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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-02-05
Backed by Wilson

1t is understood the bill will 20 to
the House with the backing of Presi-
dent Wilson and will be pressed for
early passage. There has been little
indication of what action the public
will take but administration leaders
tonight seemed confident that the
bill. including the Independence feat
| ure which Democratic senators declare
| squares it with the Baltimore plat
form would have the approval of the
House Democratic majority.
Republicans in Favor
The Republican senators who voted
for the bill were Borah, Clapp. Ken
yon, LaFollette, Norris and Works.
BY overwhelming majortfes the Sen
ate had refused to modify the Clarke
amendment adopted several days ago,
| which contains the independence pro-
vision and also gives the President au-
thority to extend or withhold indie
pendence at the end Of four years il
he should find conditions in the
islands unfavorable. The time would
be extended, however, only until an
incoming Congress could consider the
subject.
Senator Stone Defeated
Senator Stone declared the bill was
in reality not an independence meas
ure at all because of the extension
provision and offered an amendment
to eliminate it, but his proposal was
voted down 60 to II. Senator Hitch
| cock, chairman Of the Philippine COM
mittee sought to amend the bill by
extending independence within four
years on condition that the people and
! legislature of the Philippines should
ratify a constitution. This was re-
jected 80 to 25.
II am making last appeal for what
I think is good faith and just treat
ment Of the Philippines" said Senator
Stone in urging his amendment. Il
am unouestionably and Internationally
in favor Of carrying out the pledge of
the Democratic party by relinquish-
ing control over the Philippine islands
Continued on Page SColumn 81
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-02-05
FitzseraId's Argument

.0nn j. Fitzgerald. counsel for Mrs. Mohr
s -, his closing argument at $50 A. NJ
2o nave been practising law for nearly
years, he said. I've tried many case:
,s.., usSe felt heavy responsibilities on m,
-. ue's' but I've never had a case thai
VIII, ~ touched my heartstrings-a case in
,h,' have wondered If had left any.
nan" pe wv"
M. arfaigned Rocks. Miss Ormsby and
s,~, burger in the most caustic terms, de.
~ mat several of the states witnesses
~ 'een shouting Cruelty her.
~. s Aohr was by this time in tears.
,..e called at her home" he went on
W., I've seen little Charlie and Virginia
~ Little Virginia climbed on my knee
- SAD to me. Save mother Then
,,s nome and saw my own little ones
n.., wondered what would happen If theil
asr was taken from them"
,;. w. Fitzgerald enumerated four mo-
which he claimed the state tried
~. grove against Mrs. Mohr.
,ceNst, the state said it was jeal'
S.ons'nusd on Page ~ceIumn y
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-02-05
FIRE DESTROYS
SUMMER HOTEL
AT NANTASKET

Hull, Mass. Feb. 4.-The Rockland
House, one Of the largest hotels at
Nantasket Beach. was destroyed by
fire early today. The loss is estimated
at $4,000. The. only person in the
building was the caretaker. the hotel
having been closed since the end of
the summer season. Because of the
snow the firemen were unable to get
their apparatus near enough to the
hotel. which was on a HILL to check
the flames. but they were successful in
subduing many small fires on roofs
of nearby hotels and cottages. The
hotel. a four-story wooden structure.
containing $50 rooms, was owned by
Patrick Bowen Of Boston. The cause
Of the fire is unknown.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-02-05
Men in Whose Hands
Rests Fate of Three
Defendants Await the
Judges Charge
ARGUMENTS ARE
ENDED ON FRIDAY
Attorney General Rice's Closing
Address One of Most Impas-
stoned Ever Heard in Rhode
Island Courts

Providence, r. l., Feb. with the
completion of Attorney General Rice's
closing argument to the jury for the
prosecution at $40 O'Clock this after
zoos, the trial of Mrs. Elizabeth F.
Mohr and two negroes on the charge
Of murder had reached point where
only the charge of the court on the
law Of the case was required before
the fate OF the three defendants is de.
livered into the hands of the jury.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-02-05
Seven Die
at Ottawa
=AnArrest

Five Bodies Still under
Ruins of Burned Par
lament Bull ing
Opposition lie a d e r
Likens Destruction to
Louvain and Calls for
Punishment of Perpe-
ira tors+Man Sus-
pected of Being Impli-
Gated Is in Custody
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-02-05
BUREAU OF LABOR
ISSUES FACTS0N
PRICE OF FOOD

Washington, Feb. 4-Relative retail
prices Of the principal articles Of food
in the United States decreased one
per cent during the first nine months
Of last year. Figures issued today
by the bureau Of labor statistics also
show that prices in September, 1915.
were per cent lower than in Septem-
Der, 1914, but were the same as for
September. 1913.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-02-05
Germany's Determination

Following the long oral and written
negotiations the question is back
where it began, namely in the demands
of the first American note that Ger
many indemnify the Lustania vic
Tins, not voluntarily, but as an admis-
sion that the torpedoing of the vessel
was illegal.
According to German sources Ger
many has determined to carry out the
war to a victorious end and will de-
mand that everything necessary to
hasten this end be done. The chancel-
or has decided the course on the bas-
is of information which is said to be
unknown to the German public. It is
declared that he will not let himself be
misled by the cry of those who think
that a breach of relations would mean
a graver danger.
The enc word Illegal as different
ly interpreted in the United States and
Germany prctrudes from the tentative
draft of the Lusitania agreement. per-
fected by Ambassador Won Bernstorff
and Secretary Lansing as the STUN
bling block which has caused Berlin
to refer TO the negotiations as having
reached crisis, and Washington to
characterize the situation as grave.
Answer Presented
GermanyS answer, presented to Sec
rotary Lansing today by Count Won
RernStorff, proposes instead of an out
and out admission of illesality Of the
method Of submarine warfare used by
the German naval authorities in sink
ing the liner, an acceptance of liabil-
ity for the loss of neutral lives which
Berlin hopes will satisfy the United
States and still not bind Germany from
continuing the submarine campaign.
officials believe that their previous
premise to discontinue sinking unre-
siSting merchantmen, without warning,
brings the submarine campaign with
lin the pale of international law and
that any inclusion of that phase On the
Lusitania agreement is unnecessary
and humiliating to the Imperial gov
eminent.
Explanation Of Attitude
The word Illegal in the draft the
German ambassador transmitted to his
government as meeting all the con-
tentiors of the United States, is TAX
en- to have been regarded in Berlin as
being susceptible of application not to
the Lusitania case alone, but to the
entire submarine campaign.
That is the only explanation which
officials here can find for the state
ment of DR.. Zimmerman, under sec
rotary of foreign affairs. that 'the
United States suddenly made demands
which would be impossible for us to
accept"
Secretary Lansing declared today
that the position of the United States
was unchanged and the government
knew of no demands but which were
embodied in the proposal he sent to
Berlin.
1t is known that the only change
the Berlin foreign Office has made in
the agreement drawn by the secretary
and the ambassador is to substitute for
the word Illegal a phrase which,
while assuming liability for the lives
of neutrals lost on the Lusitania, does
not admit Of construction in prohibi-
Continued on Page 8-CoIumn 81
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-02-05
Fire Breaks
Out in Plant
at Work on
War Orders

Ottawa Feb. FIRE has broken out in
the large plant of Grant Holden, Graham
Limited which is filling large war orders
for the Entente Allies The flames are
still confined to factory building which
is filled with tarpaulins, woolens and mil
itary uniforms.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-02-05

Ottawa, Feb 4.-The list of those
who lost their lives in the fire which
destroyed the Canadian Parliamen,
building was fixed tonight at seven
Five of the bodies still lie beneath the
ruins. They are those of 3. 3. Law. =
member of Parliament; Deputy Clerk
LaPointe. Dominion Constable Des
Jardins, Alphonse Des .Jardins =
plumber; and Randolph Tanning, q
waiter.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-02-05
SUSPECT UNDER
ARREST DENIES
ANY CONNECTION

Windsor. Ont. Feb. 4.-Declaring that
he is suspected Of being implicated in the
destruction of the Parliament building at
CONTINUED on Page 8-CoIumn -
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-02-05
Another Fire Started
in Munitions Plant
LAURIER CALLS FOR
THE APPREHENSION
OF THE 'MURDERERS''

Ottawa, Ont, Feb. 4.-Sir Will
frld Laurier, Canadian OPPOSE
ton leader, joined today in the
expression of determination to
continue the work of Parliament
despite Thursday nights fire,
and added:
when we gaze upon the ruins
on the hill while we still trust that
It may be the result Of accident,
we are reminded Of the ruins Of
louvain and the ruins of Rheims
not caused by accident. but by
cruel foe. If there is anything
which the present calamity should
impress upon US it is the duty of
resolutely going on with our work
and doing everything possible to
bring the murderers to Justice"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-02-05
The Charge This Morning

Justice Stearns will charge the Jury
tomorrow forenoon and the jurors will
begin their deliberations about noon.
The prosecuting attorney addressed
the jury all the afternoon His argu-
ment was one of the most impassion-
I'd ana impressive addresses heard in
,ae courts of this state in years. He
SPOKE very feelingly at times. While
telling the jury of his sacred regard
lM womankind' the attorney general
could not repress his feelings. tears
cling in his eyes and tremor
creeping into his voice He held the
-ry ana the overcrowded courtroom at
,gh tension from beginning to end.
State "Mercifur
Mr. Rice plainly suggested to the
ary that a verdict of guilty against
lie woman and the two negroes does
aot necessarily mean life imprison-
Ment although that is the penalty
for murder when he declared: Truth
ad Justice come before sympathy:
.;,e Is truth. men: give us justice,
aeH Then comes mercy and SYM
laihy, And the State is merciful and
sympathetic"
Throughout the long afternoon Mrs.
Nom sat beside her counsel as i'm
noble as marble with the exception
Of one time. when she wiped the tears
from her eyes as the stern viSaged
Prosecutor asserted that there was no
evidence to show that she ever look
Ell upon the face of the dead"
Could she do is" asked Mr.. Rice
II melancholy tones. Il don't know.
don't know
Her Heart Of Stone
Attorney General Rice stated that to
Ms mind the most pathetic thing that
cane out AT the whole trial was the
incident on Christmas eve in 1913.
when pr Mohr arrived outside his
Hewport home and sent someone in to
ask his wife if she wanted him at
nome-at his own home with his own
Children.
NOTHING was too cruel for her to
say against him." he said Her veins
must have been filled with bitterness,
"er heart turned to stone'
10 offset the human side that I'M
uouotedly will be considered by the
Jury Mr.. Rice pointed out that lit is
"i~ays those left at home who must
suffer most"
me attorney generals soliloquy in
"nlch he carried on a conversation
WIN Or. Mohr from the grave was
a'a'natc recital that made the pro-
''andest impression on all who fell
'''''il earshot of it. He was answering
s-eSOons put to him by DR.. Mohr
"Oa' the tomb and he declared he
.Vu'o near the doctor say he had only
.ue enemy on earth-the woman who
-aue nell on earth for him and pur-
SDeu rim TO his death.
Protests by Attorneys
WI, Rlce stated that the entire estate
81. " Mohr was behind the defense.
..orheH Lewis objected to the state
Woal mat he was being paid by Mrs.
s''P and Attorney Fitzgerald also
~ Vu ior an exception to that part Of
.b s argument wherein Mr.. FITZGERALD
Nv ush' the attorney general reflected
y" Ills status in the case.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-02-05
RELIABILITY

When buying Jewelry the reliability Of
the firm you're trading with is the first
consideration. We have been in the
Jewelry business right here on Lisbon
sold in our store to be exactly as repre-
scented. We also guarantee our prices to
be as low (or lower as any other reliable
Jewelry House in Maine!
Watches, Diamond Rings. Wedding
Rings, Seal Rings. Silverware for the
table, and all sorts Of beautiful and
inexpensive Gift articles.
Orew's Reliable JeWeIry Store
Established 1875 years ago.
q Lisbon Street. lewiston. Ne
feb1.d1W
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-02-05
THE WEATHER

FAIR
Forecast for Northern New England
Probably fair Saturday and Sunday.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1916-06-02

Hardy Shrubs &Vines,
Hedges, Veranda Box
es, and Flower Beds
These Are the Things
That Change a House
Into a Home.
There Is Still PLENTY
of lime to Plant a Bed
or Fill a Box.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1916-01-12
NEW WARSHIPS TO BE
ELECTRICALLY PROPELLED.
Plans Are Being Revised to Provide
for Machinery for New Motive
Power

The two battleships to be built at
the Mare Island navy yard and the
New York navy yard, and designated
as Nos. 43 and 44,win be equipped with
electric propelling machinery similar
to that designed for the California, now
nearing completion.
Plans for the ships are being revis-
ed, it is learned, TO arrange distribu-
ton of the machinery which has been
substituted for the direct steam turbine
drive proposed in specifications sent
out to private bidders.
The ships were awarded to the navy
yards when offers from private bidders
failed to come within the legal limit
of cost No private concern ever has
bid on an electrically propelled vessel
The California is the first fighting ship
on which the system has been install
ed. although it has given satisfactory
results in the collier Jupiter.
Secretary Daniels acted on the unan
imous verdict OF his engineering aids
in deciding to equip the new ships
with electricity. The Mare Island yard
will be ready to lay the keel of one of
the new battleships probably next Oc-
tober. The California will be launched
at the New York yard in time for the
other new battleship to be laid down
in her place in September
Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1916-01-12
ITEMS FROM BROAD CREEK.
Pertinent Personals of Those Who
Come and Go at South River.

A very bad accident happened to
Bernard Fisher, youngest son of Mr.
Joseph Fisher, living near Lusby's
Cross Roads, last Tuesday.
Bernard, a little boy of nine years.
was trying to ignite some gun powder
He cut them up while an elder brother
went for a lid to cover them with.
In the meantime Bernard lighted the
powder with matches. 1t exploded and
he was badly burned about the fore
head, and his hair was scorched.
Dr. II. B. CAN'T was Immediately
summoned and rendered assistance.
The little boy is now reported as
slowly improving. The parents We're
not aware of the accident until he
came to the house.
Miss Mary Kirkpatrick -HCwat was
in Baltimore for several days last
week
Mrs. George Carter. Jr., and her
two daughters spent several days in
Washington last week.
Miss Ethel Hall and Miss Maggie
Moran, of Baltimore, were visitors to
the home OF their uncle, Mr.. John Nc
ran, last week.
Miss Jeanette Cole is a guest of her
cousins, the Misses Walker oe near
Davidsonviile.
Dr. Robert Winterode, superintend-
ent of the Brownsville State Hospital,
has been confiened to his home with
influenza OF grippe. He is now able
to be out again.
a severe financial loss befeIl Mr..
Alex L. Anderson on New Years day.
A valuable young mare four years old
was taken with, it is supposed, cerebro-
miningitis, in the morning and died
that same night. II. ID. C.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1916-01-12
TOO HOT FOR HAITI.
Grandmother Sends Marine Fleecv
Covering When She Should Have
Had Dispatched Cake Of Ice.

Fearing the Government did not pro
vide sufficiently warm clothing for her
favorite grandson, serving in the Uni
ted States Marine Corps, an elderly
lady residing in Rochester, n Y. one
day recently took fieecy hand-worked
comfortable to the local recruiting
station of the sea soldiers and re-
quested Sergeant George S.Fennymore
to forward it to him.
poor Fred may be shaking and
shivering with cold just like the sol
diers in Europe she told Fynmore,
and this comfortable will be just the
thing. You'll send it to him, won't
you Z"
Sergeant Fynmore assured the old
grandmother that it would be a privi-
lege and a pleasure to do so. But
when he forwarded the package to
her grandson, he also enclosed a
note explaining that the old lady had
worked hard in an endeavor to have
the comfortable finished in time to
come as Christmas present and that
he did not have the heart to disallus-
ion her about the need for such things
in Haiti at the present time.
But" he added in the note, just by
way of encouragement, "some time
when you are serving in Alaska I'll
get her to send YOU cake of ice"
Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1916-01-12
Rain; Cold Wave.
SNAP SHOTS.

New York has about 700. 600
school-chiIdren.
New England's fishing fleet CON-
prises 295 boats.
Japan has more telephones than
all the rest of Asia.
More than 500 women are serving
IN the Russian Army.
Switzerland now owns the ST
Gothard tunnel and railway.
Women are engaged TO patrol the
army camps in England.
After the establishment of the
monarchy, Chinese emperors will re-
ceive So. 900 in gold, as an annual al
lowance, granted because of their rank.
According to a recent bulletin of
the Department of Agriculture. the
sea-gull is one Of the most important
scavenger birds in the United States.
A million Serbian girls and wo-
men, abandoned by their men folk whu
are at the front, are facing intense
suffering and possible death, through
lack of food and clothing, or a worse
fate at the hands of rowing bands of
guerillas.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1916-01-12

The following is the story OF the
first part of 'The Red Circle" the
new serial picture to be shown at the
Palace every Wednesday.
" Circle" Jim Borden. branded by
the Red Circle on his right hand, the
mark of the criminal Borden clan. is
released from prison after serving his
third term. He is met by June Travis
and her mother as he leaves the gray
walls of the jail. They offer him
money, being interested in the reform
Of ex-convicts. but he turns on them
savagely. Max Lamar, young de-
tectiye, standing nearby ready to carry
out his instructions to shadow Borden.
interferes and orders the criminal to
be on his way
Shortly afterward Borden sees his
son lift the watch from a mans pocket
and determines To kill him and himself,
and thus end the criminal strain of
the family. Lamar has taken up the
chase and reaches Borden's room in
time to learn that the last of ;he Bor-
dens is dead
The next day. Lamar, while stand
ing beside curtaine1 automobile is
astounded TO see a woman's hand come
from beneath the curtains and on it's
back-the red circle. When he re-
covers from his surprise the auto is
moving away. but he has noted the IL
cense number Interesting develop
ments follow in the next episode It
is called ''Pity the Poor.
This new serial will no doubt prove
the greatest ever offered at The Pal
ace. 1t is up-to-date in every way
taking up the important question of q
defective child has the right to live
"The Bsby and me Leopard" is
another OF those thrilling wild animal
Selig pictures and the program con-
cludes with Bobby Connelly,in Sonny
Jim's First Love Affair. picture
that will appeal TO all who see it today.
Always a good show will be found al
The Palace.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1916-01-12
q,he @Republic Theatre,

Danny Canavan. chief character in
The Danger Signal George Kleine
master phetodrama to be shown at the
Republic Theatre. has an astounding
career, rising from obscurity TO
power. social position and great politi-
cal influence through most remark
able chain OF circumstances beginning
when be, as q laborer in a subway ex
cavatioIs in New York, waves red
flag warning traffic of an impending
explosion of dynamite under ground
He is then 8 weak, cringing, vaeiliat-
ing. brow-heaten man, but lightning
change sweeps over him as he witness
ss the obedience paid to the RED flag.
1t turns his mind to new channel of
thought and in an hour Danny Cana
van. transformed into dominating,
virile man begins a triumphal career
that srnashes tiown all barriers no mat
ter what they are, until he attains a
great ambition.
Love and romance are closely inter
twined in The. Danger Signal" and
it appeals as strongly to women ss it
does to men. Arthur Hoops has the
title role Snd displays masterfui, ORA.
matte talent as well as an especial
adaptability for work before screen.
The same may be said of Ruby Hoff-
man, the leading woman The Dan
ger Signal is an adaptation from Ru-
pert Hughes story "Cansvan. The
Man Who Had BIS Way, which.
when it appeared in the Saturday Even
ing Post. created decided interest.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1916-01-12
MOVING PICTURE ATTRACTIONS
At The Colonial.

Richard Travers, in The Man
i Trail, powerful six-part photoplay.
John Peabody, an athletic young
man. tires of city life and goes to his
uncle's logging camp in search of ad-
venture. His uncle, tWolf john"
rough giant of a man, thinks his
nephew an effeminste youth and re-
fuses to recognize him, although he
gives him a job. When the young man
wins a lumber saving contest and
later subdues q crowd of lumberjacks
engaged in drunken brawl, the uncle
announces he will make him partner
IN the firm. Peabody. falls in love
with Belle, the adopted daughter of
Wolf John
Bull'' Bart, foreman of the camp
also is in love with her. He is the
crude, unscrupulous type of the back
woods and hates Peabody with all
mis- soul because the girl favors him.
Bart quits the lumber camp and takes
place with rival concern. He and
MS men constantly interfere with Pea
body. who succeeds to the foremanship.
in the hope of making him forfeit the
right TO a certain timber tract, as the
tract calls for a time limit in clearing
it away. Peabody foils him at every
turn, and. goaded into 8 fury, Bart
stalks Peabody in an attempt TO kill
him. He is wounded in gun battle
between two factions. but Bart is
driven away. Later the two meet face
TO face and then comes the battle To
death. Peabody proves the better
man, and slays the man who boasted
he would Kill him on sight. The camp
troubles finally are over. and Peabody
has proved to his uncle he is real
man. He wins the partnership and
Belle confesses her love for him.
Ford's Animated Weekly also to-
night Tomorrow, Hamilton Revelle
and Lois Meredith, in An Enemv to
Society"