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PAGE FOUR 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.” * 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