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VOL. Ik ^29, SKMI-W
GOVERNOR SPEAKS ON F
STAIt INSANE ASYLUM0
Speaks itw Person and Without
Manuscript Before the ^
Joint Assembly. w
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FRANRLf EXPLAINS S
POLICY AT ASYLUM ?
. Is
Provided Excess Himself and c<
Does Not Ask For a
Reimbursement. t(
Governor Manning's address "
to the ovoeral asflnmhlv revipw- a
ing the condition of the insane s<
asylum, delivered Friday, fol- t(
lows:
> Gentlemen of the General As* %
** sembly J?
In my annual message I sta- ^
ted that I would transmit to ^
you a special message dealing u
with the State Hospital for the n
Insane. You have courteously ^
invited me to deliver this message
in person. Permit me to n
thank you for this privilege. jj
At the outset, I wish to state if
clearly that in referring to the e
conditions which I found there
when I became governor, it j;
must not be regarded as a personal
criticism, but rather a
statement of facts and condi- *
tions as I found them. I would be
disengemious if I did not make
a full statement to you of this
whole situation, and its needs. j
From personal observation. 0
I found last yc*ar, the physical a
condition of this institution to si
be intolerable, if we are to con- b
sidfcr the treatment of these un- e
fortunates as a solemn duty and tl
as jm act of humaneness and c,
chfrity. The treatment of
those patients was custodial, fi
rathe** than that of giving skill- s]
ed treatment to improve their %
condition of mind, as well as of k
body - IT
W This condition was fully re- cl
vealed to you in an exhaustive n
report made by Dr. Herring, w
last year, through me to you. 1 u
feel that it is unnecessary to h
repeat here what was stated in oi
that document. You, in a body,
at my invitation, visited that in- N
stitution then, and the condi- r<
tion as shown by that report, n
and by what you found there, tl
OAn\rin nCkA trnn Af tVin n noncia
vvr*? niv/vu J vu vi tnv ntwtnnii v ^ i
for reorganization of the inati- ti
tution, and a change in the t<
treatment of the inmates. I am ci
sure that you recall vividly the tl
picture of what you saw then. tl
Yesterday I invited you co C
visit again this institution so s1
that you could see fur your- ei
selves, in a measure at least, 1
what has been done, and is be- C
ing done, under the acts which ir
you so wisely passed at the last
session of the legislature. The rr
improvements in the physical p<
property are being carried on in h
a thorough and efficient manner u
and when this work is comple- 'S
ted I feel that it will be an en- A
during monument to your wis- ir
dom and humaneness in provid- h
ing for the comfort and the im- b<
proved treatment of these un- tl
fortunate citizens of our state, si
Last year you haw the wretch w
ed condition, the discomforts
and dirt in the cells in which di
these people were 'Xjnfined. ! tl
saw, and you saw, how the h
meals served were cold and un- ?
palatable. You saw ii> .he worn- ei
an's department, which was n
then the best department in
that institution, the silent wit- nr
nesses?those straps that were cl
around the walls, that were used
to resrain violent patients. "
Gentlemen, the temptation to
me is to go on and enumerate
the different things that were
revolting, but I have promised ,
you not to do so. But I can not V,
refrain from saying that in V
that women's ward and as the
ward that was then in best condifion,
you will recall that in
that ward for violent patients, k
there were 92 of those violent
subjects. They were confined r,
in cells. We found that the fire e
f protection was absolutely in- 0i
adequate and inoperative; we tl
K found the fire hose could not be. e<
attached to the hydrant, because i?
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KEKLY.
IORE REFUGEES
ARRIVE AT BORDER
>ne Hundred Americans Came'
Out of Mexico Last
Night.
El Paso, Texas, Jan. 17.?Aproximately
100 out of the 1,000
Lmericans and other foreigners
ho remained in Chihuahua
tate after the massacre at
anta Ysabel a week ago today,
rere expected to arrive here
ite tonight.
Most of the passengers are
jming from the Parral district,!
round which bandits are said!
) be operating. The party
lcludes a number of women
nd almost a score of children,
[>me of whose parents decided
) remain in Mexico.
The train bearing the refuees
is not expected before midight
and according to reports;
rom Juarez officials it would;
e preceded by a train bearing!
ie body of Jose Rodriguez, thej
audit chief who was officially
sported by Carranza officials to
nve been executed.
A number of Americans who;
Bached here last night from the
iterior of Chihuahua state veried
the reports of Rodriguez's i
xecution.
AVORABLY REPORT
CHILD LABOR BILL
leasure Has Been Strenuously
Opposed by Mill Owners of
the South.
Washington, Jan. 17.?The
ill to regulate the employment
f children in the production
nd and manufacture of intertaes
products which is opposed
y souinern couon manutacturrs,
was favorably reported to
le house today by the labor
^mmittee.
The bill would make it unlaw-i
ill for a producer or dealer to
hip in interstate commerce,
oods produced wholly or part-;
r by children under 16 years in I
line or quarry products, and by(
nildren under 14 in case of j
lanufactured producs. Sixteen |
ould be the age limit for man-!
factured products when the
ours were longer than eight j
r at night.
"Ex-Gov. W. W. Kitchin, ofi
orth Carolina, and others rep;f
nting the southern cott "i
fills opposed the bills," reads'
le committee's repor. "The!
ridence of the cotton manufacjrers
indicated a gratifying a.?^:
4-v.^ ie ?c
riitiwn tu i/iic vYcuaic wi tutrix
mployes in other respects,
lough it was admitted by
*use from North end South
arolina that the laws of those j
:ates still permitted them to
mploy 12 year old children for
1 hours a day, while in North
arolina there was no factory
ispection.
"The only opposition from
lanufacturers personally apearing
before the committee
as been from the cotton manfacturing
states of North and
outh Carolina, Virginia and
.labama, and the manufacturig
associations of those states!
ave been in the past opponents
efore their own legislatures of
le raising of the age limit or
lortening of the hours for the
orking children."
In its report the committee1
irected attention to the Tact |
lat in several southern states)
aving extensive cotton mills
lere is no prohibition against
mployment of young children,
lanufacturers in North and
outh Carolina even being per-1
.:*??.1 -to aUi
I 1 L till UJ Ciupiuy LA y Cell VIU
nildren for 11 hours a day."
SBORNE PLEADS NOT
GUILTY TO INDICTMENT
White Plains, N. Y., Jan. 17.
-Thomas Mott Osborne, formr
warden of Sing Sing prison,
leaded not guilty today before
ustice Morschauser to the inIctment
charging him with
mi 1 _ A _ . / A?! _ I
erjury. ine aaie or nis man
as set for Feb. 7.
|
AISER MUST WAIT WEEK.j
Rome, Jan. 17.?According to I
spors received by the Vatican I
Imperor William underwent an j
peration last Thursday. Al-j
lough the operation is describd
as having been successful it
i said that a week must elapse
efore his majesty may be proounced
out of danger.
\NGA
LANCASTER, S.
CARRANZA RENEWS
PROMISETO PUNISI
About to Issue Decree Authoi
izing Any Citizen to Execute
Any of Bandits.
WITHOUT PALE
OF THE LA\
Similar Decrees Issued and E*
ecuted in Case of Dynamiting
Passenger Train.
Washington, Jan. 16.?Ger
Carranza today renewed his as
surances to the United State
that he would make every effor
to punish those responsible fc
the murders of Americans nea
Santa Ysabel.
A dispatch from Consul Sill
man, at Queretaro, to the stat
department said Carranza ha
personally assured Mr. Sillim?
in reply to the department's dc
mand that the murderers be ru
down, that he "had issued oi
ders for the immediate pursui
capture and punishment c
inose responsible tor the atr<
city."
The dispatch from Consi
Silliman follows:
"Department's telegram c
January 13. 5 p. m? massaci
Americans at Santa Ysabel, r<
ceived at 8:20, and implaced b<
fore Gen. Carranza by me i
person. Gen. Carranza said thr
he had already issued orders fc
the immediate pursuit, captui
and punishment of those r<
sponsible for the atrocity. H
stated that he believed this ou
rage was committed by men a:
sociated directly with Villa an
that it was done specially t
provoke international trouble
at this time. He said he had d<
clared those responsible outsid
the law, to be punished wit
death if caught.
"He appeals to the secretar
of state and to the public of th
United States to consider th
wide strip of the Cenral railwa
the great difficulty of guardin
the entire distance, and th
comparatively easy task of det
troying a train or attacking
small place. He says that n<
body can lament more than h
such an atrocity or be more cor
corned about it, but that prote(
tion is relative and that eve
in the best regulated (?) state
outbursts of disorders and law
lessness may cause destructio
of property and loss of life.
"He says he is expecting fu
reports from Gen. Trevino, an
that all efTorts will be made t
protect Americans and any otf
er foreigners who may be in th
district. His belief is the ma.'
sacre was made premediativel
by a band who fled at once afte
the raid."
Carranza's telegram today t
his embassy here follows:
"The government, under m
direction, has adopted ever
necessary measure to insur
the prosecution of an energeti
campaign for the capture an
destruction of the party of Vi
lista bandits, and to continu
the same to its complete accorr
plishment. I have asked Ger
Jacinto P. Trevino, commanc
ing the constiutionalist troop
in the neighborhood of the as
sassinations, to obtain for m
the names of the assailants i
order that a decree may be is
sued placing them outside th
pale of the law. When this i
done any citizen or citizens c
the republic will have the righ
to arrest the guilty partie
without warrant, and to ex?
cute them without formality.
"Similar decrees were issue
and executed favorably in th
cases of assaults and dynamit
in nnA^VlAK OA/?f i/\
my ui n rtiiiD in aiiwvuci ncvtiu
of the republic within the yeai
notably when a pass anger trai
was dynamited and its passeT
gers assaulted near Apizaco an
again near Jalasa. These d?
crees are made effective becaus
in the opinion of the goverr
ment those who perpetrate sue
assassinations of human being
be the victims native Mexican
or foreigners, must be considei
ed in exactly the same categor
as those who dynamite the rai
way trains.
t
lSTER
C. J A X C A L\ V 17, 1916.
FOUR KILLED, TEN
1 HURT IN EXPLOSION
I
- Terrific Explosion Aboard E-2
While Craft Was Undergoing
Repairs in Dry Dock
MEN WERE AT WORK ON
V NEW EDISON BATTERY
> Gas Fumes Had to Be Blown
Out Before Bodies in Craft
Could lie Reached.
1. New York, Jan. 15.?Four
men were killed and ten injured,
is five dangerously, in an exploit
} sion today on he submarine E-2
ir while the caft was undergoing
r i repairs in dry dock at the New
i York navy yard. One of the
j_ men killed was an enlisted elece
trician and the others civilian
d ! workers.
11 At least three of the ten now
> in the hospitals are not expect- j
n 1 ed to live.
r-! The dead: Roy B. Seaber,
t, ; electrician, second class. Cleve>f
land; .James H. Peck, civilian.
3- general helper. Brooklyn; J. P.
Schultz, civilian machinist.
,1 Brooklyn; Joseph Logan, civilian,
general helper, Brooklyn.
The injured: L. Miles, Ra]
mond Otto, August Kapin and
' Otto Hasert.
l_ j The detonation was terrific,
n i but the submarine itself, from
t|. I the outside, shows no effects.
ir [ The interior was badly shat>e
i tered, but so tight was the vessel's
shell that there was no
[e means of escape for gas and it
was more than an hour after
s. the blast before the work of re(1
covering the bodies could be
0 completed. A ladder blown up
,s through the conning tower fell
j. ( 150 feet away.
fe | away.
? I rri j ? * 1 1
n uie mjurea ana one nociy
were removed soon after the acy
cident, Dirt three bodies far
i*e down in the eraft could not be
ic reached until the pas had been
y i blown out by compressed air.
g1 Soon after the explosion several
e naval officers led a rescue party
but it were partly overcome by |
a fumes. It was then that com).
pressed air pipes were run into
e the shell.
i- The number of men inside
the submarine at the time of
n the explosion is not known
!S definitely. About twenty were
% working on the craft,
n It is not thought possible that
anyone who was inside could
11 have escaped injury. What
d caused the explosion has not
o been definitely decided. Rear
l- Admiral Nathaniel R. Usher,
e commandant of the navy yard,
after a brief investigation, dey
clined to express an opinion. He
i aniu
"The men were working in
o the battery companment of the
E-2, discharging the new Edi-'
y son batteries through a rheosy
tat to measure the voltage, and
e the explosion occurred in that i
c compartment. The battery
d I will generate no kind of gas
1-1 and there was no gasoline on
e I board. The engine was of the
i- j oil burning Dysel type,
l. j Pending the appointment of J
1- an official board of inquiry Rear
is Admiral Usher named a tem?
i porary investigating committee
e as follows:
n Lieut. Commander Pope,
' i Washington, commander of the
e receiving ship Maine; Lieut. L. j
s M. Stewart, of the torpedo boat
'f Hp?trr>vpr MpP.nll nnrl T.iPiit
t Rush H. Fay, commander of the;
18 submarine division to which
the E-2 was attached. This
committee immediately began
d to take the testimony,
e The opinion was expressed!
t- that the press of withdrawing
n the charge from the batteries
r? might have caused the forman
tion of hydrogen gas. The explosions
of that nature have
d been frequent on all submarines
of the navy and slight ones
have occurred on American
?- boats.
h The E-2 was the only vessel
in the world equipped with the
is Edison nickel batteries and- she
r- made her first trip with them
y December 7, last. Tt re1
ported that the new batteries
gave better speed with less
_nev
, FLAMES RAVAGE
NORWEGIAN CITY j
Third of Bergen Destroyed by
Fire?Great Property
Loss.
rhrietinnin T<ir? 1C /?? '" *
i/wu. xv \Vlcl IjUII* 1
don).?A third of the city of
Bergen, a thriving Norwegian
seaport with a population of j
90,000 was destroyed last night!
by fire. Two thousand persons j
are homeless but no lives were
lost. The property damage is
estimated at $15,000,000.
The conflagration is said to
be the worst ever recorded in |
Norway. The business section i
with its old wholesale houses,
several of the largest of the hotels,
a number of schools, the
electric plant and banks and
newspaper buildings was the
part burned.
Difficulties of the 2,000 persons
now without homes were!
increaseu by the fact that
largest storage houses, filled
with provisions for supplying
the surrounding country, were
| burned down, it is harder to
obtain groceries today than at
any time since the war began.
! UNITED STATES'
NAVY RANKED THIRD
i Secretary Daniels (Jives Com-j
parison of Navies of World
at Beginning of War.
Washington, Jan. 17.?How
| the United States ranked third
among the world's naval powers
at the beginning of the European
war, when data on fori
eign fleets ceased to be avail- j
ale, is explained in a letter from
I Secretary Daniels, made public
tonight by Representative j
1 Madden, of Illinois. Mr. Madden
called attention to a statein
ent by Rrepresentative
Kitchin, the house majority j
; leader, who i s opposing
the new navy program, declaring
that the records showed
the American fleet was superior
to that of any nation except,
j Great Britain.
In reply, the secretary said;
the strengh of a modern navy
could be estimated on the num
; ij*;i ui in t<iwiwi ii u> clliu LlUlt,
according to the department's!
information, Great Britain had.!
on August 1. 1914, 46 dreadnaughts,
Germany 28, the United
States 14, France 13 and Japan
8. The United States now'
has 19 dreadnaughts in commission,
building or authorized, he:
added, but nothing is known as!
to what other powers have built
or ordered since the war began.
ZEKO WEATHER OVER
EASTERN HALF COUNTRY
Washington, Jan. 17.?Near'
zero weather prevailed tonight j
over much of the country east
of the Mississippi river. No re:
lief was in prospect for tomorrow,
but the government forecasters
predicted slightly warm-!
1 er weather for Wednesday.
Skies were fair with the mer-1
I cury around zero north of the
I Ohio during the day, but sleet!
: storms swept many sections of
the south all the way to the;
gulf. The center of the cold
wave was over West Virginia.
| At Elkins the thermometer registered
four degrees above zero
mark. Miami, Fla., was the
warmest place, with a reading
of 74 degrees. On the Pacificcoast
a new storm was moving
eastward.
Dynaminter (Jots l.ifc Sentence,
i Los Angeles, Jan. 17.? Matthew
| A. Schmidt, cinvlcted a night ago of
murder in connection with the dyn '
armting of he Timtes building, was
sentenced today to life imprison- i
metn in San Quer^tin prison.
fuel.
The Edison battery, experi|
ments have proven, generates
nearly double the ordinary I
amount of hydrogen during the'
process of charging, but on disj
charging or while lying idle
I gives off much less. During the j
1 battery trials there were re:
ports from her offers of an unj
due amount of hydrogen. The
j boat made one trip with observI
ers aboard, and it was reported
that while in operation not
enough gas was generated to be
! dangerous.
I - * -. JiriUs*. *?-!
f T" ' WEATHER
^ W day continued
V Wotliu sday fair
W*v& and warmer.
$1.50 A YEAR.
MflNTFMn R
IIIV1 i ui 1UUIIU IV/
READY mPEACE
Submits to Unconditional Laying
Down of Her Arms
Against Invaders. '
BRITISH AND RUSSIANS
PRESSING THE TURKS
British Make Advances in Mesopotamia
and Russians
in the Caucasus.
Beset on the north, east and
west by Austro-Hungarian
armies and with all lines of retreat
cut off, except into Albania
where hostile tribesmen must
be faced, Montenegro has asked
Austria-Hungary for Peace
and her request has been
granted. The unconditional laying
down of arms by Montenegro
was made the basis of the
opening of peace negotiations,
and Montenegro accepted these
terms imposed by the dual
monarchy.
This announcement was made
to the Hungarian parliament by
Premier Tisza. and it was met
with an ovation on the part of
the members of the chamber.
Thus comes the first withdrawal
of any belligerent from either
of the alliances that have
been fighting with each other
since August, 1914.
It had been conceded for days
that the situation of Montenegro
was a critical one. Although
the army of the little kingdom
fought valiantly against the
Austro-Hungarians, it was unequal,
because of inferior forces
lack of guns and it has been
stated, a shortage in commissariat
supplies, to the task of
holding back the armies that
had, in conjunction with their
allies, succeeded in crushing
Serbia.
Already the Montenegrin
capital and many of its important
towns had fallen into the
hands of the Austro-Hungarians,
and the invaders were well
on their way to Montenegro's
chief seaport?Antivari. Last
accounts had the Montenegrin
government at Scutari. The
whereabouts of King Nicholas
is not known.
The British and the Russians
in Mesopotamia and the Caucasus
region, respectively, are
pressing the Turks hard. The
army of King George coming
northward from Persian gulf
to the relief of the British forces
at Kut-el-Amara, has driven
the Ottomans to within six
miles of he beleaguered town on
the Tigris.
i us ivuooians in incir urivt
along the front of nearly 100
miles in the Caucasus have won
additional points of vantage
from the Turks, especially in
the Arasa and Inid valley regions.
Constantinople admits
this, but says that south of the
Arasa in hand-to-hand fighting
in a Russian advanced position,
heavy casualties were inflicted
on the Russians by the Turks.
On the other fronts little
fighting of moment has taken
place. The British and French
guns in France and Belgium
have been busy bombarding
German trenches, while on the
Russian front there has been
fighing only at isolated points
from the Riga region to Bukowina.
According to he semi-official
Overseas News Agency of Berlin,
Entente Allied roops have
landed at Phaleron, a port five
miles southwest of Athens, and
once the port of the Greek
capital. The Berlin newspapers,
the news agency says, attribute
this as part of the preparations
inlooking to the overthrow of
ing of Eliphtherios Venizelos,
the former premier, who always
has sided with the endfente powers,
at the head of a Greek republic.
BUT ONE TENTH OF
AMERICANS LEAVING
El Paso, Texas, Jan. 17.?Approx-*
Imataly one hundred of a thousand
Americans and other foreigners who
remained in Chihuahua state after
the massacre at Santa Ysabel a week
ago todav were expected to arrive
here late tonight.