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SALARY CUT RESTORED.
Southern Railway Company Employee*
Made Happy by the New*.
Washington, D. C. — All Southern
railroad employees with the exception
of the president and vice presidents
... „ |of the system, will have their salaries
SIXTY-ONE BALLOTS IN
I first.
~ pi._ - c This announcement was made in a
Prohibition anJ County Un.t Plan of t » egram {rom Washington to
PATTERSON ANDK1TCHIN
Tennessee and North Carolina
Name Candidates for Governor.
Voting Mai n Htuct in Ten-
Nasliville, Tonn.—In Saturday's
j, s. B. Thompson, assistant to the
president of the Southern, at Atlanta,
by President Finley.
This is the second sign of returning
been made ap-
. , ... hlll ,j p , t confidence which has been made i
democratic primary, aftci the hnidest m Qn thp pnrt ()f the southern
fought, bitterest ami most picturesque
campaign ever known in Tennessee,
Governor M. R. Patterson won the gu
bernatorial nomination over K. W. Car
mack.
For supereme court judge, D. L.
Lansdon was successful, M. I>. Bell, in
cumbent, bring an extremely closa
competluor. For railroad commission
er, Frank Avent won over W. C.
Whitthorne.
The nominations are to lie made In
convention, tlr> primary being on the
county unit plan, county committees
naming delegates in accordance with
the vote cast.
.The ninety-six counties will send
1,318 delegates to the convention, and
of those Patterson w’> I haw over 7"<>.
Ills popular majority is between 8,000
and 10,000.
State-wide prohibition was the issue
°n which Carmack based his fight ( the roa d in the offices in
while Patterson defended the present
status, practically local option, which
pari
The first was a definite statement
from this system that the coritemplat-
ed reduction of 10 per cent In salaries
of Its employees, set for July 1, would
not be made. The second was that re
ferred to in which It was stated that
the former 10 per cent cut was to be
restored on July 1.
As one of the employees expressed
ft: "This Is like getting a 20 per
cent Increase in iny salary. First, 1
didn't get the 10 per cent cut 1 was
expecting, and I did get the 1<» per
cent increase l wasn't expecting."
The official order from Washington
reads as follows: "The Southern rail
way announces that the resumption of
negotiations looking to a reduclion in
wages of employees of the Southern
railway outside of Washington has
been postponed from July 1 until Oc
tober 1, next. The 10 per cent reduc
tion in salaries of officials and em
BURIALOFtX PRESIDENT
nr a m*i nr n run inn "in his doath thp natlon ha *
DEATH OF CLEVELAND ;r'V , si ,, vc’av. ?s,
chief services to his country were ren- ,
D ■ i v c 1d«*red during his long, varied and hon- t p r i nce ton Home with
Former Prudent of !h« Un.ted onil)l , career in e»b.lc Ilf.-" 7 ienJs and W , inte „ CM .
SERVICES ARE VERY SIMPLE
States Passes Away.
THE NEWS WAS UNEXPECTED
"In testimony of the respect in
which his memory Is held by the gov
ernment and peofile of the l lilted
States, I do hereby direct that the
flags of the white house and the sev
eral departmental buildings be display
ed at ha’f-staff for a period of thirty
days, and that suitable military and
naval honors under orders of the sec
retaries of war and navy be rendeied
on the day of the funeral.
"Done this 24th day of June, in the
Princeton, N. J.—Grover Cleveland. vear of 0Ur i j0 rd one thousand nine
Despite Fact That He Had Been 111 For
Some Time--On!y Democratic Presi
dent Since the Civil War.
Sermon or Addre**---Word*worth •
"Character of the Happy Warrior
Read.
Princeton, N. J.—All that was mor
tal of Grover Cleveland, former pres!
brmor president of the United States, hundred and eight and of the Indepcn- dent of t ie United Slates, was buried
lint here suddenly- at his home "West- dence of the United States of Amer- the Cleveland family plot In Old
* . f n ica the one hundred and thirty-second. Princeton’s cemetery Friday after-
and. ' Death was due to heart failure, "THEODORE ROOSEVELT, noon, Just as the last rays of Lie sun
"President. te „ u ,. ro . AS , tbe grave. A distinguished
"By A. A. ADEE, Acting Secretary pnr ty of statesmen as well as con-
of state.” freres of the former official stood by
Grover Cleveland was twice presl- in s n ence and witnessed the last lion-
dent of the United States from the ora t0 t ) ie deud ex-prealdent. Then
state of New York, lie defeated James tb€ cortege left the cemetery.
G. Blaine, the republican nominee for Agreeable to the wishes 1
the office In 1884, again the candidate Cleveland, the se.vlce.i both _ v —
kidneys. Heart failure, coinpll- of llis uafty in 1888, but was defeated hoUi€ nn d at the cemetery were of the
forme
died
land.
complicated with other diseases.
The following statement was given
out by ills physicians:
"Mr. Cleveland for many years had
suffered from repeated attacks of gas-
tro-lntestinal origin. Also he had long- g. Blaine, the republican nominee for Agreeable to the wishes of Mrs.
standing organic disease of the heart the office In 1884, again the candidate Cleveland, tne se. vices both at the
and kidneys. Heart failure compu- ^ i^amin Harrison. He retired to simplest characR
fated with pulmonary thrombosis and p ;. lvate llfe for - four years and again Although the funeral was of a strlct-
oedemn, were the Immediate cause of made the race in 1S92, defeating liar- ] v private nature, those in attendanc
has come under his administration.
To Carmack's banner t ie Woman's
Christian Temperance Union and tin 1
Anti-Saloon League were rallied, and
the state had been traversed by wo
men campaign orators, some from
other states. The women and children
continued to work for Carmack at the
polls.
Jnder the present law liquors are
Washington will cease to be applied
after July 1, next. The reduction,
however, will continue ns to the sala
lies of the president and vice presi
dents of the road.”
CUAL RATES REASONABLE.
Says Interstate Commerce Commission
Georgia R. R. and Southern Affected.
Washington, D. C.—The I lit ustHte
commerce commission announced Its
only sold in Memphis, Nashville, Chat- ol Hon in the case of Rice against
tanooga. La Follette and Binghamton. Georgia Railrond company, hold-
La Follette voted against t urrenderlng j^ j n effect that the conditions under
its charter so as to conn under the w hioh coal Is transported front Jellco,
provisions of the present law. Bing- l0 Augusta, Ga., are so dissim
hamton is a manufacturing town . i jj ar ( 0 (h c conditions under which coal
Shelby county, six miles from Mem- is transported to Augusta from the
phl.s. Alabama fields as to warrant the rall-
Aslde from prohibition, Carmack s road in charging more for the haul
chief tight wit made against the conn- f rom .]elico; also tuat water con’.petl-
ty unit plan, which was adopted by l ie Clnirleston relieves tlie rail-
etate commitlee over his protest, his r0iU , | lom the charge of violation of
<•011101111011 lieing tor a general, state- t ) 1( , p m „ aad short haul e’ause and
wile primary.
These two counts have been the
main ones In the indictment ho drew
against Governor Patte son in a series
finally that the railroad rates on coal
from Jelico to Augusta are not un
reasonable.
Regarding the complaint that the re
of joint discussions throughout the weighing of carload shipments of coal
state. Great crowds heard the de- unreasonable the commission sus-
bates, which were remarkah.e for the | H j ns that contention and orders the
forcefiilness, eloquence and satire dis- railroad to correct its methods so as
played by each, as well for the height
to which feeling ran between both tiie
debaters and their partisans.
Patterson in serving ills first term
as governor. The rivalry between him
and Carmack is not only political, lint
personal.
In the election of 1 ROC. the late Gen-
to pet mil correction when variation
of 1 per cent with a minimum of 500
pounds, is disclosed
In tlie cuse of Gump agninst the Bal-
timore and Ohio railroad and other
lik • suits, the commission held that
the competitive conditions existing
at Bristol, Tonn., and not at Johnson
e:al Joslah Patterson, father of the rity Teim „ r p ndo r it permissible for
present governor, was defeated for rt
e’ectlou io congress in the Tenth dis
trict, the Memphis district, by Mr.
Carmack.
Charlotte, N. c.—William Waltou
the Southern railway to haul traffic
through Johnson City to Bristol at low
er rates than it charges on the same
goods to Johnson City, but that It Is
unlawful to haul through Johnson City
, , , . to Morristown at less rates than they
Kltcliin, for twelve years repiesenta- ; charge on the same goods to Johnson
tlve in congress from the fifth North | ci tv .
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 stale.
The convention has neen in almost
at noon and the nomination required
continuous session since Wednesday
slxty-one ballots. In every respect the
contest has been remarkable. Lined
up against Kitchln were Locke Craig,
of Buncombe county, one of the most
popular democrats In the state, and
Colonel Ashley Horne of Johnston, u
prominent business man,
W. C. Newland of Caldwell county,
was nominated for lieutenant gov
ernor.
FIRST BALE OF NEW COTTON.
Brings 35 Cent* in New York, and Was
Immediately Shipped to Liverpool.
New York City.—The first hale of
this year’s cotton crop was sold at
auction ut the New York Cotton Ex
change. It was fully strict good mid
dling in grade, and brought 35 cents
per pound. This bale arrived at Hons
his death."
wag
the
III..
rlson for the most honored position numbered many distinguished citl
within the power of the American ZP ns, including President Roosevelt,
people. i Governors Fort of New Jersey, Hughes
No tnaii perhaps ever arose lrom| 0 f \ 1>W York, Hoke Smith of Georgia,
the rank of the people who had strong- former members of President (’ev
er friendships or more bitter enemies, j ] and H cabinet, officials of the Equila
In most things he was a plain, blunt ^j e j d f 0 Assurance society, members
mail, who thought strongly and gener- ()f f lle Princeton university faculty and
ally said Just what he thought. friends and neighbors.
Ills rise to power formed a striking j m,. Cleveland was burled with all
Illustration of the democracy of this jj ie simplicity and privacy that he him-
country—a country where man's worth 8e j( wished as a private citizen rather
lias often been weighed against all (| 1iU) HH j; le former chief executive of
other considerations. the nation.
He was known as the veto president j the services began with an invoca-
liaving, during liis terms vetoed one Hon by Rev. Sylvester \V. Bench of
hundred nnd fifteen bills out of eight the First Presbyterian church of
hundred and ninety-seven hills sub-1 pr.neeton, which was followed by
mttted to him. Of the bills dlsapprov- Scriptural reading by Rev. Maitland
ed one hundred and two were private y. Partlett of the West Farms Presby-
penslon cases and he took similar ac- ■ terlan church of New York* a former
tlon on a general pension bill. He pastor of Mr. Cleveland, who read
turned forty-three thousand republl- from the 14th chapter of the hook of
can office holders out of their positions j John, and also read u number of pass-
in two years. Of these forty thous- ages from the 4th and 22d chapters of
and were fourth-class postmasters.! the Thessalonlans.
"Offensive partlanshlp" and "pernl-1 Dr, Henry Van Dyke then said:
clous activity in politics" were the "According to the request of one
Ex-Pre*ident Grover Cleveland in 1908. reasons given for a great majority of whose slightest wiih at this moment
~ these removals. These terms proved : wp all respect, there will he no ad-
While Mr. Cleveland had been se- j 0 be notable contributions to the lan- dress or sermon, but there was a poem
riously 111 front time to time during gunge of polities. The removals caused written more tnan a hundred years
the past eighteen months the an- one of t)le mosl B p| r Red quarrels with ago bv William Wordsworth which is
nouncement of his death was a sur- , 1)e 8ena te. The latter called for the i expressive of his character.”
prise to the entire country. papers giving fully the cause of dis- j jj e then read the poem, "Character
Heroic steps were taken during his missn’a. The president refused to t ,f (h e Happy Warrior.”
illness to thwart the ravages of the BP m| the paper* and gave the sonatois This was followed by readings from
disease with which he suffered but to understand that their only ^luty un ; ' the Presbyterian hook of Common
pach attack left him in a moie weak- constitution was lo act on his j Worship, the services at the house
ened condition and the end tame .it nominations. This occurred during house concluding with this prayer:
8:30 o clock Wednesday morning, his hrst term. j The services were concluded at 5:30
June 24.
Mrs. Cleveland and three physicians
were at his bedside when the distin
guished patient passed away.
The three children were at the
Cleveland summer home at Tamworth,
New Hampshire, in charge of Mrs.
Perrlne Mrs. Cleveland's mother.
TRIED TO REDEEM $10,000.
Clerk in Postoffice Responsible for
Loss Paid Back Over $2,000.
Pittsburg, Pa.—The Pittsburg post-
office money order department lias
been found to be $7,851 short, and
Frank T. McCabe, superintendent of
tlie department, has been placed under
arreat, charged with embezzlement.
He says that four years ago the
Pittsburg postoffice was robbed of $10,-
000 in casli on a Sunday afternoon,
that Ills carelessness was in tiie main
responsible for permitting tlie robbery
to be perpetrated and since lie was tlie
only one inside the office who knew of
It he decided to pay the money back
as he could.
He had paid back more than $2,000
when his shortage wus discovered.
McCabe, after a preliminary hear
ing, was placed under $2,500 bond
for a further hearing.
NEWSY PARAGRAPHS.
The Roosevelt, the vessel on which
Commodore Robert K. Peary will
Most popular of all Mr. Cleveland's and five minutes later the casket had
nets ns president was his treatment of been tenderly carried to the hearse
the Venezuela boundary question. That land the procession started on its way
was In 1895. England, It was charged to the cemetery. Along the streets
was encroaching on Venezuela Hnd from Lie house to cemetery, national
threatened the appropriation of a large guardsmen, mounted and on foot, po
und valuable territory. Cleveland went iked the way.
,, .. , to the rescue of the republic, and, at
The funeral took place k riday, June ^ s j t of war England, forced AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
26, at Westland, Lie Cleveland home an arbitration of the question Rt is- A Grover Cleveland's Career. A
at Princeton, N. J. .... sue. England wus belligerent and Eu- A Born at Caldwell Essex conn- A
Mr. Cleveland was seventy-one r0 p e f rown0 tl savagely, but the fellow- A ty, N. J., March 18, 1837. Chris- A
yeurs old on March 18 last, lnirliig c j t j zena 0 f th e president were wildly A tened Stephen Grover Cleveland. A
the past winter he kept close to hie enthusiastic in hie support. A In 1841 family moved to Fay- A
home lit 1 rlnceton until the approach ^,j r Cleveland being the only deni- A ettevllle, N. J. A
of his birthday, when he went to 0 cratlc president since the civil war A Served as clerk in a country A
Lakewood, with his family. He was a was gre atly beloved in the south. Soon A store. A
trustee of the Equitable Life Assur- after ] eav jng the white house In 1896. A In 1852 was appointed assls- A
mice society of New York ( itv and hc egta bH B hed his family in a comfor- A tant teacher of the New York in A
up to the time ot ms going to Lake- tab ] e home at Princeton, N. J. He had A stltution for the blind. A
wood had attended to correspondence f ortune ample for Ills needs. Ap- A For four years, from 1855. as- A
n connetclon wt h his duties for that 1)arent j y he had no further ambition A slated his uncle in preparation of A
A?. v. i oi-ownrwi Rnw for > ,ublic offlce ’ tt,,d he Ketile <l d(JW “ A ’American Herd Book” and had A
Att ? r ?''?/?,LLh in l )eace and contentment to enjoy the A a clerkship in a law firm In IJuf- A
vor, he discontinued that work and it dec i lnlng years of his life. k f„j 0 a
oon developed that .lr. Cleveland T1 softened the enmity of those A Admitted to bar in 1859. A
suffering from an attack of diges * •
ton, Texas, on the morning of June 20 J ^ , 11 , , ^ t , , i Vm l
and was raid at auction there at 54 m . a te , ,is , C ^ liU! t,!’°J
centB per pound, it was immediately (strived at New ill City. Commodore
expressed to this city and following Poar >' is ln Maine at ,he P re3ent tlme
the sale was hurried on board tlie Man-! Reports received at Madrid, Spain,
retania, sailing at noon for Liverpool, I from the west coast of Africa con
where it will again be sold at auction cernlng the sinking by a tornado on
according to the usual custom. This the upper Congo river of the steam-
is said to be a record for rapid hand P° at Ville de Bruges las May. Of the
ling of the first bale, which has trav- Europeans who lost their lives
eled from Houston to New York and fom - were caught by cannlbalists,
will be sold in Liverpool within a pe-! killed and devoured. Seventy negroes
rlod of ten days.
TO END TURKISH RULF.
and
England, Russia, United States
Other Powers to Act.
London, England.—Information con
sidered reliable, declares that Eng
land’s foreign office intends to end
Turkish rule in Macedonia, which lias
been a long record of murder and out
rage. It is said the matter was dis-
'■ussed 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
were drowned
The Clyde Line steamship Cliippe
wa, which struck a rock near Montauk
is hard aground and will probably
prove a total loss. Thousands of wa
terme’.ous have been thrown Into the
sea and hundreds of persons, many
from the Connecticut shore, have vis
it°d 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 tiie beach
combers to reach lit. The opportunity
for such a feast of ripe melons Is not
often seen on the Long Island shor
and the inhabitants are eager In grasp
ing it.
A tornado which swept over Clinton
Minn., killed seven people, and in
Twenty
tw
be Invited to join the other powers hi
ihe initiative by England and Russia jured 25, some seriously
for a conference concerning Maeedo- houses, a printing office and
nla. | churches were blown down.
ClUlt gill LI I HI 41/ULTU rhe sultan of'Turkey, anxious to
ilVC nILLr.il IIN nntm. win the esteem of the American peo
pie, has conferred tlie degree of Grand
Double-Header Freight Train Strike* : Cordon of Chefakat on Mrs. Roosevelt
a Washout. and her daughter, Ethel, As yet no
’ , acceptance has been received. Tli
Chadi on, Neb.-Mve persons "ere (llecoratlon ls the highest rank, and
killed in a wreck on tae Chicago and reserved for favorites of the Sultan
Nebraska Western road. A double- It is usually conferred on those wh
header freight train, easibound struck 1,av 'e been of assistance to the sulta
« washout caused by a severe rain , flnaa( ; lal “ att «f. 3 or he, P« d illin j
near Chadron. The dead: Willis Gra- l !, < ? niat c <li t'l cultit ’ s -
iiam, engineer; O. ('. Weyers, fireman; The state of Texas has garnisheed
Fred Ebener, brakeman; two unident- all money owed the Standard Oil com
Ifled men who were stealing a ride, pany in that state.
t
many times before.
He was attended by Dr. Joseph D.
Bryant, of New York City, and Dr.
George R Lockwood a specialist in wrot€ occasional articles for
stomach disorders, was called into
consultation. Dr. Bryant made fre
quent visits to the distinguished pa
tient at Lakewood.
The fact that Mr. Cleveland remain
ed at the Lakewood hotel after it had
long been closed to all other guests ‘^““Hunting,” "Would'” Woman's Suf-
nnd that foi nitiny W66kb no attempt n a i in mica 7" "y’iti'/ono’ •>
wa* made to take the former presl- frag - e Be - Unwhe? P itll! «5 B Dut y’
dent to his home in Princeton, only a
short distance away, early made it ovl
all arrangements to attend the Yale-
Harvard boat races, upon learning of
the former president’s death immedi
ately cancelled the engagement and
wired Mrs. Cleveland his condolence
and of his intentions to attend the fun
eral. The president then issued the
, „ ,, who had been arrayed against him, A Appointed assistant district at
e ,1^ ’ , h expel ienced and go he ga i lied tl)e KOOd wl n „f the A torney of Erie county January 1
great mass of Americans. His deliv- A 1863.
erance on any public question w as re- A Defeated for the district at tor
reived by them with the deepest Inter- A neyship of Erie county In 1865.
A Practiced law.
various periodicals. Some of the A Elected sheriff of Erie county A
themes to which he gave attention A In 1870. A
were: “Integrity of American Char- A Elected mayor of Buffalo ln A
ucter,” “Mission of Sport and Out- A 1881. A
door Life,” “Woman’s Mission and Wo- A Elected governor of New York A
man’s Clubs," "Word Concerning Rab- A in 1882 bv a plurality of 200,- A
A 000. A
A Elected president of the United A
"Independence of the Executive," A States in 1884. Majority in the A
"Word to Fishermen,” and “Word for A electoral college 37. A
dent that Mr. Cleveland’s condition Po I? stry ’': , Broke all records by vetoing A
was regarded as very serious 1 lie <mly ()Cca4iion 011 which he left A one hundred and fifteen hills out A
President Roosevelt who had made bis retirement was In response to a A of eight hundred and ninety- A
call that he assist In bringing order A seven bills. A
to one of the companies Involved In A Married Frances Folsom in the A
the New York insurance scandal. A wiiite house June 2, 1886. A
It seems poor nnd trite to say that ^ Defeated in campaign for re- A
that a long life of usefulness and hon- ^ election in 1888. A
or conies to a close by tlie death of ^ Engaged in the practice of law A
Grover Cleveland. The news flashed ^ ln ^ ew York. A
from Princeton chilled the heart of A Elected president of the Unit- A
thousands of devoted followers who ^ e d States in 1892.
A Settled Venezuela
LATE NEWS NOTES.
General.
Lawrence Friend, a brakeman
mangled beneath the wh-oh of'
Knickerbocker Special at Parts
after lie had saved scores of li v .' u i
preventing the fast Big Four
ger train from crashing head-on
a row of freight cars. Friend turn,!!!
the switch in time to swine th- nof
senger train on to a side-track h ilt
quickly enough to get nut of :he
of the engine. He was decapitate*
and lias body dragged several hundnw
yards before the engineer was a M.
stop the train, 0le ,0
Consul General Richard Guenther ot
Frankfort, Germany, advises that ns
cording to press accounts, negotiation,
are now going on between the rottnn
■spinners’ associations of England ana
Germany, having for their ohj Pct
agreement to regulate—that is limit
the production of cotton yarns in .u
two countries.
The board of health of the citv
New Orleans has a plan by which ihe»
hope to exterminate n large numb/,
of rats, with which the city t 9 ove .
run. They secured fifty large rats and
inoculated them with virus that win
produce fatal d’.seasos and turned
them loose ln different part* of ih 9
city. The experiment is being watch,
ed with groat interest by other rliim
similarly afflicted.
Fortner Alderman William s c||f.
ford of Now York City who pleaded
guilty to bribery, was sentoneui In ih«
superior court to pay $1,000 fin. ,,r i 0
®erve 1,000 days In Imprisonment, it
was suid that friends would furnish
the money for Clifford.
Upon Information made by National
Bank Examiner Folds of Pittsburg
Pn. t J. W. Tler.s, discount clerk of the
First National bank of Pittsburg, i*
under arrest with $31,000 on the wrong
side of the balance.
The property, franchises nnd entire
rights of the Brooklyn Ferry company
said to he worth $10,000,000, were sold
Ht public auction for $25,000 to the
New York Terminal company, it i 9 pi e .
dieted that all but two of the roup
puny’s seven ferry lines will be shut
down because they are operating at a
loss.
"Jackie" Clark, the Australian bicy
cle rider, lowered the worlds three-
mile record at the track at Salt Lake
City, riding the distance ln 5:49 3 4.
An offer by Dr. Hamilton Fisk Big-
gar, John D. Rockefeller’s phynlclan,
to kiss any woman who would give
$100 to the propaganda fund, created
the merriest time df the Homeopathic
National convention at Kansas City.
The fun continued for thirty minutes
and $6,000 was pledged, enough of It
by women doctors to keep Dr. Btggar
busy trotting up and down the alelea
trying to catch the givers and fulfill
his part of the contract.
A Ihst of pensions granted by the
English government In the past year
for services to science and literature
Inc’ude $250 yearly to aul Foun
tain, an American traveler aisi writer,
"In consideration of his contributions
to literature and his strained circum
stances."
While temporarily insane, Mrs. Au
gust P. Johnson of Ida Grove, Iowa,
drowned her four little children in the
cistern at their farm house.
A special dispatch from Corunna,
Spain, says that the Spanish steamer
La Rache went on the rocks near
Mums. It has been ascertained that
the number of passengers and crew of
Ihe La Rache totalled 150. Sixty-five
persons are known to have been saved,
but the fate of th? other eighty-five ll
not known, and It is feared that most
of them perished.
The law passed by the last 1 exits
legislature taxing barbers has beeu
declared unconstitutional by the
courts of that state, inasmuch as It
makes a class distinction.
The will of Benjamin Hart, nil Amer
ican millionaire, who died in i’ ar,a »
which has been filed in New York nnd
which left his entire estate to nil
housekeeper, ha s been ut tacked by
his adopted daughter on the grounds ot
undue influence.
As the result of an explosion in '' ie
plant or the Babst Chemical company
at Chicago five women were
following proclamation:
"The White House, June 24, 1908. thousands of devoted followers who A etl states in 1892. A
"To the People of ihe' United States: have looked upon him for years as the ^ Settled Venezuela boundary A
"Grover Cleveland, president of the one supreme and uncompromising A dispute in 1895. A
United States from 1885 to 1889 and exemplar of democracy as it was A After leaving white house in A
again from 1893 to 1897, died at 8:40 taught by the fathers of the requbllc A 189C established home for Ills A
o'clock this morning at his home in —the strongest, ablest, sanest of them 4 ir ] Princeton, N. J. A
Princeton, N. J . . all.
SPECTACULAR OIL FIRE.
BIG RICE MILLS COMBINE.
100,000 Barrels Burned by Fire Result- Merger Formed With Two and One-
ing From Electric Storms. Half Million Capital.
Pittsburg, Pa,—Over 100,000 barrels New Orleans, La.—The big rice
of oil consumed by fire, three valuable ! mills of Louisiana have formed a
oil reflnerieif^flestroyed and an estlmat- combine or merger under Ihe title of
ed loss of about $500,000 are the re- ; the United Irrigation and Rice Mill-
suits of electric storms which passed
over western and northern Pennsylva
nia.
The ignition of the large quantity of
oil by lightning caused three specta
cular fires at Bradford, Warren and
Washington, Pa.
ing company. The La Palana, Hech-
inger. Jumble, Lichtenstein and other
rice interests throughout Louisiana;
the Independent Rice Mill, at Crow
ley; Abbeville Mill, at Abbeville; Don
aldson ville, at Donaldson ville; Enre-
ke Mill, at Estherwood, and Gueydan
The fires are under control, but for Mill, at Gueydan, enter the consolida-
wide area surrounding the destroyed tion, which also will control the Licht-
tanks there It a scene of blackened, enstein and the Hechinger Irrigation
smoking earth and
tlon.
charred vegeta-
BIG CELEBRATION IN TAMPA.
Plant at Crowley and the Abbeville
plant in Vermillion parish.
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CHINESE EXCLUSION.
Minister Wu To Know How Many Will
be Admitted.
Honolulu.—The Chinese committee
which has charge of the agitation for
a modification of the exclusion laws
laws ,so as to permit of a limited im
migration of Chinese to these islands
has received a letter front Minister
Wu Ting Fang at Washington asking
what number of Chinese Immigrants
it suggests should be admitted here
annually. The committee has replied
that it desires that 5,000 a year should
be admitted for about seven years in
addition to their families, ‘it esti
mates that with Biich an immigration
there would be at the end of ten
years only about 50,000 Chinese ln the
territory.
SPANISH SHIP AT HAVANA.
burned
to death and more than a score of ott
ers seriously injured.
Following prolonged negotiations
both at Toklo and Pekin on the gene ■
al subject of the commercial depart
ment of Manchuria, tlie Japanese R0'’
eminent instructed its clinrge «
faires at Pekin to notify China t»
Japan would throw no obstacle in
way of the development of < nm«
territory In Manchuria.
Washington.
The United States National Muse«®
at Washington has received as n
from J. N. Leger, the Hflytien m
tor to the United States, a c!U ® . (l »
talnlng model's representing ove
different vegetables ami fr " llB ( V 1)
ti, arranged for exhibition pmP
Acting Secretary of State Adee
Mr. Godoy, the Mexican charge,
changed ratifications of a 8 011 ;'>‘ .
bitratlon treaty. The treat,v 1 '
lar in provisions to those between
United States and various L
governments. u
Admiral Capps, chief of the l)lir ^ e [ t
of navigation and construct •
Washington for San Francis ,
whence he will 'sail with the -
Inspect Pearl Harbor, Hawai ’ n|| 0 n8
tiie government will spend
on a naval station. » . B
The following Georgians ha'c
granted patents: Two-color D geC .
press, H. A. Agricola, Jr., Atlanta,
tional umbrella stick, Martha ~
In Honor of tlie Arrival of First Steam- will be Written by John D. Rockefel-
er of New Line. ler to Appear In a Magazine.
Tampa, FLA.—The steamer Rio -w 'Y'ork City.—John D. Rockefel-
Grande, 2,700 tons, in command of : ler, according
Captain Risk, of the Mallory line from
New Yoik to lamp a and .Mobile, at - ,,.i am-iaiiv in a York nmonyintJ .3 , < , 1 1 - w • ,
. , , „.. ici “ «er any in a i\ew xonv magazine, the Island, came into the harbor of
rived here on the first trip. This beginning in October. Havana and was hailed with “n lnisi
is the first big .steamer to enter Lie Mr. Rockefeller's autobiography is a stic ex; ' - - -- n 1Uh
twenty-foot channel at Tampa. to be published under the title of ! tir
A big celebration was given the
event heie.
First to Visit Cuban Port Since Amer
ican War.
Havana, Cuba—The schoolship N'aut-
ler according to announcement, lias iUl8> the first Spanish ship of the navy
decided to give to the world his own ' , 0 enter Cuban ports since the relin-
history of his life. It will be publish- \ qulshment of Spanish sovereignty in
cpresslons of delight by the en-
„ „ - - re Spanish colony of the citv m-mv
"Some Random Reminiscences of Men thousands of Cubans joining 'h v,l
and By vents. 'demonstration.
\V. M» n '
ford, Hawkinsviile; operating t 8 ^
J. H. Downey, Gainesville;
YV. A. Flowers, Tlfton.
The completion of the all>1 fj n ited
treaty between Spain and T ,,i 3 oi®
States has been announced. , lth
of many treaties being conclu ge( ,_
European powers in pursuance
rotary Root's policy. |he
President Roosevelt has ,l ®‘" b “g a to
re-appointment of Dr. J. ( '* , in ber
his third term of service afl 1 j d co.
of the executive council ot j e|)U bll-
Dr.- Barbosa is a leader or n ' dl e
can party, and Is affiliated wUU^
imu.T, «»*v* tiipniw- 1
nationalists. The America (bird
of the council favor him ro1 )S mo»
term, but there is some
which lias delayed appointment