The evening world. Newspaper, August 12, 1912, Page 12

CAVALRY CHECKS ADVANCE OF REDS UPON NEN YORK Swoops Down on the Invaders and Saves the Blues From Utter Rout. BIG FIGHT IS RAGING. Manhattan’s Invading Begin the Advance Against Brooklyn’s Blues. STRATFORD, Conn., Aug. 2.—The Blue Gefenders of New York were forced to retreat to-day after tour hours of hard fighting. They have established camps Naugatuck Junction, on the west bank of the Housatonic River. They atill hold the bridge at that point, which cks for the present the Red advance on New York. The Red army, consisting of the Sev- enth, Twelfth, Sixty-ninth and Seventy- firet New York, to galh much advantage through the retreat of the Blue troops, consisting of the Four- teenth, Twenty-third and Forty-seventh regiments of Brooklyn. While the Blue Army was retreating through Milford the First New York Cavairy, under Col, Olver B, Bridge- man, swung around the Rives and came up on the advancing Reds with a sud- Genness that was startling to the in- vaders. ‘The cavalry saved the Blue Army. ‘They turned the tide of battle and pre- vented a disorderly retreat and later forced the Reds to fall back toward Orange. When the cavalry first swung Anto the battle line it was at Five Forks and was met by the Twelfth and Sixty- ninth New York Regiments, Th troopers dismounted and went into a tloa on foot, forcing the Twelfth and Sixty-ninth to.deploy. The Seventy-first New York threatened the rear of the cavalry and the troopers fell back to- ward Milford and took up a position from which they could not be dislodged, ; The Red army moved back to the ‘vicinity of Its headquarters at Orange. was unable Reds Miss Hill’s Dainty Fingers Push Tacks Into Map That Mark Progress of Democratic Candidate for Whom She ‘“‘Spell- binds’’ on Street Every Night. In front of a big desk at the Wilson | and Marshall new palatial headquarters in the Fifth Avenue Bullding alts a girl apparently playing @ game that requires all her attention, Before her ites a jbig map of the) United States, and now and again ahe | carefully selects a thumb tack from a parti-colored collection beside her and decorates the surface of one division of the big checkerboard, pressing in here blue or red headed pin. y the numbers of the colored p Increase, and soon every State in the Union will be simi- larly covered. The girl is Miss Alberta woman officially conn ed with the; Organization Commitee of the I On cratic combination of whieh Senator! Gore ts clrairman. It is a game Mise Hill ts playing—a« war game—and the map before her is ator that shows how the fight ssing. To the initiated the yel- show that there have been returns recelved om the State, green from the county, red the Congres- sional district and blue the precinct of the locality indicated. in from other States, counth Con- gressional districts and precincts show-; ing that the work is being organized they are regist 4, so this curious Httle | es each day more interest- Hill, the only SHE BOOSTS WILSON FROM TOP OF SOAP BOX. Miss Alberta Hill, only twenty-one, suffrage leader and campaign orator, bows at the shrine of the Democratic nominee who she thinks has been raised up as « leader at @ great crisis, Having the demeanor of a little Quakeress, yet she 1s full of the fire of a righteous cause and is the most enthusiastic of the scores of entuustasts who each day fill the corridors and offices of the Wilson and Marshall headquarters, Her entiusiasm for suffrage is only Aw reports come | Practically Miss Hill adroitly turns the attention talks areat trations for President son campaign a semblance those who fight for the souvenirs. treet speaker, organizer | “ENGLAND HAD ITS CROMWELL THE EV Girl ‘‘Soap-Box’’ Orator Is Official Scorekeeper of the Wilson Campaign | |4 | MISS ALBERTA HILL. ing, while she has her audience with her, as well as metaphorically of the crowd to matters political and of Woodrow Wilson, With acclaim as her hearers greeted r suffrage speech they join in demon: for the Democratic And when the little Wil buttons are of a riot AMERICA HAS ITS WILSON.” Wilson, has Miss Hill, and when up to her exp: ons she simply gasped for breath: tions? He simply soars, feetly wonderful.” ‘Thon earnestly: raised up at this time to fill the gap I do, indeed, It has ‘all ages that when nominee distributed ensues among She has always been an admirer of r knowledge he came up to my expecta- Un, he te per- “I belleve he has been Iways been go in ENING WORLD, MONDAY, AUGU st HS MAL RFLED BY. OFILS ~ SAYSLAFOLLETE Shows Letters in Senate, De- claring They Were Opened to Get Inquiry Secrets. WASHINGON, Aug. 12—Senator La | Follette to-day charged officials of the Post-OMice riment with rifling his mati in an attempt to learn the results of an investigation he was making into conditions in the postal service. He showed the Senato a bundle of let- ters which he declared had been opened bfore he received them. “My mail was subjected to an es Pionage almost Russian in character,” declared Senator La Follette. “I have here # bundle of letters, showing that my mail was opened in violation of the law and rifled by some one hostile to Dep GOV. WILSON'S WIFE ABHGRS SMOKING AMONG WOMEN Indignantly Denies Report That She Approved of Cigarette Habit. A GIRT, N. J., Aug. 12~Mrs, Wood. row Wilson made it plain to-day she does not entertain certain views at- tributed to Mrs, Wilson Woodrow, nov- elist, former wife of Governor Wilson's cousin, J. Wilson Woodrow. The mia- understanding 1s over the queation of women smoking. Mra, Wilson Woodrow smokes and believes in other women smoking. Mrs, Woodrow Wilson abhore the Idea of tobacco smoke coming from a woman's mouth. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson decided to-day to correct the report which had been published in many newspapers that she indorges amokipg for women, She did the purpose I had in making the inves- Ugation.” | The charge was made in connection with the provision of the Postoffice approgriation, which would permit em- to Join assoctations and peti- he had se hundred letters t TAFT MAY COMPROMISE ON APPROPRIATIONS BILL.! His Threatened Veto Would Keep} * Congress in Session Until 1 September. WASHINGTON, Aug. 12. — Majority 1] Leader Underwood of the House pre-| -|dicts an adjournment of Congregs th week unless President Taft vetoes the ~ | Legislativ Executive and Judicial bill, Mr, Taft says he will veto the measure because of its amendments to abolish the Commerce Court and limit the ten-! ure of office of civil service employees | to seven years. ’ This afternoon Representative Fitz- n} gerald told Preside Taft that If he vetoed the “bud, bill the session; would be prolonged until carly In Sep- tember, The Presklent was obdurate. a veto, but the I After a long conf . Pitegerald it by Making public @ letter written in reply to a woman who ed if the re- port were true. Mrs. Wilson declared most emphatically, that she does not smoke and that she disapproves of women smoking. Mrs, Wilson's letter on smoking for women follows: beg leave to indignantly deny the statement that I approve of women smoking cigarettes. “The interview upon which your editorial was based is a pure in- vention. I intensely dislike the cigarette smoking habit for wom- en. In fact, so strong is my feel- ing on the subject, that my real danger Mes in being unjust and unkind in my judgment of thot whd differ with me in this respect. “But certainly no woman in our household ever has or ever will smoke, Quite apart from the bad taste of it, I believe with you that it has an extremely injurious effect on the nerves. “ELLEN A. WILSON.” eee BRUNETTES GOOD TIPPLERS. TOD . 1.—As tipplers blonds are out by trunnettes. Army medical officers hav this conclusion as @ result of ears’ observation of enlisted men in the Philippine scouts, the Philippine stabulary and the Manila police for The reports show that while fair men are the equal ct their dark comrades arrived at two 16-YEAR-OLD MOTHER GIVES BABY TO FATHER AFTER LEGAL BATTLE, ! — Mrs. Smith’Surprises Court by Ending Fight and Yielding Her Child. When the writ of habeas corpus !sworn out Saturday by William Smith of No, 687 East One Hundred and Thirty-eighth street commanding his | wife, Edith Retta Smith, to produce in| |Special Term of the Supreme Court their five-months-old child came before Judge Dugro to-day the baby wa: by the mother, and the Justice was told an agreement had been entered into outside of court by which the mother gave the child into the custody of the father, to be cared for by Smith's mother, of No. 630 East One| Hundred and Forty-eighth et, with whom Smith ts now living, produced The mother of the child ts only six- | teen years old, having married smith | when she was but fifteen. Mrs. Smith| claims her husband had never properly | supported her and she was obliged to! leave him and went to live with her sister, Dorothy Arns, who, on a salary of $12 a week, was trying to support herself, her mother and Mrs. Smith, the father having died about two years ago. Smith declares his wife left him July % last. In hi tition to the Court for | the return of his child, Smith declared he had the custody of the child and that on July 2%, his wife and her brother, Edward Arns, forced their way into hi: apartment, and Arns, brandishing a knife, choked him and seizing the sleep- Ing child from @ cradle, took It a with them. piensa, TROOPS IN BORDER FIGHT WITH MEXICAN REBELS. BL PASO, Tex., Aug. 12.—In a fight last night between the United States soldiers and Mexicans near the inter- national boundary below Columbus, N. H., a soldier was shot through the body and a Mexican smuggler’s hand was torn off by a bullet. A report was re- ceived to-day by A. L. Sharpe, collector of customs at El Paso, and by Col. E. Z. Steever, in command at Fort Bliss, Texas. The fighting was caused by an at- tempt of insurrectos to smuggle am- munition to Palomas, Mexico, opposite Columbus, Inspector A. C. Ash of the customs service, piloted the soldiers to REELS BOMBARD CAPITAL GI OF NARAGU Shells Wound Women and Children at Managua— Armistice Disregarded. MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Aug. 12.—De- spite the armistice the Nicaraguan in- surgents began the bombardment of the capital at noon to-day. The firing con- tinued all afternoon, shrapnel shells bursting over the city with occasionally! machine-gun firing on the tines, A number of women and children have been wounded by bullets from tie burst. ing shrapnel shells and many: people have fled from the cit The guns on Loma Hil of the city, are reply the revolutionaries. The foretgn consuls and diplomatic representatives, as well us foreign resi- dents, have raised their national tt on their houses. A proclamation hus been issued by the Government warning the people to leave the town. _ Kal 's Envoy to Japan, BERLIN, Aug. 12—Prince Henry of Prussia, the brother of the German Em- peror, has been selected to proceed to Tokio to represent the Emperor Willlam at the funeral of the late Emperor of Japan on Sept. 12 the fortress to the fire of TAFT SAVES WOMEN IN WASHINGTON FROM GALLO Commutes Sentence of Mrs. Lomax, Who Killed Husband: to Imprisonment for Life, WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.--President Taft has decided to commute to lite ém- prisonment the death sentence of Mattie Lomax, a negro woman, convicted of murdering her husband tn this gity. @he ig sald to have tuberculo: bes. In announcing his decision Presiien Taft gave out the following: “I have given very close consideration to this case because tt involves capital punishment, and I am convineed shat there 4s reasonable doubt as to the pres meditation of the defendant in the ehoot- ing of her husband necessary to justify her conviction of murder in the firet degree, 4 “he only living witness of the kiting was the defendant herself. It occurred at might In the room of the decemaed, and there were evidences of a strugst It Is conclus.vely shown by bullet hol and by other circumstances that the deceased was not shot in bed, and It leaves a possible hypothesis and ex- planation of the facts—not unreasonable or rebutted by any of the elrcum- stances—that the king might heave taken place without premeditation,” James McCreery & Co, 23rd Street 34th Street On Tuesday and Wednesday, August the 13th and 14th SHIRTWAISTS, In Both Stores, FS) PECIAL PRICES. The remaining stock of Lingerie and gave the impr e left that & compromise fected whereby |», Congress would eliminate the Commerce Court's abolition and President Taft agree to the seven-year tenure Voile Waists,—made of dainty materials, trimmed with effective laces and embroid- eries. 1.25, 2.25, 2.75 and 3.50 value 2.50 to 6.75 Embroidered Tailored Linen Waists. value 3.75 to 4.95, 1.25 and 2.00 the place. A sharp skirmish resulted and the Mexicans were driven back. Col. | Steever has been notified that the am- munition, about 60,000 rounds, was cap- tured, Capt. W. A: Maun, chief of staf for the umpire, said the battle was a draw, Both sides have advantages as a result of the fight. The Blues are well located at Naugatuck Junction and the Firat Cavalry 1s camped to the eastward of Milford, the original position held by the Blues. MAY TRY TO CROSS THE RIVER AT DERI The Reds occupy practically the same round they did before the action. now appears that the Re: tempt a crossing of the Housatonic river into Blue territory at Derby. They have the Twenty-second New ‘ork engineer near this point with pontoons and the crossing may be attempted to-morrow, ‘This was entirely a New York battle! ‘and the regular army umpires are en. thuslastic In thelr comments on th work of the Gothamit in ability to withstand the tropical cll- in vitality, muscular strength and they are lacking in staying when it comes to battling with [John Barleycorn. rivalled by her enthuslasm for Wood- row Wilson. The two go hand in hand|When France needed a together, and every Thursday night finds}!eon came forth, England had Miss Hill mounted on a soap box ‘some. | Cromwell and America, its Wilson—and where In the Second Assembly District, | !t8 lincoln.” of which M Inia Dock is leader], While Miss Hill will not on account of for the \.oman Suffrage. party, pro Net oficial duties at headquarters be able to go out campaigning in the regu- Pounding votes for women to the dwell-/ iar sense, she will continue to make her era of the «st side, Thursday night street meetings an op- At the conclusion of each atreet meet-I portunity to boom Mr. Wilson. ler some one appe A Practically Perfect Preparation. tering and many a fair young skin was parbolled by its rays HEAT DRIVES SOLDIERS EVEN TO MUD HOLES. Eyery river, stre. . and mud hole In the vicinity of the camps was sought} out py the soldiers, Near the campy of the Seventh, along a branch of the! 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