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The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-03-26
CANDIDATES APPEAR BEFORE
THE HEEREVs-AME RICANs

Speeches in behalf Of iheic candida
cies We're made last evening before the
members of the Hebrew-American as
ISOLATION by Mayor Smith, j. M. Lewis
and r. II. Burton-Smith. Close atten-
tion was given the speakers by che au-
dience which comfortably fillea the
Adas Sholem synagogue.
In his appeal for votes, the mayor
made strenuous denial that there had
been graft in his office during his term
D. office and invited Inspection of hooks
felating to my business transacted by
the city government
Mr.. Lewis spoke briefly, saving that
he was 4 candidate for the waterworks
department because he believed that
he was qualified. both from experience
and training, to administer the bust
ness of that department. He referred
to his record as city engineer and his
connection with waterworks system.
In his address Mr.. BurtOn-Smith said
that he was not making y campaign for
a closed town nor was he campaigning
for an open town. He declared that ne
stood for Il common sense police adj
ministration of the type which has been
given the city by Dick Richard
This. he said. did not mean that he
would appoint Richard chief Of police
II elected, as he did not know that
the former head Of the department
would accept the place. Mr.. Burton
Smith also made n strong plea for the
strict enforcement of the election laws,
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-03-26
ENGLAND, FEARING
REVOLT. MAY DROP
HOME RULE FIGHT

London, March Northumberland
Ing was the Keynote of Premier As
luith's explanation today of the crisis
brought about by the designations of
army officers when their regiments
were ordered to prepare to proceed to
Ulster.
Speaking in the house of commons,
the prime minister made it clear, how
ever, hat officers and men of the
British army refusing to obey orders
in connection with the opposition of
Ulster to the introduction of home rule
for Ireland, We're liable to dismissal,
Details of the revolt of the army of
hcers against service in Ulster had
been awaited with strained expecta-
ton by the whole country. Only brief
statements We're forthcoming from the
secretary for war and the premier, and
the gist of these was that the whole
affair was due to misunderstanding"
turned to their duty.
As far as the minister's statements
can be interpreted. the ''misunder-
standing arose through Gen. Sir
Arthur Paget placing a wrong. con-
struction on the orders given him by
the wal office and telling his subordi-
mates they were to be employed in
quelling an uprising in Ulster.
The number of officers who resigned
their commissions, the extent of the
tisaffection In the army and other de-
tails were not disclosed.
Colonel Seely was derisively jeered
during his explanation.
Andrew Bonar Law, leader Of the
opposition had stated that nothing can
save the army now, except a declara-
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-03-26
RUMoRS ARE RIFE THAT
CABINET WILL RESIGN

Paris, March 23.-Many rumors were
current in political circles today as to
the probable fall of the French cabi-
net as a sequel to the revelations OF
government influence being brought to
bear to procure a postponement of the
trial of Henri Rochette, alleged
sWindler.
In the Hobbies of the chamber of
deputies and the senate it was said that
announcement would be made shortly
of the designations of AlDer.; re i3run.
minister for the colonies; Rene Vivian.
minister of public instruction, and
Andre Maginot, under secretary of
state for war.
1t was argued among members that
in case the cabinet continues in of
flee, it would probably be only because
the opposition groups were unwilling to
form a government until after the cleo
ions in April.
Joseph CaillauX. former minister Of
finance at his own request, came be-
fore the chamber of deputies commit
tee Investigating The Rochelle affair
today and denied that he had either
directly or indirectly requested Maurice
Bernard, the lawyer representing
Rochette, to ask for "a postDonement
of the trial. He said:
did nothing more than transmit to Err
nest Monis, then premier, the inquiries
made by Rochette's lawyers as to
whether the government would oppose
a postponement of the trial"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-03-26
MPOSITORS IN RUN
ON Big DENVER BANK
All Are Being Paid and Clearing
House Is Convinced of
Solveney.

Denver, Colo, March 2~4,-soveral
hundred small depositors were lined up
before the doors Of the German
American Trust company when the
doors opened for business at 10 o'clock
today and at once began drawing out
their deposits. Just before the doors
opened. Godfrey Scllirmer, president
OF the institution. declared it is in
excellent condition, adding: I'VE viii
pay over money to the depositors as
fast as it is requested and meet all
demands
The Denver Clearing House ~associa-
ton, through J.. c. Mitchell, it's presi-
dent, today issued the following state
ment:
Owing to current rumors relating to
the condition of the German-American
Trust company, of this city, the Den
Yer Clearing House association, after
inquiring into the affairs of the said
trust company, is satisfied of it's solv-
ency and the Denver Clearing House
association is prepared to render such
assistance to the said ompany as will
enable it to meet any demands that
may be made upon il"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-03-26
SUPPOSE O GOT.
$4,000 PER YEAR
Would You-No1U Think
Cut Your Salary 10000
as President Stone Has?

Baltimore, Md, March 24.-The gem
eral reader may feel entitled to have
q full and formal affidavit appended
to this piece of news, but it's gospel
truth just the same. There's q man
here who thinks he's getting paid too
much and deity lops $4,000 off his an
nual emolument.
Must be some emolument to stand
that slash! 1t is. The man is John r.
Stone, president of the Maryland Cas-
nalty company, and he has been hosl-
ing the wolf at bay on $4,000 a year.
The directors knew nothing of his in
tended action until he made the state
1nent to the board and asked them to
WELD the ak.
They didn't want to, but he urged
them TO, that he might have a free
hand in bringing about retrenchment'
in expenses all along the line. He
himself.
So the $4,000 per annum was ampu-
tatea, bringing President Stone within
$4,000 of the $4,000 a year which for
mer President Mellen. of the New
HaVsn, said was all any mar on earth
WAS worth.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-03-26
BENTON WAS STABBED
british CONSUL lNFERs
Perceval's Report Declares
Scotch Ranchman Was
Not Shot.

Washington, March 24.-British Con
sui Percivars official report on the
killing of William S. Benton at Juarez.
received at the embassy here today,
says mo pistol shots were fired in
the fight which ended in the ranch
mans death, leaving the inference that
he was stabbed.
Consul Percevals report was the re-
suit of his investigation conducted at
the order of Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, the
British ambassador. 1t does not make
any definite charge as to the manner OF
Benton's death, further than to estap-
lish that it was not by shooting as at
first said by Villa, who explained that
the Englishman had been executed py
q firing squad after court martial.
Friends of Benton on h border
charged that villa himself had shot
the ranchman with a pistol.
The fact that the report inferred that
Benton was stabbed is regarded as
especially significant in connection
with other information obtained by the
constitutionalist commission that IN
y~estigated the affair and which found
that Benton was stabbed by one OF
Villas officers, who is expeced to be
tried for the crime. Consul P~ercevaTs
report also states that Benton Went to
Villa unarmed and to protest against
the theft of his cattle and that findlnS
agrees with the contentious of Benton's
friends.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-03-26
CRIPPLED BOY GUEST
AT The white HOUSE
President Grants Plea to Visit
Him and Weeps at Sight
of Lad.

Washington. March PA pale,
Smiling boy. IL years old, lay on a
stretcher in the blue room of the Wh.--
House today and beside him sat the
president of the United States. The
scene was the elimination OF weeks of
yearn1ns, and the kind response o.
President Wilson to the little boys
plea.
Paralyzed in limb and slowly ebbing
away, Harry Winthrop Davis, of Sc
wickley, Pa, was the presidents early
caller. He came in a motor amba-
lance and three hospital attendants
bore him into the White House to the
blue room. The president came End
chatted for several minutes with the
little fellow, whose eyes beamed with
JOY, and who was at nrst too happy
to speak. Finally he asked about Mrs.
Wilson and left some flowers for her.
The presidents Eyes were dimmed as
K turned away to his day of work,
and the little boy was carried out on
his stretcher to the ambulance and
away to the railroad station and on
to Atlantic City.
The visit to the president was ar
ranged after Mrs. A. L. Davis, the
boys mother, had written Mrs. Wilson
telling how her little boy had been
praying to see the president, and how
she earnestly hoped it might be- ar
ranged. She suggested that the little
fellow could be brought to the White
Rouse and the president promptly
ave his consent.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-03-26
WOMAN SUFFERING
FROM FATAL DRUG

Chicago. March 24.-EXplanation of
circumstances which involve a woman
suffering from poison and q husband
hurrying to the hospital where She
lies, were expected today by the police
on the arrival of r. j. Widney, who
notified the hospital that Vera Lyons,
who was found unconscious in a down
town hotel. was his wife.
Mr.. and Mrs. Widney were registered
s., from Seattle. Widney left the hotel
Saturday, paying the bill for another
day. Sunday, a telephone call from
the hotel to a friend of the woman led
to the discovery of her condition and
her remova to a hospital.
Physicians declared the woman was
suffering from an opiate. She has not
been able to tell any Of the circum-
stances surrounding the taking of the
poison and the police do not know
whether she took it Intentionally. Her
recovery Is doubtful. Widney tele-
graphed to the hospital frors Kansas
City that he would reach Chicago to-
day.
Widney arrived in ChicagF shortly
before moor and went at onch to the
hospital. where the woman was taken
He declined to say whether the woman
was his wife. He said he understood
the police wished to talk to him and
that he would go to detective head
quarters CURING Ile dllSIi1ooH.
San Francisco. Cal.. March 24.-Rob.
ert j. ,Widney, of Los Angeles, Cal.
came into much notoriety here in De.
cember, 1912, when, in response to ar
historical telephone call from Mrs
Vivian M. Lyons, the police found hin
In an apartment he was occupying
with her, shot through the abdomen
The woman was arrested charged
with attempted homicide, but later re.
pudiated her first statements to thu
police, and the case against her wa:
dropped when Widney, who recovered
after a critical illness. said he had
shot himself accidentally.
Widney, who is a married man, il
the son of Judge Robert Widney. His
father came to his assistance and eff.
fected a reconciliation with his wife
but after his recovery, Widney, jr.
was often seen with Mrs. Lyons, and
they came into the hands of the police
a second time. Again Mrs. Lyons tele-
phoned for the police. Widney was
found unconscious from a narcotic
poison and his companion under its
influence to a lesser degree. She said
both a attempted suicide. Both were
lesuscitated and dropped from sihhs
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-03-26
WILSON ANTICIPATES
TOLL BILL WILL WIN
President Anxious That Meas
ure Be Brought to Vote
at Once.

tH HE& MaAFAE MM
Washington, March 24.-yvhile Pres
ident Wilson has no doubt about the
passage of the administration bill to
repeal the Panama toll exemption, he
is anxious that it be brought to- a vote
promptly. He has been advised that a
vote probably Will be taken as soon as
the rivers and harbors bill has been
disposed of.
The president said today it looked to
him as il there had been 4 filibuster on
the rivers and harhors bill to delay the
vote on the tolls question, hut smiling
" remarked tina minorities always
ilibuster.
He denied n charge made on the floor
of the Senate that he had attempted to
limit the tolls debate in the House. He
said there would be one.
In reply to questions as to whether he
thought n improper Influences were
being brought to bear against the re-
peal, the president declared that he
had not sought to lind any and did not
suspect them. He referred to the con-
~troversy as a difference of opinion
among democrats and pointed out that
a majority of House democrats really
had never voted for the tolls exemp-
ton and that the act was passed by a
coalition of republicans With a minority
Of democrats.
The president believes a numbe of
republicans will support him in his
position to repeal the tolls exemption.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-03-26

" Cil5o6S III 'AN'b wal o5SiliSN 1900
wish"
When he said that officers refusing
to serve against Ulster were only doing
their duty, the labor members shouted
How about strikes"
The whole affair is generally ac-
copied as demonstrating that the army
annot be counted Upon to fight Sir
Edward CarsOn's volunteers if such a
contingency should arise. Opposition
politicians declare that this means the
collapse of the home rule project and
express their belief that the govern
n.ent may soon ~relinquiSh office by it's
CWn choice.
Both Premier Asquith and Andrew
Bonar Law. leader of the opposition
recognized the widespread anxiety for
an exhaustive debate on the subject
by agreeing to a motion for the add
journment OF the house Immediately
after the secretary for war had spoken
in order to discuss the Irish situation.
The leader OF the opposition declared
that the governments procedure was
a most amazing instance of paltering
with the house Of commons. The dan
ger of the British army being destroyed
before the countrY's eyes had, he said,
come on h government like q bolt
from the blue. He had. he declared, re-
CeiVed proof from other quarters apart
from the cavalry regiments, that resig-
nations OF officers had occurred.
Mr.. Law then e a letter stating
that officers who would not fight
against the FISHERMEN would be dis
missed from the service.
The action OF the government in
moving troops. Mr.. Law declared, was
foolish as there was no new situation
in Ulster 0 any threatened outbreak.
Reads Generals Letter.
The opposition leade read a letter
in which Gen. Sir Arthur Paget had
stated to the commanding officers of
t- YIat
to begin against Ulster and that it was
expected the country would be in a
blaze by Saturday. The Irish COM
nander in chief wrote that he was in
close communication with the war of
flce and had received Instructions from
headquarters. Mr.. Law asserted:
1T will be difficult for the prime
minister to convince the house thai
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-03-26
WOMEN PRISONERS
THREATEN MUTINY

Paris. March 24.-The re-appearance
before the investigating magistrate of
Madame CaillauX, assassin OF CASTOR
Galmette, great interest t-
Paris today. She was taken from tt.
Saint Lazare prison to the palace 81
Justice in custody of a number of de-
tectives.
Strong guards We're placed near TIL
law courts to prevent demonstrations
A mutiny was threatened today
among the 800 women incarcerated In
the Saint Lazare prison, all of whom
object to the granting OF privileges to
Nine. Caillaux. The punishment cellt
of the Jail are filled with refractory
women who continue to Shrek protests
against 'discrimination.''
Attorneys representing a number OF
the prisoners awaiting trial in the pen-
ltentlary made representations today to
the ministry OF justice demanding that
the cells should be heated and that bet
ter food should be supplied to their
clients.
Madame Caillaux protested today
when she noticed some photographers
stationed near the room where the
magistrate is conducting his investi-
cation into the crime. She hid her face
in her muff n later the Photographers
were expelled from the building.
At the hearing Madame Caillaux was
confronted by Princes De Mesagne-
Estradere, who had been called in con-
nection with the prisoners claim that
she had shot M. Calmettc to prevent
the publication Of private letters.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-03-26
PECK, AUTHOR, TEACHER AND
POET HAD METEORlC CAREER

New York, March 24.-Harry Thurs
ION Peck was a writer of note and &T
s, years was professor of ancient Ian
ga YES at Columbia university. He left
~ Institution more than three years
go in ~seque of unpleasant motor
iety incident to a breach of promise
suit for $4,000 brought against him IL
Esther Quinn, a stenographer. Short
after the filing of the suit, DR.. Pei
filed a voluntary petition in bank
ruptcy. He gave his assets as $3.50.
In March, 1912, Miss Quinn's suit was
dismissed as insufficient. Later she
filed another action, which was pending
at the time of his death.
DR.. Peck dropped out of sight after
his retirement from Columbia, and did
not come before the public eye until
April of last year when he became
critically ill at Ithica, NY, suffering
with a nervous breakdown. His life
was despaired of until his divorced
wife, Mrs. Cornelia d. Peck, a Christian
Scientist, came to the hospital and adj
ministered to him.
Wife and Ex-Wife at Bedside.
The second Mrs. Peck found no OBJ
lection to the illustrations of the di-
yorced Wife, in fact, both worked to-
gether for the professors recovery.
AS far back as 1910. DIR. Peck had a
sharp controversy with Nicholas Muir
ray Butler. president of Columbia, owe
the authorship of certain Latin ad-
dresses. Peck charged that DR.. Butler
purposed to deliver in Berlin as his
own. an address in Latin which Peck
wrote. Or. Butler subsequently adj
nitted that this was true and was
quoted in dispatches from Berlin as
saying that the preparation OF such
matter was part of the professors duty
and that there was no secret about it."
DR.. Peck was born in Stamford, in
1856. and was educated in this country
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-03-26
PREMIER ASQuITH EXPLAINS
ATTITUDE TOWARD ULSTER

Lonuun March 24.--PreIn1er AEQu1tn
has authorized the Times to make the
following statement in his behalf, In
ride to remove the misrepresentation
In the public mind as to the govern
ment's actions and intentions.
First" he ays .the recent love
ment of troops in Ireland We're Of q
purely precautionary character, as 1t
is obvious that the policy OF d~isposing
OF small bodies of troops in Ulster
would be useless from q strategic View
point. The intention was the protsc-
ton of the arms and ammunition de-
pots from a possible raid. As for the
so-ealled naval movements. they o
sisted OF the use of two small cruiserR
to convey a detachment of troops IT,
G~arrickfergus without marching them
through Belfast. No further moveS
ment OF troops is contemplated.
Second. the rumor that warranH
mad been issued for the arrest OF thd
Ulster leaders never a the slightest
foundation. Doubtless Sir Edward Carr
son and his supporters believe the rug
NOR. but the government never has tad
ken and does not contemplate any sucs
step.
Third. there seems to be a wide
spread impression abroad that the gov
eminent contemplates instituting
general inquisition into the intentionEs
OF oiIlcers IN the event of their being
asked to take UP arms against Ulster.
NO such action fs intended, if only for
the reason that the employment Of
troops against Ulster is Il contingency.
arise
The Times adds that the prime min
lister declined to make a statement
about the Curragh designations until
Gen. Sir Arthur Paget had been con-
suited,
But continues the Times, ut is
understood that the minister's view is
that there has been quite an honest
misunderstanding concerning the ma
ture of the duties the officers have
been asked to perform and the inten-
the whole business to a bIundero
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-03-26

with or without his Knowledge sorss Z
his colleagues did not make fhsSa
movements of troops as part Oh c1nr
scertad plan to provoke or intfmtdata
Ulster
I Tho dreaded Sunday passed without
the slightest disturbances In
Belfast Or In Ulster. Eat#the gravity
of the crisis is fuIlyirdfcatcd hv the
that the king Cancelled his intend
ed week end visit to the Earl and
Countess of Derby. atSLiverpooL.
King for Conciiiation.
,The king has thrown his influence
on the side of the conciliation and
seems to have made b personal appeal
to the officers. who had resolved to re-
sign rather than lac the possibility OF
being called upon to fight IN Ulster.
and it may be taken for granted that
the king is equally exerting his Inc
fiuence with the ministers IN the same
conciliatory directions.
Proofs aresnot wanting OF the desire
on both sides that everything possible
should be dom to avoid any chance of
conflict. The nationalists have aban-
dored their proposed parade at Lon
dou, and Sir Edward Carson, the Ulster
ulljonist leader, continues to voice his
desire to do his gtinost to avoid provo
catiye acts.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-03-26
WANTS SINGLE MEN
TO PAY HEAVY TAX

Pittsburgh, Pa. March 23.-"All the
oriental youths must marry when they
are young. L want to see a law passed
over 25 who is not married, to paw n
tax to the government for the supper
of a Wife" Rev. DIR. Camden M. Co
bern, of Allegheny college, MeadvilIe
Pa. said at the session of the mid
winter bibie conference. DR.. Coburn
and urged young men to marry young
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-03-26
MODERN "BLUEBEARD"
BEHEADED IN. GERMANY

Frankfort-on-the Main, Germany,
March 2S.-Carl Fc2pf a druggist of
this city, who has been named the
"Bluebeard of Germany was haheaded
TODAY for murderinS his father, ms
first wife and his " children,
The accused ma vas found guiity
sftempting to murder his second n
third wives and several other persons.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-03-26
WILSON KEEPING OFF
STOCK EXCHANGE Bill

Washington, March 23.-Vhe eronosed
II he were taking any parl maychanges.
legislation to regulate stoc not he had
R5s. Bss8sa W sHY jsd 5sR' Is; z 81 e familiar sfiss
ton because he had nor ne exchange.
He am iis w told callers ,I,sssb ssat ess sSa dus
ance of exchange y awIIerewithali'
largely t. his .. lax SPECULATION oe at anx
time.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-03-26
MONEY FOR SOCIALISTS.

Grand Junction, Colo, March 24.-
William Sawyer, who died here re-
Gently. left his entire estate of $4,000
to the socialist party upon the death of
his sister. IN the will filed today small
requests are made to every socialist
newspaper and the residue to the ma
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-03-26
WOMAN FIRES THREE
BULLETS AT JUDGES

Paris, March 24-Three shots from
a revolver We're fired at the judges sit
ting in the sixth chamber of the pal
ace of justice today by a woman whose
identity was not established. The au-
thorities, after her arrest, declared the
Mnman apDarentIN was unbalanced.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-03-26
PERFORMERS In PARIS
TO WEAR MORE CLOTHES

Paris. March 23.-The Paris police
today began the introduction of a
scheme of moral reform in the public
resorts of the city. Celestin Rennison,
project OF police, summoned the pro-
prietors of all the music and dance
halls ard concert cafes to the prefec-
ture where he informed them that ex-
hibitions of undraped performers woui
no longer be tolerated.