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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-20
Roosevelt Gets Illinois

Springfield. H.. April 19.-cheerirg every mention of Theodore Roosevelt name, the republican state convention of Illinois today elected eight delegates at large to the national convention and ln- structed them ito do everything in their power to secure the nomination of the former President at Chicago in June.
 The committee on resolutions by vote of 16 to declined to insert woman suffraget plank in the platform.
 The platform was adopted by unani- nous vote Itsifcludes the following.
 Indorsed Theodore Roosevelt for Pres ident
 Indorsed President Taft's administration and policies.
 Recommended amendments to make the present antitrust laws more definite.
 Indorsed the election of United States senators by popular vote.
 Indorsed principles of the system of ma aximum and minimum tariff rates.
 Recommended short ballot
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-20
RIVALS HELEN KELLAR
Dump Bling Girl in Pennsylyania Has
 Been Taught to Speak
From the Philadelphia Record.

From the Philadelphia Record
 Deaf, dumb and blind until q short time ago, 11-year-old Katherine Mary Prick has left this city to pay an Easter visit to her parents in Harrisburg, and to bring joy to their hearts by actually speaking to them in words she cannot hear, and telling them that her sight is so improved that she can now distin- guisli day from night
 For two years the little girl has been a patient in the Pennsylvania Institute for the Deaf and Dumb at Mount Alry. When she went there she was the most helpless of all mortals. Healthy in body anl. with mind that was sane and strong, although absolutely undeyeloped, she was barred from all communication with her fellows by her dual affliction of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-20
STATED AT HOSPITAL LAST NIGHT THAT GATHER AND LYONS HAD GOOD CHANGES FOR RECOVERY

A meeting of automobile men and racer drivers was held last night in the direc- tors room of the Busisnes Mems league to determine the cause of the wreck at the fair grounds race track yesterday aft ernoon in which Cecil Lyons and Walter Gather were seriously injured.
 The meeting was presided over by Judge Dan A. Greene. President Holcombe and Secretary Chatfee of the Business Men league were also present at the meeting.
 It was decided that the track should be sprinkled lightly Saturday morning. early and about l o'clock A NJ Kennedy, the official representative of the American Automobile association, will inspect the track and if it meets with his approval races will be run. If 1t does not an effort will be made to get 1t into shape for the races. #1 s
 As to the cause of the accident Referee Kennedy stated to the meeting that he looked very carefully into matters Jusr after the accident and he had decided that it was caused from the density 0
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-20
William l.. Burford

William l.. Burford, aged 5t vears aiaa ses1erday morning at his home at OK moor. Funeral services will be held this afternoon ats2 o'clock from the residence Of his son-in-law. Dr. John Douglass 9ol Eleventh avenue, south. Interment Will be made in Elmwood cemetery. The following will act as pallbearers: Active W. J. Yielding, R. P. McTyeire, John D. Seruggs. W. H. Lewis, J. A. Dupuv. R U. ''owdlls; honorary, James Mcdonald, J' B. owen, Dan Hickman. T. A. Lacey J. F. Mclaughlin, Lee Moody, Job Go ing and w. B. Leedy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-20

], two charactertistc properties. One of
 these is inertia, the other is weight. In-
 erta means the active resistance shown
 by all matter to a change in its condition
 of rest or motion. Weight is the measure
 of attraction one body has for another, whether they be atoms or suns. The me l dium that bears light from star to star. l or from a candle to the eye. so far as we know, has only one of the properties l of matter-inertia.
 Are we not Justified, therefore. in say ing, with our present knowledge of the
 subject, that the light bearing medium, called by scientists the luminiferous
 ether, is probably not material thing? The various properties it must possess
 and without which it could not do all the wonderful things that are claimed for it, are more or less contradictory in their nature. Nevertheless, the lumnif- erous ether is believed in by majority of scientists even though they do not pre- tend to understand it's nature.
 It Is supposed to be everywhere. not only filling the nterplanetary spaces and flo vast abysses between the stars but also entering into the very heart and between the very molecules and atoms
 of what is known as matter. As Young said of it: "It peryades the substance of
 all material bodies. with little or no re- SlStance, dS istiS, pefllapS, as the wind passes through a grove of trees" The stars and planets and all other matter are riddled through and through by this
 wonderful. mysterious thing. It has been 1ikened to a jelly in which are imbedded a few grains of sand which correspond to the matter in the universe
 Gold. for example, one of the densest
 substances known to man, is permeated completely by his strange. space filling ether. and platinum, another extremelv dense substance. is as the lghtest. finn siest mist when compared with rne vast density of ether itself. It has been esti- | mated that sthe density of the light bear | ing ether is 50,00o million times greater than that of platinum, and yet rare ness so extreme is claimed for this ether that none of the heavenly bodies is im peded In the slightest degree-that the earths orbtal velocity of nearly 19 lnjles | a second hundreds of times the cannon 1 balls velocity, is not slackened by sec ond in a million of years through any resistance 1t might meet with from this almost incredible substance if it really l Is a substance at all. It could not serva l as a medium by which light may ba l transmitted, with the enormous veIocitv of over 1ss.ooO miles per- second. unless l it is absolutely rigid and elastic. far
 more so than if 1t were composed of sofia | steel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-20
AUTOMOBILE MEN MEET TO
 PROBE LYONS ACCIDENT

the dust and the driver Lyons not being
 able to. see where he was going. Insinu- ations were made yesterday aftefnoon
 that o. T. Barr. driving the Stutz racer, had forced Lyons into the fence. Referee Kennedy declared officially that Barr had nothing whatever to do with the wreck and could not have caused it.
 All of the automobile men, including his competitive drivers asserted that Barr
 was clean sport and a considerate
 driver They. resented any such insinu-
 ation being cast upon him. When seen at St. Vincent's hospital last night Lyons
 stated that there was not a word of truth in the assertion that Barr drove him to
 the fence. He reiterated the statement
 made by others.
 It was stated authoritatively at St. Vim cents hospital at midnight that Walter Gather had excellent chances for recov- cry. It was said that one arm had been amputated and it was still doubtful whether he would lose the other one or not. His strong constitution and youth are said to he great factors in his pros pectve recovery. ss A
 Cecil Lyons is also at the hospital and until late hour was chatting with visi- tors. He explained every detail of the wreck. His right arm was hurt quite badly and he had to lay with it out
 stretched
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-20
Taft to Invade Massachusetts

Washington, April ls.-President Taft will invade Massachusetts, where presi-
 dential preferential primaries will be held.
 According to an announcement made at the White House tonight the President will spent next Thursday speaking in Springfield, Worcester and Boston. The Massachusetts primaries will be held April 3o Close friends of the President expect him on this trip to break his silence under the criticisms of Colonel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-20
SUMMARYOF THE | POLITICAL NEWS | OF THE. CAMP PA|GN Rival Bureaus Issue State ments on North Carolina
 Situation TAFT WILL INVADE.
 MASSACHUSETTS Is Expected to Break His Silence Under the Criticism of Colonel
 Roosevelt = Roosevelt Is
 Busy in Kansas

l Washington, April 19.--Senator Jo- seph NJ Dixon, chairman of the nation- al Roosevelt committee, and Repre- sentative William B. Mckinley, direc- tor of the national Taft bureau, each gave out statements today concerning
 the allegiance of certain delegates from
 South Carolina to the republican na- tional convention.
 Senator Dixon's statement says that several days his office has received advices from southern states showing that many of the delegates elected at the early snap conventions held be- fore Colonel Roosevelt's candidacy was announced are determined to disregard the instructions then received on the
 ground that at the time the instruc-
 lions were given they were assured that Colonel Roosevelt would not besa can
 Gidate" The statement includes copies of two
 telegrams The first, signed by w. T.
 Andrews of Sumter, s. C., and J. R
 Levy of Florence, & C., declares the
 slgners who were elected delegates at large and instructed for Taft, will vote
 for Roosevelt. The second. signed by
 c. NJ. English, district chairman of the
 First congressional district of South
 Carolina; NJ NJ Morrison, First district;
 Frank G. Young Fourth district, and
 i H. Goodwin, Seventh district, states
 that the signers were elected dele
 gates but were uninstructed and will vote for Colonel Roosevelt
 McKinley's Statement
 Director McKinley's statement refer ring to Senator Dixon's says in part:
 At least two of the men named by Senator Dixon as changing their alleg- lance are not listed on any known ta-
 ble of delegates or accredited to any
 known convention yet held" and then goes on to observe that if instructions
 be not binding in South Carolina. why
 are they more binding in oklahoma, H. linois. Pennsylvania or Maine?' If Ormsby McIIarg, in the south, for no other purpose than to persuade men
 to dishonorable acts. can find any of that caliber in that section of the coun- try, the sooner the country knows it the better" the statement reads.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-20
ULT|MATUM SENT TOROAD MANAGERS Are Given'Until Monday to
 Aceede to Demands of
 \ Engineers

New York, April 19.-warren S Stone. head of the Brotherhood of Boco- motive Engineers, sent an ultimatum to the conference committee of eastern railroad managers today giving them until Monday to aeeede to the en- gineers demands for higher wages This followed request for 4S hours more time made by J. c. Stuart, chair man of the conference committee, after Mir. Stone had sent q letter asking that the demands be granted by o'clock to- night.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-20

Roosevelt. Men in close touch With MT Taft believe he will not hesitate to mem tion Colonel Roosevelt by name, some thing which he has not done so far in his speeches except in commendation.
 The Presidents decision to reply to Colonel Roosevelt, it was said today on authority of those in his confidence, was reached reluctantly only after he was in- sistently urged to become more aggressive by some of his campaign leaders.
 The forthcoming Massachusetts trip will take MT. Taft away from Washington April 24. He will attend the memorial exercises for the late Maj. Gen. Frederick Dent Grant on Governors Island April 2G. He will speak Saturday night to the Union League club of Philadelphia.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-20
DAY IN CONGRESS

Senate-In session at 2 D. m. Passed Dillingham; immigration bill be- fore adjournment. fi8 N.Ftr s,fa
 Adjourned at FPS p. m. until today at 2 o'clock
 House-Met at noon and adjourned at 12.l1 D. m, out of respect to the memorial of the Tftanic's dead .'
 Interstate commerce committee voted to recommend Goeka bill to establish par cels post and postal express.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-20
Wild Fowl in Indiana

Hazleton Correspondence Indianapolis
 News.
 Local sportsmen are enjoying the larg- est wild geese and duck hunting season In many years. In the ponds formed in the bottom lands around here wild fowl are swarming. Farmers in Hell's Neck are compelled to drive the wild geese from their fields many times daily In or der to keep them from eating young wheat
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-20
The Colonel Is Busy

Wichita, Kan, April 1s.-Colonel Roose- welt today had one of the liveliest days since he embarked upon his campaign. All the way across the state he was met by demonstrative crowds.
 T feel at home here with you Kan sans. he said. 1T think we arc going 10 carry Kansas and Nebraska, too.''
 The colonel will go from Wichita to Lit tie Rock. Ark. He will make a number of speeches en route.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-20
Harry West

The body of Harry West, a barber. was received in Birmingham from Nor ris yesterday by Smiley, Gaudin & Smith and is being held by them pending more definite Identification. He formerly worked in Birmingham. it is said, and it is be- lieved that he was union barber, al- though no card was found on him. He died from apoplexy. It is said he for merly lived in Memphis, where he was going when he died. He was about 45 years old.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-20
Deaths and Funerals
Mrs. Annie l.. Mehaffey

Mrs. Annie l.. Mehaffey aged 4 years. died yesterday morning at 1o:45 o'clock at the late residence. 1o21 North Forty-first street Funeral services will be held this afternoon from the residence at ? 2.oetock lnterment will be made in Woodlawn cem- etery.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-20
COLLEGE GAMES
At Atlanta: Georgia Tech 2. Vanderbilt
U. D. C. Convention in May

s5 Greenviiie. April Special. The members of both the local chapters of the United Daughters of the confeder- ecy has expressed its desire Of hay ing the different business houses es- pecially decorated for the United Daughters of the Confederacy conven- fion which convenes here May 22-24. Other extensive preparations are be- ing made for this state gathering.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-20
The Lnminiferous Ether

U. Gordon Ogden in the April Popular
 Mechanics Magazine.
 Even more wonderful than light itself is the medium by which its waves are carried. And what is this medium? It is not air, 1t is not gas, it is not a liquid. Is it matter? In order to be matter. as we understand 1t. thing must possess
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-20
William H. Corcoran

Funeral services over the remains of Wllliam H. Coreoran, who died Thurs day night. will be held this morning from St. Paul's church at 9:so o'clock. Inter- ment will be made in Elmwood ceme- tery
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-20
Mrs. LuelIa Hastings

Mrs lpella Hastings, aged IS wears. died yesterday at 242o Twenty-second aye nue, north. The body will be sent to Plevna this morning by Shaw X Son for nterment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-20
Today Is Tag Day;
 Buy Some Tags And
 Help the Boys Horne

with sleeping quarters, reading rooms, fairgrounds, a garden, etc, where dur ing leisure hours the boys can work or play instead of loafing on the streets; friendly visitor who goes into the home of the working boy and counsels with his mother how to make his life brighter and better; and a juvenile court and judge who will see that the
 boy gets a square deal under the law?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-20
AIWays a Success

"Of course, Tag Day always has been and always will be success; for there are hosts of good people in this world who realize that children as well as men and women have 'rights'-and that chief among these rights are those of life liberty and the pursuit of happi- ness, which are guaranteed to every citizen of the United States"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-20

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-20
sHIS RELATIVES GET INTO PRINT.

DOC YAKS GRANDMA TIVE oRleiNAl MoHFR
 HUBBARD 0fRL WHO LED THE hiNoFT AT THE
 FIRST BASE "BAlG GIVEN iN SWlrzEplAND.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-20
JOHNS Undertaking Co.,. fnon.s ,oa
LICE LoY. under,aksr. Phonss 7a

eHAw. the undertaker. Phones h
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-10
ARLINGTON ELKS HOLD
INITIAL SOCIAL FUNCTION
Euchre Party and Dance Large.
Iy Attended.

There was a large attendance last
night at the initial social function of
the season at Elks' Home, Arlington,
when a euchre party and dance was
held under the auspices of Kearny
Lodge No. 1850. b. P. o. E., of West
Hudson. The hall was prettily dec
GRATED for the occasion.
Some of the players were: Mrs.
Henry FleidneB Miss CALI, Mrs. Was.
ner, Mrs. A. A. DENIM, Mrs. w. II.
Anderson, Mrs, Edward Kelly, Miss
Frapwell, Miss Odendahl. Mrs. A. f.
Edel, Mrs. William Dunkinson, Mrs.
Hertlen. Mrs. George H. Walker, Mrs.
Thompson, Miss Mcbride, Miss Hal
Ter, Frederick Harris. A. S. Moores-
head, A. A. Morton, Richard Wagner,
Harry Hill, Henry Fleidner. A. L.
Regans, Carl Zachau. Arthur Stumpf.
Arthur Manola, j. ]. Sullivan, H. s.
Kimberly, William Englehart, George
C. Koch, Carl Waldheim, Louis Wag.
ner, J. ". Cross. William b.. Stevens
and Daniel O'Brien.
The committee in charge of the
affair consisted of Frank Odenhahl,
William B. Stevens, Henry Strauss.
DR.. J.. B. Davidson and Edward j.
Kraft.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-10
BELIEVE BOY FIREBUG
CAUSED TWO BLAZES
Companions Accuse Roth in
$4,000 Fire.

That Harry Roth, who was yester.
day held without bail for the Hudson
county grand jury on a charge of
setting fire to a building at the Hud-
son county Catholic Protectory, Ar
lington, last Sunday. is also respon-
sible for the fire that occurred at
the place three weeks ago, was to-
day declared by the Rev. Thomas ].
Moran, director at the institution.
Father Moran said he received his
information from other inmates of
the home.
Both fires occurred In the frame
building located in the real of the
protectory. The first fire did dam
age in the amount of $4,000, and the
damage done last Sunday was trivial.
Roth is said 30 have admitted setting
fire to the building last Sunday. He
said he did it to get revenge. Re-
corder Leonard A. WINNER yester-
day committed the lad to the county
Jail. Father Moran will communi-
cate with Prosecutor Pierre P. Gar
ven with a view of confronting Roth
with evidence regarding his compile
ity in the first fire.
Several other lads who were wit
nesses to Roth's act of last Sunday
have also been committed to the
grand jury. The case against Roth
was worked up by the priests at the
~protectory. According to Father Mo-
an, Roth had been an inmate at the
p%rotectory onlyNa week when the first
fire occurred.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-10
ARRANGE FREE CONCERT
AND LECTURE PROGRAM

A program of free concerts and lee
lures to be given in the Montclair
Public School building during the fall
and winter has been arranged by the
committee on music, art and recrea-
ton o. the Montclair Federation of
Women's Organizations. The first of
these entertainments will be given
in the auditorium of the Hillside
Grammar school next Monday night.
when Mrs. A. w. Diller, soprano, will
give an evening of song.
The following leaders n dates
have been arranged: October 2S. DIR.
J. A. Holland, violinist; November
IL. Mrs. L. w. Goldschmidt, pianist;
November 20, Miss Theodore Uusula
Irvine, reader, in 1.-THE Passing of
the Third Floor Back" December 3,
the Choral Society. of Upper Mont
clair; December %. Mrs. Thomas
Conyngton, soprano; January 8, Miss
Elizabeth Carpenter. contralto; Janu-
airy 20, Mrs. Fay Simmons Davis,
organist: February 3, Mrs. Walter
Young, pianist; February II, the
Italian Band, of Montclair; March 8,
Mrs. William T. Ropes, contralto;
March II. Miss Stella Barnard,
pianist; March 81. w. II. Gage, or
ganist; April IA, Miss Marie Bond,
pianist; April 2S. Miss DR.. Gertrude
Ward, soprano; May IL, John Davis
Newman: May 26, Mrs. r. w. Helig,
pianist; June 16. Victrola concert.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-10
PUBLIC UTILITY BOARD
CHANGES TROLLEY FARES
Pennsylvania Railroad Shop.
men Benefited by New Order.

Beginning October 80 trolley pas
engers will be able to ride between
Kearny and the Hackensack river
bridge, the western boundary of Jer-
sey City, for a single fare, while EN-
ployees of the meadow shops of the
Pennsylvania railroad will be al
lowed to ride to Jersey City or the
centre of this city for a single fare
as at present.
This is in accordance with an or
der handed down by the Board OF
Public Utility Commissioners al
Trenton yesterday. 1t is the same
arrangement that was in force be
fore a reimbursement of the double
fare points last February.
At present passengers on the Turn
pike line pay one far to the Lacka-
wanna crossing and a second II they
continue on to the H~ackensack
bridge. Formerly employees of the
meadow shops were permitted to ride
to the centre of this city for a single
fare, while a double fare was col
lected for passage from the shops
to Jersey City.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-10
SHERIFF's SALES.
[Chancery A-33O.

[Chancery A-330.1
SHERlfF'S SALE-In Chancery of New Jer-
sey. Between The American Insurance
Company. complainant, and William J. Kelly
ct al, defendants, Fl. IA. for sale of mort
gagged premises.
BY virtue of the above stated writ of herl
facias, TO me directed. l shall expose for sale
by public vendue. at the Court House, in
Newark, on Tuesday, the fifteenth day of
October next, at two o'clock p. m. all that
tract or parcel of land and premises situate.
lying and being in the city of Newark. EPsex
Beginning on the westerly side of Catherine
street at the centre of the partition wall
hereby conveyed and that of John Hunt
standing on the lot adjoining northerly, and
from thence running through the middle of
the said sixty-eight degrees and forty-hve
minutes west running through the middle of
the. said partition wall eighty-four feet five
inches thence south twenty-five degrees east
twenty-one feet more or less to William
street, thence along William street easterly
eighty-four feet to the n~orthwesterly corner
OF William and Catherine streets. and thence
noftheriy along Catherine street twenty feet,
more OF less, 10 the place of beginning. Elk
described tract Of land. conveyed by Abra-
ham NJ. Reynolds and wife to James b.
Pinneo by deed dated February 9th, A. d.
1867, and recorded in book ! 10 OF deeds for
said county. page l and 2. described as fol-
lows, VIZ; Beginning at the northeasterly
from thence running easterly along the
northerly line OF William street thirty-four
feet more or less, to a point distant three
line Of the brick dwelling house standing on
the premises hereby conveyed: thence north
erly on a line parallel with Catherine street
twenty feet more or less. to John Hunts
Tine; thence along his line siXty-eight de-
grees forty-hve minutes west thirfy-four feet.
more OF less, to Nicholson street: thence
along Nicholson street south twenty-five de-
grees west twenty-one feet, more or less. to
the place of beginning. Being the same
premises conveyed to the parties of the first
part by Abraham M. Reynolds and wife, by
deed bearing date the tenth day of Septem-
Der. A.. ID. 1869.
Newark. N. j., September 8. 1912.
JOHN F. MONAHAN. Sheriff.
Harry II. Poole. Sol'r. 1920. O6l