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Madison Wisconsin State Journal (Newspaper) - February 16, 1920, Madison, Wisconsin Weather warmer them so in journal City edition vol. 104. No. 137. 81st year. Allies Madison wis., monday afternoon february 16, 1920. Twelve pages Price two cents firm on Adriatic stand need for More double track seen engineers report after checking tune made on Street railways recommends added construction bid millions sex German for vessels spirited contest develops at auction of liners $13,100,000 offered for five boats by International mercantile Marine head c n on trl action of 1,300 to 1,400 foot of double truck on Atwood Avenue East at Tho Milwaukee Load trucks to enable Street Tiara to maintain a ten minute schedule required by the railway commission was recommended by c. M i arson Engineer of Tho Railroad commission in a i port to City attorney William Ryan today. The average time required for 39 tars to go to the end of the line and tack for three Days Jan. 31, feb. 2 and feb. 3, Between the hours of 4 and to Rush hours according to the report of a Man stationed by or. Air on at the East end of the double truck in Atwood Avenue was 13.28 minutes. One Day Tho maximum time was reported As i minute w Hole on none of the three Days was it less than iu1 minutes. Reports on time following is the report of or. Lairson in the time of the cars Jan. 31 minimum time to minutes maximum time 21 minutes average of 12 cars 12.3 minutes. Of b. 2 minimum time to minutes maximum time 19 minutes average of 12 cars 14.1 . 3 minimum time i0 minutes maximum time ii minutes average of 13 cars 12.2 minutes. Recommendations in the order of their importance for double tracking by the railway company were As follows fast Johnson Street from the present terminus of double track near Hamilton to the passing track in the Vicinity of Paterson Street and beyond at least a Block before Johnson Street i permanently paved to raid win Street. West main Street from the present terminus near Fairchild Street to a Point near Broom Street. University Avenue before it is permanently paved Between charter and by a Terrace and from the passing track on Monroe Street to the Illinois Central tracks. Service retarded it will probably not by Long before the double track on the Oregon Road will have to be extended for some distance on Lakeside Street. As the time required from present doubt tracking to the end of the line and Back is so Long that service is retard a or. I arson declared. Or. Parson la making a report on the Madison railways company to the Railroad comm Boden the Al ova rec pm herniation will a a included. His report on whether or not additional cars Are ne.sie.1 to maintain the schedules of the Madison railways company How been delayed. L. J. Henika old settler is dead islander j. Houlka aged is resident of do tie county for 0 years died Early today Al ills ironic in the town of Madison. Hot wan bom in can Balgua. N y., nov. To. 132. And came to the Tori ii of made son at 27. To is sur a i de b v on son. Fred Henika of Madison Ani three grandchildren. Ii xxi an Uncle of or. To. A Henika of the state Board of health. Fun Era services will be conducted at the Home. Wednesday at 2 p. My by the Rev. W. J. Mckay. Interment will be at Forest Hill. Ii ta8hlngton-bidding in the w millions. General George Vav. Too that and p. A. S. Franklin engaged in a spirited contest for six of the sex German liners auction of which started at the shipping Board Here today. While the auction was in Progress Hie Senate adopted the mrk Eliar Resolution directing the shipping Board to hold up temporarily the proposed Sale. The first bid for the liners was $10,-000,000. When the am Hon adjourned for lunch the highest bid was $13,100,-000 by Franklin. The George Washington. President t Wilson s ship headed the list of five National mercantile Marine Munson which Are to go into Hamburg american service. The others were the Martha Washington America president Grant Callao and Nansemond. Goethals represented the american ship and Commerce corporation and Franklin is head of the International mercantile Marine. Other moves in the ships Sale and the Effort to halt them today were treaty again a a before Senate Compromise advocates flayed in speech by Mccormick a bitter Enders Warmington senator Ridge Cai is up the peace treaty in Tho Senate at 1 42 p. In. Today and at once moved that the Senate take up his proposed amendment on the reservation relating to withdrawal from the Tongue of nations. In the opening speech. Senator Mccormick Illinois Republican Quot hitter Ender a assailed those trying for Compromise reservations Quot we Are invited solemnly to witness the reduction of an irreducible minimum a said Mccormick. Quot we Are summoned to share in the transubstantiation of a reservation which Cut the heart out of the covenant into one so superlatively interpretive that to americans it would seem to assure their i it each and Security while to Europe it will appear to guarantee their participation in every future War even against the american conscience and judgment. Quot at the moment when democrats at the other end of the Avenue and at tile other end of the Capitol have broken the Leash which bound them to the White House. Republicans Here or some of them seem to be coming to Heel. Quot Gen tors proposed to ratify the treaty and at the very moment when Justice Bailey in the District of Columbia supremo court after hearing arguments for on injunction to rest min the kale announced he would hand Down his decision Friday. A letter from the Senate Commerce committee asking president Wilson to keep John Barton Payne at the head of the shipping Board until pending problems Are disposed of was received at the White House. Payne is to become Secretary of the Interior March i. Previous to the opening of the actual auction to bids were received by mail and wire. These included offers by the i Titer Dine c. P. Richards Oriental navigation James Bowell polish legation French line Moore and Mccormick International Bureau of supplier and american ship and Commerce company. All bids those sealed and those made in the auction must be submitted to the Senate Commerce committee for approval before acceptance. Women voters attack senator Wadsworth a a misrepresent Tulve of state and party. Says Resolution Chicago a Resolution denouncing senator James Vav. Wadsworth of new York As Quot misrepresent Active of his state and party in i opposition to equal suffrage was adopted by Hie league of women voters Congress Bere testy. Miss Mary Garrett Hay new York chairman of the women s executive committee of the Republican pasty urged adoption of the Resolution. The league demanded Wadsworth s defeat at the polls. The league which grew out of the dissolution of the american suffrage association continued its work of or two die of French Are mysterious aroused at poisoning Wilson act i i \ others seriously Iii following bitter criticism launched at party sweeping i Vestiga White House Lansing Dis Tion of Elroy tragedy is Missal and new threat under Way held autocratic two persons arc dead and two j Henry Wood others critically ill As a result j to Aris the Franco British reply of poisoning while attending an j to president Wilson a note informal party in an Elroy wd., Home a threatening american withdraw saturday night. A sweeping investigation in an attempt to lift the veil of mystery that now shrouds the affair will be launched tuesday when District attorney Clinton Price of Mauston reaches finny. He was summoned by marshal Vav. M Kelly following the letter s inquiry into the Case today. The Lead Are Raymond Hart aged 27, son of an Elroy banker. Mrs. Nellie Ward Agad 35. Wife of a Chicago and Northwestern railway conductor. The seriously ill Caba Larson 20. Mabel Larson 25, sister of Celia. Hart mrs. Ward the Larson mrs and Frank Barchan Chi go a baggage Man on the Chicago and North i Western attended an informal party at j the Home of mrs. Charles Hart Mother of mrs. Ward saturday night. Raymond Hart became 111 at 5 a. In. Sunday my was dead at 9 a. In. Mrs. Ward organist in the Elroy i Catholic Church was taken ill while at the Organ luring the sunday morning service. She was removed to her j mothers Home where she died at i p. In. Sunday the Larson girls be earn ill sunday tit n in but or. 1-yank la. Ferguson of Elroy was called to attend both Hart and mrs. Ward. Ile said their deaths were due to poisoning but stated he did not know what kind. Marshal Kelly however admitted his belief Ali in Tho victims had obtained wine that contained Wood alcohol. And it is on this theory he is a animation today. Is Runnion of Constitution and methods of repro j working sen Tatkin was held during the morn Barchan Cho left sunday for fill ing. Election of officers was scheduled j a ago has been summoned to return f for late today. A1 from european affairs if the allies persist in their proposed settlement of the Adriatic dispute without american consent declares great Britain and France i re obliged to carry oui the terms of the ultimatum submitted to j u go Ria via Jan. 20, it was Learned today. Jugo slav la either must accept the solution of great Britain and France or they will support Italy in carrying out the pact of London the note said. The Allied reply denies president Wilson a accusations against Italy pointing out Italy a Entrance into the Quot a and her sacrifice in wealth and lives. From other sources it was Learned that premiers Lloyd George and Mil Lerand Are unchanged in their determination to carry out the ultimatum of Jan. 20. Aroused at threat the French press is aroused at reports that president Wilson has sent a note to the entente informing them that if they Settle the Adriatic question without american concurrence. The United states cannot concern itself further with settlement of end ing european questions. La liberte is particularly bitter in its criticism declaring that Wilson from i Quot proud isolation in the White House is again attempting to direct affairs on a he continent Quot of which be has no the no i diaper said the of a was delivered to the Quot big thru i by ambassador Wallace and said it it declared the United j states could not recognize their it act of London or the recent Compromise agreement presented to till Jugo Lav government by the Council of pre Mien would Quot Block Powers Quot this Moil who is opposed to Iii i mountains of Gold in Yukon says Miner Vancouver. B. . E. By a Veteran Miner arrived Here today with reports of a new Gold Quot strike in the Yukon territory. He displayed samples of Ore said to assay from $150 to $1,500 a ton and declared there Are Quot literally mountains of Binet said the finds Hava been made above the Timber Tine where the Rock is Bare and Ore veins have been traced for Miles across the country. The Yukon Gold company controlled by the Guggenheim a. Bought the most promising claims last summer. Ore is being taken out by sleds to the Stewart River 45 Miles Distant and will be shipped by steamers to the smelters in the Spring. President should quit says doctor stroke result of permanent disease of arteries of brain declares expert work dangerous await naming of new Secretary Here for questioning by marshal Kelly own country is again trying to Block $40,000 damage in brewery fire i.-. Place. Larson girls Are i ill to be qui xxi d and District attorney Price tuesday. Mrs. Charles Hart was out of the saturday night when the party too a Ity put met Washington fire on sunday partly destroyed the port Washington brewing company s Plant. Damage is estimated by tin company at $40,00. The horrid truth a appeared in in i re arrested on ii quoted the statements of Earl j Mann act charge others in parliament to Ell for revision of till Wea t partly Cloudy and warmer tonight j and tuesday. Fresh Southwest to West winds. Hafl Tuisl Lar pain toy i. S. Rattler Llor Rau i try temperature precipitation i ugliest i jew a 24 lieu in yesterday night to 7 a in Madison m11 to an k i i Peen Lay it it a Usu. 2 -12 a a i it ii i ii t to. A o Minneapolis. �?2 i a a i a Froest. A i 0 Ixia que. 0 0 m Simson of Ati Khy a temper relative wind Cloud i lure humidity velocity new amp 51 1� ii a it the o la to 0 inches on ground Curzon and show the i treaty. Mccormick Eril Iriceil senator Lodge his party Leader for timing willing to discuss comp omit a of till Lodge reservations comparing Louis a Compromise negotiations with the uncompromising attitude of Daniel Webster on questions involving the american const Tut Ion. Dog not City Given blame Chila Delphia a jury decided against mrs. Vivian Cox in Lier suit against the City for damages. Mra. Cox charged that she was injured by falling on a defective sidewalk but the jury decided that the pet dog she was leading tripped her turks a hold constantinople Bari Premier Viii in Rand. In an interview said the British Auld Blench government had agreed that the turkish government shall lie allowed i to remain in constantinople acc Ord a i log to a Story printed in the Echo de Paris today. Mexican debt 425,739,801 pesos Mexico City the National debt of Mexico i 423.739.hoi peso Accord i St Paul j m. Stevens wanted in Milwaukee for alleged violation of the Mann act. Has been re arrested at Moorhead police Here Learned today. In a arrested Lait Caca Peri. Stevens is Chargu by Federal authorities at Milwaukee with having taken an i year old girl Rachel ryans from Detroit to Milwaukee on promises of marriage and. It is alleged deserted her after thre Days firemen buried under debris St. I Al Lri two firemen were refined killed and several others injured in tire in the Plant of the american manufacturing company Here late today. Eight f firemen Arr burled under ton of baled by Arras while fighting the Blaze. Among the. M i iou sly injured was a Sistunk fire chief John f. Barr. Mexicans Kidnap citizen of u. S. Washington a Wilton Welch Adam american citizen a kidnapped by mexican bandits on the right of Fob. 13 at Abalona in a Catt Caa and is Btag held for 50,000 peso Ransom the stat department was advised today. Adams is superintendent of the prov Doncia mine operated by the minerals and metals co. Of Monterey an american concern he has a wife my child living in los Angeles. The bandits Are reported to have looted the warehouses of the company at Abalos. State department representatives also said that three columns of mexican Federal troops Are in Pursuit of the bandits. 4 officers Hurt by sinn fein ers sign checks for Soldier bonuses Secretary of state Merlin Hull and state treasurer Henry Johnson Are tsp la Busy going More than 120.000 rudder Cash Bonus Choel. They estimate it will take at least two months before All the Check can lie Sigma. Each Check must by signed separately by or. Hull urn or. Johnson. The checks an being sent out to the Diblin wounded v halted the Trian Ball Day said. A revolver Battle priced haunting til dispatch added. Another despatch said a group of Armi i men stopped an ammunition Bour constables Wert Hen sinn finers Dyna a it Llie Barracks at Ball Ronam a dispatch Here to the by rain a Tine s. Attack guard n n from Lier i i Hibline minded who i bomb but attackers \ i Hon shoplifter of 81 goes to jail let Day noon 7 p. In. �?4 a in -24 hrs. I noon. 4 33 14 too 3 4 in. Highest temperature 0 at 3 p in. Lowest temperature to at 7 a. In mean temperature yesterday �?5. Normal 20. Total precipitation Ainee Jan a 1.12 in. Normal 2.32 in Liliu in Ith Cit i chix warmest in 1si2, 54. Fondest in till a in. Wettest in Isi i 12 inches Bun sets at 3 30. Ing to a retell statement of Luis a j Treasury and state department by lha Berra acc Italy of the Treasury who Ridden that the interest unpaid amounts to 113,170.975 pesos. Assault charged in Antigo trial Antigo John main Llie wan placed on trial Here today on charges of assault with intent to kill mrs. R. Ill lib. The trial grows out of the killing of Brank Parsons main Llie was tried and found not guilty of murdering i arsons. Or. Utile a hit by Baluik from main Llie gun at the Alme far sons was kit iou. Adjutant general s Oiler at the rate of about 2,900 a Day they sri sign d and returned to Tho adjutant general s Ollie e to be made ready for mailing. At the rate they Are being handled by Tho departments More than $0,600 i Hecks will by ready for distribution about March i this Date is also the Day when county treasurers Are required to make their returns to the state treasurer. Treasurer Johnson stated Quot regarding that Quot As soon As the county treasurers Complete tile collection of la tax and make returns to the state Treasury i will authorize mailing of the and their payment. A Faut London s. I teen sentenced out hard Lal or atm and 13 conv against her i Rah to Ann Bennett Lias to months wittier pilfering from a she is is years old a Tion Are recorded european Powers,.�?� said la liberte i Quot after brutally dismissing Secretary j 1 rinsing president Wilson from his i proud isolation again is attempting to direct affairs on the continent of w hich he has no the new s of Wilson s latest note i was received in Baris almost Simul i j to Neoushy with Rem it from London i declaring that the Council of premiers i had made substantial Progress on wet a Bement of the various questions the Jugo Lav government it was 1 said would not accept either the Lam j j Don pact or the councils Compromise i i adv As from Belgrade As quoted Iii i Oki Don dispatches said the Jugo Lav i government was firm in its deck Ion to i hold out for its original Contention of enforcement of president Wilson s plan for settlement of the Adriatic dispute. J creates sensation coming on the heels of dispatches a telling of tile president s Quot dismissal of so rotary Lansing the report of Wilson s note created a sensation in i political circles Lier. Practically the entire press regarded i the rinsing a a lode As dismissal of ii he Secretary and characterised it a j 1 autocratic and Quot Tho manner of eliminating Banning t j leaves no doubt that Wilson a autor j i racy i Awakening Quot let a a resale de i j dared. I the journal Des Debal believed the tin account of Wilson s illness i i nosing was perfectly excusable in j i having assembled the Cabinet to Deal j with essential Wilson has re entered the Cene by i brusquely and brutally dismissing j �0 in fury Lansing l declared. The newspaper however saw Hope in tile fact that under Secretary \ Brank Bolk Quot is a great defender of Bianc n interests Quot comment varies comment j the preside i draw if til ill Adriatic question is not upheld. Des debuts believed minted in the right press a declared that Adriatic question in president Wilson break vip everything withdraw a vane on the action of it in threatening to with i ruled let a Usa attitude on que Davis and Polk held Likely candidates Baker is dark horse Washington a nomination of a new Secretary of stale a awaited with intense interest in Washington today As the next development in the virtually forced resignation of Secrce tary rinsing. Among those mentioned As possible successors Are John w. Davis United states ambassador to great Britain. Frank l. Polk under Secretary of state now acting Secretary for 20 Days after the resignation of Lansing Newton i. Baker Secretary of War. Tho disposition at both the White House and the slate department today was to leave the Wilson i Ansing break a closed incident. Former Secretary of Commerce Redfield statement in new York sat relay that at the first a unauthorized Cabinet meetings last a it to bar Admiral Grayson president Wilson s personal physician brought an inquiry from the president to the Cabinet was confirmed by the xxx int House attaches today tile nomination of John a Davis to succeed rinsing to been predicted in an unusually Well informed Quarter. Davis formerly the solicitor general of the United states had much experience in connection with the a Eucce negotiation. Polk a income familiar with the duties of til Secretary of state during his services there and White he was head a of the american peace delegation in parts. Polk also served a councillor of the state department. It is believed Polk would accept the nomination. Baker is tin Quot dark horse in the speculation us to who will is the next Secretary. He is said to by in perfect Harmony with the policy of president Wilson of Wilson selects Baker. Assistant Secretary of War Benedict to Rowell probably will be made head of the War department. Promise Relief from cold wave Chicago forecasters Preda Ted relict Ledux from Chicago coldest Wax of the Winter the Mercury Tell to Iota Low Zero yesterday and was fix a la Low Early this morning. Gonzales near rebel ambush it Basi i Genera Pablo s candidate for a president of Mexico and commander of Federal forces trying to conquer the i Ohio re to is in the Tampico Oil Region narrowly escaped capture in in ambush according to delayed reports received Gonzales at most walk Chicago president Wilson be cause of i illness should re tire from office now Quot under the advice of i physicians and family land or. Arthur Dean Revan. Former president of Tho american medical association and professor of surgery at Rush medical College. Saidl today. In a statement which he said wag hated on known facts in the president s illness or. Levan said Quot the presidents stroke with the resulting paralysis of one Side of Hist Ody. Is due to a disease of the arteries of i brain with a plugging up of Tho arteries which Supply part of the right Side of his brain which con trois his left Arm and log. Quot the disease of the arteries is a permanent and not a temporary condition in other words the president has a permanently damaged brain. To is evidently slowly recovering from the paralysis of his Arm and leg. And May i recover fairly Well. Although never completely the us of hts limbs. But the diseased arteries which were responsible for the stroke and the damaged brain remain and will not be recovered or. To Van stated that a patient in this condition Quot under no circumstances should be permitted to resume the work of such a strenuous position As that of president. Llu stated the Strain and responsibility would endanger a recurrence of the attack and Quot might hasten a fatal student Dies in Mountain storm Diblin n. Reynders of new York Harvard senior who a attempt to Saye the life of Charlo melt agh or. Of new York were unavailing when they were caught in a blizzard White climbing mount Monad Nock is recovering from exposure. Mcveagh. Graduate student at Princeton and son of the counsel for the United states steel corporation and Reynders left Tho Mcveagh estate Lierz saturday for a Jaunt up Tim Mountain. Misled by the warm weather they wore no overcoats hat or gloves. When near the Summit they were caught in the blizzard and lost. Ii Hen bred Nettleton caretaker on the Mcveagh estate found them after firing his revolver and being answered by Reynders Mcveagh was dead of a a sure and exhaustion. His companion had done everything to protect him from the cold but without Success. Says my ado will accept Indian a poli8--the Indiana Dali or Tim published by w. Ii. Boyce today said William g. Mcadoo will accept the in be rat in nomination fur la presidency a if the people demand his Are the Artic a endorsed Mcadoo a candidate for president and Thomas Taggart former i Sam it it rat in National Haltman. For United states senator from Indiana to succeed Harry s. New. The paper is regarded a the pro Gres Oivo to it to rustic Organ in Indiana. Charge sorcery in French trial Here Toda the head of 200 men Ai Ito a rebel trap by Whir a stuck broker an to it a bunk clerk have three months Imp police official a Hester Leader and been sentenced to Ison ment for their to will journal son s in Tion a a to Orff but u a moment the r settlement is about to threatening to Wilson to name rail committee Washington president Wilson is expected to make Public today or tomorrow the names of n commit the of experts to classify All data on the Railroad wag problem now in posses Hecks stun of the government departments s the i under the president s plan for Settie Money comes in. The we Wilt Mali and a. I int of the wag controversy the Comino tee will go to work immediate it l said non commit a tally that in new of the fact that th�1 United stat controls immense quantities of franc Pound and lire. The Aliis will la it reluctant to release the i i Thunderbolt of Wrath. Former serbian pretender dead Paris brine Alexander Kara a Georgr vetch former pretender to the 1 serbian Thron and husband of till former in. Kruger Pratt of Cleveland. J in. Is dead it St. Montz a dispatch i said today. Rho i xxi will a rent to i Bari Foi burial. T Bol sox had planned to take Gonzaba prisoner and it cute him in revenge for the shooting of Gen. In lips Angeles \ Illissa rebel in tit Huihua City. No reduction in War guilty list Paris Tho new Allied not to Germany on delivery of her War guilty Doe not reduce the list whose surrender is demanded it was i trn a authoritatively Tod re instead to a note Points out that Germany is failing to execute the treaty of Versailles. The note Doe admit however that since Germany has manifested a de Lre to try the accused herself the Iii Are not opposed to this plan but will not participate in any Gentian trial. Instead it was said the Alitz will Reserve the right ultimately to Force German to give up an of the War guilty whom German tribunals should Lait to try Aud punish properly. Attack on Alii a sup Unghi a syrian priest accused by Madame Many Mesmin of Phi ing her under a sorcerer sped after endeavouring to deprive her of the Quot weeping Virgin Quot an image from the eyes of which tears flowed copiously. The image was a i moved from Madame Mesmin so. J session to a Francescan Convent where it no longer weep. Two steamers Call for help Boston the United state ship i Ping Bard Steamer red Mountain it ported disabled and adrift 1,000 Milf i East of new York probably w ill by 1 taken in Tow by the steamship Al my a port also a shipping Board vessel Latex Toda. According to a wireless me Sag received Here. A Putin Gott of the disabled Steamer i said tubes in All three boilers had i blown out. Ithe Steamer Oriti also is reported in distr. Two Steamer Are gun of to Hor assistance

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