Fair play., 1911-06-24
~ EWS
OF THE
WEEK

TICK blenDOn, nave DeeO klllcu Ill Ald-
mo, Mex, and Mr.. Sawdat. the Amer
ican vice-consul at Ensenada, in re-
porting the fact to the state depart
ment. adds that there is dangerous
turbulence at Ensenada.
As a result of unofficial Information
reaching Washington from Toxic the
serious attention of the state depart
ment has been turned upon the activi-
ties OF Japan in carrying out what
seems TO be a definite policy of ex-
pansion in the Philippines and South
America.
Chairman PenTose OF the senate
committee in conference with Presi-
dent Taft confirmed the report that
GO senators are expected to vote for
Canadian reciprocity and predicted
that within two weeks a date for a
vote would be agreed on.
Evelyn Arthur See of Absolute
Life fame, received a terrific srilling
by Assistant States Attorney Burn
ham, at Chicago, in his address to
the jury which is to decide whether
lllt IDuLutI Ol lhG CUT 10 W SpcIu q
term behind prison bars.
Ger. Porfrio Dlaz, former president
of Mexico, arrived in the harbor at
Vigo, Spain, on the steamer Yprnga,
on which he sailed from Vera Cruz,
Mexico, May 81.
Self defense will be the plea of John
V. McStea, the Augusta (Ga.) theatri-
cal manager, who shot and killed First
Baseman Arthur Brown of the Albany
Estate league) baseball team, whom
he found in company with his wife
in Browns room.
To pass on the claims put forward
by many localities and to determine
the adyisability of government action,
Representative Taylor of Colorado in
troduced a Joint resolution providing
for commission on the establish
ment of summer capital.
Three important caucuses will be
held in congress this week. The SEN
ate Democrats will decide their
course on the Canadian reciprocity
agreement The house Republicans
will map their policy toward the I'm
derwood wool bill The house Demo
Gratis will take up the question of
adding in minor particulars to their
legislative program.
Making a direct demand for the
criminal prosecution Of John ID.
Rockefeller, Senator Pomerene CD,
Ohio, delivered a powerful arraign-
toh
trust magnates in the senate.
James Gayley, former vice-president
of the United States Steel corporation,
took the stand for the fourth time
before the Stanley committee investi
eating the Steel trust and members
of the committee Immediately re-
sumed their questions regarding the
agreement as TO price Of S2S on steel
rails
Mrs. Ford testifies in the Cooke en-
bezzlement case at Cincinnati that she
got 1000 from Cooke. who told
her il came from the Big Four"
The sentence of Luther Berry who
was to have been hanged at Spring
field, H., for the murder of Bessie
Smith, alias Elizabeth Hadden, August
23, 1910, was commuted to life i'm
prisonment by Governor Deneen. He
will go to the Chester pepitentiary.
Directors of the Continental and
Commercial National bank and the
Hibernian Banking association ac-
cepted the plans for consolidation
of the two big financial institutions.
The total assets of the new concern
will be $265, 900, making it the
second largest bank in the United
States. The Hibernian has $4,000, 900
In assets and the Continental S245,-
100000
Subpoenas for a number of prom
inent men TO testify in the new Lori
mer investigation have been issued
and a special officer from the office of
the senate sergeantatarms has been
detailed TO serve them.
Equipped with search warrants and
shotguns, AttoYney General Dawson Of
Kansas, with seven former policemen
of Topeka. invaded Cherokee country,
to raid the joints in Columbus. Judge
Charles Sapp of the district court
halted the attorney general and told
him only citizens of the county could
enforce the prohibitory law.
Proceedings in Governor Deneen's
special deep waterway session of the
Illinois legislature show the executive
must make the fight OF his life to
pass his measure through the lower
branch of the assembly.
Her features marred, her eyes
burned out and her body Scared Mrs.
Brunilaus Dujack, Of Chicago, 2S years
old, pretty Hungarian widow, Is dy-
Ing, while Mrs, Elinor Morcholtz. 32,
Is a prisoner. charged with throwing
a quart OF v!triol over her.
William j. Connors and l. j. Dunn,
two of the original members of the
Maybray gang of racetrack swindlers,
walked into the office of the United
States marshal at Des Moines and
gave themselves up. They are wanted
on a charge of using the mails to de-
fSaud.
The federal grand jury investigation
OF the lumber trust was practically
completed at Chicago, and IL was re-
ported that number of indictments
both individual ana against compa
pies which are said to belong to the
trust, have heen agreed upon,