The Dade County times. (Trenton, Ga.) 1908-1965, October 16, 1908, Image 2
PARLIAMENT IS MOSSED
By Thousands of Women Who
Demand Suffrage.
MANY PERSONS ARE INJURED
One Women Gained Admission to the
House of Commons But Was
Bodily Thrown Out.
London, England.—The climax of
the suffragette campaign was reached
when an enormous mob hemmed in
parliament, and stopped traffic in all
streets leading to Westminster. For
more than three hours the crowds
scuffled good-naturedly with the po
lice, interfered with theater-goers,
ibroke windows and disorganized
things generally in the center of Lon
don.
The heroine of the day was Mrs.
Travers Symons, formerly secretary to
.lames Keir Hardie, the socialist and
independent member of parliament,
who reached the door of the house
of commons by strategy. The house
was solemnly debating a bill to pre
vent children from cigarette smoking,
when the woman dashed past the door
keeper to a position in front of the
speaker's chair, and shouted shrilly,
“Leave off discussing children and
talk about women.”
Three officials seized Mrs. Symons
and carried her out bodily. Asa re
sult of the coup, an order was issued
that hereafter women should not be
admitted to the building on any pre
text whatever.
The appeal issued by the suffra
gettes a few days ago for 50,000 per
sons to help them “rush” parliament
was the most successful stroke yet.
Not less than twice that number re
sponded to the call, and nine-tenths
of these were young people.
Parliament was in a state of siege.
A close triple line of police was
drawn around the three sides of the
square in front of the building. The
yard within the gates swarmed with
police, and two hundred guarded the
terrace in the rear against assault by
water, which the women twice at
tempted. A small fleet of police boats
also patrolled the Thames approaches.
A delegation of thirteen suffragettes
which approached the police cordon
and was formally refused admission
to parliament, attempted a football
rush, but the poloice chivalrously re
pulsed the women with the least pos
sible roughness.
Many persons fainted in the crush:
some were trampled upon and taken
to the hospitals.
The suffragettes and unemployed
kept practically the whole police force
on duty continuously forty-eight hours.
COLONEL STEWART RETIRED.
Roosevelt Loses No Time in Disposing
Exiled Army Officer.
Washington, D. C. —Colonel William
F. Stewart has been retired from act
ive service in the army, as the re
sult of President Roosevelt approving
the report of the retiring board of
army officers which found Colonel
Stewart incapacitated for active ser
vice because of disability.
The following announcement of the
president's action was posted at the
war department:
“Colonel Stewart has been retired
from active service by the president,
upon finding of the retiring board that
he is incapacitated for active service
on account of disability incident to
the service, under the provisions of
section 1251, revised statutes.”
The president’s action is final.
“1 know why ] have been retired
from the army, and I know who is
responsible for it, but 1 am still an
army officer and cannot discuss that,”
declared Colonel Stewart, when he
received formal notification by spe
cial delivery letter from the war de
partment of President’s Roosevelt’s
action in ordering his retirement.
NOTED SPEAKERS ACCEPT.
Will Address Southern Commercial
Congress in Washington.
Montgomery, Ala. —G. G. Dawe,
chairman of the committee on ar
rangements for the Southern Com
mercial congress to be held in Wash
ington, December 7 and 8. has an
nounced that Dr. E. A. Alderman,
president of the University of Virgin
ia, has accepted the invitation to
speak on education. John F. Wallace,
formerly chief engineer of the Pana
ma canal, will speak on the needs of
southern railroads, and M. J. Sanders
of New Orleans will discuss the har
bors of the south. A. W. Noble, may
or of Laurel, Miss., has advised Mr.
Dawe that Mississippi will be repre
sented at the congress.
BRAIN OF DR. WILDER.
It Was Bequeathed to Professor in
Cornell University.
Newark, N. J. —The brain of Dr. Al
exander Wilder, the journalist and au
thor of many works on evolution, phi
losophy, psychology and medicine, was
bequeathed to Professor Burt Green
Wilder of Cornell University by the
will of Dr. Wilder, which has been
filed for probate. Dr. Wilder was
president of the school of philosophy
of New York. He declared in his will
that if Professor Wilder of Cornell de
sired to his brain to the profes
sors collection, he desired it to be
done. Professor Wilder has made an
unusually complete collection of
brains.
MESSAGE FROM THE POPE.
Pontiff Thanks American People for
What They Have Done.
New York City.—Archbishop Far
ley, who returned home from a visit
to Rome and attendance upon the
eucharistic conference at London,
brought this message from the pope
to the American people:
“Tell the people of the United
States that for ail they have done for
the Catholic Church in America I send
my heartfelt benediction from the
highest to the lowest.”
LATE NEWS NOTES.
General.
The people on the Island of Crete,
stirred by the events in southeastern
Europe, the independence of Bulgaria,
and the annexation of Bosnia and
Herzegovina by Austria, have arisen
and proclaimed a union with Greece.
For ten hours Mrs. William Weiss
of Vriesland, Michigan, stood up to
her neck in water in a cistern to save
a 2-year-old boy. Mrs. Weiss saw the
baby, a child of a neighbor, fall into
the cistern. She instantly plunged, af
ter him and finding him at the bottom,
held him above the water. She call
ed for help, but the cistern is ten feet
deep and no one heard her for over
ten hours, when she was rescued in
a fainting condition. She is serious
ly ill from the exposure, but it is
thought that she will recover. The
baby was uninjured.
The St. Louis Times has given pub
licity to the following announcement:
The St. Louis Times hereby offers a
prize of SI,OOO to the aviator who will
first fly in a heavier than air machine
(continuous flight) from St. Loum to
Chicago or from St. Louis to Kan
sas City. This offer holds good for
one year, from November 1, 1908, sub
ject to conditions.
A mighty Japanese fleet of twenty
nine ships is now assembling at Yo
kohoma and has been designated by
the mikado as the welcoming escort
to the American fleet.
The city council of Chicago passed
an ordinance establishing anew hol
iday in Chicago—October 12 —“Colum-
bus day.” The ordinance provides for
the closing of all municipal offices on
that day except fire, police and health
departments, in honor of the discov
ery of America. The council’s action
was taken upon petition of the
Knights of Columbus.
As the result of a collision between
a yard engine and a special freight
train on the Grand Trunk road, at
Brantford, Ont., three trainmen were
killed and two injured.
The trial has begun in St. Peters
burg, Russia, of a band of swindlers
who by means of forged documents
were successful in securing the sav
ings of a number of Russian sailors
who perished in the battle of the Sea
of Japan. Among the criminals are
several officials attached to one of
the ministries.
Improvement in export trade in
New Orleans is indicated in the is
sue of the monthly report of the grain
inspection department of the board of
trade. For September, 1908, wheat
exports were 90,000 bushels in excess
of the samtj month last year. Corn
exports fell slightly under the 1907
figures.
DeWolf Hopper, the comedian, sus
tained a bad fall while appearing cn
the stage of a Syracuse, N. Y., the
ater which rendered him unconscious
and necessitated the dismissal of the
audience. The accident was due to
the slipping of a buckle of a belt
about his waist, attached to a wire by
which he was suspended in the air.
An investigation of the reports that
thousands o£ school children in Chica
go are underfed has been ordered by
the city council. The committee on
schools was instructed to inquire into
the situation and recommend meas
ures of relief.
The new Mississippi law penalizing
common carriers for the removal of
suits originating in state courts to the
federal courts, has been declared un
constitutional by Judge Wood, of the
chancery court, in ouster proceedings
against the Louisville and Nashville
railroad.
A Jones, bookkeeper in the depart
ment of accounts at the Pensacola
navy yard, who was shot four weeks
ago by R. J. Owens, a prominent
young man of the city, died in the
government hospital in that city. Ow
ens, as soon as he learned of the
death, surrendered to the sheriff.
Robbers committed a revolting
crime in the village of Slobodze,
Russia. They entered the house of a
Jewish family named Cohen and kill
ed twelve persons in their efforts to
get away with a small amount of loot.
The murderers were arrested.
Washington.
The wisdom of the navy depart
ment’s order for Rear Admiral Sperry
not to permit shore liberty to the men
of the fleet while cholera is prevalent
in Manila is commended by prominent
civil and military authorities at Ma
nila.
Representative Clark of Florida has
complained to President Roosevelt of
the alleged political activity of two
federal officeholders in Florida, and
he asked the president if it was in
accord with his views. The men com
plained of are United States District
Attorney Cheney and Postmaster
O’Neal at Orlando, Fla. He said both
were actively engaged in traveling
over Florida making speeches for the
republican ticket and for themselves.
Cheney was nominated for governor
and O’Neal for congress.
The civil service commission has
issued a statement announcing that
Paul W. Cox, a substitute clerk in the
Robinson, 111., postoffice, has been re
moved from office and J. B. Thomas,
clerk in the Orangeburg, S. C., post
office, severely reprimanded and re
duced in salary from S9OO to SBOO a
year, beginning last Thursday, both
because of pernicious political activ
ity.
Pension Commissioner Vespasion
W T arner brought to the white house a
large official envelope marked “per
sonal,” which contained two crisp
SSOO United States bonds and a. draft
for $l7O, the entire amount being ‘con
science money” returned by an old
pensioner. The money will be placed
with the treasury department in the
“conscience fund.”
J. Clayton Erb, captain and regi
mental quartermaster of the Third
regiment, national guard of Pennsyl
vania, was shot and killed at his sum
mer home near Village Green, Penn.
His sister-in-law, Mrs. Catherine Beis
el, is under arrest, charged with the
murder. The woman admits that she
did the shooting during a family quar-
Ii el. Captain Erb, who was private
| secretary to Israel W. Durham, polit
-1 ical leader of Philadelphia, was one
of the best known men in political
circles in that city.
CHILD HEIRESS STOLEN
Little Margaret Mitchell Is Kid
naped at Chicago.
TAKEN TO NORTH CAROLINA
It is Thought Girl is Being Carried to
Sparta, N. C., Where Her
Mother Lives.
Chicago, 111. Margaret Frances
Mitchell, eight years old, sa.*d to be
an heiress to a fortune, was kidnaped
while on the street with her grand
mother. The little girl was snatched
by one of three men in an automobile
and taken away after the grandmoth
er, Mrs. Caroline P. Mitchell, had been
knocked down. The police are work
ing on a clue that the child was taken
out of the city, probably to Sparta,
N. C.
The kidnaping is said to be the cli
max of a prolonged struggle for pos
session of the girl. She has been liv
ing With her father, Robert Mitchell,
at 4829 St. Lawrence avenue, while
the mother, Mrs. Margaret B. Mitchell,
has lived separately. The fortune was
left to the girl by her mother’s father.
According to the story told to the po
lice by the grandmother, threats of
kidnaping previously had been made,
and because of this she always ac
companied the girl to and from school.
She urged the police to search at
Soarta. where, it is thought, the moth
er recently lived.
NEW STAMP DESIGNS.
Patterned to Obtain Greater Simplic
ity Commensurate With Merit.
Washington, D. C.—The bureau of
engraving and printing has completed
designs suggested by Postmaster Gen
eral Meyer for anew issue of United
States postage stamps. The new
stamps will be of the following de
nominations: one-cent, two-cent,
three-cent, four-cent, five-cent, six
cent, eight-cent, ten-cent, fifteen-cent,
flfiy-cent and one dollar. The two
dollar and five dollar denominations
now in use will not be reprinted. It
will be some weeks before all the de
nominations will be put on the mar
ket However, the two-cent stamp
will be the first distributed, and it is
expected that shipments to postmas
ters will commense some time in No
vember.
The new issue has been designed
with the object of obtaining the great
est simplicity commensurate with ar
tistic result. The profiles have been
taken in each instance instead of full
view, giving a bas-relief effect. All
the stamps are of similar design, con
taining a head in an allipse, the only
decoration being laurel leaves on eith
er side of the ellipse. The lettering
is in straight lines, at the top being
“U. S. Postage,” and at the bottom
the words, “Two Cents.” The one
cent stamp contains the head of
Franklin, .while all the others will
bear that of Washington, taken from
busts by Houdon. Thus one of the
most notable differences in the new
issue will be the minimum of letter
ing. The colors are the reds and
blues of the early stamps.
BATTLE ATOP HIGH TOWER.
* —
Crazy Man Prevented from Jumping
Off Williamsburg Bridge.
New York City.—At the top of
the great iron tower at the Brooklyn
end of the Williamsburg bridge, a
thrilling struggle took place while
hundreds of persons looked on from
below. An insane man, who had elud
ed the tower watchman, climbed an
iron stairway at the top of the tower,
533 feet above the East river, and
vas preparing for a leap into the
river, when two policemen climbed up
after him.
The appearance of the policemen
distracted the man from his purpose
and he turned upon the bluecoats
with a razor. The insane man rushed
to attack them, and then on the nar
row footing of the dizzy height a ten
minute battle took place, which held
all who witnessed it speechless with
horror.
Finally he was handcuffed and ta
ken, stiil struggling, down the tower
ladders, trying at every step to throw
himself and his captors into space.
At the eastern district hospital,
where the prisoner was taken, he
gave his name as Joseph Kratz of
Brooklyn, He was placed in a pad
ded cell.
Expulsion of American
Lisbon, Portugal.—Upon the repre
sentations of Charles Page Bryan, the
American minister of Portugal, the
lYiijiister of war has telegiapned to
the governor of Angola, Portuguese,
West Africa, demanding an explana
tion for the recent expulsion of an
American missionary.
Serum foFWhite Plague.
Paris, France. —Professor Lanue
longe, of the University of Paris has
discovered an anti-tuberculae serum
which is said to be the most effica
cious remedy of the kind ever used.
Of eleven phthisical patients inocu
lated with the new serum, ten have
either been cured or have shown im
provement. . . _
Girl Sold By Her Father.
New Brunswick, N. J. —That she
was sold for SIOO and forced by her
father to marry a man that she did
not love, is the statement made by
17-year-old Julia Madelin, who shot
and killed Tony Madelin, to whom
she was married four months ago.
Convention to Boost Cotton.
Atlanta, Ga.—For the purpose of
forcing the present low price of cot
ton to higher levels, a mass meeting
of farmers, bankers, merchants and
ginners from the entire south will be
called at Memphis, Tenn., November
10 next, by Harvie Jordan, president
of the Southern Cotton association.
Mr. Jordan's action will come in re
sponse to numerous letters from all
parts of the section urging him to
launch such a movement. The con
vention will be general
PLANS ARE APPROVED.
President Endorses Object! of Southern
Commercial Congress.
Washington, D. C. President
Roosevelt has promised his personal
cooperation, and that of the depart
ments of the government in the ob
jects sought by the Southern Commer
cial Congress, which will meet in
Washington in the first week in De
cember. The president expressed his
warm approval of the plans of the
body, and officially endorsed the proj
ect of making the south and the peo
ple of the country generally more
fully acquainted with the resources,
progress and commercial advantages
of the southern states.
The president directed a cabinet of
ficer to represent the administration
before the congress and make an ad
dress, and stated to the representa
tives of the congress that the facili
ties of the departments, in the way
of charters, data and statistics should
be free to the convention.
All this was brought about in the
course of two interviews between the
committee appointed by the Southern
Commercial Congress and the presi
dent at the white house. The pres
ident gave nearly an hour of time to
listening to the plans and objects of
the congress, as presented by the com
mittee, and then gave expression to
his views as stated.
The committee is composed of G.
Grosvenor Dawes of Alabama, John
A. Betjeman of Georgia and Edwin L.
Quarles of Virginia. This committee
represents forty commercial bodies of
the °-nuth, each of w r hich will send
several lepresentatives to the Wash
ington meeting.
The members of the committee first
called upon Secretary Straus of the
department of commerce and labor.
Secretary Straus assured the commit
tee of his personal sympathy in the
movement, and promised his co-oper
ation and that of the bureaus of his
department in furthering the ends of
the congress.
The committee then saw the presi
dent, who, after talking with them for
a few minutes, requested them to call
upon the secretary of war and ask
him to accompany them to the white
house. The president and Secretary
Wright then went into the subject in
detail, and the president asked Secre
tary Wright to represent the admin
istration at the congress and address
the delegates on the influence of the
Panama canal on the industrial devel
opment of the nation.
SLID INTO THE MISSISSIPPI.
$75,000 Worth of Railroad Property
Lost at New Orleans.
New Orleans, La.— Seventy-five
thousand dollars’ worth of railroad
property slid into the Mississippi riv
er when a section of earth 300 feet
long and about 200 feet wide caved
in, carrying along seven freight cars
and four lines of railroad tracks, un
dermining the bank by high water
t-eing the cause.
No lives were lost. The losses are
divided between the Illinois Central
railroad and the city, which owns the
Belt railroad, and most of the real es
tate w r hich sank into the river. The
real estate loss is total, inasmuch as
no filling-in will be done, the caved
ground being given over to the river.
Several docks were among the proper
ty additional caving
around tbßfcdes of the hole threat
ened to ca land into the wa
ter. The were loaded,
mostly with of which
may be salvaged, the shal
lowness of the water.
DEEP WATERWAY CONFERENI^g
Lakes- to-Gulf Channel Meeting in<
Chicago Adopts Resolutions.
Chicago, 111.—The adoption of res
olutions declaring the opening of a
deep channel way connecting the
Great Lakes with the Gulf of Mexico
to be an imperitive duty of the gen
eral government, and this work to
begin immediately and completed as
soon as possible, the selection of New
Orleans for the next convention and
re-election of old officers were the
features of the closing session of Gulf
Deep Waterways Association.
The resolutions adopted will be pre
sented to both branches of congress
by a committee of fifty
EXAMINATION OT BANKS
Number Will Be Increased by Comp
troller of Currency.
Washington, D. C. —Comptroller of
the Currency Murray has decided to
increased the number of national
bank examinations, in many cases
from twice to three or four times a
year. It is not h<s purpose, he says,
to examine all national banks four or
even three times a year, but the new
rule will be made to apply to all na
tional banks that have in the past
shown a disposition to violate or evade
any of the provisions of the national
banking laws or the regulations pre
scribed by the comptroller of the cur
rency.
RURAL LETTEIi CARRIERS
Paul L. Lindsay of Tucker, Ga., is
Elected President.
Omaha. Neb. —The National Rural
Letter Carriers’ Association elected
the following officers for the ensuing
year:
President—Paul L. Lindsay, Tucker,
Ga.'
Vice President —Elias Frey, Pendle
ton, lnd. x
Secretary—P. E .Cull, Concord,
Mass.
Treasurer —J. D. Williams, Renfrow,
Pa.
Executive Committee —J. H. John
son, New' Hampshire; L. T. Langer,
Missouri; T. E. Wicker, South Caro
lina.
BANK OPENS IN MANILA.
Real Estate and Harvested Crops to
Taken as Collateral.
Manila, P. I.— The Agricultural
Bank, founded by the government,w'ith
a capital of 1,000,000 pesos, has begun
operations. Secretary of Finance O. R.
Araneta is president of the bank, and
Insular Treasurer F. Abrangan, its
manager. Real estate and harvested
crops are the only collateral which
will be accepted by the bank. In
terest will be paid at the rate of 10
per cent.
WAR CLOUDS VANISHING
No Crisis Likely to Result From
the Balkan Situation.
SERVIA BECOMES PACIFIED
King Peter and His Advisers Have Come
to Conclusion That War Would
Mean Annihilation.
London, England. Belgrade, the
storm center in the present Balkan
situation, has quieted down. After a
long secret session, the national as
sembly has taken no definite action
with regard to making war upon Aus
tria-Hungary. The city itself has qui
eted down, the people apparently real
ifiing that war would mean the de
struction of Servian nationality.
A dispatch from Gibraltar says that
the British Atlantic fleet of six bat
tleships is making ready to sail for
the east and the destination probably
is Malta, from which place the British
Mediterranean fleet sailed a few days
ago for the Aegean sea.
Belgrade, Servia. After a secret
session lasting for more than twenty
four hours, the national assembly ad
journed without having arrived at any
decision in regard to its action
against Austria-Hungary.
The meeting was a very stormy one,
and was interrupted by various re
cesses. War was demanded with Aus
tria-Hungary, but the leaders of the
war faction cooled down after Foreign
Minister Milovxanovics had made a
statement in which he said that war
was impossible.
Thus, for the moment, the doing
point in the Balkan crisis is passed,
and Servia is expected to content her
self temporarily by instituting a boy
cott against Austria-Hungary com
merce in the way of revenge.
Demonstration in the streets are be
coming less numerous and less seri-
Ciis, and apparently the people are be
ginning tc realize that war would
mean Ihe annihilation of Servia.
Constantinople, Turkey. —The porte
has received replies from Great Brit
ain, France, Italy and Russia, all fa
vorable to the assembling of a Euro
pean conference, and it is expected
that Gern* my also will acquiesce in
til’s
KimiJ Pasha, the grand vizier, in a
conversation with the Servian minis
ter. strongly advised prudence and
moderation on the part of Servia.
Demonstrations in protest against the
Austro Hungarian movement continue
to be held in the large towns through
out Turkey, 20,000 people gathering
at A Snanople for this purpose.
AERONAUTS FALL 2,000 FEET.
Wonderfu? Escape of American Bal
loonists from Death at Berlin.
Berlin, Germany. —The international
ballon race, which started from the
suburb of Scmargendorf, was the oc
casion of a thrilling accident, two
American aeronauts having a miracu
lous escape from death. The Ameri
can balloon Conqueror, the only Amer
ican built craft in the contest, having
on board A Holland Forbes and Au
gustus Pest, less than two minutes af
ter the start burst at an altitude of
4,000 feet.
For 2,000 feet it shot down like a
bullet, and then the torn silk bag as
sumed the shape of a parachute, thus
checking the rapidity of the descent.
Coming ck.se to the earth, howevei,
the basket smashed into the roof of a
house, but the two men escaped with
..bui slight ’lijuries.
OIREIGN MINE EXPERTS.
the United States
V. Birmingham.
Birmingml^*V-Sa.'—The party of for
eign mine exp®£\jiow touring the
Tmited States condi
tions with a view the
number of mines, has
arrived in Birmingham. spend
several days visiting the 1 Vnes of
this district.
The party is in charge of A.
Holmes of the fuel testing department
of the United States government sur
vey. It consists of Herr Carl Meiss
nes] chief of the German service ;
Victor Watteyene, chief of the Bel
gian mining service, and Captain Ar
thur Desbrough, chief expert of the
British explosives commission.
Will Reform Contracts.
New Orleans, La. —With instruc
tions to make reforms in the cotton
futures contract of the New Orleans
Cotton Exchange, a committee has
been appointed by members of the ex
change. The committee was ordered
to confer with farmers, brokers and
cotton spinners throughout the south
and with the men in the north who
are interested in cotton, to determine
how to get “the maximum trade util
ity” out of cotton futures contracts.
Drowned in Vat of Wine.
Santa Rosa, Cal. —Mrs. George Col
ier, wife of a rancher, was drowned
in a vat of wine. The woman was
visiting the winery on the Colier
ranch and had climbed to the edge of
a large vat partly filled with wine.
In some manner Mrs. Colier lost her
balance and fell into the vat.
To Fight Prohibition.
Houston, Texas.—At a non-partisan
convention held here addressed by
delegates from every part of the state,
including leaders of both the demo
cratic and republican parties, an or
ganization was perfected to combat
the prohibition movement in Texas.
25,000,000 Ton Coal Contract.
Pittsburg, Pa.—The Pittsburg-Buf
falo Coal company announces the
closing of one of the largest coal con
tracts .in the history of the world, a
contract which will require four
thousand men working steadily five
years to fill. The contract calls for
the delivery of 5,000,000 tons of coal
yearly for five years to the M. A.
Hanna company, Cleveland. The
Pittsburg Coal company announces it
will put three large mines at once on
this job.
the WEEK in politics
William H. Taft 7r,l v,
Bryan met at the ch ""Haia ,
of commerce >4
Bme Mr Bryan extended t
as Mr. Taft approach,*bj? Hi
was a brief conversation A?
banquet hall was in a T hile %
Mr. Bryan leaned over u£
and smilingly asked if h P Tad,
the day. Both made short'
cal speeches. non -Poljtj.
The chairman of both
can and democratic parties
ferring with their presidential Con
nees, decided to concentrate tl I:oiJ3i -
Paign on New York. in d - a ? B e
lowa, with the heavy aitiiw t anil
on New York state‘the la-
President James J. Hill of ibV
Northern declared that party link r ° a
so closely drawn that it is‘;mnT a J e
to predict the outcome of the
election.
Mr. Bryan heard and accent*!
true, though refusing to comiW 35
it, a report that President R OO 1 ?C
intended to make set speeches k\'
York, Indianapolis, Des Moines n
ha, Denver and San Francisco
probably speaking elsewhere f,
hip train. Secretary Lceb saM ?
Bryan was misinformed; that S'
president would not take the stum
Congressman Longworth, who J
reported to have been taken off th
stump, on orders from Presided
Roosevelt, because he stated
speech that Roosevelt would be a iV*
didate for president eight years her-rt
denies the report.
Governor Hughes has arrived in
Chicago suffering from acute laryng.
tis. He was unable to keep his en
gagement to speak and his Wisconsin
dates were cancelled.
Governor Haskell in a letter ex
plained the work he did in connec
tion with the SIB,OOO fee he received
from the Hocking Valley railroad He
said that he paid other claims out of
the money and kept only a small part
himself.
W. C. Kronemeyer, organizer of the
tin plate trust, and friend of Presi
dent McKinley, whom he assisted in
framing the McKinley tariff bill, >a\4
the trusts are getting away from both
big parties, and that nothing is being
done to hold them down and declared
for Debs.
Governor Hughes, campaigning in
Bryan’s home city and surrounding
towms, caustically assailed the dem
ocratic nominee’s policies as chimer
ical and dangerous.
Sidney C. Tapp of Atlanta was nom
inated for president of the United
States by the liberal party at it fir*
national convention held in Chatta
nooga, Tenn. It is stated that there
were eight delegates in attendance.
The session was held in a bedroom,
of one of the hotels behind locked
doors. Mr. Tapp called the conven
tion to order as temporary chairman
and made a speech. John Maddox of
Minnesota was nominated for vice
president. Mr. Maddox was also chos
en as chairman of the national execu
tive committee.
Mr. Bryan spoke before the deep
waterways convention in Chicago and
then resumed stumping. His longest,
sneech, before Northwestern Untet
sity students, included a bitter attach
on executive interference in presi
dential elections.
Mr. Taft registered in Cincinnati,
consulted with Manager Vorys and
went early “to a bed that stands s ih.
After three days rest he resumed his
tour.
Mr. Sherman, at Wesleyan Iniver
sitv. a co-educational institution a*
Delaware, Ohio, said he favored <>•
education.
The prohibition national pari"
to receive $500,000 to carry on its
work against the liquor traffic ac
cording to an announcement mad? aj
the Chicago headquarters The time
probably will not be available for -nis
campaign. The bequest xvas mat
Charles E. Latimer of New
died at Palm Beach. Fla.. SeP“*
26. According to the will the am "-
is left to his wife during her life "
at her death is to revert to the
hibition party, under whose
he was a veteran.
Samuel Gompers criticised D
dent Roosevelt for his
Judee Taft’s labor record, and m- -
eel that the candidate had
power of injunction.
Eugene V. Debs spoke to Ld< ' ■
dents at New Haven. In a P a
which preceded the address _■ gre
sons took part, among whom
many women.
Thomas L. Hisgen and William
dolph Hearst spoke to an < n m--
tic crowd of miners at Reno :i
--heart of the Nevada gold
The Independence Party’s
wedge” is scheduled to.
throughout the central sta ■
Suffragettes made vain effoi
register as voters in Nev- t
“Hurrah for Bryan!” was
ing that Ma. Sherman was n. _
at Butler, Ind., coming from the^
of a pretty, young gnh corth the
danced defiantly as she sent date
challenge to the republican c
for vice president. “My f e*r
hftdy, you’re not going to *
morning, but you will in *
replied Mr. Sherman. h *
Mr. Bryan denied a repot•- *
has opposed pension ' r t ha :
has started on a stumping mid
will last until election cb. cir
October he will make seven
es in Nebraska.
Standard Oil lawyers haw j
out a statement denying J* . t hai
statement of Frank S. - u . oi 1
while atorney general ot t .
company had tried to In- r 0 f
Mr. Taft has completed °, G a
Kansas, speaking at one U< - '
crowd that stood in the i‘ “ t j irol igfe
him, and then began hw ir ! <c;our iaii?
Missouri. He asked the - 0 n
to vote for him, as he won ' ot; ;
the several policies to ‘ v
voted four years ago. t o
Governor Haskell, hi - 1 of
President Roosevelt, a(C I . ‘ t h t > U
not getting a fair royat > ‘ the
rian wards -of the nanon abo mA
government granted an . oril paß>'-
franchise to a Stands ni