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of unusual executive ability. H is a close friend of Mr. Wilson. Mr. Garri Garrison - son Garrison was born in Camden, N. J., No November - vember November 28. 1864. He is a son of Rev. Joseph P. Garrison, an Episcopal clergyman.' He is a brother of Justice Charles G. Garrison of the New Jersey supreme court.- He was appointed to the chancery court in June, 1904, and reappointed by Chancellor Mahlon Pit Pitney, - ney, Pitney, now a justice of the .United States Supreme court, in 1911 for a term of seven . years. .Vv - ' ' James C. McReynoids. In picking James Clark McReynoids for the position of attorney general Mr. Wilson selected a man who has had a lot of experience as a "trust buster." He is a native of Elkton, Ky., where he was born in 1S62, and a grad graduate - uate graduate of Vanderbilt university and the law school of the University of Vir Virginia. - ginia. Virginia. From 1903 to 1907 he was as assistant - sistant assistant attorney general of the United States. He then returned to private practice, bat has been "retained as special assistant to the attorney gen general - eral general in matters relating to the en enforcement - forcement enforcement of the anti-trust laws. Mr. McReynoids is unmarried. - Albert 8. ' Burleson. -Albert Sidney Burleson already has served seven consecutive . .terms . as congressman from the Tenth' district of Texaa and was re-elected to the Sixty-third congress, r He was born .in San Marcos, Tex., in. 1863, was edu educated - cated educated at the Agricultural and Me Mechanical - chanical Mechanical College of Texas, Baylor uni university - versity university and the University of Texas, and was admitted to the bar in 1884. He was assistant city attorney of Aus Austin - tin Austin for several years, before going to congress. Mrs. Burleson was Miss Adele Steiner of Austin. - . Josephus Daniels. Joeephus Daniels, secretary of the navy, is the one newspaper man given place in the cabinet. He has also been active in politics and is the mem member - ber member of the Democratic national com committee - mittee committee for North Carolina. Mr. Dan Daniels - iels Daniels was born in 1862 at Washington. N. C, and began . his newspaper; ca career - reer career at the age of eighteen aa editor of thft. Wilson (N. 'C.) Advance, in 188Sf he became editor of the Raleigh State Chronicle, which nine years later he consolidated with the North Caro Carolinian - linian Carolinian and the News and Observer. - - Franklin K. Lane. . Franklin Knight' Lane has been a member of the interstate- commerce commission since 1905, and this expe experience - rience experience is Relieved to have fitted him for the executive and, judicial tasks in administering the public land laws of the country. Born in Prince Edward Island in 1864, he received his educa education - tion education in the University of California and became a lawyer in San Francis Francisco. - co. Francisco. Prior to his designation to the commission he was a Democratic po political - litical political leader in "California. He was Democratic candidate for governor, being defeated by a narrow margin. Subsequently he was the Democratic caucus candidate for United States senator. v David -F. Houston. In David Franklin Houston, chan chancellor - cellor chancellor of Washington university, St. Louis, Wilson has a secretary of ag agriculture - riculture agriculture who is faneSSSar with the pro processes - cesses processes of 'advancing scientific farming and allied questions in this country. Mr. Houston was president of the Tex Texas - as Texas Agricultural and Mechanical college for a number of years, and has taught in several other educational institu institutions. - tions. institutions. He was born in Monroe, N. C, in 1866, was educated at South Caro Carolina - lina Carolina college and Harvard, and . re received - ceived received the degree of LL; D. from Tu Tu-lane - lane Tu-lane and the University of Wisconsin. He married Miss Helen Beall of Aus Austin, - tin, Austin, Tex., in 1895.. V . William C. Redfield. ' William Cox .Redfield has Just com completed - pleted completed his first term as a congressman, but he has been prominent in the poli politics - tics politics of New s York for a goodVmany years. In 1902 and J 90S he was1 com commissioner - missioner commissioner of publte t works for' the Borough of Brooklyn. In priva'te ltfe he is a manufacturer of ventilating and heating apparatus and engines. Mr. Redfield was born in 1858 in Ak bany, N. Y., "was educated in the schools of that city, and removed to New York in ,1877 atid to Brooklyn lri 1883. :-; : ' 'r ' ' , ' William B. Wilson. Pennsylvania's representative in the cabinet is William Bauchop Wilson of Blossburg. named for secretary of la-; bor. He was born. In Blantyre, Scot Scot-land - land Scot-land In 1862, and caine to this country in 1870.' The -next year he began working ia the'. Pennsylvania . coal mines, and from early manhood he has been actively interested in trade union affairs. For eight years - he was inr ternatlonal secretary-treasurer of the United Mine Workers o: America. He is now engaged In farming. Mr. Wil Wilson - son Wilson has been a member of the last three congresses, representing the Fif: teenth' district of his state. He li married and has nine children.

ONE HUNDRED INJURED WHEN - SHIP LOADING DYNAMITE IS BLOWN TO ATOMS. U. S. COLLIER JASON WRECKED Many Other Crafts Destroyed - and Damaged by Terrific Blast In BaltK more Harbor Surrounding Coun Country - try Country Shaken by Awful Shock. Baltimore. Md March 10. Fifty lives were lost and 100 were Injured Friday when nearly 350 tons of dyna dynamite - mite dynamite which had been loaded Into the hold of the British steamer " Alum Chine, at anchor in the Patapaco river near Hawkins Pointy exploded. The property damage will amount to fully 13,000,000. The explosive had been loaded into the vessel to be taken to Panama to be used In the construction of the canal.' A fire of unknown origin broke out on the vessel while the last of the explosive was being loaded. It spread with lightning rapidity to the dynamite and when the explosion occurred the vessel was blown Into " bits and sent hurling in all directions through the air. Bits of the steel sides of the Alum Chine were blown with" such force that they tore their, way through' the armored sides of the collier Jason nearly a mile away, killing four men and injuring ten others aboard the collier. The tug Atlantic of the At Atlantic - lantic Atlantic Transport company caught fire while rescuing some of those on the ill-fated ship and was sunk. Other damage was caused by the breaking of glass and Wood work in dwellings as far S3 several miles from the- scene. The greatest damage a6ide from the absolute loss of the Alum Chine was to the collier Jason. This giant of its type had just been completed at the Maryland Steel works and was at anchor ready to start on its trial trip. Its sides were battered by fly flying - ing flying steel and it appeared to have been in a battle. Its interior was demol demolished. - ished. demolished. Thirteen bodies are at the morgue and nine have been identified. More than fifty of the injured were brought in to Brown's wharf and Spar Sparrow's - row's Sparrow's Point and taken to the hospitals of the' city. The shock was felt as far away as Reading, Pa , 100 miles from Balti Baltimore. - more. Baltimore. It was recorded also at Atlan Atlantic - tic Atlantic City. People at first thought an earthquake had occurred. A school school-house - house school-house at Sparrow's Point, several mile from the scene of the' explosion, was partly destroyed and several children were hurt. Baltimore itself was sha shaken - ken shaken as if by a powerful trembling of the earth, and tall buildings in the center of the city rocked perceptible. Scores of vessels hurried to the scene of the disaster to render what aid they could. The explosion was so powerful that pieces of steel weighing fifty- pounds were hurled through the air for a distance of four miles. Cases of dynamite were thrown for a great distance from the Chine and exploded a3 they fell, adding to the damage and destruction. FLASHES OFF THE WIRE ooooocoooooooooooooocooooo Indianapolis, March 6. Local op option - tion option elections were held in four In Indiana - diana Indiana cities Tuesday and In all the anti-saloon forces were victors. -In Wabash the contest was ckBerthe "drys" winning by only 13 majority. Erie, Pa., March 8. Commodore Perry's " old flagship, tha Niagara, which for almost" century has rested at the bottom of Misery bay, an arm of Lake Erie, was raised darln'g a blinding snowstorm Thursday. San Francisco, March 7. -Col. H. C. Schumm faces court-martial for bring bringing - ing bringing Marie Von Klein of Chicago, up upfront - front upfront Manila on a United States trans transport - port transport as a nurse. She wanted ": to be near her fiancee, Lieut, AJ' B. Miller, and the colonel let her come and vio violated - lated violated regulations by doing so. Berlin, March 7. The total number of dead as the result of the ramming of torpedo boat destroyer S178 . y the Yorck off 1 Heligoland was .tfvea ofLJally as 71, Including two officers . and 69 men. It Is stated by tha admir admiralty - alty admiralty that most of these did not die o! drowning, bat-t "were froaen to death while clinging to loose spars after their vessel had sunk. Cleveland, O.. March JL The 48 ves vessels - sels vessels comprising the ten Seels of the -Gilchrist Transportation company, op operating - erating operating on the great lakes, were sold at auction by Receiver S. P. Shane a the federal court here. Tha sale net-: ted 83,500,000. Stockholders will re re-lize - lize re-lize nothing, as the claims against tfc company exceed tha proceeds of th auction. -. Bankers holding naorisas , bid in.icbat of tire vesesla : &t iv thirds valuation ' - " ' -r -

32,000 TURKS TAKEN GREEK SOLDIERS -CAPTURE "JA "JA-' - ' "JA-' NINA AFTER TERRIFIC FIGHT. Three Transports Carrying Servian "Troops" Ate Sunk by the Ottoman ' Cruiser Hamidieh. ' , Athens, Greece, : March. . r,The Turkish fortress of- Janina, key to the possession of the' - province of. Eplrus, with Its garrison of 32,000 men, surrendered to the Greek army Thursday, . after a defense which forms one of the most brilliant epi episodes - sodes episodes of the Balkan war. The sur surrender - render surrender was preceded by a fierce bom bombardment, - bardment, bombardment, lasting withoutce8satlou for two days and two nights. Not fewer; than 30,000 shells were fired by the Greek guns during the first day's cannonade. - Gradually the Turkish batteries of B Irani, Manoliara, Sakni and elsewhere were silenced. By a feint the Greek commanders hd the Turks to believe that their attack would be made "from the right. As soon as the attention of the defenders had been distracted the Greeks hurled large bodies of infantry against the Turkish left The Ottoman troops, .ut .utterly - terly .utterly surprised, fell back In disorder. The . batteries on the heights, of .Bl .Bl-zani, - zani, .Bl-zani, the mainstay of the defense, had been unable to stand the pelting of the shells and were reduced to silence at eleven o'clock in the morning. The Greeks pushed . their forward mo;ye mo;ye-ment - ment mo;ye-ment during the afternoon and occu occupied - pied occupied the Turkish batteries on the Sak Sakni - ni Sakni and Elas hills, capturing all the guns and 110 artillerymen. Then the Greek battalions gradually deployed onto the plain in front of the city it itself. - self. itself. . " ' - - ' - '. -.'With all the defending batteries in the hands of the Greeks and the Hel Hellenic - lenic Hellenic soldiers at the gates of Janina. Essaad Pash, the Turkish command commander, - er, commander, sent messengers under a flag' of truce to Crown Prince 'ConstanUne of Greece, announcing the surrender of the city and. all the troops under his command. - -J ..- ; " '.-Z - Vienna, . Austria, , March 8. The Turkish eriser Hamidieh sank three Greek transports loaded with Servian troopson the way to Scutari, accord according - ing according to a Constantinople dispatch to the Neue Freie Presse Thursday. SENATE CONFIRMS MARBLE Interstate . Cbmmsrce . Commission Now Has Its Full ; Membership With Clark Chairman. Washington. March . 8. The - nom nomination' - ination' nomination' of - John H. " Marble to be a member of the Interstate -. commerce commission was favorably reported to the 'senate Friday by a unanimous vote ; of .; the committee. ; He ; was' promptly confirmed "and; that admin administrative - istrative administrative body again will have a full membership. Edgar ,B. Clark, nom nominated - inated nominated to succeed himself - and r con confirmed, - firmed, confirmed, was named as chairman of the commission to succeed. JPtanklln K. Lane, who went into -the new cab cabinet. - inet. cabinet. - ": '. "'' ":".,'.''- '" " "'"' Mrs. Letter Is Burlsd.- Waahlngton, March 10. The funeral of . Mrs. Levi Z. Letter took place at 2 p. m. Saturday from Lelter Castle; iMipont circle. -Rev. Roland - Cotton Smith ..of. SL Johns'church officiated. 'Many 'diplomats attended.'

MOST OF THEM WELL KKOWIJ Bryan of Course Heads the List Mc McReynoids - Reynoids McReynoids Experienced In Enforc Enforcing - ing Enforcing Anti-Trust Laws McAdoo Noted Builder of Railway V, Tunnels. Washington. President Wilson ou Wednesday sent to the Benate the names of the following as the jmem jmem-twtrs - twtrs jmem-twtrs of t his cabinet: Secretary of State William,. Jen Jennings - nings Jennings Bryan of Nebraska. Secretary, of the Treasury William G. McAdoo of New York. Secretary of War Llndley M. Gar Garrison - rison Garrison of New Jersey. ; Attorney GeneralJames C. McRey McReynoids - noids McReynoids -of Tennessee.. Pastmaster General Albert Burle Burleson - son Burleson of Texas. Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels of North Carolina. Secretary of the - Interior Franklin K. Lane of California. Secretary of Agriculture David A. Houston of Missouri. Secretary of Commerce William C. Redfield of New York. ' Secretary of Labor William B. Wil Wilson - son Wilson of Pennsylvania. - "With one or two ceptjons, these men hare attained considerable na national - tional national fame, and all of them are ad admittedly - mittedly admittedly able. ' .-' Mr. Bryan's Career. William J. Bryan has been so much In the public eye for a good .many .years that , a sketch of his career seems almost superfluous, Born . in Salem, 111., la 1860; he was 'graduated with highest Vonors from Illinois col college - lege college at Jacksonville In 1881 and re- WILLIAM J. BRYAN, Secretary of State. 1 ceived his master's degree in 1884. In 1883 he was given the' degreo of liL. B. by Union College f Law, Chi Chicago. - cago. Chicago. After practicing law in Jack Jacksonville - sonville Jacksonville and Lincoln, Neb., he erved as a member of ;ther"52nd and "&3rd congresses. Having- written tha 'sil 'sil-yer - yer 'sil-yer pbink" for the Democratic na national - tional national convention of 1896 and . made sensational, speech, ;he was nomi nominated - nated nominated for president, but was defeated by"William . -McKinley. Nominated again in 1900, he was again beaten by SIcKinley, and then established the Commoner and made a tour of the world. Nominated a third time . in 1808, he was defeated by W. H. TafL ,Mr. Bryan .married Mary Elizabeth Balrd in 1884. He has done much lac lac-tnring - tnring lac-tnring and written several, books. McAdoo the Tunnel Builder. . . ' William Glbba . McAdoo though a lawyer by-, profession, ' la known to tnoet .people as the builder of the reat system of railway tunnels of Wew York city. He was born near Marietta," Ga., in 1863 and : was , edu educated - cated educated at the University of Tennessee. 5n 1885 he was admitted to the ban and the aame. year he married Sarah Houston Fleming of Chattanooga. He Entered the practice of law ; in New ,Tork in 1832, and since 1901 has been Interested chiefly in. tunnel const ruc ruction - tion ruction there. He is president of . the Hudson -& Manhattan Railroad com company. - pany. company. ; "-j Llndley M. Garrison. The selection of Llndley M. Garri-on,"Tlce-chancellor of New Jersey,, to ,-,ie secretary of war Is in - line with JPresident -Wilson's idea that the hold holder - er holder of that posltton should ba. a raaa

BARS OFFICE SEEKER PRESIDENT .WILSON SAYS ONLY - THOSE HIE INVITES CAN TAKE i UP HIS TIME. STARTS V0RK WITH A RUSH Democrats n Senate and Houte Begin-Changes at Once and Bustle of New Administration Startles the Old Timers. Washiagtoo, 'March 7. President Wilson had notified air office seekers that he did rot intend talking to them before the White House clock struck ten Wednesday morning. Inside of the next hour he had held and re received - ceived received and accepted the res5gnation of the old cabinet, held a meeting of the new cabinet, made two Important appointments to the interstate com commerce - merce commerce commission and dictated half a dozen letters. ' The Interstate commissioners named were Edgar C. Clark of Iowa, to" suc succeed - ceed succeed blmself, and John H. Marble, secretary of the commission, to suc succeed - ceed succeed Franklin K. Lane,' who went into the eabinet. Thus' was inaugurated the most sweeping change of administration within the memory of the oldest in inhabitant7 - habitant7 inhabitant7 in Washington, a change that ia complete in both legislative and executive branches of the govern government. - ment. government. - - " . -. y Not to be outdone by the swift dis dispatch - patch dispatch of business at the White House, the Democrats took over the control oif the senate by '"electing "'. iohn V. Kern majority leader, while the. house Democrats in . caucus made sure the re-election of Speaker Clark and Lead Lead-er - er Lead-er Underwood and gave, to A. Mitch Mitchell - ell Mitchell Palmer the caucus chairmanship that will enable him to represent the administration on -the. floor. ; ." Meanwhile the" national committee had met and made plana for. continu continuing - ing continuing in control of the government four years from now. ; Altogether . It ' was a ,day of action .such "as took away the breath of the slow-going .Republic cans. . . .-. ' - - - ' ' Members of the cabinet arrived w bile President Wilson . was ; talking with v Mr.- Crane. Josephus Daniels, the new secretary of the navy, was fl rst, and he was followed by Llndley M. Garrison, the Jiew secretary" of war; William G. Wilson, the first sec secretary - retary secretary of. labor; William Jennings Bryan, secretary of state; Franklin K. Lane, . who' leaves the chairman chairmanship' - ship' chairmanship' of the interstate commerce com commission - mission commission to become secretary i of the interior ;" David F.-"Houston, chancel chancellor" - lor" chancellor" of Washmgton'MinlversSty, SL Louis, who becomes secretary of agrir culture'; Albert . S. Burlesoa, who gives up his place in the bouue 4q be postmaster, general; '-William ;B. - Red Red-field, - field, Red-field, anoUiei:. member cf cangresa, who becomes secretary cf commerce, and James G; McReynolds,'''iiUorney rgenfnri. William G. McAdoo, the newn secretary of the treasury, was last. "Wabash' Song' Up .to Qovsrnor. - -IndlanapoUa. v.Ind-, March " 'On the Hants of-the Wabasnrwni be,In be,In-dlaaa'a - dlaaa'a be,In-dlaaa'a official song if a fcili piisse"3T)y the hoWse-' and senate i signed by Gov-erst'-Ralstou'. : 'P-rr: .

OUSTER SUIT'lS FILED TEXAS SEEKS-TO DRIVE STAND STAND-. - . STAND-. W ARD OIL OUT OF STATE. Attorney General Asks Penalties To Totaling - taling Totaling $28,025,000 and Dissolution of Alleged Trust. Greenville,' Tex., March : 7. Suit seeking to ' oust the Standard Oil company and its subsidiaries from the state was filed on Wednesday In the Eighth district court against four com companies - panies companies and twenty-five individuals by Attorney General Looney. The petition asks for . penalties ' to totaling - taling totaling 128,025,000. foreclosure on cer cer-taiA - taiA cer-taiA properties of the corporations to make certain of payment of the fines, a dissolution of the alleged trust and Injunction. " The penalties sought are the largest ever asked in a single suit in the country. Violation of the Texas anti-trust laws is given as cause for the action. The defendant com companies - panies companies are the Standard Oil company of New Jersey, Standard Oil company of New York, Magnolia Petroleum company of Texas and Corsicana Pe Petroleum - troleum Petroleum company of Texas. The Tex Texas - as Texas concerns are alleged in the petition to be but branches of the two eastern oil companies. - The individual defendants are Court Courtney - ney Courtney Marshall and George C. Greer, Beaumont; John Sealy and R. Waver Waver-ly - ly Waver-ly Smith, Galveston; E. R. Brown, W.. C. Proctor. Charles HalIyn. S. P. Whitehall, James M. Garrety, B. E. Plumley, and D. C Stewart, Corsica Corsicana; - na; Corsicana; A. C. Cobb and W. P. Gage, Fort Worth; J. Q. Taber, Paris; A. C. Ebie. Dallas; ,C. N. Payne. Tltusville, Pa.; H. C. Folger, Jr., J. C. Folger, J. D. Archbold of New York City; O. C. Edwards, Norwalk. Mass.; John D. Rockefeller, Howard ' Payne. Charles W Harkness, C. : Mr. Pratt and L. C. Ledyard, New York. " MONOPOLY CHARGE IS DENIED James Gayley Testifies in Suit Alleg: ing U. S. Steel Corporation Is Illegal Combine. New. York,. March 8. -Denial of. any intent on the part of the United States Steel corporation to secure a' monop monopoly - oly monopoly of. iron ore was voiced by James Gayley, formerly vice-pronident of the corporation, on the witness stand in the government's suit to dissolve the so-called trusL . The question of monopoly never en entered - tered entered my head," Mr. Gayley ; testified. "My whole ambition, was to see that the corporation had a supply, of ore for a long term of years ai a matter of seprotection.',t-v ' ' " The witness added that, monopoliza monopolization - tion monopolization was never a "subject of discussion among the men with whom he was as sociated. " Pay of Telegraphers Increased. : Beaton, March 8. Increases . in 'wages for the telegraph operators, towermen and swltchtenders on three of U9 "seven divisions of the New York, New Haven and. Hartford rail railroad - road railroad h&ve 'been agreed on by a con conference - ference conference committee . composed of offi cers of. the road and of the Order, of Railroad Telegraphers. "The amount of the. acrease,ha not been given out.

This photograph shows the men of the Twenty-seven m infantry, at Fort Sheridan, leading equipment and sup supplies - plies supplies on the trains for their hurried trip to Texas, where they and thousands of other American soldiers are ready for any emergency across the border. ' . -