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PAGE TWELVE SUMMARY OF NEWS. (Continued from Page 4.) receiving tomb to await transfer to the McKinley monument when it is finished in September. A committee of seventy-five, com prising the most influential business men, merchants and manufacturers of San Francisco, will be created. The committee is to be representative of those elements in the community whose interests are most vitally at stake. It is hoped that it will be able to take a firm stand in the pres ent crisis and bring overwhelming in fluence to bear against the forces of disorder. f In a speech delivered at Indianap olis, President Roosevelt declared that all railroads must be under the con trol and supervision of the Federal government. He said a careful watch that securities are not inflated is necessary and that the interests of honest railroad men are best served when all common carriers are made to toe the mark. The State Railroad Commission has reduced passenger rates in Georgia from 3 cents to a sliding scale of from 2 to 2 1-2 cents a mile. The International Cotton Conference was opened in Vienna, with more than 250 delegates present. The delegates were received by Emperor Francis Joseph at the Hofburg. Rebels have captured Wongkong, in the Vping district of the Chinchu Pre fecture, China. All the civil and mili tary officials of the town were killed and their headquarters were burned. After a recess of three days, the trial of William D. Haywood, charged with the murder of former Governor Frank Steunenberg, was resumed. Ten jurors have been secured and it is believed that early this week the taking of testimony will begin. Mayor McClellan vetoed the Public Utilities Bill. His reasons for doing so are as follows: First —That the bill is an invasion of the city’s right to attend to its own affairs. Second—That it places in the hands of a partisan commission the most tremendous power ever given into the hands of a similar body, and that this power will be used by some dishonest governor for the purpose of political intrigue. The mayor’s idea is that the com mission will be used as a machine to extort campaign funds from the rail roads and lighting companies. “There is no provision,” writes the mayor, “that the commission shall be bi-partisan or non-partisan, and all PIANOS FROM $l9O UPWARD SOUTHERN AGENTS OF Steinway, Knabe, Weber, Everett, Fischer, Hardman and other Pianos. Payments by the month or week arranged. VICTOR TALKING MACHINES--EDISON PHONOGRAPHS Prices on SIO.OO, upward payments by month or week. PHILLIPS & CREW CO., 37-39 Peachtree St, Atlanta WRITE FOR CATALOGUES. MENTION THIS PAPER. members may be of the same political party. What may be, will be. And if this bill becomes a law we shall, in the near future, see these commissions composed entirely of political parti sans, with great consequent injury to the state and to the properties af fected. “The power to regulate rates and fares may be used to destroy. Under given conditions, when party feeling is intense and the presidency, the gov ernorship or the legislature is at stake, it will be used to influence, coerce and to secure the money with which to corrupt the electorate. “To my suggestions the legislature has seen fit to pay no attention, and has passed, instead, an act so utterly destructive of the principle of home rule as to leave me, as mayor of the City of New York, no possible course except to disapprove the bill as it stands.” Tn the case of the state of Texas vs. the Waters-Pierce Oil Company, a branch of the Standard Oil, the jury returned a verdict of guilty against the corporation, assessing pen alties aggregating $1,600,000 and de barring it from doing further busi ness in the state. A bronze statue of Alexander Ham ilton, who founded the city of Patter son, N. J., was unveiled there on the City Hall plaza, in the presence of a vast crowd. The statue was unveiled by Miss Mary Schuyler Hamilton, daughter of Col. J. C. Hamilton and a great-great-grand-daughter of Alex ander Hamilton. The land agitation in the congested districts of Ireland is taking the form of a crusade against the holders of grazing farms on the lease system, and is developing with great rapidity and intensity. Reports come daily of large bands of peasants destroying gates and fences and clearing the grazing ranches of cattle, which they drive back over miles of country to the owners’ farms. SHAFT TO DAV’S IS UNVEILED AT RICHMOND. (The Atlanta Georgian.) Richmond, Va., June 3. —This was Jefferson Davis day in Richmond. At 2 o’clock the monument to the only president of the Confederacy was un veiled and not only in Richmond, but generally throughout the South, the request of General Stephen D. Lee. commander-in-chief of the United Con federate Veterans, the wheels of in dustry were stopped and the whole South for five minutes did honor to Mr. Davis. Unveiling Ceremonies. The ceremonies were opened with prayer by the Rev. J. William Jones. WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN. of Richmond, chaplain-general. The first address was by Governor Claude A. Swanson, of Virginia, and he was followed by Mayor Carlton McCarthy, of Richmond, who introduced General Evans as orator of the day. General Evans’ Address. General Evans began his address with a tribute to the women of the South, through whose efforts the statue to Mr. Davis has been erected. Taking up, then, the influences which had moulded the life of the future president of the Confederacy, the speaker traced his lineage from Eng lish ancestors who migrated to Amer ica two generations before his birth, settling in the South. His father and grandfather, on his father’s side, had fought in the Revolutionary war Special Offer. For the next three months, we offer the Weekly at 50c PER YEAR in clubs of not less than three. Now friends, interest yourselves in our behalf and help us swell the circulation of WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN. 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Send subscription money direct to our office. 608 TEMPLE COURT and three older brothers had borne arms in the War of 1812. Mr. Davis was appointed to the National Mili tary Academy by President Monroe, graduated in 1828, receiving appoint ment as lieutenant. At once he was assigned to arduous service in the great Western country, to protect set tlers against Indian incursions and attacks. After a service of seven years, during which he “won fame which his country gladly gave him then and should not forget now,” Mr. Davis returned to his Mississippi home, from which he was sent immediately to congress. Two years later the Mexican war theratened and resigning his place in congress, he led a regiment of Mis sissippi rifles. He rendered brilliant service at Monterey and Buena Vista