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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-04-01

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The citizen., 1914-07-31
KHED|VE OF EGYPT
IS SHOT TWICE
Wounded in Cheek and Arm BY
a W0uId-Be Assassin.
S0N-IN-LAW ALSO STRUCK
AssalIant Slain At Once BY Members
OF Suite-The Egyptian Ruler
Was Not Dangerously
Hurt.

Constantinople.-Th Khedive of
Egypt, Abass Hilmi, was attacked by
an assassin while leaving the Grand
Vizierate.
He was shot in the cheek and arm.
His condition is not considered dan
gerous.
His son-in-law, Djelal Ferid Bey,
who represents the Khedive at Con-
stantinople and who was with him at
the time, was slightly wounded in
one leg.
The Khedive's assailant, Mahmad
Muzaffer, an Egyptian, was shot down
by member of the Khedive's suite.
Assassins Busy In Past Few Years.
Some notable assassinations and at
tempts at assassinations within the
past eight years were the following
Alfonso XIII. King of Spain, May
81. 1906, not injured.
Victoria, Queen of Spain, May 81,
1906, not injured.
Carlos, King of Portugal, February
l, 1908, killed.
Luis, Crown Prince of Portugal,
February /, 1908, killed.
Marquis Ito, of Japan, October 26,
1909, killed.
Mayor William J. Gaynor, Of New
York, August 9, 1910, wounded.
Peter Arcadowitch Stolypin, Premier
of Russia, September IA, 1911, killed.
Jose Canalejas, Prime-Minister of
Spain, November IL, 1912, killed.
Theodore Roosevelt, August, 1912,
wounded.
Nazim Pasha, Turkish Minister OF
War, January %, 1913, killed.
Manuel E. Aranjo, Premier of Sal.
vador, February 4, 1913, killed.
Francisco l. Madero, President OF
Mexico. February 90, 1913, killed.
Jose Pine Saurey, Vice-President OF
Mexico, February %, 1913, killed.
George, King of Greece, March 18
1913, killed.
Archduke Francis Ferdinand, OF
Austria, heir to throne of Austro
Hungary, and his morganatic wife
the Duchess of Hohenberg. June 2s
1914, killed.
The citizen., 1914-07-31
ROUNDING THEM
UP FOR PEACE
Wilson's Agents Getting Mexi-
cans Together.
ALL premise TO BE GOOD
General Villa Declares He Will Join
the Other ConstitutionaIists In
Restoring Peace-Question Of
Amnesty and Guarantees.

Washington, D. C.-Oficial advices
revealed that the Washington ad-
ministration was meeting with success
in bringing Provisional President Car
bajal, General CarranZa, General Villa
and Gen. Emiliano Zapata into har-
mony for the restoration of peace in
Mexico. From these four leaders
representing all the factors concerned
in the establishment of stable gov
ernment-came encouraging messages
in answer to the counsel and advice
which the United States has been
lending through its numerous consular
and diplomatic agents to smooth the
way TO complete agreement
General Zapata, about whom little
had been known hitherto, answered
communication sent indirectly to him,
promising to cooperate with the Con-
stitutionalists in the work of pacifica-
tion.
While General Carranza is ready to
grant an amnesty and give guarantees
to those who have opposed the Con-
stitutionalists, persons criminally re-
sponsible for the assassination of
Madero and Suarez will not be given
immunity. AS most of the guilty have
fed the country, the Carbajal govern
ment il not disposed to object to such
exceptions as are made by General
Carranza in this connection, especially
as 1t is intended to prosecute them
through the courts, and those accused
will have an opportunity to prove
their innocence.
Doubts which officials had expressed
over General Villas attitude also were
quieted to considerable extent when
word came from the fighting general
himself that he would do all in his
power to restore peace In Mexico, and
would unite with the other Constitu-
tionalist leaders toward that common
purpose. Villas message was sent in
response to the personal appeal of the
Washington government urging him to
forget his personal differences with
CarranZa in the interest of national
patriotism Officials felt after the re-
ceipt of Villas message that even if
political dissension did arise over pro-
motions or division of political spoils,
such friction would not be permitted
by Villa to develop to the point of
counter revolution, a circumstance on
which he now realizes the American
government would frown.
The citizen., 1914-07-31
GOVERNOR STILL WAITS.
John n. Cunningham Mentioned For
Workmen's Commission.

Governor Goldsborough's announce
ment that he would hardly be ready to
name the members of the Workmen's
COMPENSATION Commission until some
time next month brings up the sug-
gestion that Western Maryland is the
cause for the delay.
1t is generally thought that State Re-
publican Chairman John b. Hanna Will
be appointed chairman of the board.
The other Republican member would
logically be Western Maryland man,
preferably a Washington countain.
Washington has been feeling some
what aggrieyed of late that the official
plums have been going elsewhere, and
the supposition was that the county
would be given place on the new
industrial board. However, there has
developed a factional fight in Wash
ington for the place which may result
in switching the appointment to an
other county The Governor would not
care, it is said, to have put up to him
the burden of palliating the disappoint-
ed faction.
Unless some agreement can be
reached within the next few weeks 1t
is rumored that the Governor may
select his appointee from Carroll, in
the person of John H. Cunningham.
who was defeated for Comptroller, as
Mr.. Goldsborough's running mate, by
Emerson C. Harrington. Mr.. Cunning
ham was brought forward tentatively
as candidate for the place on the
Public Service Commission which went
to Albert G. Towers.
The leading candidates for the DEM
ocratic place on the board seem to be
c. N. Steigleman and James Higgins.
Steigelman was member of the COM
mission appointed by the Governor to
draft a compensation act to be pre-
sented to the last Legislature, while
Higgins gave valuable aid to State
Insurance Commissioner Shehan in the
preparation of the bill, parts of which
were incorporated in the Hammond
measure when that was passed.
In regard to the place on the Public
Service Commission which will be va
cant when Chairman Philip D. Laird
resigns, the Governor is expected to
act within the next few days. He has
stated that he would make the ap-
pointment by August 1, when Mr.. Laird
will leave. 1t has been thought that
the Governor will name a Democrat
for the place, but who the appointee
Sc N he ie q rooftor that tho Govern0r
has kept strictly to himself.
The citizen., 1914-07-31
SUIT AGAINST
NEW HAVEN ROAD
Bill to Completely Dismember
Big Corporation.
CRIMINAL SUITS TO FOLLOW
Nation Declares Company Earns Abol
81 Per Cent. OF Gross Freight
Revenue In New ~i,
England.

New York.-Under orders of Presi-
dent Wilson and Attorney-General Nc
Reynolds, a Sherman law antitrust
suit to dissolve the New Haven Rail-
road trolley and steamship combina-
tion in New England was filed here.
The combination was scathingly
scored as a combination in, restraint
of trade and commerce"
The bill charges that the New
Haven has acquired control of nine
railroad systems, % boat lines and
1900 miles of trolley lines. 1t charges
that the New Haven earns about 81
per cent. of the gross freight revenue
and about 95 per cent. of the gross
passenger revenues of all New Eng
land railroads.
Asks Separation Of All Roads.
The Government asks that the con-
tract, combinations and conspiracies in
restraint of trade and commerce, to-
gether with the attempts to mo-
nopolize, be declared in violation of
the Sherman antitrust law. 1t asks
for the separation of all the railroad,
steamboat and trolley lines, and for
the breaking up of the control of
steamboat lines through the naviga-
tion company.
1t is further asked that the Court
declare the acquisition of the Boston
and Maine stock by the New Haven
illegal, and that the New Haven COM
pany and the Boston Railroad Hold
ing Company be directed to sell all the
stocks and bonds held by them in the
Boston and Maine and its leased lines.
Finally the Government prays that
all of the sales necessary to the break
ing up of the alleged monopoly be
made under the supervision and direc.
tion of the Court to persons not stock
holders or agents. or otherwise under
the control or influence of the New
Haven company.
1t is charged in the suit that in ac-
quiring railroad, trolley and steam
ship lines necessary to traffic mo-
nopoly complicated and elusive meth
ods have been resorted to in order to
conceal the real character of the trans
actions.
The suit was filed by H. Snowden
Marshall United States Attorney for
the Southern district of New York.
1t bears the signatures of Attorney.
General McReynolds; G. Carroll Todd,
assistant Attorney-General T. w.
Gregory and Frank M. Swacker, spe.
cial assistants in the New Haven case.
The equity suit just filed has moth
ing to do with the criminal aspect Of
the New Haven case. The Depart
ment of Justice is now preparing a
mass of evidence to submit to Fed.
eral grand jury in New York when it
asks criminal Indictment of New
Haven directors.
The citizen., 1914-07-31
MARYLAND's BIG CROPS.
Department Figures Show This VIII
Be A Banner Year.

Maryland is sharing in the bumper
cereal crops with which the nation is
being blessed this summer.
The foremost of crops just issued
by the Bureau of Crop Estimates of
the Department of Agriculture pre-
dieting the size of the 1914 crops on
the basis of actual field conditions on
July shows that the prospective crop
of corn, winter wheat, oats and barley
grown on the farms of Maryland this
year will aggregate 1860 900 bushels.
The annual average of these combined
crops for the past Ave years has been
32, 2,907, 900 bushels.
Maryland will therefore produce
662, 900 bushels more corn, winter
wheat, oats and barley in 1914 than
the average Maryland contribution Of
these crops for the past FIVE years.
Last years production of corn in
Maryland was 22,110,000 bushels. The
forecast for this years corn crop is
$4,000 bushels greater. The winter
wheat crop of Maryland for 1914 is
considerably above that. of 1913. The
forecast for 1914 Is for 10,335, 900
bushels of winter wheat, as compared
with 8,113,000 in 1913. This means
that 2,242,000 more bushels of winter
wheat are promised for Maryland this
year as compared with last year.
There is a slight falling off predicted
for the Maryland oats crop, which was
100000 bushels last year, and is ex--
pected to amount to only $4,000 BUSH
els this year. These three cereals.
corn, winter wheat and oats, promise
a production of 33,523,000 bushels in
1914, compared with 81 .4S3. 900 bushels
in 1913, an increase of 2,042,000 bush-
els this year in these crops alone.
The indications are that there will
be tremendous apple. pear and peach
crops in Maryland.
The citizen., 1914-07-31

London. - Sundays developments
appear to furnish new proofs that
Austria is fully determined to make
war on Servia, and the possibilities of
q general European war seem greater
than have ever confronted the pres
ent generation.
The Servian reply to the Austro-
Hungarian ultimatum was an accept
ance of almost all the imperious de-
mands, except that Austrian officials
shall participate in the investigation
and fix the responsibility for the anti
Austrian propaganda.
Servia proposed an appeal to the
powers at The Hague for the settle
ment of that feature. Notwithstand-
ing this humiliating surrender, which
was more than Europe expected of
the proud little nation, the Austrian
Government today gave the Servian
Minister his passports, which may be
construed as virtual declaration of
war.
Austria committed an act of war by
arresting the chief of the Servian gen.
eral staff, General Putnik, near Buda-
pest, but he was soon released by the
Emperor's direct command.
No Formal Declaration.
A formal declaration of war is not
expected, because Servia is not a
party to The Hague convention, which
requires this. The suspension of all
Parliamentary and judicial institu-
tions has been decreed in Austria, and
an ironclad censorship has drawn a
Gordon of secrecy around the country,
so that the outside world is in COM
plete ignorance of everything happen
ing there, except what the, Govern
ment wants the world to know.
Even now the Austrian armies may
be closing In upon Servia and launch
ing sudden blow. as Japan did when
she sent her feet against the Russian
ships without warning
While Austria announces partial
mobilization" the Austrian Ambas-
sador at London has issued signi-
ficant notice to all Austrians liable
for military service to remain home.
The only possibility of averting war
at the eleventh hour which Austria
recognizes is that Servia shall recon
slider her reply to the Austrian note
and bow to all the demands. Even
then Austria proposes to exact pay.
ment for all her expenses in connec.
tion with her military measures.
The citizen., 1914-07-31
KNOCKS NEW HAVEN CASE.
Senator Lippitt Of Rhode Island Con-
demns Federal Suit

Washington, D. C.-Senator Lippitt,
of Rhode Island denounced the Gov
ernment's suit to dissolve the New
Haven Railroad merger during debate
on the trust bills. This suit won't
hurt Mr.. Mellen or Mr. Morgan" said
he, but it is raw deal to the New
Haven stockholders" He predicted
the Rhode Island trolley lines would
double in value in ten years.
The citizen., 1914-07-31
STRIKE FUND PROBE ON.
Miners Million, Rumors Said, Was
Used BY Leaders.

Denver-Investigati of charges
that fund of $1,0O0,OO0 raised to con-
duct the strike of the copper miners
in Michigan was not used for that
purpose but diverted to the advantage
of those in charge of the strike, was
begun at the convention of the West
ern Federation of Miners. 1t was said
that charges were circulated through
out the country, particularly in Butte.
The citizen., 1914-07-31
JUST BoRAx PREVENTS FLIES.
Simple Household Hint BY Depart
ment Of Agriculture.

Washington, D. C.-Discovery Of an
effectual method for preventing the
breeding of the common household
and typhoid fly ard thereby assuring
the complete determination of this
species of insect was announced by
the Department of Agriculture. The
simplicity of the method, consisting
only of the sprinkling of a small
amount of ordinary borax daily upon
household and stable refuse. is said
to guarantee it's success and greatly
reduce the number of diseases orig
mating from the germ-carrying fly.
The citizen., 1914-07-31
TRUSTEE FOR HOTEL MARYLAND
William M. Golfer Put In Charge OF
Annapolis HosteIry.

Annapolis.-William M. Golfer,
representative of the Credit Mems AS.
sociation of Baltimore, was appointed
trustee to adjust the affairs of the
Hotel Maryland, the former proprie-
tors of which,. Norman Smith and +,
Lester L. Sm:th-recently filed a Pc
tition, in the United States District
Court at Baltimore acknowledging
bankruptcy.
The appointment Of Mr.. Golfer was
made at meeting of the creditors
held in the Office of Robert Moss. at.
torney for the Smith brothers. About
Is creditors were represented at the
hearing.
The citizen., 1914-07-31
Fear of a General European
Conflagration.
FIRST CLASH ON DANUBE
Belgrade Made Almost Complete
Surrender To Demands OF Dual
Monarchy And Reject None
Absolutely.
Getting On War Footing.

London.-The Servian Min
lister here received a dispatch
from Kraguyevatz stating that
Crown Prince Alexander, acting
as regent, had ordered gen.
eral mobilization of the, Servian
Army and summoned the Skup-
shtina to meet tomorrow in the
old fortified capital city of Nish,
130 miles southeast of Belgrade.
The citizen., 1914-07-31
4 CHILDREN BURNED IN HOME.
Father, a Widower, Away When House
Catches Fire.

Taylor, Wis.-The four children of
Richard Roberts, a widower of this
town, were burned to death when the
home caught fire while the father was
away. When the parent arrived the
home was enveloped in flames and de-
sperate attempts to rescue the children
failed, villagers and Mr.. Roberts being
painfully burned.
The citizen., 1914-07-31
MISSING BRIDE DEAD IN WELL.
Had Married Against Her Wish Tc
Please Parents.

Williamsport, Pa.-After being miss
ing three days the body of Mrs. Stan
ley Papka, 23 years old, of Union
Township, who three weeks ago be-
came bride against her wish, was
found in well near her home. The
girl had married because it was the
desire of her parents and the theory
of the police is that She became so un.
happy that she committed suicide.
The citizen., 1914-07-31
SHOT WIFE, THEN SELF.
Atlanta Murder And Probable Suicide
Over Couples Daughter.

Atlanta.-W. J. Neill, of this city,
shot and killed his divorced wife and
then shot himself in the head He
probably will die. The shooting is
said to have been the result of a
quarrel over the possession of the
couples little daughter.
The citizen., 1914-07-31
CANAL TO OPEN AUGUST IS.
Secretary Garrison Sets Date For Be
ginning Of Traffic.

Washington, D. C.-Opening of the
Panama Canal to the worlds com
merce on August 15 next was an
nounced by Secretary Garrison. Prob.
ably the first vessel to pass through
the great waterway will be the Cristo
bal, War Department steamer now
at Colon.
The citizen., 1914-07-31
BANDITS KILL ENGINEER.
Fast Train Held Up On L. G. N. Near
New Orleans.

New Orleans.-The New York limit
ed, through passenger train of the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad, was
held up by two masked men at cross
ing four miles east of here. The
engineer is reported to have been kill
ed by the bandits and two other men,
bers of the train crew are said to be
missing.
The citizen., 1914-07-31

The badly decomposed body of Capt.
Walter Medford Eaton, who disap-
peared from his home in Centerville
about five weeks ago, was found Tues
day in a dense thicket a short dis
tance from his home. About his neck
was rope, showing that he had COM
mitted suicide by hanging. He was 81
years old and leaves widow and sew
en- children.
The citizen., 1914-07-31
STATE NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD
Latest Doings in Various Parts
of the State.
PREPAREDFORQUICKREADING

1t is stated on excellent authority
that the McKeesport Tinplate Com
pany, McKeesport, where a number
of Cumberland workers have been en-
ployed since the plant in Cumberland
has not been operating full, contem-
plates vast additions and improve
ments to its present plant in Portvue.
If plans that have been under discus
sion for some time mature, the ca
pacity of the plant will be almost
doubled, which means an expenditure
of about 100000 and employment
for about 1900 additional workers.
The citizen., 1914-07-31
RATE INCREASE HALTED.
Boots and Shoes BY Rail and Water
To Cost No More.

Washington, D. C.-The Interstate
Commerce Commission decided that
proposed rate increases on boots and
shoes from Boston, New York and
other Eastern port cities to Atlanta,
Ca, by water and rail route were not
justified. 1t ordered rates not exceed.
ing the present rate of 95 cents per
hundred pounds. The railroads pro-
posed an advance to $1.05.
The citizen., 1914-07-31
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Calgary has So miles of municipality.
operated street railway tracks.
An extensive deposit of asphalt Of
high quality has been discovered in
the Philippines.
Experts have figured that Ecuador.
by the application of scientific
methods, could increase its present
agricultural yield by $50 per cent
The citizen., 1914-07-31
KILLED IN VIRGINIA DUEL.
M. C. PendIeton Fired Five Shots At
John Powell, Then Died.

Lynchburg, Va.-At the Piedmont
manganese mines, six miles east of
here, John Powell, the watchman there
shot and killed M. c. Pendleton, a
young man who lived in the neighbor-
hood. Powell gave himself up to a
justice and was bailed. He stated
that Pendleton had been making him.
self offensive at Powell's home and
they quarreled. Pendleton fired five
shots at Powell and missed him, then
Powell fred.
The citizen., 1914-07-31

The School Commissioners for
Washington county appointed A. r.
Spaid, former superintendent of the
public schools of Dorchester county,
supervisor of the schools of Washing
ton county, to succeed George S. Mes
sersmith, of Wilmington, Del, who was
appointed over a month ago, but re-
signed to accept a position in the con-
sular service.
The citizen., 1914-07-31

Armed with brooms by the city,
about 20 volunteers, headed by Presi-
dent Palmer Tenant, Secretary Cor
man Bussard and several other mem
bers of the Hagerstown Board OF
Trade, began sweeping the principal
streets of the city Saturday night. Op-
erations were witnessed by a large
crowd, who cheered the sweepers. A
heavy rain washed the streets and
facilitated the work
The citizen., 1914-07-31

Mrs. Annie Allen, wife of John Allen.
formerly a pitcher for the Baltimore
Federal League baseball team, was
painfully injured in gas explosion
at the home of her father, Edward
O'Neill, Cumberland. Wind had blown
out the flames of the range. and when
Mrs. Allen went to the oven to light
it the accumulated gas exploded.
The citizen., 1914-07-31

The officers and directors of the
Wicomico Oil and Gas Company are
preparing to drive deep well on the
Parsonsburg property this month. w.
H. Candy, az expert driller and ex-
perienced oil man. is expected to ar
rive on the property this week with
his equipment. He is resident of
New Jersey.
The citizen., 1914-07-31
NEAR FIsTFIeHT IN HOUSE.
Honorable Gentlemen Say Unkind
Things Of Each Other.

Washington. D. C.-"The heat has
'em," remarked Speaker Clark as the
repeated rapping of his gavel brought
order to the House and stopped near
riot and fistfight Thursday among Rep
resentatives Bryan, of Washington;
Moore, of Pennsylvania, and Madden,
of Illinois.
The citizen., 1914-07-31
IRA NELSON MORRIS

Ira Nelson Morris has been con-
firmed by the senate as minister to
Sweden and will sail very soon for his
post. His home Is In Chicago.
The citizen., 1914-07-31


mascus district, was before Judge
Arthur Mace in the police court at
Rockville on a charge of assault upon
his wife, Mrs. Sadie Stanley. He de-
manded a jury trial and was required
to furnish bail in the amount OF $3.50
to await the action of the November
grand jury.
In a quarrel with fellow-country-
man at Eckhart, Paolo Conersano, 28
years old, was shot and killed. While
the fight was ostensibly over a dollar
it is said there was Mafia feeling be-
hind it, Only Italians were present
and they are reticent as to the identity
of the slayer
Andrew Jenkins, q boatman on the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, is i'll with
smallpox on his boat two miles south
of Hancock. The boat has been quar-
antined under the direction of DR.. D.
A. Watkins, county health officer. The
case is reported to be serious.
Elkton firemen are arranging to
hold fair and festival during the
early part of September, in order to
raise funds to pay for new auto
chemical truck just bought by the
local fire company
The farmers of Elk Neck have
changed the date icr their annual all
day picnic from August 5 to August 6.
Several prominent agricultural speak
ers will make addresses.
Prof. C. w. Stryker, formerly of St.
Johns College, Annapolis, is to be head
of the history department in Tome In
stitute, Port Deposit.
Operations have begun at the new
hosiery mill of the E. Sutro & Sons
COMPANY at Elkton.
The arrnory commission has decided
on plans for ths, new building at Elk
ton and specifications soon will be
submitted for bids.
Mrs. Lily Good, who went to Cum
berland, to spend several weeks with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. E. Hager,
received word that her husband,
George good, had been found dead in
the bathroom at their McKeesport
(Pa) home from monoxide gas.
A number of business men of Elk
ton have petitioned the council to have
water plugs placed on Water street,
SO as to give better fire protection to
the stores and other properties along
the south side of Main street. This
would insure lower insurance rates.
The citizen., 1914-07-31

A number of business men of Elk
ton have petitioned the council to have
water plugs placed on Water street,
SO as to give better fire protection to
the stores and other properties along
the south side of Main street. This
would insure lower insurance rates