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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-02-15
STRIKES AT DIRECT VOTE.
Lodge Says Amendment Violates
Plans of Constitution Trainers.

Lodge Says Amendment Violates
Plans of Constitution Trainers.
Washington Henry Cabot
Lodge of Massachusetts in speak
ing against the proposed consti-
tutional amend which provides for
the election of United States sena-
tors by the direct vote of the peo-
pie, advocated the greatest resistance
to the attempts to transfer from
congress to the various state legis-
latures the control of the time and
manner of electing SEN. Jrs.
Mr.. Lodge was speaking in opposi-
ton to the proposed amendment to
the constitution as whole, but found
an especial mark in the portion plac-
ing the direct management of senate
rial elections in the legislatures.
Declaring that the proposed change
in that respect strikes at the very
foundation of the national govern
ment," Mr. Lodge said that the amend
ment violates the plans of the trainers
of the constitution.
1T is amazing that it should be sug-
gested at a time like this, when the
government is of necessity taking up
new duties and new obligations, as
demanded by the conditions Of the
time; at a moment when The govern
ment requires all its strength. And
yet it is proposed here to weaken it,,
to take from it the one power which
in the time of stress Ii assure it's
existence" said the senator. Too
much has already been sacrificed to
preserve the union of the states to
permit any tampering with those
clauses which guard it's very life"
The Massachusetts senator contend
ed for the maintenance of the cOnsti-
tuition in its integrity. ut has," he
said, shown itself capable Of adap-
tation to the new demands as it has
adapted itself to those of the past. and
/ have hoped and believed that the
new policies and the necessary re
forms which the people desire could
all be brought about as they have
hitherto been accomplished under the
constitution.
New prophets have arisen, how
ever, who are not content witt. the re-
forms which have been and which will
be effected by law, and they demand
that the constitution itself be changed
It's success in the past, which has
challenged the admiration Of the
world, is not to be considered as any
plea in it's behalf"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-02-15
COMPANY TO PAY FOR INSULT.
Girl Given Damages Because Man
Was Not Elected From Car.

st. Paul, Minn.-Because Miss Rose
Chadima. a South st. Paul girl,
was obliged to listen to abusive
language while riding on car, Judge
John w. Finehout has directed the
street railway company to pay her
$500 damages. The case grew out OF
the failure of the conductor to eject
the cause of the annoyance.
When Miss Chadima, who is slight
and frail and looks to be only child,
boarded the car, Otto Valrath, labor
er, also got on. Recognizing her as
the daughter of a man he had had
dealings with, the man took seat
beside her and began to upbraid her.
He was partly intoxicated, and used
profanity and vile epithets. The con-
ductor, appealed to. refused to inter
cede.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-02-15
PLAGUE BODIES ARE BURNED
Nearly 5000 in Hardin Are Destroyed
in Outskirts of City.

Hardin, Manchuria.-Already nearly
5000 bodies of victims of the plague
have been burned or buried in the out
skirts of Hardin. Forty-eight hundred
of these came from the Chinese town
and 1000 from the Russian quarter.
Sixteen stacks of collins and seven
pits filled with bodies and oiled logs
blazed outside the town.
The mortality among the physicians
and the hospital attendants is high,
considering the means taken for their
protection, and doctors, nurses and
orderlies are succumbing to the dis
ease. The sanitary authorities hope
soon to test serum of their own manu-
facture from the Manchurian bacilli,
as the foreign importations have
proved ineffective.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-02-15
INDIcT TWO GOTHAM BANKERS
Officers of Robin Institution Charged
With Violating Penal Code.

New York-Indictments were order
ed by the grand jury against William
L. Brewer, vice-president, and William
H. Mills, cashier, of the Northern
Bank of New York, the Robin institu-
ton which was closed recently.
The indictments charged violation
of that section of the penal law which
prohibits concealment of loans by Of
ficials of a bank from the directors
or trustees of the institution.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-02-15
NINE CADETS ARE REINsTATED
West Pointers Dismissed by Roosevelt
Given Right of Trial.

Washington.-The nine West Point
cadets dismissed for hazing from the
academy in 1908 by President
Roosevelt and Secretary of War
Wright were reinstated under a bill
which passed the house, it having
previously passed the senate. Presi-
dent Taft has to approve it. The
cadets are to be given trials by court
martial The innocent are to be re-
turned to their classes and the guilty
given less severe punishment.
Among the cadets dismissed we're
Harry G. Weaver, Illinois; John H.
Booker, Jr, Georgia; Albert e. Crane,
Iowa; Richard W. Hooker, Jr., Ohio.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-02-15
WHEN GOULD WEBS.
American Heiress Is Married to Lord
DecIes, English Baron.

New York St. Bartholomew
church was crowded to the doors
by the social elect of this country and
many members of English society at
four o'clock Tuesday afternoon,
when Miss Vivien Gould, aged eigh-
teen years, the second daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. George J. Gould. was
united in marriage to Lord Decies, a
middle-aged English baron. The we'd
ding was the social event of the sea-
son.
No expense had been spared in max
ing the arrangements, and it was the
most lavish affair of this kind that
New York society has ever witnessed,
with the exception perhaps of the we'd
ding of Miss Marjorie Gould. the
brides elder sister, which took place
ten months ago.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-02-15
WHIPPING POST is ABOLISHED.
Oregon Will No Longer Punish Wife
Beaters by FIogging.

Salem, Ore.-A bill to abolish the
whipping post for wife-beaters in
oregon has been passed by the leg
isIature. This law was enacted four
years ago, and since it became
statute beating cases have al
most disappeared. The law is re-
pea1~d because it was considered
blot on the state.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-02-15
TEN DIE IN DYNAMITE BLAST,
Powder Mill Explosion Wrecks Build
ings-One Injured.

Ishpeming, Mich.-An explosion OF
dynamite at the mills of the
Piute Powder company, three miles
south of here, killed ten men
and seriously injured another. In
spite of the terrific force of the ex-
plosion it failed to touch the con-
tents of the guncotton house, 100
feet distant. The nitric acid house
was wrecked, and the Office building
badly damaged.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-02-15
Seventeen Hurt In Motor Crash.

Peoria, Ill-Seventeen residents of
Pekin, Peoria, Eureka and Blooming
ton were injured Monday night when
two passenger motor cars on the
Peoria electric terminal railway col
lided on an open switch at South
Bartonville.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-02-15
Nineteen Hurt in ExpIosion.

Nineteen men were injured, five
fatally, in the explosion of barrel of
gasoline at Jamaica, L. I. The gaso-
line was on a work car in the Long
Island railroad yards, and the men
were laborers who were engaged IL
clearing snow from the tracks.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-02-15
ROYALTY IN STATE
King and Queen of Great Britain
Opened New Parliament.

London.-King George V. and Queen
Mary opened parliament amidst all the
usual pomp and pageantry that tradi-
ton has devised for that ceremony
and it was the event of Importance.
from a social and political point of
view, which will precede the corona
ton of Great Britain's king.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-02-15
Woman School OFFICER Killed.

Wilburton, Okla.-Miss Alice Elem
ing, superintendent of public schools
Of Latimer county, was burned to
death here in a fire which destroyed
her home Tuesday.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-02-15
Knox SAYS Car Amend.

Westinghouse of State
Knox Tuesday wrote Chairman Payne
of the house ways and means com
mittee that an amendment to the
wood pulp or paper sections of the
Canada trade agreement would
not necessarily delay its ratifca
ton
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-02-15
MIND IS SHATTERED BY WORRY.
Coroner's Jury Finds Kenosha Girl
Died for Mans Love.

Kenosha, Wis. Her mind shat
tered by worrying over love
affair, Miss Mary Zahon, the young
Kenosha girl whose half-clothed body
was discovered lying in an obscure
cabbage patch, met her death while
wandering through the fields north of
her home.
Owing to many peculiar circum-
stances surrounding her death an in
vestigation was started by the coroner
and the police, who believed that the
young woman had met with foul play
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-02-15
QUAKE RoUsEs MANILA PEOPLE
Total Loss by Volcano and Tidal Wave
Placed at $50.

Manila. = A prolonged earthquake
s-oused the residents of Manila last
Thursday night.
Revised estimates place the number
of those killed by the eruptions of
Mount Taal and drowned in the tidal
wave at $50 These include many in
the two hamlets which are being ex-
cavated on the north shore of Taal
Island Sixty-two bodies were buried
in a trench
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-02-15
Burned in Press Club Fire.

Des Moines, Ia.-Abraham S1usen-
ger was fatally burned Monday in a
gasoline explosion which set fire to
the Des Moines Press club. The dam
age was slight.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-02-15
aHoIv RoIIern Shaver ReIeased.

Easton, Pa.-Robert B. Bachman of
Nazareth, the member of the religious
sect known as the holy rollers. who
killed his little niece in a religious
meeting at his home in 1908, was
Tuesday given his freedom. After the
crime was committed Bachman was
declared insane.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-02-15
HoBsoN SPY BILL is PASSED.
House Adopts Measure Inspired by
Japanese Actions in Philippines.


Neutrality-suspicious. Of the measures
dealing with national defense Sc
crets, known as the Hobson spy
bill, was passed by the house by
unanimous consent and without
amendment. The bill now goes to the
senate.
The spy bill, introduced by Repre-
sentative Hobson of Alabama, was in
spired by the discovery of a number
of Japanese acting in suspicious
manner in and around the defenses in
the Philippines.
Representative Hobson said that the
United States was the only govern
ment on the globe that did not have
a stringent law to protect itself from
foreign spies in times Of peace.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-02-15
SLIGHTLY in Error.

How did you enjoy the professors
violin solo?''
Was he really trying to play?"
Why. OF course"
by Jove! I thought he was imi
Eating animal cries, the way violinists
do in vaudeville"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-02-15
InYidious.

Miss Passay is furious with that
society reporter"
Why so?"
He published the announcement
of her approaching wedding under the
column headed Late Engagements "
Life.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-02-15
Rri++ Gets EederaI Pos4

ashington.-James ]. Britt OF
North Carolina was Tuesday nomi-
rated by President Taft to be third
.ssistant postmaster general
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-02-15
Modern Method.

Il am candidate for your hand"
But my parents have Endorsed an
other young man"
"All right; I'll run as an insur
gent "-Houston Chronicle.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-02-15
DELAY IN RAISING THE MAINE

NpPTUPITdtIOH IVCaIIy NOITC, EIEIPIOJOS
Are Being Let Go.
Havana. A serious crisis has
been reached in the work of rails
ing the Maine. OF the original appro-
priation there now remains barely
enough to continue the work for four
days. Already expert engineers and
skilled workmen have been dis
charged, and unless the additional ap-
preparation is made Immediately avail
able the elaborate organization will
be destroyed, involving great financial
sacrifice and delay.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-02-15
m.rensI . wiIder,s Father Dies

New York-Dr. Louis de Valois
Wilder. father of Marshall P Wilder.
the humorist, is dead at his home here
of heart disease.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-08
E.. H. DILLON & co.

of this objection. And MT. Herring proposes to screen the sewage before it goes into his pumps to be trans ported to the oyste: grounds.
 "1 cannot show you the utter insuf- ficiency of this Herring report more of this oyster ground problem by say ing, we under srand that there are oyster grounds. We believe they can be condemned at reasonable cost
 "But I believe that it would cost more to condemn the oyster grounfs than it would co,t to build the rest of the system.
 ''Please note 1hat Mir Herring in his report tells you that Baltimore, in order not to conraminate oysters in Chesapeake bay. entirely removed its sewage from the bay, by putting in a purification plant.
 Would it not be a blunder to take into the midst of valuable oyster grounds, where i. will do much dam age?"
 Tn this connection you will observe that sewage cleans up in travelling a certain distance through the water Deposited in the tidal rivers it has pretty much cleaned up before it reaches the beis. Properly put into the rivers it will rot create the slight est nuisance, especially if screened.
 Again, MT. He-i1s, proposing tbis present expenditure of upwards of s2,- COG, GOO, with an ultimate expenditure of great deal more, on,tts to fur nish us with an estimate of the cost of maintaining a Id operating his four pumping plants and the rest of his system. Indeed he dces not even en- able us to know the cost of the sys- tenn? Without knowing what the sys- tenn will cost to erect, Including the cost of oyster beds, and without know ing what 1t will cost to operate and maintain it., how can any man form a sound judgment upon this matter, even if it were necessary to pump. which it is not.
 ''I am profoundly convinced that this Council should not commit itself to the Herring syst m. It should in the contrary ascertain wfat plan shouli be followed to properly deposit sew age in the tidal rivers. without creat- ing a nuisance.
 Assume that the coss of operating the Herring system will ultimately be $50. 900 a year over the cost of gray ity system. How far this sum would go in making in Improvements.
 "Dredge out the flats, Canalize the harbor Put in the sewage properly. The first and seco1d cost will be less than under the Herring system. The result will be satisfactory. Our great oyster business will not be jeopar1lz- cd.
 t'It is your duty to save the taxpay- ers' money, especially where better service can be given for less money. You should remember that sewers are not a charge against property as such, but mainly charge against property in land. Land pays 75 per cent of the cost to begin with. Land with the homes on it represents go per cent of the grand list. Homes and lands have the general revenues from local taxation. So that the cost of a sew CT system is virtually laid against homes. Homes will pay not far from 87 1-2 per cent of the total cost The Herring system is not adapted TO cur conditions. It is costly, unnecessary and unwarranted. We should not be committed to it."
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-08
Diplomatic Shake
 Comes Today In
 Eight Appointments
Special from United Press.)


 Washington, Aug. 8-The long ex- pected shake-up in the diplomatic ser vice took place today in the appoint ments of three ambassadors and five ministers to fill posts in Europe and the Orient All but two of the ap- pointments go to men who are already in the service.
 The nominations made today were as follows:
 John G. A, Leishman, of Pittsburg, Pa, now Ambassador at Rome, to be Ambassador to Germany.
 Thomas J. O'Brien, of Grand Rapids, Mich, now Ambasadorsto Japan, to be Ambassador to Italy. Minister to Belgium, to be Ambasa- dor to Japan.
 Lars Anderson, of Ohio, formerly attached to the American Embassy at London, to be Minister to Belgium.
 John Ridgely Carter, of Baltimore, Md, now Minister to the Balkan States, to be Minister to the Argentine Republic.
 John B. Jackson, of Newark, N. J., now Minister to Cuba, to be Minister to the Balkan States.
 Arthur M Beaupre, of Aurora, Ill.,, now Minister to the Netherlands, to be Minister to Cuba.
 Lloyd Bryce, of New York, Minister to the Netherlands.
 Bryce Is the only man who has not had experience in the diplomatic ser- vice He was formerly a member of Congress.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-08
Beattie In State of Panic When He
 Killed His Wife
Especial from United Press.)


 Richmond, Va, Aug. s-The prosecu- ton in the Beattie murder case. It was learned, today, will argue that Henry Clay Beattie. Jr., was in a state of acute panic when he killed his young wife.
 The way the prosecution now views the case is that Beattie was thrown into a panic by information that his banker father, source of his spending money, was shortly to arrive in Rich mond and feared that his wife would cut off this golden stream by telling Beattie senior of his sons cruelties and infidelities. In this state of acute fear, the commonwealth alleges, Beat tie clumsily planned his wife's mur- der.
 This theory was decided upon to off, set the possibility of the defense con- tending that if Beattie had done the deed after crafty planning, he would not have purchased the shotgun in such way that it's ownership was easily traced.
 Detective L. L. Scherer is investi- gating the report that J. $. Hooker, a New York travelling man, saw Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., on July A. and that Beattie drew three shotgun shells from his pocket. That was the day before the shotgun was purchased, according to Paul Beattie's version
 Only three or four witnesses will be taken before the Grand Jury, next Monday, according to counsel for the prosecution These will include Paul Beattie and Beulah Btnford, the ''oth- CT woman"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-08
Baby Carriages To Go To Island
 In FIat Cars

Superintendent Chapman of the Connecticut company announced today that flat cars will convey decorated baby carriages to Steeplechase Island tomorrow, for the first event of the three days baby show. the decorated carriage parade, on the following schedule: Car No. to leave the juno ture of State street and Fairfield ave- nue at 1 o'clock for the island via State street; Car No. 2 to leave the terminus of the North Main street line above St. Vincent's hospital at 1:3O; Car No. 8 to leave Old Mill Green at the head of East Main street at 2 o'clock and Car No. 10 leave the city line at Bruce's brook on Stratford avenue at 2:3O, all cars to reach Steeplechase Island bridge at o'clock.
 Each car will stop on it's way to the island to take on decorated car riages, each of which should bear tag with the name and address of the owner. This is the final detail for the baby shows first day and a record breaking attendance is expect ed. Superintendent Chapman will operate special cars on the Seaview avenue line to accommodate the crowds and under such headway as becomes necessary to provide first class service before and after the event.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-08
Dies Victim Of
 Sage's Ingratitude Man Used as Shield to Save Life of the Aged Millionaire Suc- cumbs in Home For In-
 curableS
(spcial from United Press,

New York, Aug. S-Penniless and al- most frtendless, an inmate of the Home for Incurables, William R. Laidlaw, who, as small salaried clerk was used as a shield to save the life of Russell Sage, died, today. The aged millionaire escaped unharmed while a bomb, thrown by Henry w. Norcross, of Boston, December 4, 1891, inflicted IS wounds in Laidlaw, the injuries being such that he was changed from stalwart athlete to an incurable invalid.
 Laidlaw was never recompensed by Sage. The millionaire always con- tended that he did not use him as a shield and appeals to the law only served to start litigation that after lasting many years was finally termi- mated because Laidlaw could not pay his lawyers, while the Sage attorneys were still invoking every technicality. One jury gave a verdict of $40,OO0 but it was set aside.
 After his money gave out, Laidlaw was supported by his two sisters who shared their meagre earnings with him. The girls managed to keep a home for their brother until last June when the struggle became too much and they had to send him to the Home for Incurables.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-08
Great Attractions Are
 Arranged for the King
 Republican "Shindig''

Tickets have been issued for the King Republican shindig at Steepie- chase Island on August 26. Combi- nation tickets will be good for a lot of attractions, which no man can af- ford to miss. The official list of at- fractions includes the following:
 Mysterious River, Cbelieved to be e branch of Salt Creel1); Dumping the Bumps, (with the city tickeD; Cave of the Winds, (bureau of speakersJ; Human Niagara, Cong. HilD; Glass Works, (platform pledges, very fra gile) Funny Mirrors, Gin which a Re- publican politician can look and see a statesman); Human Roulette Wheel, (played by the Goodwin-La.ke dele gates); and South Pole, the last name. attitude representing the public-s promised reception to the Republican, ticket this fall.
 All these attractions may be viewed for the price of admission.