The Alaska citizen., 1915-07-12

o4lIN IF IflSOIS llltl utdlI III bht United States as the direct result Of celebrating the national holiday. Nine hundred and three were more or less seriously injured. however. and of this number several may die later.
 CENSORS BLAMED NEW YORK, July 6.-The New York Evening World is authority for the statement that the government wireless Censors in charge of the Sayville station were easy marks for the Germans. Phrases were used. it is claimed which conveyed vast ly different meaning when common words were used either before or after
 UNION MAN SHOT. CHICAGO. July Charles John son. secretary of the local Bricklayers' union, was shot twice and probably fatally wounded early this morning by an unknown aSsail- ant. Johnson has taken an active part in the labor troubles which have tied up the building industry in this city, and his death, it is believed, will hasten the settlement of the differences between the workers and their employers.
 HOLT TRIES SUICIDE NEW YORK. July 6.-Holt. the man who attempted to take the life of J. Pierpont Morgan last Saturday, tried to commit suicide today by severing an artery in his wrist, us ing a lead pencil to make the in cision
 | Shortly after the bleeding man had been discovered. a message was received from his wife, who is at ! Dallas stating that she had secured the best legal talent obtainable and requesting her husband to keep quiet and await developments. 1 Holt will appear in court tomorrow if his condition permits. j. Pierpont Morgan, who was wounded on Saturday by Holt, is recovering steadily and will soon be able to leave his home, according to physicians in attendance. The financier conversed with his business associates today over the long dis tance telephone from his home in | GlenCove and assured them that he was feeling fine.
 BRYAN IS NEUTRAL. l SAN FRANCISCO. July For 1 IiIti .NtNItldiS pl 'Dtctt IoI ttl iif'c refused to deliver an address before | pendence union. an organization which Bryan has learned is abso- lutely pro-German.
 RUSSIA WANTS SHELLS. SEATTLE, July 7.-Representa- have placed orders with Seattle firms | yA, ,F,, ,l,,, Il valued at S1,250.000 A third of the money is now on deposit in local banks, to be paid as fast as deliver ] ies are made.
 NOTE DISLIkED. | WASHINGTON. D. C., July T. The advance draft of the German reply to the American rejoinder, which was received from Ambassa- dor Gerard yesterday, is regarded as unsatisfactory by President Will son, who has instructed Gerard to i refuse to give up a single point to | the kaiser.
 MANY MEN TO WORK. | PITTSBURG, July 7.-Reports re- ceived in this city from wide sec tion of the United States indicate that at least 100000 idle men will soon find employment in steel mills and locomotive works as the result of the receipt of large contracts from the Russian government.
 BOSTONlANS IN FRISCO.
 SAN FRANCISCO, July 7.-Mayor James M Curley and party of Bos- ton, arrived in this city today to view the Panama-Pacific Information al exposition.
 PLEAD GUILTY. | INDIANAPOLIS. July 7.-Six of i the men indicted with Boss Taggart on the charge of political corruption in the 1913 elections, entered pleas of guilty today and sought the mercy of the court. It is expected that the others will make a fight for their liberty.
 VIOLATES NEUTRALITY.
 PORTLAND, Ore, July 7.-Jovan Matanovitch, personal representative of the king of Montenegro, was placed under arrest today on the charge of violating the neutrality laws of the United States. The charge against the Montenegrin is that he has been engaged in whole sale recruiting for the Montenegrin army throughout the Northwest. He is held under bonds in the sum of 1 $10 0000.
 MRS. TAAW IN TROUBLE. | NEW YORK. July 7.-Evelyn Thaw has been held in contempt of court because of her sudden depar- ture from the city last night in de | fiance of the orders of the court. A bench warrant was issued today and will be served on Evelyn at her camp.
 HOLT KILLS SELF. NEW YORK, July 7.-Frank Holt, the man who attempted to kill J, i Pierpont Morgan last Saturday, com mitted suicide today in his cell in the Mineola jail, where he was held pending an examination. When found by the jail guards, Holt was | lying in a heap on the floor, with his skull crushed, and it is believed that he climbed to the top of the cell door and leaped from there to the floor, head first. It was also evident that he had made a further attempt to open the artery in his wrist, which he partially severed yesterday with a lead pencil. i The remains have been positively | identified as those of Meunter, the Harvard professor who killed his wife in 1906.
 Letters found in the cell revealed his plans for destroying many ships sailing from this port. The letters were addressed tO his wife who