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CURRENCY BILL”
15 NOW A. LAW
The Filibuster Broken By a Clever
Coup.
PRESIDENT PROMPTLY SIGNS BILL
Blindness of Senator Gore Gave the
sistance of Vice President Fairbanks,
Made It Possible to Secure the Be-
ginning of a Rollcall.
Washington, D. C. (Special) —It
{s now the Aldrich-Vreeland Currency
Law. The formidable Lafolette fili-
buster was broken in the Senate Sal-
urday afternoon in a twinkling. It
was done by a trick, the like of
which had never before been wit-
nessed. The dramatic scenes attend-
ing thereon were hardly concluded
before the necessary signatures of
the Speaker and the Vice President
were attached. And before the ink
from the pens of those distinguished
signers was dry the President arrived
from the White House and wrote at
the bottom of the parchment:
‘‘Approved, Theodore Roosevelt."
The breaking of the ifiibuster
promises to become historic. The in-
firmity of the blind senator from Ok-
lahoma, Mr. Gore, was utilized to
make the coup effective. Senator
Aldrich, of Rhode Island, however,
laid the wires. Vice President Fair-
banks, as the Senate's presiding offi-
cer, was an indispensable ally. For
+ verbially amiable and considerate of
senators in his rulings, wielded his
gavel with an iron hand. No czar of
the House ever surpassed him. With
clamored in determined tones, the
Vice President ignored all but Sena-
tor Aldrich. He overruled points of
order and thus forced the bill to its
final passage.
The Trap Sprung.
Senator Gore had been making an
impassioned speech, which held the
close attention of the galleries and
alike of numerous senators. Senator
Stone, of Missouri, who had preceded
and expected to follow him, had just
been at the Oklahoman’'s elbow. He
could go on the moment Senator Gore
concluded. Senator Lafollette, hav-
ing enjoyed a sound sleep after his
to the Capitol, but was in his com-
mittee room.
later, when Senator Stone
hausted hig vocabulary. Unable
ed his peroration and supposing that
Senator Stone was still nearby, sank
into his seat.
“Il demand the yeas and nays,” said
Mr. Aldrich like a flash. Before any-
one could get a word
the reading clerk, who was in
secret, had called the first name and
Senate bells were ringing for a vote,
The rules pohibit a debate while a
roll call {s in progress.
name has been called it
and he responded with feverish alac-
rity—the filibuster was broken.
other filibusters.
stepped into the
Senator Stone had
tor Aldrich’s allies—where he
being detained by conversation.
avail.
to kill
session.
The foundation for these proceed-
ings had been shrewdly laid.
The opportunity had passed
currency legislation at
tartan of long service
could have succeeded.
day Senator Aldrich
to secure an order that when the vote
as a
was taken it call.
preliminary would have
ficient time ordinarily for
position to start another speech.
had been forgotten when
be by roll
not informed about the plot.
The Climax.
The bill carried 43 to 22.
Democrat voted against it
to expectation, four Republicans,
Borah, Bourne, Brown and Heyburn,
Joined with them. If was announced
that Kittridge and Hansborough, ab-
sentees from the Dakotas, would have
voted no if present. Senator Lafol-
Every
having voted for the bill he filibus-
tered against. He declared that he
was doing so only that he might
qualify for a motion to reconsider.
A Double Tragedy,
Bangor, Me. (Special). — Murder
gad suicide ended the infatuation of
R. G. Keith for Mrs. Elizabeth
Ready. Lying together on the par-
lor floor in the woman's house, their
bodics were found by Mrs. Ready’s
daughter. Keith, who Is married
and has grown children, had long
pursued Mrs. Ready. It is believed
that she again repulsed him, and that
he shot her dead and then put a bul-
3,608 Bills Passed By Conrgess,
Washington, D. C. ( Special) Up
to Tuesday 3,668 bills and resolu-
tions passed at the present session
of Congress have been enrolled and
nearly all of them have been signed
by the President. Of this number
2,695 are House bills and 973 are
Senate measures. The President has
been busy during the week singing
the bills and he is nearly up with
Congress in this regard.
Played With A Rattle,
Conn, of Lexington, Ky., salesman
for a law book concern, died of a
rattlesnake bite suffered in the cafe
at the
Conn, who was formerly a civil engi-
neer in Arizona, sald he was a snake
charmer, and took the reptile out of
its exhibition case in a spirit of
bravado. He was bitten twice. He
became unconscious in a few min
utes, and was taken to a hospital,
He raved until deat’ ended his suf.
fering.
HILARITY IN HOUSE
SOLENNITY IN SENATE
Congress Ends at Midnight May
- 30, :
Washington, D, €. (Special) Just
10 minutes, oficially, before the
hands of the big, round clock in
the chambers of the two houses of
Congress pointed to the hour of
midnight the first session of the Six-
tieth Congress came to a close. *
In the House the closing hours
were characterized by singing of
songs by Republicans inh honor of
Speaker Cannon, and by Demoerats
in the interest of William J. Bryan.
The excitement, which was great at
times, finally subsided, and the ses.
sion closed with general good-fei-
lowship among the members,
The Senate was extremely quiet
during the closing hours, held to-
gether only by the necessity of re-
malning in session for the engrossing
and signing of bills.
The last days of the Senate will
be memorable on account of the fili-
buster of Messrs. Lafolliette, Stone
and Gore against the Emergency Cur-
j rency Bill, by the remarkable inter-
| pretations of the rules which go far
| to establish cloture In a body note-
{ worthy for the freedom of debate,
|and by the final passage of the Cur-
| rency Bill,
| DEAD AT THE THROTTLE.
i
{| Overland Limited Sped 60 Miles An
i Hour Past Danger Signals,
| Chicago (Special). —The Overland
| Limited, fastest train of the Chi-
cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Rall
| road system, ran at full speed of
| nearly 60 miles an hour over inter.
{locking switches and past
{ near Byron, Ill, with Engineer Al-
{ flccr and no controlling hand on the
{ throttle, the train with a hundred
| passengers abroad narrowly missing
ia smashup,
{ Officials of the railroad heard the
story, as told by Fireman
Nash,
San Francisco
throttle in
Near Davis
the
health
Byron,
with Gauvins at
apparently good
Junetion, at
the right of way of another road.
iwas flying
{tracks at top
{adverse set
ACTrOss
speed,
signals
switches
unmindful
Just as
ler road a heavy train
across in the rear. Nash leaped back
into the engine cab and discovered
| Gauvins' body lying on the
i The train was stopped and
i called.
An examination
gineer was dead as the result
hemorrhage of the brain
| some delay another engineer was ob-
i talned and the train proceeded. Gau-
vins had been in the service of the
{ road about 25 years
help
showed the en-
oO { a
1,000 LIVES LOST.
| The Terrors Of Typhoon And Flood
In China.
B. C. (By
Shinono, of Japanese
line, which just arrived here, brought
of disaster through
Hankow following
Victoria, Cable),
steamer the
i News another
typhoon at
the loss of more than 1.600
ing several of the foreign river craft
The typhoon came sudddenls
boats in the Kan River to splinters
Steamers broke away from
| get up steam quickly escaped
{ aged
{ The shores were thick wi
of river people
covered before
i Shanghai
! News was also brought of 8 great
| coal mining disaster in Kwang
{ where 1,000 lives were lost
| the mine took fire
i
]
th corpses
Hundreds were
the steamer left
ad
Sues For Doghite,
Newport, R. 1
— The
{ Special)
against Mrs. Francie O. French,
brought to recover $10,000 for
Juries alleged to have been sustained
by the plaintiff by reason of an at-
tack by a large dog. the property
of the defendant. Mrs. French is
the mother of Elsie French Vander-
bilt, who recently secured a divorce
from Alfred G. Vanderbilt.
Nearly Killed By Japs,
Vancouver, B. CC. (8pecial).—
Eighty infuriated Japanese nearly
killed Thomas Hughes, conductor on
a Canadian Pacific freight train, and
put the other members of the crew
to flight when the freight train ac-
cidentally derailed a car in which
the Japanese workmen were riding
The Japanese then made their escape.
Warrants have been sworn out for
the ringleaders.
Made $2,000,000 In Corn.
Chicago (8pecial).——A gift of
$150,000 for a gymnasium building
at Northwestern University was made
by James A. Patten, “king” of the
corn pit dn the Chicago Board of
Trade, The announcrment was
made by President A, W. Harriz at
the annual convocation of the stu-
dents held in Fisk ‘Hall. Mr. Patten,
who is credited with having cleared
$2,000,000-more or less—in the
corn market within the last two
weeks, was in the audience.
SECRETS OF THE BG
* RSHIP ARE OUT
Wright Brothers Expect to Sail 100
Miles An Hour,
MACHINE SIMLE IN CONCEPTION,
Machine in Which They Have Flown
28 Miles Is Built on the I'rinciple
of a Skimming Flat Disc—Have
Spent Seven Years Learning to Dive
From a Hilltop.
Dayton, O. (8pecial).—The secre!s
of the famous Wright Brothers’ air-
ship are out. The machine's suc-
cessful flights, in which, however, a
wreck was recorded at Manteo, N. C.,
seem marvelous until it is explained
that the airship is built for opera-
tion on the centuries-old principle of
the flat disk, which thrown ito alr,
sails by the motion of its orig nal im-
pulse for gcores of yards, and then in
falling skims along over the ground
for an indefinite distance, finally
settling to earth without peceptible
collision.
their trial flights, have encountered
simple as that of the disk on which
the machine is modeled.
For seven vears the brothers glid-
ed from the top of Kill Devil Hill,
at Mantoe, merely to solve the prob-
lem of steering their machine. Then
they designed the gasoline motor and
propeller to obtain a continuous
energy in the place of the first
pulse which they had gained from
the start from the hill top.
In Dayton last winter the Wright
brothers declared that it would be
possible for them, after slight
i changes in the mechanism of their
machines, changes which their ex-
| periments had developed, to make a
speed of 100 miles an hour.
An aeroplane capable of carrying
750 pounds at 20 miles an hour re-
quires an engine making eight horse-
power, they said At 30 the power
would be 12; at 60, 24. This ratio
would be retained for each additional
mile. They had great hope
| fact that mechanical engineers were
constantly {improving gasoline en-
i gines,
They sald they were confident that
the airship they were then about to
| construct would be able to run for a
thousand miles without renewing the
{ fuel supply. The machine which was
wrecked in Mantoe could run for
500 miles without taking on more
gasoline,
One strane feature of the Wrights
talk of the machines was that they
thought the airship never would sup-
plant land locomotion; that as a
regular carrier of freight and pas-
rajiroads had no reason
to fear competition from the aero
plane The utility of the airship
would lle entirely in its advantage as
a reconnoitering agent in time of
war They had no desire to sell
their invention to a private company,
but were anxious to have the War
| Department take it up.
The Wright brothers” airship
built of spruce wood, second growth
ash, steel wire, heavy muslin and
small portion of metal In appear
ance it resembles nothing so much
as a big box kite, consisting of two
! parallel planes, forty feet long and
six and a half feet wide, muslin form.
ing the planes, which is built and
to edges of spruce Between them
and just under the upper plane i= a
motor which drives the propeller,
which is in the rear, six feet behind
the disks or planes
There is included an arrangement
by which the driver directs the ma
chine's course by raising or lower-
ing the edges of the planes and by
shifting the direction of the propell-
Per There is also a rudder the
front of the machine which is shifted
to ald in steering
is
in
Lg
A Fatal Peep.
Cincinnati (Special).—A real dead
victim of the sheath dress is Joseph
28 years old A pretty girl,
unknown, wore one of modi
fied Parisian forms on the street
here, and Zing turned his head so
i sharply to “rubber” that he broke
nis neck. He's now dead Zing suf-
fered from tubercuiosis the ver.
tebra or spinal colunin. This ail-
| ment Is not unusual, but it Is rare
{that the disease attacks such a high
{part of the column, ti first and
| third vertebrae. These bones were
{80 weakened that the sudden motion
jof the head caused the second to
£lip out of place and press against
the spinal cord.
{ Zins,
name
of
“©
Went Hatless Forty Years.
St. Louis, Mo., (Special). After
having served as errand man for a
candy manufacturing firm for
years, Jacob Gross, 70
who during his years of service was
never known to wear a hat, died of
crease,
Hetty Green Reckless,
New York (Special). — Mrs.
Green entertained a party of
her friends at dinner at the Hotel
Plaza. The dinner was served in
the dining room of the grand suite
of the hotel and the Plaza gold serv.
ice was used. The dinner is said
to have cost $20 a plate.
30 of
0 5 A 005550
Not TH From Cancer.
New York (Special).— George F.
Parker, secretary to the Equitable
LAfe Assurance Society trustees, gave
out a statement in which he sald he
was authorized by Mrs. Grover
Cleveland to deny absolutely the
reports that Mr, Cleveland is suffor-
ing from cancer. Mr. Parker sald
Mrs, Cleveland is now in Princeton,
that Dr. Bryant has not been to Lake-
wood since Monday, and that no
other physician is in attendance upoa
the former president,
THE EPISCOPACY FILLED
Men Chosen Have Won Renown as
Pastors and Educators.
Baltimore (8pecial).-—By the elec.
tion Tuesday of the last four of the
eight bishops needed to bring the
episcopacy up to the desired strength
the General Conference of the Meth-
odist Episcopal Church, at the Lyrie,
brought to an end one of the greatest
elections it has ever held. The last
PRESIDENT EDWIN H
of De Pauw University:
PRESIDENT WILLIAM
LEWIS, of Morningside
Sioux City, Iowa: i
REV. DR. ROBERT McINTYRE, of!
Los Angeles:
REV. DR. FRANK M. BRISTOL, pas-
tor Metropolitan Church, Washing.
ton;
The four bishops elected previous-
ly were:
REV. DR. WILLIAM F. ANDERSON, |
of New York;
HUGHES,
SEELEY
College,
pro-
fessor of Nast Semi-
nary;
REV. DR. WILLIAM A. QUAYLE,
Chicago;
REV. DR. CHARLES W. BM ITI,
Pittsburg.
All Picked Men,
The eight men chosen are regard-
Theological
of |
of
by Thomas Coke and Francis Asbury, |
thousands of ministers of the church
and among the foremost churchmen |
of today. In Intellect and moral
strength they will constitute a big
addition to the present board of gen-
eral superintendents, of which there
are only 12 in active service. In
future church annals the “Baltimore
bishops” will be considered the peers
of any in the church. ,
The new bishops will be conse-
crated at a special service at 4 P. M.
Sunday atl the Lyric,
LIGHTNING STRIKES CHURCH.
Funeral Was In Progress And A
Wild Panic Ensues,
(Special ) —While the
funeral services of Mrs. John A. Losh
being in the Friends
Cammack, five miles west
of this city, a bolt of lightning struck
the church steeple, tore a hole
through the roof, destroyed part of
the belfry and injured several per-
BONS
The
Muncie, Ind
were held
Church at
church was crowded to the
doors with mourners and friends of
the Losh family and the choir was
singing "Rock of Ages.” For awhile
a panic was imminent Many per-
sons made an effort to vacate the
bullding, but the people were finally
quieted and the injured were cared
for
The most
Hazel Taylor
from nervous
recover,
geriously hurt was Miss
She is still suffering
prostration, but will
Three Years At Hard Labor.
0. (Special) J. W
formerly a prominent real
estate dealer, involved in frauds that
are believed have amounted up
into the hundreds of thousands, was
sentenced three years in the
penitentiary at hard labor by Judge
Beacom, in Common Pleas Court
this afternoon
Cleveland,
Hamby,
io
to
Ten Killed By Torasdo.
Wichita, Kan (Special).
dead, 12 injured, hundreds of head
of cattle killed, a vast acreage of
crops destroyed and many bulldings
wrecked are the results of a series
of tornadoes that visited Alfalia
County. Ok The glorm seemed to
enter Alfalfa County from west,
north and northeast simultaneously.
Every obstruction was leveled,
Ten
President Roosevelt signed the bill
for the enconragement of the devel
opment of coal deposits in Alaska and
to protect the coal deposits in the
territory from monopolists,
Herbert Knox Smith, commissioner
of corporations, made public the sec.
ond and third parts of his report on
operation of cotton exchanges of
the United States.
By unanimous consent the House
passed a bill for the incorporation of
the Congressional Club, an organiza
tion of congressional women. i
The House passed a bill allowing
passengers from Hawall to San Fran.
cisco fo travel on foreign vessels as
well as American.
Firet steps have
tho
been taken to
Admiral A. 8. Crowninshield, U. 8./
N., retired, died in a Philadelphia
following an operation for!
an affection of the nose. {
Secretary Taft had a conference
with Frank H. Hitchcock, Eastern
and Southern manager of his cam-/
paign, and Mr. Vorys. i
It is stated that Secretary Taft will
guit the Cabinet immediately after
his nomination by the Republican
Convention, :
The jury to sit in the trial of Gas-
ton Philip, accused of the murder of |
pleted. i
The Senate adopted the conference
report an the so-called Omnibus Pub- |
lie Lands Bill. :
The House passed the bill provid- |
ing for greater air space in the steer.
age of steamships.
Orders were issued by the War
Department providing an elaborate
military escort on the occasion of
the removal of the body of Vice
President George Clinton from the
old Congressional Cemetery to
Kingston, N. Y.
Senator Fulton delivered in the
Sonate what he called an “omnibus
speech.” He frankly admitted have
ing been requested to do so to kill
me.
Senator Wetmore introduced a bill
making October 21 in each year a
legal holiday, to be known as Dis
covery Dav in honor af Columbine,
»
SHOT AT WARSHIP
Monitor Arkansas Rains Shot and
Shell at the Florida,
HER MILITARY MAST IS RIDDLED.
Commafider Quimby snd Crew, n
Order to Test Explosive Shells of
Big Guns and Armor Plate, Stand
at Their Posts Within the Hull of
the Monitor.
Fort Monroe, Va. (8pecial).—On
the broad waters of Hampton Roads,
not far from the 45
Monitor and Mer-
riddled each other with shot
and shell, two modern monitors en-
place where
the
in a bloodless contest in the
interest of naval science. The moni-
tor Arkansas, of 3,225 tons, fired six |
was accurately aimed |
One of the shots fired
12-inch pro- |
loaded with a new high ex-
This shot struck the
of the Florida's turret
each of which
I yt
por
just a |
which had been placed in position
to take the place of the regular 12- |
This shot smashed the
armor protecting the front!
the
turret,
The force of the 12-inch high ex-
plosive shell ‘had been entirely spent
by crushing the armor plate, and the
cloth screen placed inside the turret
ports showed no damage, indicating
that none of the fragments of the
exploding shell had entered the tur-
ret ports, and showing, as Chief Con-
Washington L. Capps de-
clared, that if anyone had been in
the turret at the time the powerful
projectile struck he would not have
been injured. The only occupant of |
the turret was a dummy man,
ranged with springs and wires to re-
cord the shock. He was standing
the breech of one of the 12-inch
guns and was unhurt
The biggest naval gun, the
est projectile and the highest
sive known, combined with
range and deadly aim, were allowed
to work their full havoc on the tur-
ret plate. The result is declared
be a victory for turret construction,
and this, notwithstanding the 11-inch
hardened steel plate was blackened,
broken, the seams of the turret
sprung and the rivets and screws
loosened and twistea
it was not five
terrible impact that the
anced mechanism of the
being worked with perfect
the 12-inch gun on the left side was
trained at will Inside the turret
where stand the gunners and gun
crew the havoc was much less ap
parent - than from the outside Ex
amination showed that of the mans
delicately adjusted instruments for
fire control, sighting and operating
the turret, few, if any, were out of
working order.
“If thie had happened battic
the Florida would be fighting yet,
sald one of the rear admirals with
enthusiasm,
Then followed a
destroy the newly
mast erected on
Florida. After five
Arkansas’ guns had
through it the mast
“Forty shots would bring It
down, and no enemy would waste
ammunition and time shooting at it,
was the expert comment if was pre-
dicted that all spew ships will
equipped with battlemasts of
design.
ar-
heavi-
ex] io
clos
§ ¢
the
bal
Was
and
after
finely
turret
Case
minutes
in
fey
iil
futile attempt to
fighting
of the
“
designed
the stern
shots from the
gone ripping
still stood firm
not
be
DRAMATIC COURT SCENE.
Whitmore.
A dramatic
Theodore
For Theo. 8.
New York (Special), —
incident of the trial of 8
the Lampblack Swamp, near Harrl-|
son, N. J., ocourred in the court in|
Jersey City, when Frank J. May, a!
gpecial policeman of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad, was called to the
witness stand and testified that he
saw the man who made the remark!
“You are a cheap skate” to another
man who refuse to pay his return
York at 1.40 A. M. oni
the night Mrs. Whitmore was killed
A witness had previously testified
that he saw Whitmore in the crowd
and heard him make that remark.
“Is that the man?” asked Alexan-
der Simpson, Whitimore's lawyer
point to Whitmore, who stood up.
May surveyed Whitniore
head to foot, and then said
“1 never saw this man before
my life.”
from |
in
Bank Clerk Dead In Creek,
Sunbury, Pa. (Spocial). An
quest over the remains a man
found in the creek near here re!
sulted in the positive identification |
of the body as that of F. M. Bloom,
a bank clerk, who abs~onded abou!
three weeks ago after a shortage In
his accounts of $10,000 had been
discovered. It is believed that Bloom
committed suicide.
Miners Sign Wage Scale, .
Pittsburg, Pa. (8pecial).-=A wage
scale operative until March 31, 1909,
in
of
Pittsburg district was signed. The
agreement is the same as the one in
A AR NS 80S Rls
Killed Man And Hersclf,
Roanoke, Va. (Special). Wm. M.
Simpson, a well-known locomotive
engineer, was shot and killed by
Sadie Butler, formerly of Lynchburg,
who immediately drank a bottle of
carbolic acid and died in a few min.
utes, The woman was of 3 Jey re
possessing appearance, an a .
iy In By ith Simpson and had
often declared that she Intended kill
ing both herself and him. The trag:
edy occurred In a house where thc |
AS A SACRIFICE
FOR HUMANITY
bs i i sp——;
Inoculated With Germ of
Tuberculosis.
New York (Special). In the hoped
of discovering a preventive and cure
for tuberculosis, Frank Merritt, who
about two weeks ago volunteered to
surrender his body in the interest of
humanity and medical science, had
permitted a physician to inoculate his
evetem with the germs of the dread
dieease., An examination made show-
ed that already the disease hag made
considerable progress since the inocu.
lation a week ago.
Merritt, who
man, was at
bookbinder in
cording to his
Man
middle-aged
prosperous
Ac~
and a
victims of tuber
culosis. Their loss preyed his
mind to such an extent that he final-
ly falled in buginess and be
wanderer, Two weeks ago he ap-
to the Balvation Army head-
quarters in this state for lodging and
wae sent to the Salvation Army Hotel
in Catham Bquare, It was there that
he first announced his willingness to
if his death mi
way in combati:
tuberculosis
“1 have had ficulty
body and soul together.’
“and death no
For several days afte;
announcement he waited
but no one appeared take advant-
age of his offer Finally Dr. C. C
Carroll, of 2102 Broadway, found
Merritt and last Thursday inoculated
the man losis
A statement office
says that the
oughly entered
and it is
under way
thropists
is a
time
a Western state
story his
one a
wife
on
ame
a
plied
in any
ig of
diffi
me.’
ierritt’s
: reply
has terrors for
for
to
with a ger
from the
discase
into
expected
in
and other
case to call
i
sherman
$ f ¥
im of tuber
doctor's
now thor
BYsiers
the
iat
in the
ype
watched
a certain
will be made to cus
tor seems to be i
Pes
it Of
GeEveic
from
(a0
OLD NORTH STATE
15 FOR PROKIBITION
Crys Sweep State By Probably
50,000 Majori'y.
Raleigh, C {51
majority
Carolina Is 1
i8 possible
This is on figu:
nished the News
the state Prohibi
This (Wake
fi the COUnLTy
he total vots
hibition 54 maj
ghip precincts
mite, gave
making Ka
n Your
mington (
1,000 majority, the wets
an half that number
Buncombe County
ville is located.
majority for
The election
iy and there was
polis
{srees
ity, where wets
Wo!
¥
in which
gave about
dry ticket
was conducted
trouble
7X
i
the
no a
gboro {5%
goes dry, giving 1
against
precincts
Greens.
DOO 59% yotes
Kev.
voted
r
small
against
them
county
Prohibitionists In one of
made up of cotton mill opera-
vole ig 180 for Prohibition
against,
Point,
3 he
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Dick Brothers say the cotton acre-
greater than last
year.
Some of the May corn contracls
are being settled for privately at 74
cents a bushel,
Subscription books for the $17.
000,000 of Virginia Railroad notes
were closed immediately after open-
ing, as the amount was heavily over-
bid.
Missouri Pacific, which recently
roge from 45 lo 64% In a compara.
tively few days, has suffered a large
reaction.
National banks still carry $176,
000.000 of United States Government
deposits.
London egain sold a considerable
quantity of American stocks.
Lehigh Valley's April statement
shows that the company carned net
nearly $60,000 more than in the
same month last year,
Bear traders wore selling stocks
on the report from Washington that
a new Government suit was to be
brought against Union Pacific.
Newburger, Henderson & an-
nounce that all of the $2,356,000
“vicago & Kastern Illinois § per
{equipment bonds which were
.woenlly purchased have been sold.