The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, June 28, 1906, Image 3
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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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
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at noon Friday in the old Trondhjem
cathedral were anointed, blessed
and given Norway's crowns.