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Bill Prescribes Conditions.

He emphasized the fact that no corpo-
ration should have the power to do out
side the state that which it could not
do in the state Of its incorporation. The
bill which he has introduced prescribes
the conditions under which corporations
can engage in Interstate commerce, and
forbids such corporations engaging there
in which attempt to stifie, restrain and
monopoiize any industry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-16
Library Gets Old Newspapers.

The Library Of Congress has pur-
chased a file of the Augusta, Ga,
Chronicle and uazette, the price being
$1.292. The paper was for many years
really the state organ of Georgia,
which fact gives 1t it's value as
reference f1le
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British Ambassadors Wife Dead.

ARCO, Tyrol. Austria, February 16.-
Lady Goschen, the wife of Sir William
Goschen. British ambassador at
Berlin, died here yesterday. Lady Go
schen was daughter Of Darius Clarke Of
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Crossing of Mexican Border
by Officer to Be Probed.
INVASION NOT INTENTIONAL
Admitted That Mistake Was Due to
Unfamiliarity With Juarez.
AMERICANS ARE IN NO PERIL
Madero Government Assures United
States It Will Protect Party of
Ten in Durango.

Lieut. Ben W. Fields, i'm command Of
the SQUAD of soldiers of the 18th Infan-
try and who crossed the Mexican border
line at Juarez on a street car of the in
terna ational line, has been placed under
arrest pending an investigation of the
incident.
nounced in a telegram received at the
War Department today from the COM
mander of the battalion. While the Of
ficers of the general staff admit that it
was his unfamlliarity with the town
which was responsible for Lieut.. Fields
taking the men across the line, neverthe-
less they realize that his action might
have precipitated serious consequences
had the Mexicans refused to accept the
explanation.
In going to his post with the men, IL
appears they boarded what is termed the
loop line car, which crosses one In
ternationa bridge and returns to the
United States another. Before the
uniformed men realized where they were.
they were confronted by a number of eX-
cited Mexican troops. After much ex-
planaton they were allowed to return to
the United States and Lieut.. Fields was
can be made
Americans Are Protected.
1t is made plain here that no invasion
of Mexico was intended and that the men
on their way to do patrol duty along the
international dividing line accidentally
took the wrong route.
The Mexican government has given its
promise to the United States to protect
the ten Americans now at Tiahualilio,
state of Durango. That place has been
cut off by rail with Torreon, and in
surgents are reported to be occupying
the town. Advices to the State Depart
ment while admitting a disturbed con-
dition at Salina Cruz, Oaxaca, declare
there is no anti-American sentiment.
At Palomas. on the border line just
south of Columbus, ~. NJ, rebels are re-
ported to be admitting goods of all kinds
into Mexico at one-half the regular tar1n
duties While conditions in Juarez are
said TO be favorable to the government,
conditions farther west In Chihuahua,
particnlaslS-thesk kasSa Grsndss re.,on. a
stssgehs t6 sthk gov vernment, and the rebels
there continue to Interfere with the. run
ming of trains from Juarez Railway
communication between Mexico City ana
Oaxaca ifs.the south has also been inter-
rupted.
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MAKES NO HEADWAY
Italy Holds With Difficulty Mar
row Zone in TripoIi.
HORSES DIE BY THOUSANDS
Cavalry and Artillery of the In.
vaders Crippled.
UNCENSORED NEWS RECEIVED
Frank Edward johnson, the Ex-
plorer, Informed by Letters of
Uprising of the Sennoussi.

Frank Edward Johnson. artist ex-
plorer, archelogist and ethnologist. who
is in this city after stay of several
years in north Africa, yesterday received
letters from friends in Tripoli containing
interesting news from the scene of mill
tary operations in that country. These
letters, which were sent in such a manner
as to escape the rigid censorship which
has been esta ablished by the Italian mill
tary authorities, asserted that the Italian
army is making absolutely no headway
against the Arabs and Tripolitans. and
that it is only with the greatest difficulty
that the Italians retain possession of the
narrow zone surrounding Tripoli, which
was seized by them at the outbreak OF
actual hostilities.
Mr.. Johnson's correspondents write that
the Italians are losing thousands of
horses, the losses hopelessly Gripping the
cavalry arm of the army of occupation
and putting the artillery out of commits
sion.
The horses, which were brought
from Italy, refuse to drink the brack-
iSh, alkaline water-which Is the only
water to be obtained for drinking pur-
poses about Tripoli or in the desert
and in consequence of going waterless
under the desert sun, the animals have
died literally by thousands. The Ital-
iaps, the letters state, have comman
deered all the camels within reach, until,
few days before these letters were
mailed, the government of Tunis, by
proclamation Of the Bey of Tunis, pro-
hibited the expectation of camels
from that country, for the reason that
the animals are becoming SO scarce
that the people Of Tunisia have not
sufficient numbers with which to carry
on the agricultural and other work OF
the country.
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Men Of the Desert ImpIacable.

Further advices received today by
Mr.. Johnson from friends in Tunis
state that should the Italian and Turk
ish governments make peace the
Arahe and Bedouins OF the north Afri-
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WEATHER.

Fair tonight, Saturday prob
ably increasing cloudiness; mod
crate temperature variable winds.
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-01-12
EWS BY
TICK AND FLASH
What Interests the World Chron-
icled by Telegraph and Cable
GLANCE AT FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Washington Looms Large as a Center
OF Observation-Disclosures Busy In
Many States-The Lights and
Shadows of the News.
WaShin6fOn

A bill authorizing Circuit judges to
sit in Courts of Appeals was passed.
President Taft held the regular New
Years reception and shook the hands
of 8,92 callers.
Bids for two battleships were open
ed at the Navy Department, the pro-
posals being within the Sc, 000, 900 linn
1t of cost fixed by Congress.
A marble bust of Vice-President
Sherman reached the capitol and will
be placed in a niche close to the main
entrance of the Senate.
The International Banking Corpora
ton, fiscal agent of the United States
in collecting the Boxer fund, is said to
owe the Government nearly $3.50 900.
Senator Hitchcock opposed the arbi-
tration treaties on the ground that
they were a British trick to force an
alliance to operate against Germany.
A subcommittee of the House Com
mittee IN Ways and Means agreed on
a bill reducing iron and steel duties
by from 8 to As per cent. and putting
iron ore on the free list.
Senator Kern of Indiana was desig-
natd by Vice-President Sherman, Sen
ator Kern's successful rival for the
vice-presidency in 1908 to read Wash
ington's fareN ell address before the
Senate on Washington's birthday.
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The assertion that John M. Ward
favors changing the foul strike rule
so that the first foul shall not be a
strike is denied by no less a person
age than John M. Ward.
An interesting if not a first class
fight will be arranged between Carl
Morris and AL Palzer. These men
are now recognized as the best of the
white hope division.
The Cornell ~cross-country team has
selected Paul Jones, Cornell's great
mile inner and for the last two years
individual inter collegiate cross-coun-
try champion, captain of the team for
next year.
Edmund Blanc, the noted French
turfman. whose purchase of Flying
Fox for $196,400 caused a sensation,
has now bought the great American
racer Hermis to replace the English
stallion in his French stud.
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General

Slight earthquake shocks were felt
in Northern Illinois and Southern Wis
consin.
For the third successive time James
B. McEwan was inaugurated mayor of
Albany N. Y.
Recent indictments of alleged dyna-
miters in Los Angeles followed a dra-
matte confession by one of the labor
leaders.
That she poisoned pies with the OBJ
ject of killing his whole family, is the
charge lodged against Mrs. John Kulp,
of Allentown, Pa, a bride of three
months, by her husband.
John B. Peaslee, Superintendent of
Public Schools of Cincinnati from
1874 to 1887 and who established Arbor
Day in the public schools, thus origi-
mating a movement that swept all
over the country, died of pneumonia,
aged 20.
A petition asking for the passage
of an act to provide for a Greater Bos-
ton, by the consolidation of all the
cities and towns lying wholly or part
ly within 10 miles of the statehouse
into one municipality, is being circu-
lated.
Some Democratic Senators, led by
Watson of West Virginia, are trying
to check the Woodrow Wilson boom
by developing the "favorite-son" idea.
O'Gorman of New York is now men
toned.
President Taft accepted the New
York Bar Associations invitation to a
banquet at the Waldorf-Astoria Janu-
airy 20.
The United States postal authorities
and the Department of Justice have
gathered evidence against some Of
Wall streets stock tipsters and indict-
ments may follow.
DR.. Dudley A. Sargent, physical di-
rector of Harvard University, has de-
clared the cross continent walk by
John and Warren Buffum, one on a
non-meat diet and the other on meat
only, a draw.
Ortie E. McManigal arrived at In
dianapolis and testified before the
federal grand jury.
A new move. which is likely to sue
coed. is on foot to get Harry Thaw out
of M~atteawan.
Milwaukee's death rate last year
was 1882 per thousand, 50 the Social
ist health commissioner announces.
Jerome H. Pratt testified at the
trial of the Chicago packers that
meetings to fix the prices of meats
were held at homes of members after
Judge Grosscup had ordered the pack
ers' pool dissolved.
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EOrei6n

Four peasants We're killed n TWEEN
ty were wounded by soldiers in an up
rising in Portugal.
Two revolutionists at Jativa in the
province Of Valencia, Spain, have been
sentenced to 10 years Imprisonment.
1t was reported that Western and
Southern Mongolia would follow the
lead of Eastern Mongolia and declare
themselves independent kingdoms.
The militia revenue party has re-
stored order at Guayaquil, Ecuador.
The revolutionists have seized the
Guayaquil to Bucay.
Mrs. Arthur Stannard, the writer,
who used the name of John Strange
Winter, and who died on December
ured at $2,735.
The Spanish budget estimates for
1912 are: Revenue, $226, 569, 442; ex-
penditure, 1925, 2S87,2S9. The revised
pnditure, $226,2S7, 2S9. The revised
ufactured articles.
SECRETARY of State Knox sent a mes
sage of greeting and good will to the
fourth Central American conference
at Managua, Nicaragua, assembled
for the discussion of questions com
mon to the Central American repub-
lies.
The famous Trappist monastry at
st. Norbert, Manitoba, was destroy
ed by fire. Sixty monks who never
speak and who live entirely on vegeta.
bles are homeless. The loss is $780,
600.
The death list in the Spanish wars
with the Riffs in Morocco, Africa, has
reached 7S5 and daily fighting contin-
ues.
Thirty thousand sheep in Santa Cruz
Island are starving, owing to the lack
of rain.
Forrest F. Dryden was elected to
succeed his father as President of the
Prudential Life Insurance Company.
John Pastrana Gaica, an agricul-
tural laborer, died in Madrid at the
age of 113. He had worked so years
for one family and 25 for another.
An English suffragette, praising AS
quith's firmness, said women were de-
sorting the Pankhurst party in Eng
land because of it's unnecessary vio-
lence.
The comments of the Paris morning
papers on the election are to the eff
feet that the returns reaffirm the Re
publican idea. The chief characters
tic is the weakening of the conserva-
tive opposition.
The French potato crop is being
menaced by a new parasite known al
pthorimoen solanea. 1t is ravaging
large districts.
The tomb at Staatz, Austria, of the
counts di Collafto, an Austro-Italian
family, dating back to 1174, has been
d~esecrated by robbers. Four collins
were rified and jewelry stolen.
The Royal Aero Club of the United
Kingdom is discussing the proposition
of the Am srican aviator, James v.
Martin. tor a flight acl oss the Atlantic
Ocean in IN eeroplane from Newfound-
land to Iceland,
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Personal I

Mrs. Harrington Stallo filed suit in
Cincinnati for divorce from Edmund
K. Stallo, of New York.
Governor-elect George Hunt of Ari-
IONA says he wants no display of gold
lace at his inauguration.
President Schurman of Cornell an
nounced a New Years gift to the uni
versity from Jacob H. Schiff of $780,
900, for the promotion of studies in
Geran culture.
Mrs. w. B. Atwater, formerly Mrs.
Thomas C. Platt, who married her
chauffeur, following her first hus-
bands death, has taken up aviation.
Mrs. John S. Crosby, president of a
woman's domestic organization ant
wife of a lawyer, was the first woman
to be made a special deputy by Sheriff
Hamburger, of New York.
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platform program. When the legisla-
tive session opens we become col
leagues in a common service, and our
standard is not party advantage, but
the welfare of New Jersey. We are,
first of all, citizens and public SER
wants; u party differences are Sec
ondary to our duty as representatives
and trustees.
| venture upon this preface to my
recommendations in order to afford
myself the opportunity to say with
how much pleasure l shall cooperate
with the present Legislature in car
rying out every program that is judg-
ed to be for the common benefit. 1t
is my duty, as Governor of the State
and representative of all it's people.
to be the leader of my party in the
State, indeed, but not a partisan or a
strategist for mere party benefit. l
am glad to think, therefore, that the
matters to which l shall call your at
tention do not lie within the field of
party debate. They are matters which
we can approach without party bias or
prejudice. Whatever differences of
Judgment may arise with regard to
them, they need have no flavor of par
ty feeling about them.
At the last session we united in eff.
fecting reforms obviously necessary
and long desired, upon which opinion
in the State had for many years been
%centered, but did not address our
selves at all to certain other large
questions no less necessary to deal
with, which public opinion has not
definitely fixed upon, simply because
of their completely and of the fact
that only those who can view them
from the inside can fully appreciate
how vital they are to the integrity and
se~rviceability of the States govern
ment. / mean questions of efficiency
and economy. We car get at the heart
of these if we choose, and we could
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DR.. Algernon Coolidge, a descendant
Thomas Jefferson, died in Boston,

DR.. Algernon Coolidge, a descendant
of Thomas Jefferson, died in Boston,
aged 80.
Aviator Atwood is reported to be
planning to attempt a flight across the
Atlantic next April.
Mrs. John S. Crosby and Nil Cor
nelia Swinnerton were appointed depu-
ties by Sheriff Hamburger of New
York.
The Warden of Atlanta Prison said
C. w. Morse had offered $1,000 for per-
mission to send kilograms for stock
specializing purposes.
Ortie McManigal, confessed dyna-
inter, was secretly taken to a lonely
ranch preparatory to his trip East, the
authorities fearing possible violence.
Backers of the movement to bring
the National Dmocratic convention to
New York have taken an option on
Madison Square Garden for July.
The New Jersey Supreme Court re
fused to stay the operation of the or
der requiring railroads to provide
free, individual drinking cups.
Two thousand children have been
excluded from the public schools in
Clean, N. Y, for failure to obey an or
der of the Board of Education requir-
ing vaccination.
At a meeting of the Georgia Repub-
lican state central committee resolu-
lions were adopted endorsing Presi-
dent Taft and demanding his renomi-
nation.
j. ]. NJ. WEIGH, a justice of the peace
in Kansas City, says he will marry
without charge all couples during
Leap Year, who show that the pros
pective bride popped the question"
Will S. Low of Bronxville, N. Y, was
awarded the contract to paint the mu-
raj decorations of the new $4,000 900
State Educational Building in Albany
for $4,000.
Assemblyman Mark Goldberg of
Legislature to restore transfers at Is
points on the New York street a
lines.
The fiLding of a secret bar well
stocked with liquors in a raid on the
Middies Club at Annapolis has led to
a board of inquiry to go to the bottom
of the alleged drinking.
Ohio Progressive Democrats form
ed a league to fight the Presidential
candidacy of Governor Judson Harmon
their sentiment being strongly for
Bryan.
Senator La Toilette failed to appear
at Lansing, Mich, and Governor Os-
born, taking charge of the meeting.
made a speech criticising the Wiscon-
sin Senator's record.
Acting Secretary of the Navy Win
throp settled the strike at the Norfolk
Navy Yard when he sent a telegram
that the time slips which the men re-
fused to sign, and which caused the
walk-out, were introduced without au-
thority and must be withdrawn.
Eugene N. Foss was inaugurated
governor of Massachusetts for the Sec
ond time. The governor walked from
Jamaica Plain, where he resides, to
the state house, and in true Jefferson
ian simplicity wore a derby hat and
frock coat to the coronation.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, denied
that he had trampled on the American
flag, while delivering an address at
Oakland, last Labor Day, as charged
in newspaper report, and declared
that the photographs supposed to
prove this assertion are fakes.
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Some Flashes from the Big Fire.

The burned building had 325 ten
ants.
No cash was kept in the Equitable
Society vault.
Streets and sidewalks ran ankle
deep in ice and slush.
Nine blocks of downtown New York
were roped off by the police.
Big banks closed because of the fire
and all downtown traffic delayed.
1t contained the first passenger ele-
gator installed in any Office building.
Securities valued at S15,0 00, 900 were
tied up, exclusive of those destroyed.
The fire started in the storeroom of
the Savarin Restaurant on the second
floor.
Stock Exchange suspended delivery
rule, an unprecedented happening in
Wall Street.
About $500, 0OO. 900 in the Equitable
Society's securities were stored in
their vault.
The $4,000 law library Of the EquiSs
able, the finest of it's kind In
world, was destroyed.
The money loss was eat
tween SIS, 900, 900 and s2q
record figure for n build
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WOMAN CITY SCHOOL HEAD.

Miss Keller Appointed Superintendent
in Cleveland After Fight.
Cleveland.-For the first time in the
history of the city a woman is a SUI
perintendent of the public schools, at
tended by 100000 pupils. The Board
of Education elected Miss Harriet L.
Keeler, sixty-ive, to the position, to
fill a short term from January z to
August 81, 1912, at a salary of $4,000
a year..
On August 81 a superintendent will
be chosen for a five-year term.
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-01-12
BRITISH TRADE GROWTH.

Large Increases of Imports and Elk
ports Noted for 1911.
London.-The returns of the Board
of Trade for 1911 show that imports
were 9680, 1915, or $3,402, 795, 1916,
and exports G454,282,460 or $2,271,-
412.300. The increase in imports as
compared with 1910 was 92,302,151;
increase in exports was G23, S97.6S8.
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-01-12

Famous as Solder Who Fired the First
Shot at Gettysburg.
Washington.-The Secretary of War
received a telegram from st. Louis an
n~ouncing the death in that city of
Brig. Gen. Joseph M. Califf, U. s. A.,
retired.
Gen. Califf is famous as the man
who fired the first shot at Gettysburg.
He vas hen in command of a six-gun
battery in Buford's division of Rey-
nold's Corps, and was out on the Hag-
erstown road on Seminary Hill.
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-01-12

Trenton.-Gov. Woodrow Wilson's
first annual message was read before
both houses of the New Jersey Legis-
lature and was followed with deep in
terest by the assembled lawmakers.
The message is as follows:
State of New Jersey,
Executive Department.
To the Legislature:
With the opening of another legisla-
tive session, it is my privilege to call
your attention to several matters with
regard to which we have the opportun-
ity to serve the State by well-consid-
cred changes in it's law. 1t has inter-
ested me- very deeply to note that in
recent years in this State the plat
forms of the two great parties, which
come every year into competition at
the annual election for the control of
the legislative body, have usually been
in substantial agreement; so that one
is encouraged to believe that our cleo
tons are not so much contests for
party advantage, or ACKNOWLEDGMENT,
as for the opportunity to serve the
people of the State-contests for the
honor and satisfaction of accomplish
ing the reforms which the conditions
obtaining in the State naturally sug-
gest. If this is true, the winning par
ty may count upon the cooperation
Of the minority in carrying out it's
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$18,OOO,OOO EQUITABLE BUILDING
DESTROYED BY FATAL FIRE
Fast Sweeping Blaze in New York's Financial
Zone Races City's First Skyscraper
Causing Loss of Life.
ONE BILLION DOLLARS IN SECURITIES BURIED,

Chief KenIon Says Huge Steel Boxes
Are Intact and Contents Doubtless
misunderstanding Cost About
100000 but Equitable Consider
ed 1t ValueIess and Fixes Loss at
$3oo,ooo-Tenants, Whose Books
Are Destroyed, Hunt New Offices
Thrilling Scenes at Worst Fire in
Financial District.
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700 I~MPERIALIsTs FALL.
Chinese Imperial Forces Lose That
Many Dead and Wounded.

Many Dead and Wounded.
Peking.-Seven hundred Imperial
troops are reported to have been
killed or wounded in a battle neal
Hankow, province of Hu-Peh, with
the revolutionists.
The Imperial forces were evacuating
the city when two Of their trains were
destroyed. From these trains 1000
troops, Independent Of their command
ers, were making al effort to return to
Hankow.
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SUES FATHER FOR GIFT.
Woman Wants Money Put in Bank for
Her at Birth.

Her at Birth.
Norwich, Conn.-Mrs. Addie B.
Lewis of Uxbridge. Mass, has brought
suit against her father, Charles Her
man of Westield, Mass, to compel
him to pay her the principal and in
terest upon 500 which he placed in
the Dime Savings Bank in this city
at the time of her birth.
Mrs. Lewis says that her father
placed that sum to her account, NAM
Ahimself and her mother trustees.
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CHINESE REVENUES UP $4,000.
imports Increase Despite Rebellion
Picking Feels War.

Picking Feels War.
Peking.-The customs returns for
the year 1911 show a surprising in
rease of about 1871, 900, as compared
with 1910. The total receipts were
1922 400 taels, OF about ST. 1000. The
increase, it is explained, is due to the
enormous shipment of imports on for
ward contracts which entered and
paid. Thus contrary to expectations,
the revolution has been without effect
on customs receipts.
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Three safe deposit vaults within the
fire zone, but outside of the Equitable
building, contained SIS, 600, 900 in Sc
curities, deposited Jas collateral. n
Records of many cases in bankI
cy, some pending since 1906. q
in the office of Nathaniel A. Pr
official referee. were destroyed.
Walls of buildings half a blocI
from the Equitable were coated
by the spray from the streams
the 40-mile gale, whipping third
canyons from Trinity ehV
swept aside before they real
Equitable building.
Cancelled coupons of the u
cific were flying around in th
one on which $40 had been
found at the Brooklyn Brio
The Walls of the 17-stq
Exchange National Bank.
and Cedar street, were 1
flames. A frozen curta
adorned the Cedar sire
Aarinp house