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1 VOLUME XLTV. STR GENEVFEVE. MISSOURI. SATURDAY. JANUARY 20.

1SW0. NUMBElt 40. FAIR FJLA i HEWS OF THEWEEK FflOM OVER WORLD HAPPENINGS IN OUR OWN AND OTHER COUNTRIES BRIEFLY TOLD. SHORT ITEMS FOR BUSY MEft Week's News Condensations Reviewed Without Comment All Nations Find Something to Edify and Instruct. The 51 convicts who escaped from the- Arkansas penitentiary, are Bald to have been found barricaded In tho kills near Moscow, heavily armed with uns and ammunition stolen from a un store.

Tho Texas branch of tho Congressional Union for Woman's Suffrage, was organized at gathering of prominent Texas Women. Mrs. Harris Mas-'tersort of Houston was elected president. Julius Levy of Pittsburg, said to have been 113 years old, Is dead, lie never required glasses and until last October had never been ill. Tho half yearly statement of tho American Locomotive Co.

shows an lncrcaso in gross earnings of for the last six months. The company had unfilled orders amounting lo $52,240,000. The nomination of Z. M. McCarroll postmaster at Walnut Ridge, was rejected, by tho senate.

He was opposed by Senator Clarke. A resolution calling for tho submission of a woman's suffrage constitutional amendment in tho South Carolina general assembly was defeated "by a voto of CI to 51 in the lower "house. The total booty of tho Teutonic allies during 17 months of war Is summed up In Vienna as follows: "'Nearly 3,000,000 prisoners, 10,000 guns, 40,000 machine guns, while square kilometers of enemy ter-Titory has been occupied." Mrs. Edward Payne, 2G, hanged her -4-year-old daughter, her 2-year-old son and herself with pieces of clqthcsllno in Alloway, N. Y.

China's poppy growers, whoso busi ness soon win be wiped out, aro re-sponsible for tho recent outbreaks, ac- cording to Wang Shin Young, editor tf the Shanghai Shin Wen. Seventeen oil experts have left Pittsburg for Colombia, South Amer ica, to exploro in tho Interior of that country, which is said to be tho rich' est in' oil in the world. Prince Eitel Frlederlcb, son of the kaiser, is reported by SwIbs nowspa- Tors to have been sent 'to Athens by the German government on a special mission to King Constantine. Frank Ouinn nnd J. J.

Deal, Okla- Tioma farmers, who were, convicted in the federal courts of intimidating negroes and preventing their voting, "wcro pardoned by President Wilson, Tbo house of representatives lias adopted a resolution revising tho "cal endar Wednosday rulo so as to speed up its work. Two American women nro being detained at Monastlr by the Bulgarians. They aro Mrs. Walter Farwell, a Cbl cago newspaper correspondent, and Miss Mitchell. An Increase In pay for 22,000 opera-tives In virtually all of tho toxtlle ccn tors of Rhode Island assured.

Tho Greek vessel Vasilcfs Constnn tinos has arrived at Now York from with 300 Servians and their families on board. Irving Updlko, 38, and Herbert Up dike21, sons of Furman D. Updlko, millionaire Chicago Board of Trade man, were arrested, charged with plot-tins the murder of "their parents. Mrs. Betty Bird was shot and on tho street at Sullivan, I1L, as Bho was leaving tho courthouse after bo- interallied a divorce from Charles.

Ulrd. Martin W. Boss, who until a year ago lived with his parents at White hall, 111., was killed under a load of oats which overturned on tho way to market. Edith, Formau, Belle Forman nnd Godby, young ladles, were killed when a Hock Island passenger train struck Fohnon's automobllo at Alva, Because the building Is believed to bo unsafej 400 pupjls of thoi Henry Clayvschool, at Hegewlsch, 111., 'wont on a strike. A report complied by the harbor master and just made public, shows tmu ncimio export i ratio to viaui vostok in 1915 was $9,312,583, com pared with $152,231 in 1914.

V.he entire village of Louise, was (estr6yed by flro. Tho Methodist chur wna 010 only building left Sallno county, voters defeated a proposal to Issue $1,130,000 in bond? to bo used in constructing a system of rock roads. Petitions to placo President Wilson's namo on tho Minnesota presidential primary ballot were filed with tho secretary of stato nnd tho name will go on tho ballot. A resolution indorsing President Wilson's preparedness program was voted down, 68 to 57, in the lower bouse of the Mississippi legislature. La Sallo hotel boys, at Chicago, are paging tho lobbies for a tall, dignified looking man who left a two-foot pet alligator In the hotel.

Davis, representative from TexnR, wants someone to write a Death March of the Republic," Tabltha, the Albany capltol cat, gob bled down six while stnto laboratory mice, containing several million pneumonia germs. Dispatches from Amsterdam state that tho danger continues to grow In the flooded districts of the provinces of North Holland. Tho Ellenrod mill, at Rochdale, tho largest cotton spinning mill In Lancashire, have been partly destroyed by fire. A membership on the Minneapolis or Duluth boards of trade Is property and can bo taxed, tho supremo court hold in the case of Roberts vs. County Hennepin.

Chile's ratification of the peace commission's treaty was presented to tho department by tho Chilean ambassador, Eduardo Suarez Mujlca. Overcome with cold and stricken by apoplexy, Frank Elam, wealthy farmer of South Pana, 111., fell dead In his barn lot. Ten children who were playing In a gravel pit near tho Colpgno aviation grounds were killed by an air bomb. Mrs. Emmoline Pankhurst, the Brit ish suffragist leader detained by Now York immigration authorities, was or dered admitted, to tho United States unconditionally.

It was not a German submarine that sank tho liner Persia, according to tho Gorman government. Seven Austrian aeroplanes flow over Ancona, dropping several bombs. No great property damage was done, but ono man was killed and several In jured. Tho receipts of iron oro at Buffalo In tho year 1915 were tho greatest ever recorded 5,328,608 tons, against 5,208,430 in 1913, tho next best season. Harold M.

Meech, Republican, was elected mayor of MHdlptown, defeating James F. Connery, Democrat. A Copenhagen dispatch says the steamer KIov, bound from Copenhagen for Liverpool, has been captured by a German destroyer and taken to port. Fearing assasslnntlon, King Con1- stantino of Greece lias doubled the strength of bis bodyguard. A young woman answering the description of Sister Hlta Vincent, the 23-year-old nun who mysteriously dis appeared from the Convent Joseph Villa, Philadelphia, two weeks ago, was found In a girls' homo at Balti-'more.

Tho Spanish steamship Belglca has been sunk at sea. Twenty-threo mem bors of tho crew wero picked up'. The greater part of tho extonslvo hothouse establishment of John Bauscher, Freeport, 111., was destroyed by fire, It is reported In Athens, Greece, that tho Turks have placed In solitary confinement on a bread and water diet 200 entente subjects bb a reprisal for tho nrrcBt of the central powers' consuls in Salonikl. Tho residence of President James and other University of Illinois buildings wero threatened when tire destroyed tho co-ed store In Champaign, adjoining tho campus. Dam-ago of $75,000 was done.

Breaking down when she heard that her two children wero In serious condition with measles at Sioux City, Mrs. Frank I Adams persuaded her husband to confess that he was a burglar. The crudo submarine "Fool Killer," recovered, from the river bottom at Chicago a few weeks ago, was found to contain some human bones, sup posod to bo (hqse of the inventor. A dispatch to' tho Temps says tho Swiss government has fined tho editor of tho newspaper 151 Itngno for publishing a scurrillous poem about Em peror William. Premier Asqulth announced in tho house of.

commons tho appointment of Joseph Pease, former president of yio ooara or education, as postmaster- general. Tho Mahoning county grand jury has returned Indictments against 20 persons Involved in tho late labor troubles at Youngstown, Twer men wcro killed and three otlv ers wounded in a strike riot at tha Edwards Vatvo company's plant at New Madrid Band Intended to Burn and Slay, the Witnesses Declare. ARRESTS FRUSTRATED PLOTS Testimony at Trial Shows Organiza tion Was Modeled After Ku Klux Three Members Confess. How plans of night riders of South east. Missouri to burn, several entire towns and to kill tho loading mer chants, manufacturers and land owners in those towns wcro frustrated by tho arrest of sixty-seven members of tho secret band several months ago was told on tho witness stand in tho circuit court at New Madrid recently by confessed night riders who nro be ing tried pn charges of "assault wltli intent to kill" nnd "conspiring with intent to kllli" Their testimony revealed tho opera tions of a baud modeled after tho Ku Klux Klan, which operated in sections of tho South after tho Civil m.

"Jerusale-m" was tho password of tho night riders. "To do tho bidding of the majority" wns their vow, and death was tho penalty for falluro to obey, according to tho testimony of Hobart Shipman, Walter Willoby and George Perry. At tho time of tho arrests, Willoby and Shipman testified, tho night riders were planning to attack Gideon, kill threo designated prominent citizens nnd then burn tho town. Next they were to attack Clarkton, kill five marked men nnd burn tho city. Tho discovery that detectives wero among their number caused them to defer, they said, and -tho arrests provented execution of tho plans.

Six men pleaded guilty, to charges of participation In tho recent night rider outrages nnd two others wero tried and found guilty on similar charges thero. All wero sentenced to tho penltentinry for terms of from, two to flvo years. Fifty Years on One Paper. James W. Devereaux, fifty years a compositor in tho office of tho Palmyra Spectator, died recently.

Ho was 62 years old. Ho entered the Spectator as an office boy when 12 years old and had been foreman of tho plant forty years. He never worked a day at his trade outsldo tho Spectator office. Miser Starves to Death. Jacob Ropp, 78 years old, died in St.

Louis of starvation and cold. Later it was discovered that ho had $18,000 in tho bank. In his roo.ni a key to a safe deposit box was found and when tho box was opened by Ropp's brother a certificate of deposit for $18,000 wa3 found and $100 In Iooso cash. Wants Lower Light Rates. A proclamation by Mayor Sam J.

Klelnschmldt of Hlgglnsvlllo sots Feb urary 1 as tho date of a special elec tlon to vote on a proposal to Issue bonds for tho purpose of so enlarging the electric light plant horo that tho rates may bo lowered to all consum ers and particularly to factories and other largo consumers. M. U. to Debate Arrangements aro being made for a debate between the University of Wisconsin and the University of Missouri, to bo held at Madison next spring. A return debate between tho two universities will be held In Columbia next year.

Trust Company Official Dies. Henry Semplo Ames, vico president of tho Mississippi Valley Trust Company, Is dead at his homo in St. Louis of pneumonia. Ho belonged to clubs in SL Louis, New York, Seattle and Helena, and nlso to several yachting clubs. He wns 53 years old.

Farmer's Wife Burned. Mrs, William McCollum, wlfo of a farmer living ten miles, northeast of Brookfleld, was burned fatally tho Other night when her clothing caught flro from a stove. Escaped, But Nearly Froze, Frank Stlonsky, who escaped from tho stato reformatory at Boonvllle, wna picked up by tho police at So-dalla with his feet, hands and cars badly frozen. St. Louis to Vote February 29.

St. Louis voters registered recently to voto in the February 29 "leap year election" to decide whether St. Louis negroes shall bo excluded from rost-denco in certain parts of tho city; also whether whites shall bo excluded from negro sections. To Consolidate Macon Papers. By a deal mado recontly Philip Gansz, business manager of the Macon Dally Chronlclo, acquires tho Macon Dally Herald and will consolidate tho two papers.

Tho Horald has boen published thero rhoro than two years by Charles Howard, formerly editor and publisher of tho Columbia Times. Wealthy Joplln Man Dead, John H. Walker, a itsldont of Joplln tor forty years and ono of tho wealthiest men of the district, died there the other night. REPUBLICANS MEET APRIL 6 Committee Accepts Bid of Excelsior Springs for State Convention To Be 1,151 Delegates. Excslslor Springs will bo the sceno of tho Republican stnto convention, tho dato will be April 6, and tho basis of representation In tho convention will bo on tho voto of 1908, when the full vote of tho party wns cast and not on tho 1912 basis, when tho full party voto was not cast, It was decided at tho meeting of tho Republican stato committco at SU Louis.

There had been reports that a movement was on to mako the basis of representation on tho 1912 vote, but so strong was tho opposition to this that tho matter was not oven broached in tho meeting. This means 1,151 delegates on tho 1908 basis, rLShJcb, Jackson county will send 90. Tho stato committco will meet April 5 and decido on tho question of changing tho apportionment from Kansas City and St. Joseph, which will hold municipal elections before that date. It was held that the committee had this right, although it is hardly probable it will bo exercised.

It was decided that conventions, prl-mirles and mass meetings to elect delegates to the convention must bo called before March 20. In bidding for tho privilege of en tertaining tho convention Excelsior Springs offered to pay tho expenses of tho convention, tho expenses of tho stato committeemen, to furnish $1,000 cash and to r'also $1,000 for tho campaign fund. Thi3 was tho best offer made. On tho first ballot Excelsior Springs received flvo votes and on tho second sixteen, most of tho St. Louis committeemen swinging their votes to it.

Tho election of four dolcgatcs-at- largo to tho national convention, the promulgation of a stato platform, the election of a national committeeman nnd tho nomination of presidential electors from the stato will bo tho principal business which will come before tho convention. MAIL CARRIER KILLS A WOLF Warrensburg Rural Route Man Shoots Big Brute While on, His Regular Rounds. Robert Brown, a rural carrier from tho Warrensburg postofflce, -considers ho did very well financially recently. Tho other day ho was surprised to see two huge gray timber wolves lope across the road in front of his team at a lonely spot on his Tho noxt day ho armed himself with a small rifle. Near tho placo whero ho saw tho wolves tho day beforo ho spied thorn again skulking across a Held.

He fired and killed ono of them. Tho other escaped. Ho brought tho dead animal to Warrensburg, whero ho was awarded a sum for tho scalp. Ho sold tho hide, and tho same evening the farmers near whero ho killed tho wolf telephoned they had raised a cash purso for him. The wolves had been marauding among tho fanners' pigs and fowls for weeks and had been chased with horses and dogs repeatedly.

Third Dally for Moberly. Tho publication of Mobcrly's third dally newspaper will begin on February 1, It was announced recently. It will be a morning paper. A. L.

Pros-ton, editor of tho Marshall Democrat-Nows, will bo tho editor. It Is understood tho anti-saloon forces nro backing tho paper. Had Himself Fined. G. W.

Stegen, city attorney of Hlg-glnsville, recently filed an Informa tion charging himself with failure to removo snow from sidewalks In front of property owned by himself, and had himself fined $6 in pollco court. Warrants charging twenty-two other citizens with" tho same offense wero issued. Irish Heads Horticulturists. H. C.

Irish of St. Louis, formerly vlco president of tho Missouri Stato Horticultural Society, was elected president of tho socloty at tho closing session of its second annual convention at St. Louis. Froze to Death In Street. Thomas Scott, laborer, 35, was found frozen to death within a half block of his homo at Springfield.

Ho is believed to fiavo becomo numb from cold and fallen asleop In tho street. Menace Officials Not Guilty. Tho Menace Publishing Company of Aurora and four of its officials wore found not guilty by a Jury at tho conclusion of their trial In the federal court at Joplln on charges of tho misuse of tho malls. Put Gasoline on Fire. Mrs.

A. E. Shields of Waldron poured gasoline on a Bmolderlng fire In tho kitchen range, thinking she was using kerosene. Tho gasoline exploded, inflicting burns from which sho may die. Bank to Pay Half.

Depositors In the' Broadway bank of St, Louis, which closed its doors last November, will rccelvo 50 per cont of tho amount of their deposits about the middle of April, it was announced by B. H. Benolst, stato deputy bank commissioner. Pettis County Citizen Dead. Thomas Bonjajnln Stpphenson, who camo to Sedalla five years ngo from Ottawa, and engaged extens'lvoly In farming south nf tho city, in dead lie was 03 years old.

)l HERE'S ROdmiOpj'' ft to joseph EDWARD mm Jm DAVIES, WHO IS CHAIRMAN Mgk 4 OF THE FEDERAL TRADE 1 COMMISSION AND COUSIN OF 11 Mil Wi LLOYD-GEORGE, BRITISH fif Jif mmf aJf S8 'm uVww fz kg i yw1 SV- HIM! wm wk i- By EDWARD B. CLARK. OSEPH EDWARD DAVIES, ono time commissioner of corporations, and now tho chairman of1 tho federal trado commission, Is a Celt. IIo shows It In his face, his mannerisms and his methods of work. His father was a Welshman who came to this country sixty odd years ago.

Joining a Welsh colony In southern Wisconsin, a colony hardly second, It Is said, In slzo and In tho mark which It mado on the state, to that which entered Into tho life of central New York much more than half a century ago. Tho Celtic people are moro or less emotional, nnd perhaps the accent should be placed on the moro rathor than on tho less. In tho greater men whom tho Celts havo contributed to public life, tho emotionalism while marked, has always shown tho effect of the steadying hands of thought and of conscience. Emotionalism does not run away with Lloyd-George of Wales and of England, nor does It run away with his cousin, Joseph E. Davles of Washington and Wisconsin, for this chieftain of the federal trade commission Is cousin of the man now most In tho public eyo In the British Islands.

It is within tho range of possibilities that If two or threo years ago some great corporation ofllclal of tho United States should have consulted a fortune teller sho would havo looked at his palm and said: "Look out, for a dark, handsome man Is about to stand In your path." Mr. Davic3 Is a dark man, and it is no flattery at all to say that ho Is a handsome one. Ho became tho commissioner of corporations soon after Mr. Wilson -was Inaugurated president if tho United States. Many men had picked Joseph Davles for a cabinet position, and thoro aro thoso to say that the prophecy of such a placo for him eventually may not go unfulfilled.

The bureau of corporations, as Us namo Implies, looked aftor corporation matters. It was a check on Illegal doings on the part of great concerns of tho country and, It was nlso Intended as a help to such corporations as wanted to obey tho law to tho last letter and who wanted to know definitely Just what tho lattor was. Josoph 13. Davles Is. a man of considerable brawn, and ho would not bo whero he Is probably If he wcro not a man of moro than considerable brain.

He comes by both by Inheritance, for his father was bluc'ksmlth, of "tho muscles of lils bruwny-arms-wero-strong-as-lroii-liaiids" species. Mr. Davles' mother was tbo daughter of a lmrrlBter. Sho wns of Welsh and French extraction, thereby keeping tho Colt blood In Mr. Davlos virtually undiluted.

The mother was one of GATHERED FACTS Arkansas produces tho grcator part of tho natural oil stones of this country. Ono soed of cotton planted nnd ro-planted will produce 40,000,000,000 seeds in six years. Some of tho finest tapestry over woven In Japan Is io bo seen in tho pcaco palace of Thp Hague. Although there are 1,000 miles of railway lines In Uruguay, thero ts only one tunnel In tho country, the best known women among tho people of her race In America, and her fame reached outside of racial territory. Sho was an ordained minister, becoming one at tho ago of twenty-two years.

Sho camo to this country many years ago on a lecture tour. At Watertown, Bho met and married the father of tho present chief of tho federal trado commissioner. There Is ono incident In the career of Joseph E. Davles which Washington politicians account remarkable. Tho chairman of tho trade commission, as everybody knows, Is a Democrat.

After Mr. Wilson had been elected men all over tho country began to writo to him urging tho appointment of the Wisconsin man 'o a cabinet po. sltion. Mr. Davles knew nothing about these efforts In bin behalf.

His mother was In England and 111. The son went abroad to caro for her and to bring hor back to this country as soon as she was ablo to travol. Ho was compelled to stay In England for months and was entirely out of direct touch with political affairs and his own concerns In this land. At that tlmo the Wisconsin legislature was Republican. In tho body wcro a good many former students of the University of Wisconsin, of which Mr.

Davles is a graduate. Ono night four Republican members and a Demi-cratlc member of tho legislature happened to meot. Tho Republicans said: "Joseph Dnvlcs Is an nblo, high-mind-cd mnn. Ho ought to havo a placo In President Wilson's cabinet." it Is necdloss to say perhaps that the Democratic member coincided Instantly with what his Republican colleagues had said. Then tho Republican suggestion was that tho scnato and assembly of Wisconsin should adopt resolutions recommending Davles for a cabinet position.

The Democratic moraber said, "That would bo fine, but you can't get a Republican legislature to do It." What was tho result? The Republican aBsembly by unanimous vote passed tho resolution and tho Republican senato instantly followed suit. Joseph E. Davles Is under forty years of age mid ho Is ono of a group of young men whom President Wilson culled as governmental aids In his administration. In positions just bo-low' that of cabinet rank thero nro today in Washington many young men, or young ns the world looks on ago when considering tho responsibilities which It must bear, Ono lliula a genial host In tho office of tho commission's chairman. Mr.

Davles has tho Celtic temperament which makes for hospitality and good nature Until a Celt reaches the point of righteous Indignation und Is therefore likely to explode, he is ns polite ns nature ever allowed any man ti bo. It makes little difference wheth-or tho Cult Is Irish, Highland Scotch. Welsh or French, so far us this polite Cowb on tho stoppch of Russia aro said to be fitted with spectacles bo-cause thoy grazo through tho snow all winter long, nnd tho dazzlo of tho crystnls Is very injurious to their sight unless this form of protection Is furnished thnm, A Southwestern paper answering a question about high and law record! cotton prices, said that In 1SG6 tha highest price was 52 conts and tho lowest 32 cents, while slnco that time cotton has dropped as low ns 5 5-16 cents, in 1898 characteristic is concerned, but thero aro times when tbo fires break looso nnd expend their flames on tho head of the offender. It is said that ono or two such things havo happened In tho career of Joseph Davles. Thero nro a good many men in public llfo and in business llfo who aro likely to becomo offenders against the properties of government nnd business, and on such as theso tho Celtic temper sometimes breaks.

There is one thing that Is certain, Joseph E. Davles loves his home state, and ho has an abiding affection for his educational alma mater. He attended tho public schools of Watertown, graduated from tbo high school in 1S94 with a clnss of which he was tho valedictorian. He at onco entered tho University of Wisconsin and was chosen president of the freshman class. On graduation ho was both class day and commencement orator.

While ho was attending the university he wns made athletic instructor. was one of tho winning team In tho Illinois-Wisconsin intercollegiate- do-hate. He graduated In law In 1901, and In the year following he was made temporary chairman of tho Democratic stato contention. At the beginning of his administration President Wilson gavo Mr. Davles an opportunity to accept or decline two high offices of government, tho assistant secretaryship of war and tho governor generalship of tho Philippines.

Both of these offices tho Wisconsin man declined. Later, however, ho accepted tho position of commissioner of corporations, a placo which his record In tho law made him oeem peculiarly flL Into the campaign of 1912 In behalf of Woodrow Wilson Mr. Davles entered ns a battling flguro. Ho was a3 prominent In tho WlUon movement lu the middle West and the West as was the Princeton man, William H. McCombs, In tho East.

Mr. Davles was a Wilson follower prior to tho nomination of the present president at Baltimore. At the convention ho Joined forces with Mr. McCombs In tho struggle which finally was successful In securing tho president's nomination. During tho election campaign Mr.

Davles directed tho Democratic forces in virtually all the western and middle western states. Hero Is Mr. Davles' definition of tho government body over which he pro-sides as chairman: "Wo might put it this way," ho said. "Tho trade commission tho trafllc police force to see that tho rules of tho road on what wo may term tho industrial highways of tho nation are maintained. It is to compel the big touring car, in the uso of thoso highways, not to disregard tho rights of the llttlo one, hut to accord it its duo share of the road." Washington men havo characterized this as a rather striking characterization of tbo functions of tho trade commission, Of course tho hlg touring rai- Is "big business," and tho small touring car Is "little business." Tho government, over since men began to think progressively, has been trying to get fair trade conditions.

Joseph Davles of Wisconsin today Is at the head of tho commission which has this work lu large part In hand. He has not been long in tho present ofllco. The future is ahead of him nnd It is up to hHn to maka as good In his now office as the records show boyong cavil that ho has mado good in other walks of llfo, Poor Satisfaction. After trying all tho advice sho could read how to reduce, all tbo oat-istnetton Miss Hortenso McGliea got was to have her friends look hor pver and say, "How thin you'ro getting, dear! Aren't you feeling wellf" i Mr, Cumrox Speaks Out. "Do you approve of.

slanfcT" "No, replied Mr, Cumrox. "It's too much troublo. It's as. hard to knoiv what, slang -is permissible as It (s to gus the right tmploniont for ereryssojirlw at a big I 1 el Mil -4 'A Ewt Chicago, Ind. i.