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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-10
SLAYER GIVES HIMSELF W
Hunted Two Years-Says he
Killed in Self Defence.

New Brunswick. n. j.. May 9.-Chhton
Brokaw. OF Lincoln. who has been hun'eo
for two years as a murderer WalKeu
into Prosecutor Boorem's office to-day
in company with George w. Harris OF
Bound Brook. II want TO give myself
up" he calmly announced.
Brokaw having been indicted for the
murder Of Michael Rafferty,. was taken
10 jail.
Since the day Rafferty, was slain. May
/. 1909, Brokaw has not been far away
from home. He was interested In the
sale Of farm, and his signature was
necessary to the transaction. His wife
communicated with him. and after con-
suting friends he decided to give him
self up
Brokaw says that he killed Rafferty, in
defence.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-10
ON LOeB'S HONOR ROLL.

At the recommendation Of Collector Loeb
the Secretary Of the Treasury has ordered
the promotion Of the following employees In
recognition Of valuable services rendered
by them in the detection and elimination
Of fraud I'm the collection Of revenue from
customs a this port George r. Lamb.
Harry II. Waters. George II. Hulse. Louis
H. Du Bois, Louis Freidheim William r.
Bailey. Lester w Hassell. August Engel-
hardt Hugo T.. Moler. John J. Muldoon
Edward q Koch. Henry L. SELF. and
Charles j. Gass.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-10
PSEUDO LORD BEREsFoRD FREE.

Leavenworth. Kan. MAY 9-Colonel Ed
mund Burke. an Englishman. who claimed
10 be Lord Beresford." vas released from
the federal prison to-day. after serving a
three-year sentence for inpersonating A
United states officer
Burke. who was sentenced III 81. Louis.
went to that city tonight.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-10

TRAN SPACIFIC MAILS.

destination ana steamer. Close In y Y PM
Hawaii. japan, Corea. China Phil
ippines Oia san Francisco Man
churia ..-.-.... ............. May II. $50
japan. Corca. China Philippines cia
Seattlsj-Antiiochus ...... MAY II gao
FIJI Islands. New Zealand Australia
via Victoria ealandia ....... MAY a. $50
Tahiti Marquesas via san Fran
cisco Mauposa .....-.......... May Is. $50
Hawaii. Japan. Corea. china Philip
pines via san Franciscol-Chyo
baru Observation-Disclosures. NAV ia q 2n
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-10
Saws She Was Widow.

Mcdonald SAYS in his answer that the
statements Of his wife are unfounded. OK
aggerated and misleading. He opposed the
motion made by her for $500 a month ali
rnonv saving that when he married her
she was the widow of George Delacy Evans.
She had no property. He says he had
treated her considerably. but she had A
had temper and had used drug or strong
intoxlcant This had affected her nervous
system. and he asserts that the story about
the woman who said that he promised to
marry her was nothing more than fiction.
He never had accused her Of burning the
Orange County home. Anyway. he does
not own the property He had given his
wife s25.00O in 1907 when she had asked
him for II because as she said. his visits
10 Hayti were in the nature Of a hazardous
undertaking. and she wanted 10 he pre-
pared for rainy day He had given his
wife $4,000 to make a trip to Europe in
1909, and had given her $4,000 more for
clothes
The foreman of the Orange County es-
tate ADDS an AFFIDAVIT in which he SAYS
that Mrs. Mcdonald tried to commit sui
eide by shooting and by jumping from a
second story window. In replying afTi-
davit Mrs Mcdonald denies this. and says
that Mcdonald induced the man to make
the statement.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-10

are wealthy in their own right sia'eo W
day that they would not contest 'he pr
visions of the will, but would spare
efforts TO procure the conviction oi wv
Mahon on the charge of murder
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-10
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.

MINIATURE ALMANAC.
Sunrise. 4i9. sunset. 7:o4; moon sets. 3:37
moon age, r.
HIGH WATER.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-10
SUES J. P. MCDONALD
Court Orders Railroad Builder to
Pay Wife $500 a Month.
SAYS HE THREW RING AT HER
Husband Accuses Wife of Bad
Temper and Also of Trying
to Poison Him.

James p. Mcdonald, a well known faiI-
road builder. was ordered yesterday pS
Justice Bischoff to pay his wife Mrs. tdi'h
Mcdonald 5000 a month alimony, pendli's
the trial of her suit for separation ne
plaintiff alleges that her husband treateu
her cruelty and deserted her, while MI
Mcdonald who denies these assertions III
his answer has some equally peruneh'
things to say about Mrs Mcdonald.
one Of the enterprises Mr.. Mcdonald now
has in hand is the building OF railroad 1T
Hayti His wife complains that When lie
went there. in 1909. he had neglected u
answer her letters until she had threatened
TO 20 10 Hayti. too The explanation by
Mr. Mcdonald is that he considered It dis
courteous in his wife to typewrite her sig
nature to the typewriter epistles she sent
him. Mrs. Mcdonald, who asked for So"
a month alimony. says the profit from the
construction Of the Haytian railroad will
amount to sloOO.oO
Mr. Mcdonald says his wife has a oad
temper and. besides, is addicted To drug
OF intoxicant habit The couple were mar
ried in 1902 and lived in the Hotel Belle
claire. this city. when not at the stock
farm Of Mr. Mcdonald. in orange County
y Y.
Accused Of Trying to Poison Him
Mrs Mcdonald saws that when her hus-
band returned from Hayt in 1902 ne IN
sisted that she had been trying 10 poison
him 10 get his life insurance He had de-
cided 10 leave her. on going he had taken
a diamond ring from his finger, apparently
something new in the way Of a memento'
for as he had thrown it AT her he had told
her 10 get divorce. Subsequently he haa
brought a frend-Colonel Wilson-to tho
country home. The two men had stayed
there several DAYS entirely ignoring the
presence OF the wife.
About TWO hours after their departure
from the place the daughter of the COOK
had dropped a burning candle in the clothes
press and had set the house afre The de
PENDANT had said his wife had set the IRE 10
get the insurance.
Mrs Mcdonald tells in her complaint OF
az incident in this city. As she was walk
ing in the street yelled woman had APP
preached and inquired whether she had as
Vet obtained divorce. Mrs. Mcdonald
had asked the strange woman a reason for
her interest and the yelled woman had re-
Piled that Mcdonald had promised to marry
her as soon as his wife had obtained 4
divorce and that there was good reason
why he should
Mrs Mcdonald SAYS her husband has an
estate Of two thousand acres near Knox
vile. Tenn. and that he has spent $4,000
on the roads He has paid 500 for riding
habits for his daughter and similar
amount for a single school dress. His SON
also by his first marriage, entered the Ma
val Academy and Mrs Mcdonald saws he
told her it had cost $4,000 TO place MIN
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-10

Harrisburg. Penn, May 9-Mrs. George
Trout. Respondent over continued Illness,
caused the deaths of her two young daugh-
tiers and nearly killed herself to-day by
locking the children in her room and turn
ing on the gas. Mrs Trout wrote a note
IN which she stated that she was i'll and
could not recover She will die.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-10

Philadelphia. May s-Charged with at
lacking Miss Helen J. futile, sixteen years
old. a choir singer at 81. Stephens Church,
II. Hanley Parker forty-one years old.
well known local artist and choir singer,
was arrested at his studio in Chestnut
street. late this afternoon The girl alleges
that Parker attacked her on the sixth floor
OF the Pennsylvania Building. where she is
employed as a stenographer She was
working after hours
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-10
OUTGOING STEAMERS.

'Brings mail.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-10

brow Head. MAY 9--Exeter city tBr). New York
for Bristol
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-20
Appeals to the Popular Will

Thomas Jefferson once said the only cure of democracy is more de- mocracy, and the people are applying this cure to their troubles in connec- tion with conventions, bosses and machines. They are applying more democracy in direct form.
 The initiative and referendum are not new. Legislatures have applied them from time out of mind, but in many states laws are being passed that enable percentage of the peo- pie to propose a measure to become effective as soon as it has been rati- fled by majority of the voters at the next succeeding election.
 This new policy is more of safe ty value than anything else, flor it is rarely resorted to. The large petition that is required involves no little la bor, and the chances are that little will be heard of the plan when legis- latures are obedient to the public will.
 The recall is a newer device. It looks to the voting out of office of an unsatisfactory official. It, too, is based upon a petition embracing percentage of the qualified voters. The commission bill for this city in cludes the recall but not the initia- tive and referendum. Mayors in Los Angeles and Seattle have been re- tired in mid-term under the opera ton of the recall. When a petition of the required size has been filed an election must be held to determine an officials title to the office he holds.
 Cities, and even state, have adopted all three of these great extensions of democracy, and possibly they may prove cures of the evils that have long afflicted the people. Jefferson's remedy has been applied much more drastically than he perhaps antici- pated. but then he did not foresee the evils of politics in these later days of the republic.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-20
Potash in Diplomatic Circles

So difficult has the potash prob lem become that Ambassador Hill has been summoned to come to Washing ton, where, instead of Berlin, the ne- gotiations between this country and Germany are being carried on.
 This diplomatic dispute involves these facts: Last May the German reichstag enacted law fixing the amount of potash which all German mines are allowed to produce and pro- viding that about half the fixed prod uction should be sold in Germany. On any excess over the limited produc- tion the law requires a tax of about 100 per cent of the price at which potash had been sold to Americans. This law, which is said to have been passed at the request of the German potash trust, made it impossible for independent manufacturers to fulfil contracts which they had previously made with Americans. Hence the grievance of American importers. The German trust has since absorbed the independents, and so there is little or no dissatisfaction with the law in Germany. The German gov ernment maintains that the potash tax is not an export duty, but an internal tax, and therefore the United States has no just ground for com plaint.
 The importance of the pending ne- gotiations springs from the fact that Germany possesses about all the so- luble potash in the world, and vast quantities of the material are needed in this country in the manufacture of fertilizers and smokeless powder, not to mention seidlitz powders. The pot ash tax in Germany is, to a certain extent, a tax levied on southern farmers in this country, and this gov ernment is endeavoring to induce Ger many to modify its potash tax. The outcome is still uncertain.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-20

enlarging their holdings of good stocks and bonds. While these conditions last it will be difficult to keep stocks at
 their present level, provided misfor- tunes do not intervene
 "A favorable feature is the steady improvement of the bank situation as
 shown by the last bank call from the comptroller at Washington. In New
 York deposits have gained over $2o0,- O00,000 since the call two months ago, while the Chicago banks reported a gain of over s7,Oo,OOO during the same period. The loans at New York in creased during this period s124.ooO,O 900 and at Chicago $3o,O0O,o 900.
 E Another important feature of slow but far-reaching effect is the improved situation of our foreign trade. Our ex- ports are rapidly returning to normal and healthy conditions. In February our shipments abroad of merchandise aggregated $176.0,000, or $51,000,00 more than a year ago. Importantions during the same period amounted to s121 100000, decrease of sS,400, 900 com pared with last year. This meant an excess of $54,000,oo0 in exports as against an excess of $5,5oo.O00 in im- ports in 1910 and an excess of $7,400,- 900 in exports in 1909 This Is cer- tainly a most encouraging exhibit, and has immensely strengthened our credit abroad"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-20
Sanitation and Aesthetics

One of the most interesting articles in the last Manufacturers Record is contributed by George H. Miller of Boston. It is entitled Sanitation and Aesthetics in Creating City" The we'll known landscape architect starts out by saying:
 The greatest educational value of Corey, Ala, is in it's creating a new standard of living conditions for southern industrial communities. The south is just now having a great in dustrial awakening, and there is no doubt that if advantage is. taken of the latest available scientific knowl- edge in laying the foundation for that development great influence will have been created for attracting best outside labor and the conserva- tion and development of the potenti- ality of existing labor, and it is only a matter of time when a widespread measurable value in the increased efficiency of labor will result. Many of the attacks on the conditions found in the southern mill towns have been unintelligent and unjust, and made with no knowledge of local
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-20
CARUSO WHISPERS -

CARUSO WHISPERS
 From the New York Times.
 Caruso, since his return from Atlantic City. has been sitting daily in tho vestibule of the Hotel Knickerbocker speaking to his friends in almost inaudible whis- pers.s His voice has not yet come back, but he has hopes. Scotti vent up to Caruso recently and commenced con- versation in the same tones that the fa- nous tenor had adopted. At first those standing around imagined that Scotti was initiating his friend to cheer him up, but later it was discovered that the bary- tone had contracted a cold and had Just returned from the doctors who had told him to whisper and not talk.
 Toscanini, the conductor, who is some- what short in stature, came in and tried to enjoy conversation with the two singers. but 1t was a great strain, as he had to stand on tiptoe and put his hand to his ear to catch what they said. Then Caruso sat down to make the work easier for Toscanini. and Scotti bent over to him when he spoke.
 Mime. Aida stopped on her way to the restaurant and spoke a few kind words to the sufferers and walked away after they had whispered their thanks for her sympathetic inquiries.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-20
NATURES FIDELITY

By William Wordsworth. M Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 'tis her privi-
 lege
 Through all the years of this our life to
 lead
 From joy to joy. for she can 50 inform The mind that Is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thought, that neither evil
 tongue, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish
 men, st Nor greetings where no kindness fig, nor The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us or disturb Our cheerful faith that all which we be-
 hold
 Is full of blessings. Therefore let tho
 moon Shine on thee in thy solitary walk, And let the misty mountain winds be free To blow against thee; and, in after years, When these wild ecstasies shall be
 matured Into a sober pleasure, when thy mind Shall be a mansion for all lovely forms, Thy memory be as a dwelling place For all sweet sounds and harmonies; oh,
 then,
 If solitude, or fear. or pain, or grief, Should be thy portion, with what healink
 thoughts, Of tender joy wilt thou remember mo, And these my exhortationsl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-20
SENATOR BUFFALO BILL

to be able to see, in the midst of some all-night session, the rugged form of Sem ator Bill rising in his place, nor to hear that voice which has sent cold chils chas- ing up and down the red-clay spine of Sitting Bull remark: Boys, these here lights goes out promptly in ten minutes; those that wants their hats can get em now" or words to that effect.
 With a senator on the floor able to snuff aL candle at 40 paces. decorum could be preserved on the floor as well as in the galleries without the services of presid- ing officer. With his trusty A pn the ta- ble lid In front of him, who would be-but what's the use? There isn't man, woman or child in the United States who did not at the first mention of the Cody ambition, comprehend at one thought the full possibilities of it's attainment.
 And Major Burkel What a man for private secretary! Senator Depew is leaving us, and there must be some one to keep allow the goodly stream of yarns which has made the United States Sem ate famous from one end of the earth to the other Who is there better qualified to fit into this theratened gap than the major? As for the other aspects. to men ton but a few, where would Champ Clark's mule team be alongside of Senator Buffalo Bills escort of Cheyenne, Sioux and cowboys? It would make the new speaker back number. Hurry along the joyous time-hasten to open the door to Arizona! We can hardly wait!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-20
God shall he my hope, My stay, my guide and lantern to my feet. - King Henry VIZ
Special Interests in Mexico

It is long time between mobiliza- tion on the border of Mexico sixty five years, to be accurate. In March, 1846, this country mobilized an army on the border, and today it is engaged in like effort.
 The movement of 1S46 looked to territorial aggrandizement, and it found favor in the south, where more slave territory was desired. The movement of today is more complex. MT. Taft hopes to render himself popular by a near-war movement along the Rio Grande. He may plead that he is trying to enforce the neu- trality laws, or that he desires to prevent foreign intervention con- trary to the Monroe doctrine, but the real truth is, he is working to help Diaz in order that no harm may overtake the investments in Mexico of foreign and domestic capital. The insurrectos are to be crushed. Those who have capital invested in Mexico are standing up to Diaz, who does not care how much stocks are wa tered. AS things stand Diaz and the big business interests and Uncle Sam are pulling together to crush the in- surrectos.
 The entire business will be probed when Congress meets, and it needs it. It was suddenly and mysteriously concocted, and it stands unexplained today. The men who concocted it. the men behind the scenes-should be made to foot the bills. To make the average citizen pay the expenses of mobilizing an army on distant frontier would be unjust. The big in- terests that induced the President to go into this business should be re- quested to come across with their cash.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-20
From the Washington Post.

From the Washington Post.
 K Tow that the Hon. William F. Cody
 N has expressed desire to become A the first senator from Arizona, op- position to the admission of that territory may be expected to stop as suddenly as a bad man in @ frontier saloon when the sheriff has the drop on him. If there is anybody in public life rash enough to match his mouth against the Cody six shooter, trot him out, and we'll back him for sergeant-at-arms of the next House, which, from all appearances will need a gritty man for the job.
 There is something mighty inspiring and breezy and clean-smelling about this latest sage-brush idea. It would be a grand thing for the Senate. It would lift sensatorial dignity to a noble plane of fact, and put statesmen on their metal as it were. The soft-footed folk would get along well enough, but if some of our leading rantankerous legislators invented by Bill himselg of shooting out falo Bill had carved his initials in his mahogany desk we stand to lose a bet What chance would a nerve-racking fili- buster have against the simple expedient, invented by Bill himself, of shooting out the lights? And twould not senatorial courtesy be elevated and endowed with a new meaning, fresh from the mesquite country, where an hombre who talks too much is regarded as possible rustler and run out of the country? So it would seem. One needs no elastic imagination
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-20
TOMLINSON AND BRYAN
:, the Chattanooea Times.

From the Chattanooga Times.
 What do you know about this?" as they ask in the play-here's the Mobile Register declaring that the fine Italian rand of the Hon. John w Tomlinson of Birmingham may be readily detected in the proposal made that the Alabama legislature indorse the Hon. Judson liar mon of Ohio for the presidency. It Is difficult, in fact impossible. to under stand how this can be true. MT. Tomlin- son was an original Bryan man and has been the fast admirer, friend and uncom- promising supporter of the Nebraskan on all occasions. In fact, 1t was a marvel to MT. Tomlinson's Tennessee friends and he has many, being native of this state-that he could become so slavishlX devoted to the cause of any man as he was to Mir. Bryan.
 If it be true, however. that MT. Tomlin- son is now favoring Governor Harmon. it Is encoura ging, because 1t signifies a loosening of MT. Bryans grip upon his party organization, for, If he has lost MT. Tomlinson, there is none other upon whose unquestioning loyalty he can count. MT. Bryan cannot tolerate Governor Har- mon, just as he could not tolerate Judge Parker in 1904. In 1904 he was able to ex- ercise a certain mastery over his fol- lowers and by his lukewarm support of the ticket aided in its defeat.
 The defection of MT. Tomlinson prom ises that if Governor Harmon should be nominated it will be impossible for Mir Bryan to duplicate the i'll effects of his negative support of Parker in 1904 in the campaign and election of 1912.
 The incident is encouraging in another way: If woodrow Wilson should be nOm- mated. as now seems probable. we have not the slightest doubt of Mr. Tom inson's cordial support: and MT. Bryan's having already been heartily pledged. 1t is pleasant to reflect that these two able politicians will be recognized in 1912. side by side, fighting with the same zeal and earnestness and to better effect and with better results-please Provfdence-as characterized their activity in 1896. 1900 and 1908. At any rate the defection of Tomlinson indicates the weakening of hyphenated democracy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-20
Birmingham and Mobile

Birmingham and Mobile have real ized how sweet 1t is for brethren to dwell together in unity and both cities have done their part toward wipfng out the little clouds of indignation al name omissions as entirely as they once effaced each other from the map said a business man.
 ''The hosts of the Mobile delega- ton attending the chamber meeting relative to the canal Saturday assured their guests that 1t was all 8 mistake. while the Birmingham mem bers received equally positive assur- ance of good will on the part of the Mobilians. The following telegram wal received Saturday by President Rich ard w.. Massey of the Chamber of Com merce from A. P. Bush of the Mobile Commercial club:
 Regret exceedingly my inability tc attend meeting this afternoon. Want to assure you our substantial and con- servative people never thought for g moment that Birmingham intended 1T any way to discriminate against Mobile I am sure your business men are anxi- ous to add every tie that will bind us together. trust that each city wil always cooperate for the welfare o each other. A>P. BUSH"