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TIF! Ill SPEECH
ACCEPTS NOMINATION
Roosevelt Policies Need to Be
Clinched, He Says.
CINCINNATI HAS GREAT DAY
Multitude From Ohio and Near
Neighbor States Packed Street
to Hear Republican Candidate's
12,000 Word Speech.
Cincinnati, Ohio.?Wiliiam Howard
Taft accepted the Republican
Presidential nomination. His official
notification combined a jubilee for
the city of Cincinnati and its environs,
a historic gathering of national
party leaders and an occasion for the
announcement by the candidate of his
views.
The notification was without any
great ceremony. Upon the hour of
noon Mr. Taft, a party of friends and
the notification committee filed out
of the colonial door to the broad
porches of the Taft mansion.
The porches and lawn were reserved
for ticket holders, the street
being the free-for-all field. A band
stationed directly in front of the platform
on the front walk kept the assembling
crowd in a merry mood.
Senator William Warner, of Missouri,
past commander-in-chief of the
Grand Army of the Republic, chairman
of the notification committee,
escorted Mr. Taft to the speaker's
6tand.
Senator Warner's speech of notification
was brief. After formally informing
Mr. Taft of his nomination
he gave him an engrossed copy of
the Chicago platform.
In reply Mr. Taft did not deliver
his full speech of acceptance, but
gave only about enough of it to occupy
an hour's time. He said:
Nomination Accepted.
Senator Warner and Gentlemen of
the Committee:
I am deeply sensible of the honor
which the Republican National Convention
has conferred on me in the
nomination which you formally tender.
I accept it with full appreciation
of the responsibility it imposes.
Gentlemen, the strength of the Republican
cause in the campaign at
hand is in the fact that we represent
the policies essential to the reform of
known abuses, to the continuance of
liberty and true prosperity, and that
we are determined, as our platform
unequivocally declares, to maintain
them and carry them on. For more
than ten years this country has passed
throueh an enoch of material devel
opment far beyond any that ever occurred
in the world before. In its
course certain evils crept in.
Some prominent and influential
members of the community, spurred
by financial success and in their
hurry for greater wealth, became unmindful
of the common rules of business
honesty and fidelity, and of the
limitations imposed by law upon their
action. This became known.
The revelation of the breaches of
trust, the disclosures as to rebates
and discriminations by railways, the
accumulating evidence of the violation
of the anti-trust law by a number
of corporations, the oter-issue of
stocks and bonds on interstate rail*
ways for the unlawful enriching of
directors and for the purpose of concentrating
control of railways in one
management, all quickened the conscience
of the people and brought on
a moral awakening among them that
boded well for the future of?the country.
What Roosevelt Has Done.
?' Tho man -ckhn formulated the ex
pression of t\ie popular conscience
and who led the movement for practical
reform was Theodore Roosevelt.
He laid down 'the doctrine that the
rich violator of the law should be as
amenable to restraint and punishment
as the offender without wealth
, and without influence, and he proceeded
by recommending legislation
and directing executive action to
make that principle good in actual
performance. He secured the passage
of the so-called rate bill, designed
more effectively to restrain excessive
and fix reasonable rates, and to punish
secret rebates and discriminations
which had been general in the practice
of the railroads, and which had
done much to enable unlawful trusts
to drive out of business their competitors.
Suits Begun.
President Roosevelt directed suits
to be brought and prosecutions to be
instituted under the anti-trust law,
to enforce its provisions against the
most powerful of the industrial corporations.
He pressed to passage the
Pure Food law and the meat inspection
law in the interest of the health
of the public, clean business methods
and great ultimate benefit to the
trades themselves. He recommended
the passage of a law, which .the Republican
convention has since specifically
approved, restricting.the future
issue of stocks and bonds by interstate
railways to such as may be
authorized by Federal authority.
Chief Work of Next Administration.
The chief function of the next Administration,
in my judgment, is distinct
from, and a progressive development
of, that which has been performed
by President Roosevelt. The
chief function of the next Administration
is to complete and perfect the
machinery by which these standards
may be maintained, by which the lawbreakers
may be promptly restrained
and punished, but which shall operate
with sufficient accuracy and dispatch
to interfere with legitimate
New Line to Butte Finished.
The last spike connecting Butte,
Mont., with Chicago on the Chicago,
Milwaukee and St. Paul coast extension
has been driven. Through passenger
trains from Chicago will be
running into Buite by September.
Mexico Deports GOO Chinese.
The Mexican federal authorities
hsve ordered the deportation of GOO
Chinamen, v.-'no arrived at the port
'of Salina Cruz a few days ago direct
from Oriental ports.
Feminine Notes.
Washington was visited *iiring
June by 2400 newly married couples
from all over the country.
Mrs. John B. Stetson was married
in Philadelphia to Count Santa Eulalia.
Portuguese Consul at Chicago.
Dr. W. T. Power, of New York, and
Miss Esther Redmond, daughter of
John E. Redmond, were married in
T
iiUuuuu,
In filing her petition of bankruptcy
Jliss Sophia Kluber, of Trenton, N.
J., included in her list of property
"one gold engagement ring on the
jBnger of her petitioner, value $5.".
k.
business as little as possible. Such
machinery is not now adequate.
Under the present rate bill, and
under all its amendments, the burden
of the Interstate Commerce Commission
in supervising and regulating
the operation of the railroads of this
country has grown so heavy that it
is utterly impossible for that tribunal
to hear and dispose, in any reasonable
time, of the many complaints,
queries and issues that are brought
before it for decision. It ought to be
| relieved of its jurisdiction as an executive.
directing body, and its func|
tions should be limited to the quasi
judicial investigation or complaints
by individuals and by a department
of the Government charged with the
executive business of supervising the
operation of railways.
There should be a classification of
that very small percentage of industrial
corporations having power and
opportunity to effect illegal restraints
of trade and monopolies, and legislation
either inducing or compeHing
them to subject themselves to registry
and to proper publicity regulations
and supervision of the Department
of Commerce and Labor.
Railway Traffic Agreements.
It is agreeable to note in this regard
that the Republican platform
expressly, and the Democratic platform
impliedly, approve an amendment
to the interstate commerce law
by which interstate railroads may
make useful traffic agreements if approved
by the commission.
Valuation of Railways.
It is clear that the sum of all rates
or receipts of a railway, less proper
expenses, should be limited to a fair
profit upoq the reasonable value of
fts property, and that if the sum exceeds
this measure it ough\ to be re
duced.
The Interstate Commerce Commission
has now the power to ascertain
the value of the physical railroad
property, if necessary, in determining
the reasonableness of rates. If
the machinery for doing so is not adequate,
as is probable, it should be
made so.
Control of Corporations.
The fact is that nearly all corporations
doing a commercial business are
engaged in interstate commerce, and
if they all were required to take out
a Federal license or a Federal charter,
the burden upon the interstate
business of the country would become
intolerable.
It is necessary, therefore, to devise
some means for classifying and
insuring Federal supervision of such
corporations as have the power and
temptation to effect restraints of interstate
trade and monopolies. Such
corporations constitute a very small
percentage of all engaged in interstate
business.
Combination of Capital.
The combination of capital in large
plants to manufacture goods with the
greatest economy is just as necessary
as the assembling of parts of- a machine
to the economical and more
rapid manufacture of what in old
times was made by band.
The Government should not interfere
with one an^' more tban the
other, and when such aggregations of
capital are legitimate and are properly
controlled, they are then the
natural results of modern enterprise
and are beneficial to the public. In
the proper operation of competition
the public will soon share with the
manufacturer the advantage in economy
of operation and lower prices.
Proper Treatment of Trusts.
Unlawful trusts should be restrained
with all the efficiency of injunctive
process, and the persons engaged
in maintaining them should be
punished with all' the severity o?
criminal prosecution, in order that
the methods pursued in the operation
of their business shall be brought
within the law. '. fcvi ^
Revision of the Tariff.
It is the policy of the Republican
party permanently to continue that
standard of living. In 1S97 the Dingley
tariff bill was passed, under which
we have had, as already said, a period
of enormous prosperity.
The consequent material development
has greatly changed the conditions
under which many articles described
by the schedules of the tariff
are now produced. The tariff in a
number of the schedules exceeds the
difference between the cost of pro
duction of such articles abroad and
at home, including a reasonable profit
to the American producer. The excess
over that difference serves no
useful purpose, but offers a temptation
to those who would monopolize
the production and the sale of such
articles in this country to profit by
the excessive rate. .
On the other hand there are other
schedules in which the tariff is not
sufficiently high to give the measure
of protection which they should receive
upon Republican principles, and
as to those the tariffs should be
raised. A revision of the tariff undertaken
upon this principle, which
is at the basis of our present business
system, begun promptly upon the incoming
of the new Administration,
and considered at a special session
with the preliminary investigations
already begun by the appropriate
committees of the House and Senate,
will make the disturbance of business
incident to such a change as little as
possible.
The Rights of Labor.
In order to induce their employer
into a compliance with their request
for changed terms of employment,
workmen have the right to strike in
a body. They have a right to use
such persuasion as they mav^ provided
it does not reach the point of duress,
to lead their reluctant co-laborers
to join them in their union
against their employer, and they
have a right, if they choose, to accumulate
funds to support those eugaged
in a strike, to delegate to offi1
cers the power to direct the action of
Kills Wife and Self.
Peter Seudak shot and killed his
wife and then ended his own life with
a bullet from-the same revolver at
Cleveland, Ohio. Sendak earlier in
the day attempted to kill his three
children, but they managed to escape
by locking themselves in a room.
Addison Thomas Dead.
Colonel Addison Thomas, prominent
in social and military circles in
Newport, R. I., died at his home after
a long illness. He was sixty-three
years of age. . ?
Major McCrea Found Dead.
While en route from Washington*
D. C., to Pittsburg on the Pullman
car on the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Major H. I. McCrea, a paymaster in
the United States Navy, was found
dead in his berth. He was a cousin
of President McCrea of the Pennsylvania
Railroad.
Complain of Too Much Iiain Now.
Continued heavy rains throughout
Western New York have done great
damage to the hay and wheat crops.
The uncured wheat began to grow in
the shock in the warm weather and
bay has been made rusty.
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the union, and to withdraw themselves
and their associates from dealings
with, or giving custom to those
with whom they are in controversy.
Injunctions and Labor.
What they have not the right to do
is to iDjure their employer's property.
to injure their employer's business
by use o( threats or methods of
physical duress against those who
would work for him, or deal with
him, or by carrying on what is sometimes
known as a secondary boycott
against his customers or those with
whom he deals in business. All those
who sympathize with them may unite
to aid them in their struggle,-but they
may not through the instrumentality
of a threatened or actual boycott
compel third persons against their
will and having no interest in their
controversy to come to their assistance.
These principles have for a
great many years been settled by the
courts of this country.
Threatened unlawful injuries to
business, like those described above,
can only be adequately remedied by
an injunction to prevent them.
Asiatic Immigration.
In the matter of the limitation
upon Asiatic immigration, referred to
in the Deriiocr?.tic platform,. It is sufficient
to say that the present Republican
Administration has shown itself
able to minimize, the-evils suggested, j
For an Income Tax.
In m7 judgment an amendment to |
the Constitution for an income tax is j
not necessary. I believe that an in- |
come tax can and should be devised j
which under the decisions of the Su- '
preme Court will conform to the Con- 1
stitution. ... j
Election of Senators, v
With respect to the electionv of
Senators by the people, personally I.
am inclined to favor it, but it is hardly
a party question.
The Conclusion. *
As said in our platform, we Republicans
go before the country, said ,
Judge Taft, asking the support, not
only of those who have acted with us
heretofore, but of all our fellow citi- j
zens. whom, regardless of past politi- |
cal differences, unite in the desire to i
maintain the policies, perpetuate the I
blessings and make secure , the
achievements of a greater America.
With the speech over, the scene
was shifted for the review of the parade.
Judge Taft took his stand and
watched the marchers pas? by for
nearly two hours.
BOY BURNED AT STAKE.
Seventecn-Year-Old' Black Lad Attacked
White Girl in Texas.
Greenville, Texas.?Ted Smith, a
seventeen-year-old negro boy, who j
assauiteu jyliss vioia l^eiaucey uiree
miles from Greenville, was burned at
the ?take in the public square here in .
b'road daylight.
Miss Delancey is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Delancey, living !
three miles southwest of Greenville. J
While her father was in the field I
plowing and her mother was visiting j
at a neighbor's house, a short dis- |
tance away, the girl started out to
the rural mail box, 300 yards from
her home. , !
When she reached a point near the
mail box the negro came out from his.
hiding place in the woods, held a pis- j
tol at her face and attacked her.
After the crime he tried to make
his escape, but the girl ran to the
house and gave the alarm. Soon '
there were about 500 men, together j
with the officers, searching and gcouring
the Cadde Creek bottom for the
negro. He was captured and put in ,
jaii. I
The news that the negro was in
jail soon leaked out, and the people I
began to congregate faster and pour j
in from the rural districts, until the ;
throng swelled to 5000 or 6000 by 8
o'clock in tho morning.
The peace officers did all they
could to save the prisoner's life, and ,
speeches were made in the public [
square by District Judge R. L. Porter ;
and District Judge T. D. Montrose, 1
who promised that a special Grand
Jury would be empanelled, the negro
tried, and, if convicted, would be i.
hanged by law, all in one day.
This did not satisfy the crowd, and 1
they demanded of Sheriff Hemsell
that he send the negro out to the
girl's home and let her identify him, I
or else they would take him by force.
About a dozen officers started with
the prisoner. They made the trip,
and on their return reached the jail
door, when the crowd pressed forward,
overpowered the officers and
took the prisoner, dragged him to
the public square and burned him. j
Suicide Under Blazing Bed.
After driving his wife from the
house and then sending his two children
to her with $1500 in cash and ;
the deed to his property, Stephec j
Joshua, a store proprietor of Wishaw, |
Pa., saturated his bed with kerosene,
set it ablaze, and crawling undfer 11 i
fired three bullets iuto his head, dy- j
ing almost instantly. It is said Joshua
was extremely Jealous of his
wife.
Ohio Banker Surrenders.
Henry W. Gazell, wapted for th? <
alleged embezzlement of $32,000 ol ,
the funds Irom the defunct Farmers |
and Merchants' Banlc, drove to police
headquarters in Cleveland, Ohio, ir .
an automobile and gave himself up. i
l-ie was released at once in |
bail.
Buys the Seven Gables.
Miss Caroline Emmerton, one ol
the-richest women in Salem, Mass.
has just purchased the celebrated
House of the Seven Gables about
which Hawthorne wrote, togethei
with a large tract of land in the rear
She will use the 'estate in settlemenl
work.
Congressman Powers Dead.
United States Representative Llew- j
ellyn Powers, of the Fourth Maim j
Congressional District, died at his '
summer home in Houlton. Me. H< j
was forced to leave Washington, D. j
C., for Brookline, Mass., early in thf '
spring 'cv an attack of grip.
The Kaiser's Yf.chts Coming.
The Imperial Yacht Club of Kiel j
Germany, will send three soundei ;
class yachts to Marblehead, Mass., is
August of 1909 for a series of races 1
raters that may be selected.
The Labor World.
Chicago has a school of instruction
for railway trainmen.
Cigar makers at Mayagues, Porte
Rico, have formed a union.
A Women's Label League has recently
been organized at La Crosse,
Wis.
The insurance agents of Wheeling
W. Va., propose to organize a labor ;
! UIHUll 1UI IUCU dCll'jJl ULCLLIUU lil LUC
near future.
In Paris, France, nearly a third ol j
the streets were blocked with rubbish j
and workmen's materials, owing to
I the labor crisis.
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Latest News i
BY WIRE.
Glidden Ascends 4200 Feet.
North Adams, Mass.?Charles J.
Glidden, of Boston,madea tight aione
in the balloon Boston from here. He
was In the air just an hour, and
reached a height of 4200 feet. He
landed without incident at Petersburg,
N. Y., fifteen miles away.
Women Wrould Sign Votes.
Annapolis, Md.?For the first time
the women of Annapolis, who pay
taxes, had the right of suffrage in the
$40,000 bond issue election. The defeat
of the proposed Issue is largely
credited to their votes.
Stole $1900 on Street Car.
Philadelphia.?James A. Baughn, a
messenger employed by the Empire
Trust Company, was robbed of a wallet
containing" $1900 on a street car.
He was on his way to the Sub-Treasury.
The thief escapfed.
Release Horse Thief; Lock Up Jailer.
^ Bassett, Neb.?A gang of horse
imevtjs iieiu up me wumj jau ucic, |
released Bill Hazard, a noted horse
thief, locked the jailer in a cell and
escaped.
.Wrestlers Fall Into Canal; Drown.
Grand Rapids, Mich.?The second
double drowning here in two days occurred
with Joseph Brizisky and
Stephen Wolseinski as the victims.
During their noon hour the men engaged
in a wrestling match, fell into
the power canal and were drowned.
Esperantists' Congress ?5nds.
Chautauqua, N. Y.?The International
Congress of Esperantists closed
here and the members enjoyed an
excursion on Lake Chautauqua.
Twenty-five hundred dollars in individual
subscriptions was secured at
the last session for the holding of the
fifth international congress in the
United States. /
Blow From Baseball Fatal.
Elizabeth, N. J.?William Hefferman,
twenty years old, died in the
Alexian Brothers' Hospital here from
paralysis, brought on by being struck
by a baseball. He was catching and
wore a mask, but the ball hit him
back of his left ear.
Rests With President.
Washington, D. C. ? President
Roosevelt will decide whether the
eight cadets of the Military Academy
who have been, suspended for hazing
shall be dismissed or after a year's
suspension shall be serevely reprimanded
and permitted to re-enter the
academy.
Service For New Hampshire.
Portsmoyth, N. H. ? Governor
Charles M. Floyd, of Manchester, visited
Portsmouth and completed arrangements
for the presentation of a
silver service by the State to the new
battleship New Hampshire.
Bather Drowns at Summer Camp.
Suffern, N. Y.?Frank Gray, of
New York, who was spending the
summer at Mombasha Lake, was
drowned at the Y. M. C. A. camp.
Gray could not! swim and wore a pair
of water wings.
G. A. R. Quits Parade.
Mount Vernon, Ind.?At the unveiling
of the Soldiers and Sailors*
Monument here, veterans of the Civil
War refused to march in the parade
behind the veterans of the Spanish
War and formed a parade of their
own.
BY CABLE.
Arion Singer Dies Abroad.
Frankfort - on - Mam, uermany.?
Jacob Schrumpf, one of the members
of the Brooklyn Arion Choral Society
who remained in Berlin on account
of illness, is dead.
Tunnel Into Hidden River.
Berne, Switzerland.?Through the
tapping of a Subterranean lake or
river the Loetschberg tunnel, in the
Berne Alps, was flooded and twentyfive
workmen were drowned.
Hawaiian Naval Reserve.
Honolulu, Hawaii. ? The visit of
the battleship fleet has led to a movement
here for the organization of a
naval reserve, to be recruited mainly
from native Hawaiians.
Plnnchette Swindler Flees.
Berlin.?The planchette swindler,
Willis J. Skinner, alias William E.
Scott, of Boston, who was arrested
near Berlin last February, charged
WILLI recetvmg laigc ouuuo ui uiuuW
in the sale of these articles, by means
of which he declared people could
hypnotize themselves and read the
future, has jumped his bail of $25,000.
New Airship Tested at Aldershot.
Aldershot.?The new airship for
the British army made the first of a
series of trials. The flight was a
brief one, but successful. The airship
did a circle of two miles.
Frenlh Airship Wrecked.
Paris.?''The engine of M. Bierot's
monoplane gave out while he was
flying at a height of fifteen feet. The
machine crashed to the earth and was
wrecked. The aeronaut escaped with
contusions.
1200 Casualties in Teheran.
Teheran, Persia. ? A heavy can- |
nonade, it is reported, has been going i
on at Tabriz. Advices received here
say the casualties number 200. The
residents of Tabriz have made an appeal
to the Shah through the European
legations here. Disorders are
reported in Ispahan and other places.
Sir W. R. Cremer Dead..
London.?Sir William Randal Gremer,
Member of Parliament from
Haggerston since 18S5 and for thirty-seven
years Secretary of the Inter- 1
national Arbitration League, is dead, j
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Ten Killed in Feud.
Rio Janeiro, Brazil.?A fatal political
feud is reported from the little
.town of St. Ann du Paranahyba, in
the State of Matto Grosso. The trouble
arose over local politics and was
confined to two families, both prominent
and influential. The ill feeling
" <"- ViirrVi +liot a ironoral armpfi pnn -
test resulted. In which ten men were
killed. Among the dead are two magistrates.
Commons After Meat Trust.
London.?The British Government
is taking up the campaign against the
American meat combine seriously.
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. SOMETHING NE.V
Amazing Progress in the Higher Bra
by the Elaborate Cleverness of
Pennsylvania Hotelkeeper Fro
Some progress in the higher br
by the following narrative of how a
to part with $15,000 of his hard ear
he was betting it on a prize fight got
party of Chicago and Philadelphia r
was arranged solely for the benefit c
aires" are represented in the Rogue
The elaborate cleverness of this
try is getting educated. A novelist
porters have explained again and ag
which has trapped many a man that
straight horse race. Gold bricks ar
green goods game appears to be so |
a confidence man is driven to his wii
on from his hoard. One cannot help
ingenuity expended on nominally lejc
thing for nothing or directed into a
paid the inventors of the fake prize i
their originality in crime did reward
New York City.?Swindling operations
which have netted more than
$1,000,000 a year for the last three
years will be revealed, the police be- i
lieve, through the capture of Freder- i
ick Gondorff.
Gondorff was arrested on the '
charge of having swindled Frederick
Holznagel, a Scranton hotel proprie- i
tor, out of $J.5,000 on a fake prize
fight, and it is said the evidence will i
implicate him in the robbing of Will- t
iam F. Walker, who looted the New ;
Britain Savings Bank of more than .
$500,000. 1
At the examination in the Tombs <
Court every effort will be made to 1
have Gondorff held on the complaint i
of Holznagel, in order to give the de- !
tectives an opportunity to locate the 1
band of swindlers. Although using 1
Holznagel's charge to hold Gondorff, 1
the detectives of the Central Office <
are after much bigger game, in the
shape of bonds, valued at $120,000, (
which were part of the loot stolen by ,
Walker from the New Britain bank. .
These bonds, consisting of $49,000 (
of Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad
securities. S35.000 of Chicago, 1
Milwaukee and St. Paul bonds, $15,000
Rochester and Pittsburg bonds ,
and a number of other smaller parcels,
have never been disposed of, (
and it is declared that they are still ,
in the possession of the members of !
the swindling band to which Gondorff J
is suspected of belonging.
Band Had Immense Resources.
The immense resources of this band i
is illustrated by the story of Holznagel,
who declares that, while they '
were duping him, they made a flash i
of $230,000. He says that this was i
in genuine currency and not staeje :
money, as he personally handled the i
cash, and declares that it would have .
been impossible to deceive him.
According to Holznagel the swind- 1
lers pursued the same tactics with i
him as they did with Walker, with i
the exception that they used the prize
Sorlit oramp instpnrl nf the wire tan
ping scheme. One of the band, who
went by the name of Webber, stopped
at Holznagel's hotel in Scrantcn and I
gained the boniface's confidence by a *
legitimate business proposition. 1
Webber represented himself as a '
bond salesman. Holznagel is inter- :
ested in some coal lands in Tennes- 1
see which he is anxious to sell. On I
learning this, Webber told Holznagel '
tht he knew some millionaires who '
were also interested in coal, lands. :
and that he might be able to dispose :
of Holznagel's holdings.
The specific millionaires mentioned
were the Cudahys, of Chicago. Web- i
ber, after some correspondence, ar- i
ranged a meeting with '"Mr. Cuda- <
hy's secretary." by the name of I
"Blair." It was while the business i
of disposing of the coal property was i
being discussed that the swindling
game was broached. Blair said that ;
his employers were "sporty," and
There Art* 3000 More Women |'
Than >Ion i:i Evanston.
Chicago.?Is Evanston the university
suburb, destined to become
an Adamless Eden? The question ,
was presented with great force to the *
authorities of the.suburb when the i
census takers completed the annual
school census of the city. i
The new census shows a surplus of 1
almost 3000 women in a population
of less than 25.000. There are 13.- I
837 women and 10.SDG men in the <
city, a total of 24,073. and a major- <
itv of 2971 for the women. 1
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Stub Knds of News.
Honduran Government troops recaptured
the town of Choluteca, practically
ending the revolution.
W. J. Bryan was initiated into the '
Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben, a secret so- !
ciety of Omaha and Nebraska business
men. * I
An apostolic constitution issued by i
Pope Pius X.. at Rome, makes sweep- 1
ing changes in the government of the
Catholic Church. ,
The battleships Maine and Alaba
ma were suddenly ordered to inter- ;
rupt thoir cruise around the world
and remain at Manila.
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COULD STAND FACTORY SMOKE"
K. Roger#, in the New Yo.?k Herald.
\l IN SWINDLES. . i
nches of the Criminal Art is Shown
the Ruse Used to Separate a
m His Hard-earned Wealth.
anclies of criminal art is argued
i Pennsylvania hotel keeper was led
ned wealth under the delusion that
ten up for the amusement of a
nillionaires. Of course the fight
if the hotel keeper. The "millions'
Gallery.
swindle also argues tnat tne counand
thousands of newspaper re;ain
the trick of the "wiretappers,"
would not have bet a dollar on a
e seldom sold nowadays, and the
generally known by this time that
ts' end for devices to part the comei
thinking that the same amount of
'itimatc schemes for getting someibsolutely
honest efTort would have
fight much more handsomely than
I them.
that they had a prize fighter by the
name of Sullivan whom they were
willing to back for any amount. Blair
3aid they were in Bridgeport, Conn.,
and that Sullivan was with them. He
then unfolded a scheme by which
he and Holznagel were to win $20,000
from the "Cudahys." He
said that he knew a prize fighter in
Boston, Collins by name, who could
defeat Sullivan. Holznagel agreed
that it was an easy way to get money
and the prize fight was arranged.
Holznagel put up $5000 as his por-y
tion of the bet. Blair furnished the
ather $15,000. The "Cudahys"
backed Sullivan for $20,000. The
fight was pulled oft in the Bridgeport
Fair Grounds. Of course Collins
lost, but Blair declared it was on a
duke, and begged Holznagel to back
him for another fight.
Got $10,000 More.
The "Cudahys" offered to bet three
to one on the second fight, and Holznagel
hurried to Scranton to secure
more mo?ey. He returned with $10,r\AA
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again he lost. It was at this fight
that $230,000 was bet, Blair ostensibly
making wagers amounting to
$75,000.
After the fight the "Cudahys"
turned the money over to Blaiv, their
secretary, telling him to deposit it
and send checks to the winner. Blair
then made a proposition to Holznagel
that they run away with the money.
He told Holznagel to go to Albany,
to the Ten Eyck, where lie would
meet him and divide. Holznagel
went, but Blair failed to meet him,
and Holznagel came to New York
and consulted Lawyer John M. Coleman,
of No. 115 Broadway, who laid
the matter before, District Attorney
Jerome. Holznagel was taken to the
Rogue's Gallery, where he identified
the pictures of Frederick Gondorff
and James Morgan, alias Deafy Morris,
as the two men who posed as the
Cudahys. The arrest of Gondorff
followed, and he was identified by
Holznagel as one of the band.
The arrest of Gondorff immediately
led the police to connect the men
af the band with the Walker swind- '
lers. His brother, Charles Gondorff, <
was arrested shortly after Walker's | i
flight, and was charged with having i j
been a party to the swindle, which
looted the New Britain Bank. Charles '
Gondorff was held for trial and after
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furnished by "Bob" Nelson. He is }
now running a gambling house in At- ]
lantic City. 1
Walker, however, refused to impli- <
cate any one in his stealing. He said
that he did not remember the names
Df the men who swindled him. His
taciturnity destroyed the last hone
the Pinkertons had of recovering the
money. Frederick Gondorff's arrest,
however, has changed the prospect, (
and- it is now believed that the $120,000
in bonds may be recovered. (
.Mont Blanc Climbers
Wore ISO Last Year j
Geneva.?Statistics have just been i
published showing that during last
inn AlimhaH fn UlC
year loU ni|/uiinia nuuwtu .
summit of Mnnt Blanc. Twenty ol
the climbers were English and eight I
were Americans. Fourteen of the
climbers were women, the majority j
being English. J
The aqes of the Alpinists varied i
From fifteen to fifty-five years, and
imong them were a prince, a general,
two barons, a priest, several doctors,
lawyers and a Swiss chimney sweep.
Prominent People.
Mr. Bryan is younger than Mr.
Roosevelt by almost two years.
Henry Phlpps. the Pittsburg millionaire,
has donated $500,000 for the
study of insanity.
The Prince of Wales, at Quebec,
save .?10,000 to be used in maintaining
the Plains of Abraham as a per
manent memorial.
The sons of Governor McCord, ot | (
Arizona, and Commodore Kitson, of | i
3t. Paul, are earning their living as i
laborers in Everett. Wash. Young1
Kitson's part of his father's estate {
was $2,000,000. 1 \
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Not a Success.
On a Southern plantation the
lairy hands were accustomed to do
the milking, squatting down in a *'
primitive fashion, until the o^nar
Introduced milking stools.
Bait the first experience with innovation
was not a success. The negro
who sallied forth with the stool
returned bruised and battered, and
with an emnty Dail.
"I done my best, sah," he explained.
"Dat stool looked all right
to me, but the cow she won't sit on
It!"
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(' Bad as the Egg.
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A witty as well as a soft answer
will sometimes turn away wrath. A j
candidate, in the midst of a ntirring
address, was struck by a rotten egg
full in the face. Pausing to wipe J
away the contents of the missile, he
calmly continued:
"I have always'contended that my
opponent's arguments were very unsound!
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The crowd roared, and he was no
longer molested.
The |B
General Demand -J
of the Well-Informed of the World has
alwav3 been for a simple, pleasant and ji'3
efficient liquid laxative remedy of known
value; a laxative which physicians could
sanction for family use because its com- S'ponenfc
parts are known to them to be j
wholesome and truly beneficial in effect,
acceptable to the system and gentle, yet
prompt, in action. V
In supplying that demand with its ex- . >
rjellent combination of Syrup of Figs and
Elixir of Senna, the California Fig Syrup
Co. proceeds along ethical lines and relies
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 H
the genuine?manufactured by the California
Fig Syrup Co., only, and for sale
by all leading druggista Price fifty cento
per bottle. ^|||
Fogs and Sandbanks.
Fogs are common over sandbanks
because shallow water covering sandbanks
Is colder than the deep sea.
The Banks of Newfoundland fogs are
aggravated by the warm Gulf Stream
running into this layer of cold water.
A TERRIBLE CONDITION.
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Tortured by Sharp Twinges, Shooting
Pains and Dizziness.
, $
Hiram Center, 518 South Oak
street, l^ake City, Minn., says: "I was %
Dso bad with kidney
trouble that I could
not straighten up af- /;
ter stooping without - i \
Jj T' buai|j yaiLiu guuuuuj
s AA .(W through my back. I
had dizzy 8Pella? was
' nerv0U3 am* my eyesight
affectcd. The
kidney secretions
were 'rre^ular and
^wjijl t00 frequent. -'I was
In a terrible condition, but Doan's
Kidney Pills have cured me and I
have enjoyed perfect health since."
Sold by all dealers, 60 cents a box.
Foster-Mllburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
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Big Gooseberry Pies.
Yesterday was the anniversary of
the time honored Gooseberry Fair at
Tollesbury, and a feature of the sur- /.
vlval has always been the baking of
huge gooseberry pies. The object
was to give a welcome home to fathers
and brothers who have been V'\j
away on racing or pleasure yachts or
fishing, and each fdmily used to prepare
a huge pie for its homecoming
seafarers In speciallly large dishes.
There have been Tollesbury pies that
held as much as a peck or half a
peck of fruit, and tradition even relates
that one pie was so large that
the local baker had to remove one or
two bricks to get it into his oven.?
From the London Standard.
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A Friend Indeed.
A party of Scotsmen had been having
a little celebration in a Canadian
township, and unsteady were the
steps on the home-coming in the
morning. One fell by the wayside
and called for help from another wayfarer.
The would-be good Samaritan
tried to steady himself as he looked
down upon the fallen one, and then
settled matters by saying: "I canna
help ye up, but I'll lie doon 'aside '
ye."?Rehoboth Sunday Herald.
Iron cloth Is made from steel, and
has the appearance of horsehair cloth,
[t is largely used by triors as a ma:erial
for stiffening the shoulders and
collars of coats.
HEALTH AXI) IX COME.
Both Kept Up on Scientific Food.
Good sturdy health helps one a lot
:o make money.
With the loss of health one's income
is liable to shrink, if not enirely
dwindle away.
When a young lady has to make
ler own living, gooa neaitn is uer
jest asset.
"I am alone in the world," writes a
Chicago girl, "dependent on my own
fforts for my living. I am a clerk, and
tbout two years ago through close application
to work and a boarding
louse diet, I became a nervous invalid,
and got so bad off it was almost
mpossible for me to stay in the office
i half day at a time.
"A friend suggested to me the idea
>f trying Grape-N'uts, which I did,,
naking this food a large part of at
east two meals a day.
"To-day I am free from brain-tire,
lyspepsia and all the ills of an overvorked
and improperly nourished
jrain and body. To Grape-Nuts I
>we the recovery of my health, and
he ability to retain niv poshion and U
ncome." "There's a Reason^ "
Name given by Postum Q,., Battle 89
>eek, Mich. Read "The Road to g[
iVellville," in pkgs. bH
Ever read the above letter? A new
)ne appeai-s from time to time. They H|
tre genuine, true, and full of hum an flfl
uterest. m
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