The Akron Beacon Journal from Akron, Ohio • Page 2

AKRON BEACON JOURNAL FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1916 WILD ANIMALS SCARCE; CIRCUS BREEDS MANY mals captured was an entire herd of giraffes, and a rare by-horned rhino-cerous. Several other animals that had never before been seen In Affier- ica were secured. The loss of animals by the circus during the year averages about five per cent. num Bailey circus has equipped several of these expeditions in fact it is the ony circus that has ever capitalized such a venture. The expense of one of these expeditions amounts to many thousands of dollars, but the results have been extremely gratifying.

Among the ani my gun up and let her go. My mind 1 seemed a said Blakeslee. "Where did you go then?" "I went to the Miller block, took off my bat and coat, and wrote a note. I don't remember what I wrote. Then I lay down on the Graphically and dramatically Blakeslee described how he had attempted suicide there, while the courtroom, buzzing with the sensations that had been sprung, stilled suddenly to hear.

Tells of Shooting Self. "I lay on my back and held the gun above me, pulling the trigger with my right 'hand," he said. "I lay there a few minutes afterward. I must have fainted. I hunted for the gun, but couldn't find it.

Then I went borne, got a coat, but didn't awaken my wife. Then I crawled in the haymow. I thought I could bleed to death there without any one seeing me." Cross-examination by the state, through Attorney Boyd of Cleveland, sought to establish the fact that SATURDAY ANN PENNINGTON Star of the "Ziegfeld Follies" as "Susie Snowflake" mmmm "kiivji The little musical comedy girl if I Defendant Hints That Gates Fired Through Coat Pocket at Him I MEDINA, July 15. Merciless and relentless persecution by Night i Watchman and Former Marshal John H. Gates, was revealed today In Mar-t shal Henry Blakeslee's trial tor the former's murder on the public square April 18, when the latter took the stand as the last and star witness In hie own defense.

The surprise of the trial was sprung when Blakeslee testified that on the night of the shooting Jie saw a flash from the same pocket vof Gates from which Sheriff R. L. "Gehman had drawn his band after tragedy, with the fingers clutched on the trigger with a death grip, and the hammer on an unexploded cartridge. I Incident after Incident of the blt- ter political feud that exiBted between the two men since Blakeslee defeated Gates for village marshal last November, was bared before the 'largest crowd that has picked the county courthouse since the beginning of the' trial. Blakeslee took the stand with a step, looking better than he has months, his friends said.

i Two hours' rigorous croBS-exam-itination by Attorney W. H. Boyd, of Cleveland, assisting the state, failed the least to shake the story he He stepped from the stand I a smile, more confident than ever of his final acquittal. 1 Attorney J. J.

Sullivan, of Cleve-r-land, assisting In the defense, ex-; Jsmined him. He asked him to relate ahe relations he had with Gates prior i Uo the tragedy. Thrown on Rubbish Blakeslee testified he had been knocked down on a rubbish heap at SAW FLASH BLAKESLEE SHOT Home Folks" with Gotham tactics. SUNDAY HAZEL DAWN in "THE SALESLADY" Tho Pink Lady" goes from ribbon counter to footlights. MONDAY GEORGE BEBAN in "PASQUALE" A drama of amazing action and great scenic effect -at.

ORPHEUM "PICTURES THAT PLEASE" SUNDAY ANNETTE KELLERM ANN The Perfect Formed Girl, in "Neptune Daughter" A Wonderful Spectacle in Seven Reels; A Gorgeous and Thrilling Production. MONDAY Blue Bird Pilrn Co. Presents HARRY CAREY in The THREE GODFATHERS' A Stirring Drama of Human Sympathy; a Masterpiece of Sympathetic Tenderness and Human Interest. TUESDAY "Pathe Film Co. Presents Henry Kind Marie Osborne in 'LITTLE MARY SUNSHINE' Ann Pennington in "Susie Sno II SPREAD OF DREADED DISEASE NEW YORK, July 15.

One hundred and forty-four new cases of infantile paralysis were reported "by the health depprtment Saturday, making a total of 1,863 cases since the epidemic started. At the same time, 27 more deaths were Recorded, increasing the total fatalities to 369. The period during which these new cases developed and deaths occurred was for 24 hours, from 10 a. m. Friday to the same hour today.

Today's figures on cases and deaths were lower than those of yesterday, the cases decreasing by 18 and deaths by four. Field inspectors here fighting the epidemic of infantile paralysis in the metropolitan district, found them- iselves attacked. Residents of the Fort Green section of Brooklyn advanced the theory that the health department inspectors were spreading the germs of the disease. Acting on this theory, they selected a committee to file a protest with the board of health. The Fort Green section is in the heart of Brooklyn and is built up largely with high-class apartment houses.

Until the health department began its city-wide crusade of inspection, not a case of infantile paralysis had been reported there. Inspectors visited the apartment buildings of the district last Monday and on Thursday a case of Infantile paralysis was found in an apartment building at Myrtle av. and Cumberland st. Another verified case was reported yesterday from the apartment house at 99 Carlton av and three suspected cases were reported in the district Saturday. FHtST LOCOMOTIVE IN CHINA WAS CHEAP Less than one hundred dollars was paid for the first locomotive in China.

It weighed 22 hundredweight. The rails were about the size of walking-sticks and lay 30 thirty inches apart. One day, after the seven mile Una bad been operating only a few months, a trespasser was run over and killed by the little engine. The rails were promptly torn up and shipped to Formosa to rust, thus ending the fate of the first railroad in China. Tbat was only 40 years aeo.

Now China has more than six thousand miles of railway, with a net revenue of more than eight million dollars a year. And C. C. Wang, of the government railroad bureau, stands sponsor for this prohpecy: "It is no exaggeration to say that there will be more railways built in China during the coming 26 years than in all the rest of the world combined." The Christian Herald. LICENSE AKRON MEN TO PRACTICE HERE Among the number of limited practitioners who been licensed to practice by the state medical board are Francis M.

Stone, neuropathy; George L. Mathlas and Orrin Stelner, chlropractie, all of Akron. IK INSPECTORS Snarling tigers now bred in captivity. tions must be organized to seek them in their native haunts. The Bar- Sawyerwood n't Atlantic City THE WATER'S FINE Take a Dip in Springfield Lake Bathing Suits for the Family CARL WIELAND Ice Cream Parlor In Connection BARNUM AND THE GORGEOUS SPECTACULAR PAGEANT jrLLIHLULH PERSIA, OR THE PAGEANTS OF THE THOUSAND SKi NIGHTS A CIRCUS allNATIDNS DORS OPEN AT I AND 7 PM PFRFnRMANCES BEGIN 2 AND 8 P.M.

ONE 50CTICKET ADMITS TO ALL LrULUKcN UNQER IZ HftLF PRICE The Thornton Theater South Main, Near Thornton. 'The MIRACLE of LIFl." The fallacy of race suicide exposed, also CHAPLIN IN TWO ACTS SUNDAY, JULY 16 i i run who scandalized her rural "Old Touch the Heart Strings of AIL 1 1 1 1 I I I I I 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i 1 1, TTTTTTr JL It 17 i one time when Gates had purposely slammed a door shut on him. "A month after I was elected mar-! 'shal we had an argument about the -IQuestlon of fees," he testified. "I -didn't say very much. He called 'me a 'dirty little cuss," a and i-iaid, Til get you I "Did you ever have any such reflations, with him before you were "elected marshal?" asked Sullivan, i i one time I went in the city ihajl to ring in a box as business 'man's night watchman.

The light in the hall was out and It was dark. Gates jumped out of a cor-1 ner at me with his hands spread out. My heart came into my throat. "Several times after that the same happened. In each case the flight had been lit on the round previous to the one on which Gates jjumped out of a hiding place." Elbowed Off Street.

Blakeslee testified to several Instances where Gates had elbowed him off the street, and in several, in-i stances had almost knocked him down. "Where did Gates carry his revolver, usually?" asked Sullivan. "In his right overcoat pocket." "Did he evr show it to you?" "Yes, several times in the engine -house, where the jail is." "Did you have any conversation him as to how he could shoot r-tc man with It?" "Ves. He said he could shoot a dm with it through his pocket without taking his revolver out. He Apunlipd the muzzle out through a hole In his pocket and moved it around to show me." 1 Blakeslee further testified that i Gates would chuck and whistle as "though calling for a dog, flash his 5 gun and spit tobacco juice at him times during each month -since he took office as marshal, 1.

He testified that at the time of the Bhooting Gates sprang at him he saw a flash and then was A Story That Is Bound to 1 1 1 1 1 1 I I I I I I I 1 1 II I I I I I I I 1 1 Where does a theater get. Us wild animals? What percentage of are lost during the traveling I season? How is the supply kept up? These are some of the qnes-Itions that are asked the attaches of 'the Barnum ft Bailey show almost 1 dally, and inasmuch as the big circus is to exhibit in this city en Monday, July 24, the same questions are doubtless lurking in the crani-j urns of many local circus fans. i The animal problem is one of the most important that the management of a big show has to grapple who. I There are animals in the big Barnum Sc. Bailey menagerie that could not be replaced on short notice by any animal importer in the world.

A few years ago the Barnum Bailey show lost practically its entire menagerie in a firs, but within a few days virtually every animal had been replaced. So complete has been the evolution of the circus zoo, however, that such a feat would be impossible today. Collections of wild animals such as are found today in the Jardin des Plantes, Paris; Regents Park, London; the Berlin 2oologische Garten; the Bronx Park collection, in New York, and the Barnum Bailey circus are the result of persistent acquirement and gradual development. Nowadays only the rarest animals are hunted for the market. Expert zoological men 'have studied the habits of animals with such success that many species can now be bred and raised in captivity.

Among these are lions, tigers, bears, camels, sacred cattle, and almost every species of the antelope family. Barnum Bailey have been wonderfully successful in breeding these animals and many of their losses are recouped in this way. At tho same time the show is no. only in close touch with animal Importers all over the world, but it also has personal represeniauvea la uvnnirrni-t wambure. Cairo.

Singa- nore and Capetown. Through these agents the show is-- kept informed constantly regarding what rare ani mals are available. There are some animals, however, xiniint ho secured through or dinary channels, and special expedl- Carranza to the border, but it is pointed out that more substantial proof of his devotion might be supplied in driving out the Villistas in the Laguna region. As to Trevino statement that ne is only awaiting the arrival of Gen. Enriquez to turn over the Chihuahua command, the observers here point out again that Enriquez still is among the missing.

Enriquez, it will be remembered, was sent from Mexico City to Chihuahua City, to take the power of command away from General Trevino and his brother. Somewhere along the line he disappeared and had not reappeared up to today. He is more than 10 days overdue. "HIAWATHA" AT SILVER LAKH. The woman's suffrage agitator will find a set- back to her theories If she ylsits the peaceful but firmly-governed little village Iroquois Indians now encamped at Silver Lake Park in the spot where they are dally unfolding the beautiful story of tri.rth.

with skill and sincerity. These serious pagans still adhere to the laws of their progenitors ana uw vnw of their women is a silent reproach to their white sisters. The "advanced" woman of today has long since given the widest of latitude to the time-honored marriage obligation, "to love, honor and obey." Not so with the Indian woman. Her vow is even more binding although expressed In the laconlo fashion of the race. Longfellow knew the Indian when he penned the famous answer of Minnehaha to her ardent wooer, Hiawatha, "I will follow you, my husband." Ask the beautnui uan-noo-yuu-uay minnline Brook)," who has played Minnehaha for many years and she will say it the most beautiful tnmg a woman can say to a man.

The last opportunities to see tne wonderful Indian play of Hiawatha now at Silver Lake Park today and Sunday at 8:80 and 8:80. With tomorrow night's performance the com pany concludes a very successiui fortnight's engagement here. Hiawatha will neit be seen at the Zoo, Cincinnati. LOW BID OFTEN NOT MOST ECONOMICAL Communities, laboring nnder the low-bid curse, states the Engineering Record, continue dally to award contracts to those who do not even know how to bid, much less how to do the work on which the bid is made. A state department which has made an exhaustive study of road- building announces that the award of contracts to Incompetent contractors (and they always think that they can do work for leas than a well-equipped and responsible contractor will bid) is one of the principal causes of road failures.

Must we go on forever doing something that every one agrees Is foolish and not economical? Or has the subject been talked about long enough, and the time tor action arrived? If we are not yet willing to give officials enough liberty to choose the I best bid, as distinguished from that! which Is merely the lowest, the En- glneerlng Record believes that we, have not progressed very far In Im-j provement 01 me aianaaras 01 puDiic servloe and public servants. AUTO KILL8 HORSES. The remains of another smaehup Friday night, on the road leading from Kenmore to Young's hotel told motorists of the dangers of driving; recklessly on the roads after dark. At the top of the hill Just above the I hotel, an automobile crashed Into a I wagon. Both were demolished, and! two horses were killed.

A telephone pole which tha machine struck was shattered. Nona of the occupants of the vehicles were hurt. NEW BRUNSWICK, N. 3. Yt stealing $1.80, John Harens.

a highway robber, was sentenced to 16 years In prison. PKLIOHTFTL LA KB TRIP. 1.SO CEDAR POINT OR Pl'T-IN. BAY AtfU RETt'R EVERY WEI). 1N ESDAY, JlIiY 10 TO At'OVHT 80.

HPECtAIi LIMITED LEAVES WAIT INO ROOM A. M. TO UDNXKCT WITH BOAT IX CLEVELAND. 7:80 A. M.

NO TICKETS SOLD OJf 1 NATIONAL THEATER SUNDAY AND MONDAY Charlie Chaplin "The Vagabond" Mayor L. H. Randall had settled the dispute between the two men as to fees, and to negate Blakeslee's story on the stand by his signed confession, that he had not seen Gates shoot, just previous to the tragedy. He remained unshaken and cool the whole time on the stand, and the state was unable to shake his story, although it ridiculed as ab surd his testimony as to the flash be had seen. Blakeslee's wife was affected more by the strain of his ordeal on the stand than he was.

He bared his self-inflicted wound to the jury and stepped down from the stand with a confident smile. The defense rested Its case at 4 o'clock. Monday the state will offer rebuttal, and the case will probably go to the jury Tuesday evening or Monday morning. EE Dashes Into Sidewalk and Knocks Down Trio of Men Three men were knocked down when a truck belonging to the Sumner Co. ran onto the sidewalk near the Firestone plant, Friday afternoon, Stype.

1900 Euclid Cleveland; Francis Taylor of Columbus, and F. J. Gates, Virginia hotel, Akron, were injured. They were taken Into the Firestone hospital, where their injuries were attended. Telephone Girl Gets Damages Prom Driver of Automobile A verdict for $3,000 was awarded to Miss Verna Cargould by a jury after an hour and one-half consideration in her suit for $16,000 against Henry Houk, Swlnehart rubber man, who ran her down with his machine two years ago.

The case was one of the hardest fought damage suits in local courts for several years. GYPSY IS HELD ON NOVEL CHARGE L03 ANGELES, July IB. Gypsy clans throughout the United States rushed to the aid of Joseph Marino, when he was arrested here on the charge of selling his daughter Rosa and then kidnaping her from John Guy, a fellow tribesman in Chicago. The accusation against Marino was that he sold the girl for $2,000, and then stole her a few minutes after the marriage, while friends were congratulating the bridegroom. Marino was traced to Los Angeles where, upon his arrest, he sent out a call for help and fellow-tribesmen began to respond with substantial donations.

Attorneys with a fund of thousands of dollars fought extradition to Illinois. Clarence Darrow was retained to press the fight in Illinois. Attorneys have filed a writ of habeas corpus here in behalf of Marino, and extradition papers were held up pending the action of the Illinois governor. RICH FIJIANS DIE IN BRITAIN'S CAUSE MONTREAL, July IE. That of the first contingent of 84 men who went from the Fiji Islands to fight for England, only four came out of the trenches alive, was the statement here of S.

F. Marlow, a member of the third draft from the famous "can nibal isles." All have passed through Canada on their way to join regi ments in A second draft of 66 men was sent, and many of these have already laid down their lives. Mow a third reinforcing draft of 20 men Is on its way to the front. Fiji will soon be denuded of white men at the west ern Isles of Scotland, says Marlow. Those who hare gone and are go ing are giving up good positions and which were bringing them incomes of as much a year, in order to go nearly 8,060 miles to enlist.

VETERAN WRITER IS CONGRATULATED NEW YORK, July 18. On th oc canton of his 80th birthday today, William Winter, the veteran write and critic, was congratulated In testimonial signed by President Wilson and many other prominent persons. The testimonial was arranged by David Belasco, William A. Brady, Augustus Thomas and other stage folk. KEKt'SR MEXICAN BRIBES.

Chief Johnson, head of the Cocopah Indians In Arizona, to take the tribe back to Mexico to join the Carranza army not only failed but the Coco-pabs repudiated the chief. Johnson, acting for the Carramlstsi, offered the Indians 200 acres of land each as a reward for their services. About 400 Cocopshs are employed on ranches in Yuma county. TRUCK HITSTHR 1 WINS 13.000 wflake," at the Waldorf Theater. -x-MV'-ii -t ''j 'VT Eli Bowen, the legless man at the Rutherford Carnival at Kenmore, today.

VILLA WINS BIG PARRAL BATTLE (Continued from page one) rived agents do much to explain the lack of official news from Carranza headquarters as to the outcome of the fighting around Jiminez and Par-ral. Mexican officials do not clut ter up their records with reports of defeats. They find it much more convenient to forget the defeated army. The Villa representatives laugh engagingly when one mentions that the United States and Carranza are peacefully arranging for a joint conference for the settlement of all in-ternational difficulties. "You can't settle Pancho Villa with a joint committee," they say, "Let the United States give Car ranza all the favors it wishes.

Car ranza is through. Pancho Villa Is the real power in Mexico, and he will be its ruler. After Ammunition. One of the Villa detachments is re ported operating in the La Guna dis trict. This is north of Chihuahua.

The arrival of Villa agents here means only that they are interested in the work of getting arms and am munition to their leader. Already it is known that large quantities of rifles and machine guns with great quantities of ammunition have been slipped over the boundary line. There is a report that a cargo con talning 1,500,000 rounds of rifle ammunition reached the border with in the past 48 hours and that this either has been carried across the border or is about to be. Secret service reports of the United States are redoubling their vigilance in watching for smugglers and the gov ernment line riders hit the trail along the border with their rifles ready. But always in this land the am munition finds its way across the line and there seems to be no doubt that at this time bands of smugglers are doing their chosen work.

Men who have been known to lead the smuggling bands many of them sleek, diamond-bedecked men from back east are stopping at the. best hotels here and are mingling jovial ly with the folk of the town. That is their way. The government agents know all of them, but because of the devious ways of the smugglers can not "get the goods on them" sufficiently to cause arrests. General Trevlno Is now Bending protestations of great friendship for shark be caught on Jnttj shore.

of ths Jersey coast, man-satlng shirks are In the habit of bathins In the a tew days ago. Is --V-1-. wrasro MAT. DAILY 2:30, 10c EVENINGS 8:15, 10c, 20c, 30c Get Seats Early at N. 0.

T. L. Waiting Room, Week in Advance FISHERMAN GETS ONE OF THE SHARKS THAT ARE TERRORIZING- JERSEY SHORE rJuHTn AJNLi rAKEWELL WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY MATINEE Billy Allen's Big Musical Comedy Eeview of 1916 AND HIS ALL, STAR CAST knocked flat. i "I started to get up and pulled DELKiHTTTL LAKE TRIP, i $1.50 CEDAR POINT OR PUT-IN. BAY AND RETURN EVERY WEDNESDAY, 3VLY 19 TO Al'GVST 80.

SPECIAL LIMITED LEAVES WAITING ROOM 5:80 A. M. TO CONNECT WITH BOAT IN CLEVELAND, 7:30 5A. M. NO TICKETS SOLD ON 5CARS.

Adv. POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT. PEPUSLICAN CANDIDATE FOR PROBATE JUDGE C.O.KERSTETTER Deputy in ProbateCourt to Primaries, August 8, im CHICHESTER PILLS 1 M.kM-W I'lIK la H-i Aivtar ii.4-irpa.rnrs ttk aiM Kth4M vi Irt. E. F.

Warner and sata-tating For ths first time la th history re terrorizing the people tbere wbo I OFFER A FEAST OF DAZZLING ATTRACTIONS With All the Special Scenery and Effects For Each Production Monday I SLE OF PICE Tuesday A KNIGHT FOR A DAY Wednesday THE GINGERBREAD MAN Thursday SHOOTING THE CHUTES Friday A HOT OLD TIME Saturday MY WIFE'S FAMILY WHEN THE DAYS ARE HOT AND YOU WANT to KEEP COOL COME TO THE CASINO COOLEST SPOT IN TOWN ocean. Several persons have been killed by these hi fish, anit an mttnrt being made to exterminate them. Photo shows E. K. Warner anil a h-ir he shot to death at Bescb Haven, N.

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