c—
STUDY OF THUNDERSTORMS
LIGHTNING STROKES IN VARIOUS
PARTS OF THE COUNTRY.
No One Has Yet Devised a Special
Method of Protection For Man in
Thunderstorm—Why so Few Light.
ning Strokes Fall in the Cities.
Probably no other scientific subject
fas s0 much interest for the general
public as that of meteorology. The
work of the Weather Bureau is watch-
ed more closely than that of any other
department of the Government, and
scarcely a newspaper reader fails to
see what it has to say about the
weather. One division of meteorology,
however, has more interest, especially
for women, than any other just at
present, now that the hot season with
its thunderstorms is approaching, and
protection against lightning is a fruit.
ful subject for discussion. This pro
tection has two sides—that of life and
property—one interesting the farmer
more than any other person, and the
other mainly womankind. The discus-
slon over the best means of protect-
Ing buildings from the electric fluid
from the clouds has been going on for
many years, and the lightning-rod
agent has always been the butt of the
cartoonist and the comic paragrapher:
ways been let alone by these worthles,
probably because no one has yet de-
methods of protection for man
thunder-storm.
but that seems to have been disproved
by the United States Weather Bureau,
which has been investigating the sub-
ject for the last dozen ycars. The
subject was taken up in 1890 by the
Bureau in a desultory sort of way, a
country
records of deaths by lightning. Then
the officials at the various weather bu-
reau stations throughout the country
searched the local newspapers and re
ported their facts. As this did not
yield the results desired, a clipping
bureau was employed in 189% and 1900,
and in the two years nearly
clippings were received. he search
was then abandoned, one reason being
the work of classification of the enor-
that no really useful information was
obtained in this way. The result of
the work is given in a paper prepared
ologists of the Bureau, under the di-
rection of his chief, Willis L.. Moore.
as the Bureau was able to learn. 713
persons were killed or received fatal
injuries from lightning in 1900. Of
this number, 219 were killed
open, 158 in houses,
and 56 in barns.
about the rest, 151,
were unknown.
973, of whom 327 received their
barns, and 29 under treees. The
It
very
ing 317 cases occurred is unknown.
is believed that these statistics
nearly show the actual injuries
and it may be accepted as a fact that
700 to 800 lives are lost each year by
lightning stroke. Frem the data ob
tained, it has also been possible to
form some idea of the death-rate due
to lightning in the various States and
Territories. Thunderstorms occur
wits considerable frequency over all
the territory east of the 100th meri-
dian, excepting a narrow strip along
the northern border. West of that me.
the frequency steadily diminishes un-
til it is practically zero at the Pacific
Coast. There are regions of
maximum thunderstorm frequency—
one in the Southeast, with crest
over Florida, one in the middle Mis-
sissippi Valley, and one in the middie
Missouri Valley. The average number
of days with thunderstorms in the
first-named region was 45, in the sec
ond 35, and in the last 30.
three
its
ley and Tennessee. The greatest nim-
ing the wears 1896-1900 occurred
Pennsylvania—186; followed by Ohio
with 135, and Indiana, Illinois. and
New York with 124 each. The great.
east fatality from a single stroke oc-
curred at Chicago, where wleven per-
sons were killed while huddled upon a
pier on the north shore
and other figures the facts are de.
ducted that statistics of deaths by
lightning based upon total population
are not comparable, except for areas
having about the same density of pop-
ulation. It is stated that in general
the death rate by lightning per million
of total population of any section is
about one-half in the cities of what it
is in the rural districts, and that the
more densely populated the districts
the less the rate,
Mr. Henry says that while the belief
is general that the chance of injury
by lightning 1a less in cities than in
the country, it is hard to determine
what the foundation is for such an
idea. It is not surprising that so few
lightning strokes fall in cities when
their area is compared with the Im-
mense territory embraced in the rural
districts. The modern city’s bulldings,
with metallic roofs and steel frames,
are fairly good conductors of electric.
ity, and much less In danger of re
ceiving a damaging stroke of lightning
than an isolated dwelling in the open
country. Then the multiplication of
telephone, telegraph, and electric light
wires in many cities add to the effect.
fveness of silent discharges in rellev-
ing the electric tension during a thun-
der-storm. All this, however, Mr.
Henry declares, {s set at naught if a
cloud with a tremendous store of en-
ergy approaches, and all of the wires
[in ten cities would not prevent it frow
discharging right and left until its
store of energy has been dissipated,
and only then will the danger be over.
OLDER THAN THE INDIANS.
Bones of Prehistoric Men Unearthed
by the Recent Tennessee Floods.
After noticing the more material de-
struction wrought by the recent flood
there are interest and fascination in
studying some of its freaks which ap-
peal more to sentiment and the stu.
dent. Ancient graves were washed
up at several places. The editor visit.
ed one of these Monday. On Dave
Wade's farm, between his residence
and Richland Mills the flood washed
up what is called an “old Indian
graveyard.” The burying place was
located on a knoll rising gently from
the creek and evidently supposed to
be above high water by the prehis.
toric people who buried their dead
there with such care. But all trace
of a graveyard had long since disap-
peared and not even a tradition re
mained among the old negroes in the
neighborhood.
The field was worth $60 an acre
before the flood and last year sixteen
acres, including the old graveyard
produced fourteen bales of cotton.
{ The land had been in cultivation long
| before it came into possession of Mr
Wade, and, as stated, there was
| neither trace nor tradition of a grave
yard,
But when the «k spread
| the bottoms as never before. this knoll
| extending down into the hend of the
creek suffered great destruction by
the swift current flowing across it
| The soll was swept away and when
the flood receded the grav
| posed. We cannot tell how deep the
bodies were originally buried, nor how
many graves are yet uncovered, nor
| how many were swept away,
| no trace,
left exposed
dently graves of
graves of small children
The vaults were f
similar to vaults in
Thin slabs of limestone,
brought from some
acrogs the
ways along
graves are about
in le and ten
wide, indicating that
| buried on
narrow to
the back
who first
the gkelet » ly
The
body had been
vault whic was
flat
thus it
by the mourners
| placed it there
rest undisturbel
cr
evi
are
Some of these we 9
adults and some
somewhat
of today.
rmed
graves
evidently
perhaps
are placed edge
ends. The
two feet to six feet
to sixteen inches
the
as are
a body to lie flat
and
graves
distance
cresk,
the sides and
ngth
bodies
the aide they
permit
i
we persons
Say
the side
in the
other
bury;
xed into the
ing on
placed
covered by
rocks, and was
and loved ones
that the body
to the end of
when the flood exposed these care.
time
prepared vaulty, they were soon
and in the
souvenirs, the t
people were carried away
was found in one grave,
contained nothing 'ut decayed bones.
she Indians who this
country up to about one hundred years
| ago, not usually bury their dead
with such care. They simply opened
a grave, wrapped a blanket about the
dead body, laid it in the shallow grave
i and filled in the earth. Students
ethnology claim this country was
hab..»d by a race of idol
| people, commonly call
Builders,” who were driven out by
Indians mound
of other
ancient
ahsence
these
opened
wones of
occupied
1
did
in
tte "Mound
od
builders
hese
but they
Indian
in respects,
while the
Spiris
Indian
worship
many
i {idols
worshipped the
The graves recently washed up on
the Wade farm may have some con-
nection with a discovery made about
thirty years ago in the bluff on
side of the creek. Dave In-
| mann, who then lived at the Mrs. Hays
| place, went to some dogs that had
{| chased a rabbit into the rocks on the
{ bluff. Among the rubbish he
i two small clay figures, one the form
{of a man, the other a woman. They
Hv
“Great
opposite
or five inches high. —Pulash. Citizen.
| Why Burglars Prefer Quakers as Vie-
tims,
{ occurred in suburban
the past few weeks and that have been
brought to the attention of the local
siderable annoyance, Thelr investiga-
tlon the robberies
fact that in almost every instance the
houge visited
home of a member of the Society of
Friends.
police, but now they think they have
found the reason. They say it is due
to the fact that no Quaker. will keep
firearms in his home. The thieves
know this, and when they set forth on
a suburban expedition they choose
some section peopled largely by
Quakers and confine their depreda-
tions to the homes of the Friends. The
average burglar has a wholesome
dread of a shotgun, and orefers to
enter a house where, while they may
be arrested, there is not one chance
in a hundred of their being shot. —
Philadelphia Telegraph.
I
End of Noted Mustard Seed Case.
The famous “mustard seed case,” the
suit of Henry Runkel va, Robert Dixon,
came to an ending in the Circuit Court
at Kenosha, Wis., when a jury returned
‘a verdict for the plaintiff and fixed his
damhages at $76.26 and the costs of the
action. Four years ago the suit was
started. Runkel! had purchased from
Dixon a large quantity of what he sup-
posed to be rape seed, but which when
sown proved to be wild mustard seed.
The plants came up and the Runkel
far mawas overrun with the wild mus.
tard. He demanded $5,000 damages
and tho case has been In court ever
since. ~—~Milwaukee Sentinel,
¥
of
WHY PLANTS ARE PRETTY.
THE AGENCY OF INSECTS IN MAK.
ING FLOWERS BEAUTIFUL.
Nowhere Else in the Realm eof Life
Can We So at a Glance Perceive
the Interaction Between All Liv-
ing Beings.
The following is an extract from an
article by Prof. N. 8. Shaler, of Har-
vard University, in Harper's Maga-
zine, entitled “The Relations of Ani-
mals and Plants:"
If we watch a honey-be>, or, better,
we may note that he discerns the
sought-for flower afar off.
indicate this from a hundred feet
more away. He knows the
seeks by its gray corolla, which serves
him as well as a tavern sign that
looks up and down the travelled way
serves other wayfarers.
When the bee comes to the place of
business he finds convenient footing
provided by the petals, so that he can
into the center of the cup.
Then he has an immediate reward
in a sip of nectar, and, it may be, fur-
{ ther pay in the store of pollen that
can gathered, balled upon his
thighs and takén to the hive,
As he tumbles about in the flower
| the soon becomes covered with
pollen, which adheres to the short
| hairs on his body, with the result that
some of it is conveyed to the next
blossom that is visited, and serves to
bring about the prontable cross-ter-
| tilization.
As the
the habit of
be
hee
in
of
of
in their round are
spreading the work
any one day on the same kind
plants-—though in the course the
| season they resort to a variety of
{ species-——the pollen they carry about,
though still much of it is wasted is
vastly more effective than If it
| trusted to the chance of the wind.
What we observe in the actions of
| bees they vi simple
| such as a rose, is the beginning
3 1 ‘¥ @
between piants
bees
of
were
as flower,
{ of a series of relations
| and insects which,
i of insects and
| somes, is often
| ed: most noticeably so In
which are contrived with
| the particular
moths or butterflies,
Here we often find very eurious ar
rangements of the corolla, so that the
in
allures it,
i polien fastened
Wun other species
other shapes of blos-
ly elaborat
those plants
reference to
species of
wonderfully
ndert
visits of
seeking the nectar whicn
is sure to have some of the
upon its body in a po
fust will be brushed
the next
| the species which is visited,
The contrivances of the plant are
matched by those of the
way which
{| laboration between
served to give to each group In large
part their shape. and tc the
much of their liigence
It Is evident that
come beautiful b
during ages since
attract the visits
and moths that
have shaped their bodies. their modes
of life and upon their
| profitable relati 8 with the
| Insect
sition where the
{| upon the pistil of flower of
insects in a
4 singular col
them which has
indicates
insects
ints
flowers have be
¥ endeavors
the coal
of bees, but
made
period to
terflies
and these creature:
their instincts
flowers
of
vo how
between
contact
insects and plants
The groups are in two very widely
parted realms, yet out
there
cf their neces
has
led to
come an
a vast enhane
each of taem
from
ntl
sities inter
which has
in the quality of
{ lower life
relations, and the higher intellis
To this interaction 1s mainly aue
{ development of the vast array of in.
| insect species, perhaps two million in
| number, and in hardly measure
| the variety among planta.
em
has won
beauty
logs
Wanted Too Muck.
“Some folks want the earth, ;and
{ that's no lapse from the confines ot
| vamacity,” remarked the head watch
| Jewelry establishment.
months ago the boss handed me one
| house. He sald he wanted ft regu.
| lated and instructed mo to give 12 my
best attention, explaining that If the
timepiece proved satisfactory the
store could dispose of an even dozen
like it to the purchaser, whe repre
| time In the conduct of its business
| chinery and asked the possible pur.
| chaser to carry the watch in his
pocket for several weeks and then
having. He reappeared at the end of
quirements had not been met and
that the sale was off. The boss curt
ly remarked that he did not care for
such trade, adding that any closer
running than had been exhibited by
the watch was well-night impossible,
“No,” concluded the watch maker,
fMdly, “some folks wouldn't be satis-
fled if they handled the switch that
{controls the earth.”—Washington
tar,
Wildfire in Dismal Swamp.
The great Dismal Swamp has again
been afire, but the flames were got un.
! der control. Frightened wild animals,
as well as human beings, were driven
from the boggy fastnesses swept by
wie flames. There is no small game
left in the northern part of the swamp
to speak of.
The budding vegetation was dried
up, and nearly five square miles of the
' mest timber land in the swamp were
a
stumps, the sole evidence of what Sad
been worth thousands of dollars to the
mills,
The high winds that have swept the
coast during the past few days fanned
the fire, and it was only the prevail
ing direction of the gale that drove
the flames outward to the edge of the
swamp, where they died. The flames
illumined the sky for a great distance,
and the woods near the swamp were
impassable for smoke. —Richmond Dis.
THE INSIDE ROUTE,
Hatteras for Coastwise Vessels.
Cape Hatteras, the most dangerous
point upon the “Atlantic seaboard, will
cease to exist as a menace to coast
wise navigation If the present plans of
the United States Government are car-
ried out, the details of which will be
called to the attention of Congress at
the present session, and an appropria-
tion urged for the execution.
For generations the name of Cape
synonymous with
shipwrecks and loss of life.
All sorts of schemes have been pro-
posed to minimize its dangers.
lions of dollars have been spent in at-
tempts to properly light thee
brated Diamond shoals, which
round Cape Hatteras
impossible after years
storms,
of labor to
ed was placed at Diamond shoals only
to de away from her glant
mushroom anchors.
During a!l this
their
ashe ce and milll
of property and hundr of
continued to lost Every
brought a long record of
Cape Hatteras
The sailors coming from
cisco dreaded this ons
any other the
th Horn. The
tried ive it a
has
to
blown
steamers lost
were driven
time
vessels
of dollars’
Learings
18
mM
cus
winter
on
be
disasters
San
in long voyage round
‘ 3
COASIWIRG YeREein
But 1t
permanent menace
to
to g wide bert?
remained as a
more
one
has
commerce on
navigation, and
injure coastwise
sther agency.
i the cape contem-
Atlantic than any
plan to avol
an
practicable
and channels, yy which
trade will be enabled to
Cape Hatteras protected from the fury
of the way down
the sandbars,
ingeni thoroughly
system of inland canals
' coastwise
3 wi and
plates ing and
pass behind
ocean the whole
coast by low-lyin
he Dismal Sw
ditch of co ratively small im-
nee § 1 through its
length {ere b irdered by cy
8, gum and iarge coast
vessels can sail or tow in safety.
now put
Hatteras and
will, it claimed, more
st of towage In this
The saving in time
i the to hu
small
canal, a miger-
to be desnens
magnolia
extra insurance
ships becauss of Cape
its dangers in
for the «
than pay
new inside route
an safety
will be an item of no
ortancs
magnificent fleet of yachts kept
yorthern waters can then pass up
fown the coast ‘n safety. When
ite is finishel a
coastwise transportation
to take place
passage from Boston to
officials to be
of the future.
as the
in this
a
ked at
The }
first ane step
PENNSYLVANIA
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Special Dispatches Boiled Down for
Quick Reading,
PATENTS AND PENSIONS GRANTED
Two Killed and Twenty-Five Hurt in a Trolley
Ditaster— State's Claim to Be Paid by the
Goverament.. Wasbiogton Bask Merger
Alighted on a Tree Top Lightaing Bolt
From a Clear Sky—Sesks “Doctored” Meat
Pensions granted : Robert Elliott
Pitcairn, $8; John F. Price, Wilkins
burg, $12; Pnoch Hugg. Philipsburg
$10; Frederick Ott, Pittsburg, $12; jos
eph T. Guthrie, Reynoldsville, $12; Geo
F. Fleegle, Hope Church, $30; Nicholas
Ahles, Carrollton, $12; Joseph Shook
New Castle, $8: John Thomas, Windber
$8; Theodore Lebarron, Grand Valley
$12; Alexander C. Rohback, Mifflinburg
$10; George F. Aer, Pittsburg, $12; Jas
H. Powers, Allegheny, $12: John Mates
Turtle Creek, $8; Ellen Roberts, Brad
ford, $8; Margaret Anstadt, Boone, $8;
Mary Wiland, Blandsburg, $8; Margaret
Himmel, Carrollton, $8: Hannah A. Al
ston, Allegheny, $8; Clara EF. Dennis,
Turbulville, $8; Caroline Baner, Pitts
burg, B
Patents granted: Robert M. Downie
Jeaver Falls, drilling machine;
Buroth, Uniontown, wheel: Bertrise R
Hogan, Erie, sectional Washing-
D. Keyes, Blairsville, lehr for
nealing plate glass: Herbert Kintz an
H J Lennard, Sharpsburg, wrench
Thomas Lindsay and L. L. White, Wil
lamp hanger; William J. Long,
adder ;
merding,
Pleasant,
ompound,
Rehn
Loui
system
D
separating
George i
fastener
Lansford, block s i
Roll, grate
bond; Ananias Mt
fluxing and
Soyer
Riebe
John J
ores;
ne :
aatron front and
*¥h Ey 7 PRIM
ames lracy and W doll
3 controlling mecha
r heaters: Jo
garment stretcher
War Dep: rin
r Stone a wa
nt bacl
General
was in settlement
overnment
art did not
i of the cf
jured mn an ac
zareth Street
gent
and
of veasels
the
the
passage of
contemplated in
made, is simply a
channels through
larger class
now
as
being
of dredging
survey
matter
narrow strip of land which forms Cape
its north and south
ag>, is considered
and most easy
harbors on the
pass into the Elizabeth River at Nor.
folk and thence down tho
one of the safest
of access of all the
const
bor.
When the improvements contemplat-
ed are made it is probable that the
“inside route” will be continued below
Beaufort inlet. This will give ine
United States the greatest stretch of
protected water ig the world. It will
be valuable in war time, as small war.
ships and whole fleets of torpedo
boats can pass from northern waters
almost to the gulf without once go-
outside. Washington Evening
Star.
Dentistry Through a Mole in a Sheet.
“The Nawab of Rampur, which place
is about 1,000 miles to the northwest
of Calcutta, came down from his home
to call on us,” said Dr. D. 8. Smith, of
Calcutta. “He brought 150 people
with him the whole 1,000 miles just to
see about getting his mother's teeth
fixed. She wanted a set of false teeth
and because every English woman had
two sets the maharima must have two
sets also. The Nawab of Rampur is
a Mohammedan, so, of course, the
mother could not show her face. Like.
wise on that account I had to go to
Rampur to do the work. Two thou.
sand miles to make two sets of false
teeth. Well, it cost the Nawab 4,000
rupees. The old woman—she was a
grandmother, as is almost every older
woman in Indla-—lay back with her
face covered up and I worked at her
mouth through a hole in a sheet." ~
Louisville CourlerJournal.
The yearly interest upon France's
debt 1s equal to $4.20 for every. mam,
woman and child in France.
home 1
about 1
when policeman
Hanson was found dead
seen
later entered
hotel
A blind horse belonging to Watson
coal operators, Beaver Falls
over a precipice near the edge
of the pit mouth, and went crashing to
The animal
The
by
smashed into kindling wood
driver, [Thomas Wood, escaped
jumping and alighting in a tree top
The stockholders of the Title Guar.
mngton, voted to merge the two institu
tions. The new concern will be known
as the Washington Trust Company and
will have a capital of $300,000
The commencement
Beaver Falls High School took
Wednesday. The class members were
Ivy Chandley. Clara Behnaman, Eliza-
beth Craig. Stella Bliner. Edna Peirce,
Vera Hamilton. Howard Douds and
Thomas Moorhead.
Col. David C. Keller died at his home
in Reading, aged 63. He served with
distinction during the Civil War and
was prominent in Grand Army and Ma-
sonic circles. He was formerly commis.
sioner of Berks county
Pure Food Commissioner Cope has
directed that suits be commenced against
three meat dealers in Pittsburg, whose
names are withheld, for using sulphite to
preserve sausage and chopped meat
While harrowing his farms Elwood
Barnes, of Doylestown Township, found
a piece of beautifully marked flint, sev.
en and a quarter inches long, two inches
broad and an inch thick. It resembles a
tomahawk or hatchet. The blade is con.
vex and has thirteen notches cut in it.
Water impregnated with sulphur,
flowing from several mines from which
the pumpmen were withdrawn, has kill
ed many fish in the Nescopeck Creek.
Rev. Harry C. Kline, pastor of St
ohn's Lutheran Church, preached the
ccalaureate sermon to the graduates of
the Hamburg High School.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has withdrawn its passenger train service
from the Clover Creek Branch in Blair
county, inhabitants of the towns
of Royers and Creminea, after being ac
customed to railroad travel for twenty
years, are again dependent upon stage
coaches to get to the outer wotld.
of the
place
excraises
COMMERCIAL REVIEW,
Genera! Trade Conditions.
Jradstreet’s says: “With almost uni-
formly good wheat, corn, oats and cot-
ton crop reports, improved retail demand
caused by warmer weather, a full vol-
ume of re-order business for this sea-
of the year, good collections and
heavy railroad earnings, the only cloud
on the situation would seem to be the
continued unrest of labor and the idle-
of large numbers of industrial
workers as a result thereof
Wheat is slightly lower on good crop
reports, but straightened supplies of corn
and oats make holders confident. Corn
supplies are half those of
and 60 per cent. of the stock
Cotton was depressed
rt selling, but ral-
lied later. Hog products generally are
rather easier, lard 1s lower and butter is
also off.
Business failures for the week number
152, as against 190 last week, 192 this
week last year, 167 in 1900, 158 in 1899
and 1Bg8. Failures in Canada
number 17, as against 22 last week, and
24 a ago. Clearings aggregate
$50,379,887 gain of B per cent. over
ast Over
SON
ness
(
visible only
iast year s,
15 in Chicago
carly on confident she
in
231 in
year
s 1.
week and of 30 per cent las
Jia
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$2002.50 do,
xd, per
nd
Prints,
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Cheese «New York State cheddars,
flats, 1134a12¢c: do do
Ohio-—Flats, 19%ar1c;
Skims, gatoc. Swiss
do do
Live
roosters
Joatac; w
12%ar3c: old
spring chickens
per 1b, 1Ba2ac:
Ducks, 10a13¢c
steers, association and
salters, late kill, 60 Ibs and up. close se
lection, 11a12¢; cows and light steers, 814
aoc.
poultry. —Hens,
cach, 2%a30C;
mnter chickens
Hides—Heavy
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Chicago Cattle — Choice steady to
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prime steers $7.00a7.55; poor to medium
$s.00a6.75: stockers and feeders $27%a
5.25: cows $1.50a6.00; heifers $2.50a6.50;
canners $1.50a2.30;: bulls $2350a4360:
calves $2 30a7.00; Texas-fed steers $5.50
a68s. Hogs—Mixed and butchers’ $6.00
a7.27%; good to choice heavy $7.15a7.15;
rough heavy $6.9%a7.15; light $6.70a7.00;
bulk of sales $6.0%a7 20. Sheep—Choice,
steady :good to choice wethers $57
6.25: Western sheen $2.7%a6.25: native
lambs §$35.00a700; Western lambs $5 25a
700; Colorado lambs $7.22
East Liberty —Cattle steady: choice
$6.05a7.25; prime $6 50a6 80; good $580
a6.50. Hogs steady; prime heavy hogs
$7.40: mediums $7 20a7.25: heavy York-
ers $7.1507.20; light Yorkers $7.03a7.10;
pigs $6.00a7.00: rough $680. Sheep
hi prime wethers $sfoasBo: culls
and common $2350a3.350: choice fambs
$6.7%a7.00; veal calves $7.00a%.%0.
LABOR AND INDUSTRY
St. Paul's Building Exchange refuses
a recognize the Building Trades Coun.
Ci
New York plumbers and gas fitters
ro receive $4.25 a day, commencing
uly 1.
E. E. Schmitz, the labor mayor of San
Francisco, says he is not a candidate for
Governor. .
Efforts are being made to induce Con-
gress to pass a bill establishing a govern-
ment type foundry. The Intetnational
J ypogra | non is reported to
ng the initiative in the matter.