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Evening star., 1911-05-28
KEEPING FLY DOWN
Hasn't Made Appearance IN
Usual Numbers This Year.
SHOULD KEEP UP CRUSADE
SWEATERS" Are Urged Not to Relax
Their Efforts.
CITY IS FREE OF TYPHOID
Only One of Beneficial Results of
Campaign Against Pest-Keep-
ing Stables Clean.
CITY IS FREE OF TYPHOID

Perhaps It is due merely to the circum-
stances that the fly season is not in full
swing as yet. but at any rate the fact re-
mains that with all the warm weather this
month the flies are not in great evidence.
Perhaps the thousands of people who
Joined in the swat the fly" campaign
last GUNNER so seriously depleted the
great numbers OF "the most dangerous
animal in the world" that there will be
but slim contingent of the nasty little
insects to a1ight in sugar bowls and cream
pitchers this year.
In either case. there is every reason
why the swat the fly crusade should be
kept up vigorously. according to tho views
OF Health Officer Woodward
Keep Up Crusade.
II the flies are still to come, then the
people Of the city who started out last
year to do away with the typhoid-bear-
ing insect should be ready with the first
appearance Of the flies to WELD the swat
ter and to put up their window screens.
In case the campaign last year killed off
so many flies that the crop of 1911 will
be q small one, then 1t is obvious that
the same vigorous procedure this summer
will kill them all.
1t IS a little too early to tell exactly
what the fly crop will be-" said DR.. Wood
ward yesterday, but the health depart
ment will keep up It's work toward the
cleaning UP Of stables and fy-breeding
spots The dirty stable is a particularly
fine place for flies to breed and the stable
regulations will be enforced this year as
firmly as they ever were.
Typhoid Hasn't Appeared.
Typhoid fever has not made it's ap-
pearance to any great extent as yet, and
Of course we are hoping that there will
be little or none of 1t. It would be a
great thing for the nations capital to
take the lead In the determination Of
the flies. and I trust that there will be
no relaxation Of the effort
In several Of the public schools the
pupils have been instructed in the ty-
phoid fly and It's dangers. At the John
Eaton School splendid Photographic en-
largements of a microscopic view of the
fly have been used by the teachers in
explaining just why the fly should be
wiped off the earth. At another school
one of the teachers has brought two
real fly swatters in the shape Of live
frogs. The frogs are kept in school
room, and have no other duty to perform
than to gobble UP every fly that comes
too near.
Evening star., 1911-05-28

reported to be quite plentiful and every
| day CT two vessels wit.i the bfvalves
aboard arrive here from the eastern shore
| OF Chesapeake pay, anG in addition to this
the dealers receive them in quantities
/ from Norfolk. CLAIMS are selling at from
| 60 to so cents hundred
Evening star., 1911-05-28

Foreman Roberts, Assistant Robbins and
two mining engineers. The fire is said to
be gaining in fury In the mines 1t
started from the fanhouse. which was de-
stroyed by fire, the flames havirg been
sucked into the mouth of the miAe.
Evening star., 1911-05-28
Prizes Awarded.

handsome gold watch. and the second
and third prizes, elaborate gold medals,
were awarded to Miss Sadie May Lipp
and RUBY Raymond, respectively. Gold
medals were awarded also to the fol-
lowing:
Miss Marion Frisbie, Miss Adrienne
Shreve Miss Louise Tebbitts, Miss Adele
May Robey, Miss RoZana Lee, Miss Edna
Wilcox, Hiss Dorothy Wills, Mss Dial
TiIIman, Walter Thompson Louis Smith,
Miss Margaret Tucker. Miss tunice Will
son, Miss Beatrice Ccsgrove, Miss Gladys
Barrow Miss Margaret Bragunier, Miss
Katherine Donovan. Miss Edith Browne,
Miss Mildred Ellis, Miss Margaret Huss,
Miss Irene Meyers, Miss Mildred Orr.
Miss Bessie Price. Miss Edith Shreve.
Miss Grace Cotton. Miss Helen Schneake.
Miss Esther Barnum, Miss Pauline
Schenkel and Miss Margaret Parker.
Evening star., 1911-05-28
VIE WITH THEIR ELDERS
IN BIDS FOR APPLAUSE
Miss Shreve's Small Pupils Please
Large Audience and Win
Medals.

Miss Cora Shreve's pupils closed their
annual carnival at Chase's last evening.
ard for the fourth successive time the
little ones WED with the elders in bid
ding for the applause of a capacity audi
ence for their offerings of dance and
song The program was varied, but
each particular little star had her time
in the spotlight, and with all the as
surance of the finished professional won
her way into the favor of friends and
strangers. Nearly every phase of fancy
dancing was presented with grace and
finish by the children.
Representative Carlin of Virginia. after
the first half of the program had been
presented. made an address. in which
he extolled the teacher and praised the
work of the pupils. closing with the an
nouncement of the prize awards.
Evening star., 1911-05-28
Ready to Consider All Phases.

We are in shape now TO consider the
matte from every standpoint" was the sig
niicant statement made yesterday by a
prominent official in the District building.
The first estimates made as to the cost
of the proposed lighting project were
compiled under the direction of Marshall
Leighton, chief photographer of the geo
logical survey. They were made public
last January. and the Commissioners at
tempted to get an appropriation of $4,000
from Congress with which to employ
experts to draw up specific specifications
for the carrying out OF the scheme
When the House appropriations COM
mittee struck out the item the project
was dispensed with for the time being.
Determined to find out more as to the
practica bflity of installing the proposed
plant, however. District officials have
been at work making tentative estimates
of the cost of taking up the power and
distributing 1t, with the result that they
believe they are In a position to make a
strong fight in Congress for an appropria-
tion when the matter is again brought
up.
The report OF photographer Leighton
estimated the cost of establishing the
proposed plant at 50, O00-an invest
ment which he attempted to show would
be a profitable one for the District to
n,ske.
Evening star., 1911-05-28
Drinking the Day of Murder.

Macdonald. the police say, had been
drinking the day he killed his wife. They
reason that he would have killed her at
the home of her sister about l o'clock
Wednesday had he been in a condition to
have done so. They think he had her
meet him at the Colorado building to kill
her in order that he might have an extra
thirty minutes in which to get a few
drinks to give him courage to pull the
trigger.
HIS counsel will probably have con-
ference with him tomorrow, when. 1t Is
expected, he Will give them some further
information as to his identity, which will
enable them to begin preparation Of
the defense While 1t Is generally ex-
pected that the case will not be tried be-
fore next fall. it is stated, United States
Attorney Wilson may decide to advance
the case and dispose of 1t before the sum
mer recess of the Criminal Court.
Should the case be advanced 1t will be
necessary for counsel for the prisoner to
make hasty preparations. So far as the
police authorities are concerned they say,
they are prepared to go ahead with the
case at any time. All the witnesses are
easily obtainable at this time. while a
negthy delay may mean the death or
absence of some of them when they are
wanted.
Evening star., 1911-05-28
Nav Have Well-to-do Relatives.

1t is not known by the police II he has
well-to-do relatives in Rensselaer,. n. Y.
or Albany They do not know If his
father is a man of any wealth. Mac
Donald has not been very communicative.
even with his attorneys r. l.. Montague
and James f. Kelley. and they know
very little about him his relatives.
The prisoner tells of his army life and
says he resided in New York city prior
to fourteen years ago. His father then
retired from business, the family moved
to Rensselaer,, he says. and his mother
died two years later. He has four broth
efs and four sisters, he says, but none
of them has been here to see him or to
look after his case.
Jail officials said last night that Mac
Donald has been a model prisoner the
short time he has been in jail. Persons
charged with murder usually are model
prisoners, the officials say. having a feel
ing that they may spend the remainder of
their days in the prison. Frank F'unlS
slayer of William Brooks, was one of
the few exceptions. He was unruly much
of the time he In JAIL and had 1t not
been for the Rev. Joseph Mcguire. since
deceased. he would probably have slain
one or more of the Jail guards.
Funlls case was entirely different from
that OF Macdonald. The former had alb
solutely no excuse to offer for having
killed and robbed his elderly victim, while
the statement of Macdonald contains an
inti1nation that he will plead justification
or mitigation under the unwritten law.
It is thought by some persons familiar
with the case that he may plead in
sanity.
Evening star., 1911-05-28

I HAVE IDEAS THAT ARE ORIGINAL. But
not freakish and give YOU printing that
will stand out head aud shoulders over or
dnary printing even the good kind.
FRANC. F.. SHERRY. 513 10th street. just
below F.
Evening star., 1911-05-28
Hope Of Congressional Approval.

HUPe OF OUHS1 cSS10a11 11PP10v"1.
With the cost OF distributing the power
equally as satisfactory from an invest
ment standpoint, It Is believed Congress
will be doubly impressed with the desira-
buity of making an appropriation with
which to make the estimates complete.
While no intfmation has been made by
the Commissioners as to the course they
intend to pursue. 1t Is given out upon
reliable authority that they have not
abandoned the project and that In all
probability they will at the next session
bring the matter again to the attention
of Congress.
Evening star., 1911-05-28

For the District of Columbia, Maryland
and Virginia, fair. warmer Sunday. Mon
day increasing cloudiness; light variable
winds, mostly southerly.
Evening star., 1911-05-28

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Removes Carbon Monoxide and all objection
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IN this city. In renting apartment or
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eheerfuIiy furnished.
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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-02-01
Circulated Paper Containing
Story of Kings Alleged
Morganatic Marriage
FATHER OF WOMAN INVOLVED
SAYS She HAD NOT seen KING
Jury Found Defendant Guilty IN Short
Order and the Lord Chief Justice
Sentenced Him to q Years Imnr,s.
onment Without Delay.

London. Feb. 1.-After brief pro-
ceedings today the special Jury before
Lord Chief Justice Alverstone cleared
King George of imputations against
his personal character by finding Ed
ward F. Mylius guilty of circulating
a libel. Mylius was sentenced to one
years Imprisonment.
Mylius was charged with distribute
ing In England copies of the Liber-
ator, Paris publication edited by Ed
ward H. James, and in which It was
alleged that his majesty while Prince
OF Wales, had contracted a inorganic
tic marriage with the elder daughter
of Admiral Sir Michael Seymour at
Malta in 1890. The crowd called the
admiral as witness and he testified
that the daughter in question, now
wife of Captain Napier of the British
navy. had never seen his majesty un-
til 1898. when the king called upon
the witness at Portsmouth. His only
other daughter died in 1895 and for
three years preceding her death had
been with her father at Malta. where
he is commander-in-chief Of the Medi-
terranean squadron. The king had
not visited Malta while his daughters
were there and the younger daughter
had never spoken to him. The de-
fendant had sought to have the king
summoned as witness but this was
refused on constitutional grounds.
In a dramatic speech Sir Rufus
characterized the story Of the NOR
ganatic marriage as absolutely false,
regretting that his majesty was not
permitted to personally face his SLAM
derer and concluded with the declara-
tion that suit had not been brought to
protect the monarchy. but that King
George had sought the protection of
the court as man, husband and
a father. 1t did not take the jury long
to find Mylius guilty of circulating a
libel and the court forthwith SEN
fenced him to one years imprison.
ment.
After sentence had Teen passed,
Sir Rufas read letter signed by
King George and authorizing the at
torney genera Ito state publicly that
the writer had never been married
except to Queen Mary, had never gone
through the ceremony Of marriage ex-
cept with the queen and that he
would have attended the proceedings
to give evidence to this effect except
for the advice of the law officers Of
the crown that it would be unconsti-
tutional for hin, to do so.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-02-01
DUELs OVER SUFFRAGE
Woman Question Disrupts Heidelberg
University.

London, Feb. 1.-The peaceful old
University of Heidelberg has sudden
ly become fiercely agitated over the
woman question, and two of It's most
eminent professors are about to fight
a duel on the matter.
Last week Privatdocent Arnold
Ruge. in a lecture on political econ
omy, spoke somewhat severely of the
new woman movement, which, he
said, was promoted by "old maids,
childless women, widows, and Jew
esses, but eschewed by those who
are true mothers in the best sense of
the word" He was not aware that
in his audience was Frau Marianne
Weber, wife of professor of that
name and prominent authoress and
9 leading member q of the. German
Woman's Emancipation league.
She requested Prof. Ruge to with
draw his statement, but when he ex-
planned that he had not the women of
the Heidelberg in mind, and that he
referred to the movement in general,
Frau Weber retorted that he was
guilty of an unworthy subterfuee,
and that his utterances were the pro-
duct Of an immature mind, which is
about the worst insult that can be
inflicted upon a German university
professor.
Challenges His Colleague.
Prof. Ruge on leaving the hall went
to find Prof. Weber, and asked him
whether he agreed with his wife, and,
II so, whether he would kindly name
his seconds? The husband accepted
the challenge.
Meanwhile, the academical council
has interposed to have the affair set
tied peaceably, but in vain. The stu
dents are taking sides in the matter,
and duels between them are Of daily
occurrence.
In curious contrast to this German
incident stands the experience of
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-02-01
An Unknown Loss of Life Will
Result From the Awful
Catastrophe
DYNAMITE BARGE CARGO
on WATER FRONT THE CAUSE
Shook the Country For Twenty Miles
Around and Broke Window Glass in
Many Of the Sky Scrapers, Includ.
ing the Financial District.

New York, Feb. IA dynamite ex-
plosion of tremendous force on the
Jersey City water front just before
noon today caused an unknown as
yet loss Of life, shook New York
city and its vicinity for miles around
to its very foundation and caused a
heavy financial loss. The explosion
occurred as the dynamite cargo of
a lighter moored at the Jersey Cen
tral railroad pier was being unload
ed into a freight car. The explo-
sion wrecked everything in the vicin-
ity of the pier and shook Manhattan
island, Brooklyn and the country
within twenty miles Of Jersey City.
Window glass was smashed in thou
sads Of sky scrapers in New York, in
cluding the financial district. Panics
followed in a score Of big buildings
but no casualties from this source are
reported. The concussion set off the
fire alarms in many parts of the finan-
cial district of New York and the
clatter of the fire apparatus and the
shrill shrieks Of the fire engine 81
rens added to the confusion.
According to the harbor police, the
explosion occurred at the coal docks
at the foot of Henderson street, Jer-
sey City. A dynamite boat, believed
to be the Catherine c., owned by a
contracting firm and lying at a slip
there. blew up from some unknown
cause. The Catherine c was demol-
ished, the pier was completely wreck
ed and many other boats lying nearby
were badly damaged.
Several persons were reported to
have been killed by the explosion
and a number of bodies were said to
be on the. way to Manhattan island
on board one of the police boats which
had visited the scene. The explosion
caused panic in several of the big
down town Office buildings which
seemed to rock to their foundations by
the shock. The alarmed employees
and tenants Of the structures made
rushes for the elevators and other
exits. The quick subsistence of the
tremblings, however, seemed speedi-
~ to reassure the alarmed multi
tudes and there were no early reports
of casualties due to the panicky con-
ditions which prevailed.
The Jersey City police asked the
New York police department to send
all the available medical assistance
possible to Jersey City. The same re-
quest was made to the police head
quarters from the United States Ex-
press company in Jersey City. 1t
was said that many injured were
there waiting assistance. Commits
sioner Cropsey ordered all available
police surgeons sent in haste to Jer-
sey City.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-02-01
SAYS L0R|MER
WAS CORRUPT
Senator Brown of Nebraska
Took Advanced Stand in
Arguing Case

Washington, Feb. THAT Senator
VIM. Lorimer Of Illinois had full
knowledge Of the bribery by which
1T is charged his election was pro-
cured was asserted by Senator Norris
Brown OF Nebraska in the course of
speech made in the senate today.
This was step in advance of any
that had been taken on the subject.
Declaring the consideration of the
Lorlmer case to be essentially the re-
suit of lack of direct vote, Sen
ator Brown undertook to show that
the relations between Lorimer and
Representative Lee O'Neil Browne
had been such as to render It certain
That Lorimer had been positively ad-
vised as to Brownies operations in
Lorimer's behalf To this end the
senator undertook to show that the
support of Browne and his thirty
Democratic followers had been pro-
cured through Speaker Shurtliffe, a
roommate and warm friend of Lori
mer. and that after Lorimer and
Browne had been brought together
they were in constant conference,
meeting as often as a dozen times in
one evening.
Unless the senate votes at this ses-
sion on the Lorimer case, the reso-
luton pertaining to the election of
senators by people. the bill to Gre
ate a permanent tariff board and the
general service pension bill. Senator
Brown and some Of his colleagues
who favor the measures named, are
determined that the appropriation
bills also shall fail
Senator Brown. from floor of SEN
ate today, said he had no quarrel
with the rule" that appropriation
acts come first, but that he would OBJ
ject to its application in the light of
the present emergency, unless it is
agreed in advance that there shall be
the votes on the four propositions
named before adjournment
The failure Of any one of regular
appropriation bills would necessitate
an extra session of congress.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-02-01
New York Legislature Inves.
tigating Committee PROPOSES
Far Reaching Reforms
DRASTIC CORRUPT PRACTICES
ACT INCLUDED N THE REPORT
Proposes Penalty of Ten Years, I'm.
prisonment and a 5000 Fine For
Legislator Who Fails to Peach on
Attempted Briber.

Albany, Feb. 1.-The enactment Of
a drastic corrupt practices act with
a maximum penalty of ten years. i'm
prfsonment and $4,000 fine for the
failure of a legislator to report i'm
mediately any attempt to buy or in
f1uence his vote, and the adoption of
sweeping charges and far-reaching re-
forms in the fire insurance laws of
the state are recommended in a
lengthy report Of the legislature in
vestigating committee submitted to
the legislature today. Drafts of the
bills which the committee proposes
shall be enacted into law are includ-
ed in the report.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-02-01
of American railways
1T intervals of two or three years.

examinations of American railways
at intervals of two or three years.
The principal defect that he men,
tions of American railway nanage-
ment lies in the Capitalization of
the administrative power in the head
quarters offices in Chicago and New
York, which, while tending doubtless
to efficiency and economy, Is respon-
sible In some degree for the present
strained relations between the rail-
ways and the public"
Matters that arose in Kansas, in
Texas and in the far south and the
far west and need prompt adjustment
have to be referred, he points out, to
officers 1000 or 1000 miles away
and the citizen thinks he is dealing
with machine. In actual economy Of
operation, Mr.. Acworth thinks the
American railroads are the first in
the world and he expresses surprise
at the space given by the newspapers
to the criticism Of the railroads eff
cheney.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-02-01

Mile. Helene Miropolsky, the prettiest
and one Of the cleverest of the women
lawyers in Paris, who received pub
lie proposal Of marriage at the con-
clusion Of lecture she delivered in
the Theater Michel the other day.
She had declared that feminism
did not drive woman from love and
marriage, and that many women who
worked AZ lawyers, as doctors, and
In other professions did 80 because
love had not come their way.
ut is unfair said the lecturer
amid loud applouse, Ito consider us
incapable Of love or Of marriage be-
cause we work for living"
Public Proposal Made.
When she sat down Paris society
man rose from his stall and in front
made a formal proposal for Mile.
Miropolsky's hand in marriage. He
was firmly but politely refused.
Mile. Miropoisky caused sensa-
tion in the public court this week by
describing her client, charged with
swindling, as an old man.
Gentlemen" she said in tragic
tones, Il appeal for all your mercy
on behalf Of my client. He is poor
old man; ee is so years of age"
The Judge, who is 81. sat bolt up
right Indignantly, while gray haired
barristers watching the case looked
hurt, and the public prosecutor, who
is only 43, raised his arms above his
head in silent protest. Even the pris-
oner himself wore an annoyed express
sion, but Mile. Miripolsky went on
with her eloquent appeal and was
frankly surprised when the poor old
man" was sentenced to three months
imprisonment. Mile. Miropolsky her
self is Only %.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-02-01
THE PEARLY STRIKE
Railroad Men Said to he Adoptin,
Subtle Means Of Reprisal,

Paris, Feb. sabotage is a subtle
strike method which is causing no
little perturbation in France at the
present time. Complaints of delays
In the delivery of goods by railroads
are accumulating and questions are
being asked in the chamber about It.
1t is on the state managed Western
railway that the disorder seems
worst. At headquarters they say that
the cause Of the disorganization is
the want of sufficient rolling stock.
but 1t has been shown that at the mo-
ment there are 700 freight trucks fill
ed with merchandise sidetracked
near the racecourse of Maisons-La-
fitte and 2S0 wagons lost in the
depths Of the Forest Saint German.
Many of these have not been moved
since the beginning of December and
not few of them contain perishable
goods.
There are whispers of a sinister
cause for all this trouble. This is
what is coming to be known as la
greve perlee. literally the "pearly
strike" which may be freely trans
lated as the "cute strike.
1t will be recalled that during the
recent strike Of railway men they
were forced into submission by the
employment by the French govern
ment of soldiers, the men themselves
being called on as reservists to take