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r ' ssFiir -SIIIE RIGHTS BEJIEI Supreme Court Nullifies Minne sota and N. Carolina Rate Laws. HELD TO BE UNCONSTITUTIONAI Enormous Penalties Prevent Compa nies From Questioning Yalidit ?Federal Courts Upheld, Jus tice Harlan Dissenting. Washington, D. C.?States' right ropolvoil cfn o-o-orin tr hlnw frnni th Supreme Court of the United States That tribunal decided the laws o Minnesota and North Carolina seek ing to regulate rates on intra-Stat freight and passenger traffic were un constitutional by upholding the juris diction of Federal courts to inquiri Into the confiscatory nature of Stati right laws. The Supreme Court gave the rail roads their first big victory since th< days when the Federal Governmen and the States began their crusad< ntrainqf' thpm The Minnesota Freight Rate law passed last year, was declared uncon stitutional in that it imposed sucl large fines and such long imprison ments?$5000 and five years ? or railroads and officials that the court: were practically closed to them. Justice Harlan, in a 12,000-worc opinion, dissents on the ground thai the proceeding in the Minnesota cas< is a suit against the State, and, there fore, not permissible under the Con etitution. He says: "Neither the words nor the policj of the Eleventh Amendment will, under our former decisions, justify an) order of a Federal court, the necessary effect of which will be to exclude a State from its own courts. Such an order, attended by sucn results cannot, I submit, be sustained consistently with the powers which the States, according to the uniform declarations of this court, possess undei the Constitution. "I am justified, by what this courl has heretofore declared, in now saying that the wise men who framed the Constitution and who caused th( r.doption of the Eleventh Amendmenl would be startled by the suggestioi that a State of the Union can be pre> vented by an order of a subordinate Federal court from being representee by its Attorney-General ia a suil brought by the NState in oue of its own courts; and that such an ordei would be inconsistent with the dig nity of the States as involved in theii constitutional immunity from the Judicial process of the Federal courts (except in the limited cases in whict they may constitutionally be made parties in this court), and would be attended by most pernicious results.' In the North Carolina case the ac - * T? ^ yvP +Vw LIU II Ol justice? riuunaiu, vi cue United States Circuit Court, in dismissing James Wood, an agent of the Southern Railroad, from jail, where he had been sent for violating the State railroad rate law, was sustained The court said that Justice Pritchard having assumed jurisdiction in the case questioning the legality of the law, had the right, and it was his dutj to see that nothing interfered witt the determination of the question ir his court. In both the cases Justice Harlan alone dissented. As . result of the decisions, Attorney-General Edward* Young, ol Minnesota, must pay a fine of $10C for contempt of the Federal Court ol Minnesota, which found him guilty ol attempting to enforce the Minnesota freight law, after the Federal Courl had enjoined him from so doing Young invited the contempt proceedings to test the law. PENSION" BILL PASSED. Largest Amount Ever Granted bj Congress at Washington, D. C. Washington, D. C.?After several flours of spirited discussion over the proposition to abolish seventeen ol the eighteen United States pensior agencies and consolidate pension disbursements in Washington, the House of Representatives passed the Pensior Appropriation bill, carrying $150,509,000, the largest sum ever authorized by that measure. The House, by a vote of 8G to 139 stood by the Committee on Appropria^ tions and left unchanged its recom mendation for one general agency. MANY PERISH IX COLLISION. Steamer Matsu Goes Down With Mosi of Her Passengers. Tokio, Japan. ? The coastins steamer Matsu, belonging to the Nip pon Yusen Krisha Line, was sunk a1 2.30 a. m. in collision with the Hid JJUSII1, ucar ua.MiuitvE. The captain of the Matsu, a raa> fority of her 24 4 passengers and for :/-three of the crew perished. The survivors were rescued by th? steamer Hidoyoshi. OPIUM DENS MUST CO War on the Drug at Shanghai China. Shanghai.?The Municipal Counci of the foreign settlements of Shane; hai voted to reduce the number o opium dens in Shanghai by one fourth. An amendment for the im Mediate abolition of all the dens wa rejected. Cliina Invites Battleships. China, through Minister Wu, it Jiplomatic representative in Wash ington, D. C., has extended a cordis invitation for the American battleshi fleet to stop in China on its wa tround the world. Oklahoma Adopts Dispensary. Both houses of the Legislature, n Guthrie, Ok!a., passed the State Dis pensary measure. There will be dispensary in every town of 2T?00 c more inhabitants aud !n every count scat. The Labor World. Brisbane (Australia) coopers hav built up a good union. The Porto Rico branch of the A. I of L. has demanded the eight-hoi working day. Chicago employers granted a sligl increase in pay to 3500 sash, blin and door workers. The adjustment of the wages < Cleveland ironstone miners for tl ensuing quarter has been carried ou The granite polishers went to woi by an agreement reached between tl strikers and their employers, i Oiiinr.v Mass. | I MliEST SENATOR DEAD j ill $ I William James Bryan, cf Florida, f | Succumbs tG Typhoid. , Taken Down With drip Soon After He Was Sworn In and Later With Disease That Proved Fatal, l Washington. D. C.?Death visited i> ! the United States Senate for the sevj 1 enth time since the adjournment of the Fifty-ninth Congress on March 4 a year ago, taking William James Bryan, of Florida, who died in Provi5 dence Hospital here at 8.21 o'clock a. e rn. For more than seven we^ks Mr. 1 Bryan had been suffering from ty' phoid fever. For days his condition had been critical, his life banging in f the balance almost from hour to hour. When the end came his wife and brother were with him. i Mr. Bryan was the youngest mem- I 3 ber of the Senate, taking his scat \ s when only three months past thirtyone years of age. His seat was next to that occupied by William Pinkney * Whyte, of Maryland, aged eighty J four, the oldest member. Air. wnyce t divided his time between coaching ; Mr. Bryan, who sat on his right, and Mr. Gore, the blind orator f'ora 01:1a, homa, who sat on his left. Mr. - Whyte was buried two days before l Mr. Bryan's death. Mr. Bryan actually served in the i Senate only a trifle more than three 3 weeks. He took his seat January 9. succeeding to a vacancy occasioned I by t.he death of Senator Mallory, t Florida, December 23, 1907. ; The young Senator was a man #f pleasing personality and made a large number of friends during hi? ? brief service. He was an athlete /-> t and apparently had enjoyed the best ^ of health. President Roosevelt took 4 r a great liking to him and they were companions on several long walks. > The President often declared, "I wish t I could have Mr. Bryan in my Cab. inet." William James Bryan was the ' youngest man to enter the Senate far more than a century. Henry Clay R ' holds the record, having taken the oath when only twenty-nine years j I old, being a year under the constitutional requirement that a man must I be thirty years old before acquiring i that honor. The Legislature of KenL 1? ^ ^ *V? 1 o nrnviclnn t lUCKy SOUgUt UU OO.UC .uu *.*%/. , i of the Constitution by having Mr. . Clay appointed instead of electing j ir i him. The Senate accepted this eva- | I sion and permitted Mr. Clay to take | c< : his seat. > William James Bryan was born in J Orange County, Florida, October 10, 1876. He attended the public schools ai of his State and Emory College, R" ; Georgia, and was graduated from the s latter institution in 1896. Three w i years later he was graduated from s Washington and Lee University, ) where he took a course in law, and in 0 ' 1899 he began the practice of his pro fession at Jacksonville, Fla. From 1 ) 1902 until a short time before his appointment by Governor Bonnard to 5 succeed Senator Mallory, he served qi as a solicitor of the Duval County 1 ; Criminal Court of Record. He mar- s; . ried Miss Janet Allan, of Lexington, , Va. > , tl J BISHOP FOWLER DEAD. | Long a Leader in Missionary Work of ^ ; the Methodists. d; New York City. ? The Rev. Dr. pi Charles Henry Fowler, Bishop of the i P IfaHin/Jlof Pnlccnnal P.hiirph died at I > his home in New York City at the age ^ | of seventy-one years. Because of his fe E ill health he was to have been put on ta i the retired list of Bishops at the ses sion of the General Conference of the bi Church to be held in Baltimore ia May. ' 1,1 Bishop Fowler had been an active and successful missionary worker for his Church for more than forty years. He was born in Burford, Ontario, tc Canada, of Scotch-Irish parentage. ?C r He was graduated from Genesee Col" lege at Lima, N. Y., in 1859, and was P' valedictorian of his class. 1 tr | DEATH FROM A SCRATCH. J ; fi; . i Mr. White, of Cincinuati, Injured b/ h, ? a Finger Nail. i ci 1 I IT] Cincinnati.?O. Maurice White and i [ his wife both grabbed frantically at i t their infant, who stumbled and was on the verge of falling downstairs on I ^ ' March 7. In grasping for her child j ' Mrs. White accidentally inflicted a j ^ small scratch with her finger nail on | the side of her husband's nose. Noth- i (j ing was thought of it until erysipelas j developed. It resulted in his death. | ir I ^ t TROLLEYS TO CARRY FREIGHT. } ? . Legislation in Boston Affecting EleC- C( ? trie Railways. cl t Boston.?The bill to permit street j ~ railways to carry freight was reported . favorably in the House by the Com- , mittee on Street Railways. The bill permits trolley roads, under permis- ,, sion given with a two-thirds vote of , ? the Aldermen, approved by the May- c ors of citie3 traversed, to carry T freight. w Littlefield Quits as Congressman. b A sensation was- caused in political ^ 1 circles at Rockland, Me., by the re- o ceipt by Governor William T. Cobb b I of a letter from Charles E. Littlefield, g - tendering his resignation as a memE ber of Congress, to take effect September 30 next.. It is understood - that Mr. Littlefield will engage iq, the s practice of law in New York City with his son, C. W. Littlefield. C q TWO MEN LYNCHED. a I l II White and Colored Prisoners Seized I ? P at Perry, Florida. ! ^ Perry, Fla.?A mob of armed citi- ( tl zens surrounded the county jail and i p took Richard Smith and "Will" Mc- i a Mullen, both charged with murder, j fi , from the jail and shot theni to death. | a a Smith was charged with the murder j Ilt ' of a white man a few days ago, and v i McMulleu was awaiting trial tor the 1 li '* ! murder of a negro. li j Gave Away His Money, e A shabbily clothed man giving his name as James I. Taylor, from Pitts- ^ ? burg, Pa., was arrested at St. Louis, i " n | .Mo., because he was handing out $5 I I and $10 bills to a crowd that sur- ; * , j rounded bitn. He said be had fallen. j 0 j heir to $3000, and had a right to 1 j give the money away. c J C J j Rayner to Nominate Gray. V ' Senator Isidor Rayner, of M*ij- ]i I laud, is to place Judge George Gray, i I of Wilmington, Del., in nomination 1( | for President at the Democratic Na- h al! tional Convention. F $ $ 9 $ $ 9 S 9 9 9 $ 9 $ $ 9 9 9 $ $$ $ $ The Charge of the $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ 9 9 $ $ $ $ $ ! Less than one hundred men conti commercial business of the country 1 800 directorates.? Senator La FolUUc Washington. INTO THE VALLEY OF WE A ?Week's Cleverest Cartoon by Johnson, SENATOR LA FOLI NAMES RICH 1 RULE THE T ockefeller and Morgan He Puts With Three Lists Follow Importance in the Fi Washington, D. C.?"Along 1 trust power has gone a steady p Dntrol of-that power until now tne y the Standard Oil-Morgan comb "The old fights between these tw tide. Mr. Morgan's picture adorns th ockefellers at No. 26 Broadway. Ii orking together to gather in the sma "Mr. Hill has been taught the nes. Standard Oil got in on arp Hpino , IIC VUU1U wo W ? o lorse and Heinze were neatly poc 'he Smelter Trust was given a c ime direction. "The Vanderbilts can no longer r lemselves see the handwriting on the Thus spoke Senator La Follette in le third and final installment of his lemorable speech against the Alrich Currency bill. ings Charge Back at Critics. His assertion that the industries of le whole country are controlled by iwer than 100 men had been aticked as sensational. He took up the charge and flung it ick in the teeth of his critics. On the contrary, he declared, he. ad been too conservative*?^ much nailer number of men rule the naon's wealth. The Senator quoted John Moody ? show an enormous growth in trust msolidation and capitalization in yt >ur years. In 1904 Mr. Moody ,u laced the capitalization of the inustrial franchises and railroad res usts at over ?20,000,000,000. That sai mount had increased more than 11,000,000,000", or more than fifty- lai ve per cent. The $31,000,000,000, sh a said, did not represent the flnan- ci? -* 1-:+ j?o Ko n b-c trust. ?nrl ill UUill Ulliatli/uo, uauuo, v. isurance companies. fol Mr. La Follette named as next afsr Morgan and the Rockefellers a roup of fourteen men. who, he said, ere "big operators and men of large Dwer and interests in their own ghts." i Harmony With "Big Two." These men, he said, find their best iterests "in working in harmony ith Morgan and Standard Oil." No jmbination which th??y could form mong themselves or with others )uld cope with that-power, he deared. Here are the fourteen: 7. K. Vnnderbilt, E. H. Harriman, ugust Belmont, Thomas F. Ryan, rederick Wcyer- Louis S. Swift, hauser, John Jacob Astor, [enry C. Frick, James Speyer, , Ogden Armour, James J. Hill, an leorgc J. Gould, W. H. Moore. de acob Schiff, sic A second class of men in the list isl ere the "stars of lesser magnitude," be ut men of wealth and power, who mi ork in with the combine, and a few ne f the higher rank of attorneys and sp ank presidents of the system. This in roup follows: th C. H. Dodge, C. H. McCormiok, Stephen S. Palmer, Brayton Ives, cu C. A. Peabody, G. F. Baker, J. hr F. Dryden, J..S. Post, H. Tay- th lor Payne, T. H. Hubbard, G. G. lei Haven, \V. J. Oakman, F. J. Ber- fo Mnrlp Soldier Parade at | M Barracks With Bad Boy Placard. Washington, D. C.?Capt. Clark >. Dudley, of the Fourteenth Cav- W lry, at Boise Barracks, Idaho, has ov een convicted by court-martial of C( he charge of cruelty in having com- m elled a young soldier to parade up ar nd down the porch of the barracks si] or three hours wearing on his back of placard with the words "Bad Boy." st. lis comrades filed a complain*;. of Captain Dudley was sentenced to co e confined within the limits of his cr iost for four months. sn Tlr?? National (iame. The St. Louis National Club has igned catcher William Hurley, of w (eat tie. . sl] It is stated that first ha eman Bob Inglaub will again be Bclgon's team jn aptain. Ig. A The recalcitrant TommMCoach has pi ipened a pool and billiaM* irlor in | Cleveland. flf ot Tn Manager Oriffith'a^R' lion he re ias in Atlanta the best spot ia n the South. It is said that Umpime tinstone d( ias signed a four-year w"?t*ct with m Resident Pulliam. f bt $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$9 [""" Money Brigade i $ $ $ $ $ $$ $ $ $ $ 9 999 9 9 99 9 9 ? -ol tho financial, Industrial and 250 /, ar.d their names appear In in hU attack on the A Ulrica UUl at Alal JLTH RODE THE 100. cum in the New York Evening Journal. 9tru thrc L'TTE f [EN WHO 2 JNITED STATES SS of a jure in a Class by Themselves, Mex ing in the Order of ^ nancial System. gov necl bezz with this enormous increase MA V ... $30< rocess of centralization in the l entire situation is dominated jjy1" >ination. ro great powers have been laid le wall of the inner room of the -^ra' q n combination to-day, they ara ller powers. doQ( it he must not oppose the big the Great Northern ore deal., and t-hp mm hi n p. I IVai D W CU1VJ ??CU k/ y Wiv ?? S' keted during the recent panic. jap! Irubbing and started in the j"giv? labo Japi etain their important control and iabo i wall." wind, J. B. Duke, F. A. Valentine, W. D. Sloan, Adrian Iselin, Jr., Frederick Cromwell, G. W. Young, C. Ledyard Blair, D. Gug- genheim, V. I?. Snyder, A. H. L Brady, Edwin Hawley, D. O. Mills, Charles Steele, John J. *1~' Waterbury, Oliver Ames, Nathaniel Thayer, E. H. Gary, John Claflin, John R. Hageman, C. H. Mackay, F. W. Vanderbilt, J. J. Mitchell, T. Jefferson Coolidge, Thomas Dolan, Samuel Lea, Charles Lanier, James C. Fargo, D. O. Reid, Henry Walters, Norman D. Ream, H. L. Higginson, P. A. B. Widener and P. B. Morris. ird Group of Financiers. wiP Of the third group, including the ^ st of the list, Senator La< Follette ?eei Id: Porl "While some of them exercised UP? "ge power and held many directorips, it was a delegated power exer- dest sed by them in a mere representare capacity. This part of the list Pre! llows: R "Edwin S. Marston, G. W. denl Perkins, John S. Sterling, Otto havi H. Kahn, James F. Jarvis, A. W. that Krotch, Paul Morton, H. C. Dem- whi< ing, Charles H. Russell, Chaun- vacc cey M. Depew, Oliver H. Payne, W. S. Webb, James B. Forgan, Nee Moses Taylor, Francis M. Bacon, j> J. A. Stillman, Luther Kountze, rauc H. P. Whitney, P. D. Cravath, (jro, Levi P. Morton, H. H. Vreeland, nos W. Woodbury Langdon, C. W. ,jr0, Morse, Charles M. Schwab, E. F. j aKrj C. Young, C. S. Fairchild, G. S. Whitson, A. 1). Juilliard, G. H. pja< Allen, V. Morawetz, J. H. Par- q ker, Frederick Sturgis, C. N. , Bliss, A. P. Orr, H. McK. Twom- K J bly, Charles Dawes, E. R. Ship- tQW ley." The net result of the speech was the iother victory for La Follette. He ma manded a Congressional cominis)n to consider currency reform l3g- Qan ation in order that Congress may assisted in promoting the enact- . ?P o nansral onrratlCV law in Hi P POII cut Wi ? ftttUVitt- VUUVMVJ " - ? tho :xt session. At the end o! the eech Senator Beveridge arose and G?g quired of Senator Aldrich what he ought of the plan. J?. Mr. Aldrich said that the present tms rrency bill made no pretense of em- Tracing banking reform, and added at before this Congress adjourns C gislatlon would be passed providing heei r just such a commission. ^aa I Pre illion.s of Radium, Gold and 1 Silver Going to Waste. ! Not I P Washington, D. C.?Thomas F. I tua| alsh, the multi-millionaire mine | sel vner of Colorado, told the House j tur? mimittee on Mines and Mining that j prU( illions of dollars' worth of radium ; id more millions' worth of gold and ' tlie Iver are going to waste as a result j improper mining methods, and cril rongly recommended the creation j ^ a bureau of mines. Later the : > immittee agreed to report the bill : * eating such a bureau, and it will ' irelv nass. I , ?, ' J.01 The World of Sport. j William Waldorf Astor's son has j r on the English racquet champion- i lip. j C 10. W. Gardner lost to IT. A. Wright ' ^ the tournament for the National j aSa mnteu.* 11.2 balkline billiard chatu- j Cha onship. tae At Duluth, Minn.. John Evanpon. | : Duluth, broke the American ski *, cord with a jump of 131 feet in the . ( st tournament of the season. <2 Billy Papke, of Spring Valley, ill., wer jfeated Hugo Kelly, the Chicago sun iddleweight, in a ten-round battle Kei ifore the Milwaukee Boxing Club. I by f ???ma??m BP?a NM5 B CARS OF FARM TOOLS FOR RUS New York City.?Record-breah machinery, fcotli as regards tonnage this season to Europe. The Russian been specially chartered for the pi almost 250 carloads of reapers, mc various ether farming implements This consignment represents 7000 1 $750,000. on Labor's Demand. I Washington, D. C.?Labor leaders >ented their demands to Vice-Pres- c it Fairbanks and Speaker Cannon, s i assured them that an employers' ? ility law will be passed at the 1 sent session of Congress. r Men Fought For Jobs. t leveland, Ohio. ? Three hundred <; i, driven to desperation by hunger, w in fought for jobs at the Cuyahoga it of the American Steel and Wire * lpany. The day before a man was ? ,lly shot in a riot. The police ? ibed the men to keep order. I. Hosford Ends life. Washington, D. C.?In a fit of deldency Frank H. Hosford, a well Jj wn newspaper correspondent and ? ner Reading Clark of the House b lepreaentatlves, committed suicide 11 i with a knife. Mr. Hosford rep- a nted a number of Michigan newsers. He was born in Marietta, A a, in 1863. o eball Season's First Death. u [ontgomery, Ala.?The first death a a baseball this season occurred ,, n S. H. Smith, a student at th& jama Polytechnic Institute, sucibed to his injuries. He was C ck on the back of the head by a P iwn ball while trying to slide to 1' home plate. 3 ? ? S tvsiurui at nunvmt ? orfolk, Va. ? Perfect spring ther was broken by a heavy snow, b ch, with the northeast wind that p 7, reached almost the proportions ^ , blizzard. The snow has not in- C id early truck or fruit. Ji ico Grants Extradition. Washington, D. C.?The Mexican 0 ernment has granted the extradi- v of William F. Walker, the Con- s :icut banker arrested for em-, li ilement. e _ v 0,000 Fire at Lowell. b owell, Mags.?The Fifleld Maie Company was badly damaged 1 ire. Several houses in the vicinwere burned. The loss is $300,- f. e u in Robber Pardoned. t acramento, Cal.?George Sontag, notorious train robber, were par- * ed by Acting Governor Porter, turned State's evidence against a is Evans, his partner in crime, p received a life sentence in 1892. f 1. its Japs Admitted to Unions. v eattle, Wash.?M. Saito, former h mese Minister of Commerce, ar- c d here from Tokio. His errand a start a campaign among union A ir leaders for the admission of mese workmen to membership in S ir unions. d XEW5 ft! 3,730,000 FOR PRUSSIAN ROADS Berlin.?The Railroad bill, wh lower house of the Diet, demands a $125,750,000 for the development* Prussia. The outlay as projected is tion of new lines, with cars, $33,300 tracks to existing lines, $15,750,00 under construction, $8,000,000; fo cars for the existing State lines, $55 serve funds, $7,500,000; for the bu $1,250,000. The money for this ra raised by a loan.' e Out Town in Gninea. I isbon.?An official dispatch has i received here to the effect that e tuguese troops made an attack r a the revolting natives at Jafuneo n Fgine, in Portuguese Guinea, and s royed the town of Varella. t! n 5ident Sets Vaccination Example. s io Janeiro, Brazil. ? The Presi- ? t of the republic and all his family a been vaccinated, and It is hoped this may impress public opinion, ? cli is inclined to resist compulsory :ination. e r ded Rain Falls. r uenos Ayres.?Rain, which was e :h needed, owing to the long n lght, fell In the province of Bue- P Ayres and other districts. The * jght had seriously threatened culture and live stock. I *ue in Ecuador. g uayaquil, Ecuador.?The bubonic f jue here is increasing and the san- Q y Condition of this and other 1 ns is causing great alarm. There a fifty-one cases of the plague in o lazaretto, beside several cases of llpox and yellow fever. I 't Make Diamonds. t aris.?The experts who were ap- t ited by the court to investigate s methods used by the electrical f ineer Lemoine, who claimed to be p i to manufacture diamonds, report ; it is impossible to make gems by I method. r ikon Has New Cabinet. t hristiania.?The new Cabinet has t a definitely approved by King j ikon, with Gunnar Knudson as j mier and Minister of Finaace. t irs Capture French Crew. A aris.?The Government announced ; the crew of a French fishing ves- e named the Balcine had been cap- n :d recently by Moroccans after im- a dently landing near Cape Juby. I attempt will be made to rescue k men. ? ish Diplomat Dead, onstantinople.?Sir Nicholas Rod- J C k O'Conor. British Ambassador j S rurkcy. is dead. He had been ill j e some time pus'.. He was born in . I 3. j a i Spies Used to Get Evi- 1 dcnce Against Independents. Cleveland, Ohio.?At the hearing the Government's ouster suit c inst the Standard Oil Company t Ties Ke-cher, former employe of 1 Standard, testified that at Dera- :i 111., where he had been sent by t company to rout the independ3, he employed six girls to find r >re the people bought oil. e "he girls, he said, pretended they f e showing how to get the best re- I ;s from lamps. At the same time f cher pretended to be employed v the Paragon Oil Company. l Y V/TRL] sia. Jng shipments of agricultural and market value, will be mads l steamship Timreite, which has irpose, sailed for the Baltic with iwers, harvesters, binders and used by the Russian peasant. tons, and is valued at about Jretvers Sued, by Union. St. Louis.?Alleging violation o! ontract with the beer drivers and table men's union on the part of leven St. Louis and two F!ast St. iouis brewers, suit was filed in the Mrcuit Court by William Rapp, John Henaber and Louis Ebel, trustees ol he union, for $1,100,000 damages. lenator Nelson's Son Dead. Colorado Springs. Col.?Henry Cnute Nelson, son of United States enator Knute Nelson, of Minnesota, ied here from consumption after a Dng illness, aged thirty-seven years. Jim Crow' Telephone Booths. Guthrie, Okla.?The House passed he Senate telephone regulation bill, 'he measure provides for separate ooths for negroes and whites and mposes a fine for eavesdropping over telephone. iOcal Option Law Upheld. JefTerson City, Mo.?Judge Grant, { the Supreme Court, in an opinion pheld the constitutionality of the lissouri local option law. lay Lounge on Corners. Jefferson City, Mo.?The Supreme !ourt decided that city ordinances rohibiting persons from lounging or jaflng on street corners are uncoutitutlonal. tock Tax Bill Not to Pass. Washington, D. C.?The Hepburn 111 levying a tax of one-half of one er cent, on all stock transactions rill not be passed at this session of !ongress. few York Invests In Baltimore. Baltimore.?When bids for $2,A A AAA nf A/tlr rrrora nnonoH if UU,UUU LHJ fTQiv v^/vw^v* ? ras found that the issue was overubscribed nine times, the offers totaling $18,000,000. The prices acceptd ranged from 101.051 to 105, diided among six bidders, four of them eing from New York. 'armers Ask For Labor. Lancaster, Pa.?So badly do the armers require help that the Pamirs' League issued an appeal to the nemployed of city and town to go to he country for work. Ie Kissed Teachers. Pittsburg.?Cara Wenseell, assistnt principal of the Springdale school, referred oral charges against Proessor James H. Politt for being too aving with teachers. She swotued rhile telling how Politt hugged and :issed the women. Politt denied the harge. He is married. Lrkansas Committee For Taft. Little Rock, Ark.?The Republican itate Committee of Arkansas inorsed Secretary Taft for President. ; ("ABLE ich was laid on the table in the round sum of approximately jf the secondary railroads of 3 divided as follows: Construc,000; for double and triple 0; for the completion of lines r extensions, $5,000,000; for ,000,000; to Increase the relilding of local branch lines, ilroad development is to be mpressed by Our Methods. London.?Sir John Rodger, Govrnor of the Gold Coast, who has just eturned to England after a three aonths' tour In the United States, ays he was greatly impressed with he system of industrial education for egroes and Indians in America. He ays he will build two schools on the rold Coast on the same plan as the lampton (Va.) Institute.. itoessel Begins Sentence. St. Petersburg.?Lieutenant-Genral Stoessel, whom a court-martial ecently sentenced to death for surendering Port Arthur to the Japanse, but whose sentence was comniitort hv th? Czar to ten years' im rlsonment, began serving his term a the St. Peter and St. Paul Fortress. fig Military Review. Halifax, N. S.?There will be a ;reat mobilizing of Canadian military orces on the Plains of Abraham, at iuebec, in the latter part of July, 'he full strength of the artillery and rmy service corps and fifty per cent. ? the other corps will turn out. Carl Dudley For Australia. London.?The Earl of Dudley has ?een appointed Governor-General of he Commonwealth of Australia in uccession to Sir Henry Stafford 'iorthcote, whose term is about to expire. 'orty-seven Rioters Arrested. Berlin.?A total of forty-seven arests were made in Berlin in connecion with the suffrage denionstraions. Nine policemen sustained inuries in the encounters with the ieople. It is estimated that fifty of he manifestants were wounded. Lllegcd Slayer Indicted. San Juan, Porto Rico.?The Fedral Grand Jury returned an indictnent of manslaughter against Alexnc'Jer Dickson, the carpenter of the Jnited States collier Aberenda, who :illed Chief Officer Welchert. iS,000,000 to Improve Port. Buenos Ayres. ? The Argentine Jovernment has requested the firm of ichneider, of Creuzot, to submit an stiniate for enlarging the harbor of iuenos Ayres. The Government has ppropriated $S,000,000. Engine Crews of Two Trains Killed at Woodsville, X. H. Woodsville, N. H.?The engine :rews of two Boston and Maine freight rains were killed in a head-on colision on the WhiteMountain division, :l>out a mile and a half south of liavtrhill. The dead are: Brown, firenan. of Concord; Elmer E. Cross, 'ngineer, of Concord; Allan T. Davis, ireman, of Woodsville, and Guy Jow, engineer, of Woodsville. Wilred Noonan, a brakeman, of Woodsille, was seriously and perhaps fataly injured. 11 . I Origin of Galvanism. ? Galvanism owes its origin to Mme. Galvania noticing the contraction ef the muscles of a skinned frog, which ; was accidentally touched by a person I at the moment the professor (her husband) was taking an electric spark from the machine. The hint was followed up by experiments. Gipsy Cave Dwellers. The gipsies of Granada, Spain, are^ , unique among the race as cave dwellers, living in recesses hollowed out of a hillside not far from the city. Limit to Speed of Autos. The authorities of Shanghai, one of the busiest towns in China, have ' i passed a by-law allowing motorists to maintain a speed ot not more than thirty miles an hour while passing through the city. When Women Claim Age. At two periods in life femininity declares itself to be older than It really is?before it has reached fcigh-' * teen and after it has reached eightyfive.?Health. The J General Demand of the Well-Informed of the World has always been for a simple, pleasant and efficient liquid laxative remedy of known value; a laxative which physicians could sanction for family use because its com- I ponent parts are known to them to Jt>^_ wholesome and truly beneficial in effect, acceptable to the system and gentle, yet prompt, in action. In supplying that demand with its excellent combination of Svrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna, the California Fig Syrup I Co. proceeds along ethical lines and reliea on the merits of the laxative for its remarkable success. That is one of many reasons why Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna is given the preference by the Well-informed. To get its beneficial effects always buy the genuine?manufactured by the Cali- 1 fornia Fig Syrup Co., only, and for tale by all leading druggists. Price fifty cento per bottle:''^ The metal point on your shoestring made a fortune for the woman who thought it out. What Causes Headache. From October to May, Colds are the most I frequent cause of Headaches. Laxative Bromo Quinine removes cause. E. W- J Grove on box. 25c. ^ Every gem known to the lapidary has * 1 * i-U. TT-IA-J C4.?4-^ ] Deen iouna in tne iuucu uma, That Dry Harking Cough 1 needs aftention. Ask your druggist x. for Brown's Bronchial Troches, which '. will quickly relieve the cough. \ Sixteen of the United States now have beet sugar factories?sixty-four in all. ' >J\ Itch cured in 30 minutes by Woolford's Sanitary Lotion. Never fails. At druggists. Gyroscope and Bicycle. One of the most wonderful instruments in tnj world is the gyroscope. Some of the facts in connection with this scientific toy have been the cause of much investigation and study ? ? ortlanno amuug uicu ui Dtituw. ? bicycle really consists of two gyroscope-like wheels. When these are In rapid rotation it requires considerable force to change the direction of either aile. But that is the same thing as saying that it requires con- , siderable force to tilt either wheel, and this, combined with the onward motion, is the reason that the rider has no trouble in balancing himself and avoiding a fall to either right or left. So you see that the gyroscopic principle Is of great importance in bicycles. In fact, there could be mo real blc>cles if it were not for this principle.?From J. F. Springer's "The Gyroscope," in St. Nicholas. Kilts as Targets. Admiral Lambton, at a certain Highland Society dinner, told the following tale: When the Gordon Highlanders were in Ladysmith, the order came that officers were not to wear their swords. This order was soon supplemented by another, by which j all Highland regiments were comI manded to cover their kilts up, as 11 was thought that they served too well as targets for the enemy. Sir George White knew that such an order would I not be popular. At last he though< I of a way out of the difficulty. "Let I them cover the fronts of the kUta B up," he said, "the enemy will never I see the other side."?London Opin E HAPPY OLD AGE I ! Most Likely to Follow Proper Eating I As old age advances, we requiri I less food to replace waste, and food I tkat will not overtax the digestive or I gans, while supplying true nourish rnent. Such an ideal rood is found iq I Grape-Nuts, made of whole wheal and barley by long baking and action or diastase In the barley which ' E changes the starch into sugar. 9 The phosphates also, placed up un- I der the bran-coat or the wheat, are I included in Grape-Nuts, but left out I of white flour. They are necessary 9 to the building or brain and nerve 8 cells. fla "I have used Crape-Nuts," writes 9 an Iowa man, "tor 8 years and feel as j# | good and am stronger than I was ?en I I years ago^ I am over 74 years old w I and attend to my business every day. m ! "Among my customers I meet a n : man every day who ts 1)2 years old B ; and attributes his good health to the jra ! use of Grape-Nuts and Postum which . I [.he has used for the last years. He I I mixes Grape-Nuts with Postum and Hi ; says they go fine together. ?9 "For many years before I began to m i eat Grape-Nuts 1 cculd not say that I I enjoyed life or knew what It was to K| j be able to say '1 am well.' I suffered jg j greatly with constipation, now ray H I habits are as regular as ever in tny Eg ! life- n "Whenever 1 make extra effort I H j depend on Grape-Nuts food and it H i just fills the bill. 1 can think and Bj write a great deal easier." H "There's a Reason." Name given H by Postum Co.. Battle Creek, Mich. 9g I Read "The Road to Wellville." in H j nl/ ctq gjfl