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Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-06-06
Robert L. MetcaIfe To Be First
Civil Governor.
SECRETARY BRYAN PLEASED.
Place Carries Salary OF $4,000 and
Handsome Home-commission
To Be Abolished Soon,
Is Belief.

Washington. = Richard Lee Met
calfe, associate editor Of The Com
moner and close personal friend of
Secretary of State Bryan for many
years, was named by President VIII
son as the first civil Governor of the
Panama Canal Zone.
The position carries with it a salary
of $4,000 and in addition the Govern
ment furnishes a beautiful home on
Ancon hill. overlooking the Pacific
Ocean.
The announcement of the selection
of Mr.. Metcalfe followed conference
at the White House between the Presi-
dent and Secretaries Bryan Garrison
and Daniels, who are personal friends
of the Nebraskan.
Secretary Bryan had no comment to
make other than that he was we'll
pleased with the nomination He de-
clared that he was very fond Of Mr..
Metcalfe and that in making his
recommendation to the President he
felt safe in saying Mr.. Metcalfe was
the ideal man TO lead in the work Of
constructing civil government for
the Canal Zone Y
The appointment of Mr.. Metcaife
comes as a reward of almost quarter
of century Of labor in the Democratic
ranks He has alWaATs been carrier
of water and SSas always aligned him
fsaif withSae progressive wing of the
party In Fiat State,
When Mr.. Bryan started his paper.
sThe CompssszaHf, Mr.. Met@aIfe became
associate St Yhiph p9spa he now
occupies! |lf Years ag6 Mi. Me-
calfe was member OF the Democratic
national textbook committee.
To Abolish Commission Soon.
Under the law approved by Presi-
dent Taft over year ago President
Wilson is authorized to abolish the
existing Panama Canal Commission by
executive order whenever he considers
1T advisable to do So
1t is believed to be the intention Of
the President upon the confirmation
by the Senate of Mr. Metcalfe's nomi-
nation to issue an executive order
abolishing the present commission.
Maurice H. Thatcher, of Kentucky, is
now the head of the commission and
Is head of the department of civil ad-
ministration. He will give way to Mr..
Metcalfe
Mr. Metcalfe has a wife and five
children. His daughter. Mrs. Silas
Barton, wife of Representative Bar
ton, Progressive Republican from the
Fifth Nebraska district, is now in
Washington.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-06-06
BURNS WITH MOTHER.
Daughter Goes To Rescue Only To
Share Parents Fate.

Stroudsburg. Pa. = Mrs. Michael
Harmon, 6s years old, and her daugh-
ter, May 35, met death in distressing
form. The mothers skirts had caught
fire as she started a small fire in the
yard, and her daughter, who rushed
TO her rescue, fell victim to the same
fate. Both were burned almost to
cinders.
The Hsnnon home is close to the
Henryville station, where Michael the
son. is station agent. A brisk breeze
famed the flames, and the aged wom-
an, few feet away, did not know the
bottom of her skirt was afire. May,
working in the house, heard her
mothers shrieks and attempted a
rescue.
In moment the flames had en-
veloped both women and each was
fighting desperately. A neighbor
heard the distressed women's cries,
ran to the station and told the son.
Michael He snatched q fire ex-
tinguisher from the wall and was
soon at the house. The extinguisher
put out the flames, but they had al
ready accomplished their deadly work,
and the black, charred bodies retain
ed but little life. -,
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-06-06
JAPAN IN FAVOR Of
UNIVERSAL PEACE
Accepts Proposal Advanced BY
United States.
NO BEARING ON ALIEN LAW.
Ambassador chinda Formally Notl-
fies Secretary Bryan OF the
Action OF His
Country.

Washington.-Visc Chinda, the
ambassador from Japan, called upon
Secretary Bryan with formal notifica-
tion that Japan had accepted in princi-
pal the proposed plan advanced by the
United States for universal peace.
Signatories of the treaty proposed
in Mr.. Bryan's plan would agree to
refrain from hostilities for a period of
at least nine months while any con-
fiicting claims were under considera-
tion by an international joint COM
mission. In the case of Japan, as
with the ten other nations that have
received the proposal favorably, tho
response applies solely to the general
principle involved, and none has COM
mitted itself to approval of any of the
details of the project. Therefore. it
may be many months before the tenta-
tive draft of the convention, which Mr..
Bryan submitted to the various en-
bassies and legations, can be reduced
to form which will receive their un-
qualified approval.
The statement by the Japanese Am
bassador tina. his government was
prepared to give careful and favorable
consideration to the peace proposal
has no bearing whatever upon negotia-
tions now in progress between the
two countries regarding the Califor-
mia alien land legislation. During his
call upon Mr. Bryan the Ambassador
discussed this subject from various
angles for half an hour, but without
any definite result.
The Japanese Foreign Office has not
VET eabled the Amba sSador definite
asa 81 ssse
of its rejolnder to the last American
note and it is known that it is con
ducting an original investigation as q
basis for its rejoinder.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-06-06
BUSINESS MANS VIEWS
ExTRAvAeANcE UNDER SHELTER
OF HIGH TARIFF WALL.
Reasonable Reduction" Should Cut
Down Fancy Salaries of Factory
Officials But Wages Need
Not Suffer.

There is highly successful factory
In the East selling product of high
labor cost, protected by duty of 25
per cent. This duty plus the foreign
price is Just about the price of the
American article. The new tariff bill
proposes to cut the duty in two. The
company has been paying dividends of
about IA per cent. a year. The presi-
dent says II the new tariff goes into
effect dividends will cease.
This is the situation from the manu-
facturer's standpoint in typical in
dustry 1t is cited by George P. Brett.
president of one of the greatest pub
fishing houses in the United States
the Macmillan Company-in an article
in the current issue of the outlook.
Mr.. Brett is a stakeholder In the COM
pany about which he writes and is
personally acquainted with It's history
and methods, SO he writes with au-
thority. But being a man Of analyti-
cal mind, and naturally square deal
err he goes into the situation further.
The factory, he says, was started
twenty years ago on borrowed money.
| No further capital has been put into
the business. Today 1t is prosper
GUS concern, working until 10 o'clock
at night in the rush season, anr turn
ing orders away.
The founder of the compaD gets
salary of s25,000 year, andAdr. Brett
says that this man and two other high
salaried officials find 1t difficult to
keep busy in the few hours they spend
daily at the factory. In view of these
facts he believes that the public Is
paying too much for the product, or
the workmen are not being paid
enough, or else that both conditions
exist to some extent
There are many other similar in
stitutions in this country which have
grown extravagant and "fabby, in
Mr.. Brett's opinion, under shelter Of
the tariff wall Companies have got
rich 50 easily that they have over
looked themselves with .5rna mental
officials. He cites the case OF large
n machinery manufacturing company In
which the president. vice-president
treasurer. secretary and assistant sec
retary all get fancy salaries without
doing any work. The real manager
who works hard is paid a compare.
lively modest salary.
This situation Mr.. Brett regards as
unwholesome. He believes such a
reasonable reduction" in duties as is
now proposed will have some effect
. on the cost of living, but that it need
not reduce wages. The saving ought
to be made. he thinks, in cutting off
extravagancies and in enforcing ef-
1ciences of operation. So the reduced
duties should prove blessing to
the manufacturers themselves"
These are the obviously sensible
views of man of the highest stand
ing in the business world, whose inn
mediate self-interest would call for a
continuation of governmental favors
to the business in which he is inter
ested.-Kansas City Star.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-06-06
Will Other Nations Be unselfish9


Now that the United States is about
to open its doors for great influx
Of foreign-made goods, will other ma
tions accord an equal welcome to
American manufacturers?
President McKinley's idea of reci-
procity and the maximum and mini
mum clause of the Payne-Aldrich law
sought to do good unto those who
were willing to be generous to us.
Now, however, we are deliberately in
viting foreign competition with our
home production, throwing our great
American market open to the world,
without any assurance that other ma
tions will not take undue advantage
of our generosity.
This is one of the problems which
the future alone can solve.
The concessions which the United
States offers in the new tariff bill
should depend largely upon equal ad-
antages granted to us abroad.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-06-06
.HONORS TO THE
NAMES DEAD
Monument to Those Killed in
Havana Harbor Unveiled.
BATTLEsHIPs BOOM SALUTE
Former President Taft, Secretary OF
Navy Daniels, Governor suIzer
Rear Admiral siesbee and
Others Delivered Addresses.

New York.-Two nations-the freed
and the liberator-pai honor to the
heroes who died on board the battle
ship Maine when that ship was blown
UP in Havana Harbor at $40 O'Clock on
the evening of February Is, 1898.
The occasion was a memorial serv-
ice, and ceremonies attendant upon the
unveiling of the National Maine Monu-
ment at the Fifty-ninth street and
Broadway entrance to Central Park.
One thousand Cuban sailors from
the warship Cuba, 10000 United States
sailors from the ships of the North
Atlantic feet which came especially
for the occasion, the Sixty-ninth Regl-
ment, First Regimental Cavalry and
the Naval Militia of the New York
State Militia and several Spanish War
Veteran Associations took part in one
of the greatest naval and military
parades New York has seen in years.
Starting from Fortieth street and Fifth
avenue the troops proceeded to Fifty
ninth street, thence down Fifty-ninth
to Broadway, up Broadway to Sixty
trail Park. Here the troops and sail
ors countermarched so that the heads
of the various divisions simultaneously
appeared surrounding the monument.
In the reviewing stand were Gov
ernor Sulzer of New York, Governor
Haines of Maine, Mayor Gaynor and
other city officials; Rear-Admiral
Charles Sigsbee. who was captain OF
the ill-fated Maine at the time of the
explosion, and ather John Chidwick.
chap am the old Maine,
ID III q arrival ofsthe troops
AZ the monument they were reviewed
from specially erected stand at the
Plaza, Fifty-ninth street and Fifth ave.
nue.
With the troops banked about the
monument and standing at parade rest
addresses were made by the prominent
guests. Directly back of the monument
were the two groves OF trees planted
by Park Commissioner Stoyer as a part
of the Maine memorial. To the left in
the rear of the monument had been
planted one scarlet oak for each ship
which was under the command of Ad-
miral Dewey at the battle of Manila
Bay.
Just opposite these trees was a
grove of red oaks, one for each of the
ships under the command of Admirals
Schley and Sampson at Santiago Har-
Dor. AS a background for the monu-
ment and the two "oak tree fieets," a
grove of pin oaks had been planted to
represent each battleship in the pres
ent United States Navy.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-06-06

The position of the Progressive
party on the tariff is unique Repre-
sentative Gardner of Massachusetts,
speaking in the house few days ago,
said that IL the Democrats in any way
failed to make good by the present
revision of the tariff, the people of
the nation would turn, not to the Re-
publicans who have already been dis
credited, but to the Progressive party.
These words of warning to the old
parties reveal the opportunity of the
Progressives who are about to find
that subject regarded by tkem in
the presidential campaign of only
passing Importance, is to them pos
sible road TO success,
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-06-06
JAPAN TO SPEAK AGAIN.
Believed In Toxic That American Note
Not Final.

Toxic. : Another note from the
Japanese government, dealing with
the questions arising out of the recent
California alien land ownership legis-
lation is to be forwarded shortly to
Washington
The idea that the United States has
not said her final word is prevalent
here and it is intimated in au.
thoritative circles by inference that no
official action is to be initiated yet by
Japan.
The formation of Japanese asso-
citation in the United States for the
purpose of cooperating with the
japanese government is greatly favor
ed here and the object of the members
of this city, when it is formed, will be
to reach a permanent solution of the
difficulty by means of new treaty
or by a change in naturalization laws.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-06-06
RADlsHEs FOR BRYAN.
Vegetables BY Mail Begin To Come
For the Secretary.

Washington.-In his official mail
Secretary of State Bryan received
three punches of white radishes.
Recently, a pitiless publicity story was
printed that he did his own marketing
and was unhappy every day he could
not get a sunch or so of white
radishes. The results of the story are
being felt, they said at the State De-
partment. IT 10 feared at the depart
ment that the three punches are only
the beginning of a constant supply of
vegetables of all kinds in the official
mail.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-06-06
WHEELS CHAIR 60 MILES.
invalid Rides From Philadelphia To
Atlantic City.

Atlantic City, N. flames flourish,
who has lost four inches of his spinal
column. has arrived here after wheel
ing his invalid chair from Philadelphia,
a distance of go miles. 1t took him
three days to make the trip. He was
accompanied by two friends. but he
propelled the chair with his hands.
He was in a much fresher condition
than his friends, who walked, The
invalid suffered the injury two years
ago in a fall from roof. To save
his life 1t was necessary to remove
part of his spine.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-06-06


Marquette, Mich. - Col Theodore
Rooevelt won his libel suit against
George A. Newett, who charged the
Colonel with drunkenness, and having
waived damages after the defendant
had uttered retraction the jury
awarded the nominal damages of six
cents provided in such cases by the
laws of Michigan. Each party to the
suit will have to pay his own expenses.
Judge Flanagan instructed the jury
to bring in verdict for the plaintiff
which they did without leaving their
seats. The Colonel left for Chicago
and the East two hours after the con
clusion of the case, The climax of
the case came like the conclusion of
a powerful drama.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-06-06
Editor Newett Makes Complete
RetractiOn Of Charge.
COLONEL is MAGNANIMOUs.
End Comes Suddenly, Ex-Presi-
dent of Fer the East
Inside OF Two
Hours.
COLONEL RoosEVELTs
STATEMENT.


qolones Roosevelt
y eat aurt was az tgss5ss
your honor, in view Of the
statement OF the defendant ask
that the court instruct the jury
that l desire only nominal dam
ages. did not go into this case
for money. l did not go into 1t
for any vindictive purpose. l
went into it, and as the court
said, l had my reputation at
issue, because l wished once for
all during my lifetime, thorough
ly and comprehensiyely, to deal
with these ISLANDERS so that never
again will 1t be possible for any
man in good faith to repeat
them. l have achieved my pur-
pose and am content"
Nominal damages means six
cents under the laws of Michigan
and no costs.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-06-06
1000 MINERS GO ON STRIKE.
Dispute Between Labor Organizations
Causes Walkout.

Plains, PA dispute between the
United Mine Workers and the In
dustrial Workers of the World led to
a strike of 1000 miners in the employ
of the Lehigh Valley Coal Company,
here Many foreign mine workers had
declared their intention of. joining the
Industrial Workers of the World, but
the United Mine Workers Union in
sisted that they join their labor organ
ization and none else and will refuse
TO work until they do so.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-06-06
PRIZE BUFFALO KILLED.
Animal Rated AS Finest Specimen OF
Breed Dies In Battle.

Allentown, Pa. = "Comanche," a
2,0O0-pound buffalo bull, rated by Prof
William T. Honaday, president of the
American Bison. Society, as the finest
specimen of the breed, was killed in a
battle with younger rival for the
supremacy of Colonel Trexler's heard
at Schnecksville. The victor. Roaring
Frank" was a much smaller animal,
weighing only about 1,400 pounds. He
was spryer than the older bull. how
ever, and succeeded in goring him the
length of his horn three times.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-06-06
nth AMENDMENT
SIGNED BY BRYAN
Secretary Makes Direct Elec-
tiOn of Senators Effective.
WORKED YEARS FOR REFORM
Four Pens Used To Append sigma
ture and Date OF Approval
Given To co-Laborers
In Campaign.

=
Washington. Secretary of State
William J Bryan was the central figure
in an historic scene Saturday, when
be signed the proclamation making eff
,ss si,s eeTA'sterntn Asufsndna ut to
tlas sCQn stitition w amend tiens
provides that United States Senators
shall be elected by direct vote of the
people,
From this day on the States must
follow the new constitutional mandate
in selecting their Senators or else go
unrepresented in the upper branch OF
Congress. No Senator now holding a
seat in that body, however, is affected
during his current term Of office.
The ceremony was simple, though
necessarily formal. 1t took place in
the big reception room of the Secre-
tary's suite of offices. Surrounding
Mr.. Bryan were a number of states
men who had played a part in the long
fight for this reform, department heads
and perhaps twoscore of corre-
spondents.
MISs bryan iHcTS ioos
Seated at the Secretary's left was
Mrs. Bryan. She rejoiced in no less
degree than the Secretary himself in
the last act of the great battle which
her husband had led for 20 years. She,
as did all the other witnesses to the
signing of the proclamation, realized
the appropriateness of Mr.. Bryan, the
Secretary, putting into effect reform
which Mr.. Bryan, the citizen, had
urged SO long before the country.
Mr.. Bryan provided himself with
four pens for the occasion. The first
was used to sign the word William"
and then given to Mr.. Tucker as a
souvenir. With the second the Secre-
tary signed the word Jennings" then
handing the pen to Representative
Rucker. The third was used in writ
ing the word Bryan" and this the
Secretary kept himself. The date of
the proclamation was written with the
fourth pen, which Senator Borah re-
ceived as a memento.
AS soon as the signature had been
affixed Mr.. Bryan expressed gratifica-
ton over the fact that the duty Of
officially announcing the ratification of
the Seventeenth Amendment had fall
len to him as Secretary of State. He
remarked that the short time required
for the States to act proved that the
sentiment in favor of the reform was
practically unanimcas throughout the
country.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-06-06
MAIL TRAIN DERAILED.
Fireman and Engineer On the Great
Northern Road Killed.

Moorhead. Minn-The fireman and
engineer on mail train No. 1, of the
Great Northern Road, were killed
when the train left the rails at a
crossing near here. The accident is
said to have been due to misunder-
standing of orders.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-06-06
BOY GETS LIFE TERM.
Herman coppes Pleads Guilty To Muir
der OF Three Persons.

Elgin, Ill.-Life Imprisonment was
the sentence imposed by Circuit
Judge C. F. Iron on Herman Coppes,
the 14-year-old lad who on April IA
murdered Mrs. Nanny Sleep and her
two babies on farm six miles from
Elgin.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-06-06
TRAFFIC ON "PENNsY" is RECORD

More Cars Pass Given Point on Rail-
road Than For Any Previous May.
Altoona, Pa, June 2.-Freight traf-
flc on the Pennsylvania Railroad dur
ing May was heavier than in any pre-
vious May, according to report on
the middle division. A total of 2O5,-
900 cars passed given point during
the month. $4,000 more than the total
of May, 1907.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-06-06
COL. NELSON NOT IN CONTEMPT.
Supreme Bench OF Missouri Clears
Kansas City Editor.

jefferson City, Mo.-The Supreme
Court in unanimous opinion, dis
charged Col. w R. Nelson, editor and
owner of The Kansas City Star, from
contempt of Circuit Court of Kansas
City
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-06-06
OVERCOME IN A TUNNEL.
Six Men Were Asleep and One ls
Killed BY Gas.

Ironton, o.-One man was killed
and FIVE others were overcome by gas
while sleeping in tunnel near Sol
dier. KY, on the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad, nearly opposite this city.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-06-06
TIGHT SKIRTS SANITARY.
Wide Skirts Germ Carriers, Say Chi
cago Physicians.

Chicago.-"Plaited and wide skirts
are the finest germ carriers in the
world" declared Dr. Norman Curry
at a meeting of the branch of the To-
cal medical society. twenty-five
physicians. who were present, declared
tight skirts for women were hygienic,
artistic and comfortable.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-06-06

Mr.. Taft, as a professor of law.
ought to know that the statute of
limitations has run on most OF his po-
litical views.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-06-06
BURNED TO DEATH

Horrible Treatment OF Russian Jews
At Pontnetf.
st. Petersburg.-Eight Russian jaws
were burned to death in the village of
Pontneff, near Kalisz, Russian Poland.
A band of men, whose identity has not
been ascertained, after mailing up the
door of the house in which their vic
tins resided. set fire to the building
and disappeared.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1913-12-12
TRUSTEES SALE
The State of Mississippi, Noxubee Cou

The State of Mississippi, Noxubce County
BY virtue of the provisions Of a certain deed of
trust executed by Charlie Jefferson and Mary
jefferson, on the first day of December, 1911. to
the undersigned as trustee, to secure toll, 7. Smith,
Guardian of Nellie Smith, a certain Indebtedness
therein mentioned, said trust deed being recorded
in Chattcl Record Trust Deed Book No. l0l, page
~, in the Chaucery Clerks Office of NoXubec
county, Mississippi, |, the undersigned MS trustee,
will on SATURDAY, THE Goth A OF DE-
CEMRER, 1918, at the West Door OF the Court
House of NoXubte county, Mississippi, in the City
of Macon Mississippi, proceed to sell at auction to
the highest bidder for cash, the following de-
scrhei real estate and personal property, same
lying, being and situated in the County of NoNu-
bee, State OF Mississippi. and City of Macon, to-wit:
One lot facing forty feet On east side Of Wayne
Street and running back East Sixty Feet Of Block
%, according to the Map and Plan of said City. 1t
being Forty Feet North and South and Sixty Feet
East and West, taken out of the Southwest corner
of the North Half Of said Block %, and being the
lot purchased by Jennie Hudson from A.. Klaus,
January II. 1897, and known as the Julia White
lot, and formerly owned by Melissa Barnes, who
purchased it from c. Il. Ames (sec Deed Book l6,
page 239l, and being the lot upoif which the said
Charlie Jefferson is now living.
Also one cream mare, about 9 years old. named
Kate:
One bay mare. about 10 years old. named Kittie.
certify that the above described property is
free from all Cncumbrance.
The property mentioned in said trust deed to
satisfy said Indebtedness and the cost OF this pro-
ceodiug,
This the 26th day Of November. 1918.
GEO. RICHARDSON, Trustee,