The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-10
SPARKS FROM THE WIRES

1 tai breakdown of the senior member of l the firm, Ezra S. Connor.i, s New York.-W Woodrow Wilson, speaking at a banquet of the Brooklyn league to- night, declared anyone who spoke of a popular vote of the American people as
 mob government" had no right to call himself an American.
 l Stockholm.-The popular subscription which has started in Sweden to build a l battleship for the Swedish navy already | amounts to about $,600O0O. The estimated cost is approximately $3 3460,090. | Washington.-A report on the progress of aviation throughout the world was asked of the war department in a reso- lution presented to the House by Repre- sentative Sharp of Ohio today It directs the Secretary of War to transmit to the House any information he haR obtained from foreign governments on the progress
 made by the students of navigation of
 the air, whether for scientific or army purposes.
 Victoria B. CA Chinaman returned to the Victoria branch of the Bank of Montreal today $4750 of the money stolen from the New Westminster branch of the bank last September. This sum was al- legged to have been found by Chinese boys in a park.
 London.-Despte an opportunity is to be given to introduce an amendment to the governments franchise bill to confer the vote on women. advocates of woman suffrage have decided to reintroduce tho 1 bill which failed of passage last session providing for giving the vote to certain
 women, or what is known as the conoiiia- l ton bill. l San Antonio Kansas City club of l the American association will come to San Antonio March 13 for three weeks of spring training. Announcement to this effect was made today.
 San Antonio.-A team of American
 league regulars defeated the San An touio Texas league team today 17 to ,. New Orleans.-After receiving report from pr. Meyer, inspector, in which he declared that child slavery of horrible and almost unbelievable kind" exists at the oyster plant of the Julian Canning factory at Violet, La, pr. oscar Dowl- l ing president of the Louisiana state board of heauth, today ordered the plant closed.
 Fort WOrth.-The New York National i league regulars won from the Fort Worth
 club of the Texas league here today Il to 1.
 St. Lous.-Efforts to get before the jurors in the trial of E. G. Lewis in the | United States district court on charges l of using the mails to defraud, the effect l of fraud orders issued against Lewis and his publications by the postoffice department failed again today l ton.-Representative Rodden- berry of Georgia, a democrat, today re-
 newed in the House, his filibuster. begun yesterday against the private pension bill He was unsuccessful. ~ Los Angeles.-Clarence $. Darrow, for mer chief counsel for the. McNamara brothers, will be placed on trial May 14 on
 the charge of bribing jurors in the case of James N. A1cNamara, confessed dyna- miter, now serving. a life term. Washngton The money trust investi-
 gating committee of the House will take l it's pick of several expert accountants> who | will appear before it Monday seeking ap- pointment as expert advisers to the coul- mttee.
 1 Boston.-A general advance in wages of textile operatives in Northern England ] was announced today by various miil in