FTT'(rWSrtlWW CM f. ?. " vt V dHT t'MT - - - - ijjM t - . ' - f - i J" X'iT. "t-W"'-!.-! l M TV'f v' ' Wi & ,'i V. V, w r vv'v.V' ,: .v 'Xi"-.; ? v rs - r - - '.'f. . t H .- . v i 1 ? .. EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER-PHILADELPHIA;. WEDNESDAY, APBIi; 21 1020' v. , I - - v mm TROOPS i " : WARCH ON SONORA fit , v i.'" v Federal General Confirms Re port That State of Micho acan Has Seceded BREGON LEADS REBELS ny (lie Associated l'rcs Apia rrlfta. Sonorn. Mex.. Apr!! UL NV dispatcher repenting tlio state ment of n Carrnnra official ntiil recount ing reports made to American army nouthern rieoartment headquarter bv the Intelligence service hcJd an overshadow -Jne Interest today In the winds of olti cialrf of (he date of Honorn. which re cently withdrew allegiance to the ( ar rdrlzn government. Additional concen trations of federal and state troops for the expected clashes cre reported, but nothing wax known of aejual onrounteix. General Ignrarin resitilt'ra. appointed by President Ciirrniii'n to succeed Adolfo de la Huertn nn sorernor 01 nonora, imported upon lif nrriral at Ixuendn. Texas, en route to?ognle&. Arizona, thnt the whole state of Mk hoacan hod gone over to the relieK Governor Hobelo joining the iroveraent with all fcilernl troop In his command. UN statement "confirmed Mexico City rctortn of las'. Sunday. Tho American nrtnj intelligence re port was to the effect -that Lieutenant Colonel Alvnro Obrcgom. candidate for president of Mexico, nml recently re ported undr detention nt the capital, was iri active command of revolutionary forces in Mlehoncnn. The same report uld the Seventy -seventh Mexirar Federal Ciualry bad left Ojinagn. Chihuahua, to reinforce the Juarez garrison, anu cnai -win i nr- ' iasssssssssHfuisHii SOUTHERN TORNADO N MKS. GKOKGB DOHSKY Wlm will appear as T"ltty In "I'rlncfM Donnle," In aid of tlio St. Monica Day Nursery. o bo glcn tonight by the St. Montr Choral Society at the Metropolitan Opera House Deaths of a Day JOHN S. WETTER Former County Commissioner and Civil War Veteran Diet John S. Wetter, formerly county t AheriUen KILLS AT LEAS! 157 Survivors of Storm in Alabama, Mississippi and Tennesseo Appeal for Holp PROPERTY LOSS IS HEAVY IJy the Associated Tress , lllrmltwltatn. Ala.. April 21.-?hc toll of yesterday's terrific storm which ftuent nnrtlnns of MUxtsxtftnl. Alabama I and Tennessee, was placed today at 157 persons killed, scores injured ana prop erty damage of approximately $2,000,- Communierttion with the strfekon areas was being graduallT restored to day, but latest reports did not add to the death roll. Appeals for aid were received from many small towns and settlements and lied i'ros renei panics were Demg or gnnlxed at many points to ear'r.v food and tents Into the storm-swept dis torts. Tlio greatest havoc wrought by the storm apparently wns In the three Ala bama counties north of this place. The tornado apparently struck first nt Guln. Ala., and xlgzagged through northwest ern Alabama, eastern Mississippi and southern Tennesseo, where iW force was spent. The death toll by states follows: MississippiMeridian, 14; Neshoba county, lu; uien, Alcorn county, n; aionroc county, zi , nny ABNER LINCOLN'S FUNERAL Services for Centenarian Held This Afternoon Funeral services for Abuer Lincoln, who died Sunday, In his 101st year, were held till afternoon nt his home, 008 North Sixth street, The Kcv. lr. V. Dayton Roberts, of the Temple Presbyterian Church, conducted the serrlces. Mr. Mncoln helped build the Temple Church, and was for sixty-five years one of Its elders. Mr. Lincoln, wbo is survived by five children, enjojed health and the use of all hi faculties until a short time btffore his death. Ho had Iked In the house nt 008 North Sixth street sluco 18U-J. Mr. Lincoln was born at Oakham, Mass., May 12, 1810, and came to Phil adelphia in lb44. Ho founded tlio Lin coln Kjurnlturc Co. at Fourth" and Itrown HtrrMs, wliku still occupies the site. commissioner nn tor many cars i Spring, Jasper county. 7: Ingomnr. prominent Hlticalry In the northwest ,, rmintv. 0; Kgypt. Chickasaw em action of the cltj. died Monday rontV( 5: Uukfri Vnion county. 5: night nt tho home of his son. Hurry ; M(on Winston county. B: Cedar L. nctte!-, 2240 North Tncntj -second rI ' r)n- rrtllnfV . si.rVvllle seo- ELECTRIC LIGHTS OUT Low Steam, Due to Poor Coal, Cuts Power In Several Sections Low steam at the main power house of the Philadelphia Klcetrlc Co.. Grays Ferry road and Christian street, due to a bad run of coal, today caused Ger mantown and several other sections of the, city to go without electric light for thlrtv-tlvc minutes. Officials of tho company "said that during the railroad strike they were obliged to get coal where they could, and in consequence they received some of verjf poor quality. Low steam re sulted, with the necessity of dropping part of the power load for a brief period this morning. The Intent power break occurred about 0 o'clock. It only affected those sec tions served by tho main power house of the Philadelphia company. , PUTS AGRICULTURE FIRST IN INDUSTRY Secretary Moredith Protests Against Destructive Criticism and Asks Fair Play TELLS DEPARTMENT'S VALUE New York, April 21. Protest ngalnst destructive Criticism of his department and n plen for fair play toward the na tion's basic Industrj , agriculture, formed tho kejnote of an address today by K. T. Meredith, secrrtnrv of ngrlculturc, at n luncheon of the bureau of adver tising of the American Newspaper Pub lishers' Association. Mr. Meredith revealed the national Department of Agriculture ns a gigantic business agency for the people of the United Htates returning to its "stock holders" a profit of several times 1000 per cent n jear on all the money in MWtcd in it. lie Instanced perhaps half a ncofo of typical items, such as durum to heat, rice. Kg)ptian cotton, serum preventive of hog cholera and various Others, successfully Introduced by the department In comparatively recent years, as evidence of the big returns being made on investment, tlicso fi nancial returns aggregating hundreds of millions of dollars, and then asked : "If a private business In which you are a stockholder were putting dividends like these into your pocket, would you go around complaining because one of the emolovcs Iiannened to lose a pencil 'saying to eerjbody with whom you came In contact thnt the inacrtgcinent was inefficient, destroying confidence In your own bnstne, driving your cus tomers away and generally doing every thing In your power to deprlve.yoursclf of so remarkable a dividend?" Destructive Criticism Unfair Admitting that there are instances of Inefficiency in every department of tho government, Just as there are In many other businesses, Mr. Meredith says, "Why should we, the stockhold ers, get into the habit of emphasising the very small Items of Inefficiency7 add of overlooking the general results" Ho told of tho case of an employe of tho Agrlculturo Department who re signed his placo because, n he told the secretary, tils salary was being watted "becatiso ha wasn't glren responsibili ties," and wbo took a statement to tho newspapers giving that reason tot bis resignation. Homo newspaperw published this statement, accompanied by editorial comment on what was designated an the wastefulness existing in the Department of Agriculture. Mr. Meredith said he had argued with his subordinate against tho emphasizing of his case, adding that ho had not been entrusted with respon sibilities because he had notvyct quali fied for them. "I nsk jou," said Secretary Mere dith, "if the papers carrying his com plaint and the only thing he did in the department that could If com mended nn to resign were serving the best interests of their readers by pub lishing n statement designed to discredit the government service, to shake their confidence In tho government, In a de partment paying many times 1000 per cent per year?- Is It well to emphasize small inefficiencies and thereby dis credit the whole? "There will always be unfair critics. Every department and every institu tion has them. But if we lend them our newspapers to uso ns sounding boards it is mighty poor advertising for our government." The secretary told of the great scope of agriculture iw U relation to all branches of business duelling on the fact thftt. what Is good for the farmer has a beneficial effect on every branch Of commerce and trade, and he urged the newspapers to open their column?' to a wider extent to discus sion of i farm topics nnt to Hum or to qawtloOH affecting other lines of trade, "Business and labor," said Mr. Meredith, "usually have their day Jn conrt, their column of type whenever the occasion1 demands It. Agriculture, the one without whkh the other two could not exist, is not always given the consideration It desmea." Mr. Meredith declared partisan poli tics had nothing whatever to do with tho Department of Agriculture. He said the force of 21,tHX employe arc nnder Civil service regulations and not affected by changes of admlbistration. A protest against the reductions of the appropriations to the department .by action of Congress notwithstanding the immense valuo to the people and its growing needs and a tribute to em ployes who nre remaining In the service despite inadequate iialarres, formed the concluding fcatflre of the secretary's addrss. FINDS HUSBAND GAS VICTIM Woman Discovers Man Unconscious In Kitchen Gas Jet Open Samuel Phillips, forty-six years old, was found ttoconscloiis In the kitchen of his home on Amber street near Le high avenue, at 7:30 o'clock this morn ing by his wife, Emma. Gas flowed from an open jet. Phi lips was taken to the Episcopal Hospital in a patrol of the Belgrade and Clearfield streets station. He was resuscitated by a pulmotor and will recover. Mrs. Phillips told the police her hus band had been suffering from nervous indigestion. N. Y. HOUSE PASSES i . SOCIALIST BILLS Measures Regulating Official Ballot Go Through by 83 to 56 Vote , Albany, N. Tf April 21. l'wo bi)lj aimed to bar the Socialist party 0 America, as now constituted, from the official election ballot, were pastd by tbo Assembly last night. The vote on each bit was 83 to CO. One of the tillfs sets' up a scries of qualifications for members of the Lti,, lature and other public offices and pro! vide for their disbarment from such of! flee upon conviction of failure to utn tho qualifications. The other measure gives the attorncT general the right to petition the thlfli appellate division of the Supremo Coim for proceedings to determine If a pollii cal organization advocates policies nri doctrines that if carried Into effect wouM violate the constitution, and funhfr provides that If such a political partv t found fo advocate such principles or policies tliey must be barred from tk ballot. ' Tho Senate, this morning, by n vfti.' of 24 to 23. declined to discharge Z Judiciary committee from further con. sideration of the resolution of Kemtni. I. W. H. Glbbs designed to p2 for tho reconstruction of the state cot ernment system. slr'et- lion. Oktibbeha countv. 3: Rosehlll. Mr Nlettrr. who wns seventy-five , jnsner county. 0: Amory. Monroe ranza troops were concentrated ut Casas yfRr!l old. had been retired since 1008. county. 3: Ituunels nrdige.'Laudordsle (Tmndes. Phihnnlitia. orensetnc lol f.- ..:n. ,h.ni.,.i,nii iu ru-n vr! .. n.i.-......ni. it.r i. rnareh agali-st N nora through 1 ulpito lir, wa nppointed to a position In the' Alabama Marlon countv. 20: Kil- county commissioners office. He roe' Una-worth Cove. Madison county. IS: to chief elerk. and in 1870 was elected VeTinmi sertlon. Colbert countv. 4. commissioner, serving me iuii inrec- He became chief clerk in Fas; Washington. April 21.-(Ky A. P) Official and unofficial reports received here todny from Mexico told of further defections from the ranks of CVirranza adherents. Advices to the Stnte De partment said that General Portunsto Maycot hud joined tho Obrcuonlstas with his entire command, which hrts been operating it: the border (ountry between the states of Mofelos. MirhoHrcan and Hurley. Madison county, 3; Little Cove, 2; Waco, Franklin county, 1. Tennessee Williamson county, 1. BRIEF STRIKE IN SCRANTON venr term. the Electrical Bureau in April. ISSt. and held that post until his retirement in 1008. He "ran" with one of the old volun teer fire companies, and was a member . .! I . .1.1 -.!. .. 1..L. II. -1-- oi uic larnou omunua viub. "C,"'" street-Car Men Expected to Resume was a Mason nud a member of Baker . . . .. worK this Aiternoon Scranton, April 21. (By A. P.) Scranton's street railway system was Guererro, u short distance west of Mcx- 1 josi. rso. o, if. a. m. ico Cit. I He is survived by hta son and two ArlrtpoH frnm the .nme sources alo litauebtprs. M iiint Cnremnrs Nlei'nK Flores. of . I tied no this mornlnc? The walkout. Hidalgo, and Maximo Kojas. af Tlnx- William Marks Burled which began at midnight, iff expected to caoa, backed D tne legislatures nna Vilflam Marks, a retired merchant i cna lawr ,n lne OBy " n grcrmcui nr,i i-tuii Wnr. ..!. ),n ,t:.,i . , between the company anu tne strikers. Sonorn. ... -jlday 'o the .Tefferson Hospital, was It Is planned to ormtrate trie differ TtennrtH nt the State Uennrtment said !...: i,... ..,...!.. t. -m.i-- ...i. ' onees. with arbitrators named br each . :: :".,.... j...i.. h... w ,. i "". . ji-.v...,. ........., ;,.-.- ,.,,, ., .. . .. .... a groilll Ol IIIUTU fll'lUHK"" lia t.v .,,- Ico City for Sonorn b wn) of l.urrdo. It was supposed tnev were nmong inc rot1Wjl wi,0,p d.nartment store at Eighth and Arch streets was one of the most widely known in tho city. In -recent jearH Mr. Marks bad been living - - - ';, Atlantic t ity. He retiree) from bust Dry s Attack Ohio Decision ' jicss about twelve years ago. .., . k ri .n l...AH,t f ' " - Ohio Supreme Court decrees sustaining the vsllilitv of the state constitutional referendum amendment and dismissing . 'J123 Morris street, n widely known state troops, also had declared im favor of onora. fArfv.flVht who recfntlv i-sued u mODi festo chnrclng Carrnnza with having precipitated the piesert situation. was in his seventy-seventh year, was side. who. failing to agree, are to have senior member of the old firm of Marks i a fifth arbitrator named Jointly by the president ot tne railway company anu the international president of the street car men's union. Eugene Seeber , The funeral of Eugene Seeber. of, H U U Li fl I U JN lnlo 1 .,..... " " " " injunction proceedings brought to pr- musician, who. for the last fifteen years. Prnrlnr,rc cnrr'APrl vent the prohibition and woman Mif- I had beeu identified with the annual pro- I lUUULlO OUtLCCU fragc amendments being referred to the I ductions of the .Alask and Wig Club, ii i voters was asked in n brief filed with will be held at 2:30 p. m. tomorrow in DCCailSe Practical USCrS lllU riiiiriiiv ."uu , c-.s, !, ij ""' iiiv iivr ( liau .i-iuiiuiug, jo.u or sucn proaucts test and prove them first. F B. Wheeler, general counsel for the chestnut street. Anti-Saloon League of America l ...... 4 IA-.4 J..j fA.. nm Teachers' Retirement Bill Signed I --"-" " "" V.Z".'' Trenton. April Jl. l.pvernor Ld-1 t b I rty -tls r jears old. obtained n license .wards has Msncd the bill by Aseiii- horo t(J(lav t0 m Mu Hortlj twrntv. Iblymau Guthrie, of Mener county, pro- Ikx vpa ,,, of rvllRtolli .. j. Ivldlng for the retirement of teachers on TpTjna is n merchant of Chicago. Ill half pa after thirty-five jears tv- Th vil, be murric( , tus cjt7. Ice. I E. F. HOUQHTON &. CO. 240 W. 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