Fair play., 1913-10-25


v.ra Hutso1, were burned t. death
IL lies Molnes. Ia, N fire which de-
st:cyeI the home.
Garrett Droppers, professor of eco
nomics at Williams college, Williams
town, Mass, has been offered the
post of minister to Greece by Presi-
dent hviisor
Three hundred persons In the
province of Fo Kien. China. were
slain and two mission churches, be-
heved to be the property of an Amer
ican missionary society, were burned
by force of Chinese brigands com
manded by Gen. Hwan Liang.
William Sulzer ceased to be gov
ernor of the state of New York when
he was removed from office by the
high court of impeachment by vote
of 43 to ~, two members not voting.
Secretary McAdoo directed that
hereafter the practice OF using the
old.style V for US in the inscriptions
Oh public buildings be abandoned.
President Wilson indicated to
those with whom he discussed the
Mexican situation that he was irrevo-
cably determined to deal no longer
with the Huerta regime, but that fur
ther steps toward bringing peace to
Mexico were being considered.
Col Peteff, a Bulgarian brigade
commander, was sentenced by court
martial to four years Imprisonment
for deserting his post in an engage
ment against the Greeks.
Maxim Gorky is recovering from
his recent illness. He has left Ma
pies for Sorrento, where he will stay
a month After this he will return to
the Island of Capri.
Mrs. Clarence II. Mackay, sued for
s1,0OO000 by Mrs. Catherine Blake
for alleged alienation of the affection
of DR.. Joseph H. Blake, filed answer
in the supreme court. She denies
every allegation set out in the petit
tion.
Julian Hawthorne and DIR. w. j.
Morton were released from the fed
eral penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga, aft
er serving a little more than six
months for violating the postal laws.
Hawthorne will engage in literary
work in New York.
Charge O'Shaughnessy was III
structed formally to notify the au-
thorities at Mexico City that the
United States could not recognize rs
constitutional the election to be held
Oct. 26, in view of Gen. Huerta's de-
cree announcing his assumption OF
legislative powers.
President Wilson and Secretary
Garrison selected the following Fill
pinos to be members of the Philip
pine commission: Victorino Mapa,
Jaime c. Deveyra, Vincente Ilustre,
Vincente Singson. Mapa will be sec
retary OF finance and justice.
President Wilson has written to
Secretary Redfield of the department
of commerce, approving the latters
plan for a reorganization of the bu-
reau OF foAeign and domestic com
merce, with an annual appropriation
for expenses increased from S323,300
of approximately s76O,O00.
Eighteen deputy sheriffs were
seized by strikers at Trinidad Colo,
as they were about to board special
train for Ludlow and held captive at
union headquarters.
Passenger train No. l on the West
ern & Atlantic railroad struck a
wagon at a crossing near Tunnel
Hill. Ga, killing seven persons.
The bond of $4,000 furnished for
the appearance of David Lamar, in
answer 10 the indictment charging
him with impersonating government
officials, was forfeited by United
States District Court Judge Hunt in
New York.
Ten per cent of the people O; Sa-
vannah, Ga, are suffering from
dengue. or bone-break fever, pain
>ful but not serious malady caused by
the bite Of the mosquito.
The German foreign office reached
the conclusion that the existing stu
alton in Mexico is such as to necessi.
tate the presence OF a German war
ship in Mexican waters.
Samuel Altman of Vienna, Austria,
manager of the Canadian Pacific rail
road agency, was arrested, charged
with promoting the emigration to
America OF men liable for military
service.
The Dowager Duchess Marie of
Saxe-Coburg Gotha authorized a de-
nial OF published reports Of the be-
trothal OF the Princess Elizabeth of
Roumania to Crown Prince George of
Greece.
A disaster. possibly the greatest In
the history Of the South Wales coal
fields, whose annals are bristling
with terrible catastrophes. occurred
through an explosion In the Univer-
sal colliery, near Cardiff. Four hun
dred miners are entombed and given
up for dead.