The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-10
SPARKS FROM THE WIRES

New orleans.-Another attempt is
 being made to form union of the five Central American republics, according
 to an announcement here today of Gen.
 Juan Paredes of Honduras General
 Paredes is well known in this country.
 having served in Washington during
 the Taft administration as special en-
 voy of Honduras. Prior to that he
 was minister of finance in his coun-
 try.
 New York.-Rhinelander Waldo, Mayor Gaynor's police commissioner,
 obtained today a supreme court order requiring Mayor Mitchell and other
 members of the board of estimate and apportionment to show cause why a peremptory writ of mandamus should
 not be issued directing them to correct
 the city record by changing the word
 removed" in the notice of his separ- alton from the department of police to resigned"
 Washin gton.-Miss Julia Lathrop,
 head of the federal childrens bureau, gave President Wilson today a prelim-
 mary statement of the study being | made by the bureau on the subject of health for the feebleminded Iouisville.-Permanent organization | of the National Conference of State Supervisors and Inspectors of Rural Schools was effected today at the clos ing session of the first national con | ference. which has been in session | here the last fniJr nua1 meeting of the conference prob abily will be held in Cincinnati in Feb ruary, 1915, as a section of the su- perintendence department of the Ma tional Educational association. New York.-Attorneys for the gov ernment in the dissolution suit against the American Sugar Refining company sought testimony today in support of their contention that the corporation curtailed the supply of refined sugar
 and increased prices by buying up rival refinerfes and closing them Denver.-Financia aid-state. federal or both combined-for the relief of western irrigation projects was held up as a crying need by speakers at the first days session here of the irriga- tion conference called by Secretary Lane of the interior department. 
 Indianapolis, Ind.-Ofricials at the inter- national headquarters of the Mine Work CTS of America here tonight were looking forward with keen interest to a meeting
 of Ohio soft coal operators at Columbus tomorrow. which has been called, accord ing to word received here tonight to set tie the question of testing the constitu-
 tionality of the new anti-screen law in
 that state.
 Terre Haute. Ind.-Unused ballots were
 burned instead Of being returned to the
 city clerk required by law and tally sheets showing the vote in the last city election were signed before the count was made. according to testimony today of Lea II. Hollis. progressive election judge, in the trial of Mayor Dom NJ. Rob orts, charged with election frauds.
 New York.-Richard l.. Metcalfe of Ne braska. who recently was succeeded by Col. George w. Goethals as governor of the Panama canal zone, returned today on the steamship Ancon. He said he would stop in Washington to see President Wilson
 Washington Economies effected by Fourth Assistant Postmaster General BialHeslie during the flrse year of his ad- minstration have netted the government a saving of S1,000,000, according to figures announced today by Postmaster General Burleson.
 Albany N. Y.-Women watchers at the