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1 LLGLER WAS SLRIOUSLY BRUISED. I]H[ISEN FSIDFNGY, ENATE TED $ACON BY A VOTE oF 27 TO 15, s Wil Preside Over Sema: o the Absence of Vice President Marshall, 1ssociated Press.) , March 7.—Dewmocrats Lo in & caucus today chose ke, of Arkansas, for pro tem over Scnator Ba- fa, the vote being 27 juteot. - was a great wo: considered that cted. The caucus n: to an election in Palm Beach, lazler is con! receat fal] he e bruises on atiended by said ton: sireh 7.—Henry M. « to his room by a ot Whitehall, his flering from severe s riaht hip, and he is br. Owen Kenant, who :ht that Mr. Flagler is get- all rizht. He is seriously 1, and suffers from the shock. 'H“pl for his advanced age the fall had would have amounted to thing. He is a man of remarkable . ‘tality, and while the accident was :u shock, he bore it well. When he fell Mr. Flagler was walking across 4 marble floor in his home, and was alone. The corner of a rug slipped clie, | ing his fall with his arms, but lanag- ing heavily. An attendant assisted him to his room. He is 84 years old I'vior to the fall he had been scen bout the resort daily, having recov- cred from a severe attack of grippe he had six weeks ago in St. Augus- tine. 3100,000 FIRE RAG b SIEWIDE PHOHI- e WGAT HOT SPRNGS - -tate-wide prohibition < pianned, as a result of of the Anti-Saloou | Started at Noon From Explosion of Natural Gas; Four Believed to Be Dead. . in annual convention Lasing his conclusions on he Webb law, which .+ L ooncress by o large majority, U Springs, Ark., March 7. Five ¢ fo o Don € McMullen, of Tam-| ised by a natural zas explosion Y 5, ¢ o Lue situation as most out noon today is believed to have N .o o, t r orohibition, and in his sed the death of four persons. 0 Wire:: the beginning at ones e Jogs at 2 o'clock is estimated at . 1 wile campaign for the 0iL000, 1 t purpose of holding au ; matter a8 soon as| ,.YNCHER DRIVEN TO 0 of the people in the SUICIDE BY REMORSE. | L ntly cerystalized fou - . ! e of the under Jackson, Miss, March 7. Ralph| e, one of the leaders of the mob 4 i frot session of the annual o lynched the oes at Houston held in this city LW Weeks neo, conmitted sni Snyder Memorial M. E.[ deo 1t s said he attended chureln) {le routine business being Sunday after the lynching and f the convention got down| comed to be very much moved e *he muin purposes of the | sermon. le returned to hi:a' Y t Conferences were decided | e arter the services and sat sil- | | rneacola, Madison and St. | ntly thinking for several hours. He| P «, March 2, 9 and 16, re- 't a note for his family saying that \ v, and officers were elected was a murderer, and shot him- or the year selt +°s met in annual session s uider him and he went down, break- 1 TARIFF ALONE DEATH AND HUINl WILL BEACTED FOLLOW N WAKE ON AT SESSION: TRIS IS INFORMATION GIVEN OUT TODAY BY WILSON. { Tariff Measures Framed at Last Ses- sion Will No Doubt Be Ac- cepted by New Committee. (By Associated Press.) Washington, March 7.—The pres- ‘nt’'s present purpose, it was Icarned today, is to accept the pro- posal of the House leaders who rec- vanend that the taritf alone be act- cd upon at the extra session of Cone Wilson looks favorably upon the idea of having the louse pass a cioof tariff measures and put them < uarely before the Senate so the at- t'ntion of the entire country will - focused upon that body LTOSS, { Tariff Measurcs of Last Session May ! Be Accepted. ! (By Associated Press.) { Wushington, March 7.--The real t.ritt work of the Sixty-third Con- in today with the meeting waks and means com- wien. It seemed cotically cortatn that tariff meas- res framed at the last session will accepted by the new mmnmten.| Towill e the cauens be- re the extri sess dins April 1, | 2iess bew | laid before ion bes 'toaddition to the tarifft work the vnittee is confronted with the doblem of reeorcanizing the entire Domoeratie side of the Honse through | funetions as commitioe on ('mll-t vttees, The connmittee mpmm' are expected to develop some | cly contests LONDON SUFFRAGETTE BETS 18 MONTHS Has to Give Bond to Insuer Good Be- havior After She Gets Out : ) f the Pen. 4 | tiat the work of the| pABY DECLINED THE OFFER. norm | r : I €. W. Crooke, super- : S o (By Associated Press.) ! of the league, be first thel New York, March 7. -Robbers\ | 0" 000 Miks Joyen 1 of such measures a8 | |:st night torturcd Mrs. Harry Ja-| S0 suffrazette, was sentenced cobs, wife of a postal clerk, by bind- : tecded for the legislation ’ : ing and gagging her and offering wi of the work in the cduy to eivhteen months' imprison- ment for setting fire to a paviiion at td a law and enforcement | .. 16-monthe-old babe a slice of conducted through- vd spread with poison because sie and third, to make|. .14 not reveal where she kept her! ! another State-wide ey After binding the umliur{ ion as fast as publlcl imes crystalized to the! g a successful issue. lected to sarve for | Jacobs gaid, the three men took | “poison’ glice of bread, The « bottle marked and poured nd tying the babe in its high chair, | { the new botanieal pardens The urt also ordered her to pay @ i teand to denosit a bond to fnure od behavioy copletion of hop sentence for two years af HAD TO “ 'SPRESS" HIMSELF contents on | were: other was told she would see the | Paducs {y., March 7 McMulien, of Tampa, pres- b die unless she gave the infor- Paducah , Ky Afoh 7 l : tod Nod vour head ig| the time Woodrow Wilkon was ~ation wanted od vour hes ¥ e the oath as pres V. Atkisson, of Live Oak; will tell ns.” one of the trio said t ith as § ; ; e o wtes, Thomas Gilham, necvo, «r, of Ocala, and M. A.| ., \re Jacobs as he held the bread| to the The baby knocked on the They repeated the J¥or and the haby azain refused the child 001 hassee, vice president. 1, of St. Augustine, sec- out ' Painter, of - Jacksonville, | Lnison. Al ing this effort the ' n searched the apartments nings, of Jacksonville, | pocketbook contalning $23 was stolen 7Yers of the headquarters JUST AS SHE WAS ""'e include A, D. Stevens, | FOR FLORIDA. | ' “ . FE Jennings, E. O.| I‘EA"F?- ek ."'!rh \\ Kinne, Dr. L. R, Chicago, March Mre Maade ! ’ rear. B Nobbs and Dr. W. C | Loy "eaid to be 4 soclal leader of : a kmmme Metropolis, | \ntizo, Wis,, who is under arres’ cre on a charge that ehe sent EEX Yoy | xn&:gtgn;{' RUN OVER through the mails a threatening let / —_— \ter to Mrs. R H ac.un; {odm bonds o 1), March 7.—If a pedes- dmitted to bail today in b 31,000, ‘& position of safety and| - / 10 cross a street whe:e ve.| e, of Milwaukee, where the defend- the right of way, he -may | *nt Wil * required to aprw:r :t !:‘: * should he be struck by| \Pril term of the Federa ,clmh : hicle, but if he is in a| POth families involved are ‘;elt l:. me danger, and in at-| 1he trouble which preceded the writ- cach a place of safety, | iN¥ Of the letter s gald to have been 2 by a dispute between the women over ¥ a vehicle, then is hip of Antizo. Mrs. €00 the social leaders r:. ‘[flre::am::::fl.bl:: 3tewart and her hushand were on a " This 18 in effect|S"opping tour led down yesterday | """"” They D L "1 States Circuit Court; ' iorida this evenin s o 1} eal of the T.'n-I gk Janned to leave for e S GES. e ks, In \vhxch lt was! ‘ iuadet i $300 10 GULLEG 13 T personal injurie ; "l" nezligent dri\' the compans's taxis. | (By Associated Pres 3 t at the time of th“i Paltimore, 7.— It 2 T5s had just alighted| -n-? that one of the first ] "“tear. Before he peachel| - cts of X Wondr ; Y s 'S struck by a taxi-| - - 0o bre ntl,nz_fij.f".;"’ tt2, 35 Overtaking and pase s the eift of $500 to Box 1a-n here where two of her daugih- ;s were educated. feg 1, .t car and, as was (estl- U court, wag running very fast. Van Ostrand, %as) signed by Thomas J Prin-/ here when she was vears old, who says he used to wiy with Wilson, discharged his Liotzun nine times when in the busi- ness section of the eity, attracting a + crowd. He was arregted and 1ken to police headquarters, \When questioned by Chief Franklin as to whi he fired the shots Gilham said ‘Ah felt so good dat Ah jest had ) 'spress mah sef i Giilham said he was reared on an Loining farm 1o President Wilson, .1 d often received letters from him. 1 subgtantiate his claim he pro- @ a letter that Wilson wrote to from Trenton, N J, Dec 0§, 12 Gilham was released and will Lot be nrosocutvd | THE BOSS LADY rmwmn Margaret B. Owen, the “one thou- =und dollar an hour typist,” is now demonstrating in this city to the schools and large business houses. tiiss Owen I8 the amateur champion ¥ the world, and won her record at ‘Le last year’s business show, where <ne wrote for one full hour at the !—'w- of one hundred and fourteen ! et words a minute, and wrote for lie first half of the hour at the rate net hundred and eixteen rds a minute, which is onl} s a minute than Miss F w professional cham- ; one f the irs Owen has been a typist siner In the fall of 1910 ehe wor ! world’s gehnol chamuionship a i net rate of eichtv-fve words o | te. In the eontect of the fo! ving year ghe was a cloze ercon’ tha amateur gection.—Jackson ile Metropolis. e e FIFTYARAB SOLDIERS Published in the Best Town in the Best Part of the Best State. LAKELAKD, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1913. No. 108, OF EXPLOSION 340 TONS nnmm'rf: FOR PAN. AMA CANAL EXPLODED. Twenty Killed and Many Injured; i Baltimore Shaken as if by an Earthquake. (By Associated Press.) Baltimore, March 7.—The British wite for use in the Panama canal, vas wrecked by an explosion fol- lowed by fire this morning in Tower harbor. According to police four men were killed and twenty-five in- jnred. A barge alongside the steam- ¢ with 340 tons of dynamite was completely destroyed. Latest Reports More Serious. (By Associated Press.) Baltimore, March 7.-—The force of the explosion wrecked the upper vorks of the United States naval collier Jason lying ecven hundred t away, hilling three and injur- twenty-nine others, Six mem- vers of the crew of the tug Atlantice, lving alongside the Alum Chine, were also killed and the tug de- stroved, The latest reports are that the Jead numbep twenty and the injured ferty, Forty stevedores are also un- conted for taltimore was geverely shaken as if At Sparrows Point e school was partially recked and several children were an earthquake house njured SHOT TO DEATH Belonged to Turkich chment That Was Guarding the Peninsula of Gallipoli at Dardanelles. (By Associated Press.) onstantinople, March 7. Fifty mutineer Arab soldiers, who be- lcuged to the Turkish regiment arding the peninsular Gallipoli at the Dardanelles were shot to death today as an example to others. | ""| eIFICE SEEKERS lmnrnnonn| BY PRESIDENT'S NEW RULE. hnnl ‘nu-n formed in New Smyrna for the Washington, March 7. Office soek- discovered that the “political plum tree” of 1913 bore little fruit, added 1he conditions existing in govern- ment departments. Consequently scores of disappointed job hunters are cooling their heelg in the hotels «{ the capital and bemoaping their fate. To these unfortunates who ex- rccted to profit personally through ue incoming administration, Presi- dent Wilson's statement of Wednes- day came as a further shock. The niesident’'s determination not to see | office seekers unless he sends for them, virtually closed the main ave- nue to the goal of official position. A further complication ls found in the fact that the heads of the various departments, being new in their po- sitions, are evincing no haste in making changes in the staffs over v'hich they preside. MISS HELEN'S DOG IS FOUND. Washington, March 7.—"Neemie," Mies Helen Taft's $5,000 Italian poodle, which strayed from the White Hopse on Tuesday and for which the police of Washington have been searching, found itself early today. A mald in the home of Miss Taft’'s aunt, Mrs. Thomas Laughlin, vas awakened by the harking of the cz and let him in. A telegram wos cnt to Miss Taft, asking whether Neemi should be shipped to Augu.- 2, Ga,, where the Taft family not %, of whether it chould be kept her ntil they enme North arain. Th o, to which Mics Taft is much a* ched, was given by Kinz Vietr mmanuel, of Italy, to former Se ctary of the Navy Meyer. Mr. Me * presented the animal to Mi Taft, steamer Alum Chine loading dynu-' a 22-year-old donkey and wearing o khaki uniform, B. H. scrum which will cure ta’ appropriation for esident of the Unir- | raving suffered from the blight of Lquito inlat. textended civil service ruleg and the uLd ~d1AN LEA TO QUIT SOON. Washington, M:xrch 7.—William Jennings Bryan, in addressing the assistaut secretary and heads of the various bureaus of the State do.pa't- ment, when he entered upon his new duties, declared: “1 am not prepared to discuss ten- ure in office. My own tenure is, as 1 was ahout to say, brief, tut mY tenure has not even begun. I am mr« vour tenure is therefore not more nncertain than mine. [ have wnot had time to learn from the president tte genera' policy that will be Im-i nressed or the various departments, but it is not necessary for us to dis- 158 the length of service. It is suf- fictent at this time to make each other's acquaintance, and I hope thia’ whea the timo comes for me to rcassemble you to introduce yow to iy Succersor, as delightfu! associations as the re- uring secretary does.” Mr. Pryan's words caused surprise but he followed them with no ex- nlanation. HUNGARY VOTES FOR SUFFRAGE Lower House Adopts Bill Which En- franchiscs a Large Number of Women. By Associated Press.) Budapest, Margh 7.-—~The woman's suffrage cause won a actable vietory Lere today when the lower llouse of the Hungarian Parliament adopted the government's sullrage reform bill ty which a large number ¢! women becoma enfranchised. Th~ eapital was crowded with troops uaring the debate because of the threats of the socialists to begin a peveral strike fr. protest of the zovernment's atti- tnde ainst complete umversal suf- frage. X BRIEF TALE OF TW0 DONKEYS. Portland, Me,, M reh 7. Leading Anderson, of 1 Butler, Pa., left Portland today t settle an election bet on Theouore Rcosevelt by walking from this city te Portland, Ore. win. He bet T. R. would MILLION FOR YOU, DOC. Hartford, Conn., Mnreh 7. Speak- ing before the State board of health last night at Rockville, the Stut: tuberculosis commissioner announced ihe had bheen anthorized to offcr or, Franz Friedman $1,000,000 for a **culosis. A permanent organization purpose of pushing the bill for an decpeninz Mos- requisite of familiarity with | N@ IIXEDIATE CI!ANOE IN FOREIGN POLICY Waskington, March 7.-—Indica- tions that no immediate or sweeping changes in {he foreign policy of the United States are in contemplation were afforded today whea Seeretary Bryan, without much qualification, approved the letters and instructions by wire that went out to the Amer- ican representatives gbroad in conn- tries where stirrine events are hap- pening. It was true that generally this was routine business, but yet it was Inferrec by the officials of lesser r:zak than the Recretary, chat Presi- dent Wilson intends to make a care- ful study of all the data to be pre- sented to him by Secretary Bryan before making ary radical changes in existing policies. 1t became known today that without abating' this gov- ernment’s claim to the right to main- tain an eflicient army patrol alonyg the Mextcan border, fie new admin- istration intends to use every prop- e means to avold friction with the Mexicans across the line. THD WONE AFTE THE SINE 03 ‘Py Associated Press.) Washinzton, Mareh 7.—Friends of s Julia Tadhrog, Yead of the chil- “ven's burecu, 18 urging Wilson t tinne her in the office. ILetter o <10 been received on behalf o tobert €. Wickliffa, widow o ~ Loulsiana congressmzn who wi il'e1 by a traln near Washinston - year ago. | Richard E. WILSOR CONFERS T LEADERS OF PURTY TODN ! CBINET CONSIDERS APPOINT- MENT OF BUREAU HEAIS. President Is Holding Conferenoce with Tammany Leaders This Afternoon. (By Assoclated Press.) Washington, March 7.—The presi- !dent today began conferences witk some of the leaders of the party im I can look back upon | Congress. He was at his offices about 9 o'clock. The cabinet is ready for another special session today and 18 greparcd to consider the appoint- nent of hureau heads. The first White House conference included Senator Tillman, and Chairman Fitzs- ecerald, of the louse appropriations committee. Later today Wilson is to meet Charles F. Murphy, leader of Tammany, who is coming with eight other New Yorkers. It was an- nounced today that Wilson has de- cided to hold a regular cabinet meet= ing on Tuesdays and Fridays as has been the custom. RUGE LIST OF APPOINTMENTS FOR WILSON TO MAKE Washington, March 7.—To Presi- dent Wilson will fall the task of fill- ing more than 1,100 places made va- cant by the refusal of the Senate to ccnfirm appointments by President Taft since Dec. 2, The places that became vacant with the adjournment of Congress include practically all appointments outside of the diplo- matle service, the army, the navy, marine corps and allied scrvices. Mauy important positions are in- volved in the lists The list of federal judzes who failed of confirmation include George A Carpenter, Ilinois, and Arthur L. BLrown, Rhode Island; circuit judges, Sloan, Arizona; John M. Cheney, Florida; Peter J. Hamilton, Alabama, for Porto Rico; Clinton W. Howard, Washington; Charles 8. Cutting, Illinois; Charles C. Mum- ford, Rhode Island, district judges. Fenton W. Booth, Illinois, and Hen- 'ry 8. Boutell, Illinois, United States Court of Claims. S. B. Kingsburg, John A. Matthewman and Charles F. Parsons, Circuit Court of Hawail. Federal attorneys in five districts, United States marshals in six dis- tricts, more than fifty consular ap- pointments and many co'lectors of customs, surveyors of customs and registers and recelvers of land of- fices also failed of confirmation. The largest list of vacancies comes from the list of postmasters. \While Prcaident Taft eent in more than 1,350 postoffice appointments, less than a dozen of them were con- firmed. BIG COUNTY BON DSALE SOON. St. Petersburg, March 7.—Bids for the sale of $370,000 of road bonds Is- sued by the county of Pinellas will be opened at noon, the 15th of April, by the board of county commission- ers of the county. This was decided on at a meeting held at Clearwatoe today, and advertisements will be published at once. It was rumored that the majority of the commis- sioners, the three from the upper end of the county, would try to pre- vent the sale of the bonds, on ac- count of these members failing to attend a special meeting of the com- missioners recently, but nothing of this kind occurred, and the commis- sloners were unanimous in their ae- tions. NERVE LIKE EIS UNCLE'S, Mexico City, March 7.—General Felix Diaz, on being informed yes- terday by the secret police ¢f a meet- ing of conspirators for the purpose of discuesing a plan for his assas- sination, went alere to the meeting place and surprised the eonspirators. He talted to them about the foolish- ress of their attitude and finally gucceeded in convincing them that t'oir duty was to supvort the gov- srnment. He then obtained thele word of honor that they would help the present government, shook hands with them, and as a resnlt the eight men who had plotted to kill him are now his warmest supporters.,