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PAGE FOUR Summary of Tbents as They Happen “Unfair List” Still in Use. Although suit was brought against the American Federation of Labor to prevent boycotting the September number of the American Federation* ist, just issued, contains the usual “We don’t patronize” list. President Samuel (Jumpers, in a vigorous editorial regarding the anti boycott suit and the alleged determi nation of the National Association of Manufacturers t o raise a • fund of $1,500,000 to fight labor unions under the heading “Go to With Your War Fund,” says in part; “The employers in the Manufac turers’ Association have organized and instead of frankly conceding that right to the wage-worker they want to destroy nis organization so that they, in organized force, may more easily become roasters of all they survey. “Organized labor has been so fair to the fair-minded and just employ er, it has brought such a degree of sunshine to#the homes and lives of the toilers, that it has come to stay. To stay, do you understand —Van Cleave, Parry, Post—to stay!” Anarchist Congress Opens in Amster dam. Emma Goldman, the American an archist, told the Anar'hist Congress at its opening at Amsterdam Hol land, that she brought cordial greet ings from all the Anarchists in the United States. She declared that lib erty for the masses exists only on pa per; fervently hoped the congress would devise an international organ ization of anarchists and said that there is nothing to hope frtm the So cial Democrats. Uncle Sam’s Telegraph. The following sacs are given in the annual report of Gen. Allen, the chief signal officer »vh > has charge of the Federal system of telegraph; The system consists us 1,403 cries of line and 107 miles of wireless and 2,524 miles of submarine cable. There are forty-five telegraph offices and ten cable stations in this system, of which eighteen are money transfer offices. Last year the total number of messages handled w.is 260.000 commercial and 50,000 official. Edward VIII. Forces House of Lords to Pass Bill. After sixty years of incessant agi tation the British House of Lords at London has at last conse.ned o a bill legalizing marriage with “a de ceased wife’s sister.” This bill has passed the House of Commons eleven times, and reached third reading in the House of Lords once before, but then was rejected by a plurality of two. Its chief opponents hava bem the Anglican bishops. wh.i insist on re garding such unions as immoral, and have opposed legalizing them on the ground that it would introduce a new element of disruption and unhappiness into home life. The Royal family has steadfastly used all its influence with the Peers •••■’■ ■ ■ ■ • - • WaTsoU’s Weekly jeffeKsonian. to pass the bill and at last King Ed ward has succeeded. Writing to the press, many of the Anglican clergy declare that they never will consent to celebrate such unions, or peimit their celebration in their churches. Hitherto Englishmen wished to marry their dead wife’s sisters have married abroad, but the off spring of such marriages was illegit imate in Great Britain though legiti mate in the British Colonies and the Channel Islands. Lien Mangles Woman. Mrs. Anna Hucke, sixty-four years old, was horribly mangled at Pitts burg, Pa., and 1,500 persons were thrown into a panic when Cedar, an immense lion at Luna Park, escaped from his cage and charged the au dience, composed mostly of women and children. After fifteen minutes’ battle four park policemen killed the brute. Over fifty shots were fired at him. Mrs. Hucke is in the Homoe pathic Hospital and the doctors do not think she can survive the night. Steam Presses Scare Printers. Steam presses are now being in stalled in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing at Washington and the plate printer’s employed there fear they may lose their positions in con sequence. The law against the use of steam presses in the Bureau was re pealed by Congress at its last ses sion and since that time two have been placed in the establishment. The officials say none of the men will be dismissed. Canada Would Limit Japanese Immi gration. The Dominion Government is nego tiating with Japan to restrict the im migration of Japanese to Canada to a still more limited number each year. It is believed such an arrange ment can be effected. The existing arrangement provides for the admission of from 500 to 600 Japanese yearly, but this number is multiplied several times by arrivals from Honolulu. It is proposed to lim it the arrivals in British Columbia to 500 yearly, whether they come from Japan or elsewhere. The Japanese consul here says that a large number of the Japanese ar riving in Canada ultimately find their way to the United States. Noel Will Be Next Governor. E. F. Noel has been nominated for Governor of Mississippi in the Demo cratic primary held in Mississippi last Thursday. Earl Brewer, his op ponent, conceded the nomination, of Noel. Farmers Lynch Murderer. Lewis P. Higgins, who murdered W. L. Coppie and wife, farmers near Rosalie, Neb., May 12, was lynched at Bancroft. Sheriff Young, of Thurston county, came to Omaha last night to get his prisoner, who had been in the Douglas county jail here since his capture, and took him to Bancroft on a train which arrived there at 8 a. in. today. Twenty men took Higgins from the sheriff, hauled him off in a dray and hanged him to a tree. Morgan to Buy .More Bonds. Repeating his famous coup of 1896, when he formed a rich man’s syndi cate to buy United States lionds by secret contract to replenish the gold reserve, J. Pierpont Morgan, accord ing to semi-official .announcement has made a private arrangement with New York City officials to form similar syndicate to purchase $40,- 000,000 4 1-2 per cent city bonds which Acting Comptroller McCooey has announced, will be sold on Sept. 10. .x Taft a Straddler, Declares Bryan. William J. Bryan’s reply to the speech of Secretary Taft at Colum bus, Ohio, was given out at Lincoln, Neb. Secretary Taft is condemned as a “straddler” on nearly all the important issues and criticised for not taking advance® grounds in re forms. He says: . “Secretary Taft’s speech will prove a disappointment to those who expected a clear bugle note in favor of reform. There is not a single ques tion on which he takes a strong, ad vanced position. “On the railroad question he is in favor of preventing watered stock, opposes the consolidation of compet ing lines and the duplication of di rectorates. So far so good; but he does not advocate the ascertaining of the value of the roads or the re duction of rates. He defends the President from the charge of favor ing, the reductions made by the States. The railroads may object to his rhet orical denunciation of abuses, but they will hardly be scared by his rem edies. ‘ ‘ On the trust question, he thunders at unlawful trusts, but not only does not recommend new legislation, but takes the position that a monopoly may not be harmful. He seems to lean toward the idea that it must be convicted of some harmful act —and this throws the burden of proof up on the Government. He recognizes that ‘restraint is more difficult’ when one corporation swallows up a lot of other corporations —that ‘it in volves enormous labor on the part of the Government to prosecute such a combination because the proof of the gist of the offense lies underneath an almost limitless variety of transac tions,’ and yet he is opposed to the license system which would enable the Government absolutely to prevent a monopoly. ‘‘ In other words, he gives the ben efit of the doubt to the corporation instead of to the people. He thinks that putting one or two trust mag nates in the penitentiary would have a healthy effect, but he uses so many qualifying words that one is left in doubt as to what he really favors. “After submitting an argument in support of an inheritance tax and a graduated income tax, he concludes by saying that he is not in favor of adopting either of them now. At some future time he may adopt them if they are needed. “He comes out strong in favor of government by injunction, but does not take any positiun on arbitration and election of senators by the peo ple. “He takes a rap .at socialism, de nounces the initiative and referen dum and presents an argument against Government ownership of railroads. He is stronger in stating what he opposes than in stating what he favors and he —unintentionally of course —misstates Mr. Bryan’s posi tion on several questions. “He makes out a strong case in favor of tariff reform, but when he gets to the remedy he goes no fur ther than the Republican leaders have gone in former campaigns. He wants enough tariff to cover the dif ference in cost of labor here and abroad —the excuse given for the present tariff —and he wants tho tariff reformed by its friends. ‘Tar iff reform by the friends of the tar iff’ is a farce and a fraud* and the Secretary runs away from the conclu sions which would naturally be drawn from the statistics which he presents. “The conservatives may object to his speech because it admits many Democratic contentions, but no real reformer will find encouragement in it. It is a straddle of the most im portant issues—a compromise instead of fight for reform.” Fish Smites Harahan. At a meeting of the directorate of the Illinois Central Railroad Com pany at No. 11 Broadway, New York City, Stuyvesant Fish, whom E. H. Harriman ousted from the presidency of the company in November last, to put John T. Harahan in charge, punched Mr. Harahan in the jaw. Other reports have it that there was only a wrestling match, in which honors were even. Mr. Harahan in an unguarded mo ment used that “shorter and uglier term” in answering an assertion by Mr. Fish that the President of the Illinois Central was a tool of E. H. Harriman. Nine directors were present, Stuy vesant Fish, Alexander G. Hack staff, Charles M. Beach, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Walter Lutgen, John De Witt Cutting, Charles A. Peabody, Robert Walton Goelet and the Pres ident. Mr. Fish introduced a resolution wherein he asked the directors to vote for or against the present man agement of the Illinois Central Rail road and its president Mr. Harahan, whom he accused of being a tool in the hands of Mr. Harriman. This resolution attacking Harriman brought about the clash. Parker Assails Centralization. The thirtieth annual meeting of the American Bar Association was held at Portland, Maine. President