The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-14


 tonight when their automobile ran into : traction car at Pleasant Valley, near
 here.
 = Washington-Rea Admiral Charles E.. l Vreeland, aid for inspection of the navy @ department was removed to the naval . hospital today threatened with pneumonia. i, Winnipeg, Man.-Fearing that his wife, $ aged 75, would contract tuberculosis from s him. Roderick Macdonald. age 7s, shot l and probably fatally wounded the woman. according to provincial constables who
 arrived here last night with Macdonald as their prisoner. Macdonald is a farmer
 at Elaharton, Man.
 ] Frankfort, Ky.--B NJ Young, guard , in the shoe shop at the state penitentiary
 here. shot and killed Noah Taylor, a life prisoner. when the latter attacked him today. Taylor struck Young from behind hwith a hammer. and when the guard
 turned Taylor was lunging toward him
 with shoe knife
 Lexington. News was received here to-
 day of a double murder at Shelby Gap, Pike county. in which John Sexton killed William Hall. and then a man by the name of Anderson killed Sexton. Ander- ) son made his escape. closely followed by a sheriff's posse.
 Iondon.-Evidence that the strike lead
 CTS realize that national strike is for lorn hope and are eager for. a plausible pretext to make peace was afforded by the appointment today of an emergency
 committee "to be ready to interview the government should their services be re- quired." At no place has the day brought accessions to the strikers ranks.
 Lumberton, N. C.--While playing in the
 basement of the Dresden cotton mill here
 Charles Iaughton, aged 10, threw the end of rope which he had around his neck
 ever revolving shaft of the machinery. ' The rope wound around the shaft. jerk ing the head of the boy from his should ]: CTS before help could reach him. Harrisonburg, Ia.-The population of
 Harrisonburg will be diminished by the
 end of the week by almost 2Ooo the num- ber approximately of flood sufferers who
 have been cared for here during the past five weeks High waters receded suffi-
 ciently to permit already the return home of some of the refugees.
 Washington.-Th Mare Island navy
 yard will build the little river gunboat
 Monocacy 19O tons. as it's bid of s141,- 900 was far below any private concern. } Paris.-The board of inquiry into the causes of the catastrophe to the French
 submarine Vendemiarie on Sunday last , | when 23 French naval officers and men were drowned after a collision between the submarine and the battleship St I.ouis found today that the collision wat
 unavoidable and no blame was to be at-
 tached to the St. Louis.
 Boston.-Mtchell Calvin. formerly city
 clerk of Boston. was notified today that
 he had been named as reading clerk
 for the republican national convention
 at Chicago. The notification came from
 Committeeman Harry S New.
 New York.-The sheriff of Kings coun. ty this afternoon seized H. Clay Pierce's
 steam yacht Yaeona to satisfy judg- ment of s171.OoO obtained against him by
 Mrs A. T. Rycroft. A stay of execution forbidding the sale sof the yacht was granted
 : New York-About 50 refugees from Cuba, who closed up the:r business places , and homes to come to the United States until the. .insurrection is quelled in Cuba, a, rived in New York today. Dr. c. La Tore, a professor at the University of , Havana. said The situation throughout ? Cuba is very critical and I very much
 doubt if even the United States can quell
 the trouble"
 Winnipeg Manitoba Forest fires that have been ravaging in western Alberta
 all week are the worst in years. The
 confagration already has destroyed a
 million feet of saw logs, two construc- ton camps and logging railway. Minneapolis. Minn.-Two persons lost their lives and six others were overcome
 by smoke here today when fire destroyed a flat building entailing a loss of s10,0Oo i, The dead are: August Swanson, a Civil war veteran, aged 70. and Christine Swanson, his wife. aged 6, who jumped
 from third story window Havre. France.-The French liner La
 Provence arrived today and immediate ly docked A number of fremen and 5 sailors who had learned of the strike
 left the ship.
 
 Marseilles-The secretary of the Sea-
 mems union declared today that if the
 government provides bluejackets for the French liner La Provence the Mar seilles men will strike immediately Pars.---The chamber of deputies to- day passed bin admitting wheat free Q on condition that an equivalent weight ! of flour is exported from France by
 the importer within three months or
 an equivalent weight of biscuits with in four months.
 New York.--The China famine relief } committee announced today through it's secretary that cabled word had been ] received from China saying there is
 no further need of help from this coun-
 try at this time for the relief of famine
 sufferers.
 Pierre. S. D.--With returns on dele
 gates to the democratic national con-
 vention received today by the secretary
 of state from all the five counties, give
 the Wilson Bryan delegates f666, the Clark Bryan delegates 434s and the lChamp Clark list 2S74. Indications now