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LETTER BOOKS STOLEN Taken From His Office and Sold to Hearst Says Archbold. M’LAURIN MAKES STATEMENT Prai»es Standand Oil Company and Says He is Not Ashamed of His Corres pondence With Mr. Archbold. New York City.—A new phase of the discussion of the so-called "Standard Oil correspondence,” made public re cently by William Randolph Hearst, was entered upon, when John D. Arch bold, vice president of the Standard Oil company, made a statement set ting forth details of the alleged theft of correspondence from his tiles. For mer United States Senator John Lowndes McLaurin of South Carolina, also entered the field with a signed statement declaring his attitude in the matter of the correspondence between himslf and Mr. Archbold. Mr. Archbold said: “In response to many inquiries as to the theft of letters from my files, the following may be made known: “Over three years ago a report reached me that certain of my letters had been offered for sale to newspa pers of this city, ostensibly stolen let ters. Examination showed that some letters were missing, and that they could only have been taken by some one not only familiar with the official details, but highly trusted. The party on whom suspicion fell stoutly denied all guilt. “A little later, however, a man who represented himself as acting between the thief and those to whomvthe let ters had been sold, proposed to return some of the letters for a considera tion. His story was that the idea of the theft had been conceived by his brother, who had at one time been in the company’s employ, and that this brother had induced the employee al ready suspected, to accomplish the theft. "According to the go-between's story he had disposed of the letters, or some of them, to two men who pur chased them on behalf of .Mr. Hearst's newspapers, The Journal. “Not only had stolen letters been thus traded for, but the thief was in duced to carry off one or more letter copying books, many of whose pages he claims were photographed, other pages being removed altogether. The books in question were, the go-be tween said, returned after forty-eight hours. It is impossible to say how many were stolen and sold in this way. Tie thieves worked at their leisure. It is not thought necessary to say more at present or to men tion names. Corroboration of the go between’s story of three years ago lay in his return of some of the cor respondence at the time. The produc tion of stolen letters by Mr. Hearst is further corroborated now. Obviously, among such a coterie, authenticity of their output is not to be lightly ac cepted. The opportunities for falsifi cation, suppressing of context and dis tortions of pasasges are many.” Mr. McLaurin, who has just reached New York, gave out a signed state ment, in which he stated that all his correspondence with the Standard Oil Company, through Mr. Archbold, was along strictly business lines, and he was not ashamed of it. He praised the Standard Oil Company and de nounces Mr. Hearst. REFUSES UMJMWELL SWORD. Rockefeller Does Not Want Sword — Will Be Sold at Auction. New York City. —Unless John D. Rockefeller sends to the appraisers’ stores for an antique sword said to have been worn by Oliver Cromweli, the weapon will be put up at auction Oy the government and sold to the highest bidder on October 6. The sword was consigned to Mr. Rockefeller by an Englishwoman, an admirer of Mr. Rockefeller. In a short note attached to the sword the sender said that the relic was vouched for as having belonged to the great common influenced her indisposing of an heir influenced her in disoslng of an heir loopi of such priceless worth. Under the circumstances the donor of the sword expressed the hope that Mr. Rockefeller would accept the sword and send a draft for a sum commen surate with the value of the weapon. When the sword reached the cus tom house it was addressed merely to “Mr Rockefeller, 4 West Fifth-fourth street, New York.” Mr. Rockefeller was communicated with, but he re fused either to accept the sword or pay the accruing duties. It was said that Mr. Rockefeller sent a representative to inspect the relic. His report is understood to have been unfavorable to the purchase of the sword. Your Passing Shadow J-24 LATE NEBS NOTES. General. A band of thirty train robbers held up the St. Petersburg express, near Vilna, Russia, shot down the train guard of six men, robbed the express car of nearly $100,(KK) and escaped. John F. Spencer of Leister, Eng land, a Sunday school teacher, serv ing a sentence in the pen, has con fessed to the burglary of Brooksby Hall. Gems valued at $200,000 were taken. Charles Boyle, son of a San Francis co miilionairte and ex-Stanford uni versity student, is alleged to nave con fessed to several crimes committed in the west last spring. Seventy-two men were injured, sev en fatally, as the result or a trolley accident caused oy a damaged signal box on the Soutnwesreru Traction company s line near Tiincum, Penn. Two trolley cars neaviiy loaned wnn worKmen, i mining at nigh speed, col l.ded liead-on in u dense fog and in stantly the dying and maimed were scattered about me road or buried un der the wreckage. After being separated nearly a quar ter of a century, Mrs. CnrLtian Oli ver of New Orleans, and Sylvester Oliver, now residing in France, will be le-united within a few weens. In In ISS6 the husband took a boat from .\ew Orleans, stating that he was go ing to Fiance. From the lime the ves sel left the docks until a few days ago nothing had been heard of tne husband, and Mrs. Oliver mourned him as dead. Darnel J. bully, who twice won and lost me crown of "Cotton King” in Wall street, has resigned the presi dency of the Cerro-Coiorado Mining company and gone to work as a ciera for a cotton brokerage house to give his clients the benefit of his experi ence. Power generated at Niagara Falls is to be distributed all over Canada. Bids nave been asked on lU.UUO tons of structural steel for the Canadian gov ernment. The steel is to be used for towers which will support the cables used in transporting tne current. Al ready power generated at Niagara is being sent a distance of more than one hundred and twenty-five miles, and it is the intention of the Canadian government to increase this distance. Towns in every direction about Niag ara will be supplied. Gustave Eberfiarut, who has been on trial in Hackensack, N. J., for the murder of his aunt, Mrs. Ottilie Tb erhardt, whom he luieu from Austria, together with her daughter, Miss Ot tilie, for the purpose of robbery, has been sentenced to thirty years in the state’s prison at hard labor. Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria- Hungary, has sent a sum of money for the benefit of St. Stephen’s Rom an Catholic church of South River, N. J. Rev. Victor Von Kubinyl, a no bleman, is the rector. He is the au thor of a book entitled “King of Rome,” a copy of which was sent to his majesty some time ago. The rec tor was formerly a subject of the Aus trian emperor. The automobile driven by Otto Brodie of Chicago, while making a turn in Sterling, 111., toppled over, turning once and. a half and landing upside down. Two of the party of eight were probably fatally injured and the other six injured. The ma chine was badly wrecked. Manuel Messaguer, an importer of Santo Domingo lottery tickets was ar rested at San Juan, P. R., by United States Deputy Collector Peter Math eson and held. One thousand tickets, representing several thousand dollars, and also letters and a book contain ing the names of lottery ticket dealers were seized. Washington. Accidents in coal mines in the Unit ed States last year resulted in 3,125 deaths and injury to 5,316 more, an increase of 1,033 in the number of deaths of the previous year, according to a report issued by the geological survey. Joseph Stewart of Missouri superin tendent of the division of railway ad justment, has been appointed second assistant postmaster general, succeed ing James T. McCleary, of Minnesota, who resigned to become a candidate for congress. The navy department is negotiat ing with Charles A. Logue of Charles town, Mass., for the right to use a new torpedo that he has invented. Logue is a third-year student at Bos ton university. Ever since the inven tion of the wireless telegraph he has been at work on the torpedo, his idea being to devise one that would be con trolled by wireless waves from a wire- -4 less station on shore or from a ship. The cruiser Milwaukee, after a cruise of two months in southern wa ters and a stay of fifteen days at Amapala, Honduras, has arrived in San Francisco. Captain Rogers stat ,ed that everything was quiet at Ama pala when he departed. 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TO FIGHT TUBERCULOSIS Great Consumption Fighters of World Meet in Washington. WELCOMED If CORTELYOU Secretary of Treasury Speaks for Presi dent Roosevelt—Session Marked by Simple Ceremonies. Washington, D. C. —This city wit nessed one of the most notable gath erings ever assembled in the national capital when medical scientists rep resenting every civilized nation united with their brothers in America in an effort to solve the problem of how best to cope with tuberculosis. The great auditorium of the new national muse um was filled with men who have con secrated their best talents to the study of tuberculosis, representatives of the sovereigns of foreign countries, high’ officials of government. The keynote of every utterance reflected the hope that the day is not far distant when medical science shall triumph over the great scourge. When Secretary of the Treasury Cor telyou, as the personal representative of the United States, officially declar ed the congress opened there were grouped on the platform such distin guished men as Dr. Robert Koch, the discoverer of the tubercle bacili; Dr. A. Calmette of Paris; Professor Ber nard Bang of London; Dr. G. D. Sims Woodhead of Cambridge, England; Dr. Clemons Von Pirquet, Dr. R. W. Phil ip of Edinburgh, founder of the first tuberculosis dispensary; Professor L. L. Landousey, Dr. N. Tendeloo of Lon don; Dr. Simon Von Unterburger, hon orary physician to his majesty’s court of St. Petersburg; Dr. Camilo Callaja of Madrid and many others. Among the members of the diplomatic corps present was Wu Ting Fang, the Chi nese minister. The official welcome on behalf of the United States government was ex tended by Secretary Cortelyou. Then followed the responses of the official representatives of thirty foreign coun tries. When Dr. Koch arose to respond in behalf of the German government there was a remarkable demonstration in his honor, men and women waving hats and handkerchiefs for nearly five min utes. At the conclusion of the responses to Secretary Cortelyou’s addresses the congress adjourned, and will not again meet in general session until October 3rd. DOCTOR GIVES WARNING. America in Danger of Being Infected With Bubonic Plague. Washington, D. C. —That the Gulf and Atlantic coasts of the United States are in danger of an infection of the bubonic plague was the serious note of warning issued by Dr. N .K. Foster of California before the dele gates in attendance upon the twenty third annual meeting of the confer ence of the state and provincial board of health of North America. He ex pressed the belief that such an infec tion already may have taken place. The address of Dr. Foster, who is president of the organization, startled the delegates. “I firmly believe,” said Dr. Foster, “that the United States will become generally infected, not from California, but from ports hav ing communication by. water. My ob ject is to sound a note of warning and to put you on your guard against a dangerous foe.” He said no effort should be spared to guard against its introduction and warned his hearers that every city and town on the Gulf and Atlantic coasts shquld begin now to destroy the rodents which carry infection, and prepare for the invasion threatened. NATION’SIDLEIN CONVENTION. Great Gathering of. Unemployed in Session at New York. New York City.—An extraordinary gathering made up of delegates from various parts of the country met here. They came on the brake beams of freight cars, on the “blind” baggage of the swift express or straggled in over dusty roads. They profess to represent the country’s workless and to constitute the “first national con vention of the unemployed.” “The National Committee of the Un employed” is the official name of the organization, at the head of which is J. Eads How of St. Louis, known as the “millionaire hobo.” Many prominent men were invited to deliver addresses before the conven tion, among them President Roosevelt, William J. Bryan, Judge Taft and Jno. E. Redmond, the Irish leader, who is at present in this country. All the gentlemen named have excused them selves on the ground of other engage ments. POLITICS CAUSE RIOTS. Cuban Liberals Break Up Meeting of Conservatives. Havana, Cuba. Political disturb ances have begun to assume some gravity in Cuba. A conservative meeting at Sancti Spirltus was the occasion of a riot, at which many were injured, and in Havana a meeting of the new party, headed by General Es teroz, was broken up by liberals. Sanc ti Spiritus is the home of General Jose Miguel Gomez, the former gover nor of the province and the present candidate of the Miguelistns and the Zayistas for the presidency. The mayor of the town and the po lice are members of the liberal party. General Mario Menocal, a former lib eral, but recently nominated by the conservatives for the presidency, ar rived here on a special train accom pnaied by a large number of follow ers. Thousands of men, many of them on horseback, met the conserv ative leaders, and It was estimated from the start that trouble was brew ing. The police approached General Menocal, and demanded that he give up his pistol .which he was presumed to carry. As he had a license to car ry a pistol, which he showed, he re fused to be searched. Within a brief period the fight became general and one of the conservatives was tortal ly wounded by a policeman. Many of the members of both sides suffered from wounds from knives and dubs, and it was a long time before order was restored. Conservative leaders of Santel Spir itus recently sent a request to Gover nor Magoon at Havana to put the ru ral governor in charge of the meeting for fear trouble would be caused by the police on account of their political affiliations. Before the riot was quell ed the rural guard had to take con trol of the situation. WARSHIPS’ VISIT POSTPONED. On Account of Cholera Fleet Will Not Visit Manila. Manila, P. I. —The effect of Secreta ry of the Navy Metcalf’s order, that in view of the presence of cholera in Manila no shore leave was to be grant ed or visitors from shore allowed on board the battleships when the Atlan tic fleet arrived, has been largely dis counted by the realization that it would be impossible to cleanse the city before the arrival of the fleet about October 1. People fully realize the necessity of the sit uation, but they are bitterly disappointed at the out come. * Thousands of dollars have been spent in /preparing for the reception and entertainment of the officers and men. The decorations have been prac tically completed. The majority of the sentiment now favors a month’s postponement of the programme, or until the return of the fleet from Ja pan. The only criticism heard of Secre tary Metcalf’s order is his* inclusion of officers in the embargo against landing. It is pointed out that they run no danger providing they exercise ordinary care in what they eat and drink. WOMAN INVENTS AIRSHIP. Russian Builds Rudderless Machine That Has Many Virtues. St. Petersburg, Russia. —A Russian woman, Mme. Poppova. has joined the ranks of inventors with a rudderless airship which she has christened “The Annulated Dragon,” in virtue of the peculiar shape adopted for the body of the airbag furnishing the lifting power. Mme. Poppova’s aim has been to abolish the inconveniences arising from the attachment of rudders of the ordinary type, whose action, together with that of variable gusts of wind, endangers the balloon’s eqilibrium and safety. “The Annulated Dragon,” it is claimed, “adapts itself naturally to every variety and strength of wind by a system of hoops, which also serve to steer it.” POLICEMAN TOO CURIOUS. Wanted to See Dynamite Cap Explode. Four Are Injured. Philadelphia, Pa.—Four police offi cers were seriously injured by tbe ex plosion of a dynamite detonating cap left by burglars in their hurried de parture from the diamond store of Jo seph H. Deschamps. Reserve Police man Beaumont and Detectives Wil liams, Brown, Long and Reilly of the city force, Moffatt of Camden and Sharp and Campbell from the Burglar Alarm Company’s offices, went to the building. While examining the burglar tools, Beaumont satisfied his curiosity as to igniting battery worked by connecting the positive and negative wires. The cap exploded, blowing out the officer’s right eye. Detective Campbell’s tongue was split from end to base and his teeth were blown out. Mof fatt’s nose was lacerated and his face cut, as were the faces of the others. FIGURES OF INTEREST Issued By the Bureau of Census at Washington. COST OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS Report Comperes the Aggregate Per Capita Cost of Maintaining Schools in Cities of Over 30,000 Population. Washington, D. C. —The bureau of the census has just issued ita annual repoi t on the statistics of cities hav ing a population of over 30.000. This report covers the year 1906, and In cludes financial statistics. A considerable portion of the Intro duction to the report is utilized for presenting definitions of the account ing terms employed by the bureau of the census, a statement of the princi ples upon which governmental ac counting rests, and a brief resume of the systems and methods of account ing made use of at the present time by the various government of the United States and Great Britain. The number of cities included in this leport is 158, of which fifteen had over 300,000 inhabitants, twenty seven between 100,000 and 300,000, forty-eight between 50,000 and 100,000, and sixty-eight under 50,000. Of the 158 cities New York had the largest, land area—2o9,2o 8 acres; New Orleans stood second, with 125,600; Chicago third, with 114,932; Philadelphia fourth, with 81,828, and Ddluth, fifth, with 40,556. The cities having the smallest land area was West Hoboken, N. J., which had 546 acres. There is often great, disproportion between the area cov ered by a city and the number of its inhabitants. Duluth, Miun., with 67,- 337 inhabitants, takes in more terri tory than St. Louis, with its 649,320 inhabitants. Salt Lake City, with a population less by 5,487 than that of Hoboken, includes an area thirty-five times as great. Of the cities contain ing over 100,000 population, Allegheny.. Pa., had the smallest land area—4,726 acres. .Paterson, N. J., had the next smallest—s,ls7 acres; St. Joseph, Mo., the next —6,240 acres; Dayton, Ohio, the next—6,B4o; Atlanta, Ga., the next —7,680; Jersey City, N. J., the next —9,1 G 3, and Memphis, Tenn., the next —9,772 acres. The report presents a very interest ing table showing the costs of main taining free public schools for the several cities, including in such costs the interest on the Investment in school buildings and grounds. The relative investments of cities in school property may be noted by the varying amounts per capita allowed for interest on such investments. These ranged from 21 cents for At lanta, Ga.; 24 cents for Charleston. S. C.; 24 cents for Memphis, Tenn.; 26 cents for Elizabeth, N. J.; 26 cents for Knoxville, Tern.; 27 cents for New Orleans, La.; 29 cents for Balti more, Md.; and 30 cents for Covington,. Ky.; to sl.Ol for Springfield, Ohio;. $1.02 for East St. Louis, 111.; $1.02 for Yonkers, N. Y.; $1.06 for Salt Lake City, Utah; SI.OB for Boston, Mass.; $1.22 for Joliet, 111.; $1.28 for Spring field. Mass.; $1.28 for Youngstown, Ohio; $1.31 for Hartford, Conn.; $1.33 for Oakland, Cal.; $1.36 for Duluth, Minn.; $1.41 for Newton, Mass.; $1.41 for Tacoma, Wash.; $1.45 for Denver, Col.; $1.45 for Pueblo, Col., and $.156 for Spokane, Wash. In like manner the aggregate per capita cost for maintaining schools, including the foregoing amounts Tor interest, varied from $1.71 for Charles ton, S. C.; $2.08 for Knoxville, Tenn.; $2.11 for Montgomery, Ala.; $2.15 for Memphis, Tenn.; and $2.17 for Nor folk, Va.; to $7.20 for Oakland, Cal.; $7.20 for Butte, Mont.; $7.25 for Spring field. Mass.; $7.32 for Boston, Mass.; $7.52 for Denver, Col.; $7.59 for Salt. Lake City, Utah; $8.13 for Newton, Mass.; $8.50 for Spokane, Wash., and $8.76 for Pueblo, Coi. LOCAL OPTION FOR INDIANA. Bill Becomes Law Despite Opposition! of Liquor Men. Indianapolis, Ind. following a. fight that was so close up till ihe last minute that neither aide felt con fident of claiming victory, the county local option bill was passed by the* house of representatives by a vote of 55 to 45. Governor Hanley signed the measure at once. The wildest scene witnessed in an Indiana legislature in years was en acted when the roll call was announc ed. Having previously passed the senate and being the pet measure of Governor Hanley, it was as good as law. Democrats fought tbe bill with the aid of four recalcitrant republi cans. However, six democrats left their party and voted for the bill, so that it was made a law. Deserter Heir to a Fortune. Fort Leavenworth. Kans.—Under sentence of two years in the federal prison here for desertion, which is to be accompanied by a dishonorable dis charge from the army, Gerald Faii»- child, aged 23, is one of two heirs of » $300,000 estate at Duluth. Minu. Seven Men Drowned. Chicago, 111. —Seven men out of a party of eight we;e drowned in the Calumet river at One Hundred and Twenty-sixth street, when the plea>dre launch lemon struck one of the nup norts of a railroad bridge and sank with all on board. The owner of the launch swam ashore and he was the only one saved.
