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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-05-17
1T DIDN'T MATTER

''My dear child, what are you do
ing?" asked the astonished mother,
as she paused to glance at some very
strange marks her little girl was
making with a pencil on a piece of
paper.
"Oh, I'm writing letter to Lily
Smith, came the answer.
writing letter. laughed the
mother. 'But you don't know how
to write"
"That doesn't matter, mummie.
You see, Lily can't read!"
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-05-17

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ttry and unable to speak English,
works at night and demands quiet to
secure some sleep by day.
The mother, a sweatshop slave,
needs must lock her little one from
their two-room tenement when she
goes out to earn a pittance to meet
1atie $12 rent.
The foul, old rear house opens on
"a bricked area fifteen feet square, q
dark funnel overhung with fire bal
comics and dripping clothing, the only
5air shaft for twenty poverty stricken
homes.
Sunlight cannot enter that moi
some well, nor may children play
within it's echoing walls.
2 MEMORABLE causes quite beyond the
foontroI of Armies parents banished
ffheir little girl from the fireside and
Cfhe doorstep play-pIace to the Pertls
Fof the unseen street.
: Broome street between Hester and
GRivington streets is two-mile can
Won in the heart of the East Side
sIum. Block after block of five and
six-story tenements house hundreds
of newcomers, strangers in a strange
land. At every other street crossing
patrolmen on fixed post stand to pre-
serve order, officers who speak En-
glish slowly in easy first-reader
phrases:
The paVements swarm with chill
dren, the curbs are barTicaded with
refuse barrels, in the asphalted street
a push. cart market makes day-long
pandemonium. Into that tideway of
unknown dangers drifted little
child; unguided and unguarded.
There is no work but play for a
fve-year-old, and the Fairgrounds of
Broome street are far to seek.
In all the sun-stTicken. waste from
the Bowery to the Bridge there is
lust one tree, and that saphng hard
Iv fifteen feet high. Otherwise the
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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-05-17
NEW EATON CASE MYSTERY

NEW EATON CASE MYSTERY
bingham, Mass, May 1.-THE in
PRODUCTION at the court house of a
middle-aged man, accompanied by
detectives, who refused to reveal his
identity until he testifes in the case
involving Mrs. Jennie May Eaton, has
added a further touch Of mystery.
Mrs. Eaton is charged with poison
ing her husband, Rear Admiral JOS
eph G. Eaton, but though seven wit
nesses have testified SO far, no eU-
dence has been introduced to show
who purchased the poison with which
it is alleged Eaton was killed.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-05-17

They we're older girls than she,
keener, shrewder, but, like her, they
had been pitifuIly cramped in their
natural wish to play. They, also, had
been ordered from two-room tene-
ments, driven from crowded areas,
banished without toys or playground
to the idleness of the streets.
Denied child's right to play, they
inevitably discovered another occu-
patton. Thfs-to her unreasoning
delight-they shared with Annie
Proznak. A few days of delirous ex-
element amid the clamorous crowds
Of an East Side slum and then "a bold,
bad girl of five, but going on six, ,"
passed under the shadow of the law,
charged with being a skillful, fearless
pickpocket.
The fact seems unbelievable until
we learn the reason why.
The Sentinel=record., 1913-12-28
Activity Near Tampico.

Vera Cruz. Dec. 27--A careful es. innate of the number of rebels in the state of Tamaulipas places the total at 15,000. The majority of these are around Victoria, but a considerable force is near Tampico and it is pos sible that another attack on the port will he made early in the week.
 The federals defending Tampico and outlying districts approximate 5000, and have the assistance of two gunboats. Twelve hundred of the rebels are at Altamira, twenty-three miles north.
 A little farther northward rebels in large numbers continue to hold posi- lions. An additional carload of ann intuition sent from Victoria reached these rebels yesterday.
 To the southwest of Tampico the rebels under Gen Candido Aguilar hold Panuco, and the railroad from Tampico to San Luis Potosi is re- ported to be cut The rebels are al most in absolute control of the oil zone. An elemen. of international danger is to be found in the fact that about sixty Americans at the Ebanc I oil station, west of Tampico have armed themselves and threaten to re sist any interference.
 Rear Admiral Henry T. Mayo. witf yhe battleships Connecticut and Kan sas. will leaxe Vera Cruz for Tampict within two days. It is expected tha the scout cruiser Chester and the hos pital ship Solace will proceed to Tam pico.
The Sentinel=record., 1913-12-28
Mover Deportation Planned.

Butte, Mont, Dec. 27-Jno. c. Low ney, member of the executive boaord of The Western Federation of Mines. who returned to Butte few days ago from Calumet, said today that the Federation officials were not surpris- ed over the deportation" of Charles H. Mover from the Michigan copper district.
 '"rhe deportation of Mover had been planned a month ago and We knew it," Lowney said This action was not the result of our refusal 10 accept funds from the Citizens Ali ance following the Christmas tragedy The Michigan copper companies were determined to bring matters to a cri. sis by New Years day Mir. Mover had offered only a few days ago to have President Wilson or he govern or of Michigan arbitTate the strike and the companies ignored his offer
 Many of the officers of the Feder- ation left Calumet because we expect ed indictment by the grand jury. We left 10 escape arrest, so tha. the strik- CTS funds would not be tied up in the form of bail to keep us at liberty. The money was needed for food rath- CT than bail
 Mover will be back in Calumet un- der government protection within a few days We feel that We are now assured of a federal investigation of the whole strike and that is all we ask"
 A protest meeting of the Butte min CTS has been called for Sunday It is expected further funds will be sent to Calumet Already s71.0O0 has been sent by local miners to Calumet.
The Sentinel=record., 1913-12-28
Re-establlsh Telegraph.

Hermosillo, Sonora, Dec. 27.-Tele- graphic communication between the provisional capital here and the in- terior and border points was resumed today and Gen. CaTranza conferred by wire with Luis ]. Zalce, constitu- tionalist governor of Zacatecas. The conversation was held over more than 1,200 miles of telegraph lines, leading
 into the geographical center of Mex. ico. Gov. Zalce told his chief that practically the entire state of Zacate- cas was in the hands of insurgent forces.
 The department of communication made public today a list of telegraph offices now operating and in commun- ication with Hermosillo. They num- bered seventy-eight and were scatt er- ed throughout .he states of Sonora, Sinaloa, Durango and Chihuahua and the territory of Tepic.
The Sentinel=record., 1913-12-28
Gov. Ferris Com merits.

Big Rapids. Mich, Dec. 27-Gov Ferris said he saw nothing in Movers latest settlement proposition to which he personally would object. He call ed attention tos the fact that he ad- vised the mine operators Q accept the first proposition for settlement of the difficulties which Mover made and which was included in the state ment given out in Chicago .oday by the president of the Western Fedora ton of Miners.
 'When l suggested to the operat- ors that they consider the original Mover plan they told me such a course would be an insult to the men who were working their mines" said Hhe governor They said further the men in their employ at that time did not want to have anything to do with the Western Federation of Miners.
 Tt is asserted that he Calumet and Hecla mines are being operated with practically a full force. If the Calumet and Hecla operators are tell ing the truth, these men do not want to have anything 70 do with the West ern Federation. I have put the mat ter up to the operators again and again. They will not take back the strikers ndiscriminately."
The Sentinel=record., 1913-12-28
Constitutionalist Coin.

San Francisco, Dec. 27.-Money that is said to have more intrinsic Value than that of the federal gov ernment is being coined in Mexico by the constititionalists. according to passengers who arrived here from Mexico today on the steamer New port, This money is being used to pay rebel soldiers who heretofore nave accepted their remuneration in script
 Several mining plants have been impressed into service by the revo. lutionists for the manufacture of the coins, which are said to have a value of 75 cents in gold One of the sto- ries brought back is that several min ing concerns controlled by Mexicans alleged to have participated in the downfall of Madero have been confis- cated by the rebels
 The Newport's passengers said that Americans were shown every courtesy by the constitutionalists
The Sentinel=record., 1913-12-28
Fear Safety of Property.

1 Washington, UecJ 27.-ConditiOnS
 in regard to the safety of private
 property in central Mexico continues
 to be unsatisfactory, according to
 the latest State Department reports
 Owing to the fact that the territory north of Durango is in the sole pos session of neither warning faction and that both telegraphs and rail- roads generally have been destroyed, communication Is so slow that it re- quired seven days to get news to the department from the city of Torreon. A week ago that important strategic point still was in the hands of the federals, but the reyolutionists were in control of the surrounding dis district.
 On the gulf coast the rebels were active up to Christmas and the consul at Tampico reported that Gen. Agui- lar with several hundred rebel troops the town of Panuco. They destroyed some buildings and committed other depredations and the consul is try ing to ascertain what American life and property were menaced.
 The State Department has caused representations to be made to Gen. Villa at Chihuahua in the interest of the women and children of the Span iards and other foreigners who were expelled from that town by the -eb- els. Although the American consul was assured that these families would be permitted to leave Chihua- hua, for some reason the promise has not been kept and 1t is assumed they are being held as hostages Further pressure will be brought to bear in their behalf.
 The naval supply ship Glacier ar rived at Topolobampo, on the west coast of Mexico, last Wednesday and sailed away yesterday In reporting these movements the captain of the ship made no mention of famine among the American colony there, al 1 though he had ample provisions aboard to meet any probable needs. An offer of Japanese army officers to enlist under the Huerta standard | in Mexico, which the Mexican war of flee claims to have received through its embassy in Tokio, has not been
 made known to the State Depart ment. Whether this service could
 be rendered, it is pointed out, would depend upon the status of the Japa
 nese officers making the offer. ana
 i. is not doubted that their own gov
 ernment would refuse them permis
 sion to leave their own country i they are still on the active list of th,
 Japanese army.
The Sentinel=record., 1913-12-28
WILL TURN GOVERNMENT OVER TO ANOTHER AND TAKE
 FIELD AGAINST REBELS.
PLANS SEEM ID BE ALL MADE
Enrique Gerostieta, Now Minister of
 Justice, Expected to Succeed Huer-
 to as President Throuqh an Official Gerrymander.

Mexico City, Dec. 27.-That Enrique Gerostieta, minister of justice, will become president of Mexico early in the new year and that Gen Huerta will take the field against the rebels who refuse to conform with this ar rangement. is the report that has been received with credence by some of the diplomats here.
 Gerostieta is to be named minister of foreign affairs, according to the story in circulation, and Huerta will retire from the presidency, in which case the foreign minister succeeds him.
 Senor Gerostieta is well along in years. He was lawyer at Monterey, who was brought to the capital to take the portfolio of finance. but in- stead was appointed minister of jus tice
The Sentinel=record., 1913-12-28
DEDICATE WINDOW OF J. J. AST0R
OF MILLIONAIRE VICTIM OF TITANIC DISASTER KEEPS
 MEMORY GREEN.

Beacon, N Y. Dec. 27--A window in memory of Col John Jacob Astor, who lost his life in the Titanic dis aster. was dedicated today in the church of the Messiah at Rhinebeck. lit was placed by his widow. Mrs. Madeline Force Astor. who was pres ent with a party of relatives from Neew York. Col. Astor was senior
 warden of the church at the time of his death and his funeral services were held in the edifice.
 The window contains three panels. Tho central one represents Christ walking on the water
 The side panels show standing fe. fred" are near .he top and the memo fred are near the top and the memo rial inscription at the bottom reads: Tn loving memory of Jahn Jacob Astor. Born June l3, 1864. Died April l5. 1s12a
The Sentinel=record., 1913-12-28
Demands of Operators.

St Louis, Dec 27.-The demands of the Frisco railway telegraphers for revision of the wage scale and the readjustment of working condi- | tions was presented to the officials of the road last May and conferences began wi.h the officials last October.
 The union officers have issued a circular setting forth the strikers demands and the action of the com pany thereon, substantially as fol- | lows:
 The following propositions submit ted by the telegraphers were refused by the railroad company:
 That exclusive agents be pu. in the schedule the same as the agent who is required to handle telegrams or telephone messages.
 A consecutive eight-hour day for all except exclusive agents aend that photographers be not required to work in more than one office in doing a days work.
 That telegrapher taken from his home station to do relief work be paid for time lost in transit and be given expense money
 That telegraphers be not required to scrub waiting rooms, offices or out | buildings; tha. where they are not now required to handle mail between The postoffice and the station they | be not required to do so in future that where they continue to handle the mail they be paid '$15 extra a month. That the telegraphers be not re- quired to clean batteries where three or more telegraph circuits are used
 That salaries of employees who serve express companies or com, mercial telegraph company be in creased by an amount equal to the average monthly salary paid by the express or telegraph company during 1912.
 A 15 per cent wage increase fol telegraphe7s. As to .he latter de mand the general manager offered 2 slight concession.
 The telegraphers also asked tha photographers. be paid double time fol Sunday work and for overtime. Thi demand was refused
 The telegraphers .also demanded that committee composed of the dl vision superintendent and telegra pher be authorized to recommend in cTeases in the telegraph force at sta Itions where 1t deemed increases need ed. This recommendation. it was de manded, should be complied with il ten days. The telegraphers also de manded that the telegraph force il any station be not reduced over thu protest of the local agent except or the recommendation of the commit tee unless both members of the com mittee agreed to waive an investi igation.
 This entire clause of the demand Twas refused.
The Sentinel=record., 1913-12-28
DIRECTOR OF COPPER MINERS STRIKE RESTING WELL AFT.
 FER ROUGH USAGE.
WOUNDS ARE NOT DANGEROUS
Sheriff of Houehton County Starts Official Investigation for the Pur- pose of Identifying AssaIants of Mine Officer.

Chicago, Dec. 27 Charles II. Moy- er president of the Western Fedeg. ation of Miners, driven from Hancock, Mich. after he had been shot and beaten last night. slept well under the physicians care in a hospital here tonight The train ride of coo miles with a bullet still in his body and his wounds having received only tenn porary care, So weakened the direc- tor of the copper miners strike that he was unable to receive visitors aft CT he had reached the hospital.
 The doctors said that the ease with which Mover dropped to sleep would prove 6 factor toward his speedy re- coyery and the indications were his wound would not prove seriods.
The Sentinel=record., 1913-12-28

will have to make their way through snow covered roads. fine snow be- gan falling steadily late today and promised to continue all night.
 It will not be an easy task that will confront the marchers if the storm develops into a blizzard The ceme- tery lies more than a mile west Of this city and the men who are to bear the coffines on their shoulders, may have to face the full force of a wind off Lake Superior Strikers from the keweenaw county mines intend 70 march five miles or more into Calu- met tomorrow and some funeral par ties are to come into Calumet from locations a mile or more from this city.
The Sentinel=record., 1913-12-28

the Mexican landowner, who is held by Villa for a ransom said to be $250000 gold Terrazas' father has expressed willingness to pay he money, but has asked for a guarantee of his sons safe conduct to the Unit ed States. The prisoner has been kept in a cell in the state capitol at Chihuahua ever since the rebels oc- cupied that city.
 All he homes of the Terrazases. Creels and other rich Mexican fami- lies charged with having sympathized with Huerta have been deeded over by Gen. Villa to his officers. The property was confiscated several weeks ago. Alberto Terrazas, a colo nel in the ranks of the federal volun- teers, who accompanied the federals in their flight from Chihuahua, re- signed and crossed to Presido.
 Japanese agents who feared that Geen. Villa migh. show resentment to their countrymen in Mexico be- cause Huerta had placed orders for arms in Japan, said they had receiv- ed word from Mexico City that Japa- nese subjects would be protected by the British vice consul in Chihuahua. Villa had assured the Japanese he was not unfriendly to them.
 On hearing that his father, mother, wife and child had been burned to death by federas at Torreon, a rebel soldier in Juarez became insane to- day. He was told that his family had been killed because he was fighting with the rebels.
The Sentinel=record., 1913-12-28
GATUN SPlLLWAY OPENED.

Panama, Dec. 27.-Gatun Spillway, which regulates the level of Gatun lake, was opened today for the first time since June 27. During the clap sed period the water had risen from 4S25 to SAT feet above sea level While he maximum level the lake can attain is S7 feet of water, it will not be allowed to go any higher at present because the low ridges form. ing the rim of the lake basin has not been completed.
The Sentinel=record., 1913-12-28
Meyers Proposed Plan.

Big Rapids, Mich, Dec. PIT won't work" was the comment of Gov Ferris here tonight to the Asso- ciated Press, after the latest proposal for settlement of the Calumet cop per strike made by Chas. H. Mover in Chicago this afternoon was read to him. The governor said he was pos itive the mine operators would never consent to an arrangement which compelled them 70 employ without discrimination men who at present are strikers.
 Movers letter, proposing a method of settlement of the strike, follows: "On the eve of the burial of the victims of the terrible disaster which occurred in our midst at a time when the doctrine of peace on earth and good will to men was being spread among the little ones of your em- ployes who were striking for what they believe to be a just cause, again come to you in heir behalf and ask that you join with me in an effort to adjust this deplorable con- troversy Acting with authority from the striking miners, have submitted to you terms of arbitration which should appeal to any one who is de- sirous of bringing to an end a con flict which has been going on for more than five months, during which time millions of dollars have been ex- pended and human lives have been sacrificed, to say nothing of the suf' fering of the participants and those who must necessarily feel the effects of an industrial conflic. at this time | "The thinking people of this coun' try believe that theer must be some l CONTINUED ON PACE FIVE.
The Sentinel=record., 1913-12-28
MARYLAND SHERIFF AND DEPU- TIES SUCCESSFULLY RESIST
 MOB OF CITIZENS.
WANTED TO HANG NEGRO
Several Attacks on Jail Are RepuIsed and Efforts to Kill Prisoner Through Windows Prove Entirely Futile.

Chestertown, Md, Dec. 27.-At mid.
 night mob which had gathered
 around the Kent county jail here de- termined to lynch Normal Mabel,
 negro, self-confessed slayer of John
 R. Coleman, a farmer, Tuesday night,
 forced two doors of the jail. Shots
 were exchanged between the defend
 CTS and the attacking crowd, bu. no
 one was hit on either side.
 The mob was met inside the jail by States Attorney Vickers, Sheriff 1 Brown and fifteen special deputies
 with drawn revolvers. The sheriff
 ordered his deputies to fire over the heads of the mob Two volleys
 brought the crowd to q halt From
 the crowd came scattered shots, but no bullets entered the corridor where
 the officers were gathered. The mob
 refused to disperse and crowded closer to the broken doors. Five men bolted into the corridor,
 the leader bearing sledge hammer. Former Sheriff Wm. H. Mckee, serv- ing as deputy, faced the wouid-De lynchers single handed, wrenched the ihammer from the leaders hand and forced him and his four companions from the corridor
 In silence the mob withdrew short distance. only to open fire upon win dows on the second floor where Ma bel and the other negroes under ar rest in connection with the murder are confined.
 Volley after volley from half hun- dred pistols and shotguns was direc.- ed at the second story and scarcely pane of glass in the windows was left. The negroes laid down close under the windows to escape the bull lets.
 Finding it's reckless fusillade of no avail, the mob desisted, but only to crowd close to the jail waiting for an opportunity to make another rush. Sheriff Brown and Me vickers in- structed the deputies as a last resort to fire into the mob.
 Al 10;30 o'clock the first determin- ed effort to force the jail was made. At that lime former Judge James AL fred Pearce temporarily quieted the attacking party
 Fearing violence as the result of Mabel's confession that he killed Coleman and robbed the body of $50, the authorities earlier in he day made preparations to remove to Balti- more for safekeeping Mabel and four other negroes under arrest for al- legged complicity in the murder. They were prevented from carrying out their plans, however, by mob of between 500 and 1000 men.
 Up to two hours after midnight there had been no renewal of, the attack and the mob had dwindled greatly From fully 1000 men, scarcely 300 remained ahout the jalI at this hour The jail defenders had barricaded the broken doors and were awaiting further developments.