Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 2, 1907, Page 4

| B 550 5N, £ PRI, SO - | Get Your Office Supplies at the Bemidji Pioneer Office % Most Complete Stock West of Duluth Ya NEW LAWS IN EFFECT IMPORTANT LEGISLATIVE ACTS OF CONGRESS TAKE FORCE WITH NEW YEAR. 'SSUANCE OF PASSES FORBIDDEN | ONLY EMPLOYES OF RAILROADS AND THEIR FAMILIES RIDE FREE HEREAFTER. Washington, Jan. 2. — Tuesday marked the beginning of the life of several legislative acts of congress important alike to the nation as a whole and to the citizens of the Dis- trict of Columbia. These are the free alcohol law, the pure food law, the anti-pass section of the interstate com- merce law, the modification of the navigation laws to simplify enroll- ments and licenses and a law with reference to the licensing of druggists in the District of Columbia. The pure food law contemplates bar- ring from interstate commerce all foods that are injurious to health. The free alcohol law is intended to assist farmers and smaller users of power to A Daring Wasp., | ] Some wasps live in part upon honey, | which they collect from the most open: | petaled flowers, and thus to & very moderate extent they may be regarded in the light of flower fertilizers. Kirk- and says In the first volume of the American Naturalist that “the paper hornet (Vespa maculata) often enters: my nucleus hives when I am rearing Italian queen bees and captures the young queen In the midst of her little colony, usually just after she has com- menced her first laying. I have seen this depredator enter the small hive, drag out the queen and fly away with her to the woods” (page 52). Some of the species of the genus polistes store up honey which is polsonous, from the fact that it has been collected from polsonous flowers. They are found in South America, where also specles of the genus chartergus occur—wasps that make a very remarkable and tough nest, with funnel shaped combs inside, arranged one inside of another, nest fashion, but not In contact ex- cept at their points of suspension. At PURPOSES OF NEW ISSUE. Great Northern Files Notice of In. crease of Capital. St. Paul, Jan. 2—The Great North- e Railway company has filed with the secretary of state a notice of the action taken by the board of directors In ordering an issue of $60,000,000 ad- ditional stock. The certificate is signed by President James J. Hill and Secretary Edward T. Nichols. The notice also states the purposes for ‘which the stock is to be issued. The notice filed certifies that at a meeting of the board of directors in New York on Dec. 11, 1906, a resolu- tion was adopted for increasing the capital stock by an issue of 600,000 shares of the par value of $100, in addition te the present stock issue of 1,600,000 shares. This new issue is for the following purposes: First—To provide funds for such further and additional equipment as the board of directors may from time to time determine to be necessary. Second—To provide funds for addi- tional terminals and facilities on ex- the apexes of these conés occur the apertures of entrance for the inmates to pass up among the conical tiers. Steering the Ship. The work of steering a great ship, even with the aid of modern machin- ery, Is much more delicate than one would imagine, The larger and faster the ship the greater is the difficulty. It is not enough to hold the -wheel In the same position to kzep the ship on her course, for the wind and waves and the currents of the ocean tend constantly to knock the ship off her have a fuel that in efficiency and cost shall be cheaper than gasoline or kero- sene. The anti-pass provision of the interstate commerce law forbids com- mon carriers, directly or indireetly, glving interstate free tickets or passes for passengers except to their em- ployes and families, agents of the car- riers and their surgeons, physicians and attorneys, to persons engaged in religious and charitable work and to certain other specified classes. GOOD RESULTS LOOKED FOR. Provisions of Pure Food Law Now in Effect. New York, Jan. 2.—The pure food law enacted at the last session of con- gress became operative Tuesday. The authors of the measure believe that it will put an effectual stop to the sale of adulterated and impure foods and drugs, confectionery and liquors. The abuses sought to be corrected, it is asserted, are numberless, but here- after it will be possible for consumers to know precisely what they are re- ceiving for their money. Articles un- course. The great wall of steel (for the hull may be 700 feet long and sixty feet high) offers a broad target for the wind and waves. The art in steer- ing is to humor the ship to these forces and when she Is deflected bring her back quickly to her course. If you could watch the binnacle, especially in bad weather, you would see the needle of the compass'constantly shift- ing from side to side, which means that the great steel prow is not going forward in a perfectly straight line.— Francis Arnold Colling in St. Nicholas. New York’s Cab Drivers, A driver has to have a license. That mysterious officlal, the mayor’s mar- shal, grants one upon the payment of 25 cents and two written testimonials of honesty. A man may come out of Sing Sing, whither he has been sent for highway robbery or stoning the minister’s cat or any other crime, if he presents two greasy letters—one of any Jones and the other of any Smith— stating that he is an honest fellow he will get a license. No inquiry is made. His references are never looked up. der the heads already enumerated will have to be what they purport to be if the law is complied with. A large number of inspectors working under the supervision of the department of agriculture will watch dealers of all sorts to see that they do not violate the law. Offenses against the law will be punishable by fine or impris- onment or both. It will be illegal to manufacture any article of food or drug which is misbranded or adul- terated. Conviction for an offense against this provision may be fol- lowed by a fine not exceeding $500 and subsequent convictions may be fol- lowed by a fine of $1,000 or a year's imprisonment or both. It is considered a certainty that as a result of the law certain brands of jams, preserves and canned goods will be all but driven out of the mar- ket, because the law stipulates that all goods must be properly labeled. As all liquors in bottles offered for sale at bars must be labeled what is known to drinkers as “straight rye” whisky must be designated “pure.” Bottles containing so-called blended whisky must be marked in such a way as truthfully to describe their contents, but exactly the form of such labels has not yet been fixed by the depart- ment of agriculture’s experts. BIG SURPLUS IN TREASURY. Receipts of Government Far Ahead of Disbursements. ‘Washington, Jan. 2.—Leslie M. Shaw, secretary of the treasury, has prepared a resume of the year's finan- cial record, which he says has been prepared in response to multiplied re- quests. In round numbers he places the re- ceipts for the calendar year 1906 at $625,000,000 and expenditures at $566,- 000,000, or an excess of receipts over expenditures of $59,000,000. . As there has been no change in the tariff laws relating to internal revenue Secretary Shaw says the large in- crease in receipts is due solely to the extraordinary trade activity. The to- tal expenditure, however, for 1906, as compared with 1905, he says, shows a decrease of only $5,000,000. HIGGINS’ CANDIDATE CHOSEN. Speakership Deadlock Broken. Dover, Del, Jan. 2.—The deadlock in the house Republican caucus over the election of a candidate for speaker was broken early in the day after an all night contest. Richard Hodgson, former United States Senator Higgins’ candidate, was selected for speaker over the candidate favored by United States Senafor Allee. in Delaware Charity Ball Nets $22,000. Chicago, Jan. 2.—The annual charity ball at the First Regiment armory net- ted the sum of $22,000, to be divided among the fourteen charities which are to benefit. Ten thousand persons were present and the dancers num- bered 500. The grand march was led by General A, W. Greely and the Prin- cess Cantacuzene, granddaughter of General U. 8. Grant. Indeed, if you are a desperate criminal —gullty of murder or failure to pay allmony—you can do no better than take out a license and hide on top of a cab. So into the business drift all sorts and conditions of rogues. Under the aegis of the law (the aegls being & twenty-five cent badge) they rob you and me.—Vance Thompson in Outing Magazine, The Hesslans Played. It is a matter of record that upon the first official celebration of Inde- pendence day by the Continental con- gress musie was secured for the ocea- slon by forcing the Hesslan band, ‘which had been captured by George Washington at Trenton In the previous December, to play in the publie square nll day, to the great delight and amuse- ment of the people. It is also stated that these Involuntary celebrants were obliged to practice appropriate airs for three wecks previously in order that they could not plead Ignorance as an excuse. Curlous Colnecidences. When the Ring theater, In Vienna, was burned, with great loss of life, one of the other playhouses of the Austrian capital was playing Paille- ron’s “Le Monde ou l'on S§'Ennule;” when the Stadt theater, in Vienna, was burned another theater In that clty was playing “Le Monde ou I'on S§'En- { nuie,” and on the evening of the day when the fire In the charity bazaar In Paris took place the Theatre Francals was announced to play “Le Monde ou I'on S'Ennuie.” Jealousy. “That word ‘communist,’ my dear,” observed the young husband, correct- Ing her, “has the accent on the first syllable.” “How do you know ?” “The dictionary says 80.” “I never saw a man as prejudiced In favor of dictlonarles as you are!” exclalmed the young wife. “I wish you had married a dictionary!” The Great Jenner. An Baglishman had occasion to go often to an eminent physician and sald to Jeames, “You will be tired of open- Ing the door for me.” “Not at all, sir,” was the graclous reply; “you are but a hunlt {n the hocean.” Another Jeames was accustomed to gay during his master’s occasional ab- sences: “You had better try hopposite. There’s a very respectable man hop- posite as we often sends to when Sir ‘William s habsent. His name is Jen- uer.”—London Mail. How Long the Bills Last. A dollar bill has an average life of about fifteen months. Two dollar bills, not being quite so actively used, last on the average more than sixteen months. A five dollar bill lives on an average two years before it is worn out and the government is called upon to replace it. Ten dollar bills last about three years and twenty dollar biils ,more than four years.—Youtl's Com: panion. = isting lines, including a good second main track, and for reductions ot grades and improvements of the line, as they may be authorized from time to time by the board of directors. Third—To acquire the bonds or stocks, or both, of the following com- panies: Dakota and Great Northern Rallway company; Montana and Great Northern Railway company; Billings and Northern Railroad company; ‘Washington and Great Northern Rail- way company; Portland and Seattle Railway company; Vancouver, Vie- toria and Eastern Railway and Navi- gation company; Brandon, Saskatche- wan and Hudson Bay Rallway com- pany; Midland Railway company of Manitoba, Fourth—To acquire such other se- curitles as the hoard of directors may from time to time authorize to be ac- quired. COPPER KING IN SENATE. Guggenheim Will Succeed Patterson of Colorado. Denver, Jan. 2.—Simon Guggen- heim’s election as United States sen- ator to succeed Thomas M. Patterson is assured by the action of the Repub- lican members of the general assem- bly in caucus. Mr. Guggenheim’s can- didacy was endorsed by a vote of 68 to 1. Seyenty of the 100 members of the legislature are Republicans and all but oue of them participated in the cau- cus. Mr. Guggenheim is thirty-nine years of age and is a son of the late Meyer Guggenheim of New York. He is a very wealthy man and is a member of the executive committee of the Amer- fean Smelting and Refining company. In an interview Mr. Guggenheim said: “If I go to the senate it will not be to represent the smelting company or any other company or any other inter- est. I will go as Simon Guggenheim, plain citizen, to represent the people of Colorado. An honorable ambition is permitted to every man, even ta the wealthiest, and it is my ambition to serve my country.” PANIC AT CONSTANTINOPLE. Imperial Cause. Constantinople, Jan. 2.—A panic oc- curred in the main thorcughfare here at noon as the result of the desperate action of two soldiers of the imperial guard, who drew sword bayonets and held the bridge connecting the pop- ulous sections of Galata and Stambul. Owing to the fact that the men were Insane Act of Troops the members of the imperial guard the | police had not the power to arrest: them and business was suspended for over an hour until the guardsmen were arrested by soldiers upon an or- der from the palace. PRINT PAPER MILL SYNDICATE. New Trust to Take the Place of the General Paper Company. Appleton, Wis., Jan. 2.—A print pa- per mill syndicate, capitalized at sev: erai milllon dollars and including every newspaper mill in Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota, is in process of formation, according to a semi-offi- clal report just given out. The syndi- cate Is said to have been decided upon to take the place of the General Paper company, which was ordered out of existence several months ago by the federal courts, its operations having been contrary to the Sherman anti- trust law. KILLS HIS STEPFATHER. Youth Accuses Latter of Beating His Mother. St. Louis, Jan. 2.—Thomas Harris, aged twenty-two, shot his stepfather, Henry Miller, forty-five years of age, at the latter’s home, killing him in- stantly. Harris told the yolice that he fired the shots because he mother had been severely beaten by Miller after having accused her of taking a $5 bill from his pocket. “I couldn’t bear to see him beat my mother and I fired,” said Harris, who lives in New York and has been visit- ing his mother during the holidays. MUST PROVIDE SIDEWALKS. Big Section of New Orleans Cut Off From Free Mail Delivery. New Orleans, Jan. 2.—A consider- able portion of New Orleans has been cut off from further free mail delivery by order of the postmaster general. Inhabited portions of a large number of New Orleans streets are without sidewalks and these are the parts of the city deprived of free delivery. The city already has contracted to build muny of the necessary walks and it 18 expected that within a year most of the delivery will be restored. RESULT OF BIG WRECK i INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMIS- SION TO INVESTIGATE THE BLOCK SYSTEM. PRINCIPLES OF THE PLAN VIOLATED i BAID OVERWORKED AND UNDER- PAID MEN ARE EMPLOYED TO SIGNAL TRAINS, ‘Washington, Jan. 2—The interstate commerce commission has reached an agreement to investigate the block signal systems on both the Southern and the Baltimore and Ohio railways in view of the recent disastrous col- lisions and derailments on those roads attended by serious injury and loss of life. The first hearing, which will be pub- lie, Wil occur in this city Friday, Jan. 4. 2 The commission will make its in- vestigation under a resolution of con- l gress approved June 30, 1906, empow- ering the interstate commerce com- mission to report the use and neces- sity of block signal systems and ap- pliances for automatic control of rail- way trains in the United States. Statements made by experts of the commission indicate that the people have been misled into the impression that the block systems of this country are adding greatly to the safety of travel. To the contrary, the experts say these systems have had no such effect. The commission’s statistics prove that a constantly increasing proportion of accidents occur, The explanation given by the ex- perts is startling. They say that the principles of the block system are flagrantly violated; that more and more business is sought at the ex- pense of safety; that overworked and underpaid men are placed in the tow- ers to signal trains; that excessively long hours for these men and the low quality of service that can be secured for the wages paid combine to nullify the benefits that ought to be derived from rigid enforcement of the block system. The latest figures of the casualties in the wreck at Terra Cotta Sunday night place the dead at fifty-three, with threé score injured, suffering from wounds and fractures. Several of the most seriously injured are ex- pected to die and the death list may yet reach sixty. PRESIDENT GREETS THOUSANDS Usual New Year's Reception at the White House. ‘Washington, Jan, 2—Each year the ‘White House doors swing open to all the nation on Jan. 1 and a heartier welcome was never extended to vis- itors than to the thousands who called Tuesday to pay their respects to the chief executive, New Year's cheer , obliterated rank and class distinction. | The president met ambassador and i laborer with the same firm handshake. ‘While the Marine band played patri- otic alrs the great throng moved slowly through the executive mansion jand in the greeting of the president men and women of all ages and condi- tions found renewed devotion to the republic and democratic ideal. The diplomatic corps, the judiciary, Iths army, the navy and civilian offi- cials in the various departments were received in turn before the thousands of citizens who had been standing in line for hours could meet the pres- ident. Better weather for the occasion could not have been desired. The sun shone brightly and its warmth dis- , belled the dampness rising from the ground as a result of the rain of the | past few days. To the thousands who 1 stood in line for hours this was par- ticularly agreeable and made their wait less uncomfortable than usual on a winter morning. WORK TO BE RUSHED. i Fa TR Fifteen Hundred Men to Be Employed on Electric Line. Kansas City, Jan. 2.—Work has been begun on the construction of the Kansas City, Excelsior Springs and 8t. Joseph Electric Railway company’s | bridge across the Missouri river. The ‘ bridge will cost nearly $2,000,000 and the remainder of the line to St. Jos- eph, Mo., will require the expenditure of $4,000,000. By employing 1,500 men, working at a dozen places simul- taneously, the line will be completed In eighteen months. KUOCKED OUT BY COURT. La Follette Fellow Servants Act Un- constitutional. Memphis, Tenn., Jan. 2.—Judge Me- Call of the federal court has declared the La Follette fellow servants act | unconstitutional. The action was that of Damselle Howard against the Illi- nois Central Railroad company. A ' special representative of the depart- ment of justice at Washington argued the case for the government. Fifteen Per Cent Increase. El Pago, Tex., Jan. 2—The Mexican Central railroad conductors announce that the road has granted the increase in wages which they demanded, which s equal to the pay of the con- ductors in the United States, and there |will be no strike. The incresse | amounts to about 16 per cent. | 8260 for the negro, Tom Simpson, who' VICTIM OF STRAY BULLET. Minneapolis Girl Accidentally Shot and Killed. Minneapolis, Jan. 2.—Miss Ida Du- ford, 624 Ramsey street northeast, Wwas a vietim of the custom of dis- charging firearms to celebrate the ad- vent of the New Year. She was acci- dentally shot by an unknown man and died a couple of hours later at.the city hospital, Miss Duford, who was sixteen years old, was standing on the porch at her home listening to the din of bells and Wwhistles that ushered in the New Year. A bullet fired by some un- known man, unseen by his victim, struck her in the thigh. It was apparent to her friends that the wound was serious. A doctor was called and she was taken to the city hospital, where she died two hours later from loss of blood. LADY CLANCARTY DEAD. Was Formerly Belle Bilton, Hall Beauty. Dublin, Jan. 2—Lady Clancarty is dead at her husband’s estate in County Galway. She was the first of the music hall beauties to marry into the Deerage. When the earl married Belle Bilton she was the reigning stage beauty of London. P Unlike many of the succeeding mar- riages of a like character the union of Lord Clancarty and Belle Bilton was 8 most happy one. The one time mu- sic hall singer made the earl a good wife. She settled down to a life of rustic peace among her husband's Irish tenants and won the hearts of the country gentry by her splendid cross country riding. Cancer, which developed last Feb- ruary, was the cause of death. Music NO EXECUTIONS AT SING SING. Year of 1906 Breaks Record of Half a Century. New York, Jan. 2.—In the criminal history of the state of New York the year 1906 broke the record of nearly a half century in that no execution occurred in . Sing Sing prison. There are eight men under sentence of death in the prison, but each has received a stay on appeal. The records show that the time from which a ‘murderer receives sen- tence until the law’s decree is carried out has gradually grown longer. In the beginning of Sing Sing’s history | only a few months elapsed and now years pass before every legal method has Dbeen ‘exhausted by condemned men. FIGHTS WITH MASKED ROBBERS. Station Agent at York, Neb., Puts Bandits to Flight. York, Neb., Jan. 2.—C. C. Morris, night agent for the Burlington, grap- | pled with two masked robbers and beat them off. One stood guard over him while the other rifled the cash drawer. Morris struck his guard senseless with a fire shovel. Then he grappled with the other robber, who had his hands full of money. They fought their way to the platform and were en- gaged in a terriffic struggle when the other robber recovered. He came to the platform, called to his companion , and they ran off in the darkness. As they left they fired two shots at the agent, but he was not injured. WOMAN CRAZED BY JEALOUSY. Shoots Her Husband and Tries to Commit Suicide. Collinsville, Ill, Jan. 2.—Crazed by Jjealousy Mrs. Lucy Shannon shot and probably mortally wounded her hus- band, Leor h: , at Maryville, | 2nd, Leonard Shannon Y e, | dect to deportation. five miles below here, and then at- tempted to take her own life by jump- ing into a well. Paul Shannon, her brother-in-law, intercepted her and she turned and attacked him so vigorously that he was compelled to beat her into Insensibility. It is believed Shannon will die. Mrs. Shannon was arrested. The shooting followed a quarrel resulting from jealousy. TOWNS BURIED IN SNOW. Severe Storm Experienced in Western Russia. St. Petersburg, Jan. 2—The storm which passed over Great Britain at Christmas time has reached Western Russia, where enormous falls of snow are reported and railroad communica- tion is paralyzed, many of the lines being entirely interrupted. Dispatches from Orsha and Borissov say these towns are literally buried in drifts and all business is suspended. Seven per- sons have perished in the snow, which has reached a seven-foot level at Mo- hitev. The snow storm continues. ATTEMPT TO DESTROY LINER. Vessel Saved After Desperate Strug- gle With Gang. London, Jan. 2—A dispatch to a news agency from Odessa says that a band of unknown men made an at- tempt to blow up the Russian Steam- ship company’s Atlantic liner Gregory Morch, which has just completed her first trip in the new Odessa-New York service. A desperate struggle took place between the crew and the mem- bers of the band, during which sev- eral sailors were shot. The lighted fuse of a bomb was extinguished be- fore any damage was done. Rewards for Four Murderers. Jackson, Miss., Jan. 2.—Governor Vardaman has offered a reward of precipitated the Kemper county trou- bles by killing Constable O'Brien. He nlso offers a reward of $250 for the UNIQUE CAREER ENDS. Dr. Younge, Bible Student and Soldler, “ Is Dead. Fort Wayne, Ind,, Jan. 2—Dr. J. W. Younge, aged sixty-six years, is dead here after a unique and marvelous career. He was a well known Indiana bpecialist and Bible student, traveler and lecturer. He was engaged in the Clvil war and a soldier of fortune in Cuba and Mexico. He was retired from the Civil war with the rank of major. He, with others, accepted the offer of President Juarez of Mexico to join his forces. With the rank of colonel Younge commanded a battalion at Dueratoro when Maximilian was cap- tured and was an eyewitness to his execution. In 1870 he contracted to build a tor- pedo boat destroyer for Cuba against Spain’s fleet cruising in Cuban waters, but the United States government in- terfered, claiming a violatioh of the neutrality laws with Spain, and Younge lost $1,000,000 in bonds he was to have received for the work. CASTRO NEARING RECOVERY. President of Venezuela Not Suffering From Tuberculosis. New York, Jan. 2.—Dispatches to the Herald from La Guayra, Venezu- eia, via Port of Spain, contain an in- terview in which the statement is made by Dr. Rafael Ravenga, secre- tary general and personal physician to President Castro, that Castro’s health will be fully restored in fifteen days and that within a month or less he will be carrying on the administra- :ion of the government as before July ast. Dr. Ravenga denies that his patient is suffering from tuberculosis or from the trouble which rumor has charged, He maintains that he has the fiebre paludica and a severe form of gastric fever. The Herald’s correspondent says he is compelled to say that there is noth- ing at Macuto, where President Cas- tro is sojourning, which would indi- cate that the president of the country is at death’s door, as some have main- tained at Caracas. MILLIONS ARE STARVING. Famine Conditions in China the Worst in Forty Years. Peking, Jan. 2—Owing to the ex- cessive rains and consequent failure of crops, the famine in the north of Anhui province in the east of Honan and in the whole north of Kiangsu is worse than at any time during the past forty years. It is estimated that 4, 000,000 persons are starving. Tens of thousands are utterly destitute and are wandering over the country. The danger is increased by the activity of the secret societies, as the wanderers are gladly joining them in order to ob- tain rice. About 50,000 refugees have reached the vicinity of Nanking in a pitiable condition. The authorities are unable to cope with the situation. JAPS MAY BE DEPORTED. Publishers of Revolutionary Paper Ac- cused of Anarchy. San Francisco, Jan. 2.—Acting under orders from Washington Secret Serv- ice Agent Moffatt is engaged in the in- vestigation of the so-called Japanese soclalistic organization whose organ is the Revolt, published at Berkeley. Commissioner of Immigration North is also giving his attention to the mat- ter. It is stated that according to the definition of the immigration law the Japanese ‘of Berkeley who issued the revolutionary paper containing a velled threat against the president are anarchists and as such are sub- BUFFALOES IN BULL FIGHTS. Scotty Philip to Ship Two Big Bisons to Mexico. Pierre, S. D., Jan. 2.—Scotty Philip has just returned from a trip to El Paso, Tex., and while in that city he disposed of two of his largest buffalo bulls, to be shipped to that place to be used in a bull fight across the line in Mexico Jan. 27. One of the bulls will be pitted against a native Mex- icau bull and the other will be used in a regular fight with a matador. Gives Four Hundred Kisses. St. Louis, Jan. 2—Immediately after Miss Loda Nieman became the bride of Jacob Glaser she had to give away 400 kisses. The ceremony was accord- ing to the old Jewish custom. Young and old, little and big—everybody got his or her kiss. When the exer- cise was through the bride was nearly * exhausted. Both the bride and bride- groom fasted for twenty-four hours preceding the wedding. BRIEF BITS OF NEWS. The shah of Persia Is in a critical eondition. “Aunt” Dorcas Harrls, a negress, is dead at Mineral Wells, Tex., aged 129 years. Peter Larson, with the possible ex- ception of Senator W. A. Clark the ‘wealthiest man in Montana, is dying , at Helena from cirrhosis of the liver. Wages of coal miners in Southern Colorado districts were advanced 10 per cent Jan. 1. More than 6,000 men ere benefitted. The increase amounts to $600,000 a year. A huge embezzlement has been dis- coyered at the Military club in Madrid, funds aggregating $55,000 being miss- ing. The treasurer of the club disap- Dpeared nearly a month ago. Bimer McClelland, a joint rallroad rate inspector and the son of H. R. McClelland, a wealthy resident of three white men, Dan Kerr, Hal Byrd Newark, O, committed suiclde at De- and Ernest Bryan, charged. with the ecatur, Ill, by cutting his throat with killing of the negro, Calvin Nicholson. A $WO razora. : TGt " Blank Books, Ledgers, Journals, Etc., Stationery, Christmas Stickers, 1907 Diaries, Typewrilt . Paper, Scrap Books, Lead Pencils, Pens, Holders, Ink Wells, Etc. Rubber Stamps and Pads, Fountain Pens, Letter Copy Books, Paper Cli i i | Legal Blanks, Copy Holders, Calendar Pads, Document Files, Note Books, Time Books, Scals Report Books, Trial Balanee Books, Rulers, Erasers, Kneaded Rubber Squares, Township_Plats in book form, Fine qunllilyy colorei Blfil’m:plful?:f ciw!l';:::hks?b&” E‘l"':;'arl' glfi:;ufs“1&;:::'%?6.13%“lg:;ufigg'aéixrsfi:.:: u&sé 4 S S e et 4 2 Y % _=__—“ SEEK A PROTECTORATE WEALTHY CUBANS TO FORWARD PETITION TO WASHINGTON ON THE SUBJECT. N0 ADVANCE MONEY ON CROPS BANKERS MUST BE ASSURED THAT THIS COUNTRY GUAR- ANTEES PEACE. Havana, Jan. 2—It is reported here Ithat a petition for an American pro- tectorate is ready to be sent to Wash- ington from Remedios, the wealthiest district in Cuba, signed by 200 native Cubans, each of whom is a man of wealth. A petition from Cienfuegos, of a similar character, is soon to fol- low, having the signatures of several hundred property ownmers. In other parts of the island, it is stated, sim- ilar petitions are in course of prepara- tion. A weekly newspaper advocating a protectorate as a means of settling the Cuban situation will probably be issued, as money for the project, it is stated, is rapidly being subseribed. A Dbanker of Havana has declared that he will not advance a dollar for sugar ralsing after June, 1907, unless the United States shows that it in- tends to guarantee peace to Cuba. IN DEFENSE OF SHEA. Witnesses Testify That Employers Locked Them Out. Chicago, Jan. 2.—Drivers who were employed during the teamsters’ strike by various department stores were the principal witnesses of the day at the trial of Cornelius P. Shea and other strike leaders before Judge Ball in the criminal court. Counsel for the defense sought to prove by these wit- nesses that they had not gone on a strike, but that they had been locked out by 'their employers. William Grees, thle first witness, was asked by Attorney Cruice, counsel for the de- fense, if he knew Shea in April, 1905. He replied in the negative, but said that he had since become acquainted with him and the principal defendants on trial. Grees also said that he did . not know Jeremiah McCarthy at that time. This portion of Grees’ testi- mony was offered for the purpose of showing to the jury that neither Me- Carthy nor Shea had called the drivers out on a strike as was testified to by witnesses for the state. A number of others also testified that they had been locked out by their employers. SWELLS ENDOWMENT FUND. Rockefeller Gives Nearly $3,000,000 to Chicago University. Chicago, Jan. 2.—A New Year's gift of nearly $3,000,000 has been presented by John D. Rockefeller to the Univer- sity of Chicago. This brings Mr. Rockefeller’s gifts to the university up to a total of $19,416,922. Announcement of the latest dona- tion was contained in a letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to Acting President Harry Pratt Judson. The major portion of the New Year’s gift is to go to the permanent endow- ment fund of the university and for this purpose securities with a market value of $2,700,000 are provided. The remainder of the gift—$217,000—is to make up the year’s deficit, to provide for an increase in the salaries of in- structors and to allow appropriations for various purposes. The $2,700,000 addition:to the endowment brings this fund to $10,452,616. HUGHES TAKES OATH OF OFFICE. Inaugurated Governor of New York in Presence of Large Crowd. Albany, N. Y., Jan. 2.—Charles E. Hughes was inaugurated as governor of New York in the presence of a large number of men and women rep- resenting the various cities of the state. The ceremonies in the capitol occupied little more than half an hour. Bishop Burke, Roman Catholic, deliv- ered a prayer at the opening of the proceedings, which closed with a bene- diction pronounced by Bishop Doane, Protestant Episcopal. The oath of ofice was administered by Secretary of State Whalen, following which came the address of welcome by the retir- ing to the incoming governor and the response of the latter, both brief. The inauguration was preceded by a parade of various companies and commands of the Third brigade, na- tional guard of New York. TO DISCOURAGE SUICIDES. New Field of Work for the Salvation Army. . States, has opened a bureau in the London, Jan. 2.—General Willlam Booth, commander-in-chief of the Sal- vation Army, who starts in February on a trip to Japan, via the United headquarters of the army in London with the avowed object of checking the spread of suicide. General Booth explains that suicides generally might be dissuaded by a little sensible and Sympathetic advice and this the bu- reau. will offer, without any inquiry concerning the applicant’s anteced- B circumstances, and at the same > their confidences will be rigidly i