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The Washington times., 1912-05-08
TESTIMONY HERE
MAY Be USED IN
PROBE AT LONDON
Deposition of Survivor Of the
Titanic Likely to Be
Sent to England.

LONDON, May s.--Testimony IL to be
taken in the United States in deposition
form which will play an important part
in the British Governments inquiry into
the Titanic disaster, according to an an
nouncement made after the sitting was
resumed In London at Scottish Rite
Hall today.
Robert Harrison. representing some
Of the surviving third. class passengers
on the White Star ship. applied for
Lord Mersey's aid to represent the FAM
lilies Of some Of the dead steerage pas.
sengers. He was also instructed to APP
pear for two survivors now in America
whose testimony is wanted.
Lord Mersey asked the nature OF the
testimony which the Titanic survivors
IN America would give. J. p. Farrell,
"A survivor named Thomas Mccor-
mick stated in an interview in New
York he jumped from the liner and, af-
ter floating about In the water for some
time, found himself near a life boat.
oft he gunwale, begging to be taken
aboard. The officer in charge OF the
boat was alleged to have struck Nc
Cormick over the head, then to have
tempt to make him let go. We would
like to have that Investigated"
Mr.. Harrison. in addressing the court,
suggested this testimony be taken by a
commission specially appointed for that
purpose. He said It was most impor-
tant that full statements be made on
the subject.
Lord Mersey indicated this course
would be followed, although he didn't
say whether a commission would be
appointed II is most likely legal at.
tache Of the British embassy In Wash:
ington will obtain the affidavits and
forward them to London through the
regular diplomatic channels.
The Washington times., 1912-05-08

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The Washington times., 1912-05-08
HIGH SCHOOL CADETS
PRIMING FOR DRILL
Twelve Companies Will Compete
,.+f in Annual Event at
Ball Park.

Twelve conpsnies Of student soldiers
comprising the District High School
regiment are drilling earnestly in prep
aration for the annual competitive drill
which will take place at National Base
ball Park, the afternoons Of May 81 and
%. Three regular army officers will be
appointed to act as judges and these
will mark six companies the first after
noon and six the second.
The annual competitive drill Is an old
institution in the District, having been
first held in 1855 The honor last year
went to Company D, of Mckinley Msn-
uel Training High School. The captains
who will march at the head OF this
years contestants are the following:
n. G. Gordon: Company 3, r. L. Lex
ton; Company I. N. A. Martin.
Second battalion (Eastern) COMPANY
F, ]. y. Cremerl; (western) Company
The Washington times., 1912-05-08
Astor Widows, Now Said To
Be on Edge of Social Duel
In This, Their Hour of Grief.
Friends Say They Are
Preparing for War. :

NEW YORK. May s.--Mrs. Avaiwill-
ing Astor, mother OF Vincent Astor.
Americas richest resident land owner
soon will close her residence abroad
and return to the United States. There
are two reasons given for this action
by friends of the late Col. John Jacob
Astor's former wife and ais widow.
Primarily, Mrs. Astor desires to re-
side where she may be in close COM
Inunication with her son. whom she
loves deeply. The young multi-million-
aire fully reciprocates this affection.
1t Is said he has urged his mother to
take this course.
Secondary. Is the desire of the for
mer wife of the late Col. John Jacob
Astor to return to her own country
as the recognized social head OF the
Astor family. To use her own words
as Mrs. John Astor."
The present period Of mourning does
not permit intimate friends Of either
Mrs. John Astor or the young widowed
bride, Mrs. Madeline Force Astor. to
discuss their probable rivalry for SO.
cial prestige. But, II IL conceded, that
the woman Of the two who wins the
personal support Of william Vincent
Astor, will be socially recognized as
THE Mrs. Astor, prior to Vincent's .
marriage.
The Washington times., 1912-05-08
WIDOW OF MAGNATE
TO TAKE ACTIVE PART
Mrs. E. H. Hartman in Capital
to Aid In Titanic
Memorial.

Mrs. Mary A. Hartman. a. New York
widow Of =. II. Hartman. the railroad
masnate, arrived in Washington this
morning to take q personal part in
the womsr's Titanic memorial project.
Mrs. Hartman was expected to call at
the Offices of the woman's Titanic
Memorial this afternoon In company
OF Miss Hammond, sister OF John Hays
Hammond, whose wife is the secretary
OF the Titanic memorial Organization.
A large contribution,is announced to
have been made by Mrs. Hartman. The
amount officials OF the memorial prof.
ect declined to state not will statements
be given out daily as to how much has
been subscribed all told. II was an
nounced today that It has been decided
not to limit subscriptions TO 81. as has
been the plan, but to accept gifts OF
any amount.
The Washington times., 1912-05-08
Loan Treaties Dead
For This Session

The Nicaraguan and Honduran loan
treaties, which have been before the
Senate for months, are dead as far as
this session OF Congress is concerned.
The Foreign Relations Committee Of
the Senate took the treaties UP today.
A motion for favorable report on
each treaty was defeated by a tie vote
OF to !. The effect Of this Is to make
II impossible to get the treaties up
again for consideration at this session.
The probabilities are they cannot be
resurrected.
Senator Borah voted with the Demo-
Gratis against the treaties. Senator
Smith of Michigan. who Is opposed to
the treaties, was absent.
The Washington times., 1912-05-08
Two File Voluntary
Bankruptcy Petitions

Two petitions in voluntary bank
ruptcy were hled in the District Su-
preme Court today, one by Collins,
Hauser & Co., and the other by George
T. Miller.
Collins, Hauser & Co., dealers in
books and stationery, at 917 G street
northwest. list their liabilities at N,652 28
and their assets at $S94. "a. Miller, who
Is a retail and wholesale produce and
poultry dealer at 303 Tenth street
northwest. and 97 Louisiana avenue
$1,047.70 and his assets at $335.14
The Washington times., 1912-05-08
No Move Toward Suit
In Street Dispute

When the request Of the District Com
missioners for the Department of JUS
lice to investigate alleged occupancy Of
streets In the southeast by the Wash
inston Gaslight Company reaches the
department the matter will go first to
the title office Later a petition viii he
prepared for filing in court. A suit in
equity to determine title will undoubted- :
~ be brought The request has not yet
been made.
The gas company is said by District
surveyor NJ. c. Hasen to have erected
two tanks in the center of n street
southeast, between Twelfth and Thir-
teenth, and three tanks and an engine
house in Water street.
The Washington times., 1912-05-08
BLEEDING GUMS

When your gums bleed and are sem
sItive, It is the warning Of Riggs Dis
ease. and unless cared for at once the
teeth will get loose and fall out.
There is only one home treatment
known for this condition-Call's Anti
Riggs, used instead of the. ordinary
dentifrice. This quickly relieves the
painful and dangerous Infection. makes
the gums hard and the teeth firm. Get
a SOC bottle from Peoples Pharmacy,
7th and X streets. and nave your teeth
indorsed BY leading professional people,
who realize the attraction of perfect
teeth.
by a new plate. Calls Anti-Riggs will
give quick relief.
The Washington times., 1912-05-08
To Lecture Tonight.

Charles Edward Russell. the we'll.
known traveller and lecturer. will sepak
at the Ingram Memorial Congreeationa'
Church, Tenth street and Massachusetts
avenue, this evening at 8:15 o'clock
The subject Of his lecture will be so.
stalism-1ts Present-Day Aspect and
Program"
The Washington times., 1912-05-08
Rear Admiral BoWleS
Here to Oppose Bill

Rear Admiral Bowles. now head OF
the Fore River Shipbuilding Company,
appeared before the Senate Interoceanic
Canals Committee today. He opposed
LEGISLATION which would prevent rail-
road owned ships from using the
Panama canal He said that such legis-
lation would strike a blow at the ship
building industry in this country.
The Washington times., 1912-05-08

II. Burnett Olmstead: Company NJ. Her
bert kimball; (Business) Company z.
r. e. Glessner; Company G, L. F.
Cooper.
Third battalion mckinley ManuaD
Company c, r. K. Coughlin: Company
D.. W. L. Saunders; Company Z, NJ.
The Washington times., 1912-05-08
Rush Orders.

The Navy Department has transmit.
ted orders to the Brooklyn navy yard
directing officials there to rush repair
work on the dreadnaughts Utah and
Florida, which are to serve as an es-
cort for the German fleet which will
visit Hampton Roads and New York
next month.
The Washington times., 1912-05-08
Still Unconscious.

John Marco, the two-year-old son Of
Giacomo Marce, italian barber -of l707
Seventh street northwest, whose skull
was crushed yesterday by brick
hurled by colored man during a fight
at Seventh street and Rhode Island ave-
nue. northwest, still lies unconscious at
the Children's Hospital and according
to tn ephysicians is in a critical con-
dition.
The police of the Eighth precinct have
not arrested the man who threw the
Sa1ck
The Washington times., 1912-05-08
Flowers & Foliage

A timely sale of Midsummer
Flowers and, Foliage embracing
everything that fashiondom ils. has
Our prices are always below COM
petition-Now they're lower than
ever for this weeks special sale.
The Washington times., 1912-05-08
Held War Prisoners.

ROME, May 8. - The war office
was officially notified today that the
governor of the Turkish island of
Rhodes, recently occupied by the Italian
forces, his two Secretaries and four ad-
ditional Turkish officers, have been
war.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-10-05
STARVING BOY FOUND IN CAR
James GilIoran, Prisoner 4s Hours,
Chewed Clothes Before Released
in Willis Avenue Yards.

New York.-Ragged; dirty and al
most unconscious from hunger and
thirst, James Gilloran, ffteep years
old, who lives with his parents at 172
Franklin avenue, New Haven, Conn,
was dragged from a freight car in the
Willis avenue yards of the New York,
New Haven and Hartford railroad. He
had been locked in the car since it
left New Haven, fOrty-eight hours be-
fore. He was taken to the Children's
society and will be sent home.
According to the story he told the
police of the Alexander avenue po-
lice station, in the Bronx, the lad,
although standing we'll in his class at
school, was seized with wanderlust
and decided to seek a fortune in New
York.
He climbed into a freight car in the
New Haven railroad yards. A short
time after he had hidden himself
yard man locked the door of the car.
The train had gone several miles
before the boy realized that he was
trapped In a flash his ambitions van
ished and he became homesick and
very badly frightened. He grew hun
cry and thirsty. He beat upon the
door and shrieked for assistance, but
passing trains drowned his cries. His
hunger became a desperate craving.
He pulled the buttons off his clothes
and gnawed them. He chewed.up his
linen In his madness he tore his
clothes until they were a mass of rags.
James Cullen, a Waterman in the
Willis avenue yards, passing a freight
car, heard a strange noise. He opened
the door and dragged the boy out,
more dead than alive. At the police
station the policemen gave him crack
ers and milk.
You don't need to guard me-" he
walled I'll go home all right"
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-10-05
FINDS TAPlR IN HER YARD
Animal, Escaped From a Show, Is
Captured After Ritirg Men
Who Are Sent After Ii.

Dixon, 1ll.-To find a large South
American tapir in your chicken yard
among her Plymouth Rocks was the
experience of Mrs. Charles RUggles
Of No. $40 Highland avenue, when she
started out to feed the family flock.
Mrs. Rugglas screamed and the entire
neighborhood was aroused.
The animal had been badgered by
dogs end was in a rage when the
keepers of the show from which 1t
had escaped arrived. Some of them
were severely bitten before he was
captured.
The tapir, which cost $1,000, had
broken out of his cage in the animal
arena OF the show. SearChers were
out thirty-six hours, but could not find
the animal He had been feasting on
the surrounding strawberries and had
destroyed several beds.
The management promptly paid the
large reward offered for his capture,
and the women in the neighborhood
have come out of their storm cellars
nd everything is tranquil again.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-10-05
CURE FOR IDIOCY FAILED
man Hospital, Not the Success 1t
So Was Reported to Be.

Berlin.-The cure of an idiot boy
by Professor Payr, the dean of the
surgical faculty of Leipsic university,
was reported in a cable dispatch
few days ago. Professor Payr, it was
then announced, had transplanted a
portion of the thyroid gland taken
from the childs healthy mother to the
blood vessels of the patients kidneys.
The child had been born without a
thyroid gland and had consequently
remained mentally undeveloped.
After the operation, so the report
of the case said, mental regeneration
at once set in, and after months
observation the patient was sent
home by the surgeon as thoroughly
sound in mind and body. Unfortu.
nately the cure turns out now to
have been only partial, for afterward
a reaction set in.
The engrafted morsel of thyroid
gland only produced its juices for q
time and then rapidly ,deteriorated
leaving the patient as he was before
Surgical experts have now come tC
the conclusion that idiocy can only
be temporarily relieved when the
thyroid gland is entirely missing.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-10-05
"JOKE" WAS ALMOST FATAL
Man Telephoned to Mother of Broth
er's Arrest for Murder and
She Swooned.

Atlantic City, n. Jas the result
of a practical joke played over the
telephone by her son, Mrs. Yetta Ma
thanson, 22S North Connecticut ave
nue., fell unconscious. Medical atten-
ton was hurriediy procured, as she
was at first thought to be dying from
heart failure, but she was revived.
Mrs Williamson called up her son,
John J. Nathanson, a merchant, to
ask the cause Of the delay of his
younger brother, employed by him as
a driver, in arriving home. Nathan
son saw an opportunity of perpetrating
a Joke" upon his mother, and pro-
ceeded to tell her that the young man
had murdered a man and was arrest
ed, but was interrupted in his blood
curdling tale by a choking sound, fol-
lowed by the crash of his mothers
body as she fell unconscious.
The fall was also heard by inmates
of Mrs. Nathanson's home and they
rushed to her aid.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-10-05
SLAYER is HUMAN ENIGMA
Russian Who StraneIed Girl Declares
He Did Nothing Shameful or
Infamous.

LONDON. "Vadim the Vampire"
(Nikolai Ratkewitsch), who has been
sentenced at st. Petersburg to eight
years hard labor for strangling a
young girl, whom he calmly sought in
the street after planning his crime,
has proved an insoluble enigma to the
greatest mental experts in Russia.
After studying him for two years
past, says Reuter-, they are all at va
rance as to his degree Of responsible
ity.
When in Jail and in the lunatic asy-
lum he talked reasonably on all topics
except that of murder, refusing to al
low that murder was a crime. 1t was,
he maintained simply a weakness or
a passion, such as drinking or gam
bling.
His letters to his father and moth
er before the murder breathe affection
and consideration and he described
himself as a lost man, the product of
his age
After the murder he wrote to his
parents as follows:
Your ideas of crime are out of
date. | have done nothing shameful
or infamous. If | were a thief it would
be different. 1t would be absurd to
be ashamed of me because l am muir.
derer. l am not a criminal. l am a
murderer by conviction. Only an ig
norant jury could find me guilty. Be
ing innocent, l will not go to penal
servitude. | will find the means OF
taking my own life
Indifferent to his own comfort
Ratkewitsch was generosity itself in
his relations with the poor creatures
with whom he shared the scant hos
pitality OF the St. Petersburg night
| shelters.
If he received money from his par
ents he distributed it with an ope1
hand, even when he himself had NJ
overcoat nor a shirt.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-10-05
ROMANCE ENDED BY DEATH
American Army officer Killed in Plane
Crash Engaged to Georgia
Belle.

Atlanta, Ga.-When death beckoned
Lieut.. Leighton Hazelhurst recently
while testing an army aeroplane near
Washington it ended a pretty ro
nance which began when Hazelhurst
first came to Georgia from West
Point. Then the young lieutenant met
a Georgia belle and the acquaintance
ripened into love. Her wealthy
parents, however, objected to her
marrying an army man. The lovers
were not discouraged and three weeks
ago the girls parents consented to
the engagement. which would have
been announced in a few days.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-10-05
GIRL SAVES FATHER
Snake Bites Man ant She Sucks
Out Deadly Venom.
Joseph Eberhardt of San Francisco
Attacked by Reptile While on
Fishing Trip-Heroic Treat
nent Prevents Death.

Mayfeld, Cal.--Cutting deep into
the flesh Of the leg of her father, after
he had been bitten by a rattlesnake,
getting down upon her hands and
knees, putting her lips to the wounds
made by her knife and the fangs Of
the poisonous reptile, Anita Eberhardt,
twelve years old, sucked the venom
from the wound Of Joseph Eberhardt
and saved his life. Then, half carry
ing and half dragging him, she got
him to camp a quarter Of a mile away,
where. with difficulty, she placed him
on the back of saddle horse and
started him to the nearest farmhouse,
eight miles away
Arriving at the farmhouse, Eber-
hardt fell in a dead faint and was
hurried to hospital in Palo Alto
Eberhardt is a harness maker of
San Francisco, and with his daughter
has been camping at the old Hub
bard & Carmichael mill in a remote
section of the San Mateo mountains.
They arrived in this city and rented
a horse that the girl might ride and
that they might pack their camp out
fit to the old mill
They started on a fishing trip to
Rock creek, three-quarters OF a mile
from their tent. Hardly had they
gone a quarter Of a mile when Eber-
hardt was bitten in the calf of the
leg by a big RATHER. He killed the
rentile, but soon began to weaken as
the poison took effect The girl made
him lie down, and, after bandaging
the leg above the fang marks, took
a large knife and made deep incisions
into the flesh.
After her father was on his way to
the ranch house the girl set out on
foot to follow and reached the ranch
in the afternoon.
Eberhardt is recovering, but physi-
clans say that had it not been for the
presence of mind of his daughter and
her prompt actions he would have
died in the mountain wilderness. They
said all the poison had been taken
from the mans body by the heroic
treatment of the girl.
This is the second rattlesnake ex-
perience in the family. In 1902, when
they lived in Bisbee, Ariz., Mrs. Eber-
hardt was bitten by a rattlesnake.
She received immediate treatment
and all the poison was drawn from
her system The fright she expert
enced from her encounter with the
snake, however, affected her so that
she died in a few weeks.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-10-05
"Peeper" Caught by Girl.

De Beque, Colo-Pearl Hoppel, IS
years old, is a heroine of De Beque as
the result of her single handed cap
ture Of Frank E. Lynch, hobo whom
she found peeping in her bedroom
window recently. Miss Hoppel was
about TO disrobe when she caught a
glimpse of a face at the window.
She coolly stepped into the next
room, secured her fathers revolver,
and went out the back door Going
around the house. she found the tramp
still on his knees under the window.
She compelled him to rise, and. COW
ering him with the revolver, marched
him to the residence of City Marshal
Mason, who placed him in Jail.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-10-05
Auto in Race With stork.

Atlanta. Ga.-An automobile ambu-
lance in a race with the stork ran
down Mrs. J. &. Northcutt and caused
P. R. Miller to forget all about bag
containing $59S.90. which he dropped
to the sidewalk when he rushed to the
woman's assistance.
Another passer-bv. who witnessed
the occurrence, picked up the money
and took II to the Third National
bank, where it later was recovered by
Miller. Mrs. Northcutt was accompa-
MED by her grandchild.
Miller's quick action saved the life
of the child. but Mrs. Northcutt was
severely injured The ambulance,
bearing Mrs. Alice Stewart of Oakland
City. a suburb, beat the stork to the
hospital.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-10-05

While shopping. stop and cool OF at
the Court Pharmacy. We are not after
money; just want your company.-Ad.