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dressed more than 25,000 meetings
in this country and abroad. Accord
ing to. the statistics of temperance
organizations he induced fully 12,-
000,000 persons to sign the pledge.
More Stringent Immigration Laws.
The new laws placing more restric
tions on immigration take effect on
all ships sailing from the other side
henceforth. The head tax is in
creased from $2 to $4 on every
immigrant. After $2,500,000 is col
lected on incoming aliens the rest of
the head tax will go to the general
government. Hitherto the total has
gone to the Immigration Division of
the Department of Commerce and *
Labor. Reckoning immigration at
only 1,000,000 a year, which will
yieid $4,000,000, the general govern
ment will have $1,500,000 extra rev
enue.
Another change makes the steam
ship companies liable to a fine of
SIOO for transporting here physically
or mentally defective aliens. The law
further provides for deportation of
women whose conduct is found to be
questionable within three years af
ter their arrival. Those who harbor
women of this character are liable to
arrest —the penalty being $5,090 fine
and imprisonment for five years.
Crowd Turned Over Car.
Little Johnny Stone ran before a
speeding 'westbound trolley car on
Forty-second street, New York, and
was killed. A tremendous crowd
surrounded the car and promptly set
to work to extricate small John’s
body. A long, strong rope was
brought and one end was firmly knot
ted around the middle of the car.
A hundred men pulled mightily on
this rope, as many more put their
shoulders against the north side of
the car, exerted all their strength
and overturned it. The boy was
dead.
Grand Central Steamless.
From last Monday on, all
trains running in and out of
the Grand Central Station, New
York City, were drawn by elec
tric locomotives. According to
law the electric system for incom
ing and outgoing trains at the Grand
Central Station, must be in opera
tion by July 1, 1908. The company
has anticipated the law’s requirement
by one year.
Steamer Rosalind in Collision.
In a dense fog off Halifax, N. S.,
the Red Cross Line steamer Rosalind,
with 150 passengers, mostly from
New York and Philadelphia, was in
collision with the steamer Senlac.
Almost the whole side of the Sen
lac was torn out and she quickly
sank. But not before her passen
gers and crew, numbering forty, had
clambered, or been handed aboard
the Rosalind, which was not dam
aged.
Giving Two-cent Fare a Trial.
The 2-cent f re went into effect on
all railroads in Ilknois last Monday.
The General Passenger Association
and the Western Passenger Associa
tion, which include nearly all lines
in the state, announced that the rate
provided by the law wilh be effective
on all state traffic. Interstate rates
now in effect, however, will be main
tained under the Federal rate law
until a new tariff has been prepared.
The delay and litigation predicted
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at the time the law was passed will
at least be delayed, as far as the
railroads are concerned, until the
new rate has been tried for several
months. It is said that the roads
affected by the law have agreed to
submit to the new rate for several
months and then carry the law into
the courts, with a showing of a de
ficit, should there be any, that will
support a plea that the two-cent
rate is a loss to the roads.
The Illinois law gives the railroads
the right to charge a three-cent rate
where passengers have neglected to
purchase tickets at least half an
hour before train time.
Nashville Segregates Saloons.
The recent legislature passed a bi’l
allowing Nashville to confine the sa
loons to the uptown district. This
saloon segregation act went into ef
fect Monday. This ordinance puts
about one hundred saloons out of
business.
Garbage Strike Ended.
The strike of street cleaners was
settled in New York City and the
drivers went back to work and
woiked as they had never done be
fore.
The streets of the east side, espe
cially in the lower action, were in a
disgraceful condition, and in order
to see that the work was done thor
oughly the women of the tenements
were out in the streets early with
broom and shovel eager to assist.
The drivers got little sympathy
from the women, but, on the con
trary, received many severe rebukes
for striking at a time, the women
said, when those living in tenements
would feel it most because of the
weather.
Wants to Photograph the Soul.
“The soul of a man is soft and gel
atinous, small, practically shapeless,
and situated beneath the first rib.
Below the Adam’s apple in a man,
and in a woman at the base of her
throat, is a spot of little or no re
sistance. It is from this place, when
the hour of death has come, that the
soul must be taken. It does not pass
like a shadow. It is not a flight. The
soul must be drawn out by an angel
sent by God to perform this opera
tion. And this seat of life is trans
ferred, warm, palpitating, to a body
the counterpart of the one it has left.
It is substance, material and could
be as well caugjit by the camera as
the human face.”
It was thus that Henry Price, of
Mount Veinon, N. Y., the retired mu
sician, who is now an inmate of the
Mary Fisher Home for the Aged, ex
plained recently his theory of the
soul’s passage and the possibility of
obtaining a photographic reproduc
tion the eof. He has urged the Belle
vue authorities to allow him to ex
periment on the dying in the hospital
in the presence of scientific men and
others.
Newport Pays Tribute to Heroine.
Miss Ida Lewis, the Grace Darling
of America, as she is known, who
has lived for fifty years at Limp
Rock Lighthouse, off Newport, and
has for twenty-eight years been
keeper of the beacon, celebrated her
golden anniversary as a resident of
the historic spot out on the waters.
Miss Lewis was sixty-eight years
old in March last, but Rhe is still
alert in body and mind. Practically
all of Newport took part in the cel
ebration, for the people here are
proud of the brave woman who has
to her credit the saving of eighteen
lives from the sea. Not a few of
these rescues were made under cir
cumstances that called for both dar
ing and clever seamanship, and as a
result of her courage and skill, un
der conditions that would have tried
the strongest heart, her fame became
world-wide.
Craft of every description, laden
with admirers of the brave servant
of Uncle Sam, made their way out
to the light, where Miss Lewis kept
open house, cheerily receiving and
entertaining her visitors. Those who
had not seen her for years were
astonished at her mental and phy
sical vigor, and it was predicted that
the light would not soon lose its fa
mous keeper.
Weavers for Paterson Recruited in
France?
The investigation made by the
courts at Lille, France, into the
clandestine emigration agencies which
have been shipping weavers from the
neighboring town of Roubaix to
Paterson, N. J., and Lawrence, Mass.,
thus enabling factories of those cit
ies to compete with the products of
Roubaix and pther French towns
producing similar manufactures, has
revealed an elaborate system of re
cruiting skilled emigrants destined
for the American weaveries, in viola
tion of both the French and Ameri
can laws.
Suit has been entered against six
agents at Roubaix and one at Tour
nai, who were found by the courts
to have received substantial prem
iums.
The defendants assert that they
are not guilty of engaging in any
emigration scheme in violation of the
laws, claiming that they have merely
been acting as agents for a steam
ship company, receiving $5 for each
passage sold.
The arrests caused a commotion at
Roubaix and Tourcoing, whence it is
reported thousands of workmen have
left for America. Many are return
ing penniless, having been unable to
get work.
City Ownership Prevented.
Mayor Reyburn, z of Philadelphia,
signed an ordinance passed by coun
cils which, reform associations say,
virtually gives aw T ay the city streets
to the Philadelphia Rapid Transit
Company, which controls all the
street car lines.
The street railway corporation is
given limited franchises for all thb
lines in the city for fifty years and
is to share equally with the city all
profits in excess of six per cent on
the actual paid-in capital. The re
formers sav that no such excess in
profits is likely, owing to heavy
guaranteed dividends to subsidiary
companies. The city will be repre
sented in the board of directors by
the mayor and two other persons se
lected by councils.
The ordinance also provides for the
repeal of an ordinance passed in
1857 under which the city had the
right to take over street railways
at any time and also an ordinance
compelling the removal of overhead
wires. City ownership is now pre
vented for fifty years. A fixed sum
is to be paid the city every year to
cover licenses, street paving, removal
of snow and other items.
One of the leaders of the minor
ity declared on the floor of the Se
lect Council that the plan was “the
most iniquitous measure that has
ever come before councils”; that it
was nothing more or less than a
“confiscation of the rights of the
people for the benefit and enrichment
of a few citizens.”
Butler Honored at Oxford.
In the presence of a large body of
teachers interested in English edu
cation at Worcester College, Oxford,
England, the Vice-Chancellor of the
University presented to President
Butler, of Columbia University, New
York, an illuminated address in a
handsome silver casket to commemo
rate the recent visit of English edu
cators to America, and to acknow
ledge the great assistance rendered
to them by President Butler.
Excursion Boat on Rock.
In a fog the old steamer, City
of Lawrence, with eighty ex
cursionists on board, struck on
Black Rock Ledge at the mouth
of New’ London, Conn., har
bor. She stove big holes in her bow 7
and in her flat but lucki’y
she balanced on the whale-back
shaped rock and rested safely. All
the passengers w’ere landed safely.
New York Central Fined.
The New’ York Central Railroad
Company was fined $15,000 by Judge
Haze Pin the Federal Court at Roch
ester, for failure to file rates on a
shipment of oil for the Standard Oil.
Company.
Judge Swayne Dead.
Judge Charles Swayne, of the
United States Court for the
Northern District of Florida, died
in Philadelphia. He had been
suffering for some time from com
plicated kidney trouble, and had
gone to Philadelphia for treatment.
Judge Swayne’s name became fa
miliar to the public a year or two
ago because of an attempt to im
peach him for “high crimes and mis
demeanors.” His trial took place in
the United States Senate, Fifty-ninth
Congress, and was the first impeach
ment proceedings since the trial oU
Secretary of War Belknap in the ad
ministration of Grant.
The trial lasted five or six weeks,
during which the Senate sat as a
court and a large committee of the
House appeared daily as prosecut
ing attorneys.
The specific charges were that he
did not reside in his district, that
he made excessive charges against
the government for expenses, that he
used his position to extort favors
from railroad companies, and that
he sat in a case in Florida in which
his wife was personally interested.
The trial resulted in his acquittal
by a vote along party lines.
John D. on the Stand.
John D. Rockefeller appeared
promptly in court at 10 o’clock
Saturday morning in Chicago, to
be questioned by Judge Lan
dis as to the finances of the Stan
dard Oil Company. As usual, when
corporation heads are forced on the
witness stand, John’s memory was
bad, pleading that he had retired
twelve years ago, and that he had not
been in the office in the past eight
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