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DELAYS HONORS
TO STATESMAN
Alabama Solons Leave Morgan
Statue Bill on the Calendar,
SENATE WAS WILLING
But House Was Disinclined oi Too Busy to
Consider Measure—Echoes of Ad
journed Assembly.
Despite the efforts of the Alabama
-senate to have the remaining niche
set apart in statuary hall in Washing,
ton for Alabama taken up by a statue
sf the late Senator Morgan, it will
aot be. The house was either too busy
or disinclined to take it up, and it
went to the coasts of oblivion, “left
sn the calendar,” at adjournment of
•he legislature. There was opposition
Tn the part of one member in the
senate to have the statue thus placed,
but the vote was unanimous for it.
It may be that the next session will
complete the work. The other place
allotted to the state is taken up by
a. statute of Dr. J. L. M. Curry, once
minister to Spain, an educator, and
publicist, a man who devoted most of
the productive years of his life to
Alabama and its best needs.
Friends of the movement, however,
are not altogether disappointed in the
outcome. They believe that with a
short while to discuss the life and
work of Senator Morgan, the people
will more thoroughly appreciate his
life and services, and make it all the
more a response to popular demand
than it is at this time. Senator Reese
of Dallas was the leader in the pass
age of the senate bill, which carried
$15,000, and made the daughter of the
dead statesman one of the commis
sioners for the selection of the type
and design.
Members of the legislature and the
citizens of Alabama as a whole have
been greatly pleased at the way Lieuc.
Gov. Henry B. Gray tended to his po
sition as president of the senate. He
worked regularly, being out of his
place less perhaps than any man fill
ing a like position in any of the states.
He took the work as seriously as he
does the running of his bank, and gave
to the state a constant service.
Mr. Gray is the only announced
■candidate for governor. He has taken
the position in the place he holds that
the state is just as much entitled to
regular attention to its business as a
commercial house or a manufacturing
enterprise. He got out of the chair a
very few times to work for special
measures, and those only when he de
sired to further bills that he regard
ed as essential to the welfare of his
own city. His first vote to break a
tie, resulting in the passage of a bill
in the senate to provide indigent
school children with books; his last
to pass the Greater Birmingham bill,
upon which so great a fight was made
pro and con.
When will the legislature be back?
is a question often asked. It can be
said upon reliable information that it
will not he long if the railroad ques
tion is not well settled. If the juries
indict, and there is a conflict with re
gard to the laws now restrained, and
things get mixed up, the word of the
governor is out that an extra session
will be called in a few weeks. If the
roads get an agreement with the state
to wait until litigation is dispos and of
there will likely be no more of the
lawmakers until next year. In any
event, they may be lookec for a year
or so hence.
Now that the session is over, the
distribution of the increased funds
for education will begin. It is g-ing
to be a hard job to get the most ou.
of the money, however, as several acts
that were very much desired were not
passed.
NEGRO SOLDIERS ARRESTED.
Brownsville Contingent is Again Brought
Into the Limelight.
Members of the twenty-fifth infan
try, colored organization, who figured
in the Brownsville riot, created a dis
turbance at San Francisco Friday
Dight and at -me time it was feared
a riot would result. The riot call was
sounded for extra police and eigh
teen of the negroes were arrested.
The twenty-fifth, which had een
stationed at the Presidio, Lf
day for the Philippines on the tra a
port Crook.
MORE KEY MEN QUIT.
Telegraphers in Chicago Office of Western
Union Refuse to Handle
Overland Dispatches.
The telegraph operators employed
by the Western Union in Chicago went
on strike Thursday night at 12 o’clock.
The trouble was precipitated by the
Los Angeles strike, which was inaug
urated Tuesday.
The local executive board of the
Commercial Telegraphers’, Union met
during the night and passed resolu
tions requiring the men to refuse to
work with the non-union operators em
ployed in Los Angeles. When the men
were notified of this step all opera
tors employed in the overland division
of the Chicago office refused t<7 work
any longer with the non-union men ou
the other end of the wire.
When this announcement was made
Night Clerk Harry Price ordered all
who# refused to work to leave the of
fice. He then went into other divisions
and requested the men to go into the
overland division. In every case he
was met with refusal, until over 70
men had been sent home. The griev
ances committee cf the union called
on Mr. Price and notified him that
unless every man was reinstated by
midnight every union man in the of
five would be called out.
This demand was refused and
promptly at midnight, by pre-arrange
ment, a whistle was blown and every
operators employed in the main office,
with the exception of six wire and
loop chiefs, together with Night Man
ager Price and his two assistants,
left their keys and, with a round of
cheers, filed out o ftlie office. The
men employed by the company at the
various morning newspapers had been
notified of the contemplated strike,
and they also quit work.
The national officials of the union
spent all day Thursday in an effort
to prevent the rank and file of the or
ganization from taking matters into
their hands and calling a strike. The
men for weeks have maintained a sul
len attitude toward the company. The
Chicago force was dissatisfied with the
basis of the settlement reached at
the time the strike in San Francisco
was called off.
TWO BAD FIRES IN BALTIMORE
Entail Property Loss of $290,000 With
Only Small Insurance.
Two fire3 at Baltimore Thursday
caused a total damage of $290,000,
partly covered by insurance. In the
first the Baltimore and Ohio grain
elevator containing 56,000 bushels of
grain was burned. The total loss is
estimated at $200,000, of which the
loss on the elevator is $150,000.
Another fire which broke out ift the
Baltimore Transfer company stables,
and comunicated to the Hechlnger
Brothers & Co’s chair factory, caused
$90,000 damage.
PRESENT POPULATION OF CHICAGO
Estimates in New City Directory Place
Figures at .2,367,000.
The Chicago director for 1907 has
been published, giving -figures esti
mating the population of Chicago at
2.3G7.000. This estimate is based ulti
mately on the United States census
of 1900, which gave Chicago a popula
tion of 1,698,575. The same rate of
directory names to total population
that was established at that time is
used this year.
BEAT OUT THE SUICIDE CLAUSE.
Delamater Had Insurance of $95,000 Which
Goes to His Wife.
It was learned in Philadelphia
Thursday that Hon. George Delamater,
who sucided Wednesday, carried life
insurance to the extent of $95,000, all
of which was payable to hi3 wife.
There was a suicide clause in each
of the policies, but he outlived the
period covered by this clause. The
money will be paid to the widow.
HOME PEOPLE ROBBED BY TRUST
In Order to Extend Trade in Petroleum
Products in Foreign Lands.
In the business of selling petroleum
products in foreign countries the price
policy of the Standard Oil company
has apparently been to sacrifice the
interests of the American consumer
for the purpose of securing foreign
business.
This direct charge is made in a re
port to President Roosevelt by Herbert
Knox smith,, commissioner of c.rpo
rations, in submitting to him farther
results of the investigations of the op
i erations of the Standard Oil company.
STRIKE IS ON
EVERYWHERE
Walk-Out of Operators is Now Gen
eral Throughout Country*
TRAFFIC IS HAMPERED
Officials of Two Companies Declare Deter
mination to Fight Matter Out —Won’t
Recognize the Union.
Encouraged by their success in ham
pering the facilities of both commer
cial telegraph companies in Chicago,
the striking operators are now plan
ning to carry the warfare to all parts
of the United States and Canada. In
structions were telegraphed Sunday by
National Secretary Russell to the men
in New York and other citit s to “save
their money and await orders.”
The telegraph companies are prepar
ing to meet the issue, and declarg
they will fight to a finish. They de
clare they have been temporizing with
the union for months, and that they
will hold no further negotiations with
the representatives of the men on
strike. Cots have been installed in the
buildings of both companies in Chi
cago for the accommodation of strike
breakers, and other preparations for
a bitter struggle are being perfected.
“We are filling positions as rapidly
as possible,” said T. I*. Cook, general
superintendent of the Western Union.
“We are in better position than we
expected. We will not deal with any
representative of the strikers, as the
company only treats with its own em
ployees. When the men quit work
they ceased to be employees of the
Western Union, and our relations with
them are at an end. There was no
union recognition In Ibis controversy."
The points affected by the strike up
to Sunday night were:
Western Union —Chicago, Houston,
Kansas City, Topeka, Oklahoma City,
Pueblo, New Orleans, Nashville, Co
lumbus (Ohio), Memphis, Dallas, Me
ridian, Jackson, Miss.; Minneapolis,
Milwaukee, St. Louis, Helena, Mont.;
Salt Lake City, Colorado Springs,
Denver, Fort Worth/ El Paso, St
Paul, Los Angeles, Fargo, Omaha,
Sioux City, Knoxville and Atlanta.
Postal—Chicago, Kansas City, Tope
ka, Oklahoma City, New Orb ans, Dal*
las, Memphis, Jackson, Tenn.; Augus
ta, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Birmingham
and Omaha.
That the strike would be universal
throughout the United Slates and Can
ada within twenty-four hours, was a
declaration made Sunday .night by
National Secretary Russ-11 of the tel
egraph organization. This stabment
was made by Mr. Russell after he had
been informed of the action taken
by the men in New Yok, who, at a
meeting there, Sunday, decided to hold
a walk-out in abeyance until the lat
ter part of the week.
“The strike movement,” said Rus
sell, “has come to the point whore
there can be no backdown. The teleg
raphers have been trodden upon long
enough by the companies, and we are
going to use all our strength to en
force our demands. For several we ks
President Small and myself have been
holding the telegraphers back and
have ben advising conciliation, but
they have taken matters in their own
hands, and we are going to stand by
them.
"No union man will be allowed to
work with anyone r.ot belonging to
our organization, and this means that
the strike will become universal. We
can’t go half way in this matter now.
The strike has been precipitated by
the men themselves without the sanc
tion of the national officers, but we
are now all working In. unison, and
anything that the officials of the va
rious unions throughout the country
have done in calling strikes meets
with our hearty co-op ration.
DELAMATER WHELMED BY GRIEF.
Unable to Bear Sorrow, Well Known Poli
tician Commits Suicide.
George W. Delamater, once candi
date for governor of Pennsylvania, and
who served as state senator from 1887
to 1890, committed suicide with a re
volver Wednesday in his office in Phil
adelphia.
Grief over the death of his father,
at Meadville, Pa., on May 6, and the
sudden death of his son, James, lu
June, at Connellsville, Pa., is believ
ed to have been the cause of his sui
cide.
THE MEMBERS DANCED.
Sp’it-Up Occurs in Baptist Church at Val
dosta, Ga., Over Wide Dif
ference of Opinion.
An unexpected split-up in the Fir3t
Baptist church of Valdos.a, Ga., has
been the subject of much discussion
locally.
At the conclusion of his 11 o'clock
sermon, Sunday morning, the pas.or,
Rev. L. R. Christie, announced that
he had been requested to call a con
ference of the church, which he pro
ceeded to do. Rev. Graham Forrester
acted as moderator. Rev. Christie then
read his letter of resignation from
the pastorate, giving as his principal
reason that he believed the time had
arrived for the establishment of an
other church in the city, and that much
good could be accomplished by the
step.
Fifty-three other members, including
some of the most influential and prom
iuent communicants, called for their
letters and withdrew from the church.
The entire board of deacons and
church clerk also followed the pastor.
The First Baptist church is proba
bly the leading church of Valdosta. It
has a membership of about 700, and
its church building is one of the hand
somest in southern Georgia. Rev. L.
R. Christie has been th pastor for
five or six years, and he is regarded
as one of the leading preachers of
the denomination in the state.
The split-up is generally bell ved
to have sprung from the dismissals
from the church some months ago t)f
a number of young members tor danc
ing, though all had not been in har
mony before that time.
It is understood thr.t the m 'tubers
withdrawing from the par nt church
will begin work at once on the plans,
for anew church, of which Dr. Chris
tie will be pastor. He is known to fa
vor the building of a new' church ou
the tabernacle order, and It. is believ
ed will make a stronger effort to reach
the masses of non-cliurch goers.
BEAR PAYS VISIT TO ROOSEVELT.
Real Live Bruin Makes Home in Woods of
Sagamore Hill.
A live bear, of whom no one claims
ownership, has taken up his home in
the woods of Sagamore Hill, and in
the early foggy hour* Monday morn
ing lie paid a visit, to the residence
of President Roosevelt. The trampling
of the underbrush near the edge of the
cleared knoll on which the president’s
summer home is situated, roused the
secret service guard to activity, lie
hastily organized the household dogs
and stablemen into a hunting party.
For three hours the hunt lasted, but
the bear got away.
SULTAN OF MOROCCO GRIEVES.
•Is Willing to Make Ail Amend:; for Assas
sination of Frenchmen.
The sultan of Moroccu, through Ben
Sliman, the Moroccan foreign minis
ter, has transmitted t othe French
consul at Fez an expression of the grief
with which he learned of Ur assas
sination of the Europeans at Casa
Blanca, saying that, no one more than
he condemned “the act which cost five
French lives.”
The sultan said he vm ready to ac
cord any satisfaction demanded, ev<n
to the dismissal of the pasha of Casa
Blanca and the punishment of the
guilty persons.
“BIG STICK” OVER HARRIMAN.
Action Taken to Force Raliroad Magnate
to Answer Questions,
United States District A tern yStirn
son filed in the United States circuit
court in New York Monday a peti
tion that E. H. Harrlman and Otto
Kuhn of the firm of Kuhn, koeb &
Cos., be summoned in.o court to show
cause why they should not answer
certain questions relating to the con
trol of the Chicago and Alton railroad.
Mr. Stirnaon acted for Attorn y Gene
ral Bonaparte m filing the petition.
GRIP AND MONEY STOLEN.
V/hile Waiting for Train, Robertson Slept
and Was Easily Robbed.
A grip containing papers and mon
ey to the amount of SIO,OOO was stolen
from the waiting room of the Central
depot in Macon, J. W. Robertson of
Eastman being the unfortunate loser.
He was waiting about the depot to
catch another train and fell asleep.
After a hunt about the railroad
yards, the grip was found wi h the
sides cut and the money and wearing
apparel taken out. The papers, how
ever, were still in the grip, the thief
evidently knowing that they would be
useless to him.
SMALL MARGIN
FOR WILLIAMS
Defeats Mississippi Governor for
Senate by Only 648 Majority.
RETURNS CANVASSED
Vardaman Makes Statement Conceding
Nomination to Opponent and Says
He is Not Piqued Over Result.
The Misslsippi democratic state
committee met in Jackson at noon
Thursday", and declared Congresman
John Sharp Williams as the party
nominee for the United States senate
on the canvass of the returns, which
showed a majority of 648 votes for
Williams, the totals being as follows;
Williams, 59,496; Vardanian, 58,848.
There will be no contest over the
result. After a short caucus between
the two factions, it was finally agmd
to abide by semi-official returns as
furnished Seer tary of Slate Powers
from the various counties, and which
show that Mr. Williams has a ma
jority of 618 votes. The motion to de
clare Mr. Williams the nomime was
seconded by the friends of Governor
Vardanian.
The committee tin n formally de
clared Mr. Williams nominated as
United States senator, ana this is the
final settlement of the now celebrated
contest.
Governor Vardanian conceded the
nomination of Mr. Williams by send
lng the following note to the commit
tee;
“The democratic party, through its
executive committee, has declared Mr.
Williams the nominee, and I accept
the arbitration of yiat tribunal with
out a tiuge of resentment or regret
for anything dotle or said by my
friends or me during the campaign.
“I am for the nominee, and hope
that he will make the people of Mis
sissippi a great United States senator.
I have made the campaign upon living,
important and pertinent principles,
and, while I have lost the nomination,
I am thoroughly convinced that the
large majority of the -ML I and. moc
racy of this state agree with my views
upon public questions, and I shall con
tinue to fight for these julnclpleg as
earnestly In the fu ureas I contended
for them in the past.
“I want to thank iny fri nds for
their loyalty, their earnestness and
their zeal in behalf of the principles
I represent, and for my political in
terests.
“No man was ever blessed by more
loyal and faithful friends than those
who favored my fortunes In this con
test. 1 want them to feel as 1 do,
that we have not been defeated, but
that tile victory Is only postponed for
a season. I have been a candidate
several times In iny life, and lost the
fight, but never have 1 felt the sting
of defeat, and I am not defeated to
day. 1 am sure that I am stronger
with the people of Mississippi today
than ever before, and, God being my
helper, I hope to so live that the pop
ularlty, confidence and strength with
the people may grow. The only life
worth living Is a life of service, and
to serve Mississippi and Mlsslssippl
ans is my chief ambition.
In the gubernatoral contest, E. F.
Noe) and Eral Brewer were and dared
as the candidates receiving the high
est vote and will contest in the sec
ond primary to be held August 22. For
lieutenant governor Luther Manshlp
and Wiley N. Nash will enter the sec
ond primary and for insurance commis
sioners T. M. Henry and W. ./. Mil
ler. Other candidates declared nomi
nated for the mori Important state of
fices are: Auditor, E. .1. Smith; treas
urer, George R. Edwards, Jr.; superin
tendent public education, J. It. Rowers.
Mr. Williams must wait four years
before being elected by the legislature
and assuming his duties as United
States senator.
ARE LIVING TOO STRENUOUSLY.
Death Rate Among Men in Chicago is
Double That of Women.
The strenuous lif Is killing the men
of Chicago at a tremendous rate, while
the women of the city are increasing
their longevity by the. simple I'fe, says
Health Commissioner Evans, in a r®.
port Just Issued. He declares (hat a
•few centuries will gee Chicago an Ad
amites Eden. Dr. Evans makes the
startling statement that, during the
la3t seven months of 1907, in Chica
go, about 12,000 men succumbed, as
compared to 6,000 women.