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Madison Wisconsin State Journal (Newspaper) - April 26, 1920, Madison, Wisconsin Badger weather rain probable tonight and tuesday. Not much change in temperature. Fresh to Strong shifting winds. Them co in journal City edition twelve pages vol. 135, no. 26. 81�t . W1s., monday afternoon april 26, 1920. Price three cent premiers Send Sharp note to foe candidacy of Knox is considered Republican leaders cast about for Compromise senator held acceptable to All party factions City a oldest woman Dies in 100th year by l. C. Martin Washington Tho situation developed by Tho hot fight for i or Republican Proa id a dial nomination today caused g. O. I louder in thinner Circle of Tho tarty councils to begin casting about for a Compromise candid to should one be required. They Are considering senator Philander c. Knox of Pennsylvania former attorney general and also former in Secretary of state. His name is being heard with increasing frequency among influential Republican politicians in Washington. Knox is favored for these reasons. I a his experience Iii government both legislative and administrative branches. 2�?his standing in both wings of the Republican party. He is a close personal Friend of senator Johnson and Siochi with the Borah Johnson irreconcilable in the treaty tight. He is at the some time close to Penrose. Smoot Lannge and other old guard lenders. His reputation la fore the country ii a conservative whoa record in the Senate his friends say. Show him to have favored really progressive gov a in mental measures. Important Dav new York tomorrow will in the most important single Day in tile pre convention Campaign to Date. There will lie three Republican and three Irmo Cratto and two Republican state conventional at which 133 Republican and 112 democratic Deli Gates will be selected a follows Jersey primaries. 28 Republica jut and 2l� democratic Delegate. Ohio primaries 48 delegates each primaries. 33 Republican and 36 democratic Delegate w Ashington convention. 14 Repult can Idaho convention 8 republicans. Tilt Day will be featured by senator Hiram Johnson s a last ditch a fight to carry new Jersey and win a foothold in the East and by major general Leonard Wood s simultaneous invasion of two favorite Sony a states Wood a disregarded one of the unwritten Laws of Pic tical politics by earning his fight into a favorite son Quot territory in Ohio and Mastic by hot to As he did Iii Illinois. In Ohio a will by opposed to senator Warren Harding. Their names Are the Only ones on the Republican Lia lots. Coolidge favored an entire state ticket has la Een put up in Massachusetts by the Wood organisation. The rival candidates arc uninstructed but Sre known to favor a nov Calv in Coolidge with one exception this is a candidate for do it Gates at lung. Who is understood to be for Hoover. Wood also is working for endorse mint of the Idaho and Washington conventions. In Idaho he is opposed by senator William Borah who is a lumping the country for Johnson. Senator Miles Poindexter is the a favorite Sony of Washington. Hut he will have Compo ution in the stat convention from Wood Johnson and Hoover governor Jam Cox i the on1/ candidate on the democratic ballot in a duo Iov. Edward i. Edwards is sup ered to have everything Ghis Way in new Jersey while William g Mcadoo is supposed to have the support of the Massachusetts let a a Socrat. Bandit is killed in Street Battle Chicago Harry James to Fol too Bandit career wus at an end today. James died Early today after being shot Twenty Hines by police. He previously engaged six policemen in a revolver Duel in a District police Sta. Hon. Escaping from the station he injured two it ulcers in a running Battle before his munition gave out and he was fatally shot. Investigation by a olice today Dis it los Ltd More than $100,000 Worth of bait James bad hidden. A private warehouse wry a secret basement chamber was tilled with stolen goods. I it Ollum say. Names and arid re Sac a of sgt even Hundred wealthy chicagoan prospective victims were found in James to save Hon. Police also found clothing bearing the Mark a senator to James started the Battle in the District station a Hiie being searched for weapons. While Banting six i Ollie men he kicked the Glass from the front door and plunged through it to the St Reet. Prods Crook loses 50 yen Mink Handlin Boris Pavlotsky ran a Pitchfork into the Hay to feed his horse. He s sorry now because the prongs struck a sleep Holdup Man. Who before he lift robbed Pavlotsky of $30. 8 murdered on farm posses seeking pair baby Only survivor of family Shotgun robbers weapon found near place victims bodies dumped into cellar and under Haystack h. B. Dahlie dead ill two weeks sex member of Congress who died Sunda y Jane Wilson Turt la Lake x. of two men believed responsible for the murder of eight on the farm of Jacob Wolf near Here is expected tie fore nigh Mclean county officials said today. John Bret ton. Farmer gave Good descriptions of two men seen walking away from the Wolf farm thursday is i Moon. The Day the murders arc believed to have been committed. Deputies and neighbouring a rifles w Era scouring District in search of the pair. Robbery k believed to have led to the d orders. The House had been searched. Bodies of mrs. Wolf the e of her daughters and a hired f an were thrown in the cellar. Taie body of Wolf and two other children were Yound buried under a i j of Hay in a cow shed nearby. All hut one had been killed with i Shotgun used St close Range. One was killed wih a blow from a Hatchet. The Shotgun used was found in a puddle a mile from the farm. The Stock had been detached and was floating la was new Ippu ties today were trying to Trace the Sale. Wolf neighbors Saki had often told of keeping Large sums of Money in his Home. Little Emma Wolf eight months old is the sole surviving member of the family. She is heir to the $30,000 farm. Neighbor were caring for Tho baby and it had practically recovered from exposure of nearly 48 hours by an open window. Former congressman succumbs at it. Horeb bom in Perry wis., 75 years ago h or. Jane Wilson succumbs at s9 oldest resident of Madison Pioneer practitioner to be buried tuesday or. Jane n. Wilson aged 99, Madison oldest resident died at her Home 204 Mouth Carroll Street Early sunday morning. Mrs. Wilson celebrated her birthday on Jau. 3. The had been ailing for two months hut was confined to Hor bed Only ten Days. Death resulted from bronchitis and pneumonia. Mrs. Wilson is survived by two children mrs. Earl de Aloe who a made her Home with her Mother and a son. The Rev. A. H. Blake of flu Una set non he who was Here when Ive Mother died. Mio in Liso survive by her brother. Vol. James m. Ingalls of provident is the younger t of nine children. His too feeble to come for the funeral Earl Vav de Aloe of Evanston a son of or. De Alce in expected Here. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 30 p. In. Tomorrow it the congregational Chapel by the Rev. K. H rebels forcing federals Back Carranza army Burns Bridges in Retreat on Mazatlan strategic Point Washington mexican Federal forces have retreated to a Point 46 Miles North of Mazatlan before the rebel troops of general Flores dispatches to the government said today. A struggle Between the federals and revolutionists for control of Al to it Ian the principal port of entry of Sinason and regarded As the chief Industrial and cd a Mercial City of the Wen coast of Mexico is imminent according to these reports. The Federal troops have burned abroad i do i a bid them in withering Rowan Mazatlan. And fort Fly am arc being erected outside the City in rail taxes take 1,481,263 jump state commission issues of Fici Al i Evy on $360,734,000 assessment in my interim Cut i a. is i preparation for a dash. A official information Here is that supporters of Genera Obregon candidate for the mexican presidency were being arrested in Mexico City Ami also throughout the Republic. Defeat by the federals of general Porfirio Gonzales w to recently rebelled at Linares Nuevo Leon was repents a Worcester and the Rex. W. J Mckay i a i. A detachment of federals interment will be in Forest Hui it 1,1 m a Hoscan to quell orc fit it. In Al i Niglas. Old with Hwan j on uprisings and Charles Wehrmann will sing Quot now \ the Day is Over a . Kindly Light a and a it is Well with my soul a and the favorite hymns of or. Wilson. Fir. Wilson was one of the Best known women in Madison for she was one of the atty c pioneers having practice Medicine Here for 40 years. Al Bough she was a member of the congregational it Hurch her greatest religious belief was to do Good to others. She had alway worker among the poor and it was said that she never turned ail Yore. Even a tramp away from her door. Shwa Active a during the civil War and a one of the great Friend of the soldiers encamped Wisconsin Railroad taxes for 1920 will total it.481.263.29 More than in 1919. The final figure on id taxes against Wisconsin roads announced today by Tho tax commission. Is 6,-837.036.47 on an assessment of $360,-734,000. The 1919 figures were assessment. $366.060 000, amount of taxes. $5,335, j ron�r<�?~&Quot-793.18. While the total assessment for 1919 against the railroads is $3,326,000 More than Ute 1920 assessment the taxes Are almost $1,500,000 More for 1920. The tax rata in 1919 was Only 01463091618 Mills while the Rae for 1920 was .01893318 Mills. Which is Uman b. Dahle former congressman. Died at his Home in Alt. Horeb sunday afternoon after an illness of two weeks. A. Was 75 years old. Or. It Alc has Long been one of the Nuwt prominent business men in Dan. County. He played an Active part in the affairs of the county. Funeral services will be held i Horeb at 2 p. M. Wednesday ment will take place in the lutheran cemetery there. Born in Wisconsin the deceased was bom in Perry. Wis. March 30, 1853. He was the so i of air. And mrs. O. B. Hah in among the earliest White settlers at Perry. He was educate d in the Public schools of the state and in the University of Wisconsin. Or ban. Opened i general store in fab Vernon in 1877. In that year he was married to miss Anne Kittleson sister of sex Kher Lff Isaac Kittleson and of Jake Kittleson Fath a of i. Atilo Kittleson. Mayor of Madison. Head of two Banks in 1887 or. Dahl moved to att. Horeb where to established the firm of Dahl bros., which recently became Dahl a Bott. Hand president of Blue Mounds Banks. Or. Dahle was elected to the 5th Congress from the second Wisconsin District. He was re elected to the f7th i a it i Vii i in a i Hill a him e was senior partner f Osrie the Alt. Horeb and air. Dahle served is president of the my Horeb Academy corporation for Many years and was Active in Church work. Eight children survive or. I it Ahl is survived by his widow sister. Mrs. James a. Peterson. Minneapolis and eight children Eleanor Council act on Armenia is Surprise Congress almost in amp Nimlou by opposed to mixing in affair Wilson a next move awaited Railroad communication Between a Mexico i a and Guadalajara. It Spital of the Slat of Jalisco is interrupt i in destruction of Railroad Bridges. Burning of the International footbridge Between Laredo. Tex. And in Nuevo 1-Aredo. Mexico was reported today. There Are known to be about 43 americans men. Women and children in Mazatlan and environs the pres i ence there of in. H. War vessels is Par i a vulgarly necessary because of the probability that the water Supply of the City will be Cut off by the rebels. The americans then could take Refuge on the warships. Huerta takes Post Nogales. Ariz. Governor de la the 1919 taxation. The valuations against the larger Wisconsin railroads and their tax assessments As determine for 1920 follow assessment to Chicago amp n. W. By. Co. $126,500,000 $2,397,577.27 Chi. B. Amp q. Co. A s Ca. Street. At Camp Randall. All of her life. She j Huerta of Sonora. Mexico today arils been Active in in patriotic societies j be pled the position offered him As us Frienda who wish to see her May preme head of that the House. 2<h Booth Gar Roll j army As outlined in the a plan of Agua it was reported from i tic i us fait child Circle of the worn i Luti onary Headquarters ends Relief corps will meet at the i mexican Consul general de Entrance of tic congregations Church at 2 p. In tuesday to attend the funeral in a body. The members will Wear their memorial badges. All meal was of the g. A. It. Are constitutionalism Agui Rev Negri at new York after vainly pleading with president Carranza to retract his attitude regarding the Honor movement wired revolutionary leaders Here offer i ing them his services. It Wax said. About .94 int More per thou hand than we Dames k. Thompson dam i county school superintendent Clara wife of or. Frank Moody Minneapolis Otto who was associated in business j with his father i a a j., manager of i the equitable insurance Agency in Mil i j Waukee Marie wife of nets e. Helm i i Secretary of the w. H. Burlier Agency. I i Milwaukee Agnes w Ife of the Rev. J j Joseph Green. Perry win Thra. Wife of Asher Hobson assistant chief of the j Bureau of farm management Wash j in ton. D. Cd a and Helen Dahle we i live at the family Home King signs up for Suga r ration j i it onix n King Albert of Belgium a was the first in Brussels to Register under the new sugar rationing system with Queen Elizabeth and members of i his family the King drove to the hotel de Ville and signed the Hook allowing them to draw their monthly ration of sugar. R. R. Chi., m p. Fay. Cml or Al. A o co. G Rea t co. Iii. C co. Al. By. I s. Ste. By co. N. P. By. P. By n. By. R. R. A. M. 24 000.000 454.876.32 88.066.606 1.667.879 84 38.600.666 726.220 84 9,600. Too 170,576.62 1,260.600 22.743.82 55.660.000 3.500,000 1.942 424 90 66.336.13 Quested to attend the funeral. They i will meet in the u. A. R memorial j room of the Capitol at 2 p. In. To Marc to the Church the ill bearers will be six grand army men. Or. Ii. R. Bird. J f. A. Bird William Small. In Esse Mey Era s. R. Lathrop and of. W. Rood. J i other members messenger boys have own cars messenger boys slow deliveries a have a de Buch in age new Alibi of got stalled seven mess Ngor boys Here use automobiles in delivering telegrams Ano they own the cars themselves it was i Learned today. They Are paid 8 cents in hour and tints and a half for overtime. James i Dempsey one of the automobile Mes a Senger Leo it a said the seven boys a bought their automobile with Money j saved front their wages hounds seek girl is Sla yer jilted Lover turns burglar Rochester. N. A. Jilted by miss Rose Lipshitz. To whom he had been engaged. Abram Arthur Herman. 26. Entered her bedroom sunday to recover some of his gifts especially a fur 4oat. He gained the room through a window and carried a revolver and a flashlight. The girl was awakened by the Light and screamed and her Fibber entered and grappled with the intruder. Berman s pistol was discharged in the struggle with the girls father who received the Bullet in his hand. Berman whose love Tiff air have led him into trouble before was arrested. Insure against arid England la Ndon insurance against prohibition coming into Force in England j within 12 months is being offered by Lloyds at a Premium of $2 per $500. No business is being done. However because the people whom prohibition would Hurt financially do not consider j the risk sufficiency imminent. Road liable for $800,000 claims Washington the i High Valley Railroad was held responsible for dam j Ages of nearly $860,600, As the result of the Quot Black Tom explosion near Jersey City in 1916, by the action of the supreme court today in declining to review 13 appealed cases. The sex i Losion started in shipments of in uni j lion to the allies after which fires spread rapidly and destroyed the property of those seeking damage from the railroads in whose terminal the munitions Wen stored. Clip trousers go to sing sing new York two sailors from i 11 Waukee were sentenced to sing sing Here today on a charge that they had t it off one of the legs. Of Frank Vichy a trousers. Vlehr testified at the trial today that he Hail $728 sewed in with tape in the i a of the aforesaid trouser. The sailors. Frank Ralar and John de fran a were alleged to have been members of in band of seven masked Man who broke into Vichy a boarding House and after robbing ail the other inmate. Ripi Ted off Vichy a pan leg. Want wedding fee doubled Coal Combine held violation government wins suit in supreme court against Reading Railroad Washington the government today finally won one of the famous Anthracite Coal cases when the court decided that the Reading Railroad must give up holdings in various Coal companies and in other roads. The Coal combination of the rail orients was held a violation of the anti Trust Law. The court declared the whole combination must be dissolved. The decree dissolves the combination of the Reading holding company the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad the Philadelphia and Reading goal and Iron company the Central Railroad of new Jersey and the i a Hilt and Wilkes hut goal company the decision was a Complete Victory for the government the court emphatically denouncing Hie combination of the railroads and the Coal companies and declaring that great Power obtained had been used to restrain Commerce. Roads and mining to be a violation Pontiac Mick. Bloodhounds were brought Here today to track Down the murderer of 20. Pretty j Telephone operator w to was choked to j death. The girl s body was found Here Short i by after Midnight sunday on the porch of a half built House. Two handkerchiefs had Bren knotted around her Washington the Liou Rad Throat. I journey after convening a i i it out of Tharle Schneider of Elkton her respect to the late congressman Nich father. Offered a Reward of $1060 for i ids Michigan who died suddenly the capture of the Niu Deer. Night. Michigan Solon Dies suddenly y London British clergymen want the marriage fee doubled. A couple May now be married for $1.25, but the preachers say that inasmuch As the burial rates have doubled in the last i five years it is right that the marriage lost should Advance accordingly. Sex governor of Nebraska dead Lincoln. Neb Silas Holcomb. Former governor of Nebraska died Sunda. My a at behin Liam Wash do the dead speak to us ? prof. Joseph Jastrow head of the department of psychology at the University of Wisconsin and Foremost scientific authority in America on matters psychic and supernatural has prepared for the Wisconsin state journal a series of eight articles on psychic Cults and systems. In these articles prof. Jastrow will Deal in a popular Way with the subject which has received so much attention during the past few months and particularly since sir Oliver Lodge came Over to lecture Here Are the titles of the eight articles i marvels. Magic and fraud 2. Why people believe in the super natural 3. Does thought transference exist 4. Ouija and her family 5. Second sight presentiment and hallucinations 6. Why mediums have controls 7. What about mrs Piper 8. What do the spirits Tell us Paris the Council of Premier this afternoon dispatched a not to Berlin demanding Immediata execution of the treaty of versus does especially those clauses regarding disarmament indemnities and Coal deliveries threatening to extend occupation of the German territory if the demands were refused according to announcement at the French foreign office. It Ashi Notony report that the w Allied supremo Council has decided to offer the armenian Mandat to the United states and Artic president Wilson to fix the boundaries of that newly recognized nation. Were received writ suprise in government circles Here today. Officials thought it had been made Clear to the allies by hints and otherwise that there was no Chance of this country taking the mandate Over Are i Menia. Congress is Befle aed to he i Mort i unanimously opposed to the project j especially since major general Harbor reported att army and Large appropriations would be necessary to make Good the mandate. Nevertheless there was some speculation As to whether president Wilson would take this Opportunity to reverse his recent decision to abstain from pal t Lei Pat ton in International politics at least until after the league of nations covenant has been finally accepted or rejected by the unite states. It was conceded that the Alite proffer w ill give him a Good Chance to do Hilt shout he have changed his i mind. I official believed the request that the United states accept the armenian mandate would a politely declined. May end tonight san a smog the san remo conference of the Council of premiers which started it week ago with threatened serious dissension Over the question of a uniform Allied attitude toward supreme j Germany will end probably Toni tit a i m apparently Complete record. While not All questions have been set tied the outstanding differences have been eradicated and the ground prepared for important work when the premiers resume work in Paris next month. Tile Council today decided to tender the mandate Over Armenia to the United states. In event that nation refuses the Council will ask Wilson to determine the Lioun Danea of the new nation by deciding whether the exe i rum District shall go to Armenia or remain turkish. The mandate Over Palestine went to great Britain who. With France Wall Settle the Borders of Syria and Palestine. Especially As to whether the upper i Jordan River shall be included in. I syrians Borders. The Council of premiers has decided j to take up the matter of trading we Ith Russia again it a Learned Semi officially to Lay. And will allow Entrance of a russian Mission into flied countries to discuss the matter. Reject foe plea Paris a joint Fren h. British. Italian belgian statement to he ratified Here this afternoon rejects Germany a request that she be allowed to retain an army of 20.006 instead of the 106.666 provided by the treaty of Versailles. The statement says it is necessary to fix the amount of reparations to Bej paid by Germany later and that Ger i Many must carry out the pea treaty otherwise the allies will be forced tog use coercive measures. Pertinak. Writing in the Echo Paris says the Allied financiers p 36 yearly payments of three Bill. Marks Gold As a minimum to a in a creased according to tin state of Der Many a economic restoration. Dry act decision a a in postponed Washington a the Eupr is court today again failed to hand Down its decision on the Validity of constitutional prohibition. The court announced a recess from next monday May 3, until May 17. More rail men return to work so need to re Mim you How Groat is Tho intercut in Tho supernatural just now. Prof. Jastrow s series deals with the subject in a most interesting Way. And is temperate in attitude towards the tilings with which he does not agree. The first article appears in today s the Wisconsin state journal do in i lion Ghi in i d Tine humid unfit b Mer min to thu cog she t Niti hearing denied i Washington the Railroad lab Board today denied the petition of Iii Kansa Guy association a i organization of outlaw it Alketa for 4bearing on the wit demands. Cadill

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