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APPEALS TO PUBLIC
I'i IHAI'IIUN HliHt
Financial Support Asked in Plaii
to Show Up Alleged Misdeeds.
"CRIME AGAINST 3,000,000"
Chairman Kins Makes Sharp Attack
on Eminent La-.vycrs Who, He
Says, Arc Seeking to Delay the
Prosecution.
rr* t~t^er
i\t\v x ui jr. v. ii.1.? iniiiau a. uiu>,i
chairman of the committee formed
recently for the purpose of compelling
restitution of sums diverted from the
Metropolitan Street Railway and its
allied corporations, and punishing the
individuals found to be responsible,
gave out an interview in which he
told something of the difficulties that
his committee had experienced in obtaining
counsel owing to the extensive
counections of the traction interests.
ljast October, Mr. King said, he
went to a lawyer of distinction in
criminal practice and tried to retain
him. The lawyer asked first a retaining
fee of $10,000, but said that before
having anything to do with the
undertaking he must consult with
some of his friends. A few days later
Mr. King received this letter from
him:
"I have discussed the matter you
broached to me with a lawyer for
whose opinion I have the highest respect,
_and who is older and more experienced
than myself, and he views
the situation as I feared he would?
that is to say, he believes that there
is a possibility that my association in
other litigations with attorneys now
representing the interests that you
propose to attack might embarrass
me seriously in rendering to you ana
your associates the services to which
you would be entitled if I accepted
your proposition.
"Under these circumstances, although
I have accepted no retainer
from the other side, I believe it would
be wiser and safer to decline to take
yours."
Mr. King declared in his interview
that no member of the committee
would receive any remuneration for
his services of any kind, and that the
committee looked upon it3 task not
from the view point of protecting the
stockholders of the Metropolitan
Street Railway alone, but those of
every other corporation handling a
public utility.
"It is high time," said Mr. King,
"that a halt be called in the methods
used by these high financiers for the
wrecking of great corporations for
taeir pertjouai usueiu, iui uwcmw
no institution in the country will be
safe from their rapacity and greed.
Their work was exposed in the life insurance
companies and even the savings
banks are not entirely safe from
It, for It was only a few years ago
that a bill was passed legalizing investments
by savings banks in securities
that needed very close scrutiny.
"It is now squarely up to the public
to lend not only their moral but
their financial support to this committee
in their effort to carry their
> work to a successful issue. The looting
and wrecking of the Metropolitan
Street Railway is a crime against
3,000,000 of people in this city. They
have not only deprived thousands ol
the holders of the stock and bonds ol
their means of living by rendering
worthless these securities, but by allowing
the physical condition of the
road, and particularly of the rolling
stock, to deteriorate, they endanger
the health and the very lives of our
citizens who depend upon these roads
for their transportation.
i# "It must not be forgotten that a
great majority of the people who use
the cars are working people, many of
them earning a mere pittance, and
fortunate it tney nave more man onu
change of clothing, and these people
ate compelled to wait in the streets in
stormy weather on account of the inadequate
number of cars. The statistics
of the Health Department telling
of the ravages of grip, pneumonia
and consumption, tell the tale, to say
nothing of the effect upon the morals
of the people of the overcrowding in
which thousands of women are enduring
insults daily which are beyond
their power to prevent or even
to resent.
"The men that thiscommittee seeks
to reach and punish are aided by
some of the greatest lawyers, shining
lights of the bar, but hardly less culpable
than the men they seek to
shield and keep out of .iail. These
legal luminaries take advantage of
every technicality of the law to delay
and defeat the ends of justice, in
some instances refusing to testify be
fore grand juries oecause 01 men
'confidential relation?.' with their
clients, and some of these 'confidential
relations' the eommittes will endeavor
to make public.
"If the tactics of these eminent
lawyers are within the lav.-, then the
sooner the laws are repealed and others
substituted whereby the guilty
can be punished for their misdoings,
the better, and until this is done confidence
can never be restored in oui
financial integrity."
Edward Hanlan, Oarsman, Dead.
Edward Hanlan, former champion
oarsman of the world, died at Toronto,
Ontario, from pneumonia.
Railways Cut "Wages.
The Erie announced a cut in the
pay of its clerical force. Almost al!
the railroads in the country are tc
follow.
WARRANT FOR ARMY OFFICER
Lieutenant R. F. Hazzard is Charged
With Forgery in Detroit.
Detroit, Micb.?A warrant was issued
in the police court here charging
Lieutenant R. F. Hazzard, of tin
Seventh Infantry, U. S. A., stationer
at Fort Wayne, with forging the
name of Colonel Dauiel Cornmau to ?
check for $46.50.
The warrant was Issued trs. the
complaint of Avery Wallace, secretary
treasurer of a local grocery firm.
Newsy Gleanings.
The improved Zeppelin airship wil
?arry one hundred men.
The body of Lord Kelvin wai
buried In Westminster Abbey.
All records were broken in Pana
ma Canal construction for the montl
of November.
The introduction of the America!
musical comedy in Paris is undoubt
edly a success.
The 1,800,000 tourists who vlsite*
Paris in 1907 enriched the Frencl
capital to the extent of a milliard o
of fr_ancs.
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Tsenate's currency bus
i *
! Provides For Emergency Issue o
$250,000,000.
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j Sfate ar.<i Municipal T>on<ls to Bo Ac
I c h i.r? o^;.,Ti -
! rt'ptl'U il5 Ot'lUUl^ lilli v;uiv hujj
I ndorsixl?Aldrich Fathers Plan.
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Washington, D. C.?Chairman A1
drich of the Senate Finance Commit
ij tee introduced in the Senate th
, financial bill which he had under prep
j aration for sonic time. The measur
was discussed informally by tie Fi
nance Committee at its meeting, bu
no line-up of Its members was had
After the bill was introduced it wa
1 referred to the Finance Committee
i The bill is composed of eight sec
tions. It provides for the issue ii
emergencies of not more than $250,
000,000 additional circulating note
by national banks, secured by the de
posit of Government, State, munici
pal or first mortgage bonds, th
Comptroller of the Currency to de
1 termine the time and amount of th
issue, not, however, to exceed th
amount of the unimpaired capita
: and surplus of each bank.
The character of the bonds to b
accepted, as prescribed in section 2
Is practically the same as at pres
i ent.
Section 3 prescribes the manner o
depositing the bonds.
Section 4 changes the present lax
regarding the tax to be paid by th
banks on their circulating notes, ac
cording to the character of the bond
deposited against them: on note
based on two per cent, consols am
Panama Canal bonds one-quarter o
one per cent, each half year; Unitei
i States bonds bearing higher interes
one-half of one per cent, each hal
year; based on State, municipal
county or railroad bonds one-half o
one per cent, per month.
i Section 5 provides for the with
| drawal of the notes based on othe
I than United States bonds by deposit
I ing national banknotes, or lawfu
. I money.
Section S prescribes the denomin
ations of the emergency notes to bi
i issued, from S5 to $19,000; provide;
for their printing and storage in thi
nearest Sub-Treasury subject to de
i livery by order of the Comptroller o
the Currency. The notes are to stat<
i on their face that they will be re
deemed by the United States in law
i ful money on presentation at th<
.Treasury; are to bear the signaturi
! of the Treasurer and register and thi
Treasury seal, and the promise signet
by the president and cashier of thi
bank to pay on demand.
i Section 7 provides for the redemp
i tion of the emergency notes by th<
Treasury in lawful money.
Section 8 prescribes that the bank:
i located outside of reserve or centra
reserve cities which are now requirec
by law to keep a reserve equal to fif
teen per cent, of their deposits, shal
hereafter hold at all times at leas'
j two-thirds of such reserve in lawfu
money.
BANISHED FROM MUNCIE.
; Labor Leader Told to Leave?Car;
Running on Schedule.
Muncie, Ind.?The authorities nov
In control of affairs here gave notic<
to A. L. Behner, first vice-president
j of the Amalgamated Association ol
! Street and Electric Railway Em
j ployes, the organization on strik?
i here, that he must leave Muncie.
Cars on the local street railwas
1 lines began running without inter
i ference on regular schedule, mannec
j by local men and without guards
! The twelve companies of infantry anc
' one battery of the Indiana Nationa
! fJnnrrt nrp restiner in Quarters. Th?
streets are patrolled by BOO business
and professional men, who have beer
Bworn in as deputies.
EMPLOYERS' ACT FAILS.
J Liability Statute Passed by Congres*
Rejected by Supreme Court.
Washington, D. C.?That the Coni
gressional act known as the "Employ
j ers' Liability law" is not in accordance
with the Constitution of th(
' United States, because it goes beyond
' the bounds permitted in the regula
1 tion of interstate commerce, was th<
conclusion reached by the Supremt
i Court of the United States in decidI
ing two damage cases from the Fed!
eral courts of Kentucky and Tennessee.
The decision was announced bj
j Justice White, the court standing five
; to four against the law. Even among
j the five who voted not to sustain the
! statute there were different shades ol
j opinion.
DR. ALBERT HOFFA DEAD.
i Famous Orthopedic Surgeon, Honorec
in This Country, Dies in Berlin.
Philadelphia.?A cablegram re'
ceived here from Eerlin by Dr. H
: Augustus Wilson announced th(
1 death of Dr. Albert Hoffa, the famous
. i orthouedic surgeon and professor ir
the University of Berlin.
Dr. Hofla is credited with having
originated the method which devel
oped the bloodless cure for congenita
hip dislocations as practiced by Dr
'Adolph Lorenz. A degree was con
I ferred upon Dr. Hoffa while visiting
i in this country in 1904 by Jeffersoi
Medical College.
j To Extend Power of Commission.
Assemblyman Hamilton, of Syra
i case, introduced a bill in the Legisla
I ture at Albany extending the powers
i of the Public Service Commission tc
telephone and telegraph companies.
Bishop Swamped With Patients.
Ninety persons, mostly women, lr
one day swarmed into St. Paul's Re
I formed Episcopal Church, Chicago
to avail themselves of the new appli
cation OI religious iitctuug as c.\
pounded by Bishop Samuel Fallows
rector of the church. The Bishoi
? was overwhelmed by the numbers
I The names of those applying foi
; treatment were carefully guarded b:
i the Bishop.
> I Steamer Mount Royal Safe,
' ! The long overdue steamer Moun
| Royal arrived safely at Queenstown.
The News at a Glance.
1 John D. Rockefeller confesses tha
i geography always did puzzle him.
31 King Edward greatly disapprove
j of the "tipping" system.
' Emperor William sent a specia
i j representative to the secret sessioj
of the Harden trial.
i ! New York City has a sect of sui
- I worshipers.
* Massachusetts State Federation o
] I State, City and Town Employe
3 j Unions is to urge a pension bill fo
11 city employes before the next Legis
l lature.
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' ?Clever cartoon from the New York Even
lane-Prince De Sagan fight.
: COUNT BOW'S FATHI
! ON THE RIDICU
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* Paris, France. ? The De SaganCastellane
quarrel continues to excite
; all aristocratic Paris. Clubmen crit
icise Prince Helie de Sagan because
he has made French titled aristocracy
* ridiculous in the eyes of the public
by appealing to an humble police
i court for satisfaction Instead of instantly
challenging Count Boni de,
Castellane, divorced husband of Anna
" Gould, to a duel, and the plain people
are chuckling over the decadence of
r" an aristocracy which prefers settling
domestic scandals in a police court instead
of with swords and pistols on
the dueling field.
The Marquis de Castellane, father
of Count Boni, freely discussed the
quarrel, saying:
"You ask me to give the exact report
of the violent encounter which
took place between my son and the
Prince de Sagan. This I do with all
the greater pleasure, as it gives me
the opportunity to rectify the false
j accounts which got into some of the
newspapers.
j "On Friday last, at the Church of
i WARNS PUBLIC AGAINST
| Dr. Samuel G. Tracy Tells cf
) Observed to Preve
New York City.?The recent report
of the Health Board shows that during
the one month there were 1202
deaths from pneumonia, many of
' them beginning with influenza. In
addition to this there have been 126
deaths from influenza without pneur
monia.
' It seems a fitting time to say a
' word about the preventive treatment
1 of - these fatal diseases. Here are
three suggestive rules laid down by
i Dr. Samuel G. Tracy:
1. Keep mouth, teeth, tonsils and
' nose clean.
9 W onn vital rocictnnpo r?f t h o
' body up to the standard.
; 3. Breathe plenty of fresh air,
both in the house and out of it, but
protect the body from cold and
5 draughts by proper clothing.
J It is necessary to keep the mouth,
1 nose, tonsils, etc., clean, because the
mucous membrane of these parts, especially
the tonsils, is not infrequently
the port of entry of the germs of
several infectious diseases, as influ;
enza, pneumonia and acute rheumatism.
The little depressions in the
tonsils are a favorite place for these
germs to lodge; when the tonsils are
inflamed and the vital resistance of
" the body lowered from any cause,
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| LYNCH LAW RECORb LOV
' Average Number of Victims
Week?Seventeen Less 1
New Orleans. ? Fifty-sk persons i
' were put to death by Judge Lynch
! riiiHnp- 1QA7 *f?nrrmnrorl tn wvpntv
' three in 1906. Forty-nine were ne1
gro men, four white men and three
1 negro women. There were double
lynchings in five instances and triple
lynchings in two. ' Two negro women
formed the principals in one of the
double lynchings and two negro
I brothers in another. Thirty-seven
victims of mob violence were put to
death at night.
Following is the comparative num*
ber of lynchings for the two years:
i State. 1907. 1906.
j Alabama 13 5
I Arkansas 3
, I Colorado ? 1 ;
5 I Florida ? 0
I n a q i
j \jtcui Kia \j %r i
' I Indian Territory 2 1
Iowa 1 ?
i Kentucky 1 3
> j Louisiana 8 9
j ; Maryland 2 1
Mississippi 12 13
Missouri ? 3
Nebraska 1 ?
North Carolina .... ? 5
. Oklahoma 2 ?
South Carolina 1 5
Tennessee 1 2
| Texas 3 0
Totals 5G 73
i Son of 134, AVhose Father
Iteached 142 Years.
London.?The Constantinople local
press asserts that no other country
produces so many cases of extraordi,
nary longevity as the Ottoman em)
pire, many of which have been proved
by substantial testimony.
r As such is quoted the case of Hadji
if Reif. who is livine at Keni Baghtcha
and who is 134 years old. He has
been a bookbinder at the military
school at Pancaldi for eighty years,
t His father died at the age of 142. He
was a Government official.
Political Pot a-Iioiling.
Senator Foraker bolted the Ohio
t State primaries, declaring the conditions
imposed by the Taft men illegal
s and arbitrary.
Washington dispatches said the
1 Republican Congress leaders had bea
come alarmed over the Presidential
outlook aud would allow no financial
3 legislation unless It was agreed upon
by both houses.
j New York politicians say that it
s has been fixed for William Loeb, Jr.,
j secretary to President Roosevelt, to
represent the President's home district
as a delegate to the Republican
National Convention,
LErnen J
cc Kctten.
fzoototi) 1' 2>pit|
v a 1your i
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O " -T~ ' ^Ify,
ing World, illustrating the Count Caatel*
JR DISCOURSES
LOUS SAGAN BATTLE
St. Pierre de Chaillot, a requiem mass
was being said for Lady Errington,
who was aunt of both Count Boni and
De Sagan. You are not In Ignorance
of the rumors between my daughterin-law,
Mme. Anna Gould, and the
Prince de Sagan, which have been
afloat for the last six months.
"Leaving the church ten minutes
before the requiem services were
over he passed my son, and, looking
him straight in the face, as if deliberately
to provoke him, took his hat.
and rammed it on his head, thus defying
all the rules of good taste, and,
as if to say, 'Monsieur, I do not care a
hang for you.' The Insult was such
that it deserved immediate correction,
and my son did not hesitate to administer
it. My son left church, and,
following De Sagan, spat squarely in
his face, saying, 'Here is the New
Year's gift which my children requested
me to give you!' On this the1
Prince, who was armed with a stick,
attempted to strike the Count, but
my son immediately parried the blow
and used his own stick effectively."
GRIP AND PNEUMONIA
Precautions That Should Be
Tit These Diseases.
these germs are taken into the system,
circulated in the blood, and
multiply with great rapdity. To prevent
their development it is necessary
to antiseptically cleanse their breeding
places and keep them ctean, es- i
pecially if one spends a considerable j
time in the rooms of those who have
influenza or pneumonia. As a clean- }
ser I would recommend a simple an- j
tiseptic alkaline wash. The follow- j
ing formula can be made at home or j
at the druggist's:
Powdered boracic acid, 18 grains; |
thymol, 1 grain; alcohol, 1 ounce; j
table salt, 20 grains; baking soda, 30 '
grains; essence wintergreen, 2 teaspoonfuls;
glycerine, 1 tablespoonful;
uisuueu waier, o uunres.
Use the solution plain as a mouth
wash or gargle, and diluted one-half
with water it can be used as an anti- i
septic spray for the nose.
This solution should be used daily I
after breakfast or at bedtime, and I
oftener if much exposed. The prep- j
aration is not poisonous, and no harm ,
will come if a little is swallowed.
In some cases I recommend the i
use of peroxide of hydrogen tocleanse ,
the throat and mouth before the application
of the antiseptic alkaline solution.
VER FOR THE YEAR 1907
Was a Fraction Over One a
"han Number in 190o.
The offenses for which these humans
were f?rced to give up their j
lives range from stealing seventy-five
cents and talking to white girls over i
a telephone, to rape and murder of {
wife and sou. Following were the |
offenses charged, with the number |
lynched:
For being father of boy who jostled !
white woman 1 '
For being victor over white man in I
fight 1 !
Attempted murder 5 I
Murder of wife % 1
Murder of husband and wife 1
Murder of wife and stepson 1
Murder of mistress 1
Manslaughter M
Accessory to murder 1 i
Rape 8
Attempted rape 11
Raping own stepdaughter 1
For being wife and son of a raper 2
Protecting fugitive from posse 1
Talking to white girls over telephone 1
Expressing sympathy for mob's victim.. 3
Three-dollar debt. 2
Stealing seventy-five cents 1
Insulting white man 1
Store burglary 3
The lynchings took place in seventeen
States and one Territory, Iowa,
Oklahoma and Nebraska being the
additions to last year's list. Alabama
jumped from five in 1906 to
tnirieen in iau7.
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Pays $1000 For a Horse
Big Enough For Taft.
Bloomington, 111.?A. T. Evving, of
McDonough County, has sold his
black saddle horse to a Chicago horse
buying firm, which has been search- j
ing for a horse for Secretary of War
William H. Taft.
The firm has been advertising for a
horse large enough to carry a man
weighing 300 pounds. The animal
was purchased a year ago in Missouri
by Mr. Ewing, It is six years old,
sound in every way, and cost Secretary
Taft $1000.
The Labor World.
In New South Wales the prevailing
rate paid blacksmiths is $2.50 a day.
Trade unionism has spread to British
hairdressers, and a union has
been started.
There is a movement on foot to
combine the two national unions of !
nanway car worKers.
Structural Iron workers of Memphis,
Tonn., who are at present unorganized,
will form a union.
Opinions differ widely in England
with respect to compulsory conciliation.
Labor leaders are not agreed
upon it. .
NMIY RfliLWAY FATALIIiEE
Interstate Commission Shows
Casualties Have Increased.
81,000 Dead or Hurt on Roads ii
1907?One Out of 121 Killed,
One Out of Eight Injured.
vvasnington, u. u.? ine annual report
of the Interstate Commerce Com
mission, submitted to Congress, reviews
the work of the Commission foi
the last year under the new rate law
After pointing out that the amended
act has bean in force only sixteer
months, the Commission adds that il
was not expected that reforms couU
be brought about without difficult;
or delay, "but it is unquestionably
the fact that great progress has beer
made, and that further improvemenl
is clearly assured."
The Commission declares that rail
way managers generally throughoul
the country have accepted the act ic
'good faith and shown a sincero disposition
to conform to its requirements.
i Figures relative to deaths and injuries
due to railway accidents in the
year 3 907 were also made public
They show that the total number ol
casualties was 108,324 and that 10,618
persons were killed. A large
proportion of the accidents were confined
to employes of railroads, al;
though the number of passengers
killed during the year was 359 and
those injured 10,764. This is an improvement
over the previous year
during which 537 passengers were
killed and 10,457 injured.
Passengers killed In collisions
numbered 146 and those injured 6,053.
The number killed outside oi
employes and passengers numbered
6330 and those Injured 10,241. A
large number of these latter casualties
are attributed to trespassing.
These figures, which are from the
annual report of the Interstate Commission,
show that the total number
of casualties to persons other than
employes from being struck by trains,
locomotives or cars was 5127 killed
and 4905 injured. The casualties ol
this class at highway crossings show:
Passengers killed, 3; injured, 8; other
persons killed, 926; injured, 1884;
passengers killed at stations, 48; Injured,
96; other persons killed, 566;
Injured, 647; passengers killed al
other points along the track, 3; injured,
16; other persons killed, 3,581;
injured, 2254.
Ratios of casualties indicate thai
one employe in every 387 was killed
and one employe in every twenty was
Injured. One trainman was killed
for every 124 employed and one was
injured for every eight employed.
In 1906 one passenger was killed
for every 2,227,041 carried and one
Injured for every 74,276 carried. For
1905 the figures show that 1,375,856
passengers were carried for one
killed, and 70,655 passengers were
carried for one injured.
Casualties occurred among three
general classes of railway employes,
as follows: Trainmen, 2310 killed
and 34,989 injured; switch tenders,
crossing tenders and watchmen, 147
killed and 1026 injured; other employes,
1472 killed and 40,686 injured.
The casualties to employes
coupling and uncoupling cars were:
Killed, 298; injured. 3884. The casualties
connected with coupling and
and uncoupling cars were: Trainmen,
266 killed and 170 injured;
other employes, 14 killed and 124 injured.
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F. A. HEINZE INDICTED.
Alleged That He Overcertified Checks
Amounting to $400,000.
New York City.?F. Augustus
Heinze, former president of the Mercantile
National Bank, and former
"Copper 1 King," was arrested and
held in $50,000 ball by Federal offi<
cers on charges of having violated the
National Banking laws while acting
as president of that institution.
He is accused, in one indictment
containing fifteen individual counts,
Df having certified fifteen checks, totaling
over ?400,000, for his brother's
firm, Otto Heinze & Co., on October
14, at a time when that concern
Dad no SUCH amoum un ucyusu.
In a second indictment, practically
a repetition of the first, he is accused
on fifteen counts of having misapplied
the funds of the bank in certifying
the checks and allowing them
to go through his institution.
The alleged over-certification is
pronounced a violation of Section
5208 of tho United States Revised
Satutes. It carries with it a penalty
of not more than ?5000 fine nor more
than five years' imprisonment for
each offense.
DIAMOND FIRMS IN TROUBLE.
Four Big New York Concerns in
Hands of Trustees.
New York City.?The effect of the
financial situation on the sale of luxuries
was shown when four of the
largest, diamond dealing firms oa
Fifth avenue' acknowledged their inability
to realize enough on their
stock to meet their obligations.
With assets conservatively estimated
to be worth $6,250,000. and
liabilities of $4,500,000, John Frank*
el's Sons' Company, a mi'lion-dolla/
corporation, of No. f?76 Fifth avenue;
Joseph Frankel's Sons and Gattle,
Ettinger & Hammel. of the same ad;
dress, and E. M. Gattle & Co., 01
Thirty-eighth street and Fifth avenue,
a $3,000,000 corporation, werd
compelled to placa the management
tiir.ir nffflira in the hands of trus
tec-s until times become better of
thoir business is liquidated.
SAMUEL FESSENDEN DIES.
for Years a Figure in Republican'
Politics.
Stamford, Conn.?Samuel Fessendsn,
the man who coined the express
sion "God Almighty hates a quitter,''
died at his home here after a lon^
ilinsss.
Mr. Fessenden had been State'q
Attorney for Fairfield County fop
about twenty years. He was active
in Republican politics and was one
time secretary of the Republican National
Committee.
U. S. Commission to Probe Seaboard.
Plans for a thorough investigation
of Thomas F. Ryan's manipulation of
the securities of the Seaborad Air
Line, which resulted in a receivership.
are being prepared by the Interstate
Commerce Commission, Wash
ington.
Congress Wants Bro*vnson Letters.
A resolution was introduced in the
Housfe, Washington, requesting from
the Secret&ry of the Navy all the corfesponddhce
oh file bearing ou the
ftooseYeU^rG&asQn.CQ'jtmersy.
i ROOSEVELT LUSH FOB
i MIIIME BROWS1
Act in Resigning Described as1
i "Childish" and "Unseemly." |
i
PUT IN THF "DISLOYAL" CLASS '
' Navy Cliques Denounced?Hysterical
[ Exaggeration and Malicious Un- !
truthfulness in Charges Against i
( Service?Dispute Argued.
| Washington, D. C.?President!
I Roosevelt flatly charges Admiral j
I Brownson with being "disloyal to the .
I interests of the navy, and therefore
i of the country as a whole," for re1
signing as Chief of the Bureau of
' Navigation rather than sign an order
, which he believes to be unlawful, as|
signing a naval surgeon to command
J a navy ship.
The President made his personal
entrance into the navy row by caus
ing to be given out for publication at
! the Navy Department two letters
. which he has written to Secretary
t Metcalf. In one of them he denounces
Admiral Brownson in language calcu?
lated to put a more severe strain
upon that officer's self-restraint than
it has ever endured before. In the
i other he defends the choice of a med1
ical officer to command the hospital
BhiD Relief.
All the scorn and reprobation in
> the President's vigorous vocabulary
are employed to describe the conduct
i of the Admiral in quitting his post
| rather than, as he viewed the matter,
' surrender its functions to the White
I House physician, and to characterize
the contention of the line that only
line officers should command ships.
The President denounces the ac'
tion of the Admiral as "unseemly and
improper" and as "ifrejudicial to the
' | interests of the navy." He refers to
i the controversy about warship con- v
struction, raised by the publication
| of the Reuterdahl charges, and in:
volves the Admiral in that, despite
the fact that Admiral Brownson
stoutly defended the navy in an interview
given only two or three days before
he left the Bureau of Navigation.
"These controversies are highly in
jurious to the service," says the President.
With another reference to the
"grave impropriety of the Admiral's
jconduct," he declares that it "Is not
merely childish, but in the highest
degree reprehensible to permit per1
sonal pique, wounded vanity or fac;
tional feeling" to render a man "disloyal
to the interests of the navy and
the country."
! Those friends of Admiral Brown- <
1 son who have believed that the President*
would make ppblic the Admiral's
letter of resignation were disap!
pointed. There is no direct mention
of it or Its contents in either of the
: President's letters to Secretary Met- 1
1 calf, and not the slightest indication
of any intention on the part of the
White House ever to permit it to become
public. There are only two
ways In which Admiral Brownson
can get his side published?one by
: resigning from the navy, giving up 1
1 his commission entirely, and the
other through a Congressional investigation.
HARDEN SENT TO JAIL.
Editor Convicted of Libel in Berlin? ,
Four Months and Costs. i
Berlin, Germany. ? The Harden- i
Von Moltke libel suit came to an end
when the accused editor of Die Zu?
kunft was sentenced to four months' j
imprisonment and to pay the entira
costs of both the present and former
| trials. Harden and Count Kuno von
Moltke sat on opposite sides of the 1
courtroom, which was crowded.
The president of the court said
1 that in spite of the prisoner's assertion
that the insinuations contained
In the articles referred merely to the j I
scientific anu artistic leanings of I
i ^ ?j n-i ? ~ nunu I <
\JOunc von iviuiiKt; auu rnute ruiuu i
zu Eulenburg, and that they had had (
nothing whatever to do with immoral (
or unnatural practices, it was evident
j that if this was the meaning it had '
| been intended to convey the articles
i were senseless and purposeless. The
i intention of the prisoner was to dej
grade Count von Moltke and Prince .
I zu Eulenburg in the eyes of the pub- j j
j lic* i
| MOB JAPANESE IN UTAH. <
Railroad Workmen Who Attack For- ! <
eigners Arc Dispersed. j |
Ogden, Utah.?With cries of "Hang the
Japs!" 200 men invaded the Jap!
anese quarters here, and but for the ]
j timely arrival of the police a riot! j
! would have resulted. The trouble j ,
j was brought about by the replacing j
of a number of white laborers with ,
J it UUlltibe 111 luc lauiuuu joiua.
More than 100 men gathered at th '
i Union Station and then marched to
! Twenty-fourth street to the Japanese
j quarters. The crowd grew, and its (
j threats of lynching frightened the ,
; Japanese into deserting their homes.
When the police arrived they found j
j a Japanese named Skavoy trying to j 1
j encourage his countrymen to organizo; 1
! and attack the whites. Skavoy was i I
j arrested. | t
I {
Indian Made West Point Cadet. I
I .
, Lamar Jackson, a full-bloded Choc- I
taw Indian, of Atoka, Oklahoma, ha? j (
been appointed to a cadetship in the
United States Military Academy at j
West Point by Representative Charles ; ?
D. Carter, of that district. j ?
! j
Anti-Futures Law Constitutional.
At Little I-tock, ArK., juags ine-i .
her, in the Federal Court, upheld thai
constitutionality of the anti-futurca j (
law passed by the last Legislature. ! 1
The Court declares that the State did ; ?
not exceed its power in enacting tha : i
statute as a police regulation to pre- j <;
serve the morals of the public.
Fighting the Black Hand. I J
Polico of Europe and America have j s
joined in an effort to stamp out the j
evils of Mafia, Black Hand and simi-1
lar societies.
The Field of Sports.
Regan filled a big gap in the Penn- 1
sylvania team. '
The Hockey Club, of New York,
defeated Harvard at polo by a score
of three to two. v
Manager McCloskey, of the St. i
Louis Nationals, says that ho will not j \
let go of Pitcher Karger for any con- \
eideration. )
There will be legislation by both
of the big leagues before next season |
which will prohibit owners of clubs r
which take part in the world's series
/innofinc tvipir sharo of the re-,
I ceintfl to the Players, ' ^
- ' >
3IISS ANNIE CATRON,
CATARRH MADE LIFE
A BURDEN TO ME.
MISS ANNIE CATRON, 927 Main St.,
Cincinnati, Ohio, writes:
"As I have found Peruna a blessing for
a severe case of catarrh of the head and
throat which I suffered from for a number
of years. I am only too pleased to give it my . 'S.
personal endorsement.
_ "Catarrh, such as I suffered from, made
life a burden to me. my breath teas
offensive, stomach bad, and my head
stopped up so that I was usually troubled
with a headache, and although I tried
many so-called remedies, nothing gave me
permanent relief. I was rather discouraged
with all medicines when Peruna was suggested
to me.
"However, I did buy a bottle, and before
that was finished there was a marked '
change in my condition. Much encouraged
I kept on until I was completely cured
in a month's time, and 1 find that my
general health is also excellent." ?
People who prefer solid medicines should
try Peruna tablets. Each tablet represents
one average dose of Peruna.
Man-a-lin the Ideal Laxative.
Ask Tour Druggist for Free Peruna
Almanac Jor 1908.
Turpentino Substitutes.
The annual consumption of oil of
turpentine for the entire world Is estimated
at 21,400,000 gallons. Practically
all of this enormous quantity
of spirits is produced in the United
States. As the method of extracting
turpentine is destructive and the possibility
of an extinction of the source
of supply appears no longer very
remote, there has arisen an increasing
demand for turpentine oil substitutes.
The value of spirits of turpentine
is largely due to its slow but
complete volatilization, allowing the
painter time to get an even finish,
and it is sufficiently volatile to prevent
the paint from running. The N
petroleum substitutes have been pre- - ^
pared so as to closely simulate the
aatural product in this respect. Since
there is no reaction taking place in a
paint which can be credited to terpentine,
it acts as a solvent, pure and
simple, and hence there can be no
objection to the use of theSe substitutes
in paint manufacture. The socalled
wood turpentine, distilled from
Btumps and wood, has a very unpleasant
odor, due to about two and onehalf
per cent, of extraneous principles,
mainly formaldehyde. For this
reason it is not looked upon with
favor by painters, though for all
practical purposes it is as good as the
purer article.?Trade Register.
Property.
The last thing we need to be anxious
about Is property. It always has
Friends or the means of making them,
tf riches have wings to fly away from
their owners, they have wings also to
escape danger. ? Tom Lowell's Address
on "Democracy."
Costs of Office.
On the day after his election the
:nief magistrate of a certain town
In the Midlands, who enjoys the
reputation of being rather "near" In
money matters, was asked for a subscription
to the local football club.
"I really can't do it," he replied.
'Just look at the outlay I've already
seen put to through accepting office!"
And he produced a small ledger, inscribed
on the cover, "Mayoralty Expenses."
On the top line of the first
inside page was the entry, "Dress
suit, $10."?Reynolds' Newspaper.
FOUND A WAY
ro Re Clear of the Coffee Troubles. *
i"Husband
and myself both had the
:offee habit and finally his stomach
md kidneys got in such a bad condi:ion
that he was compelled to give
ip a good position that he had held
'or years. He was too sick to work.
riis skin was yellow, and I hardly
hinir thprA was an orean in his body
hat was not affected.
"I told him I felt sure his sickness
vas due to coffee, and after some dis:ussion
he decided to give it up.
"It was a struggle, because of the
powerful habit. One day we heard
ibout Postum and concluded to try it,
ind then it was easy to leave oft cof'ee.
"His fearful headaches grew less
requent, his complexion began to
:lear, kidneys grew better until at
ast he was a new man altogether, as
l result of leaving off coffee and takng
up Postum. Then I began to
lrink it, too.
* K UK/MinfK T n?ne nounr 00 KoH nff *
AlUIUU^U X ?? UV?V1 M.KJ UUU V/ *4.
is my husband, I w xs always very
lervous and never at any time very
itrong, only weighing 95 lbs. before
began to use Postum. Now I weigh
.15 lbs. and can do as much work as
my one my size, I think.
"Many do not use Postum because
hey have not taken the trouble o
uake it right. I have successfully
ooled a great many persons who
lave drunk it at my table. They
vould remark, 'You must buy a high
?rade of coffee.' One young man
vho clerked in a grocery store was
rery enthusiastic about my 'coffee.'
viinn i tnlrl liini what if was he> ?aid. ?>
Why. I've sold Postum for four years
jut I had no idea it was like this.
riiink I'll drink Postum hereafter.' "
Name given by Postum Co., Battlo
>ovk.Mich. P*?.>ad"The Road to Welle."
in ukss. "There's a Rws.qi\,'V
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