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Liues in Comparath Dollars By Eleano, *4W*0999 HE average monthly i: something less than this a Japanese of t] five or six in comfori ple pleasures dear tc do not consist of fea to places of amusemf peculiar and completE er gazing" is the Jai costs nothing to the family that is wi reach some spot particularly beautifie season's flowers which, in their turn, the new year. On these expeditions, takes its allowance of rice and tea, of its feast is only such as it usually ei works on an average twenty-six days e; from sun to sun. He doesn't work a doesn't accomplish as much in a given 1 worK thoroughly, he is efficient, as a r sufficient for his needs. He lives in a neat little house of tv absolute bareness. For this he pays * to the kindly climate of his land, he k of fuel. A little charcoal for a tiny hib be done on this (: on a less ornamenta called the kitchen. His charcoal and I month, and for this he has all the fuel , nothing about the sting of rigid econor else. He has to pay about $3 for enoi Ily a month, and his only hardship real provide for him the little luxuries of d joy. And he has his fish and vegetal than $1 a month; and after everything a small supply of sake, for tobacco, dressing of the women of his family, a ing public bathhouse that is so necessa -Leslie's Weekly. - AMo< Maple SuS ByW.s. INETY-FIVE percent United States comes N igan, Pennsylva'-., a the order named. place, producing at third of the gross y established among t 10'73, and it was froi learned how to make mont state experimental station under the subject about which there was muc ried forward slowly through a series are only a few days, relatively, in the When the investigations were con lished. It outlines a mass of interesti cuniary value to those engaged in the Self recording pressure gauges atti wc1l, were used to show the actual -for ing the day. All the water of the pi mueans of exit, unless tapped, being by demonstrated that the leaves of the a 2-40 pounds of water, the water conter of their whole substance, the total wati It was shown that a tree in 10 day piration. It is suction, chiefly during tissues of the tr~ee, to be run off durih the pails, and then converted into sug ently not wholly determined as yet, bi presence of a certain gas in the trees]1 * Honest India and Hon Both Seeking SOE gamepaBy William Ju HERE should be no'i II~llvidualist and the hon T ~j believe to be best fo~ Ii~~Ithe abuses of indivil At present private r an undeserved odiur the advantages of cc And the duty of imn by the fact that the socialist is incline< that it will be easier to induce the goa It has passed into the hands of a fewr Ists unite in declaring monopoly to bE hoj~ing to retain the fruits of monqpol; the ultimate appropriation of the bene: The individualist, on the contrary. tries ceases to be an economic advanta he helieves, further, that no economic monopolization of all the indus-:ries ir compensate for the stifling of individua individualists who thus believe stand ft which they are willing to measur'e agai: -The Century. iSystem for B By Frances Me +c.4..4.++gg Denver, the probatia 4 ' to its highest :point. 4 -v. ed a report sys;tem v. U . ing track of the prog ++ Each boy broug ,4.,4...,..$ forth a nurmber of out +s++++ he is re-uired io p MM.+.~ morning a..e i teacher. At these Gaiturday morning sessic: to sit on the bench. He goe down er .0A each one with the dee'pest perscg c,,n-ratuiates the boys and tells the o on the -cops' now, because he has cut< ethr-r bzoy in the class." If the report i ktindi questions until he gets at the cat "The Children's Court in Amnerican (C TO RE.MOVE PAINT FROMI STEPS.: So c"t- 'when thie house is "ein~ donel up paint i spilt ov'er the steps and it .is s1me1mes difficult to -' rid (:i i n hs case. make a' strong' ese Laborer 3 >e Comfort on Eigh: z Month. - Franklin. icome of the Japanese workman is now $8. And this is a high average. On ie laboring class can keep a family of and cleanliness and enjoy all the sim the Japanese heart. These pleasures sting and drinking to excess and going mnt, but are the pleasures afforded by a : love of nature in all her moods. "Flow anese expression, and "flower gazing" [ling to tramp any number of miles to I by a luxuriant display of one of the fill every month from the new year to vhich .we would call picnics, the family fish and smll pickled vegetables, and ijoys at home. The Japanese laborer ich month, and his hours are ordinarily ; hard as his brother in the West, he ime, not by any means; but he does his ule, and his pay has always been quite ro rooms, spotlessly clean and simple to omething like $1'a month, and, thanks nows nearly nothing about the expense chi is all he needs, and his cooking can I one in a wee bit of an additional room ight together cost him less than $1.25 a Lnd light he finds necessary. He knows iy. Rice costs him more than anything igh of this commodity to keep his fam ly is that his income is not sufficient to iet that I-is more fortunate brothers en les, too, each costing him a little less is paid for he still has enough left for hair-cutting and shaving, for the hair nd for the daily hot bath in a neighbor ry to the well being of every Japanese. fern ar Making Harwood. of all the maple sugar made in the from Vermont. New York, Ohio, Mich id New Hampshire, production being in 'or a century Vermont has held first the present time from a quarter to a ield. The making of maple sugar was ie Indians in Vermont before the year a the Indians that the early settlers this delicious luxury. In 1S97 the Ver took a careful and exhaustive -study of h that was obscure. The work was car >f years because of the fact that there rear when the flow of sap is on. pleted an exhaustive bulletin was pub ig and important material, of direct pe making of maple sugar. ched to the trees, and to the roots as :e of the sap flow at different times dur tple enters through the roots-its only the transpiration of the leaves. It was verage maple sugar tree contain about .t 6'f the leaves being about 71 percent sr weight of the tree being 1200 pounds. s' time lost nearly 590 pounds by trans the night, which draws up sap into the tg the day through the sap spouts into ar. What causes this suction is appar it thie station authorities show that the ias an important bearing on it. idualists - est Socialists, iety's Best Good. ~nnings Bryan. 4 m infriendliness between the honest indi est socialist; both seek that which they society. The socialist, by pointing out lualism, will assist in their correction. ionopoly is putting upon individualism , and it behooves the individualist to getically to this problem in order that mpetition may be restored to industry. ediate action is made more imperative I to supp~ort the monopoly, in the belief emnment to take over an industry after aen. The trust magnates and the social an economic development, the former Sin p~rivate hands, the latter expecting its of monopoly by the government. contends that the consolidation of indus ge when competition is eliminated; and advantage which could come from the the hands of the government could I initiative and independence. And the yr a morality and for a system of ethics st the ethics and morality of socialism. oy Offenders ~ wie Bjorkm an. > system has, perhaps, been developed To the regular work of officers is add hic even surpasses probation in keep ress ,f the delinquent toward reform. ht into court is given a card setting 'stions that bear upon his conduct. This resent at court every other Saturday s been filled Out and signed1 by his is Judge Lindsey makes it a point not ong the boys and examines the report solicitude. If the report is good, he .her fellows that "Billy's got the laugh butr swipin things and is beating every :bad, the judge follows up the boy with tse and decides upon a remnedy-From yLife, ir the Monthly Review of Re A NEW USE FOR PAPER. A new use for paper in which wo men are likely to be interested has ben dscovere~id in the adaptation of :isse paper for rugs wdich are inl t:yced especially for summer use an.! look something~ like a fine grade of mlatig. T-e patterns. however, are moe int:'iate thaa uua: in matting. The rus ich may ebent or fold NWS IN S1ORI ORD[R Epitome of Current Happenings of Interest Briefly Told. The Fourth of JuIy was generalli observed in Manila. An inspection of Chicago baker ies showed many of them to be un -amitarv. Dr. Harry Frieden;aid. of Balti enore, was ie-elected prksident of the American Federation df Zionists. The Central Conference of Ameri !an Rabbis received a number of comn mittee reports and took action or some of theii. Aetion was taken to revoke the :-harters of the French Liek Spring Ilotel Company. of which Thomas Ta-gart is president, and the Bader springs Hotel Company. both al French Lieb. Ind., it beii allegel -ambling is allowed on the primises Fears are entertained :'or the safe. tv of the steamer America. whic left Mediterranean ports with 15( :)ersons on board bound for New York. The Arlon Singing Society of Bal imore took part in the prize singing for the first class of organization a1 Newark. President Roosevelt disposed of : lot of accumulated correspondence a Sa-amore Hil. Sefretary Bonaparte has invite( Ihipbuilders to debate their own an< Ithers' bids for battleship construe tion and the recommendations of the Naval Construction Boari. A night session of the RNussiar Cabinet was held. but the nature o: the (:scssion was not disclosed. Two more Warsaw policemen weri mnurdered by Russian teorists. The French Chamber of Deputie: ainulled the election of Count Bon .le Castellane. Natalian troops killed :.30 rebel Zu Is yesterday. but have not yet ine tlie m.ain force. The Lafavette collection of relic shown at the Chicago Exoosition wa 4o!l at auction in Londin for $27, In an interview in London Hon Wiliam J. Bryan said the list of can didates should be open until the tim comes to choose a candidate for th Presidene. Rev. J. W. Jenkins, D. D., superin tendent of the Methodist Orphanage at Raleizh, N. C., and a veterar Methodist minister, died at his hom in RMeigh on July Fourth of paraly sis. W. E. Henry, who has been for nin vears librarian of the Indiana Stat Library and made it one of the bes of its kind in the country. is to be come librarian of the University o Washington at Seattle. Prof. R. S. Tarr, of Co-nell U~nivex sity, will conduet an expedition t Alaska this summer with four assisi ants and a number oIf packers. Thi expedition will study the Malaspin and Bering Glaciers and make a ri connoissance survey of lhe bed roe geoloy otf the reion0I between Yakt tat and Cottroller Bays. Dr. Cressv L. Wilbur. who has jaI been appointed chinet statistician fc vital statistics ini th Census Burea at Washington hans acouirted an iti national repu:tat ion as ani auithlor 0 mortal ity~ and mo rbidityv subjiects. For its white popuuiIIn Sout Africa is perhamips the grea test miarkt in the world for musical inistrume: It sp1ends for t hem $L1.00(.O0 az yea half of wh ich is for pianos. Germany has just revis~ed its rai way tar it. which invoves a muh!ill eat Ion of tiets, it is calcultd thr a traveler with-~ a small family gain from M ul house to Bale will hind bin self futrnished withI sixty t ickei s.i addi tioni to whi:b are those for ba; gage. The Socialists of G;eorgia, assen bled in State convnio in afIter 'i tendi ng ani unheeded in vi tat ion1 lol inc. tom a uinion of inutercst s to t hm Poi ulist State conveintion. r omniinted full State t icket headed by. J. B. O~ borne, of A tlanta for Go':ernor. English art illery volunteers ar armedi with obsolete field pieces. bi' have done their best tovwardl mak in them formidable bypainting thbet the new grenish-gray colo)r. C (aptain Pepton Bibb commit te suicide in N~ew YXork. HIe was a ii tive of Montgomery and came froi a distinguished family. Dr. Albert Ernest .Jenks, recentl chief of the ethnological survey the Philippines. has beei. electedt an assistant professor'ship in thle dIE partmrenit of sociology in tie Uivers v of Mlinnesota. The second east ward t raiis-Atlanuti race between the Hamheurg-Amier enni line steamer D~entschhaind and th French line steamer Laprovenio onde this morning with a deccisive victor in favor of the G er*mn boat. Thie liaussia n( GovernmeniIt's Aer:: rian bill has been co mpldetedl. There is gOod~ promIis of 0 sloe t ruti bursting ini Wash ingtonIi. Step1s har~ been taken by l~catl aut horitiis te wa rd an inIvest i'Zitati of thle busines relatIions of lhe ice meii of the cit Fatmilies are payiiin' about thle smin price as thy did ten days ago bu: the quantity of supplies is abont Ioml third. TheC aredOIts of Oxflord Universit for 1905L havye just been presen ted t ('Ioe'ion 11. and exhibit a Surlut forY the fihrst tie for mianvyvears. A he en'd oft 190'4 there was a defici 'f uarl 2.57U 1)ut this has been cot vete .int a credlit hahm uee ofI iiem Las Sanra mornuintheu ;cver:'r If ! io go to he 1ar ta\tI: IS NOT A CANDIDATE Mr. Hearst Not Seeking Place on Democratic Ticket HE PREFERS BRYAN OR BAILEY Publisher-Congressman States in San Francisco That He is Not a Can didate for Next Democratic Presi dential Nomination- Appreciates Mr. Brayn's Inclusion of Him in List of Eligibles and Would Let it Stand, Bryan, Folk or Bailey, Though Preferring to Substitute Stevenson for Bailey-Praisas Mr. Bryan's Services. San Francisco. Special.-Congress man Hearst said: "I would like to state very positively that I am not a eandidate for the Democratie presi dential nomination in 1908. "Mr. Bryan said the other day in London that there were others be sides himself who had claims on the nomination. through services reder ed the Democratic party, and men tioned pleasantly Messrs. Folk, Bail ey and myself. "While appreciating Mr. Bryan 's compliments, I must decline to be considered a candidate. Let the list stand. if Mr. Bryan pleases, Bryan or Folk or Bailey. For my part I would substitute Stevenson for Bailey. "Mr. Bryan's services to Demo cracy are too well diagnosed to be rehersed. He has led the party con spieuously in two presidential cam paigns and one senatorial campaign. In the national house of Congress lie has made issues himself and expound ed them with brilliancy unapproach ed.' Difiant Passenger Slain. FayttvileN.C., Special1. An unusual tragedy was enacted on an exeursion Sunday morning.in which aman nam ed Ellison. form Autrvville. was shot and instantly killed by a Mr. Bledsoe. a citizen of Stedman. The train. crowded with passengers. .was pass ing between Roseboro and ANutryville in Sampson county. Rising in a crowded coach, and displaying a re rolver in each hand. Elliston, who was the worst for drink. announcced that lie was going to kill everybody in ihe car. "That'vo won't.'' claimed Bledsoe, who sprang to his t feet. pistol in hand. and taking deli - berate aim. fired. The bullet siruck C Elliston in the forehead. killin" hinm instantly.' At Autryville Bledsoe - ave himself up to Sampson count y Sauthorities. The -dead man still -rasped his revolvers. each withI Severy chamber loaded, and near him Swas a jag of whiskey. Arkansas Hits Oil Trust. -Little Rock, Spee-a.-A tiornc'y General Rogers and Prosecuting At ed suit against the Waters .Pierce Oil Company. alleating a conspiracy to control the output andl prices oft oil Sanld asking damages in the sum of .$2.000.000. They also ask that the Sonmplanyv forfeit its right to do busi ness in Arkansas. The bill alleg.es that the Waters-Pieree Oil (Comipanuy is associated vwith thle Stan~da rd Oil Company. Republican Oil Company and others. Two Killed. ~Topeka. Kansas. Special .-Th omas .Tohnson and .James Carson. I adian aTerritory stockmen, wer killed in the rear end collision of freight trains at Maple Hill, Kansas. -Both Shot by Injured Husband. -New Orleans. Special.-Peter Man alo shot his wife and Adam Roux be eause lie found the latter in his house Sunday morn ing at ani early honur. Mrs. Manalo is probably fatally in juired. hut Roux wvas only slightly twounded. Mana ho. who is the keepu er of a market. weint to work and the shooti-ng occurred a fter his returin home. -Bids for Building 20,000-Ton Battle a Ship Asked. Washington, Special. - Seretary SBonaparte has issued a cirenlar iin ~vit ing ship designers and~ ship build ing firms to submit planis for the 2t. 000-ton bat tieshiip a uthoriz~ed by 'on gress. The naval bureaus have also been inst ructed to prepare like planus for coniparnison with tiIhose suubmiit ted by the private bidders. The preloinn nary plains are. to he submitte by l November 1st. next. Killed by Bolt During Storm. tHartsell. Ala.. Speial.-Duing a terrimec storm wvhich swept over the lowver end of the country Sunday a teacher. wa struck and another son was badly injiured. Two mules :lso were killed oni Nunn's place. Tel eeraphiic and telephonic systems in this part of the counitry have been paralyzed. Holds up Fivc Coaches. ANARCHIST CAuGHT Arrested in Germany On Order American Authorities WAS PLANNING ROYAL MURDER Seattle Brick Layer Against Whom German 'Government Had Been Warned and in Whose Home Police Found Bomb Factory After His Departure, is Arrested in Prussian City, Where He Has Relatives Baggage Not Yet Searched Because Forwarded to Another Port of Ger many-No Bombs Found on Him. Altona, Prussia, By Cable.-It be came known that August Rosenberg, an alleged anarchist from Seattle, Wash., was arrested here Tuesday Ju ly 3, as he was leaving a train arriv ing at Altona. Acting on information received from the police of New York, the authorities were watching for Rosenberg. who has relatives living here. Rosenberg, who was accompa nied by his wife, came to Europe on the Hambure-American Line steamer Patricia, which left New Your June and arrived at Hamburg June 29. The prisoner affirms that he is an Ameri can citizen. His baggage has been forwarded to another port of Ger many and has not yet been searched by the police. Independence Day Fatalities. Chicago). Special.-The Tribune publishes the ninth annual summary of deaths an injuries caused through out the United States by the celebra tion of the Declaration of Independ ence. The fiaures are as follows: dead, 38. By fireworks, 9; cannon. 1; firearms, 11; explosives, 7; toy pistols 4; runaways, 1; drowning, 5. The injured are 2,789. By fireworks 3, 099; cannon, 261; firearms, 393; ex plosives, 697; toy pistols. 304; runa ways, 35. The fire loss is $66,.450. In Chicago the dead are two, injured 157. Last year 42 persons were kill ed outright but when lockjaw -nd other diseases induced by the injuries had completed their work over 400 -lives had been sacrificed. The num ber of injured is in excess of last year by 358. Pavlinic Gets 18 Years. Newport News, Special.-Juiian Pavlinic was convicted of second-de gree murder in the Elizabeth City County Circuit Court and was given 18 years in the penitentiary. Sen tence was suspended for four months to allow an appeal to the Supreme Court. Pavlinie shot his wife in their home near the city limits about two months ago. The woman had been an inmate of the Williamsburg Asylum and the man said she had extracted from him a promise to kill her if she showed signs of insanity again. she perferrime~ death to reincareration in the asylum. Pay $1.250,000 For Alabama Coal Land. Mobile. Ala., Special.-The Gulf Coal and Coke Company of Mobile sold to J. P. Hanson. presider t of the Georgia Central Railroad and his associates seventeen thousand acres of coal hands located in Walker and Jefferson counties, this State. The consideration is said to be $1.250. 000. Hanson 's associates are said to be the Pratt Coal and Coke Comn pany, of Birmingham, Ala. Cases of Ice Men. Toledo. 0., Special.-The circuit court suspended the workhouse sen tence of Miller, Watters and Bryan, the ice men who have been in jail two weeks, while lawyers were fighting to get their cases in the circuit court All convicted ice dealers have had sentence suspended and are cut on bond. The circuit court will not reach the cases until fall. Miss Douglass Won. Wimbledon, Special.--Mary Sutton of California. lost the tennis champi onship of Great Britain which she won last year, being defeated by Miss Douglass two to nothing. The Dreyfus Case. Paris. By Cable.-Procurator Gen eral Baudouin in the Supreme Court concluded his argument in the Drey fus case formally asking the court to quash the verdict of the Rennes court martial without a retrial. Maitre Afornard .thie counsel for Dreyfus im mtiiatelv began the closing address. Mr. Tucke? to go to Nqorfolk. Norfolk, Special-Harry St. George Tucker, president of the Jamestown Exposition, has leased the home of the late Albert Grandy, newspaper pub lisher, on Freemason street, and with his family will come here to live about October 15. The Lmome is one of the handsonmest in the city and is one ot the e'iv's most desirable sections. Mr. Tucker is now in Lexin::ton visitin his famil s. ile will deliver a speech t (liftoni Forge. Swindler Get'; Long Term. Boston, Special-Ferdin and Borges formerly of Indiana. and one of the promoters of the Ubero Plantation Company, was sentenced to serve from 12 to 13 years in the State pris on for lareeny and conspir'acy. Bocr tess was convicted on 7:1 counts of lareny andl one of' conspiralcy. He was indieted with former C'ongress man Owen. of Indiana, who has not ELEVEN ARE KILLED Lives Crushed Out By a Runa way Car TRACK STREWN WITH BLOOD Miners Passing Along Track Between Mining Towns Near Altoona, Pa., Are Run Down and Killed by Car Started Down Steep Mountain Grade-Wheels Covered With Blood and Shreds of Clothing, Some of the Bodies Lying Half a Mile Apart and No Two in Any One Spot. Altoona, Pa., Special.--Eleven men who were returuing from Portage to PuAtan, both mining towns, were kill ed shortly before midnight on the Martin branch, a spur running from Portage to Puritan, a distance of four miles, by a runaway car, which had been started down the steep mountain grade by some unknown person. The miners had been to Portage and were returning to their homes. When the car was finally stopped near Portage i- was seen -hat the wheels were cov ered with blood and shreds of cloth ing, and an investigation disclosed the bodies of the men lying along the track. Sonme of the bodies were half a mile apart. Not more than two bod ies were found in any one spot. The railroad track is generally traversed by people going from Port age to Puritan. Cars never run over the line v.fter nightfall. For Bryan and Aycock. Greensboro. N. C., Special.-Tbe Democratic State convention, in ses sion here, went on record with a res olution virtually endorsing William Jennings Bryan and former Gover nor Charles B. Aycock as the nation al ticket in 1908. Mr. Franklin Me Neill was renominated for corpora tion commissioner on the first ballot and the consention ratifed the work of the congressional and judicial con ventions and adopted a platform re affirming allegiance to the principles of Demo-eracy. The proceedings were harmonio-os throughout. Cholera at Manila. Manila, By Cable.-Cholera of a virulent type has broken out among the natives of Manila and the sur r1u] 1ning provinces. Four Americans in Manila have been stricken to date, and one American, Charles Sheephan, has died. Twenty-one cases and 16 eaths are reported. The provinces report 26 cases and 23 deaths. There has been one death among the soldiers at Fert McKinley. that of the cook, ClniItian G. Dwight. of Company C, Sixteenth Infantry. The disease is of the most deadly type.. More Warsaw Police Killed. Warsaw, Russian Poland, By Cable. -The terrorists' determination to ex terminate the police force shows no signs of wavering. Two more police senreants were adIded to the already long death roll. Both men were shot and killed ini the streets and in each case the ass:sins esesiped. Another policeman was killed this evening. A patrol which hurried tto the scene of the murder fired a volley, killing a p- ser-by. Every policeman has now been withdrawn from the streets. Dr. Feist's Trial Continued. Nashville, Special.-The trial of Dr. J. Herman Feist, charged with the murder of irs. Mlangrum, which was to have been begtm in the crim inal court here, has been continued. Neither side is said to be ready to go to trial. Condition of Cotton. Washington. Special.-The crop re porting board of the Department of Agriculture finds the average condi tion of cotton June 25 was S3.S, com* pared with 84.G May 25, 1906. June 25. 1905, SS. The corresponding date 1904 and the ten years average 84.1. By States-Virginia 88; North Caro lina, S0;. South Carolina 77: Geora 82; Florida 77; Mississi)ppi 88; Louis iana S7: Texas S2; Arkansas S6; Ten nessee 84; Missour-i 91; Oklahoma 9( andl Indian Territory 84. The United States, S3.3. To Revoke Charter. Paelia, Ind.. Special-- Attorney General Miller. actingz under instr-ue tions from Governor Hianly, filed an action to revoke the charter of the French Lick Sprines Hotel of which~ Thomas Taggart. late chairman of the Democratic National Committee. is president. It is chiarged that gamb. ling is allowed on the property. Yellow Fever Outbreak New Orleans, Special.-Reports that yellow fever has appeared in Cuba were made public by the Stae beard of- health. The reports come0 from the Louisiana health in spectors residents in Cuba. who say cases of fever were reported June 17, 20. 26 andl 27. The yellow fever out b-ak is reported at Nipe, on the actheastern coast of (Cuba, where sveral deaths are reported. Populist Convention. Topeka. Kan.. Special.-When the Ponlist State Convention was call ed to order the pr-incipal contest in :ighnt was as to whether or not the )artv should name a full ticket. At he caucus of the leaders it was decid ed to recommend that the convention maeno endorsement of any other ieet as a whole, it is believed the covntion my endorse some of the HEIR TO TH RONE Great Popular Rejoi ng Over Event in Berlin PRINCESS-MOTHER DOING WELL Crown Princess Frederick William Safely Delivered of a Son and. Heir to the Throne. Berlin, By Cable.-Crown Prin cess Frederick William was safely ac couched of a son. The boy is well formed and strong. The guns of a battery of artillery bl:gan to fire slow ly in the square opposite the palace about noon and tens of thousands within hearing of the salute s'asppea. in the streets or paused in their work counting the guns, for it had long been announced that 72 shots would be fired for a girl and 101 for a boy. Seventy-one-seventy-two - seveinty three, then the city knew that an heir presumptive had been born. Au hour later a half million copies of the offi cial gazette containing the official proclamation of the event were given away. The Crown Princess and Prince are in the best of condition. Speak on July Fourth. Oyster Bay, Special.-President Roosevelt delivered a Fourth of July oration to his townspeople in the nat ural amphitheatre in a grove at Oys ter Bay. Referring to the work of this Congress in the direction of Fed eral control over business, he said: "We have accomplished a fair amount because we have not tried to do too much, and because we ap proached it without rancor. "In this task we have come in contact with some people we did not like and in protecting property we have been forced to protect some of the prop erty of the fellow we didn't want to. When it comes to the control of cor porations, the ones that need control I will curb without regard to oth ers. $750,000 Lumber Mill Fire. Beaumont, Tex.. Special.-The Sils bee Mills of the Kirby Lumber Com pany, together with the yards con taining five million feet-of lumber and numerous buildings, were destroyed by fire. The tire originated from a hot belt in the mill. The loss of lum ber will reach half a million dollars, while the loss on machinery will ex ceed $200,000. The property is am ply insured. The Kirby Company has had three mills destroyed with losses aggregating over $2,000,000 during the past year. Roosevelt Invited. New York. Spe-;ial.-William Hoge,. president of the Commercial Travel ers' and Trust League has invited Mr. Rooseveit em the recep tion to be tendered Mr. Bry nii his arrival from Europe early ia Sep tember. Mr. Hoge explained in his letter that the Commercial Travelers' and Trust Leazue is not a Democrat ic nor a partis.an organization in any sense and that the organization re gards Mr. Roosevelt as being as much opposed to trusts as is Bryan. First Bale of 1906 Cotton Crop. New Orleans, Special.-The first bale of cotton to be shipped from the 1906 crop in the United States is reported on its way here from Brownsville. Tesas. It was constgn edL to the New Orleans Charity Hlos pital. Trial by Court Martial Constadt, By Cable.-The Russian trial by court martial of Veie Admi ral Rojestvensky and his officers of' the torpedo boat destroyer Bedovisi for surrendering to the enemy after the battle of the Sea of Japan,, be gan. Several Japanese seamen and two surgeons have been summoned as witnesses. They are expected to fur nish evidence regarding Rojestven-' skv's condition at the time of the surrender. The penalty of convic tion is death. Chicago Ordinance Limiting Number Saloons Passed. Chicago. Special .-A n odrdinance.. limiting the number of saloons to one for every 500 persons became a law without Mayor Dunne's signature at. the adjournment 'of the city couneH By the terms of the measure no new saloon license can be issued after Ja lv .i1. The 'licenses which' are in force on that date may be renewed or reissued. Seeks to Bnforce 2-Cent Mileage Law. Richmond. TVa.. Special.--The attor nev General of Virginia commenced proceedings before the State corpo-> ration cmmission to enforce the Churchman two-cent passenger m~Ie age law by filing a petition and coiu plaint on behalf of' the State against* the Atlantic Coast Linr, allecing vio lation of the law. The commission made an order cit~ig the road ir, question to apear and make answer to the complaint on the 2Sth instant. .Skull Fractured. New Bern. Special.-A white man by the name of Burgess who has been in the employ cf one of the lumber ills in this city~ fell on South Front/ street and fraetured his skull. dying intehospital shortly afterwards. ie had been o. a protracted spree nd was drunk at the time the acei