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Show I BRIEF TELEGRAMS 1 Berlin. President Taft's reported utterances ut-terances on the Monroe Doctrine are reprinted re-printed here with manifest approval, as the question of Germany's expanding interests in South America is agitated. The attention of those who have at heart the strengthening of this country's coun-try's economic position in the Latin republic re-public is directed especially to Argentina, Argen-tina, which has been the recipient of an unusual courtesy from the kaiser's government. gov-ernment. One of the ablest of German diplomats. diplo-mats. Baron Hilmer von Dem Bussche-Haddenhausen, Bussche-Haddenhausen, recently was appointed minister to Buenos Ayres, and a high army official, Inspector General Kol-mar Kol-mar von Der Goltz, departed this week by the kaiser's orders, to take part in the opening of the exposition there. Commenting on the trade situation in Argentina, the Tageblatt notes that Germany stands next to England in the value of exports to that country, having hav-ing crowded the United States into third place. "In declaring that the Monroe Doctrine Doc-trine is so much old iron," it says, "President Taft has spoken the most important word on the relations of the old and the new worlds." New York. A will left by Jake Wood, a Staten Island hermit, who died recently, re-cently, worth $60,000, may be upset because be-cause of Wood's reluctance to spend an extra 25 cents for a notary's fee. All the bequests are to charitable institutions. institu-tions. Wood wrote the will himself with pen and ink. Folding the document so that the witnesses could not see a single line of it, he took it to a notary and had the signatures attested, paying the legal fee of 25 cents. Later on he desired to add a new clause and pasted this over a clause which he canceled, thereby avoiding an extra fee of 25 cents. The contesting relative asserts that this invalidates the entire document. Port Arthur, Tex. John W. Gates, who has returned here from a trip to the Pacific coast, says he has established estab-lished his Texas citizenship and will vote here this fall. "I don't know how it will seem to vote in a state where the politics is all one way," he said, "for it don't give a fellow a chance to bet on the result. I have laid wagers on a good many things in my lifetime," he continued. "One bet in particular that 1 made years ago, kept me interested. I was not as strong looking in my younger days as I am now. I was what life insurance companies com-panies call a bad risk; I think it was back in 187" that a friend of mine, who was a life insurance agent, began worrying wor-rying me about taking out a life insurance insur-ance policy. I stood him off for a while, but he finally induced me to take out a policy. He sent me to the company's physician to have an examination made of my physical condition. This doctor was a young-looking, hearty fellow. He went over me pretty thoroughly and made a report pronouncing me a bad risk. I knew my condition better than he did, at any rate I was willing to lay a wager about my length of life. " 'See here,' I said to the young doctor, doc-tor, when he turned me down. "I've got enough confidence in this shell of mine to back it up with a bet.' "'What shall it be?' asked "sawbones," "saw-bones," 'who had a streak of sporting blood himself. " 'I'll bet you I live long enough to plant daisies on your grave.' He laughed and replied: ah ngnt, it s a go. "I kept cases on him, and inside of five years he had turned up his toes and I went to Chicago and fulfilled my part of the bet by planting daisies upon the mound of earth. I got my second wind, physically speaking, soon after that bet was made, and my health has been up to the usual standard ever since." Brussels. King Albert is one of the hardest workers in his realm. He rises at 5 and is quickly at work. There is a church near the palace, which he attends at-tends every morning, going without ostentation, os-tentation, passing unnoticed by the people. At 7:30 he breakfasts with the queen. At"8 the little princes come to wish their parents good morning, and to play with them. For the king's work commences at 9 and continues until 11, when he rides with the queen or motors with her; unless, indeed, the queen is kept at home by some of her work for the poor. The luncheon of the king and queen is light, and after luncheon the whole day is given up to work within doors and out of doors. At 6 the royal babies are put to bed in a room next to their parents. At 8 the king dines. The ladies and gentlemen in attendance dine at the royal table, and the dinner is perforce per-force a ceremonial affair. But the king is back to his work as soon as he can leave the table with courtesy. Paris. Two police dogs were sufficient suffi-cient to put to flight a number of disturbers dis-turbers of the peace at Vincennes and to secure the capture of eight others the other day. A shopkeeper in the district was being boycotted for some time, and latterly he received threats that his shop would be demolished or burnt down. The police had to be called out in force to keep the disturbers away, and when quiet seemed to be restored they retired. But immediately afterward gangs of suspicious-looking individuals again appeared, ap-peared, and finally some fifteen of them assembled and were going to pillage the shop. A telephone call informed the police of what was happening and two policemen, police-men, with their dogs, were at once dispatched dis-patched to the scene. 'Seven of the men took flight, but the rest remained and intended to put up a good fight against two policemen and two dogs, who, they thought, were no match for them. The policemen simply let their dogs loose, and in a few minutes it was all over. The rebels capitulated amid yells and groans, as they were being bitten scientifically in the calves of their legs and other obvious parts of their bodies. The dogs had made short work of their courage, and the eight men marched humbly off to the police station, where they were kept in custody. Trinidad, Colo. Workmen in the main Primrise mine Saturday removed the body of the seventy-third victim of the explosion of January 21, in which seventy-six miners were killed. The body-was body-was identified as that of Samuel Wyno-vich, Wyno-vich, a Slav driver. Constantinople. Thoush the government govern-ment denies the story, it is persistently rumored here that Abdul Hamid has gone mad, and it is for this reason that the princes and princesses of his family, fam-ily, exiled to Salonica with the deposed sultan, have been allowed to return to the capital. Abdul Hamid, the rumor runs, is unmanageable. It is also stated that he has attempt?d suicide several times. St. Petersburg. Tref, the famous police po-lice dog, was taken to Voronesh from Moscow and successfully tracked down the murderer of one of the employes on the property of Prince Vasiltchikoff , in the borough of Pavlovsky. On the train by which Tref traveled a passenger was robbed of a pocketbook containing over 50. The services of the "four-footed Sherlock Holmes," as he is called in the papers, were at once called into requisition, requisi-tion, and after smelling all the passengers, passen-gers, Tref went for one of them as he left the train at the next station and was entering a cab. The stolen property prop-erty was found in his possession. Hardly a week passes but that some fresh ex- ploit of Tref is recorded, and M. Lebe-deff's Lebe-deff's initiative in founding a training establishment for police dogs in St. Petersburg is meeting with warm public recognition. London. A tramp was stated at the meeting of the Plympton guardians to have declared that he belonged to the order of "N. W. B. M." Investigation showed the name of the order to be the "Never Work Between Meals." Montgomery'. Ala, The aeroplane being used by the Wright brothers at the practice grounds near here fell from a height of 100 feet, but struck easily in soft plowed ground. Orville Wright, who was up, was not hurt nor the machine injured, the descent being in a measure under control. New Orleans. Having openly declared de-clared his intention of sending men and arms to Nicaragua to support the insurgent in-surgent cause in that country. General Victor D. B. Gordon, the American leader in the revolutionary army, reiterated re-iterated his position upon the report that a company of sharpshooters had arrived here and would proceed to Nicaragua Nic-aragua to engage in the warfare against Madriz. Springfield, 111. Judge Creighton in the circuit court sustained the demurrer demur-rer of the local optionists to the petition peti-tion of the saloon people asking for a writ of mandamus to compel the elec tion commission to take judicial cognizance cogni-zance of the objections filed against the local option petition. The saloon question ques-tion now goes to the voters to be decided. de-cided. Zanesville, O. The second week of the man hunt over half a dozen Ohio counties for Robert Green, ex-banker, jaid breaker and horsethief, opened Sunday with the sheriff's posses as much at sea as ever regarding their quarry's whereabouts. After tracing Green through Coshocton county the pursuers have turned north again, be lieving the fugitive has doubled on his tracks and is now heading for Cleveland. Lima, O. Two men were instantly killed, one was fatally injured and a house was burned to the ground aa a result of a collision between two inter-urban inter-urban electric trains near hear Sunday. Both trains were destroyed. The collision colli-sion occurred at a place where the tracks' curved around an untenanted house. An exploding fuse sent the wreckage into a blaze. Dedham. Mass. The birth of a healthy baby in this town has made Joseph Sears the father of thirty-four children. He has been twice married in the last forty years, his first wife givftig birth to eighteen children and the present Mrs. Sears to sixteen. But twelve of the large family are living. Welsh, Lr. The business section of Welsh was practically wiped out by-fire. by-fire. Thirty buildings were destroyed, entailing a loss of $200,000. Baltimore, Md. Professor J. Rayner Edmunds of the observatory staff of Harvard university is dead of paralysis. paraly-sis. Norfolk. Va. General W. P. Roberts of Gatesville, N. C, who bore the distinction dis-tinction of being the youngest brigadier briga-dier general in the confederate army, died here as the result of a fractured hip. General Roberts, wrho was 69 years of age, commanded a brigade in the southern army when he was 23 years of age. Dallas. S. D. The body of Stewart Geddes, who was frozen to death in a blizzard in February, was found on his claim near McNceely late Saturday afternoon. aft-ernoon. Holyoke, Colo. After burning a path forty miles long and of varying width clear across Yuma county, prairie fires starting near the town of Wuma several sev-eral clays ago, swept across the state line into Nebraska without any apparent appar-ent dimunitlon in intensity. The dam age in this vicinity alone will reach $50,000. Walla Walla, Wash. As the result of a battle with knives between four Italians Ital-ians and six Japanese, all the Italians were seriously wounded. Antonio Pon-ti, Pon-ti, one of the participants, may die as a result. Two Japanase were arrested. The fight arose over the possession of a bicycle. El Paso. In explanation of the gathering gath-ering on the west coast of Mexico of President Lovett and many high officials of-ficials of the Harriman lines, it is said here that the Mexican Pacific Railroad company has acquired the concession held by the Mexican American Holding company, to build a railroad from Sa-lina Sa-lina Cruz to Manzanillo, a distance of 930 miles, and thence down the west coast. Pittsburg. Industrial interests here expect the coal strike and are hoarding up enough coal to withstand at least a month's shutdown of the mines. John H. Jones of the Pittsburg-Buffalo Coal company, admitted that he feared a strike. Fifty thousand men are at work in the soft coal mines of this district. Springfield, Mo. Forest fires in Webster Web-ster county, thirty miles east of here, are doing great damage to timber and farm property. Thousands of trees in the orchards of that vicinity are said to have been killed by the flames. The fires in the timber in Tansy and Stone counties, south of the White river, are reported to be under control. The fire that has been raging between the Arkansas Ar-kansas line and Batesville, Ark., a distance dis-tance of nearly 200 miles, is said to be under control. Pittsburg, Pa. Forest fires which have caused considerable damage in western Pennsylvania, northern West Virginia and eastern Ohio were practically prac-tically under control last night. The loss will amount to $100,000. Sapulpa, Okla. A fire that for a time threatened the business district of this place destroyed property valued at $50,000. Stockbridge, Mass. Charles S. Mel-len, Mel-len, president of the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad, has bought of Peter J. Tyer, known as "the sage of Frogs' Landing." a dozen angora an-gora goats, which he will use as herders herd-ers for his flock of 600 Southdown sheep on his Council Grove place. Two goats will care for 100 sheep and are guaranteed guar-anteed to scare off sheep-chasing dogs. Pittsburg. Christian Deitrick Steel, whose boast was that he had survived many battles in the civil war, and as an undertaker had conducted nearly 12,000 funerals since that time, was himself buried in Carnegie at the age of 71. He is survived by a widow. Chicago. Twins were born to old Bet ' Afris, a Siberian camel, in the winter quarters of a circus at Baraboo, Wh. It is said that this is the first time camel twins have ever made their appearance ap-pearance in this country. New York. Maiden .Lane jewelry-dealers jewelry-dealers learned that a new diamond syndicate, the third in the trade, has been formed and has taken over the new mines in German Southwest Africa. Afri-ca. The output of these mines, which was insignificant up to a year ago, now amounts to 60,000 carats a month. The stones, though small, are of high quality. qual-ity. Los Angeles. Dr. Frank R. Cunningham, Cunning-ham, a well known and wealthy dentist, I " is held in restraint at the receiving hospital hos-pital to prevent him bestowing all his available cash on club valets, hotel bell boys, chauffeurs and waiters. Before he was taken into custody at the Jonathan club he was scattering his money among all who would take it. He had arranged to rent a whole floor in one of the newest and largest office buildings. Architects were working on plans for a palace, and marine engineers had been set to figuring on a contract for a yacht before fellow club members mem-bers discovered the dentist was suffering suffer-ing from dementia and held him interested inter-ested in a game of cards, until the police arrived. Surgeons say the dentist is suffering from a form of paresis which may prove fatal in a short time. ' London. The first day's debate in the house of commons and Premier As-quith's As-quith's resolutions dealing with the veto power of the house of lords, proved that the lords will not yield their privileges without a great struggle. A. J. Balfour, opposition leader in the house of commons, declared plainly that the intention of his party was to take the first opportunity to repeal any measure restricting the lords' power of veto. Mr. Asquith's speech put heart into his conglomerate party and the speeches of John P. Redmond, for the Irish party, and George M. Barnes, for the Labor-ites, Labor-ites, as well as those of the representatives representa-tives of the Welsh constituencies, all breathed defiance to the house of lords. Alturas, Cal. Satisfying the decree of his chief and conforming to the laws of his tribe by paying the doctor's fee and purchasing the rude coffin for the man he had stabbed to death, Henry Dickins, a Modoc county Indian, surrendered surren-dered to Deputy Sheriff Dawson here and asked a trial under the code of the white man. Dickins confessed he had killed Gopo-laity, Gopo-laity, a lawless Indian known throughout through-out the mountain country of northern California. He brought proof with him which convinced a coroner's jury that in killing the Indian he had acted in self-defense, self-defense, and after the preliminary hearing a verdict of justifiable homicide with a recommendation that Dickens be discharged from custody was rendered. Dickins will be given a hearing before a magistrate in a few days. Denver. Letters received from representatives rep-resentatives of the United Workers of America at the scale convention in Cincinnati Cin-cinnati Indicate that the wage strug gle in prospect because of the failure of the convention to reach a settlement will reach Colorado. William Crawford, secretary of the NortheYn Colorado miners' organization, said that he fully expected a strike. C. L. Baum, one of the largest operators opera-tors of the northern Colorado fields, declared de-clared that the operators would close the mines before they will grant an advance of 15 per cent in wages or the Saturday half-holiday. St. Louis. Five prisoners, serving terms of from six months to a year in the workhouse, escaped Sunday through a sewer and are still at large. |