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The Washington times., 1911-01-28
VAUDEVILLE HOUSES
HAVE A GALA WEEK
Melodrama and Burlesque
Theaters Provide Some At
fractions Extraordinary.

A galaxy of weIl-known popular.
price stars will visit Washington play
houses next week.
Headed by the popular minstrel
George Primrose, the Casino offers an
anniversary bill that also includes
Rutan and his Song Birds" a num-
Der that has already won attention in
this city.
At the Academy. Miss Estha WILL
Jams, who has won attention in the
past few years which will warrant her
entering the high-priced houses next
season, 1t is said, will star in "As the
Sun Went Down." a melodrama Offer
ing.
A burlesQue show that aims to avoid
the beaten track Of that class of en-
tertainment comes to the Lyceum in
The Follies of the Day" The offer
ing is a musical comedy instead of the
old type burlesque, and the specialties
are introduced during the action in
stead of being punched in an olio.
At the head of the cast is Gertrude
Hayes, that popular little burlesque
comedienne, who won honors last year
in her appearance in the same offering.
The Washington times., 1911-01-28
TAKOhA PARK FIRE
Loss TOTALS$2,O0O
Top Floor of Main Dormi-
tory of Bliss School
Destroyed.

Damage done by a fire which prac-
tically destroyed the top floor of the
main dormitory Of the Bliss Electrical
School. Takoma Park. Md, is estimated
today at 5000. The loss is covered by
insurance.
The old Takoma Park Hotel, formerly
occupied by the school, was burned to
the ground about two years ago.
Fire Marshal Nicholson is making an
investigation today to determine the
cause Of a fire which did $3.50 damage
to the stock and fixtures in the mems
furnishing store Of Joseph T. KIawans,
2s Pennsylvania avenue northwest, yes
terday afternoon The building, which
Is owned by the Emory estate, was not
badly damaged. Insurance covers the
loss
The Washington times., 1911-01-28
Wanted in Washington
For Passing Bad Check

Circulars with a photograph and de-
scription of George L. Cheevers, alias
Frederick Reynolds, jr.. wanted in this
city on q charge of passing a worthless
draft for s1S5, were sent out by the
police today.
The man, representing himself as the
son of Frederick Reynolds, a Colorado
millionaire and friend Of the late Thomas
r, Walsh. induced Turner A. Wicker
sham, agent for the Walsh estate, to
cash the draft, which was drawn on the
Stewart County Bank. Of Canon City.
Co. The bank refused to honor the
draft.
Cheevers, according to the police, has
served time in the Concord Reformatory
at Lawrence. Mass, and the State Re-
formatory at Elmira, n. Y.
The Washington times., 1911-01-28
.GOMPERS HEARING
IS NOT DISMISSED
Supreme Court Corrects
False Impression Caused
by Rumor.

Officials Of the Supreme Court of the
United States were today kept busy de-
nying and explaining a rumor which
spread all over the country that the
court had summarily dismissed the pro-
ceedings to determine whether or not
President Samuel Gompers, Vice Presi-
dent John Mitchell. and Frank Nor
rison. of the American Federation Of
Labor were guilty Of contempt in the
famous Buck Stove and Range Com
pany case.
What the court did do was to hint
that it would refuse 10 pass upon the
question whether the Bucks company
should be allowed a permanent injunc-
ton restraining the labor leaders from
continuing their boycott against the
firm. 1t took no action whatever.
Three Separate Issues.
Confusion arose out of the fact that
there are three separate cases involving
the labor leaders, and the Bucks Stove
and Range Company, now before the
court-involving two questions. One Is
an appeal BY the officers of the Fedora
ton Of Labor to determine whether the
Injunction granted by the lower courts
restraining continuance of the boycott
against the Bucks company shall stand: /:
the other two are appeals on both sides
from the decision of the Supreme Court
of the District of Columbia which SEN
fenced Gompers, Mitchell, and Morrison
to Jail for contempt Of court in vtolat-
ing the injunction against a boycott
The boycott matter was settled out Of
court some months ago. During the
course of the argument yesterday after
noon this fact developed, and Chief JUS
tice White declared that the court did
not desire to hear argument in q case
which had already been settled.
Action Probably Monday.
The case was not dismissed. This ac-
tion, however. will probably be taken
next Monday.
The refusal to hear the boycott case
does not affect the contempt appeals.
If the court had refused to grant fur
ther hearing in these cases, 1t would
have been tantamount to dismissal of
the cases at a future date, and the de-
cree of the lower court. holding Comp
ers, Morrison, and Mitchell guilty Of
contempt would have stood.
Hearing of the contempt case will be
continued on Monday, no final decision
on any phase of any of the three ap-
peals having yet been made
The Washington times., 1911-01-28
World Powers Must Aid
To Stamp Out the Plague

PEKING, Jan. 2S.-The great powers
Of the western world must rally to the
aid Of China If the bubonic scourge
which is threatening to sweep north
ward into Russia and Siberia is to be
wiped out Representatives Of the ma
tions of Europe and North America
have so informed their governments,
it was learned today.
The lives of scores of physicians
have been sacrificed in the fight against
the spread of the pestilence. Hun
dreds of soldiers have been sacrificed
in the plague zone.
The Washington times., 1911-01-28
Canal Zone Described
In FarnSWorth's Talk

Nearly 300 high school pupils attended
the Farnsworth lecture at the Columbia
Theater yesterday afternoon on Social
Life in the Canal Zone" as guests Of
the lecturers management.
The talk gave some interesting side
lights on the work Of digging the big
ditch.
Three years is about enough for a
man to stand in Panama." said the
lecturer. And the fourth almost al
ways brings disastrous results. 1t is
probable that the canal will not be COM
pleted within the time designated, as
fully 70 per cent Of the workmen are
ready to quit"
The lecture was illustrated with COL
ored films and motion pictures showing
many phases of the canal zone life.
The Washington times., 1911-01-28
NINTH ANNIVERSARY
OF CARNEGIE FUND
w a S h i n gton Institution
Passes Into Another Year
Without Ceremony.

Although today is the ninth birthday
of the Carnegie Institution of this city,
no celebration is given.
1t was on January 2S, 1902, that An
drew Carnegie gave to a board Of twen-
ty-four trustees S10O00,000 in registered
bonds which bore per cent interest.
With the income from this fund the
work of the institution was begun, and
its efficiency became so apparent that
Mr.. Carnegie was moved to further lib
era!ity. His recent gift of 100000
made the total endowment IS, CO., 900.
The institution has become owner Of
the splendid building at Sixteenth and
p streets northwest, fifty-eight build
ings in other parts Of the United States,
one ship specially designed and equipped
for the study of marine scientific sub
jects, and eight other smaller vessels
used in the same work
The application Of knowledge, gained
In research, investigation. and discov-
cry, to the improvement of mankind
Is the purpose of the institution.
The Washington times., 1911-01-28
The Vital Records.
Births.
WHITE

Hugh T. and Clara Allen, boy.
George E. and Catherine V. McGuirk,
boy.
Arthur ]. and Matilda e. Maxwell, girl
Ira F. and Estella NJ. Hobbs, boy.
Victor V. and Maud B. De Launey
girl.
A. Sidney and L. Kemp Jones, girl
Clarence H. and Augusta L. Mann, boy
Alexander D. and Gertrude Mckenzie,
girl.
William R. and Goldie I. Bladen, girl.
John A. and Violet V. Petz, girl.
Henry n. and Gertrude C. Mcdonald,
girl.
Henry and Anna Alexander, girl.
COLORED.
Henry and Catherine Jefferson, girl.
Edward J. and Eliza Hawkins, boy.
Joseph and Estella Taylor. girl.
Joseph and Minnie Marshall, girl.
William B. and Catherine z. Hill, girl.
The Washington times., 1911-01-28
Pastor Is Sentenced
To Prison for Murder

ELIJAY, Ga, Jan. 2S.-Eight years
in the penitentiary, to begin today,
is the sentence imposed on the Rev.
]. A. Kimmons, convicted Of man
slaughter for killing Carter Linger-
field on Christmas eve.
The trouble resulting in Linger-
fields death took place in the church
of which Kimmons was pastor. His
brother, the Rev. BENJAMIN Kimmons,
was not arrested, although he was
accused of being an accessory to the
crime.
The Washington times., 1911-01-28
MISS ARNOLD ALIVE
|. !. LATEST THEORY
For First Time Parents of
Missing Girl Hope for
Return.

NEW YORK, Jan. 28.-For the first
time since Miss Dorothy Arnold, the
missing daughter of Francis Arnold, q
millionaire importer, disappeared forty.
seven days ago. her parents were con-
vinced today that she is still alive. II
was reported that the missing girl
might be back in her home within
forty-eight hours.
This information came from a private
detective agency which has been at work
on the case from the first, and 1t was
contained in an official report made to
Garvan. the legal representative OF
Francis Arnold.
Message Kept Secret.
A wireless message from John Arnold,
brother of Miss Arnold, received by
another brother, contained some infor-
nation about the missing girl which
Garvan would not reveal.
The revelation came almost simulta-
neously that a man named Griscom, a
relative of Lloyd C. Griscom, former
American ambassador to Italy, was a
suitor of Miss Arnold's. He was sent
abroad some time ago because his faml-
ly objected to his marriage. The name
Of George Griscom, of Pittsburg, has
been mentioned in connection with the
case, but it was emphatically denied
today that he was the suitor referred
to in this connection.
The police believe that Miss Arnold is
alive and well, and that she will soon
return to her home.
My long experience forces the belief
upon me that Miss Arnold did not meet
with violence, and that she will return
to her home" declared Police Commits
sioner Flynn today. II am convinced
that she will return of her own ac-
cord"
Another Account.
Another story to account for her dis
appearance has been given out by her
father.
"A man came to my house last
night" continued Mr.. Arnold, land said
that some time ago he and a friend
were in Philadelphia. There was an au-
tomobile accident in front of the Belle
vue-Stratford, and they stopped a min
ute. They overheard conversation be-
tween two chauffuers, and one said
that the night before he had brought a
woman from New York. The second man
asked how they got her; :! told her a
woman in my automobile had tainted
and she went to her assistance" replied
the man, who continued, we are going
to hold her until something comes out,
and then we are going to get bunch
of money
Il do not believe the story" continued
Mr.. Arnold, amy more than l believe
that the letter that came demanding
5000 was anything more than the work
of come crank. One theory that has
been advanced is that it showed on the
eftc1nCon of December r. and that nv
laughter slipped on a walk, struck her
head, and that she may not be able to
give her name and address"
Francis r: Arnold. father of the
missing girl, in a statement today
said:
"Every item of information concern
ing my daughters habits. her hobbies,
and all of her little foibles were Civ
eli to the detectives and to our law
yers weeks ago. Any insinuation that
the family Is Withholding anything IS
cruel and uncalled for. There IS no
scandal Before God I declare that
we are hiding no skeleton in a closet"
The Washington times., 1911-01-28
Americans Attacked
By DaVila's Soldiers

NEW ORLEANS. Jan. 2s.-Word has
reached here from Limon, Honduras,
that William Lowry. former captain of
volunteers In the United States army,
his wife and partner, a man named
Unger,,- were attacked by the men of
Davila's army early this week and SUBJ
tected to insults and cruelty. Mr.. Low
~ and his friends will appeal to the
State Department for protection and
redress.
The Washington times., 1911-01-28
FALLS FROM WAGON
At CRITICAL TINE
Negotiations for Matrimonial
Truce Rudely Interrupted
by Demon Rum"

Unique overtures for a reconciliation
made by BENJAMIN L. Bowen, a grocer,
In an answer to his wife's petition for
limited divorce are emphaticalIy re-
jected by Mrs. Bowen In an affidavit
filed today. charging her husband with
recent tntoxication."
While negotiations for an amicable
adjustment OF the domestic difficulties
were pending, Mrs. Bowen alleges her
husband became ''beastly drunk" The
affidavit Of private detective, Har-
wood q. Read. Jr., In which the state
ment OF the wife is corroborated. is at
tached.
Bowen's remarkable plea for a recon-
ciiiation was that my wife Is a woman
of robust health, commanding strength,
sagacious, adroit. and mentally my
SUPERIOR" and that he intended to re-
form and be q better husband. He ad-
mitted that he had drunk to excess. but
added. Il am sorry for IT,"
Needed His Wife.
The sum Of the plea was that he
needed his wife to conduct successfully
his grocery business, which they had
built up together, he formerly having
DOch . SACEh aIu olO LnO DOOhhccpSE VI
the same store.
With reference to the promises made
by Bowen in his answer, his wife states
In her affidavit.
II have no confidence In the protesta-
tions Of the defendant In his answer as
to his desire to reform. His said pro-
testations are but a repetition OF SINH
lar prmises frequently made to me, and
in every instance broken, although In
every way ] endeavored to assist In an
effective reformation"
Acting on the affidavit and the origl-
nal petition filed in the case, Justice
Gould issued an order directing Bowen
to pay his wife temporary alimony Of
torney. John Laskey represents Mrs.
Bowen.
Chances Shattered.
1t Is believed that Bowen's ALLEGED
fall from the water wagon at the crit
ical moment has shattered any chance
for q reconciliation, so far as the wife
is concerned, according to Attorney
Laskey.
In the affidavit Of the private detec-
tive II Is alleged that Bowen was taken
home drunk one night this week by two
and that one Of the boys had to unlock
the door for him.
The Bowen home Is at 1922 Eighteenth
street northwest, and the grocery store
is at Eighteenth and streets. Mrs.
Bowen Is not now living with her hus-
band, but denies in her petition that she
deserted him.
The Washington times., 1911-01-28
"Pontoon Peacock" Dead

CHICAGO. Jan. &-Arrangements
were made today for the funeral of
Robert s. Peacock, known all over the
country among veterans of the civil
war as 'Pontoon Peacock" who died
yesterday after a years illness.
Peacock, as a member of the famous
Sturges Rifles, had charge of the force
Chicahominy swamp.
The Washington times., 1911-01-28
Duchess Is Improving.

LONDON, Jan. 8--Physicians attend
ing the Duchess OF Manchester, for
merIy Miss Helen Zimmerman, of Chi
cago, who underwent a slight opera
ton, say today that the duchess con-
dition Is entirely satisfactory.
The Washington times., 1911-01-28
Marriage Licenses.
"HTTT

William S. Harry and Anna L. Cropp,
both Of Tenleytown, D. c.
Norman Stanley and Alice Edwards,
both Of Hanover, Va.
William N. Han, of Staunton, Va, and
Hattie Rea, of Crozet, Va.
Harry Miller and Emma NJ. Winchester,
both of Washington.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-06-14

Three Yale freshmen must appear
in court at New Haven, Conn, to face
charges Of mutilating property, it be-
ing alleged that the students painted
remarks on the sidewalk before an
inspectors home.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-06-14
Foreign

Fishermen Of st. Johns, N F., re-
port finding number Of mattresses
off the southeast coast, which leads to
the belief that ship has been wrecked
near there
M De Broqueville, minister of rail.
roads, posts and telegraphs, accepted
the commission to form a new cabi-
net in succession to the Schollaert
ministry in Belgium.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-06-14
LATEST HAPPENINGS THE WORLD
OVER TOLD IN ITEMIZED
FORM.
EVENTS HERE AND THERE
Condensed Into a Few Lines for tn
Perusa of the Busy Man.
Latest Personal Infor-
nation.
Washington

The Canadian reciprocity bill was
acted on by the senate finance COM
mittee and will be reported to the up
per house of congress without recon-
mendation. The Root mendment to
the print paper and wood pulp provi-
sion was adopted by the committee by
a vote of to g.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-06-14

Carrie E. Nation, sixty-six years old,
who gained celebrity by her use of
Ratchet in the cause of prohibition,
died of paresis in the Evergreen SAN
itarium at Leavenworth, Kan. She
was admitted to the sanitarium Janu-
airy % suffering from nervous break
down.
Private cablegrams received in New
York city announce the death of Mrs.
Mary Kingdom, the mother of Mrs.
George ]. Gould, in Paris. Mrs. King
don had been in bad health for the
past two or three years.
One of the returning passengers on
the Mauritania, which locked in New
York. was Col. William Bromwell
Melish of Cincinnati, grand master Of
the Knights Templar of the United
States.
Mrs. J. H. Wayland, wife Of the edi-
tor of the Appeal to Reason, published
at Girard, Kan, died of injuries re-
ceived in an automobile accident near
Girard
Nathaniel Tooker, seventy-three
years old, first vice-president Of the
Cuban-American Sugar company and
director of other sugar companies,
fell dead in New York from heart dis
ease.
Eighty years of age and still enjoy
ing college life, Mrs. Amy D. Winship
of Racine will enter the University
of Wisconsin next fall as the only
octogenarian coed" in the United
States and probably in the world.
Mrs. Tom L. Johnson, widow of the
Cleveland ex-mayor has brought suit
against the trustees of her husbands
estate to obtain access to safe de-
post vault in New York, in which it
is said there is $4,000 in securities.
Miss Grace Bryan, the youngest
child of William Jennings Bryan, was
married to Richard L. Hargraves,
prominent young business man of
Lincoln, Neb., at Fairview. The we'd
ding was private.
William Cornelius Hall, a well-to-do
retired manufacturer, famous among
college athletes as the captain of the
crew of Bob Cook, who was the father
Of rowing at Yale, is dead at his home
in New York He was fifty-six years
old.
An inventory of the estate of David
H. MOffatt, filed in the Denver county
court, shows that the testator died
possessed of property worth more
than $15,0O0,OOO.
Col. Theodore Roosevelt declares
with emphasis that the story that he
had agreed to support any man for
the Republican presidential nomina-
ton in 1912 was without any founda-
ton of fact
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-06-14

Legislation to replace the Sherman
antitrust law SO as to protect prop
erty interests and the peoples welfare
alike was urged by Ebert H. Gary,
chairman of the board of directors Of
the United States Steel corporation, in
concluding his testimony before the
house so-called "steel monopoly in
vestigating committee.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-06-14
Domestic

Three members of the Ohio general
assembly and an attache were indict-
ed in bribery charges by the grand
jury at Columbus, which adjourned
for an indefinite period subject to call.
It's investigation of legislative bribery
is not completed, but it will not be
resumed for the present.
The largest steamship merger on
the great lakes since the formation
of the Gilchrist and the steel trust
fleets was effected at Cleveland when
the finishing touches were put upon
the merger of five companies con-
trolling twenty-one of the finest bulk
steel freighters on the inland seas.
The new company takes the. title of
the Great Lakes Steamship company.
1t will have paid-in capital of $6,000,-
600.
The United States Steel corporation
has just acquired another competitor
in the Bassett-Presley company of
Cleveland, O., one of the largest job
bling concerns of finished steel prod
ucts in the United States. The con-
sideration is said to have been in the
neighborhood Of $1,O0O,O00.
The Southern Pacific Railroad COM
pany Rocklin-Colfax cutoff, costing
$15,0OO,O0O, is completed This cut
crosses the Sierra mountains thirty
three miles from Colfax, Cal, to Rock
lin, Cal.
Six thousand garment workers are
on strike at Cleveland for recogni-
ton of their union.
Licking postage stamps for patrons
of the government is the cause of
serious case of blood poisoning of Miss
Grace Hamilton, clerk in the postof-
fee at Fayette City, Pa, according to
her physicians.
Joseph D. Bren, former cashier of
the University of Minnesota, who was
arrested a week ago, charged with
being short in his accounts $13,80O,
was rearrested and bail was raised
from $4,000 TO $4,000.
One of the most important actions
taken by the judiciary committee of
the Connecticut general assembly by
its present session is it's decision to
ro-,oOxo tho S6 000 limit for dam
in case of death by accident
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-06-14

A semi-military body known as the
Crawford and Cherokee Volunteer as
ISOLATION was chartered at Topeka,
Kan, with the purpose of driving vio-
lators of the prohibitory law out of
Crawford and Cherokee counties.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-06-14

Santa Fe's crack train, California
Limited, met head-on with light en-
CINE near Domingo, Is miles from Al
buquerQue, N. M, resulting in the
death Of J. w. Green Of Las Vegas,
N. NJ, the engineer of the light en-
CINE; the fatal scalding of Ray G.
Flowers, fireman Of the limited, and
the injuring of fifteen or twenty pas
sengers.
After cutting out his wifes tongue
and nearly disemboweling her, John
Sowagye, at Cleveland, O., committed
suicide rather than be captured by
the police.
Forest fires, raging in the Dragon
mountains, near Tombstone, Ariz.,
have been gaining Roadway despite
the efforts of a large force of ran
gers.
Governor Dix has signed a bill pro-
hibiting the admission of boys under
sixteen years to pool and billiard
1cO1A0 "a PuOA1C DOW1IuS d11GyS Ill NEW
York state
In a quarrel over the possession of
a package of letters, w. E. D. Stokes,
millionaire proprietor of the Ansonia
hotel in New York city, was shot
three times in the legs by Lillian Ora
ham, singer, and Ethel Conrad, an
artist, at the young women's apart
ments.
The Wisconsin senate adopted
resolution declaring that Senator
Isaac Stephenson bought his seat in
the United States senate and request
ing that body to investigate his cleo
ton.
G. Frederick Kohl, a prominent San
Francisco capitalist, was shot and
probably fatally wounded by Adele
Verge, a French maid, until recently
in his wifes employ. A lawsuit was
the cause for the shooting.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-06-14
The EnuIish Crisis.

Jason Blogg (of Pittsburgh Well,
Hypatia, which of EN- have you con-
Guided to take, the Earl of Oldpark
or the Count Appoggiatura Miss Hy-
patia-I'm going to await develop
ments, pop. If the Earl loses his veto,
maybe I'll take the Count.-London
Punch.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-06-14
Sporting

Billy Papke, the American fighter,
knocked out Jim Sullivan, the Eng
fish champion, in the ninth round Of
their 20-round battle at London. This
victory crowns Papke as the middle
weight champion of the world.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-06-14

By unanimous vote the United
States senate approved the action of
the committee on privileges and cleo
lions in naming a subcommittee Of
eight to conduct the new Lorimer
investigation. The subcommittee is
clothed with wide authority and will
begin work Immediately.
One of the unique invitations re-
ceived by President Taft came from
the Anti-Horse Thief association of
Kansas and Oklahoma, which asked
Mr.. Taft to come to Arkansas City,
Kan, to address it's convention July
49, The president was compelled to
decline the invitation.
The long expected wool tariff revi-
sion bill was presented to the house
of representative by Chairman Under
wood of the ways and means commit
tee. The measure was accompanied
by lengthy report from the Demo
Gratis of the committee in it's favor,
while the Republican members unani-
mously reported against it. The re-
port attacks President Taft and the
tariff board.