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News Brevities WASHINGTON Speaker Champ Clark, candidate for the democratic presidential nomination, and Henry Watterson, of Louisville, discussed the political situation here Saturday. Whether they discussed presidential prospects neither would say. NEW YORK-Mrs. Oliver H. P. Belmont says she is planning to start a daily newspaper to be managed by women and devoted entirely to their interests. She declared that women did not have a fair representation in the news of the day and thought the time was ripe for women to come to the front editorially. CHICAGO--All babies born in Chicago hospitals are stamped, it was announced Sunday, after attention has been called to the problem now vexing two Paris mothers. As soon as a baby arrives a label bearing the name of the mother, the date and hour of birth and the name of the attending physisian is attached to the child. LAKE CHARLES, LA.-Badly mutilated, the bodies of Felix Brussard, his wife and three children, aged 8, 6 and 3, negroes, were found Sunday in their home here, making the second wholesale negro murder in this state within a week and the sixth within a year. A bloodstained ax was found beneath the bed on which the bodies lay. KANSAS CITY, MO.-A warrant was issued Saturday for Henry W. Richardson, former president of the suspended American Union Trust company, of Kansas City, which closed its doors December 30. He is charged with making a false entry in the books of the company while he was its chief officer. He was an organizer of the trust company which absorbed the All Night and Day bank last July. He resigned as president last August. AUSTIN, TEX.-Killing of George Lock, a cattleman at Buda, Tex., yesterday because he disregarded quarantine regulations prompted by the epidemic of meningitis, probably will result in the immediate raising of the rigid quarantine. The state health officer said: 'Shotgun quarantines' have not been warranted, and I will issue a statement tomorrow saying the epidemic is under control and that rigid quarantines are unnecessary." WASHINGTON-Among friends of President Taft it is generally understood that the nomination of United States Circuit Judge Hook, of Kansas, to the supreme court, succeeding the late Justice Harlan, would be sent to the Senate during the present week. Objections to Judge Hook, referred to Attorney General Wickersham it was said have not proved convincing to the president. and he is inclined to make the appointment shortly. NEW YORK-With a feeling denunciation of the principle of judicial recall delivered to the bar association of the state of New York at its banquet Saturday night, President Taft concluded a busy evening here, which he employed chiefly in speech making at three different functions. After a plea for simplification of legal procedure which he argued with much earnestness before the company of lawyers, Mr. Taft waxed even more incisive in coming to the topic upon which he evidently felt SO deeply. WASHINGTON-Senator Heyburn, of Idaho, is challenged by Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, in an editorial in the February issue of the American Federationist to produce in a court of law any evidence he may have of any illegal operations performed by Gompers. The editorial is based on the occurrence in the Senate last Thursday when Senator Heyburn declared that "no communication should be received from Mr. Gompers because of the facts disclosed in the McNamara trial and subsequent thereto." MUSKOGEE. OKLA.-With both eyes blackened and swollen, his face and lips, cut, his clothing torn and disheveled and with a policeman on guard at the pulpit, Rev. D. Noland Smith preached the dedicatory sermon in the First Methodist Episcopal church here Sunday. A two-weeks' legal battle for the possession of the new edifice culminated this morning in an assault upon the preacher as he was going to church. The assailant was C. M. McKee, a contractor, who had been held in jail three hours to compel him to turn over the keys of the building to the church officials. WASHINGTON-About six persons in every 100,000 in the United States were murdered in 1910. This estimate is made by Dr. Cressy L. Wilber, chief statistician of vital statistics of the census bureau. He attributes to homicide causes 2,109 of the 48,606 deaths from violence in that year. This is at the rate of 5.9 per 100,000, as against
