The Springdale news., 1914-05-15

An adverse report by army eng1 neers upon the project for seven-foot channel from the dam at the head of the feeder of the Illinois and Missis- sippi canal near Sterling, H., to Janesville, Wis. was transmitted by Secretary of War Garrison to the house.
 Representative Oldfield of Arkansas chairman of the committee on pat ents, introduced a bill providing for a reorganization of the United States patent office The bill increases the salaries of the officials of the bureau and creates a number of new high salaried positions.
 Probable adjournment of congress 1 by July 10 was predicted by Senator Kern, Democratic leader of the sen. ate, after a White House conference at which the president and Senators l Kern, Hoke Smith and OGorman dis. cussed the legislative program. Returns from the election of dele gates to the head camp of the Modern Woodmen of America at Toledo, O., in June, gave 220 of the s34 delegates to the administration forces, according to the announcement at WoOdmen head. quarters, Rock Island. III. The oppo- sition forces refused to coneede their defeat, however.
 An explosion at the government of Panama dynamite magazine resulted in the killing of eight persons. Nine teen others were seriously injured. The property was destroyed Two hundred and fifty Mohamme- dan Albanians, captured by the Epi- rote invaders at Hormova, were cruel fled in the orthodox church at Kodra, according to information received by the Albanian government. fingered at Pancho Villa because he had deposed Gen. Manuel Chao as mil itary governor of Chihuahua, Gen. Nenustiano Carranza threatens to re- SISl dS LII lSl CuItl QI lHC alists and to quit the revolution. Hiram Duryea, the wealthy retired starch manufacturer. was murdered by his son Chester as he lay asleep in his Brooklyn home The servants nou. fled the police and they arrested the son.
 
 Costa Rican Minister Calvo an nounced that Alfredo Gonzales, the first delegate or vice-president, had been chosen by the Costa Rican cou- gress as president of the republic.
 Three lives were lost and nearly s1, 900 ,000 in property was swept away as result of the floods on the South Canadian and Cimarron rivers in west ern and southern Oklahoma.
 More than 50 lives were lost in . fire in the commercial section of Val para.so, Chile Several buildings were destroyed Their flimsy construction rendered the efforts of the fire fight CTS virtually useless.
 The failure of Cramp, Mitchell & Co, bankers and brokers, with liabif- ties exceeding $3000.0 900. was an nounced on the Philadelphia stock ex- change.
 John George, foreman, and Enrico Macchi and Peter Masamaghetti, workmen employed by the Marquette Coal company at Oglesby, ILL, were asphyxiated in tunnel where they had been dynamiting.
 Pennsylvania railroad detectives an. nounced three attempts to wreck Erie passenger trains at Transfer, Pa. They claim to have evidence to cause the arrest of several persons within 24 hours.
 With Mrs. Madeline Force Astor and her mother as the only absentees among the invited relatives, William l Vincent Astor, heir to the millions of the late Col. John Jacob Astor. mar ried Helen Dinsmore Huntington in the library of the brides home. Hope land House, Staatsburg, N. Y.
 
 Armed uprising of laborers in All sections of the country were predict ed by Lieut. Gov. Barratt OHara and other speakers at the meeting of the Chicago Federation of Labor.
 At the request of President Wilson. Chairman Hay of the house committee on military affairs introduced reso- lution providing that the appropria- tion of s100, ,000, 900 carried by the mili- tary bill be made available for ex- penditure at once instead of on July l, as provided in the measure.
 Charges that there is a brewers trust in Missouri have been made to 1 Attorney-Ceneral Barker in letters