Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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ffi ftBBEIfiLlE PRESS IBM Published W??kly ABBEVILLE. 6. 0. Now It's the cold storage cure for hay fever. Almost any candidate L. a promis ing candidate. The air continues to be a poor place in which to do fancy work. Our idea of nothing to feel sad about is losing a job as aviator. The excursion girl now sweetly changes into the matinee maid. It will be Thanksgiving day for Italy if she finally saws a limb off Tur key. Tlgbt-sklrted women hobbling to catch a car are as funny as a sack race. The slaughter of an aviator now and then has almost ceased to be a mat ter of news. Soon the lover of lake sports will . wish to exchange his bathing suit for /& pair of skates. Bohemia has a woman member of parliament Showing the true Bohe mian Bpirit, as it were. Do you suppose the government will get any nearer the telephone trust than a long-diBtance call? t . Canada sold 50,000,000 lobsters last winter New York will have to hustle to live up to its reputation. The girl with the coat of seashore tan now looks sympathetically at her pale-faced, stay-at-home sisters. A python in the New York zoo eats V11+ awa wafti a vaaf ThIo roHiioAa uuv uuc uiccu c* /cat. * w? houskeeping costs to a minimum. If it were not for the old warships what would the young warships have to shoot at in target practice? Lemons are becoming more expen sive, but it is probable that many of them will still be handed around. Antiquarians have discovered an other Venus, doubtless without first getting the consent of their wives. Tnh?(v>n la now crown in Kansas. * and several new brands of Havana cigars will soon be put on the market. K: .V. 'r\. A New York man is reported to have borrowed $3,500 from his laun dress. If she had It It Is quite pos sible. Any movement to restrain the activ ities oI the genluB who designs freak shoes for men will deserve public ap probation. London telegraph company Is hiring girls to replace messenger boys. Leave It to a girl to carry messages. Baltimore policemen must not play dominoes on Sunday. ProbablX.lt Is the one game that they don't play at all ?. Among an tne aajecuves uimi uom been applied to the costumes that the girls are wearing now we haven't noticed "modest" An artist who painted $10 bills haB been arrested. Painting $10 bills does not seem to be any more profitable 0 than gilding lilies. In Philadelphia all women under thirty are "girls." Philadelphia, the chivalrous and altruistic, is proving Itself the City of Brotherly Love to tbe lone sisters. 1 An English actor who wore a corset has died as the result of tight lacing. Evidently the manager declined to give him a fat part f/ While a Kansas woman was trying to kiss a bulldog the animal bit her lip. It seems difficult for some Kan sas bulldogs to acquire good man ners. Playing cards has been traced back I to the year 800 A. D. It is safe to pre- j Bume that the police of those days gathered In their graft just as merrily as now. A Kansas City man who went to bed one night, leaving $1,700 in his trousers pocket, has registered a vow that he will not be so careless again. He is trying to accumulate another $1,700. Fluffy skirts saved a woman from drowning in the Chicago river. The moral is that women who feel that they muBt wear tight skirts should avoid falling into that historic ; stream. / There were fourteen billion tele- I phone calls in the United States last I year. Do you wonder that the lines were sometimes busy? SOUna prooi nocrs ia apartiueui buildings are a grand institution, but until the sound proof baby is invented somebody is sure to complain. Now It appears that the English beauty who planned to see the United States in two days is an actress. Score another point for the alert press agent. A person with a highly metaphorio taste has called Central America "the neck" of this hemisphere. Which, of course, makes Niagara the boil on it. "After the wife, the husband is the rr.ost important person in the house," declares a London policte magistrate. Another jolt for the :nother-iu-law. Dictionaries explaining foreign lan guages can now be brought into this country free of duty and the mystery of the French bill of fare should event ually be cleared up. . NEWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA Short Paragraphs of State News That Have Been Gotten Together With Care by the Editor. Columbia.?H. Witcover. wae ap pointed master of Marion county to succeed the late J. D. Lucas. Sumter.?The position of C. M. Young, rural policeman, was declared vacant and October 8 set as a date on which a successor will be elected. Columbia.?The governor issued a proclamation offering a reward of $100 for the apprehension and conviction of Frank Green, a negro, charged with criminal assault in Marlboro county. Barnwell.?Gus Sanders, a negro, was arrested and lodged in jail, charg ed with having robbed the drug store, of C. N. Burchhalter. An entrance was effected through a rear door and about $50 stolen from the safe, which was uuiuuneu, oniy me aay cnecK oeiag on. Florence.?Mayor Herbert K. Gil bert has arranged to have Mayor Gibbes, of Columbia, visit Florence within the next few days and address the voters of the cltj' on the subject of "Commission Form of Govern ment." Newberry.?The county Democratic executive committee ordered a second primary for county officers to be held on Tuesday, Octbore 15. There are second fraces for county "superintend ent of education, supervisor, House of Representatives, county comtLission ers and magistrates of two townships. Columbia.?Tho governor parolad Millage Byers of Columbia during good behavior and on the further con dition that he refrain from intoxi cants. Byers was convicted of assault and battery with intent to kill at the last term of court in Ricli'and and sen teno ;d to fou.' months' imprisonment or a fine of $150. Orangeburg.?The state conference of the Woman's Home Misssion soci ety of the Methodist church will be held in this city at St. Paul's Method ist church, beginning October 9. Near ly 100 delegates will be here for the conference and will be entertained by members of the home mission society and Young Ladies' society. Newberry.?City politicis is becom ine interestine. Several candidates for aldermen have already been nam ed. So far only two men are out for mayor, J. J. Langford, the incumbent, and Z. F. Wright, president of the Newberry cotton mills. The friends of both men will make a hard fight for their favorites. The primary will be held some time in November. There is talk of another candidate for mayor, but it w likely that the two named will have the contest to themselves. Newberry.?The Drayton Ruther ford chapter, Daughters of the Con federacy, has elected delegates to the general and the state federation of womens' clubs, as follows: To the former which meets in Washington in November, Mrs. J. A. Burton and ! Mrs. James Mcintosh, with Mrs. R. D. Wright and Mrs. E. P. Scott, alter nates; to the latter, which meets in Charleston, also in November, Miss Cora Dominick and Mrs. John M. Kinard, with Mrs. C. A. Bowman and Miss Fanny McCaughrin, alternates. f!nliimhi??Room 23 at the Clolum bia hotel will be the headquarters of the Progressive party in South Caro lina until after the national election on November 5. B. Sherwood Dunn of Aiken, provisinal national committee man, and W. P. Beard of Abbeville, state secretary, will be in charge. They will have a corps of stenograph ers at work and will send Bull Moose literature to all parts of the state'in the effort to elect the Progressive electoral ticket which will be in the field in the national election on No- . vemDer t>. Pageland.?In place of W. H. Woods, who died recently Governor Blease , has appointed J. E. Gill as supervisor of Jasper county. Mr. Woods was renominated in the second race for county supervisor over M. Gill by a majority of four votes, and had made an efficient officer. Mr. Gil! will bold office under his appointment until January. For nominations for the next term, the state executive com mittee has advised another primary to be held on October 15, and much interest is being manifested in this election. Columbia.?Although petitioned by the association of county school trus tees to increase its appropriation from $750 to $1,500 for use in getting up a county road map the commission ers declined to do so. Yorkville.?A bill was passed at the last session of the legislature which provided that the question as to whether or not York county will is sue $75,000 in 20-year bonds to be used in purchasing a suitable site and erecting a new court houBe in York ville. shall be submitted to the auali fied voters of the county at the general election in November. Aiken.?L. C. Boone, who has ac cepted the position of civil engineer to the Aiken county highway commis sion, in place of Mr. Benson, resigned, arrived in the city recently, and has assumed charge of his duties. Aiken.?George Wolfe, who last May shot T. D. Fulmer to death in North Augusta, and whose trial came to an end after consuming a day and a half, was convicted of murder, but the recommendation of mercy incor porated in the verdict reduced the sentence of the court from death in the electric chair to life-time impris onment. St. Matthews.?While attempting to shoe an obstreperous mule. Lewis Campbell, a negro blacksmith, was kikced over the heart by the mule. Death was immediate. Spartanburg.?A campaign to raise $15,000 annually for three years for the Spartanburg chamber of com merce, 10 per cent of which fund will go to the state chamber of commerce provided the other cities of the state agree to support the state organiza tion upon a similar basis, was organ ized here at a mass meeting of the citizens of the city, and the campaign is to be waged in three days. PAPERS 10 TEST PUBLICITY LAW SUIT AGAINST GOVERNMENT OF FICIALS FltED IN NEW YORK CITY. SAY LAW UNCONSTITUTIONAL Petition Charges That the Law Is Unconstitutional and Prays for an Injunction. New YorK.?suit to test tne rignx of the government to enforce the Federal law of August 24, 1912, requir ing newspapece and periodicals to publish their circulation figures twice a year and imposing other publicity requirements, was filed in the United States district court here by The Journal of Commerce and Commer cial Bulletin company, publishers of the Journal of Commerce. The suit is directed against Post master General Hitchcock, Attorney General Wickersham, United States District Attorney Wise and Postmas ter Morgan of New York. The peti tioner charges the law is unconstitu tional, and prays for a temporary in junction restraining its enforcement until final adjudication. It also re quests that the defendants be required by subpoena to answer. Back of the action, according to Robert C. Morris of counsel for the complainant, is the American Newspar per Publishers' association. The as-' sociation decided recently to file a test suit, and the Journal of Commerce, Mr. Morris said, in filing its petition, has the sanction and co-operation of the association. The petition alleges there are up ward of 25,000 newspapers and period icals in the country affected by the law. It charges that the law is void because It violates the Federal Con oHtiifl/vn nnrJ nartirMilarlv the first and fifth amendments, and abridges the freedom of the press. The law is char acterized as of no benefit to the post office or any other department of the government, inasmuch as obedience by the peridocilas and newspapers would not "aid or assist in the opera tion of the postoffice department or in the carrying of mails or the regula tion thereof.'' In its petition the complainat an nounces it will notjcomply with the law, for the reason given, and de clares the defendants are about to enforce the law by denying the com plainants the use of the mails. With reference to that portion of the law which requires that all printed matter for which there is any compensation received shall be labeled "advertise ment," the petition Bays: "It is not within the power of con gress," the complainant continues, "to enact said act, and it is an usurpation by congress of powers expressly re served to the several states, and is legislation affecting matters with which the several states of the United States alone have the right to treat." TRAIN WRECKER CONFESSES Tom Tankersley Says He and Two Others Opened Switch.\ Atlanta, Ga.?Tom Tankersley, a simple-minded youth of 18 years, Is i locked up in the Fulton county jail, having confessed to participating in wrecking the Southern train near Cor-; nelia last week when two ljves were lost. According to the hoy's confession, he and two others, whose names he does not remember, are responsible for the wreck, and their motive was to rob the mail after the train was ditched, but no robbery was attempt ed, he says. Tankersley was arrested for steal ing a horse with which he rode away 11 ?- - ?' ? nrwa/tlr Hio rrom ine scene ui me ni^u. knowledge of how the wreck occurred caused the arresting officer to sus pect him and the detectives of the Southern road were notified. When the train came dashing In, their nerve for robbing the mail van ished, and they fled in fright. One left on the first freight train to pass, he says, he. left on a stolen horse, and he doesn't know what became of the third man. Mrs. Eddy's Will Void. Boston.?A trust estimated at $2, 000.000 created by the will of Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the Christian Science church, for the ben efit of the denomination, was declar ed void by the Massachusetts supreme court The court holds, however, that a charitable trust has been created, and that new trustees may be appoint ed to administer. The trust was to have been administered by the di rectors of the mother church in Bos ton, but the court decided that the ^.rust provisions were nulified. Noted Mountaineer Slain. Ellljay, tia.?unaney jupiuu, a nui. ed mountaineer moonshiner of the north Georgia mountains, is dead. A coroner's jury has been unable to clear up the mystery of just when and by whom he was killed. The general impression here is that Tip ton, who was known as a desperate character, was shot to death by moun tain clansmen who had some hidden grievance against him. Tipton was famous in this section for his exploits as a moonshiner. He naa Deen ire quently arrested for illicit distilling. Bank of Wesley Robbed. Wesley, Ga.?The Bank of Wesley, Ga., seven miles south of Swainsboro, was entered by burglars, the safe completely demolished and all the funds taken. About $1,000 was se cured. Sheriff Field and a posse left immediately for the scene and have some clues which they are following. All trains have been well guarded and every effort is being used to Ap prehend the yeggmen. The bank is protected by a burglary policy. This robbery occurred just a week after the robbery of the bank of Register. Reld, high commissioner of Australia In London. BECKER PLACED ON TRIAL Prosecutor Promises Chair for Assas sin of Zelig Unless He Confesses. New York.?Two hundred and fifty talesmen jammed the court room of Justice Goff In the criminal branch of the supreme court when Police Lieutenant CharleB Becker was called to trial on the charge of murder In the first degree for Instigating fbe as sassination of Herman Rosenthal, the gambler who was shot to de'ath last July. In addition to these men, there was another panel of 50 from which Jus tice Goff was to select a special grand jury of 23 to devote Its time to the Rosenthal Investigations. / I Motion by Attorney John P. Mcln tyre of the defense presented at the opening of the court that the trial be postponed was denied by Justice Goff. District Attorney Whitman assert ed that he <pould prove his charges, despite the assassination of "Big Jack Zelig," the gangster who was slain. Zelig was to have been an important corroborative witness for the prose cution. Long before the hour set for the convening of court the criminal courts building was surrounded by a great crowd and police reserves from two stations were added to those on the scene. Throughout the trial extra police will be kept in the court room to pre vent any gang outbreak such as has been anticipated ever since Jack Rose, Sam Schepps, Harry Vallon and Lou is Webber pledged their aid to the prosecution. East Side gangsters are declared by attaches of the district at torney's office to have vowed to "get'' these men. While Philip Davidson, alias "Bos ton Red Phil," reiterated his story that his murder of Zelig was on per sonal grounds and not connected with the trial of Becker, District Attorney Whitman was said to have evidence showing beyond any doubt that the "system" which brought about the death of Rosentnai as ne was auom to divulge graft secrets also accom plished the murder of Zelig to pre vent his appearing as a witness against Becker. ITALIANS ATTACK CITIZENS One Man Shot by Laborers Working on TalTulah Dam. Clayton, Ga.?Two hundred Italians employed at Mathis Shoals In the construction of the Georgia Power enmnanv's new dam' across Tallulah rivfr, after imbibing a little too much of the "overjoyful," attacked a young man named Grover Shirley. They knocked him into the river, then fired several pistol shots at him. A difficulty growing out of the 6ame transaction was renewed in which a dozen or more of the citi zens of Rabun were accosted by the foreigners with rifles, pistols and shot guns. They quickly retreated, taking shelter behind buildings, rocks and trees, until they reached safety be hind a nearby hilltop. More than one hundred shots were fired at the flee ing citizens. Plotted to Blow Up Canal. Indianapolis, Ind.?Pages from the careers of the McNamaras and Ortie E. McManigal, as leaders of "the fly ing squadron of dynamiters," with conversations in which they are said to have plotted to send McManigal to t-> hinw nn the lonks of the raiiansa. iu ?? ? __ Panaman canal, were read by Dis trict Attorney Charles W. Miller be fore the jury at the trial of the ac cused "dynamite conspirators." The in dent in reference to Panama, Mr. M' .er said, occurred just before the arrest of the Los Angeles dynamiters. Will Not Be Deported. Washington.?Prince Ludovic Pig natelli d'Aragon, son of Don Jaime, pretender to the throne of Spain, who has been held at New York, threaten ed with deportation, will be released and authorized to enter the United States, unless information is soon re ceived from France justifying his re jection by the immigration officials at Ellis Island. The department of commerce and Jabor instructed the mmmissinher of immigration at New | York not to hold the prince an unrea sonable length of time. $67,824 Spent by LaFollette. Washington.?From a half-dozen wit nesses heard by the senate campaign expenditures committee drew a small amount of information bearing on the campaign expenditures. Charles R. Crane of Chicago denied the state ments of E. H. Hooker that he had given $70,000 each to Senator LaFol lette and Governor Wilson and swore that his gifts to the LaFollette cam paign totaled $26,684.40, and those to Governor Wilson's pre-convention campaign $10,000. John D. Archbold, J had been recalled to testify. 'WAR IS DECLARED AGAINST THE TURKS MONTENEGRO BEGINS HOSTILI TIES? SERVIA, BULGARIA AND GREECE TO FOLLOW. FORESTALL GREAT POWERS Moved Against Turkey Before Great Powers Presented Note in Ef Tort 10 i\ecp rcticc, Paris, France.?A general confla gration In the Balkans Is expected by officials here. Montenegro's declaration of war against Turkey Is regarded as the be ginning. It is believed other units in the Balkan coalition will folio* suit as soon as the mobilization of their armies is complete. The action of Montenegro in declar ing war on Turkey has fore stalled the great powerB who were moving for peace and a general con flagration Is expected in the Balkans in a short time. Bulgaria, Servla, and Greece will follow Montenegro's lead and the four Balkan states will fight out their long standing quarrel with Turkey. It Is feared that hos tilities may involve some of the great powers and engulf all Europe in war. Austria and Russia both have Inter ests in the Balkans, and they in turn may involve the other great powers. Besides their mutual hatred of Turkey and their desire to extend their terri oil Jhfi 'Ral'lrnn states It Ik now pointed out, have quarrels with Tur key arising out of the chronic disorder la Macedonia and Albania. It is a mat ter of general knowledge that there have been frequent outrages against the subjects of the Balkan states on Turkish territory, and along all the frontier the guards have been at each other's throats at every opportunity. Each blamed the other for being the aggressor- Besides Servia's desire to annex the sanjak of Novibazar, Bul garia, diplomats aver, want a slice of Macedonia, Greece wishes for Crete and Montenegro has designs on Al bania. All the four Balkan states have said they would be satisfied with the introduction of reforms in Macedonia. Turkey has promised reforms, but they have never materialized. Constantinople.?Prior to receiving his passports from the Turkish gov ernment, the Montenegrin charge d'af faires, M. Plamenatz, handed the fol lowing note In behalf of his govern ment to the Porte: "ttriAt. oitihnrlirQt^n nf ITInP WILLI U1C auiuwii^uv?vu v< Nicholas I have the honor to inform you that from today the government of Montenegro ceases all relations with the Ottoman-empire, leaving it to the arms of the Montenegrins to se cure recognition of their rights and the rights which have been ignored for centuries of their brothers in the Ottoman empire." DYNAMITE KILLS 45 PEOPLE Twenty More Will Die From Hurts Received in Mexican Fire. Tampico, Mexico.?Three hundred persons are suffering from Injuries and 45 mangled bodies are in the morgue as the result of an explosion of dynamite in a store house here. Of the injured twenty will die. An investigation by the authorities led to the discovery that the explo sion occurred during a fire which had evidently been set by an incen diary. Many of the killed and injured were spectators attracted by the burn ing building. Suddenly as they press ed close there was a terrific detona- / tion, which shook the earth and sent flying embers for many yards through the air. 1,750 Hookworm Cases. Pineville, Ky.?As a result of an investigation of the hookworm dis ease in this section it was announced here that 1,750 cases had been dis covered in Bell county alone in the last twenty-eight days. The investi gation was conducted by Wickliffe Rose, executive secretary of the Rock feller commission for the eradication of hookworm, in conjunction with an officer of the state board of health. All cases discovered are under treat ill cut. Husband and Wife Die in Cemetery Birmingham, Ala.?The dead bodies of Mr. and Mrs. T. 0. Naftel of Wood lawn, a suburb of Birmingham, were found in the Woodlawn cemetery, a bullet through the woman's temple and one in the brain of the man. A pistol waB found in #the man'n hand, and all indications point to his having killed his wife and then himself. The couple left the home of Mrs. Naftel's parents to go to a drug store. It is believed the husband induced his wife to go to the cemetery, where the double killing took place. Milk Records Broken. Brockton, Mass.?All records for milk and butter have been shattered by Creamello Vale, a Holstein cow owned by Earl Upton. The cow nas given 26,930 pounds of milk with a monetary value of $1,300 since Novem ber 15. 1911. An average cow gives, according to the department of agri culture statistics, about 3,000 pounds of milk a year. Creamello Vale in one month has given 3,200 pounds. At her best Mr. Upton's Holstein -has given 10S pounds of milk a day, which is at the rate of 4 1-2 pounds an hour. Bank Robbers Secure $900. Statesboro, Ga.?Bulloch county had its first bank robbery when the Farm ers' State bank, at Register, 10 miles from here, was entered by profes-1 sionals, who took away $900, leaving about fifty dollars in gold and silver. The sheriff at Statesboro was phoned. F. P. Register, president of the bank, lives near the building, and, hearing the explosion, got up to investigate. As he struck a match to light a lamp he was ordered to "put out that light," which he promptly did. Grand Ouke Dmitri Povlovltch, son of the Grand Duke Paul and cousin of the ozar of Ruaala, la to wed tha Grand Duchesa Olga, eldest daughter of the czar. Tha grand duke waa born December 6, 1891. MARINES KILLED IN BATTLE FOUR BLUEJACKETS SLAIN AND SEVERAL WOUNDED IN STORM ING REBEL STRONGHOLD. Capture of Leon Completea the Cam paign Pianned by Admiral Southerland.. "Y : San Juan Del Sur, Nicragua.?The town of Leon has surrendered to the American forces. Washington?In their march upon Leon, the last stronghold of the reb els, the American forces, under Lieu tenant Colonel Long, ousted a rebel mob at Chichlgalpa, killing thirteen and wounding many .more. Five Americans were slightly wounded. Chihigalpa is on the Nicaragua Na tional railway, midway between Leon and Corlnto. In reporting the engagement to the navy department, Rear Admiral Southerland said Lieutenant Colonel Long and his command were trying to take arms and dynamite bombs in Chichigalpa, when they Vere sudednly surrounded by a mob of rebels and their sympathizers well armed with machetes and rifles. Disregarding the order of their officers, several rebels fired upon the Americans. The fire was promptly returned, and the kill ing of thirteen and wounding many more, the Americans took four dyna mite bombs, which it is believed were intended to be used against them or cripple the railroad. In a gallant assault American ma rines and bluejacket drove the Nic araguan revolutionary leader, General Zeledon, and his forces from Coyo tepe and Barranca Hills, near Masaya, after 37 minutes of fighting, but in the action four privates of the Unit ed States marine corps were killed and a number were wounded. NINE JOYRIDERS ARE KILLED Auto Turned Turtle as It Fell From Bridge. Philadelphia.?Nine young men lost their lives when an automobile in which' they were joy riding crashed through the railing the side of the new Thirty-third street Boulevard at Master, street and fell into a coal yard 75 feet below. The machine, a big touring car, turned turtle in the descent and the occupants were found crushed and mangled in the hood ot the machine. , Edgar M. Shaw, 19 years old, a son of James Shaw, a lumber merchant., who owned the car, was taking a par ty of his friends home after an even ing spent in various cafes. Nine young men were in the machine and six others were in a smaller auto mobile when the party came at ter rific speed down Thirty-third street. In turning to avoid the smaller auto mobile, which was in the lead, Charles I. Spayd, who wns driving an automo blie in the opposite direction, collid ed with the rear wheel of the Shaw machine. $5,000 in Jewelry Stolen. Chicago.?The hotel apartments ot Col. James Hamilton Lewis, Demo cratic candidate for United States senator, were robbed. The police have been notified that jewels to the value of between $5,000 and $10,000 were stolen. 'Col. and Mrs. Lewis had been away for a week, campaign ing in the interests of Colonel Lewis' candidacy for United States senator. Fifty-five articles of jewelry, nearly all of unique design, were included in the list of stolen ornaqients fur nished to the police by Colonel Lewis. Girl Attacked by Catamount. Mobile, Ala.?Crazed with hunger, a fullgrown wildcat attacked the 13 year old daughter of Edward Bosarge of Coden. Ala., as she was returning to her home with her father. Mr. Bo sarge was not armed. The catamount had torn the dress almost from the little girl when Mr. Bosarge sprang at the animal waving his hat and shouting at the top of his voice. Frightened at the black object in front of h'ra and the shrieks of his assailant, the cat fled into the swamps. The girl's flesh was not torn. Two Aviators Lose Life. Berlin, Germany.?Aviation Week at Johannisthal was concluded after two more deaths had been added to the long list of fatalities among Eu ropean aviation during the last two months. A monoplane driven by Ern est Alls? and carrying a mechanician, suddenly fell from a height of 600 feet when a wing collapsed. The mechanician was thrown from the machine at a height of 450 feet' and his body landed on the ground clear of thew reckage. Alig fell with the mnnnDlane and was killed instantly. THE HUGE WAR DOGS 8TRETCH FOR 15 MILES OUT OF -NEW ' YORK HARBOR. IS LIKE MODERN ARMADA President Taft and Secretary Meyer Will Make Inspection Tour#?The Greatest Array of War Vessels Ever Seen In This Country. New York.?The flower of the United States Navy lies at anchor on the Hudson River, an armada whose like has never been assembled in the Western World before. For 15 miles ?from the armored cruiser Tennes see off Thirteenth street to the AJax, last of the fuel ships, far north of Spuyten Duyvil Creek?It stretches In a double line. Simultaneously with the moblization here there will be a moblization at Manila of available warships of the- \ .Asiatic fleet Thirty vessels of the fleet are now in Philippine or Chinese waters and from them Rear Admiral Nicholson has selected those which will participate. Most of the fleet Is composed of cruisers, torpedo boats and destroyers, submarines and col* Hers. Thus, practically the entire American navy will take part In double mobilizations, half-way round 'the world apart For more than a week past the ships have been steaming into New York harbor. Perhaps never again will such an aggregation of sea-fighters be assembled. Some naval authorities predict that the limit of big battleship construction 1b fast being reached. A few years hence may find the navies of the world relying on smaller ships In greater numbers. / One hundred and twenty-seven ships of war of all classes, with a total dis placement of 741,590 tons, have been ' picked by the Navy Department for this mobilization. Officers and crews total approximately 28,000 persons. Thirty-two first-class battleships fringe the Manhattan shore from West Forty-ninth street to Fort Washington. These, the backbone o 1 the navy, vary In size from the super-dreadnaughte Arkansas and Wyoming, twins of 26, 000 tons, displacement each, J.o the Indian^, and Massachusetts, babies of the battleship fleet with 10,000 odd tons each. Ask Wickersham to Deolde. ?^ Washington.?The question whether President Taft has the power, through the Comptroller of the Currency, to call upon National banks for informa tion to aid House "Money Trust Com mittee" in its investigation has beeci referred to Attorney General Wlsk erebam for an opinion. Samuel Unter meyer of counsel lor the committee, recently asked the Presideht to pro cure a mass of! data from the banks. Mr. Taft was undecided as to his pow er under the law to have National lnflnfl QTlH nthOP I^ouao 1CT tuvi* Auwuw MMVk vw*. transactions and took up the question with the Attorney General who is ex pected to render an opinion soon. A Petition For Clemency. j . Louisville, Ky.?An appeal to Amer ican Christians, asking that they write individual letters to the Emperor of Japan petitioning him for clemency for the Korean Christians convicted and sentenced to long imprisonment for alleged plotting against the gov ernment, was issued by Rev. D. M. Sweets of Louisville, editor of a Pres byterian weekly published here. Read ers are asked to pray for providential openng of the prison doors. Wreck on Eleveated Train. New York.?Twenty-two passengers were injured in a rear end collision of .elevated traits at the 104th street sta tion^ The failure of the brakes on the second train is saia 10 nave causeu tuts. accident. The forward car ?f this train and the last car of the train in front were telescoped. Two of the 'jojured will probably die. Witness in Becker Trial. New York.?Thomas Ryan, a chauf feur and an eye witness to the murder of Herman Rosenthal, refused whea called to the stand by the prosecu tion at the trial of Police Lieutenant Charles Becker to identify any of the gunmen involved. They were lined up before him but the witness declined to swear that he had seen any one of them fire a shot. He even repudiated a story he is alleged to have previous ly told Assistant District Attorney Moss. Justice Goff was unable to Jog .he witness' memory. Bandits Caught in Hold Up. Fort Smith, Ark.?Four masked bandits were bungled in an attempt to hold up and rob a northbound Kan I sas City Southern passenger train be tween Hatfield and Mena, Ark. One was wounded and captured and the other bandits escaped after a battle ; with Express Messenger Merrill Bur j gett, of Kansas City, Mo., in which | Burgett exhausted his ammunition and i was badly beaten about the head and ! shoulders and refused to disclose the hiding place of valuable packages. Minor and Cereal Crops Large. Washington.?The country's minor crops as well as the big cereal crops are exceedingly large, the Department I of Agriculture's crop reporting board announces. They are from 5 per cent, to 32 per cent bigger than last year's. The composite condition of all crops on October 1st or at the time of har vest was better than last year in an States except North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Michigan, Tennessee, Alabama, New Mexico, Ari zona, Idaho and California.