After A Most Notable Battle In Re- cent Congressional History, Reso- lution To Elect The Powerful Committee To Control Legislation Is Adopted—A Motion To Depose Him Challenged By The Speaker, Defeated, Washington, D C { Special). h Committee his GQ. ( trol of the is on Rules chine" non escaped being expelled from Speakership of the House of Repre- The compr } House, abolished and “"ma- ‘Ane the overturned, Joseph sentatives, veteran Congress- man refused allow h the Rul Insurgents end At last, confirmed jority, he fiance to ed that motion Thus he dared pel him They to go to ht cratic leaders and counselled ¥ Texan Forced The Issue. But victory; panted sword against crats, tf is ily 18elf to be es Con and Democrats his defeat had erwhelming hailenge and t 3 Os a enemies by an ma- issued of his Was declaring h he ready sider a vacant. ex- } On 141r opponents to were not extremes Ins S11 against sm attempt were flushed with tasted bl and the Texas the allies they had to wv J put Mr the protest at once 0 deciare immediately This wag the er's friends formed } were opposed to ods, but di further cast their Republicans Friends Ralli rs # ood to ion el Hi: ed To n. Mr NC l leson resolution H when it feats decided the Speaker's chair When report Cann ¥ + alnon i was ie that he w= the the regulars gave their’ old leader 4 great ovation, applauding and fil- ing by his chair, grasping his hand in token of their sympathy with him in his defeat. Thus, by a bold stroke Mr. Cannon managed to snatch a personal victory out of the very jaws bitter defeat 191 To 155 { The Norris { for the creation {tee on rules Spéuker { adopted of Decisive Vote. resolution of 4a new and depriving of membership upon it, by a 191 to 15 commit vote of 0 clock votes rent sition This was taken at §.30 0 gave a majority of 38 | for the Demo rats ant Ins ind the defeat the Cannon was overwhelming Within 10 inder authority and direction a new committee ules, composed of six Republican and four Democ: | by the House. triumvirate, cons Cannon, John Da vania, and Walter 1 C z the majority 5 Committee ’ of resolution, omposin ent Rules Vast Wher Watched 1¢ House came togethe were crowd Crowd Contest, +) the n and entrance ena "oe EB ill Files women were around every the ng en struggling for portai Capit \ ¥ as The 3: ( 3 fi £ Of ow de i tle thought other gtrug lar governmen ntatives on into galleries Sprte ineton See MEL consideratiox th ne whi 18sador a A vy The National the Method the presen of to ton of a denomin promote re amount Some ¢ i £140 000.000 field States Virgini; that the pute the file exceptions Court. Moses Peckham, rested in er indictments commection with dal of 1905 Fourteen indictmen George W avers and Arthur W. Machen, ' 1 sentences in scandal, ernment : The Arizona Statehood Bill the attention of Congress, passage not yet assured The concluding arguments in corporation tax cases were made fore the Supreme Court of the Ual- ted States, Representatives of Bankers’ Association continued their attack upon the Postal Savings Bank Bill before the House commit- A. Haag of 5 N the Ci ef : ag who erve connect on were by the gov- New shortly and will receive but its is the be- the American Representatives of the beef pack- ers testified before the Senate High Cost of Living Committee that there was no Beef Trust Special Master Littlefield submit- ted his repcrt to the Supreme Court nited State Helens an regarding appeal im- courts tmen BOV- ral indic fraud the Court decided ment unit for as twen on was Ohio ! the e decis and CAUSED HUNTINGDON FIRES, Young Men Make Confession, Four Written Pa Earle, Gates, Huntingdon, Reed and Carleton rested cated numerous that resulted in the desiruction of $161,000 worth of property, made a full confession before Mavor RW Jacobs and Chief of Police Bathurst The young men appeared before the officials singly and made writ. ten admissions that they were joint. ly responsible for destroying in a single night a church, two planing and five residences, and for { Bpecial) John Harry Mq who ar- of being imgpli- incendiary fires were on suspicion fs ii i mills partially burning another church and West Virginia The Senate Committee fav reported the bill requiring ocean- going steamers to be equipped with wireless apparatus. Agricultural Department testified Yel the House tee that government seeds high standard. The Pacific hav target practice experts Commit- are of ie Fleet was decided to ice. examiner, with headquarlers at St. Louis, has resigned fand Charles W. Watson, of Kahoka, Mo., has been appointed to succeed him. 400 Million Years Gd, Chicago (8pecial).—0ld Mother Earth, who has closely guarded her age for her entire life, is 400,000,000 years old, according to an article wh'ch appeared in the current number of a geological sublication of University of Chicago. In more scientific phraseology the approximate age of the earth, it has been dis. covered, may be Jdetormined by di- viding the amount of salt In the sea by the amount brought down each vear by the rivers Ships Leave Nicaragua. Washington, D. © (Special ) | With the withdrawal of a of the army of marines which was ent to Nicaraguan waters for the protection of American interests the revolution in the Central Amer. ican republic, three of the warships will be brought away. 800 Jap Fishermen Drowned. Tokio (8pecial). Many fishing boats have been lost In storm along the coast, have been sunk and 800 fishermen drowned. wa sm sm AA : A Youth Hangs H mself, Hanover, Pa. (8pecial). The years old, wag found suspended from a rafter in a barn by his father. He spent the evening at home with his brothers, but later left the house and, failing to return, the family thought he had gone to the home of a nearby relative for the night, but Instead, he went to the barn and hanged himself, The youth was fin S004 health and apparently con- tented. i i i ITINERARY OF THE ROOSEVELTS Spend a Week in and in Berlin. COMPLETE TOUR MIDDLE OF MAY Visit To Be Made To The Hague, The Home Of The Pence Tribunale The Colonel And Family Travel. Ing In Luxury Across The Desert Says The Railroad System They Will Paris we H Is A Monument To British Enter. prise In Colonization — Beautiful Mirages Seen From Train, Abu Colone Sudan Roosevelt's Hamed { Special) European eras has Vv ith Ww 1pon ax uch exactness a8 it is possible and was announce resid will ary Paris 1d tO make vance i rmer p r ent ve It April London 17th tar M ay » in ices Par 8 i viait I Colonel R one day be Hague, in main at the bunal unt ay an hour's 3 ton Ose ¢ iw INXuUry a desert Eyuatem terprise 10 KILLS HIS FATHER-IN-LAW. Pistol Duel Follows Cock Fight Near State Line. 3 4, of Bristo Tenn a ’ . st { duel | pi near gtate line, D W_ & Zemore, nent citizen, is dead. while } in-law, John Stanton. is charge havi nurdered him The duel grew out of a cock fight Stanton’s bird was getting the of the fowl his father in. law, when the got a gun and | killed it Sizemore fired at his son- in-law when the latter resented his having illed the cockre! shots were exchanged. the son-in-law retury the fire Sizemore was almost instantls xd, a ball having struck him in roast He was a prominent the Lee County son-in-law claims self-defense result gtol the tks ought Tennesse: a at Charles, { Si BE 1 hot. ter of latter k Several 1 € t ! ber Fr of conrt A SHIP TO BE ALL IRISH. Planned By Miss Gallagher, Boston (8pecial).—A unique me- morial to Robert Emmet, to be cre. ated by the subscriptions of Ameri- proposed by Miss Anna Gallagher. of | this city, to take the form of a ship | to bear the name of the Irish pa-| triot, and to ply between the ports in Mise Gallagher, and those who are associated with her, intend that the Robert Emmet shall be distinctly Irigh-built in an Irish shipyard by Irish workmen, and the materials used in the vyessel's construction shall be of Irish production or mane ufacture, The furnishings of the vessel are also to be of Irish make. Chimpanzee Valued At $50,000 Dead Dallas, Tex. (S8pecial).—Congul Junior, the so-called educated chim- panzee, who was dressed and taught to act like a man, died of bronichal pneumonia after an fliness of four days. Consul was valued at $50,000 and was insured with a London in- surance company for that amount. During his liiness several physicians attended him. Tha body will be embalmed and sent to Burope for burial. OLOFIELD ESTABLISHES THO NEW RECORDS Drives His Automoble a Mile in 27 1-3 Seconds. Sensational Speed Developed By The Powerful Car Tries The Eyes Of The Spectators As It Flies Over The Track—Oldfield Also Beats The Best Record For A Mile From A Standing Start—Oldficid's Aver. tage Yesterday Was 151.72 Miles An Hour, Davtona Oldfield, di start, Fla ving Barney from in OWwWer auntomobile vered the ny a sign, | CO fa ed was human - i 3a=100 go | projected into gpace i buliet h ial a8 traveled speed. Th here MEAT BOYOCOOTT A FAILURE. To Hall From Seven And Have Gone And Prices six Reven Une rike there wag no- no requiem ” the strike m to be a will not since nt had aged leadera barren of months started hy Sebelin, of ty, who that sixty day abstinence pledges be signed as force, though say tha ils was results Two ¢ Ago Fred Buggested movement . t ¥ Meat articles The and Then When the wis the target, although other of food were not ove riooked ian spread over the country or a week or two flourighed sputtered and burned out the “meat strike began prices of beef was cents wholesale Today ie to 71 n Hogs jumped from 8 to 1 cents Eggs fell from 38 to 21 cents and butter cents, a fal) nickle are 10 cents a t I f iy six it Ao 2 ce 1 in is 33 of Potatoes lower The net result has been lanche of investigation. but no new legislation is reported from state Prices still are higher, bushel an ava- Routed Burglar With Lump Of Coal, Pittsburg (Special), — Mra George Blakely, of Sharpsburg, has more faith in a lump of coal than a six- shooter as a defense against burg- lars While a man wag trying to break into her little store, over which she lived, she took a lump of coal from her kitchen and raising the window, noiselessly dropped it on the head of the intruder. When the police revived nim he gave the name of John O'Donnell. He had to have a six-inch scalp wound sewed up. EE — ODDS AND ENDS. A A Connecticut fireman has patent. ed blunt-ended tongs to facilitate the handling of hose, By heating an oll-tempering bath with electricity instead of gas or conl the danger of fire Is eliminated. Blue, pink and acquamarine dia- monds recently were exhibited in London. Approximately 3,748 miles of main steam rallroad tracks were built in the United Stateg last year, compared with 3.214 miles in 1908. PRESIDENT TAFT AVERTS TARIFF WAR About To ign Agreement With France. DISPUTE ON WAND WITH CANADA All Differences Settled And France To Get 25 Per Cent. Reduction Of Rates Provided For In The Payne- Aldrich Bill—The To | Take Tarif With | Canadian Officials, | Pred dent Up Question Rochester, ? Taf y announ dent | comple | i long i Knox | calbils icated BATTLE WITH nt HGLARS, Oscar Saves His « ash, on High But Is Pushed Building, broken clothes consider and con. cent he own he is & in't get a of i gaid Jot i the ondly as police : a 1ibited roll to the King Victor To Dine Roosevelt, Rome Ki Vv : d En ve & ring { Spey ng ¢ clor nanuel has a g a President the The guest: elt, Kermit American Ambas- Mrs Leishman, American EB iardini, min- occasion iy of (FEO » i e and sador 3 other m= | basses ik and of fi a $ fu Swift a Rear Admiral Retires, Washingt D Admiral Swift { Special) aid for material of the Navy, closed th Navy ing a by Cant Rear Admiral 1 “en duty Rea: to the Secretary reer In reti active © reached his ing He will be reli | “letcher has had ice and Ca hay . of 62 Frank Swift BeTV- the we eved a nearly vears' «3 Years’ shore a Football Player Dies Of Injuries, a Dallas, Tex pecial) John A | Airhart, aged a former student at Simmons of Abilene, Tex., who was in a foot. 1 College, injured (Ss 8, { last, died in a sanitarium here. He {had been for the greater part of this period unconscious from econcus- sion of the brain. Mayor Dies In Auto. Hutchinson, Kas. (Special)..0O B. Shepherd, mayor of St John, Kas, died of heart disease while driving i his motor car. With him at the time They wild a { stopped the car after it had run for several minutes, Big Demand For Babies, " New Orleans (Special) ~The de- mand for bables here has reached such a proportion that it is feared that there will be a serious short. age in the supply. A carload of | bables from the New York Foundling and Orphan Asylum was given away here last week. Many women clam- ored for bables In vain, and so num- erous are the applications that the institution has decided to send an. other ecarload of Infants to New Or leans, PRESIDENT TAFT'S CENSUS PROCLAMATION Asks the People to Help in the Work. Washington, D. C. (Special). President Taft in a proclamation justi woody throesghout “ “to answer ely and accurately ssed to them by the employees’ the taking cenguf, i4, wo issued the promptly irged everyt United inguiries add enumer; other yhoo wil gaged In the TT} $4 (1 eng 3 £ snnial wil egin April Duty To Answer. af Con 1809, the cengus of he taken fifteenth 4 Bre thirt i the Un beginr Apr io day and of hundr ten; Wher SUMmera 8 4 4 Ti Cop Biates termining the never Hep- tion of Year stitutior for the ‘ of " all i and to do £ ‘ Yogev: # Harm From Information. Lid the the pe re Gur ly in or lation of The wilh +BY na Aw ow PeTHOX y far. ‘ 7 r- Liat made re VETROB pro inter eh i 1% i DE Qividual the due ana furn i DE OV oe of ited a whet How} Safeguarding Interests r Lue pure the of which to in of thelr interests however, rows the " are von i ured Dine way ersonal gainst Eines ADU se t} Dragged {tte hs 1i8Dbu By Ferry Cable. ! { lirageed we in FONONEA rR { Special) of the cable Ove Hicks, rescued two keep fast on been n the waters ¥ the 0 by ferry Fay- unconscious men, who row. Pace with the being wound the other aghore playing on the her canght tee] cable, the river, recover a E-year-oid of tte City, nidstream like mad able that was round a drum child had bank wh Was by i to i Yer gre “ the she was drawn ints i= not expected tu gd She Must Alken, Ss v ntined 16 Live In Seclusion. C (Special) who has residence i as an Mien quar in city anf. Kirk, beer, at her th months allege missionary in go. will Brazil removed thre a years cottage city of The ® Kirk for and allow her a thly for mainte be in a secluded section ity Council will pay Mie Letter 85 Years On The Way. El Paso, Texas {8pecial) Jorry an employe of the Southern Railread, received a etter in Pennsylvania 356 youre The letter was addressed to at Pittsburg and was writtes nd mailed at Blanchard Pa., July 1875, by his slepmother, Mra Still. Faust jeft Pittabury His stepmothes 5 yoars, Burns Husband in Hed . Hamilton, Ohio (Special) Mra siceping bed, sot An ‘explosion follow The alightin ig t n hospital hustand & 4 Her
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