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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-07
KANSAS FARMERS
 WITHOUT HORSES
Mysterious Disease Kills 1000 Ami mals-Stubbs Asks for Gov
 ernment Aid

Topeka Kan. September 6Because more than 1900 horses have died in vest ern Kansas since a mysterious disease broke out, army veterinarians at Fort Riley have established reservation quarantine against all outside horses. Fort Riley is wholly a cavalry and artil- lerx post and there are more than 15O0 borses and mules there. The great nor taljtv among the stock has created a serious situation in western Kansas. hum d,eds of farmers being left without ani- maj life to do necessary work Fall crops are going unharvested and very little blowing or planting of spring wheat is being done.
 The report that man at Jetmore, Kan, attending horses afflicted with the disease that has caused the deaths of thousands of horses in Kansas dur ing the last few weeks is himself i'll and has all the symptoms of spinal meningitis, caused $. J. Crumbine. sec retary of the Kansas board of health. to hurry there today.
 Governor Stubbs appealed directly to President Taft today in an effort to get government aid in fighting the dis case. He telegraphed the President that the department of agriculture had received the report of the situation with "unpardonable neglect or indiffer- ence."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-07
EDWARDS ARRAIGNED, BUT HE
 MAY NOT LIVE TO FACE CHARGE

summed publicity in the case, was started today by Mayor Martin Behrman.
 Luther Edwards and l. A. Edwards Of Meridian, Miss, believed to be brothers of the train robber. were expected here tonight to complete Identification of Ed wards, but they did not arrive. The po- lice look for them tomorrow George B. Stockton. who came here tonight from Hattiesburg, Miss, failed to identify Ed wards as one of the three men suspected of the robbery of the Northeastern train near Hattiesburg a few months ago. The trio believed to have committed the Northeastern holdup were in Hattiesburg before the robbery. Stockton said Ed wards was not one of them.
 Since the robbery on the North eastern railroad near Hattiesburg, Miss, few months ago when the bandits secured more than Sl0o eo0 from mail and express packages. the Southern Express company. according to the annopneement of it's agent here. has ceased to make shipments of money out of here at night. This information was had yesterday when queries were made as to whether the company had suffered any loss in the holdup Wednes- day night on the Louisville and Nash vile railroad just outside the city limits.
 Shipments of money both northward and southward are being carried 1t Is said. only on the day trains
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-07
ANOTHER BRANCH OF
 CAMPAIGN PROBE Extent Corporations Have
 Contributed to Influ- ence Legislation

Washington. September 6-The extent to which corporations or interests" have contributed campaign funds to influence legislation in Congress Is branch of the Senate campaign contribution investi- gatlon which Il is believed will be opened when hearings are resumed September }O.
 Senator Clapp. chairman of the inves- tigating committee. has declined to make public the names of many witnesses he Is endeeavoring to reach Among these, 1t is understood, are many he intends to ask for information as to any regular campaign contributions by corporations, or by men identified with big industrial and transportation organiza ions or al- dances. i
 The investigation will be designed to show whether any contributions have been made with a view to securing or pre- venting certain legislation and whether the enactment or prevention Of any laws have been at all related to the giving of campaign funds. Thus far the investga- ton has been concerned chiefly with the presidential funds of 1904 and 1908
 The testimony next month of Colonel Roosevelt, George E.. Cortelyou William Loeb, Jr.. and Cornelius N Bliss Jr., is expected to deal almost entirely with what has been already brought out by the committee. The attempt to widen the investigation will become apparent, it is expected, through efforts to procure from William R.. Hearst. former Senator chauncey NJ. Depew. John l.. Archbold and others information relating to con tributions that might have been part of a systematic effort to influence legisla- lion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-07
ORWLLE WRIGHT TOATTEND RACES
 --------'-- Joins Aviation Notables in Chicago-Army Aviators
 Working Hard

Chicago September 6.-Orville Wright. inventor of the aeroplane and dean If air pilots, today joined the notab1.s in the aviation world gathered at Chicago for the forthcoming avia- tion events of the Aero Club of Illinois.
 He visited the Clearing aerodrome, the Cicero flying field and the Clar- endon beach air boat station of the club.
 "The Clearing course for the Gordon Bennett championship race Is better than any similar aviation course I saw in Europe or than any over which pre- vious races have been run" he said. There Is no reason why new speed records should not be made Monday"
 First flight of the Deperdussin mon- oplane upon which France bases her hopes of taking home the Gordon Ben nett trophy and the worlds champion ship in aviation, failed to show the ex- pected 100 miles an hour
 Jules Vedrines required two minutes and 30 seconds to complete the All mile course n rate of 99 miles an hour. He came down after three laps. Mau- rice Provost later completed two cir cles of the field at 96 miles an hour.
 Washington, September 6.--United States army aviators, after participant Ing for the first time in veal military nauve1uepts Ii s.i~ rssssssE4 connecticut inaneuvers, have rcturne1 to the gov ernment station in College park, de termined to awaken further interest of the general staff and the army in gen eral in military aviation. They are planning hard campaign and are urg- ing the war department to invite to College Park the foreign aviators who are to participate in the meet which be- gins in Chicago, September s.
 They believe that the presence of the foreign aeroplanes and engines as mod els would point out to American mau- facturers the necessity of improve ment to insure patronage of the war department
 The war department has taken no action as yet toward inviting the for eigners to College Park.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-07

New orleans. September 6-Howard F. Edwards, who held lip the New York express of the Louisville and Nashville railroad Wednesday night was today charged before United States Commits sioner Browne with the robbery of the mail.
 Whether Edwards will live 10. face the charge or not, is doubtful He still lies in critical condition in & local hospital suffering from the fracture of the skull that Engineer Baer inflicted when he captured him.
 The belief of the police that Edwards is dope fiend is considered to have been substantiated today when an anal ysis of the contents of capsules found on him showed the presence of opium.
 The police are still searching for the bandits suspected pals, but Inspector Reynolds admitted tonight that he may have been in the deal alone. No positive proof has been furnished that any one was with him, either in the holdup Wednesday night. or in the hodup by mistake of a freight train Tuesday night
 '.hero'' fund for Engineer Baer, the modest captor of Edwards who has
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-07
TODAY'S AGE-HERALD

1-Mexicans invade United States
 and five are killed.
 Neracity of Waldo is question at
 issue.
 Plan parade all over nation for
 candidates.
 Taft on personal ambition Straus nominated by the bull moose 2-KilIed and thrown in Tennessee
 river Susceptibility run 10 Huntsville today Opelika schools opened Thursday. Ten years of Alabama. 4-Editorial comment 5--Moule victim of black hand threats
 for many months
 Taft republicans getting active. May establish experiment farm. Plenty of poles for alarm wires. Smith says home rule has gone
 glimmering. e-Helping Hand Hints. Dolly Dalrymple.
 Society.
 Cautious advance in trade activity. T-Sports. s-Use discretion in Interpreting law 9-Speakers Hay waterworks contract. l0--Wood defeats Walter Johnson If-Some lccomo otives famous in history 2-sy sy1acauga meets conditions for mill l3--Marh Is. t4-McArthur funeral to be held Mon
 da1.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-07
BIRMINGHAM MAN
 HURT IN WRECK John J. Laumer Has Leg Fractured in Cincinnati
 Train Collision

Cincinnati, O., September 1.-Two men killed, another fatally and several per sons seriously injured when a Baltimore and Ohio passenger train No. 20 ran into work train at Sixth and State streets in that city tonight.
 The dead are:
 Joseph Purcell and George Hill, cincin- natl
 The seriously injured include:
 John J. Laumer. Birmingham. Ala. fractured leg.
 Albert Williams, Louisville express messenger. both legs badly cut.
 John J. Laumer, who was injured in the Cincinnati railroad wreck last night. is well known in Birmingham. His home Is at 1i01 Nolan avenue and he is presi- dent of the Laumer Lumber company. Communication with MT Laumers resi- dence could not be established last night.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-07
SIR EDWARD GREY CORRECTS REPORT Did Not Write Regarding Financial Side of Canal
 Question

London. September 6.-Sir Edward Grey, British foreign secretary never wrote anything regarding the financial side of the Panama canal question in his recent letter to the Gateshead chamber of commerce. He simply wrote that the British government was making repre- sentations to Washington on the subject of the Panama canal act. An official correction is published in the press today in which it Is said all further statements attributed to Sir Edward Grey in regard to the burdenlng of British shipping with an undue proportion of the maintenance charges of the canal were merely com. ments made by Herbert Shaw, secretary of the Gateshead chamber.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-07
MILITIAMEN STILL ON
 GUARD AT PRISON

Jackson Mich, September 6.-Nearly 200 National Guardsmen were still on duty at the state penitentiary, although the convicts have caused no apparent trouble since Tuesdays riot.
 Considerable comment has been aroused by the reported shooting today of John Miller, alleged to have been found near n dynamite magazine. Miller may die. Ad- jutant General Vandererook has ordered an investigation.
 Both Governor Osborn and Warden Simpson today issued statements deny ing that any convicts sustained severe in- juries as the result of punishment iz> ficted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-07
MINERS IMPRISONED
Forty-Three Have Been Entombed
 Since Wednesday

Biwabik Minn.. September 6-rhe three miners imprisoned in the flooded Buddy mine here since Wednesday. had not been rescued up to l a. m. today and little hope is entertained that they are alive, though rescuers are still working to reach them. An air pipe was driven into the workings into which 1t was sup posed two of the men had escaped, but no sound to indicate that the men are alive has been heard.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-07
Relief Expedition Sent

Mexico City. Mex, September 6.-Gov- ernor Maytorena of Sonora has advised the government here in private dis patch that he has ordered column of troops to the relief of Nacozari. where the lives of a number of Ameri- cans it is decided have been endangered by attacks from rebel bands.
 Walter Douglas. president of the Na- cozarl Mining company, telegraphed Governor Maytorena advising him that if the Mexican government was unable to afford relief to the Americans at Ma cozari his company would take such steps as they might deem necessary to protect the lives of the Americans there
 The interior minister has made pub lie Governor Mayforena's reply to MT. Douglas in which the governor said he had ordered with all haste required by 
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-07
SUNDAYS AGE-HERALD

Tomorrow's Age-Herald will as usual be the best Sunday newspaper published Tn the south. In addition to the most com plete news service obtainable, II VIII
 include special articles on timely subjects by the best known news writers in Amer ica.
 Look carefully through the feature pages tomorrow There you will find among other things.
 Bill Vines tells how John Sharp Will Hams is handicapped educationally be cause he went to school only about 4O years. Illustrated.
 Hugh w. Roberts writes striking arr tiole on "Comer Yesterday and Today" It is graphically illustrated, and tells some things hitherto unknown about Alabamas former governor.
 Mr. Dooley writes tomorrow "On the News of the Day. You know Finley Peter Dunne, so prepare yourself for one of his best.
 Marion Harland, the .nost famous house. wife in America, will have a full page under the caption, Common Sense in the Home-Famiar Talk of Deappetizers Every woman in Alabama will be inter- ested in what Marion Harland has to say. Laura Jean Lbbey, another famous writer, will also contribute page, well illustrated. She gives her article the title. Pretty Little Compliment to Pay Man"
 a that he can wllfuly kill an enemy with the ball?N You will be interested in the scientific discussion of this question in to- morrow's Age Herald. A classic in page will be ''rhe Minis ters Wooing." by Harriet Reecher Stowe.
 Frank G. Carpenter will write on In Banana Land--one of the Biggest Banana Plantations In the World in Panama" romance of the business world is told under the title, "rhe Rise of Margie Smith"
 But these are only few of the un- usual articles The regular editorial feat ure page will contain among other things "A Poor Creature, Your Honor" by pr. George Eaves Michael Toumey, by pr B F. Riley: "-he Whip of Netzschs," by A B. Bealle: Heart to Heart Talks by Edwin A. We.
 Thousands will be interested in the page of special articles by Birmingham women. | Mrs. l. B. Reid in her usual enparins style writes on '.The Woman Who Never l Married;" Dora C. Fell contributes Part ] II of her article. Spiritual Battles Lost and Won, by Jean Valjean'' Marielon A. Cory contributes an article of special in- terest to the United Daughters of the Confederacy of Alabama;" Isabelle May | presents new angle of the suffrage
 anestion under the title. ''is 1t Sey-para- site?"
 1 And there will be any number of others. Dolly Dalrymple tells of an interesting excursion through a gallery of fine art l portraiture.
 | Jack Bethea has a striking interview | with one of Uncle Sams men whose bust ness 1t is to look after all confscated
 counterfeit money and paraphernalia. Wellington vandiver has another of his
 humorous hodge podges entitled. Yarns of the Courthouse Gang.
 Mandy will be there in all her glory.
 and the eolored comic section for the chill dren will he as interesting as ever. l rhe demand for the Sunday Ags-lIer-
 aid gets larger every week Place orders twith your dealer today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-07
SULZER TO SPEAK
New York Congressman to Address
 Waterways Convention

Little Rock. Ark. September s.--Accep- tance was received today from Congress- man William Sulzer of New York by the local committee in charge of the lakes to the gulf deep waterways convention to the invitation to address the convention here September 24-26 Governor Hadley of Missouri has also accepted. President Taft cannot be present. but it is believed Governor Woodrow Wilson will attend.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-07
Private Verbal Orders and General Instructions of
 Commissioner Vary
POLICY OF MAYOR
 GAYNOR CRITICISED
Each Statement Made by Hayes Ia Denied by Waldo, Who Preceded Him on the Stand-Is
 Refractory Witness

New York. September 6,-Whether Po- lice Commissioner Waldo gave general instructions to suppress disorderIy houses and private verbal orders to allow them to run as long as conditions of "out- ward decenoy" were observed became tho question at issue today when C. c. Hayes. suspended inspector was placed on trial before Deputy Police commssion- CT Douglas l. Mckay on the charge of making a false statement in regard 10 his police duties.
 While Hayes was ostensibly The defend. ant Thomas D. Thacher. Hayes counsel. virtually transformed the trial mo a probe of the police department and an arraignment of the policy of Mayor Gay nor toward the regulation of vice.
 Waldo Is Grifled
 The attorney grilled Commissioner Waldo In an effort to show that out ward decency'' was the criterion by which the mayor wished the question of vice suppression 10 be determined and then put Hayes on the stand to prove that the eom- missioner had given the inspector verbal orders in pursuar of this policy and had not counterm. nded them until they had become public Hayes emphatically denied that he had made a false state- ment when he told the commissioner the latter had ordered him not to make raies on disorderly houses except from the cons mssioner's instructions. In accordance with these instructions he had made no raids, he said, since February. although previously he had made many and had "cleaned out" one inspection district. It was on August or about the time when the scandals growing out of the Rosenthal case were being aired that Commissioner Waldo. according to tue witness. threatened to fire him for stat ing that he had received such orders. This he threatened to do on two subse- quent occasions. Hayes testified, but It
 was not until August 16, the day after | the publication of an interview from "an | inspector" who was quoted as saying he had received such orders from the com | missioner. that Waldo made good his al- legged threats by suspendlng him and TO- ducings him to captan's rank,
 Hayes Mentions CcnyerA ions ! Ttyss fat atfuned two ar three cei,- I versations he fad with Mir Waldo ir re- gard to suppressing disordefly houses. DO you remember A conversation yoll had wiah Waldo on September 5?" asked MT. Thacher.
 "I do. l met him at the West Forty seventh street police station. the appoint- ment having been made over the tele- phone I made a tour of my district with him As we passed dance hall the commissioner said to me, There k a dance hall downstairs and q house for proatitr- ton upstairs. If there is no outside dis
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-07
Big Dose of Antitoxin

St. Louis. September 6.-The extraordi- nary dose of 15O00 pharmaceutical meas ures of antitoxin to doctor from Ill- nois. who had contracted tetanus while treating a patient. was observed today. The doctor lost consciousness yesterday. He regained his senses later and it is be- Heved he will now get well.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-07
Huerta Returns Call

Fl Paso. Tex. September 6.--General Huerta. commander of the Mexican fed eral forces in the north, visited Fort Bliss Tex, today and paid his formal respects to General E. Z Steever. com manding the department of Texas. Gen erai Steever visited General Huerta s Thursday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-07
Always an Independent

New York, September 6.-Oscar $ straus. brother of Nathan Stratus, and of the late Isidor Straus, who lost his life in the Titanic disaster, has always been an independent in politics He was secretary of the citizens committee that helped in 1884 to elect William R. Grace mayor of New Yorw city. and was prom inent in the merchants and business mems organization which supported the democratic ticket in that year In 1896 and 1999 he supported Mckinley and in 1904 was in favor of Roosevelt. Tn 1sos he was made secretary of commerce and labor by Mir. Roosevelt, winning the dis tinctIon of being the first Jew to hold place in the cabinet.
 Mir. Straus was appointed minister to Turkey fin 1887 by President Cleveland His knowledge of international law 
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-07
Heat Kills Policeman

Louisvllle.t September 6.-Edward Stephens, policeman, fell dead on the street here today as q result of the heat
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-07
MAINE CAMPAIGN
 CONCLUDES TODAY Plaisted Is Confident of Re ElectiOn-VermOnt Leg
 islature Republican

Portland, Me, September 6.-United States Senator T. P. Gore of Oklahoma arrived here tonight to speak at the concluding rally of the democratic state campaign at Augusta tomorrow night.
 Both democratic and republican leaders issued statements tonight predicting sue cess at the polls Monday. The progress sive party has not entered the state cant paign as separate organization, but the struggle between the democrats and the republicans for the control which passed into democratic hands al the last election has brought into the flghr Govern or Marshall of Indiana, democratic candi- date for vice president; Speaker Champ Clark and others well known in demo- cratic politics. besides some republican congressman. Gov Frederick w. Plaisted. democrat, is opposed for reelection by William Y. Haines republican.
 Governor Plaisted said tonight:
 We will win next Monday by a plurality of at least 10,000 greater than in 19l0a
 Judge Warren Philbrool, chairman of the republican state committee, said
 My reports from our candidate for governor indicate majority of least 1o,- GOO votes for the paety"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-07
Is Sixth Invasion

El Paso, Tex, September 6.--Entrance of Mexican rebels into the United States and the subsequent engagement with United States troops below Hachita, N. NJ, which was reported today to Gen. E. E. Steever at Fort Bliss Texas, marks the sixth invasion of American soil in the last few weeks.
 It is probable that the border patrol along the Sonora line will be strengthened say officials at Fort Bliss, from where General Steever commands the depart ment of Texas, as we'll as the Arizona and New Mexico border adjacent. At present there are only three troops of the Third cavalry stationed near Hachita. where number of the invasions by reb- els have occurred recently.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-07
Conditions Are Better


 Washington, September 6,-So rapid 1y do conditions change in Mexico that just as Ambassador Wilson, under in- structions from the state department. based on appeals from plantation and mining interests, was making strong demand upon the Mexican government for additional forces in northern Mex leo to protect American interests, the state departments agents in the latter quarter were reporting considerable tmnrovenent in conditions.
 Nacozari. point on the railroad about 100 miles south of Douglas, Ariz., has been regarded as the danger spot, 60 far as foreigners are conferned for the last three days. Reports to the state department late today appear to remove any reasonable ground for ap- prehension. Photographic communication between Nacarozi and Douglas has been restored. Conditions at Monterey are reported satisfactory
 Discouraging News
 Discouraging news comes from the south of Mexico, however, where the wandering rebel bands become bolder fin their perations, the entire federal garrison at Ajuno havin gbeen mas : sacred by the rebels last Wednesday.
 There is temporary shortage of in- fantry in the department of Texas and General Wood was obliged to tell Gen eral Steever today, in answer to his appeal for more infantry at Fl Paso, tfat he would have to accept cavalry instead.
 The war department today decided to honor the requisition of the state de- partment for small arms for the Amer ican citizens on the southside of the border and 400 rifles will be sent from the Rock Island, H., arsenal to Amer ican consuls for distribution among these people.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-07

Montrel CT via sarteran | w v small towns sun to decide on the rep resentatives In the legislature. or uil- recorded in the vote cast oil Tuesday or Wednesday, the POT that had been re- ported today, together with the number of senator's elected showed republican, majority of Il in the new legislature or sufficient to elect Allen M. Hatcher, party candidate for governor. Returns from these 2G7 cities and towns split the legis- lature as follows: Senate. 9 republicans; three democrats, and two progressives House, 125 republicans; B democrats, and 20 progressives