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V HOUSES ARE POOR New York Textile Workers found In Bad Condition. Rooms Overcrowded, Sanitation Poor and Families Obliged to Live Without Privacy. Ha* Ready Reply to Englishman Who Blamed Climate for Growth of Fine Chrysanthemum«. T he A m erican visitor wandered down Into sunny Cornwall. Seeing som e particularly large chrysanthe m ums In a garden, he knocked a t the cottage door, and, In New York gutter language, exclaim ed to th e grow er: “Fine flowers, these. Guess I'd like to know how you grow 'em .” "Oh, clim ate," replied the yokel. “And them g reat cabbages, what m akes them grow ?” “Ju s t clim ate,” declared the Corn wall man, seriously. "H ’m! Away In New York about all we grow Is skyscrapers. Only last y e ar a fifty-story building sp ran g up like a m ushroom. It grew so quick th a t It had no sta irs or lift.” And the yokel stared aghast. "How—how do you g et to the top then ?" "Oh, clime-tt—Just clime— It!”—Lon don Answers. A Misunderstanding. E lihu Root, a t the cham ber of com m erce dinner In New York, said: "T here are hundreds of thousands of people outside the g re at Industrial com m unities who think the cham ber of com m erce a den of thieves, who th in k th a t the m anufacturers of the country are no b e tte r th an a se t ol confidence men." Discussing this re g re tta b le m lsun d erstandlng afterw ard. Mr. Root sm iled and said: “It Is a m isunderstanding th a t will com e right In the end; but ju st now, if a rich m an ventured to say to a poor man, 'I believe In putting by som ething for a rainy day,’ the poor m an would sn eer bitterly and reply: “ 'Yes, th a t's why me and my friends lose so many um brellas.’ ” Figured It Out. At a tria l in Macon recen tly a negrc w as on the w itness stand. H e te s t! fled th a t a man who had been knock ed- down lay on the ground five min utes, and the opposing law yer chal lenged the statem ent. To te s t th e ac curacy of the w itness he took out hie own w atch and asked the negro to tell him when five m inutes was up. The negro told him correctly. As he wae leaving the courtroom th e lawyei cau g h t up w ith him. “Plum ," he said, “I’ll forgive you 11 you’ll tell me how you did it.” “Yes, boss," said the negro. “Ah Ju s’ flggered It out.” “Figured it out?” “Yes, sah, by de clock on de wall behine you." T R Y A G A IN . Albany, N. Y.—T h e re p o rt of the sta te labor d ep artm ent on Its Investi gation of conditions am ong the L ittle Falls textile w orkers—-brought to pub lic atten tio n by th e re ce n t strik e — was m ade public. “C ertainly It is a m a tte r of grave public concern," th e rep o rt says, “when a considerable body of wage- earners are found living in such con ditions as are revealed by this report. T here 1 b reason to suppose th a t m ore or less sim ilar conditions a re to be found elsew here." T he Investigators re p o rt that, prior to the strike, half of th e m en w orkers received a weekly wage of $9 or less, while half of the women received less than $7.50. “T he se ttle m e n t of th e strike,” the re p o rt adds, “m ade but little, if any, change in conditions as to w ages.” M onthly re n ts for the space occupied by a single fam ily or group run from $6 to $18. Of living conditions, the report says: “T he houses a re fram e stru ctu res, built singly or In groups. Bathroom s are entirely absent, leaky roofs m ake dry room s Impossible. V entilation al ways Is bad. C ellars w ere found filled w ith w ater, ashes, w aste, garbage and m anure. "Sleeping room s a re sm all, general ly when the num ber of occupants which they accom m odate Is consid ered. Some a re windowless. Over crowding Is the rule. Owing to Ignor ance of the need of fresh a ir in a sleeping room, windows are kept con stantly closed, even th e cracks being filled o r covered. T he a ir of the sleeping room s is charged with odors from the wltchen, th e w ashtubs, the garbage heap and th e cellars, and In this condition is b re ath ed again and again by the sleepers. “In each household one room serves as a kitchen, w hile all oth ers are sleeping rooms. T he kitchen is also a dining room, living room , wash room and laundry, and In some cases a sleeping room. T he head of the household is not sim ply the head of the family, nor even in the usual m eaning of th e term , a boarding housekeeper. The housewife is th e real head—Is ra th e r th e financial agent of the m em bers of h e r house hold, h erself and h e r Im m ediate fam ily form ing only a p a rt of such an organization. “T he term fam ily is little used In this report. T his is Intentional. F am ily privacy is a th in g unknown to the textile w orkers. T his cannot be cred ited to a low m oral standard, for phy sicians testify to a relatively high standard of morals. “D ealers sta te th a t th e m ill w ork ers buy a fairly good grade of food, but of the children enrolled in the schools, one-sixth are reported suffer ing from m alnutrition.” UNKNOW N W ORLD IS G O AL. Scientists Expect to Penetrate Regions Never Seen by Whites. Philadelphia. — T ea rs and ch ee rs sen t th e yacht Pennsylvania on her way T hursday w hen she steam ed down th e Delaw are riv e r for one of the m ost venturesom e voyages of m od ern tim es. T he yacht is owned by the U niver sity of Pennsylvania and Is bound for Brazil with a d a rin g p arty of explorers who purpose p e n etratin g to th e fa r reaches of the Am azon and to the headw aters of m any o f Its m ighty trib u taries In the In te re st of science and hum anity. T hey seek w hat is known as the “lost w orld,” In th e basin of the Amazon. T he expedition h a s been organized and equipped by th e U niversity Mu seum. It will be gone about th ree years and It Is expected to reach re gions never before visited by w hite men. T he yacht Is In com m and of C aptain J. C. Rowen, U nited S ta te s Navy, re tired, and the expedition is headed by Dr. W illiam C. L arrabee, c u ra to r of the Am erican section of th e Museum. His chief associates a re Dr. F ranklin B. Church, an a u th o rity on tropical medicine, and Sandy McNab, a trav e le r of wide experience and a scientist. ¡W O M E N P LA STER ED W IT H Ten Thousand Men Attack Suffragist Speakers. Reno, Nev.—A fter pursuing a rocky pathw ay through th e legislature, a bill having a m axim um of eight ho u rs a day labor for women w as vetoed by Governor Oddle. T he veto w as sus Tomm y—I’m going to be the boss ol tained in the senate. Although ex m y own house when I'm a man. pressing him self a s in sym pathy w ith Mrs. H enpeck (his m o th e r)—T hat's the object of the act. G overnor Oddle w hat your fa th e r thought when hs said in his veto m essage th a t an eight- hour day for women in th is s ta te w as was your age, too. not practicable and would prove m ore injurious th an beneficial to women Of Course Not. w age-earners. T he overw orking of "W hy th e limp?” women, he said, w as a condition not “H er fa th e r—” existing In Nevada as in o th e r states. "Sure enough? H a-ha-ha!” “T h at's right, laugh!" Commission Is Not Dazed. “But you told me Just la s t evening WASHINGTON. — C hairm an Clark, th a t h e r fa th e r had b e tte r not raise of the In tersta te Com m erce Com mis his hand to you.” sion, in a sta te m e n t outlining the "W ell, it w asn't his hand.” com m ission's prelim inary plans for physical valuation of railroads a u th o r Unconfirmed. ized by the last congress, declared no “W ere your suspicions confirmed?* estim ate could be m ade of the tim e re asked the man who Is Interested In In quired to com plete th e work. vestigation. “T he com m ission is not staggered “No,” replied the m an whose m ind or dazed by the du ties th a t have been Is on an ap p o in tm en t “You know as placed upon it,” said Chairm an Clark. well as I do th a t congress Isn’t con- “T he w ork will be proceeded w ith In a business-like and thorough way.” firm ing anything these days.” His Skill. "Charon would make an Ideal th ea t rical doorkeeper.” "W hy so?" “B ecause he could collect money from deadheads." "Arson T ru s t” Men In Jail. CHICAOO.—W holesale a rre sts of al leged m em bers of th e “arson tru s t” fol lowed the Issuance of 108 w a rra n ts for 30 men. T he w a rra n ts which w ere Issued Involve m erchants, fire In su r ance ad ju sters and alleged "firebugs.” CYCLONE KILLS 100 London. — T he suffrag rettes who again a tte m p ted to bold a Sunday aft- ernoon m eeting in H yde P a rk w e re j mobbed by a crowd of 10,000 persons. | T hey w ere pelted w ith clods, oranges | and o th er m issiles, and w hen the po lice w ere escorting them from the J scene th e rio te rs tore oil the h a ts and ] cloaks of the women, and even stru c k ( Suburb of Nebraska Metropolis some of them in th e face. Wiped Out; Farming Area T he trouble began w hen “G eneral” Stricken. Mrs. F lo ra Drum m ond m ounted a wagon and sta rte d to speak to the g re at assem blage, w hich was largely Lincoln, Neb.—One hundred are m ade up of youths who had arm ed dead, twice a s m any m ore w ere in them selves w ith am m unition of vari jured, Borne fatally, by death-dealing ous d escriptions o f w ith trum pets, tornado which d evastated O m aha and m outh organs and bells. its environs early Sunday last. It de H er appearance a t the fro n t of the m oralized telegraph and telephone se r platform w as th e signal for an out vice and cut O m aha off from com m un b u rst of deafening noise and a bom ication w ith th e outside world. bardm ent of m issiles. She had hardly T h irty to forty blocks in the re si uttered a w ord w hen a clod of turf dence section a re said to have been stru c k here on th e mouth. sw ept by the storm , killing scores of Mrs. D rum m ond m ain tain ed her persons, in juring several hundred and good natu re, sm iled a t h e r torm entors leaving hundreds of w recked re si and continued h e r speech am id a ver dences in the path of the storm . T rains which pulled into the city itable tornado of abuse, catcalls, rag tim e choruses and c rie s of “Go home shortly before 6 o'clock w ere stopped at the edge of the city to tak e on dead to your children:'’ F o r half an hour the crow ds shouted, bodies and the m any injured. T he vil sang and pelted th e suffragette com- lages of Benson, D undee and Florence, m ander-in-chlef, w hose clothes soon suburbs of Om aha, virtually a re wiped w ere a m ass of mftd. A t la st Mrs. out. Only the fact th a t a heavy rain Drum m ond’s speech, of w hich not a fell for a half hour a fte r the tornado word w as audible, cam e to an end and saved the m ass of w reckage and m any a younger wom an took h e r place. She of the bodies of th e dead from being fared no b e tte r, and th e police, realiz burned. ing the d a n g er the women w ere in, T he W ebster s tre e t telephone sta called upon th e chairm an to close the tion, containing a score or m ore of m eeting. girls, was one of the buildings h it by A large force of police, m ounted and the storm and in a m om ent w as tw ist afoot, drew in about th e suffragette ed and torn. Several of th e girls w ere wagon, and u nder th e esc o rt the wom killed outright, and m any oth ers w ere en w ere led o u t of th e park. injured. A m oving-picture show w hich was ju st putting on its final film w as S TO R M H A L T S R E S C U E . struck. T he roof of the building fell in and in th e m ad ru sh w hich w as Exploration Ship Aurora Returns to m ade through the only exits open, m any of those who w ere injured w ere Tasmania With 24 of 32 tram pled and crushed. Members. T he rush continued, however, over H obart, T asm ania. — T he A ntarctic the bodies of the dead and a few of exploration ship A urora h a s returned the a tte n d an ts escaped. Mayor Dahlm an, of Om aha, tele here w ith 24 out of th e 32 m em bers of the expedition com m anded by Dr. graphed G overnor M orehead shortly a fte r m idnight for several m ilitia com Douglas Mawson. T he A urora will re panies to p rev en t th e residences and m ain here until th e A ntarctic Spring, the dead bodies from being looted. The and then proceed to A delaideland to O m aha com panies w ere only partially bring hom e Dr. Mawson and five otl)er available, according to the reports, and the G overnor and A djutant-G eneral m em bers of his party, who have am ple Hall im m ediately ordered j u t tw o Lin supplies of food to la st them until coln com panies and o th ers from n ear th ey a re relieved. O f the original by towns. T he Governor him self left on a spe party, L ie u ten a n t B. E. S. N innis, of cial train for the scene of the d isa ster the Royal Fusllliers, and Dr. X avier shortly a fte r 2 o’clock. Merz died in th e polar regions. P assengers arriv in g in Lincoln a fte r T he officers of th e A urora say they m idnight brought inform ation th a t the w ere u nable to em bark Dr. M awson’s tornado first destroyed th e suburb of and from th ere sw ept up into p a rty ow ing to a hu rrican e and to have Ralston, the residence portion of Om aha. w aited longer in the south would have At F ourth and F arnum stre ets, a endangered the lives1 of Dr. W ilde and g arage was destroyed and a large his sledging p arty of e ig h t men, who strip of territo ry north and east of th a t w ere on a dangerous g lacier w aiting c o rn er was seriously dam aged. The to be tak e n off before th e sea froze Illinois C entral bridge over th e Mis again. T hey w ere rescued F ebruary souri River w as destroyed. 23, then, ow ing to the laten ess of the All w ires a re down w ith th e excep season, fhe A urora w as obliged to hur tion of a single railroad w ire into L in ry back to H obart, as she w as running coln, which is not available for press sh o rt of provisions. reports. Dr. W ilde took possession, on be Sem i-hysterical passengers arriving half of G reat B ritain, of all th e coast here say th a t the hospitals and hotels from K aiser W llhelm land to th e 101st of O m aha a re full of the injured and degree e a s t longitude, and nam ed it th a t the dead a re very num erous. K ing George th e F ifth Land. Omaha Hit By Twister Which De stroys Forty Blocks. T U R K S A G A IN C A U T IO U S . M A N Y D E M A N D PER C A P IT A . Facetious Story Brings Numerous Re quests to Director of Mint. W ashington.—A pparently un d er the im pression th a t th e D em ocrats will divide th e nation’s w ealth am ong the people of th e country, several hun dred p erso n s in letters received by G eorge E. R oberts, d irec to r of the m int, applied for th e $34.72 w hich the trea su ry d e p artm e n t e stim a te s Is the per c a p ita c irculation of th e United States. It w as a revival of an old story, In tended facetiously, which w as re p ea t edly denied du rin g th e T a ft adm inis tratio n , th a t $34.72 aw aited every in dividual in th e country. M any of the applicants asked th a t the am ount be forw arded by parcel post In pennies. "T he sto ry , of course, Is absurd," declared D irector R oberts, “and each applicant will be inform ed in a cir cular le tte r.” 200 Out In Alabama Cold. Eight-Hour Day Bill Vetoed. MUD. Fighting Is Desperate, But Involves Only Small Forces. CONSTANTINOPLE. — Skirm ishing and fighting on the outposts a re re ported daily along th e T ch atalja lines. T he engagem ents, although frequently d esperate, have n ev er been on a large scale. The rig h t w ing of th e T urkish advance, a fte r scoring an initial advan tage, seem s to have failed u tte rly and th e Bulgarians have reoccupled Ken- tandejik, which th e T urks took several days ago. T he T urks have abandoned attem p ts to tak e the offensive a t B ulair and a re com ing w ithin th e lines. T he com m anders both a t B ulair and T ch a ta lja have declined to adopt the suggestion of th e Com m ittee of Union and P rog ress for a general advance. T he bom bardm ent of A drianople continues w ithout dam age o r losses. Poor Suitors Unwelcome. W ellesley, M ass.—F orty W ellesley College girls have said good-bye to m atrim ony until a t lea st th ree years a fte r graduation and until m en come along who have an Income of a t lea st $5000. They a re m em bers of the new organization, the W ellesley M arriage Club, and of th e 50 wrho have been In vited to Join only 10 refused. M em ber ship is lim ited to 300 and a m eeting will be held a t w hich 20 m ore girls will tak e the pledge. W hen 100 have becom e m em bers, officers will be elected. The object of th e club, so it is said, is to d ecrease business in the divorce courts. Mobile, Ala.—Two hundred persons are hom eless a t Brewton, unsheltered from th e cold w ave w hich h a s Ala bam a in its grip. T h e flood, which reached its c re st a t 9:30 o’clock Sat urday night, has not subsided, accord ing to dispatches. One life is known to have been lost. Many have been injured. T he tow n Is In d a rk n ess and business Is paralyzed. T he floods a re not expected to recede perceptibly b e - j fore W ednesday, and th e dam age is Woman Makes A ir Voyage. estim ated a t $200,000. T h ere h ave been San Diego.—W. L eonard Bonney, a no tra in s to o r from B rew ton since Los Angeles aviator, w ith Miss Mar Friday. g a ret Stahl as a passenger, flew In a m onoplane from Los Angeles to this city, a feat h eretofore attem pted, but Oil King’s Son Is Host. L. R. Alderm an, su p e rin te n d en t of not successfully. T he distance Is about schools for Oregon, who is now In the 100 m iles. Bonney and Miss S tahl left E ast, is th e g u est of John D. Rocke I-os Angeles a t 1:30 P. M., Sunday. feller, Jr., w hen In New York. Mr. T he day was windy and chilly, b u t the R ockefeller w rote to Mr. Alderm an a v iato rs m et w ith no m ishap, except som e tim e ago, saying he w ished to th e breaking of a skid w hen landing. have him as his personal g u est when T he flight w as th e first leg of a 500- m ile tour of S outhern California. * he was in th e East. Mr. R ockefeller becam e Interested in Bachelors Beg for Wives. Mr. A lderm an through a re p o rt filed by th e Oregon school superintendent K lam ath F alls, Or.—H aving becom e on hom e c red it system s, som e tim w ealthy grow ing alfalfa and grain on ago. th e ir hom esteads, a large num ber of bachelors of Langell Valley, n e ar “ F” on Nickel Defended. here, have appealed to Rev. George H. W ashington.—P ro te sts again st the Feese, of K lam ath Falls, begging him Initial “F ” of A rtist F razer, appearing to secure fo r them “carload lo ts" of on th e new nickel, caused officials of m arriageable women. Mr. F re e se Is th e tre a su ry d e p artm e n t to declare m aking an effort to comply w ith th e tr th a t th is was custom ary on practically request and has addressed le tte rs to all th e coins of th e U nited S ta te s and E astern cities, w ith th e view of secur of o th e r nations. On som e foreign ing zoo women, as a sta rte r, for the lonely bachelors. coins th e a rtis t's full nam e appears. E X T R A SES S IO N FO R T A R I F F O N L Y Wilson's Message to Dwell on Need for Revision— April 7 Date. W ashington, D. C.—T he e x tra ses sion of C ongress called by P resident W ilson to assem ble April 7, will begin w ith n o thing but th e tariff revision bills before i t T his fa ct w as made c le ar in a sta te m e n t by R epresenta tive Underwood, chairm an of th e house com m ittee on ways and m eans. U ntil th e legislation is w ell u n d e r way In the house, no general com m ittees w«l be m ade and no o th er legislative sub je c ts will be taken up. T he president specified no subject for the e x tra session in his proclam a tion, b u t it is fully understood th a t his m essage to congress a t its opening will dwell upon the need of tariff re vision. If th e currency, P hilippine independ ence. A laskan affairs, wom an suffrage o r o th er pressing questions finally are forced upon th e a tte n tio n of congress, it will be only a fte r th e Dem ocratic leaders of th e tw o houses and the p resid en t a re convinced th a t th e suc cess of tariff revision is assured. T he sen ate com m ittees are organized fo r work and will tak e u p th e prelim inary stag es of m uch general legisla tio n early In April. A general agree m ent exists, how ever, to keep general subjects out of active discussion, while tariff legislation is under way. T he tariff legislation, now being com pleted by the w ays and m eans com m ittee, will be subm itted to th e Demo cratic caucus before th e session opens. T he D em ocrats of th e w ays and m eans com m ittee adjourned a fte r dis cussing a revision of the Intricacies of custom s enforcem ent in th e adm in istrativ e sections of th e tariff aud inform ally discussing th e Income tax plan in a general way w ithout a tte m p t ing to reach a decision a s to th a t new revenue raisin g schem e designed to add p erhaps $100,000,000 to th e tre a s ury funds. W hile the income tax details hinge upon th e final estim ate of th e probable revenue from the 14 schedules, th e dis position of th e com m ittee m ajority is to inau g u rate a system with piubably a 1 p e r c e n t tax on a m inim um of $5,000 annual Income w ith the idea th a t th e tax m ay be susceptible to a low ering of th e incom e m inim um o r a raisin g of the tax percentage, o r both, if conditions n ecessitate a fte r th e plan is floated. T h e big fight pending now Is the alw ays controversial schedule “K,” the big wool schedule, In w hich a final vote Is likely w ithin the next th ree o r four dayB. T he advocates of free raw wool in th e com m ittee have counted upon w inning in the end reg ard less of w hat th e probable a ttitu d e of th e senate m ight be. T h e m ajority alread y has settled upon free raw cotton and upon sharp reductions In th e cheaper grades of tex tile m anufactures. T he revision plan as se ttle d upon contem plates substantially th e princi pal provisions of the D em ocratic re vision bills th a t w ere put through both houses in th e last congress. C H IN A R E P U B L IC D IS C U S S E D . Double Phase of Interest Includes Rec ognition of Nation and Loan Desired, W ashington. D. C.—P re sid e n t W il son w ill p re sen t for th e consideration of th e cab in et a sta te m en t concerning C hina in w hich is intended to be m ade public from th e W hite H ouse later. W hite H ouse and sta te d e p artm en t of ficials observed the stric te s t secrecy about the statem en t, and none would venture In intim ation a s to its prob able contents. It is known th a t th e president and S ecretary of S ta te B ryan have had sev eral conferences on the su b ject of China, and a p articularly long talk held In the executive offices Just before the se c re ta ry ’s d e p artu re for th e w est was said to have been devoted largely to Chinese questions. T h ere a re tw o phases of th e Chi nese situ atio n in w hich th e U nited S ta te s is peculiarly in te rested —recog nition of th e republican governm ent now n early two y ears old, and the proposed six-power loan. T he C hinese republic continually has sought recognition, but th e policy of P resid en t T a ft and his se c re tary of sta te , Mr. Knox, w as to withhold rec ognition until th e new governm ent had dem onstrated to the world its ability to m aintain itself as a real re public, adm inistering a popular gov ernm ent. Vote Against Striking. San Francisco.—Em ployes of the Pacific S ta te s T elegraph & Telephone com pany will not strik e. Officials of th e In tern atio n al B rotherhood of E lec trical W orkers announced th a t a can vass of th e vote tak en by th e em ployes last w eek show ed th a t th e m en had agreed to accept th e com prom ise offer of the com pany for an advance In w ages of 25 cents p e r day. T he vote In favor of accep tin g the com pany's com prom ise offer was very large.' A lm ost 3,000 m en In C alifornia, Oregon, W ashington and p a rts of Ne vada and Idaho are affected. CURE 10 BE TESTED Safety of Tuberculosis Serum Must Be Seen By U. S. Reports That Officials Expressed Opinions As [to Friedmann’s Success Denied. W ashington.—T h e Public H ealth Service, through Surgeon-General Blue, issued its first sta te m en t here relative to the G overnm ent investiga tion of Dr. F. F. F riedm ann’s alleged tuberculosis cure. T he statem ent, which em phasizes the G overnm ent’s policy to proceed cautiously, is as fol lows: “On March 8 the S ecretary of the T reasury, on th e recom m endation* of th e Surgeon-General of the Public H ealth Service, caused a board of m edical officers to be detailed to m ake a thorough investigation of Dr. Fried m an n ’s alleged cure for tuberculosis. “T hese officers proceeded imm edi ately to New York and a rranged w ith Dr. Friedm ann for dem onstrations of his rem edy upon persons suffering from tuberculosis. T hese dem onstra tions are being carried on in New York hospitals and will be continued until sufficient inform ation has been obtained for the form ing of an opinion a s to the m erits of th e trea tm e n t. "Dr. Friedm ann has subm itted to th e board a cu ltu re of the b acteria, w hich he sta te s is used in h is m ethod of treatm en t. In addition to th e ob servation of persons under tre a tm e n t by Dr. Friedm ann, the board of offi c ers will m ake experim ents to ascer tain w hether th is cu ltu re is, a s Dr. Friedm ann claim s, harm less to warm blooded anim als. “Considerable tim e will necessarily be required to c arry out the investi gation, b u t the work will be carried out as rapidly as possible. “In the m eantim e the public is in form ed of the inadvisability in the g re a t m ajority of cases of traveling long distances in the hope of receiv ing treatm en t, a s those selected for dem onstration co nstitute only a sm all proportion of applicants. “C ertain sta te m en ts purporting to be expressions of the opinion of the board of officers of th e Public H ealth Service bearing on th e investigation have appeared in new spapers. These officers have expressed no opinion and will not be in position to do so until th e work has advanced sufficiently to w a rran t some knowledge in reg ard to Dr. Friedm ann's trea tm e n t.” SIXTY OR MORE DEAD IN EASTERN CYCLONE’S WAKE Chicago.—More th an 60 persons are reported killed and hundreds a re in jured, some of them seriously, by a storm of tornado inten sity which raged over Central, W estern and Soutbern and p a rts of E astern sta te s Saturday. P ro p erty dam age w ill run well into the millions. D efinite Inform ation h a s been re ceived accounting for m ore th an 40 persons dead, w ith rep o rts from points tem porarily cut off from w ire com m unication by the storm adding hour ly to the list. R eports from Alabam a show th e loss of life was heaviest in th a t state, th e num ber of dead th ere b ein g al read y placed a t 28. Two arp dead in Indiana, tw o in T ennessee, th ree in Ohio, two in New Yorfc, one In Michigan and tw o In Louisville. T h e g re atest loss of life Is reported from Lower Peach T ree, Ala., w here a cyclone which stru ck th a t place de m olished th e town and killed 27 per sons. Seventeen of th e dead a re w hite persons. Thirty-tw o w ere h u rt, some fatally, by the tw ister, w hich did prop erty dam age estim ated a t $150,000 and then sw ept on to Fulton, Ala., w here 50 persons w ere injured, but none killed. T he storm, sw ept w ith g re at fury over a dozen sta te s, left In its w ake a long train of death. At P o p lar Bluff, Mo., five persons w ere killed and 50 injured in the crash of th e falling buildings, while a t Hoxie, Ark., one w as killed and 63 persons injured and the town virtually wiped out. A big hotel in the course of construction was blown down and th e roof was throw n on a n o th e r building, c ru sh in g it and injuring a dozen occupants. Old Indian W a r Recalled. W ashington.—E choes of th e Sioux uprising led by C h ittin g In 1890 w ere heard here in the Suprem e C ourt of the U nited S tates, when tw o c attle com panies which lost tho u san d s of c a ttle during th e Indian ra id s aban doned appeals from suits b rought In th e C ourt of Claim s to reco v er from the Governm ent. T he C ourt of Claim s held th a t the Indians w ere not in enm ity w ith the Federal G overnm ent a t th e tim e the Wilson to Press Button. W heeling, W. Va.—P re sid e n t W il c a ttle w ere taken, and therefore, un d son will pre ss a n electric button at e r the sta tu te , the com panies w ere W ashington, Ju n e 16, form ally open n o t en titled to recover. ing W est V irginia’s golden Jubilee Miss Pankhurst Is Free. celebration. T he pressing o f th e but ton will b urn a platinum w ire, which London.—Sylvia P ankhurst, th e mil will release 1,000 c a rrie r pigeons from ita n t suffragette, won h e r lib e rty from all p a rts of the country, and 1,000 toy Holloway Prison by a "hunger strik e ” balloons c arry in g free tic k e ts to every F u rth e r confinem ent would h a v e en form of am usem ent du rin g th e cele dangered h e r life. Miss P a n k h u rst, bration. A t th e sam e tim e a signal d a ughter of Mrs. E tm naline Pank will be flashed to th e c ap itals of P enn hu rst, leader of th e m ilitants, w as sen sylvania. M aryland, Ohio and W est tenced F ebruary 18 to tw o m onths’ Virginia. _________________ im prisonm ent for engaging In a win dow-smashing cam paign. She went Pittsburg Needs 10,000 W orkmsn. on a hunger strik e and th e au th o ritie s P ittsb u rg .—Ten thousand workm en, pried open h e r m outh w ith a ste el gag a m ajo rity of them laborers, a re need and fed h e r through a tube. ed a t once In th is city, according to well known contractors, to c a rry on Apaches to Be Set Free. building operations, to equip local Albuquerque, N. M.—By o rd e r of steel com panies and to look a fte r th e work of th e num erous railroad com Secretary of W ar G arrison and Secre panies e n te rin g P ittsburg. T he g re at tary of th e In terio r la n e , 100 m em city im provem ents of g rading down bers of G eronlm o’s band of outlaw town s tre e ts now In progress has Apache Indians, held prisoners for caused a serious sc a rc ity h e re in m any years a t F o rt Sill, Okla., will leave here M arch 25 for New Mexico. labor.