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TIF! Ill SPEECH ACCEPTS NOMINATION Roosevelt Policies Need to Be Clinched, He Says. CINCINNATI HAS GREAT DAY Multitude From Ohio and Near Neighbor States Packed Street to Hear Republican Candidate's 12,000 Word Speech. Cincinnati, Ohio.?Wiliiam Howard Taft accepted the Republican Presidential nomination. His official notification combined a jubilee for the city of Cincinnati and its environs, a historic gathering of national party leaders and an occasion for the announcement by the candidate of his views. The notification was without any great ceremony. Upon the hour of noon Mr. Taft, a party of friends and the notification committee filed out of the colonial door to the broad porches of the Taft mansion. The porches and lawn were reserved for ticket holders, the street being the free-for-all field. A band stationed directly in front of the platform on the front walk kept the assembling crowd in a merry mood. Senator William Warner, of Missouri, past commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, chairman of the notification committee, escorted Mr. Taft to the speaker's 6tand. Senator Warner's speech of notification was brief. After formally informing Mr. Taft of his nomination he gave him an engrossed copy of the Chicago platform. In reply Mr. Taft did not deliver his full speech of acceptance, but gave only about enough of it to occupy an hour's time. He said: Nomination Accepted. Senator Warner and Gentlemen of the Committee: I am deeply sensible of the honor which the Republican National Convention has conferred on me in the nomination which you formally tender. I accept it with full appreciation of the responsibility it imposes. Gentlemen, the strength of the Republican cause in the campaign at hand is in the fact that we represent the policies essential to the reform of known abuses, to the continuance of liberty and true prosperity, and that we are determined, as our platform unequivocally declares, to maintain them and carry them on. For more than ten years this country has passed throueh an enoch of material devel opment far beyond any that ever occurred in the world before. In its course certain evils crept in. Some prominent and influential members of the community, spurred by financial success and in their hurry for greater wealth, became unmindful of the common rules of business honesty and fidelity, and of the limitations imposed by law upon their action. This became known. The revelation of the breaches of trust, the disclosures as to rebates and discriminations by railways, the accumulating evidence of the violation of the anti-trust law by a number of corporations, the oter-issue of stocks and bonds on interstate rail* ways for the unlawful enriching of directors and for the purpose of concentrating control of railways in one management, all quickened the conscience of the people and brought on a moral awakening among them that boded well for the future of?the country. What Roosevelt Has Done. ?' Tho man -ckhn formulated the ex pression of t\ie popular conscience and who led the movement for practical reform was Theodore Roosevelt. He laid down 'the doctrine that the rich violator of the law should be as amenable to restraint and punishment as the offender without wealth , and without influence, and he proceeded by recommending legislation and directing executive action to make that principle good in actual performance. He secured the passage of the so-called rate bill, designed more effectively to restrain excessive and fix reasonable rates, and to punish secret rebates and discriminations which had been general in the practice of the railroads, and which had done much to enable unlawful trusts to drive out of business their competitors. Suits Begun. President Roosevelt directed suits to be brought and prosecutions to be instituted under the anti-trust law, to enforce its provisions against the most powerful of the industrial corporations. He pressed to passage the Pure Food law and the meat inspection law in the interest of the health of the public, clean business methods and great ultimate benefit to the trades themselves. He recommended the passage of a law, which .the Republican convention has since specifically approved, restricting.the future issue of stocks and bonds by interstate railways to such as may be authorized by Federal authority. Chief Work of Next Administration. The chief function of the next Administration, in my judgment, is distinct from, and a progressive development of, that which has been performed by President Roosevelt. The chief function of the next Administration is to complete and perfect the machinery by which these standards may be maintained, by which the lawbreakers may be promptly restrained and punished, but which shall operate with sufficient accuracy and dispatch to interfere with legitimate New Line to Butte Finished. The last spike connecting Butte, Mont., with Chicago on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul coast extension has been driven. Through passenger trains from Chicago will be running into Buite by September. Mexico Deports GOO Chinese. The Mexican federal authorities hsve ordered the deportation of GOO Chinamen, v.-'no arrived at the port 'of Salina Cruz a few days ago direct from Oriental ports. Feminine Notes. Washington was visited *iiring June by 2400 newly married couples from all over the country. Mrs. John B. Stetson was married in Philadelphia to Count Santa Eulalia. Portuguese Consul at Chicago. Dr. W. T. Power, of New York, and Miss Esther Redmond, daughter of John E. Redmond, were married in T iiUuuuu, In filing her petition of bankruptcy Jliss Sophia Kluber, of Trenton, N. J., included in her list of property "one gold engagement ring on the jBnger of her petitioner, value $5.". k. business as little as possible. Such machinery is not now adequate. Under the present rate bill, and under all its amendments, the burden of the Interstate Commerce Commission in supervising and regulating the operation of the railroads of this country has grown so heavy that it is utterly impossible for that tribunal to hear and dispose, in any reasonable time, of the many complaints, queries and issues that are brought before it for decision. It ought to be | relieved of its jurisdiction as an executive. directing body, and its func| tions should be limited to the quasi judicial investigation or complaints by individuals and by a department of the Government charged with the executive business of supervising the operation of railways. There should be a classification of that very small percentage of industrial corporations having power and opportunity to effect illegal restraints of trade and monopolies, and legislation either inducing or compeHing them to subject themselves to registry and to proper publicity regulations and supervision of the Department of Commerce and Labor. Railway Traffic Agreements. It is agreeable to note in this regard that the Republican platform expressly, and the Democratic platform impliedly, approve an amendment to the interstate commerce law by which interstate railroads may make useful traffic agreements if approved by the commission. Valuation of Railways. It is clear that the sum of all rates or receipts of a railway, less proper expenses, should be limited to a fair profit upoq the reasonable value of fts property, and that if the sum exceeds this measure it ough\ to be re duced. The Interstate Commerce Commission has now the power to ascertain the value of the physical railroad property, if necessary, in determining the reasonableness of rates. If the machinery for doing so is not adequate, as is probable, it should be made so. Control of Corporations. The fact is that nearly all corporations doing a commercial business are engaged in interstate commerce, and if they all were required to take out a Federal license or a Federal charter, the burden upon the interstate business of the country would become intolerable. It is necessary, therefore, to devise some means for classifying and insuring Federal supervision of such corporations as have the power and temptation to effect restraints of interstate trade and monopolies. Such corporations constitute a very small percentage of all engaged in interstate business. Combination of Capital. The combination of capital in large plants to manufacture goods with the greatest economy is just as necessary as the assembling of parts of- a machine to the economical and more rapid manufacture of what in old times was made by band. The Government should not interfere with one an^' more tban the other, and when such aggregations of capital are legitimate and are properly controlled, they are then the natural results of modern enterprise and are beneficial to the public. In the proper operation of competition the public will soon share with the manufacturer the advantage in economy of operation and lower prices. Proper Treatment of Trusts. Unlawful trusts should be restrained with all the efficiency of injunctive process, and the persons engaged in maintaining them should be punished with all' the severity o? criminal prosecution, in order that the methods pursued in the operation of their business shall be brought within the law. '. fcvi ^ Revision of the Tariff. It is the policy of the Republican party permanently to continue that standard of living. In 1S97 the Dingley tariff bill was passed, under which we have had, as already said, a period of enormous prosperity. The consequent material development has greatly changed the conditions under which many articles described by the schedules of the tariff are now produced. The tariff in a number of the schedules exceeds the difference between the cost of pro duction of such articles abroad and at home, including a reasonable profit to the American producer. The excess over that difference serves no useful purpose, but offers a temptation to those who would monopolize the production and the sale of such articles in this country to profit by the excessive rate. . On the other hand there are other schedules in which the tariff is not sufficiently high to give the measure of protection which they should receive upon Republican principles, and as to those the tariffs should be raised. A revision of the tariff undertaken upon this principle, which is at the basis of our present business system, begun promptly upon the incoming of the new Administration, and considered at a special session with the preliminary investigations already begun by the appropriate committees of the House and Senate, will make the disturbance of business incident to such a change as little as possible. The Rights of Labor. In order to induce their employer into a compliance with their request for changed terms of employment, workmen have the right to strike in a body. They have a right to use such persuasion as they mav^ provided it does not reach the point of duress, to lead their reluctant co-laborers to join them in their union against their employer, and they have a right, if they choose, to accumulate funds to support those eugaged in a strike, to delegate to offi1 cers the power to direct the action of Kills Wife and Self. Peter Seudak shot and killed his wife and then ended his own life with a bullet from-the same revolver at Cleveland, Ohio. Sendak earlier in the day attempted to kill his three children, but they managed to escape by locking themselves in a room. Addison Thomas Dead. Colonel Addison Thomas, prominent in social and military circles in Newport, R. I., died at his home after a long illness. He was sixty-three years of age. . ? Major McCrea Found Dead. While en route from Washington* D. C., to Pittsburg on the Pullman car on the Pennsylvania Railroad. Major H. I. McCrea, a paymaster in the United States Navy, was found dead in his berth. He was a cousin of President McCrea of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Complain of Too Much Iiain Now. Continued heavy rains throughout Western New York have done great damage to the hay and wheat crops. The uncured wheat began to grow in the shock in the warm weather and bay has been made rusty. 1 the union, and to withdraw themselves and their associates from dealings with, or giving custom to those with whom they are in controversy. Injunctions and Labor. What they have not the right to do is to iDjure their employer's property. to injure their employer's business by use o( threats or methods of physical duress against those who would work for him, or deal with him, or by carrying on what is sometimes known as a secondary boycott against his customers or those with whom he deals in business. All those who sympathize with them may unite to aid them in their struggle,-but they may not through the instrumentality of a threatened or actual boycott compel third persons against their will and having no interest in their controversy to come to their assistance. These principles have for a great many years been settled by the courts of this country. Threatened unlawful injuries to business, like those described above, can only be adequately remedied by an injunction to prevent them. Asiatic Immigration. In the matter of the limitation upon Asiatic immigration, referred to in the Deriiocr?.tic platform,. It is sufficient to say that the present Republican Administration has shown itself able to minimize, the-evils suggested, j For an Income Tax. In m7 judgment an amendment to | the Constitution for an income tax is j not necessary. I believe that an in- | come tax can and should be devised j which under the decisions of the Su- ' preme Court will conform to the Con- 1 stitution. ... j Election of Senators, v With respect to the electionv of Senators by the people, personally I. am inclined to favor it, but it is hardly a party question. The Conclusion. * As said in our platform, we Republicans go before the country, said , Judge Taft, asking the support, not only of those who have acted with us heretofore, but of all our fellow citi- j zens. whom, regardless of past politi- | cal differences, unite in the desire to i maintain the policies, perpetuate the I blessings and make secure , the achievements of a greater America. With the speech over, the scene was shifted for the review of the parade. Judge Taft took his stand and watched the marchers pas? by for nearly two hours. BOY BURNED AT STAKE. Seventecn-Year-Old' Black Lad Attacked White Girl in Texas. Greenville, Texas.?Ted Smith, a seventeen-year-old negro boy, who j assauiteu jyliss vioia l^eiaucey uiree miles from Greenville, was burned at the ?take in the public square here in . b'road daylight. Miss Delancey is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Delancey, living ! three miles southwest of Greenville. J While her father was in the field I plowing and her mother was visiting j at a neighbor's house, a short dis- | tance away, the girl started out to the rural mail box, 300 yards from her home. , ! When she reached a point near the mail box the negro came out from his. hiding place in the woods, held a pis- j tol at her face and attacked her. After the crime he tried to make his escape, but the girl ran to the house and gave the alarm. Soon ' there were about 500 men, together j with the officers, searching and gcouring the Cadde Creek bottom for the negro. He was captured and put in , jaii. I The news that the negro was in jail soon leaked out, and the people I began to congregate faster and pour j in from the rural districts, until the ; throng swelled to 5000 or 6000 by 8 o'clock in tho morning. The peace officers did all they could to save the prisoner's life, and , speeches were made in the public [ square by District Judge R. L. Porter ; and District Judge T. D. Montrose, 1 who promised that a special Grand Jury would be empanelled, the negro tried, and, if convicted, would be i. hanged by law, all in one day. This did not satisfy the crowd, and 1 they demanded of Sheriff Hemsell that he send the negro out to the girl's home and let her identify him, I or else they would take him by force. About a dozen officers started with the prisoner. They made the trip, and on their return reached the jail door, when the crowd pressed forward, overpowered the officers and took the prisoner, dragged him to the public square and burned him. j Suicide Under Blazing Bed. After driving his wife from the house and then sending his two children to her with $1500 in cash and ; the deed to his property, Stephec j Joshua, a store proprietor of Wishaw, | Pa., saturated his bed with kerosene, set it ablaze, and crawling undfer 11 i fired three bullets iuto his head, dy- j ing almost instantly. It is said Joshua was extremely Jealous of his wife. Ohio Banker Surrenders. Henry W. Gazell, wapted for th? < alleged embezzlement of $32,000 ol , the funds Irom the defunct Farmers | and Merchants' Banlc, drove to police headquarters in Cleveland, Ohio, ir . an automobile and gave himself up. i l-ie was released at once in | bail. Buys the Seven Gables. Miss Caroline Emmerton, one ol the-richest women in Salem, Mass. has just purchased the celebrated House of the Seven Gables about which Hawthorne wrote, togethei with a large tract of land in the rear She will use the 'estate in settlemenl work. Congressman Powers Dead. United States Representative Llew- j ellyn Powers, of the Fourth Maim j Congressional District, died at his ' summer home in Houlton. Me. H< j was forced to leave Washington, D. j C., for Brookline, Mass., early in thf ' spring 'cv an attack of grip. The Kaiser's Yf.chts Coming. The Imperial Yacht Club of Kiel j Germany, will send three soundei ; class yachts to Marblehead, Mass., is August of 1909 for a series of races 1 raters that may be selected. The Labor World. Chicago has a school of instruction for railway trainmen. Cigar makers at Mayagues, Porte Rico, have formed a union. A Women's Label League has recently been organized at La Crosse, Wis. The insurance agents of Wheeling W. Va., propose to organize a labor ; ! UIHUll 1UI IUCU dCll'jJl ULCLLIUU lil LUC near future. In Paris, France, nearly a third ol j the streets were blocked with rubbish j and workmen's materials, owing to I the labor crisis. / 4 ?- ~T~ mm Latest News i BY WIRE. Glidden Ascends 4200 Feet. North Adams, Mass.?Charles J. Glidden, of Boston,madea tight aione in the balloon Boston from here. He was In the air just an hour, and reached a height of 4200 feet. He landed without incident at Petersburg, N. Y., fifteen miles away. Women Wrould Sign Votes. Annapolis, Md.?For the first time the women of Annapolis, who pay taxes, had the right of suffrage in the $40,000 bond issue election. The defeat of the proposed Issue is largely credited to their votes. Stole $1900 on Street Car. Philadelphia.?James A. Baughn, a messenger employed by the Empire Trust Company, was robbed of a wallet containing" $1900 on a street car. He was on his way to the Sub-Treasury. The thief escapfed. Release Horse Thief; Lock Up Jailer. ^ Bassett, Neb.?A gang of horse imevtjs iieiu up me wumj jau ucic, | released Bill Hazard, a noted horse thief, locked the jailer in a cell and escaped. .Wrestlers Fall Into Canal; Drown. Grand Rapids, Mich.?The second double drowning here in two days occurred with Joseph Brizisky and Stephen Wolseinski as the victims. During their noon hour the men engaged in a wrestling match, fell into the power canal and were drowned. Esperantists' Congress ?5nds. Chautauqua, N. Y.?The International Congress of Esperantists closed here and the members enjoyed an excursion on Lake Chautauqua. Twenty-five hundred dollars in individual subscriptions was secured at the last session for the holding of the fifth international congress in the United States. / Blow From Baseball Fatal. Elizabeth, N. J.?William Hefferman, twenty years old, died in the Alexian Brothers' Hospital here from paralysis, brought on by being struck by a baseball. He was catching and wore a mask, but the ball hit him back of his left ear. Rests With President. Washington, D. C. ? President Roosevelt will decide whether the eight cadets of the Military Academy who have been, suspended for hazing shall be dismissed or after a year's suspension shall be serevely reprimanded and permitted to re-enter the academy. Service For New Hampshire. Portsmoyth, N. H. ? Governor Charles M. Floyd, of Manchester, visited Portsmouth and completed arrangements for the presentation of a silver service by the State to the new battleship New Hampshire. Bather Drowns at Summer Camp. Suffern, N. Y.?Frank Gray, of New York, who was spending the summer at Mombasha Lake, was drowned at the Y. M. C. A. camp. Gray could not! swim and wore a pair of water wings. G. A. R. Quits Parade. Mount Vernon, Ind.?At the unveiling of the Soldiers and Sailors* Monument here, veterans of the Civil War refused to march in the parade behind the veterans of the Spanish War and formed a parade of their own. BY CABLE. Arion Singer Dies Abroad. Frankfort - on - Mam, uermany.? Jacob Schrumpf, one of the members of the Brooklyn Arion Choral Society who remained in Berlin on account of illness, is dead. Tunnel Into Hidden River. Berne, Switzerland.?Through the tapping of a Subterranean lake or river the Loetschberg tunnel, in the Berne Alps, was flooded and twentyfive workmen were drowned. Hawaiian Naval Reserve. Honolulu, Hawaii. ? The visit of the battleship fleet has led to a movement here for the organization of a naval reserve, to be recruited mainly from native Hawaiians. Plnnchette Swindler Flees. Berlin.?The planchette swindler, Willis J. Skinner, alias William E. Scott, of Boston, who was arrested near Berlin last February, charged WILLI recetvmg laigc ouuuo ui uiuuW in the sale of these articles, by means of which he declared people could hypnotize themselves and read the future, has jumped his bail of $25,000. New Airship Tested at Aldershot. Aldershot.?The new airship for the British army made the first of a series of trials. The flight was a brief one, but successful. The airship did a circle of two miles. Frenlh Airship Wrecked. Paris.?''The engine of M. Bierot's monoplane gave out while he was flying at a height of fifteen feet. The machine crashed to the earth and was wrecked. The aeronaut escaped with contusions. 1200 Casualties in Teheran. Teheran, Persia. ? A heavy can- | nonade, it is reported, has been going i on at Tabriz. Advices received here say the casualties number 200. The residents of Tabriz have made an appeal to the Shah through the European legations here. Disorders are reported in Ispahan and other places. Sir W. R. Cremer Dead.. London.?Sir William Randal Gremer, Member of Parliament from Haggerston since 18S5 and for thirty-seven years Secretary of the Inter- 1 national Arbitration League, is dead, j I Ten Killed in Feud. Rio Janeiro, Brazil.?A fatal political feud is reported from the little .town of St. Ann du Paranahyba, in the State of Matto Grosso. The trouble arose over local politics and was confined to two families, both prominent and influential. The ill feeling " <"- ViirrVi +liot a ironoral armpfi pnn - test resulted. In which ten men were killed. Among the dead are two magistrates. Commons After Meat Trust. London.?The British Government is taking up the campaign against the American meat combine seriously. ?; . - - WOLF AT THE DOOR-"! NEVER I s ?Cartoon by W. i . SOMETHING NE.V Amazing Progress in the Higher Bra by the Elaborate Cleverness of Pennsylvania Hotelkeeper Fro Some progress in the higher br by the following narrative of how a to part with $15,000 of his hard ear he was betting it on a prize fight got party of Chicago and Philadelphia r was arranged solely for the benefit c aires" are represented in the Rogue The elaborate cleverness of this try is getting educated. A novelist porters have explained again and ag which has trapped many a man that straight horse race. Gold bricks ar green goods game appears to be so | a confidence man is driven to his wii on from his hoard. One cannot help ingenuity expended on nominally lejc thing for nothing or directed into a paid the inventors of the fake prize i their originality in crime did reward New York City.?Swindling operations which have netted more than $1,000,000 a year for the last three years will be revealed, the police be- i lieve, through the capture of Freder- i ick Gondorff. Gondorff was arrested on the ' charge of having swindled Frederick Holznagel, a Scranton hotel proprie- i tor, out of $J.5,000 on a fake prize fight, and it is said the evidence will i implicate him in the robbing of Will- t iam F. Walker, who looted the New ; Britain Savings Bank of more than . $500,000. 1 At the examination in the Tombs < Court every effort will be made to 1 have Gondorff held on the complaint i of Holznagel, in order to give the de- ! tectives an opportunity to locate the 1 band of swindlers. Although using 1 Holznagel's charge to hold Gondorff, 1 the detectives of the Central Office < are after much bigger game, in the shape of bonds, valued at $120,000, ( which were part of the loot stolen by , Walker from the New Britain bank. . These bonds, consisting of $49,000 ( of Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad securities. S35.000 of Chicago, 1 Milwaukee and St. Paul bonds, $15,000 Rochester and Pittsburg bonds , and a number of other smaller parcels, have never been disposed of, ( and it is declared that they are still , in the possession of the members of ! the swindling band to which Gondorff J is suspected of belonging. Band Had Immense Resources. The immense resources of this band i is illustrated by the story of Holznagel, who declares that, while they ' were duping him, they made a flash i of $230,000. He says that this was i in genuine currency and not staeje : money, as he personally handled the i cash, and declares that it would have . been impossible to deceive him. According to Holznagel the swind- 1 lers pursued the same tactics with i him as they did with Walker, with i the exception that they used the prize Sorlit oramp instpnrl nf the wire tan ping scheme. One of the band, who went by the name of Webber, stopped at Holznagel's hotel in Scrantcn and I gained the boniface's confidence by a * legitimate business proposition. 1 Webber represented himself as a ' bond salesman. Holznagel is inter- : ested in some coal lands in Tennes- 1 see which he is anxious to sell. On I learning this, Webber told Holznagel ' tht he knew some millionaires who ' were also interested in coal, lands. : and that he might be able to dispose : of Holznagel's holdings. The specific millionaires mentioned were the Cudahys, of Chicago. Web- i ber, after some correspondence, ar- i ranged a meeting with '"Mr. Cuda- < hy's secretary." by the name of I "Blair." It was while the business i of disposing of the coal property was i being discussed that the swindling game was broached. Blair said that ; his employers were "sporty," and There Art* 3000 More Women |' Than >Ion i:i Evanston. Chicago.?Is Evanston the university suburb, destined to become an Adamless Eden? The question , was presented with great force to the * authorities of the.suburb when the i census takers completed the annual school census of the city. i The new census shows a surplus of 1 almost 3000 women in a population of less than 25.000. There are 13.- I 837 women and 10.SDG men in the < city, a total of 24,073. and a major- < itv of 2971 for the women. 1 - Stub Knds of News. Honduran Government troops recaptured the town of Choluteca, practically ending the revolution. W. J. Bryan was initiated into the ' Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben, a secret so- ! ciety of Omaha and Nebraska business men. * I An apostolic constitution issued by i Pope Pius X.. at Rome, makes sweep- 1 ing changes in the government of the Catholic Church. , The battleships Maine and Alaba ma were suddenly ordered to inter- ; rupt thoir cruise around the world and remain at Manila. J _ COULD STAND FACTORY SMOKE" K. Roger#, in the New Yo.?k Herald. \l IN SWINDLES. . i nches of the Criminal Art is Shown the Ruse Used to Separate a m His Hard-earned Wealth. anclies of criminal art is argued i Pennsylvania hotel keeper was led ned wealth under the delusion that ten up for the amusement of a nillionaires. Of course the fight if the hotel keeper. The "millions' Gallery. swindle also argues tnat tne counand thousands of newspaper re;ain the trick of the "wiretappers," would not have bet a dollar on a e seldom sold nowadays, and the generally known by this time that ts' end for devices to part the comei thinking that the same amount of 'itimatc schemes for getting someibsolutely honest efTort would have fight much more handsomely than I them. that they had a prize fighter by the name of Sullivan whom they were willing to back for any amount. Blair 3aid they were in Bridgeport, Conn., and that Sullivan was with them. He then unfolded a scheme by which he and Holznagel were to win $20,000 from the "Cudahys." He said that he knew a prize fighter in Boston, Collins by name, who could defeat Sullivan. Holznagel agreed that it was an easy way to get money and the prize fight was arranged. Holznagel put up $5000 as his por-y tion of the bet. Blair furnished the ather $15,000. The "Cudahys" backed Sullivan for $20,000. The fight was pulled oft in the Bridgeport Fair Grounds. Of course Collins lost, but Blair declared it was on a duke, and begged Holznagel to back him for another fight. Got $10,000 More. The "Cudahys" offered to bet three to one on the second fight, and Holznagel hurried to Scranton to secure more mo?ey. He returned with $10,r\AA V.? nnf i?n nn fnlUna onH I UUU, WIUUU ilC JJUl u jj uu v/vswiuu, again he lost. It was at this fight that $230,000 was bet, Blair ostensibly making wagers amounting to $75,000. After the fight the "Cudahys" turned the money over to Blaiv, their secretary, telling him to deposit it and send checks to the winner. Blair then made a proposition to Holznagel that they run away with the money. He told Holznagel to go to Albany, to the Ten Eyck, where lie would meet him and divide. Holznagel went, but Blair failed to meet him, and Holznagel came to New York and consulted Lawyer John M. Coleman, of No. 115 Broadway, who laid the matter before, District Attorney Jerome. Holznagel was taken to the Rogue's Gallery, where he identified the pictures of Frederick Gondorff and James Morgan, alias Deafy Morris, as the two men who posed as the Cudahys. The arrest of Gondorff followed, and he was identified by Holznagel as one of the band. The arrest of Gondorff immediately led the police to connect the men af the band with the Walker swind- ' lers. His brother, Charles Gondorff, < was arrested shortly after Walker's | i flight, and was charged with having i j been a party to the swindle, which looted the New Britain Bank. Charles ' Gondorff was held for trial and after j ?1??os nnn hail I vvuru waa rcicaoeu uu ?> ! furnished by "Bob" Nelson. He is } now running a gambling house in At- ] lantic City. 1 Walker, however, refused to impli- < cate any one in his stealing. He said that he did not remember the names Df the men who swindled him. His taciturnity destroyed the last hone the Pinkertons had of recovering the money. Frederick Gondorff's arrest, however, has changed the prospect, ( and- it is now believed that the $120,000 in bonds may be recovered. ( .Mont Blanc Climbers Wore ISO Last Year j Geneva.?Statistics have just been i published showing that during last inn AlimhaH fn UlC year loU ni|/uiinia nuuwtu . summit of Mnnt Blanc. Twenty ol the climbers were English and eight I were Americans. Fourteen of the climbers were women, the majority j being English. J The aqes of the Alpinists varied i From fifteen to fifty-five years, and imong them were a prince, a general, two barons, a priest, several doctors, lawyers and a Swiss chimney sweep. Prominent People. Mr. Bryan is younger than Mr. Roosevelt by almost two years. Henry Phlpps. the Pittsburg millionaire, has donated $500,000 for the study of insanity. The Prince of Wales, at Quebec, save .?10,000 to be used in maintaining the Plains of Abraham as a per manent memorial. The sons of Governor McCord, ot | ( Arizona, and Commodore Kitson, of | i 3t. Paul, are earning their living as i laborers in Everett. Wash. Young1 Kitson's part of his father's estate { was $2,000,000. 1 \ ' J V : r Not a Success. On a Southern plantation the lairy hands were accustomed to do the milking, squatting down in a *' primitive fashion, until the o^nar Introduced milking stools. Bait the first experience with innovation was not a success. The negro who sallied forth with the stool returned bruised and battered, and with an emnty Dail. "I done my best, sah," he explained. "Dat stool looked all right to me, but the cow she won't sit on It!" ? (' Bad as the Egg. 1 "u A witty as well as a soft answer will sometimes turn away wrath. A j candidate, in the midst of a ntirring address, was struck by a rotten egg full in the face. Pausing to wipe J away the contents of the missile, he calmly continued: "I have always'contended that my opponent's arguments were very unsound! " The crowd roared, and he was no longer molested. The |B General Demand -J of the Well-Informed of the World has alwav3 been for a simple, pleasant and ji'3 efficient liquid laxative remedy of known value; a laxative which physicians could sanction for family use because its com- S'ponenfc parts are known to them to be j wholesome and truly beneficial in effect, acceptable to the system and gentle, yet prompt, in action. V In supplying that demand with its ex- . > rjellent combination of Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna, the California Fig Syrup Co. proceeds along ethical lines and relies on the merits of the laxative for its remarkable success. That is one of many reasons why Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna is given ' the preference by the Well-informed. To get its beneficial effects always buy H the genuine?manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co., only, and for sale by all leading druggista Price fifty cento per bottle. ^||| Fogs and Sandbanks. Fogs are common over sandbanks because shallow water covering sandbanks Is colder than the deep sea. The Banks of Newfoundland fogs are aggravated by the warm Gulf Stream running into this layer of cold water. A TERRIBLE CONDITION. ' | Tortured by Sharp Twinges, Shooting Pains and Dizziness. , $ Hiram Center, 518 South Oak street, l^ake City, Minn., says: "I was % Dso bad with kidney trouble that I could not straighten up af- /; ter stooping without - i \ Jj T' buai|j yaiLiu guuuuuj s AA .(W through my back. I had dizzy 8Pella? was ' nerv0U3 am* my eyesight affectcd. The kidney secretions were 'rre^ular and ^wjijl t00 frequent. -'I was In a terrible condition, but Doan's Kidney Pills have cured me and I have enjoyed perfect health since." Sold by all dealers, 60 cents a box. Foster-Mllburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. . . Big Gooseberry Pies. Yesterday was the anniversary of the time honored Gooseberry Fair at Tollesbury, and a feature of the sur- /. vlval has always been the baking of huge gooseberry pies. The object was to give a welcome home to fathers and brothers who have been V'\j away on racing or pleasure yachts or fishing, and each fdmily used to prepare a huge pie for its homecoming seafarers In speciallly large dishes. There have been Tollesbury pies that held as much as a peck or half a peck of fruit, and tradition even relates that one pie was so large that the local baker had to remove one or two bricks to get it into his oven.? From the London Standard. , A Friend Indeed. A party of Scotsmen had been having a little celebration in a Canadian township, and unsteady were the steps on the home-coming in the morning. One fell by the wayside and called for help from another wayfarer. The would-be good Samaritan tried to steady himself as he looked down upon the fallen one, and then settled matters by saying: "I canna help ye up, but I'll lie doon 'aside ' ye."?Rehoboth Sunday Herald. Iron cloth Is made from steel, and has the appearance of horsehair cloth, [t is largely used by triors as a ma:erial for stiffening the shoulders and collars of coats. HEALTH AXI) IX COME. Both Kept Up on Scientific Food. Good sturdy health helps one a lot :o make money. With the loss of health one's income is liable to shrink, if not enirely dwindle away. When a young lady has to make ler own living, gooa neaitn is uer jest asset. "I am alone in the world," writes a Chicago girl, "dependent on my own fforts for my living. I am a clerk, and tbout two years ago through close application to work and a boarding louse diet, I became a nervous invalid, and got so bad off it was almost mpossible for me to stay in the office i half day at a time. "A friend suggested to me the idea >f trying Grape-N'uts, which I did,, naking this food a large part of at east two meals a day. "To-day I am free from brain-tire, lyspepsia and all the ills of an overvorked and improperly nourished jrain and body. To Grape-Nuts I >we the recovery of my health, and he ability to retain niv poshion and U ncome." "There's a Reason^ " Name given by Postum Q,., Battle 89 >eek, Mich. Read "The Road to g[ iVellville," in pkgs. bH Ever read the above letter? A new )ne appeai-s from time to time. They H| tre genuine, true, and full of hum an flfl uterest. m J