RESIDENT Assassin Attempts to Kill Chief Executive of France in Pubiic. SHOT TWICE TH THE POLICE PREVENT LYNCHING | choc Prisoner Gave a Rambling Statement | About Grievances and Persecu- tion Against His Family. The national fete, the 118th anni versary of the capture of the Bastile, was marked by an attempt to assas- sinate President Fallieres by TI.eon Maille, a naval reservist of Havra. Maille fired two shots at Fallieres, -but failed: to hit him, and was quick: Jy arrested. SE On account of the activity anti-inilitarists, who tried to ize a demonstration against the throughout France. exceptional cautions were taken ‘to safegnard President Fadllieres. The attempt on his life ocenrred on Avenue des Chamos Flvsees while he was return Ing to the palace from Longchamg where he had reviewed the garrison of Paris in the vresence of 250,000 enthusiastic neople. Premier Clemenceau and M. Lanes, the President's cecretary, were with the President in his landau, which was escorted by a squadron of cnir- assiers. The carriage had safely emerged from the Bois de Boulogne, where the anti-militarists had strong- Iy stationed themselves, with the in- tention of hooting the soldiers. and was descending the broad Champs Elvsees amid the acclamations of the crowds thronging the sidewalks. who were shouting “Vive Fallieres,” “Vive le Armee,” when at the corner of Lesueur street, Maille from the curb fired two shots point blank at the President in quick succession. Miraculously no one was hit. Presi- dent TFallieres was cool and collect- ed when the cortege stopped. The diplomats who were following the President's Jandau alighted from their carriages and hurried to the side of Fallieres. Finding that nobodv had been injured, by the President's or- ders the cortege moved on. : In the meantime two policemen seized Malille, who made no resi ance. but the police with difficulty prevented the irate crowds from Ivnehing the prisoner, until a cordon up and’ conducted of the orgamn- army pre- nf reserves roma him to the station. Maille appedred ing magistrate; ~and only succeeded in him a rambling statement © about family persecution directed against him. It was to draw public tion to his grievances, he said, that he fired the shots. The prisoner enid- ed the ‘examination by announcing his intention to give no further ex- planations, as. he believed the mag- ifstrate would do nothing to remedy his wrongs. before an examin- the” authorities extracting from RIOT ABOUT A SANDWICH Eight Greek Restaurants Wrecked and Mayor Stoned at Roanoke. At Roanoke, Va., a riot broke which lasted four hours. during which a mob wrecked nine Greek restaur- ants. three Greek shoe shine parlors and two Syrian shops. The riot was caused by a dispute about five cents between a Greek employed in the Belmont Greek restaurant on Salem avenue, and an American, there to buy a sandwich. Seven places were wrecked on Salem avenue, three on Jefferson street. one on Nelson street, and one on Rail road avenue. : Five natives and lodged in jail. None of the Greeks are under arest. The Greeks have emploved counsel to look after their interests and have already call- ed the attention of the Greek consul- ate in this country to the affair. Mavor Joel H. Cutchin, was in the street begging the crow Yo disperse, was struck rocks thrown by rioters. Flying stones also struck Police Justice J. Police Sergeant Overstreet Heemen Manning. King and and Chief John Waggoner of the departmet. The fire department was called out to throw water on the crowd and when the hose was unwound there were cries of ‘cut the hose” and “shoot nim.” out have heen arrested Hy Dy R.:Ryan, and .Po- Evans fir 3 One man stuck a knife in the hose, but was driven off when a stream was played on him. Women Want to Have a Vote. Women workers, repre- senting Pennsylvania, New Connecticut and New Jersey met Beethoven hall, New York, under the direction of the Women’s Trade Union League. That this convention means that the ballot for women goon forthcoming was the declaration of both Mrs. Harriet Staunton Blatch and Mrs. Rose Pastor Stokes, who were present. factory York, Witness Corroborated Orchard. A witness was found who testified that he was a participant with Harry | Orchard in the Wardner mine explo- | «ion, corroborating directly, for the first time; that portion of Orchard’s recital of crime. Warrant perjury was issued for a wealthy physician of Wallace, Idaho, who tes- tified that Orchard was elsewhere on the date of the Wardner explosion. Jewels Valued at $20,000 Stolen. Jewels valued at $20,000 have beén | stolen from a private safe in the of- fices of J. M. Ceballns & Co.. bank- ers and brokers, of Ncw ork. who failed not long ago for The tewcls are the person: of Mr. Ceballos. Rev. Ira Ta Preshyvierian Ing at the Christian vention at. Seattle, welt and Bryan are {in ers of graft and corruption gry bas ever known. The #uished atten- | who. went | in | is | charging | TOC BLACKMAIL GEN. BOOTH on Charge of Trying to Get $30,000 From the Army. | What the government officials think Massachusetts Men Arrested | | a plan to extort $30,000 from the | ion Army was made publie in July 11, when Solomon Robit- k of lowell, a dealer in second- ciothing, and Bennett a Lowell attorney, were United States Commissioner and held in bonds of $1,000 each on the charge of using the mails to defraud. According to district attorney, Robitcheck wrote or secured possession of a poem casting grave reflections on the motives and practices of the members the United a copy was sent to Gen. Wm. Booth, commander of the army, to-Saivation Army headquarters New York. As Gen. in Jooth treasurer of the army. the verses was a letter in which, it is said, the verses and sell them at five cents a copy, unless the army paid $30,600 to the sender, Robitchecek. Silverblatt, according to tention of the Government, acted as Robitcheck's attcrney in the negotia- tion. U. S. STOPS GAMBLING Vithdraws License of Poolroom Steamer That Plies Just Outside Chicago. ment against the steamer Cily Traverse, Michigan have attracted tention within recent months. national at- ray of the Department of Commerce and I.abor, for the revocation of the sailing license and the | cellation of its passenger certificate. | In complaints which have reached | the Department of Commerce and | vessel's | ties of Chicago and Illinois, the City | of Traverse was a floating poolroom. | | Returns from all the race tracks in the country are received by wireless | telegrahy. and any other gambling game. { The steamboat cruised daily in gov- | ernment waters. DIVIDENDS WOULD BE CUT Plea of Pennsylvania Railroad Men Against 2-Cent Fare. A reduetion in the Pennsy! railroad dividend was the principal calamity chreatened by officials of the company in court at Philadelphia, should the constitutionality. cent rate iw be sustained: A statement © startling to .helders of the Pennsylvania as made by Wm. BB. Kraft, chief clerk in-the controller's office, who testified that if the new 2-cent rate became effective the net earnings of the road would probably so decrease that the annual dividend rate would drop to three per- 1 1 cent or a little more. English Government Comes to Res- cue of Novelist. The appearance of the name of the English novelist, Ouida (Louise de la | Ramee), on the new list of civil pen- i sions for literary merit occasioned some surprise in London. {Until recently Mlle. de la Ramee t lived: in lL.ucea, Italy, in luxury. As a result, however, of her complete ienorance of the value of money, her resources dwindled until she was re- duced to a state of absolute poverty, being sometimes actually in want of food. a milkman’s squalid cottage at Mas- sarossa, eight miles from l.ueca. Lower Express Rates Upheld. Judge Munger in the Federal at Oniaha, Neb., has refused the ap- plication of the Adams, \Wells-Fargo, Americyn, United States and express companies for a restraining { order preventing Nebraska rail i road commission and the Nebraska attorney general from putting into ef- fect the new laws, reducing rates in the state 25 per cent. \ the UNWRITTEN LAW UPHELD Maryland Jury Promptly Acquits on Court Charge. At Laplata, Md... Mrs. Nellie ard her son, Henry Dowie, were ac- "quitted by the jury of the charge of murder for killing Hubert Posey, who met death at their hands f ment - for his betrayal ‘of I lowie. daughter of one defendant and sister of the other. Bowie, with her fatherless Jowie as child on her lap, was present when the ver- | ! 1 ! dict was rendered: 1t took the jury but five minutes ‘after being charged to decide that in Southern Maryland the “unwritten law” is a sufficient defense to the { charge of murder in conditions such as caused the shooting and killing of | voung Posey last January. Six Negroes Killed. Bv the collision of eastbouna ves- { tthuled train No. 42 with a switch en- | gine one mile east of Johnson City, Tenn. six. unidentified negroes were ! killed ad 20 other passengers injur- {ed. The lives of the mail clerks | ware saved by their car being of | heavy steel construction. Japan Has No Spies Here. Gen. Terauchi, the Japanese minis- ter of war, in an interview, contra- i dicting the reported arrest of a Japanese spy at San Diego, Cal, “There are no Japanese mili- officials in America except mili- attaches. The war office has never instrueted any officer or ama- tour spy to examine American forts.” Major Alfred -Drey fi has oir aelive service in. the and accepted a pension. retired French Silver- | taken | | States | either | of the Salvation Army, It is said that | addressed | was in London, the | letter was opened by Ransom Caghill, | Inclosed with | the threat was made to publish | the con- | ive Day by exemplary behavior | asked permission to go to the wash- { room Drastic action was taken by govern- | of | whose operations on Lake | can- | hodily injury. | until he In addition, it is asserted, | they may play at faro, roulette, poker | | the detectives i ica before of: the. 2- | ie { draw $15,000 in money from the hotel the | | money when the opportunity offered. | : | Independent stock- | | ownership of any of them. l.atterly she has been living in | ior asking for receivers i court | ing them from further practice of the Court | Pacific | express | have monopolized or Priscilla | CROOK LEAPED FOR LIBERTY Badly Injured, but Compels Doc- tor to Dress His Wounds. | ELUDED OFFICERS THREE YEARS | Was Known in Larger Cities of America as An Expert Thief On a Large Scale. John T Thompson, a crook captured in London, after a chase around the world , escaped | from a train near Denver July 11. He leaped from a car window while the train was running 40 miles aun hour. Afterward Thompson forced . Dr. Horace S. Cooper to attend him and I gave him a $300 diamond pin for his services. He then left the doctor's oftice and, with a broken right arm, a broken collar bone and a scalp wound and other injuries, made his way tc Cheyenne, Wyo., where he was caught. Thompson is wanted in Portland, Ore., on a charge of robbing a cltzen of that place of $15,000 in cash, and was en route to that city to stand trial when he made his thrilling es- cape from Detective Joseph Day of notorious | the Portland police departmerit. At the time Thompson was out of | handcuffs for the first time in weeks. of Detect- and He gained the confidence just as the train was leaving Denver. Day took the handcuffs from his wrists, believing that the great speed at which the train was going would preculde any possibility of his Orders | were issued by Acting Secretary Mur- | getting away. ed his liberty ed by many employes of the Rio | Grande railroad at Burnham, and by Pr: iC | Labor fron: citizens and the authori lp." oo Laeveq by all to be dement- Cooper, who attended him, and ed. realize that his Detective Day did not prisoner had gotten away reached Castle Rock. Thi gave Thompson more than an hour's start. For three years Thompson he was finally captured, and during this time he lived under | half a dezen different flags. “Thompson is 49 years old. He is ! known in all the larger cities of the | thief, | _ | who atempts only those crimes which | rania i: United States as an expert are calcuated to net the biggest re- turns. He was in Portland when he made the acquaintance in a hotel of a capitalist. He caused this victim to safe, and then robbed him of NEW RECEIVER SCHEME Does Not Mean Government Owner- | | announced | Burlington would put in operation a | 2-cent ship, but Simply Quick Finish of- the Trusts. “The government has no idea of undertaking government control of trnets through the appointment of re- ceivers for such of them as having their affairs wound up,” said Attorney General Bonaparte by way of comment on some of the published reports crediting the administration with such a plan to curb unlawful combinations. “If any trusts are placed in the hands of receivers, their affairs will he closed up as soon as possible and that will be the end of It is ri- diculous.’y The Attorney General his assertion that there is no thought before the issues the final decree enjoin- of interstate conspiracy in restraint and foreign commerce. He desired to emphasize the fact that the suggestion that receivers b= appointed was merely to add that to | the relief prayed so that the corpora- tions for illegal. purposes should be disposed. vf with the least possible injury to the legitimate business they restrained. BULLETS FLY AT CHURCH Kentucky Relatives iA a Shooting > Match That Ends Fatally. At Laynes school house, in Floyd county, Ky., there was a fierce feud battle between two of the wealthiest and most prominent families in the county, the Roberts and Allens. The Roberts boys married into the family of Emmet Hamilton, a large land owner, and the Allens were also con- nected with the Hamilton family, and scon became enemies of the Roberts, who were from Pike county. "Phere was an old Baptist footwash- ing ‘in progress, and when the bul- lets began to fly pecple ran from the building barefooted and scattered in every direction. Lawrence { was killed and George Allen, Clark and James Clark wounded. Jake Rush Orders from Navy. Rush orders have been received at the Shelby Tube Co. plant in Green- ville, Pa., for boiler tubes for United the Government orders were rushed. Enjoins Chicago Ticket Scalpers. Fifty-four ticket brokers were tem- porarily enjoined from traffic in rail- | way tickets by Jndge Kohlsaat of | the United States Circuit Court. at Chicago. Seventeen suits brought by the railroads to put the brokers out of business have been pending over a i vear, and the injunctions are the re- sult. The Department of Commerce and IL.abor has ruled that there will be no more gambling boats allowed to .|run on any of the great lakes. deep | : | Standard Oil will be attacked. eluded | of England and Amer- | courts | may see fit to place in that way of | | sas, government | reiterated | Roberts | seriously | States war vessels. Several naval offi- | cers arrived in Greenville to see that | COMPETITION WILL BE POSSIBLE Combines Doing Business Contrary to Law Will Be Resolved Into Original Companies. Injunctions and receivers may the future weapons of the Department of Justice to destroy early date. It was . conceived by ‘At- | D. Purdy, the trust expert, and there is every promise that it will shake the trusts as nothing before has done. The courts: will be asked to issue injunctions and appoint receivers in the case of big combinations that have so long ignored the Sherman anti-trust law, in the belief that fines would be the sole punishment they might expect. : In all probability the powder trusts wil] be the first ar- raigned in proceedings for injunc- tions, and if these are successful the It ‘is the belief of Bonaparte and Purdy that the injunction and receiver plan will do more to break up trusts than anything else under any law that could be enacted. In successful actions tobacco and against the | trusts thus far little has been accom- plished. The payment of fines has had no practical effect; the trusts have simply assessed these against the public and gone on doing business, throttling competition and fixing prices to suit themselves.’ If the Department of Justice able to show that a combination doing business in clear: violation the anti-trust laws, restraining trade and monopolizing the field, the law officers believe. the courts will find it is consistent with law and justice to en- | | join Thompson took a desperate chance, | leaped through a window and secur- | at the cost of great) His leap was sitness- | the trusts from continuing busi- ness along those lines. Then, if the injunction is to operate the business. This recevier, of course, would op- Under the receivership the various | companies composing the trust would | I resume operations, each in’ tion with the other: water in the capi- | tal would be squeezed out, and the cnormous profits would be reduced to a fair and equitable return for the | capital invested. In the case of the Powder trust, proceedings against which have been | ! 5 | ate or misleading data as to the rel for some the what were on the eve of beginning time, it will be shown to that it is composed of originally nearly one hundred pendent and competing concerns and that prices are now fixed by one cen: tral authority - BURLINGTON WILL CUT FARES of Legislatures, Will Apply Two-Cent Rate. Road Assistant General Passenger Agent | Burlington roa 10 the within of that Buckingham fare schedule between all points on that system, regardless of whether or not the different states have passed a 2-cent fare -bill. The Burlington traverses Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, Kan- Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Wiscon- sin, Minnesota and South Dakota. Clerks are now working on the new schedule. ton. it is said, will undoubtedly cause the other roads in the same territory to follow suit. FAIRBANKS CENSURED Indiana Prohibitionists Pass Motion Condemning Vice President. A motion condemning Vice DPresi- dent Fairbanks for having cocktails and wines on his table was adopted at a meeting of the state executive committee of the Prohibition party at Indianapolis. It was presented by the Rev. C. M. Kroft of the Whiteland = Methodist Church, a member of the Indiana conference, befcre which Mr Fair- banks. it is said, will be a candidate for election as delegate to the quad: rennial conference of the Methodist church at Baltimore next spring. Aoki Again Denies Recall. Both the Japanese ambassador and staff deprecate the recent publi- inacurate or mis- the his cations based on leading data to tween the United States and Japan, and have gone to unusual length in denying stories. The last statement to the effect that Ambassador Aoki is to return to his own country is re- garded as another example of care- less publication. Viscount Aoki said: “I have not been summoned to Tokyo and I have no intention of going. 1 want to say there is no ‘situation,’ there are no ‘strained relations’ Dbe- tween the United States and Japan.” as relations be- Join to Fight Nicaragua. The United States State Depart- ment received unconfirmed advices that the republics of Guatemala and Salvador have joined forces and are beginning the mobilization of troops to resist any attack made by the Ni- caraguan government. All the Cen- tral American republics, with | possible exception of Costa Rica, are strongly opposed to the plan of President Zelaya of Nicaragua, for the federation of the five republics. Upholds Two-Cent Fares. Judge McPherson of the Federal Court at Des Moines, Ia., denied the application ®f two stockholders of & St. Louis for an order restraining the directors from putting into effect | the two-cent passenger rate enacted { by the Towa Legislature. The judge !reled that the complaint that the new rate would cut down dividends | was not proved, and that increased | passenger travel might increase re- { ceipts. be | illegal trusts. | The new plan is slated for trial at an | torney Genera] Bonaparte and Milton | | thought losses | is | of | | Adams’ : | ye ignored, |’ ard. a motion will be made for a receiver | from i Washington | erate the business in accordance with | 1V° | the las, and when he had got it run- ning fairly in that way he would ask | for his discharge and the return of | | the business to its owners. | statement cabled from { has made i the United States competi- | | his staff deprecate courts | inde- | { Admiral | published; in which: the admiral was | { anoted as saying the American naval | | officers | but deficient | American days the. | Atlantic to the the Iowa Central and the Minneapolis | teaver, regularly Honor on | man composer. ADMIRAL LUT WAR TALK Japanese Minister of Marine and | Admiral Evans Fraternize. STORY OF DEMANDS DENIED State Department and Japanese Em- bassy Both Refute It—Tokyo Paper Retracts Statements. of officers, England. Admiral Yamamoto, one most distinguished naval rived in New York from In his interviews the admiral dep- recated the war scare which has re cently appeared in both Japan America. He said no small incident | could break the friendship which has existed for so many years between Japan and the United States. He the sensational press of the largely to blame for Japan's | ar- two countries the war lalk. As to the proposed transfer of the great Atlantic battleship squadron t+ the Pacific, that was a matter solely for the American government to de- cide; and one that did not ‘interest | him in the least, except in that was a novel naval experiment. Admiral Yamamoto took occasion to deny that on his return to Japan he would become the leader of the Progressive. party. Rear Admiral Evans, who friend of Admiral Yam: on him, and the two sailors had a long chat together. After the visit Admiral Evans said they had settled the whole matter of war between America and Japan and, had declared | peace. Admiral Yamamoto returned Rear Admiral Evans’ and - Captain calls ‘at the Brooklyn navy it is an old ymoto, called State Japanese came swift Department and Embassy in and conclus- | of the accuracy of ‘the The Hague to the London Daily Telegraph, and re-! printed in this country, that Japan categorical demands upon | government for | connection with the | in-“San ran- From the the denial satisfaction in treatment of Japanese cisco, and has served notice of her intention to deal with the Californ- | ians herself if the national govern- | ment fails to do so.: = Both the Japanese ambassador and | the recent news- paper publications based on inaceur tions. between the United States and Japan. The Hochi, a Japanese paper Tokyo, withdrew the interview Sakamoto which it recent! at. with brilliant social in professional practice, and. that the ships would retreat thap fight Japan. were figures training crews of | rather | and ONLY A PRACTICE CRUISE Secretary Metcalf Says Fleet Will Not Remain Long in Pacific. _ Secretary of the Navy Metcalf de- | precates the aspect that has been giv- en the order for the cruise of the great battleship squadron from the the Pacific coast. The | secretary says that the proposed movement is that-of a practice cruise The action of the Burling- | fd that the the Pacific fleet will not permanently. He de- clared the length of time that the fleet will remain on the western side of the arntinent has not vet been de- cided. With considerahls emphasis the | secretary voiced his opinion that the | warlike internretation that had been made in connection with the fleet's movement was not ‘justified by the facts. be kept | numerous {is man [ like | ments and |- | companies is annulled I be {commissioner ! with | years. | present | the rd Jihvele | their | of | nied the. privilege. 1 Ru south of Jamestown. N. Y. i The lof Warren: GROSS VIOLATIONS OF LAW Action Against Tobacco Trust Begun in New York. United government United Circuit York a petition against Co. and: its forming what as tobadco alleges gross violation of the Sher- law, and. later enactments of character, with a view to nmon- opolizing the entire tobacco industry, and ‘it demands that the trust be dissolved by breaking up the agree- under which the consolidated are working. Demand The filed Court States tho States New American in of the Tobacco auxilic known commonly the The petition 1 ersistent concerns is | also made that the Imperial Tobacco the English tributary of the be enjoined from doing busi- within the United States until agreement with the American and the court is further asked to appoint receivers to take charge of the defendant con-: wherever this proceeding may necessary. cerns found CHINESE PROVED LEPER Examination Fixes Doubt That Mongol! Samuel G. Dixon, state health for Pennsylvania, an- nounces that Mock Sem, alias Chas. Mock, taken last Friday on suspicion being a leper, is reaily afflicted the disease. Dr. Dixon received a telephone message from the de- partment of health. laboratories at the University of Pennsylvania, where Drs. Smith and Fox found, the baeilll of leprosy in specimens tak- front the Chinese. Mock is now isolated ond under zuard. He is 24 vears old, and has been here seven He says he has been in his condition for years, but phy- sicians say incivient. If possible, will be made to sénd him to the New York leper colony. Ile wants to be sent home, but that will not be considered at present. Beyond is Afflicted. Pr. of en 1 Ter the case 13 arrangements WANT KANSAS CALLED OFF Puliman and Western panies Appeal From Being Ousted from State. have filed Union Com- Appeals been in. . the i United States Supreme Court by the I'nllman Company and the Western Union Telegraph Company, from the decisions of ‘the Kansas Supreme Court, onsting those companies from that state. so far domestic ness coneerned. as busi- is The proceedings were brought by : Feneral of Kansas, ‘mown Jas the © Bush “which imposes upon foreign cor- a.. charter tax, baSed on capital steck, for. the privilege transacting domestic. business: in the state for a period of 20 years, in default of which ‘they were to be de- Both declined to Na laws vorations { the tax. pay SIX DROWNED Naptha Launch Swent Over Dam in Fiooded River. Six persons were drowned near 3sell. Warren county, Pa...11 miles Nine gasoline launch Conewango - river, which was high. owing to recent rains. boat was swept over a dam and six people drowned. “N\ The dead: John Best of Warren; Mrs. Best, his wife; Miss Violet Best, their daughter: Ars. Geo. Baker Mrs. Hilda Knox of War- ren; 0. F. Butts. a traveling sales- man of Philadelphia. nen- 100 i ple had taken a on the very Change in School Books Needed. Dr. Nathan: C. Schaeffer, State nerintendent of public instruction Su- of | Pennsylvania, in his address as presi- Haywood Denies Charges. PD. Haywood took oath at Boise, ‘Ida., July 11. as a witness in his own defense. and in a: lengthy | narea his life and work as a leader felow miners that was adjournment deniec of Frank Steun- manifoid crimes by Ilarry Orch- Wn. of his by murder the him of interrunted of the Tr and against ECUCATORS WANT PEACE Resolutions Passed Favoring Disarm- a ment and Natienal Reform. “World peace” was the rallying cry at the opening session of the convention of the National Education- annual al association, which convened at Los Angeles, July 8. The 4.600 delegates listened intently to the address of the | President, Nathan - C. : Schaeffer, on “How Can the Schools Aid in the Peace Movement?” and aplauded vig- orousiv his: denunciation of war.’ At its eonclusion the convention re- ceived and referred to the committee on resolutions a. strongly worded | resolution offered by President ! Thompson of Ohio University. favor- ing international arbitration, disarma- ment and other international reforms. Two sections of the resolutions were cabled to American delegates at the Hogue. The resolution will be re- ported back to the convention. Up to the close of business July 13, the treasury department had redeem- ed only $17985,650 of the 4 per cent bonds which matured July 1, leaving outstanding $36,121,450. Grafters in Portugal. Premier Franco of Portugal has just exposed a lot of public grafters. Some of them have been holding of- fices for many years and never per- formed anv duties. Thev Have, how- drawn their salaries. Thus far the premier has reduced the annual national expenses nearly $7 000.000 by cutting off graft, ad the end is not yet. The French government has con- ferred -the Cr of the Legion of | Richard Strauss, the Ger lage scheol histories gave much erbockers { clothes. | publican convention. ! somerete building at { et2ht chops in Fitchburg, Mas dent of the Naticnal Educational As- sociation, delivered on Monday at l.os Angeles, made an earnest plea: that the school text-books., examinations and instruction should lorify. the arts. of peace above the of war. He pointed out the fact that the aver- more achievements wof than to philanthro- inven- o ar i [3 prominence to the military and those of great scientists, authors and naval heroes statesmen, pists, tors. New in cutters in an increase All umion clothing York have received wages of $2 a week. Bv the capsizing of a pleasure boat Penobscot bay, six young men of Me,, were drowned. new fad at which in Bangor, A dinner, in New York is a “habyw the men wear knick- and the ladies baby After being fed the guests amnse themselves with children’s | toys and games and have a high old [ time. From Cincinnati comes the report that although the railroads are busier than ever, vet that they are reducing the number of emnloyes in the traffic departments. The reason assigned is | that enough money may be saved to pay dividends. Senator P..C. Knox has gent a per- sonal letter of thanks to each of the 500 delegates of the recent State Re- In the letter he expressed his gratitude for the en- dorsement given him for the nomina- tion for the presidency. Concrete Building Collapses. Three men are known to have been killed, one fatally hurt and 1S others I were injured in the collapse of a now plant of the Co., . Philadelphia. men were at werk on the save way. and y were in the debris: the DRridzman Bros. About 30 + which carried Gown sido 300 machinists employed at , have recognitien, for a increase in A hoat atrnek. for unicn nine-hour day and for a1 al
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