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The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-04-04
YOUNG EDISON MAKES BOMB.
Invention ExplOdes i'm Fathers
Laboratory. But He Will Try
Again.

Laboratory, But He Will Try
Again.
West Orange, N. j., April a.
Theodore Edison's bully inven-
tion," glass bomb designed to sink
the ships of they enemy" smash
ed itself to pieces yesterday while
the 14-year-old son of Thomas A.
Edison was experimenting in his
fathers laboratory Bits of glass
were imbedded in young Edison's s
right hand. The boys idea was a
floating bomb constructed to be ex-
ploded upon coming into contact
with another object.
Some of your first inventions
blew up, didn't they, Dad?" young
Edison asked after the accident
"They did," replied his father.
but 1 went back at them"
To which Theodore replied: 80
will l."
Mrs. Edison let it be known, how
ever, that hereafter Thomas A..
edison must be present when their
son experiments.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-04-04
Child's Bank Touches Heart
Burglar.

California, Pa, April "a
child's bank with "In God We
Trust" printed across the top and
containing $50 in dimes, was left
untouched by burglar who ran
sacked the home of Harry l.. Kramer
last night.
After searching and finding little,
the maruader unearthed the bank,
then apparently decided that he
would leave the house empty
handed rather than take the child's
savings.
So under the inscription, "In God
We Trust" he scribbled, 80 did I
once" and departed.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-04-04
Russian Takes Life in Mid-Air.

London, April e. Lieutenant
Perioysky of the Russian army,
committed suicide at Warsaw on
Sunday by deliberately shutting off
the motor of an aeroplane in which
he was flying and dropping from a
height OF 500 feet to the ground, ac-
cording to dispatch received yes
terday.
The tragedy was believed to nave
been an accident until today, when
letter written just before the fatal
, flight was opened. IL il Lieutenant
Perlovsky expressed mis- intention Of
gave as a reason that he had been
the victim of intrigues.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-04-04
Mrs. Wilson Becomes Interested

washington, April 3.-Mrs.
woodrow Wilson's interest in the
government departments, especiauv
the girl workers, was evinced when
she visited the bureau of engraving
ana printing which employs a
large number of young women. Mrs
wilson accompanied by Mrs. Archi-
Dald Hopkins, president of the wo-
mans Welfare Department National
CIVIC Federation, inspected all the
various departments of the bureau
ana was much interested in the
making of paper money and postage
stamps
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-04-04
Whaley and Hughes to Make Second
Race

Charleston, April 3.-As a result
OF primary held Tuesday to nomi-
nate a successor to the late Renre-
sentative George S. Legare, of the
hrst congressional district, Richard
.. Whaley and Edward w. Hughes.
both lawyers of Charleston, will
make the second race on April IL
Other candidates were George r
Won Kolnitz of Charleston. and
James G. Padgett and Solicitor John
H. Peurifoy of Walterboro.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-04-04

congressman Finley Recuperating
The many friends of Congress
man ID. f. Finley will be glad 10
learn that he is improving from a
recent severe illness.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-14
IN
DECEMBER
Not in the South, But up North
in st. Paul Where They
Should be Digging
Snow.

United Press Leased Wire Service.i
ST. PAUL, Dec. 13.-"Times sure
has changed" remarked the oldest in
habitant tonight as he pushed two
bits across the counter for a ticket
for a baseball game to be staged to-
morrow-December 14-at Lexington
park for the benefit of the poor.
Why, I kin remember when we was
a shovelin' snow fifteen foot deep the
day after Thanksgiving. And now
they tell me they're figering on win
ter league with Medicine Hat and
Nome on the circuit and Doc Cook
namin' the umpires."
Unless the weather man unloosens
some startling shoots before tomor.
row Umpire Bill Brennan of National
/ league fame, attired in the breezies'
of midsummer fannels, will shout
play ball" at the American Asso
cation park tomorrow when two pick
ed mines get into action. Bullet joe
Bush of Athletics worlds seriees
fame, will help Brennan work the in
dicator. The seat sale has over
reached the widest hopes of the pro
moters
The temperature was above sixty
today and a mems furnishing store
passed out straw hats of last sum
lmer's vintage to youths who dared tt
wear them. At Brainerd, the home o
Toe Bush, and Chief Bender, the cit,
baseball park was re-opened with ;
game between the boilermakers an,
machinists of the Northern Pacifi'
shops,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-14

AND OTHERS
What Old Man Connor Told
the New Young Mayor of
New York When
They Met.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1S.-The old
and the new in politics met in the
executive Offices at the white house
tonight. VIM. j. Connor, veteran
Buffalo editor. formerly chairman of
the democratic state committee OF
New York and for many years speak.
ing type of the boss greeted .aohn
Puroy Mitchell, mayor-slect OF New
York for the first time
Il am glad to know ye." said Con
nors, whose brogue is still picturesque
despite his years in America. "Ye look
loike a strong mon; yis bye wit the
wallop And yell need it. And We
have a hard job ahead. It's mons
contract. But feel in me bcnes
yell make good.
Now, minde ye, boy, take tip
from a mon that's been through It
hull game There were jist as man.
dimmycrats as republicans that votet
for We. Ye must use them all alike
But don't forgit any time during th'
mkt four years that ye are dimmy
crat. The republicans won't change
Give them what they deserve. Blu
they will finish with you as republi
cans and you will have to finish as
dimmycrat or lave the party of you
father"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-14
HOBOFS OF SEATTLE WILL
BASK IN $1,OOO,000 PALACE

committee of which Albert NJ.
Pillar, a prominent merchant is chair
man, S nj telegI ans to Congressman
Humphrey of Seattle and Congress-
man buchanan, of Chicago, the latter
a member of the "hoboes union urg-
ing that the 5000 blankets from the
national guard of Washington be
turned over, to the usa Of the needy
men who are compelled to sleep on
bare floors at present.
The city of Seattle and King county
have Jointly appropriated $4,000 to
provide temporary work on street i'm
proyements for the army OF unem-
ployed, giving each man four hal4
DAYS work week. A big mass meet
ing will be held tomorrow when this
subject will be discussed by Mayor
Cottrell and other prominent c.ti-
zens. On January /, a monster ba i
will be given for the benefit of the
men.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-14
FIGURES THAT S7,000000
WILL PAY FOR FLOOD LOSS

less is placed at s7ooo,ooo. Numbers
Of small towns were overhowed hut
the greatest loss OF life was among
planters and negro farmers In tha
river bottoms Two to five thousand
people were made homeless and for
the relief OF these, the citiz zsns Of
Dallas, Houston, Ft, Worth, Galveston
and other cities have raised funds
thar amount to approximately s1oo.
600 TIE state and federal govern
m ments have furnished hundreds OF
tents TO the homeless ana the distri
button of Supplies is under the direc
tion of state troops.
Railway traffic which mas been bad
ly demoralized for two weeks, has
bean resumed and trains are now run
ming regularly between Dallas and
Houston. The transportation linss es
innate their damage at s1,000,o0o
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-14
College for Women.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. Dec. 49, Es-
tablishment of s1000,0o0 college
for the education of women only, will
be urged upon the 1915 Illinois legisla-
ture it was learned today as the re-
suit of agitation against co-education
at the University of Illinois. Women
opposed to co-education will ask that
Illinois take the initiative In endow-
ing a state college, modelled after Vas
sar, Smith. Bryn Mawr and other
eastern schools.
The agitation for a STATE women's
college is based upon opposition tc
mixed classes at the state universit!
and the charge that social functions
at the state university have caused EN-
harrassment to girls of poor families
| unable to keep in the swim"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-14
THE WOMEN
ARE AROUSED
Politicians Who Ousted Mrs.
Young From School Board
Stirred up Hornets
Nest.

UNITED press Leased Wire Service ]
CHICAGO, Dec 13.-Political lead
ers in Chicago tonight grasped new
meaning from the mass meeting this
afternoon in which 1000 indignant
women voiced their protest at the
ousting of Ella Flagg Young as sup
erintendent of Chicago schools. They
professed to see in the ultimate ac'
ton of women of all walks of life, a
for srunner of an independent move.
ment for concerted action by Chi ago
women when they go to the polls for
the first time next spring.
Renewal of the talk that women
candidates for the board of aide men
will be nominated in every ward for
the aldarmanic election next spr NJ
and that a woman mayoralty c ndi
date in the fall election next year, is
not improbable.
The forced res gnation of Mrs
Young by politi al powers on this
board of education, gave the womer
concrete issue around which t.
rally Seven thousand of them Eep
rasenting all political faiths, but large
! ly non-partisan, jammed the auditor
ium and several hundred mere W r.
turned away because of tiremen's re
fusal to permit the aisle to BE- jam
med.
Miss Jane Addams, who issued tn
call for the m seting and leading sui
! fr4gists tonight expressed p easure a
/ the mannsr in which women respond
ed to the call. Thsy pointed out iha
the retention or dismissal Of Mrs
Young from the perinienlency wa
a small matter compared to tn
4 larger results they had obtlined.
when women leave their home
and their children to protest in sue
mighty chorus, that chorus W
re :ch the city hall" declare Mis-
Harriet Vittum, president of tn
Womans City Club, tonight.
The most encouraging result c
this Zig meeting was the ev.denc
that women viii acs together whe
Petty politics threaten matters clos
to them"
John d. Shoop, elected as superiE
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-14
ESCAPED FUMES
IN THE MINE
Mexican Bandit Reported Seen
by Shift Boss Who Had
Talk With Him N
the Tunnel.

limited Press Leased Wire Service. j
SALT LAKE, Utah, Dec. 13.-That
public sentiment In Bingham seemed
to be swinging towards Rafael Lopez,
NJ sxican slayer of six men, was the
word brought here tonight. Des-
patches from there declared many
miners openly expressed the hope
the Mexican would escape the posses
which have surrounded him in the
Apex mine for two weeks. Though
many discredit the story, there IS a
general disposition to accept as tue
the statement of Sam Rogers, shift
boss of the Apex mine and an old
friend of the Mexican, that he saw
ard talked to Lopez in the mine yes
terday. Rogers spent most of today
in the nina trying to locate the ban
dit asain but at last reports ten'gh'
had failed. He declares the Mexl6an
slid he realized he would never get
out of the mine alive but that he
would wait and fight
81 will die fighting Rogers say
he declared, "and my one wish is te
I kill Mike Stefano and julio Corello
who betrayed my friendship" Sher
/ ifs Schweitzer and East and Dr.
ltStraup. mayor elect of Bingham, ac
companied Rogers during his search
this afternoon. Deputies j. d. Cott
J rell, S. S. Jones and Frank Jones en-
tered, the Andy tunnel at five p. m
/ to search also. The greatest precau
tions were taken to protect them from
(. Lopez, should he try to fire on then
from the rear Several guards wer
sent along. The deputies are -rtaii
Lopez is in Andy tunnel.
I There is. big fight between tn,
county officials and the officials 0
the Apex mine regarding the bulk
heading of the tunnals to proven
j. opez escaping. Mine officials con
tend they are losing $4,000 a day O
account of the refusal OF Sheriff
Smith to allow minrs to work Smit'
is determined to continue the ere to-
of bulkheads as he feels his reele,
! ticn depends upon the outcome OF th
/ Lopez case. The mine off ials hey
not yet succeeded in stopping TIL
/ brlkheading which is proceeding t,
night.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-14
Total Less Of Life viii Pass
the Two Hundred Mark
for Two Weeks.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
DALLAS, Texas, Dec. 13-For tbs
first time in two weeks, the end or
the Texas floods is in sight The
banks of three streams the Trinity,
Brazos and Colorado rivers-@re now
being poured into the gulf of Mexico.
These three rivers drain territory
large than all the New England states.
The total loss of life win pass the
/ two hundred mark anG the property
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-14
Irony in His Speech at Penn
sylvania Society of New
York Banquet Last
Night.
DRAWING THE LINE
Senator Sutherland Takes a
Fling at Those Who Fa-
vor Recall of the
Judiciary.

lUn1ted Press Leased Wire Service
NEW YORK, Dec 13-Formet
President Taft, George Sutherland.
United States senator from Utah;
Robert c. Smith, and Henry p. Davi-
son were the speakers at the fif-
teenth annual dinner of the Pennsyl-
vania Society of New York, held to-
night 1T the Waldorf-Astoria. Pro-
fesso- Taft's topic was THE United
States" THE Law and the People"
was the subject of Senator Suther-
lands address.
The dinner was the most elaborate
affair of It's kind held In New York
this season and It brought together
scores Of prominent Pennsylvanians
and New Workers. Governor Martin
Glynn, of New York, and Governor
Tener. of Pennsylvania, were invited
as guests of honor.
Another speaker this evening was
United States Senator George Suther-
land, of Utah. Taking for his theme,
The Law and the People" Senator
Sutherland severely denounced the
recall of the judiciary as a wild
dream" and dubbed those who advo
cate the recall "amiable reformers,
urging that the integrity ..nd inde
Ipendence of courts be preserved. Sen
ator Sutherland said, In part: There
lis room, no doubt, for Improvement
in many places upon the bench. az
4 there Is room for improvement ever
among the sovereign people them
/ selves, who are as whole, always
honest and sincere, but as represent
ed by the voice Of the majority, fre
quently unwise and some times un
Just.
Perhaps, | may as we'll at onc'
plead guilty to being somewhat con
servative-a grave offense in thes'
strenuous days. The democracie
which preceded the American reYolu
tion failed because the people under
took the impossible task of conduct
ling the government by their own d!
rect action or because they gave t
their officials the outward semblanc
: of authority and withheld It's sui
stance by hanging over their head
the perpetual menace of the recall.
: THE last decade of our history ha
9 witnessed the rise of new school G
. politicians whose philosophy seems t
be based upon the somewhat dubiou
doctrine that the difficulty OF solvin
governmental problems decreases !
the inverse order with which thei
:, number and complexity increase.
Having evolved complete an
n efficient governmental system unde
\ which we have proceeded, at least
r safety, for a century and quarter,
. is now proposed in response to a
j. artificially induced. historical sent
S ment, to put in the place of tn
organic process of government, til
5. disorgan!zed opinions of the multitut
e under the alluring title direct COVER
n ment bv the people, and to substitut
. for the orderly, trained and respon
D ible judgments Of the courts, the u
g. responsible, and to large extent, u
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-14
Mavbe Only a ccoy.

limited Press Leased Wire Seryice.I
LONDON, Dec 13.-Some French
experts doubt the genuineness of the
Mona Lisa" recovered in Florence ac-
cording to dispatch to Lloyd's Week
ly News tonight from his raris cor
respondent. 1t is alleged in Paris,
says the dispatch that the painting
that Vincenza Ferugia said he stole
from the Louvre bears certain marks
suggesting that it is only a copy OF
Leonardo Da yinci's famous master
piece.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-14
Sleep on Army Blankets and
Only Work Four Half
Days Per Week.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
SEATTLE, Washn., Dec. 13.-The
providence hospital, located in the
heart of the downtown district and
valued at about s1,0o00o0, has been
secured through the efforts OF jeff
Eayis, king of hohoes and social wei
lare workers of the city, for homeless
unemployed man in the city. Davis
estimates the number of un mployed
here at 25.00o and declares many
We're lured 20 the coast by Tabor
sharks" of Chicago, Cincinnati and
Kansas City
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-14
|rampico Holds Out During
Desperate Charge and Puts
Invaders to
Rout.
FLETCHER IS ON GUARD
american Guns Trained on
Mexican Seaport, Ready
to be Touched Off
If Needed.
-By a United Press Staff Correspond.


ent.l
MEXICO CITY, Dec. 13.-Ali dan
ger of the seizure of Tampico by the
rebels had passed tonight, according
to dispatches received and given out
here by the Huerta government which
told of 1000 rebels being killed in
desperate attack on the town at sun
down today. Constitutionalists were
nut to utter rout it was said and the
federals scored a definite victory.
The seaport was still menaced by
distant attacks from the rebel cannon,
the government reports said, but the
attacking forces had been driven COM
pletely from Tampico proper and it
was confidentially asserted that the
federal defenders were in position to
hold the town.
Dispatches to the Huerta govern
ment from Rambago at Tampico to-
night said that the federal cavalry
had driven the rebels fifteen miles
| from town.
Darkness prevents me pursuing the
/ rebels any further" wired the gener-
! all He added that the Red Cross
nurses of the federals were collect
ing wounded in the darkness, while
the townspeople wildly celebrated
the temporary relief
The rebels made their retreat amid
a veritable tornado of steel bullets
and four inch shells from guns of the
Mexican gunboats according to Gen
eral Rabago's dispatches to the war
office. Fully 1000 men were lost by
the rebels, he said, 100 or more fall
ing in the darkness in addition to the
500 who fell in the desperate attack al
sundown
The rout of the rebels was ATTENDED
by the most dramatic events as Gener
al Rabago told the story The con
stitutionalist leaders secretly planned
to take Tampico just before night-fal
assuming that the federal defenders
having got safely through the day
would by that time be lulled into TEN
4 porary security.
4 A-atC III Tue dllSi lOcn NOiu VI Wds
brought in by a breathless couriel
4 that the rebels were crossing thu
small stream three miles to the cas-
OF the town. the drawbridge of whicl
had been blown up General Rabagt
Immediately gave orders for the gun
boat Bravo which had been in the riv
er throughout the rebel siege, and th
gunboat Zaragosa which had arrive'
today from Tuxpam with reinforce
ments to drop down stream and opel
hre on the rebels. The foreigners o.
the freighter Iogician and the steam
snip kronprinzess cheered the Mex
can sunboats as they started on thei
mission, said General Rabago an
half an hour later the sound of ter
ritic firing was heard down the rivel
fhe gunboats were equipped with MI
chine guns and four inch canno
i capable of shooting three miles, an
II was said they did fearful executio
among the rebels. In the meantime
General Rabago said, he had ordere
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-14
Law Too Strict.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.1
WASHINGTON, Dec 1S.-Declara-
tions that many great lakes and bay
and river steamship lines will be put
out of business" If the stringent life
boat equipment provisions OF the La
Toilette "seamans labor" bill are
made laws, were made today by VIM.
j. Corners of New York and Others at
house committee hearing.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-14
TAFT HAS BITTER TONGUE
FOR PROGRESSIVE LEADERS

instructed Impressions of the numer-
ical majority"
With thrusts of biting irony and
bitter attack on progressive principles
and leaders. former President Will
liam II. Taft addressed the members
of the society, declaring he did not
ary" and agreed that the present agi-
tation is likely to result ultimately In
real progress but of less ambitious
and more practical character than
the present leaders of the movement
would deem worthy of their attention.
Taft responded to the toast "The
United States, and said: Il regard
this as very delicate and kindly
compliment, reminiscent in its nature
and recalling former greatness. The
keeping and I am not at all sure that
1t Is not better for the United States
as | am sure 1t is better for me. The
situation, therefore is-as 1t was when
inquiry was made at the funeral. what
the complaint was and the reply was
that there was no complaint because
everybody was satisfied"
He launched upon an ironical opin-
ion Of Professor Beard of Columbia
University. declaring 1t was reserved
for what John Muir calls these God
forgetting progressive days, muck rak-
ing investigating into motives Of those
whom we have been want to revere
as founders of this government"
Taft declared that the investigator
advised with the evident conviction
end desire to establish the sinister
reactionary nature of the constitution,
that the members of the convention
were owners of government bonds aad
owned real estate and farms and even
were rich enough to hold farm mort
cages and the quod erat demdnstran-
dunn Is that the constitution is one
sided and unjust instrument, because
of the bankrupts and the debtors and
by natural inference. the ignorant and
4 unsuccessful did not have representa-
4
!. the whole plan organized by these
plotters against society was based on
!, The wicked principle that men would
be made to pay their debts.
THE truth is" Taft continued, we
have arrived at the time In our social
development and our freedom OF
thought when we know everything
and know 1t hard We are going to
make the rich poor, and the poor
moderately rich. We are going to
rearrange human nature in such a
. way that men will strain their minds
and muscles to the point of perspira-
, tion to help other people and that this
, Is not going to be confined to the few,
!. but is to include everybody.
!. "The line drawn between the good
. and the bad will be found to be the
: same that marks the distinction be-
} tween the progressives who are the
. only good and the rest of the world
: who are the only bad; and one Of the
S sad features of this momentary situa-
ton is that while the generals of this
= progressive army are still with their
Z flashing swords and brillient uniforms
0 holding conspicuous councils and
q shrinking from public gaze, the rank
q and file Of the army seem to be rapid
n ly becoming dissolving view, re
r suit doubtless to be attributed to some
evil subterranean effort of the re
! actionarys who would retard human
: progress"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-14
New Bridge Opened.

limited Press Leased Wire Service. ]
PASADENA, Calf, Dee. 13-The
,$24O,OO0 concrete bridge across the
Arroyo Seco here, the largest and
highest Of its kind in the country
was opened to traffic this afternoon
with formal exercises.
The bridge is 1,4s7 feet long, 1SS
feet high and its greatest span is $50
feet in length.
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