cadets.
At 80 the president was escorted
to the Jefferson Davis monument,
where he reviewed the cadets of the
Virginia Polytechnic institute and the
Richmond Blues. Then he was taken
for an automobile trip, and later was
the guest of $50 citizens of Richmond
at luncheon.
Richmond, Va, Nov. 23.-President
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-23
WORKS FOR CLEAN RIVER
Stubbs Agitates Movement for Keep
ing Sewage Out of Missouri.

Topeka, Nov %. Governor
Stubbs it is announced has asked the
government of the states bordering
on the Missouri river to appoint a
commission to draft a uniform law
regulating the discharging of sewage
in the river.
Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa
and the Dakotas have cities which
take their water supply from the
Missouri river and each of these
cities in turn pours into the river
the sewage. There have been sew
eraI outbreaks of typhoid fever in
the river towns and the disease is
traced to bad water.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-23
FIVE IN REVOLVER BATTLE
Dispute Over Money Matters Brings
West Virginians Together.

Charleston, w. Va, Nov. 23-Five
men were shot and more or less SER
iously wounded in a revolver battle
which occurred near st. Albans. w.
Va. yesterday, according to reports
which reached here at night.
The wounded are: Robert Racer.
Walter Racer, lynn Austin, George
Adkins and James Tigram.
The shooting is alleged to have
been done by two men whom the
wounded men had a dispute over
money matters and who had barri-
caded themselves in their home
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-23
One victim in Bad way.
Many sim Locked Up.
Writes of Arsenal.

Arms and the Man. a military
shooting weekly published at Wash
ingtOn, d. c.. contains iii the current
issue a well written article on Cur
Island Arsenal" the local military es-
tablishment. Several views are used
as illustrations. The author is James
A. Drain.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-23
HINES COMPANY BUYER
Corporation Acquires Holdings of St
CrOiX COmpany

st. Paul, Nov. 23-The Edward
Hines Lumber company of Chicago
has taken over the entire proper
ties of the St. Croix Lumber COM
pany of Winton. Mimi, at a consid-
Grafton of $2,5OO,0OO. The proper
ties include 30,OOO,OOO feet of lum-
Der, mostly pine, 50,O0O,0OO' feet of
logs In the ST. Croix river, mills and
other buildings at Winton.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-23
CULLoM 81 YEARS OF AGE
Says He Is Feeling Fine and Going to

Says He Is Feeling Fine and Going to
Live as Long as He Can.
Washington, Nov. Ex-senator Shell
by NJ. Cullom was 81 years old yester-
Gay. He celebrated the event in part
by reading many kilograms and letters
of congratulation from friends back in
Illinois and in other parts of the coun-
try.
II actually had forgotten it was my
hirthdav-' said the senator in the after
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-23
FALLING WALLS KILL O.
Family of Cleveland Tailor Caught
When Concrete Building Tumbies.

Cleveland, Ohio. Nov. 23.-The
wife of Simon Frutkin, tailor, his
two small children, and servant
were crushed to death by the col
lapse of a new concrete mercantile
building last night. An explosion
of unknown origin is believed to
have caused the disaster. A baby,
youngest of the Frutkin children,
was saved by a bureau under which
it had rolled and which supported a
weight of many tons until rescuers
found the child unharmed. Frutkin
was badly injured. His two appren-
tices and a woman and a child es-
capped at the first warning sound.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-23
CHANUTE, FATHER
OF AEROPLANE." DEAD

Chicago, Nov. 23.--Octave Cha
mute, 1.-The father of the aeropIane, .
died at his home in Chicago today,
after an illness of several weeks.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-23
CRIPPEN, IN A STATE OF
COLLAPSE, GOES To DOOM

noon, until I came to my Office this
morning and found that my friends
had remembered it. l never expected
to reach this age; in fact, when was
youth, / had no expectations OF life
beyond 35. But 1 am feeling fine right
now and I'm going to live as long as
l can"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-23
new YORK GAINS
8 CONCRESSMEN
UNDER CENSUS?

Washington, Nov. 23.-The popula-
ton of the state of New York is g.
1929, an increase of 1,S44,3S5 On
the present basis of apportionment
New York state will gain eight or nine
representatives in the lower house Of
congress.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-23

huahua. Insurgents are massed out
side the city and have control of a
large territory. The government
forces and property owners are in pos
session of the city. All is quiet at
Mexico City, Puebla, Orizaba, and Pa
Chuca
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-23
Remarkable Health Record.

Sterling claims the unique record of
having been absolutely free from con-
tagious diseases of all kinds since
May II. 1909, and the case at that time
was a mild attack of measles There
were three Eases last year and four
in 1905
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-23
In Fanatic Frenzy They
Continue Rioting All
Night.
ATTACK MANY HOMES
One Minister in Bad Way as Re-
suit of Assault Made by
Band of Women.

London, Nov. 23.-The rioting of
suffragets yesterday. which began with
the assault on Premier Asquith, con-
tinued throughout the night. Driven
from one district so many of the wo-
men as escaped arrest would gather at
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-23

Temperature at a. m, 38. Highest
yesterday, AZ; lowest last night, 81.
Velocity of wind at I a. m, miles per
hour. Precipitation. none. Relative
humidity, at p. M SO, at Z a. m. II.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-23
carroII's Plurality 1s.444.

Des Moines, Nov. 23.-Returns from
every county in the state filed with
the secretary of state give Carroll, re-
publican for governor, plurality of
i9 AAA
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-23
Miners Escape Fire.

Denver, Nov. 23.-Fire started in
the Fremont mine of the Colorado
Fuel and Iron company at $3.50
O'Clock yesterday afternoon. There
were 200 men in the mine but 1t is
believed that all escaped safely.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-23

From noon today to noon tomorrow.)
Sun sets 4:33, rises 6:54; moon rises
11:3S p. m; 1:05 p. m, eastern time,
moon at last quarter. in constellation
Leo; asteroid Vesta. now visible In
constellation Cetus diameter 240
miles,. rises $40 p. NJ, sets All a. m.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-23
Expect Battle at MoncIovn.

Ell Paso, Texas, Nov. 23.-Reports
from Monterey declare federal troops
are enroute TO Monclova, Coahuila, to
meet Madero who is reported march
ing on that place with about 1000 we'll
equipped cavalry and several hundred
infantry. This force, it is said, is be-
ing augmented by recruits all along
the line of march
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-23
4.7e7.f21 in Ohio.

Washington, Nov. 23.-The popula-
ton of the state of Ohio is 4,767, ,121,
an increase of 609.576.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-23
MADERO PROCLAIMS SELF
PRESIDENT OF MEXICO
THE WEATHER

Generally fair tonight and Thursday.
Slightly cooler tonight. with the low
est temperature about the freezing
point.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-23

another point and renew the battle.
Advancing under cover of a fog at
2:30 this morning, militant band cir
cumvented the police and stormed the
Asquith residence in Downing street.
Attack Many Homes.
They hurled stones and metal
weights at the house, breaking the
glass in all the lower windows. Ear
lier in the night the women smashed
windows in the homes of Sir Edward
Grey, foreign secretary; Lewis Har-
court, secretary of state for the colo
nies, and Winston Spencer Churchill,
home secretary.
One Victim in Bad Way.
Augustine Birrell, veteran chief sec
retary for Ireland, was the victim of
the most vicious and serious assault.
AS a result of the injuries from blows
and kicks the aged statesman is to-
day confined to his bed and under care
of a physician.
Many still Locked Up.
One hundred fifty-six women and
two men who took part in yesterdays
riot were arraigned in police court to-
day. Those charged merely with OBJ
struction were discharged. Others
were returned to Jail to be held for
sentence later.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-23

Only slight changes in the Missis-
sippi will prevail from Clinton to Mus
Catine.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-23
War Department Acts.

Washington. Nov. 23.-In response
to a request from the department of
justice, which is charged with the re-
sponsibility of seeing that the United
States is not used as base of war in
connection with the Mexican revolu
ton. the war department today in
structed General Hoyt, in command of
the department of Texas, to respond
TO requests from the United States
marshals for assistance of troops in
preventing violations of neutrality.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-23
ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS.

JIM. sHERIER, Local Forecaster.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-23
RepuIsed Mt PnrraI.

mafSnalS tOr assistance OF troops IN
preventing violations of neutrality.
RepuIsed at PnrraI.
Mexico City, Nov 23.-Four hundred
Ievolutionists who took part in the as
sault on Parral, referred to in Mon
days dispatches, were repulsed with
q loss Of 13 dead, the inhabitants with
standing the attack for many hours
Until troops were able to reach the
scene from Chihuahua and Monterey.
Gomez Palacio was retaken yester
day by the federal troops, according
70 official advices received here. The
looters who occupied the town Mon
Gay night were pursued by mounted
troops and eventually dispersed, los
ing seven dead. The troops lost two.
Documents found in the house of a
1evolutionist are said to Lave revealed
conspiracy for the wholesale assas-
sination of prominent government Off
GERS, including Foreign Minister Creel,
Vice President Corral and other prom
lnent Mexicans, among them Editor
Spindola, owner of FL impartial.
President Diaz was to be taken, but
.iis life spared because Of his past SER
Y ices 10 the country. ne DOUIoS OI
those killed were to be suspended from
electric light wires in the streets. The
building of El Impartial was to have
! cen destroyed with dynamite.
Police Make Raid.
The papers exposing the conspiracy
were discovered during a raid by the
police on Sunday. Three employees of
Fl Impartial had been furnished with
he explosive and were instructed to
use it at the first report of the upris-
ing, which was planned for last Sun
day. The seizure of the plans on the
lay upon which they were to be exc
cuted is thought to have had great
effect in heading off the rebellion.
Great difficulty is experienced in
getting authentic reports from dis
tLIbed sections. The censorship is
strict. and in many instances the gov
has taken possession of the
telegraph wires to the exclusion at
least of press dispatches.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-23

N. Y. teachers to better themselves
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-23
Government in Control.

FL Paso, Texas, Nov. 23.-Advices
seemingly authentic show today the
federal government is again in CON
troll in every town in northern Mexico,
save perhaps MADEIRA, from which
nothing can be obtained. The revolu-
tionists have disappeared in the noun
tainS