The Semi-weekly leader., 1913-08-23


The United States will facilitate a
court test of the California anti-alien
land law, but the initiative must come
from some aggrieved Japanese repre-
sentative.
The Constitutionalist army Of north
ern Coahuila, under command of Gen.
Pablo Gonzales, was routed at Rodi-
guez and was saved from annihila.
tion only by the superior knowledge of
the country possessed by the Car
ranzistas.
The Mexican situation continued ap.
parently unchanged, with President
Wilson and Secretary Bryan awaiting
the Huerta governments reply to the
preliminary note delivered by John
Lind to Foreign Minister Gamboa.
Joint mediation in Mexico by the
United States, Brazil and Argentina
was proposed in house resolution
introduced by Representative Towner
of Iowa, Republican This plan was
advocated by Representative Kahn of
California and is said to be under con-
sideration by the administration.
Smiling, outwardly cheerful and
wearing jaunty green felt hat, Por-
ter Charlton, Lake Como wife MUIR
derer, sailed aboard the liner De
d'Italia for Genoa. When the boat
reaches Italy, 13 days hence, Charlton
will be taken at once to Como and
placed on trial.
The whaler Fran, commanded by
Capt. Doxrud. left Buenos Ayres, Ar
gentine, for Colon to take on board
Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary and
Capt. Boald Amundsen, pole discover
ers, who, it is understood, will be the
first to pass through the Panama ca
nal on board ship.
Miss Sylvia Pankhurst again was
released from Holloway Jail as a Sc
quel to hunger and thirst" strike.
She was in condition of collapse.
Henry d. Clayton, member of con-
gress for the Third district of Ala.
bama, was named by Gov. O'Neal as
United States senator to fill the va
cancy caused by the death of Senator
Joseph f. Johnston.
Forty-five hundred pounds of dyna.
mite were exploded at Post, Tex, in
an effort to break the drouth. Clouds
were seen after the explosion, but
there was no precipitation.
Another danal~tsr.zras horn 70 thn
Countess Laslo Szechenyi, formerly
Miss Gladys Vanderbilt, at Great
langley Manor, at Guilford, England.
Without a dissenting voice the In
ternational Brotherhood of Stationary
Firemen in biennial convention at
Pittsburg went on record as favoring
votes for women.
Forty laborers with the Barnum &
Bailey circus were injured when a
Rock Island passenger train smashed
into the rear end of the first section
circus train at Richfeld, Neb.
When ]. K. Scott, aged 90, was
searched after being arrested for
vagrancy at Pittsburg the police found
$4,000 sewed in the lining of his coat.
The new parcel post regulations
went into effect, increasing the weight
limit from IL to 20 pounds and reduc-
ing rates of postage within distance
of $50 miles from given point.
Morris Nestman, years old, while
flying kite from the roof of his home
in New York, accidentally fell 40 feet,
landing in a neighbor's clothes basket,
unhurt.
The general strike" in Italy, which
has ended, resulted in the death of
three persons, the wounding of 1e5
and the arrest of 2,47S.
Mayor Gaynor and the police went
the limit in the crusade against all
night restaurants when so or more po-
licemen raided Healy's restaurant, on
Sixty-sixth street, just off Broadway,
for the fifth time and elected 300
women and men, including the district
attorney.
Mrs. Joseph Kerney of Atlantic
City, N.~J., gave her 4-year-old son her
jewel case, containing $4,000 worth
of diamonds, to play with, and the
boy sold them for 25 cents to two
strangers.
Every national bank in the country
was requested to furnish to the secre-
tary Of the treasury special state
ment of all money loaned to other
banks, as well as all money borrowed
from other banks in the form of re-
discount, bills payable or in any other
manner.
Four laborers employed by the
Frisco lines were killed instantly
when the approach to the west end Of
the Mississippi river bridge at Mem.
phis, weakened by the high water,
suddenly collapsed.
ss
The senate Democratic caucus
called to consider the extra sessions
program on the tariff bill adjourned
after brief session in which senators
learned that President Wilson had put
his foot down hard on the scheme to
recess congress after passage Of the
tariff bill
Rear Admiral Silas Casey u. S. Al.
retired, died at Warm Springs, Va.
The naval officer was q native Of
Rhode island, 10 years old. His last
dg5fv In fba navy ruaa 40 ,fa,,a ~. 3, ~ =.