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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-07-23

Oyster Bay, N. Y, July 22.-For the
first time in the history of the pro
gressive party Colonel Roosevelt to-
day faced the possibility of opposi-
ton within the ranks over the choice
Of candidates. He learned that at the
meeting of the progressive committee
of New York county last night, Chair
man Francis w. Bird declared for a
straight progressive state ticket and
after the meeting learned that Harvey
D. Hinman Of Binghampton had an
nounced his candidacy for the repub-
lican nomination for governor on a
platform opposed to William Barnes
and Charles F. Murphy.
Colonel Roosevelt, it was said here.
was fully aware of the resistance he
would meet If he sought to bring
about progressive endorsement of Mr..
Hinman or of any other candidate
|outside the progressive party. To all
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-07-23
MILITANT WOMAN IN RIOT
Create TumuIt in Irish Court When
One Of Their Number is Placed
on Trial.

Belfast, Ireland, July pa crowd
of militant suffragettes today created
tumult in the Assizes court and it's
vicinity when Miss Dorothy Evans, an
official of the Belfast branch Of the
Women's Social and Political union,
was brought up for trial on the charge
of having in her possession explosives
for the purpose of committing felony.
Miss Evans had been arrested in the
house of the lord mayor of Belfast.
The suffragettes broke windows and
savagely assaulted the police. The
disturbance was so great that proceed
ings had to be suspended for time.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-07-23
WANTS TO DISCUSS
PROPOSED TREATY
COLONEL ROOSEVELT ASKS PER.
MISSION TO APPEAR BEFORE
SENATE COMMITTEE.

Washington, D. G., July ga re-
quest from Col Roosevelt for an oppor.
tunity to appear before the senate for
eign relations committee In opposition
to the Colombian treaty was consider
ed today by the committee without ac-
ton, however, as Chairman Stone was
unable to marshal quorum. Col.
Roosevelt wrote Chairman Stone he
wanted to tell why he opposes paying
$25,000,00O to Colombia for the parti-
tion of Panama.
The Missouri senator said he had
not set date for another meeting of
the committee but that he would try
to get the members together soon.
Senator Stone made public Col.
Roosevelt's letter in which the former
president wrote:
If there Is any. intention Of your
committee to act favorably on the pro.
posed treaty with Colombia, by which
we are tOspay Coiombia l2b, ,6o0, 900 and
to express regret for the action taken
In the past ! respectfully request to
be heard thereon.
Il was president throughout the
time Of the negotiations, first with Col
ombia and then with Panama by which
we acquired the right to build the Pa
mama canal. Every act Of this govern
ment in connection with these nego-
tiations and with other proceedings for
taking possession Of the canal zone
and beginning the building Of the ca
nal was taken by my express direction
or else in carrying out the course of
conduct I, as president had laid down.
II had, full knowledge of everything
of any Importance that was done in
regard there to by any agent of the
government and was solely respons-
ible for what was done. The then sec
retary of state, John Hay, who is now
dead, had almost as complete first
hand knowledge of what occurred. but
no man now living, except myself, has
this first hand knowledge and no man
living or dead, shared with me the re-
sponsibility for the action took, save
in a wholly minor degree.
II request to appear before you, to
make full statement of exactly what
| did and of what was done by my
orders, to state the reasons therefore
and to answer any questions that your
body or the members Of your body
choose to put to me-"
Senator Stone indicated that he per.
sonally was not in favor of hearings.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-07-23
Supposed Damaging Papers
Held By Dead Editor
Branded Fakes
|CAILLAUX CLEARED
OF TREASON CHARGE
Lawyer on Other Side Gets
Sarcastic in Replying
to the Defense

Paris, July 22.-Politics was the pre-
dominating factor today in connection
with the trial of Nine. Caillaux for the
murder of CASTOR Calmette, editor Of
the Figaro.
The French government was under
stood to be greatly concerned in re-
gard to the diplomatic documents men,
toned at yesterdays hearing as having
been in the possession of Calmette.
These documents, it was said, were
later handed over to President POin-
care who passed them on to the for
eign office.
Senator Bienvenu Martin, acting
minister of foreign affairs, was up most
of the night, and an active inter
change of kilograms took place be-
tween him and Premier Rene Viviani,
now in Russia with the president.
Joseph Caillaux, the prisoners hus-
band, and Fernand Labori, her counsel,
made vehement demand that the
documents be produced in court. 1t is
understood that the premier. antici-
pating such demand, left instructions
with his substitute at the foreign office
as to what course should be pursued
with the papers, which are in the for
eign affairs archives.
While the court was assembling
newsboys were shouting around the
entrance to the palace of justice an
extra edition of LIE Bonnet Rouge, one
of the journals in sympathy with M.
ICaillaux, which contained page
article denouncing the murdered edi-
ttor, CASTOR CalMette. It affirmed that
he had been In the pay Of German In
terests and had In the eleven years
preceding his death been engaged in
political and financial intrigues by
means of which he was able to leave
81, 100000. The newspaper admitted
that he had received two legacies, one
OF 100000 and another of smaller
amount.
Documents are Fakes.
The moment after court had been
called to order the procurator general
rose and said:
IT am authorized by the government
to declare that the documents referred
to In yesterdays testimony are only
pretended copies of documents which
do not exist"
Maitre Labori-"We consider the
incident closed"
E. Charles Chenu, the lawyer repre-
senting the interests Of the Figaro and
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FAMILY BURIED
.::::;: ::::;;; ;::::::::::;;;1|EA7H 8; .; AUTO
Warren Kirk, Wife and Tw,
Children Are Run Down
By Car in Country
MACHINE DESTROYS
BUGGY IN COLLISION
Vehicle Collapses When Hill
But Occupants Are Not
Seriously Injured

Warren Kirk. wife and two .m.n
children. 722 Walnut avenue were VIC
inns OF an automobile collision on th1
country road just this side of the Wan
ello-Davis county line Tuesday ayter
noon between and o'clock. Thai
the members of the Kirk family wer4
not killed or seriously injured II CON.
sldered by them almost miraculous fcr
the car that struck them hnriad ~
buggy and its occupants beneath .hs
lorward truck before 1t stopped. Be
yonu MINOR hurts and bruises the par.
~ was Httle the worse for the acct.
uent save Tor the shock OF the COLL.
slon. Inc buggy was practically de.
Mlolished and is beyond repair. while
me headlights of the car, owned and
urlVen Dy j. w. Miller of Bloomfield.
were smashed. Three other men wero
win Mr. Miller In the car at the time
OF the accident.
Mr. Kirk when seen today gave lho
following version Of the accident:
we were coming from Bloomfield
IN single buggy, my wife, our four
year old baby. our son Merrill. aged
thirteen and myself. Just after cross
Ing the line into Wapello county nv
boy saw an auto approaching behind us
and suddenly called to me that the ma.
chine was coming toward us. Iturned
the mare out but had no more than
pulled on the reins when tIie cftIsh
came and our rig collapsed.
The man In charge OF the car Inn
mediately brought It under control ana
It's momentum carried us q short dig
tance toward the center OF the road.
When It stopped Mr.. Miller and the
other men did what they could to helm
US. and later took my wife and chill
dren home in the auto. All Of us were
buried under the front truck OF the
car having remained in the buggy
which was simply crushed under the
heavy weight of the machine. That we
were not killed or seriously hurt Is
almost miracle for the wheels of the
buggy were broken beneath 1t, the
axles bent the back straps of the har.
ness severed. l held to the animal
which stood calmly, seeming to have
realized that something unusual hap
pened.
my wife had her left ankle sprain-
ed and 1t sWelled considerable. the
boys left thumb was hurt and how
he escaped worse injury Is a mystery
for he sat in a little chair In the front
of the rig and when taken out from
under the car 1t was found that one OF
the wheels of the buggy having coll
lapsed under the car, had caught his
foot which was twisted among the
spokes. My right hip was bruised and
Is painful but none of US were seri.
ously hurt"
Mr.. Kirk borrowed wheels from q
farmer named King In the vicinity Of
the scene of the accident and with
the aid of wire with which he fastened
his buggy together, managed to get In
to town and home about $50. It was
found that the vehicle was SO badly
damaged as to be impractical to repair
It.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-07-23
WILL INTERVENE
IN ISLAND Revolt
AMERICAN MARINES BEING LAND.
Ed At sANTo DOMINGO TO
oUELL REVOLUTION

Washington, D. c., July 22.-Plans
for mobilizing at least one thousand
marines within striking distance of
Haiti and the Dominican Republic,
will move forward another step tomor-
row with the arrival Of the naval trans
port Praire at Guantanamo from Vera
Cruz. The transport Hancock, which
has Just landed 300 at Guantanamo Is
now headed for the Philadelphia navy
yard to return with another load to
bring the total force up to at least one
thousand.
With those preparations President
Wilson's decision as to what action the
United States shall take to quell the
revolutions in the island republic and
satisfy the pressure of European cred
itors will be awaited. War and navy
officials, confident that peace can be re-
stored on the island only by the active
Intervention of the United States are
perfecting their plans.
Refugees Are Fleeing.
San Juan, Porto Rico, July 22.-The
u. s. revenue Algonquin arrived here
last night from Puerto Plata, Domini.
can republic with 166 refugees, mostly
Porto Ricans, on board. One woman
died during the voyage from the effects
of starvation.
The condition Of those remaining in
Santo Domingo was reported to be
pitiable as 1t was almost impossible to
obtain foodstuffs, the prices Of which
were prohibitive.
A report was brought here by the Al.
gonquin that an American bluejacket
on board the gunboat Machias had
been shot in the leg by a bullet from
the shore.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-07-23

London, July 22.-Premier
Asquith today assumed in the
house of commons full respon-
siblility for the speech made by
the king yesterday to the politi-
cal leaders who had met at
Buckingham palace to confer
on the Irish home rule problem.
He thus set at rest various re-
ports in circulation since the
Ulster controversy has become
acute, and since the first an
nouncement of the conference.
The premier said:
"The speech was sent to me
In the ordinary way, by his
majesty, the day before it was
delivered, and I take the entire
responsibility for it. The king
left 1t to the discretion of the
conference to determine wheth-
er or not his speech should be
published and the conference
decided unanimously in favor OF
Its publication. NJ ,a J. - I.
Ellis majesty throughout this
matter has followed the strict
est constitutional practice. He
has not taken any steps from
the beginning until now except
in consultation with and on the
advice of his ministers"
4. 4. 4 4 T. + i. r. Il i. 4 T.
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RUSSIAN STRIKE CROWS
Street Car System at Cars Capital
Tied Up When the Employees
Join the Rioters

st. Petersburg, July 22-The street
car service in the Russian capital was
suspended today. The employees OF
the Central Street Railway Co. joined
in the general strike called by the
workmen as protest against the
drastic measures of the authorities at
Baku and other provincial towns
against strikers there.
Workers in many trades have joined
in the movement and it was estimated
this morning that 100000 men had laid
down their tools.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-07-23
GOOD IN ATTACK ON
SECRETARY MsADOO

Washington, D. c., July 22.- An.
other attack on Secretary McAdoo for
use of revenue cutters "for private
purposes" was delivered in the house
today by Representative Good, repub.
lican, of Iowa.
Good declared that the cutter
Apache was brought to Washington
from Baltimore on Friday, carried a
pleasure party down the Potomac
and returned to Baltimore on Tues.
day almost every week"
Representative Fitzgerald of New
York replied that the charges were
mot based on facts"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-07-23
PITTSBURGH PARKS
FIGHT ARMY WORM

Pittsburgh, Pa, July pa cam
paign against :he army worm began
here in earnest today when park en-
ployes and others attacked pest-ridden
sections Of the city with chemicals.
Much damage has already been done
to lawns and trees in all parts of the
city but experts today expressed the
belief that general attack would
drive the worms away.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-07-23
DESTROYER ADDED
TO NAVY OF u. S. A.

Philadelphia, Pa, July ~. 2.Th@
latest addition to the fighting force Of
the United States navy, the torpedo
boat destroyer O'Brien, was launched
here today.
Miss Marcia Bradbury Campbell Of
Cherryfield, Maine, great great grand
niece of Captain Jeremiah O'Brien
after whom the vessel was named
was the sponsor,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-07-23

berry of Arnold Husser's general store,
just across Main street from police
headquarters. Mr.. Husser recently
identified some of his stolen property
worn on the street by negro residents
of the village and obtained information
which resulted in the arrests.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-07-23
STEERAGE RATE TO
u. S. A. is RAISED

Berlin, July 22.-The North German
Lloyd and Hamburg American lines to-
day decided to raise their rates for
steerage passengers from Germany to
the United States by $3.50 thus bring
ing them up to $3.50.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-07-23

Man Sought By the Police as
ASSQilQnt Su11enderS Himself

July 22dward Koenig who for four days haa
connection with
Anderson assistant President
association surrendered to the ponce III
town Office this morning
Koeng had been the streets in the as
police him recognized him He
teephoned the police he ready to ater taking ~
with attorney
the Union
Koeng time discharged BY the terminal com
office when Ander
son barred discharged employe said to pulled
hospital critical
routed boy
who hit him in the facew two pound weight
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Continued on Page 8.)
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-08
NON-sECTARIAN Gun RUNNING.
Irish Nationalist Sees Prospects Of Ira.
ternaIiyati0n win lister.

To THE EDITOR or THE SuS--Sir: In
mentioning the movement now Initiated to
raise funds for the supply OF arms for the
Irish National Volunteers In Ireland your
paper states that II Is leaders OF Irish
Catholic societies from various cities" who
have formed a committee for that pur-
pose leading to the inference that the
movement Is confined to the Catholics OF
the Irish race. That would be altogether
erroneous There L. nothing sectarian
about the movement TO raise those funds.
and ] am happy to say that many Of the
Irish race in this country who profess the
same religious faith as the Orangemsn OF
Ulster have Joined hands In the work and
are Jealous In it's support We see no use
Ia mixing religion with politics In Irish
affairs, and we are most DESTROYS to sep
arate them.
I believe the majority OF Professionals
OF Ulster are In sympathy with tho move
ment which has produced the Irish volun-
teers, and many evidences Of fraterniza-
ton between the latter and the Ulster
volunteers are now noticeable in Ireland.
We hope to see the Ulster volunteers soon
marching under an Irish banner which In
To he the free flag Of all lrishmen, what
ever their religious convictions may he.
DENIS A. SPsLLIssY.
Nnw YolK June Z.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-08
No Discussion Needed.

Senator BRANDEGEE seems to miss the
point In his statement regarding the
trade commissio bill recently whisked
through the House OF Representatives
and now before the Senate. lie says:
II do not think a worn and exasperated
Congress, which has been In continuous
session for more than a year. should be
forced to enter upon the discussion Of all
L.sse intricate and controverted questions
in midsummer. on the eve OF a nation
wide political campaign. l do not think
the agitation and debate will tend to re-
store confidence to the distracted and
dropping business OF the country"
In this far too much is assumed.
The Senator talks of n midsummer dis
cussion OF intricate and controverted
questions. Is any discussion desired !
Is not the Senate expected simply to
go through the form Of enacting the
inca sure as 1t emanates from the brain
o. superior intelligence?
As for restoring confidence. has not
the Senator been told on the highest
authority that there is no need to re-
store confidence? Oranges are plenti.
ful in Florida.
What business needs Is not rest but
regulation. when the new dcSpotlsm
Is put on the statute books. distraction
and dropping will end. A new phase
Of economic experiment will begin.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-08
Let All Hands Pay.

Not few Of the unsatisfactory bar
gains into which the city has entered
I'm the past have been based on the ex-
change OF franchises for services. The
original agreements may have been fair
TO all concerned, but the rights con-
ferred by the franchises have increa sed
in value out of proportion TO the worth
of the services until the city has found
itself Mt decided disadvantage.
For this reason the wiser course to
pursue with regard to the privilege or
transmitting electricity along the Cats
kill Aqueduct would seem 10 be for the
city to charge what the right IL worth
and to buy what electricity II needs
rather thnn 10 trade the franchise for
the service. In this way no injustice
will be done to the applicants for fran
chise rights or TO the city.
II IL important that In this matter
the beginnings should be right. The
Catskill Aqueduct passes through u
territory ripe for development In the
near future. The electric companies
now anxious 10 occupy u part or the
citys land are not the only public
service and private corporations which
will make advances 10 New York for
privileges along It's route.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-08
THE MELLON CELIBATE.
Kind Words for Marriage aud Lacustrin,
piac idity.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN--sir. The
celibate OF Lake Placid scarcely deserves
the irony which Is being showered on him
There are philosophers. yes, and even
actors. who never seem happy unless
married, and yet despite the epithet
blessed" they are looked on AZ psyche
logical freaks. As ! look out OF my
sunshiny window this morning. a love
poem seems to he playing amid all this
cyniclsm. Everything points to marriage
as a panacea Of happiness THE way Of
a man with "a maid IL still the unfaillng
topic OF books and plays. Love II stu an
interest and ideal to all but hopeless
Gradgrlnds. ITO love- is the model verb.
In grammar love Is regular. II IL never
defective. n has every mood and tense
and In associated with every pronoun at
all personal.
Many hold with Bacon that love Is a
variety Of insanity. II so. does NOT sanity
come with marriage? Goethe talked OF
an elective affinity OF souls. and mavha
true love In the soul finding its prenatal
half. Why should We not connect love
and marriage? why think ~ them as
two things naturally divorced? Let MS
rather imagine that they lived happily
ever afterward" II far from being an
erroneous conclusion. Most bachelors re-
main single merely because they wish to
contemplate their own greatness, prob
ably only self-apparent, continuously.
Finally, IL II not best that We should
snatch at the possibility OF happy mar
riag@s as we do at the possibility Of
ghosts? so by all means let the Lake
Placid celfbate" delight in his illusions II
So they be. and fancy to his hearts con-
tent that wedding bells are rung by Cupid
New YORK, June I. L. I. h.
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THE "KICKERS CLUB"
sympathies OF . Jerseyite Arc Given
to Collective Calcitratton.

To THE EprToR or THE SuN-Sir: To
the honorable prepayment Of the "kickers
Club" permit me to protest a hearty SYM
pathy with the purpose OF his organiza-
ton. In these parlous times OF puritan
ism run amuck and prejudice exalted
there can be no duty of piety more worthy
than the defence of our vanishing liber-
ties From the embittered antagonisrns
OF Colonel Bryan and Captain Hobson
down through the paternal vagaries OF the
New Freedom" to the puerile meddlings
or DIR. Pease there In no escaping the
mania for the compulsory uplift OF others.
Unfortunately. II seems needful TO for
swear all modes of organized protest
whatsoever In order to be quite safe from
the insidious attack OF the coleopter OF In
tolerant propagandism. In the stress OF
present tendencies the risk of infection In
too great for an ordinary mans moral
confidence In his intellectual equilibrium.
or vice versa, as the case may be.
And further. although dlvinely inspired
In purpose. the name of the proposed club
Is III chosen with respect of historical as
ISOLATION. In Its origin the word kicker
implied the possession OF most offensive
habit OF chronic antagonlsm and indis-
criminste oppugnancy. score OF years
ago or less the term was intended to be
deliberately derogatory and was accepted
as deservedly defamatory by persons who
aspired to any reputation for the virtue OF
adhptability.
The times have changed. and now the
Kicker energies from the cocoon OF his
desuetude In the new guise OF gorgeous
relief from the ubiquitous menace OF the
consecrated "reformer" II IL indeed hard
now to realize that genuine reform once
was honored as Justly as Kicking was
dlscredited. FRED MErcALr.
PLAiNFiEID. y. j., June 6.
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The Bayreuth Halo.

The most important incident in the
operate affairs Of the last year was
the performance Of "Parslfal" outside
OF Bayreuth. London and Paris heard
the work which the heirs of RICHARD
WAGNER struggled so hard to keep
sacred to the precincts Of the Fest
spielhaus. In which IL was for 30 many
years enshrined. Milan heard It In the
historic Ia Scala. and Il was sung IN
Rome, Berlin aud vienna.
SO none Of the mystery Of "the
sacred educational play" any longer
hangs about wAoNER's last compost
ton. In spite Of this so-called prof
anatiOn the work Is agaln announced
as the principal feature " the
programme for the Wagner festival at
Bnyreuth this summer. 1t will be sung
more frequently than any OF the other
music dramas And this has been done
In spite of the performances Of the
work to be given in the Prinz Regentcn
Theatre in Munich. which has been.
ever since It's summer operate fest
walls began. Bayreuth's rival.
But evidently Bnyreuth has learned
not to fear the rivalry OF other opera
houses when II comes to a question OF
this famous music drama. The great
popularity Of the work I'm New York
did not Interfere with It's enduring
success In subsequent festivals. Even
Americans who have now had the op-
portunity to hear the opera in their
own cities continue TO make this jour.
ney. To them and to all the perfect
Wagnerites there Is genulneness
In the representation OF 'Parsifal" ON
the stage erected by Its composer which
all other performances OF 1t lack. SO,
evidently. the opera house Mt Bayreuth
will not suffer any more from the other
European productions than 1t did from
the representations at the Metropolitan
| Opera House.