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HEARST LOSES CONTEST Mayor McCie lan is Victorious in 1905 Campaign. BALLOT BOXES NOT STUFFED Heard Wu Unable toPrcveH t Charge to Satitfaction of Judge, Who Directed Verdict For McCie .an. Tsjcw York.—Mayor George B. Mc- Ckllan’s title to the office of mayor of New York city was made clear by j the decision of Justice Lambert in the supreme court when he ordered a jury to render a verdict that McClellan was duly elected mayor in 1905. W. K. lfearst has been contesting the mayor's right to the office practically ever since the election, and as a re sult of his charges of fraud in the original count of oallot the legislature passed a law enabling a recount. At torney General W. S. Jackson then instituted quo warranto proceedings on behalf of the people, in whicn both Mr. Hearst and Mayor McClellan were named as defendants. The recount left Mayor McClellan with a plurality of 2,9t>5, whereupon Clarence J. Shearn, representing .vlr. Jackson, alleged that the ballot coxes had been stuffed and requested the court to throw the entire vote of 112 election districts in which he charged that the ballots found in the boxes ex ceeded the number of registered vot ers. This, however, was based on an incorrect list of voters, and, when the correct list was produced Tuesday, Mr. Shearn said that the registration was greater than the poll in every, disputed district. Justice Lambert declined to throw out the contested districts. Mr. Shearn then charged that the inspectors had registered an excess number ol names, but said he could not prove repeat ing. The justice then declared that the original count was quite as complete as the one made in court, and that the evldeuce showed no fraud as far as the election Inspectors were concern ed. He said that if legal voters could be disfranchised so readily as had been attempted In this case, this form of government would not endure long. If the jury wore to return a ver dict against Mayor McClellan, Justice Lambert said he would not allow it to stand, and he ordered a verdict in favor of the mayor, which was ren dered. The jurors were allowed $5lO each, having sat 51 days. Mayor McClellan spent over $40,000 to defend his title a:ul says that he had no regrets as to the course he pursued, and that he feels that the controversy will discourage the bring ing of election contests of this sort in the future. He said that had he sus pected that his election was the re sult of fraud, he would have acted differently. MEN RETURN TO WORK. Coal Mines, Coke Ovens and Steel Mills Again Busy. Pittsburg, Pa.—There is happiness in Bayardstown for two of the three mills of the Schoenberger plant have resumed work after a shut down of three months. Between 1,500 and 1,- 700 nten went back to work. Within a week the third mill will resume. Then will follow, inside of ten days, the continuous mill and one of the two blast furnaces. The Schoenberger plant is a sub sidiary of the American Sled and Wire company. Altoona, Pa.—The Pennsylvania, Beech Creek and Eastern Coal and Coke company started operations in their ovens and mine at Galitzen and Bennington, near here, on full time. This affected abount 1,500 men on both places. The ovens and mines have been ctlosed since the first of the year. DEAL INVOLVES $1,500,000. J. J. Hill and Others Buy Great Falls Water Power company. Great Falls, Mont.—James J. Hill Mid associates sold the property of the Great Falls Water Power and Transit company to John L). Kyan and others for $1,500,000. John D. Ryan, managing director of the amalgamated Copper company, and Johh G. Maronv, president of the Daly Bank and Trust company of Butte and of the First National Bank of Great Falls, are the heaviest stock holders. The purchasers deny that Amalgamated Copper has any interest In (he deal. It is probable that an immense elec tric generating plant will be conduct ed at the •‘big'' falls. ABANDONED SCHOONER FOUND. Was Laden With Molasses —Life Boat Gone and Crew Was Missing. Norfolk, Va. —The dismantled three mated schooner Charles L. SpragUe was towed into Hampton Roads by th® Cuban steamer Yumuri, bound from Tampico, Mexico, to New York. The Sprague had been in a gale which carried away all three ot her masts as well as her bowsprit. All the life-boats are missing. The Sprague, laden with molasses, was bound from Porto Rico to some northern port. Nothing was seen of the schooner's crew by the Yumuri. It is possible they were off by aoine other vessel. PATTERSON AND KUCHIN. Tennessee and North Carolina Name Candidates for Governor. Nashville, Tenn.—la Saturday's democratic primary, after the hardest fought, bitterest and most picturesque campaign ever known in Tennessee, Governor M. R. Patterson won the gu bernatorial nomination over E. W. Car mack. For supereme court judge, D. L. Lansden was successful, B. D. Bell, in cumbent, being an extremely close competitor. For railroad commission er, Frank Avent won over W. C. Whitthorne. The nominations are to be made in convention, the primary being on the county unit plan, county committees naming delegates in accordance with the vote cast. The ninety-six counties will send 1,318 delegates to the convention, and of these Patterson wMI have over 700. His popular majority i3 between 8,000 and 10,000. State-wide prohibition was the issue on which Carmack based his fight, while Patterson defended the present status, practically local option, which has come under his administration. To Carmack’s banner the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union and the 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. Under the present law liquors are only sold in Memphis. Nashville, Chat tanooga, La Follette and Binghamton. Follette voted against surrendering its charter so as to come under tiffe provisions of the present law. Bing hamton is a manufacturing town iu Shelby county, six miles from Mem phis. Charlotte, N. C.—William Walton Kitchin, for twelve yeais representa tive in congress from the fifth North Carolina district, was nominated for the governorship of North Carolina by the democratic state convention at 8 o’clock Saturday after the warmest fight in the annals of the state. The convention has oeen in almost at noon and the nomination required continuous session since Wednesday sixty-one ballots. In every respect the contest has been remarkable. Lined up against Kitchin were Locke Craig, of Buncombe county, one of the most popular democrats in the state, and Colonel Ashley Horne of Johnston, a prominent business man. W. C. Newland of Caldwell county, was nominated for lieutenant gov ernor. RABBI BITTEN BY DOG. Doctors Say He Must Die Calmly Awaits the End. Cleveland, Ohio.—Waiting calmly fc>r the fate that his physicians say threatens him, Rabbi L. Friedman is at his home the victim of a rabid dog. if God desires to call me at this lime 1 am ready to go,” the rabbi said. “I don’t feel any pain yet and I trust file treatment will be successful. But the doctor seems to be discouraged.’’ Physicians refuse to make a fore cast. Rabbi Friedman is sixty-four years old, and has retired as an active pastor. Several days ago he "was at tacked and bitten upon the left hand by a dog. TRIED TO REDEEM SIO,OOO. Clerk in Postoffice Responsible for Loss Paid Back Over $2,000. Pittsburg, Pa. —The Pittsburg post office money order department has been found to be $7,851 short, and Frank T. McCabe, superintendent of the department, has been placed under arrest, charged with embezzlemeut He says that four years ago the Pittsburg postofflee was robbed of $lO,- 000 in cash on a Sunday afternoon, that his carelessness was in the main responsible for permitting the robbery to be perpetrated and since he was the 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 was 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 E. Peary will make his coming polar expedition, has arrived at New York City. Commodore Peary is in Maine at the present time. A movement has been started in Essex county, New Jersey, in which the late President Grover Cleveland was born to raise a national monu ment to his memory. It is expected a committee to take the fund in New Jersey will be appointed. A tornado which swept over Clinton. Minn., killed seven people, and in jured 25. some seriously. Twenty houses, a printing office and two churches were blown down. The Clyde Line steamship Chippe wa, which struck a rock near Montauk, is hard aground and will probablv prove a total loss. Thousands of wa termelons have been thrown into the sea and hundreds of persons, many from the Connecticut shore, have vis ited the scene in power and small boats to gather the rich harvest. When ever a melon is washed ashore there is a wild scramble among the beach combers to reach tt. The opportunity for such a feast of ripe melons is not often seen on the Long Island horo and the inhabitants are eager In grasp ing it. The law passed by the last Texas legislature taxing barbers has been declared unconstitutional by the courts of that state, inasmuch as it : makes a class distinction. PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEORGIA LEGISLATURE IN THE HOUSE. June 25. In the big cool hall of the house of representatives Thursday the mem bers observed the second day of the second session by doing little and that little easily. A message from the senate was re ceived, a resolution providing for a joint committee from two houses to prepare a memorial upon the death of President John W. Akin. The reading of new bills on intro duction and their reference to commit tees occupied a large share of the morning session. Anew flood of bills deluged the desks as on the first day. Mr. Pope of Brooks offered a resolu tion, which was adopted, that the hall of the house be givep to the Georgia Woman’s Suffrage Association on the nights of July 9 and 10. Out of respect to the memory of John W. Akin, president of the senate, the house adjourned at 11:45 o’clock. June 26. The house assembled at the usual hour, 10 o'clock, Friday morning. Prayer by the chaplain was followed by the roll call and reading of the journal. Under the heading of reports of standing committees, Mr. Alexander of DeKalb. chairman of the committee on Western and Atlantic railroad, said that his committee reported to the house the bill, recommending the ex tension of the railroad to the sea, and also the bill providing for the issuance of bonds to secure money for the con struction of the extension. Mr. Hall of Bibb announced that at the proper time he would present minority re ports on both bills. Mr. Alexander of DeKalb also presented a joint resolu tion recommending that the entire leg islature go to Chattanooga on July 3 to inspect the state’s property in that city. Mr. Alexander moved the adop tion of the resolution. Mr. Heard of Dooly and Mr. Hall of Bibb opposed the passage of the reso lution. Mr. Candler of DeKalb and Mr. Porter of Floyd favored the in spection. The call for the ayes and noes was not sustained and upon viva voce vote, the original resolution was adopted. Speaker Slaton announced the committee assignments of the new members The following bills, which came over from the last session, were read the third time and passed: A bill to amend the criminal code relating to liens for rent and advances made by landlords. A bill to amend the criminal code, making criminal the sale of mortgag ed property before payment of the mortgage debt. A bill to make penal the procuring, of money upon a mortgage, when the property mortgaged shall have been lost or destroyed, without first inform ing the holder of the mortgage of the fact. A resolution to pay Mrs. O. M. Case for dwelling house burned toy convicts at state farm. All these bills were in troduced by Mr. Hines of Baldwin. June 29. A message from the senate was re ceived. refusing to concur in the house resolution providing for the proposed trip of the general assembly to Chat tanooga. The bill requiring telegraph com panies to deliver their messages promptly on pain of SSO penalty for each message was called up for pas sage, and after extended debate was tabled. The bill of Mr. Adams of Chatham prohibiting more than 5 per cent inter est per month upon loans, and direct ed at the business of_ “loan sharks,” was taken up and * after several amendments to it had been defeated, was passed by a vote of 13 to 2. The bill of Mr. Huie of Clayton pro viding that two or more municipali ties be permitted to co-operate in working city convicts in one gang, was taken up and defeated. June 30. A bill by Mr. Foster of Cobb was providing where a common carrier fails to settle an over* charge, duly demanded for thirty days, the person to whom the overcharge is due can, upon establishing the correctness of his claim in the courts, recover, in addition to his claim, a penalty of not less than SIOO, the same increasing with an increase in the amount of the claim, was passed. Tiie bill permitting depositions to be taken before justices of the peace and notaries who are exofficio justi ces of the peace, was passed. The bill prohibiting any unauthoriz ed person from stopping, starting or otherwise interfering with a locomo tive. was passed. Also a bill by Mr. Reid of Putnam requiring monthly publication of the doings of the board of commissioners of roads and reve nues of Putnam county. A resolution providing that the house visit the property of the state in Chattanooga in spite of the fact that the senate had declined to go was referred to the committee on tem perance. The house adjourned until 10 o’clock Wednesday morning. EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY OEFICERS. A. G. Candler Elected President, T. C. Erwin Treasurer. Atlanta. Ga. —At a recent meeting of the Georgia branch of the National Society for the Promotion of Indus trial Education, Asa G. Candler was elected president and Thomas C. Er win treasurer. The approaching ses sion of the society will be held in At lanta on the I2th, 13th and 14th of No vember. The following are the vice presi IN THE SENATE. June 25. The sepate spent two busy hours Thursday, killing two bills, receiving four new ones and tabling half a dozen others as well as receiving a number of nominations from Governor Smith, which were laid over until Friday. The first bill of the session for third, reading in the senate was a measure providing for an increase in the sala ries of the supreme court justices from $4,000 to $5,000 annually. The bill was introduced by Messrs. Ste phens, Walker, Knight, ’Wilkes, et al., and had been favorably reported by the committee on general judiciary. Mr. Felder and Mr. Camp vigorously opposed the increase. One of the au thors, Mr. Knight, agreed to let the bill go over. Mr. Knight’s motion to table was lost, it being the purpose of the senate, evidently, to kill the bill out right. Mr. Wilkes spoke in favor of the increase. The bill was killed by a vote of 27 to 5. A companion bill to increase the salaries of appellate court judges was killed also. A number of other bills of more or less importance was read a third time, but none of them were acted upon. At noon the senate adjourned until 10 o’clock Friday. June 26. President Flynt's gavel fell in the senate promptly at 10 o’clock Friday morning. After prayer by the chap lain the journal was read and confirm ed. Senator Felts of the Nineteenth moved to reconsider the action of the senate on Thursday on the bills with reference to the bill to increase the salary of supreme court justices, which was defeated. Mr. Williford of the Twenty-eighth called attention to the fact that the bill does not carry any present increase. Mr. Camp of the Thirty-first, who, on Thursday, vig orously opposed the increases, stated that he be.ieved the bill should be re considered. Mp- Felder of the Twen ty-second district also opposed vigor ously the reconsideration and also fa vored abolishing the office of compiler of colonial records, and retaining the office of special attorney to the railroad commission. Mr. Hayes of the Thir teenth declared that he opposed the increases, and proposed further to vote to reduce the number of railroad com missioners from five to three and to also cut out the special attorney. Messrs. Felts, Dean, Martin and Over street spoke in favor of a reconsidera tion. The previous question was call ed, and an aye and nay vote showed that the bill had been reconsidered by a vote of 19 to 15. As president of the senate, Mr. Flynt has yielded all of his committee appointments. Senator Hawes of El bert succeeds Mr. Flynt as chairman of the Western and Atlantic commit tee. Senator Paul Akin succeeds Mr. Flynt as vice chairman of the commit tee on general judiciary. Mr. Akin has been appointed also to the commit tees on penitentiary, railroads and constitutional amendments. The sen ate unanimously voted to accept the invitation of the Western and Atlan tic committee of the house to visit and inspect the state road’s terminals in Chattanooga on Friday, July 3d. The senate, by a vote of 20 to 15, de cided to adjourn until Monday. June 29. A motion by Mr. Telder of the Twenty-second district to consider the action of the senate in voting to go to Chattanooga July 3d, occupied the time of the senate the entire session. Camp and Hayes spoke fa voring reconsidering the acceptance of the invitation. Senators Peacock of the Fourteenth spoke in favor of the trip. The vote was 17 to 16 against taking the trip to Chatta nooga. According to the senate rules, there can be but one reconsideration of a resolution. As this was a joint resolution, the house can not go to JJkattanooga unless the senate con curs. The senate adjourned at 11 o’clock. June 30. Senator Williford of the Twenty eighth gets the credit of the first gen eral bill to be passed by the senate. His measure provides tor uniformity of school terms. Mr. Knight ques tioned the wisdom of the bill and op posed its passage. The bill was pass ed by a vote of 25 to 4. A petition from the penitentiary committee, asking that Senator How ard be designated as a member of the committee, was read, and President Bryant announced the appointment of Mr. Howard. A bill by Mr. Crittenden to prohibit any ordinary, county commissioner, Judge of any city court or county court, sheriff, solicitor of any court, or other county or court officer of this state, from hiring or turning over to any private person or persons, or any corporation, etc., and person who may hereafter be convicted and sentenced for misdeameanor in any court was passed. The senate then adjourned. dents of the Georgia branch, recently elected: First district. George J. Baldwin of Savannah; second district, J. L. Hand of Pelham; third district, Thomas G. Hudson of Ellaville; fourth district. F. R. Gordon of Columbus; fifth district, K. G. Matheson of Atlan ta; sixth district. C. B. Willingham of Macon; seventh district, W. W. Brooks of Rome; eighth district. Harry Hodgson of Athens; ninth district. Dr. Jeff Davis of Toccoa; tenth district, M. L. Duggan of Sparta, and eleventh district, V. L. Stanton of Waycross. UTE NEWS NOTES. General. Four persons were killed and many injured by a dynamite explosion which destroyed a grocery store and the flats on the uppor floor adjoin ing a saloon building at San Francis' co. It is said to be the work of thugs who have been engaged in oth er work of a similar character, it jj alleged, on behalf of defendants in the graft cases. Fire swept the heart of Jersey City’s business section, destroying three department stores and damag ing a fourth. Two firemen were seri ously, it not fatally hurt, by a falling wall, trolley traffic was tied up for more than three hours and thousands of people had to walk to the Manhat tan ferries. Five known dead, and a score miss ing and supposed to have been swept away in the rush of water; fifty head of railroad grade horses, houses swept from their foundation and float ing around in the water, entailing enormous damage, crops and machin ery ruined, several miles of track washed away, are the result of a com bined cloudburst and water spout at Wellington, Kans. Harvie Jordan, president of the Southern Cotton association, and President W. B. Thompson of the New Orleans Cotton exchange, are discussing the erection of warehouses along the river front at New Orleans capable of storing 2,000,000 *ales of cotton. For the second time in a week in cendiaries attempted to fire St. Stan isiaus college, a Catholic institution at Chicago. Twelve members of the faculty fled from the building wearing night clothes. Within two years St. Stanislaus parochial ’ school and church have been burned. An offer by Dr. Hamilton Fisk Big gar, John D. Rockefeller’s physician, to kiss any woman who would give SIOO to the propaganda fund, created the merriest time of the Homeopathic National convention at Kansas City. The fun continued for thirty minutes and $5,000 was pledged, enough of it by women doctors to keep Dr. Biggar busy trotting up and down the aisles trying to catch the givers and fulfill his part of the contract. A list of pensions granted by the English government in the past year for services to science and literature include $250 yearly to an! Foun tain, an American traveler and writer, “in consideration of his contributions to literature and his strained circum stances.” While temporarily insane, Mrs. Au gust P. Johnson of Ida Grove, lowa, drowned her four little children in the cistern at their farm house. The sultan of Turkey, anxious to win the esteem of the American peo ple, has conferred the degree of Grand Cordon of Chefakat on Mrs. Roosevelt and her daughter, Ethel. As yet no acceptance has been received. This decoration is the highest rank, and is reserved for favorites of the Sultan. It is usually conferred on those who have been of assistance to the sultan in financial matters or helped him in diplomatic difficulties. The will of Benjamin Hart, an Amer ican millionaire, who died in Paris, which has been filed in New T York and which left his entire estate to his housekeeper, has been attacked by his adopted daughter on the grounds of undue influence. As the result of an explosion in the plant of the Babst Chemical company at Chicago five women *were burned to death and more than a score of oth ers seriously injured. Following prolonged negotiations both at Tokio and Pekin on the gener al subject of the commercial depart ment of Manchuria, the Japanese gov ernment instructed its charge d'af faires at Pekin to notify China that Japan wmuld throw no obstacle in the way of the development of Chinese territory in Manchuria. Washington. Secretary Cortelyou has stated that he had no intention of taking any im mediate action whatever as to the 3 per cent Spanish war bonds of 1908- The United States National Museum at Washington has received as a gift from J. N. Leger, the Haytien minis ter to the United States, a case con taining models representing over 100 different vegetables and fruits of Hay ti, arraqged for exhibition purposes. Acting Secretary of State Adee and Mur. Godoy, the Mexican charge, ex changed ratifications of a general ar bitration treaty. The treaty is simi lar in provisions to those between the United States and various European governments. Admiral Capps, chief of the bureau of navigation and construction, left Washington for San Francisco, from whence he will sail with the fleet to inspect Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, where the government will spend millions on a naval station. The completion of the arbitration treaty between Spain and the United States has been announced. This one of many treaties being concluded with European powers in pursuance of Sec retary Root’s policy. President Roosevelt received the fol-- lowing telegram from King Edward : “London. —The President, Washing ton: I am most grateful for your kind congratulations on the official celebra tion of mv birthday. I desire also to express my deepest sympathy at the loss of your distinguished predecessor, Mr. Cleveland. Edward, R.” The district health department re ports that fifty-nine children under the age of two years died in the Dis trict of Columbia last week from ir: testinal troubles brought on by the heat.