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^ *' THE PRESIDENT SPEWS FOR PORTO RttiHS V Citizenship Should Be Conferred on Natives. ISLAND SOLDIERS PRAISED After Seeing the Island Personally the President is Satisfied That Better Results Could Not Have Been Svpected. Washington, D. C.?President Roosevelt sent to botn branches of Congress a special message concerning Porto Rico and incorporating the conclusions he reached from personal observation oil his recent visit to the island. The mcst important recommendation made in the message is that full American citizenship be conferred upon the people of Porto Rico. "The scenery of Porto Rico," the President told CoDgress in the first sentence of his message, "was wonderfully beautiful, especially among the mountains of the interior, which constitute a veritable tropic Switzerland." He follows with a recommendation that San Juan Harbor be dredged to admit of the entrance of a battleship. The President 'Compliments the American representatives in charge of the Porto Rican insular government, lauds the school system, recommends that the Porto Rican regiment nf noflvDo nornornqtoH unH cfvPS figures showing that the imports and exports of the island last year amounted to $45,000,000, as against $18,000,000 in 1901 and as against $23,006,000 in 1896, the most prosperous year Porto Rico ever experienced under Spanish rule. He recommends that some measure be taken for the benefit of the Porto Rican coffee trade, which is in a bad way. On the citizenship question the President says: "There is a matter to which I wish to. call your special attention, and that is the desirability of conferring full American citizenship upon the peopl? of Porto Rico. I most earnestly hope that this will be done. I can /* n?? V??-rrr o ntr ltnnm /ten *\Aaa{V\1v 11 uL occ uuvy auj uai m v^u. pvsoiuij result from it, and It seems to me a matter of right and justice to the people of Porto Rico. They are loyal, they are glad to be under our flag, they are making rapid progress along the path of orderly liberty. Surely we should show our appreciation of them, our pride in what they have done, and our pleasure in extending recognition for what has thus been done, by granting them full American citizenship." In conclusion, the President advises: "All the insular governments should be placed in one bureau, either in the Department of War or the Department of State. It is a mistake not so to arrange our handling of these islands at Washington as to be able to take advantage of the experience gained in one, when dealing .with the problems that from time to time arise in another." FRANK ROCKEFELLER LOST SUIT U. S. Court Says Verbal Promise Regarding Note is Binding. Scranton, Pa.?In the United States Circuit Court of Appeals here Judge Archbald rendered an opinion deciding against the plaintiff in a c.uit brought on a $15,0.00 note against Frank Rockefeller, a brother of John D. Rockefeller. Frank Rockefeller was the plaintiff and the defendant was Pley Wedge, who was employed by the Standard Oil Company at Bayonne, N. J., at $6000 a year and later ran a mine for the plaintiff. The mines were unsuccessful and as matters grew worse there a cattle venture of Rockefeller's in Kansas City became involved and Rockefeller felt the need of 180,000, which Wedge raised for him by seeing Wil liam and John D. Rockefeller. Prank Rockefeller was so grateful that he told Wedge he would not collect a note for $15,000 that he held against him. This conversation took place on a street car. Months later Rockefeller brought suit on the note. His contention was that the street car pledge was invalid, even if true, as no consideration had been shown. But he said it had never been made. >_ T> tTT\ T*/VT> VAmAP PfTtT V?" JT.T11/ ruiv rtUiUIULil. > Actress Finally Killed by Chameleon She Swallowed. Omaha. Neb.?As the result of swallowing a live chameleon as an advertisement, Louise Douglas, formerly a well-known comic opera actress, died here. An hour before her death two live chameleons crawled from the woman's mouth, and physicians say her body is alive with the little reptiles. Two years ago the woman, whose real name is Mrs. Harry F. Lee, swallowed the Chameleon, and received much advertising therefrom. But soon afterward she began failing, and left the stage. She has been in a hospital in Omaha for more than a year. Pe.t Dog's Bite Kills. Bitten six weeks ago by a pet bull terrier dog which he had raised from a puppy, Robert Hueston, Sr., eightyone years old, died of hydrophobia in his home in Belleville, N. J. Senate Confirmations. William H. Moody was confirmed as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States by the unanimous vote of the Senate in executive session. " The nominations of Charles J. Bonaparte to .be Attorney-General, Victor H. Metcalf to be Secretary of the Navy and Oscar S. Straus to be Secretary of Commerce and Labor also were confirmed. Four* Revolutionists Executed. Four revolutionists were executed at Moscow, Russia. First Hebrew in the Cabinet. Oscar S. Straus, the announcement of whose pending appointment to the position of Secretary of Commerce and Labor has been made, will be the first citizen of the Hebrew faith to enter the Cabinet. Appeal For Postal Savings lianks. A petition for the establishment of postal savings banks, bearing the names oZ nearly 20,000 persons, residing in eighteen States, was pre sented to Congress by Representative Boutell, of^ Illinois. ? 1\ HARTJEJXONERATED M J F . .1 f _ n '' A* i_ HusDanw raiien 10 trove ^mgie Chavge in Divorce Case. Court ComjMrtely Vindicates Woman DefendaSPt in the Celebrated Pittsburg Case. Pittsburg. Pa% ? With remarkable deLionstrations lPf satisfaction and appioval Pittsbii?S received the decisiot of Judge Fmazer in the Hartje divorce case, reWusinS Augustus Hartje's plea for a wivorce from his beautiful wife and efcoa?rating Mrs. Hartje from the accu!kations brought against her by hpr husWand. Cheers greeted the imandlng down of Judge Frazer's decision. Extra editions of fcjie afternoon\papers car ried the news to all pr.rts 1of the city. The home ot\ Mrs. Hartjlp's father, where she is staying, was slprrounded by cheering crowds, who ?emanded admission in ortfer that th^ might congratulate the\fair victor\of this celebrated case. \ 1 Four months Vere occupied by Judge Frazer in digesting tha^ evidence which accumulated during: the twenty-one days thauwere consufcned in the trial. The case possessed amazing features whi<^ made it Vamiliar all over the country. \ "Thank God," was Mrs. Hartje%s first utterantte after the announce* ment of the decision. "I am so hap-\ py. The decree vindicates my char-1 acter and refutes the blackening ' charges produced against me. No more will I be compelled to hide my j face with shame or tremble for the ' slights that might be placed upon . my children. " ^ > y "My little childre? can now never j feel ashamed of their mother, ?.nd, oh, this is joy, joy, joy," concluded Mrs. Hartje, hysterically. Augustus Hartje said emphatically that the case will be appealed. The announcement of Judge Fra-\ | zer's ruling was received with tears\l by Mrs. Hartje and her father, John I Scott, who is a close friend or Andrew Carnegie, and a son of Thomas A. Scott, once president of the Pennsylvania Railroad. "I knew I would be vindicated," was Mrs. "Hartje's only comment. Scott expended about $250,000, the major portion of his fortune, to clear, his daughter's name from the odious charges that Hartje endeavored to fasten upon her. Carnegie is understood to have placed his purse unconditionally at th6 service of Scott and Mrs. Hartje. Hartje, who is a millionaire manufacturer of paper and one of the leading business men of Pittsburg, refused to say what he thought of his defeat. Hartje is under indictment* with his closest friend, John L. Welshons, also a millionaire, and Clifford Hooe, a negro, who was formerly in Hartje's" employ, for conspiracy and subdrnation of perjury. Hooe confessed that he had been induced by Welshons and Hartje, under promise of being well paid, to testify that he and Mrs. Hartje had given the husband cause to sue for divorce. Tom Nadine, a white man, who also served as " coachman for the Hartje3, was named as another CO i VtJ^VUUVUV. . ? Hartje's attorneys announced that they would appeal the case. Mrs. Hartje arrived here from Redlands, Cal., the day before the decision, bringing with her their children, Mary, Louise and Scotty. The disposition of the children is the real point at issue in the suit. FINED $150,ObO FOR REBATING. Sugar Trust $-30,000 and Cooperage Concern $70,000. New York City.?Pines aggregating 5150,000 were imposed by Judge Holt in tne united states circuit Court upon the American Sugar Jlefining Company and the Brooklyn Cooperate Company, after the defendants, through counsel, had pleaded guilty to indictments charging the acceptance of rebates on sugar shipments in violation of the Elkins act. The Sugar Refining Company was fined $80,000 and the Cooperage Company $70,000. MRS. BIRDSOXG GUILTY. Jury Decided the Killing of Dr. Butler Was Manslaughter. Hazelhurst, Miss. ? Mrs. Angle Birdsons was found cuilty of man slaughter for killing Dr. Thomas Butler, and was recommended by the jury to the mercy of the?ourt. Mrs. Birdsong spent the night under surveillance at a hotel. Her uncle, United' States Senator Mc<; "] Laurin, made a motion fOr a new J trial. The minimum penalty foi manslaughter in this State is a fine of $500. V EX-GOVERNOR MOSES DEAD. Former South Carolina Executive Asphyxiated Near Eoston. Boston, Mass.?Former Governor Franklin J. Moses, of South Carolina, was found dead in bed at the home of Henry Hamilton, 61 Irwin street, I Winthrop Beach, where he was staying. Gas escaping from a small stove used to heat the room had asphyxiated him. Mr. Moses had latelybeen employed by a financial concern in Boston.* He was aho?it sixtv vears old. He had served several terms in prison. Emperor Threatens Reichstag. The German Emperor has authorized Chancellor von Buelow. to dissolve the Reichstag unless the supplementary credit asked to retain the present force in Southwest Africa is voted. i; SlOCjOOO For a Raphael. Raphael's portrait" of the brother of Pope Leo X., dated 1514, has been sold to Oscar J3?tldschinsky, a mine owner, for $106,000, a record price in the Berlin art'U-orld. Feminine Notes. Patti has made "absolutely her last appearance as a professional singer" in London. The Duchess of Marlborough has surrendered to her husband all the trappings of the ducal state. Miss Flora Mclntyre, sophomore in Berkeley University, California, pays her board and tuition fees by the sale of queen bess she raises. The idea of women cab* drivers is spreading in Paris, and now eight applicants for licenses are under instruction. Parisians are speculating as to how they shaU address them. '/ r ' .. ' jr' ' ' , . > C ' ; - -r >_' " ' I . PRESIDENT RGOSEMLT ! AHSWEflS BELLAMY STORES ? ' Charges of Falsehood and Church Intrigue Exchanged. MRS. STORER BEGGED FAVORS Letters and President McKinley Quoted?Efforts to Remove Ambassadors Choate and Porter;?No Message Sent to the Pope. I Washington, D. C.?One of the most sensational documents ever issued by a President was a long letter addressed by President Roosevelt to Secretary of State Root, and made public, in which is given correspondence between the President and for- ; mer Ambissador Bellamy Storer at Vienna regarding the efforts that the i Ambassador and his wife were making to have Archbishop Ireland raised j | to the rank of a Cardinal. | The letter contains scathing de- i nunciations of Bellamy Storer and Of s Mrs. Storer for their use of the Am- 1 bassador's position to further their ] purposes at the Vatican, and the ? I President bitterly denounces them 1 ' for having, as he understands, represented to the Pope and certain Car- t dinals at Rome first that President t McKinley and afterward President i LRoosevelt had particularly requested ? Vhe elevation of the Archbishop. t \ Referring to the pamphlet sent by s Storer (to members of the Cabinet, giVing some of the correspondence * between toe l resident and Mr. ana ? Mrik Storer, President Roosevelt de- * v noumces this publication of private e correspondence as ungentlemanly. * Thek statement' by Storer that the President had backed his efforts to i: have jwchbishop Ireland elevated, n Mr. Roosevelt denounces as absolute- a ly untru?. :. >!" Mr. Rdlosevelt quotes many of the letters that passed between him and J the StorerS, and they put the former f Ambas3adorC and his wife in a most unenviable position.'The correspondence shows \hat Mr. Roosevelt first came to know the Storers when he- 1 was Civil Service Commissioner, and Storer was a \ Congressman. They j;] became great frdends and called each d other by their Christian names. P When Mr. Roosevelt became Gov- S( ernor of. JsTew York th? Storera inter- . ested him in thefir scheme to have' p Arrhbishob Ireland elevated to the: 11 rank of Cardinal, ai^d in a number of? letters he tofld them that he would bei B: very glad to. see th? Archbishop so, elevated. \ \ j a When he w?s Vice-President they/ " besought him \o get President Mc-1 21 Kinley to appeal to Pope Leo in be-' 8' half of ArchbisnlPP Ireland, and Mr.' 8 Roosevelt did spe?k to President Mc- ^ Kinley about it.' We states that Pres- ^ ident McKinley toKl him that under no circumstances c<xuld he intervene . p in any way in any ecclesiastical mat- .. ter and he (Mr. Roosevelt) so wrote' the Sto.rers. He use^a letter from ? George B. Cortelyou to prove that President McKinley did Jiot, as Stored .claimed, send a message* to the Popo Some, of the correspondence that R passed between the Pfresld&nt and the rt Storers after Mr. Roosevelt's acces- jn sion to the Presidency kuts \the Stor-: ers in a ridiculous positron. \ Letters C? from Mrs. Storer are quoted, showing that she openly begged the Presl- . dent, first to displace Secretary of War Root ?and put her husband in his a] place, and then, when he declined, to dismiss either Ambassador Choate or Ambassador Porter In order that lier ^ husband might have either the Lon- tf don or Paris Embassy. ? When the royal Spanish wedding cc was approaching Mrs. Storer wrote _ to the President, begging him "please, please" to send her and her husband to Madrid as special envoys,, y. as she would love it to. This request! was granted by the President j The President's correspondence shows that he over and over again! forgave both Bellamy Storer and his D wife for what were considered serious offenses. At one-time St'orer wroto to Senator Hanna making serious re- p( flections upon Secretary of State Hay ta and. the Administration. Senator q, Hanna turned the letter over to Sec- 01 retary- Hay, who was very indignant, m and asked that the Ambassador be tj( rebuked. The President, however,; H wrote him a letter full of affection' jE and with but little reproach. lo At another time, after the Presi- th dent had found out that Storer was' ^ busying himself in affairs at the Vat-; tl( ican, he wrote him first a sharp letter, telling him of the danger he was putting the Administration into, and j then "another "letter" telling him to ? nnnclHar tlia InplHont olnaoH pallinp' . VUU^lUWi V?WWVM| him ,;my dear fellow," and declaring, that he would under no circumstances, gt accept his resignation. ' President-Roosevelt's attitude to-, jr ward the Catholic Church is very ? plainly set forth in several of his letters to the Storers. He impresses . upon-them that he must and does regard all churches and all races in. America equally?Catholic and Prot est'ant, Jew and Gentile. One of his jjj letters indicates that Mrs. Storer had written to him angrily protesting 11 against his allowing Protestant mis- |L? sionaries to go into the Philippines. 11 In tills letter He tells of tne equality of churches before him, and says that while he has the very highest regard, for Archbishop Ireland, as he has for certain Protestant bishops, he will' de take occasion to* say that he has' known of serious conditions existing under the Catholic sway in the Phil- th ippines and in Cuba, citing one case. ; di New Theory of Shipwreck. , It is reported in Cartagena, Spain, t.hat the strong box of the wrecked cij cf-p.tmahin Slrin. which was lost with h. about 150 lives, had been found tij empty, which raises a theory that oc the crew had something to do ,with 0f the disaster. / \ I , m T j f 7 u-f , San Francisco's Huge Insurance. An official report places the San Francisco fire losses at $350,000,000, _c with insurance of about $241,000,000. ' -..--ggaiflfeai n( Liverpool's $1,750,000 Exchange. At Liverpool the Prince of Wales, accompanied by the Princess, opened the new Cotton Exchange, a handsome building which has just been completed at a cost of $1,750,000. be Bruce Sworn In. C< Lieutenant-Governor M. Linn va Bruce resigned and was sworn in as Supreme Court Judge to succeed M. C< J. O'Brien, in New York. ' hz ; cu Turbines For German Navy. Vice-Admiral von Eickstedt an-: pi nounced that the German Navy would ag use turbine eneines in future.'. ;w A EiLLETTE 10 BE EJECUIEO & Grace Brown's Slayer Sentenced to Death at Herkimer, N. Y. ' .a"*'-. Mrs. Gillette "Covers" For Newspaper Incidents of Son's Progress to the Electric Cliair. Kei kimer, N. Y.?Chester Gillette was sentenced to death In the electric chair at Auburn Prison during the week of January 28 for the murder of Grace Brown. Mrs. Louise M. Gillette sat in court and reported for a Denver newspaper the sentencing of her own son to death. A curious crowd filled the court room. Mrs.- Gillette had arrived unexpectedly in Herkimer during the night. She caused surprise when she said she came from Denver to report what was left of the trial. Reearded at first as an impostor, she proved tier identity by her handwriting, offering it for comparison with letters Sillette had received from her. She did not go to see Gillette until morning. He was being shaved and is'the barber worked the mother in:erviewed her son for the public press. It was this newspaper work, she explained, that made it possible tor her to come to Herkimer. In court, when Gillette was sentenced, his mother wrote a bulletin :o her paper in a bUsiness-like manler, and shaking the telegram in the dr, seemed much annoyed because here was not a' messenger boy in light. . . ' Chester Gillette's nerve of steel renains with him. After his lawyer lad moved unsuccessfully to have the' rerdict set aside, the youth responded to the Judge's c?ll and marched orward fop sentence. i: When Judge Devendorf asked him F he had anything to say why judgnent should not be passed, Gillette stounded his auditors by addressing he court in a firm voice, declaring: I am innocent of the crime as harged in the Indictment and thereore I think it should not be passed." "Have you anything else to say?" he Court inquired. Gillette-hesitated, then said: "No, think, that's all." rue Judge drew a deep breath as hough he was about to perform a uty that pained him. Then he assed the sentence. ? . Gillette did not 3 much as change color. Mrs. Gillette sat near him. He joked at herTind a smile crossed his ps. She returned the sn^ile, but lid nothing. Then Gillette was taka back to jail, i, v . The condemned youth. wheeled bout as he arose to accompany the nder sheriff, and remarked that the rowd was rushing out. He showed )me fear. "Lock those door^!" tiouted the offlciafl, and the crowd as held back until Gillette was in Is cell. Once there the prisoner :rlpped off his coat and began to lay cards with his guard. It was stated by the jail keepers lat Mts. Gillette pleaded with her >n to confess if he was guilty. Make a clean breast of it to me, my jy," she said. -- But the son clung to Is plea of innocence. airs, umeue reierrea to wace rown's letters ' as "sweet," but lought they should Dot have been itroduced In evidence. She believes ley did more than anything else to invict her son. ? Gillette gave out an Interview. He lid: "I am very.hopeful of getting a jw trial. My mother is here, and I n more than glad to see her, but >t through the bars of a cell. "People thought I was hard heart1 because I did not show emotion in lal. I tell you I felt very much orried and I had a hard time to introl myself. I did it, though. It' akes no particular difference wheth I stay in jail here or at Auburn; I ippose, although I am used finely . , ;re." ' PENSION BOLL'S DECLINE. \? [." """ ' i ecrease of 18,000 Since High-Water j Mark, Hitchcock Reports. Wa?hington> D. C.?The annual re- ! >rt oiEthan Allen Hitchcock, Secre,ry or.the Interior, transmitted to i jngresV embraces 120,000 words, 253 pfrgea, exclusive of the suppleental reports of bureaus and funconarles under the department. Mr. 1 itchcock's\ jurisdiction is over the ' idians, Persions, Patent Office, Geo- t glcal Survey, General Land Office; i le Reclamation Service, Bureau of iucatlon, th^ Territories and Na- y onal parks tpd reservations and c any other meters, of minor Jm-' ^ )rtance. in a&King lor additional c gislatlon for thfc. protection of pub- c ; lands, the Secretary says: "Approximately ^00,000 acres and I ore of the public |omaln in certain I ates and Territori? are by unlaw- t ,1 means appropriated to the exclu- a ve use of private interests for pri- a ite gain." ... \. ,... j 1 Of the War of 1812 ro soldier sur- t ves, but there are 66\ widows of t at war on the rolls. 01, the Indian ars there are 2173 suMvors and 167 widows; of the Me^ca^ War, 184 survivors and 7488 \ widows. ? iree daughters of Revolutionary laiers survive, xvo soiaier auyives. le report says: M "The maximum number o?aen- h Dnors was reached Janua?31, e 105, when it was 1,004,196, ace D btich date there has been a st?y y crease, aggregating, to June m, q >06, 18,225." m The Pension Commissioner expeA n e decrease will be more markew j] iring the current year. ^c, President Gets Nobel Prize. ? President Roosevelt received ofil- i al notice that the Nobel peace prize t irf- Koon oworHoH in hHn at P.hria- ( mia, Norway. The money, ?40,-' c 10, will be used for the maintenance i a permanent industrial peace com- 1 ittee in Washington. '< Secretary Shaw Deposits Funds. Secretary Shaw announced his purise to deposit $10,000,000 in banks i id to buy $10,000,000 bonds, to re- i ive the financial stringency. . ? * The Field of Labor. Fall River cotton mills increased'' age scale and dividends. ^ An Electrical Workers' Union has sen organized in Dallas, Texas. i The Boston Elevated Railway ( jmpany announced a voluntary ad- 3 mce in wages. The 800 employes of the Hamilton t Dtion Mills at Ameshung, Mass., ( ive had restored ten pet cent, wage 1 it made in 1903. Bricklayers' and masons' anr1 q asters' unions have made _*n yi rreement for an interchange .of ?( oxki.ng cards. ,v.'' - I i _ '^rv. MILLIONS ABE WASTED , T IU CARRYING MAIIi .< \ * Railways firriispri in Pnncrroc* of Gross Overcharges. MURDOCH ATTACKS SYSTEft The Law as to Averaires Should R< Changed?Average Daily Weigh is a False Measure?Should Bi Stricken Out. Washington, D. C.-?Charging thai the Government is paying the rail roads too much for carrying th< mails, Representative Murdock (Re publican), of Kansas, made a plea tc the House to change the system. He asserted that the weighing of the mails every four years to determine the,rate of pay is not conducted cj business principles. "Before tils Congress adjourns," he said, "the weighing of the mails in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Michigan and Minnesota will be in progress, and contracts for carrying the mails will be made running four years and calling for an expenditure which may reach twenty million dollars a year, a greatfer expenditure than was made for the service in.the whole country in 1888. "There are practices which should be corrected and new methods adopted before any further contracts are made. The basis of most of our enormous outlay for railway carriage of mails of $45,000,000 this year is the average daily weight. Through thef falsification of this average this' Gov.ernment' in, the last ten years has overpaid for the carriage of .mails about forty million dollars. "Even i? the average should be corrected the system is still antiquated and. inequitable, and should be changed. In a given section the mail is weighed 105 days, Sundays and all, and,these weighings totalled. Then to get the average daily weight, I am informed, the total is not divided^by 105 days, but by ninety days; that is, the Sundays ar? eyp.lndf*' v "As nearly all the heayy averages come from routes which have Sunday mails, the discrepancy is enormous. This system has .continued for years. The Postofflee Department has its warrant for it in an opinion given by an Attorney-General in 1384., The law under which an average is struck is itself thirty-three years old. Comparatively few trains in 1873 carried Sunday malls. i \"The country now is divided into four weighing districts. At the last weighing on the New York-Buffalo route (New York Central) the weighing was for seventy-eight' successive working days, but the mail was weighed, in fact, for ninety days. The Sunday weights, so. far as I can.find, were included in the total, but when the average was struck the Sundays xtroro ovol urtor? 1 trlr* or " v* V VAWiUUVU) iVUTiU^ O^T tiiVJ ^IgjUb days. ThiB 'average' gave an average daily weight of ,411,838 pounds, although the true average was 365,929 pounds. The true average would have given the New York Central an annual pay of $1,728,140.60, instead of the $1,985,910.27 actually received, a difference of about $257,000. v "If the construction of the former attorney-general is right and the presence of the word 'working' forces a false and costly average daily weight, the word should be stricken from the law at once. ' "As the law stands, the rate of pay automatically decreases from an average daily weight of 200 pounds to 5000 pounds, with a provision that $21.37 shall be paid for every 2000 pounds above 5000 pounds carried. In 1873, when the law was adopted,' very few routes carried-over 5000. rhe New York Central, the New A n r V* i n V? dnvf aii? A.-uuuaiu iuuic, nmtu LU-uaj v,airies 411,838 pounds, then carried 30,000 pounds. The diminishing rate 3hoUld' continue beyond the 5000 pound limit." MILK A TUBERCULOSIS AGENT. * _____ i Von Behring Contradicts Koch's Thc ory That It is Harmless. Stuttgart, Germany. ? Prof. Von Behring read a paper here before 'The Society for the Care of Sick in he Colonies" on his method of treatng tuberculosis. According to Prof. Von Behring's riew, consumption Is the "last verse )f the song of which the first verse vas sung in the infant's cradle." In >ther words, he believes that the bacilli of tuberculosis find their way nto the human system through milk, lis theory directly contradicts Dr. ?och's doctrine that tuberculosis nilk is not dangerous, and that conumptlon, in most cases, is contracted is a result of breathing. Prof. Von jenring noias in^i inev germs reacn he lungs through the lymphatics and lood vessels. . i, CHICAGO BANKS' BIG PBOFITS. tecord of Over $11,000,000 Made This Year. Chicago.?The banks of Chicago iave this year enjoyed the largest arnlngs in their history. It is estilated that the total profits of the ear will be something over $11,000, 00. Every- banking Institution has iade a record, and the surplus earnigs will average more than 100 per ent. in excess of dividends. Bank Closed by Controller. LThe Farmers' and Drovers' Na\nal Bank, of Waynesburg, Pa., was :Imed by direction of the Controller Pnwonrttr TaU?* T> /"I?? ? wiv vm jouu/i auu UUUU JO, UU~ linftam, National Bank Examiner, laslbeen appointed receiver. The issenand liabilities are $2,367,474. ! F*hionable Club Indicted. The Maryland Club, one of the nost exflMsive organizations of Baltinore, w$ indicted on a charge of ;elling liq\or on Sunday. Thf Field oZ Sports. Norwid (Conn.) Baseball Club vas sole at auction for $25. Luciis Horatio Biglow, 1908, of tfontcUir, N. J., was elected captain' )f the Yale football team for next, rear. ' / It i proposed that at the finish o^ ;he Jlidden tour in 1907, the sue:esful contestants shall run a tech-] ical contest. "Cleo" O'Donnell, of Boston, Holy ross, 1907, and left end for two sars, has been elccted captain of the >otball team. : , C . ' f , ;V|\ - < "intlBGEU'sl ' Litigation Carried on AgJHa porations. WH , HH Work That Has Been Do^^HB Judiciary in the Interpret^^^H !j tjhe Sherman Anti-Triist^HH Washington, D. C.?The port o? the Attorney-Gsnei^BM 1 United State3 ws.s submitt^BHB President. Because of its ^^^H i the work that has been doi^HH t Federal judiciary in the iAH tion of the Sherman Anti-I^Hfl auu tut) xvauruau nut? in w, General Moody's report ta^HH as being one of the'moat 1iHm| of all departments documen^^9 year. UL3 In dealing with the wor^H| ludlciary in prosecuting cas^Hfl the Sherman law, Mr. MooHjQ attention to the fact that decisions^ of the Suprenie CoiHH shed much light upon the of the words used In-the press the acts prohibited, .HflN limits of the meaning of <"r^^^H and "monopolization" haven^Rj ascertained clearly. Nor has^Bs easy to determine tinder the ^H| organization of business whetflH tain transactions are made un^^B eign or interstate commerce*. fl^B "The Department of Jus^H without organization for the gation of suspected: offenses,^H| the Attorney-General, "thou^Hj general appropriation for forcement of this and laws Hfl character made by Congress ifll has to some extent supplied Qciency. Nevertheless it is tfl the main, that proceedings insHB by the department hare had thflH gin either in a complaint by so^H :erested person or in the ihvest^B of some other department of th^M srnment. These reasons?the Hfl tainty of the meaning cf the conflict with th3 tendencies o^BBj ness and the insnfflciency oflH means of detecting offerises-^H made its enforcement slow anc^fl cult and obedience to Its pro\H| far from universal." gl The report points out that SB course of the litigation carri? against corporations under thfl forcement of the Sherman la^H decisions of t^e Supreme CourtH| marlp rlpar th? 'nllnwlnc fnrtfl 1. That the law is const!tutitM 2. That a combination Of iHI facturers to restrain or moho^B manufacture or production only Incidentally and indirb^tlH fected Interstate commerce w&fl| within the prohibition of the ac^| cause not a restraint'or monop^H tlon of interstate commerce. H 3. That a combination of mH facturers fixing pricea and supdH Ing competition in the sale xjfjfl products in Interstate comr>-iforbidden by the act. 4. That a combinational competing interstate rail J which rates and fares are er^^^B and maintained is forbidde$A aHH law, although the rates in tb<c<Hfl may not be unreasonable or Since the, beginning of rl Roosevelt's ' administration three proceedings have beety^Bl under the Sherman law, sayj^^H torney-General, seven of wl^^H been concluded'and sixteen pending. Ten of tile pre: 'JBfl were indictments and thirtfUM^Bj tions in equity, t In the se^H ceedings concluded the G?\?MM has prevailed. * Specific rulings of importa^^H been made and sustained dtnoSH course or litigation in tney cases mentioned, which the ?ei^H General summarizes thus: B 1. The suppression of conf011^^! which is intentionally accoioc^Hj by placing a majority of thd Q(^H the competing companies in t corporation, is a violation, oi^^M of 1890, though the arct'of ce? Ing company in acquiring taa MB in exchange for its own ma^Wa^H ful under the laws of the Sta 'HQ .created it. w * 2. Manufacturers who their raw material at places i bAfl is sent from,the various !<atl Territories for sale and aft< H9 'j> - -x? ?it xi?i? a..*i i-ui re^M iacture sea ineir pruuuui tu, the country are in respect lool^H purchases and sales engage^ 0{Hfl terstate commerce. L Hi 3. Corporations derivir. franchises from the State^JBH ments exercise them in theiill BB of interstate commerce in si{gn^H tion to the power of Congrei ulate It and subject to the of the National Government bro^B tain whether they are obsein dfl national laws. Such corC have no constitutional privill fuse to produce upon due anj B9| able process of law the recorjensj^H and papers relevant to sift H)H| fierce, and such production U|QjflQ VVU&U1 U^/VU 1111 HI Ut4| criminal prosecution. i3* Turning to the work of hi|n "H| merit in prosecuting cases ulg |H recently enacted railroad rfl^^H Mr. Moody says that despite t D^H dence of the railroad men gi?u^H fore the Senate committee 3 t^H summer of 1905 to the effect .4 ffl bating had stopped, evidence to the Department of Justice the belief that the prohibited yd Hj had been continued under disguises. As a result of the shown by the department wb^_/^H Information was in Its hands s seven indictments have turned since October of last yt Cause of Dear Gas. ^ Assistant Corporation < H Burrr of New York C^y, madd H a contract between the Stand . H Company and the Consolidat| |fl| PnmrmniT toViiaTi Via anlri nrrfisssi^l wui|yuu; f T? U4VU MV for the high price of gas. 1H Old Age Pensions in Engla UlH Premier Campbell-Bannerm!1 H a delegation of members of th> C1B ish Parliament that the GoverunJB would soon take up the subject o^H age pensions. Stub Ends of News. ^Hj Over 100 Spanish just reached the Canal Zone. The finding of scattered d^^H of manganese is reported from^HH ern India. A $30,000 equestrian statu^HHj memory of Wade Hampton veiled at Columbia, S. C. Famine conditions in cer^^^^H ernments In Russia have b^^HHN to be of a serious nature. Socialists in the of Deputies combatted tjfl tion of the Congo Indepe^^^^^H aa dangerous. ^HH9| HHB