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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-19
MYSTERIOUS GAR CANNOT BE FOUND Car Said to Contain Arms for the Rebels Dis
 appears

Hattiesburg, Miss, January 1S.-An- other mysterious box car filled with arms and ammunition and presumably intended for revolutionaries of Mexico or some Central American republic has been To- cated at Jackson and t is said railroad and government officials this morning are concerned as to what disposition to make of the shipment. The car is said to have been shipped from some point in Penn svlvania to Gulfport to a fictitious con- signee.
 The car is said to have been brought here Saturday last by the Queen and Cres- cent system for delivery to the Gulf and Ship Island railroad, but owing to the suspicion that it was being transported for illegal purposes the latter road is said to have declined to accept it for transporta- ton to Gulfport. The shipment was then taken back to Jackson and is now in the railroad yards of the Alabama and Vieks- burg railroad.
 Government officials are awaiting news from the department of justice at Wash ington as to whether the two carloads of arms and ammunition now under surveil- lance, the first at Jackson and the second in the Mobile and Ohio yards, at Meridian. respectively, can be confiscated
 Jackson, Miss, January 1S-1f car of ammunition destined for Central America is in the railroad yards at Jaekscn, as a dispatch from Hattiesburg today indi- cates, railroad officials ayow they know nothing of it and Deputy United States Marshal McAlpin, to whom was assigned the task of locating the munitions. sarched the railroad yards without reserve, he as- serts At the office of the Alabama and Nicksburg, the road which is supposed to have handled the car, 1t was stated that they have no record of such a car. Off cials of other roads make similar state ments.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-19
Banks Closed Today

The banks of Birmingham will be closed today in honor of the birthday of Robert E. Lee. Lees birthday is a legal holiday in Alabama.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-12-12
SAW Big STEAMER STRANDED
in AMAZON RIVER TREE TOPS

launch that had been repeating"
ON Tupinambaranas Island. when
It became proper, as the last mark OF
respect 20 old William SnodErass. A.
D. VINO mad passed away peacefully
In his berth. TO bury him on shore
the Indians tnhabitfng the bank OF
the river, for reason OF their super
sutious fears, would not allow n erave
to be dug for a white man in their
1errltory' IL was necessary to engage
clVliized indians 20 act as guides and
hack with axes and machetes a path
through four miles OF The funrla 20
where "Oid Bilp' could be buried In
peace in neutral territory.
stepped On n Crocodile
Here Second Officer II. Bush had
a remarkable experience. In disern-
barking he stepped, as he supposed.
upon log, only to find his founda-
ton moving. He fell into shallow
water. and the log proved to be a
crocodile, which was as much alarmed
as had been the officer.
UP and down the bank were other
crocodiles, summing themselves, with
Iarge-sized turtles resting on their
backs.
Disporting on bank and branch
were alligators, turtles, serpents
monkeys aEd parrots. besides other
birds Of brilliant hues, while boa con
sstrietors testooned from overhanging
Half-breed pilots, who despise
maps and charts, going only by in
tullOn, experience and their bump
OF location" steered the vessel up and
down the mighty waJercourse.
Between Para and the Barbados.
. the last port of call of the Christie
pher, Jenny, the ships black and
white cat while chasing a flying-fish.
ala not notice that No. hatch was
open. The fish had pumped right
into the hold and Jenny took the
tumble after it, striking thirty feet
below on a combing. The cats star
board quarter hip was broken. The
ships doctor attempted to set it in
spltnts, but the injury was too far
within to be rearticulated, and after
making her as comfortable as posi-
i bic the surgeon had to allow nature
to do the rest. Jenny got along very
well and is now able to be about
with a limp. watching for other fIy-
ing-fish.
suicide Aboard the steamer.
After leaving Barbados the steamer
town. Barbados, Leslie Ferdinand
peared anemic. The next morninr he
was found in the bath room n suicide
he had lain down I'm the bath tub and
cut his throat with a razor which Law
writing OF any kind. The body was
Ole watch the next night
the young mans two trunks and
lHHanuoaSs were sealed by the orders of
captain J; Davies. and viii be turned
over to the British Consulate The
bedroom steward noticed that two
friends remained in his stateroom with
Starkey from the time he came aboard
VHnui the ships bell rang for sailing
third friend went ashore. The steve I'd
thought 1t was strange the men Should
remain with him so long, but the mvs-
terry OF the suicide may not be ex-
planned until the British Consul Gen
sTat learns more Of the young mans
Blstpry. lie is said to have lived in
Il health. AOi "is
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-12-12
War a Madman's Game.

LONDON Special.-"The only cpl
taph history could write upon such
a catastrophe" said Winston Spencer
Churchill, first lord of the admiralty,
in referring to the possibility of a gen.
eral war as a result of the Balkan
situation. would be this-that a
whole generation of men went mad
and tore themselves to pieces"
Mr.. ChurchilPs remarks were made
at a banquet given in his honor here.
He said that while a strong feeling
naturally existed between Russia and
Austria over the Balkan question, a
resort to war by them would be a
horror utterly disproportionate to any
cause existing or any compensation
that might be achieved.
Christian civilization" continued
Mr.. Churchill, looks across the tan
giles of diplomacy to the sovereigns
of those august empires and asks
whether kingship might not in these
modern democratic days win for it
multitudes of enfranchised toilers in
whose hands power is being increas-
ingly reposed, the fact that the mon
archy is the bulwark of European
peace"
a great gulf. Mr.. Churchill said.
separated the affairs Of Russia ano
Austria from those of the other Euro
peaA powers, and they had only to
pursue the policy of trusting one an
other, which they had been doing.
and nothing could drive them from
the path of sanity and honor. A gen
eral war might plunge Europe almost
into the desolation of the Middle Ages,
he declared.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-12-12

Underwood.
Chairman Underwood said the
Ways and Means Committee
would start hearings on the tariff
early i'm January and would
be ready TO present tariff bills
TO the extra session.
the crowded program of the
session of Congress is, I'm brief,
as follows:
WORK TO BE DONE.
The Senate, sitting as n high
court OF Impeachment, must de-
vote several weeks 10 the inn
parchment charges brought by
the House and its judiciary COM
mittee against Judge Robert w.
Archba of the Commerce Court.
This trial will so engage the at
tentiOn of the Senate that it will
have time for practically no other
business except the, necessary
supply bills. It is also encum-
bent upon the Senate to elect a
presiding officer, following the
death of Vice President Sher-
man. Efforts will be made in the
Senate to get up the Sulzer bill,
creating a Department OF Labor
and adding one more member TO
the Presidents Cabinet. This bill
has passed the House.
resolution limiting the President
TO one term of six years will be
pressed both in the Senate and
House. Representative Clayton,
its author, intends to ask for n
special rule for its consideration
in the House.
Ii is planned that the appro-
priationS measures this session
shall include two pork barrels"
One will be the provision for
river and harbOr Improvement
a3d the other a public buildings
bill.
All told, more than $50. ZOO. 900
will be appropriated for rivers
and harbors and public buildings.
While the House wreStleS with
annual supply measures its Ways
and Means Committee Will con-
duct tariff hearings.
At the same time the House
Judiciary Committee expects to
resume its investigation OF the
trust question and extensive hear
ings are planned. The Pujo
money trust investigating COM
mittee is also scheduled to bask
in the legislative spotlight.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-12-12
MOVIE" PATRONS shay
TO WATCH TIL Batter FIRE

NEW YORK. Special Real drama
replaced the movies" in the Manhat-
tan Theater, Broadway and Thirty
first Street, about o'kock Thursday
afternoon when a fin suddenly ig-
nited in a defective md chine.
Five hundred PERSONS occupied the
orchestra floor. every seat being filled,
and only courage and GOODNESS on the
part of orchestra, usheTs. firemen and
police prevented a serious panic. The
chairs had been removed from the
balcony floor and it was empty.
Hunting Game in big Cities" was
the subject Of the Reel when there
was peculiar noise overhead and
the pictures dissolved off the screen.
An instant later an usher rushed
down the balcony stairs and whisper
ed something to the orchestra leader.
Without so much as IA glance toward
the machine booth topping the bal
cony the musicians Struck up a live
ly air.
At the same time (ether ushers hur-
ried quietly through the house throw
ing every exit widei open. Next the
lights dashed up and an usher ap-
peared on the stagel
Ladies and gentlemen, kindly pass
out qr'etIy," he said. Before he had
finished the house began to fill rapidly
with the odor of bufnt celluloid and
a coil of smoke curIed down over the
balcony rail.
InSre was q rush 1OE the exits, but
at the head of each aislh stood a calm,
smiling usher and thief instant's i'm
pulse for a pelf meH scramble died
away as the people began to reassure
one another
Just then fire apparatus began to
arrive from every diredtion. Acting
Deputy Chief Ross rushed into the
building. With HIS coming Operator
Strickland. who had stuck to his post
in the asbestos covered machine
booth. although nearly Overcome by
the acrid smoke from the burning
oelluioid. and who had been lighting
the fire with an extingAisher after
turning in the alarm thati summoned
the fremen. called out that every
thing was all right.
'Sit DOWN. called the 4lshers. "Sit
down and watch the rre1nen."
But the audience stQ Uncertainty.
haif-tufped toward Il u doors at
the frQnt, pncerta hat to do.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-12-12
Denies APPEAL To
REDLIGHT DENIZENS

BRISTOL, VA Special
Women proprietors OF red
light" establishments in the city
OF Bristol, Va, Will have to go
to jail for ninety days and pay a
fine of 500 in each case.
The Supreme Court OF Appeals
so decided today when it refused
to grant "a writ of error and SUI
Dersedeas in the case of Virginia
Wise, one of the keepers OF a
resort in that city.
Several months ago Mayor Rice
and several ministers began a
cleaning up of the city. They
visited the segregated district and
obtained the names of men and
women found therein. Later the
police served them with warrants
to appear in court.
Bristol was Seething for some
time, and for several days there
were absent from the city many
men who found things more con-
genial in the mountain Businesses
than i'm the city. The cases at
tracted widespread attention. The
women were arrested and placed
in jail and were later released on
bail.
After going the gamut of the
courts Whereabouts counsel for
the women sought to upset the
lower courts by an appeal.
This they failed to do, and the
verdict of the Corporation Court
stands.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-12-12

WASHINGTON, ID. c. Special.-An
automobile owned by w. o. Beasley, of
40 r Street, Northeast, caught fire at
Queens Chapel Road and Michigan
Avenue, Northwest, last night and was
destroyed before help arrived. The
loss was 81, 500. Mr.. Beasley was tink-
ering with the machine when it caught
fire. He notified No. II Engine Com
pany, and it responded.
An overheated furnace at the home
OF Thomas Brown, at SO N Street.
Northwest, caused about $500 damage
yesterday afternoon. There was no
body home at the time. A passerby
noticed smoke pouring out OF windows
and turned in an alarm from box 277
at First and Streets, Northwest. The
firemen extinguished the blaze.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-12-12
GIRL ELOPES With
PAPA'S CHAUFFEUR

NEW YORK Special Alexander
e. Pastre, wealthy owner of the Ocean
Parkway Garage near Prospect Park
Circle, Brooklyn, asked the police
Thursday night to send out an alarm
for his seventeen-year-old daughter,
Mabel, who, he said, had eloped with
Joseph Kemp. twenty, one of his
chauffeurs.
Miss Pastre is described by her
father as pretty, five feet three inches
tall, weighing 100 pounds, with blue
eyes and chestnut hair. She wore,
when she left home Wednesday night,
a blue silk dress, a blue hat with a
long plume, q long gray coat and black
shoes with 'uppers. Kemp is dark and
broad-shouldered.
Kemp began work for Mr.. Pastre
two months ago. In the garage he
met Miss Mabel, who was employed
there as bookkeeper for her father.
The girls work brought her into con-
tact with all the chauffeurs of the es-
adjustment, and Pastre never sus-
pected any particular intimacy be-
tween her and Kemp.
Girl Friend Tells News.
Mr.. Pastre was visited Thursday
night by one Of his daughters girl
friends. She told him that for the
last month Kemp and Mabel have been
going out together regularly to dances
Kemp went to ball at Prospect Hall,
at Prospect and Fifth Avenues, Wed
nesday night. After one of the dances
Mabel, on Kemp's arm, came up to her
friend and asked her to be her brides
maid. The friend was startled.
Yes I'm going to marry Mr..
Kemp" Mabel declared. Were going
over to Jersey City TO be married to-
night And we want you to come
along. Afterwards we're going to Mr..
Kemp's mother in Washington"
When the anonymous friend re-
fused, she told Mr.. Pastre she went
home, but was so scared she could not
make up her mind till Thursday night
TO let him know that his daughter had
eloped. She added that Kemp's father
is wealthy, lives in Hoboken, and is
head of the Kemp Machine Works, at
II Gold Street, Manhattan. Kemp's
father and mother are said to be sepa-
rated.
His Son EIoped, Too.
Mr.. Pastre was distinctly ohagrined
when a reporter saw him Thursday
night
''Huh. enough family trouble for any
two ordinary men," he said. He re-
ferred to the elopement a year ago in
one of Pastries automobiles of his
twenty-two-year-o son, Harold, with
a widow fifteen years his senior, Mrs.
GeneVieVe Fink, to whom her hus-
band, a butter and egg merchant, left
all his large property. Father Pastre
sent out a general alarm for the cou-
pie, who were arrested in Peekskill by
Detective Geisler just after they had
become man and wife. Pastre refused
to press the complaint against his son,
who then returned to live with him,
but later rejoined his wife in Chicago,
and a week ago came back to Brock
lyn, where the pair are now living on
Fourteenth Street within a block of
the Pastre home.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-12-12
She Struck Partly Sunken Island,
Skipper Says, Just Back from Big
RiYer-Ofiicer Stepped Back
on Back Of Crocodile.

NEW YORK Specia1.-The steam
ship Christopher, bringing q rich cargo
of rubber and nuts and many re-
turning engineers from the Madeira
Railroad II Brazil. came in yester-
day morning from the river OF en-
chantment. the long black Amazon,
which she traversed for about 1000
miles as far as Manaos. According
TO her officers, stewards and the Off
cial log, wonderful sights, weird ad-
ventures, uncanny happenings, tragic
events marked the trading steamers
long, sinuous course into the interior
of Brazil and back, and also between
the mouth OF the Amazon and New
York.
The mighty river abounds in float
ing islands. whose underpinning Of
mud is gradually washed away by the
currents, and then the isles, mere
patches and pads of earth, roots and
tropical vegetation, float slowly sea-
ward until dissolved. stranded, sunk
or washed into the Atlantic.
OF Concacao, going up the river,
the chief officer made out I'm the haze
of the morning, miasmatic vaPor
covering the water, steamer with one
funnel and two masts, a vessel of about
1000 tons, apparently caught in the
tops of a grove of large trees. Her
winches and donkey engines and cargo
derricks were busy yanking the trees
up by the roots, IS if she wished to
liberate herself from the trap into
which she had steamed.
The chief, signaled, inquiring If she
wanted help, and the steamer replied
No" Her name, run up on her signal
flags, could not be made out through
the mist.
On the way down the stream both
/ stranded steamer and partly sub
merged forest were gone. and then
/ the Christopher's officers were sure
| the stranger had run aground on a
! sunlIen island, from the forests OF
which she had eXtricated herself by
1 pulling up the trees and loosening the
mud underneath, which was then
washed away by the currents finally
permitting the island to sink entirely
| out ef sight.
Mirage Reproduced Power Boat.
| OF Obidos the chief had another
morning misty atmosphere. He made
out from the bridge a power boat 8
mile ahead As he watched it through
| his glass, planning to avoid it in his
| course, he saw the counterpart of the
power boat to starboard, and Their
| another boat of Identical shape, size
and type to port. He slowed dowr
to shun peril to the steamer and &c
| them.
He was mystifed until he remem.
bered that mirages are common in
the deceptive vapors Of the Amazon
But which was the power boat and
which were the counterfeit represen.
tations of the launch he could no
tell until he was close to. Then ht
made out that the starboard one o.
the three images that had been be.
fore his eye was the real thing. He
shaped his course to run clear of th'
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-12-12
A5KffS tUfN
DURING THANKSGIVING DANCE

safely out of the administration
building, organized themselves
into a volunteer department., and
every effort was made by the peO-
pie OF College Park TO save the
fiame-encircled building. IL was
soon seen, however, that the IA
ciIities at the college and i'm Col
lege Park were not sufficient TO
cope with the situation, and n
hurry-up call was sent to the fire
department at Hyattsville, Md,
and Washington. The Hyattsville
company arrived In a short time,
and the combined forces fought
desperately TO save the new adj
ninistration building. Famed by
a sti6 wind the flames swept down
the quadrangle, on which is To-
Gated five OF the college build
ings, and I'm about fifty minutes
old barracks, which was the
original building OF the college,
was i'm flames.
WALLS CAVE IN.
Shortly after II O'Clock the
walls OF the new administration
building caved i'm, but the firemen
managed to get away before any
one was hurt. The walls of the
old barracks fell I'm shortly before
II O'Clock, completing the ruin of
that building.
On account of the dance prac-
tically everyone of the forty young
men remaining at the college dur
ing the Thanksgiving vacation was
up, and at the new administration
building, so that everyone of them
escaped when the first alarm was
sounded.
The campus, beyond the
quadrangle, is filled with tile fur
niture taken from the old bar
racks. and some OF that which
was rescued from the adminiStra-
ton building. \ large crowd
gathered TO watch the progress
OF the fire, and at times got in the
way of the men who were fighting
the flames.
Very few of the young women
who were attending the dance
saved their clOaks or hats, and the
coats and hats of the students
were also lost.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-12-12
THE BRIDE OF GIFT

BOSTON, MASS. Special Franklin II.
Wentworth and his bride, formerly Miss
Alice Chapman, of Washington. ID. c,
whose marriage on November 9th was
made possible by the divorce which
Wentworth's first wife procured In
Reno by joint agreement, are back in
Boston. Mrs Wentworth No. 2 did
very little talking. She did say this;
You may state that have the very
highest regard for Marion Craig Went
worth. my husbands first wife. We
are the best Of friends. / also think q
great deal of little Brandon. However,
do not think interfered with or en-
tered into their life in any unfair way.
Personally, L do not feel that i was re-
sponsible for the divorce. love Mr..
Wentworth and he loves me. We are
very happy"
Mr.. Wentworth said:
1T is true that we are still the
warmest friends, my former wife and
my present wife, and / intend to do
everything possible for my son Bran
don. 1 willingly consented that my
first wife be given the custody Of the
boy because 1 feel that a mother has
first claim on a child. but 1 shall keep
watchful eye on him and see that he
gets an education. My former wife
and Miss Chapman were friends for
many years before met Miss Chap
man. Mrs. Wentworth introduced me
to her about four years ago"
Mr.. Wentworth has resumed his
work as head of a big Insurance COM
pany here. He is one of the best
known Socialists of the State.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-12-12
CONGRESS CONVENES
in Final SESSION

WASHINGTON, j. 9 H.;z:.saI.
The third and final session of the
Stxty-second Congress convened
noon Monday with prospects of a
flood OF bills. but little actual
legislation OF national Importance
during the three months sitting.
Ihcre was an unusual demonsfra-
ton In the House when Speaker
ClarkS gaVel uShercd I'm the new
\ session, but enthusiasm in the
Senate.was. tempered by the recent
death of Vice President sherman,
the president of the upper cham
Der.
The Senate was draped i'm black.
Many OF the desks were piled
high with flowers and the CALLER
les reserved for the foreign Dip
Iomats and other spectators were
brilliant with costumes of many
women.
The present session, the last OF
the Taft administration, will re-
ce1ve all OF the old bills which
failed OF passage at the last seS-
sion, among them many of the
pet measures of the President,
who viii make his final effort 10
secure their enactment
A recurrence of the old fight
between the adherents. of a bip-
navy and the peace forces'' Is in
prospect over the navy appropria-
ton.
The present session must also
approve the appropriations bills
which are to keep the wheels of
government turning, and this
work must be done before March
9TH, IL the necessary finances are
TO be forthcoming.
There is little likelihood, how
ever, that the same bitterness will
mark the debate on the appropri-
alton measures in this session as
In TIE last.
At the previous session the at-
tempts TO tack riders on some
of the big appropriation bills in
order to carry through legisIa-
ton which would not stand alone.
caused the trouble.
ARCHIBALD CASE.
No such attempts are antici-
pated in the session beginning to-
day. In addition to the vast
amount of routine work, the SEN
ate will have the Archibald inn
parchment case on its hands, and
as Judge Archibald is reported to
be prepared 90 fight "to a finish, {"
the case may be long drawn out
TO the hindrance of necessary leg
iSlatiOn.
In order to establish their case.
the House committee of prosecu-
tors viii have to call large num-
Der OF witnesses. and this will eat
into the time allowance of the ses-
sion.
In order to convict the prose-
cutors must secure a tvo-thirds'
vote or the Senate. which may
prove quite a burden on their.
shoulders.
The Archibald defense may con-
sist largely of character testi-
mony," which could be dragged
ont to an interminable length.
Leaders among both the Re-
publicanS and Democrats believe
that President Taft Will make n
final effort to secure the passage
OF a large number of favorite
men SnreS-