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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.