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FLAiNO
5TA R-COURltIR
ERNES
T LOGSDON, Publisher
PLANO.
TEXAS
The Ame
000 gallon*
rlran people consume 120.-
of Ice cream a year.
MASSACRES CHARGED 38 UNION LABOR
TO SERVIAN TROOPS! OFFICIALS CONVICTED
CLARED SLAUGHTERED.
TWO OF FORTY IN DYNAMITE
CONSPIRACY TRIAL ARE FREED.
HEIR PRESUMPTIVE OF AUSTRIA AND FAMILY INTEREST ON NATIONAL!FATAL flRE *T HILLSBORO
DEPOSITS PROPOSED
A
I It la hla own fault If the lover of
Ipunjpkln pie la not happy now.
It must make a man feel mighty
email these days to bide behind a
•woman's skirts.
/ A Boston minister says that a couple
•can marry on $15 a week. Still we
advise them not to.
Needless to 6ay that the woman
■who threw her shoes at the Judge’s
.head did not hit him.
Chafing dishes have been found In
ithe ruins of Pompeii. Evidently life
In Rome wasn't all Joy.
A western woman has lost two hus-
bands by lightning. Evidently neith-
er of them was a conductor.
Coach Haughton gets $10,000 a year
'for teaching Harvard how to play
footbalL He earns the money.
MACHINE GUNS ARE USED SENTENCES MADE MONDAY
| Girls are superior to boys as prac-
tical farmers, says the department of
Agriculture. Back to the land!
A Calllfornla girl refused to marry
a man because he wore a mustache.
Escaped matrimony by a hair, as It
were.
A customs expert has decided that
a hen Is not a bird. At the pres-
ent price of eggs a hen Is a gold
mine.
Gum chewing has been barred In
/Court by a New York magistrate.
"There Is suftlcleut rag chewing with-
out 1l
Supremo court of Illinois Is trying
to decide whether poker Is labor or
a paBtlme. With lots of experts, It's
a cinch.
A Boston matron advises girls to
dance In order to keep young. Turkey
trot, or grizzly bear, or Just the chick-
en HipT
When refused permission to make
speeches, New York suffragettes talk
by signs. But. then, nobody believes
In signs.
Edison says that In a few years
women everywhere will be cooking by
wire. Suppose the wires get
crossed.
A deputy marshal chased 70 mlleB
after three men who sold whUky to
Indians He must havo hud an aw-
ful thirst
Announces a dispatch that two phy-
sicians received $2,000 from “the es-
tate of a patient for saving his life.’’
Odd, isn't It?
Pins were first manufactured by
machinery In 1824. But the Inventor
of hatpins has luckily managed to
keep his Identity hidden to the pres-
ent
Parisian dandles refuse to leave
■their beds and stand In the ratn to
witness a duel. From what we have
read of Parisian duels we don't blame
them.
A snow plow smashed a street car
in Buffalo recently. Too bad snow
jilows are not run In summer when
the auto speed bug Is at the height of
bis glory.
A San Francisco actress was Jailed
becaune she sent photographs of her-
self In the altogether through the
malls She should have claimed to be
a Salome dancer.
Four armed and masked men who
robbed a postofHce near Paris. France,
left behind a cap on which was pinned
n small American flag. Some of our
patriotic yeggmen are sojourning
abroad.
Germany has already produced syn-
thetic milk and synthetic rubber, and
the synthetic cow cannot be far away.
Then artificial beefsteak shall ush-
er In an sra of good feeling aud ar-
tificial teeth.
A New York modiste thinks she haa
discovered a law enabling her to copy-
right styles. Since such a law would
restrict the circulation of certain
styles tt Is a consummation devoutly
to be wished.
Hundreds of Prisoners Placed In Two
Rows and Mowed Down, Re-
ports Declare.
London.— A recital of atrocities
atrocities from Information gathered
yb Austro-Hungarian authorities is
given In a Budapest dispatch reveal-
lng, according to these official reports,
a deliberate policy of etxerininutlon of
Moslems adopted by the Servian Gen-
eral, Junovitch, on the march of his
army through Albania to the Beucoust.
Between Kumanova and Uskup 3,001)
were killed, and near Prlsrend near-
ly 3,000 were massacred under cir-
cumstances of the most horrible cru-
elty.
Villages were burned and the flee-
ing Inhabitants shot down. Helpless
women were forced to watch their
children hacked to pieces with bay-
onets. Executions were the daily di-
version of the Servian soldiers. VVhere-
ever persons were found in possession
of arms they were shot or hanged.
'1 ho route of the troops on their march
was lined with gallows on which the
bodies of Albanians were left hang-
lug-
The atrocities were not e<von con-
fined to Albania. The deeds commit-
ted In PriUp, Kossovo and Werschltza
exceeded anything the Albanians suf-
fered under Turkish rule. At Ve-rlso-
vltch the Servian commander Invited
the fugitives to return and surrender
the arms. Four hundred of them did
so and were immediately cut down. In
many cases the Servians killed their
prisoners.
Near Kratova Gen. Stephanovltch
placed hundreds of prisoners In two
rows and shot them down with ma-
j chine guns. Gen. Zikovitch ordered
950 Albanians aud Turks killed be-
cause they had opposed his progress.
Sentences in Dynamiting Cases.
Indianapolis, Ind. Imprisonment in
federal penitentiary at Leavenworth,
Kan., Monday was imposed as punish-
ment upon thirty-three labor union of-
ficials, convicted of having engaged
In the destruction of property by dyna-
mite over an area extending from Bos-
ton to Ixis Angeles.
Seven Years: Frank M. Ryan, Chi-
cago, president of the International As-
sociation of Bridge and Structural Iron
Workers.
Six Years: Olaf A. Tvcitmoe, San
Francisco, secretary of the California
Building Trades Council: Herbert S.
Hockin, former secretary of the iron
workers’ union and formerly of De-
troit; John T. Butler. Buffalo, vice
president of the union; Eugene A.
Clancy, San Francisco; J. 10. Munsey,
Salt Lake City; Philip A. Cooley, New
Orleans; Frank C. Webb, New York;
Michael .1. Young, Boston.
Four Years: John II. Barry, St.
Louis; Peter J. Smith, Cleveland.
Three Years: (’bales N. Benin, Min-
neapolis; Henry W. lx>gleltner. Den-
ver; Ernest G. W. Basey, Indianapo-
lis; Edward Smythe, Peoria, 111,; Wil-
liam K. Reddin, Milwaukee; Murray L.
Pennell, Springfield, 111.; Paul J. Mor-
rin, St. Ixjuis; William .1. McCain. Kan-
sas City; Michael J. Hannon, Scran-
ton, I’a.; George (Napper) Anderson.
| Cleveland; Wilford Bert Brown, Kan-
sas City; Michael J. Cunnane. Phila-
delphia.
Two Years: Frank J. Higgins. Bos-
I ton; William K. Painter, Omaha; Fred
Sherman, Indianapolis; Richard J.
Houlihan, Chicago.
One Year and One Day: William C. !
Bernhardt, Cincinnati: Charles J. Wao-
chmelster, Detroit; William Supe, Chi-
cago; James E. Ray, Peoria, III.; Ed- I
ward E. Phillips, Syracuse, N. Y.; Fred ;
Money, Duluth, Minn.
Suspended Sentences: Patrick F.
Farrell, F. Farrell, New York; James ]
Cooney, Chicago; James Coughlin, Chi- j
cago; Hiram It. Kline, Muncle, Ind.,
former organizer for the carpenters’ |
union in Detroit; Frank J. Murphy, De-
troit; Edward Clark, Cincinnati, con-
fessed dynamiter, who testified for the
government.
Attorneys for Defense Announce Ap-
peal Will be Taken to Higher
Court—Notice Given.
Objection to the appointment of a I
woman as playground director In Buf- !
falo Is made on the ground that she
could not maintain discipline. Why |
not take a vote of the married men
on that question?
The skin of a sltve terrier has been
grafted on the arm of a New York
woman. Now let the mice beware.
A soldier who deserted two month*
ago to be married has surrendered
and asked to be returned to his post.
Evidently he prefers the chance ol
facing powder In the field to the cer-
tainty of facing it In the boudoir
Lending educators met in Philadel-
phia the other day and agreed that
examinations are of little use. Pu-
pils are certainly Justified In wonder-
ing of what use education is when a
Jot of educators have to hold a solemn
conference to discover such an obvi-
ous truth.
The guest of a Paris host stabbed
the gentleman who was entertaining
him when, after a sumptuous repast,
he refused to allow his visitor to
smoke his pipe. Why didn't he at-
tempt tc borrow his tooth brush?
Germany talks of creating a fleet
Ol 20 /.eppei in ail Snipci, ».triable
cf carrying and discharging one ton of
explosives, traveling 51 miles an hour.
nights without an Intermediate land-
ing. is bound to give England another
Jbad case of the twitters.
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Declines to Deliver Soldiers.
Washington.—Secretary of War
Stimson has reconsidered his decision
to deliver up to the state of Texas
for trial the six soldiers of the Four-
teenth Cavalry, stationed at Fort
Clarke, Texas, accused of killing a
Mexican and seriously wounding two
others In a dance hall near the post,
Nov. 9. last. The question of jurisdic-
tion will now bo decided by the United
States supremo court on Jan. 6.
Counterfeiting of Five-Dollar Bills.
Washington.—Alarm was felt in the
United States Treasury upon the dis-
covery of a remarkable counterfeit $.">
silver certificate, the most dangerous
Imitations of American currency since
the famous “Monroe head" $100 bill,
which was suppressed in 1908. So near-
ly perfect is this spurious note thnt
officials of the cash room declared It
was genuine and unswervingly held to
their belief that it was a washed note.
Herman Moran, assistant chief cf the
secret service, detected slighi varia-
tions from tho original.
Germany's Foreign Secretary Is Dead.
Stuttgurdt, Germany.—Alfred von
Kidderlen-Waechter, secretary of state
of the German empire, died suddenly
from heart failure at his homo here, af
ter a brief Illness. KidderlenAN aech
tor was enjoying his usuui 4 hristmas
visit to his sister, the Baroness von
Germmingen, near here. He had felt
ill for several days; so much so that
physicians who were called in feared
a fatal termination, as his heart action
was very irregular. He was 60 yean
of age.
Indianapolis, Ind.—The United
States government has in its posses-
sion thirty-eight union labor officials
convicted of conspiracy, of promoting
explosions on nonunion work through
out the land, of aiding In the explos-
ion which brought loss of life at Los
j Angeles, Cal., and of carrying on a
"reign of terror,” declared to bo un-
j paralleled in the history of the coun-
try.
Almost the entire executive staff
of the International Association of
J ltrldgo and Structural Iron Workers
I was convicted. Only two officials of
that union now remain out of jail.
At the head of the list of those con-
victed stands Frank M. Ryan, tho pres-
ident.
Saturday's convictions, coming on a
scale unprecedented in a federal
court, were an aftermath of the killing
J of twenty-one people in the blowing up
j of the Los Angeles Times building on
| Oct. 1, 1910. McNamara and his broth-
er, James B. the Times dynamiter,
; are convicts In California; Ryan and
| his fellow-officials, former associates
of McNamara, are federal prisoners,
here.
Two of those convicted were not af-
filiated with the Iron Workers' Union,
but they wore found guilty of joining
with the iron workers' officials in pro-
moting the conspiracy. One of these
is Olaf A. Tvettmoe of San Francisco,
a recognized labor leader on the Pa-
cific. Coast, the testimony against
whom was that he aided in causing
explosions at Ix>s Angeles, wrote let-
ters about them and referred to them
as “Christmas presents" after the fa-
tal Times explosion, and that he aided
in concealing evidence wanted in Cal-
ifornia. Ho is secretary of the Cali-
fornia Building Trades Council.
J. E. Munsey, who was convict' <1,
was charged by tho government v\ h
harboring James B. McNamara for two
weeks la Salt. Lake City while that dy-
namiter was fleeing from the scene of
his crime at Los Angeles.
Many of those convicted were charg-
ed with knowing only of local explos-
ions where the contractors refused to
recognize tho union, but were thus
brought into the general conspiracy,
Ryan, John T. Butler, vice presi-
dent of the union, Buffalo; Eugene A.
Clancy, San Francisco; Frank C. Webb,
New York; Michael J. Young, Boston;
Philip A. Cooley, New Orleans; Henry
W. Legleitner, Denver, and Charles N.
Bourn, Minneapolis, were all convicted
as having appropriated out of the un-
ion's funds $1,000 a month with which
McNamara was paid for explosions.
Herbert S. Hockin, who resigned as
secretary of the union a few weeks
ago, who was branded as the Iago of
the conspiracy, In having helped to
instigate the plots and employing Or
tie E. McManlgal to carry them out.,
while afterward "betraying his fel-
low-conspirators" to promote his own
interests, stands among the most prom-
inent of those convicted. He figured
almost daily In the testimony.
That verdict brought to an end the
historic three months' ‘'conspiracy"
trial. It meant, except In the cases
of Herman (!. Seiffert of Milwaukee
and Daniel Buckley of Davenport, la.,
who were the two men out of forty
to be adjudged “not guilty,” that the
government's charges about dynamite
plots extending over six years had
been sustained.
Important details yet remain in con-
sequence of the verdicts. Prisoners
who receive terras longer than one
year are to be taken to the federal
prison at I-eavenworth, Kan. Thirty
nine and one-half years is the maxi-
mum punishment for any one prison-
er. It may vary from that maximum
to any shorter Imprisonment or money
fine t he court may wrlsh to impose.
President Returns from Panama.
Miami. Fla.—President and Mrs.
Taft, Col. George W. Goethals and Mrs.
Goethals and a number of friends ar-
rived off Key West Sunday morning
on the battleships Arkansas and Del-
aware after a quick trip from Colon
and the Panama Canal zone. The
presidential party started north on a
special train over the Florida East
Coast and the Atlantic Coast Line rail
roads. They are due in Washington
Tuesday. The voyage from Colon to
Key West, more than 1,100 miles, was
made in a little more than sixty hours.
Suffragette “Army" Completes March.
Albany, N. Y.—Tired and footsore,
but still enthusiastic and glorying in
the fact that they reached their des-
tination two days ahead of schedule,
the little band of five “suffragette pil-
grims," who vliked 174 miles from
New York to present a message to Gov.
elect Sulzer, advocating votes for wo-
men. arrived in Albanv Saturday after-
noon. "Gen." ltosella Jones said the
174 miles were covered in twelve days
of walking, an average of fourteen aud
a half miles a day.
Nine Men Rescued from Wrecked Boat
Wilmington, N. C.—Capt Gould and
his crew of eight men were rescued
from the schooner Savannah, which
ran ashore on Frying Pan Shoals In
a heavy gale, by life savers from the
Capo Fear and Oak Island stations.
The 496-ton, lumber-laden schooner
was bound for Northern ports from
Jacksonville, Fla. \\ hen the lire sav-
ers reached Frying Pan Shoals Capt.
Gould and the crew had taken refuge
in the rigging and hail suftered trom
sold and exposure. It Is believed the
schooner will be a total loss.
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This Is a new photograph of Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir presump-
tive to the throne of Austria Hungary, and his family. The archduke Is the
aon of the emperor's eldest brother, Charles Louis, who died In 1896. H®
Is forty-nine years old, and was married morg&nat.lcally to the Countess
Sophie Chotek In 1900 The archduke renounced the claim of their Issue to
the throne, so that his children have no hope of being more than the chil-
dren of Austria-Hungary's future ruler. Archduke Ferdinand Is particularly
Interested In the mobilization of the Austrian army, and in the event of
war between that country and Servia he will be a prominent figure “at the
front.”
MISS LUCY HOKE SMITH
VAST SLAV EMPIRE
OF SOUTH PLANNED
REVENUE RUNNING INTO MIL-
LIONS AMONG POSSIBILITIES.
THINK BILL WILL BE PASSED
i Measure by Pomerene and Goeke
Seeks to Reform Methods of Dis-
tributing Treasury Funds.
Washington.—An Investigation con-
ducted by the houBe committee ou ex-
penditures in the treasury department
discloses that the federal government
through its depoaits with banks in the
pant night have collected more than
$100,000,Out) in interest. This investi-
gation grew out of the introduction of
a joint bill by Senator Pomerene and
Representative Goeke of Ohio provid-
ing that all government money shall be
distributed to the various depositories
over the country on a basis of competi-
tive bidding. At tho request of the
committee the treasury department has
submitted a report covering the finan-
cial transactions of the government
that has atnazed members of congress.
The report is one of great detail and
covers the quarterly transactions an-
nually since 1886. In that time banks
in all parts of the country have hand-
led considerably more than tw-o billion
dollars of government money and for
the most part have had the use of this
enormous amount of cash for long pe-
riods and without the payment of in-
terest. The report shows that figured
on the low basis of 2 per cent Interest,
revenue totalling $42,000,000 might
have been collected. This would have
been at the rate of $1,615,000 annually.
The report show's further than dur-
ing the greater part of the twenty-six
years covered in the examination the
balance kept on hand in the treasury
vaults averaged more 4han $200,000,000
daily. It is admitted In the report that
a daily balance of $20,000,000 kept in
the treasury vaults would be more than
1 sufficient to carry the ordinary busi-
j ness of the government.
Both Victims Children, Who Were
Playing in Kitchen.
Hillsboro, Texas.—In a fire here in*
! volving the destruction of a dwelling
: house owned by J. R. Barger and oc-
j cupied by his family and that of his
{ son-in-law, Will F. Goodman, oae child
was burned to death and two others
so badly injured that one of them died
j later, and the other's life hangs in tho
balance. The victims of the fire were
Glen Goodman, a boy 4 or 5 years old.
Juanita Goodman, a girl 2 years old,
died three hours later; Inez Barger, a
girl 5 or 6 years old, has a very slon-
der chance of recovery*
The children were pla>j
kitchen while the grown
the family were In the fnAnt j*rt
the house. The older members of the
family first knew of the conflgration
when the two little girls rushed into
the front room with their clothing en-
veloped in flames. They then, with
the assistance of neighbors extinguish-
ed the fire in the clothing of the chili-
dren, but not until the children had
been badly burned. When mesnbers
of the family rushed back to the kitch-
en to rescue the Goodman bog they
found it impossible on account of the
fames to reach him.
REBELS TAKE CASAS GRAftOES.
Gen. Orozco Has Little Trouble Cap-
turing Place Federals Held.
CHASED BY HUNGRY WOLVES.
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IN A NEW CONFEDERATION
Hungary, Bohemia, Poland, Servia*
Montenegro and Other Balkan
States Are Sought.
:ARC0HEC^^TT”oMTEGRAR,, “ —. V-r corn.
Sacrifices Five Horses to Pack.
Grand Junction, Colo.—After sacri-
ficing live horses to a pack of nearly
100 wolves and engaging In a three
days’ running fight with them, State
Rerpesentative Victor Corn has reach-
ed here.
The last thirty miles Corn walked.
He started from his mountain home
near the Utah line and the famous
"bad lands" for Grand Junction with
five horses. He encountered the
wolves the second day out. They fol-
lowed him until night, when they grew
bolder and killed one horse, which had
strayed. The next morning Corn be-
gan shooting them and they were con-
tent for a time to devour their dead.
That afternoon another horse and that
night two more were devoured by the
wolves.
On the third day Corn abandoned
his last horse and after a final encoun-
ter he reached a settlement fifteen
miles north of here, his ammunition
all used.
M1** Smith, elder daughter of the
senator from Georgia, will be one of
the leaders of the younger »et in
Washington, and is to entertain Miss
Esther Cleveland in January.
WILSON RETURNS TO STAUNTON.
Virginia’s Eighth Son to Be Chosen
President Awarded Great Ovation.
Staunton, Va.—Virginia welcomed
home Friday night Gov. Woodrow Wil-
son, the eighth of her native sons vo
be chosen president of the United
States.
From lb? moment the president-elect
crossed the state line at Alexandria In
the afternoon, after he had a ten-min-
ute glimpse of the national capital, un-
til 9 o'clock, when he reached the lit-
tle pasonage here where he was born
fifty-six years ago, the reception given
him was one of great enthusiasm,
noisy demonstration and spectacular
display. Escorted by troops of cavalry,
militia companies and a torchlight pro-
cession, in which practically the whole
town participated, the governor and
Mrs. Wilson motored through the
streets of Staunton to the home of Rev.
Dr. A. N. Frazer, pastor of the Pres-
byterian Church, where Rev. Joseph
R. Wilson, father of the president-
elect, lived in 1S56.
$30,000,000 Ranch Deal Pending.
Fort Worth, Texas.—It is rumored
that the immense estate of Gen. Luis
Terrazas in Chihuahua, Mex., had been
offered for sale and that a deal with
an American syndicate is pending. In-
volving $30,000,000. Gen. Terrazas,
known as t he cattle king of Mexico,
has been residing in California about
a year on account of the revolutionary
disturbances in the state of Chihuahua.
He is said to own more cattle than any
man in the world and his landed es-
tate embraces tho greater portion of
the state of Chihuahua.
Paris.—-According to a Vienna coin
respondent a friend of Archduke
Franz-Ferdinand is authority ror the
disclosure of an ambitious plan which
the archduke has conceived and now
is actively endeavoring to make of*
fective.
If the plan is successful it is e».
pected to have the effect of complete*
■ ly breaking up at one strike the po-
litical forms and the system of alli-
ances of Europe.
The archduke aims at the creation
of a vast Slav empire of the south
1 under the crown of the Ilapsburgs.
i He is preparing a coup d'etat in Aus-
tria Hungary to clear the way for the
first part of his program, which Is th®
liberation of the discontented and ill-
assorted peoples who form the mon-
archy. Having thus made a clean
sweep of the existing political condl-
I tious, he will proceed with the work
j of building up by restoring the an-
| cient and historical kingdoms and
! founding new principalities.
The new confederation, according to
! the same authority, is to include th®
I autonomous kingdoms of Hungary,
Bohemia and Poland, each with its
I personal ruler; Servia with its fron-
I tiers extended by recent victories and
t still further increased by the inclu-
! slon of Slavonia; Montenegro, enlarg-
; ed by a part of Dalmatia and part of
j Herzegovina, and the other Balkan
| States.
Poland is said to have been quick
I to grasp the plan and has signified
unanimous adhesion.
Bulgaria is favorably disposed and
active pourparlers are now going on
between Emperor Ferdinand and
Archduke Franz-Ferdinand. Servia, It
is also said, is beginning to realize
the advantages of the scheme.
Cholera Plague in Arabia.
Loudon.—An Odessa dispatch to the
Post reports an aalrming epidemic of
cholera in Mecca, Arabia, where 10,-
000 pilgrims now are gathered. In
four days 1,714 deaths have been re-
ported.
What New Tariff Bill Must Do.
Washington. — Between $325,000,000
and $350,000,000 will have to be raised
by the tariff legislation of the next con-
gress. This is the basis on which the
ways and means committee is figuring,
as what would have to bo provided'
for upon the elimination of the pres-
ent tariff law. The committee plans
to provide in the plans whether the
new congress should deal with it sched-
ule by schedule, or as a general bill,
and whether there should be an excis®
or income tax to meet revenue neces-
sities.
TURKEY SAY PROPOSALS ABSURD.
Representatives of Sultan and Balkan
Allies Are Standing Firm,
El Paso, Texas.—Casas Grandes, the
most important town In the ranching
and lumerinbg district southwest of
Juarez, has been taken by rebels per-
sonally commanded by Gen. Pasetial
Orozco Jr„ reported,
A column of 800 men marching
against the rebela at Ascension was
defeated, it was announced. The Fed-
eral commander. Gen. Jose Blanco,
was taken prisoner.
Confirming this report, S. D. Am-
brose, an American hotel man of Col-
umbus, N. M., arrived here. He was
in Ascension at the time of its capture
last Wednesday and talked with tf-en.
Salazar, whose forces took the town.
While there a messenger arrived di-
rectly from Gen. Orozco with a letter
from the rebel leader saying that he
had taken Casas Grandes and-defeated
Blanco.
Blanco’s force was entrapped, the of-
ficial rebel report says, in a canyon
north of Casas Grandes. Aside from
capturing many rifles gp.il; much am-
munition, tho rebels secured two can-
non. Details of the battles are lack-
ing, but Casas Grandes was taken eas-
ily, Orozco wrote, as Vthe Federals left
only 200 meYl to protect the town.
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ABANDONS SUIT FOR RECEIVERS.
State Has Withdrawn Part of Cement
Company Pnn^cutions.
Austin, Texas.—^^^^Pey Geaeral
James D. Walthall ra|^abandoned his
efforts to secure the^apointment of
a temporary receiver four ee
rnent concerns named as defendants
the suit for ouster and $7,600,0(50' pen-
alties for alleged violation of the anti-
trust statutes. One company, the Tex-
as Portland of Dallas, has gone tatc
the hands of a receiver in Dallas, and
as to the other three, Mr. Walthall ad-
mitted that he could not make a show-
ing which would authorize the oourt
to appoint receivers therefor. Tht
three concerns are the Southwestern
Portland Cement Company, the South-
western States Cement Company and
the Alamo Cement ompany.
Train Kills Relative of Famous German
Reno, Nov.—With both hands cut
off and his skull fractured. Max Von
Bulow, said to be a descendant ol
Count Bulow, the famous German Gen-
eral, was picked upon the railroad
track near the state line and died later
in the railroad hospital at Starks. Von
Bulow was a globe trotter and soldier
of fortune. Several years ago he mar-
ried tli« Christine Plumer. a wealthy
woman of Pueblo, Colo., and they trav-
eled through Europe in regal style.
They were later divorced.
London.—Both the Turks and the
Balkan allies are standing by their
guns on the peace terms. Both de-
clare it is impossible to recede from
their positions.
Nevertheless those who think they
know what is going on behind the
scenes still believe the probabilities of
the conclusion of peace are greater
than of the resumption of the conflict.
The exchange of cipher dispatches be-
tween the administration at Constan-
tinople and Rechard Pasha continues,
but the chief of the Turkish plenipo-
tentiaries declines to divulge the na-
ture of the reply he will present to
the allies. It is understood this will
be as already outlined, with the addi-
tional promise that Turkey will apply
to the European territories remaining
to her, the reforms which Count Von
Berchtold, the Austro-Hungarian for-
eign minister, proposed before the war.
“While I can not discuss the reply
of the Ottoman government," said
Rechard, “nothing prevents me from
saying that the terms the allies have
proposed are absurd. They have pro-
duced this impression wherever heard,
even outside of Turkish circles. It
was never known that after the con-
clusion of an armistice one belligerent
party could ask the other to cede ter-
ritory bravely defended and still re-
sisting with heroism.”
Three Dwellings Burn at McKinney.
McKinney, Texas.—Fire originating
in the home of Dr. W. T. Whittaker
Jr. destroyed their two-story house
and the two-story residence of Mrs. E.
N. Macauley, and racticpally destroyed
the home of Hugh Kistler. It is be-
lieved the fire was accidentally start-
ed by a small child. Practically all
the house furnishings were saved from
the Macauley and Kistler homes, but
nothing from the Whittaker home.
Kistler's loss Is $1,500. Mrs. Macauley.
who owned, the other houses, estimates
her loss at $8,000, partly insured.
7.000 Railroaders Strike in Mexico.
City of Mexico.—Setting aside an
agreement between the grievance com-
mittee and the management, a general
strike of the shopmen has begun on
all the lines of the Mexican Railway
system. Th® number of strikers is ap-
proximately 7,000. The order for th®
strike includes all grades of mechan-
ics. The men have asked for a revi-
sion of certain service rules, an eight*
hour instead of a ten-hour day. the es-
tablishment of a pension system and
] hospital reforms.
Fourteen to Pasteur Institute.
Houston. Texas.—Fourteen people
left Houston for Austin, where they
will enter the Pasteur institute for
treatment. They left on instructions
from physicians at the institute, who
^.rv-viniofpd nn examination of the head
of the dog that ran amuck in the Fifth
Ward here and bit a number of peo-
Sn— w*q infor-tort with rabies
Every one were bitten, none very se-
riously. however, with the exception of
one baby, 18 months old.
MINERAL LAND QUESTIONED.
Suit Involves $250,000,000 In Southern
Pacific Railroad Claims.
I.os Angeles, Cal.—The complaint
in the long expected suit of the Fed-
earl Government against the South-
ern Pacific railroad involving title to
$250,000,000 worth of supposed min-
eral bearing lands in Fresno County,
was filed here in the United States
district court for the Southern district
of California.
Other suits are to follow, in which
the government will contest the own-
ership of $750,000,000 worth of lands,
according to B. D. Townsend, special
assistant to the attorney general of
the United States.
The suit is brought under the act of
congress passed July 27, 1866, requir-
ing the department of the interior tc
exempt mineral bearing lands In Is-
suing patents to railroads. The gov-
ernment will contend that of 440,000
acres of land on the main line of the
Southern Pacific in California, 45,726
acres are mineral bearing and mus-
revert to the public domain. The land
is for the most part in the Coatings;
oil field and is under leaso to fte
Kern Trading and Oil Company, a
subsidiary of the Southern Pacific,
and a joint defendant in the suit.
Ohio Legislators Begin Prison Terms.
Columbus, Ohio.—To serve tennB of
three years and nine mirths, respec-
tively, State Senators* I?aac E. Huff-
man and La Forrest Tt Andrews, have
entered the penitentiary here. Both
had been refused new trials recently
upon conviction of accepting bribes in
connection with bills pending before
the last legislature. Both are lawyers,
and Senator Andrews, previous to his
election to the senate, had served two
terms as prosecutor of Lawrence coun-
ty. Andrews is a Republican and Huff-
man a Democrat.
Atlanta, Ga.—An increase of fifteen
per cent in the wages of linemen em-
ployed by the Southern Bell and Cum-
berland Telephone Companies, to be
effective January 1, is announced by
officials of the companies. The in-
crease was granted voluntarily and i*
in line with the recent establishment
of a $10,000,000 benefit for the Beil
Telephone Company, to w ich th®
Southern Bell and Cumberland Com-
panies are subsidaries. More than
1,500 linemen throughout the Soutn-
ern states will benefit from thi®
“Christmas gift.” ,
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