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had, and the action of the Committee will not affect my course in any way. “The next State Convention will have authority to speak, and by the action of that convention it will be the duty of every good Republican to abide. '‘ln the meanwhile we shall have our municipal elections and the ben efit of occurring events, in the light of all which we shall no doubt be able to act intelligently and satisfac torily.” Glenn Fights for Cheap Freight. Having won a victory over the rail roads by compelling them to give to the public the 2 1-4-ccnt passenger rate, Gov. Glenn, of North Carolina, has now gone after the roads on the question of freight charges. The governor has written a very plain letter to the various railways, charging that freight rates are ex cessive in many cases, as the result of gross discriminations in favor of Virginia and against North Carolina. Gov. Glenn declares to the railroads that this state must be given gate ways for her commerce, of which, he says, it now has none. , Though armed with a. large fund authorized by the legislature for in vestigating purposes, Gov. Glenn tells the railroads he wishes, if possible, to settle the freight rate questions without litigation. In answer, the governor received word from the Atlantic Coast Line, the Southern, the Norfolk and West ern and other roads, agTeeing to con fer with him and the State Corpora tion Commission on August 9, on freight rates. To Make the Turrets Safe. A special board to devise means to prevent, if possible, such explo sions as that aboard the battleship Georgia, is to be appointed soon by Acting Secretary of the Navy New berry. This announcement was made Mr. Newberry, after he had taken luncheon with President Roosevelt, at Sagamore Hill. Mr. Newberry said: “The facts as found by the board which investigated the accident will be used as a working basis. The new board will not go into the causes of the explosion, but will try to find out how to avoid them in future. It is hoped that no more such accidents will be possible when the new plans are formulated. It will cost a great amount of money to reconstruct the turrets in our war vessels, but every thing possible will be done to make them safe.” Schmitz Still Appoints. Eugene E. Schmitz, the convicted mayor of San Francisco, made ap pointments to fill the vacancies cre ated by the forced resignation of the members of the Board of Super visors, claiming the right of appoint ment on the ground that he is the lawful mayor. He says the appoint ments of Mayor Taylor, who was ap pointed to succeed him when he was sentencedj to prison for grafting, are void. / Schmitz’s appointees are William Cole, carpenter, Building Trades Council; T. J. Tierney, cement work er, Building Trades Council; Thom as Maxwell, carpenter, Amalgam ated Carpenters; Henry Sheehan, WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN. painter, Building Trades Coun cil; P. D. Hawthorne, rigger stevedore, member City Front Fed eration; J. A. Keagh, musician, La bor Council; P. W. Myers, machinist, Labc-i* Council; J. F. Leonard, elec trician, Labor Council; J. Williams, master plumber; “J. J. Henry, steam fitter, Labor Council: John Mc- Cracken, department store clerk; Charles L. Berry, printing pressman, Allied Printing Trades; Charles Har court, blacksmith, Labor Council. AH have accepted, or will do so. Mayor Schmitz made the following comment on the municipal situation: “I am exceedingly sorry to see this Supervisorial tangle, for it is likely to cause a deal of litigation for the city and county of San Francisco for years to come. My own course is clear. Acting upon the advice of my attorney, which I believe to be absolutely legal, I hold that I, as mayor of San Francisco, have the sole power of apointment to vacan cies in municipal offices, and that the appointive acts of Mr. Edwin B. Taylor are void and incapable of legal support.” Schmitz complained that his pri vate mail is being opened by Mayor Taylor. He showed letters address ed to “Hon. Eugene E. Schmitz, San Francisco. Personal,” which had been slit open and marked in indelible pencil, “Opened by Edward B. Taylor.” “This is something that no man will stand for,” he said. “I shall take it up immediately with the authorities at Washington and press the complaint to the limit against Mr. Taylor.” Coney Island Fire Swept. A fire that wiped Steeplechase Park practically out of existence and destroyed 200 buildings, with a loss of $1,404,000; that sent 2,000 per sons, screaming and panic-stricken, into the streets homeless and penni less; that for a time threatened the life of the entire amusement city, swept through Coney Island Sunday morning between the hours of 4 and 6 o’clock. The origin of the fire is •.'ascribed to a smouldering cigarette in a barrel of waste paper stored for the night beneath the Cave of the Winds in Steeplechase Park. Coney Island has been singularly unfortu nate in the matter of conflagrations. In the last thirteen years the amuse ment city has suffered ten fires with <a total hoss of $4,000,000. To Protect Bondholders. Alarmed by notice by the new man agement of the Central Railway of Georgia that no interest will be paid to the holder’s of income-bearing bonds on the second Monday in Au gust, when the next instalment of in terest is due, but that the income will be used to improve the road, a bill giving the bondholders the same voice in the management of the road as the holders of the common stock was introduced in the Senate at At lanta by Senator Overstreet. The bill was introduced because a committee representing a large num ber of Georgia bondholders of the Central have issued an address to the Legislature and to the Governor, in which they state that it is gener ally believed in New York City that the Rock Island has secured control of the Central and that it is their plan to use the income of the Central to buy up other properties, which are to be run at the expense of the Central. Japan’s Big Boom Ends in Crash. In a letter received by the Frank furter Zeitung, at Berlin, from Tokib, is told a story of heavy financial losses, with many industrial com panies in liquidation. The letter says that after Japan’s war with Russia, between July, 1906, and January, 1907, 3,336 new companies were or ganized with an aggregate capital of $302,000,000, while 580 old com panies added $123,000,000 to their capital. This industrial movement went on with increased energy for the first five months of the year, during which time 1,169 new companies, with a total capital of $112,000,000, were registered, while 249 old companies absorbed $63,000,000 of new capi tal. This excessive activity in establish ing new companies has been accom plished by a great wave of specula tion, all classes, even the poorest, buy ing stocks on margin. Instead of the hoped-for advance in prices, how ever, a sharp fall has occurred, and distrust has become so marked that there have been runs on banks. Thir teen banks were forced to suspend payment, either temporarily or perma nently. The condition of some gave strik ing evidence to the extent to which the banks had been stretching their credit. One bank closed because of a sudden demand to pay out SIO,OOO while another, with deposits of sl,- 400,000, could not pay $40,000. The depression has already been so severely felt that 175 of the new com panies went into liquidation in April and May. The crisis has been marked by a heavy fall in stocks, even good div idend-payers losing greatly. The shares of the Tokio Railway Com pany, which has a monopoly of the electric street car traffic in that city, are quoted at 76, though its last div idend was 7 1-2 per cent. In the Nagoya district, where the pinch was worst, the banks combined to check the panic and were strong ly supported by the National Bank of Japan, which not Only extended* aid to shaky private banks, but also to silk and tea growers. Negro Lynched. Jaames Reed, a negro, was lynched at Crisfield, Md., a few hours after he had crept up behind Policeman John 11. Daugherty and shot him dead. Saturday night Daugherty arrested on a warrant a negro named Hillery Jones, a companion of Reed, and was taking him to jail. Reed borrowed a revolver and, catching up with his friend and the officer, shot the police man through the head. The two negroes fled. Reed taking possession of a bicycle standing near by. Pursued and fired upon, he abandoned the wheel and took to a small sailboat, in which he headed for Tangier Sound, with the hope, it is presumed, of reaching Virginia, Early this morning he was becalmed in the sound and pursuers, learning that he was afloat, followed him in power boats. One of these, on which were Capt. John Shelton and a posse of armed men, overhauled Reed about 9 o’clock. The negro jumped over board and tried to escape by swim ming, but he was finally captured. As the boat bearing the negro ap proached the wharf a crowd gathered rapidly. There were angry exclama tions and soon some one struck Reed a blow with his fist that knocked the negro senseless. Immediately those in the crowd pounced upon the pros trate negro and beat and kicked him to death. A rope was then tied to the body and it was dragged to the scene of the shooting and hanged to a tele graph pole. Mercury at 179 in Texas. The most terrific heat visitation ever known in Texas occurred Sun day at M’Gregor, continuing about an hour and twenty minutes. The thermometer registered 179 degrees in the sun and 117 in the shade. Au area of three miles long and two miles wide was affected. The heat was accompanied by a peculiar haze which moved over the area affected. Scores of people were overcome. Horses, cattle, hogs and poultry drop ped dead. Negroes in Bloody Fight. A dispute over thirteen cents at a colored church camp at Seaford, Del., resulted in five negroes being mortally wounded and more than twenty others shot and cut with ra zors. More than one hundred were in the fight, and the blood which flowed made a small pond. Accuses King Leopold. Major Lemair, who served eigh teen years in the Congo in command of native troops, and on return to Brussels, Belgium, was notified that he would be prosecuted for cruelty, is retaliating by publishing a sensa tional exposure of revolting condi tions in the native army. He asserts that the scientific expe dition he led in 1904 into the Bairel ghaza region on the northern fron tier was an expedition for conquest in disguise, and that King Leopold gave him personal orders to defeat Anglo-Egyptian forces coming from the Soudan at any cost. “I cannot be held accountable for these acts,” the major writes. “I only fully car ried out orders.” In the throe years and two months the expedition lasted he says he caused native soldiers and even their wives to be flogged. He penetrated regions never before reached by a white man, inhabited by wild tribes and cannibals, and he says nothing but flogging could preserve the dis cipline indispensable to the security and success of an expedition among brigands accustomed to kill, raid and capture and to ill-treat women. Tn every instance of flogging, however, he faithfully reported the facts and never received a word of censure. On the contrary, he was accorded noth ing but praise for his conduct of this expedition, and was even decorated by King Leopold.. No charge was pre ferred against him until the Govern ment decided he had been too insist ent in calling attention to the fright ful and unchecked abuses in the Con ’ G. N. • —mmA*. 4 - .... w PAGE FIVE