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Winifred Sackville Stoner. aged twelve, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. James
B. Stoner of Pittsburgh, is an educational marvel. She has passed college
examinations, having mastered eight languages and courses In the classics. !
She is instructing another infantile prodigy at Carnegie institute. Her
mother is at the lefL
SUFFRAGISTS' LUNCH WAGON CAMPAIGN.
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Photo by American Press Association.
The converted lunch wagon is called the roving shop by the Women's
Political union and is being used in a unique campaign in New York city.
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THE KAISER AND OFFICERS OF HIS ARMY.
MARSHALL FIELD 3D.
Grandson of Late Chicago
Merchant and His Bride.
Photo by American Press Assoclav>#.
SEA RAIDER REMAINS
Kronprinz Wilhelm's Commander In
terns Ship at Newport News, Va.
Washington, April 27. —Announce-
ment was made at the treasury de
i partment that Captain Thierfelder,
commander of the Kronprinz Wilhelm,
the German converted cruiser that put
into Hampton Roads some time ago,
has decided to intern his ship and
men until the end of the war.
The news that the German had de
cided to tie up instead of putting to
sea for a possible combat with the
British cruisers lying off the capes
| was conveyed to the department in a
telegram addressed to the collector
of customs of Newport News, Va.
! While officials decline to intimate
what time limit was placed on Cap
tain Thierfelder's stay at Hampton
I Roads it was believed that the time
was about to expire. It is understood
j that the German commander acted
under instructions from Berlin.
One ot Rae Tanzer's Lawyers
Charged With Conspiracy
Photo by American Press Association.
DAVID SLADE.
OLD DOG BITE FATAL
Woman Dies After Fifteen Years of
Suffering—Grief Kills Father.
Miss Ella Frances Hobby died in her
home in Far Rockaway, N. Y., of tu
berculosis of the leg bone, the result
of a dog bite suffered fifteen years aga
when she was sixteen. During all these
years Miss Hobby had been an invalid.
The teeth of the dog, which sank
into her right leg, touched the bone,
and tuberculosis developed. The young
woman had been in twelve different
j hospitals, in each hospital there had
been an operation, and she had been
under the care of forty different sur
geons and physicians.
Her father. Thomas J. Hobby, a city
marshal, spent many thousands of dol
lars In an effort to relieve her constant
suffering. A week ago he was told by
the doctors that all hope of saving his
daughter's life was abandoned. Many
times the infected bone had been
scraped, and part of it had been re
moved. "Further operation is impossi
i ble," he was informed.
Mr. Hobby died that night, and the
doctors agreed that hi 3 heart was
oroken. After his death Miss Hobby
failed perceptibly.
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HUERTA'S RETURN
UPSETS MEXICANS
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All Factions Keep Close Eye
on Former Dictator.
DECLARE HE IS POWERLESS
But Firmly Believe That "Personal and
Family Business," the Reason He
Gives For Coming Back to America
From Spain, Foreshadows Attempt to
Regain Authority In Mexico.
When General Victoriano Huerta. thq
expelled dictator of Mexico, landed at
New York he denied that he had come
from his refuge at Spain to seek to re
gain his former power. He had come
merely on personal and family busi
ness, he said.
All the same, many of his friends
aeem firmly to believe that he is back
for the purpose of re-entering the Im
broglio in Mexico to try to re-establish
himself now that he is sure Carranza
has lost the backing of the United
States and has failed. But if that is
his Intention Huerta had not been long
in New York city before be found him
self completely cut off from affiliation
with any of the four most important
political organizations in Mexico —the
Villistas, Carranzistas, Felicistas and
the Clericals.
i "There is no chance for him to re
establish himself in Mexico," say Carlo
4e Fornaro, Carranza adviser and
chief publicity agent, and Colonel Al
' fredo Breceda, General Carranza's pri
vate secretary, who is in Washington
en a diplomatic mission.
"If he goes into Mexico and Villa
catches him the same thing will hap
pen to him that happened to Lieencia
do Bonales Sandoval—Villa will shoot
him," declared a prominent Villista.
Has Alienated Strong Men.
"He has alienatel himself from every
strong man' in Mexico," said the most
Important member of the Felicista par-
ty now in New York city.
While all Mexican political faction
tats agreed that General Huerta could
not start a revolutionary movement in
Mexico that would assume any impor
tance, they were all, with the excep
tion of the partisans of General Felix
Diaz, uneasy about bis presence in
America. Detectives were set to watch
the one time dictator in the interest of
the Carranzistas, the Villistas and the
Felicistas.
Only the Clericals seemed to take lit
tle interest in General Huerta's pres
ence.
Carlo de Fornaro said no one knew
positively what General Huerta's
"personal and family business" here
might prove to be, and there were
many who thought such a term might
very well cover an attempt to regain
i the presidency of Mexico, since that
was a very "personal and family" af
fair for Huerta.
Agents for the department of justice
were also sent to the Hotel Ansonia,
where General Huerta is staying in
New York with his companions, Abra
ham Z. Ratner and Colonel Jose Del
gado, the deposed dictator's secretary.
The general paid little heed to these
attentions. Whenever he passed the
men on his way to go for an automo
bile drive about the city he smiled at
them genially.
Diaz "Not Interested."
General Felix Diaz happens also to
be in New York, but did not appear to
be worried by Huerta's arrival.
"He is not at all interested in Gen
eral Huerta or what General Huerta
can do." said one of General Diaz's
Important men. "He knows that the
one time dictator can do nothing. He
has alienated himself from every man
who could help him. Nobody will have
anything to do with Huerta now.
There is no man of importance in Mex
ico who would affiliate with any
Huerta movement"
"General Huerta came here in an
ewer to an appeal from a certain hen
nequin grower of Yucatan," Carlo de
Fornaro asserts. "He was asked to
head the Auguemedo revolt and was
on his way to Yucatan. When he ar
rived in New York city he found that
j the revolt had been quelled.
"The scheme was to buy munitions
In the United States, purchase a yacht
or a small schooner and make a land
ing at Belize or somewhere along the
coast of Guatemala. They hoped to
gather an army sufficiently strong to
break the Carranza power in Yucatan.
I Campeche and Quintana Roo and to
i form a small republic of those three
states with Huerta at its head."
Friends of Villa admit that they re
gard the Huerta trip to the United
States as menacing, so far as Mexico
was concerned, but say they hoped that
be would go into Mexico
I THIEF TOOK COAT AND FEVER
Police Watch Health Reports to Fine?
the Criminal-
A good mackintosh and a million
more or less, full sized scarlet fevei
gc-rms was the extent of booty ob
-1 tained by a sneak thief who entered
: the home of Dr. Preston Steele of
Greenville. Pa., and took the coat from
a bag hanging on the back porch.
The garment was used by the physi
cian exclusively in entering the sick
rooms of patients suffering from scai
let fever The police are watching the
board or health's reports.
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CROWN PRINCE IS
RUMOR'S VICH.
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He's Been Dead, Disgraced and
Insane Several Times.
EVERYTHING BEFALLS HIM.
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But After Being Buried Twice Kaiser's j
Heir Is Still Very Much Alive Back
at Front From Cheering Princess Ce
cile In Berlin on the Birth of Their
Fifth Child.
If the Crown Prince Friedrich Wil
helm has kept a diary of the various
things that have "happened" to him
since the war began parts of it must be
amusing reading to him.
As gathered from the dispatches his
diary must run something like this: |
Aug. I.—Appointed to the command
of the First division of the Imperial
guards.
Aug. s.—Attempt made to assassinate
him in Berlin. Assailant both succeed
ed and failed in bis attempt.
Aug. 19 —Seriously wounded in bat
tle; taken to a hospital in Aix-le-Cha
pelle.
Aug. 20.—Shot in the leg in Berlin
when a second attempt is made to as
sassinate him.
Aug. 24.—Because of bis growing pop
ularity with army and nation he is ex
iled to the Russian front for the re
mainder of the war.
Aug. 24.—Leads his army in the de
feat of the French at Longwy.
Aug. 25.—Killed by a mysterious nt-
J "it is thought by frenzied Ger
j mans."
Aug. 20.—Decorated by the kaiser
with the iron cross and becomes in
ternationally famous by the "Fapa Wil- j
helm" letter of commendation for his
I work as a soldier.
He Ccmmits Suicide.
Sept. 4. —Commits suicide after men
of his command lire on and kill a large
number of men in a German detach
ment.
Sept. B.—Leads the Imperial guard
on the western part of the French front
when the Germans meet defeat at the
hands of the British.
Sept. 11.—Appointed to the command
of the German army on the eastern
battle front to drive the Russians from
East Prussia.
Sept. 12.—Leads his army in a furi
ous assault on the defenses of Verdun
In France.
Sept. 13.—Dies from his wounds in a
Brussels hospital. Ills brother Adal
bert dies in the same hospital.
Sept. 14.—Directs his army when it
opposes a strong attack by the French
in the Argonue.
Sept. 15.—Leads another attack on
the outer fortifications of Verdun.
Sept. 10.—Dangerously wounded in
East Prussia by Russian shrapnel while
he is watching the battle.
Sept. 28.—His army loses 100,000 men
in France.
Sept. 28.—"Authoritative report" that
he had been seriously wounded in ac
tion on Sept. 0.
Sept. 30.—Looted the chateau in the
Argonne belonging to the Baronne de
Boye.
Is Twice Buried.
Oct. 2. —Dangerously wounded in a
battle near Nancy and the crown prin
cess and her children hurry to the
front to be with him.
Oct. 11.—Meets the crown princess in
Luxemburg, whither she has gone to
confer decorations.
Oct. 24.—Berlin mourns at his funeral.
.Nov. 2.—His funeral procession again
passes through the streets of Berlin.
Nov. 4.—Killed in a battle near the
Franco-German border.
Nov. 6.—'Worry of the campaign has
brought on insanity and he is sent to
one of the royal family's remote es-
I tates.
Nov. 11.—Commands the German cen
ter army in an advance against the
Russians.
Nov. 12.—Appointed commander in
chief of the allied German-Austrian
armies operating against the Russians.
Nov. 17. —He is lying seriously
wounded in the Strassburg palace.
Dec. I.—Receives an American news
paper man at his field headquarters in
France and talks of the war.
Jan. 10.—Crown princess accompa
nies him from Berlin to the front.
Retired In Disgrace.
Jan. 16.—Identified as the masked pa
tient of royal rank who is lying in a
critical condition in a small German
base hospital.
Jan. 30.—Sends a formal message to
the United States asking for fair play
for Germany.
Feb. 9.—Appointed to command the
Fifth German army on the western
front.
March 3.—Removed from command
In disgrace and retired to a secluded
I family estate.
March 19.—Killed after a quarrel by
! a member of bis suit.
March 19.—Takes part in a war con
ference attended by the kaiser and the
German gei-or d staff.
March 25.—Suffering from a nervous
breakdown in a private nursing home
near Pots; 1 , a in.
March 29.—Leaves the front for a
stay with the r wn prir -ess in Berlin.
April 7.—The Crown Prince s Cecili*
presents heir to throne with their fifth
child, their first daughter. Prince hur
ries to Berlin.
April 12.—Crown princess sends hus
band back to war and congratulations
of his army.
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Photo Shows the Italian
King and Kaiser
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AMBASSADORS SUMMONED
Italy Recalls Representatives From
Paris, London and Vienna.
Rome, April 28.—The government
has summoned the Italian ambassa
dors at Paris, London and Vienna to
Rome to confer with Foreign Minister
Sonnino. The announcement of this
fact is regarded with the greatest ap
prehensions. Signor Tittoni, ambas
sador to France, who arrived at Paris
only a fortnight ago, has already
reached Rome.
The ambassador to Petrograd,
Marchese Carlotti, will not return
owing to the great distance and the
difficulty of travel, but a messenger
has been sent to him with instiuc
tions. The ambassadors to London
and Vienna are expected at any
moment.
The German and Austrian ambas
sadors to Rome, according to reports
in diplomatic circles, have united in
sending copies of Italy's latest d< -
mands to Vienna with a statement
that an answer is required immedi
ately. The nature of the newest con
ditions upon which Italy is willing to
remain neutral is not known as yet.
Too Deep For Him.
A Britisher was announcing hJs
views on things in general and sum
med up his own position by the state
ment, "Well, I've seen life." "But,"
said his American friend, "one of your
own bright poets has said. "Life's a
" The Britisher is still exploring
Mt-% remark —New Yoik Times.
QUEER LEGACIES TO MAN.
Such as the Furrow In the Upper Llf
and the Appendix,
Run your forefinger around the rim
of each ear. You are almost sure to
find in one of them and quite possibly
in both a tiny hard lump.
It is only a relic of the days when.
Innumerable hundreds of centuries ago*
man was only one of the animals of
the wild and had a pointed ear, like a
wolf's or dog's.
What good is the little furrow that
runs down from the nose to the middle
of the upper lip? None. But it, too,
has a history, it is a legacy from the
time when the human upper lip was in
two parts—a hare lip, like that of the
rat tribe. The split has healed up long
ago, but the new skin is so recent in
the history of the race that hair re
fuses to grow on that furrow.
When a fly settles on you anywhere
can you serenely twitch that patch of
skin and shake him off? Probably not.
But once these old skin muscles, now
almost dead after centuries of clothes
wesring, were as active as those of a
horse. A few—a very few—people can
twitch their ears like a dog and do so
instinctively when startled, and cases
do occasionally occur in which the
scalp can be moved at will.
In one very interesting case mention
ed in medical books the man could
hurl books a couple of yards away
simply by twitching the muscles on
the top of his head; but, generally
speaking, our skin muscles are even
more dead nowadays than our ear mua*
cles. We've neglected them. The only
set still in use are those we employ
when we want to raise oyi eyebrows.
The appendix is another thing we
could do quite well without It is a
relic from old vegetarian days. It has
been workless ever since mankind start
ed meat eating and is apt to get in tha
way.
The large Intestine, too, is a thing
we really don't need nowadays. Tha
many coils of this long tube are, ac
cording to the doctors, quite unneces
sary, now mankind has become a flesh
eating animal, and merely provide a
resting place for germs. Surgeons
have often cut out a few odd coils and
stitched the ends together. We don't
really need to carry a great intestine
about with us.
Another thing we don't need much
nowadays is the instinct to walk on
i hands and feet together. You think
walking upright the only natural way
for man? It isn't. If ever you have
to make your way along some narrow
plank or some narrow, dizzy mountain
ledge, you will find the old instinct
ttrong in you.—Philadelphia North
American.
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