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The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-07-12
EXPLOSION IN MINE
KILLS slxTY-FlvE

cONlsnRouGH, England, Jply o.
sizty hFe miners have been killed III an
oNplasi0n Ia a eelliefg here The 81,
plosion is believed 70 have been due 10
coal gas
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-07-12
ROMANCE MO TRAGEDY CREEP INTO
POLICE RECORDS WHEN TINY LAD TALKS

one little fact that fiction IL made
out crcpv into police annals last night
when big, burly Russian, Andre Gro
golI was brought TO the clerks desk
by Acting Chief Of Detectives Kellett
aud ordered placed ineommunicado. Up
stairs IN Kellett's Office stood little
Andre, big Andres son. lie was cover.
ed with filth, his hair was matted with
dirt and his clothes were in tatters. lie
was just six years old but what he had
learned about the world would surprise
many college presidents.
Andre Grogon was divorced some
time ago and his wife was given the
custody Of their two children. Time
fitted. Andre grew on good terms
with dngo red. Mrs. GregoG grew on
even better terms with a fellow coun-
tryinan and soon became an ex-widow.
To all appearances Andre married the
flowing bowl and the lureh to him last
night at the station showed that he
had yet to be divorced by his new
mate.
So times went hard with GrogoT and
times grew better for the late Mrs.
Grogoff The one grew lean and the
other waxed fat and prosperity never
shone so bright as it did some time ago
when the six-yearold Andre disappear.
ed. He came back however, and said
that he had been rambling about the
streets of nights
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-07-12

to the station. Later he caught Gro.
goH
To the receptive cars Of the police
little Andre told his tale. II was
Dickonesque. II was anything that
was weird. He told how the pair Of
them mad travelled about the city, from
lane to alley, from tenement to shack,
sleeping in old sewer pipes, in anything
that might shelter them at all.
They were like to two human rats
The father taught the boy to steal. He
took little trtfles said the boy, but the
little trifies got BIN an occasional
crust and kept his father in liquor.
They followed drunken people until
their prey fell asleep behind walls or
IN alleys, when the pair robbed at leis.
ure They hung about cook-shop door.
ways waiting for the cook TO turn his
back Sometimes the boy cried and
then he was whipped. His nimble feet
and sly fingers were his fathers i'm
PIGMENTS of trade The father direct
ed these, lurking in shadows while the
youngster mingled with the crowds I'M
der the lights and about the shop doors
of Chinatown soaking in all of its
intimate life.
lowering Fear
On the borders of this phantom life
which bewildered the boy senses and
slowly hardened all the rest of him al
ways lowered something that his father
covered from, the recognition of soci.
ETY.. Tie didn t know what it would
look like when it came, what form the
dreadful thing would take, what it
would do. 1t was the beast instinct to
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-07-12
Runs Down QuarrY.

He stayed home awhile and then dis.
appeared again. His mother then
learned that he had been taken by his
father and eventually appealed to the
police. Special Officer Adler was detail.
ed on the ease and yesterday finally
found his quarry. He tried TO run him
down but the Russian "iettisoned' the
BOY and got away
Adler picked the tot up and took him
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-07-12

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-03
SING THE OLD SONGS.
Williams Jubilee Singers Give Concert
Monday Night.

The Williams Jubilee Singers, a colored
musical organization of considerable rep
utation, will be heard in several of tEe
Topeka churches Sunday. Monday even
ing they will give concert at the Audi
torium the proceeds of which will go to-
wards the flower and hospital work Of
the Topeka Local union of Christian En-
oeavor societies.
The members of the company are grad.
yates of the best negro institutions or
learning of the country In the past year
they have been travelling in England,
Scotland Wales, Holland, Belgium, Ger
many and France. The program Monday
night will include jubilee songs, planta-
tion songs, negro melodies, camp meeting
songs, negro lullabies, negro comic songs,
cabin and river songs, classic selections
etc Several hundred tickets have already
been sold, and arrangements have been
made for half dozen line parties Oh
young people
0uartette will furnish music at the
union C. E. church services at the First
Christian church Sunday evening. In the
morning soloists will be heard at the f9.-
lowing churches: The First Christian, the
First congregational, the Potwin Presby-
terian, and the North Side Presbyterian
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-03
Bullets Fired From Mexican
Side of the River
Strike Houses of Several Citi-
zens of Ell PasO.
SOLDIERS RETURN The FIRE
Shooting Thought to Have
Been Done by Rebels
To Draw Attention Away From
a Smuggling Party.

Ell Paso, Tex. Aug. 3.-About so shots
were exchanged between United States
soldiers and unidentified men from the
Mexico side last night in East FL Paso.
No one was shot and there were no ar
rests. Three shots were fired from the
Mexican side striking :. house belong
ing to c. H. Cole.
After the first three or four shots
were heard, the soldiers on guard On
the American side opened fire toward
from the Mexican side. one of them
striking A. D. Martinez's house. The
houses of Messrs. Curtis, Williams and
YonkerS near the river were struck
by bullets, as was the roof of one of the
Ell Paso Foundry buildings. After the
persons on the Mexican side of the
river had fired 80 or 40 times they
ceased and the American soldiers went
toward the river to investigate.
At this moment posse composed CT
Sheriff ]. Edwards and deputies arrived
and started a search of the thick brush
growing in the old river bed. No trace
Of the men who fired from the Mexican
side could be found. The police officers
returned, leaving further investigation
to the soldiers.
1t was the opinion of some of the
residents of that section that the firing
had been done by Mexican rebels to
draw the attention of the American
soldiers so that a quantity of ammuni-
ton could be smuggled across the river
at another point.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-03
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HE "BUSTS" TRUST.
Judge Landis Settles ..BOiIer Plate"
Case in Short Order.

Chicago, Aug. 3.-With the filing of
an agreed decree in a civil antitrust
suit against the Western Newspaper
Union and the American Press ASso-
citation, the federal government today
took an advanced step under the Sher-
man law to prevent what the depart
ment of justice regarded as the pos
sibility of a combination to influence
the thought of so million readers of
rural newspapers
The proceedings in this antitrust suit
were terminated in record time. Uni
ted States District Judge Kenesaw Ian
dis entered the agreed decree fmmedt-
ately following the filing of the gov
ernment petition and the answers o.
the defendants
following corporate and individual de
PENDANTS:
Central West Publishing company,
(holding company of the Western
Newspaper Union) Western Newspaper
Union of New York; George A. Joslyn,
waukee; H. H. Fish, Omaha; NJ. H.
McMillen, Chicago; American Fress
Association organized in New York;
American Press Association organized
in West Virginia, Courtland Smith, W.
G. Brogan, and Maurice F. Germond.
The decree is designed to end bitter
trade war between these corporations
which furnish "boiler plate" and
ready print" to thousands of country
newspapers. The defendants are re-
strained from combining or continuing
alleged unfair methods in competition
which would result in destroying one
or the other and a complete monopoly
for the survivor with all it's potential
power of influencing the sentiments or
economic and other important questions
of the readers of the $1,000 small news
papers of the United States which is
estimated fall into the hands of two
thirds of the people of the country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-03
UNIONIzE STEEL men. +.
American Federation Has Launched
Campaign Against Open Shop.

Washington. Aug. 3.-Plans to or
ganize the labor of the iron and steel
industry have been launched by the
American Federatio nof Labor. The
campaign to bring the greatest "open
shop in the country into the union
will begin by holding organization
meetings simultaneously in every city
and town having a steel plant.
The American Federation of Labor
has issued a call to the workers in
such plants urging that they union
ize. A circular printed in many Ian
guages and signed by President Com
pers and Secretary Morrison has been
sent broadcast. 1t announced that a
plan for organization has been for
mulated which only needs the sup
port of the workers to insure its sue
cess The circular asks foreign
workers to tell their friends ION the
other side" to keep out of America
for a year or two.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-03
Former Congressman Discusses
That Third Party.
Is Attempt to Disfranchise
Voters, He Says.
TAFT MEN ONLY REPUBLICANS
Charges PrOgressiveS Tried to
Mislead People.
''BuH Moose" Leaders Branded
as Boilers by lola Man.

Charles F. Scott, OF lola, who was in
Topeka today, lays open the plans of
the Kansas progressives to openly bolt
the Republican ticket in November
after first gaining control of as many
nominations in the Republican column
as they may win in Tuesdays election.
The former Second district congress-
man is enraged by the political tactics
OF .Stubbs, White, Allen and other pro-
gressives and denounces their attempt
to dictate the nominations in the Au-
gust primaries and later openly support
candidates on a third party ticket for
such offices as are not won in the Re-
publican primaries
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-03
TO MAKE CLEAN SWEEP
1t Is Said Taft VIII Veto All the Tariff
Bills.

Washington, Aug. 3.-Some of Presi-
dent Taft's supporters in the senate
today declared they had information
the president would veto every one of
the tariff bills now under considera-
ton. Cotton, wool, sugar and steel
bills are nearly ready to go to the
White House for signature.
BY vote of 33 to. 2S, the senate
today agreed to recede from it's Ca
madam reciprocity repeal amendment
on the steel bill. This leaves the bill
approved by both houses. 1t will go
to the president at once. The pro
gressives voting with the Democrats
to recede were Senators BristCw,
Clapp, Crawford, LaFol1ette, Poindex-
ter, and Works.
The house agreed to the conference
report on the wool tariff revision bill
by a vote of $50 to 81. Only one
Democrat, Representative Ashbrook OF
Ohio, voted against its adoption, while
"a Republicans joined with the Demo
Gratis in the affirmative vote The
measure now will go to the president.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-03

The Weather Man Promises Them for
Sunday.

The weather man dealt out his best
brand of atmospheric conditions today.
This is typical September weather, Z"
he said.
The forecast calls for local showers
tonight and Sunday. But between
the showers said Sunny Flora, the
government observer, I'VE are likely to
have some pleasant weather"
The minimum temperature today
was SO degrees. This is the lowest
point that has beer reached by the
mercury since June "a. No records
were broken today, however. 1t has
been as cool as 54 degrees on this
date. The wind is blowing IL miles
an hour from the northeast.
Following is the report of Section
Director T. B. Jennings for the "a
hours ending at Z o'clock this morn
ing: .
"Showers are reported from prac-
ticaIly all parts of Kansas. Those in
the western part of the state were
light, but close to half an inch If
rain is reported from the central por-
tion. Cloudy weather prevailed this
morning in the western part of the
district and clear weather in the east =
ern. The lowest temperatures in sew
eral weeks were experienced during
fba T1a CT hours
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-03
HER WEALTH IS CLAIMED
just as State Was Ready to Confiscate
Estate Heirs Appear.

Denver, Aug. 3.-Just as the $780,
600 estate of Mrs. Caroline Cloth of
Memphis, Tenn, who died in that city
several months ago, leaving no will
and it was thought, no relatives, was
about to be confiscated by the state,
two claimants have appeared.
Dr. John NJ. ShalIer of this city be-
lieves that he and a sister Miss Mary
Louise Shaller, of Cincinnati, are the
sole heirs.
The discovery of the heirs was by
Paul w. Evans, an attorney of Mem
phis, who interested himself in the
case Mr. Evans learned that Mrs.
Cloths maiden name was Smaller and
after months of search has succeeded
in finding the claimants. Mr.. Evans
will apply - the Tennessee authorities
for papers of administration.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-03
SHOOTS 5; BURNS HOTEL
Officers Rush to South Platte to Cap
ture Maniac.

South Platte, Col, Aug. 3.-George
Ballew, % years old, believed to be a
maniac. ran amuck here last night and
with a double barrelled gun, shot and
wounded five persons, three probably
fatally. then set fire to the hotel, which
burned to the ground.
Fearing that the telegraph operator
would notify outsiders of the occurrence
he ran to the station and ordered him
to come on" The operator already
had notified Denver authorities.
Ballew marched the telegrapher to
the hotel, where he assembled those in
attendance upon the injured into one
group and held them at bay.
Sheriff Dennis, of Jefferson county.
with a posse has started for the scene.
Nurses accompanied the posse.
1t was said the sheriff would reach
South Platte about o'clock this morn
ing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-03
Want TO BE FREE
Inhabitants of the Island of
Nicaria, Aegean Sea.
Declare Their Independence of
the Turkish Government.

Athens, Aug. 3.-The Turkish island
of Nicaria (also known as Icaria) in
the Aegean sea today proclaimed its i'll
dependence of the Turkish govern
ment. The inhabitants, who mum r
about 5000, seized and imprisone d
all the Turkish officials.
The island of Nicaria, which has an
area of about so square miles. is ia
nous in mythology for the death Gf
Icarus. whose waxed wings melted
while he was flying. At the present
day it is occupied almost solely by
charcoal burners of Greek nationality.
The principal town is Mesaria, which
consists of a group of about 200
houses The islanders have hitherto
paid an annual tribute to the pasha of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-03
FIGHTS WITH THIEF.
Cop Rolls Down Stairs But Captures
His Man.

New York, Aug. "a policeman
passing a tall loft building ON Tenth
avenue early this morning heard mems
voices coming from an upper floor and
broke in to investigate. In a closet on
the fourth floor he found a muscular
N5azE p1alT~7vho jumped at him so
quickly that they both rolled down
three flights of stairs together. The
young man was underneath at the foot
oc the stairs and was promptly hand
cuffed. A search of the lofts revealed a
great stack of silks and satins, valued
at $25,00O packed up ready to be taken
away.
The prisoner told the police later that
three other men escaped while he was
struggling on the stairs. They had an
automobile outside the building to use
in carrying off their DOT he said.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-03
They SEIZE A SHIP
Customs Officials Place Libel
Against a German Vessel
For Violation of the United
States Immigration Law.

Los Angeles, Aug. 3.-The German
steamer Sais was seized by United
States customs officials today, and a
libel placed against her, as a result Of
an alleged violation of the immigration
law by her sister ship the Osiris, on
May 25 last.
It was alleged that the Osiris import
ed 20 Chilean laborers to unload cargo
here, which is a violation of the immi-
grafton laws, punishable by a fine of
81 900. for each alien so engaged. She
sailed before action could be taken
hence the seizure of her sister ship.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-03
He REPLIES TO TAFT.
Colonel Lyon Denies Presidents state
u1ent REGARDING Texas.

Sherman, Tex, Aug. S.-Colonel
Cecil A Lyon, chairman OF the state
ReDuhIjcan executive committee today
made public a reply to the w mite
House statement relating to President
Taft's nomination. The Lyon state
ment deals with the selection OF Texas
deIepates to the national convention.
Respect for your high office, the
statement reads, "precludes such an
answer to your statement on the
merits of the Chicago contests as
would be made by me to any other
citizen of the United States. Referring
to the Texas case, will say that your
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-03
SELL CALHOUN'S GOODS
Furniture Of Street Railway Magnare
Goes to Satisfy Judgment.

Cleveland, Aug. 3.-Sherin Herstius
has commenced advertising the sale
of the furnishings in the Euclid
Heights mansion of Patrick Calhoun,
street railway magnate to satisfy a
judgment for 1910 obtained against
Calhoun by John Grant, a contractor
for building materials for which
Grant claims he was not paid
The sale will be held on the Cal
houn property August 10, unless the
court intervenes, which it has twice
refused to do.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-03

statement of the number of counties
in Texas is correct, but the entire
statement of facts concerning the
Texas cases is incorrect"
Colonel Lyon denied he had been in
the habit of controlling the Repub
lican state convention by securing from
two federal officeholders in ninety
nine Texas counties a certificate grant
ing a proxy to Colonel Lyon or a friend
of his to represent the county as if
regularly conferred by a regular Re-
regularly conferred by a regular Re-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-03
BABY IN VALISE.
Is Found by the Side of a Railroad
Track.

Lincoln, Neb.. Aug. "a baby girl
less than a week old apparently placed
in valise and thrown from a Bur
lington train, was found on the ont
skirts of Lincoln by a laborer who
carried the mite to his home, where his
wife revived and cared for it until tbe
authorities were notified. Tho infant
seemingly had lain several hours he
side the track, but is little forse for
it's exposure and is expected to live.
There is no clue to it's parentage
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-03
TWO ARE CLEARED.
White Men. Charged With Murder of
Negro After One Year.

Savannah. Ga, August 3.-Exactly
one year after ]. H. Turner, a wealthy
negro was killed in his automobile
several miles from savannah, Hugh
BOggs and John Willis Worley, two
white men were acquitted of the
charge of numbering him late last
night. Turner was killed with a
hammer and his body hid in an abau-
doned well in Effingham county,
Georgia, many miles from the scene
of the murder. This was the second
trial of the case, the first resulting in
conviction.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-03
STUBS To COFFEYVILLE
Governor Closes Primary Campaign
in Third District.

Governor w R. Stubbs left 10 st
night for independence and Coffey-
Vile, where he will close his primary
campaign. Stubbs will speak this af
ternoon in Independence and tonight
will address a progressive rally in Cof-
feyville. Several of the Stubs speak
ing dates were Cancelled earlier in the
week because of sickness in the gov
ernor's family and Governor StubbS' S
desire to spend the week in Topeka.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-03
OFFICER; HE is IN AGAIN
Farmer, Broke, Sells Stove to Take
Family to Circus.

Hardin, Col, Aug. 3.-Daniel Hardin,
a farmer, today sold his cook stove
that his wife and five. children might
see a circus performance. Hardin had
promised his family that they might
see the show. but a hailstorm a day
or so ago destroyed his crops and left
him without money for tickets.
When a ditch crew offered him $15
for his stove he accepted.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-03
BACK TO THE FARM.
Preacher. Failure, He Declares VIII
Raise Chickens in Future.

Tacoma. Wn., Aug. 3.-Condemning
himself as a failure as a pastor, Rev.
William D. Buchanan. for eight years
pastor of Park UniversaIist church, has
retired to the simple life"
Il am a farmer by instinct, a min
lister by choice he said Il have come
to feel that I should first practice and
then preach and from now on I shall
make my living as a breeder of chick
eps''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-03
Pension Vouchers Held Up.

WashingtOn, Aug 3-Payment OF $50 O0G.-
900 of pensions to veterans of the Mexican
and civil wars is being held up by con-
gress. Vouchers are ready for mailing if
congress would agree on the bill, but it i
being held up by dispute over the aban-
donment of pension agencies.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-03

Weather Forecast for Kansas.
Local showers tonight or Sunday.
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aEontinued on Page Two,
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-05-31

General E. M. Law, as editor OF The
Barlow Courier-Informant, seems to get
better and brighter with the years. We
do not get time always TO read the pa
pers, but glance at recent numbers of
our Barlow contemporary has afforded
US keen enjoyment, In the opinion OF
this scribe, the General is doing the
best public service of his long, eventful
life, as soldier, planter, educator, and
editor. General Law, while not I'M
mindful of the past with its glories and
tragedies, keeps step with the procession
and has his face 10 the future. We wish
he had the time and means to write a
book of "reminiscences. What
mighty changes and stirring scenes have
been witnessed by the modest, kingly
editor,-DeSoto County News.