The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1913-04-03

bill appropriating 100000 for the re
lief Of flood sufferers.
The lower house of the Minnesota
legislature is on record as favoring a
minimum wage. The bill passed by q
good majority. II is also likely of sue
cess In the senate.
Congress- will be asked by the Cali.
fornia legislature to offer financial aid
to DR.. Frederick Franz Friedman,
discoverer of an alleged tuberculosis
cure, II bill by Senator Cohn now be.
fore the Legislature 10 favorably acted
upon.
That 75 per cent Of the revolution.
AIRY element in Mexico is now pacified
and that the pacification Of Sonora is
only matter Of time, was the state.
ment Of the Mexican government TO
the United States government.
Plans for a comprehensive drainage
system for the country which would
prevent floods and make impossible
recurrence of the recent disaster in
the National Drainage congress in St.
Louis, April 10.
The Illinois Central railroad com.
pany was sued for 100000 by the
Southern Illinois Coal & Coke com.
pany at Chicago In the United States
court. LOSS of $597, 900 from failure
of the railroad to provide cars to ship
coal between August, 1909, and the
present, is charged.
The sister ship Of the Imperator. the
largest ship in the world. was launch.
ed at Hamburg and christened Europa.
The Europa will be $50 feet long and
100 feet beam. Both vessels are to
be employed In the transatlantic ser.
vice OF the Hamburg American line.
Adrianople. the western stronghold
OF Turkey. fell to the onslaught OF the
Balkan allies after one of the most
stubborn defenses In the history u
warfare. Adrianople was fired by the
Turks, but. after much trouble, the
victorious armies succeeded In pre-
venting n general conflagration.
The funeral FOR the ,ate Ning george
took place March 80. at Athens.
Sir Garnet Joseph, the Viscount
wolseley. field marshal. and one OF
Britain's greatest soldiers OF modern
times. died In France. aged nearly 80
years.
Colonel Roosevelt. speaking at a
progressive party. announced the In
tention OF that party to strive for the
selection OF women delegates to ;he
next constitutional convention.
The second trial OF Clarence Darrow
on charge OF bribing Robert Balm. n
Juror In the McNamara trial. was put
over to June 16.
Sylvia Pankhurst. youthful militant
suffragette, won her release from Hol-
loway prison by a hunger strike. Au-
thorities decided that further imprls-
onment would endanger her life.
Physicians are taking extreme eau
ton with Pope Plus X. His heart ~
very weak. and the recent illness
caused physicians to believe that fail
ure OF that organ will follow the
slightest unusual exertion.
The German kaiser has abandoned
the trip he usually takes to Corfu In
the Mediterranean. off the Greek
coast. In the month OF April. because
word has come. through the Grscian
government, that Turkish emissaries
have gone to Corfu. and have sworn
20 blow up the kaiser's residence while
he IL there.
The long Illinois senatorial election
deadlock In the legislature was broken
with the election OF James Hamilton
Lewis, democrat. and l.. Y. Sherman
republican. Sherman Is elected for
the short term. With the election OF
these two. the United States senate Is
now complete. The democratic
= 1rength is 81. against 43 republicans
and two progressives.
Circuit Judge Guthrie OF Kansas
City, who recently cited w. r. Nelson.
editor and owner Of the Kansas City
Star, for contempt, testifying before
C. C. Crow, commissioners for the state
supreme court, admitted that he had
written his decision finding Mr. Mel
son guilty In advance of the hearing
at which the editor appeared before
him.