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Henry County Weekly.
R. L. JOHNSON, Editor.
Entered at the postofflce at McDon
ough as second class mail matter.
Advertising Rates: SI.OO per inch
per month. Reduction on standing
contracts by special agreement.
All peace lovers, advises the Chris
tian Register, should cultivate the ad
mirable qualities of the soldier who
endures hardness as a matter of
course, because it is in the line of
duty.
Only 51 guns were fired for the Hol
land heir, because it was a girl,
whereas a boy would have been
greeted with 101. Perhaps, ventures
the New York American, the Holland
ers expect a girl to even up on noise
when 6he reaches the talking age.
Maybe, after all, sighs the New Ha
ven Register, this serious recommend
ation of cannibalism is only a trick
of the vegetarians, aided and abetted
by the breakfast food people. Inci
dentally, if it should succeed on its
own basis, what a blow it would be to
the beef trust.
Many millions of capital are invest
ed in manufacturing the apparatus
for soda fountains. The product of
these fountains is imbibed by the
whole nation. It would be of public
interest, avers the New York Times,
to learn whether the medical special
ists condemn as '‘stomach-killing” so
da water that is free of adulterants.
As a laborer, opines the Mexican
Herald, the Japanese has ceased to
figure in the future of Mexican indus
try. It is believed the policy of the
Japanese government, announced
some time ago, of forbidding the emi
gration of the laborer of that country
to Mexico will be continued for many
years to come and that the adminis
tration of the policy will be such as
to render the embargo absolutely ef
fective.
The Chinese are as courageous as
any people on earth, announces the
Troy Budget. They have less fear of
death than any people of the west,
because their religion teaches them
that birth is more to be deplored
thau death. They can raise an army
five times as great as any country of
Europe or American can. The nations
of Europe and America have Insisted
on the Chinese waking up and learn
ing the arts of war. What will the
Bequel be?
Separate schools for tubercular
children may be established in Phila
delphia in the near future, declares
the Medical Journal. The new school
code specifically prescribes that chil
dren suffering from tuberculosis can
not be admitted into the public
schools and at the same time pro
vides for the compulsory attendance
of all children between the ages of
six and 16 years. It is the opinion of
the educational officials that the only
solution of the problem Is to set aside
special schools for the use of the tub
ercular pupils.
The great change in British foreign
policy after the Boer war began with
the offensive and defensive alliance
with Japan, and then followed in ra
pid succession the various ententes
between Great Britain and France and
Russia, this movement going so far
finally that the Germans complained
that the British policy was to isolate
the German empire in Europe. The
importance of this radical change in
British foreign policy cannot be over
estimated in many ways, but in noting
its effects one cannot ignore in the
least the influence of the new alli
ances upon the question of the British
army, insists the Springfield Republi
can. Sir Edward Grey in a recent
speech declared that an attempt by
"any great continental power to dom
inate and dictate the policy the
continent” would "certainly produce
conflict” in which his own country
would actively participate. And this
declaration, of course, distinctly re
vives the old British policy toward
Louis XIV. and the first Napoleon,
whose efforts to do inmate Europe
were regarded as dangerous to Eng
land's national safety.
TARIFF BILL EXPENSIVE
Extra Session of Sixty-First Con
gress Will Cost Large Sum.
TWO ITEMS OVER $260,000
Othar Expense Cannot Be Figured, But
Half a Million Dollar* is the
Estimated Cost.
Washington, D. C. —The extra ses
sion of the sixty-first congress,
which met March 15 in response to
the proclamation of President Taft
to revise the tariff, will have cost the
people of the United States more than
half a million dollars by the time it
adjourns. Two items alone of the
cost are specified in the legislative
appropriation bill as follows:
Mileage for the house and senate,
$201,000; stationery, $59,500.
The other items of expense cannot
be accurately figured, but it is not an
exaggeration to say that the cost of
printing the Congressional Record,
the testimony taken before ways and
means committee, the estimates and
data prepared for the ways and means
committee, to say nothing of the pub
lic and private bills and reports, will
foot up something like $200,000; and
the expense for extra help and mes
senger service will reach close to
SIOO,OOO.
This is the crucial week of the tar
iff bill, which has now been in confer
ence since July 9, and indications are
that, it will be at least a week before
the bill will be sent to the president
for his approval. The republicans in
the house and senate who construe
the Chicago platform as a declara
tion for a downward revision of the
tariff say they will vote for the bill
because it is the besf that can be
obtained, owing to the entrenched po
sition of the "stand-patters” in the
senate.
They admit that when the bill is
sent to the president it will be far
short of the desires of Mr. Taft, but
he will approve because it will con
tain a modicum of tariff revision
downward.
Work on the Paynes Tariff bill was
begun last November. The wavs and
means committee gave public hearings
to ail manufacturers and persons in
terested in the revision of the tariff!.
The hearings continued for several
months, the democratic members of
.the committee taking active part, but
when the hearings closed Chairman
Payne and his republican colleagues
proceeded in executive sesion to
frame the Payne bill. Congress assem
bled on March 15 apd on March 17,
Mr. Payne reported the tariff bill
which bears his name.
On April 9, after three weeks' de
bate, the bill was passed by a vote
of 217 to 161, four democrats voting
for the bill and one republican voting
against it. In the meantime, during
the debate of the bill in the house,
the senate finance committee, that is
the republican members, the demo
cratic members being excluded, w'ere
actively engaged in amending the bill.
The bill was reported to the senate
April 10 and referred to the commit
tee on finance. Two days later it was
reported with amendments. On April
15 the bill was recalled by the house
in order to correct the paragraph re
lating to crude petroleum, which had
been placed on the free list by the
action of the house, but in the en
dorsement of the bil lthe words “and
the products thereof” were left off the
free list.
WATERWAYS MEET IMPORTANT.
President Taft Will Be the Central
Figure at the Gathering).
Washington, D. C. —With President
Taft the central figure as an enthusi
astic advocate of waterway improve
ments, the meeting here of the Na
tional Rivers and Harbors Congress
on December 8. 9 and 10 next, prom
ises to be the most notable gathering
in the history of that organization.
In addition to President Taft, who
has accepted an invitation to address
the gathering such distinguished ex
ponents of increased waterway facil
ities as Secretary of War Dickinson,
Governor Judson Harmon of Ohio and
Count Von nernstorff, the Gorman
ambassador, have indicated a desire
to participate in the convention.
RATE DISCRIMINATES.
All Children Must Enjoy Street Car
Fares.
Washington. D. C.—The interstate
commerce commission decided that an
allowance of railroad or street car
commutation tickets to school chil
dren. unless the same rates are open
to all children within the age limits
in which the tickets to the school
children are sold, are discriminatory.
The commission made a similar ruling
on October 12, 190 S, but on petition
of Philadelphia and New York schools
who objected to the previous ruling,
the matter was re-opened.
HUDSON RIVER TUNNEL OPENEB.
Jersey City is Now Within Three
Minutes of Broadway.
New York City.—Jersey City is
within three minutes of Broadway,
the result of the formal opening of
the two downtown tubes of the Hud
son and Manhattan Railroad Compa
ny. The New York terminus of these
tunnels under the Hudson is at
Church. Cortlandt, Day and Fulton
streets, and the Jersey City terminus
is at the Pennsylvania station.
It is planned to open the connection
on the New Jersey side with the Erie
and Lackawanna stations, and it is
promised that within two years the
New York extension to the Grand
Central station will be in operation.
VICTIMS JE THE WAVES.
Two Vessels Sink and Crew of Another
Washed Overboard.
Gallipolls, Ohio. The passenger
packet Tacoma, bound from Charles
ton, W. Va., to Cincinnati, struck an
obstruction in the Ohio river and sank
late Sunday. The passengers were
taken off in safety before the boat
went down.
Boston, Mass. —The steamer Keno
sha, bound from Baltimore for Boston,
laden with coal, sprang a leak and
sank six miles off Fire Island light
ship Sunday morning, according to
Captain Chase of the steamer How
ard, which arrived from Norfolk, bring
ing the crew of eighteen men rescued
from the small boats of the wrecked
vessel.
Pensacola, Fla. —With her rigging
damaged and her sails torn almost to
shreds, the fishing schooner, Minnie
W., owned here, arrived in port Sun
day night, and reported the loss of
three of her crew in the Texas hurri
cane of last Wednesday, and the mi
raculous escape of two others, all of
whom were washed overboard. The
men lost are Italians.
WORLD’S RECORD AT TARGET PRACTICE
Big Guns Pierce Bullseye Ten Times
. Straight.
San Francisco, Cal. —The world's
record with the big gune, which are
hidden in the hills near the Golden
Gate was made last week. The won
derful showing of the crew with the
five-inch rapid fire gun of Battery
Boutell, manned by Corporal Elmer E.
Swanton, and his six assistants, will
be heard around the globe wherever
guns are emplaced and ships are
manned by fighting men. The rec
ord will not be surpassed, for it was
perfect, the bullseye having been
struck ten times in as many shots.
The shooting was done at moving
targets two and one-half miles away.
It was all done in one minute and
thirty seconds, the ten solid shells
piercing the bullseye clearly.
Railing Gave Way at Dal! Game.
Jackson, Mich.—During a riot over
unpopular decisions of Umpire C. E.
Eldridge of the Southern Michigan
League at the conclusion of the Jack
son-Adiian game Sunday, nearly a
score of people were injured when
the railing of the grand stand gave
way, precipitating them to the ground
12 feet below.
Left-Handed Trains to Go.
Chicago, 111. —“Left-handed - ’ trains
will be given up by the Lake Shore
and Michigan Southern Railway in a
few' days. Thtj switches and signals
are being rebuilt, and all trains will
be run on the right-hand track as
they are on every other railroad of
consequence in the country except
ohe, the Chicago and Northwestern.
Newsy Paragraphs.
From Omaha, Neb., it is reported
that in an effort to break the price
of wheat in the Chicago market, a
clique of speculators is buying up
every bushel of wheat as it leaves
the thresher and is paying a bonus of
four cents a bushel. Omaha cash buy
ers are assisting the Chicago buyers
and practically unlimited orders have
been placed for immediate delivery.
The wheat harvest is in full swing in
Nebraska and threshing is general.
There was a rumor among men of
the Atlantic battleship fleet off Nor
folk, Va., that typhoid fever is preval
ent aboard the Wisconsin and that
cases are reported aboard other ships
of the fleet. Just how many cases
were on the Wisconsin was not given
out, but the conditions are said to be
serious enough to warrant some im
mediate action on the part of the
ship's officers; accordingly the bum
boatmen who have been supplying
ice cream to the sailors are warned
indefinite period.
Clayton F. Zimmerman, twenty
years of age, at Chicago, 111., a clerk
In the Adams Express office, has con
fessed that he stole the package con
taining SIO,OOO which mysteriously
disappeared on July 12. Officers re
covered the money, minus one $lO bill,
which Zimmerman had hidden in his
bathroom. The youth told the police
he took the money on the spur of the
moment because he was dazzled by
the thought of having so much money.
The most exciting collision that has
| happened in the upper New York bay
in many years occurred when the
steamer Martha Stevens of the New'
York and Philadelphia Canal line, was
rammed by the tug Confidence aru!
sank after her boilers had blown up.
The engineer of the Martha Stevens
was drowned and nine persons, includ
ing a woman and her fourteen-year
old daughter, were rescued from the
water. According to report, it was a
misunderstanding of signals that caus
ed the collision. The tug crashed into
the Stevens on her starboard side,
staving an enormous hole in her
wooden hull from the upper deck to
below the water line. The Stevens
■wavered and began to fill. In a few
minutes she went down just as her
boilers blew up with an explosion that
w'as heard on Staten Island.
Isaac A. Martin, for many years
cashier of the Knoxville Water com
pany, Knoxville, Tenn., submitted in
the criminal court of Knox county to
the charge of embezzlement, and was
given a sentence of five years in the
state penitentiary. The sum involved
was $6,000.
That Lieutenant James N. Sutton,
who met death in a mysterious ihan
ner on the grounds of the marine
barracks at Annapolis on the night of
October 12, 1907, declared he had been
challenged to a duel by Lieutenant
Robert E. Adams, was the statement
made at Wheeling. W. Va., by Harry
B. Thomas of Martins Ferry, Ohio,
who knew Adams and Sutton and was
with them on the night of the trag
edy.
TARIFF RATESARE FIXED
House Gets Free Hides—Senate
Wins on Lumber, Coal, Etc.
HIGH RATE ON HOSIERY
Both House and Senate Accept Program
for Reduction on Leather and
Leather Goods.
Washington, D. C. —The house has
won Its battles for free hides and
oil, and increased rates on gloves and
hosiery, in return for a surrender to
the senate on lumber, coal, iron ore
and print paper.
The rates on these schedules, as
they have been tentatively arranged,
pending the acceptance by both hous
es of the program for a reduction in
the duties on manufactures of leather
below the rates fixed by the house,
are as follows;
Oil, free.
Hides, free.
Coal, 45 cents a ton.
Print paper, $3.50 a ton.
Iron ore, 15 cents a ton.
Lumber, rough, $1.50 a thousand
feet; one-side finished, $2; two sides
finished, $2.25; three sides finished,
which may include tonguing and
grooving, $2.62 1-2; four sides finish
ed, $3.
Gloves, $4 per dozen pairs, not ex
ceeding 14 inches in length, which is
the standard length; exceeding 14
inches, 35 cents per dozen is added
for each inch. This rate does not ap
ply to the Schmaschen, or cheap
glove, on which the senate rate of
$1.25 per dozen pairs is retained. The
latter rate is a reduction from the
Dingley rates, but the house rates
accepted on the higher grades of
gloves represent heavy increases over
existing duties.
Hosiery valued at $1 or less per
dozen pairs, 70 cents, against the sen
ate and existing rates of 50 cents. On
values up to $2 the rate is slightly
in excess of existing duties, and a
shading below the rates fixed by the
house. On the highest grades the
senate and house rates were identi
cal.
For nearly a week the question of
putting hides on the free list or im
posing a nominal duty upon them has
been before the conference commit
tee. Not even a nominal duty proved
acceptable to Representative Payne,
whose position wqs strengthened by
the support of President Taft, and
the senate was compelled to yield, in
spite of the fact that free hides
threatened to provoke an insurrection
among ‘stand pat” senators from cat
tle raising states. It appears, how
ever, that Mr. Payne's victory was a
costly one, inasmuch as the house
conferees were defeated on coal print
paper, iron ore and lumber.
Although new oaths of secrecy
were taken by every member of the
conference committee before the ses
sion was adjourned, it is w r ell known
that the foregoing rates represent the
understanding that has been reached
on all the subjects which engaged
the active attention during the last
few weeks.
MAYOR OF CINCINNATI DEAD.
He Was Once Law Partner of Presi
dent Hayes.
Cincinnati, Ohio.—Colonel Leopold
Markbreit, mayor of Cincinnati and
a distinguished soldier and journal
ist, died after an illness extending
over the greater part of the nineteen
months he had served this city as its
chief executive. He will be succeed
ed in office by Vice Mayor John Gal
vin.
Leopold Markbreit was president of
the Cincinnati Volksblatt Company,
which published a daily German
newspaper. He was born in Vienna,
Austria, in and came to Cincin
nati in 1848, studied law r and was ad
mitted to the bar and w r as a partner
for a short time of Rutherford B.
Hayes, who was later president of
the United States.
Colonel Markbreit was appointed
United States minister to Bolivia by
President Grant and served from 1869
to 1873; he was assistant treasurer of
the United States at Cincinnati in
1882-86 and became mayor in Jan
uary, 1908.
HORSE DEALER MADE A CHEVALIER.
King Leopold Honors Man Who Has
bought Over 1,500,000 Horses.
New York City.—C. W. Crawford, a
horse dealer of Newark, Ohio, who ar
rived on the Red Star liner Zeeland,
wears the decoration of a Belgian
chevalier.
“In the last 16 years, I have pur
chased fully 1,500,000 Belgian horses,”
said Mr. Crawford, "and in recogni
tion of this, King Leopold created me
a chevalier. He recognized the fact
that I had been an important factor
in furthering the great horse-raising
industry of Belgium.”
WILD CAT HUNT FOR PRESIDENT.
Golf Links Also Being Constructed
for His Use.
San Antonio, Texas. —A wildcat
hunt and jackrabbit chase are among
the diversions planned for President
Taft when he visits the Taft ranch
near San Antonio in November. Jo
seph H. Green, superintendent of the
big estate, wbo was in San Antonio,
told of the preparations being made
for the entertainment of the presi
dent.
That the president will not be de
prived of his favorite pastime, golf
links are being hurried to comple
tion. The erection of a pagoda and
bath house on the gulf are among oth
er improvements being made.
BLERIOT MAKES HISTORY.
Crosses (h; English Channel in His Air
ship in a Few Minutes.
Dover, England.—A calm French
man, Louis Bleriot, a portly and red
muslacued man of 37, descended from
the saddle of his aeroplane, limping
on a bandaged foot which had been
burned on his previous overland flight
—the first person to fly across the
English channel.
He left Calais at 4:35 Sunday morn
ing after several trial flights and made
the distance in a little less than half
an hour. His machine is one of the
smallest ever used.
This sleepy seaport town experienc
ed the keenest thrill known in a gen
eration when at sunrise a white-wing
ed bird-like machine with loudly hum
ming motor swept out from the haze
obscuring the sea toward the distant
French coast and circling twice above
the high chalky cliffs of Dover, alight
ed on English soil.
By his achievement Bleriot won the
prize of $5,000 offered by the London
Daily Mail for the first flight across
the English channel and stole a march
on his rivals, Herbert Latham and
Count de Lambert, both of whom had
hoped to make the first successful
trip.
Bleriot, who speaks a little English,
described his remarkable flight very
modestly.
“I arose at 3 o’clock,” he said, ‘‘and
went to the aeroplane shed. Finding
everything in order on the trial spin,
I decided to make the flight. The
French torpedo boat destroyer which
was in attendance was signalled and
it put out about four miles. Then I
rose in the air and pointed directly
to Dover. After ten minutes I was
out of sight of land and had left the
warship well behind. For a few' min
utes I could not see either coast, nor
any boat.
"I tried to keep at an average
height of 250 feet. I might easily
have gone higher, but it would have
served no purpose. This was about
the right height, I thought, to clear
the Dover cliffs safely.
"The machine dipped toward the
water several times. 1 put on more
petrol once. I estimated that the
propellers were going from 1,200 to
1,400 revolutions a minute.
"The first objects I saw w'ere ships
off the English coast, then I observed
Deal, and I discovered that, the w'ind,
which was southwest, w r as carrying
me thither. I veered to the southward
to Dover Castle and then saw friends
flourishing a flag in a valley suitable
for landing. I made two circles while
lessening the speed, aud then dived
down, but I came in contact with the
ground sooner than I expected. Both
the machine and myself were badly
shaken up.
“A few persons quickly assembled,
and 1 was helped out, as my injured
foot was painful. I am exceedingly
glad to be here.”
TRAIN PLUNGES IN RIVER.
Five Cars and Engine Covered by
Water.
Kansas City, Mo.—Six lives lost,
three people pi’Obably fatally hurt, Is
the result of the wreck of Wabash
passenger train No. 4 when it plung
ed into the Missouri river, 30 miles
east of here, Sunday night.
Of the eight cars which made up
the train, five and the engine went
into the river, with the water cover
ing all of them except one end to the
Des Moines sleepers.
At the scene of the wreck the river
makes a bend and the railroad fol
lows it. For days the flood waters
have been undermining the roadbed,
making it too weak to hold up the
heavy trains. Fifty feet of the road
bed suddenly collapsed and the en
gine and the cars piled one on the
other in the water.
Eight mail clerks were saved only
by the fact that the roof of their car
was torn off and allowed them to get
out on top of the car and sw'im for
the shore. None escaped injury.
In thi Des Moines sleeper, E. T.
King was holding his little son when
the crash came. The child was in
stantly killed and Mr. King was un
conscious when found.
Dr. Turner Lohveck. a woman phy
sician of St. Louis, was the heroine
of the wreck, according to railroad of
ficials and passengers. In thirty min
utes she gave temporary treatment to
twenty-seven injured persons. Sev
eral women passengers assisted her
by preparing bandages.
“It seemed to me every woman there
tore up her skirts for dressing,’’ said
Dr. Lohveck. “The eight mail clerks
refused treatment until all the pas
sengers were attended to.”
Daughter of Ex-President Taylor Dead
Winchester, Va.—Mrs. Elizabeth
Taylor Dandridge, daughter of Gen
eral Zachary Taylor, twelfth president
of the United States, and sister-in
law of the first Mrs. Jefferson Davis,
died at her home here Sunday, aged
85 years. Mrs. Dandridge was the
third daughter of General Zachary
Taylor, twelfth president of the Unit
ed States.
Torpedo Boats Go to Alaska.
Seattle, Wash.—Six torpedo boat
destroyers, which have been in Puget
Sound for nearly a month, will ren
dezvous in Seattle and then begin a
long cruise to Alaska to acquaint offi
cers and men with the northern wa
ters, and to give an opportunity for
maneuvers.
Cotton Mill Men Appeal to Taft.
Charlotte, N. C. —Southern mill men
alarmed by a report that the confer
ees on the tariff bill had decided to re
duce rates on lower grades of cotton
and maintain senate rates on finer
goods, appealed to President Taft,
Senator Aldrich and Representative
Payne by wire to prevent such action.
