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America's Natal Day Was
Prolific in Fatal Accidents.
THE USUAL LONG LIST
Thirty-Seven Met Death, While 2,153
Were Burned or Maimed?List of
Dead Four More Than That
of Last Year.
* The Chicago Tribune in Friday's issue
says: Thirty-seven men, w^men
and children are dead and 2,153 are
maimed, lacerated or bruised as a result
~ of Thursday's excess of patriotism in
the United States. The number of dead
5* does not include five drowned during
the day.
The roster of the dead is four more
than last year's mortality. A year
ago thirty-three persons were dead on
the morning after the fourth, including
five drowned.
Unfortunately the death roll will Increase
day by day, and even the late
days of August will witness additions
to it Tetanus (lockjaw), that grim
aftermath of gunpowder wounds,
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ita vtotime hv RnorpQ and even
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by hundreds for weeks after the fourth
New York leads all cities of the
United States in the number of killed,
and injured. Ten persons are dead in
that city, while six or more are so seriously
hurt that it is expected they
will die within a few hours. At the
New York hospitals 423 were treated.
No record was made of the number of
dispensary cases cared for.
The police no doubt averted a greater
casualty list by arresting 428 men
and boys for carrying weapons.
There were 116 fires in Greater New
York during the day. These figures
break all fourth of July records for
the big metropolis.
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if second in the grim race, nine per*
sons yielding up their lives on the
altar of frenzied patriotism.
- Chicago, although the second city
> of the country, added only two dead
to the nation's total.
Springfield, III, supplied tnree victims:
Chatham, Ills., two, and Aberdeen,
S. Dak., two. No other town or
city in the country gave up more than
one of its own to death.
The total number of injured, 2,153;
is under last year's figures, which
were 2,789.
The figures show that this year, as
last year, the most of the casualties
were due to carelessness in handling
firecrackers and other forms of harmless
explosives.
Victims of gunpowder s:and second
crease from last year's figures,
in number, but show a marked de"v
T^he crusade against the deadly toy
pistol seems to be bearing fruit, as
this year only 205 victims were reported,
as against 304 last year.
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BANK TELLER IS NABBED.
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Runyan, Who Stole $54,4.10, Flushed
in a Boarding House.
Chester B. Runyan, the defaulting
teller of the Windsor Tru3t company,
was arrested in New York Friday, and
$54 ,410 of the money stolen from the
bank was recovered.
Rnnvan was found in an anarrmf>nt.
where he had been since he walked out
of the bank on Saturday with all the
money in the teller's vault packed in
his suit case.
BARR IN FULL C5-*\RGE.
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Erstwhile Railroad Man at Helm of
Jamestown Exposition.
The board of directors of the Jamestown
Exposition company, at a meeting
in Norfolk Friday night, adopted
the report of the conference committee
formally electing James M. Barr
as director general of the exposition.
^ Mr. Barr is given absolute power in
the direction of the show.
SIX DAGOES HALED TO COURT.
Murderers of Kidnaped Boy Taken to
Hahnville, La., for Trial.
Surrounded by police officers and
special deputies, six Italians, four men
and two women who have been held
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in uie parisn prison xn xncw v^xicctus,
in connection with the kidnaping and
murder of eight-year-old Walter Lamana,
were placed aboard a train on
Wednesday and taken to Hahnville, the
"seat of St. Charles parish, to be arraigned
on the charge of conspiracy
to murder, for which they were all
indicted several days ago.
THREE CHILDREN CREMATED.
Burgairs Set Fire to Looted Store* and
4 Holocaust Resuts.
Fire started by burglars who -looted
a small grocery store in Houston early
Tuesday caused the death of three
children' of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Prages,
who conducted the store and
whose family occupied the upper floor
of the building. ,
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CHALLENGED BY TILLMAN
Senator Do!liver of Iowa Rouses Ire of
South Carolinian and is Asked to
Fight a Duel.
Angered because Senator Dolliver
took exceptions to his views on the
race question, Senator Benjamin Ryan
Tillman of South Carolina, who delivered
an address in Jackson, Mich., on
the fourth of July, ha3 issued a challenge
to Dolliver to fight a duel.
Tinman assKiceu. liiiti, uui) tuio
method could his honor be vindicated.
Tillman made his usual speech before
a large and enthusiastic audience, and
at the close he requested all who coincided
with his views to stand up. Everybody
in the audience stood.
Dolliver got into town Friday and
immediately began to abuse Tillman.
He ridiculed every statement the
southern senator made. Tillman, who
I is the guest of acquaintances in a near
by' lake resort, hurried into town
inserted a notice in the evening papers
of Jackson, in which he stated
he had been grossly insulted, that In
the south the way those things are ad-v
justed is by the duel route. Dolliver
read the story in the newspaper and
met Tillman in the lobby of the Ostego
hotel. A stormy interview was the result,
and it wa3 only through the efforts
of bystanders that serious trouble
was averted. Dolliver said he was
not fighting duels, and Tillman branded
him as a coward for not being able
to back up his statement, and he declared
that the time would come when
he would square things with the gentleman
from Iowa.
Dolliver left Jackson Friday evening.
He was followed to the station
by an angry mob of several hundred,
and the police had difficulty in getting
him through the mob in the train
sheds. Tillman remained in the hotel,
walking backward and forward in an
excited mood. Tillman's speech caught
the town, while Dolliver's efforts at
answering the South "Carolina's senator's
argument met with a flat failure.
"FEMALE SOLDIERS" UNDER BAN >
j Edict Issued Against Those Wearing
V/OIIICUCI ?LC l_> 111 I W? 111.
At a meeting held in Nashville,Tenn.,
Friday nigh:, Frank Cheathain bivouac,
United Confederate Veterai}3, the second
largest confederate organization
in the south, adopted resolutions
against women wearing confederate
uniforms, and demanding that all "female
soldiers" now attached to Confederate
organizations withdraw at
once.
These resolutions will be sent to all
Confederate organizations in the south.
The story behind the resolutions had
its beginning at the recent reunion at
Richmond, when there appeared on the
staff of General Stephen D. Lee a Georgia
woman clad in the full regalia of a
general, sword and all. Her appearance
created a great deal of antagonism
among the old soldiers.
The resolutions were drawn up by
Colonel John P. Hickman of Nashrville.
It recites that ''some of the generals
of the south have adopted the
modern woman, which is repugnant to
the men and women of the south."
The lady, it is stated, h.' d nursed
General Lee through a? recent spell
of illness, and for her services was
adopted on the staff with the rank of
surgeon general.
JAPS ENTERTAIN LUKE WRIGHT
Utmost Cordiality Expressed by Officials
Toward Americans.
General Baron Kuroki, the Japanese
imperial envoy to the Jamestown exposition,
who has returned home, gave
a luncheon in Tokio Friday in honor
of Luke E. Wright, the American ambassador.
Field Marshal Oyama, representing
the army, expressed himself
in the most appreciative terms of#the
magnificent and enthusiastic reception
accorded General Kuroki and his party
everywhere in the United States.
FATALITIES OF THE FOURTH.
Chicago Record-Herald Makes Canvas
of Accidents in United States.
ThiiH-v.ciY norsnTKi wpw klilpri and 1 .
471 injured while celebrating Independence
Day, according to the Chicago
Record-Herald, which made a canvass
of the accidents in the entire United
States. In Chicago six persons were
killed by revolvers, which were supposed
to be unloaded, and with the
deadly giant firecracker. New York furnished
seven of the dead, while the
remainder of the list of fatalities are
scattered over the country.
FATALITY LIST INCREASES.
Additions Being Made Daily to Fourth
of July Casualties.
A Chicago special says: With the
grim returns still coming in the number
of fourth of July casualties for
1907 have eclipsed all records in the
last nine years. The total number of
dead has reached fifty-nine. This figure
was eight more than a year ago, and
was only equaled twice before in the
nine yeara ..
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LOCAL OPTION BEST
Resolutions Against State
Prohibition in Georgia.
ATLANTANS FILE PROTEST
The Atlanta Journal, Governor Smith's
Staunchest supporter, Also bounds
Warning Note?State's Inter- {
ests Would Be injured. , ,
At a meeting of about 160 prominent
citizens held at the Piedmont hotel,
in Atlanta, Wednesday afternoon,
strong resolutions were adopted placA
ing the meeting squarely on record
as opposing state prohibition. The
resolutions state that it is the beliet
of the citizens that prohibition is contrary
to the best moral and material
interests of Atlanta and other large
centers. It is further stated that state
prohibition is contrary to the principle
of home rule, which premits one community
to make its o>m laws to meet
certain conditions.
The experience Atlanta had with
prohibition some years ago is touched
on, and It is declared that, in many
respects, the morals of the community
were worse then than they have ever
been since that time.
The meeting in many respects was
a remarkable one. It was composed of
prominent men in all walks of life.
The sentiment ,of the meetipg was
practically a uuicVor the continuance
of local option.
The Atlanta Journal, Governor
Smith's staunchest supporter in the
ctate campaign, also comes out strong*
ly against state prohibi:ion in the fol
iuwmg eutiuudi uuciauuc.
"After the most earnest and aim
cere deliberation, taking into consideration
every aspect and bearing of
the question, we have arrived at the
conclusion that it is the solemn duty
of this paper to enter its protest
against the present movement to adopt
state prohibition in the state of
Georgia.
"But we believe that the highest
interest of thp s:ate, and the dictates
of true patriotism demand that we
set our face against a movement which
menaces the welfare of our people
and is calculated to defeat the end
^
which its well-meaning advocates
have in view. We feel that we would
be recreant to the people of Atlanta
and to the people of Georgia, as a
whole, if we did not voice a protect
which hangs upon ihe llp3 of thousands
of good men and true men, high
in their morality, unimpeachable in
their integrity and supremely devoted
to the welfare of the state.
"In the first place, there ha3 been
no mandate from the people for this
legislation. In the long campaign of
last year many momentous issues were
discussed. It was perhaps the greatest
educational campvlgn ever held In
the state. Matters of great importance
were discussed and the controlling issues
finally evolved.
"Prohibition was not among them.
The declaration of the Macon platform
was clear and' explicit. It demanded
the strictest enforcement of the local
option laws, so that prohibition in
such counties as have voted for it individually
would be prohibitive in let
ter and in spirit.
Tt is the duty of this legislature
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10 carry out mat piaiiK ui me aemo
cratlc platform.*'
The Savannah chamber of commerce
and the Savannah board of trade have
passed resolutions, declaring In the
strongest terms against the passage
by the state legislature of the prohibition
measures. Separate resolutions
were adopted by each body. All, however,
join in declaring that the material
interests of the cities of Georgia,
and also of the country, are threatened
by such legislation as is proposed."
The Columbus city council has adopted
a resolution expressing disapproval
of the state prohibition bills. The
vote was 8 to 4, two members of counvil
not voting.
ADMIRAL FARQUHAR DEAD.
Noted Retired Naval Officer Succumbo
ed to Stroke of Apoplexy.
Rear Admiral Norman Farquhar,
United States navy, retired, died suddenly
at the Hotel Thorndyke, Jamestown,
R. I., Wednesday night. Death
was due to apoplexy. Rear Admiral
Farquhar's home was in Washingtoa,
D. C., and the body was removed to
that city. , , ,
ENGLAND PREPARING NOTE.
Will Address Sultan of Morocco Anent
Capture of General Maclean.
It is understood that the British minister
to Morocco, G. A. Lowther, is
preparing to send a strongly worded
note to the sultan on the subject of
the capture of Caid General Maclean,
commander of the sultan's body guard,
who recently was made a prisoner by
the bandit Raisuli.
CHINA TO VENT WRATH
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On Uncle Sam Because of Alleged Hi
Treatment of Yellow Men in
the United States.
The most aggressive letter that has
come from the pen of a Chinese anent
the United States exclusion act is a
document written by Kong Yue Wei,
leader of the Chinese reform movement,
who recently left Mexico City
for New York.
The document was written in the
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lorm 01 a letter to -rresiuein. xwuaevejt,
seeking to enli3t the presidents
aid in a revision of the present laws.
Just before leaving Mexico City,
Kon Yu Wei gave to The Daily Record,
an afternoon paper published here,
ord, a local afternoon paper, a copy of
this letter and authorized its publication.
After reciting what the Chinese have
done for the development of the west,
Mr. Kong details the treatment the
Chinese people have rceived at the
hands of the people of the United
States and says:
"Two decades of rigid enforcement
nt tVir. ov/>inoinn lanrc have* hrnncrht
U1 tilCj ^AVlUtJ^VU AM * W * V ?r W ^, ?
about the ill will of four hundred million
people.
A united Chinese nation will seek
to assert its rights and avenge its
wrongs. Its anger will be vented in
ways that I dread to think of.
"The time will come when a small
spark may start an uncontrollable conflagration
and the friendly ties between
our people be severed beyond
remedy.
"Americans have been wont to condemn
Russian cruelty toward the
Jews. How much more humane has
been America's treatment of the Chinese?
"Can civilized America reconcile
such treatment of their fellow creatures
with divine law? Courtesy and
kindness should be reciprocated without
a difference between the treatment
Americans received in China and that
accorded to Chinese in America."
Among the modifications he suggests
in the existing law is the abolishment
of the objectionable features
c# identification, such as photograph
and the body marks; that no restriction
as to <ports of entry be made; that
certificates issued to Chinamen by Chinese
chambers of commerce endorsed
by American consuls should entitle
Chinese to free entry. He asks that
this be applied in the Philippine and
Hawaiian islands.
" JAIL A FEW TRUST MAGNATES
is Advice of Bryan at Banquet Given
in His Honor.
"Send John D. Rockefeller and a
dozen other trust magnates to prison
for a long term of years and one of
the most vital questions before the
people of this country will have been
solved," declared William J. Bryan,
at a banquet given in his honor by
Br. Sol C. Dickey, president of the
Winona Lake assembly at "Warsaw,
Indiana.
"President Roosevelt and others are
now bringing to a successful issue
the principles and ideas I advocated
seventeen years ago," Mr. Bryan continued.
"This is particularly true as regards
the tariff. The president is compiling
my future speeches for me."
Mr. Bryan took a fling at the president's
cabinet, saying that there was
not a man in it who agreed wr.h Mr.
Rosevelt. Referring to the controversy
between the United States and Ja-1
pan, Mr. Bryan, who, during his trip
around the world, visited the eastern
empire, said a little more backbone
at Washington would settle the differences
for all time to come without a
conflict between the two nations.
"Japan will follow in the path of
Spain and other nations once powerful,
unless there is a religious awakening
in that country," he said. "There
is one thing \hat can save Japan and
that is the spread of Christianity."
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KILLED ENEMY IN COURT ROOM.
Victim Shot irf Back While Listening
to Attorney's Argument.
While listening to Attorney F. A.
Hopkins argue a case in the Prestonburg,
Ky., court house Wednesday, Joe
Fitpatrick, it is alleged, walked up
behind Andy Coburn and shot him
three times in the back, killing him.
During the panic which ensued, Fitzpatrick
and a crowd of relatives quietly
left the courtroom, no attempt being
made to arrest him. Coburn was lately
indicted upon a charge of killing a
cousin of Joe Fitzpatrick.
FLORIDA BANK INSOLVENT.
Fort Dallis National of Miami Closed
by Comptroller.
A Washington dispatch says: The
Fort Dallas National Bank of Miami,
Fla., was closed Friday by direction
of the comptroller of the currency on
information received from Bank Examiner
McDonald that the bank is insolvent.
The liabilities are given as
$808,466.
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DERIDE?
Grafting'Frisco Mayor Sentenced
to Five Years.
JUDGE DUNNE IS LAUDED
Cheers of Big Crowd Broke Forth Unchecked
in Courtroom When Sentence
Was Pronounced?Scene
Most Remarkable.
At San Francisco Monday Eugene
E. Schmitz, convicted of extortion, was
sentenced to five years in the penitentiary.
When the sentence wa3 pro
nounced there was a remarkable outburst
of applause from the hundreds
of persons who crowded Judge Dunne's
courtroom.
Judge Dunne sentenced Schmitz
to imprisonment in San Quentin penitentiary.
Sentence followed the recent
conviction of Schmitz for extorting $1,175
from French restaurant keepers 1
of San Francisco.
As the last word3 of the sentence
fell from the judge's lips the great
crowd that had stood throughout the
dramatic scene sent up a thunderous
cheer. "Good for you!" shouted a man
in ih#> back of the room. Hi3 ejacula
tion was echoed and re-echoed by one
after another of the spectators. Several
threw their hats into the air, others
scrambled on chairs to look over
the shoulders of the crowd. The greatest
confusion prevailed.
Attorney Frairail of the defense raising
his voice above the din, called
out to Judge Dunne: "Your honor,
this cheering is a very unseemly occurrence."
"Well," retorted Judge Dunne, with
spirit, "if we had a sheriff worthy of
the name, it would have been stopped
instantly."
Sheriff Thomas Odell was standing
inside the trial rail and he turned to
the court and protested: "Nobody
could have stopped that, your honor."
Special Agent Burns of the prosecution
led a number of bailiffs and said:
"Clear the courtroom! Clear the courtroom!"
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nut onjy a iew 01 me uunurea, aiiu
odd apparently delighted men obeyed
the sharp order. Some of them hustled
unceremoniously out into the hall,
ways. About one hundred others kept
their vantage places around the counsel
table, where Schmitz sat dictating
a statement to the newspaper men.
The dramatic atmosphere was heightened
by a staff of newspaper photographers
who exploded flashlight after
flashlight until the cour:room was so
filled with smoke that it became stifling.
The sentence of the convicted mayor
was in one respect without a parallel
in the criminal annals of San Francisco.
Half a dozen times Judge
Dunne was interrupted by Schmitz,
who protested in strong words against
the ''delivery of a lecture" instead of
the pronouncement of judgment. He
accused the court of unnecessarily humiliating
him and giving opportunity
for further humiliation by the reporting
of his remarks in the press. Once,
replying to the prisoner, Judge Dunne
snIH
"Such brazen effrontery was probably
no more than should be expected
and it wa3 the duty of the court to.
hear it in patience."
At another time Attorney Metson
of the defease interposed a vigorous
objection in support of his client "to
the court's lecture."
Judge Dunne's reply was that Mr.
Metson, instead of interrupting the
proceedings, ought to be given a day
in court to answer to the charge that
he had attempted to tamper with the
jury which convicted Schmitz.
Metson, restraining himself calmly,
answered in the same spirit, saying
that he was ready to answer any |
charge that was made against him.
Judge Dunne warned Metson that another
interruption would provoke a jail
sentence for contempt.
| CLOSES FLOATING POOL ROOM.
Government Ousts a Gambling Syndi
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tactic cti v^modyw.
By the revocation of the passenger
certificate of the steamboat City of
Traverse, the government Monday
dealt a heavy blow to the alleged 'gambling
syndicate of the city of Chicago.
The City of Traverse leaves Chicago
each day and anehors in Lake Michigan,
near the lines of intersection of
the states of Illinois, Indiana and Mich-1
igan, and, it is alleged, is operated as j
a floating pool room. The action ta- |
ken revokes the vessel's license.
OTHERS ARE ALSO WARM.
Torid Heat Wave is Stretching Over
Entire Country.
Monday was the wannest day in
Washington city this year. Up in the
weather bureau the maximum temperature
recorded was 93.3 at 4 p. m., but
down town the mercury scared in official
thermometers to over 99. A
number of heat prostrations occurred.
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JIM CROW CARS UPHELD /5|
In Decision by Interstate Commerc##
Commission?Right to Separate , 'J
the Races Sanctioned. I ^
A Washington special say3: The in;
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terstate commerce commission, in a decision
Monday, in the case of Georgia V-'
Edwards, a negro woman, against the 'ff
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis
railroad, held that where a railroad
provided certain accommodations Xor
a fir3t clas3 passenger of the whit?
race, it is commanded by the law that
like accommoaations snail De provia- g|
ed for negroes who have purchased \',j
first class tickets. It holds that In this
case it is manifest the railroad 'has - ^
unduly and unjustly discriminated in
some pariculars against colored passengers"
and orders that where the
railroad provides a wa3h bowl and
towels in the coaches of the white pas- -3
sengers and a separate smoking compartment,
similar accommodations f.(M
shall be provided for negro passen- j
gers paying similar fare.
The complainant who had purchased
a first class ticket from Chattadoo- >
ga, Tenn., to Dalton, Ga., was removed
from a car for white persons to
one for negroes and complained wan ijm
she wa3 discriminated against because %
of her color and not afforded equal fa-. la
cilities. Commissioner Lane, who ren- ;
dered the decision of the commission, ^Sg
b. Id
"The expenses of the small smoking".
compartment in the latter (the car
for whites) accounts for nearly all
difference in cc3t between the two
He holds that the broad question of
the right under the thirteenth and four- 4
teenth amendments to the constitution
to segregate white and colored pas- J|?
sengers has been held by the supreme
court of the United States. The opinr. ^
ion continues:
"Accepting these decisions as conclu- ^
sxve upon me uuusui.u^uuaui.jr uiouw.^
Iaw3, we turn to the consideration of ''Jljm
the reasonableness of such a rule when ^
imposed by the carrier; and this I
find to' have been passed upon by this
commission within a few months of :
its organization in the case of Couii- |
cil vs. Western and Atlantic railroad. J
company, which wa3 decided December >'?|B
3, 1887, and which held this separation
may be carried out on railroad trains. ?^
without disadvantage to either/"race
and with increased comfort to both. ^
"Againf in Heard V3. Georgia railroad .;fjM
company, decided February 15, 1888,
the commission held that separation,
of white and colored passengers pay* Wi
ing the same fare is not unlawful, if
cars and accommodations equal in al| /Jj j
respects are furnished to both and thcrVfS
same cars and pro;ection of passengers ?jj
is observed.
"While, therefore, the reasonable*
nes3 of such regulation as to inter*
state passenger traffic^ is established,..^}
it by no means follows that carriers
may discriminate between white and
colored passengers in the accommoda* ; !
tions which they furnish to each. The ;
principle that must govern is that the : ^
carriers must serve equally well as j|!
passengers, whether white or colored.
paying the same - fare. Failure to do
this is discrimination and subjects the
passenger to 'undue and unreasonable
prejudice ond disadvantage.'"
SAME OLD TRAGEDY {lNACTEO. .
Irate Husband Perforates His Wife'sJ|
Illicit Lover. r
News from Knoxville, Tenn., states
that E. Macklin, aged 25, was shot *
and almost instantly killed by Edward *
McNew, while the former was In company
of the latter's wife. The tragedy M
occurred on what i3 known as Lut- ^
trell's bluff, south of the Tennessee . '-|3
river. McNew had for some time suapected
that his wife was on too ,lnti- 'J|
mate terms with Macklin. .
Macklin and McNew saw each other
about the same time and each pull? -M
ed his pistol at about the 3ame in* -Ji
stant. McNew bred first, however. ^
STORY DENIED BY DOLLIVER. : ill
Iowa Senator Says That He Had Nb
Trouble with Tillman. "vVj|
In regard to special reports from ^
Jackson, Mich., regarding an alleged ^
altercation between Senators Dolliver _-jw
and Tillman at Jackson, Senator Dol- f
live*r says:
"There is not a shred of truth in the ^
story, Senator Tillman spoke at Jack- Jp
son on July 3 and and left on the same |j
day for Louisville. I made a speech .
there the next day and left for Chi- ,~M
cago early on July 5. I have not seen
Senator Tillman since March 4."
CHEWING GUM IS BARRED. [
Ocean Grove, N. J., Prohibits Its Sal*
Tobacco Already Cut Out.
Ocean Grove, N. J., now prohibit# ^
the sale of chewing gum within the %
city limits. There has been a tan on M
tobacco at Ocean Grove for a lon? rM
time, but chewing gum has always
been sold until now. .. . . .. r ^jp