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fill THE eUME FOR STUMER HORROR Latest Estimates of t&e Number of Lives Lost by the Boroiog of the General Slocom. I RIVER HOLDS MANY DEAD New York City.?Off the Bronx shore 1 .of North Brother Island, where the burning General Slocum was beached, and on up the river for a mile and a | half to Hunt's Point where the tide 1 finally carried the charred hulk, the j ghastly-business of fishing for human j bodies has gone on day and night since the appalling tragedy, neither weari- < ness nor hunger stopping Coroner ' O'Gorman's volunteer crews and the ' police. The racing tide made it well j nigh impossible to use the grappling j irons at times, but on the ebb the I fishers more than made up for their < enforced idleness. Added findings now show beyond 1 -the shadow of any doubt that during j ' 35 * 1* I OWL' issmz 5??r? >lw2T5TJ ilL !; * Si l F // s^lS/ ? !S? Br* J-rl QW fef f I' i/n}^ -/Oo'o?'??,C' ' MAP SHOWING RUN OF THE G THE FIRE WAS the single hour following the discovery of fire in the pleasure steamboat, which was carrying Pastor Haas' St. Mark's Lutheran congregation on its annual picnic excursion, more American lives were lost than during the Spanish-American War. Two days after the disaster Police Inspector "Albertson, who is supervising the work of recovering bodies, said: "The 560 bodies found represent only half the number of dead. It < will be days before the sunken Slo eum gives up all its dead and for weeks bodies will be washed ashore down the East River and up the -Sound." The difficulty of estimating the number the dead is increased by the uncertainty as to the number of persons Tvho were on the General Slocum when she left the pier and steamed up the East River on her fatal trip. ? No one knows how many dead are still at the bottom of the river off the island, or how many burned and blackened corpses lie in the hull. Coroner O'Gorman thinks that at least 200 \ more will be found. The Coroner said that Diver John Rice and the men : who worked with him at Hunt's Point believe that there are scores caught < iu the (Jebris of the burned steamer. These it may be impossible to remove until me wrecKws iv \wiiv uuu tear the Slocum apart. At any rate, it will be a week, perhaps longer, beforo all the (lead will be fbund. Some, so the divers and grapplers of the rivetsay, will never be recovered. Carried out to sea,, or held fast at the bottom of the river or utterly destroyed in the tire are scores, these men think. Other divers exploring the river bed along the track covered by the burning steamer say there are heaps of bodies still beneath the water. In all the history of disaster where human life has been sacrificed no wail of lamentation could be greater than that which has gone up from those bereft by this tragedy, for as the days Brazil's Navy Larger. A bill providing for the reorganization of the Brazilian Navy was introduced in Congress, at Rio Janeiro. It provides for the purchase of twentyeight warships, including three ironclads and three armored cruis-ers. i Dundonald Removed. Lord Dundonald. the hero of Ladysmith, has been relieved of his position as general officer commanding the militia of Canada, as the result of his criticism of a Cabinet officer. Tl. - Oomo iuv IXlllVllUI Fatsy Donovan is playing right Gold for the Washingtons. Jack Dunn, of the New Yorks, is still a most versatile and valuable player. The Atlanta Club has signed first baseman Fell* Hardy, bailing from Texas. Frank Selee says that Mordeeai Brown is the greatest fielding pitcher lie ever saw. Joe Kelly says a manager's hard ?st task is studying the eccentricities Of his players. -?jL- - . . . . . grew in number the horror increased in intensity. On whose shoulders rests the terrible responsibility is yet to be determined, but one fact has been settled beyond dispute?a great number of the life preservers on the craft were not life preservers r.t all, but life destroyers. Instead of beinp: buoyants, they were as leaden weights, carrying their victims to certain death. Scores of bodies have been found with these miserable pretenses strapped about them. It may be that there were a few serviceable cork jackets on board the General Slocum, but the majority were made of powdered cork and glue, and were not only absolutely useless, but a peril rather than a safety. They were pulled out of their places by men strong enough to secure them, but the women and children in the panic and excitement did not know how to adjust the belts, and only a few of them were loaded down with the weights that meant certain death. Those found have been found on the bodies of men for the most part. All these ap r.1". A/1 K TT inf r\Artf [mances Liau utreu |iao??cuL uj iiaoj/cvcors as serviceable and safe. When the inquiry shall have begun the story sf the condition of the life preservers will be of greater interest and importance than the action of the captain in the pilot house, who ran his ship aflame a mile or a mile and a iialf before he sought refuge by driving her ashore. It is agreed by a majority of the survivors that Captain Van Schaili Bade a desperate and heroic effort to save the lives of his passengers, but experienced rivermen are of the opinion that the suddenness of the fire ind the fright and confusion which followed upset his judgment and caused him to do the very thing which he ought not to have done. It ias been pointed out that there are Lt least three points where he might ifyVcr W * A " i i f I \ ENERAL SLOCUM FROM TIME DISCOVERED. iave run the craft into shoal water ind been within reach of help from shore and close to a flotilla of boats :hat were rushing to the rescue; but, nther dazed by the situation or out )f his head entirely, or believing that he only salvation was to reach North Brother Island, he passed Ward's Islind after the Are was discovered, made 20 attempt to run close to the Astoria shore and steered away from the Sunken Meadows, which the Seawaniaka sought twenty-four years ago, losing less than thirty of her passengers. Flags on the City Hall and other Municipal buildings were at half mast !)y order of Mayor McClellan to show formally the widespread sorrow in the :ity for the deaths of hundreds of people caused by the burning of the steam boat. The Mavor issued a oroclama tion expressing the sympathy of the people of the city and appointing a relief committee. President Roosevelt ordered Secretary Cortelyou to make a rigid investigation of the disaster, and the work will be conducted under the personal supervision of Mr. Cortelyou and Geo. Uliler, supervising inspector-general of the steamboat inspection service. Any government employe found negligent will be severely punished. Investigations have been started by Coroner Berry and District Attorney Jerome. The fire marshal ordered an investigation of the cause of the fire. The steamboat company was conducting an inquiry of its own. First Officer Flannagan of the steamboat made a statement at the District Attorney's office that the hose was rotten, and burst when efforts were made by the crew to put out the fire. Around the Morgue heartbreaking scenes are witnessed every day, and the work of identification goes on rapidly. Several persons, driven insane by the awful sights they witnessed and their bereavement, attempted suiHer Heart Shifted. After the remarkable operation of having her heart, which had shifted, moved from her right side to her left side, Annie Riley, the thirteen-year-old daughter of James Riley, of Jackson City, Pa., is now convalescing. Our Army Prepared. Secretary of War Taft, addressing the graduating class at West Point, said the army is now fully prepared for any emergency. Personal Mention. Charles Beeeher. in whose library at Fairfield. Wayne County. 111., the Lincoln Presidential boom was started, has just died at Marysville, Ohio. Abner McKinley, brother of the late President McKinley, was found dead in his room by bis wife at Somerset, Pa. Death was due to Bright's disease. Dr. George Johnston Allman, for more than forty years professor of mathe mattes in Queen's College. Galway Ireland, has died at the age of eightj years. . . cide. The scenes in the vicinity ot St Mark's Church and through the stricken district have been touching in the extreme. As fast as the bodies were recovered they were iuspected by Coroner O'Gor man on the beach of North Brother Island. Their watches and jewelry and other effects were sealed, numbered and preserved, for relatives and friends. Then the corpses were placed in the rough pine coffins and sent to the Morgue to await identification. "We found about three hundred watches on the dead." said the Coroner. "a bushel of finger rings, hundreds of pins and jeweled trinkets of every description, and a large amount of money altogether. My estimate of the value of the watches and rings and jewelry is $150,000. The dead were people in comfortable circumstances, and many of the women wore diamond earrings and diamond rings of great value. Some of them had big rolls of bills in their clothing. Many wore bags under their corsets or strapped around their waists in which hundreds of dollars were found. All 11.!- I ,'An.Alntr All mis muutfjr, ?i? ? i iia iuc jcncuj, has been placed in bags with tags corresponding with the number of the tags on the bodies. I don't think there will vbe great difficulty in relatives claiming and securing this property at the proper time." Almost as appalling as the spectacle of the burning and drowning of the hundreds of women and children was the grief of the thousands of relatives of the dead who thronged the Morgue in the pitiful search for the loved ones who had gone away-from home smiling and happy in the belief that they were to have a plfcasmt day's outing. These poor distracted people were as helpless as babes in their grief. They! wandered about dazed?like people in a dream. There were little children bereft of both parents and sisters and brothers. There were fathers and mothers who had been rendered childless. Ther were fathers, and these were in the greater number, who had lost wives and children. In some terrible instances whole families had been blotted out. Six Brooklyn families met this awful fate. One of the most frightful scenes on the burning steamboat General Slocum, was the frenzied attack of a number of fAt? onfofr nn tha cf51T board paddle box, on an unknown hero, who climbed to their place of refuge to lower them to ft tug with a rope that he earned. As the man. a tugboat hand, made his way up the paddle box, a score of women, rendered insane by terror, rushed at him. They sunk their teeth in his arms and tore his coat from his back. He had to fight for his life, but eventually he restored the women to a semblance of reason and lowered many of them to the tug. One arm was terribly bit' ten. The President Acts. Washington. D. C. ? President Roosevelt issued imperative orders to Secretary Cortelyou of the Department of Commerce and Labor to investigate the Slocum horror and letive no stone unturned in the effort to fix the responsibility for the disaster. If any one in the service of the government was negligent in his duty he will receive no mercy at the bauds of his superiors. ROBBERS LOOT EXPRESS. Shoot Engine Driver Dead, Then Blow up uar ana sare. Butte, Mont.?Two train robbers held up the eastbound North Coast Limited, the Northern Pacific's crack passenger express, a mile east of Bear Mouth. Mont., where the same train was held up last year, and Engineer O'Neill met his death at the bandits' hands. After bringing the train to a standstill, the robbers had a brief but sharp fight with the engineer, who fell dead in his cab with two bullets in his brain. The robbers then blew up the express car. Three times dynamite was exploded under the safe, and it and the car were demolished. The bandits are believed to have secured heavy plunder, estimated at $40,000, with which they escaped to the large timber of the mountains. "AMERICAN" NOT "U. S." Secretary Hay Orders Change on Embassy and Consular Seals. Washington, D. C.?In accordance with an order issued by Secretary Hay, the inscriptions "United States Embassy" and "United States Consulate" no longer will appear upon the Embassy and Consular seals and in other places as formerly. In their place on all the new record books and seals will appear the words "American Embassy" and "American Consulate" and "American Consular Agency." There are about a dozen "United States" aside from the United States /if A marina <1 Tvllif?h IpJJfls tf) fl great deal of confusion in foreign countries. FULL PENALTY FOR CANNON. Prominent New Jersey Lawyer Gets Fifteen Years. Hoboken, N. J.?Charles K. Cannon, of this place, who was found guilty of serious charges made by a young girl, was sentenced by Judge John A. Blair, in the Hudson County (N. J.) Court, to fifteen years in State Prison, and to pay a fine of $1000. This is the extreme penalty for this offiense. ExJudge William T. Hoffman, counsel for Cannon, announced that be would file a writ of error, and Cannon was released on his old bail of $10,000. Dinner for 3500. George A. Beaton, of New York, provided the home-coming dinner for 3500 persons at the Athens (Ohio) centennary celebration. World's Fair Pays Up. The sum of $195,057.04, the first payment in liquidation of the Government loan of $4,(500,000 to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company, was transferred to the United States Government by the auditing department of the World's Fair. At West Point. Members of the Filipino Comnnnission were present with Secretary Taft at the graduation exercises at West I Point. Miscellaneous News Notes. Slicckanl lias not yet struck liis ' natural gait in batting. Two Spanish battleships and a cruiser have been ordered to Tangier. Mercer University has adopted caps and gowns for the university costume, Handball is a favorite means ol ! exercise with the Brooklyn players. Lewis, short stop for Cornell last > season, is now with the Baltimore I Eastern League team. Miss Pauline Hardin, Kentucky's ' most successful womau politician, i? about to be marriwL ????m???? [THE CONVENTION DETAILS Proceedings ?f the Republican National Assembly at Chicago. ! ELIHU ROOT SOUNDS KEYNOTE ! Delegatea Called to Order by Fostmanter| General Payne? Former Secretary of War Root Elected Temporary Chairman?Applause When the Nam* of Roosevelt Was Mentioned. I Chicago.?At the first day's session j of the Republican National Convention j in the Coliseum the chief feature of : the proceedings was the speech of ! Elihu Root, the temporary chairman. ' Mr. Root's presentation of the camj paign issues artused much enthusiasm, and there was a great demonstration when he mentioned the name of President Roosevelt. The platform in the Coliseum f?r the officers of the convention was covered j with a red carpet and the furniture j was black oak of a quiet design. On j the chairman's table there was a large ! boquet of American Beauty roses. Weeks had been spent in decorating the Coliseum. The interior had been finished in white and gold, affording a brierht background for the national colors, and the effect is gay and brilI liant. The seating capacity of the ! great haji is, in round numbers, 8500. | The 994 delegates and the alternates J were seated on the main floor of the | hall. The remaining seats on the main I floor and the seats in the boxes were ! occupied by spectators and those who j had been fortunate enough, to obtain I tickets. The officers' platform had been erected midway between the north and south ends of the building. Back of it is the terraced stage reserved for 277 distinguished guests. Tie press CHICAGO I ? x'_ jjj^ I Jl Meeting Place of Repul | platform, which provides accommoda! tions for 3G0 working newspaper men, , surrounds the officers' platform. The crowd was seated without dis! turbance or friction. Sergeaut-atArms William F. Stone and Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms David C. Owen had at their beck and call several hundred deputies appointed from lists made up by the members of the National Committee. Thirty uniformed policemen were stationed inside the hall, and seventy preserved order outside the building. There was loud handclapping when Chairman Payne called the convention I to order at 12.15 o'clock. Mr. Payne | made no speech and immediately intro| duced the Rev. Timothy P. Frost, who j opened the proceedings with prayer. The prayer ended at 12.20. As soon as the prayer ended Senator Scott, of West Virginia, presented to Chairman Payne a gavel, a gift of Samuel B. Raymond, chairman of the local Committee of Arrangements. Assistant Secretary Molly, of Ohio, who has a far-reaching voice, then read the official call for the convention. When lie read tke name of the late Senator Hanna at the end of the call there was applause. At 12.30 Chairman Payne nominated the Hon. Elihu Hoot for temporary chairman. Governor Odell moved that the action of the National Committee be approved by the convention. This was carried with a whoop, and at 12.35 Mr. Root was introduced. He was received with genuine applause. While Temporary Chairman Root was waiting for the applause to subside a three-quarter length portrait of President Roosevelt was carried to the platform and placed on an easel. It was carried away, however, before Mr. Root began speaking. For forty-five minutes he held the convention in an address which will be the keynote to the campaign of 1904. His address was a review of the accomplishments of the present Administration and a defense of Republican policies in general. When that had been delivered and the various working committees despatched to their labors the business of the first day's session was complete. SECOND DAY'S SESSION. ' Chicago.? The second session w?s "Uncle Joe" Cannon's day at the Republican National Convention. From the minute the quaint Speaker of the House took the gavel from Elihu Root I and became the permanent Chairman the body took on an air of life. The huge portrait of President Roosevelt that had been unveiled during Mr. I More isoaies uecovereu. Secretary Cortelyou and New York I City officials made trips of inspection ; I over the course pursued by the General . i Slocuin. Forty-live more bodies were i I recovered and memorial services were ! held in various churches. Something Free. The California delegation combined business with politics. When they arrived they brought with them $10,000 worth of wines and fruits to be distributed free at the convention. PromineLt People. The death is announced of M. F. A. , Foque, the eminent French geologist ] ana nimeran.m?i. _ | Maurus Jokai's Inst lines -were a i rousing appeal to tho peopl? of Hungary to join in tbe fight against tu1 berculosis. I Former Mayor Low and Walter .T. Travis, amateur golf champion, sailed from Liverpool for New York on tlie t same steamer. ' DaHi-el Vierge, who died recently in Paris, and who was known as "the ? father of modern illustration." was a s Spaniard by birth, Root':! speech was placed on an easel F at the light of the platform. Other- I wise the O.'corations were unchanged. | At 12.15 p. m. the playing of the national hymn brought the whole nssein- ? blage to its feet silk flags were whipped out in various parts )f the ? hall, and were waved in time with the music. At 12.27 o'clock temporary Chairman Root rapped for order, directing the delegate? to take their seats and order, ing the aisles cleared. The Rev. Thomas E. Cox. of the Holy Name Cathedral, of Chicago, delivered the invocation. Then Senator MeComas presented the report of the Committee on Credentials. The first part of the document related to those contests in which the action of the National Committee was upheld. . The report in this connection was received with a ripple of applause, which was slightly accentuated when the decision placing both the "Lily Whites" and "Blacks and Tans" of Louisiana was read. An outburst of cheers greeted the announcement that the committee had decided in favor of the "Stalwart" faction in Wisconsin. Senator Foraker moved that a seat be given to General Osterhaus, a dis tjnguisnea ueriuan soiaieroi iue uuwu Array. The motion was unauimously adopted, and the chair appointed Senator Foraker. of Ohio, and General Bingham, of Pennsylvania, a committee to escort General Osterhaus to the platform. The General made a brief speech, which was liberally applauded. Senator Depew obtained recognition to mats a report from the special committee to which was referred the invitation of the St. Louis Exposition Company to the delegates of the convention to visit the Exposition: No action in the way of acceptance of the invitation was deemed necessary by the committee. The report gave in detail the transportation arrangements, the trip to begin at 9 o'clock Thursday night. The report was adopted. The Chairman then called for the rewyxw.4 Ap 4-h/v pAmmiffaA An Pormnnonl" J7L7L L VI lUC V^vuiuiuict vti *. viiuutivMu Organization. Chairman W. M. Johnson, of this comrtittee, advanced to the platform and read it. The announcement that Speaker Cannon had been selected for permanent Chairman of tke convention proveked enthusiastic COLISEUM. . c I ^ )lican National Convention. applause. On motion of Senator Cul- j I lom the report was adopted. Chairman Root appointed ex-Secretnry John D. Long, Senator Cullom and Representative Burton, of Ohio, a committee to escort Speaker Cannon to the platform. Upon this announcement the convention gave a mighty, spontaneous shout, and when Mr. Cannon ap ; peared at the Speaker's desk and Chairman Root took him by the hand and led him forward to the extreme front of the platform, the climax of enthusiasm was reached. Delegates with one accord jumped to their feet and on to their chairs. Cheer after cheer went up, and waves of sound 0 swept over the throng. The applause i continued as the temporary and per- n manent chairmen continued to stand C arm in arm waiting for silence. ? Throughout his address Mr. Cannon 1 was interrupted from time to time by' P applause and when he had finished the r longest period of cheering that the con- r' vention has yet seen came. For forty seconds the delegates applauded and then resumed their silence. . |General Bingham was then called on i for the report of the Committee on Rules and the order of business. The! ; report, which provided for the same al? | lotmentsof delegates that the National I Committee had made, with the excep- 5 tiou of Hawaii, was adopted. This havin<r bppn disnosod of. the; J Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge, junior Senator from the State of Massachusetts, made his way to the front of the platform from his seat in the body of the' hail to read the platform. He bowed to the delegates and then began to read the platform. The first applause came when the Panama Canal was mentioned. The tariff plank was applauded in all parts of the hall, revisers and "stand-patters" alike appearing to be perfectly satisfied with it. The demand for a reduction of representation in the House of Representatives for those States in which the suffrage is denied to certain classes of citizens was applauded mildly. The commendation of President Roosevelt's action | in the coal strike of 1902 got a hand. " and then the whole platform received a complimentary send-off as Senator 1 Lodge moved its adoption. It was " adopted unanimously. f The applause for the platform lasted ^ ten seconds. Then the convention ad- t jourued until 10 o'clock next morning. * a Br?w?low. of Tennessee. c Am*ng the interesting figures at the ^ convention was Walter P. Brownlow, of Tennessee, whose father was known ^ as tke "fighting parsoi." jj Oermany Bars Out American Cattle. " Tke State Department at Washington. D. C., has been advised by the American Embassy in Berlin that Ger- ( many has refused the request of the ' [ United States for permission to ship j j American cattle into Switzerland j , through Alsace-Lorraine. Tbe excuse j ( given is Daseu on veterinary reaMj,i>. The Canadian Wheat. It is estimated that in the Canadian < Northwest the crop of wheat will ap- . j proximate 80.000,000 bushels. I | Sporting Brevities. Jack (' Twin") Sullivan got the de- i cision over MikeSohreckiu a teu-rounu ! bout at Indianapolis. L. L. Kellogg. -Ir.. of Fax Flills. boat j the field in the golf tournament at ; Tuxedo with a score of 154. The well known New England stal- j lion, .Sir Walter. Jr., foaled in 1SS2, , died a :>hort tiuie ago at Biddefovd. Me. Captain E. J. Clapp, of the Yale track team, announced that Yale would meet the English, universities lu London, # IEPUBLICAN NATIO ROOSi H ' J|H PRESIDENT THEO Chicago.?The thirteenth National ouvention of the Republican party as held in the enormous Chicago oliseum, which was gayly decorated rith flags and bunting for the recepon of the 994 delegates, their alterates, and the 8000 spectators, who as?mbled to do honor to President Theiore Roosevelt. ELIHU ROOT. The original program for the conven:on was followed to the letter. Not ne detail had been overlooked. At noon on Tuesday Acting Chairlan Henry C. Payne, of the National ommittee. called the convention to rder. Immediately afterward the Lev. Timothy P. Frost delivered the rayer, which was followed by the eading of the convention call by Secetary Elmer Dover. Mr Pnvne then introduced as tem ' < / ; - . SPEAKER JOSEPH G. CANNON. >orary chairman former Secretary of Var Elihu Root, who had been selected 0 sound the keynote of the campaign, ifter making his speech, which made 1 distinct impression, the temporary :hairman appointed committees 011 Credentials, Permanent Organization, Jules, aud Order ol Business and Res lutions. The convention then adourned for the day. In the afternoon md evening the committees met and Attendance Light, Prices High. The attendance at the convention vas small, but rates for rooms aud all >ther charges were excessive. The lotel rates were in many cases from ifty to 100 per cent, more than they ivere at the time of the Democratic convention iu Electric Signals at Convention. For the first time in the history of conventions 0 lor trio signals connected ;he chairman with every part of the juiiding in Chicago. Newsy (iiMiiinss. Servian railroails are being extended, English cotton workers are rush.ny to Cauada. The fourth hole through the Alps has lieen made with the tinal piercing ot ;:he Siuiplon tunnel. Three electric shocks were requiroil to kill Michael Schiller, a wife murderer, at the Ohio State Penitentiary, * ,,1.111 General .uwes sun cuugs u? u?o for employing United States soldiers ii roadniaking during peace time. Tlie New York Court of Appeals de cided tliat a private detective lias U>( rigUt.to "shadow/.' persons, .. * ' * INAL CONVENTION: iVELT. ^ ) ; I - 4, v - : - y jl I If | I I .VDORE ROOSEVELT." prepared their reports for submission on the morrow. . ? SECOND DAY. LJ J - ? wnen tne convention assemoieu ou Wednesday, the Committee on Credentials reported and the permanent roll of the convention i\as ratified. After prayer by the Rev. Thomas E. Cox, the Committee on Permanent Organization was then heard from. It recommended that Speaker Joseph G. Cannon, of the House of Representatives, be made permanent chairman. Mr. Cannon was immediately escorted to the platform and at once made his address to the convention; Following the reports of the committees on Rules and Order of Business, and Resolutions, the National piatform of the Republican party was read and adopted. THIRD SESSION. ' : The third session of the convention was the most interesting of the three, ror on that day the candidates for President and Vice-President were nominated. It was the day,for pyrotechnics. As jpnr _^n Hw Ur-- - Hp SENATOR C. W. FAIRBANKS, ~ soon as the convention had been called to order by Chairman Cannon, and prayer had been made by the Rev. Thaddeus E. Snively, former Governor Black, of New York, placed Theodore Roosevelt In nomination for President. When he finished the bands played and the delegates cheered, and then Senator Beveridge, of Indiana, was recognized to second the nomination. The Indiana Senator devoted twenty minutes to telling what the Republican party is, and what Theodore Roosevelt has proved him elf to be. Four other short seconding speeches were made by George A. Knight, of California; H-rry Stilweli Edward-, of . Tr?aor\li n Piiffrm nf \f innp UCUlgltti UUowfM Wfcwv.., ?? sota. and Harry S. Cummings. of Maryland, and then it was moved that Roosevelt be nominated by acclamation. After the demonstration and applause, the following program was carried outAnnouncement by the chairman of the committ.e to notify President Roosevelt. Nominations for Vice-President Roll call. Fairbanks. The fina. act of the convention was the election of the uew National Committee. Telegraphic Facilities. In the basement of the Coliseum the two telegraph companies had sixtytwo instruments, with as many operators. One hundred uniformed messengers received and delivered dispatches. Convention Emergency Hospital. On the ground floor of the Republican convention hall there was a hospital room sixty by 120 feet, for emer goney cases. Five physicians and eight nurses were in attendance. T ol.nn TV~,.1rl i^U UUI KJ I IU. A bra neb of the American Federation ; of Labor has been organized at Biloxl, ? ! iss. Tmnhlne /-vf fl.? VSrtl-nl Pl.ltn j IH'UI'IVO l?i V.I1U i i. nut; mur road hollermakers have been amicably settled. I Bricklayers in Glasgow, Scotland, to the number of 1 SOU, have suffered a , decrease in wages. i All tlio Jewish bakers are striking i for in London is a twelve-hour day and nine cents an hour. The Bay City (Mich.) Street Railway ? Company has voluntarily increased tl*t wages of Its emuloyea