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The Lakeland evening telegram., 1914-01-21

The audible visible signal of the
Lehish Valley, both by sight and
hearing warns the motorist or the
driver Of any vehicle of the ap-
proach of a train in ample time.
The system is believed to mark the
last word in safety for grade sig
nails.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1914-01-21
LABOR NEWS AND NOTES

Fort Worth and Dallas, Texas,
electrical workers have been on a
strike for a soc day increase in
their pay.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1914-01-21

The building Trades Conneh )"
Montreal claims that the come .
tors there are disregarding tae Ian
wages clause and trouble Is tAIs~'
ened,
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1914-01-21
JAPAN NOT PLEASED
WITH REPLY OF ]. S,
lBy Associated Press

ioklo' Jan. = Japan regards
IS unsatisfactory the replies made
~ lne United States to her protest
against California land ownership
lesisla'lon Foreign Minister Ma.
klho today made this statement in
MS annual address to parliament
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1914-01-21

The recent dcDlorable catastrophe
mt Calumet. Mich 90, in which some
eixty persons, mainly children, lost
their lives at a Christmas eve on
tcrtainment 10 the children of strik
in minors has drawn public at
tontior more closely TO tho straa-
rla which has been going on no"
frr eryoral months in tho conAer
rtnine district Of northern Nichi-
ran struggle with which the
Western Federation of Miners is ac-
lively associated. \ great deal Of
appears to have been
shown in tho fight, and as usual,
both sides have their own version
Of the violence and shooting affrays
which have been reported. Some
1f 900 miners are engaged in the
struggle and perhaps some $4,000
men, women and children are af-
fected
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1914-01-21

\ thorough investigation is to be
made of the water being served the
people of Sarasota, with a view to
any evils that may exist.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1914-01-21

Mulberry has let contract to the
]. b. McCrary Co of Atlanta for
construction of a sewer system. The
work of excavating is in progress.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1914-01-21

Tho Lake county school fair will
.. ~ attraction at TaTares the la'-
..- mart Of this month
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1914-01-21
RAILROAD NOTES

Railway mail clerks running into
Sioux City, Iowa, have organized a
relief association.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1914-01-21

The Pittsfeld, Mass. Board of
Trade has prepared copies of a pc
tition to be presented to the New
York legislature, protesting against
the granting # further extension
OF time to the Troy Rcnssolai, and
PittsGeld Railway TO. for building
the road which they have had an
opportunity to build under charter
aud franchise for thirteen years.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1914-01-21

r:nnlovr4 If the Baltimore and
0hi9 iailroad 1T Newark Ohio, are
rirrulatin" Il petition to tie inter-
state commerce commission, asking
that the application of the eastern
railroads Tor an increase in freight
rates be Granted The petition is
being circulated in business circles,
shippers. merchants, iobbers, buy
ars. public officials, professional men
and others showing Il WILLINGNESS to
sign il. Several hundred names
have been affixed to the document.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1914-01-21

Theatrical stage employees in CAL
gary, Alta, have organized union
that is growing rapidly.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1914-01-21

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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1914-06-11
Brief News of the Week

Kansas needs 61,950 men, and NOR.
than 5000 extra teams and 2260 extra
cooks to harvest its big grain crops
this season.
Kansas City captured the heat rec
ord for the year, the thermometer
registering 81. A number of prostra
tons were reported.
Damage amounting to 100000
was caused in Los Angeles county,
CAL, by the recent floods, says a re-
port of the engineers.
California horticulturists will pre-
pare resolutions asking the postoffice
department to prohibit the sending of
vegetables infected with pests through
the mails.
More than $4,000 damage resulted
from thunder and rain storm at
Evansville. Ind. The First Avenue
Presbyterian church was wrecked, at
loss of $4,000.
The poll tax law of Utah was de-
clared null and void because of the
fact that it conflicted with the state
constitution which guarantees equal
rights to men and women.
First stake has been driven in the
survey Of proposed railroad routes in
Alaska. The route undertaken is that
between Chitina and the Matanuska
coal fields.
A severe wind, lightning and hail
storm swept the northern part of Ohio,
Missouri and Kansas report q heat
wave and in Kansas the public schools
were dismissed on account of the heat
An anti-American demonstration at
Tampico, started by some drunken
poems, was put down by Mexican reb-
els. according to information sent to |
by Rear Admiral Badger
from Vera Cruz.
Imports have been increased and
exports reduced, according to figures
given out by the department of for.
sign commerce of the United States.
Many beef cattle are coming in.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1914-06-11
PRESIDENT BEL|TTLES
HASTY WAR SPIRIT

Annapolis, Md.-President Wilson
aroused special interest in closing his
address to the naval academy grad.
uating class by his declaration that
the young men of the navy should be
ready to fight for the public welfare,
and not merely on the drop of q hat
or upon some slight punctilio." In
view Of the alag incident" at Vera
Crus and its subsequent disappear
aaee from the discussion of Mexican
affairs. this reference to punctilio as
falling short of being a casus belli
was noted with smiles and knowing
mods.
The president also told the young
midshipmen that the boys down at
Vera Cruz would leave as their most
lasting impression on the people of
Mexico the fact of their self-control,
not the way they fought.
A great crowd Of 5000 persons. of.
flosrs, cadets and relatives and
friends of the graduates. filled the
armory.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1914-06-11
People in the News

The record of the Harry Thaw cas-
has been filed with the supreme cour
of the United States.
| President Wilson will attend the re
union Of the Princeton class of 10
of which he is member, at the col
lege June Is.
Secretary of State Bryan will de
liver series of Chautauqua lectures
this year, mis- first public appearance
being at North Carolina, July 4.
Kermit Roosevelt, son of ex-Presi.
dent Theodore Roosevelt, was married
at Madrid. June 10. The religious
ceremony was performed June IL.
The corner stone of New Ravens
new marble postoffice was laid by ex.
President Taft. The building will cost
about $1,600,0O0.
Ex-Vice President Adlai Stevenson.
who suffered nervous breakdown
following the death of his wife six
months ago. is said to be in a serious
condition in the hospital at Chicago.
Prices of food articles are soaring
in Vera Cruz and Brigadier-General
Funston may open an army food mar.
ket and appoint Mexicans and Ameri.
can army men to investigate the tro.
BILE.
BY spelling 400 words without
William Boselarger, aged II.
Of East st. Louis, won the spelling
bee. Thirty-five boys and girls OF the
sixth grade took part and the contest
lasted liz hours.
Misses Mary and Eleanor B. Bloom.
held, daughters of Sir Arthur Bloom.
Held, managed to get inside Of the
Royal Palace. London, and offer mn
plea for woman suffrage to the king.
they were elected.
Automobiles may be bought for an
lverage of $500 each and the upkeen |
vill be about $40 month, within the |
lext ten years. according to DR.. c. p !
'teinmeitz, in a statement at the Ma.
lonai Electric Light association. Phil
delphia.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1914-06-11

Indictments Found Against Plumbers
Dss Observation-Disclosures were re
turned against Sc officials and mem.
bsrs OF the National Association of
Master Plumbers and officials of state
organizations in Illinois, Wisconsin,
Michigan; Minnesota. Missouri, Neb-
raska and Iowa by the federal grand
Jury. The indictments charge con-
spiracy In restraint Of trade in viola
tion OF the Sherman antitrust law.
1t II specifically alleged that the Ma
tional Association of Master Plumbers
has been operating in violation of law
ever since its organization in 1884.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1914-06-11
VERA CRUZ PRICES SOAR
Funston May Open ARMY Food Mar.
ket to Restore Normal Costs.

ket to Restore Normal Costs.
Vera Cruz-Brigadier-G General Fun
ston announced that he contemplated
appointing commission of Mexican
residents and American army officers
to investigate the increased cost OF
living in Vera Cruz since the occupa-
ton.
Complaints have reached the gen.
eral that wholesale dealers and i'm
porters have been squeezing the retail
dealers and hotelkeepers. Several i'm
porters are known to have considera-
BILE stocks on hand. but they are fore
ing up the prices.
1t Is said General Funston may seek
permission to sell army subsistence
to restore normal prices.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1914-06-11
Deputies Guard John D.

Tarrytown, N. Y.-To guard against
molestation of John d. Rockefeller
and his SON at Pocantico Hills,
thought to be possible due to strike
developments in Colorado. 16 deputies
from the White Plains county jail
were placed on the Rockefeller estate.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1914-06-11
BLOCKADE OF PORT
ORDERED BY HUERTA
Sends Two Gunboats to Tam.
pico to Head off Munitions
for Mexican Rebels.

Washington.-A new crisis in the
Mexican situation was brought about
by President Huerta ordering gun.
boats to blockade the port of Tampico
and to seize cargo of ammunition
en- route there for rebels aboard the
Antilla, from New York, flying the
Cuban flag. Huerta notified the pow
ers of his intention to blockade the
port and that he proposed to seize
the cargo consigned to the 'belliger-
ents against his sovereignty as con-
traband of war.
The purpose of the United States
to suppress the attempt to blockade
and prevent interference with the An
tilla was indicated when Secretary
Daniels issued an official statement
announcing that while no new orders
had been given Admiral Badger, there
had been no change in the policy of
the government in reference to the
desire that the port of Tampico shall
be open to all commerce.
That an attempt to carry out the
Huerta blockade decree will be made |
was verified by Admiral Badger in a |
report to the navy department from
Vera Cruz. He advised that the Mex
lean gunboats Zaragoza and Bravo,
which left Puerto Mexico had passed
Vera Cruz and were steaming toward
Tampico.
Huerta Orders Blockade Of Tampico.
Mexico City.-The foreign office
sent note to the legations notifying
them that the port of Tampico had
been blockaded by order of President
Huerta. The United States govern
ment was also notified through the
Spanish minister at Washington.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1914-06-11
10000 Workmen Strike.

Pittsburg.-Ten thousand workmeu
employed by the Westinghouse inter
ests IN the plant OF the Westinghouse
Electric & Manufacturing companv
the Westinghouse Machine company
ana the Pittsburg Meter company.
struck.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-08
Brave Old GevrOl

The man who stood behind the table was clad in garments such as are worn by pcrters about hotels and railway stations But his clothes were dirty and torn, soiled with wine and blood.
 His eyes blazed with mad fury as he leveled his pistol at the intruders. He was of medium stature and wore a full beard
 Gevrol was an old hand in the police business and we'll acquainted with most of the dangerous characters of Paris, and, while not remarkable for acute ness of intellect or ingenuity of device, had, by plodding along faithfully and on the whole successfully in his calling, made for himself name in police cir cles
 He was obstinate and opinionated and had rather too good an opinion of him self. But he was undoubtedly brave
 "Surrender!'' he cried to the man be- hind the table.
 The mans lips moved-he was evi- dently trying to speak, but found him self unable to do so.
 Lay down your arms,' cried Gevrol, i've are ir force-you cannot escape"
 In a hoarse, strained voice the man managed to say: 'I am innocent. l was attaeked-ask that old woman there. acted in self-defense."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-08
At Bay Behind a Table

One of the policemen raised hlmseir bv clinging to the shutters so that he could look into the room through the opening in closed blinds.
 .HorribleW cried the policeman who was looking through the shutters.
 "Open in the name of the law! re- heated Gevrol, and, dashing his shoul- der aeainst the door, he broke 1t open.
 The men crowding in through the door stood fixed with horror. By the light of the fre-all other lights had apparently been eXtinguished in the struegle-they saw two dead men lying on either side of the fireplace. In the middle of the room lay another man dying.
 On the lower step of a stairway lead Ing up to the upper story sat With cred old hag with her apron over her head. moaning and uttering inarticulate sounds. Opposite them, on the thres- hold Of a wide open door leading to an adjoining room, stood young man with a heavy table before him and a pistol in his right hand.
 Tables, glasses, decanters, stools' household utensils had been overthrown in the struggle in every direction-the glasses shivered to atoms and trodden under foot.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-08
Something to Think About

Lecoq selected F'r. Absinthe because he knew the man was docile and would do as he said. When the two were finally left alone in the Pepper-box Lecoq began to act.
 Gevrol had said that the affair was merely a drunken brawl among the out casts of the quarter-a low. sordid affair without any mystery to it.
 Dacoo thought otherwise, and, being ambitious. set out to prove his superior wrong.
 Mother Chupin had declared she knew nothing of what had occurred; had been upstairs at her sewing. and did not even know the actors In the tragedy.
 Although GevroI took her prisoner as 2 witness, he believed her. Lecoq had not believed her.
 That expression of the murderer's: 'It Is the Prussians who are coming" had much impressed him. It was the ex- pression used by one of Napoleon's gen. erals at the battle of Waterloo when, instead of the expected Army of Grouchy coming in on the right to the support of the Imperial troops, there appeared the hostile Army of Bluch er
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-08
FOotprjnts in the Snow

No man of the station the murderer's clothes proclaimed him would have used the expression It meant, in the mind of Lecoq, that the man arrested was a man of education.
 It meant also, he thought, that the prisoner had expected to see coming in from the back of the house a confed- crate instead of policeman. He mo- ticed how small and white the mans hands were.
 Lecoq found a lantern--a regular thieves lantern which threw a strong light in a circumscribed space-and with Fr. Absinthe went out into the backyard.
 There had been light fall of snow that day and they easily traced three sets of footprints. From the back door to a little gate opening on to a large, vacant piece of ground two women had evidently ran hastily.
 One track showed the imprint of a small, delicately shaped shoe with very high heels. The other showed the im- print of a large, broad shoe with rather low heels-but still woman's shoe.
 Then there was a mans tracks. He had evidently come in at the back gate and as liar as the back door, and then he had, apparently, some difficulty in finding; for he had not made a straight course to it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-08
Iecon on Guard

Anger had given him a momentary strength. but he could speak no more. foam gathered at his lips and he fell back dead.
 They saw the number of the regiment on the buttons of the young mans coat and sent for an officer of that regiment. When he came he knew not the man-the uniform was condemned military property, bought in secondhand clothing shop.
 Meantime Gevrol went to where the old woman still sat rocking and moaning and. tearing the apron from her head, threw it beside the stairs.
 The widow Chupin and the murderer were taken to the police station and Lecoq ordered to stay on guard at the place with anyone of his companions he might select.
 He selected a veteran who was known among his fellows as F'r Absinthe, because Of his liking for that destroying beverage a liking which had prevented his promo ton in the force.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-08
GeyrOl's BIunder

When Locoq described to the commis- sioner the accomplice, as he imagined him, Gevrol exclaimed: Thunder and l-' he had gone too far to draw back and now said that as he had been leav- ing the station house he had seen just such man as Lecoq described reelins along drunk.
 The man had fallen in the street and Gevrol had had him picked up and car ried inside. He had been thrown into the prison "cage." with the arrested mur- derer.
 When they reached the station house later they found that the supposed man had become sober and had been released.
 He had spoken with Mother Chupin.
 'Yes,' said the atendatnt. The old woman kept up such a bowling and screaming that the drunken man, when he became sober, had gone to the wicket between the woman's cage and the mems cage and told her to be silent
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-08
"The Prussians Coming"

Gevrol stepped forward, saying in calri tone: Don't be foolish, my boy. It is possible you have good case don't spoil it."
 The murderer turned to dash through the door behind him--and ran into the arms of a policeman who~ had gone around to the back of the house to be ready for just such a move op the part of the criminal.
 "Ah," exclaimed the murderer as he saw his new antagonist. Tt is the Prus- sians who are coming. Lost! There was a short struggle and the man was disarmed and handcuffed.
 The policeman who had cut off the re- treat of the murderer was a young man who had but lately joined the force Lecoq by name and known to his fel- lows, from superiority of 'caste" which he could not help showing as "M. Le- coq.''
 "rhat was a good idea" said Geyrol, ito go around to the back of the house I thought of it myself, but could not give the order without warning the scoundrel himself. Now let us attend to the others; light the lamps"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-08
To the Dukes House

Meeting Fr. Absinthe outside, Lecoq and he followed the men to a secluded street which ran by the back wall of the garden of the magnificent residence of tle Duke de Sairmeuse.
 Give me a leg" said M,ty; q will go over the wall and open the gate for you"
 Over the wall went May, and at the same time his confederate felt a hand placed over his mouth and lcar strong arms grasping him.
 Lecoq blew his police whistle and up ran the regular police. They iScognizcd the captive-a notorious burglar whom the police had been long seeking.
 He was taken to the station house, where they gave orders from Lecoq fir d force of the regular police to hurry tc his assistance, reportny to him at the front entrance of the Hctel de Sair- neuse.
 Fr. Absinthe helped Lecoq over the wall and the detective entered he house ty a side door. He showed his badge and to Id his story; already the polics he had gent for were gathered at the front en- trance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-08
At the Pepper Box

TIT was about Il o'clock on the night
 of shrove Sunday when party Of II the secret police of Paris, who were exn1oring one of the most dangerous suburbs of the city, heard wild shriek' followed by two pistols shots, come from a disreputable resort known as the Pepper-boX.
 "Run!" cried Inspector Gexrol- known as the "Generaf-who had charge of the police party, and they all dashed off to old Mother Chupin's drink ing place.
 They found the house closed tignuy' nut through the heart-shaped openings in the shutters they could see reoaisn light like that of an open fire.
 It was a wretched hovel, this Pepper pox. standing alone, and was well known as the resort of the worst or the thieves. thugs and outcasts who sWarmed in the quarter.
 It took the police scarcely minute to reach the door of the Pepper-oox ana Geyrol thundered on the door, crying "openi" Inside they could near the sound of a struggle--fierce impreca- tions. groans and the sobs of a woman
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-08
All Very Simple

And on the top of the back fence Le- coz could see where, when he came in, the man had rubbed the snow off as he felt along the top railing for the gate he wished to enter.
 'The women have been in and out of this back gate before," said Lecoq "else they could not have gone so straight to it In the dark. The man had not
 And the man came here after the women had fled. In their flight they probably met him and, telling him of the gate, sent him back to reconnoiter,
 You can see that wherever his foot prints cross one made by the women they are on top-therefore made later.''
 It was all very simple, but Fr. Ab- sinthe was nightly impressed, and when Lecoq explained to him the meaning of the expression, Tt Is the Prussians who are comingl" his admiration Knew no bounds, and he threw in his lot with the young detective there and then.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-08
The Judge Interested

Lecoq groaned. The accomrice had been. by his ruse. able to communicate with the very people he should not have been able to reach.
 The murderer, who gave his name as May-declaring that he was founding and had no other name-was taken to the Palace of Justice and locked up in q carefully guarded cell.
 AS he left the prison van he walked straight to the proper door-seemed to know exacoy where he was going-which way to turn.
 An old offender; he has been here be- fore" laughed Gevrol.
 ''How now about your Marquis or Prus- sian Prince, M. Lecoq?" Lecoq bit his lips.
 The judge of ''instruction" of the tri- bunal of the Seine was M. Maurice d Es- corval, son of that famous Baron d Es- corval of whom Napoleon said: Men as honest as he may, I believe. exist. But more honest? no-it is i'm possible
 The judge complimented Lecoq highly upon his report and virtually placed him in charge of the case. So much in- terested was the judge that he went to pay personal visit to the murderer in his cell.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-08

''rhe man." said Lecoq after his exam ination ran to the Rue oe Chateaudes- Renters. He wished to know what would become of the murderer and placed him. self in his path, probably following him to the station house.
 "The women ran to the Rue du Chave- leret. There they took a carriage, for where their footprints cease there are the marks of the wheels of a carriage which had been coming from Paris and there turned around and went back again.
 Tt was probably some returning public cab from livery stable near here which the women hailed, and, bribing the driver. made him take them back to the city"
 "Wonderfull" cried Fr. Absinthe.
 But we have only begun" said Lecoq, we are still in the dark"
 They returned to the Pepper-box and Lecoq saw with dismay that a gentle, warm rain was beginning to fall.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-08
Mistress and Maid

While the woman with the small feet was recovering her breath, the woman with the broad feet-I think they were mistress and maid-took the accomplice aside to this stone-see the tracks ?-and talked with him.
 While they talked he rested his right hand upon the top of the stone. See the marks of his hand and the impression of the wedding ring? Then the accomplice ran to the Pepper-box and swiftly re- turned, for we were even then breaking in the doors.
 Possibly he brought them orders from the murderer who had, evidently, re- mained to cover the retreat of the wom- en-"
 Then Lecoq followed the tracks leading from the lumber yard. Those of the ac- complice ran in one direction;j those of the women in another.