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Darwinian Theory
An Error to Suppose It Has Been Finally
Accepted by Scientific Men •
By L. H. Starkey.
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dence and a maximum of more or less ingenious but loose and unscientific
reasoning.
John Girard says, speaking of Darwinism: “In spite of its great name, its
success has throughout been popular rather than scientific, and as time went
on it has lost ground among the class most qualified to judge. Evolutionists
there are in plenty, but very few genuine Darwinists, and among these can by
no means be reckoned all who adopt the title, for not a few of them, like
Romanes and Weissman, profess doctrines which cannot be reconciled with
those of Darwin himself.”
Professor Huxley, an ardent exponent of Darwinism, could not unreserv
edly accept the theory, and a score or more of scientific men of the first rank
could be named who “reject Darwinism altogether or admit it only with fatal
reservations.”
That higher forms of organic life have been evolved from lower is not dis
puted, but that all organic life has been so developed genetically from sub
stantially the same form of germ plasm is very far from an accepted scientific
fact. Apart from biological research, which cannot be conclusive, all we have
to guide us are the fragmentary records of paleontology, which, w T hen critically
examined, certainly do not help the affirmative very much.
It is not possible without encroaching seriously upon your space to show
the many obstacles to the acceptance of the theory in question, but geneially
speaking, the fossil records of organic life are fertile with evidences antago
nistic to the hypothesis of genetic evolution, while the evidence required to
support it is conspicuous at every turning point by its absence, and has to be
supplied by the ingenious imagination of its advocates. As M. Fabre says
(quoted by Girard): “Let us acknowledge that in truth w*e know nothing
about anything as far as ultimate truths are concerned. Scientifically consid
ered, nature is a riddle to which human curiosity can find no answer. Hy
pothesis, the ruins of theories are piled one on another; but truth ever es
capes us. To learn how to remain in ignorance may well be the final lesson
The Reasoning Powers of
Animals
By Albert F Shore,
Member American Association for Advancement
of Science.
r HILE I do not discredit the reasoning powder of elephants or
W beavers, however limited it may be, it does not demand ex
pert observation to decide positively that at least animals of
feline genus and some other carnivorous ones, as for in
====' stance the bear, are wholly destitute of reason. Why? In
_ Central Park, New York, the reason is engraved in not Only
ha*’d cement, but in the nose of a cinnamon bear. This ani
iii,iiii min iJ* mal is fenced in, but he can easily see freedom outside, and
he has long ago made up hie mind to secure his freedom by
walking outside of this cruel inclosure. Seeing that the broad side of the
fence would bar him, the bear made for the front corner; but, seeing this
corner impregnable, he naturally turned toward the other unexplored corner
quite undaunted. Of course, he is again disappointed, but since the first dis
appointment was forgotten by the shock of the second, he hopefully again
returns to the said first corner, and so on, hour after hour, days, weeks, and
year after year. Lions, tigers, leopards, etc., do exactly as does this bear;
but I will say of this particular bear, that although he has worn deep holes in
the cement floor in both corners of alternate hope and despair, his nose has
become worn by his systematic swing of the head in spurning these really
hopeless corners of escape. There is as yet no clear impression on the mind
of this bear that his long for freedom is really hopeless. But this un
daunted bear can be convinWd, as by cutting off his view of freedom without,
and it would also teach us a lesson —that the difference between simple intui
tion and reasoning is enormously gre^t.
What little reason exists in animals is so feeble, that the slightest intui
tive activity on their part will easily hypnotize their reasoning powers. Imita
tion, as proved by the monkey or the parrot, and still more so by small chil
dren —just because they have a larger brain area-may become so extensive
that almost all the product of reasoning minds may be faithfully memorized
and imitated, although the minds engaged never themselves ever reason ex
cept to a negligible degree.
The Brain and Drugs
By Dr. William Hanna Thomson.
O sensible person believes that drugs do not affect the brain,
Nand yet this doctrine seems to fit in with so many facts
that some clear demonstration of its fallacy is much need
ed. It is the physician who should be asked what he has
____________ to say on the subject, because naturally he is the one best
qualified to know whatever is known about both drugs and
brain. - Moreover, lately he has made great discoveries
I I about the relations of the brain to the mind by observa
tions, which he alone could make, of the effects of local in
juries to brain matter caused by disease or by accident.
But how different the facts about these two subjects are from
most people imagine he showj by saying that drugs no more affect the brain
than insanity does —that is, rm-. at all! —except alcohol, which does injure the
brain, though not at all on of its mental effects, but for the very dif
ferent reason that alcohol ham}, chemical affinity for the albumen and fats of
the tissues. By this chemicaj it slowly alters and damages brain tis
sue, but this result in no wim^filters from similar alterations produced by
alcohol in the tissues of the l||\fUnd of Tobacco is a powerful
poison, and yet no autopsies „v*sw the* TiksJtofference between the brain
of a life-long smoker jtfpAeV-*#' lit a cigar. Likewise, the
brain of is *M>n any other brain, and so on
for the Magaziij^^*
Spirit o\ NewVfapan
By George TrumbuE^fa&dd.
\ rr\ %
T has hitherto been uniquely ew Japan
% that, where experience <#t home or \ . S^ sm from abroad
- IT 4 has revea l e d deficiencies and gone intelli
-4* A % gently and deliberately about the work of dying the de
* * ficiencies and of overcoming the difficulties The fear of
**-******** the wisest and best of her statesmen at the present time is
not so much that Japan will not hold her own, businesswise,
*******•*** in the rivalries of commerce and trade; it is rather that
she will be overwhelmed and degraded by absorbing the in
fluences of the commercial spirit now rife in Great Britain, America and Ger
many. To safeguard, expand, elevate and extend to the., whole nation, with
its varid classes, that spirit which has characterized in the past their own
best types of manhood, is with them their chief concern. —The Century.
DWARD DOBSON assumes that “the evolutionary doctrine is
no longer debatable except in minor phases.”
It is an odd thing that the “evolutionary doctrine” (by
which is probably meant the hypothesis of genetic evolution
by natural selection), which may be called the Darwinian
theory, is popularly supposed to be finally accepted by the
scientific world.
There could be no graver error. Natural selection Is at
best a working hypothesis with a minimum of scientific evi-
NIGHT RIDEjt SECRETS
Laid Bare by Members of th&
Band on Witness Stand.
WOMAN TEm Of WHIPPING
Mrs. Johnson Tells How She Was Drag
ged From Bed and Beaten Until She
Promised to Withdraw Divorce Suit.
Union City, Tennessee. —The state
practically completed its case
against the eight alleged night riders,
On trial for the murder of Captain
Rankin, when it drew from Fehrin
ger, a member of the band, a detail
ed statement, not only of the murder
itself and those w'ho committed it,
but a score or more of other out
rages. And then, just to add the fin
ishing touches, it called to the stand
Mrs. Emma Thurman Johnson, one
of the two women known to have
been whipped by the band, and heard
her tell her story. Judge Jones sent
the jury out of the room, and said;
“There are eight defendants here
charged with a capital offense. They
are not handcuffed and are under
guard of only two deputies. There
fore, I order the sheriff to handcuff
these men and ask the military to
detail ten armed men to serve as
guard.”
Surrounded by a detail of six sol
diers with shotted rifles and revolver
holsters open, Frank Fehringer, mem
ber of the night riders who has turn
ed state’s evidence, was bve-ught into
court to testify against his former as
sociates of the mask.
Fehringer was one of the first mem
bers of the band. The oath he took
was: “I solemnly swear that I wish
to join the society of night riders,
and that I will never write, tell or
talk about anything that happens up
on the risers or in conference.” This
is the shorter form of the oath. A
large and more blood-curdling one
was administered to others. The
night rider garb consisted of long
black coats, black masks trimmed in
white and some had false bottoms at
tached to the bottom. Often the rid
ers whipped men and women without
knowing why except that the captain
ordered it.
Several prospective witnesses were
similarly treated, but few of them will
tell of it even now, so great is their
terror.
On October 19 the riders learned
that Rankin and Judge Taylor were
at Walnut Log hotel, in the heart of
riders’ country. Tid Burton, one of
the defendants, told Fehringer to no
tify the band to meet that night to
attend Rankin and Taylor.
The riders met near Johnson’s that
night, and it included the eight de
fendants, name by name. They pro
ceeded to the hotel.
Garrett Johnson was the spokes
man, wore the rope and whip, and
gave the orders to Rankin and Tay
lor to dress.
On the march to the densely wood
ed bank of the slough where Rankin
was slain, Johnson did all the talk
ing; the others, about fifty in num
ber, including the defendants, follow
ing silently. As he put the rope on
Rankin’s neck, Fehringer said to tiio
victim: “Do you want to say anything
to the Lord If you do, say it now.”
Rankin replied: “I have attended to
that.” Just as they pulled the rope,
Bob Hoffman shot him, and Sam Ap
plewhite said: “I know he is dead
for I put a load of bicycle, ball bear
ings in him.”
When Colonel Taylor jumped into
the slough, everybody shot into the
water. Meantime the men holding
the rope let go and Rankin’s body
crumpled up and dropped to the
ground. Just before the body fell, a
rider, not on trial, emptied six 38-cali
ber bullets into the hanging man.
Garrett Johnson addressed them be
fore they dispersed. “Burn your
masks,” he said, ‘and say nothing
about this night’s work.”
Fehringer was arrested by the mil
itary and taken before Governor Pat
terson, who was personally in com
mand.
“Tell the truth,” said Patterson. “If
you do, I will give you an absolute
pardon.” Then he confessed.
Mrs. Joe Johnson told how the rid
ers came to the home of her father,
where she was staying and told her
to withdraw her suit for divorce.
Upon her refusal to do as told,
Mrs. Johnson, who is young and
pretty, but who married an old man,
was taken from her father’s home to
the woods nearby and fearfully whip
ped. She was stripped to the waist
and beaten with a buggy trace, the
end of which had tbeen split into five
strips.
In bed with the young mother,
when the riders dragged her out into
the in her night robe, was her
Mrs. Johnson told
her strong objections
from the* defend!*. She brokfe down
as she described how she was torn
from her baby by the black-masked
men. She pressed her divorce case
and won her suit.
RIGHTjOF APPEAL
For Government Asked by Attorney
General Bonaparte.
Washington, D. C. —That the United
States should have the right of ap
peal to the supreme court of the
United States as a matter of right,
whenever a conviction is reversed on
appeal by the defendant to a circuit
court of appeals, is the opinion ex
pressed by Attorney General Bona
parte in his report for the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1908.
In this connection he cites fU case
of the reversal of the fine
than $29,000,000, ia which an applica
tion for the of a writ of
certiorari has b<mj& made to the su
preme court. v
coiuTdestrqy cities.
Aeronant Sailed ofpr Los Angeles,
Cal., Droppiilh Bombs.
Los Angeles, Cal.-#To demonstrate
how easily a hostilm force, equipped
with a fleet of airshim, might destroy
an American city, Fw Knabenshue,
the aviator, circled C'Mv Los Angeles
in his dirigible ballo(sLand from the
darkness above droM?d harmless
bombs on the roo: r s oMthe city hall
and other public bui]d!? s - Neither
Knabenshue nor his crPk t could be
seen from the street. vttr.
CASTRO’S K ILE OVER.
Infuriated Mob Loots Caracas Destroy
ing Valuable Property.
Caracas, Venezuela. —The people of
Caracas arose against President Cas
tro. An infuriated mob, unhindered
by the police, swept through the city,
wrecking the property of his hench
men and his closest friends. The
people rounded up all the statues and
pictures of President Castro from the
clubs and other semi-public buildings
and burned them with rejoicing on
the Plaza Bolivar. Castro's rule in
Venezuela probably is ended.
In spite of Holland’s warlike activ
ity on the coast there have been no
demonstrations against the Nether
lands; they all have been directed
against President Castro and Acting
President Gomez.
The first building to be attacked
and looted was that of the lottei >
monopoly. The officers of the state
enterprise that has enriched itself at
the expense of the people were ran
sacked and pillaged. Furniture was
broken and thrown into the streets
and thousands of lottery tickets were
destroyed. .
The crowd then moved to the print
ing office of El Constitucional, the or
gan of President Castro, of which
Gumersindo Rivas is editor, and pil
laged it completely. A steam laun
dry belonging to Senor Rivas also
was wrecked.
The crowd then turned its atten
tion to several drug stores belonging
to Senor Thielen, a son-in-law of Gen
eral Tello Mendoza, and turned them
inside out.
The statues and pictures of Presi
dent Castro were made into a huge
bonfire on the Plaza Bolivar. The
crowd cheered as the flames complet
ed the destruction of these effigies of
the dictator.
Numerous inscriptions setting
forth the virtues of Castro and extoll
ing his powers next attracted the re
taliation of the mob, and every in
scription bearing Castro’s name was
hacked out and erased.
Some of these legends were carved
on the public buildings of the city.
El Constitucional has suspended
publication and Caracas is practically
without a newspaper.
REAL INDIAN PASSING AWAY.
None Will Be Left After Three Gen
erations.
Helena, Mont. —“Three generations
more and I don’t believe there will
be a real Indian left in the country,’
said Special Agent Cone of the In
dian service. Mr. Cone is here as a
witness before the grand jury. He
has spent the greater portion of his
life in the Indian service.
“White men’s clothing and houses
have signed the death warrant of the
Indian,” continued Mr. Cone. “Con
sumption and other diseases of a civ
ilized people have gotten a foothold
on every reservation in the country
and the* ranks of the full-blooded In
dians are being decimated rapidly.
This is particiularly true of the old
er Indians who roamed the pla>hs
and the. mountains before the crea
tion of reservations and who have not
been constitutionally fitted for the
changed environments.”
ELEVEN SOLDIERS DEAD.
fctethyl Poisoning Resulted from
Drinking Columbian Spirits.
Washington, D. C.—General Lasker
H. Bliss, in command of the force in
the Philippines, has reported the
death of eleven enlisted men of the
eighteenth regiment, stationed at
Camp Keithley, Mindinao, from meth
yl poisoning, resulting from drinking
Columbian spirits.
Plan Air-Ship Express.
Berlin, Germany. —The newspapers
of Berlin publish details of the plans
of a German company, with headquar
ters at Frankfort-on-the-Main, which
purposes to build seven airships and
maintain regular sailings between
twenty-four German cities. A number
of capitalists and sporting men are
said to be interested. The papers,
however, treat the idea with scepti
cism.
Mutiny on British Warship.
London, Eng—The third mutiny
aboard a British warship within the
last few months took place recently
on the cruiser Amethyst, where the
disaffection of the crew culminated in
the men throwing the gun fittings ov
erboard. The admiral stopped the
shore leave of the Amethyst’s men.
Emperor William a Teetotaler.
Berlin, Germany.—lt is semi-offlcial
ly announced from Potisdam palace
that Emperor William has pledged
himself to abstain from alcoholic
drinks for the rest of his life.
He will have a special drink with
the sparkle of champaigne, absolute
ly non-alcoholic, for use on state oc
casions.
Cashier Short $85,060.
Somersworth, N. H. —An unexpect
ed visit of Bank Examiner N. S. Bean
at the First National bank here un
covered a defalcation estimated by
the examiner at $85,000 and immedi
ately following the discovery Fred M.
Varney, cashier of the bank, was ar
rested V
Elected President of Haiti.
Port au Prince, Hayti. —General An
toine Simon, the leader cf the last
revolution in Hayti that resulted in
the flight of President Nord Alexis
from the capital, and who made his
triumphal entry into Port au Prince
ten days ago has been elected presi
dent of the republic
President to Produce Evidence.
Washington, D. C President
Roosevelt’s reply to the
the house of representatives denud
ing the specific reason governing his
annual message to congress as to the
abridgement of the secret service
powers will be ready for congress as
soon as it re-assembles
Although the president has not in
timated to his callers the exact scope
of his reply, he has made it clear
that he “will produce the goods’*
CALL TO SOUTHLAND
So G. Grosvenor Designate* Re
cent Southern Congress.
A GREAT OFFICE BUILDING
This Building wiil be Home of a Per
sistant Southern Propaganda
at Home and Abroad. 0
Montgomery, Ala. —That the clarion
call to the southland, awakening it
to anew era of industry and com
inercial progress, has been sounded
through the recent southern congress,
is the ooinion of G. Grosvenor Dawe,
director “general of the congress. Mr.
Dawe, in an interview with a repre
sentative of the Associated Press,
said:
“The Southern Commercial Con
gress was a stupendous project with
a complex purpose. It was designed
to make the south know itself; to
make the south know and utilize the
most fitting moment for such a con
gress that has never occurred in
American history.
“The spirit of the congress was not
to boast that the south was more gift
ed than the north, nor to stir up ani
mosity, but simply to declare that the
south, with its possessions, needed de
velopment in order to bring the na
tion to its proper development. The
clarion call of the congress to the
men of the south was for them to
live at the south because the nation
needs a greater south.
“Hence the stupendous plan of the
congress naturally led eager and able
minds to evolve a still more stupen
dous plan and one that is just as
sound and as sane, but wbich could
not have been possible except as an
outgrowth of the congress which sug
gested it. The project is a great of
fice building and auditorium in Wash
ington, a city in which no satisfac
tory auditorium can be found and in
which office room is at a premium.
This great building will be the home
of a persistent southern propaganda
at home and abroad, and its rental
will be devoted to the furtherance of
all commercial projects in the south
that will aid in bringing that section
into a paritv of development with the
rest of the'United States. There will
be maintained there an exposition of
resources arranged in such a way
as to bring immediate results.
“In a room devoted to health con
ditions would be the great facts of
the south’s advancing sanitation,
thus demonstrating the pettiness of
present fears as to the south. With
similar perfection of detail the whole
project will be carried out.
“We are fully that many
men for many years have rendered
many services to the south by compil
ing statistics, by promoting develop
ment along special lines of railroad
and by pushing individual enterprises,
but never before in the history of
the south has there been a long, care
fully sustained co-operative effort
among the leading business interests.
This now promises to come into be
ing, and $250,000 is alreadv in sight
for the purpose.”
RULES FOR SEA WARFARE.
Powers Agree on Code of Laws for
the International Prize Court.
London, England.—The views of
the ten powers, the delegates from
which are assembled here to decide
upon a code of laws for the inter
national prize court provided for at
the last The Hague conference, make
a decidedly bulky volume. Some of
the powers, like Japan, have submit
ted their proposal in the briefest
form, while others, notably Great
Britain, support their views with ar
guments and references to decisions
which British naval courts have giv
in historical naval cases.
The United States, too, has gone
into detail on the various subjects
which she thinks should receive con
sideration while Germany has sub
mitted a draft code of laws.
The suggestions of the United
States are: Warships of the United
States of America can seek asylum
during war is a neutral port subject
to the limitations prescribed by the
port authorities. j*
Such ships must the
regulations of the port re
garding length of interval
to be observed before feoing to sea in
pursuit of any enemy or after depart
ure of the enemy’s ship.
Merchant ships, yachts or neutral
vessels carrying or picking up bel
ligerent wounded, sick or shipwreck
ed, should not be captured on ac
count of such act\ but should still
be subject to capture for any viola
tions of neutrality they may have
committeed. Merchant ships under
escort of warships of their own na
tionality should be exempt from the
right of search on proper assurances
being given by the commander of
the convoy. ,
Great Britain and Japan agree with
the-United States on the majority of
points..
HELD FOR LIBEL.
W. R. Hearst’s Publisher, Sued By
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
New York City.—A charge of crim
inal libel, made by John D. Rocke
feller, Jr., resulted in the arrest of
S. S. 'Carvalho, president of the Star
Publishing company, publishers of
Hearst’s New York American.
Mr. Calvalho we-s paroled until De
cember 26. for examination.
Mr. Rockefeller’s action resulted
from an article appearing in the New
York American of December 17, un
der a Chicago date line, headed, “J.
D. Rockefeller, Jr., Originated Peon
age in Stockdale, It is Said.” He held
that this was libelous and calculated
to injure his good name.
FLEET NOW ON LONGEST LEG.
V _
Through Indian Ocean and Arabian
and Reck^Seas.
Washington, D. C.—Rear Admiral
Charles S. Sperry, commanding the
American battleship fleet, cabled the
navy department that the fleet had
made its departure from Colombo,Cey
lon, for Suez. The message was in
cipher aiwl very brief. The fleet has
begun th% longest single leg of its
world cruise through the Indian
Ocean, the Arabian and Red Seas.
toSr
of Im^TTnc , " E
Notion! 4
A f! er £ ass mg a bill graatin
Southern Pacific Railro f > to %
nght of way across th* £° mpa oy !
SUltary reservaUoT inu
Bouse of representative, s'
35“* untu
urady r wL E del°oted £ Sv,
ness. Several messages < V.
lslallon were received from°th' * 1%
Went, and bills and other i? e
were Introduced. The se
adjourned until January
Because of the general
members for their homl ?" *
Christmas holidays, the th
the house of represeutatt®*^ l "
was far short of a quorum
theless, a good deal of bush,.-
The house of
Thursday by unanimous vote 1’"
ed a resolution requesting L
dent to supply it with any evil
that may be in his possessing
wiU justify the statement in l
annual message in relmion n T
attitude of members of congrel
ward appropriations for the
service of the government
RE-UNION SCOTTISH RITE MASONS
To Be Held in Atlas's Nevv x lf
Next Spring,
Atlanta, Ga.—The dedication of it
lantas new Masonic Temple, no*
about completed, will mark a
revival among that branch of the* v?
sonic fraternity known as the w
tish Rite. * ctK ’
Plans are under way for a serin*
reunion of the Scottish Rite to be
held in Atlatna next April, which
bring to the city many of the distil
guished and prominent citizens of %
country, including Hon. James D Rich
ardson of Tennessee, the grand co ffi .
mander of the southern jurisdiction,
and the full official divan of the sit
preme council, the chief governing
body of the rite, whose headquartws
are at Washington, D. C.
During the reunion the degrees o|
the rite, fourth to thirty-second, inch!
sive, will be conferred with full cer
emonials for the first time in Atlanta,
on a dedicatory class of more than
two hundred, representing every sec
tion of Georgia, and the handsome
and perfectly appointed apartments
of the rite on the upper floor of the
Temple will be dedicated and formal
ly opened. The apartments include
the largest stage of modern construc
tion yet erected in the southeast, Con
tracts for the scenery, more than one
hundred pieces, necessary to properly
exemplify the work, together with a
mammoth lighting plant, to cost ap
proximately 12,000, have been closed,
and will be installed as quickly as the
artists can complete the work there
on.
It is safe to assume that nothing
so ambitious as this reunion has ever
been undertaken by Scottish Rite Ma
sons of the southern jurisdiction, and
the indications are that Masonic stu
dents from all America will gather at
Atlanta to witness the ceremonies
and enjoy the w r ork.
NEWSY PABMAPHS.
The record Christmas gift of tie
season was made when David T. Han
bury of San Francisco, Cal., turned
over to his wife property
valued at four million dol
lars. Although Mrs. Hanbury as
sumes legal possession of the vast
holdings, she will not exercise abso
lute control until after death of he?
husband.
President Kellogg of the Metropol
itan Psychical Society, an organisa
tion which holds that all ghosts are
piffle and less, has written a
to Dr. Isaac Funk offering to pay Dr.
Funk $5,000 if he will produce J
ghost—any kind of a ghost, so to*
it is not a frazzled thing of
rus and nun’s veiling, living
medium’s cabinet.
Mrs, W. A. McGuire oi Chicago
who lost a bag containing money a
valuable papers, advertised. -0 r
property in these words: .
mav keep half the money, or, if --
tue is not its own reward keep
the money, but please be 3
enough to return personal oe 8
that can be of no service to , g
than the owner. Do not ado*
creed finders are keepers.”
The British admiralty has deaaw
that in future all small nava ■ ‘
shall be constructed to use botn
and oil fuel. The oil-burning syst
has been used for a consr *
time, and r(^lusive
torpedo ujlie
ly for the oiLbmw
modern battleships cr ,
the navy are also construe
either coal or oil. ~
Dr. Birdsong pleaded pr.
at Jackson, Mils., to murdering
Pitts and was sentenced _ | t
prisonment. The plea was
of an agreement between _ bu!! .
Between one thousand e . ner ,
died and two thousand union
on Paint Creek, Kanav-a !eECfi
West Virginia, quit work ing
to the strike order by ■ Mine
Davis of District v
workers. .
Governor-elect Lilly of- Jr.,
has named Theodore G °7 v a
of Thompsonville, Conn., a
on his staff of military
In making the appointment, - aC .
says, he was influenced by
quaintance with s terli- 2
and admiration for his man.
qualities. erf
The body of Chief of Po >
of San Francisco, Cal., ,pa
drowned from the P ollc | , and in S J ;
trol,” opposite Alcatraz
Francisco bay, on the ni* 1 0 {
ber 80. was found by 0 f
freight coat. It was
Goat island. t 0'
Four persons were Klil .
tinsburg. W. Va., when a tb*
span of the new
Potomas river collapsed. 1 eD mjj
were Seriously injured. S>- ,^ 0 u
were precipitated sixt>
river.