SPANISH WAR VETS TO MEET Commission's Novel Program For Atlantic City Encampment ANNUAL CRAWL OF SERPENT Service Men of the Philippines Will Participate with a Striking Feature —From Reveille to Taps 5000 Vet erans Will be on the Move. Atlantic City.—Among the star at tractions of the Ninth National En campment of the United Spanish War Veterans to be held here September 7 to 14. may be the three leading candi dates for President of the United State9. The presence of Governor Woodrow Wilson is assured for he has accepted an invitation to address (he veterans aud their families and friends on the Steej Pier, the even ing of Tuesday, September 10. Presi dent Taft has tentatively accepted th« opportunity to speak to veterans rep resenting every state in the union, the Philippine Islands, Hawaii, Porto Rico, Cuba, the Canal zone, Alaska and British Columbia, Comrade Theodore Koos%velt is delighted to shake hands with a bunch of his Hough Riders from Oklahoma and the Southwest. To uphold the dignity and patriotism of the State, New Jersey through its Legislature appropriated $15,000 for suitable entertainment and display at Atlantic City during the encamp ment week and Governor Wilson ap pointed Walker Whiting Vick of Ruth i WALKER W. VICK, NEW JERSEY. erford: G. Fred Ege, of Jersey City, and Judge Daniel A. Dugan, of Orange, all Spanish War veterans, as the Unit ed Spanish War ,Veterans Encamp ment Commission to expend the money. The Commission has estab lished headquarters in the Bell-Riddle building, this city, in charge of Robert A. Klwood. In addition to the President, only living ex-President, and Governor Wil son who may be next President, there will be twenty-one Congressmen, who are Spanish War Veterans, in attend ance, including ilobson, and other war notables, such as Admiral Dewey and General Miles, have been invited. Prom reveille on Saturday, Septem ber 7, until taps on Thursday, Sep tember 13, there will not be an idle moment for the five thousand veterans who will be present. Entertainments of a!! kinds will divide the week with the business sessions of the encamp ment on Monday, Tuesday and Wed nesday, September 9, 10 and 11. Spe cial honors will be paid to the Maine survivors and Medal of Honor men of the war. The standard of the Commander-in- Chief, Maurice Simmons, of New York City, will be hoisted at the hotel Ru dolf on Saturday and the New Jersey State Commission will establish its headquarters at the Hotel Chalfonte. Sunday in the Criterion Theatre on the Boardwalk, Rev. Robert Arthur Klwood, Chaplaln-in-Chief, and Rev. J. Madison Hare, of Jersey City, Depart ment Chaplain, will conduct services. Monday there will be two business sessions of the encampment and Mayor Riddle will present a gold key to the Commander-in-Chief, symboliz ing the freedom of the city. All ses sions will be in the auditorium of the Steel Pier where Monday night in the ballroom a military reception will be held. The same night Col. John Jacob Astor Camp, No. 28, of this city, will hold a monster campfire in a local hall. Tuesday will be the big day of the v/erk with its notable visitors includ ing the State Senate and House of As sembly of New Jersey. A business session in the morning will be follow ed by a military parade in the after noon at three o'clock on the Board walk. Walter K. Edge, Senator from Atlantic County and a veteran, will be grand marshal. United States Senators Frank O. Briggs and James E. Martine, and Congressman William Hughes, of New Jersey, will secure from the Secre taries of War and Navy, regular troops and blue jackets anil Adjutant General Wilbur F. Sadler, of New Jer sey, will turn out part of the National U-uard. Local uniformed organiza tions will escort the veterans who will parade in department formations. Moving pictures will be made of the parade. Governor Wilscn will review it, which will take several hours in passing the stand. BUSY AVIATORS OF UNCLE SAM'S ARMY During the annual army maneuvers in New England this month the aviation squad will be given a chance to show what it can do in the way of reconnoitering, and in preparation for the test the young officers have been very busy at the army aviation grounds at Celtic Park, near Washington. Every pleasant afternoon they make trial flights and execute maneuvers, using the latest models of aeroplanes. lAFI ACCEPTS THE NOMINATION Criticises Roosevelt and Wilson Policies at Ceremonies. ISSUES, TARIFF AND TRUSTS Root Tells Him Nomination Title Waa Honestly Gained —Candidate at White House Notification De fends Payne-Aldrich Law. Washington—President Taft was formally notitied of his renominatiou as the candidate of the Republican party before a gathering of 1,000 in vited guests in the East Room of the White House. Mr. Taft in reply to the notification committee, made an address in which he declared the maintenance of the national institu tions was the chief issue before the fountry at the November election. The I'resideut, while not mentioning either Colonel Roosevelt or Governor Wil son by name, plainly referred to them at several points in his long speech and charged that they were heading toward Socialism. Neither did he re fer directly to the charges of fraud at the Chicago contests, that being left to Senator Root, who declared in his address after referring to the Roose velt contests and the decisions of the National and Credentials committees: "Your title to the nomination is as clear and unimpeachable as th"> title of any candidate since political con ventions began." President Taft replied in a keynote speech, outlining the issues. The supreme issue that confronts the voters, the President declared, was that of the maintenance of the na tion's institutions and the preserva tion of the Constitution, threatened, he said, on the one hand by those Re publicans who had left the party to trv their fortunes in a new one. Next ill importance Mr. Taft placed the tariff. In the proposals of the Democrats for reductions in the pres ent schedules, he said, lay danger of business depression and hard times. The Republican principles of revision only where scientific investigation shows it necessary marked the straight road to continued prosperity and commercial peace. In discussing the tariff, the Presi dent said it was untrue that to its doors could be traced the high cost of living, and pointed out that condi tions of living were alike over the world. A political promise could not remedy such a condition, he said. As an issue only less important than the tariff, the President placed the regulation of trusts. He said the Sherman law had been enforced with success, but added that specific acts of unfair trade should be denounced as misdemeanors, that such acts might be avoided or, when committed, punished by summary procedure. In terstate business enterprises, he said, should be offered a Federal incorpora tion law. Aside from these issues the Presi dent pointed to the record of the Re publican party, and particularly dur ing his own administration as an earn est of what it might be expected to do in the future if the people returned it to power in November. He at tacked the Democrats at other points than the tariff, making special refer ence to the refusal of that party in the House of Representatives to con tinue the naval policy of two battle ships a year. Some important expressions of the President's speech of acceptance are as follows: "It should be our purpose to put large business enterprises acting with in the law on a basis of security by offering them a Federal corporation law under which they may voluntarily incorporate. I "A careful investigation will show that the phenomenon of increased prices and cost of living is world wide | in its extent and quite as much in [ evidence in other countries of ad- I vanced civilization and progressive I tendencies in our own." WARN JAPANESE OFF MAGDALENA BAY COAST Senators Pass Committee Resolution Backing Monroe Doctrine —Make the Idea Stronger. Washington.—The extension of the .Monroe Doctrine to cover foreign cor porations, as well as foreign govern ments. trying to secure ou the Ameri can continent land of strategic im portance for naval or military bases, is recommended in a resolution re- ' ported to the Senate without a dis senting vole from the Committee ou Foreign Relations by Senator Lodge. The resolution amounted to a reaf firmation of the Monroe Doctrine and serves as an informal notice not only to Japan and Mexico, buL to the rest of the world that this Government will not tolerate the establishment of a naval base on the Mexican coast. Its full text is as follows: Resolved. That when any harbor or other place in the American conti nents is so situated that the J tion thereof for naval or military pur- ! poses might, threaten the communica tions of the safety of the United States the government of the United States could not see without grave concern the possession of such har bor or other place by any corporation or association which has such a rela tion te another government not Amer ican as to give that government prac tical power of control for national pur poses. This further declaration of policy by the United States is the result of the Magdalena Bay incident. The sub-committee found that a corporation had tried to sell the land commanding Magdalena Bay to a Jap anese syndicate for colonization pur poses and that it did advance as a claim of value that the possession of it would confer a decided militia or naval base to the Japanese. JUDGE SOBS OUT DEFENSE. Speer of Federal Bench Denies Charge of Improper Conduct. Macon, Ga. —In tears and with his voice broken by sobs. United States Judge Emeory Speer from the bench answered the attack made on him as a judge by Colonel W x\. Huff, for ten years mayor of Macon. Huff had de manded the impeachment of Judge Speer, whose defense was made when Colonel Huff was arraigned 011 the charge of contempt which had been brought by Speer because of Huff's allegations. Judge Speer declared he would not pass 011 the contempt charge he had preferred against Huff, but would permit some other Federal Judge to decide the question. Huff is out on bond. Judge Speer denied he had gone to Eagle River, Alaska, at the expense of Huff's receiver. He said he paid his own way going and coming and that the bearskin sent to him came with charges collect. He said he owned stock in a mine at Eagle River, law fully acquired. He denied the charge of showing favoritism to a so-called "family bank" of which his brother in law is vice-president. He declared the Huff estate had increased 100 per cent, in value during its thirteen years in the custody of the court. Judge Speer admitted the Huff estate had been held by the court for an un usual time, but denied the delay was for purposes of grafting. Popular feel ing seems to be entirely with Colonel Huff and there is little doubt that Congress will be asked to investigate the charges. WIFE KILLS HER RIVAL. American Woman Shot Dead in Paris by Writer. Paris. —Mrs. Minnie Bridgeman, daughter of Henry Bernhard of Mil waukee an English insurance man. was shot and instanly killed by Mme. Bloch, a fiction writer and contribu ! tor to children's papers. The author straightway went to the police. toI<! them of her act and was locked up. . The motive was vengeance Mrs. Bridgeman won Mine. Bloch's husband , a wav from her. SPEED CAUSE GF TITANIC'S LOSS British Court of Inquiry Makes Many Suggestions. BRUCE ISMAY EXONERATED ! Many Titanic Suits Will be Brought Here—Lawyers Decide After the British Board's Finding Is An nounced—Liner Is Blamed. London. —The report of the com missioner appointed to inquire into the i Titanic disaster of April 14, when 1,517 persons lost their lives, was 1 made pubic here. The commission, of which Lord Mersey is the head, finds | that the collision with the iceberg which caused the disaster, was due to the excessive speed at which the liner was travelling. The other findings of the commission may be outlined as ! follows: J. Bruce smay is exonerated of all blame. Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon exoner ated of any misconduct. The Leyland liner California could have reached the wreck and thus been the means of saving many more lives. The Board of Trade is regarded as ; culpable for failure to revise its regu lations regarding lifeboats, etc. The captain and crew of the Car j pathia :>re commended for their action I in saving the survivors of the disaster. Among the principal recommenda tions of the commission are the fol- I lowing: Additional lifeboats, sufficient to carry all the passengers and crew. All adequate lookout, especially in j seasons of the year when there is j floating ice. Fire and watertight door drills. A continuous wireless service. 1 Lord Mersey's judgment is a for ! rnal legal document, giving the history of the voyage and of the disaster, | while the findings and recommenda tions of the court extend to great length. Much of the jujdgment is high ly technical, for which Lord Mersey's scientific colleagues are responsible. New York. —Many New York law yers who have been awaiting the re i port of the English commission of in quiry into the Titanic disaster before proceeding with filing suits for dama ges against the White Star Line, began to draw u ptheir various complaints after the opinion of Lord Mersey, as chairman of the commission, was | made public. GRAFT $2,400,000 A YEAR. Becker, Two Men Higher and One Not in Uniform Got It. New York. —When Jack Rose made the confession that put Lieutenant Becker in th° Tombs for the murder of Herman Rosenthal, Rose said also that Becker had told him that 000 was the yearly police graft from gambling, disorderly houses and other forms of blackmail. Hose swore that Becker had con tided to him that the lot was divided among four police officials, Becker himself, two policemen of higher rank and a minor official w ho does not wear a uniform. Becker's collector, having handled a good deal of the money himself, does not think that Becker or any individ ual pocketed 1600,000 In any one year, but that Becker and his connections were distributing agents and that the SOOO,OOO each received was subdivided. JUDGE FLAYED IN LETTER. I . Ex-Mayor of Macon, Ga., Accuses Jus tice Emory Speer. ! Macon, Ga.—For sending a forty • five-page typewritten letter to Judge Emory S>>e> r ,of the United States Court fcr the Southern District of i Georgia, suggesting his impeachment and sensationally attacking his acts on the bench. Colonel \Y. A. Huff, fcr inerly Mayor of Macon, and a mem !>er of :!u' Legislature, was arrestee here for contempt of court. CRIPPLE SAVED, THREE DROWNED Motor Boat Sailing Without Light Sunk in the Delaware. CRASHES INTO A FREIGHTER One Overboard at Start —Pilot of Freighter Prostrated by First Acci dent in Forty Years—Rescuers Find One-Armed Man Afloat. Burlington, N. J. —Cliarles Tyler, Jr., a cripple with only one arm, entered Police Headquarters to tell how three men with whom he had started on a a motor boat ride in the Delaware River about 10 o'clock p. m., had been drowned when their craft collided with the John VY. Garrett, a steam freighter of the Trenton Transporta tion Company, not far from this city. Tyler's clothes were soaked with wa ter, and he was still somewhat dazed. He said he had been picked up by the crew of the freighter, and as soon as the John W. Garrett arrived at her pier here he hurried to Police Head quarters to give the alarm. He did not know the names of his compan ions so slight was his acquaintance with them, but it was learned later, though their bodies were not recov ered, that the lost men were: HETHINGTON, ROBERT, 4S years old, Bristol, Pa. SCUGEN, JOHN, 35 years old, of Bris tol. VANDINE, GEORGE, 30 years old, of Bristol. Scugen was the owner of the mo tor boat, which he called the Nancy, and Tyler met Scugen and his com panions in a hotel here. He knew Scugen by sight, and when he was invited to make one of a party for a trip down the river he accepted. Van dine fell overboard when he tried to get on the motor boat, but was fished out of the water and the trip was started. Tyler said Scugen had not lighted his lights, so the small craft was sailing dark down the river. "Scu gen was steering, and was seated about three feet in front of ine when he first saw the lights and the big black hulk of the freight boat," said Tyler. "He threw the wheel over to try to get by the big boat, but tht next instant it seemed we were struck amidships. I distinctly remember seeing the bow of the Garrett cut through the gunwales of the launch less than two feet from where I sat. "The next I remember 1 was strug gling in the water, clutching a big board with one hand. I got a prip on the plank with my chin on one side and my hand on the other and wrap ped my leg around the oth<er end. I hung on and yelled for help and the men came in a lifeboat and got me." Engineer Hess, who saved Tyler, by a coincidence was in charge of the rescue party a year ago when the tug Rancocas wrecked a launch off Flor ence. The launch, as in the case of the Nancy, was running without lights. Three men were drowned, one of whom, as Vandine had done, had 'alien overboard just before starting. CHAPERON'S BODY IS FOUND. Woman Who Risked Slippery Rocks at High Falls, Victim of Daring. Piattsburg, N.Y. —The body of Ethel Dodge Wilcox, of Pelham, N. Y., chap eron for a party of New York girls, in camp at Silver Lak«, who was drowned at High Falls, on Saranae River, was recovered from the whirl pool of the falls. The top of Miss Wil cox's head was crushed in by striking rocks in her fall to death. The camp ers had gone to High Falls on a sight seeing trip and .Miss Wilcox attempt ed to cross a moss and water-covered ledge below the fall, where no person has ever been known to cross .daring any of her companions to follow her. She was last seen alive as she rounded a bend in the ledge about ten feet above the water. Not returning, the companions started search. The body was discovered a short distance below the falls. GEORGIA FEARS BOLL WEEVIL. Growers Find Insect at Work on Cot ton Crop In Western Counties. Savannah.—-It is now believed the long-looked for and feared boil weevil at last has made its appearance in this state. A number of insects be lieved to be the weevil have been found upon the cotton in extreme western counties. Specimens of these have been sent to the state entomolo gist tor identification and classifica tion. The actual appearance of the weevil had not been expected before next sea son, although it was known to be in Alabama a year ago. Those who have seen the suspected insect in the western counties say it is certainly the boll weevil. MOUNT ETNA IS ACTIVE AGAIN. i Volcano Throwing Out Lava from New Mouth of Northear.t Side. Rome. —Mount Etna is again in eruption, fire smoke and lava having suddenly burst forth from the crater. Several earthquakes, one of them se vere, followed the eruption. A dense column of smoke was ris ing from the main crater at midday 'ind a new mouth has opened In the northeast of the mountain, throw ng out lava and hot stones. At pres ent there seems to be i.<> danger. iMRS.GRACi FREED BY GEORGIA JURY Atlanta Woman Indicted for | Shooting Husband Acquitted. CROWD APPLAUDS VERDICT J Prisoner on Verge of Collapse When Jurors Declare Her Innocent— Husband to Sue for Divorce. Atlanta. —Mrs. Daisy Opie Grace ! was declared not guilty of trying to I kill her husband, by a jury here after three hours' deliberation. Mrs. Grace, i wealthy and well known in her for | rner houie, Philadelphia, and here, was ! on the verge of collapse when the i twelve men who had decided her fate j tiled into the courtroom. W hen the j verdict was announced she simply ! bowed her head. Immediately after the verdict was j announced women struggled frantical | ly to reach the place where Mrs. Grace ! sat, only to be forced back by officers. J The jurymen remained in their places I even after they had been discharged. A full minute elapsed, and then Mrs. | Grace arose and was assisted to the | jury box. For the first time she showed a sign of animation, as silent ly she grasped the hand of each of the j twelve men. Mrs. Grace was escorted from the courtroom immediately after ; ward. Counsel for Mrs. Grace, in summing I up, charged that lawyers for the State ! had wilfully withheld evidence in I their prosecution. He also accused ! the State attorneys of executing a ! "theatrical plot" when they brought I Grace, wounded, into court, and said it was aimed to cause Mrs. Grace to | collapse. j Grace was found in bed at his home I here the morning of March 5 last, shot j in the side. The bullet lodged against j the spinal cord, and since he has been ; paralyzed from his waist down. Ho ' | charged that his wife drugged and ! shot him, intending to kill him to get | the $25,000 insurance he carried on | his life. BEEF HIGHEST IN HISTORY. Chicago Figures Touch Record Mark j —Steak 40 Cents a Pound. Chicago.—The warning issued to ! consumers after the dissolution of the I "beef trust," that meat prices would ! be higher, has been fulfilled, and beef, I at the local stock yards, was sold at the highest prices ever attained here, the figures representing a new world's record for altitude in beef prices. Prices obtained from retail dealers, showing the prices the consumer pays, j are as follows: Five Months J Ago. Now ! Porterhouse steak 30c 40c j Sirloin (best cuts) 20c 30c ; Hound steak 15c 22c | Lamb chops (best cut)... 15c 25c I Pot roast 12V&C 15c I ! Veal cutlets 20c 35c j Pork chops 16c 21c New York. —In New York the price j of beef has jumped from a cent to a cent and a half a pound, and the cost i of other meats has increased propor j tionately. [ 1 New York chain restaurants have . ! just added 5 cents to the bill of fare j prices for steaks, chops, hash, fish i cakes and fishballs. AID REFUGEES FROM MEXICO. Senate Resolution Appropriates SIOO,- 000 for Transportation. Washington.—A resolution author izing the appropriation of SIOO,OOO to 1 | be expended by the Secretary of War i to transport American refugees from ; Mexico to points in the United States ■ where they may want to locate, was ■ passed by the Senate. Senator Bailey i introduced the resolution. The attention of Congress was : brought sharply to the Mexican situa i tion when the publisher of a newspa per at El Paso extended an invitation ' by wire to the United Stales Senate . j to visit El Paso and personally inspect ] conditions as they are said to exist. - i The invitation, which came by wire, | invited the Senators to meet "to con » fer regarding matters in Mexico and 1 I discuss plans to meet an impending i crisis." i HOUSE ACTS ON PERU HORROR. ' Adopts Resolution Asking Informa tion About Atrocities. Washington.—The house committee lon foreign affairs will report favorably the McCall resolution asking the State , Department for information regarding the atrocities against Indians in the I Putumayo rubber district of Peru and the existence of peonage iu that re gion. The House will accept the re port of the foreign affairs committee. FAMOUS OLD FRIGATE SOLD. ' i Santee. Laid Down in 1820, Brings ! $3,610 from Philadelphia Man. Washington.-r-The U. S. S. Sante»>, one of the oldest vessels in the navy, was sold to Joseph G llinter for $3,610. The Santee was laid down in 1820 and for a generation was one of the famous sailing frigates in the naval service. She was extensively repaired just before the Civil War. after which -he was assigned for the use of the Naval Academy.
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