THE WORLD'S PEACE
15 THEIR OBJECT
Internat’onal Congress Opens In
Carnegie Hall.
WILLIAM T. STEAD AS A KNOCKER.
Formal Opening of the Peace Congress
Before a Brilliant and Cosmopolitan
Audience—Andrew Carnegie and His
Party Arrive Late, as Their Train
From Pittsburg Was Delayed.
New York (Special). .—With repre-
gentatives of the leading of
the world present, the National Ar-
bitration Congre was
formally opened Sunday
Carnegie Hall before an
that taxed the capacity of the spaci-
ous auditorium.
Two strange hung the
stage. They were silk Stars and
Stripes set into a field of white satin,
which enclosed the emblem on all
glides. A golden angel, bearing in one
hand a palm leaf, supplanted the
usual war eagle or pike head on the
staff, broad bands of white inscribed
with the golden word
suspended from the
gle. This is the
come—the united
erated nations of
tening of whose coming the
tional peace conference has met.
Directly in front of Andrew Car-
negie’'s box in the first tier hung the
vellow flag of Scotland, with the
roaring lion clawing the
box. itself was typical
the nal peace
stars broad hanging
white the eagles and arr
the shield were
screened 1 inno
brotherhood.
Carnegie Came Late,
nations
and Peace 58
night in
audience
flags over
“Peace,”
feet of the
of the state
states of the
for the
first
an
1+
ley or
has-
na-
peace
the edge of
The stage
epoch of etern Silver
sprinkled
and
American
the
WW Hous
By a mishap to
Mr. Carnegie, who
sided, and the legates appointe
by the Emperor
many of those f
and E
master s
Carnegie
week,
riving late,
after the
well under
The mu
torio Society
rermany
Jeligiu
Ins
were not
orel
ing pe«
whic h were
was
the
the
In
some of the men wi
in the deliberations
ference
Emil G.
Henry C
Dr. Frederick
Peabody,
Dr
Hir
Books IT
E
Charles
Rabbi Hirsch's
Hirsch, of CC}
first speal :
in good
VAddre
Rabbi .
La DD 1ICAKO,
ker of the ening
voice an r
tinetly heard in th
in part:
ry, like
awakenin
among
odies singing
sounding the rash } lashing
swords, the whir and stir of flying
Arrows. It is the m of
War’ whom it invokes
and to read the si
universe's revolving
¥
‘God
in
the
and changeful
sceneries the Hebrew bard's lyre
rows symbol and sign
and contest. Stars are an arms
forth nightly raid def
stormcloud’'s daring minions. Tide
and tempest, roaring sea and raven-
ous abyss are glant warriors leaping
to the fray. Thus mythology
nascent nation’s vivid
and procia
gnificance of
Dor-
from camp
ant
n
n to ea
memories
other to lend glamor to the horors of
the man-wasting battleground.
“But in the noontide fulness of the
nation's maturity Judah's muse and
ecstasy gives a vision of purer and
softer tints and tones They sing of
peace, They prophesy of swords
turned into plow shares. They plet-
ure God enthroned as judge over the
dwellers of his footstool. His de-
cisions render superflous the appeal
to arms. The art of war {8s forgot-
ten in consequence. Not as one des-
tined to snatch his laurel fron
torrent of blood, but as
the palm undefiled by grime of mur-
der, they name and hail the future
ruler of their nation ‘Prince of peace.’
“The consecration of Israel's pro-
phetic assurance is upon us. The
glad day of its fulfilment ig nearing.
Let them doubt who will. Ours is
forevision.”
Attorney Sent To Prison,
Washington, (Special), — Among
the prisoners sent from this city to
the Moundsville (W. Va.) Peniten-
tiary was Thomas M. Fields, an at-
torney, who was sometime ago con-
victed of embezzlement of the funds
of the Washington Beneficlal Endow-
ment Association, of which he was
receiver, dnd sentenced to five years’
imprisonment at hard labor. Flelds
carried his appeal to the Supreme
Court of the United States, but with-
out avail.
Strawberries Nipped.
Wilmington, N. C. (8pecial).—It
is believed that great damage has
been done to strawberries and vege-
tables In the Wilmington trucking
belt by the continued cold of the
past two nights. Sunday the mini-
mum temperature was but four de-
grees above freezing, and even more
severe weather is predicted by the
weather buréau, with a heavy frost,
which might prove disastrous to
many crops. Snow ig reported within
i 40 miles of Wilminetnn
Domestic.
Editor Stead's announcement in
his speech at the Carnegie Institute
dedicatory ceremonies of his plan for
raising $100,000 for a pilgrimage
from all countries to The Hague
Peace Conference met with ready re-
sponse, Silver coins were showered
upon the stage by the audience, and
representatives of a number of col
leges promised contributions,
The joint congressional postal
commission, after a session in New
York, a statement expressing
the opinion that great economies can
be effected by establishing modern,
up-to-date business methods in con
ducting the business,
Frederick Pabst,
brewer, and Mrs. Leon larnickel,
wife of an athletic instructor,
seriously injured in an automobil
accident at Milwaukee,
The Appellate Division if the N
York Supreme Court granted
tion to dishar Burnham,
who was convicted of a felony,
The Protestant Episcopal Church
Congress, at New Orleans, discussed
the right of the preacher to discu
social questions in the pulpit
The Appellate Court in Chicag
declared the publie policy forbids the
| recovery of insurance on a person ex
| etuted for murder.
Distinguished diplomats
| catorsg from several
the dedicatory
Carnegie
{ President i
i and Mr. Carnegie n de Con
i stant ( French Of
lague Peace Tribunal) delivered ad
issues
a
Were
a mo
George
and edu-
attended
of the
*ittsburg.
nt a 1
nations
ceremonies
Institute nt
Roosevelt LS
and
sentative
elie
aro
repre
a
Fred
tenced
life by
Schultz, veg
to Auburn
Arthur
tice
cotton comp
together
Chinese
star
whom
ving
are dying
are the conditions
exchang their babes
ing
Robert Mac-
B.,
Colonial
feutenant General Sir
or Stewart, K. C
to the British
i ation as governor and com
-chief of the colony
has ten-
Office
iii
mander of Ber-
muda
A
received from the
dated at
cablegram
fcan
A
announces
mer
Managua,
Amapala has
Bonilla and that
American war is ended
fs reported that King Edward
King Victor Emmanuel, who
respectively left the Balearic
consul,
that
been
the
{ letta, Island of Malta.
| A demand for the exclusion from
kthe Douma of three Socialist depu-
{ tiles pending their trial for political
offenses caused intense excitement.
The Swiss Parliament adopted a
bill providing for a new military or-
ganization which, it is expected, will
greatly strengthen the army.
A Brazillian squadron left
nambuco for Hampton Roads to take
part in the inauguration of the
Jamestown Exposition.
The corporation of
| accepted an invitation to send
deputation to Chicago for the pure
pose of inspecting the sanitary con-
ditions of the packing-houses and
stockyards.
Threatened revolution in Salvador
and Guatemala, started at the sug-
gestion of President Zelaya, of Nica-
ragua, will complicate the Central
American situation.
Mrs. Grace Redpath, widow of
Pater Redpath, of Montreal, who
died in London recently, left $150,
000 to McGill University, Montreal.
Four hundred thousand Chinese
are now being kept from starving by
foreign relief,
The ministerial situation in Bel
glum is again acute, and it is said
the ministers have offered the King
their resignation.
Emile Benoist, a banker, was shot
and killed in the office of a financial
paper in Paris of which he was the
editor,
The Russian Minister of Marine is
urging the hastening of the con-
struction of the improved type of
battleship.
The British torpedo-boat destroy-
ers Colne and Falcon were badly
damasoad In a apllision
Glascow
SEVEN FOR CONVICTION
FIVE FOR ACQUITTAL
The Cosing Scenes In The Thaw
Case.
JURY WAS HOPELESSLY DIVIDED.
Jerome Declares He Will Fight Propo-
sition to Bail Out ‘lhaw, and
Prisoner Will Probably Spend Sum-
mer in Jail-Jury Wide Apart on
First Degree.
HOW THE JURY STOOD.
On the
stood eight
in the
r acquitt
sanity.
Some
meet
first ballot the jury
for conviction of mur-
first and four
al on the ground of in-
degree
i
¢
10
were willing
on
foul
they
the eight
four half
verdict, but
alter the vie
Of
the Way HY
the
WH
to
compromise
refused to
held.
The four favoring acquittal
won the «
who had
Thi
jury wa
ally over one of
believed Thaw
called for
the
guilty,
by th
of this
document
evidence
at
160 furor
request
the
Thaw
oring
for
fur and
urned his vote to
Six f the ight con
man-
av
viction
aughter,
Th 1ighout ballots
!
four n waver from acquit-
1 four
id one alwavs Fé i’
On }
aver
CON~
final ballot the
for conviction
DEFENDS THE UNIFORM.
Department Anxious To Remove Slur
Cast Upon Soldiers,
The
Department determined to
to the end of its
effort remove
the uniforms of
the
local magistrate
Y.., that Sergeant
soldiers who
skating rink
warranting
War
pursue
Washington (Special)
ia
th
t! ©
decision
to slur cast upon
American sol-
last January
at Plattsbure,
Higgins and
yanied a
that town
the impo-
dier by
if a
N
the
uklis
pubic
ad
accom to
n
no case
tors of the place
Thursday Acting Secretary Oliver
wrote a letter to the Attorney Gen-
eral asking his help in the prosecu-
tion of this case The
General ig requested to give an opin-
fon upon the point whether or not,
of the rink were
subject to penal punishment,
can be reached by a suit
for monetary damages. In case of
affirmative answer the Depart-
of Justice is requested to au-
the proper attorney for the
United States to appear for the sol-
diers in the prosecution of the case
that the keepers
ment
King Of Margarine Dead,
The Hague (By Cable). — The
Avondpost announces the death at
the age of 88 of Simon Vanden-
bergh, founder of the Margarine fac-
tory, known throughout the world.
The King of Margarine, as he was
called, began business as a small
shopkeeper. He was a philanthropist
and poor, persecuted Jews never
sought his ald in vain when leaving
Rotterdam for America,
Haymarket Juror Kills Himself,
Chicago (Special) .—Principal Jas.
H. Brayton, of the Raymond public
school, committed sulcide at his
home, shooting himself in the head.
111 health is believed to have been the
cause. Br. Brayton had been con-
nected with the Chicago schools for
thirty years. He was prominent so-
clally and In Masonic circles, and
was a member of the jury whick con-
yicted the Haymarket Anarchists in
188
RNED GUARD ON ROAD
In or-
means
Pittsburg,
to and
stopping the epidemic of train wreck-
ing officials of the Pennsylvania met
here in conference at the office of
Superintendent Long, for the Pitts-
burg Division. President McCrea
was also in the conference part of
the time by long-distance phone from
Philadelphia. After the meeting the
following authorized statement was
made:
“At a meeting of the officials of
the lines both east and west, held
here to discuss both wavs and mean:
of getting at the train wreckers, |
was decided that tracks must
patroled and even, if neces:
put armed guards on each and every
100 yards from New kK
Chicago will 1 done in
to wreckers,
further of the
that the
Railroad
trial
Pa. (Special).
der devise ways for
ary,
track
This
the
sense
of
eo
to
d it
get at an
the
once
the Pennsyly
put back
10
caught entire
of
be
effort convict A
was decided b
assage a bil
lature which
for train v
ania
of 1eir
nd,
© vork for
of 1
money
Every
Penneylv:
every pi:
PEACE PROBLEM,
Slow Progress Being Made In Wash-
ington,
ata
results
Pipe Explodes,
Ra . .
Tonawanda
there
hoth hi Veg were bl
we flattened
ii ont
) partly torn off
ana
#Cai]
AT THE NATION'S CAPITAL
Some Interesting Happenings Briefly
Told.
He will die
The monument to the Rough Rid-
ere in Arlington Cemetery dedi-
cated President made an
address at the ceremony, touching
mainly on patriotism and good citi-
Was
Roosevelt
The
Navy
joint board of the
has determined to establish
the person-
fortifications of
Army and
of the seacoast
SECOND GRAND JURY
Congressman George K. Fawrot Is
Set Free.
HE KILLED DR. RH. ALDRICH.
Judge of the Louisiana Court.
aton Rouge,
Congr
a in}
(8pecial)
(ioorg
Wis of
all contis
nonths
der
11
i
"
hI
ur
1
will say nothing upon the ques-
of railroad
trol in his address at the opening of
Attorney General Bonaparte made
an argument before the Supreme
Court In the employers’ liability
cases and his address closed the hear-
ing
The raliroads are reported to have
practically abandoned their plan to
raise freight rates.
Representatives Binger Hermann,
charged with destroying public rec-
ords, clung tenaciously to his forin-
er denials that he had rallroaded
the Benson-Hyde-Dimond patent
cases through the department upon
the request of the late Senator Mit-
chell.
The Secretary of Commerce and
Labor has ordered a general inquiry
into the management of the various
immigrant stations throughout the
country.
Brigadier General Walter T. Dug-
gan was placed on the retired list.
The State Department announced
officially that the treaty being nego-
tiated between Great Britain and the
United States was confined entirely
to the question of fresh-water fishery
and the use of boundary waters, not
including St. Johns River. It has
been practically completed.
The Interstate Commerce Com-
raission has divided the country into
districts, minor complaints from var-
fous sections to be heard by differ-
mnt eammieelnnare,
the on
ender
and
CH Us
pered rumors ha
nave
rency
“unwritten
was the backbone of
claimed that
certain remarks
which resulted in
Aldrich Favrot's
Aldrich the author
remarks about Mrs Favrot
called for an application of the
written Jaw.” and that
The written statement of
Favrot’'s lawyers, November
only authentic ¢
the tragedy
Was
an
the
WAL of
Oniy
Judge
9, is
ie
the gtatemen
since In full it
“Judge Geoge K. Favrot, by ad-
of hig counsel, will not
any detailed statement at this
but he authorizes us to say that
killing of Dr. R. H. Aldrich
from his persistent circulation
such
Favrot
which were of
character as to force Judge
act, and that complete
tion for such action will be
rot's wife,
shown
Poisoned Her Baby.
Memphis, Tenn., (Special).--~The
police report that after poisoning
her two-year-old baby, Mrs. Clarissa
Gold, aged 22 years, attempted sul-
cide by swallowing a portion of the
same drug. The child died while
being conveyed to a hospital, and
the woman's condition is serious.
Despondency over domestic affairs is
believed to have prompled the act.
Washington Ignorant Of It.
Washington (Special) "We know
absolutely nothing of the matter
here,” sald Secretary Loeb, when
his attention was called to the Chris
tian a dispatch published saying that
a local newspaper there had announc.
ed that President Roosevelt, who was
awarded the Nobel peace prize last
year, will have to deliver a lecture
in Christiania in March, 1908, in
order to comply with the rules affect.
{ne the holders of the Nobel orizes,
ss p—
ing Day.
Grounds,
1
ial)
Lxpe
Jamestown
He
of
buildings
E X10
ads,
Fwo-thirds
t r
Own
ition con
pleted,
Delay Caused By Lack Of Funds.
Gre Wa ‘ ¢
Transportation Could Be Better.
e office of Mr. W, E
wu 4)
ill
$5
a over
g of not too even roadbed
Traction ng
crowded out of a seat or comfortable
n by the no 1 travel
en and ssionaries
wople have
De
anding
of work
The T
arranged
roads
which
two trol
promise ¢
to run on
ag i=
yout
roo?
Raf ad 1
transfer
direct
hel;
pe
idewater
{io CArs of all
Exposition
There
working,
ifficient rolling
or
considered safe
companies have
pplied for permission to land at the
plier, and other which
inte shallow seven
tide, with two
land at ercial
other
gro
rrounds,
will
un sSOMmoe
ley lines
A if &
a two-minute
gchedule,
umerous steam!
deep-sea
can go
feet at
feet will
pier.
boats
water
a tide
the com
low of
y
m
IN THE FINANCIAL WORLD.
Harriman was re-elected president
of Southern Pacific
The Bank of England reduced its
4% per cent.
All advices from Wall Street were
to the effect that business on the
Exchange was entirely professional.
There is an entire lack of public buy-
ing. ,
A big drop in the price of Rio
Tinto, the biggest copper mine of
Europe or the whole world, indicates
the feeling about the copper metal
market abroad
Mayor Reyburn, of Philadelphia,
was consulting bankers with regard
to the city's $13,500,000 loan, the
rate of interest on which ig to be in-
creased from 33% to 4 per cent.
A number of leading Philadelphia
banking firms are lending call money
at 6 per cent.
It is proposed to increase the size
of the Executive Committee nf Union
Pacific in order that Harriman may
not continue to have sole control of
that company’s affairs.
80 far this year the shipments of
coal and coke on the Pennsylvania
lines east amounted to 14,822,000
tons, an increase of 364,000 over the
same period in 1906. This gain is
considerable less than the gain of last.
vear over 1805