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VOL. XXIV.
OIL KINS ROGERS DEAD
Multi-Millionaire and Financier
Dies Very Unexpectedly.
Mr. Rogers’ Death Came Without Warn
ing and Was a Great Shock to His
Family and Wall Street.
New York City.—Henry H. Rogers*
vice president of the Standard Oil
Company, moving spirit in the organ
ization of the Amalgamated Copper
Company, builder of railroads, and
philanthropist, died at his home here
from a stroke of apoplexy. Death
came about an hour after Air. Rog
ers had risen for the day, mentioning
to his wife that he was feeling ill.
Mr. Rogers was 69 years old. Mrs.
Rogers, three married daughters, a
son —H. H. Rogers, Jr. —and Dr. W
J. Pulley, a physician, who was has
tily summoned, were at the bedside
when the end came.
News .of the financier's death did
not become generally known until
about two hours after it occurred.
There was hardly an appreciable ef
fect on the market when Wall street
opened. After a decline at first in
the stocks in which he was popularly
supposed to be interested, conditions
rapidly adjusted themselves, confirm
ing in a way that Mr. Rogers had
in the last few months anticipated
death and withdrawn from the mar
ket.
Conspicuous among the early call
ers at the Rogers home was Samuel
!L. Clemens (Mark Twain), for many
years one of the most intimate friends
of the late financier. Mr. Clemens
■was too moved to full express his
feelings. “It is terrible—terrible!” he
said briefly. “I am inexpressibly
shocked,” and. with tears in his eyes,
he- quickly moved away and hurried
to the Broughton residence, where he.
joined a number of Mr. Rogers’ as
sociates who had gathered there.
Henry H. Rogers was one of the
most successful men of the so-called
Standard Oil group. He -began life
as a poor boy at Fairhaven. Mass.,
■where he was born and retained his
legal residence there until the day
of his death. He is variously report
ed as having commenced life as ST
newsboy and as a driver of a grocery
oart. Mr. Rogers was a man of many
friends and enthusiastic yachts
man. Until recently he held the
reins of the Standard Oil Company
following the retirement of John D.
Rockefeller
His fortune is variously estimated
at from $50,000,000 to $75,000,000,
which will make his son H. H. Rog
ers, Jr., one of the richest men in
the country.
Mr. Rogers’ first wife died fourteen
years ago, and he is survived in ad
dition to his second wife, by four chil
dren. the son mention and the follow
ing daughters: Mrs. W. E. Benjamin.
iMrs. Urben H. Broughton and Mrs.
William R. Coe.
TRIBUTE TODEAD HEROES.
President Taft Delivers Address at
Petersburg, Virginia.
Petersburg. Va. —Paying a tribute
alike to the soldiers of the north and
the south. President Taft witnessed
the unveiling of an heroic statue in
(bronze erected at Fort Mahone, on
the Petersburg battlefields, in mem
ory of General Hartranft and the
Pennsylvania volunteers who fell in
the stubborn fight about this outpost
of t'£ confederate capital.
The president, coupled with every
tribute to the union soldiers, a eulo
;gy of the valor of ths confederates.
“We could not dedicate this beauti
ful and enduring memorial,” he de
iclared. “to the volunteer soldiers of
^Pennsylvania with such a sense of
its justive and appropriateness had
they not been confronted by an en
emy capable of resisting their as
saults with equal vigor and fortitude.
'^Pennsylvania’s pride must be in the
irvictory achieved by her men against
so brave, resolute and resourceful an
^enemy.”
The president declared that the bat
tle between the states had to be
fought and that enduring good had
come of it
10,000 DEAD AT ADANA.
<First Estimates of People Killed
Exaggerated.
• Adana, Turkey.—The estimates of
from 20,000 to 25,000 Christians kill
ed by Mohammedans in the province
-of Adana, made a fortnight ago, must
M>e revised. It is now ascertained that
[the number can hardly reach more
’than 10,000, possibly less. Thousands
"who were supposed to have been kill
ed in the country districts have since
come into some of the large towns
ifor relief.
Fugitives from the villages or set
.tlements who first reached the large
itowns after the masacres began, ex
exaggerted, through their fears, the
। extent of the slaughter.
MISSING^ MAN FOUND.
‘‘Wild Man” of Mississippi Swamp
Captured by Sheriff.
Prentiss, Miss. —Sheriff Laird cap
;tured in the swamps near here a man
•■who has shunned all civilizatiQß for
|the past five years, and whose pres
|ence in isolated communities with his
[unkempt and weird appearance earn
■ed for him the title of the “wild
man.”
He was covered with only a scanty
portion of ragged garments, his nails
’were five inches long and his hair and
sibeard reached almost to his waist.
!He refused to eat cooked food when
fit was offered to him. He was iden
tified as Marvin Whitehead, whose
relatives have long searched for him.
Sanamiuh Srtliunr.
ENGLAND LEADS THE WORLD.
United Stately Rank* Second in Volume
of Commerce.
Washington, D. C. —The interna
tional commerce of the world estab
lished a new record in 1907, with an
aggregated value of $30,000,000,000, ac
cording to figures compiled by the bu
reau of statistics of the department of
commerce and labor. The trade of ev
ery country, colony, protectorate and
island in the world which makes any
report of its commerce is included in
the statement.
Practically two-thirds of the vast to
tal is credited to Europe, whose ex
ports are estimated at $8,000,000,000
and imports at $11,000,000,000. North
America, including Central America
and th* West Indies, exported nearly
$2,500,000,000 and imported a little
less than $2,000,000,000. Asia supplied
about $1,5000,000 of the exports and
received about the same value in im
pouts, South America sent forth about
$750,000 worth of goods and imported
slightly less.
The United States exported $2,133,-
000,000 of goods, or a little more than
14 per cent of the world’s grand total,
while the imports aggregated $1,156,-
000,000, or about 9.2 per cent of the
total. The ten countries which contrib
uted more than two-thirds to the
world's total commerce, for the year,
in their osder, were the Onited King
dom, United States, Germany, France,
Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Austria-
Hungary, India and Russia.
GREAT FIRE LOSSES.
Six Million Dolalrs’ Worth of Property
Destroyed in April.
Washington, D. C. —Federal experts
who are making a study of building
materials that will best withstand
fire and who are, therefore taking a
keen interest in the fire losses as they
are reported for the entire country,
declare that in spite of all efforts to
ward better building conditions, the
death and destruction due to fires
and conflagrations in 1909, will
eclipse all previous records, with the
exception of the years in which the
Baltimore and San Francisca fires oc
curred.
They point to the fact that in six
teen days of April, five big fires in dif
ferent parts of the United States re
sulted in a loss of six million dollars,
the death of twenty persons, the in
jury of seventeen and the rendering
homeless of more than 3,000. The
greatest of these fires was at Fort
Worth Texas, resulting in a property
loss of between $3,000,000 and $4,000,-
000, and the second in importance
was at Rochester, N. Y., with a loss
of half a million dollars. .
TELEGRAPHERS ELECT OFFICERS.
1909 Convention in Atlanta Comes to
a Conclusion.
Atlanta. Ga. —The 1909 convention
of the Order of Railway Telegraphers
came to a conclusion after one of the
most pleasant, harmonious and suc
cessful gatherings within the history
of the organization, the final work of
the convention being the election of
officers for the next two years and
the selection of a place of meeting
in 1911.
The officers elected were: Grand
president, H. B. Perham of St. Louis;
grand secretary and treasurer, L. W.
Quick of St. Louis; first vice pres
ident, J. A. Newman of Centralia, Ill.;
second vice president, T. M. Pierson
of Indianapolis, Ind.; third vice pres
ident. D. Campbell of Toronto, Ont.;
fourth vice president, J. J. Dermody or
Mounds, 111.
Toronto, Ontario, was selected by
an enthusiastic vote of the delegates
as the next place of meeting.
KEEPER BECOMES INSANE.
Man Now a Patient Where He Has
Been an Employee.
Elgin, 11l. —James Dougherty, for
the last twenty years an attendant
and employee at the Northern Illi
nois Insane Asylum, has been taken
to the institution as an inmate. Per
fectly sane, according to physicians
at the hospital, Dougherty left the in
stitution two months ago on leave of
absence. A fortnight ago he returned
and in a few days he had become vio
lently insane. Dr. Podstata, superin
tendent of the hospital, declares that
constant association with insane pa
tients was not the j;ause of the man’s
afflictions, but local physicians are in
clined to believe that it was.
* A MODERN ELIJAH.
Man Waited for Ravens to Feed Him,
But No Raven Came.
Chicago, Ill.—E. M. Brock, the aged
Zion City man who lay four days un
der a tree during the recent severe
storms, waiting for the ravens to
feed him, is slowly recovering from
the exposure. He had read about
Elijah being fed by ravens and he
decided to try it. He had enough
faith to last four days, during which
he prayed incessantly, but the fierce
April tempest came up and the ra
vens were not on the job.
Horrible Method of Suicide.
Cedar Rapids, lowa. —A victim of ill
health for many years, Miss Mary
Sadler, near Toledo, chose a sensa
tional method of suicide. Making an
excuse that she was going to the
home of her brother, Miss Sadler
left home and went to a small ra
vine, where she raked together a-pile
of leaves, satuated them and herself
with kerosene and applied a match.
When found the woman’s body was
burned to a crisp.
ssoo,ooolire Loss In Akron, Ohio.
!Akron, Ohio.—Fire in the seven
story Hower block destroyed the buil
ding and contents, which it is thought
will aggregate $500,000. . /
THE TRIBUNE OFFICE REMOVED TO 462 WEST BROAD STREET.
SAVANNAH, GA., SATURDAY, MAY 22. 1909.
HOLDUP ONJOUTHERN
Bandits Sandbag the Express
man and Lock Him in Chest.
ROBBERS GOTABOUT $2OO
Robbery Occurred Near Augusta Where
Bandits Left the Train—Large Amount
of Money Usually Carried on Train.
Augusta, Ga.—Two robbers boarded
Southern passenger train No. 17 at
Warrenville, S. C., ten miles out, got
the drop on Express Messenger Thus.
L. Hutto, knocked him senseless
with a piece of rubber hose, pinion
ed his arms behind him, took his
keys, threw him into an empty ex
press chest, locked him therein and
ransacked the car at will.
The train makes up at Branchville
and carries through express and mail
from Charleston and Columbia to Au
gusta. E. C. Burrell, agent of the
Southern Express Company at Augus
ta, states that the records show that
the robbers secured about $2OO. This
is the. first time on record that the
express has been of such small
amount. The average currency ex
press therqon is $2,500 to $lO,OOO.
The robbers rode into Augusta and
ieft the train on Broad street, in the
center of the city. \o one on the
train knew of the incident and the
robbery was not discovered until the
messenger was liberated at the union
station, the negro porters who were*
engaged in unloading the express hav
ing located the imprisoned man by his
vigorous kicking within the box.
senaturgorelrges probe.
Wants Wholesale and Retail Prices of
Commodities Investigated.
Washington, D. C. —Senator Gore’s
resolution directing the committee on
finance to conduct an investigation
into wholesale and retail prices of
commoditiies was discussed before
the senate at some length. Seeking
to have the resolution adopted, Mr.
Gore said he wished to have state
ments concerning the extortionate
prices of retail dealers fully probed
so that the country might know
just where the responsibility for high
prices rests.
That the cotton manufacturers sell
their products with an agreement as
the price at which they are to be
sold at retail was the substance of a
charge made by Mr. Owen. Demand
ing proof of this assertion, Senator
Gallinger said that what the country
is demanding is prompt action on the
tariff bill. He added that it had been
asserted that the business interests of
the country were losing $10,000,000 a
day by the holding up of the tariff
bill.
Before that was done, in response
to an appeal from Mr. Bailey the
senate agreed to vote on Mr. Gore’s
resolution amendment as suggested
by Mr. Bailey, so as to require the
appointment of a seleect committee
of four republicans and three demo
cratic senators to conduct the inves
tigation asked for, and by a vote of
50 to 29 it was referred to the com
mittee on finance, Senators Bristow,
Crawford and La Follette voting no
with the democrats.
RUSSIAN GENERAL RELEASED.
Stoessel, Commander of Vort Arthur,
Pardoned by Czar.
St. Petersburg, Russia. —Lieutenant
General Anatole M. Stoessel and
Rear Admiral Nebogatoff have been
released from confinement in the for
tress of St. Peter and St. Paul by
order of Emperor Nicholas. The
health of both men has been affected
•by their confinement.
General Stoessel was found guil
ty by court martial of surrendering
the fortress of Port Arthur to the
Japanese and was serving a sentence
of ten years. Nebogatoff was sen
tenced for the same length of time
for surrendering to the enemy at the
battle of the Sea of Japan. Stoessel
began his sentence March 20, 1908,
while Nebogatoff took up his quar
ters in the fortress April 15, 1907.
The officers had been sentenced to
death for having surrendered their
commands, but, in view of the exten
uating circumstances their sentences
were commuted to ten years impris
onment, w^ich they began serving in
1907.
roosevhHa^^
Rhinoceros, Six Lions, Two Giraffes
and Score of Smaller Animals.
Nairobi, British East Africa. —Ed-
mund Heller, one of the zoologists of
the Roosevelt expedition, came into
Nairobi with fifty specimens of ani
mal and bird life that are to be
cured and preserved here. They in
clude one rhinoceros, six lions, two
giraffes, twenty smaller kinds of
game and a variety of birds.
HOT MESSAGE FROMTIARK.
Denies He Broke Laws as to Use of
Free Transportation.
Tallahassee, Fla. —Speaker Farris
had read to the house of representa
tives a telegram from Hon. Frank
Clark, congressman from Florida, in
which he said:
“I denounce as unqualifiedly and
basely, false any intimidation by leg
islative committee or other persons
that I have violated any law in use
of railroad transportation in Florida
or elsewhere. I defy these peopJe to
institute proceedings here, there or
anywhere. If they are honest and have
proof, let them proceed. If they have
not the proof they are not honest
and dare not proceed.”
/
BANDITSWRECK TRAIN.
Great Northern Passenger Is Held Up
Near Spokane, Wash.
Spokane, Wash.—ln a hold-up of the
Great Northern passenger train, No.
3, between Colbert and Mead, 12
persons were injured, when the en
gine and mail car started running
wild down the track by the bandits,
after they had rifled the mails, col
lided with the remaining cars of the
train.
The bandits detached the engine
and mail car from the train, ran
them down the track a considerable
distance and then, after the register
ed mail had been opened, they sent
the engine back to collide with the
cars standing on the track.
The conductor saw the wild cars
coming down the track at the rate of
25 miles an hour, when they were a
short distance away, and he and one
of the trainmen placed a tie on the
track in an effort to stop their wild
flight. The engine and car were
partly stopped by this means, but
plunged into the coaches. There was
a loud crash, and passengers were
thrown from their seats, most of
the injured being hurt by glass from
the broken windows. .
When the train reached Colbert,
some switching had to be done. While
the engine crew was busy at this
work, two men suddenly appeared on
the engine cab, and, thrusting a re
volver against the body of Engineer
William Miller, ordered him to do as
commanded.
Two of the robbers then went to
the door of the mail car and ordered
it opened. Their command was obey
ed by Benjamin F. Stumps, the mail
clerk.
It is reported that the bandits ob
tained a large sum of money from the
registered mail, the amount being
placed at $20,000.
The Great Northern has offered a
reward of $lO,OOO for each robber cap
tured.
PREDICTS HIGH WHEAT PRICES.
Wheat King Patton Says Wheat Lands
Are Being Cropped to Death.
Chicago, 111.—James A. Patten, the
board of trade and member of the
Bartlett, Patton & ^o., whose opera
tions have received national notice
during the last few weeks, reviewed
the wheat situation and gave his
opinion on the market in an address
before the Flour Men’s Club of Chi
cago.
“I predict,” said he, “that high
prices will prevail all over the world
for a year to come in wheat and that
red winter wheat (soft wheat) will
sell as high in America a year from
now as it is selling now.
“I cannot dwell too strongly on the
law of supply and demand and the
theory that the production of wheat
in the United States has not kept
pace with the increase in population,
and I want to suggest that the trade
each year will have to realize this
condition in it«s future dealings and
study from this standpoint.
“The wheat lands are being cropped
to death. Changes must come or we
will suffer the result.”
STUDYING BATTLEFIELDS.
Students of War View Historic Place
Around Richmond.
Richmond. Va. —The fields of Seven
Pines, Fair Oaks and Malvern Hill,
which were fought over in the seven
days’ battle in which General McClel
lan’s army was driven back from this
city, then the capital of the confeder
ate states, were traversed by the thir
tl-two student officers from the war
college at Washington, who are en
camped in Sherwood Park, just out
side of Richmond, they will- visit Cold
Harbor, Mechanicsville, Frayser’s
Farm, Gaines’ Mill and other scenes
of sanguinary engagements. The
whole detachment of thirty-two offi
cers and forty-two cavalry in their
light marching order will travel to
Luisia Court House, Trevilians Sta
tion and Orange Court House to the
theater of Stonewall. Jackson’s famous
Shenandoah valley campaign.
Newsy Paragraphs.
The state bank of Cairo, Nebraska,
was dynamited, the vault and build
ing being completely wrecked by
three explosions. Every cent of cash
was secured and the robbers made
their escape on a hand car stolen
from a section house.
Seven Mexicans in a tent several
miles south of Uvalde, Texas, were
killed by a terrific hail storm. The
storm, which swept a large part of
southern Texas, was of unusual fury.
The hail stones were the largest ever
seen in that section.
One man was fatally injured and
four others were more or less serious
ly hurt in New Orleans when the new
Bascule trunnion bridge at the inter
section of Esplanade avenue and
Bayou street snapped while being
given a trial preparatory to being
turned over to the city. The structure,
which cost $50,000, is a practical
wreck.
Recent dispatches from the Duke
of Abruzzi are entirely at varience
with published reports of his depress
ed mental state, and of fears enter
tained by the rest of the expedition
that his despondency will lead to a
general disaster. The duke, accord
ing to the latest advices, is in the
best of health and spirits, and his
expedition has moved toward the in
terior of India without accident of
consequence.
Charles William Eliot, at the age
of 75 has laid aside the robe of of
fice which he has worn with so much
honor for forty years as president of
the Harvard university, and with
characteristic simplicity, stepped
back into private life. Abbott Law
rence Lowell assumes the office.
PRESIDENT’WIFE ILL
Mrs. Taft Suffers From Nervous
Breakdown.
COMPLETE REST NEEDED
President’s Wife Was Taken 111 on Yacht
Sylph and Was Hurried Back to
the White House.
Washington, D. C. —Mrs. Taft, suf
fering from a slight breakdown, was
taken ill while on h^r way from this
city to Mount Vernon on the yacht
Sylph with a party of friends, and
was hurried back to the white house.
It was said at the white house that
there is no cause for alarm, and that
Mrs. Taft probably will be all right
again in a few days. She was unable
to be present at an official dinner at
the white house.
President Taft himself prepared the
following statement in regard to Mrs.
Taft's condition:
“Mrs. Taft is suffering from a
slight nervous attack. She attended
the Eye and Ear and Throat Univer
sity, where Charlie Taft underwent
a slight operation on his throat. She
was with him for several hours. She
then started with the president and a
small party of friends on the Sylph
for Mount Vernon. The excitement,
heat and exertion were too much for
Mrs. Taft’s nerves, and the party was
obliged to turn back before reaching
Alexandria. Mrs. Taft was quickly
carried to the white house. The doc
tors say that after a few days of com
plete rest, Mrs. Taft may be able to
resume her social duties. Dr. De
laney is in attendance. Mrs. Moore,
Mrs. Taft’s sister, acted as^hostesa
at the official dinner at the white
house.
hollTnsworthmuzzled.
Foe of Jefferson Davis Riddled by
Southern Newspapers.
Washington, D. C. —Speaker Can
non muzzled Representative Hollins
worth, the Ohio congressman who
has been trying to make a kick be
cause the silver service to be pre
sented to the battleship Mississippi
is to bear the likeness of Jefferson
Davis.
Everybody is now laughing at the
Ohioan because he only succeeded in
getting into the official record of the
proceedings all of the editorial at
tacks to which he has been subjected
as a result of his agitation. Hollins
worth arose to a question of privi
lege. He sent a batch of newspaper
clippings to the clerk’s desk. Most
of them were from Mississippi and
Louisiana papers, and all of them bit
terly assailed Hollinsworth. Each
was read, and the house laughed very
heartily at all the ugly names applied
to the Ohioan.
Some of the things Hollinsworth
was called in these editorials were
“contemptible little whelp;” “political
nonenity,” “a gas bag,” “windy mis
fit,” “an ass of the first magnitude,”
“a pusillanimous pgymy,” “cowardly
little cuss, not worth a hurrah in
hell.”
After all this had been placed in
the record. Speaker Cannon muzzled
Hollinsworth. He ruled that he could
not speak to a question of privilege,
as his official character was not at
tacked in any of the editorials. Hol
linsworth then asked unanimous con
sent to proceed.
Francis Burton Harrison of New
York, whose father was Jefferson Da
vis’ secretary, objected, and Hollins
worth was seated.
PROSPEIinRETURNING.
35,000 Iron Employees to Get 10 Per
Cent Raise.
Pittsburg. Pa. —The announcement
is made here that 35,000 employees
of iron and steel companies, having
headquarters here and in this vicin
ity, will receive an advance in wages
averaging 10 per cent the first of
June or the Ist of July. Some of the
manufacturers have already posted
notices of the increase, and others,
it is said, will do so in a few days.
The United States Steel Corporation
has made no announcement of an in
crease in wages, but it is said the
Jones & Laughlin Steel Company, the
Republic Iron and Steel Company,
and other independent companies will
restore the wages paid prior to the
Ist of last April, when a general cut
was made.
5,000 BALESTF COTTON DESTROYED.
Flames at Fort Smith, Ark., Burn a
Large Quantity of Cotton.
Fort Smith, Ark. —Fire here destroy
ed the Fort Smith compress and its
contents of 5,000 bales of cotton. The
loss is estimated at $300,000 and is
covered by insurance.
The fire is supposed to have been
started b; an incendiary.
SOUTH NEEDS TARIFF.
Senator Depew Indorses Statement
That Tariff is a Local Issue.
Washington, D. C. — Republican
though he is, Senator Depew of New
York, in a speech in the senate, in
dorsed General Hancock’s declaration
that the tariff was a local issue.
Mr. Depew advocated a duty on
petroleum, saying that the majority
of the product in this country is pro
duced by independent operators.
He declared that Jf the protection
on cotton were removed the manu
facturers of the Carolinas and Geor
gia would be wiped out, and that as
regards iron, the same would be
true of Alabama, Tennessee and West
Virginia.
LATE NEWS NOTE).
General.
The Standard Oil company an
nounces another five cent reduction,
in the prices of crude oil, bringing it
down to $1.68 per barrel.
The orange crop of Cuba this year
will be the largest in the history of
the island and will reach 500,000
boxes. The business of orange cul
ture in the island is almost entirely
in the hands of Americans.
Mrs. Rachel Fo-ster Avery of Phil
adelphia has given out a statement to
the effect that there will be present
ed to the next congress at its opening
in December a petition bearing one
million names, urging a sixteenth
amendment to the constitution, giving
women the right to vote.
Without any flourish of trumpets
Japan has made considerable strides
in the matte*/ of airship building, and
while the utmost secrecy is main
tained, there is reason to believe that
an inventor of some repute has re
cently patented improvements that
are calculated to startle aeroists all
over the world.
Arkansas claims to have the largest
peach orchard in the world and 1,090
men and three hundred teams are
harvesting the crop. The orchard is
in Sevier county and has two hun
dred thousand trees. It covers two
thousand eight hundred acres and
trees on two thousand acres are bear
ing. Five hundred freight cars will
be used to haul the crop to market.
Guglielmox Fererro, the Italian his
torian, writing in Figaro, a French
newspaper, on the analysis of the
American millionaire, calls Carnegie
the ideal American Croesus, on ac
count of his generosity. He says that
the hostility to Rockefeller grew out
of the mystery in w'.iich the oil king
hid himself.
Colonel Roosevelt’s relatives have
received news that the colonel, be
sides shooting lions^anteldpes, a rhi
noceros and a hippopotamus, has cap
tured alive a remarkable animal hith
erto unknown. It is described as be
ing something between a zebra and a
giraffe.
A beef fami-ne is threatened in
Englstnd on account of the alarming
shortage of imports of American and
Canadian cattle. The meat dealers
are appealing to the government to
remove r he embargo on Argentine
cattle.
Washington.
Japan is acting in good faith with
the United States in restricting immi
gration, according to John H. Snod
grass, consul at Kobe, who conferred
with the president on conditions in
the Orient. He declared that immi
gration from Japan to the United
States has ceased, and that Japan ia
refusing passports to subjects who
wished to come to this country, ex
cept those who have business here
that requires their presence.
Brigadier General Albert L. Mills,
who has just arrived at San Francis
co from a tour of service in th* Phil
ippines, will be assigned to the com
mand of the department of the gulf,
with headqunarters at Atlanta. This
command has been vacant since the
departure of Brigadier General Ram
say D. Potts.
Mrs. Frank B. Vrooman, daughter
of General John C. Black, of the civil
service commission, has paid $3,000
for the pew next to that occupied by
Mrs. William H. Taft in St. John’s
Episcopal church, Washington. The
church officers say this is the highest,
price ever paid for a pew in that
edifice.
Major Clarence W. Smith of the
New York national guard, is in Wash
ington sounding high government of
ficials on the project of Rodman Wan
amaker of New York to have erected
a gigantic statue of an American In
dian at the' entrance to New York
harbor as a lasting memorial to “the
vanishing race.”
Colonel James Parker, commander
at Fort Oglethorpe, Chickamauga
Park, after inspecting the rifle range
at Catoosa Springs, Ga., has submitt
ed a report to the war department
asking that an additional appropria
tion be majle for the purpose of build
ing an additional backstop behind the
line of targets.
Secretary Ballinger and the Wash
ington state congressional delegation
presented to President Taft a tele
graph key mounted on Alaska marble
and studded with gold nuggets, with
which he will send the signal from
Washington opening the Alaska-Yu-*
kon-Pacific exposition at Seattle, June
Ist.
A committee amendment restoring
the Dingley duty on umbrellas and
increasing the duty on umbrella ma
terial has been adopted in the sen
ate. The senate amendment increas
ing the duty on watches and watch
movements, and requiring the name
of the foreign manufacturers to ap
pear on watch movements, has also
been adopted.
The supreme court has reversed
the decision against Cello Ceballos &
Co., made by the court of claims, who
sued for the cost of transportation of
wives and children of the Spanish of
ficers who surrendered at Santiago
and Manila. They carried the wives
and children of the officers as first
class passengers, but the United
States claimed that under the con
tract strictly construed they should
have been carried in the steerage.
The steamship company will receive
a large sum through this decision.
“Bill” Jones, who attracted wide in
terest during the trial of Charles Guit
eau. the assassin of President Gar
field, by attempting to shoot Guiteau.
is on trial charged with the murder of
John McPherson, a farm hand on his
place near Washington.
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