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Items from All Parts of the World Carefully Selected from the Press Telegrams. A Weekly Digest of the Most Important Facts and Happenings for Busy Readers. Sunday. SCHIAVONES FOUND NOT GUILTY. French floods were fast assuming the proportions of a national disaster Banker's Daughter Falls to Convince Gifford Pinchot has been made presithe Jury with Her Story. dent of the National Conservation As A jury in Chicago returned a verdict sociation. of not guilty in the case of Francesco Schiavone and four members of his Ezra Kendall, widely known come family, who were accused by Angelina dian, died at a sanitarium in Indiana Schiavone of having conspired with after a long illness. her to steal nearly $100,000 from the Negotiations opening in the wage bank of her father, Pasquale Schiadispute involved 125,000 trainmen and vone, at Taylor and Halsted streets. seventy-four railroads. Angelina swore that she had been inThe National Anti-Food Trust duced by the promise that she should League, with a membership of 3,000,have her cousin, Michael Schiavone, 000 and gaining thousands every day. as a husband to continue her peculaissued platform telling how it will tions through a number of years. She fight for continued lower prices of was employed in her father's bank and food. had access to his money. She said that she was in the habit of removing Monday. several hundred dollars every week in A pronounced drop in the price of bills, turning the money over to her foodstuffs was recorded in the wholeuncle, Francesco, or to her consin, Molsale markets. lie Schiavone. Assistant State's AtA New York banker was robbed of torney Fleming. who was greatly dis$28,000 by two women in a New York appointed at the result of the trial, street. A Chicago pair were held. said that a number of other charges President Taft plans a special mesagainst the Schiavones would be dissage on the high cost of living. Secmissed. retary Wilson blames the retailers' combines. CHERRY MINE MADE DEFENDANT The agreement of the members of Company Accused by Davies of Emthe Hocking pool leaked out and eviploying Young Boys. dence is that a traitor in camp caused Information has been filed against the deal's collapse. the St. Paul Mine Company at Cherry, Paris and suburbs were hard hit by by State Factory Inspector Davies, althe flood, which still raged. The Seine leging it was employing boys under 16 continued to rise and thousands of peryears of age in the mine at the time of sons were homeless. the disaster. Three boys under 16 Tuesday. years of age lost their lives in the mine and two were rescued. and a France officially recognized the sixth, who had just passed his 16th birthday of the kaiser. birthday, perished in the fire. Four The Twentieth Century Limited was others were several weeks past the lewrecked in New York State. gal age, but they had worked for a The National board of trade will inyear or two, and therefore the mine vestigate the high prices of food. owners are liable if the cases can be The prices of butter, eggs and milk proved. Mr. Davies had three assistfall as a result of the meat strike. ants on the ground at Cherry, arrivThe Yerkes art collection was ordering there the Tuesday after the accied sold at auction by court in New dent, and remaining several weeks. York. They were denied the records of the company by Chief Clerk Buck, but Receivers were appointed at Columlater discovered a way to trace the bus, Ohio, for the Columbus and Hockboys' ages. ing Coal and Iron group of companies. The intervention by outside nations, ADMITS KILLING WOMAN. probably the United States, is the only thing that can restore peace in NicarClinton St. Clair Confesses to Meagua. Intosh Murder at Rockford. Clinton St. Clair and wife were arA powerful lobby influencing Conrested in Rockford as suspects in the gress practically to donate Alaska coal murder of Mrs. Mary E. McIntosh, 76 lands to "special interests" was alleg. years of age, who was found in her ed by John E. Ballaine, who who asked home with her throat cut and body lease. slashed in terrible fashion. In the arWednesday. rest of the St. Clairs the police hope America is to apply financial protecto clear up a list of hitherto baffling torates over Honduras and Liberia. murder mysteries. The evidence points The formation of a billion dollar strongly to St. Clair. the police say, as a letter found among the letters of copper trust was announced in New York. the victim dropped by the murderer in flight was one his wife had given Floods continued to spread over and St. Clair to mail. St. Clair was with under Paris: the art treasures in a woman who was ground to pieces by Louvre were menaced. a train ten years ago. When confrontSecretary Wilson said living costs ed by the evidence and under police more in the United States than anypressure St. Clair confessed killing where else in the world. Mrs. MeIntesh. The United Mine Workers of AmerSALETY PIN IN BOY'S THROAT. ica agreed to "stand or fall together" on their wage increase demand. Strangulation Results in Its ReAn American messenger, bearing moval After Two Years. dispatches to Rear Admiral Kimball, When 6 months of age, the son of was ejected from a train in Labrador. Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Pease of Garden Boston citizens at a mass meeting Prairle swallowed an open safety pin. decide to quit eating meat and lower Physicians were never able to recover prices by the law of supply and deit and said the acids of the stomach mand. would destroy it in a few months This The Federal court quashed the libel was two years ago. Recently, as the indictment against the New York child was eating a piece of chicken, he World based on its Panama Canal strangled. Reaching her fingers down charges. her son's throat, Mrs. Pease found and A fisherman from Buffalo was shot removed the safety pin. It was black dead in Niagara River from the Canexcept the point, which was still adian shore, and a Dominion game inbright. The child will probably recover. spector admitted firing at the boat. Thursday. Seeks to Undo Deneen's Act. Former Sheriff Frank E. Davis inGov. Deneen of Illinois is training stituted quo warranto proceedings in his guns in opposition to direct plura!the Circuit court of Alexander coun ity primary and hopes to defeat the ty to gain back the office from which Gibson amendment to the Senate bill. Governor Deneen deposed him on ac Paroles were granted to Paul O. count of the double lynching. The suit Stensland and Henry W. Hering, rewill test the law under which the govspectively president and cashier of the ernor acted. wrecked Milwaukee Avenue State Bank of Chicago. ( Standard Sued for $600. Friday. The Standard Oil Company was made defendant in a $600 damage suit Fifteen persons were killed when a filed by the city of Carmi. The comton of nitroglycerin exploded at Cold pany is alleged to have violated a city Springs, N. Y. ordinance prohibiting the storage of Organized labor has appointed a oil in quantities exceeding 60 gallons committee to investigate the cause of in the city limits. the high cost of living. A wreck in Canada killed more than Fifteen Hurt in Consting Mishaps. twenty persons, perhaps forty, and the Fifteen persons were hurt. six of cars plunged into an ice covered river. them seriously, in two coasting acciSaturday. dents in Alton. A bobsled carrying eight persons collided with an ambuMrs. Dore Lyon, the noted woman's lance and the horses fell on the sled. club leader, failed for $503,246; she Later another sled with seven perwas too poor to pay the fee. sons collided with an automobile. Vincent A. Altman was acquitted in for
