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YELLOW JACK CASE Appears in Louisiana and is Officially Reported. PATIENT IN QUARANTINE President Irions of State Board of Health Says There is no Fears of an Epidemic?First Case of the Year. One case of yellow fever was reported at the Mississippi river quarantine -station, 97 miles below New Orleans, Sunday. This is the first case cf yellow f-ever reported in Louisiana this year by the state board of health. The patient is a Cuban sailor, who arrived ax Quarantine on June 1-3 <?>n the -steamer Holstein from Havana. His temperature being above .norma], he was taken off the steamer .and detained for observations. Satur day night during an official visit of inspection of members of the state ''beard of health and the Louisiana legislature to the quarantine station, a consultation of physicians decided the case as yellow fever. The Kolvstein is still detained at quarantine, having been disinfected after the :sailor was taken off and ordered to lie at anchor for six days betore proceeding to New Orleans. No other cases of elevated temperature have yet appeared on the Holstein. Dr. C. H. Irion. president cf the state board of health, said to the inspecting party that he does net believe that yellow fever is endemic at "New Orleans or in Louisiana. He held that developments so far this ? year, in which no cases of yellow fever have been found by the boardIn the state except the one brought on the Holstein from Havana, indicates that the disease does not orig inate locally. j Ke said that so long as present quarantine regulations are maintained in Louisiana he believes there will -never "be another epidemic of yellow fever in New Orleans. At present five quarantine stations are operated by the state along the Gulf of Mexico coast * the existence of yellow fever at Rio Janeiro and also of two cases of fcubonic plague at that port, were reported to the state board by officers of the steamer Sallust, arriving Sunday. The Sallust was disinfected at . quarantine both for fever and bu. bonic plague, although none of the steamer's crew had been allowed ashore at Bio Janeiro. PRESIDENT GOES TO ISTHMUS. F'.zns a Trip of Inspection Some Time in the Fall. - ' '* President Roosevelt will visit tho Isthmus of Panama to make a personal investigation of the work of construction of the Panama canal. / This announces? ent was made at the white house late Saturday afternoon by Secretary Loeb, after a conference with the president The president will leave wasmugton for Panama the latter part of next October or in the early days of November. He will be absent about three weeks. Beyond the bare decision to make the trip, the president has reached practically no conclusion as to details. HURRAH TIME IN PANAMA 'Will Be Gorgeous Celebration of the Fourth on the Isthmus. A Washington dispatch says: Employees of the isthmian canal comOmissiop on the canal zone will have ; a regular old-fashioned Fourth of July celebration in Panama. Special excursions are to run to Panama for the accommodation of persons desiring to attend the exercises. Money * has been raised by popular subscription among the canal employees and sent to Washington for fireworks. Governor Magoon and other prominent men in the isthmus will make addresses and lend their assistance in making the day a memorable one. BLOODY BALL ROOM DUEL. Three Hundred Dancers See Two Young Men Kill Each Other. In the presence of three hundred persons at a masquerade ball at Talladega, Ala., Thursday night, Dud* ley Brown and Henry Knight fought " a pistol duel, in which both men were killed. A young woman was slightly injur- | ed by a stray shot in the ankle. Each man received four shots in the breast. Both men were well known and popular in Talladega, and thus far no explanation has been given for the cause of the tragedy. > SLOCUM GOES TO CONGO. Is First Official American Representative for That Country. Clarence Rice Slocum of New York, sou of the late General Slocum, has been selected to be the 5r.~t American representative in the Congo country, having been designated by the president to fill the newly created pest of ccnrul general at Boma, Congo Free State. His credentials will be directed t? King Leopold. LIKE A GROCERY STORE. Samples of Jellies, canned Peat and Tomatoes and Fake Booze Are Arrayed in the House. The space in front of the speaker's desk of the house resembled & small section of a corner grocery Thursday, with cereals, jams, jellies, tins of peas, tomatoes, corn, bottles of whiskey and wine, imported sausage and other edibles and drinkables scattered over two tables, and to complete the picture there were standard scales with weights, a graduate and funnel for the purpose of demonstrating the contention of the majority of the committee on interstate and foreign commerce, that a pure food bill is necessary for the protection of the people. The house went into committee of the whole for the consideration of the pure food bill, Mr. Mann begiu ning the discussion. Mr. Mann contrasted the features of the senate and house bills, remarking that it was not the aim of the house committee on interstate and foreign commerce to recommend legislation as to what the people should eat or drink, but to call attention to what they are eating or drinking. "Medicines now on the market advertised in the strongest terms to cure opium habit,' said Mr. Mann, "show on investigation enough opium to develop the opium habit." Most of the goods are not adulterated, according to Mr. Mlann, and since the pure food agitation, which began a number of years ago, there has been a decided reduction in adul+i?M+irtno "Vot" Via Rflid "evarv where the honest manufacturer or dealer goes, he is met my sharp and keen competition from adulterations or short weights." He read a letter from the GermanAmerican Extract Works, in which they told how to make all kinds of liquors. They were especially interested, he said, in their Old Tom Gin extracts, which give the exact taste of the original article. Then to stin further interest the house, he saiq, that this firm claims to make any kind of liquor out of lethal alcohol with no liquor in it Black pepper, he said, is a fruitful source of adulteration, the "filler" being sold in five-ton weights, according to a letter which Mr. Mfenn read. Pepper berries, he said, were made out of tapioca, colored with lampblack. "The coffee that we drink, Mocha and Java," said Mann, "is generally adulterated with Brazil coffee, and ground coffee with sawdust, and even bread crusts." Taking his position behind the ta- . bles, Mr. Mann began a rapid explanation of every article there. Taking up a bottle of bright colored cherries marked "Marischino cherries," he explained that the cherries had been picked green; that they were then bleached and colored with analine dye, and this bright colored bit of cloth, he said, "this cloth was dyed with the same dye. "What are these cherries for?" ask ed a member. "I understand they are used one at a time in a etell known drink," replied 'Mr. Mann, amid laughter. Some of the menibers recognized the cocktail which goes with the cherry. Holding up ? hotel? with a light colored liquid in it, MJ*. Mann said it was honey, "yet it never saw a hive, much less a comb. It is fresh from the glucose factory." Freezin, he said, was a powder sold to preserve meat like oold storage. He admitted that it might keep meats from spoiling, but that it was most injurious to health, being composed of sulphate of soda and red coal tar dye. A flne grade of olive oil used by the Union League Club of Philadelphia turned out to be cotton seed oil, with an adulterant Taking up the subject of canned tomatoes, Mr. Mann held up three cans, each being of different weight, and yet all bought for three pounds. "The department stores of New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and Washington and the mail order houses sell the short weight cans," said Mr. Mann, which was received with applause. ONE U'NIC1^ LABEL FOR ALL. Universal Emblem for Labor Hosts Is Suggested. The executive council of the Ameiican Federation of Labor adjourned at Washington after considering all questions left over. The subject cf a universal label tor the various international unions "a as taken up. a d-rt f nrunners has authority to | ricoiutui ^A _ sound the attitude of the unions and to report the result to the executive council for action at the next general convention. SENATE DEPLORES BUTCHERIES Sends Resolution of Sympathy to the Persecuted Jews in Russia. The senate Friday adopted the following joint resolution: "That the people of the United States are horrified by the reports of the massacre of Hebrews in .Russia on acoount of their race and religion and that those bereaved thereby have the hearty sympathy of the people of this countfy." '' - yr J REBATERS FINE? Sentence Imposed on Seven Defendants in Kansas City. TWO SLATED FOR PRISON Swift, Cudahy, Armour and Morria Are Each Assessed $15,000, . While Burlington. Road Must Also Pay $15,000 In the United States district court at Kansas City Friday, Judge Smith McPherson of Red Oak, Iowa, passed sentence on the seven defendants renantlv nmruipt-Pri in thin f?nurt nf malr. ing concessions and accepting and conspiring to accept rebates on shipments. Judgments in the nature of fines were assessed as follows: Swift & Co., $15,000. Cudahy Packing Company, $15,000. The Armour Packing Company, $15,000. Nelson Mtorris & Ox, $15,000. Chicago, Burlington and Qulncy railway, $15,000. George L. Thomas of New York was fined $6,000 and sentenced to four months in the penitentiary. h. B. Taggart of New York was fined $4,0(00 and sentenced to three months in the penitentiary. The fine of $15,000 assessed against the Burlington covered all four counts, the aggregate amount of the fines in the seven cases totaling $85,000. Appeals were filed in each case and a stay of execution was granted until June 29, until they could be perfected. The bonds in the case of Thomas and Taggart were fixed at $6,000 each. These two men appeared i? court personally, and, upon being sentenced, promptly furnished the required bond. The bonds in the case of the packing companies and the Burlington were fixed at $15,000 each. The sentence was passed in the various cases, after which motions for new trials were made by John C. Cowan of Omaha and Frank Hagarman of Kansas City, for the packers, and by Judge O. M. Spencer of St. Joseph upon behalf of the Bur. lington railroad and Thomas and Taggart. All these motions were overruled. The indictments on which the various defendants were tried were returned in Kansas City by the grand jury on December 13, 1905. Ceorge 1* Thomas of 'Nfew York city, a freight broker, and his chief clerk, L. B. Taggart, whose case wa3 the first to be tried, were convictsd of securing rebates from railways on shipments from 'St Louis to Kansas City dry goods firms. In this trial several merchants testified to having received various suras of money from mysterious sources. Several thousand dollars were thus received, and several witnesses admitted the likelihood of its having come from Thomas. This penalty provided is a fine of not less than $1,000 and ,not more than $10,000, or imprisonment for not more than two years, or both. GEORGIA FEDERATION OF LABOR Elects New Officers and Passes Soma Important Resolutions. The Georgia State Federation of Labor, in session at Augusta, passed resolutions JYiday demanding that the union label be exacted on all baseball tickets and declared unfair to organized labor the American Bell Telephone company. D. P. O'Oonnell was elected president and Savannah was chosen as the next place of meeting. Among the other officers are J. R. Bri dwell, Atlanta, second vice president, and W. C. Puckett, Atlanta, secretary and treasurer. The resolution to make W&lliam R. Hearst a life member of the organisation was voted down. The body passed the anti-Estiil resolution, the beer bottle labels reso-1 lution and the resolution in favor of the child labor bill. OIL COMBINE IS LISTED For Prosecution by Government Under Elkins Law. The formal announcement of tbe purpose of the government to prosecute the Standard Oil company, was j made public in Washington Friday by Attorney General Moody. It appears from his statement that the proceedings in the first instance will be had under the Elkins law, which ' prohibits rebates in interstate commerce. The attorney general, ncwever, gives notice that should the in vestigation justny u, ue ?"uo further action under the Sherman anti-trust law. SOUTHERN TO MAKE CHANGES. Big Shake-Up in Transportation Department Said to Be planned. It is stated that a big shake-up will be made in the next week or two in the transportation department of the Southern railway. The system will be divided into four districts, instead of two as at present, and an assistant general superintendent wiH be in charge of each. ' / AN UPPER I EN TRAGEDY. Harry Thaw Kills Architect White in Crowded Concert Hall in New York?Woman in the Case. Stanford White, of McKim, Mead & White, a firm of architects, was shot Monday night and almost instantly killed by Harry Thaw, a prominent member of the Pittsburg family, during the performance of the musical extravaganza, "Mamselle Champagne," on the roof of the Madison Square Garden, in New York. Mr. White died before an ambulance could be summoned and Thaw was arrested im mediately after the shooting. White was accompanied by Mrs. Thaw at the time of the shooting. The Madison Square roof garden which has been closed for several years, was crowded with a fashionable audience. While a comedian was sihging a comic song and the garden was echoing with the laughter and applause, a series of shots rang out in the rear of the auditorium and a man in evening dress was seen to fall across a table at which.he was sitting with a party of friends. The man who had fired the shots fled, pistol in hand, towards the nearest exit, where he was seized and disarmed by police. Instantly the great audience was J thrown into a panic and a wild stampede occurred during which chairs and tables were overturned and men and women fought with desperation to escape from the roof. The man who was shot was quickly identified as Mr. White, but his assailant was not positively known to be Thaw until after he had been taaei* to the station house. The first intimation of trouble came rrrhon -waHnTiEr in front of his seated victim, the man exclaimed: "You've deserved this. You've ruined my home," and drawing an automatic pistol fired three shots. The first two took effect, but as the third was discharged the pistd was struck up by a fireman on duty in the the- I ater, and the bullet went skyward., A woman who sprang to her feet and rushed up to Thaw, who was struggling with the fireman, threw her arms about his neck, exclaiming: "I'll stand by you." She was identified as Mrs. Thaw, who before her marriage was Evelyn Nesbitt. The assailant was taken to the West Thirteenth street police station, where he described himself as Jfin Smith, a student of No. 180 Lafayette place, Washington, D. C., but the police, on searching him, found cards and letters addressed to Harry Thaw of Pittsburg and later his identity | was fully established. Evelyn Nesbitt's marriage with ! Thaw for a time estranged the lat- | ter from his family. Thaw handed the policeman who arrested him $10, and asked him to notify Andrew Carnegie that he was ill uuuuic. ICE MEN GET COLD DEAL. ?? Five Members of Trust in Toledo, 0., j Heavily Fined. In the common pleas court at Toledo, O., Monday, Judge Kinkade im- ; posed the maximum sentence of $5,000 fine and one year imprisonment in the work house on five ice manufacturers found guilty of conspiracy in restraint of trade. The men were indicted for combining to restrain trade, in violation of the Valentine law. Under the pretext that the ice supply was much smaller than in recent years, these dealers combined and advanced the price from 50 to 100' per cent. The sentence is the maximum under the law. If they would escape any part of it, they mut pay back to customers all over-charges and must agree to sell ice at the price nrior to forming the combination. FLAMES DESTROY MINING TOWNS Forest Fires in Texas Counties Doing Great Damage. A special from iEl Paso, Texas, says: Forest fires are burning in the lumber tracts near Magadalena, Senora, and the town is threatened. It is reported several mining towns have been destroyed. The region is thick with American miners! PLACE LOST TO GEORGIA. North Carolinian to Fill Vacancy Caused by Death of Lester. Georgia will not be represented any longer on the committee on rivers and harbors. The Georgia delegation requested Representative Williams, the democratic leader, to ask the speaker to name a Georgian for the caused in this committee by the death of Representative Lester. Mr. Williams replied that he would be pleased to carry out their wishes, but that he was already pledged to a North Carolina member, Mr. Small. ALABAMA BOY WINS PRIZE. Nathaniel Stern Carries Off Double Honors at Yale. At the Yale commencement exercises Monday the winners of the honors were announced as follows: I Retts prize, N. P. Stern, Anniston, Ala.; honors, C. M. Laude, Matts Walton, Lexington, Ky., and Norman Weil, Baltimore, Md. First year honor, Nathaniel P. -Stern of Anniston, Ala. f SETTLED AT LAST Senate Follows House in Voting Lock Type of Canal. PRESIDENT IS PLEASED Orders to Begin Digging Great Ditch in Earnest Will Be Issued In. stanter ? Vote Was a Decisive One. A Washington special says: The senate Thursday took a position in accord with the president ana the house of representatives by declaring for a lock canal across the isthmus of Panama. The result was reached a few minutes after three o'clock and, after a day's discussion, that was almost devoid of interesting incident? quite out cf keeping with the universally acknowledged importance of the subject There was only one recorded vote in connection with the disposition of the question, and that was negative in character, coming on a motion to lay on the table the lock type substitute for the sea level bill reported by the committee on interoceanic canals. This motion was made by Senator Kittredge, the committee champion of the sea level plan, and was voted down, 31 to 36. This vote was accepted as decisive, and no one asked for a division on the vote on the acceptance of the substitute, which read as follows: "That a lock canal be constructed across the isthmus of Panama connecting the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans of general type proposed by the minority of the board of consulting engineers, created by order of the president, dated June 24, 130o, in pursuance of an act entitled I 'an act to provide for the construe tioa of a canal connecting th? waters of the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans,' approved June 28, 1902." The vote is generally accepted as ending a long oonteet and definitely settling the tyro of the great waterway by which the two oceans are to be united. It terminates what at one time threatened to become a sharp difference between the senate on the one hand and the president and the house on the other, for there is no denying that when the hill was reported from committee the indications fn the senate were all favorable to the sea level type. There has recently, however, been a steady gain by the lock advocates, notwithstanding the ieport of the canal committee as well as the report of the hoard of consulting engineers were against them. The engineers' report has figured prominently in the discussion, and frequent attention had been called to the fact that, while eight out of the thirteen engineers reported favorably to a sea level car nal, all of the five dissenters were American engineers, while the other eight were Europeans, some senators avowed the^r preference for the allAmerican report. The president expressed his great gratification at the action of the senate in supporting his plan for the construction of a lock canal.. He has been convinced for several days that the lock type of canal would be adopted by the senate, on its final vote, notwithstanding the report of the majority of interoceanic canal committee in favor of a sea level waterway. The president regards the vote ofx the house and senate on the lock type of canal as a vote of confidence. Orders will be issued in a few days to press the work as rapidly as possible, and it is announced that be fore the summer Is far advanced as many men and as much machinery as can be profitably employed will be engaged in making the dirt fly on the canal route. .: Secretary Taft and Chairman Shonts are also greatly pleased at | the outcome of the struggle in the senate. For the past two weeks, they have been exerting all or their influence with individual senators to i get them to favor the lock type of canal. WIFE MURDERER COONFESSE8. Infatuated With Another Woman, Brash Made Way With Spouse. Charged with the murder of his wife and haying made a complete confession of his crime to the police, William Brash of Rochester, N. Y., was arrested in Cleveland, Ohio, Friday. With Brash was arrested Mrs. Mary Gilmore, with whom he is alleged :o have eloped. The body of Brash's wife was found In the canal a tRochester several days ago, and suspicion was at once turned x- r? 1?Kr.-r.ri whf? had disaDDeared. CO CICI" UUOuauu, ~w ^ THAT CU3AN CONFLAGRATION. Exaggerated Emanated from Two Sw.a.'j 3 lazes. A spaeisl ni Havaaa says: An investijr:.t en ? : th* :epor: from New Orleans Cvt G.rm > i Grande, Santa I Clara provirro. has been burned, I shows that :'.:o town recently had | two Mres. In rre case the railroad I sta*ion v/as devrrcyed, and in the ether tour ct-wes were burned. I ' ' v * - \ . v s ^38 M PURE FOOD BtLL PASSED. House Has Lively Time Over So?all> * cd "Package" Amendment?.Fake Booze Also in the Limelight. After an hour spent in the consideration oi privileged reports, the house Saturday resumed the consideration of the pure food bill. Everything was smooth sailing until the so-called "package amendment" was reached. J Mr. Mann of Illinois, in charge of the bill, offered the oommittee amendment, heretofore printed, that the tin)8 the package was put up muft be on /lAflfninnv to! fV* thd VUC WUtOiUVi, WgVWMVi TT AVU 1UV weight or measure, on the outside of the package. A dozen members were on their feet immediately after the reading of the amendment. Mr. Sherman of New York offered an amendment in substance striking out the time provision. Mr. Sherman said that under the penalty provided , the weight and measure, if stated, -^ must be oorrectely stated, which,# he argued, was very difficult. He said that this was a most serious question, involving, as it did, vast inte> ;|| ests, and it should not he hastily considered. Mr. Mann responded to this and other speeches opposing the committee amendment, giving the house an- | other "demonstration" from behind i J| his Improvised grocery counter cf some of the ways of packers and can- t ners. The Sherman amendment was voted down. Then the friends of 'straight" whis- . ^ key were routed by the friends of the rectifiers by a vote of 34 to 76, -J; defeating an amendment by Mt. Richardson of Alabama in behalf of the makers of "straight" whiskey. Mr. Sherley of Kentucky In behalf .1 of the rectifiers held the close at- '-M tention of the house, as he explained : the contention of the two whiskey ^ camps, the distillers and the rectiflers. Among other things, he said: "Now what makes the pufity of whiskey and hew is Jt made? Whis- -a hey may be made out of corn,1 rye, Vyi barlej or various other grains. Irs quality depends upon the quality of. 't || the grain, the quality of the yeast,' '*|| the cleanliness of the mash tubs and k the proper distillation.- There Is not one line of the internal revenue law that looks to an inspection of. the . sjg grain to see whether It Is a pure J M grain or a musty grain; there is not a line to say that when the whiskey is distilled It Is properly distilled, ;|| so as to get rid of the first run or ' '.li the last run, or which contains the ^ worst elements in whiskey." The speech of Sherley brought Mr. M Stanley of Kentucky into the arena in *Jg front of the speaker's wesk to demonstrnte how the "blender" makes .Ji "blended" whiskey. He said he had no objection to anybody blending two -fa kinds of whiskey, but he did object , to making whiskey while you wait. jgg Then, taking a bottle from the. table, he poured it into a graduate and saJd: - Jm "Here is a quart of alcohol, 100 ^ .proof strong. It will eat the inte*. tines out of a coyote. It will make /I a howling dervish out of an anchorite. It will make a rabbit spit in a bull-dog's face. It is pure alcohol > }?? and under the skill of the rectifier ;;r|| he will put in a little coloring mat- >:M ter and then a little bead oil (illus- V-j tratlng), I drop that in It. Then I get a little essence of bourbon whis- ^ key and there is not a connoisseur j in this house who can tell the hellish v -j! business from ;the genuine article, i and that is what I denounce. (Ap- -J plause.) I say that the coloring matter is not harmful; I say that, the /-j $1 caramels are not harmful, but I say that the body stock of the whiskey I made is rank alcohol and when it gets into a man it is pure hell." (Applause.) The vote was then taken on' the v amendment of Mr. Richardson, and it was defeated. A number of other amendment! .?< v..* +V10 main were ? were oirerea, out m defeated. The amendment adopted was merely a change In the verbiage. The committee then arose and ibe bill was passed by a vote of 242 to PACKING CONCERN SHUTS DOWN | One of Cudahy's Biggest Plants Quits Business Indefinitely. The Louisville Packing company, . SB said to be the largest plant owned by the Cudahy Packing company of Chicago, was* closed for an indefinite period Saturday. The j)lant was es- 1 tablished in 1892, employed about 350 men, and had an annual output of 10,000 sheep, 20,000 cattle, and 300, - - ..?j| 000 nogs. , ? The reasons given for closing down were "newspaper mud-slinging jaad' , ,! adverse legislation." NORWAY'S RULERS CROWNED. U?. King Haakon and Queen Maude Are Duly Installed. "With a ceremony modified from the old Norse forms to meet the modern democratic Spirit of the country . King Haakon YII and Queen Maude - ' -S at noon Friday in the old Trondhjem cathedral were anointed, blessed and given Norway's crowns.