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GENEVA, Jan. 23.—Neuehatel ii
to have policewomen, a la Chtisegc
and other up-to-date America!
cities. For the present, until the
municipal authorities can be con
vinced of the practicability of the
system it will be under tB&auapicei
of the two women societies, to the
Union Feminist and the Friends oi
the Young Girl, and the female
members of the force will be volun
teers.
The chief objects are to look
after the morals of girls in the
shops and streets, to assist female
prisoners on their liberation and in
general to fight the white slave
traffic. Similar movements are on
foot in Zurich and Lausanne.
DENVER, Jan. 23.—Whether the
City of Denver shall issue $3,000,
000 in bonds to finance the con
struction of a tunnel for the Moffat
Road through James Peak, in the
Rockies, is being decided a a spe
cial election today. If the bonds
•pass, the city’s credit will be ex
tended to Newman Erb and his asso
ciates who bought the Moffat Road
last year. They will borrow the
$3,000,000 from the city, paying it
back with interest after a term of
years.
ANACORTES, Jan. 23.—It has
developed that John H. Day, who
died here recently alone and amidst
squallor, is a brother of James R.
Day, chancellor of the Syracuse
University. * He had become es
tranged from his relatives years ago
and no communication had been re
ceived from him for several years.
His brother would have cared for
him had the dead man’s pride per
mitted him to let his circumstances
become known. He was buried in
the potter’s field but his grave will
be marked with a headstone to be
erected by his brother.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 23.—
Representative Webb of North Caro
lina, Floyd of Arkansas, and Vol
stead of Minnesota left here today
for Macon, Georgia to begin im
peachment proceedings against Fed
eral Judge Emory Speer, under spe
cial order of Congress. Judge
Speer has been ill for several
months.
NEW YORK, Jan. 23.—New in
door records are looked for at to
night’s field and track games to be
held under the auspices of the
Paterson Elks. Mel Sheppard in the
middle distances is to be the star
attraction. Many of the best field
and track athletes of this section are
catered.
ROME, Jan. 23.—Italy’s hopes of
being able to secure from the pres
ent parliament, a divorce law, are
again confidently believed to have
gone a glimmering. Of the 500
deputies which compose the cham
ber, Count Gentilioni, who eng
neered the Catholic vote during the
recent elections, has just made it
known that 223 of those in return
for Catholic reform, pledged them
selves to the Catholic program of
legislation. The latter is irrevoc
ably against permitting divorce, and
Italians, as in the past, will have to
continue to go to Switzerland and
Austria, taking out naturalization
papers in those countries, secure
their divorce, return to Italy, re
take that of Italy.
UAtt-LiAtNU, J au. a.—a uageuy
was enacted here this morning
when John F. Howard, president of
the Western Fuel Company,
dropped dead just a? the govern
ment prosecution nad closed its
case against him on the charge of
defrauding the government by short
weights on coal.
Physicians -were hastily sum
moned to the court room but the
defendant had expired before their
arrival. Death was due to apoplexy
caused by the excitement of the
trial.
TRINIDAD, Colo., Jan. 23.—
Mounted militiamen, with drawn
svroTds, repeatedly charged a mob
of strikers who attempted to attack
the jail where “Mother” Jones is
confined by the military authorities.
The Aiob numbered thousands and
were reluctant to give way before
the soldiers, and scores received
flesh' wounds requiring the services
of physicians.
Nineteen of the strike leaders
who took part in the attempt' to
liberate the prisoner have been ar
rested and are lodged in the same
jail. The strikers are in an ugly
mood and threats are made that
the swords of the militiamen will be
met by bullets from the strikers if
the strikers are- not released. Thd
situation is growing worse each
day despite the fact that the dis
trict is under , martial control. Manv
strike breakers who were imported
to fill the places of the strikers have
disappeared and it is believed that
have met with foul play and
their MUw will be discovered
tome of the lonely gulches
later.
MEXICO CITY, Jan. 23,-^Jorge
Vera Estanola, one of the Mexican
deputies who was arrested on
orders from President Huerta, has
been enabled to escape from jail
and was muggled out of the city
through the efforts of O’Shaugh
nessy the representative of the
United States here.
O’Shaughnessy sent Estanola to
Vera Cruz where he was released
from further molestation on the
part of the Mexican officers by an
order from the court. The action
of the American representative in
interferring with the plans of
President Huerta has caused consid
erable comment among the officials
here and it is predicted that he will
find his usefulness destroyed.
O’Shaughnessy has made a report to
hi8 government admitting helping
the prisoner to escape from the city
but denies being a party to the
bribery of the prison officials to
permit the prisoner to escape.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 24.—
The House this morning killed the
bill to take 2,400 assistant post
masters out of the classified civil
service list and make them ap
pointees. The fate of the bill was
sealed several days ago when Presi
dent Wilson let it be known that
he was opposed to a return to the
spoils system of appointing govern
ment employes.
TACOMA, Jan. 24.—Mrs. Black
man, the daughter of former Gov
ernor Rogers, has secured a divorce
from her husband, William Black
man, who was former state labor
commissioner, on the grounds of de
sertion. The couple have been
married several years but have been
living apart and Blackman has left
the state.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 24.—
The postoffice appropriation bill
introduced at the request of Post
master General Burleson for the
mail service during the coming
year, amounting to 2305,000,000
was passed by the House this morn
ing.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 24.—
Secretary of State Bryan admitted
today that the news of the distinctly
anti-American Mexican policy adopt
ed by the Japanese parliament had
come as a complete suprise to him.
The Japanese parliament refused
to endorse the policy of the gov
rnment approving of the American
method of dealing with the Mexican
situation and a measure will be
introduced having for its purpose
the recognition of the Huerta gov
ernment. Should the parliament
pass the measure it will serve to
still further widen the gap of
estrangement already existing be
tween this country and Japan.
SEATTLE, Jan. 26.—Informa
tion has been received here by
wireless that the Canadian steamer
Princess Sophia went ashore at
Alert Bay last night during a severe
snow storm. The passengers and
mail were transferred to the
steamer Alki which answered the
wireless distress call sent out by
the disabled steamer. It is not
known to what extent the steamer
is damaged but the officers and
crew are staying with the stranded
steamer.
SEATTLE, Jan. 26.—A terrific
gale is sweeping along the Pacific
coast and extends from Mexico to
British Columbia. The wind has
gained a velocity of from 50 to 70
miles an hour and all shipping has
been driven to shelter. San Diego,
Portland and Seattle are suffering
most from the effects of the storm.
A tremendous sea is said to be
sweeping the coast at the southern
California city and fears are enter
tained for the safety of the famous
Coronado hotel. A storm last year
washed away acres of the beautiful
grounds and the present gale
threatens to complete the- work of
destruction. All sailings from this
port have been delayed until the
storm subsides.^ The weather
bureau has predicted that the
barometer reading during the next
24 hours will be the lowest ever re
corded in Seattle.
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Jan. 26.—
The new Haitian revolution which is
headed by the exiled senator, Divalir
Theodore, is commanding the seri
ous attention of the state depart
ment. The natives are reported to
be flocking to the aid of the revolts
tionists and their army now num
bers thousands of well equipped
men. A meeting of the cabinet will
be held tonight, after the pres'dent’j
conference with the committee on
foreign affairs, when it is believed
that warships will be sent south
with troops to suppress the revo
lution.
NEW YORK, Jan. 26.—Mayor
Mitchell, is hopeful that Colonel
Uoethals will yet accept the police
commissionership of this city instead
of going to Alaska to build the
government railroads there. He be
lieves there is not another man
who hrould enjoy the confidence of
the citizens to the szms eztsat ju
the builder of the Panama SUM.
He would have an army of more
than 10,000 men under his com
mand should he accept the position.
SALONIKA, Jan 27.—Terrible
tales of outrages in Macedonia are
being told nere by fugitives from
Kossovo. In the neighborhood of
Prizrend, they declare a number of
villagers were compelled to dig
their own graves before being mas
sacred. Near Struga 19 Albanians
were strangled with a telegraph
wire, and in several villages the
inhabitants were locked ia burning
houses by the Servians to save the
trouble of burial.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 27.—
The Senate passed the bill this
morning authorizing Secretary Dan
iels of the navy to contract for the
use of a drydock at Hunter’s Point,
near San Francisco. The life of the
contract is to be for six years and
the drydock must he large enough
to accommodate the longest vessels
which may pass through the Panama
canal.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 27.—Hugh
Spear Haven, a Chicago capitalist,
Louis Jones, a retired banker of
this city and Rico Rodriguez, a boy,
met death in the floods which oc
curred near here recently. The
party were automobiling over the
country and have not been missed
until the wreckage of their ma
chine and bodies were found in a
canyon where they had been thrown
by the flood. It is believed the
men were caught when, the wall of
water rolled down the valley carry
ing everything before it.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 23.—
Former President Taft and other
Lincoln memorial commission repre
sentatives were expected today to
attend the hearing by Secretary of
branch lines were purchased by the
company at figures many times
their true values. The commission
reports that tbe officers of the road
and the other members of the syndi
cate profited to the extent of
$8,000,000 at the expanse of the
stockholders of the St. Lou la &
San Francisco. The vouchers of the
company show that one week prior
I to the company becoming insolvent
,-$4,000,000 had been received from
German investors and applied to the
purchase of a branch line owned by
the syndicate which had never paid
a dividend.
BELFAST, Ireland. Jan. 27.—At
headquarters of the Uulster Provi
sional government, which is fight
ing home rule, it was announced to
day that the “army of Ulster," com
posed of 500,000 men who have
been secretly drilled to oppose the
Dublin parliament, will be supple
mented with a motorcycle corps,
which will carry dispatches and In
some instances act as Scouts in the
event of actual hostilities. The
corps is composed of 50 men at pres
ent. This number it was said today
will be increased to more than 200
if the threatened break occurs.
BERLIN, Jan, 27—Franz Unnert,
until some years ago one of the
Kaiser’s personal body guards, to
day commenced' serving a sentence
of six months for stealing. Unnert
left the Kaiser’s employ to take a
position with a bank which paid a
better salary. H« became hard up
and deliberately appropriated a
bag containing $250 in gold. An
other of the Kaiser’s ex-bodyguarJa
is under sentence- of death for mur
dering hia wife. The Kaiser has
refused to interfere with the heads
man.
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Last night Griff Ellis, who is em
ployed on the Copper River Railway
is engine watchman at Shushanna
function met with an accident,
tvhich was not discovered until 7
j’clock this morning, when he was
found unconscious. Griff had evi
iently fallen from an engine, during
die night, and when picked up by
:he train crew the extent of his in
juries could not be ascertained.
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NEW YORK, Jan. 23.—
The grand jury empanneled
to investigate the charges of
graft preferred against
Boss Murphy by former Gov
ernor Sulzer, began its
labors this morning.
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Prince Frederick William as *
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Georgia protest against the award
of the $2,000,000 temple contract
to Fuller Bros., a New York firm.
Georgia claims that undue consider
ation was made in favor of use of
Colorado yule marble.
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Jan. 23.—
The organization committee, created
under the Feredal reserve act, will
give hearings in Chicago, St. Louis,
Kansas City, Denver, Portland,
Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles,
Houston, Tex., New Orleans, At
lanta, Cincinnati, and Cleveland
The committee is now in San. Fran
cisco and will visit Portland next.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 27.—
The report of the interstate com
merce commission, which has been
investigating the affairs of the St
Louis & San Francisco railroad
which recently w'ent into bankruptcy
has been received in the Senate and
places the blame on the board of I
directors.
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due to the acquisition of other lines
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