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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-06-15
MEMORIAL DAY
Ely JOHN HAY.

In the dream OF northern poets,
The brave who IN battle dle
Fight on in the shadowy phalanx
IN the nelds OF the upper say;
And as We read the sounding rhyme,
The reverent fancy hears
The ghostly ring OF the viewless swords,
And the crash OF the spectral speal S.
We think with imperious questionings,
OF the brothers whom we have lost,
And We try to track in death mystery
The flight of each valiant ghost
The northern mytn comes BACK to us,
And we feel through our sorrows
night
That those young souls are striving still
Somewhere for truth and rIgat.
A chosen corps they ere marching on
In wider held tnan ours;
Those bright batlalIons still fulfil
Tine schemes OF the heavenly powers;
And nigh, brave thought float down to us
Like the CLEAN OF distant picket's gun
Through the shades OF the severing
night.
No tear TOR them! l.: our lower field
Let us keep our arms unstained,
That at last we be wor:ay 10 stand with
them
On the shining heights they've gained
We Snail meet and greet in closing ranks
In Time declining sun,
When the bug es of God shall sound
recall,
And the Battle OF Life be won!
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-06-15
children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
G a STO RIA

The Ladies Auxiliary OF Havre de
Grace Hospital reali ed $50 at IA recent
festival.
The l27 IL acre farm OF W. Ii. Harlan
near Darlington, has been purchased by
Mrs. Sue u. Hopkins for -. $40
The Mt. Vernon L.seTary Society, OF
Washington College, Chestertcwn, has
secured Hon. J. Harry Covington to make
an address on Monday evening. June II,
in William smith Hall
there We're spa, 7G61O0 pounds of but
ter valued at 81 5,0u0,nO produced on
farms and in factories in the United
states during the census year 1909 ac-
cOrd.ng to IA statement issued by the
Census Bureau. The largest total guam
tity was produced by the West North
Central division. Among the States,
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-06-15
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
Q a 8 TO RIA

William Hammond. farmer residing
near harmony, Gel, vas stunned ana
two hors's, valued at $500. KILLED in a
peculiar manner on May rs. \ live cleo
trio wire had broken and came in con-
tact with the wire fence which enclosed
the field in which Hammond was plant
ing corn The horses came in contact
with a portion of the fence and were in
stantly killed.
*"Had dyspepsia or Indigestion for
years. No Appetite, ana what | did eat
distressed me terribly. Burdock Blood
B.tters reached the cause. II. II. Wal
ker, Sunbury, Ohio.
A granite obelisk, eighteen feet high,
has been erected in Rose II II Cemetery,
Cumberland, in memory of Confederate
soldiers buried there.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-06-15
No Filth, No Flies.

Swat the fly compaigns for 1912 are
well on. The elimination of this filthy
and dangerous insect is desirable end.
The house-fiy, in addition to being a de-
monstrated agent in the spreading of
typhoid, is strongly suspected, OH more
or less conclusive evidence, with relation
"a = large number OF infections, includ-
ing cholera dysentery, the infantile
t,arrheas, iiphtheria and con.agi GUS
opthaImia About billion 1iss We're
Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1912-10-31
More Schools
More Churches
Law Enforcement

an M Hgs It dbeane omenan yquedons
al prposdb mnrmpnsb
County
my lam
Very respect
j.
favor working state the public roads but am
aeraby against the issuance Of bonds for Putnam
County.
favor amendments to the insurance laws Of the
prevent of the German Fire Insurance Co. scandal
Any statements that have offered any Of money to break
up the Farmers Union absolutely untrue favor the organic
on and have expressed myself great many members Of
the Union. JERE WHITSON.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-12-24
Continued on Page
FULLER REPORTS
NATIVE OUTRAGES
Peruvian Consul Reports outrages
perpetrated by Plantation Own
ers on the Indians.

Washington, d. c., Dec. 23.-stuart
Fuller, American consul at Iquitos,
Peru who investigated the reported
outrages against the Peruvian Indians
in the Putumayo rubebr district ar
rived in Washington today and confer
red with state department ff1cials.
The outrages brought to light by Con-
sui Fuller's investigation are such as
to give rise to one Of the most per-
picking Latin-American problems with
which the state department has had
to- deal especially in view Of the fact
that British corporations are the prin-
cipal owners in the Peruvian rubber
field. Consul Fuller's reports mailed
before his departure for the United
States had previously reached the de-
partment but he supplemented the
disclosures made therein with other
information all intending to show the
horrors Of the outrages perpetrated on
the Indians by their employers, as we'll
as the gravity of the problem with
which this government has to deal.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-12-24
MAYOENYSEATS
TO THE CABINET
Plan Of President Taft to
Permit Portfolio Holders
Seat in Congress is Not
Likely to Pass.
[BY e. H. HANSON.

Washington, D. c.. Dec. o. Al
though President Taft In his most re-
cent message recommended that mem
bers of the cabinet be permitted to
occupy seats on the floor of both
houses Of congress and to participate
In debates concerning their depart
ments, there is little likelihood of any
action being. taken In the near future.
The democrats in the house are Of
the opinion that President Wilson and
not President Taft should advise them
as to legislation from now on. Conse-
.quently. with everything except meas
ures indorsed in the Baltimore plat
form, they intend to do nothing at all.
The senate is in such chaotic state,
due to friction between republicans Of
progressive and conservative tend
encies, that nothing will be accom-
plished there.
AS stated by the president, his
recommendation is not original with
him. Representative Pendleton, later
Senator Pendleton, Of Ohio, introduced
q resolution seeking such an end way
back in the sixties and later when he
got into the senate he renewed his
fight to have cabinet members given
the rights Of senators and members III
debates pertaining to. their depart
ments, Pendleton failed. although two
committees to which his resolutions
were referred reported favorably on
the scheme.
But long before Pendleton's time, in
the early days of our republic. heads
of the executive departments did take
part In the debates and 1t was only
with the separation of the executive
from the judicial and Legislative
branches of the government as the
country grew in size and Importance
and the leaders In the three branches
grew further apart In their political
ideas that rules were made preventing
cabinet members from taking part In
legislative debates. In fact, II one
reads from the proceedings of the first
few congresses, he will see that Presi.
dent Washington and General Knox
(secretary of war and an ancestor Of
the present secretary of state) often
appeared on the floor of the senate
and discussed measures in which they
were interested.
All matters between congress and
the cabinet are now handled by cor
respondence and doubtless many puz-
zling questions could be simplified i'm
mensely If the presidents recon-
mendation resulted in law empower.
ing and compelling cabinet officials to
appear In congress when they were
wanted.
Connoiy Learning Ropes.
Maurice Connolly the young repre-
uooto+ivoa1oct from tho fhird iicfrict
spent few hours in Washington
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-12-24
IOWAN AN EXPERT
IN PLANT GROWTH
Prof. Webber Of Cornell University
Visited Ames En- Route to
Coast to Locate

Ames, Dec 23.-Prof Herbert J.
Webber Of Cornell university passed
through Ames today on his way to
California, where he will make his
future home. Mr.. Webber, who was
born at Marshalltown, Iowa, Is re-
garded as the greatest plant breeder
among the experts Of the United
States and his mission in the west is
to establish experiment stations for
the University Of California. These
stations will be In Lower California.
Prof. Webber has recently returned
from the south where he succeeded in
establishing new cotton plant The
new product has been named the
Columbian and is already the most
largely planted in South California. 1t
is also supplanting other breeds of
cotton in Mississippi.
While here he secured plans of some
Of the Ames buildings, which he con-
siders standard.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-12-24
WHITE SLAVE CASE
TO u. S. GRAND JURY
Federal Court to Take Up lnvestlga.
tIon Of sacco's Alleged Traffic In
Women In Chicago

Chicago, Dec. 23. Preparations
we're made by the United States dis
trict attorneys office today to submit
to the federal grand jury evidence con-
Meeting Nino Sacco ! with traffic in
women between Chicago and New
York. Federal officers, it is said, ex-
pect to show that Sacco Is indirectly
responsible for the death OF Jennie
Cavalieri, who was murdered near
Bird geport, Conn.,, October %.
Sacco, who was arrested here last
Friday on charge Of conspiring with
Demetrio Marino Of New York to
violate the Mann act, owns resort on
the south side, where the Cavalieri
woman formerly was an inmate. This
place was raided by federal agents
October 2, and Jennie Bruno, Rosie
Rosa and Jennie Vavalieri we're taken
to New York as witnesses for the gov
ernment against Demetrio Marino.
Subsequently both Rosie Rosa and Jen-
ME Cavalieri we're murdered.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-12-24
NEW DURUM WHEAT
HAS BEEN IMPORTED
Russian Cereal Introduced by Agrt
cultural Explorer Myer From Asia
ls Very Hardy.

washington, D. c.. Dec. ga new
variety OF durum wheat, which prom
ises to be valuable for the cereal grow
ers Of the northwest, has been import
ed by the department Of agriculture.
It comes from Bezenshook, southeast
ern Russia, where it was originated at
the Russian governments experiment
station. Frank N. Myer. agricultural
explorer Of the foreign seed and plant
Introduction division of the depart
ment, discovered the new wheat last
summer during his trip through CEN
trail Asia. He describes 1t as being a
new and valuable variety Of black
bearded durum wheat, having very
long open ears. 1t is called Teiskaia
and is proving extremely hardy hav-
ing survived snowless winter when
other wheats either were killed or
severely injured
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-12-24
POLICE BEGIN
NATIONWIDE
HUNT FOR PAIR
Two Suspects Wanted for
Killing Of Chicago Dia"
mond Merchant; Four
Persons Released.

Chicago, Dec. ga country wide
search for two men believed to be the
slayers of Joseph H. Logue, diamond
merchant who was murdered IN his
Office in McVicker's theater building
last Friday, was begun today.
Following is a description Of the
men: .."
No. 20 to 80 years old. feet 10
inches high, 175 pounds; wore sweat
er jacket with a large roll collar, blue
trousers and dark cap.
No. 2-Long peaked nose and race;
wore dark clothes and shirt.
Men answering this description were
seen lettering about the hall in the
vicinity OF Logue's Office for several
hours last Friday before the murder
was committed. r
The police are also looking for three
other women who are said to have
frequented Logue's office. Two OF
them had blonde hair and one of them
is said to have ctlled to see Logue at
his office the morning Of the day OF
the murder.
Mrs. Logue told the police that she
knew Of several women who sold dia-
monds for her husband on commits
sion, but ridiculed the idea that any of
these women could have had anything
to do with the murder.
Two of the~ten suspects who were
taken into custody Immediately after
the murder have been released and 1t
is probable the others will be given
their freedom today or tomorrow.
f.. Only Three Held.
All but four of the suspects were re-
leased by the police today. Those still
held are: IS
Clyde Stratton, university graduate
who Is said to have escaped three
times from the Ohio state penitentiary
at Columbus. Ohio.
Frank williams, alleged safe blower.
II. B. Halnpden, alleged holdup man.
Mrs. Margaret Johnson, believed by
the police to be the wife Of Toronto"
Jimmy johnson, alleged burglar and
safe blower.
The finding of $4,000 worth Of par
cells post stamps In the north side fiat
used as headquarters by Stratton and
his companions today led federal
government oficials to take hand in
the Investigation.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-12-24
ENJOYS
EXPRESS HOPE
|NTHt0UTL00k
Attitude of Austria-Hun-
gary and servia Looks
Good for Final Results OF
the Balkan Troubles. r.

London. Dec. 23.-A further relaAa'
ton Of international tension was
brought about today when Austria
Hungary informed the other European
movers that she considers the Balkan
difficulties approaching satisfactory
solution. This, she says Is the result
OF Servia's action in apologlzlng 70
Austria-Hungary for the incident con-
nected with the treatment OF the
Austro- Hungarian consul at Prlzrend'
and also her acceptance of the pro-
posed arrangement to give her port
facilities on the Adriatic sea without
territorial possession. .....
Besides these assurances from
Vienna, another helpful factor in the
situation was the audience given today
by the emperor, Francis Joseph, to
the new Servian minister. NJ. Jovano-
witch, when both cordially expressed
hope for a speedy re-establishment OF
complete friendship between Vienna
ard Belgrade.
The peace conference resumed It's
SlLJlukS dL ~. JutiACo pAit'SS ~AAAS
noon for three hours.
The Turkish delegates did not insist
today on the revictualing of the fort
ress of Adrianople. Stojan Novako-
witch, ex-premier of Servia, who pre-
sided over the meeting, presented the
peace conditions Of the Balkan allies
and the Turkish delegates stated tnat
they would require time to consider the
proposal.
The discussion. according to NJ
Noyakovitch, was fairly amicable, .
and the plenipotentiaries separated
hopeful that the next meeting on sat
urday would produce something more
definite.
An official communication issued
after the adjournment had been taken
said:
"The Ottoman delegates having de-
clared that according to their instruc-
tions they had no objection to treating
with the delegates CT the allies, 1nclud-
ing the Helliecan delegates, the allies
presented their principal proposals.
The Ottoman delegates reserved their
reply for the next sitting"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-12-24
ROOSEVELT TO .
SPEAK IN BOSTON
Colonel Will Talk on "History as Lit.
erature" at Association Meet
Ina in Boston

Boston, Mass. Dec: o. Several
hundred government officials. his
torians, political economists, sociolo-
gists, Journalists and teachers from all
over the country will be In Boston for
the last five days of this month, when
the American Historical association
will be in session.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, as
president of the association, will de-
liver public address Friday night on
History as Literature
The meetings will bring to Boston
members of the American Economic
association, American Political Science
association, American Sociological 80
ciety. American Statistical association,
American Association for Labor Legis-
lation, the Mississippi Valley His
torical association and the New Eng.
land History Teachers association.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-12-24
NEGRO SUSPECT is.
GIVEN HIS LIBERTY
Dissatisfaction Expressed Against
CoIored Troops In Philippines
and South Sea Islands

Washington, D. c., Dec. 23.- The
proposal to eliminate the negro as an
American soldier Is topic slated f"r
consideration when the conference OF
the ranking officers Of the army is
held here January 8. .....
Some officers favoring the plan are
prepared to urge 1t on the ground that
in the Philippine Islands, the natives
are said to resent the appearance
among them CT black troopers and that
there are>signs of dissatisfaction in
Hawaii owing to the fact that the
army to form permanent organiza-
zation, has been added to the island
army to for ma permanent organiza-
tion.
Friends of the negro are expected to
make a strenuous fight in their behalf
pointing to their splendid record In
Cuba and the Philippine Islands
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-12-24
COMMISSION MADE
UNUSUAL RULING
Int rstate Commerce Body Ruled That
Road May Make Allowance to
@ Elevator Company

Washington, D. c., Dec. % The
interstate commerce commission held
today that a railroad may for COM
petitive reasons grant an elevator al
lowance although no transportation
service Is rendered by the shipper
owning the elevator" g
The case decided was that of H.
Gund & Co. of Nebraska City against
the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, the
commission holding further that in the
payment Of the allowance to COM
petitor of Gund G. Co. no undue is
elimination was shown. II
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-12-24
USES A TENTH OF
BUTTER MADE HERE

Des Moines, Dec. % For every
pound. Of creamery butter manu-
factured and consumed within the
state, nine pounds Of Iowa creamery
butter were sold outside Of the state.
w. B. Barney. state dairy and food
commissioner, has compiled the fol-
lowing figures from the report Of the
5O4 creameries of the state:
Butter manufactured. 91,738,573
pounds. Sold outside Of the state, 49,
043,844 pounds. Sold in Iowa, 9.051,-
55S pounds Sold to patrons, 3,643,171.
Woodbury. county led all the coun-
ties Of the state In the amount Of
creamery butter production.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-12-24
USING OLE0 IN
INSTITUTIONS
Substitute for Butter Grow
ing in Use in State De-
tendencies; Des Moines
Men Being Questioned.
IORA WILLIAMS.l

Des Moines, Dec. 23.-The fact that
the state makes use Of a great deal OF
|oleomargarine at the state institutions
in place Of butter has raised question
as to the right of the persons who
serve this product from the store
houses to color it before 1t goes on
the tables. 1t is a close question as
to the right to have it colored and
probably it would necessitate the same
safeguards as In the case OF restau-
rant. The use Of oleomargarine Is In
creasing in the state among the peo-
pie, largely because OF the right the
consumer has to color the oleo. The
use OF the ole at state institutions ef-
fects quite saving to the state. In
the case Of a great many OF the wards
of the state they are quite as well
satisfied with oleo as with creamery
butter.
May Pardon HamiIl.
It is expected the governor will par
dan John Hammill, now at Anamosa.
He was at one time under sentence
of death for the murder of conductor
in this city in 1894. But Hamill went
insane and escaped the gallows, while
the man who turned states evidence
in the case and was undoubtedly the
real murderer, got of with q short sen.
tence. George Weems, third one con-
victed Of the murder, was released
nearly two years ago, on the supposi-
ton that he was wrongly convicted in
the first place.
Did Something for Roads.
The notion that the legislatures OF
Iowa have never done anything to en-
courage road building Is all wrong, ac-
cording to Senator Doran Of Boone
county, who was an attentive listener
at the roads conference last week.
ITO my mind the greatest thing we
ever did for good roads in this state
was to provide for the drainage OF the
highways. It has done a great deal
to lay the foundation for permanent
roads. Drainage Is the first essential
and a great deal of it has been done
in those portions of the state where
there is much low land. In Beaver
township in which l live we now have
about sixteen miles Of good roads.
The first thing was to have them drain
ed and then to use gravel and stone.
More can be done in this way than
any other to get good results at small
cost.
II am in favor of law that will
authorize the road supervisor to con-
meet up title for drainage OF the
roads with any tile that crosses the
highway. That would never do any
harm to anyone. could cite you many
instances Of efforts made to have good
roads that we're failures until drainage
was accomplished. We have gone q
long way already In getting ready for
good roads,"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-12-24

Executives of New England
Railroads are Under In
dictment for Violating
Sherman Law.

New York. Dec. 23.-Charles S. Mel
len, president of the Nork York-New
Haven and Hartford railroad; E. j
Chamberlain, president of the Grand
Trunk railway Of Canada, and Alfred
w. Smithers, chairman of the Grand
Trunk board of directors. were indict
ed hy the federal grand jury here this
afternoon charged with violating the
Sherman antitrust law in the alleged
monopoly agreement between the two
roads. ..- .-'.'.'..' ..
The indictment AYERS Mellen
Chamberlain and Smithers were en-
gagged on August 3, 1912, and have
since engaged in an unlawful combina.
ton to prevent the construction and
completion of certain extensions OF
the Grand Trunk railway in New Eng
land" ...
1t is also charged they conspired to
prevent the operation Of steamships
between Providence and New York and
Transportation Of persons and proper
ty in interstate and foreign commerce
over these lines Of railroads and steam
sips.' s.
Seven overt acts are alleged by the
government. sr'
The railroad situation in New Eng
land was brought to the attention OF
the federal department of justice first
by the state officers Of Massachu'
setts and Rhode Island, who declared
that the abandonment of certain ex'
tension projects then indicated was
due to secret traffic and mileage
agreement between the two roads. On
November 10, representatives of the
two states called on President Taft
and Attorney General Wickersham
pointed out that the individual states
were unable to cope with the situation
and asked the, government to take &C.
ton. .,5 Fl
The state officials asserted that the
alleged agreement between the New
Haven and the Grand Trunk roads
meant the abandonment of projects
for the extension Of the Grand Trunk
line through territory now monopoliz'
ed by the New Haven.
In its investigation during the past
month the grand jury examined OF
ficers of both railroads and their sub.
sidiaries and also experts representing
New England states and cities most
Interested.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-12-24
WILSON SITS AT
PARDON SESSION
Governor Hears Prayer Of Seventy
Convicts Today Asking for Re-
lease From Captivity.

Trenton. N. j., Dec. 23.-Gov. Will
son sat with the board OF pardons to-
day and heard the applications Of
seventy convicts for pardon. In order
that those entitled to their freedom
might have their liberty before Christ
mas the governor directed that the
meeting Of the board be held today, In
stead of in January.
1T is an unpleasant duty" he said,
"as it pulls at the heart strings.
More than 200 convicts applied for
pardons but the cases Of only seventy
were recomm ended for hearing.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-12-24
MILWAUKEE, MAN
is GIVEN FREEDOM
Failure Of Jury to Agree That Frank
Heller Embezz'ed 100000
Led to Release

Milwaukee, Wis, Dec. 23.-After
having a charge of embezzling $102,-
900 resting against him for several
years. jury last March being unable
to agree, the case against Frank Hell
Ter former secretary OF the Slzarb
Polski Mutual Loan and Building So
ciety, was dismissed today in municipal
court by Judge Belden.
After the alleged defalcation Heller
disappeared for number OF years
and later returned and gave himself
Ip. 1t is understood the full restitution
has been made to the society.