The King City Chronicle from King City, Missouri • Page 7

TEE KINO CITY CHRONICLE SERVIAN CAPITAL BOMBARDED BY AUSTRIAN JUDGE NORTON DIES PRIMARY RESULTS W(LL OUST TROLLEY POLES St Louis Officials Arrange With Company to' Hang Feed Wires From 4,, But End Comes to Former Member of Supreme Court in Platte City. Curtis Has Small Lead, Later Returns May Defeat Him. WIDELY KNOWN IN MISSOUR STONE SWEEPS MISSOURI Judge Norton Came to State in 1846 and Was 93 Years of Age at Time of Death. Majority of Present Senator Will Probably Reach 150,000 Robertson Leads in Oklahoma. Judge Elijah H.

Norton, former member of the Missouri supreme court An agreement has been Teached between A. J. Jacobs, city lighting inspector, and the president of the United Railways Company for the removal of trolley poles from the streets in the business Bection of St. Louis. The plan is to swing the trolley wire supports from staples in the buildings.

It Is expected that the. United Railways will bear the expense of the change. Trolley posts and electric light posts are the only ones remaining in the downtown section. With the removal of the trolley poles only the light poles would remain, and they are of such an ornamental design that they do not seriously ma? the appearance of the streets. The plan 'Of swinging trolley wire supports from buildings instead of poles has been tried in other cities and in some instances in St.

Louis. It improved the appearance of the street as well as affording more room on the sidewalks. When a new building has been erected of late it has been usual for the owners to ask that the trolley wire supports be attached to it, so as to eliminate the unsightly poles from the pavements. and one of the oldest and most General view of the city of Belgrade which was attacked and partly destroyed by the Austrian forces. WILSON OFFERS TO MEDIATE MRS.

WILSON DIES 56 DIE IN A WRECK President Notifies Powers He Would Welcome Opportunity to Act In Interest of Peace. Trains Collide While Running at High Speed in South Missouri. President and Daughters Kneel About Bedside as End Approaches. ly known men in the Btate died at his ihome in Platte City at 7 o'clock the other evening, at the age of 93. Judge Norton was a native of Kentucky and came to Missouri in 1846.

In 1848 he was elected circuit judge in a district that at that time comprised all the territory in Northwest Missouri as far as the Iowa line. Six counties were included in the district. In 1860 he was elected to congress and served one term. Later he twice served as a member of state constitutional conventions, and upon the death of the late Judge Voorhies of the Bupreme court he was chosen to fill the unexpired term. At the end of the term he was elected to the regular term of ten years.

Judge Norton became a member of the lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in 1844 and had the distinction of being the oldest member of that society in the state. A few years ago he was awarded a medal of honor by the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows In token of his long membership in the order. Hna if tho i-lnhoct man In Ills fmn. HAD BEEN ILL FOR MONTHS INJURED BURNED TO DEATH AUTO FALLS FROM BRIDGE Congress Adjourns Upon Announcement of Death Her Last Thoughts Were For Her Husband. Twenty-Four Rescued Passengers Rushed to' Joplin Hospital Exploding Gasoline Starts Fire.

James Norrls of Jericho Probably Fa-' tally Injured in Accident Near Carthage Wife Escapes. Washington, D. C. President Wilson has offered his good offices to mediate in the European war situation. He sent the following message to the Emperor of Germany, the Czar of Russia, the Emperor of Austria-Hungary, the President of France and the King of England: "As the official head of one of the powers signatory to The Hague convention, I feel it to be my privilege and my duty, under Article 3 of that convention, to say to you in a spirit of most earnest friendship that I should welcome an opportunity to act in the interest of European peace, either now or at any other time that might be though more suitable, as an occasion to serve you and all concerned in a way that -would afford me lasting cause for gratitude and happiness.

"WOODROW WILSON." Topeka. Official and unofficial returns from C5 of 105 counties give Curtis a lead of 2,053 majority over Bristow for the Republican nomination for senator, and Neeley a lead of 996 over Farrelly for the Democratic nomination of the same office. Two or three big counties favorable to Curtis in southeastern Kansas are yet to hear from and his majority in them will perhaps offset the majority which Bristow gets in the small counties of western Kansas. It is most certain that Curtis will win by a majority around 2,500. Looks Like Neeley.

On the Democratic ticket, the attorney general, lieutenant governor, insurance superintendent and irrigation members are in doubt and nobody seems to be trying to get any returns on those offices. The Democratic ticket so far settled is: Neeley for senator; Hodges for governor; Brown for secretary of state; Clemans for auditor; Laughlin for treasurer; Miss Arnold for superintendent of schools; Left with for state printer. For congress, Chapman in the First; Taggart in the Second; Mc-Ginleyin the Third; Doolittle in the Fourth; Helvering in the Fifth; Connelly in the Sixth; Shouse in the Seventh, and Ayres in the Eighth. Stone Swept Missouri. Jefferson City.

Returns from the primary received here, officially and otherwise, indicate that United States Senator Stone has received the Democratic nomination to succeed himself by approximately 150,000 votes in the lead of his two opponents, Judge William H. Wallace and John M. Dawson. There is nothing to indicate that either Judge Wallace or Mr. Dawson carried a single county in the state or that their combined vote in any county will equal that cast for Stone.

It is impossible to tell at this time whether Thomas J. Aikins or Politte Elvins has received the Republican nomination for United States senator. The indications favor Aikins. Robertson Leads in Oklahoma. Oklahoma City.

Unofficial returns MAY HAVE A WAR TAX HERE Administration Must Arrange to Overcome Deficit Caused by Lack of Import Duties. James Norris, a real estate dealer of Jericho, probably was fatally injured near Carthage, when he lost control of his motor car and it plunged over the side of a small bridge. Norris was pinned under the machine. While ascending a steep hill, the engine went dead. Mrs.

Norris, who was with him, got out to crank the car. Norris accidentally released the brake and the car shot backward down the hill and over the side of the bridge. Norris and his wife were en route to Columbus, Kan. Fair Trips to Grade Winners. The three young women who hold the best grades in the school of home economics now being held in Johnson county under the direction of the bureau of agriculture will be sent to the state fair at Sedalia in October.

Fifty-eight have entered the contest. At the fair the winners of the contest will serve dinner. Governor Major, Jewell Mayes, secretary of the state board of agriculture, and John Stin-son, secretary of the state fair, will dine with the Johnson county girls. Republican Leader Dies. Attorney Peter Harst Sangree, 69 years old, is tion of the state.

Judge Norton was the owner of vast farming lands throughout the section. He is survived by four sons and two daughters. One son, John W. Norton, makes his home in Kansas City, but is chiefly engaged In the ranching industry in Arizona. Another' son, William Norton, is a banker at Liberty; Charles Norton, the third son, is engaged in the stock' business, with headquarters in Tuscon, while the fourth, Presley Norton, is engaged in farming near PJatte City.

The two daughters are Mrs. Ben Woodson, wife of a prominent lawyer in St. Joseph and Mrs. Henry Huiskamp, whose husband is president of a shoe manufacturing company at Keokuk, la. Funeral services were held in Platte City.

They were conducted by ministers of the Baptist church, of which Judge Norton w.as a life-long member. Washington, D. C. After a conference with Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo Senator Simmons, chairman of the senate finance committee, announced that measures must be adopted to produce revenues for the government, since the income from foreign duties had been so sharply reduced by the falling off of imports on account of the war. "It goes without saying," said Simmons, "that the form of taxation which we must agree upon in order to raise the money necessary to run the government will have to take the form of internal revenue.

A change in: the tariff duties would not materially affect the revenue, because there are little imports. The loss annually will be $100,000,000. Xeosho, Mo. A northbound passenger train on the Kansas City Southern, leaving Neosho about 5:30 p. collided headon with a Missouri North Arkansas motor car south-bound eight miles north of Neosho.

The gasoline tank of the motor car exploded setting fire to the car. It is estimated that fifty-six passengers were burned to death. The northbound train was running eight hours late and had orders to pass the southbound at Tipton Ford. The motor car had passed the station and was proceeding south. Gasoline from the motor set fire to the passenger train.

The olaze was extinguished by the passengers with water from a nearby creek. No one on the northbound train was seriously hurt. The wreck occurred on a curve with bluffs on one side and Shoal creek on the other. The injured were taken to Joplin. Thirty-five charred bodies were brought to Neosho.

Most of them were through passengers for points south of Neosho, down as far as Eureka Springs, Ark. Other bodies doubtless were burned to ashes. The motor car, which was totally destroyed, carried over 100 gallons of gasoline. Pinned in Wreckage. According to reports received here, both the motor car and the train were running at a high rate of speed when they met.

With" the collision came the explosion of the gasoline reservoir of the motor car, causing both the motor car and the train to burn. The injured were pinned beneath the wreckage, and as the flames reached them they begged piteously to be released. However, the flames, augmented by the gasoline, quickly spread through the wreckage, making it impossible for those injured to extend help after the first few moments. In the motor car the passengers were heaped into a pile, all the seats turning and pinioning them to the bottom of the car. ANOTHER BIG ST.

LOUIS FIRE dead at Sedalia. For more than thirty years he was the law partner of Blaze in Six-Story Building Threatened Entire Retail District One Fireman Killed. from more than half of the precincts of the state from the primary election give Judge J. B. A.

Robertson of Chandler the lead over Judge 11. L. Williams of Durant, and the other Democratic candidates for governor. From returns received to date Judge Williams and Al Jennings are running a close race for second place. T.

P. Gore lias undoubtedly won the Democratic nomination for United States senator by a large majority over Judge S. W. Hayes of Chickasha. The latter practically concedes his Lightning Destroys Oklahoma Farm.

Guthrie, Ok. The farm home of Dr. G. T. Eddy, near Marshall, was struck by lightning and completely destroyed, together with the furniture, medical library and surgical instruments.

The loss was about $3,000. Washington, D. C. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, wife of the President of the United States, died at the White House at 5 o'clock in the afternoon.

Death came after a struggle of months against Bright's disease, with complications. The President was unnerved by the shock, but bore up well under the strain, and devoted himself to his daughters. The end came while Mrs. Wilson was unconscious. Her illness took a turn for the worse shortly before 1 o'clock in the afternoon, and from then on she grew gradually weaker.

Kneeling at the bedside at the end were the President and their three daughters. Dr. Cary T. Grayson, U. S.

and a nurse were in the room, and just outside a door were Secretary McAdoo and Francis B. Sayre, Mr. Wilson's sons-in-law, and Mr. Tumulty, his secretary. Both houses of congress adjourned when Mrs.

Wilson's death was announced, and for a brief time the wheels of the government practically stopped. The beginning of the end came at 10 o'clock in the morning, when Dr. E. P. Davis of Philadelphia, who had been called in consultation, realized that the time for hope had passed.

He took the President into the Red Room of the White House and there told him the truth. Sorrow Envelopes White House. Just at the hour of five death came. The President and his daughters were in tears. Secretary Tumulty walked slowly to the executive offices, his head bowed.

Quietly he announced to the correspondents that the end had come. A pall of gloom settled over the executive mansion and the offices. Presently Doctor Grayson, worn from day and night vigil, went to the offices. There was an impressive silence everywhere. Flag Is Placed at Half Mast.

Vice-President Marshall and members of the cabinet and the leaders in congress were notified. Both houses promptly adjourned. The flag on the White House was dropped, gates were closed and the silence of death spread over the White House for the first time since 1S92. when Mrs. Benjamin Harrison died.

Asked About Alleys Bill. She had told the President in the morning she would more cheerfully "go away" if the bill for the improvement of alleys was passed by congress. A word to leaders from Secretary Tumulty and the measure was adopted in silence by the senate and soon reported in the house where It will be passed at once. She learned that the measure would be a law in another day or so and expressed her satisfaction. She had become deeply interested in the social welfare of the community and had worked in ways without seeking the aid of the President.

It was the strain of this, the duties of entertainment and the kidney trouble which became chronic last autumn that sapped her life. Would Bar Alien Volunteers. Washington, D. A bill to exclude from readmission into the United States all aliens who leave to engage in a foreign war has been introduced by Representative Harrison of Mississippi. WILL RESIST THE REBELS Negotiations for Peaceful Surrender of Mexican Capital Broken Off by General Carranza.

Noted French Critic Dead. Paris. Francois Elie Jules Le-maltre, the French dramatic critic, playwright, poet and novelist, is dead. He was born in 1853. A general alarm of fire in the heart of the retail district of St.

Louis threatened to destroy the entire block bounded toy Seventh, Eighth, Locust and St. Charles streets. A quarter of the square is occupied by the Mercantile National bank. One fireman was killed and several seriously injured when a high power hose worked itself loose and burled the men, who were holding it, off a watertower. The fire was discovered shortly after 6 o'clock in a six-story building occupied by several garment manufacturing concerns.

A few minutes hefore, several hundred girl employes left the building. It is believed no one was caught in the flames. The interior of the building, was almost completely destroyed, but the flames were held within its walls by the efforts of about half the fire department of the city. The aggregate damage was about $150,000. Coughs Up Seventy Seeds.

Although she has already coughed tip seventy seeds ranging in size from cherry to plum seeds physicians are considering the advisability of operating on Miss Lena Bearan of St. Louis in order to remove about a dozen more seeds, which, they say, an X-ray photograph has disclosed in her stomach. of the seeds coughed up are in the hands -of phy H0LDLINER IN BAR HARBOR American Warships Will Prevent Ce-cilie Joining German Navy During Present War. CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS President Wilson has nominated Representative Andrew J. Peters of Boston to be assistant secretary of the treasury.

The City of Mexico. Preparations are being made to resist an attack of the Constitutionalists on the City of Mexico. Provisional President C'arba-jal has been officially advised that General Carran.a had broken off negotiations with the envoys sent from the capital and refused to ratify the plan suggested by Carbajal for the transfer of government. It was stated here that President Carbajal has been urged by Washington to surrender to the Constitutionalists on their own terms. In return the Mexican government has asked whether the United States will guarantee life and property in the territory now held by the Federate if the Constitutionalists are permitted to take control.

Bar Harbor, Me. The treasure ship Kronprinzessin Cecilie will be forced to remain, in port here until the end of the war. The United' States torpedo destroyer Warrington and the revenue cutter Androscoggin are anchored off Bar Harbor and have the North German Lloyd liner bottled up in accordance with the neutrality ordered hy President Wilson. Captain Pollack said he had no sailing orders and as the Kronprinzessin Is a part of the German naval reserves expected to be held at Bar Harbor. Henry Lamm, now presiding judge of the supreme court of Missouri.

For twenty years he was chairman of the Seventh district congressional committee. He was one of the most active Republicans in Central Missouri. Dies In Bed. Mrs. Sarah Smith, 82 years old, was found dead in bed at her home in Mokane recently.

Mrs. Smith and her husband, Justice Smith, 81 years old, who survives her, were married in Ohio sixty-five years ago, and were the oldest married couple in Callaway county. Fall Killed Miner. Al Hunter, a miner, was killed at the Chicago-Leigh mine near Carthage. While standing on the edge of the shaft he lost his balance and fell 140 feet to the bottom.

He was 33 years old. -K Lived in Missouri 75 Years. Mrs. George A. Bradford, a resident of Missouri seventy-five years, Is dead at Columbia.

She formerly lived In Randolph county. Two Die in Motor Upset. Andy Eastly, GO years old, and James Miller, 35, of Foster, are dead as the result of a motoring accident three miles west of Rich Hill. Mart Biggs of New Home is injured, probably fatally, and Biggert Watson, the driver of the car, escaped with slight Injuries. The party had spent the afternoon in the city and were returning home when their car skidded and turned over.

Former Mayor Dies. William B. Myers, C9 years old, Is dead at Carthage of a complication of diseases. He was a veteran of the Civil war, enlisting when 15 years old in the Union army. He was three times mayor of Carthage.

Until recent years he had been engaged in the manufacturing and stone business here. Marshal Shot Disturber. B. C. Mea-der, city marshal, shot Ben Johnson in the-leg at Houston.

Johnson was resisting arrest, having drawn a knife on the marshal. The wound is not dangerous. Suicide at Carthage. Walter Fris-by, 49, committed suicide at Carthage by taking poison. No reason for the act is known unless it was worry over the departure of his favorite daughter, who left several days ago to make her home in Indiana, Trolley Kills Farmer.

John Degen, a farmer, CC years old, received injuries from which he died when a Kansas City, Clay County 4V St Joseph Electric Line car hit his buggy at a grade crossing bear St. Joseph. CECILIE SAFE IN BAR HARBOR German Liner With $10,000,000 in Gold on Board Races to American Waters. Poisoned a Rival's Cattle. Sioux City, la.

Rivalry over a woman between two young ranchmen of Dallas, S. resulted in the placing of strychnine in feed corn and the poisoning of forty head of cattle belonging to Freeland Harder. Tony Miller, a Jap. rejected suitor of Hardens sweetheart, confessed to the crime. The Xewlands bill to create a federal trade commission, first of the three administration anti-trust measures, has passed the senate by a vote of 53 to 16.

The bill differs radically from the measure as it passed the house, which probably will ask for a conference. The President sent direct word to the leaders of the senate and house and the heads of the government departments that it was his wish that the regular business continue and that the lowering of the flags to half mast be the only public recognition, of Mrs. Wilson's death. He was desirous that congress continue in session without interruption. Nominations of Paul M.

Warburg of New York and Frederic A. Delano of Chicago, as members of the federal reserve board, have been confirmed by the senate. With the confirmation of Mr. Warburg and Mr. Delano, the new banking board is complete and can proceed at once to organization of the reserve system under the new currency law.

Robert Francis Harper, professor of Semitic languages at the University of Chicago and author of many books on Assyrian and Babylonian literature, is dead in London. Postmaster General Burleson has completed temporary arrangements for handling mall for Europe under conditions imposed by the war. At least one mail to Europe each week would be assured by vessels of the American line in the event all the big German, English and French shins were taken from service. Bar Harbor, Me. The North German Lloyd steamer Kronprinzessin Cecilie, carrying juore than gold and whose whereabouts have 'been more or less of a mystery since it sailed from New York a week ago, has arrived in the harbor here.

The Cecilie dropped anchor here at 6 o'clock in the morning after a forced run of four days, its officers fearing capture. Americans Can't Leave Germany. Washington, D. No Americans can leave Germany for the present. Through the German ambassador at Newport the state department has been informed that during the progress of mobilization no foreigners will be permitted to depart.

German Mail Held. Washineton. D. Malls for Ger sicians, wno declare tne case tne most remarkable they have seen. The seeds were swallowed when she was a child, Miss.

Bearan says. Until a year ago they gave her no trouble. Recently, however, she became subject to fainting fits, followed by coughing spells. Missing Man Returns. Mourned for dead nearly two months, J.

M. Glover, a mininr, man, attorney and former congressman from Missouri, returned to Denver the other day. He said he had simply been out taking a walk of one hundred miles for his health, and was unaware that his departure had caused the belief that he was dead. Prof. 8mith Weds.

Professor William Fletcher Smith of the congressional library at Washington and Miss Leeson Cook were married in War-rcnsburg at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Cook.

Professor and Mrs. Smith left for their home in Washington. Ten Thousand at Reunion. Ten thousand persons attended the old settlers' reunion at Humans ville the other day. Thomas J.

Akins, Republican nominee for United States senate, many and Austria were withheld from the American liner St. Paul when it sailed from New York. Raid London Deutsche Bank. London. The police visited the Ixndon branch ef the Deutsche bank and removed all the gold from its vaults.

The cables connecting the Russian embassy here with St. Petersburg have ceased working. An Oklahoma School Burns. Oklahoma City, Ok. Morrill Hall, one of the largest buildings at the Stillwater Agricultural school, burned at 2 o'clock In the morning.

The building contained all the school offices, the gymnasium and natatorium and much of the school apparatus. Adamson Dam Bill Passes. Washington. D. The Adamson general dam bill to authorize federal permits for dams on navigable streams for power purposes, limited to terms of fifty years, was passed by the house by a vote of 187 to 43.

Senate Favors Bank Men. Washington, D. C. Confirmation of Paul M. Warburg of New York and Frederic A.

Delano of Chicago to complete the federal reserve board has been recommended by the senate banking committee. Treasury Sends $125,000,000. Washington. Only about of additional currency under the Aldrich-Vreeland law has been shipped to the subtreasurles of the country since the government decided to Kid the banks of the nation. Gold for Tourists en Way.

New York. Carrying 54 million dollars the United tSates cruiser Ten: nessee has sailed on Its mission ot relief for the American! in the Eu- rope an war tone..