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Elmendorf in West Eleventh Sheet,
New York City, after a summer spent
at Manhattan Beach. While advanc
ing old age has made heavy inroads
on the senator, he seems to be in
comparatively gocd health arid men
tally alert.
Navy Shake-up.
The biggest shake-up in the history
of the line of the United States Navy
is now in process of arrangement by
the Secretary of the Navy, who has
the approbation of President Roose
velt in the plan as outlined.
Os the officers now commanding
the eighteen battleships to make the
long voyage from the Atlantic to the
Pacific it is declared that only four
captains now commanding ships will
make the trip. The President and
the Secretarv of the Navv have agreed
to forward the long desired plan of
advancing young men to the fighting
line, and send their elders to shore
duty, according to information given
out last week, and of the eighteen
captains who will command and be
responsible for the $100.000.000 worth
of armament and equipment to -be
sent through the Straits of Magellan
to the Pacific, fourteen will be young
er men than those now in command.
As the plan now stands, it is said,
the following captains will hold their
ships and make the trip: Potter, of
the Vermont; Vreeland. of the Kan
sas; Osterhaus. of the Connecticut,
and Wainwright, of the Louisiana.
Shanghai Plans Welcome for Taft.
Preparations are on foot to give
Secretary Taft a big reception upon
his arrival at Shanghai. Thirty-two
Chinese corporations of Shanghai are
participating in the movement, which
has been approved by the Viceroy.
The project is not official, but is re
garded as a distinct evidence of the
friendlv feeling existing toward the
United States.
Czar Steals Timidly Into St. Peters
burg.
Last Tuesday, for the second time
since “Red Sunday’ ’ (January 22,
1905), Czar Nicholas entered the cap
ital k» all end the consecration of a
memorial church erected on the spot
where his grandfather, Alexander 11.,
was killed by a bomb, March 13, 1381.
The date of the trip, coinciding with
the conspiracy trial just closed
plainly was designated to raise the
loyalty of the army and the people.
It was a complete success and no un
toward incident occurred.
The police neglected no precaution
to insure the-Czar’s safety, even go
ing so far as to thoroughly search the
city and inspect lhe passports of sus
picious individuals. Gendarmes were
stationed in every window facing the
route over which the imperial proces
sion parsed, and ovners cf houses
were forbidden to open windows un
der pain of a heavy fine. Bridge and
river traffic was stepped. The banks
of the N<*va were lined with marine
guards and torpedo boats patrolled
the river.
After walking around the church
and saluting the guard the Czar en
tered the edifice at the south door.
The scene inside was cne of great
splendor, recalling the old-time court
balls.
An abundance of light, streaming
through the lofty windows, illumined
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the four immense Mosaic columns
around which were grouped 2,000 rep
resentatives of the ruling classes. The
Czar and the Czarina occupied the so
called patriarch’s place at the right
of the altar, where they were visible
only from the diplomatic loge. A
score of Grand Dukes and Grand
Duchesses encircled the imperial pair,
and further back were courtiers,
court dames, provincial governors and
a preponderant majority of army
officers.
Premier Stolypin was the only’ min
ister to attend the ceremonies, all
the others being rbroad.
Congo Natives Revolt.
Passengers by the Congo mail
steamer, which arrived at Brussels,
report a revolt among the Tree Sit ate
natives, who everywhere have refused
to do work which is demanded in lieu
cf taxes.
Tn the Aruwimini district a white
officer was attacked and wounded.
Several native soldiers were also
wounded. The passengers -enort that
punitive expeditions are being sent
out.
Parker Never Again Wants Public
Office
Tn an interview given at Portland,
Me., Judge Alton B. Parker, of New
York) eaidx
“I saw in a Boston newspaper of
this morning that Governor Campbell,
of Ohio, said he had verified in Now
A ork the fact that T am pc ssessed of
the conviction that I shall again be
nominated for the Piesidency. Nev
ertheless, I do not believe that he
ever said so. Tn any event, he did
not verify any such fact nor could
he. for it is not tine
“I do not desire ever again to hold
public office. T stated my position
on that subject the day after election,
in 1901, and I have not changed my
mind. T shall, however, always bp
interested in any question affecting
the public welfare, and I propose to
express my view? whenever it seems
to me desirable. And ’I may as well
be understood that I shall not he
deterred m the sli.-iiteit degree from
doing so by misrepresentation.”
Railroad Free for Turning State’s
Evidence.
Attorney-General Bonaparte has in
structed District-Attorney Simms, of
Chicago, to drop the proceedings look
ing to the penalizing of the Chicago
and Alton Railroad and its officers
for giving rebates to the Standard
(sil Company. This action is a re
ward to the road for having practi
cally turned state’s evidence against
the oil octopus in the suit in which
Judge Landis recently fined the Stan
dard $29,240,000 for accepting rebates
from the Chicago and Alton.
After administering the $29,240,000
castigation to the Standard, Judge
Landis, who was in ignorance of the
agreement entered into by Attorney-
General Moody, through Mr.- Morri
son, who has been succeeded as Dis
trict -Attorney here by Mr. Simms,
had determined to proceed against
the Chicago and Alton. He ordered
a special grand jury called to inves
tigate the railroad, under the facts
disclosed at the trial of the Stan
dard, by which it was clearly shown
that the road had given rebates to
the Standard. The presentation of
the facts to a grand jury could have
no other result than indictment. Up
on the issuance of Judge Landis’
order, the Chicago and Alton’s coun
sel set up a strong protest, declar
ing that both road and officers had
been promised immunity for their ser
vices to the government.
Burton Will Run Against Tom John
son.
Congressman Theodore E. Burton,
Chairman of the Committee on Rivers
and Harbors, issued a statement out
lining a platform upon which he is
willing to accept the Republican nom
ination for Mayor of Cleveland.
It is expected that his will be the
only name presented in the nominat
ing convention next September. The
statement was issued in response to a
call from republican leaders generally
and petitions bearing thousands of
signatures of voters asking Mr. Bur
ton to become the Republican stan
dard-bearer in opposition to Mayor
Tom L. Johnson, who, it is conceded,
will be the Democratic nominee for
the fourth term.
Weavers’ Strike Ends.
The strike of weavers which has
been in progress at the mills of the
Coronet Worsted Company at Maple
ville, R. 1., for ten weeks, has been
declared off. It is expected that the
majority of the men who struck will
return to work next week. The weav
ers went out. through dissatisfaction
with the two-loom system which has
been adopted at the mills. The strik
ers voted to accept a compromise
proposition of the company.
The mills, when in full operation,
employ about 550 hands.
Harriman Defends Railroad System.
E. H. Harriman, in an address to
the National Irrigation Congress, at
Sacramento, Cal., told how he came
to take control of the Union Pacific
and the Southern Pacific railroads.
Mr. Harriman and Governor Cham
berlain, of Oregon, president of the
congress, engaged in a mild debate,
Harriman rising in reply to certain
remarks of Oregon’s chief executive.
Mr. Harriman said that when he
suggested to associates east of the
Mississippi river that they take hold
of the Union Pacific, they regarded
him as almost out of his senses and
asked what he was going to do with
the great desert that the road tra
versed f
“I told them of the possibility of
irrigation,” said Mr. Harriman, “but
they replied that it would come in
another generation, not in ours. I
had to go it alone, and perhaps some
of them now regret that I did not
use more force and persuasion to
have them go along with me.”
He said that the Pacific railroads
controlled much timber land in Ore
gon, but that it was not for sale.
The timber is to be saved for future
generations.
Mr. Harriman referred to the work
done in improving the Union Pacific,
and said that it was necessary to get
control of the Central Pacific and im
prove it also, otherwise traffic would
be choked up at Ogden. He closed
by saying he hoped the people of the
West would not regard the Harriman
system as a selfish organization, and
added that everything possible was
being done by the railroads to develop
the West.
Steamship Nebraskan Missing.
The fate of the big American-Ha
waiian Line steamship, Nebraskan,
with a crew of forty, is in doubt.
Cablegrams say that it left the Ha
waiian Islands on August 13 for Sa
lina Cruz, Mexico, with a cargo of
sugar valued at $500,000. The dis
tance from the Hawaiian Islands to
Salina Cruz is 3,300 miles, which
should have been made with an elev
en-knot speed in thirteen days.
G. N.
NEW WAR RULES ADOPTED AT
HAGUE.
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‘ 4 Prisoners who escape to neutral
territory if recaptured by troops
must, after having asked for refuge
in a neutral state, be set free.
44 A neutral state can defend its
neutrality by force without this con
stituting an act cf hostility.”
When the project regarding the
treatment of neutrals on belligerent
territory was brought up for discus
sion, Baron Marschall von Bieber
stein (Germany) objected, saying that
Germany could not admit the princi
ple supported by Great Britain, to
employ neutrals in warfare when the
laws of a belligerent state permitted
it. Germany, on the contrary, main
tained that neutrals must take no
part in a war.
On the motion of Count Tornielli
(Italy) the proposition on this sub
ject was returned to the committee
for further study in the hope of
reaching an understanding acceptable
to all.
The Bulgarian delegation submit
ted the following proposition:
4 4 The permanent court of arbitra
tion : sit at The Hague, shall be com
posed of fifteen judges, a third of
whom shall be renewed every three
years, beginning from the day of the
organization of the court
4 4 The first and second renewal of
the judges shall occur by drawing a
third of the number by lot, while the
successive renewals shall occur after
the expiration of nine years from the
day of the election or re-election of
judges, as the latter can always be
re-elected.”
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