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Summary of Ebents as They Happen 1
Harriman Arrested.
While the Yale-Harvard contest
was under way E. H. Harriman was
arrested by Lieut. Billard, President
Roosevelt’s quasi-official representa
tive and chief of police of the Yale-
Harvard boat race course. Harri
man persisted in following the crews
and failed to heed the repeated
warnings given by Lieut. Billard.
Harriman was taken to the Navy
Yard and held until the races were
concluded and it is said that the
chagrin of Mr. Harriman when he
was deprived of a view of the race
at its most exciting stage, was too
keen to permit expression.
Texas to Bar Consumptives.
Dr. W. 11. Brumby, State Health
Officer, gave out a statement, in which
he said that within a few days he
would issue a proclamation estab
lishing a rigid quarantine against all
persons afflicted with the disease in
an acute degree.
Another Railroad Horror.
With a crash that could be heard
for blocks, a passenger train on the
Highland Division of the New York
& IJartford Railroad plunged into the
rear end of a work train at the
Sigourney street crossing, Hartfo:d<
Conn., killing eight men and injuii: g
tihirty-five. Several of the injured
are expected to die.
Kidnapped Boy Slain.
Failing in their demand for SO,OOO,
Italian kidnappers put to death Wal
ter Lamana, an eight-year-old Italian
boy, at New Orleans. He had beeu
kidnapped by the Black Hand two
weeks ago. When the pursuit be
came too hot for tl»«m they put to
death the innocent child. The body
was found two miles in the interi >r
of a big swamp near the ci y. Sev
eral of the participants have con
fessed and many arrests will f dlow.
Roosevelt-Wight Bargain.
President Roosevelt by appoint ii g
Pearl Wight, of New Orleans, Com
missioner of Internal Revenue, has
completed a most remarkable bar
gain.
Through the combination as ar
ranged President Roosevelt expects
to control the delegations from Lou
isiana and Mississippi to the next
Republican national convention.
Wight’s friends and business asso*
dates stand to receive remunerative
contracts for Isthmian canal and oth
er government supplies. In addi
tion, these interests will have a p >w
erful friend at court to look after
their interests.
Pearl Wight and F. B. Williams,
closely allied in a business way, are
the head of the Lily White organi
zation. The former was appointed a
member of the National Committee
by George B. Cortelyou to fill a va
cancy. After that President Roose
velt picked them up and made them
his referees in Louisiana. All ques
tions of appointments in the
are left to them for decision.
The ship chandlery firm of Wood-
Ward, Wight & Co., of New Orleans,
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WATSONS WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN.
has had hundreds of contracts and
orders for supplies from the Canal
Commission, the Light-House Board,
the Mint and the Post Office. Wood
ward, the postmaster at New Orleans,
was a member of the firm when .lie
went into office. Wight is his broth
er-in-law.
The Camp & Hinton Company,
from which Mr. Wight has said he
is retiring, has hhd many orders to
furnish lumber for the Isthmus, one
granted less than a month ago,
amounting to $184,000.
The Panama Lumber and Trading
Company, another corporation in
which Mr. Wight has an interest,
was also in the business of supply
ing lumber for the canal. The same
is true of the F. B. Williams Cypress
Company, which is also known as
the F. B. Williams Lumber Company.
The IL M. Elliott Company, another
concern in which Wight has an inter
est, are forwarding agents. All are
interested in Government contracts
to the extent of millions of dollais.
The deal is excellent for the Pres
ident in a political sense and lucra
tive for Wight and his friends in a
business way.
Rebel Chief Sees Clemenceau.
Marcelin Albert, the head and
front of the winegrowers’ rebellion,
called on Premier Clemenceau in
Paris. Albert’s coming direct to
Paris appears to have made a most
marked impression and contained all
those elements of dramatic surprise
that are so dear to the French peo
ple. Clemenceau spoke to his caller
in severe terms, telling him that he
was directly responsible for the tu
mult in the South with its attendant
anarchy, mutiny and bloodshed. Al
bjrt lost his composure and burst in
to tears. - They then discussed the
best course to be taken in the future
and at the close of the interview
Clemenceau showed Albert out
through the private door.
Fresh troops are being distributed
over the country and particularly
where possible storm centers are fear
ed. It is estimated that there are
now more than 70,000 in the three
departments of Southern France.
$300,000 Sage Gift.
Mrs. Russell Sage has added to her
charities by giving $300,000 to found
and maintain the Russell Sage Insti
tute of Pathology, as an adjunct to
the New York Qity Hospital on
Blackwell’s Island. Mrs. Sage’s
chief purpose in endowing the Insti
tute of Pathology is that the diseases
of old age can be carefully studied.
The two institutions, with more than
2,000 inmates, afford tremendous op
portunities for the study of senile
and nervous disease's.
Taft a Small Fish.
Senator Foraker, of Ohio, said he
reparded Secretary Taft as a very
small factor in the controversy be
tween President Roosevelt and him
self, and that he did not believe the
secretary would be in the presiden
tial race for any great length of
time.
Social Democracy at Princeton.
President Woodrow Wilson, of
Princeton, has just instituted a most
radical and compjpte re-organization
of social life at Princeton University
—one that marks a departure from
the other big universities.
In brief, it aims to absoib the va
rious college clubs into what are
termed “Residential Quads,” where
there sliall be good fellowship and
cldser intimacy between faculty, up
per class men and “f reshies.”
The system will establish a real
democracy, with each “Quad” occu
pying dormitories, dining-rooms and
rooms for social enjoyment in com
mon. Instead of the rivalry and bit
ter feeling engendered by club elec
tions and rejections, there will be
unity and a desire for the common
good —true loyalty to the univer
sity.
The experiment will be studied
with deep interest as to its working
out, by the other big universities.
The Cost of Progress.
During the year 1906, 2,660 deaths
were i eported to the coroner of Al
legheny county, Pa., 919 of which
were the result of accidents in mills
and mines.
Some of the victims were burned
by molten metal, a blast furnace
burst, or a huge ladle was upset in
the steel mills; others were caught
in the rollers in a plate mill, and
some were crushed in the machinery
of the rail mills. Many were killed
in mines by falling slate, some by
gas explosions, and others by falls
from derricks, scaffolds and like
structures. Not a few met death
while working about electric cranes,
which pick up massive pieces of
structural steel at the simp'e moving
of a lever.
The average number of deaths re
ported to the coroner is about 250
a month. For the first five months
of the present year there were 1,035
deaths, 344 of which may be clashed
as “sacrifices upon the altar of in
dustry. ’ ’
Emory Foster Dead.
Emory Foster, of the New York
World’s editoiial staff, died from
acute Bright’s disease. Mr. Foster
was widely known in newspap r cir
cles, and had held responsible exec
utive positions in New York, Phila
delphia, Washington and Chicago.
Morgan May Become a Catholic.
The Pope wishes to give J. Pier
pont Morgan some conspicuous token
of recognition and appreciation, and
the Vatican authorities have sounded <
Mr. Morgan’s personal friends as to
whether he would accept the title of
Prince of the Holy Roman Empire.
Mr. Morgan has endeared himself to
the Church by rescuing ecclesiastical
artistic objec's from the hands of
iconoclasts who would have let them
perish. Besides, two years ago,
when the pope was in financial diffi
culties, he was relieved by a check
for a large sum from Mr. Morgan.
Mr. Morgan is personally acquaint-
ed with Pius X., whom he greatly ad
mires, and two years ago, when he
visited the Vatican, the pope per
sonally escorted him, arm in arm,
through the Vatican museums and
galleries. No such honor has ever
been done by a pope to a private per
son, and very seldom even to a sov
ereign.
In view of this there is hope at
the Vatican that Mr. Morgan may
in time become a Roman Catholic, in
which event one of the greatest hon
ors the Church can confer will be
given him, making him the equal in
dignity to a Cardinal.
“Prize Beauties” to Go.
President Roosevelt gave impera
tive orders to the Isthmian Canal
Commission, when he said, “The
most rigid economy consistent with
the highest degree of efficiency,”
must be applied to all departments
in the canal administration.
Meantime the two SIO,OOO “prize
beauties,” as Senator Tillman dub
bed them, are preparing to give way
to lower-salaried men. David R.
Ross, who was made purchasing
agent of the commission under
Chairman Shouts, already has ten
dered his resignation under polite
pressure, to take effect July 15. Ern
est S. Benson, the SIO,OOO general
auditor, whose accounts are audited
by a $3,500 official of the Treasury
Department before they are finally
passed, will, it is stated by an offi
cial of the War Department, resign
the first of August and be succeeded
by his assistant, Mr. Lewis, whose
salary will be $5,000.
The Haywood Trial.
“This is not a murder case; it is
a trial to execute, hang and kill for-"
ever the Western Federation of Min
ers and all other labor organiza
tions.” In those strong, simp'e
words, Clarence Darrow opened
the defense and told the jury that
is to pass judgment on William D.
Haywood, what the defense expects
to p.ove in denial of the State’s case
against the chiefs of the Western
Federation of Miners.
Darrow announced that Hay wo d
will take the witness stand, and the
jury, after hearing his story, will
then be able to judge as between this
man who always fought straight out
and Orchard, “the skulking, sneak
ing, lying, cowardly assassin who
testified to save his own miserable
neck.”
In the beginning Darrow said the
defense will prove that Orchard was
the constant agent of the Pinkertons
and mine owners’ detectives, though
he wished the jury not to misunder
stand him and get the impress!' n
that the defense will contend the de,
iective association ordered or exe*
cuted murders. The motive for the
assassination of Steunenbcrg was
laid in Orchard’s cowardly and en
vious heart, a personal grudge that
was born in the financial success of
the Hercules mine, an interest in
which Orchard was forced to dis
pose of when he fled from the Coeur-
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