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PAGE FOUR 4. ♦ 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, — - i i 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- 4