Fair play., 1912-05-18

OF the Illinois Congress OF Mothers.
Sam Hurt admitted in criminal court
AT Springfield. Mo, that he spanked
his wife with "twc-by-four" board
when they had a family difference.
Judge Alfred Page sentenced him to a
year in jail.
Meridian. Miss. has adopted the
commission form of government.
Shreveport, La, has made its first
use of the power of recall. Commis-
sioner w. S. Adkins was recalled for
alleged incompetency
James Spell, ~, near Clinton, n. c.,
shot and killed himself rather than
work in the fields 70 aid his widowed
mother.
After several roll calls had been
ordered on. separpe amendments and
Important new legislation" the house
passed the legislative. executive and
judicial appropriation bill, carrying up
ward OF $4,000, 900.
Early returns from the referendum
vote taken by miners In central IL.
linois on the acceptance of the new
wage scale indicate the proposition has
been defeated
Five men were killed and IL injured
at Cleveland, o., when an explosion
of gas wrecked a blast furnace of the
American Steel and Wire company.
Two Republican state conventions
were held in Arkansas by the Taft
and Roosevelt factions Each had a
large representation, and harmony
prevailed.
Gen. Pascual Orozco has refused to
recognize the provisional government
established by Emilio Vasquez Gomez
at JuareZ.
A strike OF all bartenders in Kan.
sas City Is expected if the brewers
employ nonunion men to take the
places of $500 brewery workers who
are out.
Mrs. Mary F, Hodgson has just cele.
brated her one hundredth birthday at
Wenham, Mass. She says she has
never attended a dance, has never
ridden in an automobile and does not
believe in woman suffrage.
Because she used phrases from the
Bible to advertise her hostelry, Nine.
Waldvogel of Zurich, Switzerland, has
been fined $40.
Eighteen thousand Indiana bitumi.
nous coal miners are out in strike.
following the failure of the join con.
ference of miners and operators to set.
tie district differences.
Civ hup1rod rahal, ,,n,e I,;rtul
the remainder of a force of 1900 were
sent scurryirg to Cuatro Clenegas,
during fight with 600 federals under
Col. Pablo Gonzales, according to re-
ports received by President Madero
Representative Dyer (Rep), Mis-
souri,. introduced bill appropriating
$40. 100000 for protecting levees OF the
Mississippi river and its tributayies
against the impending and future
floods"
The will Of John Jacob Astor, dis.
posing OF an estate valued roughly at
S100,00o.000, was summarized by Lew
is Cass Ledyard, the lawyer who drew
1t. Mr.. Astor, following the example
OF his father and grandfather, did not
split up his estate. He left it almost
intact to his son, William Vincent AS.
tor. who is not yet 81 years old.
Six or more passengers and four
trainmen were killed and at least 25
passengers were hurt when the first
section of the Texas Confederate re-
union special train en- route to Macon,
Ga, was wrecked at Gums Mill. on
the New Orleans e. Northeastern rail.
road, six miles north of Hattiesburg,
Miss.
Suspected of having poisoned six
OF her nine children who have died
under mysterious circumstances in
the last two wars, Mrs. Patrick Nc
Gee Is under arrest at Charlottetown,
+. r. l.
Philip T. Dodge, president of the
Mergenthaler Linotype company, is in
Reno. New, with the avowed intention
OF securing a divorce. He says he
will keep open house for the divorce
colony
An idle anthracite miner was shot
to death and two others and a woman
critically wounded by state troops
while juelling mob violence at Miners.
vile, Pa. All the victims are foreign.
ers.
Five men were killed and 10 or IL
others perhaps fatally injured in
Cleveland, O., when an explosion of
oil demolished barge No. S8 of the
Standard Oil comDany in tha (,uyo
hoga river.
The stars and stripes were torn
down and trampled under foot and
red flag substituted during a fierce
fight at May day meeting OF the So
clalist party and affiliated unions at
Union Square park, New York.
With the returns from the interior
and southern part of the state coming
In slowly. 1t was apparent that the
Democratic delegates to the Baltimore
convention will cast their votes for
Oscar Underwood, at least on the mi.
tlal ballot.
Demand that all records since 1904
In the harvester trust case he pro
duced by the department of justice
was made In a resolution introduced
In the senate by Lea of Tennessee.
Three men were killed and some
twenty seriously injured by an ex.
plosion at the Central furnace of the
American Steel and Wire Company at
Cleveland, 0. II is thought some OF
the injured will die.