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VOUJMKXXl. v CA.MDKN, 8. C.. FRIDAY. Al'(. 1ST t!?. l'.UO. NO. 31.
KING ALFONSO
Will HOI YIELD
Bis Reparted Statement tu the
? French Premier.
HE IS FIRM TOWARD^ THE VATICAN.
Declares They Organized Juntas of
Which Village Priests Are the
Leaders-?His Complaint to the
Vatican Ignored?Will Reduce the
Number of Religious Orders.
Paris (Special)Ix'? N'ouvelles eays
that it is authorized to deny the state
ment of ,the Madrid Epoea that Premier
Priand strongly advised Klujj Alfonso
against a rupture with Home and blamed
the severance of diplomatic relations be
tween France and the. Holy Sue to the
clumsiness of the Vatican.
The paper nay* furthor thnt Kin? Al
fonso, during the interview with Premier
Briand talked frankly about the situ?
tion and told the French statesman in
energetic terms that lie did not propose
to obey the injunction of the Vatican, to
tolerate the threats of Plus X, or to al
low the Vatican to mix in Spanish poli
tics.
Let Nouvelles adds;
"M. Pi'land's experience enabled him
to ofTer suye advice to the poung monarch,
warning his majesty to proceed dip
lomat'callv, and avoid btusqueness aud
wounding."
KILLS FAMILY AND SELF.
Life Taken By Each of Four Revolver
Shots.
Chicago (Special).?YV. J. Meyera,
keeper of a a hoot in# pallery, used hid
skill with a revolver with tragic purpose,
shooting throe members of his household
through the head and then taking his own
life.
? Just four shots were llrcil. and four
lives wire snuffed out by Meyers' un
orrintr aim. ?
Policeman Dennis O'Neill was passing
the Meyers home when he "heard the four
shots iu rapid succession. Brauhing into
the apartment lie found the dead where
they had fallen. A revolver with four
chambers empty lay l-eside the body of
^eve's. Death in each case apparently
hfcd been inHtajUarifevus.
Meyers and his wife soparnted recently
after she hnd him placcd under bonds to
keep the peac;. There are no living eye
witnesses to the tragedy.
PITTSBURG'S EXPOSITION.
Will Conaiet of Exhibits-of Land In
terest Only.
Pittsburg, Pa. (Special).?Pittsburg is*
preparing for the bigeest indoor pxposi
tion ever held in the East. Tlw show i&'
to ho known us the National Lund and
Irrigation Exposition, and will consist
of exhibits of land interest only. There
will be government and state exhibits of
modern farms and model dairies; models
of irrigation plans and systems: samples
of grains, s-.'eds, plants, fruits, vege
tables, cottons, tobaccos, minerals nnd
Other earth products. Lectures on soil
restoration nnd agriculture will ulso bo
given, and chambers of commerce, boards
of trade and commercial bodies from all
parts of the country will demons'rate to
the farmer, the homeseeker nnd investor
the particular advantages of their vari
ous district*. The exposition will take
place October 17 to 20.
Explosion Wrecks Building.
Philadelphia (Special).?Six persons
were injured, one seriously, by the col
lapse of a three-story brick dwelling fol
lowing an explosion in the northeastern
f?art of the city. The mcst seriously hurt
s John Bolagh, a grocer, who occupied
the first flcror of the building. There
were several narrow cscapes from death.
The explosion was caused, it is believed,
the ignition of coal oil in Bolagh'a
store.
No Arrest in Three Years.
Denver, Col. (Special).?According to
Martha D. Coates. assistant secretary of
the State Board of Charities and Corrcc- j
tions, who has returned from an InsDec-1
tion of the city jail at Eldorado, Col.,'
that town holds the rccord for law abid- J
}ng communities. In three years not a
single arrest has been made and the door j
of ihe jail hps stood wide open. Eldorado,
has a population of 500 persons.
Big Elevator Burned.
BufTalo, N. Y. (Special).?The burning
of the Globe Klevator Company's build
ings, near the BulTalo water front, caused
a loss of about $125,000, and gave the
fire department several hours of strenu
ous work. The company's 300,000-bushel
elevator, valued at about $40,000, com
pletely wrecked, was uninsured. The
loss in grain in storage is partially cov
ered by insurance.
Kidnapped By Brigands.
Home (Special).?The mystery of the
disappearance of Snlvatore Setta. one of
the richest landowners in Sardinia, was
solved when brigands who kidnapped him
rn his big estate, demanded 810,000 for
his ransom. It is probable that Setta's
family , will ?: pay the price, Stgnor
Ruin, another big landowner, was re
cently killed bv brigands because the price
demanded for his liberation was not paid.
Speaks for Six Days.
The Hague (Special).?Senator Ellhu
Root concluded his six-day speech before
the Arbitration Tribunal, whioh will do.
cide the Newfoundland fisheries dispute.
His speech marked tne end of the argu
ment and the case has now gone to the
arbitrators. A verdict in not expected
before the latter part of September or
^early in October.
40 Miles With Dead.
Tttscon, Aria. (BpeeiaL)?After driv
ing a team of bronchos with one hand for
40 miles on a stormy night, Alfred Villa,
a youth, dasllvered the body of his dead
brother to his parents near the city.
While driving through the storm the
buckboard in which the two brothers
Were riding was struck by lightning, hill
ing the younger laatantlj and paralysing
one side of the other. Regaining eon
ftciousnese, the alder boy headed the team
for home, driving with his souad hand.
8WEETER THAN EVER.
Per Capita Consumption of Sugar
Last Year Waa Eighty-Two
Pounds.
Washington, 1). C. (Sj>eclal ).???'The
averago American ato 82 pound* of sugar
l?H year, which was wore than Jxe ever
lisd eaten before in the hintory of tho
country. The Hguron for the 1 ^ pionth*
ended .June 30 were jU4t made public by
the Department of Commerce and Labor.
"Can you estimate the increased j>er
contage of sweetness therefore possessed
by the American girlt" wan asked.
"That is impossible," solemnly repfied
the statistical clerk, "I can #;?y, now
ever, that the figures show that a greater
pereentago of t>?*? Hweetness aetimilated
by the American people wus what you
might term home grown sweetness-?that
is, sugar produced on American soil."
The total amount of sugar eaten by
Americans during the year is estimated
at seven and one-half billion pounds.
Only in two previous yearn did the total
over approach the seven billion murk, and
only on four other occasions'?lid it exceed
six billions.
Hawaii, Porto Rico, the Philippines
and the sugar producing lands in the
United States schowed increased produc
tion- Hawaii increased from 1,078,000,
000 pounds the previous year to 1,000,
111,000 pounds; Porto Rico from 488,
000,000 to 509.000.000 pounds, the l>est
sugar fields in the United State* from 007
to 1,025,000,000 pounds. Tho Philip
pines broke all records since their an
nexation, with 170.000,000 pounds. The
cane fields in the United States alone de
creased, showing a reduction from 829,
000,000 to 750,000,000 pounds.
SEARCHING FOR
JOISON SIGNS
Experts Work on Supposed
Helle Elmore's Br<ty.
Prof. Pepper, the British Home Office
Physician, Now Seems 3ure of the
Identity of the Remains Found
Under Crippen's House.
London (Special) .^-lt is reported thai
tin? authorities have di."covered a clue to
the certain identity of the body unearthed
in the llilldrop Crescent home of Dr.
Hnwley II. Crippen, now under arrest in
Quebec, awaiting extradition on the
charge of having murdered an unnamed
woman. The police havo contended all
fllong that the bits of flesh were parts of
tho body of Belle Elmore, the actress
wife of Dr. Crippen, l/ut their idontiflea
lion as such has been a matter ot much
doubt.
It is generally believed that the case
of the crown rc^ts on a po?;;ive identifi
cation and tlx? greatest importance is
attached to the litest envelopments.
The hopeful clue was obtained during an
I exhaustive examination of tho body by
I Professor Pepper, the Home Office ex
| pert who had previously given many
! hours to the problem. During the five
| hours that ho worked Professor Pepper
I obtained conclusive evidence that the sex
i was feminine. Ho then continued with
! the purpose of determining the manner
I of death, having in mind the possibility
that poison was used.
The analysis, st far as the poison
! theory is concerned, was not completed,
but it was reported that the physician
found evidence that at some period the
woman had undergone a surgical opera
tion. If this can be established the au
thorities claim that they will have gone a
lone way in proving thet the victim was
Belle Elmore. It is doubtful if anything
beyond the scientific evidence is brought
to light before t'10 return here of Dr.
Crippen and Ethel Clare Le Neve, who
are jointly charged with guilty knowl
edge of the woman's death.
Lightning Saves Life.
Norristown, Pa. (Special).?A flash of
lightning revealed the form of Joseph
Myers, of Conshohocken. lying on the
Reading Railway tracks below West
Conshohocken, and made it possible for
the engineer to stop his freight train in
time to save the man's life. Myers was
walking on tho railroad during a heavy
storm, when ho became exhausted and
fell. The engineer brought the train to
a stop as the pilot touched the body.
Captain Scott Cool.
Cape Town (Special).?No alarm Is
felt by Captain Scott, commander of the
British Antarctic expedition, over the de
lay in tho arrival of tho Terra Nova, the
vessel that the expedition is to use in its
quest for tho South Pole. Tho vessel is
now 12 days overdue and haB not been
spoken since she left Madeira on June
27. Captain Scott says such delays are
not unusual and thot he will not become
apprehensive if tho vessel is not heard
from for two weeks yet.
ODIXS AND ENDS.
After training, a good circus horse Is
worth from $$000 to $fl,000.
Tho United States loads all others in
tho total number of patents issued.
About one in ten letters passing
through the Russian postoftioe is opened
on Cfenergi principle*. " ?
The Subway Telephone Construction
Company, of Chicago, has promised to
provido that city with a complete auto*
matle telephone system by the flret ot
Juno next year. At first it will ? cover
only the business district, but later will
be extended to the residential eoctiona.
A pier and buildings at Siudad Boli
var, ample for storage and handling of
freight, and /or the custom-house, a rail
way to extend the full length of the
pier, all to *coet $289,300. The work
must be completed within two years, and
it Is expaQtM ,to be ready by July, 1011. '
Mora than 20,000 '20-?andlepow*r In
candescent lamp filaments can be made
from a single pound of tantalum.
The mayor of Tomsk has commissioned
Railway Engineer Koroteff to make a
survey for a new railway line between
Barnaaul and Tomek.
Due to the lack- ofRuseUhr workmen
and the regulation which limita tho em
ployment of Chinese and Koreans, the
fisheries in the neighborhood of Nikola
evmk are seriously handicapped.
There are about 200 births annually m
ships trading to or,from British porta.
Only one out of every fifteen para<
haa both eyas in good condition.
MAYOR GUVNOR STILL
11 DUHGiH ZONE
Condition Favorable, but Blood
poisoning Still Possible.
HIS FAMILY HI I VERY HOPEFUL
Bulletin# Are Uniformly Favorable,
But Two Possibilities of Danger
Still Remain^--The Position of the
Bullet Has Been Definitely Fixed
and the Doctors Agree That It Is
Not Split
New York (Special).?Another day .linn
passed and Mayor Win. .1, (Jaynor, shot
in the nock by .lamen .J. (iallagher, show*
no symptom* of blood poisoning. lie con
tinues to rest well at intervals, to take
nourishment when desired and, if the
bulletin* his surgeons issue di*guise noth
ing, hi* condition is favorablo toward
ultimate recovery. C
The bugbear of septicaemia is not yet
piutsed, however, nor Is the nosHibility
that an artery or a blood vessel has been
scraped by the bullet. With these possi
bilities ever present he is still in the
danger r.one and will be for mor? than
a week.
The same feeling of anxiety Is felt In
le???er degree, but thera is no going b?
hind the oilicial bulletins.
There were reports that the Mayor's
temperature had increased slighty during
the afternoon, but no bulletin to this ef
fect was issued. On the contrary, bis
physicians maintain their hopeful atti
tude. Reports that his pulse was Weaker
also'found no official confirmation.
COLLAR STAY CAUSES FIRE.
Celluloid Explodes in Laundry, Re
sulting in a Loss of $90,000.
Portland. Ore. j Special).?The little
device utilized by woman to hold tip their
lace oollars?a piece of celluloid about
two ineheH long And a quarter of an
inch wide, worffl live cents the half
dozen?cost the United States Laundry
Company a Are loss of S'JO.UUO, and im
perilled 200 laundry workers.
Tho collar stay had been left in a
woman's waist which, with hundreds of
similar garments, hud been placed in
the dry room in the haseirent. The waist
was hung clone to the superheated pipe*
that lined the room. Suddenly the cellu
loid exploded and the room was instantly
in flames.
Two hundred panic-stricken jHrls re
fused to descend the smoke-filled stair
way. Firemen, finally by sheer strength,
drove them down the stairways to the
street. Five minutes after the last one
had been rescued, the entire building was
in flamoB.
375 FEET TO DEATH.
Hundreds See Demented Sailor Leap
From High Tower.
Detroit, Mich. .(Special).?A Detroit
Journal special from Hault Ste. Marie,
Mich., says: Ililcy Johnson, a demented
sailor, committed suicide by jumping
from a 375-foot tower of a wireles* tele
phone company here while hundreds of
spectators were powerless to prevent tho
traaredy.
Tho sailor threatened to jump on any
policeman who attempted to follow him
and defied the ollicers to shoot. John
son's homo is believed to be in Chicago.
He had a lake seaman's card from Union,
No. 1503.
87,000 Enlisted Army.
Washington, I). C. (Special).?Tho en
listed strength of the Army during the
present fiscal year has boon fixed ap
proximately at 87,000 men, under the ar
rangement of the estimates by Major Gen
eral I^eonard Wood, chief of staff, and ap
proved by President Taft. General
Wood's plan is to use the army appro
priation for soldiers and materials and
make reductions in other direction*. The
new chief of staff wants an army Jlf fight
ing mon equipped for business and says
lie is willing to make sacrifices in other
ways to obtain It.
Murder and Suicide.
Kansas City, Mo. (Special).?William
Davis, 50 years old, a wealthy farmer of
Braymcr, shot and killed his brother-in
law's widow, Mrs. Nattie O'Dell, in a
rooming house here and then killed him
self. Davis leaves a widow and a son in
Braymcr. Mrs. O'Dell was 39 years old.
Davis shot Mrs. O'Dell five times.
< r
Three Boy* Killed by Train.
Emlenton, Pa. (Special).?Leo Rapp,
aged 13; Walter Sloan, aged 10, and
Kmile Jacobs, aged 11, wore killed when
a train on the Allegheny Valley Division
of tho Pennsylvania Railroad struck a
horse and wagon in which they were
riding Rapp's body was tossod a hun
dred feet from the track.
Former Congressman Bound Dead.
Milton, Pa. (Special). ? Franklin
Bound, who was a member of the Forty
! ninth and Fiftioth Congresses, diod here,
aged 81 years. He was a delegate to the
State Convention which nominated
Andrew G. Curtin for governor and a
delegate to the National Convention
which nominated Grant for President.
Hayes' Birthplace Gone.
Delaware, O. (Special).?The birth
place of Rutherford B. Hayea, nineteenth
President of the United States, was de
stroyed by Are. It was a two-story briek,
and was 100 years old. It was owned by
W. C. Dlven, candy manufacturer. The
blaae was oaused 'by a defective flue.
Aeroplanes for Signal Corps.
4 Washington, D. C. (Speeial).?Provi
sion (or several aeroplanes for the Army
may be made in the estimates to be pre
sented to the next session of Congress.
Tbf efttmstee are wow beta* prepared
and an effort will be made to keep them
down to last year's figures. If it is pos
sible without reducing any of the eeti
"SE "treTdy
mental purpose., which will mean that
tw.? poeaibly three aeroplanes will be
MIdw for*
MANY NEW QOVEKNORS.
Largeat Number Ever Chosen at One
Time?Four Election* Before Fall.
Washington, 1). C. (Special) .-?At the
coming fall elections more States will
elect governor* than ever before in the
history of tlu: Union. Fur tlu> iimt tiun:
Oregon in to join the lint nf Common
wealths electing their executive* In No
vember. Heretofore the Oregon State
election has h?cn held in June.
A total of 30 governor# are to he elect
ed this fall. 'Inirty-two will be voted
for at the general elections in November.
Three States?Vermont, Maine un?l
Arkansas? will vot'e for governor ne.it
month, and '(ieorjfla wilt cle.t its e\ecu
tive in October.
The guherniitorial contest* in some of
the State* arc of a more than ordinarily
interesting character. The elections in
other* will he of a purely perfunctory
character, the election of tlte Kcpuhlican
or the Democratic candidate, as the cam1
may Ik?, hein$( a foregone conclusion. So
cialiats and I'rohihitioniat* will have can
didates for governor in a nfajoritv of the
States, and in some of them they, ?rv
cxpectcd to poll a considerable vote,
HARVARD MAN IN I
A LOVE TRAGEDY
Finds Young Woman Ho Loved
Engaged to Another.
Gamaliel Bradford, Third Descendant
of First Governor of Plymouth Col
ony and Brilliant Student, Pleads in
Vain to Girl to Forsake Another
and Marry Him
fioutli Framinghnin, Ma.ss. (Special).?
With a copy of Hvron's poems beside him,
Gamaliel Bradford, Third, of Wcllesley
Hills, direct descendant of VVilliiun Brad
ford, first governor of the Plymouth Col
ony, and a member of the graduating
class of 15)10 at Harvard, shot' himself
to death at a local hotel, because the
girl he loved and who is engaged to an
other, had refused him. Bradford was
23 yearn <uu' l'u> course of his young
passion broke the stern barrier of long
generations of Puritan repression when
he begged the yoling woman lie loved to
break her engagement to another man.
His pleadings were made at the railroad
station here, and, concealing his agitation
at the young lady's refusal, Bradford
walked directly to a nearby hotel, en
gaged a room and, saying he was tired,
locked himself inr1 Within half an hour
four shots were heard. When hotel em
ployes broke down the door of the young
man's room he was found lying on the
lloor unconscious from a wound in his
head. The other three shots, Are wildly,
left their marks about the apartment.
News of the shooting reached the young
woman who had rejected him and she
fainted. But Upon recovery she begged
to go to Bradford's bedside at the hos
pital. where he was taken, and there she
remained until he died, a few hours later,
unconscious to the end.
Gamaliel Bradford second, the youth's
father, and a widely-known author, said
his son had long brooded over his love
affairs and the family had. feared such
a result.
HEIM'S TERRIBLE FALL.
The Aeroplane Drops 225 Feet at
Johannisthal.
Johannisthal, Germany (Special).?
The aeroplanist Hcim met with a serious
accident at the aviation meet her**.'
While Hying at a height of about 223
feet in a Wright machine one of the pro
pellers broke. The other continued to
run, causing the craft to turn over sev
eral times. It fell and was completely
demolished. Heim was carried pff the
lleld unconscious. Later he regained con
sciousness, but his injuries are considered
very grave.
AT THK NATIONAL CAPITAL
Major William R. Logan, supervisor of
industries of the Indian Service, and
superintendent of the Fort Belknapp In
dian Reservation, in Montana, has been
appointed supervisor in charge of the
construction of roads and trails in the
Glacier National Park, in Montana.
The'' United States Civil Service Com
mission has decided to localize appoint
ments outside of Washington by giving
them over to district secretaries.
Complaint has been filed with the In
terstate Commerce Commission that
charges by the Pullman Company for
upper berths ore excessive.
General Wood, chief of staff of the
Array, has directed a battalion of the
Fourteenth Infantry to go to Missoula,
Mont., to help in fighting forest fires on
the Flathead Indian Reservation.
Bituminous coal miners of tho middle
West live under letter conditions than
do the men engaged in the same industry
in Pennsylvania, according to the Na
tional Immigration Commission.
The Navy Department is to investigate
the sinking of the naval collier Mnrcellusij
which was in collision with the Nor
wegian fruit steamer Rosario di Giorgio
off Cape Hatteras.
Mrs. Judith Kllon llorton Foster, the
noted temperance lecturer and writer,
died in Garfield Hospital after an opera
tion.
The population of New Haven, Conn.J
according to the Census Bureau, is
133.603.
Four hundred and thirteen transporta
tion companies are made defendants in ?
hearing IWore the Interstate Commerce ]
Commission, beginning August 15.
The announcement ia made thai thej
forest Area are now under control.
Six thousand and 75 acres of land from]
the National Forest, In Wyoming have
bean restored to the publlo domain.
There waa a decrease in the asporta
tion of every commodity exocpt corn, |
which showed Improvement.
Report comes from India that ^h? at
tempt to grow cotton on a large aeale
has resulted in failure.
The Bureau of Indian Affairs is con
sidering the admission of Indiana to
white schools.
.Members of the confenittee to tnapect
savings banke of the Bast have gone to
Philadelphia, New York and cities in the
Middle Weat.
FLYING MACHINE
MM TURTLE
Aviator Hrookins lMunges Iuto
Crowd of Spectators.
AIRSHIP WRECKED AND SEVEN INJURED.
Daring Bird-man. Who Molds the
Altitude Kecord, in Avoiding a
Throng of Spectators, Meets 4
Tricky Wind and Machine Turns
over Backward at Asbury Park.
Asbury Park, N. .). (Special).?A seri
ous mishap to Walter Biookins, in which
thy during Wright aviator wu* painfully,
but not dtnigerou-dy hurt, marred the
opening day of tho aviation meet heie,
Hrookins was dashed, stunned to tho
earth when tlw machine suddenly turned
turtle after lie hnd been lorwd to swerve
the airship suddenly to avoid crashing
into a prowd of ?>)m>c tutors. Seven other
persons among whom the machines
tumbled were more or less seriously in
jured,
Hrookins is the aviator who on .Tulv
!> elimlwd to tlie record height of 0,'27ft
feet at Atlantic Cltr and then coasted
safejy to the earth with his power shut
otf.
Hrookins was pinned under the wreck
age, and was only half consoimi* wlwn
friend* reached him. This started a re
port that he had been fatally injured.
An examination showed that his note was
broken and that he had been badly
bruised . and shaken up.
Tho mishap wn* witnessed by the large
crowd gathered for the meet and was
directly due to the thronging of specta
tor* out into tho held:?Itrookins in de
scending had no room to operote the
tnachiuc, and wim driven to make a sud
den turn to avoid crashing among the
watcher/. The tricky Wind caught the
machine and sent it spinning over back
ward. ' ?
In the faoo of 11 hl?h wind the aviator
had uiadu a successful short flight, circling
the field and then descended in a splendid
sweep. As lie neared the earth he <li>t
saw the crowd in the Held near the point
where he hnd intended to descend. To
avoid them he swerved the machine
sharply and found himself headed
straight for the grand?tnnd. Instantly
| he allowed the machine to drop, when it
turned turtle.
When Hrookins wns found beneath the
tangle of the torn plane fabric and splin
tered framework and wires he lay on the
soil of the aviation field with his face in
u jxiol of blood and his right hand still
grasping a steering lever. He was
thought to be dead as he was dragged out
of the wreck bv Chief of Police Sexton
ami Private Henrv Kruschkna, of the
Third Infantry, New Jersoy National
guard. While being carried into the hos
pital tent a few feet away, however, tho
aviator began to gronn, and, as Dr. Tay
lor, of the Asbury Park Free Dispensary,
leaned over him In the hospital tent,
Brookins asked weakly, "IIow did It hap
pen ?" ? -
Had tho aeroplane fallen 10 feet
further back In its flight it would have un
doubtedly crashed upon the grandstand
crowd nnd crushed many mew. women
and children, who a few r^pments beforo
were cheering the aviator. Ono could al
most reach out and touch the wreckage
from the front row of tho grandstand
seats.
LIVES WITH BROKEN NECK.
Lost an Inch of Spinal Column as Re
sult of Auto Smash.
Lawrence, Mass. (Special).?With nn
inch of hi? spinal column missing one of
his vertebra having been removed, by
surgeons when they believed it to be the
one chance in a thousand of saving his
life, Alexander Potter, of IJoston, bus
been discharged frorn^ the hospital. His
neck wits broken in an automobile acci
dent at North Heading, July 10. A com
panion in the accident, who at tho time
was thought to have been orfly slightly
injured, Walter C. Boardman, of North
Cambridge, died a few days after tlw
smash.
When he was released from the bos
filial, Potter was told that if he was caro
ul how he handled his head and ncak,
there was no reason why ho should ever
suffer any inconvenience by his missing
vertebra.
TARIFF'8 BANNER YEAR.
Revenue Was Greater by $75,000,000
Under Operation of New Measure.
Washington, D. C. (Special).?The first
full year of tho working of tho Payno
Aldrleh tariff law has ended with a total
of $20,214,028.09 to it* credit in the sur
plus of ordinary receipts. This is greater
oy almost $15,*000,000 than the ordinary
receipts of the ilscal year of 1007, whicli
was looked upon as the banner year in
the point of receipts, its total having ex
ceeded that of any other year by almost
$00,000,000.
It is therefore pointed out by Acting
Secretary of the Treasury Hillis in a
statement jiiBt issued that the Payne
Aldrleh law produced in its first full year
a revenue greater by $75,000,000 than the
sum collected in any other year in the life
of this government, excepting 1007.
Baseball in Heaven.
Mattapoisett, Mass. (Special).?"Base
ball in Heaven," was the subject of q
sormon preached Sunday by the Rev. C.
Julian Tuthill, pastor of the Congrega
tional Church. Ht said In part: "Hea
ven is but an evolution bf this world. A
Christian taay love a ball game and, lov
ing It, remfcin a Christian. Why, then,
is it not safe to prophesy that even tin
came of baseball will have its place in
aomo spiritual form in heaven
Snake Venom His Cure.
Pottsville, Pa. {"nrir'l r-!V I. J.
Mays, of Philadelphia, the physician who
ha* been sucoeeaful In the use of rattle
snake vendm in the treatment of tuber
culosleT.U Visiting in Pottsville. tlw guest
of the Rev. J. H. Umbenhen. He inform
ed members of the Schuylkill Countv So
ciety for the Prevention of Tuberculosis
that hi* new treatments, together with
open air ?d modern sanitary Methods,
employed at howy were destined to re
duce phthisis fully .50 per oent. wlthii
the next docadt. i. v
IN OLD SOUTH CAROLINA |
dream of tbe News (lathered From
All Sections of the Commonwealth
Tor Our Many Readers.
The River aud Harbor Projects.
Tilt* I'nited States enj^imor's de
partnvent a>t Charleston is u busy
place these days w:th the prelum*
ikuv work iff Ilu? various river and
Harlx>r projects wliCeh were provi
ded for at the hvs.t se;<sion of the
Congress and in whie.h there i.<
much general interest over the ftiatee
and whoso ?mu-eessful pnwsoiMition is
now an issue in the election of hohw
of I lit* < onu ro,>.*men with tilvo drafts
men, printer* and elerks busy,
there will Im> even busier times when
the prtsli mi nary examinations will
have been held whiieh are tfoiioiully
lixed for August Ml) and towards this
end the oiiyiueur's department is
now addrc&*ing eireular letters' to
Virion* poiytm-a wJ?o may In* thought
to Ih? in a |H>siti<wi to furnish infor
uiutitKi regarding theso projects ami
desired by the Kov*rnm<Mil for <lh?
tlnal del enn in at ion of the question
of th-f'ir pivsecution.
Hundreds of them? eireular* wore
untiled to various plaees, covering
work on tbe following pi\?'i>ocM*i pro
jects :
1. Charle*lon harbor, with view of
?ocurinx a depth of .'10 feet.
2. Waterways from Ortmgebuiy to
Charleston, in-eluding eut-ot? or ca
nal from the Edisto river to tin
Ashlev river, with a view to provide
a uu>re direct route between said
eitiea *than that afforded by existing
channels.
.'1. Waterways from Columbia and
Camden to <Mutrleston, including eut
olT or canal from the Kunteo river by
anv exiting or proposes] route to the
(*o<>|M*r river or Wando river and any
ef their 'tribu\?ne<s between said
ciliies ?han that afforded by existing
waterways.
4. ?So?vti'.i Fork KdisSo river to
Gittjrnard "s kvnding.
5. Croat l'ee Dee river at (Jib.son,
W'itli a view to aid navigation.
0. Salkecha<tcliie river to Morris
crossing.
7. A roller 's eraek.
The eireular letters in every ease
in rile a full presentation of views
for the pro|x>sed projects, to be giv
i en in w riting on or before Aug. 30.
President Will Sail From Charleston
lit seems to he settled Hint the
T\.?ident will s*;il from Charleston in
November on his trip fro Panama, It
is likely the President will sail On
one of the armored cruisers of t.lie
' Atlantic fleet end perhaps a second
cruiser will be eent along as a convoy
and for use in case of emergency.
South Carolina Summer Capital.
For (the next three weeks Green
ville will be th<?. summer capital erf
South Carolina. Governor Ansel is
there for his vacation and State af
fairs will ho directed 'from the Har
ris residence on Pendleton street.
Reduction on Lumber Rates.
Tha/rate on lumber over the prin
cijval railroad' lines of t.he State woe
reduced by 30 per cent for all hauls
as a result of a circular issued by the
Railroad Commission. Thcro is a
much urealer reduction for short
?hauls. This means a saving orf many
thousands of dollars annually for the
lumber dialers of the State. The
rate is applicable on the Southern
railway, Blue Ridge, A-tlantic Caro
lina, Seaboard Air Line, Columbia,
Newberry & Laurens road and the
Chesterfield & Lancaster. These
roads operate about 80 |>er cent of
tho mileage of the State. The new
rate is on car-load lots of 24,000
pounds and the ratu breaks every
live miles, up tolOO miles. The new
rate becomes effeotivo Sept. 20 of
ibis year.
Railroad, Telephone and Telegraph
At the meeting of the State Board
of Assessors at Columbia Tuesday
they will consider assessment* on rail
road property, telegraph and tele
phono companies, palace cars arid
street railways. The board consists
of the following: The Comptroller
General, the Attorney General, the
Secretary of State, the State Treas
urer and the chairman of the Itail
road Commission of this State
Shrinera Preparing for Big Time.
T.he Shliners say 1,000 of their
nobles will attend the presentation
of Hen Hur on a spectacular scale,
which is being arranged by the Shri
ll ers at the Columbia theatre Nov.'
24 as the Iwg feature of the Shriner's
convention Nov. 21-24.
A committee consisting orf C. ""B.
Simmons, of .Oelnmbia, on behalf of
the Sbriners; Manager Fit7. Hugfa
Lee Brown, of the Columbia theatre*
and Secretary A. MeP. Hamby, of
the Columbia chamber of commerce,
is at work to secure from the rail
roads a flat rate for the occasion like
that which is extended for the State
fair.
Passed Old R. K. Ticket for $6.
Hubbard Bums, oolored, is in jail
at Anderson in default of bond for
hie appearance to answer to a charge
of obtaining money by falsa pretense.
He is charged with passing an old C.,
.0. and G Railroad tick**, heart rig
date 1873, on another negro, for a $5'
bill, getting change in salver. Tha
owner of tb* naUrtrisd to pay
for a lunch at a restaurant with tha
"paper" and this float lad to Bum's
arrest. Bums has tha appearance of
being a pretty shrewd negro ?
HXHasbinQton
Uniforming Uncle Ham's Sghtlac
men la again a question of dtscussLon
between the quartermaster K*nml'?
department und the Infantry commit*
tee of the general
Uniform** for staff, which has mad*
Fighting Men. some retemmradtr
tlone for chanxw la
the equlpifiont. Whether the man be
hind the K?n ahull have a pea Jacket
ImHt cud of a long tailed overcoat to
flop about bis legs aa he marches,,
w hot her ho uhall enjoy the negtlgeo
comfortH of a uweater instead of car
rying several coats and whether Ike
Khali have a pair of slippers to go
with hlu pipe when he takes b!s avea*
Iiik rest in barracks, are all questions
uimettled. The general staff wpmts to
equip the soldier for comfort and ear
vice. The quartermaster general's
department wants to keep down tho
coat. It also was recommended that
the soldier have a neckerchief to
when he tramps over dusty road*
der a blistering sun, hot that alao -mm
been objected to. But a pair of aUp
pers, of all things, officers of the In
fantry are determined he shall have.
Anything which redaces the likeli
hood of foot soreness, they say. Is off
utmoHt Importance. It Is holla***
that the fighting man will get aom* off
the comforts lor which his friends aro
contending.
Reduce the "life" of counterfeit
money one-half by educating the pub
lic to scrutinise more carefully the
papor and coin it handlea, la the slo
gan of the United State*
Scrutinize secret service* whom
Your. Money, report for tha fiscal
year became public.
Chief Wilkic announces a decreased
activity among criminals who make
the Imitation of currency and cola
their specialty. There la atlll trouble
in Bome districts oyer "raised" notes,
where the denominations of one and
two dollar bills are altered to giveths
appearance of tens or twenties* "The
greatest menace to the Integrity OC
the currency ever conceived, impor
tant ns a counterfeiting enterprise,
but really much more concerned with,
public safety/' is tbe way tha report
describes the operations of Igaasla
Lupo, Ouiseppe Morello aad others,
following whose arrest and convlctkm
niiu;k Hand crjmes among the NffW
York Italians decreased mora than TS
per cent. There were 316 arrssta by
the secret service agents during tha
fiscal year, or those arrested till
were born In the United States, SS tm
Italy, 13' In Ruasla and the rest scab*
tered. New York furnished most o!
the cases.
The new bronte doors for the ?Mt>
ern entrance of the capital ?l?eltM(
by Louia Amatels, a naturolited Ital
ian sculptor, hare arrived and wfS
soon replace the plait
New Door* wooden doors that hen*
for Capitol, been need for meaqr
year*. Tbey will <o?
plete the series and gtre to the eapttot
four entrance*, each closed vtth
heavy bronte doors.^ There_ are t?e
cf the door*, each nbuqi S im wide
and 13. feet high. Over them la *
bronze t/ansom, and the whole la hup*
rounded by an ornamental frame. In
the elaborate transom the sculptor
has Hummed up the Idea of the "Apo
theosis of America." The treason
panel represents America seated in m
chariot drawn by lions, typical of
strength, led by a child, atcnlfytas the
superiority of the intellectual OT0*
brute force. At the. sldea of the
riot are figures representing
tlon, architecture, literature, patefc
ing, music, sculpture, mining, com
merce and industry. At one aide of j
the transom panel stand Jefferson*
?\nd at the other Franklin.
The taking of candy from a baby
la atronuouH exercise com pit red to tha
Kontle art of aeparatlng the Amertcaa
tourist from hia money, according te
a report Just reeetvw*
Americana from H. D. Van
Mulcted. United Statea eoual
Dunfermline,
After citing aeveral InaUocw of enp
orbltant prices paid for "?iifftfir Itjf
Americana, Mr. Van But aajas
"Tourlata should not pwthaaa aa
tlquea of value without receiving the
advice or aervice of aome trathvartky
dealer or Judge of euch
Americana seem to be mor
duped in theae mattera than the
liah or French, notwithatanding
general reputation here of the 4
lean traveler for abrewdaeM
Judgment In driving bargains** rite
Van Sant aaya he ha^authentle ta
formatlon of the recent purchase by
a dealer near DuafcrsnUsd of *sk <m?
Dutch cabinet for a few ehllUag^
which waa placed on sale in aa an
tique atore and eold to aa BafiWi
earl for $1,400. Soon afterward
owner, becoming diaaatlafled viU
bargain, offered it la London, and It
waa eold to a wealthy Amerteaa toar
let for 94,886. The AmeHcaa cooewft
adds: "The cabinet wtie bought la
Culroaa in. thla district, from mm
elderly Scotch widow, who aper'rta
greta having parted with it at aw* *
low prlee. Several aaeh nablaete weva
recently offered near here for II la
?6." Another caae cited by Mr, Vaa
Sant ia that 6f aa Ajnarleaa official
abroad who bought a
table and aideboard for
that had beea bought for le
9S6 by the dealer with Ilia
purpoee of aelling It to the
official- ?
PaysTi^a.
" trailer o4
Iff A. JM t
v ^rBSniDKi0Hi
tips to #aIiera oi
expense to'^the g
ruling made by |hf
TS-eatury ft a receal
Dr. J. H. Romlg,
aiclan at Sew a
fable and room
auditing
the bill the -
Joy