Newspaper Page Text
VOL. XXIII.
ORCHARD NOT TO HANO
His Sentence is Commuted to
Life Imprisonment.
CONFESSED MANY MURDERS
Orchard Was Witness Used in the Ef
fort to Convict Members of Miners*
Federation for Murder.
Boise, Idaho. —The state board of
pardons commuted the sentence of
Harry Orchard, who was under sen
tence to hang July 3 for the murder of
former Governor Frank Steunenberg,
to imprisonment for life.
Orchard was arrested two days af
ter the assassination of former Gov
ernor Steunenberg at Caldwell, Idaho,
December 30, 1905, and a few weeks
later, while confined in the Idaho pen
itentiary, confessed his guilt to James
McPartlan, a well-known detective, at
the same time asserting that he was
employed to commit the crime by j
officers of the Western Federation of
Miners.
As a result of his confession,'
Charles H. Moyer, president; William
D. Haywood, secretary-treasurer; of
the Western Federation of Miners, !
and Charles D. Pettibone were arrest-'
ed in Denver and brought to Idaho to
answer to the charge of murder.
John Simpkins, another member of
the federation, was also indicted and
is still a fugitive. Haywood and Pet
tibone were acquitted after memor
able trials in which Orchard told a
story of wholesale assassination
which shocked the world. Following
the trial of Pettibone, the case
against Moyer was dismissed, Orchard
pleaded guilty to muider in the first [
degree. In pronouncing the sentence I
of death a week later, Judge Wood
recommended that the board of par
dons commute the sentence, saying;
he w'as firmly convinced that Orchard
had told the whole and exact truth at
the trials of Haywood and Pettibone,'
and that he was therefore, for the
service he had rendered the state, en
titled to clemency. The pardon board, !
consisting of Governor Gooding, Secre-j
tary of State Lansdon and Attorney-j
General Guhen, in taking this action j
acted on the recommendation or j
Judge Wood, made at the time of sen-!
\encing Orchard.
Orchard to the last Was. opposed to
having the' sentence interferred with, i
He said to .the attorney that he hoped
efforts to save him from the gallows
would fail.
USED AS WASH RAG.
American FcUght to Regain Flag and
Was Pursued by Army.
Washington, D. C. —The Americans
in Panama have had cause for heated
protest’s. recently, not on account of
the Panama elections, but because of
an' incideht which called in action a
portion cf the Panama army.
A foreign commercial house in Co
lon insulted the American flag, using
it to wash the windows of the estab-'
lishment. Wayne O. Adams, of the
canal zone, as the story goes, wit
nessed the desecration of the stars
and stripes and engaged in a hard
fought battle for the possession of one ,
of the flags which were being used to
clean windows.
He was pursued, according to re- 1
ports, by a section of the army of
Panama, consisting of two policemen
and a member of the militia in full re
galia.
As a result of the disrespect shown
the flag by the commercial house in
question the canal zone from one end
to the other is hung with boycott
signs and the offenders have found
less expensive wash rags.
RECEIVER FDR RAILROAD.
Norfolk and Southern Railway Com
pany Embarrassed.
Norfolk, Va. —On the petition of the
Trust Company of America joined in
by the railroad, the Norfolk and
Southern Railway company was plac
ed in the hands of receivers by order
of Judge Edmund Waddell in the fed
eral court. r
The petitioners set forth th/.t the
road recently bought in the Suffolk
and Carolina railroad, the Pamlico,
Oriental and Western railroad, the
Raleigh and Pamlico Sound railroad
and the Atlantic and North Carolina
railroad, for which a debt of $15,000,-
000 was incurred and floated by the
Trust Company of America, of New
York city, taking first mortgage and
refunding bonds. Extensive improve
ments were also inaugurated.
The Norfolk and Southern owns and
operates 600 miles of trackage, with
principal points at Beaufort, N. C.,
Edenton, N. C., Raleigh, N. C., and
Norfolk, Va. They also own the elec
tric line, double route of about twenty
miles each from Norfolk to Cape Hen
ry and Virginia Beach.
TO MAKFgARDEN OF PANAMA.
It Is Hoped to Accomplish This By
Convict Labor.
Washington, D. C.—After a trial of
eleven weeks the employment cf con
victs and local prisoners at highway
building in the canal zone is said to
have passed the experimental stage.
Three distinct ends were in view in
the program submitted by the special
committee on the employment of
prisoners which was approved last
February. The first of these was the
improvement of the prisoners’ condi
tion; second, the opening up to devel
opment of the fertile valleys of the
canal zone, and third, reimbursing the
government for the expense of main
■ taining its penal system.
Sanatmab aribmw.
BURIAL OF EX-PRESIDENT
Held at Princeton Home With Friends
and Acquaintances.
Princeton, N. J. —All that was mor
tal of Grover Cleveland, former presi
dent of the United States, was buried
in the Cleveland family plot in Old
Princeton’s cemetery Friday after
noon, just as the last rays of the sun
fell across the grave. A distinguished
party of statesmen as well as con
freres of the former official stood by
in silence and witnessed the last hon
ors to the dead ex-president. Then
the cortege left the cemetery.
Agreeable to tae wishes of Mrs.
Cleveland, the services both at the
house and at the cemetery were of the
simplest character.
Although the funeral was of a strict
ly private nature, those in attendance
numbered many distinguished citi
zens, including President Roosevelt,
Governors Fort of New Jersey. Hughes
of New York, Hoke Smith of Georgia,
former members of President C.eve
land’s cabinet, officials of the Equita
ble Life Assurance society, members
of the Princeton university faculty and
friends and neighbors.
Mr. Cleveland was buried with all
the simplicity and privacy that he him
self wished as a private citizen rather
than as the former chief executive of
the nation.
rhe services began with an invoca
tion by Rev. Sylvester W. Beach of
the First Presbyterian church of
Pr.nceton, whica was followed by
Scriptural reading by Rev. Mailland
V. Partlett of the West Farms Presby
terian church of New York, a former
pastor of Mr. Cleveland, who read
from the 14th chapter of the book of
John, and’also read a number of pass
ages from the 4th and 22d chapters of
the Thessalonians.
Dr. Henry Van Dyke then said:
"According to the request of one
whose slightest wish at this moment
we all respect, there will be no ad
dress or sermon, but there was a poem
written more'than a hundred years
ago by William Wordsworth which is
expressive of his character.”
He then read the poem, ‘‘Character
of the Happy Warrior.”
This was followed by readings from
the Presbyterian book of Common
Worship, the services at the house
house concluding with this prayer:
The services were concluded at 5:30
and five minutes later the casket had
been tenderly carried to the hearse
and the procession started on its way
to the cemetery. Along the streets
from the house to cemetery, national
guardsmen, mounted and on foot, po
liced the way.
A GROWING INDUSTRY.
Two Hundred Thousand Barrels of
Oysters Planted.
Jackson, Miss. —According to ad
vices received from the gulf coast,
the Mississippi oyster commission is
making good headway with the work
of planting reefs in the. Mississippi
sound.
Over 200,009 barrels of shells W’ill
be planted during the summer months
and, if former experience is repeated,
these beds will be furnishing fair
sized oysters within the next three
or four years. The former experi
ments have been remarkably success
ful, and the commission is getting the
work of propagation in first-class
shape.
According to members of the com
mission, the reefs are now in better
shape than for some time. Shells
that were planted only three weeks
ago are developing clusters, and the
ratio of growth is much larger in the
waters of the gulf than along the At
lantic coast.
RABBI BITTEN BY DOG.
Doctors Say He Must Die — Calmly
Awaits the End.
Cleveland, Ohio.—Waiting calmly
for the fate that his physicians say
threatens him. Rabbi L. Friedman is
at his home the victim of a rabid dog.
If God desires to call me at this
time I am ready to go,” the rabbi said.
”1 don’t feel any pain yet and 1 trust
the treatment will be successful. But
the doctor seems to be discouraged.”
Physicians refuse to make a fore
cast. Rabbi Friedman is sixty-four
years old, and has retired as an active
pastor. Several days ago he was at
tacked and bitten upon the left hand
by a dog.
NEWSY PARAGRAPHS.
A movement has been started in
Essex county, New Jersey, in which
ttie late President Grover Cleveland
was born to raise a national monu
ment to his memory. It is expected a
committee to take the fund in New
Jersey will be appointed.
A tornado which swept over Clinton,
Minn., killed seven people, and in-'’
jured 25, some seriously. ’ Twenty
houses, a printing office and two
churches were blown down.
The Clyde Line steamship Chippe
wa, which struck a rock near Montauk,
is hard aground and will probably
prove a total loss. Thousands of wa
termelons have been thrown into the
sea and hundreds of persons, many
from the Connecticut shore, have vis
ited the scene in power and small
boats to gather the rich harvest. When
ever a melon is washed ashore there
is a wild scramble among the beach
combers to reach it. The opportunity
for such a feast of ripe melons is not
often seen on the Long Island shore
and the inhabitants are eager in grasp
ing it.
The Southern Steel company, which
before it went into bankruptcy, em
ployed 5,000 men, has been re-organ
ized with a capital of $30,000,000 and
operations will be resumed.
THE TRIBUNE OFFICE REMOVED TO 462 WEST BROAD STREET.
SAVANNAH, GA , SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1908.
HEARST LOSES CONTEST
Mayor McClellan is Victorious
in 1905 Campaign.
BALLOT BOXES NOT STUFFED
Hearst Was Unable to Prove His Charge
to Satisfaction of Judge, Who Directed
Verdict For McClellan.
New York. —Mayor George B. Mc-
Clellan's title to the office of mayor
of New York city was made clear by
the decision of Justice Lambert in the
supreme court when he ordered a jury
to render a verdict that McClellan
was duly "elected mayor in 1905. W.
R. Hearst has been contesting the
mayor’s right to the office practically
ever since the election, and as a re
sult of his charges of fraud in the
original count of ballot the legislature
passed a law enabling a recount. At
torney General W. S. Jackson then
instituted quo warranto proceedings
on behalf of the people, in which
both Mr. Hearst and Mayor McClellan
were.named as defendants.
The recount left Mayor McClellan
with a plurality of 2,965, whereupon
Clarence J. Shearn, representing Mr.
Jackson, alleged that the ballot boxes
had been stuffed and requested the
court to throw the entire vote of 112
election districts in which he charged
that the ballots found in the boxes ex
ceeded the number of registered vot
ers. This, however, was based on an
incorrect list of voters, and, when the
correct list was produced Tuesday, Mr.
Shearn said that the registration was
greater than the poll in every disputed
district.
Justice Lambert declined to throw
out the contested districts. Mr. Shearn
then charged that the inspectors had
registered an excess number of names,
but said he could not prove repeat
ing.
The justice then declared that the
original count was quite as complete
as the one made in court, and that the
evidence showed no fraud as far as
the election inspectors were concern
ed. He said that if legal voters could
be disfranchised so readily as had
been attempted in this case, this form
of government would not endure long.
If the jury were to return a ver
dict against Mayor McClellan, Justice
Lambert said he would not allow it
to stand, and he ordered a verdict in
favor of the mayor, which was ren
dered. The jurors were allowed $5lO
each, having sat 51 days.
Mayor McClellan spent over $40,000
to defend his title and says that he
had no regrets as to the course he
pursued, and that he feels that the
controversy will discourage the bring
ing cf election contests of this sort in
the future. He said that had he sus
pected that his election was the re
sult of fraud, he would have acted
differently.
MEN RETURN TO WORK.
Coal Mines, Coke Ovens and Steel
Mills Again Busy.
Pittsburg, Pa. —There is happiness
in Bayardstown for two of the three
mills of the Schoenberger plant have
resumed work after a shut-down of
three months. Between 1,500 and 1,-
700 men went back to work. Within
a week the third mill will resume.
Then will follow, inside of ten days,
the continuous mill and one of the
two blast furnaces.
The Schoenberger plant is a sub
sidiary of the American Steel and
Wire company.
Altoona, Pa. —The Pennsylvania,
Beech Creek and Eastern Coal and
Coke company started operations in
their ovens and mine at Galitzen and
Bennington, near here, on full time.
This affected abount 1,500 men on
both places.
The ovens and mines have been
closed since the first of the year.
DEAL INVOLVES $1,500,000.
J. J. Hill and Others Buy Great Falls
Water Power company.
Great Falls, Mont. —James J. Hill
and associates sold the property of
the Great Falls Water Power and
Transit company to John D. Ryan and
others for $1,500,000.
John D. Ryan, managing director of
the amalgamated Copper company,
and John G. Marony, president of the
Daly Bank and Trust company of
Butte and of the First National Bank
of Great Falls, are the heaviest stock
holders. The purchasers deny that
Amalgamated Copper has any interest
in the deal.
It is probable that an immense elec
tric generating plant will be conduct
ed at the "big” falls.
ABANDONED SCHOONER FOUND.
Was Laden With Molasses —Life Boat
Gone and Crew Was Missing.
Norfolk, Va. —The dismantled three
mated schooner Charles L. Sprague
was towed into Hampton Raads by
the Cuban steamer Yumuri, bound
from Tampico, Mexico, to New York.
The Sprague had been in a gale
which carried away all three of her
masts as well as her bowsprit. Ail the
life-boats are missing.
The Sprague, laden with molasses,
was bound from Por«o Rico to some
northern port. Nothing was seen of
the schooner’s crew by the Yumuri.
It is possible they were taken off by
some otlier vessel.
PATTERSON AND KITCHIN.
Tennessee and North Carolina Name
Candidates for Governor.
Nashville, Tenn.—ln Saturday’s
democratic primary, after the hardest
fought, bitterest and most picturesque
campaign ever known in Tennessee,
Governor M. R. Patterson won the gu
bernatorial nomination over E. W. Car
mack.
For supereme court judge, D. L.
Lansdeu was successful, B. D. Beil, in
cumbent, being an extremely close
competitor. For railroad commission
er, Frank Avent won over W. C.
Whitthorne.
The nominations are to be made in
convention, the primary being on the
county unit plan, county committees
naming delegates in accordance with
the vote cast.
The ninety-six counties will send
1,08 delegates to the convention, and
ofjthese Patterson widl have, over 700.
His popular majority is between 8,000
and 10,000.
State-wide prohibition was the issue
on which Carmack based his fight,
while Patterson defended the present
status, practically local option, which
has come under his administration.
To Carmack's banner the Woman’s
Christian Temperance Union and the
Apti-Saloon League were rallied, and
thfe state had been traversed by wo
n^n campaign orators, some from
otper states. The women and childen
continued to work for Carmack at the
polls.
Under the present law liquors are
only sold in Memphis, Nashville, Chat
tanooga, La Follette and Binghamton.
La Follette voted against surrendering
its charter so as to come under the
provisions of the present law. Bing
hamton is a manufacturing town in
Shelby county, six miles from Mem
phis.
Charlotte, N. C. —William Walton
Kitchin, for twelve years representa
tive in congress from the fifth North
Carolina district, was nominated for
the governorship of North Carolina by
the democratic state convention at 8
o’clock Saturday after the warmest
fight in the annals of the state.
The convention has been in almost
at noon and the nomination required
continuous session since Wednesday
sixty-one ballots. In every respect the
contest has been remarkable. Lined
up against Kitchin were Locke Craig,
of Buncombe county, one of the most
popular democrats in the state, and
Colonel Ashley Horne of Johnston, a
promiuent business man.
CLUB WOMEN INJURED.
Tally-Ho Coach Turns Over On Steep
Hill—Dozen in Hospital. \
Newport, R. 1. —Two women dele-,
gates to the General Federation of
i Women’s clubs’ convention in Boston
were dangerously hurt and ten others
more or less seriously injured when a
tally-ho coach in which they were rid
ing capsized on a steep hill on Bath
( road. All of the twelve women who
were in the coach were taken to the
Newport hospital. The delegates were
on an excursion to this city. The
identity of the injured and the nature
of their injuries is withheld by the
hospital authorities.
It is understood that among the in
i jured in the accident were Mrs. Dr.
Davenport of Watertown, Mass., and
Mrs. Sunden of Lincoln, Neb. Mrs.
Sunden was cut about the face and an
kles.
ALL QUIET IN COLON.
Candidates of Obaldia Successful —No
Trouble at Polls.
Colon, Panama: —General Obaldia’s
candidates carried municipal elections
here by a majority of ninety-four
votes. Throughout the election order
prevailed. The government party is
downcast by the result. United States
marines are ashore in the canal zone
to protect property of the American
government but no trouble is expect
ed.
As an additional precaution ail the
docks and the railroad tracks in this
vicinity were kept clear and fire hose
was distributed throughout the vicin
ity. A strict guard was also main
tained over all buildings belonging to
the United States.
HALF DOZEN MUST DIE.
Conviction of Revolutionists—Crown
Prince’s Name Involved.
Cettigne.—The trial of thirty-six
1 prisoners charged with revolutionary
activity in connection with the dis
’ co very of a score of bombs here last
year, and during which sensational
testimony was added involving Crown
Prince George of Servia in a conspir
acy against Montenegro, resulted in
six of the accused being condemned
to death, three to life imprisonment
and twenty-seven, including five form
er cabinet ministers, to terms of im
prisonment ranging from six to twen
ty y eears.
TO WIURKISH RULE.
England, Russia, United States and
Other Powers to Act.
London, England.—lnformation con
sidered reliable, declares that Eng
| land’s foreign office intends to end
Turkish rule in Macedonia, which has
been a long record of murder and out
rage. It is said the matter was dis
cussed by King Edward and the czar
at the recent meeting and they con
cluded an international understand
; ing similar to the Algeciras treaty re
garding Morocco was imperative. It
is understood the United States will
be invited to join the other powers in
, the initiative by Eng.and and Russia
for a conference ccacerniiig Macedo
i ilia.
TROUBLE ON IN MEXICO
President Roosevelt Orders
Troups to Rio Grande.
REQUEST CAME FROM MEXICO
Acks the United States to Prevent Vio
lation of Neutrality Law—Malcontents
Scattered Over Republic.
Washington.— By direction of Presi
dent Roosevelt, Secretary of War Taft
has issued orders to the commanding
general of the Department of Texas at
San Antonio to send a sufficient num
ber of troops to Del Rio, El Paso and
other points in Texas to aid the civil
authorities in preserving order. This
action was decided upon as a result of
the request from the Mexican govern
ment that the United States do its ut
most to prevent any violation of the
neutrality laws.
Brigadier General L. A. Moyer, in
command of the Department of Texas,
is authorized to ascertain the number
of troops necessary at Del Rio and El
Paso and also to send troops to any
other points along the Mexico-Texas
border if found advisable. The federal
troops will act under the directions of
the United States marshal and the
United States district attorney. Del
Rio is directly opposite Las Vacas,
Mexico, where the principal disturb
ances have occurred.
City of Mexico. — Up to Monday
evening there had been no news of
any sort received at the capital that
would indicate that there had been a
repetition of the disorders similar to
those which occurred at the towns of
Viesca and Las Vacas.
The entire-direction of the campaign
against the malcontents is under the
direction of the secretary of the inte
rior, Senor Corral, who is also vice
president of the republic.
Dallas, Texas. —Carrying his arm in
a sling, Sam P. Harrison, for the last
five years a resident of Blanco, Mex
ico, arrived in Dallas Tuesday, with
his family, en route east to visit rela
tives. Mr. Harrison got his wound
from a shot that was fired through
the window of his home after night
fall. He says, however, it was a stray
bullet and that-Americans who have
not interfered with the affairs of the
revolutionists, have not been both
ered;.. -
, "That is not a fake revolution,” said
Mr. Harrison. "It is a dead earnest
affair. 1 am inclined to think that
’the soldiery.of the president are aiding
and abetting the revolutionists. I
personally know that the president is
greatly worried. It is my opinion that
the Mexican army is honeycombed
with the revolutionists.”
Asked his opinion of the ability of
President Diaz to cope with the situa
tion, Mr. Harrison replied that he be
lieved the president would manage the
affair.
"But when he is dead,” added Mr.
Harrison, "and that will not be very
long now, as the president is getting
old, the Diaz regime will be at an
end. When Diaz dies I look for a
general uprising and the revolutionary
element will take the.lead in affairs.”
RELIEF FOR VICTIMS OF FLOOD.
Federal Government Orders Six
Weeks' Supplies for 4,000 Persons.
Vicksburg, Miss. —Lieutenant F. B.
Upham of the United States army who
was sent here to look over the flood
conditions, returned from a launch
ride through the overflowed districts
of Warren and Isaquenna counties
and reports that 2,000 or 3,000 per
sons need relief. He received tele
graphic orders to at once order out
supplies for six weeks for about 4,000
sufferers in Wilkinson, Adams, and
Jefferson counties, which districts he
visited.
The orders for this district will be
made after Lieutenant Upham shall
have visited the Big Black river neigh
borhood. While Lieutenant Upham
and A. L. Dorsey, a prominent plant
er, were on the trip they had just
eaten breakfast on a projecting plank
in the Mississippi, near Brunswick
landing, and had left the place only
a little while when the bank caved
into the river in forty feet of water.
CLEVELAND’S LIFE WORK.
To Be Published in Book Form —Six
Hundred Pages Already Finished.
New York City.—Under orders from
Mrs. Cleveland work has been begun
on memoirs of the late president, con
sisting of clippings from newspapers
and periodicals on his death and fun
eral. The work will require six
months to complete. As planned, there
will be several volumes, consisting ot
editorial notices, news dispatches, il
lustrations and cartoons, each bound
in Russian levent leather and lined
with purple moire silk.
NATIUNAL EKEbIT MEN.
Frank M. Gettys, Louisville, Re
elected President.
..Denver, Colo. —The National Asso
ciation of Credit Men concluded its
convention here by electing officers as
follows:
President, Frank M. Gettys, Louis
ville, re-elected; first vice president,
T. M. McAdoo, Chicago; secretary
treasurer, Charles E. Heck, re-electer;
directors, A. C. Foster, Denver; Frank
J. Lamotte, Baltimore; F. R. Salis
bury, Minneapolis; J. W. Spangler,
Jr., Seattle; H. G. Moore, Kansas
City; George K. Smith, New Orleans;
and David S. Ludlam, Philadelphia.
Philadelphia will be the next p’a^e
of meeting.
LATE NEWS NOTES.
General.
In a fight at Vanßuren, Ark., be
tween striking shopmen employed by
the St. Louis and Iron Mountain Rail
way company and Italian strike
breakers two of the latter were shot
and seriously wounded. Over two
hundred shots were fired at the Ital
ians by the strikers.
It is understood in Wall street that
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., has come to
the aid of Charles W. Morse, the
financier, who lost so heavily in the
smash of the ice trust. On the ad
vance Mr. Rockefeller has planned for
American ice, Mr. Morse is expected
to liquidate his holdings and re-estab
lish himself in Wall street with an
abundance of cash.
Twenty-nine women suffragettes
were arrested in London when they at
tempted to start a liotous demonstra
tion in behalf of their cause at a ses
sion of the house of commons in Lon
don.
The receivers of the Seaboard Air
Line railroad company have placed
an order for 12,000 tons of steel rails
with the Maryland Steel company of
Baltimore for delivery within the
next six months.
The Equitable Life Assurance so
ciety has filed plans for a new build
ing to be erected in New York. The
building will have sixty-two stories
and the top of its tower will be nine
hundred and nine feet above the curb.
The estimated cost is $10,000,000.
The Journal des Debats of Paris
says that the Wright brothers of Day
ton, Ohio, have signed a contract with.
Lazare Weiller, who is acting for a
syndicate, which offers the Wrights
$lOO,OOO for their patents providing,
first, that the aeroplane with two per
sons on board flies thirty-one miles in
an inclosed circuit, and, second, that
it repeats this performance within
eight days in the presence of a com
mittee.
Ferdinand Dudenhefer, formerly a
state collector in New Orleans, was
found guilty in the criminal district
court at that city of embezzling
about $66,000 of state funds. Sen
tence was deferred.
Four persons were killed and many
injured by a dynamite explosion
which destroyed a grocery store and
the flats on the uppor floor adjoin
ing a saloon building at San Francis
co. It is said to be the work of
thugs who have been engaged in oth
er work of a similar character, it is
alleged, on behalf of defendants in
the graft cases.
Fire swept the heart of Jersey
City's business section, destroying
three department stores and damag
ing a fourth. Two firemen were seri
ously, it not fatally hurt, by a falling
wall, trolley traffic was tied up for
more than three hours and thousands
of people had to walk to the Manhat
tan fejries.
Five known dead, and a score miss
ing and supposed to have been swept
away in she rush of water; fifty head
of railroad grade horses, houses
swept from their foundation and float
ing around in the water, entailing
enormous damage, crops and machin
ery ruined, several miles of track
washed away, are the result of a com
bined cloudburst and water spout at
Wellington, Kans.
Harvie Jordan, president of the
Southern Cotton association, and
President W. B. Thompson of the
New Orleans Cotton exchange, are
discussing the erection of warehouses
along the river front at New Orleans
capable of storing 2,000,000 bales of
cotton.
For the second time in a week in
cendiaries attempted to fire St. Stan
isiaus college, a Catholic institution
at Chicago. Twelve members of the
faculty fled from the building wearing
night clothes. Within two years St.
Stanislaus parochial school and
church have been burned.
Washington.
The United States National Museum
at Washington has received a.s a gift
from J. N. Leger, the Haytien minis
ter to the United States, a case con
taining models representing over 100
different vegetables and fruits of Hay
ti, arranged for exhibition purposes.
Acting Secretary of State Adee and
Mr. Godoy, the Mexican charge, ex
changed ratifications of a general ar
bitration treaty. Tae treaty is simi
lar in provisions to those between the
United States and various European
governments.
Admiral Capps, chief of the bureau
of navigation and construction, left
Washington for San Francisco, from
whence he will sail with the fleet to
inspect Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, where
the government will spend millions
on a naval station.
The district health department re
ports that fifty-nine children under
the age of two years died in the Dis
trict" of Columbia last week from in
testinal troubles brought on by the
heat.
The department of agriculture has
made a recent investigation to deter
mine the status of the boll weevil this
year. The results of the investigation
on the whole are very successful. The
number of weevils per acre present at
this time seems to be much smaller
throughout the infested area than at
this time a year ago. This must be
due primarily to the unfavorable
weather last fall, especially the very
early first killing frost.
Preliminary arrangements for the
trip to Europe of the members of th
monetary commission, appointed a 1
the close of the last congress, will o?
made by Representative T. E. Burto; ,
who will shortly leave for a six week
stay abroad. Chairman Burton will
visit bankers and financiers in Pan.-,
Berlin and London.
NO. 41.
