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FOR STUMER HORROR
Latest Estimates of t&e Number
of Lives Lost by the Boroiog
of the General Slocom.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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[THE CONVENTION DETAILS
Proceedings ?f the Republican National
Assembly at Chicago.
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ELIHU ROOT SOUNDS KEYNOTE
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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
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| 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.
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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
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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. *
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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,
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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
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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,
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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,
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SECOND DAY.
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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
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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
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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.
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A bra neb of the American Federation
; of Labor has been organized at Biloxl,
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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