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NEW TARIFF BILL ADDS j $50,000,000 TO REVENUE i inheritance Tax Expected to Turn In $20,000,000 Yearly. STEEL DUTIES CUT IN HALF, I i I Average Maximum Duty of Twenty J Per Cent, in Excess of the Pres- i ent Tariff Provided For in Payne ) Measure Introduced in Congress, j Washington, D. C.?Revision down- I ward, with maximum and minimum I provisions which impose an average : maximum duty twenty per cent, in ; excess of the present rates, and pro- j visions by which it is estimated that : the revenue will be increased $40,000,000 and $50,000,000, are the salient features of the new tariff bill Introduced in the House by Chairman j Payne, of the Ways and Means Committee. The recommendations of President Taft?for an inheritance tax and that a limited amount of tobacco and sugar be admitted free from the Philippines?are included in the bill. The measure also provides for the Issuance of Panama Canal bonds to he amount of $40,000,000 to reimburse the treasury for the original purchase of the canal, and re-enacts the provision for the issue of treasury certificates, the amount being increased from $100,000,000 to ?250,000,000. The Most Important Changes. Some of the most important changes made by the bill are: Iron ore and basic slag to the free list. Pig iron and spiegeleisen from $4 to $2.50 a ton. Scrap iron and steel from $4 to 50 centa. | RAftma. ffirders. etc.. to 3-10*' of a cent a | pound and a general cut in steel and iron and the metal9 schedule generally. Lumber duties cflt in half, with kindling wood and fence posts on the free list. Hides, tallow, cottonseed oil and works of art twenty years old, on the free list. No duty on coffee, but a tax of 8 cents a Dound on tea and a tax on cocoa. The internal revenue tax on cigarettes is materially increased, while the tax on beer and whisky is undisturbed. Bituminous coal and coke free from every country admitting American coal free. The tariff on boots and shoes is reduced 40 per cent, and on other leather manufactures in proportion. The pottery schedule remains about the same, but the duties on window and plate glass of the smaller sizes are increased, while the duties on the larger sizes are reduced. / Reductions in the Woolen Schedule. The tariff on wool, of the first and second class, used principally in clothing, is not disturbed, but on wool of the third class, known as carpet wool, it is reduced on the cheaper grades. A five-cent reduction is made in the duties on shoddv and waste, while wool tops are assessed six cents a pound more than the duty on scoured wool, which is unchanged. The recommendations for placing wood pulp on the free list and reducing the duties on print paper, with certain restrictions, made by the Mann committee of the House, are incorporated in the bill. The duty on refined sugar is five onehundredths of a cent a pound and on dextrine one-half cent a pound. A reduction of one-half a cent a pound is made in the duty on starch, except potato starch. Zinc ore is assessed one cent per pound for the zinc contained. The Principal Increases. The principal increases are made in the duties on lemons, cocoa and substitutes for coffee, coal tar, dyes, gloves and coated papers and lithographic prints. As stated, the bill is made on a maximum and minimum basis, with the provision that the maximum rates are not to go into effect until sixty days after the passage of the bill. Reciprocity provisions are contained in the paragraphs assessing duties on bituminous coal and coke and agricultural implements. Inheritance Tax Provision. The inheritance tax provision is similar to the New York State law. It provides a tax of 5 per cent, on all inheritances over $500 that are collateral inheritances, or in which strangers are the legatees. in cases ot direct innemance tne taxes prescribed are: On $10,000 to $100,000, 1 per cent.: on $100,000 to $500,000, 2 per cent., and on those over $500,000, 3 per eent. It is estimated that $20,000,000 annually will be derived from this tax. Abrogation of Trade Agreements. The maximum and minimum provision does away with the necessity of continuing the foreign trade agreements. The abrogation of these is provided-for in a section which authorizes the President to issue notices of the termination of these agreements within ten days after the bill goes into effect. The French agreement would, therefore, terminate immediately, while the German agreement would remain in force for six months. The time that must intervene before the inoperation of the other reciprocity agreements would become effective, ranges from three months to one year. To Meet British Law. A provision is designed to meet conditions resulting from the patents laws of Great Britain, which requires that pat- j Cntees must manufacture their articles : within Great Britain. This provision applies the same rules to { patents taken out in this country by aliens I as applies to Americans in the country of the aliens. Drawback privileges are extended by the bill and the method of valuation on! articles upon which the tariff imposes an ! ad valorem duty is broadened for the purpose of preventing the practice of undervaluation. Throw Man Into Canal. William McKenzie, thirty-five years old, of Washington, D. C., was held up by two men on New Jersey Railroad avenue, Newark, N. J., near the Morris Canal, and robbed of $50. He tried to fight, but his assailants got his money and then threw him into the canal. Hanged on Bathrobe Belt. By tieing the rope belt of his bathrobe around his neck and swinging himself from the transom of the door of his bedroom, Francis Gottsberger, an inmate of Bloomingdale Asylum. White Plains. N Y._ committed s'.ii cide. He lived in Brooklyn. Cambria Steel Wages Cut. The Cambria Steel Company, Johnstown, Pa., which, when in full activity, employs IS,000 men, announced a ten per cent, reduction in wages, to take effect April 1. Merrimac Survivor Dead. Eenjamin, A. Richardson, aged seventy-five years, one of the few survivors of the twenty-five United Artillerymen who volunteered under Captain Kevill, of Norfolk, and was on the Merrimac in both engagements ' between .that vessel and the Monitor in Hampton Roads during the Civil War, died at his home in Norfolk. Colonel Hunter in Auto Accident. Ctllonel Albert P. Hunter, of Albu- 1 querque, N. M., his daughter and another woman were badly hurt in an auto accident in Brooklyn, N. T. I riffs' "fir kibe sent 10 com \sk$ Immediate Consideration of the Dingley Act IMPORT DUTIES NEED CHANGES Hie Successful Party in the Late Election is Pledged to a Revision of the Tariff?The Whole Conntry Expects It. Washington, D. C.?The following nessage on the tariff, remarkable for ts brevity and also very much short5r than had been anticipated, was lent to Congress by President Taft: 'To the Senate and House of Representatives: "I have convened Congress in ex:ra session in order to enable it to give immediate consideration to the revision of the Dingley tariff act. "Conditions affecting production, manufacture and business generally have so changed in the last twelve rears as to require a readjustment md revision of the Import duties imposed by that act. "More than this, the present tariff ict, with the other sources of Government revenue, does not furnish injome enough to pay the authorized expenditures. "By July first next the excess of expenses over receipts for the current year will equal $100,000,000. "The successful party in the late election is pledged to a revision of the tariff. "The country, and the business community especially expect it. The irospect of a change in the rates of fmport duties always causes a suspension or halt in business because of the uncertainty as to the changes to be made and their effect. "It is, therefore, of the highest importance that the new bill should be agreed upon and passed with as much apeed as possible consistent with its due and thorough consideration. For these reasons I have deemed the pres * flKMBinn {Jilt tu UC au. K3XX. lauiuiaui; within the meaning of the Constitution, justifying and requiring the calling of an extra session. "In my inaugural address, I stated In a summary way the principles upon which, in my judgment, the revision of the tariff should proceed, and indicated at least one new source of revenue that might be properly resorted to in order to avoid a future deficit. "It is not necessary for me to repeat what I then said. "I venture to suggest that the vital business interests of the country require that the attention of the Congress in this session be chiefly devoted to the consideration of the new tariff bill, and that the less time given to other subjects of legislation in this session the better for the country. (Signed) "WILLIAM H. TAFT." TORNADO ANSWER TO PRAYER. ? Some Cuthbert Church Folk Jubilant Over Wreck of the Town. Cuthbert, Ga.?The tornado which n+vimb- +Mo T\lar?o HoatrnvpH nvpr HrtO buildings, killed six persons, injured twenty-eight and left 300 families destitute. All this trouble came in answer to prayer, so some church folk say, and was sent by God to warn the town tc eschew evil and pursue righteousness. For a week before the storm a great revival was in progress and there were nightly prayers for God to send a tornado or an earthquake to warn the unrighteous. On the night of the storm nearly a thousand persons were at the revival service and the storm came while a fervent prayer was being made for' God to send some sign to warn the wicked. When word reached the church of the awful wreck the preacher made a strong appeal to the people and in the darkness cries and supplications went up to God mingled with shouts of victory. Next day a praise service was held that God had answered the pravei and melted the stony hearts of the people. The nroDerty loss will reach nearly $500,000, and many sufferers no not enjoy the jubilation of church people. SUGGESTION CAUSED DEATH. Friend of Three Who Committed Suicide Impressed by Tragedy. Granite City, 111.?Following the recent suicide by shooting of Miss Beryl Somers, loved by the two Nichols brothers and engaged to mairs one, and the subsequent suicide ol both of the brothers, C. R. Smith, a factory foreman and a friend of the brothers and Miss Somers, ended hi? life. His suicide is attributed entirels | to mental suggestion. He was wel! to do and had no domestic or business trouble, and was in perfect health. He was the first to reach the side ol Robert Nichols when the lad fell in the street after drinking carbolk acid. Smith picked up the boy., whose dying breath was strong witfc the odor of the poison. He could talk of nothing but the suicide and the strange series ol events that led to them. He boughl a bottle of carbolic acid and drank il all. Protection For Central America. A protectorate over Central America is proposed by the United State.' and Mexico. SHOT HIMSELF IN WOODS. William Masker, Wounded, Crawled Home to Paterson, X. J. Paterson, N. J.?William Masker twenty-nine years old, staggered intc his home at North West street and collapsed. He told his wife he was very 111. She called a surgeon, whe i found that the man had been shot below the heart. He was taken to St I Joseph's Hospital in a critical condi- I tion. Masker told the physicians at the I hospital that he was despondent I About Noted People. Mr. Roosevelt spent his first day as a private citizen at Oyster Bay bj taking a tramp in the snow. It was estimated that President Taft had traveled more than 200,OCR' miles in the last nine years. Joseph Pulitzer returned to New York City, summoned by his counse' in the Panama Canal libel case. Dr. William S. Bigelow, who is responsible for the cutting of the new United States gold coins in intaglic instead of in relief, a new departur* In coinage, is neither a sculptor nor a numismatist, but an author. THE ARMY OF I U JLAm !! ?? ? % ?Cartooi NEW YORK CITY'S IDLE Ai Startling Figures Furnishe Not Due to Strikes Due to Dep 110,000 unemployed re York City. 2700 men have been di: house before expiration of 1 sent in. 900 willing heads of fa: supported by the Associatioi 1907 the number was 19. 850 able men, unable 1 Jn the last three months bj 40,000 union men in N their organizations for lack $34,542,000 were withe York State last year. I A man willing to work and unable to find work is, perhaps, the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under the sun.?Thomas Carlyle. New York City.?Suppose a pi of the unemployed in Greater York should start from the Ba to-day. How far up-town do you pose its van would extend befor last man wheeled into line? Th swer vouched for by the noted ct labor workers of New York Central Park at least unanimc or a distance of about six miles. Herman Robinson, general o izer of the American Federatk Labor, states that at least fort; cent, of the members -.of the unions in New York City are u ployed. The latest report of the Department of Labor gives the i bership of labor unions in this ao 9 90 000. The present mei ship should be well above 310 but inability to pay dues has ct more than 40,000 union men to their membership cards. 120,000 Idle Union Men. According to Mr. Robinson would then be at least 120,000 i men out of work in New York Of homeless men and vagrants number is, under ordinary condil about 30,000. From such mi facts as may be collected the number of New York's unemplo3 more than 200,000. Imagine si host?enough to populate a cit most as large as Rochester. That the cause of the astonii number out of work at the ei 1908 was not due to strikes or ness, but rather to the depressi< business. It is represented bj following table: Idle on account of? 1908. 1907. Lack of work 195,000 20,716 Sickness, accident, old age 10.000 1,053 Other reasons 2,000 266 A Stupendous Army. Never In the history of any municipality has such a stupei army of unemployed been coll at one time, according to the nomic statiscians who have piled the above figures, and ot for the information of the legisl at Albany. The number of families app for assistance to the Associate Improving the Condition of the for the last six months is flftj cent, more than for the correspoi months of a year ago. In months, November, December January, 900 able-bodied men, ing and anxious for work, can this society for aid. The year vious only nineteen such req were received. Savings banks in the poorer se of the city report extraord drafts in recent months. The ary of one of the largest insui companies says: Riiise Cash on Policies. "As compared with the seasc 1907-1908, the loans for the sf of 1908-1909 have increased thu over seventy per cent., while the : ber of lapsed policies- increase more than fifty per cent. The a figures speak for themselves, prove conclusively that the lio of smaller policies are terribly fected by the present hard tir This condition is general amon; surance companies. Eight Months' Coal Supply? One Company Has 2,500,000 1 Reading, Pa. ? Figures comr here show that there is sufficien thracite coal on the surface to si the trade for the next eight mc at least. It is said that the Reading < pany has at least 2,500,000 toi coal at its storage yards at Abr Landingville and Mahanoy City, that nearly a million more tons be added by the end of March, strike does not interfere with plans. TJie World of Sport. Columbia defeated Yale at sr football by a score of 5 to 1. High powered automobiles arr ; ing favor in Europe, as well as A ica. C. L. Becker won the annual tournament of the Pinehurst (N club. West Point defeated Cornell Columbia in a fencing meet at Point. Coach Conibear, of the Unive of Washington crews, wants f'American Henley" established Lake Washington. THE UNEMPLOYED. gj ^ I m^imammrnmammtmimmmmmmm i n ' to 1 by C. R. Macauley, in the New York World. jei _ . tlE 1MY INCLUDES 120,000 UNION MEN S nil po d by Organizer Herman Robinson? foi 5?Vast Percentage of JJJ iression in business. i? re w] len and women cannot secure work in [ m( W! scharged from Blackwell's Island Worktheir sentences to make way for others I th ad milies, unable to secure work, are being ru a for the Improvement of the Poor. In se, to o get work, were sent to the Workhouse r City Magistrates on their own requests. s ca ew York State have been forced from th of funds to pay dues. nc Irawn from 138 savings banks in New nc 1 se Former Warden John M. Fox is authority for the statement that a majority of the men imprisoned in the . ' Workhouse ? probably seventy-five 1? per cent.?would never have been irade there could they have found employNew ment. In this connection one magls- , tttery trate said: , I 5? ?- - ' ? ii? i. j_ I lO i sup- "My experience 13 mat mere ia e the more distress among the worthy poor g_ e an- now than at any time in the last larity twelve years. I have committed, d gives chiefly at their own request, more de- tb >usly, cent men this winter than I have sent there before in any five years of my , rgan- term as magistrate." )n of Distress Among Women. p0 labor Mary E. Dreler, president of the gr nem- Women's Trade Union League, said: tic State "This year the distress among fo mem- women workers has been greater than fu , clty ever before. It is pitiful. The sav- nc nber_ ings of years have been exhausted, , QQQ and to this misfortune is added a tic 'used* woman's constant dread of sickness. sl< 1 lose Others constantly fear being thrown ar out of work, and this is too often the pi case. Manufacturers do not now lay or in a large stock which will keep these of there women busy. They fill orders on of inion short notice. They want fifty girls at fo City. once. The girls complete the order fo > +ho in two days, and are then dismissed. lions, This is true in all branches of gar- J m sagre ment trades. This high tension is du total making the women of New York phy- p'e red is 6ical and nervous wrecks. It is a tr ich a most deplorable condition of affairs." of y al- Frank Julian Warne, whose efforts w< for a bill now pending in Albany, pi 3hing creatfhg a commission to inquire into ad of the causes and effects of the unem- in sick- ployed in New York State, and to sug- H< Dn of gest remedies, are meeting with gen- co r the eral approbation from all organiza- th tions, said: Hi 1906. "Not wishing to be sensational, but 5,799 as truthful as possible in our limited ,ed wsv of eettine accurate figures on | de 841 present industrial conditions, it is absolutely fair to say that more than j 200,000 men are looking for work in great New York City alone. idous Crowded to the Roofs. 6eco- "Look at any city institution to-day com- w^ere t*16 indigent get aid. They are hers" crowded t0 roofs?the city can't tei tors care for more- The hospitals are pr filled and so are the insane asylums. Ea 1 i Where will New York place her un- po ? fortunates in another year if the pres- lie Poor ent ratl? of unemployed keeps up? of r It is a terrible question to face. nil idi "When a city's wardens turn out three 2^0 prisoners before their terms an and have expired to make room for incom- ha ing crowds, you may imagine what cu. t " demands are made on the city's insti- th nre- tutions-" g ts Professor John Bates, of Columbia th< University, in suggesting a remedy mi rtion for t^ie econom^c says: sa Inarv "Loss of employment by large bod- toi actu- 'es ?* raen Personally fit is due t0 sal " mal-adjustment, since there is never a time when there is not within the limits of society to which these men belong a need of their labor and a t^i] >n of chance to dispose of its produce. The thi ;ason trouble would now be relieved by a res s far migration from populous centres to Ry aum- the country." en d to Percy Alden, M. P., in "The Un- Ry tbove employed," says: "There is a rapidly ex] and growing feeling that the community lders has a responsibility for the unemr af- ployed and must discharge that renes." sponsibillty, not by inflicting pains S in- and penalties upon the genuine work- * e er, but by enablinghimto find work." Cil ____________________________ res Puts Union Above the Law and fons. U. S. Judge Refuses Citizenship. >uted Danville, 111.?U. S. Judge Wright t an- refused naturalization to W. Strong, lpply a memberof the United Mine Workers mtbs of America. When asked "If it came Ire to the point that the union and the Com- laws of the United States differed is of which should you follow?" Strong ams, answered: "The union, of course." Inc and Judge Wright says: "I can never mo will grant the right of citizenship in the no' if a United States to any man who follows I ^or the the dictates of his trade union rather | ?n than the laws of our land." ?5 the Foreign News Notes. >ckor An American department store was S opened in London with a regulation . i0fl. bargain-day rush. Ju( mor- Adviccs at St. Petersburg give details of atrocities by Persian Govern- 1 ^ raent troops on the frontier. the C.) A banquet at Covent Garden was arranged for the Prince of Wales by r?1* and tho Automobile Club of Lon- * , . don. *" The Italian Government considers Petrosino, the New York detectivej .I5 irsity Who was murdered by the Black ?fl an Hand at Palermo, as merely a citizen, ? 11 1 on and js DOt likely to admit a special ,r} o.lalm for satisfaction. P11 ha\ ON RE-ELECTED SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE lamp Clark Chosen Leader by the Democrats. i XTY-FIRST CONGRESS MEETS < i ] Jled by Proclamation of President , Taft in Extraordinary SessionImportant Business to Revise 1 Tariff, Says Cannon. Washington, D. C.?The Czar-like j le of Joseph G. Cannon, of Illinois, t 10 as Speaker of the House of Rep- I sentatives has held power second 1 ly to that of the President of the . lited States for three consecutivo ngresses, was broken when the first 3sion of the Sixty-first Congress was ^ lied to order in extraordinary ses- t >n in response to the proclamation t President Taft. J By a vote of 193 to 189 the inrgents defeated the resolution mak- ^ g the rules of the last House the sis on which business was to be J nducted in the new. A re-election t is accorded to the Speaker, as was pected, the vote being 204 for him i 166 for Champ Clark, the minority I ider, and 12 scattering, and at that ? ae it looked as If "Uncle Joe" would I n all along the line. But the cup triumph was suddenly torn from 4 m. The action came after a supsed test of strength on the motion 1 r .the previous question on the mo- e >n to adopt the rules. The previous l lestion was ordered by a vote or ] 4 to 188. This was accepted by the gulars as assuring victory, but I len the roll call was taken on the Qtion .to adopt the rules this motion r is voted down. The insurgent. Republicans, wi,tb j e aid of Democrats, prevented the t option in their entirety of the j les of the previous Congress and cured their adoption in a modified j rm. When the roll of the House wa? - lied 382 members responded to ? elr names. Immediately after an- s mncement of a quorum Mr. Currie^ : ;w Hampshire, nominated Mr. Can- t ?n, and Mr. Clayton, Alabama, pre- j nted the name of Champ Clark. After the tellers had reported the j suit and Mr. Cannon had been de- * ired elected, Messrs. Clark, Camp11, Kansas, and Bartlett, Georgia, ] ?re appointed a committee to escort e Speaker Into the chamber. The Speaker bowed his acknowlgment and addressed the House as ? Hows: ' "The election to the high office ol ! teaker, which I now have for th? J urth time by virtue of your confl. ' nee and judgment, is a compliment, J e honor of which I do not under* c timate, and of which I am not lack- J g In personal appreciation. I "We have before us a most imirtant and difficult session of Coness. The adjustment of the na? J >nal revenues has been since the j undation of the Government a 1 ndamental question, yielding to J >ne otner in importance. i ; "Even in the Civil "War the ques- 1 >n of adequate revenue mr.rched t le by Bide with the valor of our mies and .the patriotism of our peo? 1 e. And in time of peace, even dis> dered finances are a prolifiic source < national ills, not so acute as those t war, but yet fruitful of calamity * r the general interest and suffering t r the Individual. "These considerations should anl- ' ate us to a high devotion to the ty before us. We. must subordinate ] rsonal feelings to the general good, 1 usting to the considerate judgment the people for approval of oui ark when it shall have been cometed." All the Republican caucus nomees for the various offices of the Duse were re-elected, The usual 1 mmittees were appointed to notify e Senate and the President that the < Duse was ready for business. ( ine senate organized auu appuima committee to notify the Presint that it was ready for business. JAMES LEFT BY MURDERERS. >und on New York Hotel Registei After Cleric is Slain. New York City.?Two names writa by unsteady hands and a thumb int in blood on the register of the i.stern Hotel, Whitehall street, opsite the Battery, are clues the po? e have obtained in the investigation the murder of Isadore De Valante, ;ht clerk of the hotel. De Valante was struck down with iron pipe, was stabbed in the back | If a dozen times and his throat was t apparently after he had fallen to ' e floor. ' After the murder the men robbed e body, took $78 from the till and ide a futile attemnt to open the fe, in which was $3000. Then they ok a revolver from the top of the fe and fled. Ranchman Kills Wife and Child. Posey Ryan, a ranchman, shot and led his wife and daughter while 2 women were eating dinner in a . staurant at Cheyenne, Wyo. Mrs. j3 an brought her daughter to Cheyne and started suit for divorce from ? an. Ryan told the police that he * pected to be hanged. & : v a Federal Judge Dallas Resigns. Judge George M. Dallas, of the S deral Court for the Third Judicial q -cuit, Philadelphia, has sent his a ilgnation to President Taft. o c PAY OF 0000 IS RAISED. n g m and Steel Workers Near Pitts- ? burg the Fortunate Ones. \ Pittsburg, Pa.?An average wage rease of about two per cent, for C re than 6000 workmen is anmced after a meeting of the wage s nmittee of mill owners and of the si lalgamated Association 01 iron ana u (el Workers. This will hold for k f r.jxt sixty days. a TANPARD OIL FINE $20,000. C Ige Hazel Denies Motion For New Trial in Rebating Case. ^ Buffalo, N. Y.?Judge Hazel, in. ^ 1 United States Court, denied the tion of the Standard Oil Company ^ a new trial and imposed a fine of ),000. rhe case hinged on the Standard Cl Company's accepting concessions ? m railroads in the shipments of & from Olean, N. Y., to Rutland and ^ er points in Vermont. There were 1 all 346 counts found against the & company, but thus far only forty ^ re been considered. C I Latest News. BY WIRE. Lward Girl $2500. Newark. N. J.?Thomas Tennant, >f Orange, and his daughter Josephine, who sued Jamea Higgins, o! Bloomfleld, for $7000 for failing to narry, were awarded $2500 by a lury. fV. C. T. IT. Appeals to Mrs. Taft. Lima, Ohio.?The Woman's Chris* Ian Temperance Union has passed a esolution asking Mrs. Taft to observe V. > 1-1? iV-J- ..J ,u? priuuipies ui meu umuu auu tu )ar intoxicating liquors from the iVhite House. declines Governor's Seat. Washington, D. C.?Former Con. jressman James Eli Watson, of Inliana, who was defeated by a Demo:rat for Governor, has been offered he Governorship of Porto Rico by sir. Taft, and has declined. iVlll Give Himself Away. St. Louis, Mo.?William H. Popet Tr., twenty-three, who claims to be he son of the Judge of the Fiftydghth Texas Judicial Circuit of Beaunont, has advertised that he will give limself away for three months. He lays hunger hag driven him to des>eration. 'Chair" In North Carolina. Raleigh, N. C. ? The Legislature ias enacted a law requiring all perions convicted of capital offenses to )8 privately electrocuted in the State Penitentiary here. )irect Primary Bill Passed. Sacramento, Cal.?The Wright Di* ect Primary bill, amended so as to jrovide for the choice of United Jtates Senators by advisory vote In , he various legislative districts, was >assed by the Assembly. Msbarred For Law Firm's Sin. New York City.?Alexander Mlch? lelson, partner of Carl Fischer-Hanien, the lawyer who pleaded guilty to ittemptlng to bribe a witness and la low serving a year in the peniteniary, was disbarred by the Appellate division of the Supreme Court. Michtelson was jointly indicted with ?lscher-Hansen on a charge of atempted bribery. )ies Roughing Tenderloin. San Antonio, Texas.?J. J. Mack vas killed, Avery Bernstein was jrobably fatally shot, Policeman Rob)ins was seriously wounded and Deective J. E. Stowe slightly injured. Hack and Bernstein had entered a louse in the Tenderloin and had anlounced their Intention of "cleaning >ut the place." Officers were called md the shooting followed. Jills Her Son and Self. Rushville, Ind.?Mrs. Lew Crist, >f Chicago, who was visiting the fam? Iy of B. Riley here, ehot and tilled her fourteen-year-old hoy and hen killed herself. She left money or the burial. It is believed she had >ecome demented from brooding over he death of her brother. 31g Theatrical Combine. Toledo, Ohio. ? A big theatrical iombine was organized here, designed o establish a chain of popular price louses of vaudeville and motion pic,ures throughout the country. Ugh License Defeated. Wilmington, Del.?The Delaware Souse defeated the high license bill .'or New Castle County. BY CABLE. rVidow Kills Austrian Mayor. Vienna, Austria.?Becoming angry vhen the Mayor of Schade, Silesia, lemanded a repayment of a loan !rom a widow, she slew him with an ixe, burned her house; killed the Mayor's wife and then herself. >>rd Northland Must Pay. Edinburgh, Scotland.?Lord Guthie, who granted a divorce to John Alexander Stirling from his wife, has " 1 Qfuiinc tho PTnensea of Lliuweu luio< uuiiiuq ler action. Lord Northland, named >y Mr. Stirling as co-respondent, nust pay the cost of the husband's iction. lore Land For Great Britain. L<^don.?The British Empire, by a reaty with Siam, has acquired 15,100 square miles of territory. The and comprises the States of Kalatan, ringan and Kedah. Under the treaty iritish capital to the extent of ?20, 00,000 will be furnished for the onstruction of railroads south from Bangkok. iaiser Rewards Hedin. Berlin, Germany.?Sven Hedin, the xplorer of Tibet, addressed the Geraan Geographical Society on the subect of his exploration. Emperor Villlam attended, and when Dr. ledin had finished summoned-him to he royal box and conferred upon iim .the gold medal for achievements a science. The Geographical Society ,lso honored the explorer by conerring upon him the Humboldt ledal. Jfonso at Andalusia. Seville.?The King and Queen of Ipain are in Andalusia, making headuarters in the fine old Alcazar, the nclent palace of the Moorish Kings f Castile and Leon. Jastro Engages Passage Back. Paris.?Cipriano Castro, the forler President of Venezuela, has enaged staterooms for himself and his arty on board the steamer Guadennnp. saillne from Bordeaux, for renezuela and West Indian ports. 'limaco Losada Dead. Bogota, Colombia.?Climaco Lo- < ada, who was Minister of War in | everal Colombian Cabinets, died at | tie age of forty-nine. He was well , nown in America, where his children 1 re now at school. I liief's Son Gets Fonr Years. Grey.town, Natal.?Dinizulu, son of tie famous Chief Cetewayo, has been 3und guilty of harboring rebels and antenced to four years' imprisonlent. hilean Sailors Rewarded. Santiago, Chile.?The Chilean offlsr and the sailors who rescued part j f the passengers and crew of the j .merican bark Prussia, which was, | 'recked in the Strait of Magellan in. | 907, have received, respectively, a* i old watch and medals by John ticks, the American Minister to! hile, for their courageous act. i p ii ==n For Sore Throai Nothing will do more good X in so short a time with \ so little trouble as j > Hale's Honeys Sold by Druggists N When It aches again try Pike's Toothache Drops om pso d's Eye Water Suspicious. "How did you lose your .position in the bank?playing the races?" "Nope." "Strong drink?" ' "Never drank a drop in my life." "Poker, maybe." ^ "Don't know one card from an* other." "Well, come -out with It." "The President caught me eating a plate of Florida strawberries with my lunch the other day and called In the bank examiner."?New York rimes. Praise of American Wit. Mme. de Navarro praised, at a luncheon in New York, American wit. "It was horribly cold the other af- . ternoon," phe said. "A bitter wind tl.l.J it. J fltA wuineu IUH UCJ< ouurr wiu ugu uiv air. Two policemen had red, swollen faces, and all the teamsters as they drove kept slapping their poor, frost-bitten hands against their breasts. ^ i "Getting into my hansom, I said to the driver: " 'This is real winter weather, isn't it?' "The driver nodded and smiled grimly. " 'I give you my word, ma'am,' said, he, 'I ain't seen a butterfly an dayA"?New York Tribune. A Million Modern Woodmen. In the United States and Canada to-day there are 176 fraternal beneficiary societies with a total membership ' of 7,000,000. The Modern y Woodmen of America, organized in January, 1883, has one-seventh of this membership?in round numbers, 1,000,000 members, belonging ,to * 13,000 local lodges, or campa,^ throughout forty-one States and Territories and in the five northwestern Canadian provinces. This society has the distinction of being the largest fraternal beneficiary association in the United States, and Its record of development, growth and , unparalleled results is phenomenal. It has $1,525,000,000 insurance In force, and has paid out in death claims since organization, $70,000,000.?National Magazine. DIDN'T REALIZE How Injurious Coffee Really Was. Many persons go on drinking coffee year after year without realizing that * It Is the cause of many obscure but persistent ailments. The drug?caffeine?in coffee and tea, is very l.ice uric acid, and is often the cause of rheumatic attacks which, when coffee is used habitually, become chronic. A Washington lady said recently: "I am sixty-five and have had a good % deal of experience with coffee. I consider it very injurious and the cause of many diseases. I am sure it causes decay of teeth In children. "When I drank coffee I had sick spells and still did not realize that coffee could be so harmful, till about - f Vin/4 rhonmaH?m In m V a year ogu a i ? ?? t arms and fingers, got so nervous I could not sleep and was all run down. "At last, after finding that medicines did me no good, I decided to quit coffee entirely and try Postum. After using it six months I fully re- , covered my health beyond all expectations, can sleep sound and my rheumatism is all gone." "There's a Rea-| son." 1 Name given by Postum Co., Battle! Creek, Mich. Read the famous llttla book, "The Road to Wellville," la pkgs. Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. Thej^ are genuine, true, and full of huma^ interest.