East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-05-02
Interesting Stories
from Various Cities

the second days session of the
Fourth American Peace Congress at
the Odeon. Practically all the repre-
sentatives of the United States and
nineteen Central and South American
countries attended this mornings
session.
by parity of reasoning" declar-
ed Professor Hull cit may be justly |
contended that nations have no more !
right to commit the immortality of !
waging war than kings possess the di- !
vine right of ruling wrong; and that
jurisdiction to prevent immortality of
warfare may be vested in a court ex-
terror to the several nations" Prof |
Hull went on to point out that the
United states supreme court has re-
Gently decided, in prohibiting white
slave trade between states that "a
right exercised in morality cannot be
urged to sustain a right exercised in
immortality" Arguing for the i'm
mediate establishment of a worlds
supreme court" the speaker quoted
Wilson'S inaugural in which the pres
ident said; THE firm basis of gov
eminent is justice" as basis for his
argument that "it is as logical for the
supreme court of the As states of the
union to adjudicate the laws of the
United States as it would be for the
supreme court of the 46 states in the
family of nations to adjudicate the
conventions agreed upon by that
family at the Hague" AS an exam
Pile of the substitution of trial by laws
i hot Il l.
ferred to "England's inspiring exam
pie in substituting law and courts for
war within her own borders.
Another speaker today who receiv-
ed a great ovation was President
Charles F. Thwing of Western Re-
serve University, and president of
the intercollegiate Peace association.
Declaring college men as a whole, are
intensely patriotic, President Thwing
said, But what is needed today is not
less of national patriotism, but more
I of international patriotism " Com
merce, finance, communication by let
ter, telegraph, cable and telephone;
the Concordia movement the Corda
Frates movement, and the migration
of students. according to President
Thwing, are the four greatest factors
| in the hurrying of universal peace.
/ Other addresses today were on Prob
/ lens of The Hague Conference" and
! THE Sanctions of Peace A visit to
/ Shaw's gardens and a sightseeing trip
| between the morning and afternoon
sessions also were on today's program.
| Moundsville, W. Va.-John Medley,
a negro, who has fought his case from
the circuit court to the United States
supreme court during the five years
| since he was first sentenced to death.
will be hanged this afternoon for the
murder of Nellie Shannon, white
! man. on July 4, 1908. Medley was
baptised in his cell Immediately after
the United States supreme court af-
firmed the decisions of the circuit
court. John Hix, a white man, who
| killed Mrs. Mollie Thompson, a wild
ow, when she refused to marry him,
also will be executed today.
Chicago.-Today was the eventful
day set by the cookladies to formally
| present their demands for two after
Moons off a week and the right to en-
tertain company in the parlor with
out interference from the family. All
other domestics are standing firmly
back of the cookladies in the latters S
demands
Boston.-Louis D. Brandeis and
Henry Moscowitz of New York will
speak before the Boston City club to-
night on "The Preferential Union
Shop"
New York-Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt will be tonight's attraction
at the monster suffrage rally at the
Metropolitan opera house. The meet
ing will be under the auspices of the
Mems league and the suffrage organ
izations of Greater New York. The
meeting is in the form of a prelimi-
nary to the great suffrage parade to-
morrow.
Pittsburg Mobiles of Syria Temple
Ancient Order of the Mystric Shrine
today left here on a 390S mile trip
They will visit Dallas, Texas; New
York, Havana and ports in the Carri-
bean Sea.
York. Pa.-Twelve electric light
companies in York county were ex-
pected to consolidate today under the
the Edison Light and Power COM
pany The officials of the different
companies are meeting today to com
plete all final arrangements for the
! consolidation.
London.-The English ponies to
| be used by the British polo team
! which will play the American team
for the international polo champion
shin in America next month, arrived
here today The best polo ponies OF
the empire have been gathered for
the event They will be sent on ship
board tonight and leave tomorrow
morning for America, where trainors
will condition them. A wealthy New
| yorker Is said, to have offered the use
of his stables for the ponies. Severa
in the number are worth from 5000
to $4,000. Two were brought all the
wav from India and some were pur.
chased in America, especially for the
coming championship matches. The
English team will sail four days after
their mounts leave.
For the Weak and Nervous.
Tired out, weak, nervous men anc
women would feel ambitious, energet
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