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Summary of TLbents as They Happen
New Dreadnaught.
There is a report to the effect that
the British admiralty is about to lay
down the keel for a ship that will
be fifty per cent greater in tonnage
than the Dread naught. It is under
stood that the new ship is to be of
30,000 tons displacement, against 20 r
000 tons of the Dreadnaught, and to
include many new novelties, for in
stance, three guns in each turret, so
the new ship will carry eighteen guns
in her main battery.
Jail a Sure Remedy, Says Cardinal
Gibbons.
Cardinal Gibbons, commenting on
the $29,240,000 fine imposed on the
Standard Oil Company, said:
4 ‘The fine certainly is large. But
I am not prepared to say, from my -
knowledge of the case, whether or not
it is excessive. However, if the fine
is inadequate to compel compliance
with the law, the incarceration of the
Standard Oil Company’s guilty offi
cials, with its attendant disgrace,
would prove the more effective reme
dy.
“I do not think moral suasion ■
would have any effect on these offi
cials. Fine sermons might be preach
ed, but these men would continue to
accumulate millions. But the dis
grace of imprisonment would prove
a certain remedy for the crimes
charged against them.
“The Standard Oil Company’s
stockholders should not be held ac
countable for the criminal acts of its
officials, for the stockholders have no
information of the details of the
trust’s affairs.”
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Prof. Orr Finishes Darwin. t
“Darwinism is dead. The theory
that man is merely a high-grade ape
is neither palatable nor scientific,”
said Prof. James Orr, of Glasgow
University, in a lecture delivered at
the Northfield Conference at East
Northfield, Mass. Darwin, he assert
ed, has been discredited by the fore
most European scientists, and the
new theory of evolution, now develop
ing, will be in perfect accord with or
thodox Christianity.
Liberal Catholic Organ now Suspends.
In consequence of the Pope’s re
cent proscribing of criticism along
certain lines, the weekly review Do
main (To-Morrow) at Lyons, France,
organ of the liberal French Catho
lics, who have been opposing the ‘ ‘ ul
tramontanes, ” announces that it has
suspended publication for the present
because “the sincerest Catholic ideals
are so obscured and misunderstood
that it is necessary to await the res
toration of calm before resuming
work. ’ ’
Domain publishes the syllabus and
says: “To the extent to which the
decree of the Holy Office is applied
it will annihilate in the Catholic
schools exegetic and moral criticism
We say, ‘to the extent to which it is
applied,’ because even at Rome the
necessity of abandoning certain of its
prohibitions will be evident if a dan
gerous impasse is not soon to be
reached. To fetter the free exercise
pf criticiim ia to destroy reason. It
WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN.
only remains to be remarked that the
elaboration and publication of the
decree coincides with the introduction
in our public schools of the study
of the critical history of religions,
and especially of the origin of Chris
tianity.”
Spain Cuts Tax on Our Flour.
The Spanish Government has or
dered the removal of the excess tax
on importations of American flour.
Hereafter the rate will be the mini
mum for favored nations. A large
increase in trade is expected, as
Spain’s cereal crop is reported short.
May Curtail Coal Reduction.
It is reported at Reading, Pa.,
that the Philadelphia and Reading
Coal and Iron Company will or
der its collieries on half time next
week and that they will work only
three days a week for some time.
The matter will be decided in a few
days. The company has an unusual
quantity of coal in its storage yards
for this season of the year.
“Lord” Barrington Not to Be
Hanged.
Gov. Folk announced at Jefferson
City, Mo., that the sentence of
“Lord” Frederick Seymour Barring
ton is commuted to life imprison
ment.
Barrington was sentenced to be
hanged at Clayton on Aug. 26 for the
murder of James McCann, June 13,
1903. McCann’s mutilated body was
found in a stone quarry pond at Bon
fils Station. Two bullet holes were
in his head. The identity of Barring
ton has never been satisfactorily es
tablished, but it is believed he is
George Barton, a noted English
crook.
Barrington was convicted solely
on circumstantial evidence. He has
always declared that McCann is still
alive and the body found was not
McCann’a.
Canada Copies American System.
The Government of Canada will be
gin the enforcement of a new Meat-
Inspection law on Sept. 3. There
has been no system of meat inspec
tion and labelling in Canada, but aft
er a careful study of American meth
ods a similar system has been adopt
ed .
Violinist Joachim Dying.
Joseph Joachim, the celebrated
Hungarian violinist, is dying at Ber
lin. He is lying unconscious and his
heart is very weak. Prof. Joachim
is a victim of asthma, complicated
with other diseases.
Fred Nye Run Down by Car.
Fred Nye, an editor of the Sunday
World staff, who was run down by a
trolley car on Lenox avenue, New
York City, died in the Harlem Hos
pital. The motorman of the car,
Frederick Guinan, was held by Cor
oner Harburger under $5,000 bail on
charge of manslaughter, pending the
inquest, which was set for next Tues
day. The Manhattan Street Railway
Company refused to go on tlie motor
man’s bond, declaring it was excess
ive. Ordinarily bail of SI,OOO is de
manded in enah eaaea.
Revolt in Cuba.
It is reported at Havana, that Col.
Castulo Martinez, a veteran of the
Cuban war for independence, has tak
en up arms against the Government,
and has a following of ten men. He
is reported at Manicaragua, twenty
five miles south of Santa Clara. His
band may become dangerous outlaws.
Two Thousand Cotton Company
Hands Strike.
Two thousand employes of the
Montreal Cotton Company at Valley
field, Canada, struck because of the
refusal of a demand for higher wages
and certain grudges against some of
the foremen.
Patriotism Placed Above Socialism.
The Socialist Congress at its ses
sion at Nancy, France, reaffirmed the
declaration made at Limoges last year
that it is the duty of French Social
ists to defend the country if attacked.
Herve and other Extremists made
a hard fight against the resolution,
declaring that militarism is the “na
tural effect of a capitalistic regime
and is based on the antagonism of
class and declared him
self in favor of a military strike in
case of war.
In a violent speech he referred to
the ‘ ‘ bandits in French uniforms who
massacred the Moroccans.”
Guesde and Jaures, while favoring
a continuation of the campaign for
international socialism and the sup
pression of war and militarism, said
it was absurd for French Socialists
to go to Stuttgart and advocate trea
son after Herr Bebel’s announcement
that the Geiman Socialists would de
fend their country in case of war.
Mr. Herve’s resolution against de
fending the country in case of war
was defeated by 251 to 41 votes.
149 Killed, 274 Exiled In Russia
Last Month.
It is reported at St. Petersburg
that 274 persons throughout the Rus
sian Empire were exiled for politi
cal offenses during July, and it is
officially stated that 54 Russians offi
cers and 95 privates were killed and
that 47 officers and 52 privates were
wounded while maintaining order
during the same month.
A New Treaty.
The Russo-Japanese treaty, recog
nizing China’s independence and in
tegrity and promising to keep things
as they are, was made public at St.
Petersburg, and was Well received
Conservative and Liberal newspapers
display remarkable unanimity m
agreeing that it put* the relations
of the two powers on a sound basis,
guaranteeing unbroken peace for a
long period.
Plain Talk From Bonaparte.
Attorney-General Bonaparte, in
discussing Wall street’s anxiety pro
duced by his remarks and the criti
cism passed upon them, said at Wash
ington :
“If the ground of complaint
against the Department is that it
proposes to punish prominent and
wealthy men or corporations having
vast amounts of capital and
engaged in very extensive busineee,
when these are shown to have been
wilful and persistent lawbreakers on
a great scale and with grave injury
to the purposes of the law, I must
admit that these complaints are well
founded. That is precisely what the
Department of Justice is trying to
do, and, while I remain its very un
worthy head, will continue to do, so
far as it can.”
Mr. Bonaparte also declared:
“I cannot understand how any
sensible person could be affected in
dealing with matters of business by
any remarks, real or apochrychal,
which have been attributed to me. I
should say that business men ought
to wish to have the laws strictly and
impartially enforced. If this is done
everybody knows what he can do and
what he cannot, and everybody has
a fair field and no favor.
“The Department of Justice pro
poses to do precisely this and noth
ing more. It is required by law to
enforce certain penal statutes which
make certain forms of action crimes
against the United States, and also
provide civil remedies for such illegal
action.”
Mansfield Never Again on Stage.
A report was sent out from Moun
tain, N. Y., to the effect that Richarcb
Mansfield is not improving in health,
and those close to him reluctantly ad
mit their conviction that the actor
will never again be seen on the stage.
Dr. Lemieux, the distinguished Cana
dian physician, who was summoned
here to attend to Mr. Mansfield when
the latter’s condition aroused appre
hension, declined to discuss the case.
But it is asserted on good authority
that the physician has told intimate
friends of the family that the famous
artist will not act again.
Few Negroes May Vote.
The Williams-Felder Disfranchise
ihent bill, intended to cut out the ne
gro vote in Georgia, in so far as pos
sible, was passed at Atlanta by the
Georgia House of Representatives by
a vote of 159 to 16. The same meas
ure recently passed the Senate. The
bill goes back to the senate for con
currence in slight amendments and
will become a law in less than a
week.
The bill provides that a voter must
have served in one of the wars of
the United States or of the Confed
erate States, or must be a descend
ant of a man who has so served, or
be a person of good character and un
derstand the duties and obligations
of citizenship, or be able to read any
paragraph in the Constitution of the
United States, or own SSOO worth of
property. The bill will disfranchise
a great majority of the negroes of
Georgia.
Pope $22,500,000 Auto-Bicycle Co.
Goes to the Wall.
The Pope Manufacturing Company,
the $22,500,000 New Jersey corpora
tion which succeeded the Bicycle
Trust in 1903, skidded off the finan
cial race course, and landed in a
heap in the insolvency court. The
application for a receiver had been
quietly made before Chancellor How
ell, at Newark, N. J., but the move