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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1916-06-30

PA, were you ever caught smoking
when you were a boy?" asked Tommy
Slathers, who had been invited TO tho
wOohshcd for private Interview with
his father.
why er-ycs." answered Mr..
Slathers
Did your father punish your"
NO, he didn't"
Then | hope you won't be hard on
mo because you have caught me smok.
ing"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1916-06-30

Following the Horse SHOW and In.
spectiDn 0f ground and bindings, a
picnic lunch VIII be- served at tho COT
lege In which II Ii hoped that alt viz
itOrs VIII join During the lunch
period. from II to 2 +. NJ number
OF lectures have been arrHnred for
the benefit Of thosG who care TO so-
cure Information on topics Of tpccial
interest 10 them These talks will
be short and Informal In nature. deal,
ing with live subjects relating to agri.
culture and home economics, and
illustrated In a practical and helpful
manner information regarding these
lectures may BE- obtained ON the
grounds during the morning Inspec-
tiOn.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1916-06-30

The program Tor the afternoon VIII
be Of especial note. as addresses BY
Hon Carl II Gray. President, Wes lern
Maryland Railroad and Hon. Ifoke
expected to feature the occasion.
Greetings TO the assembled visitors
will DO extended BY President ii. J.
Patterson. under whose leadership Ehs
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1916-06-30
BIG AUCTION SALE
Lots and Small Farms Magnificent Cottage Fine Barn
Cows Horses Etc
BEL AIR. MARYLAND cDNONDAY, JULY 3rd, 1911
10 O'CLOCK A. Nj.

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Iron County register., 1916-08-03

Enoch J. Simmons, SO years old
choked on a piece Of meat which
lodged in his windpipe while he was
eating lunch the other day at Spring
field. He died within ten minutes.
Iron County register., 1916-08-03
U. S. BIC TRADE BALANCE.
GREATEST YEAR OF HISTORY
CLOSED JUNE 80.
$4,000, ,o0o, ,000-June Shows
Biggest Gain.

Washington, D. C.-Foreign trade
of the United States closed its great
est year in history June 80 with a
balance of $2,136,0OO,O00 in favor of
American exporters. The years ex-
ports aggregated $4,334, 100000, the
and imports were valued at $2,198,-
100000.
The trade balance was double that
Of last year and four times that of
1914. Exports exceeded those of last
year by $1,5OO0OO,O00.
The exact foreign trade figures an
nounced, differing slightly from pre-
liminary estimates, show the years
exports exceed the annual average
from 1911 to 1914 by more than ST.
000,000,0O0, gold imports for the year
aggregated $404,000,000, compared
with $25,0OO,OO0 last year. In June
exports amounted to $465, 100000, an
increase of about S200,000,00O over
last June, but decrease of about $10,-
100000 from May.
Imports for the year, S2,19S,0O0, 900,
exceeded by $524,OOO,0OO the 1915 to-
tai and the annual average from 1911
to 1914 by $475,O00,00O. June i'm
ports were valued at $246,OOO,OOO, the
largest ever shown in a single month,
being $17,000,O0O more than the fig
ures for May and $S8,000,000 more
than those of June, 1915.
Iron County register., 1916-08-03
BANK ROBBERS SLAY PAIR
Hiehwaymen Fleeing in Auto Fire
Upon Citizens Who Try to
Capture Them.

Sydney, Nebraska.-The Nebraska
State bank at Sunol, near here,
was robbed of $1,000 by two bandits,
who put Cashier w. c. Smith in the
vault and in making their escape
killed Ira Paut and Paul Cacik, who
tried to capture them.
Later the robbers were captured by
a posse led by Sheriff McDaniels Of
Sydney. They gave the names of j..
w. S. Parnell and l. G. Lucas.
According to the story told by Cash
ier Smith, the men entered the bank
during tie noon hour. One present
ed draft on an Ohio bank and COW
cred Smith with guns while he
scanned the paper. After taking all
the currency in sight the robbers or
dered Smith into the vault and closed
the door, but failed to turn the bolt.
AS they left the bank and entered
their automobile Smith emerged from
the vault and gave the alarm. An at
tempt to stop them caused fusillade
of shots, in which Paut and Cacik
were killed.
In response to telephone message
Sheriff McDaniels led pursuit
which surrounded and capture2 the
robbers about two miles from Sunol.
Iron County register., 1916-08-03
TRY TO AVERT RAIL STRIKE
Secretary of Labor Will Take Hand
in Settlement of Workers
Troubles.

Washington, D. C.-Secretary of
Labor Wilson has announced, follow
ing cabinet meeting, that he would
take hand in trying to prevent the
threatened general strike of railroad
employees. The departments board of
mediation and conciliation will call a
meeting within ten days to attempt
to adjust all differences. Labor lead
ers and representatives of all big rail-
roads affected will be present.
1t was understood the cabinet dis
cussed the threatened strike and was
unanimous in the belief the govern
ment should do everything possible to
prevent walkout,
Iron County register., 1916-08-03
BRITISH STEAMER CAPTURED
One Report Says German Warships
Took Vessel in Norwegian
Territorial Waters.

London, England.-The Wilson line
steamer Eskimo has been captured by
a German auxiliary cruiser, according
to Reuters Christiania correspondent.
'The seizure" says the correspond
ent, occurred in Norwegian terrific
rial waters, according to the crew of
Norwegian guardship, while the Ger
mans claim that the vessel was five
miles from land"
The Danish steamer Normandiet has
been seized by German troop boat,
says Copenhagen dispatch to Lloyds.
The vessel was bound from Skellea-
tea, Sweden, for La Palice, France,
with a cargo Of wood pulp.
A Berlin official statement received
in Amsterdam says that four German
destroyers have captured two British
cargo steamers in international wa
ters off Landskrona, Sweden.
Iron County register., 1916-08-03
WILSON ACCEPTS
CABRANzA's PLAN
AGREES TO APPOINT coMMls-
SION TO SETTLE MExIco's
OUTSIDE TROUBLES.
TO CONFER MUCH AUTHORITY
Responsibility for, Future Excursions
After Bandits viii Re Fixed
Time and Place Of Meetings to
Be Decided Upon Later.

Washington, d. C.-Following is |
the text of Acting Secretary Folks |
note as delivered to Eliseo Arredon-
do, Mexican ambassador designate,
after it had been approved by Presi-
dent Wilson and his cabinet:
Sir-I have the honor to acknowl-
edge the receipt of your communica-
ton of July u, last, in which you
transcribe note addressed to me by
the secretary of foreign relations of
your government, and to request that
you will be good enough to transmit
to him the following reply.
Mr.. Secretary-I have the honor to
acknowledge receipt of your excel
lency's note transmitted under date
of July IL by Lie Eliseo Arredondo,
your governments confidential agent
in Washington, informing me that
your eXcellency has received instruc~
tions from the citizen first chief of
the Constitutional army, charged with
the executive power of the union, to
propose that each of our governments
name three commissioners, who shall
hold conferences at some place to be
mutually agreed upon and decide
forthwith the question relating to the
evacuation of the American forces
now in Mexico, and to draw up and
conclude a protocol or agreement re-
garding the reciprocal crossing of the
frontier by the forces Of both coun-
tries, also to determine the origin of
the incursions to date, in order to fix
the responsibility therefor and def
nitely to settle the difficulties now
pending or those which may arise be-
tween the two countries on account
of the same or similar reason; all
of which shall be subject to the ap-
proval of both governments.
In reply have the honor to state
that have laid your excellency's note
before the president, and have re-
ceived his instructions to inform your
excellency that the government of the
United States is disposed to accept
the proposal of the Mexican govern
ment in the same spirit of frank cor
diality in which it is made. This gov
ernment believes and suggests, how
ever, that the powers of the proposed
commission should be enlarged so
that, if happily solution satisfactory
to both governments of the question
set forth in your excellency's commu-
nication may be reached, the commits
sion may also consider such other
matters Of friendly arrangement of
which would tend to improve the re
lations of the two countries; it being
understood that such recommenda.
tions as the commission may make
shall not be binding upon the respect
i've governments until formally ac-
cepted by them.
Should this proposal be accepted by
your excellency's government, I have
the honor to state that this govern
ment will proceed Immediately to ap
point its commissioners and fix, after
consultation with your excellency' s-gov
ernment, the time and place and Other
details of the proposed conferences.
Accept, Mr.. Secretary, the assur
ances of my highest consideration.
FRANK L. POLK
Acting Secretary of State.
Iron County register., 1916-08-03
Boy Scouts Make Appeal.

Sixteen boy scouts who hiked 100
miles from Louisiana. Mo-. to Jeffer
son City. have presented to Gov.
Major a petition for the parole OF e.
P. Chapman Of st. Louis, wifemur-
derer. who is serving life sentence
in the penitentiary
The boys we're accompanied by the
scout master. Clarke Haley, brother
of Sam Haley, a Jefferson City at
torney. who is representing Chapman
IN his parole Application.
The scoutmaster and State High
way Commissioner Buffum of Louisi-
ana, who are friends of Chapman's
father, a former mayor of Louisiana,
interested the boys in Chapman.
The hike was not taken for the pur-
pose of presenting petition, that be-
ing decided upon while the boys
were en- route. They departed from
Louisiana July 20, and reached JEFF
ferson City the 9th, having walked
the entire distance. They slept in
the open every night. Their com
missary" was in wagon drawn by
mules.
In asking the governor to parole
Chapman, the boys promised that
they would report any violation of the
parole. The governor made them no
promise, except that parole matters
were handled by the board of paroles
and pardons, and that he would see
that the petition reached the board.
Chapman murdered his wife, from
whom he was separated, June IL,
1913, when she was accompanying
Ernest Hasselkus to picture show.
Her brother also was shot by Chap
man, and Chapman was shot by a po-
liceman. Hasselkus and Chapman re-
covered.
Chapman's defense was that he was
intoxicated and did not realize what
he was doing. The shooting followed
a quarrel.
Iron County register., 1916-08-03
EXECUTESTEAMER OFFICER
GERMANS ACCUSE SKIPPER OF
RAMMlNG U-6oAT.
tions Issued by British Ad-
n1iraIty.

Berlin, Germany.-Captain Charles
Fryatt of the Great Eastern Railway
steamship Brussels, British vessel
which was captured by German de-
stroyers last month and taken into
Zeebrugge, has been executed by
shooting after trial before a German
naval courtmartial.
The death sentence was passed
upon Captain Fryatt because of his
alleged action in attempting previous
ly to ram German submarine.
Testimony was presented at the
courtmartial to show that while Cap
tain Fryatt did not belong to the
armed forces he had attempted on
March 1S, 1915, while near the Mass
lightship to ram the German subma-
rine U-33.
Captain Fryatt and the first officer
and the first engineer of the Brus-
sells received from the British ad-
miralty gold watches for brave con-
duct" and were mentioned in the
house of commons.
The submarine U-S3, according to
! the official account of the trial, had
signalled to the British steamer to
show her flag and to stop, but Cap
tain Fryatt did not heed and, it is
alleged, turned at high speed toward
the submarine which escaped only by
diving Immediately several yards be-
low the surface.
Captain Fryatt, the official state
ment says, admitted that he had fol-
lowed the instructions of the British
admiralty. Sentence was confirmed
and the captain was executed and
shot for "franctireur crime against
armed German sea forces"
The trial was held at Bruges, Bel
gium.
Iron County register., 1916-08-03
Insurance Man Fired.

Frederick A. Mayhall, deputy state
superintendent of insurance, who had
refused to resign, was discharged by
Superintendent Walter Chorn. May
hall, charging his removal to politics,
says he will continue at his job and
contest the right Of the superintend-
ant to remove him.
Mayhall is a supporter of Cornelius
Roach for the Democratic nomination
for governor. Supt. Chorn favors Fred
D. Gardner.
Supt. Chorn says Mayhall refused to
release to the Commonwealth Trust
Co. securities valued at $22,500 held
by the department as deposit to
guarantee payment of claims by an
insurance company. Mayhall says a
legal question had arisen regarding
the release of the securities and he
was holding them, pending decision
by the attorney general.
Mayhall appealed to Gov. Major, but
the governor said he would have
nothing to do with the controversy.
Iron County register., 1916-08-03
FIRES IN CANADA
DESTROY S TOWNS
ESTIMATED LOSS OF LIFE RUNS
FROM $50 TO 200, BESIDES
INJURED.
SCORES TRAPPED IN HOMES
Forest Blaze in Ontario Woods Most
Serious Ever Known-Refugees
Without Food or Clothing
Pour Into Safe Cities.

Englehart, Ontario.-Forest fires,
raging in Ontario, are believed to
have resulted in the loss of from $50
to 200 lives. Scores of persons have
been injured and it is believed that
many of them will die.
Six towns have been practically
wiped out by the flames that have
been raging for forty-eight hours. Re-
ports thus far received show that fif-
ty-seven perished at Mushka,
French Canadian settlement, and thir-
ty-four at Matheson. Cochrane has
eighteen dead and thirty-four injured.
Iroquois Falls, fifteen dead and many
injured, and Ramore fifteen dead. The
number killed at Porcupine Junction
is not known, but the entire town
was destroyed except the railroad sta
tion.
Two other villages are reported to
be burning.
The death list will be materially in
creased, it is feared, by victims in
outlying districts. There are appar-
emily well-authenticated reports that
many prospectors have been trapped
at Tashota and Kowash. One farm
er and his ten children are known to
have been burned while the mans
wife was vainly seeking aid to check
the onrushing flames.
Death List to Grow.
Mushka, hamlet consisting of a
score of frame buildings and stores,
suffered worst. 1t had been threaten
ed for several days, but the residents
fingered in the hope that they might
save their homes A nearby lake and
river in which they found refuge
saved many residents of Cochrane, on
the line of the Temishkaming and
Northern Ontario Railroad. Only two
streets in the town were saved.
Thirty-four bodies are lying on the
platform of the railroad station
at Matheson. The station and two
houses are the only houses left stand
ing.
The flames were checked at Tim
minis after seventeen houses had been
burned.
All that remains of Iroquois Falls
are the ruins of the great paper mill
and one store.
Refugees without food and clothes
are pouring into the larger cities of
the burned district. A large number
have arrived here and are being
sent to Cobalt and Haileybury. Engle.
hart citizens worked all night in car
ing for the homeless wanderers.
Iron County register., 1916-08-03
Coal Rate Cut.

A reduction of the rate on Illinois
coal from s1.90 to SLIPS ton from
the Springfield district to Kansas City
by the Chicago G Alton railroad, ef
fective August 20, has aroused Mis-
souri, coal mine owners and miners to
a storm Of protest and the application
of the rate will be contested.
A simultaneous protest was filed re-
Gently with the public service commits
sions of Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, Ar
kansas and Oklahoma.
These bodies will take up the matter
with the interstate commerce commits
sion.
Iron County register., 1916-08-03
Arralaned on Murder CHARGE.

Springfield, 1ll.-Arthur Brown,
member of the eighth (negro) regi-
ment, Illinois national guard, was
arraigned in the circuit court here on
a charge of killing Policeman Frank
Crowley of the local police force sew
eral weeks ago, during the militia
mobilization. Brown pleaded not
guilty.
Iron County register., 1916-08-03
Seek to Be Officers.

Adjutant-General O'Meara, who has
returned from st. Louis, and said he
feared that the attempt Ito raise two
volunteer engineer companies for the
national guard would be a failure. An
enlistment office has been kept open
for three weeks and there have been
numerous applicants, but O'Meara
says all wished to be officers.
O'Meara said certain business men
had urged him awhile ago to form an
entire regiment of engineers, but that
in his attempt to form only two COM
panies he found it impossible to get
any practical help from these men. A
company consists of three commits
stoned officers and sixty-five enlisted
men, of whom nineteen are non-com-
missioned officers. The men eligible
for membership are those with ex-
perience in laying brick walls, dig
ging trenches and construction and ex-
cavation work of all kinds.
Iron County register., 1916-08-03
SECOND attempt
TO BURN PRISON
LIGHTED CANDLE LEFT WHERE
1T WILL DO THE MOST
DAMAGE.
EXTRA PRECAUTIONS TAKEN
Warden D. C. Mcclung Issues Orders
That Trusted Men Are to Re-
main in Shops 80 Minutes
After Others Leave.
Jefferson City.

A second attempt was made recent
ly, it became known, to destroy by
fire D. M. Oberman's factory in the
state penitentiary here.
Before leaving the factory, which
employs nearly 1000 men, convict
surreptitiously lighted candle and
placed about it a bunch of strings
which were to convey the flames to
a pile of inflammable material. The
lighted candle was discovered before
any damage was done.
Subsequent attempts to fire the
penitentiary now convince Warden
McClung that the fire which destroy
ed a factory building short time
ago, and seriously menaced the en-
tire institution, was of incendiary
origin.
Extra precautions have been taken
by McClung to prevent the convicts
getting possession of matches. 1t is
considered nearly impossible, how
ever, to keep matches from them.
Efforts of the convicts to set fire
to the penitentiary shops led Warden
McClung to issue an order to the
more trustworthy men to remain in
the shops one-half hour after the
other convicts quit work.
Twice since the big prison shop was
destroyed recently causing a loss to
the state and D. M. Oberman, con-
tractor, of approximately $4,000, in
cendiary plants" have been discov'
cred in time to prevent disasterous
fires.
The penitentiary authorities be-
lieve that careful inspection of each
factory by trusted convicts after the
other convicts are taken to thelc
will prevent incendiary fires.
Iron County register., 1916-08-03
TWO Killed in 2oo.Eoot Ian.

Colorado Springs, Col-Mr. and
Mrs. H. j. Bachman of Wichita Falls,
Tex, were instantly killed; daugh-
ter, Miss Stella Bachman, was SER
iously injured, and son, H. ]. Bach
man, badly bruised when their auto
mobile plunged over 200-foot cliff
on the Canon road, ten miles south
of Colorado Springs.
Iron County register., 1916-08-03
Ban on Guard Writers.

Officers and enlisted men of the
national guard are forbidden to act
as staff correspondent for newspapers
in accordance with an order issued
by the southern department and COM
municated by Brig. Gen. Mann to
all commanders of guard units in the
Laredo district.
The order specifies that no officer
or man may accept position as cor
respondent and that those now acting
in this capacity must relinquish their
correspondence.
Only one st. Louis paper is not
affected by this order, as their cor
respondent is not member of the
national guard.
Iron County register., 1916-08-03
Man Drowned While Swimming

Branson, Mo.-Henry e. Shores Of
Springfield was drowned at the Pres
byterian swimming beach here. He
was swimming beside a boat when he
suddenly sank. 1t was 20 minutes be-
fore his body was found Heart
trouble caused his collapse.
Iron County register., 1916-08-03
Money for Blind Available.

James G. Jones of st. Louis has
paid $12,5OO into the state treasury
as donation to the commission for
the blind and to render available the
same sum appropriated by the last
legislature, but under such terms that
1t could not be used until similar
amount had been raised by subscrip-
ton.
The object is to provide some per-
manent method in the large cities un-
der which blind people can make their
own living.
Iron County register., 1916-08-03
Not Subject to Governor.


Denial was made that the national
guardsmen along the border-al-
though admittedly divided into two
classifications, organized MALTA"
and national guardian under any
circumstances be brought away by
order Of the governors of the states.
+ The denial comes in an opinion de-
livered by Brig. Gen. E. H. Crowder,
Judge advocate general of the army,
in answer to a request for specific
information, made by Representative
]. Hampton Moore of Pennsylvania.
The request was a part of an effort
to find out as much as it can about
the status, the present condition and
the prospects of the national guards
men serving In Texas.
Iron County register., 1916-08-03
Soldiers to Draw Pay,

SoIolerS TO DTaW ray
While Gov. Major has ruled that all
state employed who are members OF
the national guards and on the Mex
lean border for service will receive
their pay from the state while away,
it was learned that the only person
who will benefit from this order, asic
from employees of the adjutant gen.
erals office, is A. e. Patterson, for
mer private secretary to the govern
or.
The state treasurer has issued
draft for 1915 for Patterson, this be-
ing the salary due him for the month
of July as counsel for the public serv-
ice commission, "a position to which
Gov. Major appointed him some
months ago. Patterson is on the
border as battalion adjutant at a
much smaller salary than he receives
as the commissions legal adviser. His
salary as adjutant is $1,000 a year,
while he receives from the state in
addition, under the governors ruling,
$4,000 year.
The only other state employees who
are on the border and who will r
ceive pay from the state while away
are Maj. A. E. Linweiler, Frank A.
Powers and G. e. Names of the ad-
jutant generals office here.
Iron County register., 1916-08-03
Merited Expiation.

London, England-The German Off
cial account received here of the exc
cution of Captain Fryatt concludes
with these words:
"One of the many franctireur ac-
tions of English merchant shipping
against our war vessels has thus
found late but merited expiation."
Iron County register., 1916-08-03

St Louis--Robert Il. Pruitt, 36
years old, Of Detroit, Mich, climbed
to the top OF an electric sign on the
roof Of the Terminal hotel here, 10
feet above the sidewalk To a police
man he explained that he wanted to
get "a good look at the city"
Iron County register., 1916-08-03

Dallas, Tex.-With practically only
one county missing, the totals Sablllat-
ed in the recent statewide primary
showed an Increased lead in favor OF
the submission Of prohibition amend
ment. The figures we're: For. f57,.
Oee; against, 154,720
Iron County register., 1916-08-03
San Francisco Bomb Deaths Total 8.

San Francisco-Mrs. Kingsley Van
Loo of Fresno, Cal, who with her two
children was injured in the bomb ex-
plosion here last Saturday, is dead
from her wounds, making the eighth
victim. Warren X. Billings, a shoe
cutter, % years old, has been arrest
ed in connection with the explosion.
Iron County register., 1916-08-03
okuma Cabinet May Quit.

Tokio.-Resignation Of the Okuma
cabinet is said to be imminent. Mar
shal Terauchi is generally believed to
be slated to succeed Count okum as
premier
Iron County register., 1916-08-03
County Official prowna.

Jacksonville, Ill.-James w. Clark.
Scott County commissioner and candi-
date for coroner, was drowned in the
Illinois river at Glasgow. While fish
ing he attempted to swim ashore and
was seized with cramps.
Iron County register., 1916-08-03
Farmer Killed BY Train.

Paris, Ill.-The east-bound Big Four
express train instantly killed Hugh
Watson, 35, farmer, east of Paris,
when he was walking home on the
tracks from Terre Haute.
Iron County register., 1916-08-03
Santa Fe coal Rate suspended.

Washington.--Pr Proposed increases of
10 to IS cents a ton on coal and coke
from New Mexico over the Santa Fe
to Texas and Louisiana was suspend
ed by the interstate commerce com
sion until November ~.