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PEABODY FUND DIVIDED
It Will Be Apportioned Among
States of the South.
FID TOTALS $2,500,000
Peabody Normal School at Nashville
Wiil Be the Chief Beneficiary,
Receiving $1,000,000.
New York City. —The trustees of
the Peabody education fund at their
fifty-first annual meeting-, decided to
make final distribution of the main
fund, aggregating $2,500,000. Further
more, it was decided to give the entire
sum to educational institutions of the
south, with the Peabody normal col
lege at Nashville as the chief bene
ficiary. This institution will receive
$1,000,000 upon the proviso that the
state of Tennessee, Nashville and the
county in which the college is located
raise a similar sum. As the terms
of this agreement have been practical
ly lived up to, little doubt remains
in the minds of the trustees that the
terms will be carried out.
The remainder of the fund will be
apportioned throughout the south, the
bulk of it in all probability going to
Maryland, Missouri and Kentucky,
since none of these states has benefit
ed from the fund up to the present
time.
The fund was founded in 1567 by
George Peabody of Massachusetts,
and heretofore the income has only
been used.
COUNTRY LIFE COMMISSION.
Work for Improvement of Conditions
in Rural Districts.
Washington, D. CThe work of the
country life commission, appointed by
the president last August, is fairly un
der way. The president intends to
send a special message to congress on
the necessity for improvement in the
conditions of rural life and he has re
quested the commission to report its
findings to him before the end of De
cember in order that he may have
time to study them before sending in
his recommendations for legislation.
As soon as President Roosevelt's
letter creating the commission was
made public, the farmers began writ
ing to him and to the commission, giv
ing their views as to the features of
farm life that needed remedying. The
schedule the commission will send
out is practically a request for a con
census of opinion as to the correct
ness of its findings.
HOME VOYAGE OF THE FLEET.
Returning Itinerary of the Battleships
is Announced.
Washington, D. C. —The itinerary of
the return home from Manila of the
battleship fleet has been announced at
the navy department. The fleet will
leave Manila on December 1, arrive at
Colombo December 14, stay there six
days and then depart for Suez, which
it is scheduled to reach on January
fifth.
The ship will pass through the ca
nal and coal at Port Said as expedi
tiously as possible. They are to spend
the month of January and a few days
early in February in the Mediterra
nean, two or three vessels going each
to Ville Franc-lie, Marseilles, Genoa,
Leghorn, Malta, Algiers, Athens, Na
ples, Negro bay and Gibraltar, the
whole fleet leaving the latter place
February 6, being scheduled to ar
rive in the United States February
22nd.
SOCIETY UF EQUITY.
Organization cf Farmers in Convention
at Milwaukee.
Milwaukee, Wis.—The American So
ciety of Equity, having a membership
of 100,000, and represented by a large
number of delegates, is holding its an
nual convention here. The society is
made up of farmers, and its object is
to regulate the price of farm produce.
It is a part of the program to estab
lish elevators and warehouses in dif
ferent parts of the country, and, by
keeping grain and other produce in
store and placing upon the market as
there is a demand for it, it is hoped
to regulate prices.
SMUGGLERS ARRESTED.
Five Men Are Charged With Having
Smuggled Jewelry Into U. S.
New York City. —News has leaked
out of the seizure by customs house
officers in this city of more than $20.-
000 worth of costly cameos and coral
jewelrv, and this news led to the dis
closure of a gigantic smuggling plot
involving more than $20,000.
Already five men have been captur
ed in connection with these disclos
ures. Three of them are now under
bail for trial. These men, however,
are evidently tools of the big men
acting behind the scenes.
PEACEMAKER KILLED IN DUEL.
Tried to Separate Wrestlers —Was
Stabbed to Death.
Coldawter, Miss. —In a duel with
knives at Wakefield, Miss., Manning
Jamison, aged 30 years, was killed and*
his brother, Edwin Jamison, aged
years, was dangerously wounded. Ed
win Jamison and Will Kountz, accord
ing to information received here, were
engaged in a wrestling bout and a
light was about to start, when Man
niim Jamison interfered, acting as
peacemaker.. This angered Edwin Ja
mison and he drew a knife. Manning
whipped out his knife and the two
fought until both dropped to the
ground. Manning died in a few min
utes.
BUWALO HUiIJ DYING.
Texas Fever Attacks Animals in
Wichita Reserve.
Lawton, Okla. —Texas fever Has de
veloped in the herd of eighteen buf
lalo 1 in Wichita national reserve.
These animals were a gift of the New
York City Zoological garden and were
sent here two years ago. After a post
mortem examination on a young buf
fa!o one of the herd, the authorities
announced that the animal had died
from the dread disease. The officials
have taken every precaution to pie
yent the spread of the disease.
LATE NEWS NOTES.
General.
Advices from Arvonia, Virginia, the
eerier of the slate mining region, sev
enty-five miles west from Richmond,
Va. f indicate that the citizens of the
comunity are aroused to a state of
dread and panic over recent acts and
threats of lawlessness in the commu
nity. The receipt by several citizens
of annoymous letters threatening mur
der and arson, and the shooting from
ambush of W. M. Gregory, a substan
tiol land owner, have intensified the
feeling and fear.
Mrs. Mary Dougherty, aged 30, of
New York City, accidentally shut her
2-year-old baby, Rose, up in a folding
bed. Avery similar accident occur
red in Chicago when Edward Koz
lowski, ten months old, was accident
ally smothered to death in a folding
bed. The child was placed in the bed
and covered with a blanket. A short
Ifjne later his mother entered the
room and found that the bed had been
closed. She opened it, to find her
child smothered to death.
Will Vails, a farmer who lives near
Ruleville, Miss., shot and instantly
killed Dr. J. M. Taylor, one of the
most prominent men of Ruleville.
Edward Moot or Weathersfield, Ver
mont, proved himself the world’s
champion wood chopper when in the
presence of railroad magnates, lumber
kings and millionaire New Yorkers
he chopped down five cords of wood
that had been standing trees, split
them into stove lengths and piled
them into regular piles, betw r een sun
rise and sunset and with an hour and
a half t@ spare. At the end of the
unprecedented feat several thousand
dollars was paid Maxell Everts, who
had backed Moot’s powers with the
ax.
After a quarter of a century of vol
untary exile in the South seas, Thom
as Fleming, the original of Steven
son’s character, “The Wild Scotch
man,” arrived in San Francisco, Cal.,
on the schooner Aerolus, and arrayed
in garments of a fashion scarcely ever
seen before, has proceeded to get ac
quainted with electric cars and other
evidences of an advancing civiliza
tion. Fleming is a trading agent at
Arne island, one of the Marshall
group, located one hundred and fifty
miles from the nearest white neigh
borhood. He made the acquaintance
of Robert Louis Stevenson, years ago
when the author visited the island.
Fleming has announced his determina
tion to return when he shall have
tired of sightseeing, saying: “Perhaps
the life out there is lonely, but some
how it gets into a man’s blood and he
stays there.’'
Wrapped in the tantacles of a giant
devil fish, Martin Lund, a diver,
fought, for his life in the hold of the
wrecked steamer Pomona, which lies
in thirty feet of water in Fort Ross
Cove, off the California coast. The
devil fish had evidently entered the
vessel’s hold during the night, and
Lund w T as at work some time before
he became aware of its appearance.
A giant tentacle, four inches in diam
eter, first gripped one leg. Before
Lund could realize what had happen
ed, another squirmed out of the dark
ness, and twined about his neck.
Plunging suddenly toward it, he drove
the knife with all his force into the
head, repeating the blows until he had
slashed it into sections. Lund then cut
himself free, and was brought to the
surface in a fainting condition.
Mere than three thousand Indians
of the Kiowa, Comanche, Apache and
affiliated tribes assembled at the foot
of Mount Scott, near Lawton, Olda.,
for a , great inter-tribal council and
for the annual payment of lease mon
ey to those Indians who have their
lands leased for farming. The Indians
received from $1,300 to SIOO each ac
cording to the amount of land leased.
The supreme court declared uncon
stitutional the Wisconsin eight-hour
railroad telegraphers’ law, which was
enacted at thfe 1907 session of the leg
islature. The la wis declared uncon
stitutional on the theory that:, it is in
conflict with the provisions of the fed
eral constitution.
Four men were arrested in Cleve
land, 0., for converting horse flesh
into sausages and selling the product
for free lunch counters.
Society in Atlanta, Ga., is greatly
aroused over the elopement of Silvey
Speer, 17-year-old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. William A. Speer, and heir to a
fortune of about $750,000, with Russell
J. Thomas, her father's chauffeur. The
couple were married and started im
mediately for the east. At Charlotte,
N. C., they were arrested, and brought
back to Atlanta. The Speers are now
attempting to have the marriage an
nuled, and say that a reconciliation is
impossible. The young bride is beauti
ful and talented and is well known in
the younger society set. Thomas is
said to be a young man of unusual
popularity among his friends, many
of whom express surprise that the
Speers should object to the match.
Thomas had been in the employ If the
Speer family for two years.
Washington.
It is confidently expected at the war
department that unless some unfor
seen contingency develops the yellow
fever quarantine maintained by th,e
marine hospital service against sev
eral provinces in Cuba will be raised
in a short time. Besides meeting with
determined opposition from the Cu
bans, the quarantine has proved vex
atious to the American army now in
Cuba.
Letters to England, Ireland, Scot
land and Wales now need only two
I cent postage stamps instead of 5
[ cents. This rate has been agreed upon
! between the governments as the best
means of promoting commercial
| friendly relations between the United
i States and Great Britain.
Ten little patients at the children's
hospital ;n Washington, D. C., have
been inoculated in the interest of sci
ence and humanity with the deadly
germs of both human and bovine tu
berculosis. The experiment is being
watched with the keenest interest by
the delegates to the Tuberculosis con
gress. The children, all charity pa
tients, were already affected with in
cipient tuberculosis, so the experi
ment, say doctors, can in no sense he
sonsidered inhuman. A delegation of
half a dozen of the most distinguished
delegates will pass upon the results
of the experiment.
EUROPE’SJEWEST CZAR
Ferdinand of Bulgaria Proclaims
Independence of His Country.
MAY MEAN WASFITH TURKEY
Congress of the Powers Will Be Called
* to Consider Violation of the
Treaty of Berlin.
London, England.—ln the ancient
capital of Tirnovo the independence
of Bulgaria has been proclaimed with
the czar of the Bulgarians as a ruler.
The czar of the Bulgarians is recog
nized to mean more than czar of Bul
garia, because it is a distinct intima
tion that he regards his country as
having sovereignty over all the peo
ple of that blood in the near east.
The question which has been stir
ring the whole of Europe more deeply
than any similar question within the
memory of the present generation is,
does it mean war? From all the cap
itals come reports indicating that it
means, first of all, another European
congress of the signers of the treaty
of Berlin to consider the situation and
probably to revise the treaty.
From the British standpoint the
whole affair has been a surprise, be
cause, for the first time in years, the
government felt itself w T ith apparently
an understanding with France and
Russia and friendship with
Italy, to be in a position where it
dominated European politics, reserv
ing, out of this consideration, the al
most open enmity between itself and
Germany.
Probably never in the history of Eu
rope has politics taken such amazing
ly kaleidoscopic revolutions as during
the past week. An entangling situa
tion will come when the signatories
of the Berlin treaty meet to consider
what action shall be taken regarding
the violation of the treaty.
Great Britain has served notice that
it dees not recognize the right of the
parties to this treaty to violate its
provisions without consulting the oth
ers, but English diplomats know that
the conference will resolve itself into
a scramble among the powers to get
what is termed in* European politics
“compensating advantages” which
Austria, backed by Germany, has al
ready obtained.
The chances of war between Bul
garia and Turkey are being minimized
by Great Britain and France, who are
working together and who have ad
vised Turkey against it. Turkey, how
ever, is apparently disposed to follow
this advice, and it is believed that if
hastv action on and part of Turkey
can be prevented, Bulgaria will have
difficulty in finding an excuse to be
gin war.
The action of Prince Ferdinand in
proclaiming the independence of Bul
garia is condemned alike by the gov
ernments and press of Europe, but in
some quarters this is considered a
matter of minor importance, so long
as it does not eventually end in war
as compared with the threatened an
nexation of the provinces of Bosnia
and Herzegovina by Austria-Hungary.
Reports from Belgrade indicate that
Servia has been aroused to the dan
ger point, bands of Servians marching
the streets of Belgrade and shouting
for war with Austria rather than an
nexation. Turkey refuses to recog
nize Bulgaria’s independence.
CENSUS BUREAU COTTON REPORT.
Number cf Bales Ginned to Septem
ber 25, Was 2,5E.2,63£.
Washington, D. C.—The census bu
reau report on cotton ginning shows
2,582,688 bales, counting round as half
bales, ginned from ihe growth of 1908
to September 25, compared with 1,-
532,602 for 1907; 2,057,283 for 1906
and 2,355,716 for 1905. Number of ac
tive ginneries this year is 23,600, com
pared with 18,121 l'or 1907; 20,416 for
1906 and 2.1,389 for 1905, Round bales,
including this year, are 55,018, com
pared with 43,367 for 1907; 66,502 foi
1906 and 74,816 for 1905. Sea island
11,275 for 1908; 4,259 for 1907, 2,684
for 1906 and 11,963 l'or 1905.
By states the number of bales
(counting round as half bales, and ac
tive ginneries respectively for 1908
follows: Alabama, 307,508 bales and
2,911 ginneries'; Arkansas, 85,827
bales and 1,490 ginneries; Florida,
510,290 bales and 3,875 ginneries;
Kentucky, 117 bales and 1 ginnery;
Louisiana, 81,207 bales and 1,252 gin
neries; Missouri, 4,131 bales and 47
ginneries; Mississippi, 198, 433 bales
and 2,638 ginneries; North Carolina,
89,198 bales and 1,812 ginneries;
North Carolina, 89,198 bales and 1,812
ginneries; South Carolina, 288,92 <
bales and 4,699 ginneries; Tennessee,
28,d28 bales ahd 419 ginneries-; Texas,
961,835 bales and 3,764 ginneries.
The distribution of Sea island cot
ton for 1908 by states is: Florida, 5,-
092; Georgia, 5,813; South Carolina,
370.’
All Records Broken.
Brighton Beach Race Track.—All
automobile records were smashed to
atoms in the 24-hour race at Brighton
Beach, when a 50-liorse power Sim
plex car covered the astonishing dis
tance of 1,177 miles, beating the pre
vious record 70 miles. The Lozier
car and the Thomas car had a desper
ate battle for second place, the Lo
zier car winning out, covering 1,125
miles to the Thomas car’s 1,115 miles.
Three Miners Hilled.
Birmingham, Ala.—A gas explosion
in mine B, at Blossburg, in Jefferson
county, resulted in the deaths of three
miners. The coal mine belongs to the
Tennessee Coal Company.
Wright Breaks Own Record.
Lemans, France. —Wilburn Wright,
the American aeroplanist, who holds
the world’s record for an aeroplane
flight, has established another world’s
record for time and distance with a
passenger. With a French journalist
by his side, he remained in the air
for 55 minutes and 37 seconds, circling
the field twenty-four times and cov
ering a distance estimated at 58 kilo
meters, or about 36 miles.
His best previous flight with a pas
senger was 11 minutes 35 2-5 seconds.
FLEET IN MANILA AAY.
Pride of America is Greeted By Cheer*
ing Thousands.
Manila, P. I. —With the brilliant
tropical sunlight pouring down on
their polished guns and gleaming
paint and a swift land breeze whip
ping their many flags out straight
from the staffs and stirring the bunt
ing that covered the half hundred
launches and excursion steamers that,
crowded with cheering thousands, es
corted the big ships up the bay, the
Atlantic battleship fleet steamed slow
ly into Manila bay, and, sailing majes
tically across the bay where* Dewey
and his men fought their historic fight
with the Spanish fleet ten years ago,
dropped anchor off the city.
The fleet steamed up the center of
the bay, while dozens of launches and
steamers, sailing proudly along be
side the monsters of the navy, sound
ed a discordant welcome with whis
tles, cheers and every other noise
making device that could be contriv
ed. The ships presented a magnifi
cent appearance as they moved slow
ly along, and the sight of the long
line evoked the wlidest enthusiasm
and the admiration of thousands that
crowded every point of vantage. As
the Connecticut led the line past Cor
regidor, the garrison there fired the
admiral’s salute. The progress
through the channel was made in sin
gle column, but, as soon as the last
ship of the long line was safely pass
ed, signals were hoisted for the dou
ble column formation, and in this
manner the ships steamed up the bay,
The anchorage was reached and all
along the shore line the crowds con
tinued to increase, even after the last
vessel had come to rest. As the ships
anchored, General W T eston, military
commander in this city, sent a wire
less message conveying the greetings
of himself, his officers and the men
of the army to Admiral Sperry and
his men.
Governor General Smith witnessed
the arrival of the fleet from his
launch, where he entertained a large
party of officials. Later he paid his
official visit to the Connecticut, and
the Manilans welcomed the sailors in
the form of a great water parade, as
the men of the fleet were not allowed
to come ashore on account of the
many cases of cholera in the city.
GOVERNMENT BUYS SILVER.
Will Amount to 125,000 Ounces a
Week —Demand for Coin.
Washington, D’. C. —Director of the
Mint Leach has announced that he
would resume immediately the pur
chase of fine silver for subsidary
coinage. He states that he expects to
purchase about 125,000 ounces each
week for an indeflaite period.
Director Leach said he was confi
dent purchases would be made as
long as there was an active demand
for the coin. The mint now has on
hand only about five million ounces
c-f fine silver and this supply would
soon be exhausted at the present rate
of demand. For several months prior
to the late financial stringency the
demand for subsidary coins was so
active as to necessitate the operation
of the mints to their full capacity,
but the demand fell off until there
was an accumulation in the treasury
in April last of about $27,000,000 in
standard dollars and $26,000,000 in
coins Early in the summer
the call dollars became
more the supply was
practically exliam|bd. Attention was
then directed to and other
subsidary coins with that
now there is only
able, notwithstanding the in
September $634,000 in
darv was Coined and added
stock on hand. Mr. Leach expects m
still stronger demand when the cot
ton crop begins to move and the de
cision to purchase more silver is in
anticipation of this demand.
SEEKING SUNKEN TREASURE.
Harvard Students Will Have to Mod
ify Their Plans.
Kingston, Jamacia. —The expedition
composed of Harvard students which
started recently on the steamer May
flower from New York in search of
sunken treasure in these waters, will
likely have to modify the original
plans. The treasure seekers intend
ed to search a Spanish galleon which
sank many years ago, but the Ameri
can expedition has been anticipated
by a Jamaican syndicate which char
tered a schooner and after an inef
fectual search returned to Montego
The Jamaicans occupied several
weeks in their gold hunting trip and
had exciting experiences with hurri
canes. The galleon was not found
but her position on the ocean bed
was located, the wreck having broken
to pieces years ago. Divers were sent,
down and a number of Spanish goid
coins were recovered, but nothing of
great value. The leader of the expe
dition was the son of Sir Henry Ai
thur Blake, who was governor of Ja
maica 1889-97.
BEAR CHARGES CROWD.
Breaks From Cage in Pleasure Park
Kills Baby.
Tuscon, Ariz. —A tragedy was enact
ed near here, when an immense black
bear escaped from a cage and charg
ed upon a throng of visitors. The
animal, which had been raised in cap
tivity, had been in the habit of being
given soda pop at the bar, and when
it escaped, it went there. \\ hen it was
driven out by the attendants, the an
imal charged the crowd. The bear
snatched the year-old infant of Mrs.
Bush Lair from a go-cart and crushed
it to death before its mother’s eyes.
The bystanders opened a fusilade and
killed the bear with a score of bullets.
KILLS BOLL WEEVIL.
Texas Negro Invents Machine to De
stroy the Pest.
Houston, Texas. —Charles Lee, a he
gro, has perfected a machine which,
he claims, will destroy boll weevils.
The machine is a simple box consist
ing primarily of a round box made of
metal and having four protruding
tubes.
Within the outer receptacle is an
other which contains chemicals capa
ble of ignition and which give off
deadly fumes.
TUBERCULOSIS WILL END
When Every Social Unit Begins
to Fight Dr. Flick.
IS NO INHERITED INFECTION
Philadelphia Expert Says That Wage
Earners are Specially Menaced
By Dread Disease.
Washington, D. C. —"If every unit
of our society is willing to do that
which they can do, I feel confident
that the day is not far distant when
we will have wiped the dread disease,
tuberculosis, off the face of the earth.’’
This was the message of hope given
by Dr. Lawrence Flick of Philadel
phia, one of the most eminent medi
cal men of the country, at the New
National Museum, where the tubercu
losis exposition is being held in con
nection with the International Con
gress of Tuberculosis. The meeting
was in the interest of labor, and was
one of a series to be given. The
speakers were Dr. Flick, John Mitch
ell, former president of the United
Mine Workers of America; Samuel
Gompers, president of the American
Federation of Labor, and others.
"Tuberculosis is peculiarly a dis
ease of the wage-earner,” said Dr.
Flick, "and this is so for the very
good reason that one of the strongest
predisposing causes of the disease is
overwork. It is an exceedingly fatal
and prevalent disease among wage
earners.”
Dr. Flick pointed out that the rea
son why the wage-earner is so likely
to contract tuberculosis is because in
many instances he is overworked, he
toilsTMn unsanitary workshops and of
tentimes he is underfed, which causes
his powers of resistance to be less
able to throw off an implantation of
the tubercle bacilli. If the wage-earn
er gets the implantation, Dr. Flick
said, it is almost certain to result fa
tally. .
He refuted the theory of infection
from inheritance, saying that unless
the tuberculosis micro-organism is ad
mitted into our bodies it is not possi
ble for one lo become infected. The
need of the establishment of hospitals
and sanatoriums for the care of con
tagious and non-contagious consump
tives was emphasized.
John Mitchell, who presided, enum
erated some of the obstacles to great
er progress in the promotion of health
and the eradication of disease, and
said it was due to the attitude of
many employers of labor whom, he de
clared, resisted the enactment of laws
for the prevention of accidents and
the promotion of health
Samuel Gompers paid a tribute to
Dr. Robert Koch, the German scien
tist. He declared that Dr. Koch will
live in the memory of man when those
who fail to appreciate bis discovery
of the tubercle bacillus, or those who
fail to follow his precepts, are forgot
ten. He declared that the union work
ing man was less susceptible to tuber
culosis infection than the non-union
man, because the union shops are su
perior in sanitary appliances to other
shops. The death rate from consump
tion among non-union men is 100 per
cent greater than among union men,
he said. , . „ ,
Statistics were presented by 1 red
erick L. Hoffman, showing that the
number of deaths from consumption
among the 32.000.000 wage earners in
this country is 77,000.
WILD RUMOR AT AMOY.
,i t was That the American Fleet
Would Seize That Port.
bno' t: China.—Local agitators have
beSgarflfc:fating a report to the effect
that battleship fleet
which this port the end ° f
October, pi**X; v to seize Amoy as a
base of i n a forthcoming
war against JapaiusfA-ke people became
alarmed and began stW n S the city
Then, to prevent a exodus Oi.
the population, the municipal author
ities issued a proclamation foroidding
people going into the interior to take
heavv baggage with them.
Two of the agitators were arrested
and given 1,500 blows each.
QUARANTINE IS RAISED.
Texas Now Open to Traffic With Cu
ban Ports.
Austin, Texas.—The state health de
partment, through Acting State Health
Officer ,T. H. Florence, has raised the
yellow fever quarantine which has
been in effect against Havana and
other points in Cuba for some time
past, and passengers from Havana
and other Cuban ports will be allow
ed to leave Cuba and come here with
out detention. This action was based
on a message received from the sur
geon general of the marine hospital
service conveying the information that
the government had raised the em
bargo existing at Havana.
Cotton Crop Report.
Washington, D. C —The cotton crop
report issued by the department of
agriculture shows that the average
condition of the cotton crop on Sep
tember 25 was 69.7 per cent of a nor
mal against 76.1 per cent on August
25 last; 67.7 on September 25, 1907;
71.6 on September 25, 1906.
* The condition and tea year average
on September 25 respectively by states
follows: Virginia 78 and 69.6; North
Carolina, 69. and 71; South Carolina,
68 and 70; Georgia, 71 and 71; Flor
ida, 72 apd 70; Alabama, 70 and 6S;
Mississippi, 70 and 68; Louisiana, 55
and 68; Texas, 71 and 64; Arkansas,
70 and 68; Tennessee, 78 and 74 ;
Missouri, 70 and 76; Oklahoma, 70
and 70.
Cleveland's Office Aboiisiieu.
New York City.—As a consequence
of the recent death of Grover Cleve
land, its chairman and counsel, the
Association of Life Insurance Presi
dents voted to amend its constitution
by abolishing the office of chairman,
which has been held by Mr. Cleveland
since its organization in December,
1906, and also file position of secre
tary, held by Robert L. Cox.
Anew office of general counsel and
manager was created and Mr. Cos.
was chosen to fill it.
OF POLITICAL INTEREST
The private office of r h
Hitchcock, of the renublu-n airraatl
headquarters at the
Tower in New York cit v
and many papers carried' iZ °“tw
and memoranda are also ' >'*s
Just what the envelopes 'contv' 88
the way of contributions or il, “ e<l *
known only to the thLf letter B-is
Hitchcock. ef and Mr.
Ex-Senator Pettigrew told a*
an that lie had been offered s '
the republican campaign man ! °°.° b - v
make ten speeches and that h ‘V°
reason to believe that thp ? had
cans are financing Tom * Wat PUbli '
populist campaign, in r <nu ° n
Watson telegraphed that if \i
ever offered Senator PettknW'’* ( ! r ‘ e
000 for ten speeches on am [JZ
suoject that person was mo- . 7. 1,1
ly supplied with money than s. n^ 1 '
Judge Tafts game of golf and wh
he personally thinks of it . a , a ‘
man’s exercise was stated a v
S. D., by the candidate, who . airp'
had received an intimation !<
ought to come to South D: ' a j'
convince the people that h< as n
an aristocrat, or was above t-. le tZ
pie. He said that his friends
certain that if he would go , 0 Sou-n
Dakota and show the people of ;i
state what kind of a man he was P
appearance that they would get over
the impression that then Was am
thing about him that resembled *' a
dude.
Mr. Taft, when asked the question
said he believed tariff revision should
generally be downward, but up wap
as to pottery. In his Dakota speech
es he dealt with the various issues
except guaranty of bank deposits
William J. Bryan has offered the
mascot mule (presented him bv the
Agricultural Society of Minnesota as
a prize to the county showing the
largest percentage of increase In the
vote for the democratic electors over
the average vote for electors in the
last three campaigns.
Chairman Hitchcock of the republi
can committee refused to alter fir-,
ures on Taft pluralities in western
states, but said they were very con
servative. He declared every eastern
state would go for Taft. Chairman
Mack of the democratic committee
claims practically the same thing,
while Mr. Hearst of the independence
party claims New York and Georgia
for his candidates and Thomas Wat
son, populist candidate for president,
also claims Georgia.
Observing at Mitchell, South Dak
ta, that the windows and stores and
houses were placarded with litho
graphs of himself, Mr. Bryan, in the
course of his remarks there, urged
the people to remove them and hang
up in their stead pictures of Mr. Taft,
who was to speak in that town the
next day, and thus "show him the
same courtesy that you have shown
me.” He said he took it for granted
that the compliment paid him was not
a personal one, but that it was due to
the fact that he was a candidate for
the highest office in the gift of the
people. "Mr. Taft is a candidate for
the same office,” he said, "and one
of us will be elected. As no one can
tell yet. with certainty, which will
be elected, you had better tack up
both alike if you would be on the safe
side.”
John W. Kern, democratic candi
date for vice president, and James S.
Sherman, republican candidate c ■
vice president, met in Chicago. Mr.
Kern was standing in the lobby oi t he
auditorium annex when a bystander
rushed up and asked to shake hands
with “the next vice president "< er
tainly, with pleasure,” said Mr.
Bern. “But, to make sure, you would
better shake hands with that man
over there—that one with the side
whiskers. That’s Mr. Sherman. The
stranger did as suggested, and then
Mr. Sherman and Mr. Kern hezan
moving toward each other, and P '
ently the long, sinewy hand of the
second man on the democratic tr r
was grasped in the plump one of ns
republican opponent. Thev sm 1 •
genially, exchanged felicitations •
the drop in the temperature and <> m
commonplaces, and then depaited
catch their trains.
Mr. Bryan, replying to Presideit
Roosevelt’s recent letter said he '' j
willing to make public his 189 b •
of less than SIOO,OOO if the preside®
would make public Mark Ham
fund of that year.
Governor Haskell of Oklahoma 1
another letter to President Roo.eu
accuses him of enlarging °n 1 Ujj
zine article while attaching
and challenged him to publish.the i
terior department record to r
ate his claim that he did notfauj
the Standard Oil company Ha
also appeals to Oklahoma! -
to fight corporate oppression.
Both political parties have conjP
ed plans for a tremendous bat 1
New York before the close
campaign.
Democratic State Chairman C
nors of New York has ■
names and figures purporting,
that Governor Hughes was vgar ;
tt.e use of tainted mone; r w rr nan
ago. Republican State <■ gert .
Woodruff replied with h- > . , fil
ing that of the democratic-mdd^
dence league campaign funds,
ing to $313,020.11, W. R. Heara °
over $255,000.
Mr. Taft was well re^eive “. p w{t h
nesota, speaking in good
overcoat collar turned 1 | ru iorse:
snow. When an aged "or n * Jv ~
one of his statements he gab , f
ferred to her as probably tne >
a family of sturdy sons. Law .
convinced him that he wa;; u:
until he was told the * oma -
married.
President Roosevelt ha ® L
the controversy with Mi. > • ...
It is said that the facts h'- M ,.,.
er been published
William Jennings Bryan - expim
became Mrs. Bryan— was om (
ed from school on accoim T k
a carriage ride With Md atlfl ,
future Mrs. Bryan a ■
Jacksonville Presbyterian
Illinois. It was while - • i3 , i ;
a student at WtapM
sonville. She was ‘ 0 f her
and became valedictonai
as did Mr. Bryan of ms.