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Washington
According to the President, the
American Diplomatic Service “is un-
mecessarily hampered” through the in-
abliity of any except men “of large
means and leisure” to make the sacri-
fices required in the acceptance of po-
sitions as envoys of their govern-
ment. :
President Wilson and Congress
feaders planned radical currency and
banking reform to be undertaken at
the extra session.
Protesting against President Wil-
#on’s repudiation of “dollar diplom-
acy,” Huntington Wilson resigned as
First Assistant Secretary of State
Personal
Edmund Trowbridge Dana, grand-
son of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
said he had fourd his truest friends
among railroad firemen and street car
eonductors with whom he had worked.
King Alfonso has contributed $1,000
to the Boy Scouts.
Mrs. Elizabeth Milkbank Anderson |
has given $650,000 for social*welfare
inquiries in New York.
President and Mrs. Wilson observed
Holy week, refraining from all fes-
tivities.
Sporting
Most of the baseball teams in the
major leagues have broken camp and
are working their way toward the
North for the opening of the pennant
races on April 10.
A young pitcher named Smith
twirled so spiendidly against the
White Sox at Redlands, Cal., recently
that President Comiskey signed him
on the spot, purchasing his release
by wire from the Boise, Idaho, team,
to which he belonged. .
Clark Griffith has found in Joe Boeh-
ling of Richmond one young pitcher
who promises to win more than half |
of his games with the Senators this |
Year. He is a right-hander.
Abe Attell,
ehampion of America, came back with
& vengeance at the Furty-fourth Street
Sporting Club, New York, when he
beat Ollie Kirk, of St. Louis, to a
standstill in the third round.
General
Walter S. Rickards, a student at
Cornell, was drowned in Cayuga Lake.
Socialists carred the municipal
election in Twe Harbors, Minn.
New ' Hampshire rejected woman
suffrage.
“Walking smallpox”
the Northwest.
The Naval Academy third classmen
are to have the battleship Illinois for |
their summer cruise.
General J. H. Kidd,
eran and Indian fighter, died in Ionia, |
,Mich., aged 73 years.
Miss Lottie Vorhees
B. Haist, were kilied when their auto-
is epidemic in
mobile plunged down an embankment !
mear Seneca Falls, N. Y.
Secretary of War Garrison will or-
der a retrial of the four West Point
cadets dismissed on
becoming conduct.
Haydon Jones, an artist of Boston,
fs suing his landlady for $31,000,
charging that insect powder poisoned |
his fa 3
Howard Moon, sixteen years old,
was shot ard killed by John Warren,
fifteen, while “playing Indian” near
Oswego, N. Y. !
The’ British freighter Indraghiri
steamed from Singapore to Boston in
thirty-six days, establishing a record
for the trip.
The New York Senate passed the
bill prohibiting the employment of
ehildren under 14 years of age in can- |
peries.
Snow removal in New York for the
winter cost $200,000 as against $2,-
000,000 for the preceding year.
Antonio Musica and his three sons
and two daughters, who had fled from |
New York city, were arrested at New |
Orleans.
A bili introduced in the Pennsyl-
vania Legislature prohibits fishing by
“unnaturalized foreigners.”
Switchmen in the nineteen railroad
lines entering Chicago voted over-
whelmingly for a strike.
Joseph Stefunski, a cowboy sup
posed to be insane, “shot up” the
Mayor's office in the City Hall, Buf-
falo, and wounded Policeman Lang |
four times.
Governor Hatfield, of West Virginia, |
"get ten men free who had been ar-
rested and imprisoned during the
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miners’ strike and the enforcement of |
martial law,
Dr... A. C H Friedmann charged |
that detectives employed by the New
York Cou Medical Society had |
posed as ps« ts to see it his brother, |
Pr. F. FP. 5 treating
tuberculosis
former featherweight |
Civil War vet- |
and Raymond |
August 4 for un- i
The Boy Scouts of Augusta, Ga,
presented a gold knife to Mr. Taft.
Capital punishment was abolished
in Washington State.
The torpedo boat destroyer Benham
was launched at Philadelphia.
Coney Island will epen May 15 with
a three day fete.
The New Havea Railroad raised the
cent. thus averting a strike.
A new edition of parcel post stamps
will’ be issued soon, with each de-
nomination of a different color.
The battleship Wyoming set a new
mark for dreadnoughts by making
22.14 knots an hour.
The bdusiness section of Stamford,
Conn., was swept by fire with a loss
of $25,000.
Vice President Marshall, at Spring-
field, Mass. criticised Andrew Car-
negie in caustic langur ze
Captain A. H. Bogardus, champion
wing shot of the world, died at Lin-
coln, III.
Mrs. F. E. Lord, of Montclair, N. J.,
asked the Mayor to have all cats muz-
zled.
Every hotel in Coatesville, Pa., is
closed, excepting one, as an indirect
result of the lynching of Zack Walker,
the negro.
Ugo Diando, charged with horse
stealing in Redwood City, Cal, was
acquitted by a jury of two men amd
ten women.
The Kansas Legislature passed a
bill making a dog personal property
which when killed will be valued at
its assessed value.
W. G. Williams, known as ‘Caddo
Bill” because he married a Caddo
squaw, died on his ranch, the Half
Moon, near Chickasha, Okla. He ac-
cumulated millions.
Governor Major of Missouri has
signed the Kennedy bill, which pro-
hibits the setting of free lunches in
saloons. The saloon men of Missouri
asked for the law.
Governor Hatfield of West Virginia
has abolished the “drum-head” court,
| pardoned 18 men and promised to
straighten out the whole mining trou-
| ble.
Mrs. Jennie May Eaton, widow of
Rear-Admiral Joseph G. Eaton, retired,
was arrested at Hingham, Mass., and
| charged with the murder of her hus-
band by poison.
William C. Opperman, of the Bronx,
New York, married his divorced wife,
formerly Miss Chittenden, at Bridge-
port. They parted two years ago
Their first marriage was ten years
ago.
Dr. Friedrich F. Friedmann treated
36 patients, mostly children, crippled
by tuberculosis of the hip or knee
joints, in the Hospital for Deformities
and Joint Diseases in New York City:
Remarkable letters written by wom-
en of the underworld in New York
City to the Wagner vice-investigating
committee, in which the police were
| bitterly arraigned, were made public.
The post of Ambassador to Great
| Britain was offered to Dr. Charles W.
Eliot by President Wilson, and that to
Germany is said to have been proffered
to Henry B. Fine, ex-Dean of Prince-
ton.
A $42,000,000 bridge to span the
Hudson, connecting New Jersey and
New York City; two $11,000,000 tun-
nels under the river and links between
Richmond and Jersey were recom-
mended by the New Jersey Interstate
Bridge and Tunnel Commission.
Foreign
A slight earthquake shock was felt
on Martinique.
| The Servian aviator Petrovitch was
| killed when his aeroplane fell near
| Scutari.
JoLn Astor, son of William Waldorf
| Astor, has been appointed to the staff
| of Viceroy Hardinge, of India.
A new German military dirigible of
the Zeppelin type was destroyed dur-
iz a storm at Karlsruhe.
| Pascual Orozco, Jr., leader of the
revolution against Madero in northern
Mexico, is to be made Governor of
the Federal district of Mexico City.
A movement to affiliate the British
newspaper men’s union with the
| printers’ union was strongly supported
although finally voted down.
A column of native troeps with their
white commanders was virtually
wiped out by tribesmen in the W est- |
ern Sahara.
The aged Princess Marco Antonio |
Celonna di Pallana tried to commit
suicide in Rome by slashing herself
with a razor.
+ Three “soldiers of peace” openly de-
nounced the killing of Madero in Mex- |
ico City. The next day they were
hanged.
The Oleron, France, town council,
passed a resolution giving women the |
vote and making them eligible for |
municipal office.
English suffragettes burned
country hruse of Lady Amy White.
They also spoiled the golf links at |
Weston-super-Mare.
Erich Wolff, composer and accom-
panist, died of mastoiditis. He was
well known through European musi- |
cal circles.
Jean Barthou, minister of Justice in |
the retiring French cabinet, has been |
asked to form a new cabinet.
Constantine took the constitutional
oath as King in Athens.
Sylvia Pankhurst, daughter of the!
militant suffragette leader, was re- |
leased from an Enpglish prison as a!
result of her “hunger strike.”
The London Daily Telegraph states |
that the Duke of Devonshire will aban-
| don racing owing to the burdens im- |
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on him by Chancellor Lloyd
George’s finance.
The nking and financial institu-
Petersburg and Moscow
the Czar with $500,600 on
] casion of the tercentenary of
the Romanoff dynasty.
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wages of its 700 bridgemen seven per
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SPRING SUITS, GOWNS
AND HATS.
Checks and Stripes and Odd
Mixtures—Corset Lines—
Draped Dresses—The Col-
or Line—0Odd Coats.
® The above design is by The McCall
Company, New York, Designers and
Makers of McCall Patterns.
New York, March 22nd, 1913.
It will be good news to many
women that broadcloth makes some
of the smartest suits. It is especially
effective for the contrasting style’ of
get-up. A coat of blue broadcloth
‘with skirt in a new draped model of
gray broadcloth having buttons cov-
ered with the blue cloth as a trim-
ming. The waist with this is like all
tops with any claim to elaboration,
built of thin materials. Nets are the
newest, and the underwaist is apt
to be of white or ecrn nets, the de-
sign on this worked out in bold pat-
terns which the outer layer of net
in the color of the skirt softens and
harmonizes. Sleeyes to the wrist
are the,rule, but it’s a rule often
disregarded, and few are the waists
outside the smart utility sort, that
have a sleeye constructed all of one
material. A dash of glowing color
or more often of some of the mixt-
ures of garish blend known as ‘‘Bul-
garian’’ is used to give style to
most costumes.
BLACK AND WHITR.
For general wear mixtures of black
and white are leaders, but gay
linings and the’ embroidered and
printed fabrics used for trimmings
lend these piebald combinations quite
a novel air. Biue and black prom-
ises to be a very favorite combina-
tion. And suits of moire velours,
and with this fabric in combination
are very attractive. All the yellow
tans, and yellows from palest lemon
to flamboyant orange are ieaders
and no contrast is too startling. A
costume of continental blue on sim-
ple tailored lines seen on Fifth avenue
isplayed the pleated flounce of an
orange satin under petticoat where
it was cut up in front for several
inches at the foot of the skirt. and
a vest of the same material was
displayed where the cut away coat
sloped away at the waist. A black
straw hat with a paradise plume
and patent shoes with yellowish tan
gray,
bined with the orange fixings.
CORSET LINES.
Corset lines must be studied and the
| model worn carefully selected ii one’s
{ gowns are to have the effect.
The new Warner models launched
| bere February 24th embody the au-
thoritative fashion lines for Spring.
| Fortunately these rust proof gar-
| ments are not out of reach of the
most modest dress allowance and
can be found everywhere.
NEW HATS.
Small shapes are the rule in
correct
the
| new straw headgear and ribbon |
makes some of the prettiest and |
| most stylish trimming. Notwith- |
| standing earlier predictions the hat |
| that bears the hall mark of exclu- |
| sive fashion is very lightly trimmed.
i Flowers are used in small Watteau |
where the |
| posies of many colors sink into the |
{ bunches and garlands
| fabric of the hat in a retiring fashion !
most attractive.
| tam-o-shanter
| curving brims and those like a very |
{low crowned Derby, with the left |
| brim rolled up on the crown are de-
| veloped in Milan straw, hemp and |
{a few coarser straws, and there is|
great liking for the flat bow well |
{ wired te stand straight up at the |
back of the hat, or extend back of it |
like a Mercury wing.
SMATL WRINKLES
red bands of hemstitched chif-
much used to
Colc
fon are very finish the
Confluence and Beachley, on Septem-
uppers completed the get up, which |
would have been much prettier had |
dark blue or brown been com- |
Shapes with full |
crowns and narrow |
| vent Bright's Disease and Die
| | bates, and restore
| strength.
tops of the collars of the transparent
gamp of white or ecru net that fin-
ishes every high cut bodice. Low
cuts are finished with rolling col-
lars and with pleated hemmed frills
of the waist material, and small fancy
buttons are relied upon to give the
color contrast that is the rule just
now.
Shoe dressing is all important and
makes Or mars a costume
when the foot is so much in evi-
dence as now. Pump, or slipper lines
in black with fancy uppers in boots
or hosiery where low shoes are worn
is the leading style in footwear.
Lucy Carter.
TO ASK FOR PARDON.
Attorney Aaron C. Holbert, counsel
for John Maus, convicted of murder
in the first degree and awaiting the
fixing of the date of his execution,
will ask the State Board of Pardons
to commute the condemned man’s
sentence to life imprisonment, at a
hearing to be held in Harrisburg on
Wednesday, April 16th.
Insanity will be the plea presented
by Attorney Holbert. Maus inherited
the malady from his mother to the
extent that he should not suffer the
death penalty, it is claimed. 3
The board will be urged to grant a
commutation on the additional ground
that there is uncertainty and doubt
as to Maus’ guilt and that the jury’s
verdict of *‘guilty’’ was based entirely
on circumstancial evidence, there
having been no positive testimony
adduced against him.
Maus was arrested and convicted
for the murder of Harrison Brown, a
star route U. 8. Mail Carrier between
ber 14th. last. There were no wit-
nesses to the crime, but Maus fled to
Cumberland, where he had a gay time
with women of the underworld,spend,
ing several hundred dollars of which
the mai! man had been robbed by his
assailant. Some of the money, which
was ide niified by the serial numbers
it contained, was collected by detec-
tives in resorts where Maus had spent
it and prouuced at his trial for mur
der. The Confluence bank kept a
record ot the numbers of the notes,
which were mailed to the Elk Lick
Coal company and knew the money
was being shipped for distribution on
a regular payday.
Maus created a sensation several
months ago by attempting to saw his
way out of the Somerset jail with
saws filc « out of ordinary table knives
he had tvtained after the prison meals.
He declares he will never hang.
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