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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-24
FALLS 10 FEET AND
THEN WALKS AWAY
st. Louis Steeplejack Badly Bruised
in Fall Prom Stack, But Waves
Aside Physicians Aid

st. Louis. July 2s.-After falling 11o feet
from the top of a smokestack to steel
roof and after stopping with his head a
bucket of tar which followed him in the
plunge. Edward Horner, a 'steeplejack'
at the Granite City. ILL.,. steel works, to-
day waved aside hospital attendants and
then walked half a mile TO his home.
There physician said that although
formers head and shoulders were badly
bruised, and that he probably was in
ternally injured. he might recover.
Horner had been hoisted to the top of
the smokestack preparatory to painting
1t when the rope broke.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-24
MEXICANS USE BIBLE
TO MAKE CIGARETTES
Dallas Citizen Tells of Capture by
the Constitutionalists in
Mexico

Dallas. Tex. July 2s.-How some Of his
Mexican eaptors used his Bible for cigar
ette folders was told by L. l. Davis
of Dallas. who reached home last night,
after being a prisoner of the constitu-
tionalists of Mexico from May 13 until
July 10.
Davis said there were only few chap
ters left in the hook when he was re-
leased He said his captors at times had
little to eat themselves. but always shared
equally with him. lie was held for ran
som but WAS released without paying a
cent upon demands by American con-
sular authorities.
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TAKE PART
IN PARCEL POST FIGHT

The movement in the Senate itself to
forestall the department changes by re-
pealing the section of the parcel post
law under which the Postmaster Gem
eral claims the right to regulate rates
and sizes further crystallized when
Senator Bryan OF Florida introduced a
joint resolution to repeal the legisla-
tion in question.
Another development or the day was
the postponement from tomorrow un-
III Friday of the explanation demanded
by the Senate postoffice committee OF
Postmaster General Burleson Of his au-
thority to lnaugurats tne enanAs&
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-24
CHARLES SUMNER HAMLIN
TO SUCCEED ]. F. CURTIS

to accept because of his intimate lxnowl-
edge of customs questions.
In view Of the impending enactment
of the tariff bill Secretary McAdoo has
been seeking as a successor TO Mr.. Curtis
a man of Vide customs experience TO
handle the vast administrative problems
involved In sweeping change in tariff
policies and duties. Mr.. Hamlin was spe-
ciala commissioner of the United States
20 japan in 1897, commissioner at the con-
rention between Russias Japan and the
hited States the same year. and COM
missioner at the convention between
Great Britain and United States to de-
ei,mine the fur seal fishery controversy
also in 1897.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-24
WRIGHT RETURNS
FROM CONFERENCE

Washington, July 23.-Dr. Hamilton
Wright, who with Lloyd Bryce, Ameri-
can minister at The Hague, represented.
the United States at the recent interna-
tional opium conference there returned
to Washington today and reported orally
the results Of his mission to Acting Sec
retary Moore. So far as the United states
is concerned little now remains 10 be
done beyond submitting to the Senate
for its approval the general convention
designed to prevent traffic in habit form
ing drugs and to enact certain bills pend
ing in Congress CARRYING out internally
the provisions Of the treaty.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-24
MOSLEM HORDES
RECEIVE WELCOME
Another Account of Reoccupation of
Kirk kilisseh by Turkish Troops
Given Out

Constantinople. July 23-An official
communication giving details OF the re-
occupation of Kirk kilisseh by the Turk
ish troops was issued by the Ottoman
government today to counterbalance the
bulgarian allegations as to atrocities
committed by the Turks
IT gives picturesque account of how
the inhabitants of Kirk Kilisseh welcomed
the Moslem hordes. 1t says:
Their emotion was indescribable and
flowers were showered from the win
dows ON the Ottoman troops by women
weeping with happiness
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-24

Washington, July 2s.-charles sumner
Hamlin of Boston has been selected as
assistant secretary of the treasury in
charge of the customs service to succeed
James f. Curtis. who will retire August
]. Secretary McAdoo today formally rec
Wilson, who is expected to send the
name TO the Senate within few Gays.
Mr.. Hamlin occupied the same position
curing the second administration Of
President Cleveland. He is understood tc
have declined the place early in. the VIII.
son administration, but now will be urged
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-24
COAHUILA REPORTED
IN HANDS OF REBELS
Unofficial Advices Say Mexican Con-
stitutionalists Are Successful.
Report Is Denied

Mexico City, July 23--Unofficial ad-
vices received here today persistently
report that the town of Torreon, in the
state of Coahuila, has fallen into the
hands of the constitutiona1ists. Off
cials Of the Mexican government. how
ever deny the report.
The Torreon garrison consisted of
more than 5000 officers and men as
well as a number of cannon, mad il
the town has capitulated it is assumed
here that a portion of the garrison
must have revolted and aided the
rebels.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-24

washington, July 2s.-Rallway rep
resentatives today Joined in the fight
to prevent Postmaster General Burle-
son from increasing the size of parcel
post packages transmissible through
the mails and reducing the rates, to be-
come effective August 10. a delegation
representing the railroads generally
throughout the country laid their com
plaint before senators and representa-
tives and prepared to protest formally
against the changes to the interstate
commerce commission.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-24
STRENGTHEN FAMOUS
TOWER OF PISA
Condition of Famous Structure Be
coming Dangerous Base to Be
Widened

Pisa. Italy. July Arrangements were
made today by the authorities to
strengthen the famous leaning tower OF
Pisa The tower is incining more out
of the perpendicular every year and it's
condition is becoming dangerous. It has
been decided to drain the foundations
into which water from the river Arno
has penetrated. The rough base is also
to be widened and filled up to the level
of the square.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-24
SERVIA AND GREECE
REACH AGREEMENT
Peace Negotiations With Bulgaria
Will Take Place in Bucharest's
EnyirOnS

Sofia, Bulgaria. July 23.-Servia and
Greece today agreed that peace negotia-
tlons with Bulgaria should take place in
Bucharests environs. An arrangement for
an armistice in Nish probably will be con-
cluded within couple of days. Greece
insists that the armistice and the agree
ment for peace negotiations be signed SIM
ultaneously.
Roumania has refused Turkeys request
to participate IN Inc peace conference.
The powers have consented TO these ne
gotiations Lieut.. Gen Nelson j. Miles.
H. S. A., retired. has made an appeal to
the American Red Cross for funds for
Macedonian refugees.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-24
ISAAC B. WALKER
GRANTED PARDON
Was Convicted in 1912 of Misapplica-
ton of Funds of Dallas,
Tex, Bank

Washington, July 2S.-President Wilson
decided today to grant a full and uncon-
ditional pardon to Isaac B. Walker, con-
victed at Dallas, Tex, May %, 1912, of
msapplication of the funds of the Union
National bank of Dallas. of which he was
vice president and of making false re-
ports to the comptroller of the currency.
Tis five year sentence was commuted by
President Wilson May 21, 1918. to year
and a day.
The President advised Attorney Cen
eral McReynolds that upon further con-
sideration of the case he had decided to
pardon the prisoner.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-24
CHICAGO MAYOR
GOING AFTER TAXIS
Charged $150 to Ride Mile, Mayor
Harrison Demands Ordinance
Against Taxi Companies

Chicago, July 23.-After. paying $1.50 to
ride mile Mayor Harrison today charac-
terized taxieax rates in Chicago as high
way robbery and declared his intention of
sending message TO the municipal coun-
ell demanding the passing of an ordi-
nance materially reducing rate. He will
recommend the abollshng of allowing
large taxieab companies the exclusive
use of stands in the downtown district.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-24
TELEGRAM SPOILS
ENTERTAINMENT
Message to Bryan From Washington
Disarranges Programme in Adel.
Contents Unknown

Adel. Ia. July 2S-The whole local en-
tertainment plan for Secretary Bryan as
announced in today's news intelligence
was spoiled by a 800 word cipher telegram
evidently unexpected which awaited the
secretary here and which came from
Washington this Afternoon IA
Mf Bryan re,iled - room 81 a hesel
where he spent several hours decipherihg
the code and writing an answer
The secretary declined to discuss its
context
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-24
ENGINEER DOHERTY
FOUND NOT GUILTY
Both Engineer and Railroad Are Ex-
oaerated of Criminal Negligence
in Sanford Wreck

Bridgeport. Conn. July e9.-Neither En-
gineer Doherty, nor the New York New
Haven and Hartford railroad was guilty
of criminal negligence in connection with
the wreck at Stamford on June Y. ac-
cording to the finding of Coroner Phelan
of Bridgeport today
The finding is based on the death of
Ada Pearl Kelly of Chicago, one of the
six passengers killed in the Pullman car
Skylark which was teleseoped. Her death
is cassed as accidental
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-24
Isolate Bulgarians

London, July 24.-A SalonilS dispatch to
the Post describe Greek attempt being
made by combined land and sea move
ments to isolate 10000 Bulgarians still re-
naming between the southern Bulgarian
frontier and the Aegean littoral
Vienna dispatch to the Chronicle says
news has reached there of q great move
ment of troops in southern Russia obvi-
ously intended for the coercion of Tur-
key
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-24
To Relieve Prisoners
Alexander Fullerton Dead

New York, July 23.-The death of Alex
ander Fullerton, noted student of theo-
sophy, at sanitarium on Long Island.
on Monday night became known today.
For many years he was the American
secretary of the Theosophcal society, OF
which Mrs. Annie Besant was president.
He was a man of Independent means and
devoted his whole fortune as we'll as his
life to the, study and dissemination of the
digest of the principles of theosophy.
Fullerton travelled widely.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-24
Terms Not Announced

Athens, July 24.-The allies terms Will
not be announced before the meeting of
the Bucharest conference. but it is known
that they will be based on the principal OF
the baalnce of power in the Balkans
According to Athens newspapers Bull
garian delegates will propose the. cession
to Greece of Saloniki and the hinterland
as far as Seres, as well as the line of
the Struma river to Tsages, but will claim
for Bulgaria the retention of Kavala
They also will propose that no indemnity
be demanded.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-24
Dispatch to Kings

Bucharest July 23.-King Charles adj
dressed dispatch today to the kings of
Greece, Servia and Bulgaria recommend
ing adherence to the Roumania proposals
in consideration of Bugaria's situation
and Europes desire that Bulgaria shall
not suffer further damage.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-24
Miners Found Dead

celienkirchen. Germany, July 2s.-Four-
teen coal miners were found dead today
in pit, where they We're entombed yes
terday by a fall Of coal. A large area
above the mine had caved in as result
OF a recent cloudburst.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-24
1000 ATTEND
DEMONSTRATION

State department reports today said
that the demonstration in Mexico City
yesterday In compliment TO the new Jap
anese minister was attended by about 200
persons almost all of whom were stu
dents Few of the laboring class were
present. 1t was stated that only one anti
American speech was made, and that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-24
MEXICAN BANDITS
BES|EGE AMERICAN
CITIZENS IN MADEIRA
Americans Reduced to Star
vatiOn, Declares Messen-
ger-Rebel Troops
to the Rescue

Eel Paso. July 23.-Huddled In two
houses In the main street of MADEIRA,
Mexico, the Americans who are be-
sIebed by bandits. hnd been reduced
practically to starvation when mes
senger left there four days ago.
Today after hard trip overland
through mud he arrived. He said the
bandits are bent upon numbering the
Americans for protection given some
cowboys who attacked and killed two
bandits who were stealing livestock and
are firing into the settlement at inter-
vals
The messenger said all canned goods
had been exhausted when he left, and the
Americans had been reduced to subsist-
ence on meal and a little flour. There
are some Englishmen and other foreign
ers in MADEIRA in addition to the Amer
leans.
To Relieve Prisoners
Reports received at the local Mexican
rebel iunta state that Pancho villa has
started south with his rebel command
TO relieve the Americans at MADEIRA.
Meantime, the attack on Juarez is given
up.
villa, it is stated. hopes to win recog-
nition for the constitutionalists from the
United States by protecting its citizens
He has sent part of his men to the Mex
lean Central railroad south of Juare2
to resist attempts of the federals to re-
build the railroad between Chihuahua and
Juarez. Repair crews are, only a few
miles below Juarez and a train is ex-
pected into Juarez tomorrow. This will
enable Chihuahua to get food again II
the federals can keep the road open.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-24
Interested in Report

Mulhall said the association was inter.
ested in that report, but he did not Just
know how. He swore that copies OF the
Congressional Record were franked to
most of the prominent members of the Ma
tional Association of Manufacturers. and
In one letter boasted that he and James
A. Emery, counsel for the association,
could get almost any such document and
frank 1t out
Neither Senators Cummins nor Nelson,
republican members of the committee. ap-
peared today at the hearing. Although
neither would discuss the matter, it is gem
orally known that they claim the demo-
Gratis have been playing politics with the
Investigation, particularly In the case OF
Is. w. McC1ave, republican candidate for
Congress in the Sixth New Jersey district.
defeated in a special election yesterday.
McClave was brought into the case n
few DAYS ago by Mulhal Senator Nelson
declared publicly the next day that he did
not know the committee was being used
for campaign purposes" and Senator
Cummins has not been present at any
bearing since, except for few minutes.
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he interest Mulhall took in hin
Personal Aspirations
tllhaII'o ,,arco,,.I ts.s,

Muihalis personal political aspirations
came INTO het proceedings again today
Wnen letters were read in which he was
spoken of by officers of the association as
being mentioned for Congress. from the
'Fourth district" probably Maryland
James W. Van Cleave one time presi-
dent of the association, wished Mulhali
well in this matter. and John Kirby, Jr.,
wrote:
i see that somebody has been huzzing
a congressional bee around your carcass
| suppose next will be a humming bird
representing the Senate, and then an eagle
representing the presidential chair of the
United States
Many of the letters today spoke of an
effort to land F. c. Schwedtman. secre-
tary to Van Cleave, on the tariff board
Several others told Of public documents Of
ficers wished Mulhall to get including the
report of the national monetary commis-
sion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-24
NEARLY 500 LETTERS
OF MULHALL READ
BY LOBBY HUNTERS
Senate Committee Makes
Rapid InrOads on Inves-
tigatiOn-Was Trying
to See Murphy

Washington, July 2S.-The Senate
lobby committee put on full speed
ahead today and in an unusually short
session got into the record nearly 500
letters of Martin M. Mulhall, alleged
political worker and legislative de-
teetive for the Nationa1 Association OF
Manufacturers.
Mulhall was on the stand only about
an hour after the noon recess, but the
committee made rapid progress and
members hoped tonight to get through
with the correspondence some time
Friday.
The committee viii decide then
whether attorneys for tile association
shall be permitted to cross examine the
witness. From the way in which Sena-
tors Reed and Walsh already have re-
ferred to cross examination it is prob
able that the only way the lawyers will
be able to get at Mulhall will be by
questions filtered to him through the
senator's
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-24
Covers Slack Period

Mulhalls testimony today covered
slack period in the summer and fall
OF 1909 and the early part of 1910
when there was nothing to do in his
line except to work on strikes, tinker
at few odd jobs In politics and keep
thlngs generally moving in Washing
ton. In several letters Mulhall told of
desire on his part to See Charles f.
Murphy, boss" of Tammany Hall, in
the interest of the candidacy of George
Gordon Battle, for governor of New
York.
Mulhall was trying to see Murphy
through Herman Black, who appeared
IN the correspondence as an attorney
of Ill Broadway. Mulhall swore that
black was sort of confidential law
yer to Murphy He said he never saw
MURPHY on this matter and testified
lhat Mr. Battle was man of the high
est character and clean politics
letter signed Battle and Mar
shall acknowledged receipt of a let
ter from Mulhall, gave the only in
dlcation so far as the committee had
gone tonight that Battle ever heard
OF the interest Mulhall took in him,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-24
SENTIMENT FAVORS
THE NEW POLICY

tilities would be possible
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1913-01-22
OIeC or Butter Which?

A life and death struggle is on be-
tween butter and oleomargarine for
control of the American market.
After year of hearings, the Committee
on Agriculture took vote the other
day. With one vacancy in this com
mittee, the vote stood 10 for butter
and 10 for oleo There being tie,
no bill could be reported out. Things
are quiet now but it is the stilln IS
before the storm.
No one can foretell what the future
will bring. Of course, much depends
upon the member who is appointed
to fill the vacancy. The real fight,
however, is certain soon to be shifted
to the floor of Congress.
Realizing the Importance of this
contest to my constituents, who pro-
duce the most and the best butter Of
any district in the country. and
knowing, also, that the attitude of
the butter industry is misunderstood
by some good people. feel it nv duty
to make clear the principles which are
involved in this oleaginous war.
The present federal law, enacted
ten years ago, is satisfactory to
neither party, Dai1ymen are dis
satisfied because jokers have been
revealed in it, through which the
oleomargarine interests are making
most profitable raids upon butter ter
ritory. The manufacturers of oleo
are dissatisfied, because every now and
then some of them are heavily fined,
and they fear that the heavy hand OF
justice may even send them to jail
Hence, they seek to get rid of all
legal restraints and penalties.
There is no mistaking the issue.
Each side has its bill, brought in by
its ranking member upon the Agri-
cultural Committee The butter bill
is fathered by Mr.. Haugen of Iowa
the oleo bill by Mr.. Lever of South
Carolina.
Thess bills have some features in
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1913-01-22
TROOPS SEIZE ROAD PIER
War Department HAS Soldiers Occupy
Buffalo River Frontage Claimed
by Government.

Buffalo. N. Y, Jan. 20.-Acting IN
ser orders of the war department
Company B of the Twenty-ninth in
fantry, stationed at Fort Porter, took
possession Of the Lackawanna railroad
nier at the mouth Of the Buffalo river.
The troops are camped on the pier.
The government claims the railroad
occupies Is feet frontage on govern
nent land and the railroad has re
used to vacate.
The governments claim to owner
hip Of the pier, it IS said, is based
1pon more than fifty years continu-
7us, undisputed occupancy. The pier
vas acquired by the United States in
926 and no question of ownership
was raised until 1878, when, it is de
dared, the railroad became sQuatter
ana acquired foothold
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1913-01-22

legal corner and legitimate trading
by speculative plunges in wheat,
cotton and stocks
Ultimately this difficulty is bound
to increase general hostility to all
speculative trading and all manipula-
ton of prices by exchange operations.
How far it will be constitutional or
desirable to go in the matter of
limiting and regulating exchange
dealings of . speculative nature is one
of the problems to be threshed out in
the future. This court decision
against the legality of corners will
tend to hasten the time when discus
sion of the matter will become acute
st. Louis Globe Democrat.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1913-01-22

common. Both change the name of
oIeomargarine. Both allow it's sale
only in small packages securely sealed
and labelled Margarin Both
strengthen the hands of the officials
who must enforce the law Both i'm
pose tax of cent per pound upon
thu manufacturer Of cleo
In the present law the tax is 4
cent on the uncolored and 10 cents
per pound on the colored oleo Be-
cause Of loop-hole in the law, how
ever. out of every 100 pounds of color
ed oleo manufactured, only have
paid the 10 cent tax. This tax, there.
fore, does the dairy people no good
but it gives the oleomargarine in
terests a chance to advertise that this
is tax upon the food of the poor.
Because of this, was among those
who urged the dairymen to forget this
tax.
Despite these common provisions,
these bills differ Fundamentally. The
Haugen bill corrects the defects in the
present law. The Lever bill DESTROYS
lis purpose altogether. The Haugen
bill introduces a scientific color scale,
and prohibits the manufacture of cleo
which shows less than 90 per ceno of
white. This permits cleo to have it's
own color. but prohibits it's initiating
yellow butter. The Haugen bill,
further, provides that no butter shall
be used in making cleo, nor more than
per cent of butter fat The Lever
bill allows oleo to use any quantity
of butter or butter fat, and permits
it to initiate butter in all of the
June product.
The Haugen bill protects from fraud
both the producer and the consumer,
by requiring those who serve butter,
other than in homes, to take out a
federal license, and to display it con-
spicuously. Not so the Lever bill.
Oleo under it will be colured like
butter, and there will not even be
sign to warn the patrons of lunch
counters. restaurants boarding houses
and hotels, that they are being served
cleo.
The Baugen bill re.adopts the pro-
vision of the present law which makes
state laws apply to cleo shipped in
from other states. The Lever bill re-
peals this provision. 1t allows color
ed oleo to be shipped into every state
and to be sold in the original small
packages in which it must be put up.
despite the fact that thirty.two states
have laws prohibiting the sale of
cleo colored in the semblance of
butter.
This contest is of tremendous i'm
portance, not only from the point of
view of gain and luss to the producer,
but to the health and taste Of the con