10 STOP FLOOD OF I1
JAPS GROSSING WM
Alarming Increase Prompts Gov-j
ernment to Action.
ALL COOLIES WILL BE BARRED
Secretary of (!io Interior Believes
TIviK Patrol Guard System Will ,
Prevent Entrance of Asiatics
From Canada or Mcxiee. j
Washington, D. C. ? Immigration !
of Japanese into America is inrrcas- 1
ing at fo alarming a rate that it has 1
been determined by the Government ;
to adopt extraordinary measures to
prevent the introduction into the Uni- j
ted Stales, not only of Japanese, but s
of other Asiactic coone laborers.
One result of the trip of Secretary j
Straus, of the Department of Com- <
merce ami Labor, along the Canadian 1
border, and the Pacific coast, baa '
been an order increasing the force of .
immigration inspectors along the Ca- '
nadian border, with a view to con- "
trolling if possible the flood of Asiatic
immigration to America.
Official figures of the immigration
of Japanese into America are not
available, because Secretary Straus
declines at this time to make them .
public, but it is known that more ,
than double the number oi Japanese ,
have come into the United States (
thus far in the year 1907 than dur- .
ing the same period last year.
These figures of the Government ,
do not include the hundreds of Japanese
who have come into the country
surreptitiously. They have come across
the Canadian and Mexican hor- ;
ders, practically without hindrance,
despite the regulations. <
The Government of Japan does not j
issue passports to laborers for America.
It does, however, issue pass- .
ports to them for the Hawaiian Islands
and Canada. Once in the Ha- :
waiian Islands they take passage
either to Mexico or to Canada, and .
their way across the border line into .
this country from either country is
easy. J
Tliey take train from Mexico to j
Canada through the United States. !
The railroads are not bonded, as they :
are in the case of Chinese passengers, '
to deliver them at a specified destination.
The result is that the Japan- ! c
es? leave the train at any point in the
United States they may choose. They '
disappear, and it practically is impos- 1
slble to find them.
y For many months the Government [*
has had Immigration inspectors in f
Mexico and Canada making investlga- ^
tions respecting the coming to Amer- 1
ica of Asiatic laborers, especially Japanese.
Jn practically every instance J
the inspectors have reported that the *
Japanese who reach Mexico or Can- j1
ada are bound for the United States. 1
Inquiries in the Hawaiian Islands v
havo revealed organizations whose *
business it is to procure Japanese la- 1
borers for work in the United States.
They not only provide the means, but a
prescribe the way by which Japanese 1
easily may obtain entrance into this 1
country. t
It is this sort of proposition the t
Government proposes to combat. In c
the appointment of what practically r
constitutes a patrol guard of the f
northern and southern borders of the s
country, Secretary Straus hopes to ^
reduce the number of Asiatics?Jap- a
anese, Chinese and Hindus?who
daily are coming across the borders ^
in grc-tt and increasing numbers. *
_____ r
HINDUS FIND NO I
ABIDING PLACES 1
Spokane, Wash.?Driven back and r
forth from pillar to post across the d
Canadian boundary, first into the rj
State of Washington and then back r
into British Columbia, the several t
thousand Hindus dumped upon I his r
unfriendly shore are objects of pity a
as they wander about seeking em- j j]
IJiUJilifJH lu Kctriivuuugu lu tvtrcp uuu;
::nd ton) together.
.Whin driven out of Bellingham
and other Puget Sound towns The
hand of Hindus thought they might
take refuge in British Columbia, but
they have found no permanent haven u
there. That Government is said to be
secretly turning them back into the t
United States. The present plan t
seems to be to send the foreigners x
east over the Canadian Pacific road j
to different points north of here and
then run them across the line into
Washington. Idaho end Montana. f
Chief of Police Rice says the manner
of the Hindus' coming is a mys- tery,
and as none has been found who *
can speak a word of English nothing -.J
can be gleaned from them. ?*
Where the Hindus live here is also y
unknown to the police. It i3 known
they stop ?,t no lodging house in Spokane.
Thuy are seen wandering aimlessly
about the streets every day, j
and nobody seems inclined to give |
them employment, though they will ?
work for anything offered to them. i
The Oregon Railroad and Naviga- f V
tion Company employed several of j
the. Hindus on section work, but (
soon discharged them, declaring ihoy | r
were worthless for that purpose. j i
1 c
Spanish General a Suicide. 1
The Carlist General, Marquis de I
Vallearato, who was an aide to Don
Carlos, the Spanish pretender, com- %
milted suicide at Madrid.
* 1 " 1 1 j c:
Churcli Separation in Algeria. j c
An administrative decree provid- I c
ing for the separation of Church and
State in Algeria was issued at Paris. c
From the Lakes to the Gulf.
The deep waterways convention at I
Memphis adopted a resolution asking
Congress for an appropriation sufficient
for the creatiou of a fourteen- *?
, foot channel from the Great Lakes to f
the Gulf of Mexico. t
t
Suicide to Avoid the Knife. ^
Rnihpr than uuderso a second op- i
eration for appendicitis. A. E. But- :
ler, aged forty-five, Superintendent of t
(he S'nadyside Apartments. Pittsburg, j
committed suicide by shooting. I \
The National Game.
In Detroit Jennings is regarded as <
the Napoleon of baseball.
Cbesbro stfll has a thing or two
up his sleeve. Ask Mack and Jen- ;
nings. ;
Had the Pittsburgs held on to ]
Beaumont H would have meant at <
least eight more victories for the Pirates.
]
Pitcher Mullin, of Detroit, cats but 1
two meals a day, but weighs 220 1
pounds. 1
Alexander Shields, owner of Go Be- !
tween and trainer of Hermis, died ol j
typhoid.
LOOTED FRENCH CHURCHES v
Wealthy Robbers Exposed by
Theft of Historic Cope. |j
Revelations of Scandal and Murder?
Stolen Works of Art Sold i? ICi'gland
and United Stales.
Paris, F~nncfb ? Asionishmeni .
amounting to consternation has been ^
caused by .he arrest at Clormon*Kerrand
of a wealthy barrel mam;- i
facturer nanu ] AntoireThomas, with '
liis mother and brother. The lmme- il
diate charge against them is .stealing
R historic cope from the church at
Blanzac, Department i.i HauleV'ienne.
Amazing discoveries made in con
UCVMVJJl Willi CUT lii'Tlv *. J11 C * I I LI k*.
=candal. Thomas was a rich and reacted
local magnate in the public.
out it seems that privately he was a
practitioner of illegal operations, and
?ven, it is alleged, a murderer. The
whole country is now ringing wita
:he story.
Jn Thomas' house the police found
in array of deadly poisons, a bloodstained
stiletto, illegal surgical instruments
and a mass of correspond?nce
implicating some of the best
mown families in France. Numer- r^I
3us Paris art dealers, some of them J"11
millionaires, are shown to have had v"
lealings with Thomas as receivers of
Uolen goods. They had agents in
England and the United States, and
nad formed a great conspiracy for
he theft and sale of priceless relics
secured from French churches.
It is stated that Thomas alone re- DUi
ilized from thefts the sum of $400,300.
His mother and brother Francois
were arrested on October 5.
rhomas himself, who has returned to
jlermont-Ferrand from London,
where he sold a stolen reliquary for tress
U0,000. surrendered to a magis- Boar
rate. He fully confessed the syste- unab
natic theft cf works of art, but was by tl
lorrified to learn of the poisons and
correspondence seized. and
He told the Magistrate that he was
vithcut remorse so far as his dealings was
n works of art were concerned, but selve
he arrest of his mother and brother, misti
- *- -* -.* ~ * A ~ A
VUO JJJ IJUl'eill, UIJU tnc j/uaoiUic ax?.^u
mplication of a married lady whom of cb
ie had adored for'years impelled him was
o surrender. Her love letters, found decla
n the house, would involve her ruin, ,"a fu
lo implored fhe Magistrate to con- Sena;
:eal the lady's name.
1-Ie further told the Magistrate that madf
ie did not care a straw about the
>ther women, whose guilt was proved more
>y the correspondence, adding: "But
bey belong to a world you dare not teach
isperse and when you know all you
vill be glad to liberate me to avoid a in tt
rightful scandal." more
Thomas ascribes his betrayal to a
ich Paris antiquary, to whom he reused
to sell the cope. He rends his P|||(
illeged accomplices in theft merci- Qljj|
essly. lie says that one of these
vealthy men proposed two years ago
he plan of procuring Church treas""!!
Frf
Many priests oeueveu iuul uic serration
law would render thera absoutely
destitute, as the Government
lad inventoried all the Church valuaties.
The scheme was to offer the
iriests money to hand over their
hief treasures and substitute cheay; 5
eplicas furnished by Thomas and his '
riends. It worked excellently, and iaKe*
cores of supposed Church treasures.
^liomas says, will be found upon ex- r
.mination to be not genuine.
More than thirty priests surren- ?>rea*
[ergd historic objects in the first fort- averz
light the scheme was worked. The tnan,
nost valuable objects, however, could ,
lot be duplicated, and the Paris deal- 1
rs proposed that they be stolen. To tnos
his Thomas consented. th?r6
He describes various successful tnan
aids, the proceeds of which were .
lisposed of in London, where '
Thomas, accomnanied by a friend pent
lamed Faure, took thera. He says teacn
hat a London agent who bought a
eliquary stolen at Ambazac,acted foi and !
,n American purchaser who is awaitQg
its delivery. whos
than
FOOTBALL ST A11 LOSES LEG. P?Cul
tnem
Mike" Barrett's Misfortune May In* _ .
flnence Swarthmore in Athletics. ?
Philadelphia. ? News has reached cnose
ere that may influence the decision , .
f the authorities of Swarthmore on aetec
he problem of withdrawing from inercollegiate
athletics or rejecting
he 51,000,000 bequest of Miss \ I f|D
eanes, which is based on this condi- | LUll
ion.
A letter from the West says that
'harles P. ("Mike") Barrett, Swarth- . .
aore's star half hack in 1905 and HGi
906, has had his right leg ampuated
as a result of blood poisoning
ollowing an injury to his knee reeived
in last year's Swarthmore-An!a"olls
8^; bank
111GES THE SCARLET LETTER. are 1
mom
rhicago Pastor Would Brand Men jnves
Who Cause Women to Drink. vario
Chicago?Rev. Frederick E. HOp- proje
[ins told a cor-gregation, which on tt
ammed the Pilgrim Congregational was
Church, "what ought to be done to a
nan who asks a woman to drink.'- Amei
Phe address v/as a continuation of hi? that
rusade against women drinking in been
estanrants and elsewhere in public, serio
le declared: impoi
"The man who insists upon a worn- jtal f
in drinking after she has said she
thought she shouldn't'?this citizen ities
hould be ostracized by society. The
hurch anil the public at large should the t
ompel him to wear the scarlet letter York
D' pinned on his breast, for he is a may
lebauchee, a devil.of us
GUARDS KILL 22 CONVICTS.
* V enr'
Prisoners Attacked Them and Eleven
Escaped With Guards' Jtifles.
Tobolsk, Siberia.?A gang of con- Wi
ids who were being escorted here ral D
rom Tyumen, Eastern Siberia, at- :litior
acked their guards and wounded six enty>i'
them. with
The guards fired ob the convicts, S0.1
wenty-two of whom were killed. Th
Sleven of the prisoner:! escaped with ss 13
ifles which they had wrested from with
he members of the escort in the bush<
iu; nd-to-hand fight which followed t >1 sp
he outbreak. Is ah:
TEXAS WINS ANTl-TItUST SUITS.
Collects r i 7.500 Fines and Closes Up
Live Slock Exchange. a ^'8
Dallas, Texas.?-A settlement was ?.a_svJ'
reached in the anti-trust cases of the ,
State of Texas against the Fori Worth
Live Stock Exchange and various Pria<
o'.nmission firm.-. spect
According to the settlement judg- P1"01'1
ment is rendered in favor of the State St(
"or penalties aggregating $17,500 and city
for the cancellation and forfeiture of !>assi
[he charter of the Fort Worth lave in pr
Stock Exchange, and l'or a perpetual torwi
injunction restraining it from doing in ll
business in Texas. hoist
VHY NOT EX"
ILL DINNLF
15
arding House 0
Won't Except Hi
Springfield. Mass.?Twenty
es met at the home of Mrs.
dinc-house Union. A score
le to be present sent word tfc
le meeting.
The union dccided to raise t
to put the new rate into effe<
One of the chief causes of di
asserted that railroad men
s with pails as large as wash
esses to fill them with "lun<
pails held two quarts of coff<
leese and six doughnuts, and
considered justification for p
red that the late Mark Han
ill dinner pall." A long-facei
tor Hanna merely meant enoi
One boarding-hou3e mistress
> for school teachers.
"A school teacher's appetite
i bother than two men," was 1
It was voted unanimously noi
lers.
As practically all the boardin
le movement, the boarders h
UA Ul IIIUV1U5 VUt V/A.
jIdes of cioe
squency of Self-]
School Boys ;
Berlin.?The frequency of su
Ing much attention in Germa
ecently ordered that a thoroi
), with a view to find causes
Statistics of such suicides sli
, there were 1125 suicides ol
>ls, making an average of n
er number of suicides were
ige yearly number for these
one-fifth of these were girls
The greater frequency of su
wholly to the fact that the
A M o r*f faot <
! UUU V C. /19 a uiaLv^t v? imv?.
frequent?reckoned as a pe
below that age.
The official statistics do not
cases. The causes stated foi
, mental derangement and 1
ers. I11 the higher schools
ided self-esteem, mental dera
melancholia.
Not less than twenty-eight p
e parents were epileptics, dr
forty-eight per cent, of the
iarities of the children rende
selves to the rules and regul;
One group of these embracec
lem for the school work or
n to prepare themselves.
Another group contained th(
ts, through love affairs or tl
0 ROTHSCHILD LAYS f
ad of Banking Ho
Frightened Awa
London.?"Stocks are low,-' t
ing house, in an interview, "
litting at capital."
Lord Rothschild demurred at
;y market is due to a boom i
itment. He referred to the ?
us questions, such as old s
cts, and the projected licensi
te British money market, and
not particularly British, but
"Of course, President Roosev
ican railways are greatly disi
the manipulation of railroad
quite what it should have t
us character of the Presidenl
ssible, as things stand, for us
or railway development aero
Speaking generally, would j
are likely to improve as the
'Ah," replied Lord Rothschil
ruest wisdom never to prop
are hoarding money until t
display greater confidence wh
is in a position to indulge it
s Wheat Production
Is 623,567,GOO Rushf
tshington, D. C.?The Agricul
epartmont reported that the c<
1 of corn on October 1 was s
eight per ccnt., as compai
80.2 per cent, last month, a
on October J. 1906.
e average yield of spring wh
" 1 1?t ? ****** ??cs onmnai
,1 mirtiieis |?ri ?v, no
in.7 bushels for 1900, and 1
?ls for 1905. The product
ring .'mil winter wheat rombir
jtii 625,.">(J7,000 bushels.
On < lie Gridiron.
rl Flanders, whose coaching v
help to the Indians last seas
jined the gridiron faculty at N
n.
e football managers at Yale j
:cton?Fofiter and Wheeler,
iyely?are both Hill Sch
acts.
;in, one of the Syracuse Univ
backs, has done some accur
ug of from thirty to forty ya
actlce. If he gets away will
ml pass or two of that lenj
ic Yale game the Elis will
with .Vir own petard.
TEND THE RULE?
?Cartoon from the Brooklyn tvul<>
r paid
UP SI A WE.EJ
nion Boosts Rates an
Angry Schoolma'ams ,
West Springfield boarding-house mi
Charles Clark, Jr.. and voted to form
of boarding-house proprietors who we:
iat they would stand by any action tak(
he price of board from to $0 a we(
:t at once.
ssatisfaction was the full dinner pail,
rho carried their dinners provided then
-boilers and expected the boardiug-hou:
;b." It was explained that the mediun
;e, eight or nine sandwiches, half a pour
that failure to include two pieces of p
rolonged grumbling. One of the wome
na was to blame for promising the m?
i landlady of Republican tendencies, sal
igh to eat and not a wheelbarrow load.
O cno/ilal rata cjhnillrl 1
SUS&Cdiuot iuai> a. imw ~
is as good as anyone's else and they ai
:he prompt reply of a maiden lady,
t to make an exception in favor of 3eho<
g-houses in West Springfield are include
ave the alternative of paying $1 a wes
CAUSE WORRY IN GERMAN
Destruction Among th
and Girls Alarms. *
icldes among school boys and girls is a
ny. The Prussian Ministry of Educatlc
lgh investigation of the matter be unde
and remedies.
iow that in the twenty-one years, 188i
t pupils of tho gymnasiums and commc
early fifty-four per annum. By far tf
of children under fifteen years old, th
alone almost reaching forty-two. Le;
lcides below fifteen years, bowever, ws
pupils below that age so far outnumbi
3uicides above fifteen years are four timi
rcentage of the total number of pupilsgive
the causes of the suicides except i
the lower schools were fear of punisl
larsh treatment by parents, relatives <
the causes were dread of examination
ngement, fear of punishment, love affai
er cent, of the suicides were of childre
unkards or mentally unsound. In moi
i cases it was found that the characti
;red it difficult for them to accommoda
\tions of the schools.
1 pupils whose mental capacities did ni
for the profession for which they h?
ise who were led astray through mori
irough premature addiction to drink.
MMMI1I IINFASF Tfl RIKISFUFI
11VIII1 UIMU UllbllUb IV IIVU VhlUL
>use Says Speeches Hav
y English Investors. "
said Lord Rothschild, head of the famoi
because Governments all over the wor
the suggestion that the condition of tl
in trade, which leaves little cash free fi
Socialistic denunciations of capital and
tge pensions, the Scottish land tenui
ng bill, as having an unsettling infiuen<
in reply to a suggestion that the iroub
was international, said:
elt's speeches against the conduct of tt
turbing that market. We must all adm
stock in the United States has not alwaj
teen, but this doos not detract from th
t's campaign. It is difficult, nay, almo:
5 to furnish from this'country fresh caj
ss the water."
oil say that the prices of leading seem
autumn progresses?" was asked,
d, as he shook his head, laughing, "it
hesy. I am told thai investors in Ne
hey see how events turn and that the
len the spring comes, but. after all, noc
i forecasts.''
' Oncc Poor Now Rich, at
?ls. Fifty-seven (Joes to Colleg
tu- Washington, Pa. ? Peter Murra
an- of Buena Vista, at the age of fift
ev- seven, has gone to college.
red lie is a student at Jefferson Aeai
,nd eray, Canonsburg. and the teache
say he is one of their most diligei
eat pupils.
red In his youth Murray had to wot
4.7 for a living and sacrifice his schoo
ion inc. Jle has accumulated money ti
led i?is large business inierests, he say
demand that lie be better educated.
Women in the Day's News.
ra,. A German observer says that wor
' " on's home life is ruined by the
ew clubs.
Marie Tluef Hofer says Chica?
lH|j clubwomen cat less than New Yoi
re. clubwomen.
ool Mrs. Alfred G. Vanderbilt was
r.n automobile wreck in Newport, ]
cr. 1., but was unhurt.
ato "Rlinore (llyn, the English novelif
nls wishes to iind an American man
i ft make the hero of a novel,
gth Eighty-two per cent, of the wor
be era engaged in the paper box indu
try of the United States ajra women.
STOBM OS MTIC COAST
Most Violent Gale in Thirty-five
Years Causes Great Damage.
Many Vessels Driven Ashore nrnl
Crews Are Saved by Heroic Efforts?Big
Crop Loss.
Boston, Mass.?Enormous property
damage and loss of life are reported
as the result of the southerly gale
which swept over New England. It
was the worst storm of the season,
and at some places the wind was the
most furious in years. Shipping was
scattered with heavy damage throughout
the entire extent of the New England
coast. Trees and wire were
blown down, pedestrians were injured
in the cities and late crops and
fruit in the interior suffered loss,
i Twn men lost their lives at Fall
River and Henry A. Smith, a motorman,
was killed in Maiden by a live
wire which was blown in front of his
car.
The results of the storm to New
England's shipping are: The barge
Bessie J., from Edgewater, N. J., sunk
at her moorings in Fall River, Captain
Allen W. Robbins and William
McComber, drowned; the steamer
Warren, of the Enterprise line, in the
same harbor, dragged anchor and
went ashore; she will be pulled off
r with little damage; the Staples Coal
^ Company's crane, in Fall River,
^ blown over; damage $50,000.
WAVES DASHED OVER
Cl TROLLEY CARS
"D T Tho cipvprput storm
in years broke upon Newport just before
daylight. The wind blew seventy
miles an hour and tore down teles'
graph and telephono wires, drove
a small boats into the docks with moorre
ings broken and did much damage to
trees and buildings. At Island Park,
in Portsmouth, several small cottages
:k were blown over into the Sacconet
River, though, fortunately, they were
It rescued.
i- \Vind0w3 were battered in and
se flower beds, of which Newport boasts,
Q- were thrashed out and ruined. The
id surf at Easton's Beach and along the
ie shore ran very high. At the beach it
m ran over the seawall and dashed
:n against the trolley cars, leaving seaid
weed on their roofs. Along the cliffs
the sea dashed high up onto the
)e walks and hundreds went to the bluff
to see the glorious picture.
re The wind greatly damaged the
:rees on the summer estates, snapd1
ping off many limbs. On the grounds
- e If- T^T
Jl iVH . JUUU I HUJIiyBUll UiJCUkCI lilU1,U
id damage was done.
:k
HEAVY WINDSTORM
RIPS UP NEW YORK
|U I New York City.?A forty-eightl|
mile gale hit New York. While it
lasted it surely did blow. From one
end of the city to the other came
.reports of horse? and wagons blown
0 about and trees falling with disastrous
effects to houses and fences.
In the harbor the river craft stayed
at their piers, their skippers not daring
to race the high wind.
t_ It also rained some, the Weather
in Bureau records showing a fall of .6S
r_ Inch.
In Manhattan and Harlem the
principal damage was in shattered
)n plate-glass windows, broken signs
lc and flooded cellars. In the harbor
shipping was practically at a stand*
still.
The gale also did much damage on
the campus of Columbia University,
the tin roof of the Wilde Observatory
" in the grove being blown away, and
_ the telescope left exposed to the fury
of the gale. After the storm the tel
. escope was examined anrt lonna to D9
. very little damaged. In the grove
' five of the largest trees were uprooted.
_e' Jn New Jersey the story was the
5 same. In Paterson one house was
blown away and another turned com;D
pletely around on its foundations,
while trees, shrubbery and lawns
*r were ruined and shutters, windows
e and signs smashed.
?d STORM CAUSES TRAIN
WRECK IN PENNSYLVANIA
1 Pottstown, Pa.?The high wind
was responsible for a railroad wreck
.'on the Perkiomen branch of the Philadelphia
and Reading Railway. A
J tree was blown across the track and
,| a train of four cars, all crowded, ran
into it.
The iocoraotive plunged down an
embankment into the Perkiomen
^ j Creek, and the cars hung on the edge
of the embankment. Edward J. Miller,
fireman of the locomotive, received
fatal injuries, and the engine
i driver, M. L. Ge?sssnha.iner, sustained
I j J a broken leg.
u HOUSES BLOWN INTO
RIVER IN SEAFORD
tc
.g Seaford, Del.?In a cyclone which
,e struck Seaford, trees were uprooted
j6 and roofs of houses blown off. On
the water front many houses were
,Q blown into the river. Many thousand
^ | dollars' damage was done and notns
| i.ng like it was ever seen here before.
[e I People were terror stricken and many
3t | of them injured.
| HEAVY PROPERTY LOSS
r" | REPORTED FROM LEEPS
is Leeds, Ala.?A tornado that struck
w this section caused the death of about
;y fifteen persons, who were hit toy faille
ing trees and timbers. The damage
to property was enormous.
"HOKEY rOKEY" MAN DEAD.
e.
y Samuel F. Dunham Was the Inventor
y" of the Ice Cream Brick.
tl Burlington, N. J.?Samuel F. Dunr?
ham, an aged citizen and originator
-? nf tho nnw nrtnular "hnkev
pokey," or ice cream brick, died at his
k home here of heart disease,
il- Dunham conceived the idea of sollili
ing ice cream in cake form for a
s, penny and laid by a snug fortune before
imitators broke into his trade.
Prominent l'eoplc.
n- The late John Bright wept as for a
ir brother when he spoke before Parliament
of the death of Cobden.
;o Allan A. Ryan, son of Thomas F.
k Ryan, will, it is said, build a summer
home at Suffern, N. Y., to cost ? 1
in 000,000.
R. Thomas T. Crittenden is the oldest
living ox-Goveruor of Miisuuri. The
State has had thirly-oi\& Uavcrnurs,
to of whom five survive
General Botha, the first Prime
K. Minister of the -fransvaal, Is fortys.
four years old, and speaks Dutch ^n.']
with, trnal fluonr.v
" WE WIN VICTORY
AT THE HAGUE
Project Providing For Obligatory
Arbitration is Approved.
NINE COUNTRIES OPPOSED PLAN
Germany Tried to Obtain Snpport
Against Plan From South America,
But Was Unsuccessful?
Adds toPrcstigeof UnitedStates.
The Hague.?The approval by the
Committee on Arbitration at the
Peace Conference of the Anglo-American
project for obligatory arbitration,
referred to during the course of
the debates as the permanent international
high court of justice, the court
of arbitral justice, obligatory arbitration
and universal arbitration, is regarded
as a great victory, especially
for the United States.
The first proposition on this sub
ject was presented to tl?e conference
July 8 by the American delegation,
and Joseph H. Cboate, the first American
representative, has labored unceasingly
and determinedly for its acceptance.
The project was approved with a
majority greater thau was hoped for.
It was essentially American, and its
basis, the enunciation o! the idea of
compulsory arbitration, was taken
bodily from the American proposition.
The vote, 31 ayes to 7 noes?the
countries in opposition being Germany,
Austria-Hungary, Switzerland,
Belgium, Rumania, Greece. Turkey,
Bulgaria and Montenegro ? proved
that, as M. Renault (of France), said
In the discussion, "arbitration is not
a strange beast that must be muzzled."
Another great success for America
was the unanimity with which all the
countries of the American Continent
stood firmly at the side of the United
States, thus putting an end to the im- |
lifessiun ui iauK ui nurmuuj ueuvceu
the Governments of the Western
Hemisphere created by reports of recent
dissensions.
The compactness of Latin-America
was more noticeable in so much as it
is known that Germany exercised
strong pressure to get support from
some South American countries. All
the combined efforts of Berlin on the ,
different Governments at their capitals
and from Baron Marschall von
Bieberstein, the head of the German
delegation, on the delegates here, had >
only one effect, that of Inducing Austria-Hungary
to vote against, the :I
measure.
In commission, Austria-Hungary
accepted several cases to be submitted
to obligatory acbitration. Germany
succeeded also .in inducing Italy to
abstain ^rom voting, but the Triple
Alliance sufficiently explains this.
But outside of the Triple Alliance
Germany made headway only because
she does not accept General Horace
Porter's proposition regarding the
collection of contractual debts, which ,
Is a matter connected with the project
of obligatory arbitration.
NEW HAVEN DEMOCRATIC.
Waterbury Also Swings From Republican
Ranks?Small Towns Also.
New Haven, Conn.?Democratic
victories were won in the annual Connecticut
elections. New Haven and
Waterbury, the largest and the third ,
city of the State, swung into the
Democratic column by majorities of
abovt 1200 each.
New Haven, which, with the exception
of one year, has elected Republican
officials since 1893, chose a
complete Democratic city and town
ticket.
James B. Martin, a young lawyer,
defeated State Senator Minotte E.
Chatfield, a paper manufacturer, for
Mayor, and Democratic city minor
officials were elected by majorities of
from 500 to 2500.
In Waterbury William E. Thoms, r.
j-oung iawyer, was re-elected Mayor
by a majority of about' 1300. The
only Republican city official re-elected
was City Clerk Sanderson.
Bott in New Haven and Waterbury
Democratic Boards of Aldermen
and Education were elected.
The little town elections held in
162 of the 163 towns of the State
showed slight Democratic gains.
KILLED IN FOOTBALL GAME. [,
['
Member of the Altoona Athletic Team '
Was Kicked.
Portage. Pa.?Thomas Bertram, '
twenty years old, of Altoona, Pa., re- I
reived injuries during a football game I
that caused his death. Bertram, who ;
was a member of the Altoona athletic '
team, was playing against the Portage <
; team, when he was kicked in the head '
during a scrimmage. His death, it ]
is said, will result in prosecutions !
against those who played Sunday '
football. 1
Salt Lake City. ? Eugene M.
Bourne, thirteen years old, died here, j
the first Utah victim of football this !
season.
APiRESTED AS BLACKMAILERS. }
Thirty-three Italians Seized by State .
Constabulary at Brownsville, Pa.
Pittsburg.?Thirty-three Italians 1
were arrested at Brownsville, Pa.,
near here, by members of the Pennsylvania
State constabulary in an en- [
deavor to break up an alleged blackmailing
society. The arrests followed 1 i
the receipt of threatening letters by a f'
number of merchants. t
HEARST TICKET IS UPHELD. [ '
Judicial Candidates McDonough and ?
Lyon to Be Named on Ballot.
Albany, N. Y.-?Secretary of State | 1
Whalcn decided that the names of John
T. McDonougb, of Albany, and I
Reuben Robie Lyon, of Bath, the In- i
dependent League nominees for j
Judges of the Court of Appeals, have (
been properly certified to him by the
Independence League State Ccnven*
* ? ' * *?; *f5ll l\o nrfntPfl
tion HI1U lueu nauici) " "V- ,
upon the official ballot.
The Labor World.
Iligh dues seem to bo necessary J
these day it" unions are to succeed, j
* ->t>nrtor h*?? ho^n crranted to the i
Journeymen Stonecutters' Astoria- ,
tion.
in China wages of women opera- i
tives are nearly at the vanishing ,
; point.
Tho capmakers' dispute in Manj
Chester, England, is a contest for the ,
, i recognition of ths union. |
The pattern makers of T?ittsburg, :
pa., voted recenUj' to add. $300 year- .
I ly to the salary of Jan>/f3 Wilson, the
gep.srai president, 1
fc
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A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE.
How a Veteran Was Saved the Am?
potation ol a Limb.
B. Frank Doremns, veteran, ol
Roosevelt Ave., Indianapolis, Ind.,
tsays: "I had been,
showing symptoms of
kidney trouble from
the time I was mua- I
tered out of the army,
but in all my lif?
I never suffered as
in 1897. Headaches,
dizziness and sleeplessness,
first, and
then dropsy. I waa
weak and helpless,
having run down from ISO to 125
pounds. I was having terrible pain
in the kidneys, and the secretions
passed almost involuntarily. My left
leg swelled until it was 34 inches
srounn, ana tne doctor tapped it
night and morning until I could no
longer stand it, and then he advised
amputation. I refused, and began
using Doan's Kidney Pills. The
swelling subsided gradually, the
urine became natural and all ray
pains and aches disappeared. I have - .
been well now for nine years since
using Doan's Kidney Pills."
Sold by alldealer3. 50 cents, a box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
So Many?
They went in to dinner together.
He was very bashful, and she tried
in vain to draw him out. Finally
she began to talk boobs, and he became
responsive. "And Hugo?" she
asked. "Do you like his style?"
"Oh, yeV he replied; "I find him
Intensely Interesting. I've* read a
uumuer ui ui? uuuks.
Then she asked, "Have you read
'Ninety-Three?' "
"No, I've?er?only read three. I
didn't know he had written so many."
?Lippincott's.
State of Ohio, City of Toledo, I
Lucas County, \
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is
senior partner of the firm of F.J.Cheney Sc.
Co., doing business in the City of Toledo,
County and State aforesaid, and that said
firm will pay thesum of one hundred doi>
lars for each and every case of catarrh
that cannot be cured by the use of Hall's
L'atarrh Cure. 1< rank j. Chenby.
Sworn to before ine and subscribed in my
presence, this 6th day of December, A. D.,
1888. A. VV. Gleason,
(seal.) Notary Public.
H all 'a Catarrh Cure is taken internal ly, and
acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces
of the system. Send for testimonials, <
free. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, 0.
Sold by all Druggists. "75c.
Take Hall's Famuy Pills for constipation.
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Protection From Lightning.
It appears that the London Meteo
rological society, irora racts gatnerea
in that country, has even a higher
appreciation of the matter of protection
against lightning that we
have in this country, and In England
the lightning rod is in nearly universal
use. It is stated that thunder
storms have been very severe there
this year and that the loss of cattle .
and sheep from lightning has been so
great that farmers are equipping
large trees with the metal rods. The
casualties to animals aro due mostly
to the fact that during a thunder
storm they usually gather beneath
the branches of an isolated tree. "The
explanation of the mischief is very
well known," says Professor Attfleld,
the well known English authority on
meteorological matters. "A tree Is a
conductor of lightning, but not a
very good one. In the absence of a
better channel the lightning will flash
through it, but there is always a
chance of its glancing aside to any
medium that affords a better passage.
Now the body of a man or an animal
/?/\ncHtntoa n hptter conductor
than a tree does, and consequently
the electricity, whenever it has an opportunity
of doing so, will leave the
tree and flash through the animal
body. The same thing will often occur
when the lightning, passing
downward through the tree, reaches
a point at which a readier passage is
presented by some . adjacent building."
The full vclley is deflected
from the tree into the building.?Indiana
rarcsef.
Tiger Bird.
India's tiger bird, so called because
le is the one thing the royal beast
'ears, is no larger than the sparrow.
Fet so bold and combative is he that
f the great cat is surprised by a sufIcient
number of the little creatures
!ar (rom the protecting shelter of the
jungle it will go hard with him.
IVhen alone the bird will not attack.
Supported by a flock of friends, how >var
nftpn numberine several thou
sands, the bird will seek out his
hereditary foe. and give bim battle.?
Kansas City Journal.
Observant and Indulgent Father.
"Pa!"
' Well, daughter?"
"May I have your waste basket to
make a mushroom hat?"
"Yes, child. And you may also
lave this old feather duster for trimming."?Washington
Herald.
Probably the Latter.
When a man's wife laughs at his
jokes they are pretty good?or else
she is.?Washington Times. T
TRANSFORMATIONS
Curious Results When Coffee Prink
* *- ?
ing is ^uiiiiuuiii-ir.
It is alrao3t as hard for an old
coffee toper to quit the use of coffee
is it is for a whiskey or tobacco fiend
lo break off, except that the coffee
user can quit coffee and take up
Postum without any feeling of a loss
of the morning beverage, for when
Postum Is well boiled and served with
cream, it is really better in point of
flavour than most of the coffee served
nowadays, and to the taste of the connoisseur
it is like the flavour of fiue
mild Java.
A great transformation takes place,
in the body within ten days or two
weeks after coffee is left off and
Postum used, for the reason that tAe
poison to the nerves?caffeine?has
been discontinued and in its place is
taken a liquid food that contains the
most powerful elements of nourishment.
It is easy to make this test and
prove thtso statements by changing
from coffee to Postum. Read "The
Road to WellviUV' lQ Pk?s.
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