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The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-03-25
FISSURE IN KE0KUK
DAM CAUSES WORRY,
ICE DOES DAMAGE.

Keokuk, Ia, March PA fissure
through which water was sieping
was discovered today in the main
cofferdam of the $25,00O,000 Mis-
sissippi river power dam, now under
construction here. A big force of
men is dumping cement in the break,
IA hope of stopping the leak, and
dynamite spread within the Golfer
dam has been removed
AT 2:3O o'clock this afternoon
when the water was foot deep on
top Of the Golfer dam, the ice gorge
that has surrounded the dam broke,
sweeping away the power house.
The force of the flood also carried
out three transmission towers OF the
keokuk- bridge.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-03-25
DENEEN TO CALL
SPECIAL SESSION
OF LEGISLATURE
State Lawmakers to be Asked to
LegaIize Preferential Primaries
for April 9.
TWO-THIRDS MUST AGREE
Governor Refuses to Call Meeting
Unless Members Of Assembly
Wish 10 Consider Law

Springfield, H., March 24.--GoF-
ernor Deneen tomorrow morning
probably win issue cali for an eX-
traordinary session Of the state legis-
lature to meet Tuesday, The meet
ing will be called for the purpose
of enecting law providing for
presidential preferential primaries
on April 8.
The call was prepared and will be
issued this morning, according TO
Associated Press dispatches received
after midnight. Other laws may be
brought before the members, but the
Presidential preferential is the main
announced object,
The governor has refused to take
the responsibility of calling special
session for the purpose Of legalizinS
the primaries, onto his own shoulders
despite the urgings of many Of his
friends. He announced that he would
call the session If two-thirds of the
general assembly desired to consider
such law.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-03-25
ROBERTS FUNERAL
HELD At MAKANDh
SUNDAY MORNING

The funeral of the late j. r. Rob
orts was held yesterday, Services
were conducted at the Cairo Baptist
church by Rev Garret The body
was escorted to the church by the
family in carriages and masonic
members who were the pail bearers,
A special street car conveyed those
who were at the residence to the
church The pail bearers were
Frank Spencer, c. L. Keaton, II. s,
Antrim, II. c. Steinel, Rufus Flack,
Frederick Gaunt, Or. II. A. Davis
and A. F. Staehle. After the services
at the church the body was taken to
the undertaking parlors of f. A,
Burke, thence at o'clock this morn
ing to the Illinois Central train
where special car was taken for
Makanda where interment will be
made in the family lot in the ceme-
terry there. Many members of the
Masonic order went to Makanda to
take part in the burial service.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-03-25
MISSOURI RIVER
CAUSES RAILROAD
OFFICIALS UNEASINESS

Omaha, Neb., March 24.--Anxiety
is being caused by what is believed
to be the almost certainty OF serious
foods in the Missouri river water
4heds. The railroads particularly
are expecting trouble and numerous
hurried conferences of railroad Off
cials were held tonight, having in
view protection of their property. To
this end, dynamite, with which TO
break up possible gorges, has been
distributed to various places where
the necessity of such measures seems
likely.
There Is more snow on the ground
than any time so late in the season.
for many years, and the expected
warmer weather soon to come, ii is
feared, will bring down an enormus
flood from the north The Missouri
river still is Ice bound but the lea
is becoming weak and may go out at
any time, endangering low-lying
property,
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-03-25
Stage Of 81 Feet Predicted Would
Step All Trains and Flood
Da!l Park
KEoKUK DAM ENDANGERED
Water Slopes through Big S,ruct-
ure on Mississippi Force Work
ing Day and Night

Cincinnati, March "A Merchants
along the water front are getting
ready to move into the second and
third stories CT their stores, in an
ticipation of food here Monday
night or Tuesday. The river stood
1919 feet on the gauge tonight with
a rise to 54 feet predicted for Tues
day. I, rti
The river is rising rapidly and
only needs to go three inches to be
oat Of banks and anything higher
viii cause some damage
Should the river reach SO feet the
railroads will be put out Of commits
aiGn That stage puts the water
ever the tracks. 1t Is freely pre-
actea that the river will reach 54l
or Sd fect. This stage here amounts
to about one inch 10 the foot, whore
the river wldens out
1t is feared that the rise viii put
the new $350,OO0 ball park under
water and stop work on it so that
the team will be unable to play,
when the season opens.
Very little damage to household
goods and stocks IN store is antici-
pated by river men, because of the
ample warning given by the weather
bureau.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-03-25
LAWRENCE Mill
STRIKE CALLED
OFF BY WORKERS
"The End is Officially Written Aft
er Battle Lasting Many Weeks
Children Return

Lawrence, Mass, March "a
"Tho end" was written officially to-
day on the records of the long stand
ing strike of textile workers. After
continuing for weeks the fight Of
,hc min workers against the mill
owners and securing increased wages
and improved working conditions all
around. the strike committee, today,
voted to rip the band on the half
dozen mills. against which the strike
crdar still was in effect
The return of the children, nearly
300 of whom now are IN homes In
New York and Philadelphia, was ar
ranged for next Saturday. At that
time big demonstration Is plan
ned, including a parade, in which
the children will participate.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-03-25
CAMPA STARTS TRAIN
OF WOUNDED TO JUAREZ

FL Paso, Tex, March 2l.--An Of
fetal report, given out at Juarez to-
night, claims that the rebels scored
q victory at Escalon today. The
message was received by Col Pas
quel Orozco, ST., commander Of the
Juarez garrison, and quoted Cen
eral Campas report to General Pas
quel Orozoco, Jr., the rebel COM
mander-in-chief. 1t follows
Il have the honor to inform you
that we have beaten the federals af-
ter six hours of hard fighting, cap
turing two machine guns and thirty
prisoners, six of the latter wounded,
and about 100 federals dead Will
give you exact number later. Among
the dead was lieutenant-col of
the goth battalion. Am sending a
train with prisoners and wounded to
Chihuahua"
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-03-25
Certificate OF
HEALTH BEFORE:
MARRIAGE VOWS
Sumner Says Marriages at St. Peter
and Paul, Must be Between
Healthy Persons

Chicago, March 24.-Dean Walter
Sumner OF the Cathedral OF st. Peter
and Paul today delivered sermon
on tho Sacrament of Marriage
during which he made the following
announcement;
after consultation with the Rt.
Rev Anderson, bishop Of Chicaso,
and with his approval Dean Sumner
and his co-wo9kers Of the Cathedral
OF st. Fcter and Paul, have agreed
upon an advanced policy with re-
gard to the administration of the
marriage in the cathedral.
beginning with Easter no per-
sons will be married tthe Cathedral
unless they present certificate of
health from physician to the ef-
feet that they are normal, physically
and mentally, have neither an in
durable or communicable disease,
This step is taken only after a
month Of study Of the situation and
dellberation as to it's advsability. 1t
is believed this stand will meet with
the sympathy of the clergy in the
church at large, all OF whom long
have doubted the destructibilty Of
being q party to the marriage OF
persons, who, because of their ply
steal condition, never should be
united into the marriage state and
propagate their species"
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-03-25
ENGLISH MINERS FEEL
HOPEFUL OF MEETING

London, March 24.-A hopeful
feeling prevails that the conference
tomorrow between the coal owners
and miners will prove successful and
end the strike which is affecting mil
dom. The miners leaders, address
ing meetings, today spoke more en-
couragingly than for long time.
The South Wales owners and miners
still are skeptical They believe
nothing will come of the conference.
In North Wales the strikers seem to
be collapsing. Three hundred men,
mostly members Of unions, have re-
turned to work at Chirk.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-03-25
TYPH00N WRECKS
MANY VESSELS ON
AUSTRALIAN COAST

Perth, Western Australia, March
24.--A disastrous typhoon has oc-
CURED on the northwest coast Of
Western Australia. 1t continued
from Wednesday until Friday and
extended far inland Many vessels
were dashed to pieces on the rocks
Numerous buildings have been
wrecked and ii Is believed large
number Of lives were Lost. The total
extent of the damage Is not known
as the telegraph communication Is
badly interrupted.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-03-25
ADVANCED PRICES
IN WOOLEN GOODS
FOLLOW BIC STRIKE

Boston, Mass, March 24.-The
great Lawrence strike, which
brought in its train increased wages
for 275,000 textile workers, in New
England, was declared off, officially,
at all the mills in Lawrence, today,
having accomplished its purpose in
the opinion of the leaders The ad-
vance in the price Of wooden and cot
ton goods have been made or are in
prospect, will probably place upon
the ultimate consumer much OF the
burden Of the additional costs to the
textile manufacturers, This will ag-
gregate between s10,000,00O and
$12, 100000, it is estimated, during
the next year
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-03-25
EMBARGO PUTS MANY
MEN OUT OF EMPLOYMENT

Nogales, Ariz., March 24.-Thous-
ands of men, employed in the mines
and smelters at Sonora. Mexico. will
be thrown out of work unless the
embargo placed on dynamite, by
Presidtnt Taft's proclamation, is re-
moved within the next ten days, ac-
cording to the Nogales forwarding
agent of the company, The embargo
has caused the accumulation Of dyna-
mite, fuses and caps at all the prin-
cipal border towns.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-03-25
TONG MEMBER KILLED
BY POLICE AS HE
TRIES TO KILL ANOTHER

San Jose, Calf. March 24.--Leo
Sun, Hop Sing Tong man, received
wounds today from which he died
when he attempted to shoot down
Chow Soon Of the Sen Suey Wings,
while the latter was being taken to
the county Jail from the city prison,
under guard. Leo jumped from be-
hind pillar as the party passed
and opened fire with two revolvers.
Wounding the other Cinnamon in
the thigh. AS Chow fell, detectives
guarding him, shot Leo
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-03-25
SMITH ISLAND COVERED.

Smith Island" back of the city is
sea OF water the levees here are
only 46 feet on the Cairo gauge.
The amateur farmers will have all
the corn stalks cleared off their
ground and new dirt slfted upon it,
ready for spring planting.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-03-25
AUSTRIAN MINERS STRIKE.

Prague, Austria, March 24,--The
coal miners Of the Aussig district
have resolved to call general strike
Tuesday Thirty-six thousand men
will be affected.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-03-25
Candidate Brown Here Tonight.

John J. Brown of yandalia will
be in Cairo today and will speak to-
night at the courthouse He II one
of the half dozen candidates on the
Republican ticket for the nonnina-
tion for Goyernor.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-03-25
Water Overflows LowIands and
Causes Losses Runs Over
Point Pleasant Levee
PARSONS CALLS TRIBUNE
Mayor Asks Retraction Of Message
Saying Cairo is Threatened
Hickman Levee Stands

iE'tI q rising river and stage or
20 fe, predicted for the Cairo har-
Dor, many places both north and
.ujh are threatened with floods, as
G result Of the extremely heavy
snowj OF tho winter and the later
rains that have been falling during
tho past week From various points
come reports or high water and
dange:
Many of the reports, though,
made things look worse than they
really are, until Investigations are
made.
Early yesterday morning the
1eyoo below Hickman, Ky, was re-
ported out, but yesterday afternoon
Il was declared tnat tho report was
oironious although there had been
several bad leaks. A leak was dis
covered shortly before midnight
Saturday, which required consider
ablo work on the part Of the levee
guards and others to stop.
Helm Says No Danger.
H. Il. Helm, secretary Of the lIiek-
nan leyeo board yesterday after
noon said that the leyee is still hold
inG and that there was one place
where the water is boiling up This
place is being watched carefully and
many sand bags have been used to
stop it. The board toured the levee
yesterday afternoon and ordered
5000 sand bags prepared for use
Guards are riding the leyee day and
right
Water is flowing over the levee at
Point Pleasant, New Madrid county,
Mo The river reached the top of
the leyoc yesterday morning and late
in The afternoon began pouring
oye' it,
Tho pilot of the Rees Lee, On route
from Memphis to st. Louis, which
arrived here yesterday, stated that
layee was out at Point Pleasant A
loaG distance telephone message from
Tine Bulletins correspondent says
that the leyee is still holding, but
that the water Is running over it, A
so foot stage, which Is predicted
here, will food large part of New
Madrid county.
Water Running Over.
The levee at Point Pleasant Is a
new one. having been finished only
this year. The government is pro-
tecting it and it is probable that the
government boats will go there
within the next day or two,
There is no danger at Cairo, as
the leyea here can still stand eight
or ten feet of water. The lowlands
on the Kentucky side are flooded
for several miles inland and to the
north and south much farther in
A story appeared in the Chicago
Tribune yesterday morning under
st, Louis date line, which makes
It appear that the situation here Is
very bad, This Is denied by river
men and the weather bureau and
Mayor Parson yesterday sent a mes
sage to The Tribune asking a re-
traction Of the story The story Is
reproduced here, as is Mayor Par
sons message.
Tribune Story.
St Louis, Mo, March 23.--With
the Mississippi river deluging the low
lands below Cairo, H., and the water
above the food stage at that city
comes the prediction the river will
be over the levee railroad tracks on
Monday.
The river passed the 23 foot mark
last night and was still rising rap
idly this morning.
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Concluded on Page Six.)
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The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-03-25
ENGINE LOADED
WITH DYNAMITE:
USED BY REBELS
Locomotive Turned Loose and ALL
owed to Crash Into Armored
Train Of Federals
CAMPA JUSTIFIES ACT
lMpA JUSTIEEES AC
General Says Madero Forces Burn
ed Wounded to Death, by Set
ting Fire to Sage Brush

Jlminea, Mexico, March "a The
yabels, after thrce days of fighting,
claim q victory today There arc
many dead on both sides, General
Sala1, The federal leader and late
Mexican minister of war, is amons
the wounded. He resigned his port
folio to take the field Sixty federal
dead are accounted for when the in
sIrgonts loaded light engine with
forty boxes OF dynamite, and send
ing it head-long onto an oncoming
armored train, bearing federal SOL
diera,
DurinS the fighting around Es-
Gallon Friday and Saturday the
rebels captured two rapid-fre guns.
Last night General Campo fell back
to tho town of Corralitos. The fed
erals entered Escalon and today
1000 strong, loaded on freight
trains, preceded by an armored train
Of three cars, began to follow up the
ratrating rebels.
Engineer Stops.
Campo secured light engine and
an engineer who agreed to accept
tho hazardous task of starting it, af-
ter it had been loaded with the eX-
plosives Ilo ran it until a down
grade was reached, and then, open
ing the throttle jumped for his life.
The engineer of the armored train
saw his danger and stopped, but
could not escape the on-rushing
menace. The latter telescoped the
engine and the first car of the fed
eral train, and de-railed the last two
cars At the same instant the dyna-
mite exploded
Campo Jastifies Methods.
General Campo justifcs this meth
cd by declaring that in yesterdays
battle the federals set fire to sage
brush, burning to death both their
own and rebel wounded General
Campo says that his force numbecs
1900 men and that the federal force
claims but 1000.
When the armored train was de-
stroyed the main body of govern
ment troops in the three trains de-
trained and prepared to defend
themselves. Meanwhile General
Campo had sent strong detach-
ment on a detour to get in their rear
and destroy the railroads behind
them, 1t was reported, tonight, that
this movement was successful and
that tomorrow the federals will find
themselves hemmed in by superior
force
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-03-25
OH: OF ALLEN
GANG ELUI)ES
ALL PljRSUE.RS
t,laud Swanson Lost Sight oE by
Posses in Pursuit Of Court
House Slayers

Galax, Va, March Claude
Swanson, 23-year-old-3on Of Floyd
Allen. and one of those indicted for
the IIllsyillc court house murder,
has eluded all his pursuers, but hi4
uncle, Sinda Alien, and his cousins
Wesley and Friel Allen, are so close
ly pursued on the Blue Ridge that
they probably viii be captured with
in three days, This information
came today from leaders in the hunt
for the gang, who on March II,
swooped down upon the Carol coun-
ty court house, killing the judge,
prosecutor, sheriff and juror and
Miss Nancy Ayres and wounded TWO
by-standers.
One Took Gold.
Claude Allen, who once attended
a military school at Raleigh, N. C.,
and knows more of the outside world
than the average mountaineer, II
was learned today, took pocket full
of gold from the family cash drawer
on the night of the tragedy, put on
his best clothes and vanished on
horseback down the North Carolina
line, Hope of finding him in tho
mountain regions now has been
abandoned,
Not SO with three other outlaws,
who are lodging out in the region
of the Blue Ridge, between here and
Mount Airy, N, c. They have been
seen at distance, detectives have
been within thirty minutes of them.
Posses still on Watch.
TO HiIlsville, today, came reports
that the various posses still are on
watch in the mountains Most OF
the Allen family though, not in
volved in the tragedy, included
among which is Napper Jack Allen
were placed under surveillance, to-
day. Offers of surrender, it was
authoritatively said today, original
ed with some Allen non-combatants
The formal arraignment Of the prlc-
oners definitely was set for April 13
at Hillsville. A change of venue u
Wytheyille is likely. /
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-03-25
WEATHER.

Illinois and Missouri--Fair Mon
day and Tuesday, with rising TEN.
perature Tuesday.
Kentucky--Fair Monday, slightly
warmer in west; Tuesday fair.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-08-03

NEW YORK LETTER.
By Norman.
New York, Aug. 3.-Through
the killing of Herman Rosenthal,
gambler and reprobate, by hired
assassins, the attention of the
country has been drawn to the
ease and deftness with which a
man may be put out of the way
by his enemies in the nations me-
tropolis.
In the Rosenthal case the es-
cape of the murderers has been
laid to indifference, due to an al
legged alliance between members
of the police department and the
gambling interests.
1t may be thought, outside of
New York, that such a bold crime
as the killing of Herman Rosen-
thai must be exceptional in New
York, and that only through some
unusual reason could the perpe-
traitors of such an assassination
get away so easily.
Not at all. The Rosenthal slay-
ing had its peculiar features, but
it was only one of a constant sue
cession of midnight assassina-
tions which mark the contempt
for human life prevalent in this
city's dark underworld.
On the night Rosenthal was
AN@Ns T5g
When trouble brioux among
Because the whites their !
The sky is red-.with battl
Big IraJun, squaw and your
- -. liz -A,s rA4h 6NI L
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-08-03

murdered two men sat playing
checkers in barber shop at 261
E. 10th st. Two men entered and
one of them said to one of the
checker players: care you Roc
Coz"
Eyes," he replied.
Eight shots were fired into
Rocco's body, and the two walked
out, leaving their victim dead on
the floor.
That they were hired to kill;
that they did not even know per-
sonally the man they murdered,
was shown by their having to ask
him his name before, they killed
him. They have not been caught.
On the next evening, less than
"a hours after Rosenthal was
killed, a man was walking along
the sidewalk near Second av. and
108th st. when several others
came up to him and put ten bull
lets into his body.
He was dead when the police
picked him up, and none of his
sIayers was caught.
The Rosenthal case is getting
much publicity, but the papers
scarcely mentioned the other two
killings. They are Of type too
common to merit any extended
notice.
Sl0gGao ,.,,.,.su
a. g.:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-12
GEORGIA NEGROES
 A THR|F Y BUNCH
Are Accommodating Property With Regularity That
 Is Significant

Atlanta, April 1f.-(special.)- )-Georgia negroes are accommodating property with 8 regularity that is significant and inter- sions at the rate of something like S2.g6Q- coo year.
 It is shown from compilations just com pleted that Georgia negroes returned for taxation in 1911 a total of SSi.o22, ,37a as compared with s32, ,2S4,0s7 in 1910. an in crease of S1,7SS,S42
 More than 40 per cent of the dogs, or a total Of 54,296 out of about 12s,0eo. are re- turned by negroes. Upon these the state levies q tax of Sl per head.
 There were 1l9,S71 negroes who paid poll taxes last year, while 1885 defaulted. Among the property owning negroes are seven lawyers. 1G dentists and 1S3 doctors. who pay the slO professional tax fo the state
 Negroes own 1,6g9, 919 acres of improved farm lands in Georgia, which is assessed at $l0,35S, 651 Their city and town prop erty is taxed at $96l5,604 their money and solvent debts, S237.214, their stocks of i'ler- ohandse. $40, 40; household and kitchen furniture, $S,249,2oS; watches. silver plate anu JeWtlrS, @fl,5tu, noi sss, nlulesi htss, sheep and cattle, S7,9S1a6i; farm and me chanica tools, sl,64S,s97; stocks and bonds, $1700.
 1t is indicated from these figures that the negro constitutes a large percentage of the farming class of the state. in fact much larger than the figures would con vey. For these figures relate to eases where the negroes actually own the prop erty, where as in most cases they work as croppers or renters on land owned by whites
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-12
INSECTS THREATEN
 PECAN INDUSTRY

Atlanta, April 1.-(SpeciaL)-on ac- count of the growing importance of the pecan industry in Georgia, the state chronological department has added it to the list of horticultural products which it proposes to investigate and safeguard, and a series of experiments is now being planned to be carried out somewhere in the neighhorilood O Albany under the direction of Assistant State Entomologist c. s. Spooner. Mir. Spooner graduated at Cornell and was recently in the service of the Minne- sota chronological department, from which he came to Georgia.
 There are two or three insects and at least one disease which seriously threaten the pecan industry, accord irg to State Entomologist E. l.. Wor- sham. and at the present time il is not very well known how to battle with these pests That Is what the depart ment proposes to find out, and that will be the object of the experiments which it is to make in the principal pecan section.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-12
MUTILATED BODY IS
 FOUND IN OKLAHOMA

Nowata, okla, April 11.-An inquest is being held today on the body of Mrs Irene Gowhen, the young woman whose mutilated body was found near here yesterday. Judge Brown a-- journed the district court to attend the inquest G. w. Twarty of Coffeyville, Kan, telegrapher, was brought here by officers to be held for the inquest. It is said that Twarty and the woman were friends. Twarty came without requisition papers and was accompan- jed by his wife.
 Otis Cosine. brother of Mrs. Cow hen, who came here yesterday from Coffeyville and assisted in the search for her, is also being held until after the inquest is over.