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tor in advance.
■*"he tendency to form clubs is one of
flu* vital phenomena of our civiliza
tion. Men and
One of the Queer-
Women nowadays
eat <>t < inbs. organize the m
«elves into an association for every im
aginable purpose. The growth of
"trusts" is only a larger application
of the same principle. Thus far we
have had no "medical trust,' and we
make bold to express the hope that we
never shall have one, says the Philadel
phia Journal. Put, if reports are true,
our patients are beginning to organize.
There has been formed, according to
rumor, a Tabetic association. It is not
to be an inco-ordinate body, but well
organized, and is to offer a prize of $lO,-
000 for a sure cure for locomotor
ataxia. In the present state of pa
thology we fear the offer is a safe one,
but we sympathize heartily with the
new club, and can even see ground for
believing that some good can come out
of it. A community of interests is cer
tainly a vital principle among men. and
there is no reason why the victims of
posterior sclerosis should not find in
one another's society a bond of fel
lowship that may make the general
burden of their infirmity less grievous
to be borne. To be sure, we have known
some tabetics who cou'.d hardly be
classed as "clubable" men, but a unity
of purpose will do much to mitigate
the slight asperities that might arise
from social distinctions and individual
idiosyncrasies. It is a curious fact
that locomotor ataxia is one of the few
very chronic affections that constant
ly appeal to the imagination of doctors
and patients alike as having in reserve
some latent tendency toward recovery.
Many experts refuse to be discouraged
by it; many patients linger on in: the
fond hope and expectancy of cure.
Let us trust that these hopes yet will
be realized, and that the new club will
be an active agent in securing such ear
nestly desired results.
Hagerstown, Md., was treated to a
performance of "lolanthe" on a re
cent evening, and the local musical
critic "wrote it tip" in the. following
catch-as-catch-can style: "Melodic
curves of divine intensity vaulted
aloft mirroring- the perturbations of
music's soul and painting the strug
gle for sublimal expression upon the
airy fabric of voice dreams. Kcstatic
ally, yet orderly, the chorus rang its
accompaniment, dashing the serene
waves of its cloud-cap visions right
to the ultimate bars of human reach.
The audience was sympathetic and
enrapt, hanging with dramatic fervor
to the meticulous inspiration of the
passionate verve of the sinuous irre
sistibly direct and coordinate har
monies, which passed oft the ivory
gates and scored their triumphs in the
very heart of music's capital."
Wouldn't that rattle the rafters of
your dome of thought?
' Miss Helen Gould recently gave a val
uable collection of books to a Stockton
(Kan.) library, and was asked to send
the library association a picture of her
self to hang in the reading room. She
replied: "You are very kind to ask for
my photograph for the library, and I
am sorry not to send it as you suggest,
but, for two reasons, I have made it a
Title to keep my likeness from public
use; first, because I do not feel I have
done anything entitling me to such a
distinction, and, secondly, because 1
am quite annoyed by cranks, and it
seems a little safer not to be readily
recognized—more comfortable, at any
rate. With good wishes for the Stock
ton library and the people of your com
munity, I remain, very truly, Helep
Miller Gould."
The youngest home-seeker to draw
a claim in the Lawton district of the
Kiowa reservation, Oklahoma, was
little Ruth Donovan, the one-year
old daughter of the late Judge Dono
van, of Enid. Judge Donovan was a
soldier, lie died a few months ago,
lefaving a little orphan daughter, now
only one year old. A guardian was
appointed for the child and her name
was registered for a claim under the
law giving soldiers' widows and or
phans the right to homestead land
on the same basis that soldiers them
selves can make entry. She drew a
claim and her guardian can hold it
for her.
READY TO BREAK AWAY.
Pennsylvania Drmurrali Vlfir th«
Mtuiliioil with "Incrrduluoi
Aiau>eii>«nt."
The Pennsylvania democrats in con
▼ention assembled waived "till ques
tions and propositions on which <the
people of the nation divided into po
litical parties." The platform makers
of the convention declined to "point
with pride" to the record of the party
or to leaders or to principles, but
viewed, not with alarm but with "in
credulous amazement," the spectacle
presented in the commonwealth of
l'ennsylva nia.
They denounced in the most lurid
and extravagant terms the republicans
«>f Pennsylvania who gave McKinley a
majority of 284,403 in 1900 and who
▼<» ted for the return of Matthew |S.
Quay to the senate, but they had not
one word of prai'se for Mr. Bryan or for
the platforms of 1896 and 1900.
The democrats <of Pennsylvania ap
pear before the country simply as de
nouncers, and in vociferous and hys
terical denunciation and abusiveness
it must be admitted that they stand
head and shoulders above even the
middle-of-the-road populists of Texas.
They are noisy in declamation,but they
are like the loose-jointed moralist who,
finding himself at an old-fashioned re
vival meeting without experience or
principles or convict ions, made amends
by shouting.
They seem to believe that, they can
win on a platform of abuse, but they
surrender at the very beginning of the
campaign all pretense of making any
fight for principle, or, for that matter,
for party. They have only one plank,
and that is vilification of ,the republic
ans who control the state government
and the legislature.
This will remind a good many peo
ple of the story of the colonel who or
dered a retreat in the face of the en
emy, ond, as his men fled in disorder
to the rear, scouted: "Yell, boys, yell;
yell and swear; make a noise!" and the
men yelled and swore, but all the same
they took to the woods.
Judged by the same rule, the demo
crats of Pennsylvania who view the
situation in their state with "incred
ulous amazement" are preparing to
take to the woods. They are lurid and
extravagant in their denunciation r>f
republican leadership and republican
policy, but they have not a word to
say in defense of democratic leader
ship or democratic policy.—Chicago
Inter Ocean.
IOWA ON THE TARIFF.
Rcgnrd Agitation nn tnncoeasnry
and InJii r i ohm to the
Country.
The declaration of the lowa repub
lican state platform in favor of such
changes in the protective tariff system
from time to time as may become ad
visable "through the progress of our
industries and their changing rela
tions to the commerce of the world,"
is likely to be seized upon with avidity
by the advocates of a revision of the
tariff at the coming session of con
gress. Yet there will be no justifica
tion for believing the republicans of
lowa are in favor of tariff revision at
this time.
The republican protective policy is
indorsed in the lowa platform, and
reciprocity is named as the natural
complement of protection. In com
mon with all other republicans of
sense, those of lowa are in favor of
revision when it shall be necessary,
and when the work can be done by the
friends of protection. They also favor
the adoption of reciprocity (treaties
wherever there is a chance to extend
the trade of the United States by such
a course. The republicans of lowa
would resist as strenuously as would
those of any other state any attempt
to revise the Dingley law on lines such
as are likely to Vie laid down by the
tariff destroyers, who are preparing to
make a raid on congress next winter,
and who have started the agitation
in favor of revision to pave the way for
the raid.
In response to letters sent out by
the American Protective Tariff league
the American Economist is publishing
statements from republican senators
and representatives in all parts of the
country opposing any agitation of the
tariff question next winter. These
members of congress agree in declar
ing that there is no demand for re
vision now, and that tariff agitation
can only result in injury to the busi
ness of the country. They say there
is nothing the matter with the United
States and they are in favor of letting
well enough alone. In that they will
be supported by business men in all
parts of the country. Cleveland
Leader.
ICTlie democrats will not be able
to make a canvass in lowa which will
excite the country much. In the gov
ernorship canvass in 1899 the repub
licans had a plurality of 56,000, and
they had a lead of 98,000 for president
in 1900. There does not seem to be
much chance for the democrats to cut
the republican plurality down below
the 50,000 mark this year. If the re
publican lead should be down to 40,-
000 the democrats will be surprised.
The democrats are not claiming lowa
this year.—St. Louis Globe-Demo
crat.
rrp resident McKinley is having a
more restful and agreeable summer
than the presidents of some big in
dustrial corporations. It must be
conceded that on the whole Uncle
Sain &. Co., unlimited, is a very effi
cient, easily managed and altogether
satisfactory concern to do business
with or for. —Cleveland Leader.
IC"Give democracy a chance," says
the Philadelphia Times. Make 'em
stop kicking first and find out what
sort, of a chance the leaders can
agree upon.—Cincinnati Commercial
Triuune.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 , 1901.
THE TREASURY SURPLUS.
Under Republican Control the Got*
eminent Coffer** Are Full
to Overflowiug,
America's solons cut off about $40,-
000,000 of revenue in the recent session
of congress, and then they triumphant
ly said that they had abolished the
surplus. The country at the time was
inclined to believe them. It lias turned
out recently that they were mistaken.
The surplus has not been annihilated,
but is coming up again in rather por
tentous shape. Receipts largely ex
ceeded expenditures in July, the first
month of the fiscal year, which is an,
unusual circumstance, as July is a
month of heavy treasury payments
for bond interest and other things.
August thus far has continued July's
record. Clearly, if this thing keeps on
congress w ill be called onto make an
other attack on the surplus next win
ter in the direction of cutting off more
of the revenues. Most of the war taxes
of 1898 were swept away by the recent
cut in revenues, and one issue which
the democrats thought would be of
service to them vanished. Some more
taxes will apparently have to be abol
ished within the next year of two.
It will be observed that, though we
have a revenue problem on hand at
the present time, and had one last
winter, these are different, from the
troubles which confronted the demo
crats. President McKinley's problem
is to keep the revenue from pouring
out of the tops of the treasury vaults.
President Cleveland's problem was to
get enough money to cover the bot
toms of the vaults. Secretary Gage is
buying government bonds so as to
keepthe surplus down. Secretary Car
lisle sold bonds so as to avert a deficit
which would send the country down to
the silver or greenback basis. There
have been several complaints from
treasury officials in the past year or
two that the gold stock was gettingso
high that, it was becoming a burden.
The plaint in Cleveland's second term
wast hat not only was there not enough
gold in the treasury to keep the fund
up to the greenback redemption line
of $100,000,000, but that there was such
a difficulty in getting gold that the
government was virtually at the mercy
of the money changers. The terms to
which the government had to submit
in getting some of its gold in Cleve
land's days did much to discredit that
statesman in his own party, and aided
to roll up the big republican majority
cast, in 189 G.
Of course, as the present Gen.
Grant once remarked, it is easier to
manage a surplus than a deficit. The
fact that the deficit of the demo
cratic days has been succeeded by a
surplus in this republican period
shows one of the differences between
the financiering and the statesman
ship of these two parties. The de
mocracy creates deficits and debts.
The republican party accumulates
surpluses and cuts down debts or
abolishes them. When the republic
ans came into power in the national
government in 18G1 they found the
treasury empty, although there had
been profound peace throughout the
United States for more than a dozen
years, or since the treaty with Mex
ico in IS4B. Not only was there no
money in tlie treasury, but the demo
cratic attempts to get money in the
last year of Buchanan's administra
tion were a humiliating failure. The
democrats of 18G1 not only be
queathed an empty treasury to the
republicans, but they handed over a
war which lasted four years and
which cost more than any other con
flict in the whole history of the world.
The republicans, although new to
power, raised money enough to car
ry on the war to a successful termina
tion, and then they started into pay
off the obligations which the war en
tailed. These obligations were re
duced to a low figure when the calam
ity of Cleveland's second election
came, which resulted, in a time of
peace, in an increase of $202,000,000
in the interest-bearing debt. The re
publicans are reducing this debt, and
also the burdens caused by the Span
ish war. Webster's magnificent trib
ute to Hamilton as a revenue pro
ducer—"lie smote the rock of the na
tional resources and abundant
streams of revenue gushed forth; he
touched the dead corpse of the public
credit and it sprung upon its feet"
—could truthfully be applied to more
than one of the republican party's
treasury chiefs. —tot. Louis Globe-
Democrat.
I7Mr. W. J. Bryan gives another
evidence of his incurable demagogisin
by denouncing President McKinley
for sending a dispatch of sympathy
to Emperor William on the death of
his mother and not to Mr. Krugcr on
the death of his wife. Sensible peo
ple know that such dispatches are
matters of international comity and
quite devoid of a personal aspect. As
the Transvaal government was never
recognized as independent and as Mr.
Krugcr had no official standing in the
diplomatic world there was no reason
why the president should express of
ficial sympathy for him. If Mr.
Bryan were president the exigencies
of the situation would have required
him to do exactly as President Mc-
Kinley did.—lndianapolis Journal.
ICTMany prominent democrats say
the silver issue is dead without men
tioning trte fiiet that all the rest of
the democratic platform is in a poor
ly condition. —St. Louis Globe»Demo
crat.
IcrEditor Bryan can no more help
giving out advice to the democratic
party than a curculio-smitten plum
can help exuding gum.—Chicago Trib
une.
E?"The democratic party's most
serious drawback is the lack of calam
ity material for platform building.- •
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle,
TWO KILLED, «E INJURED.
lleeord Tlade In u ItHllroHd Acridfnl
on (be Morihern Central ul Fairville*
N. V.
Newark, X. V., Aug. 30.—The no
oomnioda (ion train leaving Sod us
Point over the Northern Central rail
road and which arrives in this village
at ti o'clock was derailed last night at
the Station at Fairville, about ten
miles north <>f here. Engineer Wil
liam Meagher, of Sodus I'oint. was
killed, 28 persons were injured, one
of whom. Howard Tubbs, the ticket
agent at Lake Shore, died soon after.
Libby Ford, of Newark, will probably
die.
The train was made tip at .Sodus
Point and consisted of four coaches, a
baggage car and engine. The train
was running -at nearly 40 miles an
hour. Approaching the station at
Fairville there is a curve and gravel
pit. For some unknown reason the
engine jumped the track while pass
ing the gravel pit. The force of the
accident turned the engine complete
ly around, throwing the five cars on
their sides.
The train load of some 150 passen
gers was thrown into the ditch and
the engine anfl all the cars were bad
ly broken up.
Help was quickly summoned from
the neighboring houses and all the
assistance possible was rendered.
Word was also sent toSodus and New
ark for physicians and a special train
containing five doctors left Newark
at 6:45 o'clock. Upon its arrival the
Newark passengers were placed
on board and sent to Newark. Five
were sent to Rochester hospitals.
Rev. Burgess, one of the injured
passengers, was for 20 years past
pastor of the I'ark Presbyterian
church at Newark. He is 73 years
old, and it is doubtful whether he re
covers. He is badly scalded and his
right leg broken. Mrs. Hurgess is
also among the seriously injured.
The private car of Superintendent
Spencer Mead was attached to the
train. His wife was seriously ill.
The car was derailed, but the occu-
were not injured.
The cause of the wreck is not
known exactly, but it is thought the
rails spread. There hare been heavy
rains recently and probably in this
way the tracks were loosened.
The country near the scene of the
wreck is thickly populated and it was
not long before farmers were driving
from all directions. The injured and
dying were quickly pulled from the
debris and improvised couches were
made up on the grass. Nearly all
the injured were badly scalded by the
bursting of the steam pipes running
under the cars.
UNIFORM RATES.
Fraternal Coiigrrii Drcldrn that All
lla nrinbern Shall Adopt a Certain
Nyttetu of Aaaeannicuta for Death
Benefit*.
Detroit, Mich., Aug. 30. —In view of
the fact that many of the delegates
to the fraternal congress, now in ses
sion here, desired to leavt. for home
last evening the election of officers
was made the special order of busi
ness for Thursday's session. The fol
lowing were elected:
President H. A. Warner, Topeka,
Kan., representing the Knights and
Ladies of Security? vice president,
Joseph S. Langfitt, Pittsburg, su
preme regent of the Royal Arcanum;
secretary, M. W. Saekett, of Mead
ville, Pa. Denver was chosen as the
next place of meeting.
The special committee appointed to
consider the matter then reported a
recommendation that the uniform
rate bill be amended so as to require
fraternal and beneficial societies pay
ing death benefits that may hereafter
be organized, to provide rates not
less than the mortality table in the
bill, and that after July 1, 15»05, it
apply to all other fraternal societies
paying death benefits, organized ami
doing business in each state.
The recommendation further pro
rides that the uniform bill make pro
vision so that each society can de
termine and accept for itself such
plan, whether local rate, step rate or
modification, provision for term in
surance or during so-called period of
dependency, or death assessment, so
long as the results conform to the
requirements of the mortality table
adopted by the congress.
This resolution was offered as a
substitute for the report of the com
mittee on statutory legislation and
provoked a long debute. J. (1. John
son, representing the Modern Wood
men of America, talked for an hour
and a half against change in the rate,
intimating strongly that .112 such a
change was made the Woodmen
might withdraw from the congress.
At the evening session, after much
debate on the subject, A. P. Riddle, of
Kansas, offered an amendment refer
ring the entire question of a uniform
rate to a special committee of seven
for consideration, the committee to
report at the next session of the con
gress. The amendment was over
whelmingly defeated and the commit
tee's report was then adopted by a
vote of 96 to 61. Delegates of the
Modern Woodmen who were inter
viewed after the vote was announced
retifsed to predict yvhht action would
be taken by ineir body as a result of
the congress" action, but did not hesi
tate to express their disapproval of
it.
!Tla<le a New liooord. BHB
Chicago, Aug*. 30. —'World's wagon
record, with an amateur driver, was
broken at Washington park Thursday
by F. 0. Jones, wfeo drove the pacing
gelding Little Boy a mile in 2:03 3-5.
This displaces the former figures of
2:04%. which C. K. C. Billings held
with Free Bond.
A (teniarkahle Accident.
St. Louis, Aug. 30. —In an accident
due to a spreading rail on the South
ern railroad, four miles from East St.
Louis, yesterday, Frank Haefle, chief
car inspector of the road, lost his
life, Elmer Drumm. fireman, was
fatally injured. The accident was
one of the most curious known in the
annals of railroading. Mr. Haefle
was inspecting cars with the aid of a
locomotive. A spreading rail caused
the huge machine to leave the track.
The jar caustd the boiler to explode
with terrific force, covering the men
with broken iron and enveloping
them in a cloud of steam.
THE CALDAS SERUM.
It I« Waeleas aa a Preventive ol Yel
low Fever-derma of tlie lllaeaae are
In the Hlood.
Havana, Aug. 30. —Maj. Jlavard,
chief surgeon, says that, as the yel
low fever commission regards the
experiments with the Caldas scrum
as demonstrations of its usclessncss,
the commission has definitely severed
condition with the Brazilian expert
and will not supervise any further ex
periments conducted by him.
"I)r. Caldas has all along main
tained that he had found the yellow
fever germ in the intestines," re
marked Mai. Havard yesterday,
"whereas all the experiments con
ducted here prove that the germ of
the disease is in the blood, people
having been directly inoculated by
blood infection from a person suffer
ing with yellow fever."
Maj. Gorgas, chief sanitary officer,
made the following statement:
"Some confusion has arisen regard
ing the precise position of the sani
tary department in connection with
the yellow fever experiments. In
March of this year the sanitary de
partment established an inoculation
station at Las Animas for the purpose
of inoculating non-immunes—that is
to say, giving them yellow fever in
order to make them immune. This
was not an experimental station and
is not such, the sole object being to
effect immunization.
"The sanitary department has
nothing to do wit.tithe recent experi
ments conducted by the yellow
fever commission, nor with those con
ducted by the officials sent by the
war department to investigate the
origin and propagation of yellow
fever, although it did supply the Car
roll commission with mosquitos.
"The sanitary department stands
ready to immunize any one who de
sires to undergo the treatment after
the risk has been fully explained. It
accepts the work of Surgeon Maj.
Reed and his colleagues of the army
commission as final and does not de
sire to make further experiments in
this direction. No amount of evi
dence could make more positive the
conclusion that yellow fever can be
conveyed by the mosquito. The per
son who submits to mosquito infec
tion, however, stands better chance
of recovery than one who contracts
the disease accidentally, as the for
mer lias care from the beginning."
A WAf N NG TO RUSSIA.
Ia Told bf Austria-Hungary to Keep
Iler Handa OfT the Balkan Ktatea.
London, Aug. 30. —The Roumanian
premier, M. Sturdza, recently visited
Vienna, where he had long confer
ences with Count (Joluchowski, the
Austro-Hungarian minister of foreign
affairs, on the situation in the Bal
kans. Me also eoiuerred with fien.
Von Beck, Chief of the Austro-llun
garian general staff.
Immediately after this visit, ar
ticles appeared in the semi-official
Hungarian papers—articles believed
in some quarters to be inspired by
Count (jlouehowski—warmly protest
ing against Russia's intrigues in the
Balkans. These protests were based
oil rumors that Russia was massing
troops on the Roumanian frontier
and sending torpedo boats into the
Kilia, an arm of the Danube; and
they plainly warned Russia that, un
less she faithfully adheres to the
Austro-Russian agreement of 1897 to
preserve the status quo in the Bal
kans, Austria "will resume her lib
erty of action."
The idea underlying this warn
ing appears to be that Russia, having
attained her objects in eastern Asia,
is now ready to pursue similar aims
in the Ralkans.
One Berlin n-iner has gone so far
as to describe the agreement of 1897
as "an instrument to keep Austria
quiet while Russia is engaged in Man
churia."
CATHOLIC SOCIETIES.
Thej- Take Ktepa Toward Forming a
National Federation.
New York, Aug. 30.—Bishop Mc-
Faul, of New Jersey, opened the con
vention of Roman Catholic societies
Which met at Long Branch yesterday
to effect a federation of the societies
throughout the United States.
A temporary organization was ef
fected. plaf.s were offered for a con
stitution and form of organization,
and officers and committees were ap
pointed to hold office until a perma
nent organization is effected. The
meeting was well attended by deler
gates from most of the eastern and
middle states, representing organiza
tions having a membership of over
300,000.
It was decided to hold the conven
tion for permunent organization in
Cincinnati, December 10. After the
election of the following officers the
convention adjourned.
President, Henry T. Fries, Erie,
I'a.; vice president. Thomas W. Fitz
gerald, X. Y.; secretary, John J.
O'Rourke, Philadelphia; treasurer, M.
P. Mooney, of Cleveland.
The Winer*' Convention.
Hazleton, Pa., Aug. 30.—With the
adoption of the report of the commit
tee on resolutions, the United Mine
Workers yesterday practically fin
ished their work. The resolutions
recommend written agreements with
all the coal companies, strict compli
ance with the present contract, con
tinuation of the card inspection sys
tem and instruct President Mitchell
and the district presidents to confer
with the coal companies regarding
card inspection and violation of
agreements. These officers are vest
ed with power to declare a strike if
contracts now in force are not lived
up to.
Ttiree OtHclal Head* Chopped OIK
Pittsburg, Aug. 30. —Recorder
Brown last night sprung a big sur
prise on the political world of this
city, by decapitating three official
heads and appointing their succes
sors, who will assume charge at
Mice. The deposed officials are: J.
0. Brown, director of public safety,
to be succeeded by Andrew Fulton, at
present superintendent of highways.
Clarence Burleigh. city attorney, to
be succeeded by William B. Kodgers,
attorney. Robert Ostermaier, delin
quent tax collector, to be succeeded
by William B. Hays, a prominent odl
man. . - .
THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR.
Triennial Conclave l» Held at Loots*
i vllle— A III;; I'orade, a Prl/e Drill
and Klectlon ol Officers,
Louisville, Ky., Aug 1 . 28.—1t is esti
mated that 300,000 people yesterday
witnessed the parade of Knights Tem
plar. Thirty thousand knights in
full uniform were in line, forming an
imposing spectacle with which to
begin the twenty-eighth triennial
conclave. The march covered a dis
tance of four miles. The course was
protected by wires strung along- the
sidewalk to keep spectators in check.
This innovation in handling holiday
crowds was highly successful.
There were 11 cases of prostration
due to heat and exhausion. Sir
Knight Irwin Barnard, of Greenville,
Ind., was overcome while marching.
His condition is reported serious. A
portion of the Y. M. C. A. reviewing
stand at Fourth street and Broad
way collapsed. 'Half a doze npeo
ple sustained bruises, and Mrs. James
Carnahan, of Washington, suffered a
'broken ankle.
Louisville, Ky., Aug. 29.—Colorado
comandery Xo. 1, of Denver, before a
throng of 18,000 people and under the
eyes of a board of judges composed
of three regular army officers and a
representative of the Knights Temp
lar yesterday captured first prize in
the competition of drill teams from
commanderies of the knights. St.
Bernard Xo. 35, the favorite with the
majority of the spectators, took sec
ond place, while Golden Gate Xo. 18,
of San Francisco, and Hanselman Xo.
15, of Cincinnati, came in for third
and fourth prizes respectively.
California commandery Xo. 1 be
ing- the only mounted command, had
no difficulty in capturing the trophy,
for the best appearance and drill on
horseback. The other contestants
were Columbia commandery No. 2,
of Washington, and Allegheny Xo. 35
of Pittsburg.
The drill was the first since 1883,
when Louisville carried off first
honors. The contest took place on
Churchill Downs, the home of the
Louisville Jockey club.
Louisville, Ky., Aug. 30.—Aftur
electing officers and selecting San
Francisco as the place of meeting the
first Tuesday in September, 1904, the
triennial conclave of Knights Temp
lar, which has been in progress here
since Tuesday, adjourned yesterday.
The festivities came to an end with
a magnificent ball held last night.
Henry Bates Stoddard, of Bryan,
Tex., was elected grand commander,
to succeed Reuben H. Lloyd, of Cali
fornia. Col. Cieorge H. Moulton, of
Chicago, was elected to succeed Mr.
Stoddard as deputy grand master.
IS A DANGEROUS CRAFT.
Mliamrock 11. Shotva tbal She Is tho
Siillicsl of All Ibe Kuj{lisli < liallen
gers.
Xew York, Aug. 28. —The Shamrock
11. was given a good long spin on
Tuesday both inside and outside the
Hook. She was tried in windward
work and broad and close reaching.
In fact the challenger w-as given a
run in a breeze that sometimes piped
up to 12 knots. The good opinion
of her speed, merits and ability to
carry lofty canvas was emphasized.
Many yachting experts who saw
her performance call her a wonder
ful boat. All say she is the most
dangerous proposition that has ever
come over the waters hunting for the
America's cup. She had life in her
every minute. She gathers way with
remarkable rapidity, and is quick in
stays, points very high and stands
under a tremendous spread of can
vas like the proverbial steeple. At
no time did she put her rail under,
even when wearing around close
hauled and taking a 12-knot breeze
abeam. With ali this she is a very
beautiful boat under sail and, taken
altogether, is a decided improvement
over the old Shamrock.
The Shamrock covered the nine
miles from the southwest spit to
Owl's Head against the tide of three
knots, in 59 minutes. The run back
over the same course, including six
tacks, was done in 67 minutes.
SUES SIX BANKS.
I'nole Sain Seek* Co Keeover .Honey
Paid Out ou Fraudulent Pension
Vouchers.
Boston, Aug. 28. —Acting under in
structions from the treasury depart
ment Assistant United States District
Attorney Casey has brought suit in
the United States circuit court
against six national banks of this
city to recover money on checks
taken by them.
The sums range from $5,000 down a
sliding scale, the banks affected be
ing the Xational Exchange, the
National Bank of Redemption, the
First national ba-nk, the Xational
Bank of the Commonwealth, the Xa
tional bank of the Republic, the Mer
chants' national and the Atlantic
national. The allegation is that the
banks have paid fraudulent pension
vouchers after having drawn upon
the sub-treasury in this city for the
amount.
The suits are the outcome of the
arrest and conviction of A. W. Mun
son, who died recently in the Rhode
Island state prison, Munson wos
sentenced t-o ten years' imprisonment
for unlawfully making false certifi
cates on pension vouchers and for
fraudulent endorsements. As the
collections were made through
the Boston banks, the United
States government decided to
bring suit against them for the re
covery of the full amount. ,(
Decided Against the Claimant.
Washington, Aug. 28.—Judge Bar
nard, of the supreme court of the
District of Columbia, has decided the
case of Willis Uest vs. the secretary
of the interior, in favor of the gov
ernment. This is one of 11 cases re
cently brought by persons claiming
right to allotments in the lands in
Oklahoma recently ceded by the Kio
wa and other Indian tribes, the
claimants being for the most part
white men and women who have mar
ried Indians. They sought to secure
writs of mandamus compelling the
secretary to recognize their selec
tions. - - '