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FORGED TO RAISE RATES The RaillroadTnS—outheast File Answer E&nplain ‘8 A PUB[!C PREFER ADVANCE Washington, D. C.—The railroad companies operating in the southeast ern territory have filed their answer before the interstate commerce com mission to complaints which have been brought against the advance in rates on grain and grain products from Ohio river crossings to the south east, In connection with this answer, the railroads filed a motion and demurrer to strike out of the complaints certain allegations with regard to the south eastern freight association and similar associations being combinations in re straint of trade and in violation of the Sherman anti-trust law, The grounds for this motion are: First, that the interstate comiaerce commission has frequently ruled that it has no jurisdiction to administer the Sherman anti-trust law, taat law being solely a matter for the action of the courts, Second, that the interstate com merce commission has ruled that a rate may be reasonably low or in deed unreasonably low, even though it be the result of an illegal combi nation, The railroads allege in the present instance that while the order of Judge Emory Speer of Georgia was in force from August 1 to August 5, giving a lower rate to shippers in Georgia than to those in any cther state in the southeastern territory, the effect was to demoralize and disorganize trade and commerce, The railway companies take the po sition that this is a demonstration of the fact that such associations as the Southeastern Freight Association are absolutely necessary to prevent de moralization of commerce and that they promote trade instead of retawd ing it, The railroads deny that the in crease will restrict the volume of traf fic. and declare that it is not even a sufficient compensatory charge to fair iy meet the cost in value of the service performed by them. They declare that the wages of their emplovees have been increased and that prices of all articles neces sary for the maintenance and equip ment of their lines are higher; that the demand of the public for efficien cy of service has become more and more exacting as well as the demand for quicker transit, better terminal facilities, depots and stations, larger and more expensive cars, heavier en gines, stronger bridges, heavier rails and, in all other respects, they have been compelled to meet an increased and costly demand for safe, prompt and efficient service. The large volume of traffic enabled them in some measure to keep pace with these .extra expenses, but since ‘November, 1907, the traffic has been décreased, decreasing their gross rev enues enormously, while they have been obliged to continue their high scale of wages and to pay high prices for all’ material and supplies. ’ The railroads aver that there is no alternative left to them except to ad vance their rates*in order to pay their empnloyees. They say that the development of the south depends upon an increase rather than a decrease of their effi ciency, and that they believe the pub lic prefers to see such a reasonable and fair advance in service and con sequent commercial development rath er than the holding down of the trans portation companies to such scant re turns as will require them to reduce the wages of their employees and prevent them from maintaining serv ice. . TO TEST NEW FENDERS. Railroads to Experiment With Safety Arparatus. New York City.—lt is announced by the officers of the public service commission that tests of fenders and wheel guards will be held at Schnec tady, N. Y., and Pittsburg, Pa. Three lay figures, representing a man, a woman and a child, will be used in each of the realistic experi ments. They are supplied with faces, hands, and a proper amount of wear ing apparel. They are to be placed on railroad tracks in various posi tions, and exhaustive experiments are to be made to show the capacity of a great number of devices which have been submitted by inventors. Cars will be operated at various degrees of speed and the tests are expected to determine finally the value of the dif ferent inventions, TRUST DEED FOR $15,000,000. It Is Given by the Carolina and Ohio Railroad Company. Bristol, Tenn.—A deed of trust for $15,000,000 given by the Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio Railroad com pany; in favor of thé Farmers’ Loan and Trust compafy, has just been recorded at Bloutville, the county seat of this county. This deed was issued to secure an issue of gold bonds, run ning thirty-five years and bearing 5 per cent interest. The money obtained on these bonds 1s being used to complete the rail road company's coal-carrying line from the Southwest Virginia coal flelds through portions of Virginia, ennessee and Carolina to the Caro lina coast, L. & N. TRAIN WRECKED. Mail Clerk Injured — Track Badly Damaged. Linden, Ala.—A passenger train on the Louisville and Nashville railroad was wrecked one mile east of Linden. Mail Clerk W. W. Woolf was injured and a number of passengers were shocked, One hundred feet of track was torn up and the road was ob structed for twenty-four hours. : OF POLITICAL INTEREST, The unanimous action of the Minne sota state convention in renominating Governor John A. Johnson for a third term was gratifying news to Mr. Bry an who at once forwarded a telegram of cengratulations, It has been announced at republican headquarters in Chicago that Speaker Joseph G. Cannon will make a speech making tour of the country beginning in September. He will talk, if possible, in every doubtful congressional dis trict, Governor Hughes is an aristocrat in his correspondence. When he writes a perscnal note from the executive chamber at Albany he uses the heay iest type of stationery of a cream white color, double page, and ten by seven inches, twice the size the aver age man has for his personal use. The seal of the state, embossed in gold, 'is stamped at the head of the paper with the words, “State of New York, E,xecut ‘'ve Chamber, Albany, N. Y.,” in blue below. Thomas Watson, populist candidate for president, has announced that he will wage an uctive campaign to car ry Mississippi and with that object in view will make numerous speeches in that state, The fact that Senator Foraker of Ohio was not asked to participate in the opening of the republican cam paign in that state has caused much comment from the republican press. The reason given for tnus slighting the senator is that in an address re cently before the chamber of com merce of Cincinnati he made a severe attack upon the policies of President Roosevelt. Throusands of democratic campaign| buttons of the vintage of 1896 and 1400 have been sold to Brooklyn shop keepers, and fully $5,000 was realized by those who engineered the transac tion, Some of the buttons bore the pictures of Bryan and Sewall and oth ers o fßryan and Stevenson, A trick mule mascot sent to Mr. Bryan by the Minnesota State Agri cultural society became unruly while an eastern newspaper correspondent was riding him and the reporter was thrown and seriously injured. A large black snake, which has made its home under the porch of Mr, Bryan’s home at Fairview and which has frightened many visitors, has been captured and given to the zoo at Lincoln, Nebra‘gka. Eugene Chafin, candidate of the pro hibition party for president, has ac cepted an invitation to speak at At lanta, Ga. The occasion of Mr. Chaf in’s visit will be celebrated by the holding of a great prohibition rally in that city. John W. Kern was asked by a friend if he liked Roosevelt. Mr. Kern replied that he did and asked his friend how he liked Roosevelt. “Well,” replied the friend, “I'd like him a lot better if you didn’t like him so well.” Chairman Mack of the democratic national committee has authorized a denial of a report that '{&he national committee had received a fund of $300,000 left over from the last demo cratic national campaign. Mr, Mack ‘said that the report is without foun e If George T. Angell, president of the Massachusetts S. P.C. A, has his way, William H, Taft has taken his last horseback ride. “It is outrageous cruelty to animals,” said Mr. Angell, “for a big 300-pound man; like Taft to ride a horse about the country. If he.must ride, let him use an automo bile or elephant.” National Chairman Charles R. Jones of the prohibition party has announc ed that it had been decided to make a vigorous fight for the South Dakota vote for Chafin and Watkins, presiden tial and vice presidential candidates of that party. Announcement has been made by General Dupont, director of the speak ers’ bureau at the republican national headquarters, that Governor Hughes has offered his services as speaker during the campaign, and that the offer has been accepted. Mr. Bryan will permit no one to ride his trick mule since the animal threw and seriously hurt a man who was riding him, The mule has been put to work, pulling a grass cutter over the lawn of Mr. Bryan’s home, Contributions to the campaign fund from corporations or from efficers of corporations, acting as such, are not being accepted at republican national headquarters, according to a state ment made by Treasurer George R. Sheldon, of the republican mnational committee, Mr, Sheldon said that he had returned several such contribu tions to those who made them, Editors of every democratic and in dependent newspaper throughout the United States have been appealed to by the democratic national committee to start subscriptions for the demo cratic campaign fund in their news papers, Eugene V., Debs, the socialist party candidate for president, will make most of his campaign speeches from a train, which he has chartered to take him to the Pacific coast. A car load of socialist party literature will be taken along and distributed, The cost of sending out the special, it was said, would be $20,000, made up from contributions by socialists from ten cents® to one dollar. “The people have ruled through the republican party.” This is Wil liam H. Taft’'s answer to Mr. Bryan’s challenge: “Shall the people rule?” The answer was made in an address the republican presidential candidate made before a gathering of several thousand Virginia republicans ‘who came to Hot Springs to see and hear Taft and to celebrate Virginia day. Announcement has been made by James S, Sherman, republican candi date for vice president, that President Roosevelt had authorized him to in form the republicans of New York state that Governor Hughes was the president’s choice for governor of New York. Eugene W, Chafin was struck with a brick during the recent riot at Springfield, 111, and although badly cut he continued to plead with the mobe to cease their murderous work. TRAIN WRECKERS WORK Southern Railway Train is De railed Near Buford, Ga. ‘ TWO MEN WERE KILLED e e i \ Large Iron Bolt Which Had Been Pllcedl on Track Was Found--Officials are ‘ Making Thorough Investigation. | _ Buford, Ga.—A miscreant or some Irresponsible person placed an iron bolt on the track of the Southern rail way, about a mile south of Buford, and northbound train No. 38, which left Atlanta for Washington, the fin est train operated by the Southern railway, was derailed and the engi neer and fireman scalded to death at their posts of duty. : ; The dead are: Engineer B. F. Dew berry of 119 Washington street, At lanta; Fireman Mayson Wadkins, col ored, of McDaniel street, Atlanta. A number of passengers on the train wer¢ shaken up, and many were thrown to the floor, but none_serious ly hurt, The track was completely torn up for a distance of nearly 200 feet. Three coaches were so badly'damag ed they could not be moved, = The engine turned over on its side, both sets of drivers were clear of the ground. The engineer had applied the emergency brake and reversed his lever before the engine capsized, and the ponderous driving wheels revolv ed at tremendous speed in reverse or der until the stream was exhausted. Engineer Dewberry was found on the floor of the cab, between the two box seats., He had made no attempt to escape. ‘The negro fireman was also found in the cab so badly in jured as to be unconscious. After the first bump came there was a series of jolts as the train ran along on the crossties. Finally there was a crash that threw the passen gers in the dining car and the com bination club and baggage car to the floor, The train stopped and three or four passengers, with greater pres ence of mind than the others, rushed forward to the engine, An examination of the track show ed that some miscreant had thrown a heavy bolt under the wheels of the train, the bolt being found and turn ed over to the authorities who will make a thorough investigation. INTELLIGENCE OF MONKEYS. Professor Haggerty Proves They Have an Initiative. . New York City.—Professor Melvin E. Haggerty of Harvard university, who has been studying monkeys in the Bronx zoological park for the last month, has proved to his own satisfac tion that some of them at least are not merely imitators of the human species, but have an initiative. In one of his tests he had a platform built extending about five feet outside the cages occupied by the orang outangs. ‘Mickey and Minnie, On one end of the stand he placed a bunch of banan as and some lucious -P‘ifl%%:m!flh be placed in the cage a long stick with a hook in the end and went away. He had not been gone five minutes when Mickey looked at Minnie, wink ed and laughed. Minnie winked and laughed too. Then Mickey got the ‘hook, raked the fruit, and they had a delicious\ meal. . . Later Professor Haggerty tried the trick on Baldy, the chimpanzee, but he got the fruit within close range before the hook was ready, and there was no need to go any further. Baldy also had an enjoyable time. The pro fessor had some other tricks in stock which he believes will demonstrate his theory beyond any doubt. FATAL FOUR-HANDED FIGHT. Two of Participants Will Die of Theor Wounds, Keota, Okla.— In a four-handed fight in a blacksmith shop here two of the participants, Sam Shores, Sr., and Sidney Stockton, received wounds which will probably terminate in their death, and the others, Sam Shores, Jr., and Boss Laflore, were badly wounded. The weapons used were heavy sledges and hammers, The fight originated during the trial of a civil suit before a justice of the peace, whose courtroom is on a floor above the blacksmith shop, and in which Sheores and Stockton were the principals. After fighting their way down the stairway and into the shop, they were joined by Laflore and the younger Shores, Then for ten minutes the fight waged fiercely, sev eral times the men being knocked to the floor by blows of the sledges, and for the larger part of the time the two elder men fought after each had suf fered a broken arm. Although several hundred spectators gathered, they were powerless to end the fight until the men were exhausted. tirl Jumped in Well, Salisbury, N. C.—Enraged hecause her mother chastised her for attend ing a party without parental permis sion, Certio Lewis, aged 18, of this city attempted suicide by jumping into a well, She fell forty feet to the bottom, and, after rising above the water, clung to the walls until ies cued by neighbors, Bees’ Sting Causes Man’s Death, Columbus, Ohio.—John Stansberry, a farmer, who lived near Dublin, died within twenty minutes after he had been stung by bumblebees. He was stung six times, and within three minutes he became unconscious, and was beyond aid when physicians ar rived. Contractor’s House Dynamited. Pratt City, Ala.—As a result of the dynamiting of the home of Thomas Duggan, a mine contractor, his two daughters were rendered unconscious by the shock. Dynamite was thrown at the house and it exploded on the porch, near where the young ladies slept, The entire side of the house was demolished., The coal miners’ strike is supposed to be the cause of the dynamiting. ' 2 ~ GOAL MIIER, ENTOMBED. Explosion in Mine Causes Great Loss - of Life in England. Wigan, England.—Not a single man of ‘th‘f seventy miners who were en tombed by an explosion which occHr red in the Mayhole coal mine here survived the disaster, The ventilating fan, whieh was put out of order by the explosion, was re paired, and the mine, having been cleared of gases, the rescue party again descended. The sight which met their eyes was horrifying. Not far from the bottom of the shaft eigh teen bedies were found, ail frightful ly mutilated, legs and arms having been blown off and heads battered al most beyond recognition, The management of the mine de clares that between sixty and seventy men were underground at the time of the explosion, and that there is no hope that any one will be brought out alive. The women and children, however, who remained at the pit head, refused to leave until the bod ies of their dead are brought to the surface. Nothing else will convince them of the hopelessness of waiting. N \ 200,000 PEOPLE GREET FLEET Sixteen American Battleships at An chor in Sydney Harbor, Sydney, New South Wales.—The American warships arrived here and were given a great ovatioun. It is es timated that hardly less than half a million pepple assembled to give the visitors a royal welcome. Sydney harbor, with its innumerable bays and coves, never looked more beautiful, nor did¢ the American sailors ever wit ness a more inspiring sight than that which greeted their eyes as the white ships came through the channel, past the great head lands into Port Jack son. A hundred thousand people, d{he greatest single assemblage of all, gathered on the south heads, where a magnificent view of the whole sceue was to be had. ‘ Hundreds of craft of all kinds mov ed up and down, even at that early hour, all the waters, with the excep tion of the fairway and the anchor ages, being dotted with little and big vessels, decorvated in every conceiva ble manner with flags azl_d bunting. ~ COMPLETION OF CANAL. It Can Be Accomplished in Five | Years, Says Colone! Goethals. ~ Washington, D. C.—That the Pana ‘ma ecanal can be completed within five years and at much less cost to the government than has been gener ally supposed lis the informatioh which Colonel Boethals, engineer in charge of the work has given Secre tary of War Wright, Colonel Goethals made the trip to this eountry for the purpose of con ferring with Secretary Wright on canal zone matters. One of the sub jects of discussion was the estimates for next year to be submitted to con gress at the coming session. While here Colonel Goethals will make a trip to Oyster Bay to discuss the situation with the president, ~ BURGLAR BOURBON DUKE. Effort to Secure Lease of Gregorius ‘;VW..mmufl,nriwm i Springfield, Mo.—Declaring that Al phonse Gregorius, convicted in 1906 of burglary and sentenced 'to seven years’ imprisonment in the Missouri state penitentiary, is a duke of the old Bourbon house of France, Father Gretcham, a Parisian priest, in a let ter to Val Mason, a local attorney, asks that .efforts be made to obtain the convict’s pardon in order that he may return to France in time to see his invalid mother before she dies. References are given by Gretcham to prove Gregorius’ connection with the royal family. 8 ATTITUDE OF AMERICA. Interest in London in Holland-Vere zuelan Dispute, Londen, England.—Much interest is shown here in the attitude of the United States towards the Holland- Venezuelan dispute, The Daily Graph ic, in an'editorial thinks that it is not a wise precedent even for the Nether lands to‘acknowledge such an expres sion of the Monroe doctrine as im plied in the limitation to the blockade imposed by the United States, in her justly punitive action against Vene zueia, and hopes Holland’s action will be drastic as the American restric tions will permit, T 0 lllSfilfill “MERRY WIDOW” HATS. Reporte From Paris Say It Will Dis appear Next Season. New York City.—Miss Isabelle Hol land and Miss Mary S. 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