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The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-12-12
Battle Day and Night.

Vera Cruz, Dec. 12.-Fighting be-
tween the rebels and the Federals for
possession of the city of 1Tampico was
in progress all day Wednesday and
Wednesday night, according to reports
received from Rear Admiral Fletcher,
commander of the American warships
off that port.
A dispatch said that the Federal
outposts had been driven in and that
the insurgents had taken possession
of the left bank of the river from its
mouth to Tampico.
No foreisners have been injured,
the admiral said, nor has any property
been destroyed A number of refugees
were taken on board the United States
scout cruiser Chester and the cruiser
Tacoma Other refugees were in build
ings near the water front.
Another dispatch sent by Admiral
Fletcher said:
Genera, Castro attacked Tampico,
and reports indicate that the rebel
band is pushing back the Federal ad-
vance guard. | am taking all possible
measures 10 pfUleCl anu care LUZ luS
Americans and others, and British and
German subjects are being looked af-
ter by their own representatives The
rebels are reported to be respecting
Americans and American property"
Grave fears are felt lest the insur
gents should fire the oil tanks lining
both sides of the river at Tampico,
in which event it is believed the war
ships would be compelled to retire
down the river.
Extraordinary efforts are being
made by the Mexican authorities to
complete the loading of ammunition
on board the Mexican gunboats Vera
Cruz and Progreso. The boats will
probably leave for Tampico.
Captain Rantzan, of the Hamburg
American liner Kronprinzessin Cecilie,
has cabled to Hamburg that his YES
sci was taking refugees on board at
TamDico.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-12-12
Farmer Dies of Wound,

Allentown, Pa, Dec. -12.-Lewis F.
Snyder, of Hometown, who was shot
in the abdomen at his home on Tues
day night by his hired man, Clinton
Steinmetz, during dispute over q
cents, died at the Allentown hospital
He left a widow and six children
Steinmetz was arrested near the scene
of the shooting by w. H. Neimeyer
county detective.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-12-12
Peooud Loops With PASSENGER.

Paris, Dec. 12-Adolphe Pegoud, the
French aviator, demonstrated at the
Buc aerodrone that looping the loop
In an aeroplane, carrying passenger
as well as a pilot. was not more diff
cult than the accomplishment Of the
feat when the pilot was alone. The
airman mounted on three separate &C.
casions with journalists and each time
made a number of successive loops.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-12-12
Bomb Breaks Bank Windows,

Pittsburgh. Pa, Dec. PA bomb
was tossed across Second avenue. in
the Lakewood section of the city
and, exploding, shattered the front Of
the building occupied by Thomas Gil
roci as a fruit store. Windows in the
Hazyewood Savings and Trust com
pany building next door were shattsr
ed. No one was hurt.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-12-12
SCHENCKS ARE RECONCILED
Father of Woman Who Eioped Witt
Horse Trainer ForuiveS

Father of Woman Who Eioped With
Horse Trainer Forgives.
New York, Dec. DIR. Powhattan
Schenck, of Norfolk, Va, became re-
conciled to his daughter, Florence
who is dying in private sanitarir,m
after a ga career in this city, Lon
don and Paris.
Florence Schenck has been estrang
ed from her family since she eloped
with Charles Wilson, a horse traine:
employed by Alfred G. Vanderbilt
seven years ago.
Recently she came from Paris to
New York to submit to an operation
Between periods of coma in the last
two days she sent pleading kilograms
to her father to come to her.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-12-12
Sets New Divorce Record.

Chicago, Dec. 12-Judge Baldwin, in
the circuit court, completed call OF
983 uncontested divorce cases heard
by him in the last three months. De-
crees have been signed in more than
900 of the cases. 1t is said that this
constitutes a record for the dispatch
of divorce litigation.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-12-12
Robbers Kill watehman.

Avoea, Pa, Dec. 12.-Robbers killed
Stephen Lucas, a Waterman at the
offices of the Pennsylvania Coal com,
pany, rified the safe, robbed the cloth
ing of the dead man and escaped. Ac,
cording to the evidence at the scene
of the crime Lucas fought the robbers
after he had been shot through the
body, but was knocked down and his
head beaten to pulp.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-12-12
2,12s,255 Books In Congress Library

2,12s,255 Books In Congress Library.
Washington, Dec. 1.-THE library
of congress now contains 2,12S,255
books and pamphlets, there having
been added during 1913 1882 vol.
umes, a record but twice exceeded In
tn the last fifteen years. These fig.
ures form the chief feature of the an.
nual report of Herbert Putnam, the
librarian of congress.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-12-12
FATHER SEES
SCHMIDT IN COURT
Parent Wseps at Sight Of
Conf ;sSed Murderer.
| MET SISTER IN THE TONES
Cousin of Anna AumuIier on Witness
Stand Says He Warned Her Against
Schmidt

Cousin of Anna Aumuller on Witness
Stand SAYS He Warned Her Against
Schmidt.
New York, Dec. 12.-Alphonse Keel
BILE, the only counsel whom Hans
Schmidt, the one-time priest, on trial
before Judge Foster in the court Oh
general sessions for the muruer OF
Anna Aumuller, will acknowledge said
that his client positively refused to
see his father, Heinrich Schmidt, who
reached this country from Germany on
the Kaiser Wilhelm H., accompanied
by his daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth
Schadler.
The prisoner is willing to see his
sister, but no steps have been taken
for a meeting The brother and sister
met in the Tombs. The father appear,
ed for a moment in court, glanced at
his son and silently withdrew, weep
ing. The prisoner did not see him.
The prosecution continued the pre-,
sentation of evidence to show that
when Schmidt killed the girl, cut up
her body and threw it into the Hui
son river. he followed carefully pre-
meditated plan and acted in a way
that proved him sane. Schmi 1T
counsel, against his will, are trying tc
prove that he was mentally irrespon
sible for these acts, which he has con
fessed.
Ex-Judge Olcott, of counsel fol
Schmidt, secured from one witness an
admission that the dead girl had been
warned that her life might be sac
rificed.'
Joseph Igler, cousin OF Miss Au
muller, nervous and reticent on the
stond, finally answered yes to the
question: Didn't Anna tell you thai
Schmidt often talked to her OF DC
Testament sacrifices; that he said he
ought to sacrifice her even as Abra
ham was called upon to sacrifice his
son Isaac?"
The questioning closed on that. The
defense left it to the jury to infer as
to the sanity of lover who talked
like that.
Joseph Igler told of his efforts tt
break up the intimacy between his
cousin and Schmidt. He went even 81
far as to bring to Schmidt's attention
a letter which made Anna AumulleI
out to be a bad woman. He tolt
Schmidt she would bring him to thu
gallows. Schmidt paid no heed.
The ex-priest remained as quietl!
inattentive to all that was said abou
him as in the earlier days of the trial
There might have been a dramatic
moment once ~hen August D. Taylor
janitor of the flats at 100 ClaremOn
avenue, was asked to recogniz
Schmidt as a man who hired room
last August. Taylor from the witness
chair could not tell if Schmidt was tn
man.
His face a commingling Of curiosit
and aversion, he stepped within
yard of Schmidt, squarely before him
t Schmidt lifted his eyes and locke
clearly, undisturbedly at the janitol
Taylor's glance ranged over him TO
a few seconds, then he said Eyes,
and. walked away.
Anna Aumuller merely laughed a
her cousins warnings to have moth
ing to do with Schmidt. Once whel
she spoke of marrying, and her cous
ms wife, Mrs. Anna Igler, laughed a
her, the dead girl waved a revolver.
Confidence imparts wonderful In
.n,ro ZION tc IFS pbSSesSOr .IOhu Milton
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-12-12
CLA|RV D ! AN I
&sAND@o
P A | M | S I
J. Edward Wade

Wade's readings of your life
are rot mere character sketches
of your life but for length, de-
tail and accuracy have no equal
He touches upon all subjects of
human int, est, if marriage, di-
vorce, love, business changes,
investment, if undecided, dis
couraged, sad at heart consult
Wade, for he IAN help You
He has helped Others!
Why not yOu?
lie never fails!
Rememner he a 'ceptS nothing
in adv nee for readings and IN.
less satisfa .tion is given in all
Ca es he accepts no fee
Everything that occurs has a
reason. good or bad. If bad it
carses dlsappointments. com.
monty called bad luck. Wade
can explain the cause and pos-
lively show you the way TO re-
move it. 80 that you control any
t hing or condition to gaia Your
every wish and deSi' e.
No living person can give you
something you do not possess in
ternally, but he can build Up the
weak or latent force within you
so that you can obtain the full
est in life.
He does this through develop
ing your PhYSic Forces, Person.
al Magnetism. Those desiring
to better their conditions in every
way. A visit to Wade will be of
benefit. Call today, tomorrow
it may be to late
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-12-12
FINED FOR HUGGING OWN WIFE
He Was Rough In caressins Spouse

He Was Rough In Caressfng Spouse
and Boisterous In Love Making.
Trenton, N. j., Dec. 12.-Gilbert Lit
tie was fined $40 by Judge Marx for
kissing and hugging his own wife.
The man admitted that he was
drunk when he did it. He pleaded his
good intentions and the wife pleaded
for him, but inasmuch as he had hurt
her and she cried out from pain dur.
ing the hugging, coupled with the fact
that Little threw his father-in-law out
of the house when he objected to his
boisterous love making, the court had
to impose the fine.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-12-12

The Society for the Prevention OF
Useless Giving is more active this
Christmas than ever before. 1t is the
endeavor of the organization to stop
the giving OF costly gifts to acquaint
ought to be remembered or he arse
one fears that the acquaintance is go
i'm to. send gift in spite of the fact
that the two persons are scarcely
known to each other. Miss Anne Nor
gan, daughter of the late financier. is
one of the leading members of the
Spug organization and lends valuable
aid. The spugs will have Christmas
tree all their own for little children
whom Santa Claus would not other
wise visit this Christmas.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-12-12
S,mo1e Size Bottle of Swlmp-xoot

Enclose ten cents to DR.. Kilmer
& Co., Binghamton, N. Y, for a
sample size bottle by Parcels Post
it should convince anyone. You
will also receive a booklet of valu-
able information, telling all about
the kidneys. When writing,be sure
and mention the Cambridge Daily
Banner.-Adv.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-12-12
IS frenchmen Fall In Battle

Mao, Morocco, Dec. II. = Fifteen
Frenchmen were killed and twenty
two We're wounded, including a captain
snd lieutenant, when French column
.stackins the Moors captured the town
q iinEsiaS ko
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-12-12
STEEL PLANT FOR EASTON
Company viii Spend 100000 and
Employ 1900 Men.

Employ 1900 Men.
Easton, Pa, Dec. 12.-The Taylor
Wharton Iron and Steel company, OF
Philadelphia, whose main plant is at
Highbridge, n. j., has purchased
through the Board of Trade of Easton
fifty acres of land adjoining the city
and will erect plant at cost of ST..
100000, in which it will carry on the
work now done at its subsidiary plants
in Philadelphia, namely, the Tioga
Iron and Steel company, the Philadel-
phia Roll and Machine company and
two plants of the William Wharton,
Jr., company.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-12-12
Dies aRauper at 1O1.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Dec. 12.-Mrs. Eliza
Lackley, known here as Grandma
Lackley, is dead of pneumonia in the
county home, aged 101 years.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-12-12
Sayres Happy In London.

Sdyres Happy tn E0HuUT.
London, Dec. 12-Mr. and Mrs. Fran
els B. Sayre are still. here. Their
friends here say they are much alb
sorbed in each other. They are "as
happy as two sparrows in a crate" was
the way one put it.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-12-12

:. Irish mails, velocipedes, tri-
cycles, sleds, skates, make good
Xmas presents for the boy or girl.
Phillips Hdw. Co.-Adv 6-9t.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-12-12

.PercolaIers make good Xmas
presents. Phillips Hdw. Co. Adv.9t
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-12-12

women are so persistent. Soon
they'll be demanding that their votes
be counted.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-12-12
CuOpTANk RIN Elk LINZ

Steam leave BALTIMORE, weather PEI
uniting, daily excei I SUNDAY for Tngh II. =,
oxford, Easton, Double Mills BELIEVE.
FTavers Klrby's, Cam bridge, Oyster Shei
Point. secretary, ChoptaI.k and Windy HtH
Returning, 81 ca m ers viii leave Windy Hi,
It p ~. for Baltinl ore dolly except Satin,
'ay. stopping at all the above points.
WILLARD THOMSON
General Manage,
T. Nj u tSDOti
les, al p,ssenprr A. en-.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-12-12

Now that paper is being made
from cornstalks, let some genius
proceed to convert yesterdays news
papers into cattle food.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-12-12
4 COMBINE IN
COLD STORAGE
Result Of Investigation by Fed
efaI District Attorney.
CONNECTIONS ARE TRACED
They Are Seeking Information to Base
Prosecution For Violation of the
Sherman Law.

Washington, Dec. 12.-Reports thus
tar received by the attorney gen.
eral from the various district attor'
neys throughout the country, who
were Instructed to look into the ques
ton of the operation of the cold stor
age plants of the various states, indi
cate that there is combination exist
ing between such plants.
Figures sent to the attorney general
show that the prices of foodstuffs In
cold storage in various sections OF
the country are exactly similar, indi
eating undoubtedly that a combination
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-12-12
c GUY IeCOMPIE.
NOTARY PUBLIC.
With Eastern Shore Trust Go.
Cambridge. Nd.
Baltimore, Chesapeake and At.
lantic Railway Company
Railway Division

Change in Passenger Train Serpire
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-12-12

Confidence imparts wonderful In
an,ra don to its D.ssessor Johu Milton
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1913-11-01
Our Big November Bargain Carnival
Started Today Assht Ass WIN or be h: at B: & K.B Ss'y

o. m g ra m to supply vi
vi m merry mmgh h at ymm max
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-08-16
LITTLE GIRL ADRIFT ON SEA.
Lighthouse Keeper Discovers Her Boat in
Darkness.

New London, Conn, Aug. l6.--Miss
Beryl Shaw, daughter of DR.. J. X. Shaw
of Amherst, Mass, who, with his fam
lily, occupies Sycamore cottage at Lords
Point, six miles east of this city, was
lost for many hours Thursday evening,
adrift in small boat in Fishers Island
Sound, and was rescued only after a
search in which the entire male popu-
lation of Lords Point took part and in
a state bordering on collapse from ex-
posure and fright.
Miss Shaw put out of the bay on the
Point about o'clock in the sharpie
boat. When she did not return after
couple of hours her parents became
anxious and a search was organized
None of the searchers from the Point
caught sight of the missing girl or her
boat, though they remained out long aft
er dark 1t was the lighthouse keeper
at Latimer who sighted the little boat
drifting past the east end of Fishers
Island.
Miss Shaw had lost one of her oars,
and unable to control her boat. she had
padded aimlessly and helplessly until
far into the evening. 1t was 9:20 p. m.
when the lghtkeeper found her and 10
O'Clock before she was restored to her
distracted parents.
The girl was in a pitiable condition
of emi-hysteria, but yesterday was well
on the way to complete recovery.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-08-16
McMICHAEL ACCUSES
CONG. McDERMOTT
Dismissed Chief Page of Congress Makes
Sweeping Charges Against
Congressman.

Washington, Aug. l6.-In a dramatic
Statement, /. H. McMiehael, dismissed
chief page of the House of Representa-
tives, last night presented to the House
lobby investigating committee sweeping
charges of corruption against Represen'
tative James e. McDermott of Illinois
for years his sponsor.
In picturesqt-- S-aguage and with in
tense earnestness, McMichael corroborat.
ed Mulhall's allegations against McDer'
mott and made additional charges, at
times shocking the committee with his
outbursts of profanity and slang. He
was smoking cigarettes continuously
frequently blowing the smoke into the
faces of the committee.
Among other charges, he said McDer-
mott told him he had received 81 500 out
of fund of $4,000 raised in the last
Congress to fight the loan shark bill in
the District of Columbia.
He said he threw down McDermott be-
cause the latter failed to pay him the
balance of the regular wage given him
for furnishing House documents and
copies.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-08-16
TREASURER STILL MISSING.
No Other Banks Involved in Trouble of
the Roseville Trust Co. of Newark.

Newark, N. j., Aug. l6. Private de-
tectives continued their search yester-
day for Raymond f. Smith, secretary
treasurer of the Roseyille Trust COM
pany of this city, who disappeared yes
terday when state bank examiners dis
covered that the institution was more
than 100000 short. Rumors that the
bank officials had been in touch with
Smith through a third person had not
been borne out yesterday, and so far as
is known no clew TO the missing mans
whereabouts has been uncovered.
Ii il known that Smith interested
himself in business affairs outside the
bank, and garage and motor sales
company which he controlled has been
taken over by the bank examiners.
The examiners were still at work on
the trust compauy's books yesterday,
but they are emphatic in saying that
no other banks will be involved The
shortage, it is said, will wipe out the
institutions capital stock, surplus and
undivided profits.
Mrs. Gussie Toland, who has a fiat in
the apartment house where Smith lived,
said yesterday that on Wednesday last
the day the shortage was discovered
about eleven o'clock in the morning she
saw Smith leave his apartment carrying
a suit case and telescope bag, enter an
automobile and depart in the direction
of the Oranges. He has not been seen
since.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-08-16
CONGRESS MAY
WAKE UP NOW
Hope That Democratic Caucus Action
Will Hasten both Tariff and
Currency.

Washington, Aug. l6.-Both at the
White House and among Senate Demo.
cratic leaders, the hope was expressed
yesterday that the effect of the action
of the Senate Democratic caucus Thurs
day night in yielding to the demand OF
the president not TO take a recess, but
to try to force currency legislation
through Immediately after the tariff bill
is passed, would be to hasten both tariff
and currency legislation.
President Wilson's view is that had
he yielded and allowed a recess before
taking up currency it would have been
regarded by the opposition in Congress
and by the country as confession. OF
weakness, that the tariff would not have
been hurried, and that there would have
been no assurance of currency legislation
before next winter. He expects the cur
rency bill to pass the House by an over
whelming majority. He has been in
formed that nubmer of Republicans
will line up for it on final passage. With
the impetus thus given, he is understood
to believe the measure will easily go
through the Senate.
In fact, a considerable number of af-
frmatiye Republican votes in the Senate
are looked for. One prominent Repub5
lican senator, a conservative said re-
Gently that he believed it would be wise
politics for the party to line up for the
currency bill and push it through, In
any event, there is no longer serious
question that beth tariff and currency
legislation will be passed in special SEES
sion.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-08-16
HEAT AND DROUGHT PARcH WEST.
Towns Appeal for Water in Kansas and
Mercury Climbs to ro7.

Kansas City, Mo-, Aug. l6.-Kansas,
Oklahoma and northern Texas yesterday
entered upon the twelfth consecutive day
of the greatest combined drought and
heat wave in the history of the West.
The sum- beating down from the cloud
less skies, forced the mercury above 30
deg. shortly after sunrise, with the prob
ability that it would maintain its per-
sistent record of 100 deg. or more, a
record set every day since the present
heat wave began.
Nebraska and Missouri were gripped
by the torrid wave yesterday and report
ed temperatures in the last "a hours
reaching 100 deg. and l07 deg. The gov
eminent weather bureau at Chicago fore
casted the return of the hot spell to
the West and middle West, and grain
spectators recognized the impending
danger to the crops by forcing advances
III options.
Topeka, Kan, reported "the coolest
day since July 23"-wifh the mercury at
a maximum of 81 deg.
At Okmulgee, Okla, the heat was so
intense that the county sheriff permitted
the prisoners in the jail to sleep on
top OF their cells. Edward Miller, await
ing trial for minor otfense, fell from
the top of the steel cage and was killed.
All drought records for Kansas were
broken in the last II days. Since june
the rainfall has been 4.95 inches. The
normal rainfall is 10 inhees.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-08-16
PENROSE MAKES
ATTACK ON HALE
Heated Debate on Mexico in Senate
Over Resolutions Aimed at
President.

Washington, Aug. l6.-The Mexican
situation famed up in the Senate again
yesterday. Senator Penrose famed the
spark when he submitted two resolu-
tions, one calling on the president and
the state department for information as
to the official status OF William Bayard
Hale, who is now in Mexico as the pres
ident's special representative, the other
directing the Secretary of state to send
TO the Senate the reports OF the Consul
at Durango, Mexico.
Senator Bacon demanded that both
resolutions 60 over and gave notice that
he would move their reference to the
Foreign Relations Committee.
Senator Penrose attacked William
Bayard Hale. He said that Hale left
Ardmore, Pa, thirteen years ago under
circumstances that it was unnecessary
20 refer 10. He demanded that Senator
Bacon give the Senate some information
about Hale and his status.
Il decline to answer" replied Mr.
Bacon.
"The time will come when the Senate
and the country will no longer be sat
isfied with such a response snapped
Senator Penrose.
The Pennsylvania Senator inquired
what action the Senate committee
would take on the resolutions. Senator
Bacon replied that be could not say.
This called Senator Lodge into action.
He warned the Democrats that they
could not discuss the Mexican question
with smile and sneer."
Efforts by Senator Simmons to shut
off the debate angered Mr.. Lodge, who
warned the Democrats that they would
not make Roadway with the tariff bill
by putting on the "extinguisher"
Senator Penrose served notice on the
Senate that he would have the informa-
tion he had called for in his resolution
next week and would lay it before the
Senate.
A letter from a Mexican business man
to Felix Diaz attacking Hale as a dis
turber who was prejudicing the presi-
dent against Huerta was read at Sena-
tor Penrose's request