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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-05
Members of Congress Are Re-
turning to Washington.
All in Readiness for Work of
Tariff Revision.
A PARTY CAUCUS TONIGHT
Will Name Mann
as House Leader.
No Predictions on General Leg.
islatfve Subjects.

washington, April 5.-Members of
congress returned to Washington to-
day in large numbers for the opening
OF the special session Of the new con
gress Monday noon. Republican
members sof the house had been ad-
vlsed to reach the city to participate
IN a party caucus tonight, at which It
Is expected Representative Mann of
illinois will again be named for party
leader in the house.
Activity at both the house and SEN
ate ends of the capitol centers now
about the preparation for tariff revi-
sion work. Senator John w. Kern,
Democratic leader of the senate, will
call the Democrats in caucus early
next week to consider proposed
changes in the rules to more thor
oughly distribute the control of com
mittees and legislation. The date of
the Democratic house caucus to pass
upon the tariff revision bills has not
been determined upon early today.
General legislative subjects that
may come before the special session
are being held back by the party lead
ers of the two houses and by President
Wilson in the hope that no other sub
Jects will draw attention from tariff
revision during the early days of the
session. Hundreds of minor appoint
ments are expected to reach the SEN
ate Monday, when that body convenes,
President Wilson has announced only
few recess appointments since the
senate adjourned in March, but it is
understood scores of routine appoint
ments have been determined upon and
will be sent to the senate early in the
week.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-05
RECOGNIZE Them.
Leader Underwood Says ProgressiNes
VIII Have Committee Places.

Washington, April 5.-The conference
took up reform of the rules of the
house and the tentative draft of amend
ments to be proposed was prepared.
After the conference the progressive
committee on committee Representa-
tives Murdock, Hinebaugh and Steph-
ems conferred with Majority Leader
Underwood They said later that they
were well satisfied with the result.
It was definitely understood that Mr..
Underwood had agreed that the pro-
gressives should be recognized as a
minority party in the allotment of COM
mittee assignments.
Representative Underwood later an
nounced that he had agreed that the
progressive party was entitled to pro-
portionate share of committee assign
ments independent of the Republican
minority. This would include he said
probably one place on the ways and
means committee and one place on the
rules committee.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-05
NO WINE ON MENU
Mrs. Wilson's Society Break
fast Was without FrilIs.
Buzzing Among Women That
Were Not Invited.

Washington, April 5.-Society wom-
en- of Washington to the number of
$50 today welcomed at a formal
breakfast the wives of President Will
son, Vice President Marshall and the
members of the Wilson cabinet. The
elimination of wine from the menu
was the result of a campaign which
caused feeling to run high. Members
of the tables at the affair were active
in the campaign. Although $50 wom-
en- were satisfied because they were
invited to the breakfast, at least that
many more not invited were today in
a rather disturbed frame of mind.
AS originally planned the breakfast
was to have been exclusively for
Democrat women. The plan was
changed, however, ana as result
scores of women whose husbands are
in the councils of the presidents par
ty were left off the list as the accom-
modations were limited. Another in
novation was the total absence of
speeches. Not even an address of well
come to Mrs. Wilson graced the pro-
gram. Instead, an illustrated lecture
on White House furniture by Mrs.
Abbie Gum Baker followed the
breakfast
Because of a previous engagement,
Mrs. Champ Clark, wife of the speak
er of the house, did not attend although
she was invited to the breakfast. Her
nonappearance caused considerable
comment. Mrs. Wilson, Mrs. Marshall
Mrs. Bryan and the other ladies of the
cabinet were present
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-05
LOSS TO RAILROADS.
1t Was Immense From Ohio and In
diana Floods.

New York, April 5.-The entire railway
system of Ohio and Indiana was practic-
ally put out of business for five days by
the floods in the middle west To repair
and replace the railway affected by this
disaster will practically wipe out the sur
plus earnings of many railroads. In 9TH
er cases dividends will be threatened. The
reason is, of course, that all such damage
must be retrieved out of current earnings
and cannot be charged to capital This
position of some of the eastern railways
was sent forth today by Elisha Lee,
chairman of the conference committee of
managers in summing up before the ar
bitration board that is settling under the
Erdman act the demands of "a 600 firemen
for better wages and extra help on large
locomotives.
Railway men should be and are well
paid, Mr.. Lee held, but should not
Through organization through threats of
interference with the proper transporta-
ton of the people products, through legis-
lation through other various means ex-
act a scale of wages dfsproportionate to
that in other lines of employment for
similar energy. What ever increases the
board granted, he concluded, must be paid
by the public.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-05
RAN INTO A DEPOT
Two Killed and Nine Injured i'm
Bad B. & o. Wreck.
Train Through Open Switch
and Into Station.

North Baltimore. April 5.-Two men
were killed, four scalded, two of them
severely and five others injured when
eastbound passenger train No. on the
Baltimore & Ohio ran through an open
switch and the engine, torn loose from
the balance of the train, crashed
through the depot at Hoytville, four
miles west of here at 11:3o last night.
The dead are:
FIREMAN JACKSON, Garrett, Ind.
GRANT MASON, Hoytville.
The scalded are Engineer Bert Koft
of Garrett, Ind, and Claude Hage, c.
G. Miller and N. M. Miller of Hoyt-
vile.
Five passengers whose names were
not learned, were injured but not ia
tally and were taken to the cornpanys
hospital at Garrett, Ind.
Grant Mason, of Hoytville, who was
in the station, was fatally injured and
a score of passengers were seriously
injured. Five others may die.
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tanning deep cuts in rates on all ne
cessities and a free wool provision can
pass both houses. He has notified the
sugar men through Representative
Broussard, of Louisiana, that he Win
consent only to duty of l cent a
pound on sugar, provided the duty is
repealed altogether in three years. He
has refused absolutely to consent to a
separate sugar bill, believing that the
only way to pass the present tariff is
to pass it as a whole.
The five sugar senators. Williams of
Mississippi, Thornton and TansdeH of
Louisiana, and Shafroth and Thomas
of Colorado, are still making a stub
born fight for the old rate, but the
president thinks he has them beaten
Col Robert E. Wing and Solomon
Wexler, of New Orleans, who are in
Washington representing ~the sugar
growers, proposed the adoption of the
Canadian sugar plan which allows pro-
ducers to import free of duty as mucn
sugar as they produce. This they said
would enable the growers to continue
in business. If their arguments which
were presented to the president by
WexIer had any effect upon him, it
sisting on the lowest possible rate when
last heard from.
The president made up his mind to-
day to insist upon free wool unless the
finance committee who will handle the
tariff bill in the upper house, can
show him that a free wool provision
will defeat the whole bill in the SEN
ate. When this was made known to
the senators there was a scurry to get
the wool men into action. But Pom
rene of Ohio, Newlands and Pittman Oh
and Meyers of Montana were
all out of reach so It was decided to
make no effort to convince Mr.. Wilson
they fn0afhRr
One of the senate leaders, in speak
ing of the coming struggle said:
I'VE want to wash the dirty Demo-
cratic linen in the basement of the
capitol and not on the floor of the
senate. We want a bill we can pass
without any rows and chickering's and
we have told the president so. If we
can't give him free wool without
row, we'd better kill it in the ways
and means committee and have it done
with. And we insist for that reason
on being taken into the confidence both
of the president and of the ways and
means committee so that we may know
what is going on"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-05
DIES BY OWN HAND
La Combe, Anarchist Bandit,
Commits Suicide.
Considered Most Desperate
Criminal i'm Europe.

Paris, April 5.-The anarchist bandit,
LaCombe, called by the French police
"the most desperate criminal in Eu-
Prison De La Sante, where he was
awaiting trial for the murder of M.
Ducret, editor of the newspaper L'Idee
Libre
La Combe was arrested in Paris
March II after the police had sought
him several months. When taken into
custody he was carrying in his pock-
cts, a small dynamite bomb, two
cartridges, two automatic pistols and a
supply of ammunition. A mob tried to
lynch him while he was on his way
to the police station.
During his Incarceration La Comoe
confessed to the murder of Ducret ana
admitted also killing postmaster at
Bezons and a railroad cashier at Les
Aubrai, near Orleans.
LaCombe, in some unexplained man
ner escaped from his prison cell after
breakfast this morning. When the war
dens disco cred his absence there was
a tremendous commotion. The interior
of the prison was searched and the
alarm was given outside. The whole
neighborhood of the jail was patrolled
for several hours by soldiers. Some
time afterward LaCombe was found on
the roof of the prison lying behind a
chimney. When he saw his pursuers
he stepped to the edge, where he was
surrounded on three sides by armed
wardens.
AS he was about to be seized, he
turned, saluted the warden, smiled
ironically and then jumped head first
like a diver into the stone court yard
several stories below, where he was
da shed to death
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Suffragettes in England Arrest
ed Red Handed.
Were Setting Fire to Race
Course GrandStands.
CUTTING TELEGRAPH WIRES
Militants Also Include Window
Breaking i'm Outrages.
Intense Alarm Caused Among
Old Provinces.

London, April 1.-Two suffragette
fire fiends'' We're captured this
morning red handed while setting fire
to the new grandstand ON the Kelso
race course in Scotland Rags saturated
with petroleum had been placed be-
meath the stand and ignited when
watchmen spran1 out of hiding place
and captured the two women
The grandstand on the Ayr race
course. also in Scotland was gutted by
fire this morning causing a loss of $15,-
600.
Several suffragette placards and a
bundle of suffragette literature were
found in the vicinity, leaving no doubt
in the minds of the authorities as to
who was responsible for the fire.
A large number of window breaking
and telegraph wire cutting outrag ges
were committed during the night by
militants in various parts of the country
The campaign threatened by the wild
women" has caused intense alarm in
the provinces especially at historic
places like Chatsworth and Blenheirn,
where special patrols of police and
game keepers have been placed on duty
day and night.
Suffragettes Make Terrible Threat.
London, April 5.-The suffragette
campaign of violence which began to-
day with several comparative pin
pricks, promises developments that
will stagger humanity.
The militants declare that they will
not be content with burning empty
houses, dynamiting railroad stations,
but the campaign is to be "unprece-
dented in history" and they will
strike at the very heart of the ma
ton" kidnapping important persons
is one startling threat.
$50 long as Mrs. Pankhurst is in
prison." said one of the heads of the
movement tonight, 1--WE shall make re-
prisals and will see that some one suf-
ferS as she is suffering
The authorities are fully aware of
this peril and have redoubled their
precautions. Scotland yards best
watch dogs are shadowing with in.
creased vigilance the members Of the
royal household, the cabinet ministers
and judges. Priceless national treas
uries also require close guarding
against their irreparab1e loss. Wom
en- visitors to the British museum and
the national gallery, as well as to the
Tower of London will be subjected to
the strictest scrutiny and shadowing.
The suffragette leaders are evidently
determined upon big things AS one
said tonight:
''It must be something that will hit
hard and bring the country to it's
senses
It is significant that men are sus-
pected of the latest outrages.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-05
DUEL WITH KNIVES.
Angered Chefs at Vassar Send Girls
From Halls i'm Flight.

Poughkeepsie, N. Y, April 5.-Sev-
eral hundred young women students
of Vassar college fled from the main
dining hall in terror Friday when two
chefs fought a duel with carving
knives in the kitchen. The duel was
the result of an argument as to which
should pick chicken. A pair of thin
swinging doors separated the young
women from the kitchen where the
chefs were 1unging at each other and
wrecking tables and kitchen utensils
as they fought their way about the
room.
Frank McVeagh, 22, and Augustus
Brenner, 26, were the principals.
When the police arrived it was nee
essary to send McVeagh to the hospital
and his opponent was held in $1,000
bonds for assault,
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WORST is over
Ohio River Receding and Rain
Stopped.
But Mississippi Still at Dan
gerously High Mark.

Cairo, April 5.-For the first time
since the Ohio river started to rise two
weeks ago a decided recession of the
water was visible today. The gauge
stood well below the SAT mark which
had been passed early last night. The
fall here was believed to have been
caused by a break in the levee at
Point Pleasant. 1t was thought the
St. Francis bottoms were being flood
ed. If this were the case, all danger
to Cairo would be at an end.
A relief expedition was sent today to
Mounds City, Ill. Conditions there are
said to be strenuous
The sun was bright and warm here
today.
Mississippi Up to AZ Foot Mark.
Memphis April 5.-Forty-two feet
and four-tenths was registered on the
Mississippi gauge here at o'clock
today a rise of is feet in the last "a
hours.
Point Pleasant Levees Still Hold.
Memphis, Tenn. April 5.-Rumors
that the levees at Point Pleasant gave
way last night flooding the st. Fran
cisco basin were denied by United
stated that officers were in telephone
communication with Point Pleasant
after midnight and that the Ievees
were intact.
Strengthening the Levees.
Vicksburg, Miss, April 5.-Prepar-
ations will be made at Beulah, the
scene of the disastrous crevasse in the
levee last spring, to withstand a stage
or water two feet higher than that of
last year. One and a quarter mil
non OF gunny sacks which are to be
filled with sand and used here and
at other places for topping the earth
work, are in readiness, as we'll as half
a million feet of lumber. Three hun
dred cars of earth were used at Beu-
IAN yesterday Day and night patrols
nave been established and emergency
crews Will be ready for instant calls
Gays before the big water reaches this
portion of the Mississippi river
Still $4,000 Homeless in Columbus.
Columbus, Ohio, April 5.-AIthoush II
days have elapsed since the flood
swept the west side of Columbus. 25.-
uoo persons were still being cared for
at relief stations. The number of
oodles recovered totalled Sc today and
there had been no accounting for MANY
persons who are still listed as missing.
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new COURT PROBLEM.
To Test Right of Woman to VIII
Property Away From Husband.

Whether or not woman can will
property she owned before her mar
riage away from her husband at her
death is contained in a suit pending
in the first division of the district
court The suit is brought to break
the will of Cynthia G. Chilson, who
died last fall. and who left property
to other heirs than her husband.
In evidence has been intro
duced a consent from Mr.. Chill
son that his wife might Will
property away from him. However,
the consent later was revoked, and his
attorneys urge that he had a right
to revoke his consent, and therefore
has a right to half of his wife's prop
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A $4,000 FIRE
Petroleum Products Co. Plant
at Independence.
Danger of Explosion From
Gasoline Tanks.

Independence, Kan, April 5.-Fire
broke out in the plant of the Petroleum
Products company here this afternoon.
At 8 o'clock $4,000 damage had re-
suited and the fire was not yet under
control Danger of explosions of gaso-
line storage tanks caused fear that the
loss would be extended greatly. The
plant pump house was destroyed COM
pletely. The fire started when burn
ing grass near the plant got beyond
control.
In answering the call to the plant
a hose wagon ran over Mrs. c. ].
Minor, 68 years old, causing injuries
that probably will be fatal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-05
HE is IN The RACE
And That Isn't AIl-Beveridge
Says He'll Be President.
cold Party VIII Give Way to
Progressives."

Battle Creek, Mich, April 5.-Former
Senator Albert ]. Beveridge of Indiana,
speaking here this afternoon, predicted
that he would be the next president OF
the United States.
He got at 1t naively in two separate
remarks:
II will be back here in three years
campaigning for the presidency, he
said, and then added, "and believe me
we will win next time.
1.-The average life of a political party
is 80 years, the old parties will give
way to the new Progressive party" he
said.
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TO SUPPORT WILSON.
Senator IaFolIette Asks All Parties to
Get Together.

Madison, Wis, April 5.-Senator La
Toilette in a signed editorial in his
magazine, advises progressives of all
brands-Republican Democratic, or
Bull Moose to get together and sup
port President Wilson in the carrying
out of all progressive measures, and
let the politics of the 1916 presidential
campaign wait until later. He declares
that this is a time for a minority to
show real craftsmanship by supporting
the measures which the people demand
and which all Progressives are pledgeu
to carry out, and not hamper the ad
u1inistration in order to secure parti-
san advantage.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-05
WINDY, CLOUDY SUNDAY
Stiff Breeze and Sunshine Was on
Today's Program.

1t is warm and windy today. The
temperature at 2 o'clock this after
noon was % degrees higher than that
of Friday at the same hour. The
mercury was down at the 39-degree
mark at o'clock this morning, but
began to rise rapidly.
The forecast calls for fair weather
tonight with increasing cloudiness
Sunday. Sunday will be another windy
day, according to present Indications
Today the wind has been blowing at
the rate of 20 miles an hour from
the southwest
sI.hr fanrrlv readiness.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-05
SHOT ON PARK ROW
Tammany Leader in New York
Killed by Gangsters.
Had Moved to Brooklyn to Es-
cape Feud Threats.

New York, April 5.-Eugene Smith,
a Tammany political leader, was shot
and killed on Park Row early today
by four gangsters. He was on his way
from a ball of one of the East side
Democrat organizations at Tammany
Hall The gangsters, who were seen
by only one witness, escaped.
brother of the slain man said
Smith had been mistaken for some one
else, but the police were told Smith
had recently become involved in a
gang feud. and had moved to Brook
lyn because of threats against his life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-05
A CAUSTIC CRITICISM
Is That of Judge on Insurance Com
panies in Arson Trial.

Chicago, April 5.-A report bristIing
with criticism of methods employed by
fire insurance companies in the issuance
of policies was made to Judge Burk today
by the grand jury which has been investi-
eating the so-called arson trust.
Fifty-nine indictments, based on 81 al
legged incendiary fires, and involving Sc al
legged members of the trust were returned.
The report declares so per cent of fires
in Chicago are of incendiary origin. This
condition of affairs, the report asserts, is
due to laxity on the part of the fire insur-
ance company.
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GAS CASE HEARING.
Arguments Continue All Day-Smith
and Dawson of Topeka Talk.

Kansas City. April 5.-Hearing of argu-
ments to determine whether federal re-
ceivers appointed by Judge Pollock or
district court receivers appointed by
over the Natural Gas company was re-
sumed before Federal Judge Marshall in
Kansas City. Kan, today.
Charles Blood Smith, attorney for com
pIainants who sought the original receiv-
ershdp, opened today's arguments. 1t was
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and the case taken under advisement by
Judge Marshall today.
Attorney Smith argued that physical
possession of the gas companys property
gave the federal receivers prestige.
Former Federal Judge Philips, who fol-
lowed Attorney Smith, argued for the fed
eral receivers He attacked the conStitu-
tonality of the Kansas law which per
nlits state receiverships for foreign cor
porations.
Attorneys for the state court replied to
this argument with citations from au-
thorities upholding their stand
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STOP LIQUOR TRAFFIC.
Representative of Anti-SaIoon League
i'm Topeka Today.

The Anti-Saloon League of America
which has it's headquarters at Wester-
Vile, Ohio, has started a five year
campaign looking forward to the rati-
fication by the states of a constitu-
tional amendment that will do away
with the liquor traffic. According to
NJ T. Swearingen, a field agent for the
league who is in Topeka today this
movement is an outgrowth of the
Webb bill.
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Sunday Closing Trouble at X. C

Kansas City, April 5.-Signs of trou-
BILE ahead for the union BARRIERS who
have started a campaign to close all
barber shops in Kansas City ON Sun
day developed today when 35 "boss
BARRIERS organized and announced they
would open their shops tomorrow and
stand together in a fight against the
enforcement of '-antiquated blue laws"
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Trx to Maintain Aircraft supremacy.

Paris, April 5.-The vast aerial
preparations being made by Germany
have caused widespread uneasiness in
France and today the French cabinet
decided upon a bill designed to main
tain the country's boasted prominence
in aviation. Even the outlines of the
new measure have been kept secret 1t
will be presented to parliament when
that body reassembles May z.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-05
THREATENED TO Leave
International Harvester to Europe
Cause of Labor Troubles.

Auburn, n. Y, April 5.-Unless
the strike rioting here ceases at once
and a settlement between the strik
ers and their employers is reached, the
International Harvester will remove
their entire plant-one of the largest
of the kind in the world-to Europe,
where they say labor conditions are
more stable.
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