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of the county.
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county. '
j B. PARHAM, Editor.
VOL. XVI
BIG BANK CLOSED
Wall Street Crash Engulfs
Knickerbocker Trust Cos.
PAID OUT EIGHT MILLIONS
Horde of Scrambling Depositors Clam
ored for Their Money and Finally
Proved Too Much for Big
Institution.
Credit, the under-surface foundation
of all business, trembled for a time
in New York Tuesday, and before con
fidence could be restored, the city’s
second largest financial institution
emptied its cash vaults under pressure
of the biggest run experienced locally
in a generation; a stock exchange firm
had failed for $6,000,000; Wall streets
principal securities had settled from $5
to $8 a share; call money had risen
to seventy per cent and local
unable to stem the tide of distrust, had
been forced to appeal for relief to
tbe secretary of the treasury at Wash
ington.
The Knickerbock Trust company, the
second largest trust company in New
York city, with deposits amounting to
about $60,000,000 closed its doors at
12:30 Tuesday afternoon, following a
steady run of persons who called to
withdraw their deposits.
The company’s officials declared that
the suspension of payment was only
temporary.
Secretary of the Treasury Cortelyou
announced from Washington that he
would support the New York city na
tional banks, and It was understood
that he would order the deposit of
16.00u.000 of government funds in the
city as soon as satisfactory security
for the sum should be received.
A loan of $200,000 was made on the
stock exchange shortly after 2 o’clock
at 70 per cent. Several bankers form
ed n pool of $4,000,000, which was
loaned at between 40 and 50 per
cent.
The Knickerbocker paid out cash
to depositors at the rate of $44,444
a minute for three hours, and then
closed its doors. The directors had,
as they thought, carefully prepared
for a run and caused to bg announced
in tho day’s papers that $8,00l),000 in
cash was on hand to meet all eventu
alities.
At 9:30 o'clock a few depositors
withdrew their accounts, and an hour
later hundreds were in line to take out
out their deposits at the fnain office,
at Thirty-fourth street and Fifth ave
nue, and at the Harlem, the Bronx and
the downtown branches.
The 18,000,000 lasted until 12:30 p.
m., when Vice President Joseph T.
Brown announced that the bank had
no more cash available and payments
were suspended. Mr. Brown said that
the bank would open Wednesday and
payments be resumed at 10:30 o’clock.
The Knickerbocker, it was announced,
had ample securities to meet all de
mands, was perfectly solvent and it
was only a question of raising the
cash, when all depositors who wished
to withdraw could do so.
Secretary of the Treasury George B.
Cortelyou reached New York from
Washington at 9:30 Tuesday night.
He was met at Jersey City by Hamil
ton Fish, assistant United States treas
urer, and the tw r o were in earnest con
versation during the ferry trip to New
York. Upon reaching the city, they
went at once to the Hotel Manhattan,
where several bankers later presented
to the secretary the various phases
of the local financial conditions.
Secretary Cortelyou will thoroughly
look into the financial situation, which
he has had under observation for sev
eral weeks. He came with no precon
ceive.’, ideas of how much money will
be required to relieve the situation,
uud the matter of treasury relief meas
ures will be determined by what he
learns of the situation. He will do all
be can to relieve the present stress.
SHAFT AT ANDERSONVILLE
To Wisconsin Heroes of the Blue Un
veiled With Befitting Ceremonies.
The monument to the memory of
the Wisconsin soldiers who died at
kndersonville, Ga., during the civil
w ar was unveiled Thursday at the local
national cemetery in the presence of
ma ny hundreds of spectators.
Governor Davidson of Wisconsin,
members of his military staff and pub
ljc officials of the Badger state, num
bering over 100, took part in the un*
veiling exercises.
for fontanet sufferers
Oupont Company Authorixes Governor
to Draw for Any Amount.
Governor Hanley of Indiana Wednes
afternoon received a message from
the Dupont Powder company of Wi •
Del., authorizing him to draw
tor any amount necessary for the re
lief of t.h.i sufferers from the Fontane 1 .
FLING AT WALL STREET
Made in Speech at Nashville by Pres
ident Roosevelt —Great and Stren
uous Day in Tennessee Capital.
Never before in its history was
Nashville, Tenu., *0 elaborately deco
rated as it was Tuesday to give wel
come to President Theodore Roosevelt.
Bunting, flags, banners and pictures
of the president adorned almost every
house in the up-town section of the
city, which was crowded with people
from a radius of a hundred miles, and
the reception he was accorded was of
the old-fashioned kind. The president
and his party reached the union sta
tion at 9 o’clock amid the booming of
cannon, ringing of bells, blowing of
whistles and the cheering of the thou
sands who had gathered to do him
honor. The president was met at the
depot by a reception committee from
the board of trade. Carriages were
entered and a parade began. A bat
talion of the Tennessee state guard, a
company of confederate veterans in
uniform, a platoon of mounted police
and city officials and citizens in car
riages followed.
As the procession proceeded through
the gaily decorated streets of the up
town district the president received one
continued ovation from the thousands
that lined the sidewalks. One feature
of the parade that was particularly
pleasing to Mr. Roosevelt was the pres
ence of the company of feray and griz
zled confederate veterans in line. It
was a compliment which he deeply
appreciated.
On Sixth avenue, near the state cap
itol, the parade was brought to a full
stop, in order to enable the president
to view the tomb of President James
K. Polk, after which the march to
Ryman auditorium was continued.
When the president reached Broad
way and Eighth avenue he was greet
ed by thousands of public school, uni
versity and college pupils, who sang
patriotic songs as the chief executive
passed by. Immense stands had been
erected for the children, and these
were handsomely decorated. Each pu
pil waved a tiny flag and the sight was
one of the most inspiring along. the
line of march. President Roosevelt
was deeply affected and bowed his
acknowledgment to them time and
again. ' s
At Walnut street 500 Vanderbilt'uni
versity students were lined up, who
gave the college yell as the president
passed.
As the president entered the audito
rium the immense audience arose and
gave him a welcome mat he will not
soon forget. Governor Patterson wel
comed the president in a brief address
and introduced him to the audience.
The most significant part of the pres
ident’s address was that in reference
to Wall street, when he said:
“There has been trouble in the stock
market, in the high financial world
during the past few months. The
statement has been made frequently
that the policies for which I stand,
legislative and executive, are respon
sible for that trouble. Now, gentle
men, these policies of mine can be
summed up in one brief sentence. They
represent the effort to punish success
ful dishonesty. I doubt if these poli
cies have had any material effect in
bringing about the present trouble,
but if they have it will not alter in
the slightest degree my determination
that for the remaining- sixteen months
of my term these policies shall be per
severed in unswervingly.
“If to arouse that type of civic man
hood in our nation it were necessary
to suffer any temporary commercial de
pression, I should consider the cost
but small. All we have done has been
to unearth the wrong doing.
“It was not the fact that it was un
earthed that did the damage. All I
did was to turn on the light. I am
responsible for turning on the light,
but I am not responsible for what the
light showed.”
immigration station assured.
pliana Arranged at New Orleans for
That Purpose.
The way was cleared Tuesday for
building the immigration station at
New Orleans, authorized by the last
congress.
The New Orleans levee board pur*
vhased for $37,500 the ground at Char
tres and Levee streets which the sta
tion will occupy and which the city
will deed in perpetuity to the United
3tates government.
Congress has appropriated $70,000
for the building and added $30,00*) ,
tci be spent by the city on suitable
docks. This will bring the cost of
the station to $157,500.
REUNION OF FOREST’S MEN.
Survivors of Noted Cavalry Company
Gather at Memphis.
Several hundred grizzled veterans
of the civil war, survivors of the caval
ry command of General Nathan Bed
ford Forerst, met in Memphis, Tenn.,
Thursday in their fifteenth annual re
union. Besides the men who served
under Forrest there were many other
vater&na in attend an Ov.
FINE WAR RECORD
Of Jefferson Davis Lauded
By President Roosevelt,
CAUSED GREAT CHEERING
Chief Executive Spends a Day in Vicks
burg and is Accorded Tremendous
Ovations—Makes an Inter
esting Speech.
After a fortnight spent in the Lou
isiana canebrakes, and looking bronzed
and vigorous, President Roosevelt paid
a flying visit to Vicksburg, Miss., on
Monday afternoon.
With Mayor B. W. Griffith and Gen
eral Stephen D. Lee, he entered a
carriage which headed a parade,
which passed through the principal
streets to the national cemetery.
At the corner of Cherry and Clay
streets the procession was halted and
General Stephen D. Lee, commander
in-chief of the United Confederate Vet
erans stood up and told the president
that several hundred union and confed
erate veterans stood before him and he
desired that the chief executive should
meet these old warriors. The presi
dent arose in his carriage and cordially
shook hands with the old soldiers.
Arriving at the cemetery the party
drove slowly through the national bury
ing ground, the president evincing a
lively interest in the historic place.
From the cemetery the party drove to
the court house square, where an im
mense crowd had gathered to hear the
speecnmaking.
President Roosevelt was introduced
by Representative John Sharp Wil
liams. The congressman elicited tre
mendous applause, when he said:
“You cannot, in the history of any
country—ancient or modern—and a
succession of twenty-five kings, em
perors or even prime ministers the
equals in intelligence, culture, courage
or character to the twenty-five presi
dents of this great republic from
Washington to Roosevelt both inclu
sive. Of these, I —a southern Bourbon
democrat —have an American pride and
pleasure in saying that ‘the last is by
no means least.’
“It is an honor for you and me, fellow
Mississippians, to meet and entertain
with an old-time, full-hearted southern
hospitality the Hon. Theodore Roose
velt —an honor flowing at once from
his official dignity and from his many
excellent traits of private character.
“He is our chief magistrate, Ameri
ca’s chief magistrate, the chief magis
trate of a reunited Dixieland and Yan
keeland —never so firmly cemented in
blood, oxjinion and sentiment as they
are today.’’
When the president arose to reply,
the big crowd accorded him a noisy
demonstration. Hats, handkerchiefs,
parasols and what not were waved by
the crowd and the cheering last several
minutes.
Immediately after closing his address
President Roosevelt and party were
rapidly driven to the Yazoo and Mis
sissippi railway station, where a spe
cial stood in waiting.
At the depot an enthusiastic Missis
sippian yelled, “Goodbye, Teddy; you
can get anything Mississippi has got,”
and this seemed to please the pres
ident. At 5:30 the train pulled out.
In his speech the president said in
part:
“Mr. Mayor, Mr. Williams and you
hosts, my fellow Americans: It is in
deed an honor for me to be today the
guest of Vicksburg and of Mississippi,
and I was Inexpressibly touched by
the greeting over that great arch of
cotton bales as I came up from tha
boats, which said that ‘Mississippi
greets her president.’ (Applause.)
“It was from Vicksburg that a com
pany of that famous regiment which
won undying renown in the Mexican
war under the gallant leadership of Its
colonel, who, afterwards, became the
favorite son, not only of Mississippi,
but of all the south, Jefferson Davis,
came. (Applause.)
“It is a good thing for an American
president to travel over the country,
not for what he can teach, but for
what he can learn. I twice have been
down in this alluvial delta of the Mis
sissippi. In each case I came pri
marily for bear.
A Voice —“Did you get any,”
“The last time I got ’em; the first
time all I can say is the bears and
I broke even. I got as many of them
as they did of me. But on each occa
sion I learned a lot that had nothing
to do with ihe bear hunting.
“It seems to me that no American
president could spend his time better
than by seeing for himself just what a
rich and wonderful region the lower
Mississippi valley is, so that he may
go back to Washington, as I shall go
back, with the set purpose to do every
thing that in me lies, to see that the
United States does its full share in
making the Mississippi river a part of
the sea coast, in making; it a deep chan
nel to the groat lakes from the gulf.”
TRENTON, GA , FRIDAY. OCTOBER 25, 1907
“IS A DANGEROUS MAN.”
Mayor Maddox of Rome, Ga., Severely
Arraigns Representative Seaborn
YVright in Public Speech.
Mayor John W. Maddox of Rom Q ,
Ga., In an address before a big mass
meeting of Rome citizens last Satur
day night, charged Representative Sea
born Wright, among other things, with
being “a dangerous man, who would
wreck the prosperity of any community
in which he lived for any selfish end
that he might have in view.”
The occasion of Mayor Maddox’s
speech was a mass meeting which had
been called for the purpose of allow
ing the city administration to present
to the taxpayers the exact status ol
tho affairs of the city. This was
necessitated because of the deficiency
which has been caused in the city
treasury on account of the abolish
ment of the Rome dispensary and the
failure of the passage of the charter
bill, as prepared -by the mayor and
council, which provided a means of
raising taxes which were necessary.
The statement as presented to the
citizens showed that the expenses of
th city next year would exceed the
income by over SB,OOO and it will be
necessary to hold a special election to
authorize the levying of a special tax
to meet this excess.
It was in speaking of the defeat of
the charter bill that Mayor Maddox
mad_ this arraignment of representa
tives from the county, Messrs. Wright
and Dean, charging them with being
non-residents who were endeavoring
to throttle the city. He called on the
people of Floyd county to name at
their next election for representatives
“men who would represent Rome and
the people and not their clients.”
Mayor Maddox wound up his address
by the reading of a letter written by
Hon. Seaborn Wright last April in re-'
gard to the proposed amendments to
the city charter. In this letter Mr.
Wright suggested the abolishment of
the salaries of the mayor and council
and stated that they could be used
as “American beauty roses to attend
banquets and such like functions.”
“He has made us American beauties
all right,” said the mayor. “He has
retired us and given it all to. the rail
road commission and the board of
public works. These two non-residents
put this miserable bill upon us. One
of them, so I am informed, pays no
taxes to the city, except upon his
library, and there are a number of men
living outside of the city of Rome
who pay as much taxes as the other
one and who take no such part in
these things.”
widen panama canal
Is Suggestion of Civil Engineer Ros
seau of the Commission.
Lieutenant H. H. Ilosseau, civil en
giner in the United States navy and a
member of the Isthmian canal commis
sion, arrived in Washington Saturday
from the isthmus and laid before Sec
retary Metcalf a proposition to in
crease the proposed width of the Pan
ama canal, which is now planned at
ICO feet in the lock. The recommenda
tion is based on the rapid increase
of beam in naval construction since
the canal plans were formed. Secre
tary Metcalf will take up the matter
with the president in the latter’s re
turn.
LAWYER FACES DISBARMENT.
Grand Jury Handles Case of the
Shreves at Montgomery, Ala.
George and Jesse Shreve, who were
sent to jail in Montgomery, Ala., last
week for contempt of the criminal
court, were Monday arrested on four
indictments for obstructing justice,
making bond in S2OO in each case. Geo.
Shreve is a lawyer and as a result of
the hearing, movement has been made
toward his disbarment. The Shreves
are charged with inducing witnesses
in a sensation case to leave the state.
FIVE MILLIONS FOR ORPHANS.
Carton Will Provides for Institution for
Girls at Philadelphia.
It was announced Tuesday that the
will of Robert N. Carson, a millionaire
of Philadelphia, who died suddenly in
a local theater a few days ago, pro
vides for a $5,000,000 institution for
orphan girls, patterned after Girard
college in Philadelphia, which is ex
clusively for boys.
The bequest becomes effective after
the death of the widow, Mrs. Frances
Carson.
WALLING IS GIVEN FREEDOM.
Russian Officials Could Find No In
criminating Evidence-
William English Walling of Indian
apolis, his wife and wife's sister, Jailed
in St. Petersburg, Russia, Sunday, be
cause of their association with the
members of the Finnish progressive
party, wore released Monday evening.
The. police found nothing among the
papers oi tiic trio to warrant detaining
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF DADE COUNTY.
Georgia Callings
Curtailed items of Interest
Gathered at Random.
Railroad Bonds Approved.
The state railroad commission has
granted authority to the Wrightsville
and Tennille railroad company to issue
$250,000 of bonds on its line, which
Is TOS miles in length.
* * *
Jury Acquits Mrs. Williams.
Mrs. Fannie O. Williams, wife of a
farmer, was acquitted on preliminary
trial at Sandersville, in which she was
charged with the murder of her hus
band’s cousin, Andrew Williams.
It was charged that she shot and kill
ed her husband’s cousin while he was
engaged in a fight with her husband.
First Verdict for Sanford.
Vincent T. Sanford has obtained a
first verdict in his suit for divorce
against his wife, Elizabeth Sanford,
in Floyd superior court at Rome.
About two years ago Sanford killed
George Wright on account of alleged
Intimacy with his wife and a sensa
tional murder trial followed, in which
Sanford was acquitted.
* * *
Rates on Bread Reduced.
The railroad commission has order
ed a material reduction in rates on
bread as now charged by the Southern.
Express company. The reduction was
ordered as the result of petitions from
Atlanta and Rome bakers and amounts
approximately to 35 per cent. The com
mission’s order gives the bakers prac
tically what they asked for.
* * *
Promotion for Graves.
Announcement is made that John
Temple Graves, editor of the Atlanta
Georgia, and News, well known jour
nalist and lecturer will, between No
vember 10 and 15, sever his local re
lations, and go to New York, where
he will assume the chief editorship of
The New York American.
It is understood that Mr. Graves will
received $15,000 a year. In accepting
this position, Mr. Graves declares that
he no longer has the wish for public
office, for, said he, “I would rather be
editor of newspaper than to
stand in the national senate or house
of representatives.” ,
Second Conviction for Johnson.
The jury in the Jim Johnson case
at Moultrie returned a verdict of mur
der with recommendation to mercy.
The sentence of life imprisonment was
for the second time imposed on John
son, who is charged with having as
sassinated his aged father for life in
surance a little more than a year aga.
The evidence was only .circumstantial,
but was drawn tightly around Johnson
by Solicitor Thomas.
The case was tried a year ago, and
the same verdict was rendered, but on
an appeal to the supreme court anew
trial was granted.
* * *
Cattle Raising Urged.
“There is nothing at our state fair
which points out a more fruitful oc
cupation for the Georgia farmer than
that of cattle raising,” said President
J. J. Connor, of the Georgia State Ag
ricultural Soetety, while inspecting the
live stock exhibit at the Georgia state
fair, where is shown the best cattlo
of the state.
“These cattle,” he continued, ‘*ara
home raised, fed and fattened from a
native feed composed of cotton seed
meal and cotton seed hulls, and clear
ly demonstrates what can be done on
Georgia farms except raise cotton.”
President Connor, in his address be
fore the Agricultural Society at Car
rollton in August, urged the farmers
to turn more to cattle raising, and as
a director of the new agricultural col
lege at Athens has-insisted that the
science of cattle raising be one of the
branches taught In this great college.
Dr. Soule, the president of the in
stitution, is as enthusiastic on this sub
Ject a3 is President Connor.
The fact that cattle-raising, is both
urged and taught, by two authorities
who have the welfare of the southern
planter so to heart will doubtless mean
that it will be entered into extensive
ly in the immediate future.
Confession Failed to Work.
Robert Branham, the negro w-ho was
oonvicted at Atlanta of attempted crim
inal assault upon the two Misses Law
rence and sentenced to serve forty
years in the penitentiary, twenty years
in each case, has been refused a rec
ommendation to executive clemency
and will have to serve his sentence,
Tb# application for pardon in Bra vi
ham s case was based on the confes
sion made by Will Johnson, the negro
hanged some time ago in Fulton county
Jail for criminal assault upon Mrs.
Hembree. When on the gallows John
son made confession of a number of
crimes and among others declared he
was guilty of that for which Branham
had been convicted.
The Misses Lawrence, however, per
sisted in their identification of Bran
ham and their father was, likewise,
convinced of his gtUit. Tijesfo wore
facts which also discredited Johnson's
confession, and the commission did not
consider that there was anything to
warrant a recommendation to clem
ency.
* * *
Knotty County Line Problem.
The fight over the county line be
tween Laurens and Johnson counties
hinges upon the construction to be
placed upon a single clause in the act
of 1859 under which Johnson was cre
ated out of Washington, Laurens and
Emanuel counties.
The clause of the act in dispute is as
follows: “Thence eastward along said
line to where the Sandersville and Dub
lin road crosses Fort's Creek, a straight
line, to the Emanuel and Laurens line,
one mile south of Snell’s bridge on the
Great Ohoople river.”
The dispute hinges about the words,
“a straight line,” In the foregoing
clause between two commas. Does this
expression apply to the first or to
the last part of the clause in question?
Johnson county contends that it ap
plies to the first portion; Laurens holds
that it goes with the last.
This w£*s the chief question urged
In the appeal recently heard by Sec
retary of State Philip Cook. It is up
to him to render final decision in the
matter.
* ♦ *
Slaton Next in Line.
The death of President John W.
Akin, of the state senate, removes an
important character in the official life!
of Georgia.
The president of the senate stands
in a position very similar to that of
leutenant governor in other states, the
difference being that he does not be
come governor for the entire portion
of the unexpired term in the event
of the governor's death. Under the con
stitution, however, he is called upon
to assume the duties of the executive
office, and is, de facto, governor of the
state until another governor is chosen
by the people in an election which the
law makes it his duty to call.
With the death of the president ol
the senate this particular duty, under
the constitution falls upon the speak
er of the house of representatives, at
present Hon. John M. Slaton of Ful
ton.
No provision is made in the law for
any succession to the presidency of
the senate.
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA SOLD.
Such is Reoprt in New York—Harri
man Alleged Purchaser.
A New York special says: That Oak
leigli Thorne has sold the Central of
Georgia railway, was a piece of import
ant financial news that slipped from
him unawares in an interview he gavo
Tuesday evening.
Mr. Thorne was discussing the re
port that the stringency of the money
market had hit him heavily at a mo
ment when he extended his credit to
the limit to carry on his various busi
ness enterprises, two of the most re
cent of which were the purchase of
the Georgia railway and of control of
the Colonial Trust company, which is
now run as a branch of his Trust com
pany of America.
“There is no truth in that,” Mr.
Thorne said. “1 have never been bet
ter off than at the present time.”
"We thought perhaps some of your
fortune was tied up in the Central of
Georgia railway.”
“1 am not in that any more, I have
sold it.”
“To the Rock Island people?”
“No not to ®hn. I should rather
not say just now to whom 1 have
sold it.”
'The Central of Georgia railway,
which has a capital of $5,000,000, and
operates more than 1,877 miles of
track, was controlled until the spring
of this year by Interests associated
with the Southern railway. The
Southern incurred a great deal of crit
icism in the south on account of its
control of this line, which was con
sidered as a competing road, and ne
gotiations were concluded for its sale
and the sale of the steamship lines it
owns to Oakleigh Thorne and Marsden
J. Perry.
The sale of the road, it is suggested,
may be a part of the fight recently
inaugurated by the bondholders. A
more probable theory, however, is that
it was sold, to Mr. Harriman to be
used in connection with the Illinois
Central when he had no idea that the
control of this line would be jeop
ardized by Stuyvesant Fish. The Rock
Island people, to whom the road would
perhaps be a still more valuable prop
erty, making a connection at Birming
ham Ala., with their system, said some
time ago that they were out of the
market for it, but that Mr. Harriman
was after it.
PLAN TO SETTLE STRIKE.
New Orleans Steamship Agents Have
Made Proposition.
A proposal to settle the levee strike
bv arbitration with the arbitrators se
lected in advance was made Tuesday
by New Orleans steamship agents. A
reply from representatives of the 10.-
000 strikers is awaited.
The arbitration scheme differs only
in respect to choosing the board before
band from previous arbitration pro
poaftf# reacted by. tiw IBM*
TAFT DODGED ISSUES
In Speech Opening Philippine A cam
bly, is Charge of American News
papers in Manila,
A Manila special says: The general,
impression caused among Filipinosdjß
Secretary Taft’s speech at th
ing of the assembly Wednesday®®
cellent, but the local American paj®
oall for a prompt announcement JB
the government's policy
islands, declaring that Mr. Taft
any positive statements on the su|®
and ail?ge that his speech was a®
hash of the addresses which he
in Manila two years ago.
A clash occurred in the assembly
Thursday between the president, Ser
gio Osmena, nationalist, and Domina
dar Gomez, who seconded the pres
ident's nomination Wednesday in an
eloquent speech, and who delivered an
address, declaring against bringing pol
itics into legislative business and ask
ing the delegates to show their pa
triotism by forsaking party lines and
legislating for the benefit of the Phil
ippine people. Gomez, whose election
is to be contested, but who was for
mally sworn in with other assembly’
men, made appeal to the delegates to,
disregard politics, but the president’
stopped Gomez, and announced that
Bfe would use his authority as presi
dent of the assembly to have it strick
en from the records. g
The delegates wera surprised at this
eariy beginning of the fight. The ad-|
herents of Gomez, who is leader of
the famous Katipunan ’Revolutionary
Society, and ex-president of the social
ist party, during the course of Thurs
day’s proceedings in the assembly de
feated a plan to rush through that
body a series of special rules for par
liamentary procedure which had been
drawn up by the president. The lat
ter, however, managed to secure the
temporary adoption of the rules, and it
is understood that he will not permit
them to be changed.
Petitions against confirmation of an
©lection of seventeen delegates, all of
whom are alleged to be unfit to take
part In legislation for the islands, were
presented.
MAKING THINGS AT HOME,
New Industries Shown in States of
Georgia and Alabama.
The Georgia and Alabama Industrial
Index says, in its current issue:
“No longer is it true in this part of
the country that the dead man is
shrouded in a robe made in Massa
chusetts, placed in a coffin manufac
tured in Ohio and lowered into a
grave dug, with a pick fashioned in
Pennsylvania, in solid marble, which
is put to no other use. Georgia and
Alabama are beginning to make these
tyjpigs at home, and an infinitely great
er variety of articles for the living,
while the marble is being used in in
creasing quantity in the construction
of buildings. The wide range in char
acter of manufacturing in Georgia and
Alabama is illustrated pointedly in in
dustries definitely projected.
WAR ON OBSCENE POST CARDS.
Anthony Comstock of New York Does
Not Like the Philadelphia Sort.
Headed by Anthony Comstock, of
New York, the United States postal
inspectors in conjunction with the la
cal police, have started a crusade in
Philadelphia against post card dealers
who have been circulating obscene and
objectionable post cards.
SUICIDED WITH DYNAMITE. A
Well Digger Placed Explosive in MoiAh
and Was Deoapitated.
Jacob a well digger, aged
S9 years, Pa., committed sui
cide Thursday night in an unusual
manner. Placing a stick of dynamic
in his mouth and holding it in his hand,
Detlinger exploded the dynamite, blowv
ing his head entirely off.
“UNDESIRABLES" ELIMINATED.
Hein*©, Morae and Thomas Ousted
from New York Banks.
At a late hour Sunday night the
: clearing house committee in New York
stated that the Heinze, Morse and
Thomas interests had been eliminated
from the banking organizations of New
York city and in the light of this fact
the clearing house association announc
ed its readiness to lend all necessary
aid to any of the banks which have
been under suspicion. It, is believed
this action will prevent any erißla in
New York banking circles.
FILIPiNOS THANK AMERICANS.
Joint Resolution to That Effect Direct
ed to President Rcoeeve't.
Th© first joint resolution of the
Philippine commission and the assem
bly in Manila was passed Saturday af
ternoon. It is addressed to the Amer
ican people through President Roose
velt and conveys the thanks of th©
Filipino people Jof the boon of a na
tional asiKdßbly.
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every Friday.
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which he’says threatens the
should Edward H. Harriman
to dominate it, Stuyvesaut Fii-jB
an appeal to the courts. _s§|j
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a temporary injunction at Be.
Monday, which will, if
nent, restiain the voting'^B
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of* stock oi' the Illinois Cjfl
road company, which
be voted in the interest tfl
riman.
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Jersey and the Mutual
company oi New Vo:
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