COUNT WHO KILLED TWO IS ACQUITTED Polish Nobleman Is Freed of Charge—Shot Wife and Her Nephew. Mezertiz. Germany, Feb. 23.—Count Matthias Brudzewo Mielzynski, the Polish aristocrat and member of the German imperial parliament, was acquitted today of th& charge of man slaughter of his wife and her nephew, Count Alfred Miaczinski. The tragedy occurred on December 20 last at Dakowy Mokrz, the country seat of the countess near Graetz, and attracted wide attention on account of the social prominence of those con cerned. The count shot both his wife and her nephew dead on finding them together at 4 o’clock in the morning in the countess’ apartments. After the shooting the count voluntarily waived his parliamentary Immunity in order to permit his trial to take place. KENYON TO ANSWER SPEECH BY OLIVER Iowa Senator to Express Views on Child Labor Leg islation. Washington, D. C., Feb. 23.—Senator Kenyon will speak in Philadelphia to morrow In the famous Presbyterian church of Rev. Dr. McClellan. This is where Senator Oliver, of Pennsylvania, well known reactionary, was heckled recently, and where he declared he would not seek re-election. Senator Kenyon’s address is heralded as a reply to Senator Oliver, who op posed child labor legislation and like reforms. Senator Kenyon denied to day he intended to attack Oliver. “However. I shall take a different stand than he on child labor and such subjects,” said the senator. FIND RANK JOKER IN ALASKAN BILL Washington. D. O.. Feb. 23.—It was discovered today that Congressman Fitzgerald inserted a joker into the Alaska railroad bill which will endan ger its enactment into law during this congress. Even if the bill is enacted as it now stands, the president will be se riously handicapped in directing the construction of the road. Through an amendment, si .-iking out tlie provision for an issue of $35,000,000 in bonds for the construction of the railroad, Mr. Fitzgerald has taken the control of the financial end of the con struction away from the president and placed it in liis own hands. As the bill passed the House it authorized an ap propriation of $55,000,000 for tlie work, instead of a bond issue of $35,000,000 to raise money for it. However, it does not appropriate $55,000,000 in its present form, but only $1,000,000. No more money can be had until the House committee on appro priations considers tlie request of the president for additional appropriations, and then only if it considers the re quest favorably. President Wilson, as a result, is placed in a particularly embarrassing position. It is charged that Fitzgerald inserted his nmemjment merely to get a club to wield over the president in Hu present fight for the reorganization of the democratic party in New York. 1,300 ARE KILLED BY BANDIT GANG Peking. Fob. 23.—The bandits lead by “White Molf" massacred 1,300 men, women and children when they sacked Liuan-Chow, province of Ngan-Hwei, Von January 29. On that occasion they murdered Father Rich, a French Jewish missionary, and captured and held two other foreigners for ransom. An army of 25,000 Chinese troops is now converging on “White Wolf's" strongly entrenched position in the vicinity of Cheng Yang Kwan. “White Wolf” lias a force of 2,0u0 bandits, half of whom are armed with modern rifles. The opinion is expressed here that unless the opportunity is seized of ex terminating “White Wolf” and his fol lowers they will form the center for another rebellion. The government troops, however, show a strong disin clination to come to close quarters with the bandits. ELOPEMENT RESULTS IN WHITE SLAVE CHARGE I)es Moines, Ta.. Feb. 23.—Violation of the Mann white slave act is charged against Malvern Sayles, „f Des Moines, who was arrested today after Sadie Petrich, aged 23, wife of George Pet rich. a traveling salesman living at Atkinson. Neb., had applied to St. Monica home here for relief. The woman charges that she became enamored of Sayles when he visited at Atkinson last summer. She deserted her husband and eloped with Sayles to Oscelola, la., where they had a mar -•** riage ceremony performed. They then came to Des Moines. Sayles de serted her here but his brother Chester, who is also arrested on a statutory charge, took her up and, she says, compelled her to solicit. Her Ne braska husband lias been in ignorance of his wife's whereabouts, she says. FISHING VESSEL GOES DOWN WITH 13 SEAMEN Bremen. Germany, Reb. 23.—The large fishing steame? Ferelle, which left Goestemuende in the middle of December for Iceland, sank with its entire crew of 13 men in those waters, according to dispatches received here today. The Ferelle had been reported as missing, and a search l’ur her was be gun last month. RICH HAUL MADE BY SOUTHERN BANDITS Meridian, Miss., Feb. 2).—Robbers who held up Queen & Crescent pas senger train No. 1, near Birmingham. Thu'r. day night, got between $40,000 /and $60,000 front registered mail, ac cording to an estimate of C. E. Shores, superintendent of the Birmingham and Chattanooga division of the railway mail service. SEEKING REVENGE HE ~ STEALS MOVIE FILMS Boy Had No Idea However They Were Worth Total of $360,000. New York. Feb. 23—To even up a loss of $4.28—money he considered due him for three days’ work—Harry Friedman, 18, No. 104 West One Hundred and Eleventh street, went back to his em ployer's place and carried away mov ing picture negatives worth $350,000. Tho boy is a photo printer. He had been working for the Commercial Mo tion Picture company, No. 102 West One Hundred and First street, just half a week when a hair, dragged over a line of negative in the making, spoiled a film worth $150. Friedman was discharged on the spot. Of course young Friedman had no conception of the value of the prop erty he took. He did not know he would give tho whole police department of New York a fright. He was aston ished when he learned the 250 pounds of “junk.” as he had supposed was worth a prince’s ransom—$350,000. WILL DO JOY DANCE AT SUFFRAGE PLAY j§ »--i-Zj MISS EFFIE EAKER. Miss Vffie Baker, daughter of Dr. Frank Baker, of Washington, and noted for her graceful dancing, is to be a fea ture in the suffrage play to be given by the women of the Congressional Union for Suffrage at Washington. Miss Baker is to give her solo dance of "tri umphant joy” as a curtain raiser be fore the performance. T9 EXTRACT FERTILIZER FROM FRIGID ATMOSPHERE Copenhagen. Feb. 2.1.—An English company is pian.\:r.g to harness Dettl foss. one of tho large-1 water falls in Iceland, with the plan of turning its estimated 410,000 horse power into an agency to extract fertilizer from the atmosphere. The engineers estimate that the falls will develop more power than the works at Hardangerfjord and Odda in Nor way. The engineers say they will have no difficulty in producing calcareous saltpeter fertilizer from the air. The electric- power will be transmitted to a nearby port, where r-plendid shipping facilities exist, and where factories, for the promotion of the fertilizer, will be built. WOULD QUIET TITLES ALONG UNION PACIFIC Washington, D. CL, Feb. 23.—Senator Norris, Senator Cummins and others have been in conference with represen tatives of property owners along the Union Pacific railroad, who are anx ious to get title quieted to their lands, which are claimed by the raitroad un der old government grants. Senator Norris said today a bill would be in troduced later to protect the rights of the property owners. The property involved stretches along most of the Union Pacific line and is of great value. Prior legislation on this subject has been particularly impaired by the su preme court. HOPE OF FINDING LOST SHIP KINEO ABANDONED Now York, Feb 23.—After nearly three days of futile searching for the schooner Kineo, reported sinking 1HD miles off the Diamond Shoals, hope for safety has been practically given up by her agents. The revenue cutter service, however, still believes there is a chance the vessel lias not gone down. The revenue cutter Itasca is to join the Onondaga near the reported posi tion of the Kineo. The Onondaga and tlie Itasca will cruise on parallel lines of about 100 miles In length for several days at least in an endeavor to find the Kineo. --. DR. J. A. STILL DEAD. Des Moines, la., Feb. 23.—I>r .7. A. Still, member of the faculty of the Des Moines School of Osteopathy, and one of the best known osteopaths in the middle west, died here today as the result of infection from a burn caused by hot water. He was SO years of age. COOK THREATENS LIFE OF PRESIDENT WILSON Newark, N. J, Feb. 21.—George Bernhardt, a cook, was arrested in West Orange, a suburb, charged with writing threatening letters to Presi dent Wilson. The lotteis were signed “God’s son” and have been mailed to the president for three months past from Newark and neighboring towns. The writer complained of hard times and threatened death to the president and destruction to the city of Wash ington. TRAIN ROBB S KILL THREE, T N ESCAPE Bandit Trio Hold Up the Great Northern Passenger, But Get Little Loot. Bellingham. Wash., Feb. 23.—When three passengers on Great Northern passenger train No. 358, bound for Vancouver, B. C., undertook to resist one of a trio of holdups who entered the day coach, when the trnln was running along the edge of the bay, nine miles south of here tonight at 7:30, the holdup man pulled an automatic pistol and shot the men dead in their tracks. Thomas R. Wadsworth, a Canadian Pacific conductor, of Vancouver, B. C.; R. I.. Lee, of Bremerton, Wash., and H. H. Alderson, a traveling salesman, of Vancouver, B. C., are the dead men. The robber who killed the men turned and started back to the front coach. As he passed along several wo men passengers held their purses in the aisle. He gathered up a handful of them and then ran. The three ban dits left the train together as it came to a stop from a signal given by the conductor who had heard the shooting from another coach and pulled the cord. GREAT DAMAGE JS CAUSED BY FLOOD IN GOLDEN STATE Los Angeles, Cal.. Feb. 23.—Three days of unprecedented rainfall brought six southern California counties to a condition of complete prostration to day. There were no street car or rail road lines in service. High winds off the ocean prostrated wires and for hours today Los Angeles and surround ing territory within a radius of 200 miles were without power or telephone and telegraph service. Five men and women have lost their lives in the floods since Wednesday. Great damage has been done by the storm waters which were the most menacing in the recorded history of the southern end of the state. Fruit District Suffers. Orange and lemon growers of the citrus fruit region about Los Angeles, who suffered severely in the freeze of January, 1913, sustained another hard blow in tlie storm. Groves nipped and shriveled by the frost a year ago were washed out by mountain torrents and in many instances homes floated off on the crest of the swirling current. Still More Rain. The heavy downpours of yesterday were followed by a torrential rain last night. This was succeeded by a gale of high velocity and practically every town and city in six counties are in complete isolation. In Los Angeles, although it escaped the heaviest rainfall, two great steel bridges collapsed. The usually dry beds of the Los Angeles river and of tile Arroya Seeo carried raging streams which overwhelmed and demolished cottages and bungalows that stood upon their banks. The rainfall for the three days in Los Angeles was more than seven inches. At various points within a radius of GO miles as much as 10 Inches fell, most of it during brief and frequent Inter vals, which sent torrents roaring. No attempt has been made to esti-, mate damages caused because of the lack of authentic reports from outlying districts, but it probably will amount up into the millions. One man was drowned at Alhambra last night and at Victorville. In the Mojave desert a hurricane destroyed tlie home of Mrs. Grace Sprague, who was killed in the collapse. At Huntington Reach, Eva Preston, a 22 year old student at the University of Southern California became confused by tlie high wind and pelting rain ana stepped in front of a suburban car. She was instantlv killed. —♦— tjiiucuiuii gummanzou. Summarized, the flood situation about I.os Angeles follows: Pomona—Center of a Large Fruit Growing District—Orange and lemon groves razed by tile storm waters. Every grove damaged more or less. Growers suffering losses in each case estimated at from $300 to $10,000. All railroad and electric lines washed out. Covina—Two reported drowned, Miss Susan Beville, a woman rancher, and her cousin, H. M. Seitz. Temporary dams held the floods. Ontario, San Bernardino County— Many groves flooded. Monrovia, in the Foothills—Citrus groves and streets swept by torrents. Scores of poor families driven from homes and the lowlands inundated when a temporary dam, erected to pro tect railroad tracks, gave way. Pasadena—Surrounding citrus groves suffered, steam and electric railroad traffic interrupted. Whittier—All bridges gone, roads washed out, suburban service demoral ized. Fruit orchards damaged; large areas of lowlands flooded. Santa Ana, Orange County—Bridges washed away; train and trolley su burban service cut off. Englewood, South of I.os Angeles_ Town flooded when storm waters over taxed a sewer draining Los Angeles and burst a monster pipe. San Pedro—Harbor traffic demoral ized. Railroad and trolley tracks under lake spreading to a width of 15 miles and extending nearly 20 miles to Los Angeles. At Playa Del Rey, Long Beach and Venice—Heavy ocean tides were re ported, with some damage. —4— DECIES ARE STRANDED. San Francisco, Feb. 23.—Lord and Lady Deeies are again storm bound On the heels of a two days’ enforced stay at Santa Barbara because of rail road washouts they are stranded on the Southern Pacific's valley line near Saugus, according to information re ceived here early today. It is proble matical when they will reach Los An geles. —4— SHOW BUILDING DAMAGED San Francisco, Feb. 23,-A portion of the. great dome of the Panama Pacific exposition's palace of manu factures collapsed and fell 165 feet causing damage estimated at $"0 Coo' There were no workmen about because of rain. CHOIR SINGER BURGLAR. New York. Feb. 21.—The intials in a hat left behind by a burglar in a Bronx flat led to the arrest and confession according to police, of George Acker' 23 years old, professional choir singer’ whom detectives were loath to accuse because of his standing in church cir cl'is. AGED BANKER DIES. New York, Feb. 21.—Allen Ives Orws bee, member of the New York stuck exchange for f.3 years and organizer of the Second National bank, died last night at his home.in Brooklyn, aged $0. NATION OF LUNATICS SOON, THINKS HILLIS Everybody Going Crazy in Dol lar Scramble, Says a Noted Divine. New York, Feb. 23.—“Every time the population of the United States Is doubled tho feebleminded children are multiplied by four and tho insane by three,’’ said Rev. Dr. Newell Dwight Hlllls, addressing the Brooklyn City club at luncheon yesterday. “Keep on multiplying that way a few times," continued the clergyman, "and you will have more crazy people titan sane." Still, Dr. Hlllls assured his hearers, he was not a pessimist, but merely sounding a warning, because it seems that everybody is going crazy. As an indieation of the mental trend, the min ister said: The topic that called forth strong words from the speaker was "Tho De teroration of tho American Physique.” It was this that carried with It a de cline in average mental equipment. He told his hearers that tho people of this great nation are wasting their physical substance in scrambling after the almighty dollar. "We have lost the power of repro duction," declared Rev. Dr. Hlllls. “Wo have passed that God-given power into the hands of foreigners. In three generations, at the present rate, this will bo a country of foreign names, ex clusively. I am not so much worried over that as I am over the broken down degenerate American sons of noble fa thers and mothers.” RATES ON IMPORTED GOODS ARE GH PER _ Commerce Commission Pro poses to Know Reason for Discrimination. Washington, Feb. 23.—The Interstate Commerce commission today an nounced its intention of investigating why freight rates on merchandise im ported are less than those for shipping domestic goods from tho same Ameri can ports to interior points in th« United States. Complaints have been made that the relationship between import and do mestic rates is unreasonable and sub jects domestic traffic within the United States to undue prejudice and disad vantage. Time and place for hearings have not yet been fixed. All common car riers were made respondents. If there is a general readjustment, it will be revolutionary and this is what the commission threatens to make. Senator Cummins has pre pared a bill to meet the situation and require import and domestic rates to be alike. He urged the same thing in connection with the tariff bill. Sen ator Cummins today expressed satis faction that the commission had taken the matter up on its motion. NEW SUPPLEMENT IS SIZE OF REGULAR CODE Des Moines, la., Feb. 23.—Attorneys who have been Impatient over the de lay in the publication of tho 1913 sup plement to the code of Iowa are being advised by W. S. Allen, secretary of state, that the first copy for the book went to the printer this week and that the volume probably will be ready for distribution by June 1. According to the law authorizing the publication of the supplement, the copy should have been in the hands of the printer October 1, 1913. It was then predicted that the book would be ready by January 1, 1911. The code com mission explains that the delay is due to the fact that the new work is much more extensive than the lawmakers imagined and that the supplement will be as big as the code itself. SECRETLY MARRIED TO NOBLEMAN’S SON mrs. angus McDonnell. ‘ The Hon. Angus McDonnell, second son of the Earl of Antrim, surprised Ills friends a few days ago when he announced during a dance at the gov ernment house, Ottawa, Canada, while a guest of the Duke and Dutchess of Connaught, that he was secretly mar ried last December to Miss Ethelwyn Arthur-Jones. daughter of the British playwright, Henry Imr-Jones. The bridegroom mot his hrid" while she v.a's playing in "Romance" in New York and followed her to Chicago, where the wedding occurred. --*-o— LEADER OF HAITIEN REVOLUTION FLEEING (’ape Haitien Haiti, Feb. 21,-rSenator Davilmar Theodore, the rebel leader, and members of his staff, fled today from Capo Haitien. The city was latei occupied by the federal troops. The rebel army was routed yesterday. The streets of the city are patrolled by American marines and blue jackets arul the population appears culxa. YOUNG PFANSCHMIDT GRANTED NEW TRIAL Youth, Once Convicted of Quad ruple Murder, to Have Rehearing. Springfield. Illinois. Feb. 23.—Ray Pfanschmidt, convicted in the Adams county circuit court Of quadruple murder, won In tho supreme court of the state today when tho lower court's finding was reversed on a writ of error. He will have a new trial. Quincy, 111., Feb. 21.—Tho crime of which Ray Pfanschmidt was convicted was a most gruesome one. Four per sons, Charles Pfanschmidt, his mother, lilancho Pfanschmidt, a sister, and Miss Emma Kaempen, a school teacher boarding with Pfanschmidts were found dead in tho ruin of tho Pfan schmidt house 11 miles southeast of Quincy on September 29, 1912. Tho bodies although badly burned in the fire which destroyed the house showed signs of having been beaten and chopped. It was tho testimony of the experts at the trial that the four victims were killed and their bodies burned. Ray Pfanschmidt. then not 21 years old and the only surviving member of the family, was arrested for tho crime. His trial began in the circuit court of Adams county March IS, 1913, Judge Guy Williams, of Havana, presiding. The state made an effort to prove that Pfanschmidt, heavily in debt, und en gaged to marry Esther Reeder, killed his father, mother, and sister in order to Inherit tho Pfanschmidt estate and be beneficiary of the insurance carried by his father and mother. TREATY MEASURES , QUICKLY ADOPTED Washington, Feb. 23.—Without any amendment whatever to limit their scope, the Senate by more than a two thirds vote today ratified the general arbitration treaties between the United States, Great Britain, Japan, Italy, Spain, Norway, Sweden, Portugal and Switzerland. Attemps to exempt the Panama tolls question, orquestions of Immigra tion and public education, which wore related to the treaties with Great Britain and Japan were defeated, and the conventions go into new force in the same general terms as existed be fore they expired. The vote, while an evidence of the Senate’s support of President Wilson’s treaty policy, was interpreted by those backing the president’s proposal for a repeal of the Panama tolls exemption, ns an indication that the president will have practically the same support on that question. Ratification of the conventions clears the diplomatic atmosphere, so to speak, which has been charged and sur charged for months with complexities, relating to the Japanese protest against the California, anti-alien land laws and British protests against the tolls exemption at Panama. The phrase that the United States was “in a state of Isolation,” was frequently used in describing the situation. CARREL REVOLUTIONIZES THE RADIUM TREATMENT New York. Fob. 23. -Radical changes In the methods of applying radium for tile treatment of cancer, as the result of experiments by l>r. Alexis Carrel, of the Rockefeller institute, will soon be adopted by all surgeons, according to Dr. Robert Abbe, a pioneer investi gator of the curative powers of the mineral. In an nddress. today, before the Rnd lum Institute of America. Dr. Abbe de clared Dr. Carrel's experiments had convinced him that the central theory of radium's action, under which he had proceeded up to that time, was wrong. Dr. Carrel’s Investigations, the speaker said, demonstrated that the Beta rays of radium, which have heretofore been considered dangerous and have been kept away from contact with the pn tient as much as possible, have an ef fect upon cancer that Is more healing that the Gamma rays, now so generally relied upon by surgeons. THAW TO WAIT MONTH FOR RULING ON PLEA Concord. N. H„ Feb. 23.—The last hearing In the United States court for the district of New Hampshire in the case of Harry K. Thaw concluded to day. William T. Jerome spoke in op position to Thaw's petition for a writ of habeas corpus and for admission to bail. Mr. Jerome asked for permission to file supplementary briefs and was given 10 days to do so. Thaw's coun sel will reply 10 days thereafter. Judge Aldrich then will render his decision. Pending Judge Aldrich's decision, Thaw will remain here in the same cus tody as for the past six months. The new briefs will have to do with the question of the absolute or discre tionary right of Thaw to ball, and whether he had loot that right by elect ing to use the process of habeas cor pus. -— WOMAN TO COMMAND AN AMERICAN LINER Copenhagen. Fell. 23.—Promotion to a steamer in the American service has been promised to Mrs. von Bandit/, Denmark's only woman sea captain who Is now commanding a vessel run ning between Russia and England. Mrs. von Baudltz, who is the wife of of a physician, was for a long time interested In yachting as a Bport and after passing an examination for a master's license she took up the sea as a profession. Bo adept did she prove herself that a local shipping company soon gave her command of one of Its largest steamers. Captain von Bandits wears a naty uniform, with square cut coat and skirt of the same material. She is the first female captain in Den mark and she claims to bo the only real feminine mastef mariner in the world. _ IMPORT POTATOES FROM BELGIUM AND DENMARK Washington, Feb. 21.—The quarantine on potatoes was so modified today by the department of agriculture as to permit the importation, under certifi cation and inspection, of that vegetable from Denmark and Belgium. This ac tion followed an investigation by the department of conditions in these coun tries, which showed them to be free from Injurious potato diseases und in sect pests. « Better cookies, cake and biscuits, too. All ns light, fluffy, tender and delicious as mother used to bake. And just as wholes some. For purer Baking Pow der than Calumet cannot be had at any price. Ask your grocer. "•' RECEIVED HIGHEST AWARDS W.rld'. Food Exposition, Chicago, 10* I Puis Exposition, Franco, March, 1912 Ton don't save money when you bay cheap or big-eta V baking powder. Don't be misled. Bay Calumet. It'ol more economical-more wholesome—gives best recalls. I Cal omet is far superior to soar milk and soda. f; .. • --!■■■—' ■”"■■-“3 Poor Fellow. Lydia found her father In the li brary. "Father,” she asked, "did Robert call on you this morning?” "Yes, he did,” replied the father; “but I couldn’t make out much of what he said.” "What do you mean?” asked Lydia, "Well,” explained the old gentle man. ”1 understood him to say that h« wanted to marry me, and that you had enough to support him, so I told him to go home and write It out.”— Llpplncott's Magazine. Njlghborly Bitterness. Mrs. Murphy—Take In that face and put out your pup's. Mrs. Maloney—I did this morning, and everybody passing by said: "Good morning, Mrs. Murphy.”—Syd ney Bulletin. 400,00CU™i SyieflgpBjjg Immigration figures show that the population of Canada increased dur- T5B3 , ing 1913, by the addition of 400,000 new settlers from the United States a® and Europo. Most of these have gone ran on farms in provinces of Manitoba, 431 Saskatchewan and Alberta. JjjS Lord William Percy, an English Nobleman, 330 “The possibilities and opportunities offered Pm by the Canadian West ere so Infinitely CMi greater than those which exist In England, jB»l| that it seems absurd to think that People^jflB Should be impeded from coming to theTS^O country where they can most easily certainly improve their position. VJwijJ New districts are being opened up, which will make accessnble a great number of homesteads in districts + especially adapted to mixed form ing and grain raising. 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