NEW BILL FOR RAILADADG Senator La Folletie Introduces a . New Liability Measure. EILL INDORSED BY TRAINMEN intended to Me2et Requirements of the Recent Supreme Court De- cisiecn cn Present Law. Washington.—A comprebensive em- plovers’ liability bill was introduced in the senate and house by Senator Lafollette of Wisconsin and Represen- tative Sterling cf Illinois. The authors say the Liil has the indorsement of the Brether hoc >d of Locomotive Engin- cers 1 of Locomotive Fire- men’ en and Brotherhood of irainmen, and is intend- t the recent decision of the 't in which the employ- Lo June 11, 1906, was itutional. carrier, while engasg- or foreign commerce si f the United its employes employed in when such injuries negligence cor misman- v officer or employe of cr when duc to defects in equipment. This { cqually applica the territories, the Di unbia and the Parama and earriers engaged in ation- of the United cil ery I declar ed un Every Bois cg i Interst between States is who arc such con are due to ti agement of such ¢ ioutary Ne aligence. dectrines of | 8" as is now | ites of Wisconsin, | i North Dakota, Neb- | raska, Ne Georgia and Florida, | * and in th: of congress which w declared an employe has been gui stitutional. It permits recover damages if bh ty of contributory nesg-| ligeiice, but says the jury shall di- minish the dumages in accordance? with the amount of negligence they may find is attributable to such em- | ploye. | it is provided also that an injured | employe shall uot be held to be guilty | of ‘contributory negligence in any ca lation of law by the car 1 to such injury. also ns of fact relating to neg- ligence shail be for the jury to de- termine. In the event of the verdict in favor of the employe it is required that the conrt shall allow as part of the costs a reasonable attorney's fee not ex- ceeding an amcunt equal to 25 per | cent of the judgment recovered and an additional fce, equal to 5 per cent | of the 2niount finally recovered, for al. It is made a- misde- meanor punishable by a fine not €x- ceedng $1,000 or imprisonment not to exceed six months, for an attorney receive any fee or compen- i than or additional to the amounts so allowed by the courts. Exemating Contracts Void. An inj d employe shail not be held to have aszumed the risk of his em- ployment in any case where the vio- | lation cf 12 v by the oprrier contributed | to such . Guo section of the bill sp cifically makes go any con- | tract, rule or any device whatsoever the purpose of which is to exempt the carrier from liability under the act.| The statute of limitations within which suit can be brought is fixed at | three years. Receivers of common carriers are made equally liable to their employes as are the common carriers. The final section protects suits which have been | brought in the territories and the District of Columbia under the act of | June 11, 1906, it being contended by the employes that that act is still in- {fact in these jurisdictions. Few Japs Ccming Over. Thore has.bean an enormous slump in Japzuese entering the United States. Last month shows a falling | cif of 4,304 over January, 1907, only 971 having passed Uncle Sam's hor-| ders, Al gh the shrinkage in Jap- 2nese im: tion reached 81 per! cent the ce of other aliens was 2 per. cent. WAR NOT THOUGHT OF where the vio New Jananese Ambassador Exrresses His Opinicn In Very For- cible Language. ! New York.—Declaring that war be- {ween the United States nud Japan would be “the most inhuman oveatl in the world’s history,” and was "too heliich ic be thought of,” Baron Kog- oro Takehira, the new Japanese am- bassador to “Washington, said upon landing in New York from the steam- er Etruria that the Japanese peopie know absolutoly nothing of a break in the cordial relations which bave | been historic between the two na- ticns. Falk cf war, Baron Takahira | declared, with much emphasis, was ut. terly Es Re io him. The new ambassador said there might be some | matters Ww uld T Lis attention, but they support ich always is ¢ \MEN ARE DROWNED Brezks In Ore gon Coast. | Toy, Sylvania, + men from all over ! to promcte Frank W. sictapt secretary, to fiil the position of executive secretary cof the Philippines pending in Washington which 2 Two Off the | BANK ROBBE Cashier Locked In Vauit and Remains There Alli Night. Charloite, N. C After seeing his hank lcoted by four masked men, who had covered him with revolvers, Cash- fer W. C. Whitman was forced fo enter the vault and the doors were leccked by the robbers. The cashier remained in the vault from 10 o'clock at night until 7 o'clock next morning, and when re- leased lie was nearly dead. The rebbery occurred at Granite Falls, a large factory town, in Caldwell coun- ty. According to the Cashier, the rob- bers got $5,000, overlooking in their haste several! packages of money. When the cashier was missed this merning, search was instituted. At the bank the searchers heard faint knocks on the interior of tha vault and machinists were secured who opened the door and the casi-| ier was found almost dead from sufic- cation. Many people were passing the bank the time the robbery was commit- TORNADO WRECKS TOWNS Cown and Killed. does that vis- States exacted a score, entirely h st three villages and 1t ne devastation. Blown Persons WICl ight, wiped out at legs Anct her north of Hattiesburg, Miss, killed net less than eight persons. Coming southwest the from the ej over the main residence quarter of Tyler, leaving a trail of death and devastation Three ssippi hamlets were de- a tornado. 2, Service and Sosc are the towns destroyed Jones county, and each consists of dwellings. ported to have carried the buildings off the lots on which they stcc Nearby fields were covered wreckage and trees were littered with | household articles. a few SEVEN ARE DEAD | Signal of Trolley Conductor to Stop Gees Wrong and Car At- tempts to Pass. Toledo, O.—-Seven killed and a dozer Big FPFoar passeager persons wcre injured when a train struck a Toledo & \Western electric car at the | Michigan Central crossing, in West Toiedo. The dead are: James Myers, motorman, Toledo; Mrs. William Figh- er, \West Toledo; Roy Fisher, West Toledo; Clarence Beech, Sylvania, and two children of Mr. and Mrs 3eech. The injured are: Mayor Jenes and wife of Sylvania; Clara Saxton, Trilby, seriously; Joe Boch- nieyer, Trilby, fatally; Charles Dolph, Syivania, slight George Bradgon, Toledo, fatally; Hurt Blankley, Syl- ania, badly hurt; Mr. and Mra. tliram Parker Sylvania; Johan Con- slightly, and James Young, Sylvania. MILLS STARTING UP Activi ty In Manufacturing Plants— Buyers In New York Ready For Trade. Over 2,000 workmen, who have been idle since November and December, | have, resumed work in the Wheeling | district. A dozen additional mills at the Aetna Standard plant have start- ed giving employment to 500. Hask- ing Class pliant, Martins Ferry, gives work to as many more. ‘The starting of tbe Tcp Mill furnace and the Whezling Stzel and Iron works gives employment to over 1,000. The Na- al Tube Corapany’s Riverside plant will partially resume about the 20th. More than 3.900 buyers and business the country are now in New York with orders for gcods of every variety fer the spring and summer trade. (ihe great loflux f buyers was e cted by the job- bing houses, and is said by merchants to be evidence of the return of con- fidence throughout the country. Nationa] Capital N otes. :nt from Manila that he intends Carpenter, as- par created by the death cf Arthur W. | Ferguson A Lill authorizing the appointment of veterinarians in the army, not ex- ceeding two for each regiment of cav- battalion of alry and one for cach field artillery, was favorably reported to tho senate by the committee on military affairs. Several | rm in and about Tyler, Tex: | Reports of | zilled. range from six to| Thoy are all in | The tornado is re-| with | | rornor Smith cabled the war de- WORST CURRERCY SYSTEM Senator Rayner Opposes Aldrich Bill For Various Reasons. CRITICISES THE PRESIDENT Says His bios of Assault Have Contributed to Country's Fin- ancial Condition. Washington. — Senator Rayner of Maryland spoke at length in the sen- ate on the currency bill, condemning the present system of banking in the United States and incidentally declar- ing that the President by his methods of fighting the encroachments of pre- | datory wealth had done much to in- tensi the panic through which the country has recently passed. Speaking of conditions which a fin- ancial law would remedy, he said: “jhe truth about the situation is that the money in this country is not eguitably and fairly distributed and that it is concentrated at points that dominate the banking interests of the land, and that the people who need he money and the agricultural sec- { tions of the country, and the country and the country towns and | nercantile and farming interests, and | honest business enterprises, are all | unable to procure it when the neces- | sity arises for its use, and are all = - | sacrificed to gralify and appease the | demands that are concentrated around the financial centers of the country. Should Strike at Root of Evil. “We will never have any perman- ent relief until we strike at the root of the ovil and reform. our entire in the interests of the American peo- ple against the special interests. “Why, sir,” said he, ‘the native | savages upon the hanks of the Sene- gambian river, with elephants’ teeth and the bark of the muiberry tree ter system of finance than this.” He referred to the reserve laws as the worst part of the financial Sys- tem and said: “] appeal to this body not to pass | a bil] which peremptorily declines to | make any charge whatever in this | system of reserves, and permits this | blundering and flagrant injustice to | permanently disgrace the values of | the United States.” | Criticises the President. “And now I say, with great defer- | ence and respect, both for the office | and for its occupant, that the Presi- dent of the United States has also, | with the best intentions, unconscious- lv contributed to the misfortunes that have overtaken us. I unite with him in the warfare that he is waging against the violators of the law and the oppressors of the people. I differ, however, with the President in his method of assault. “Malefactors should receive penal punishment and a whole generation of innocent people ought not to suffer for the sins of their oppressors. One ! day of imprisonment would do the work better than all the heaviest fines that can be levied upon the institu tions (hey represent. | perfectly correct, but in most of the instances he cites bis rémedies are either uniawiful or impractical.” FLOOD CAUSES DAMAGE Many Factories Shut Down and Peo- ple Driven From Their Homes. Attaining an officially registered maxinium height of 30 feet 8 2-5 inches shortly after noon, Sunday, the flood in Pittsburg stood stationary until af- ter 3 o'clock, and then commenced to fall slowly. The low districts were flooded and many factories were com- pelled to close. A cinder dump 30 feet high con- structed across low ground in Mingo Junction, O., by the Carnegie Steel Company to protect company houses ip the Ohio river, gave way under the pressure of the back water Sunday af- terpoon and 50 houses were flooded. All the occupants escaped by wad- ing, and there were many narrow escapes from drowning, as nearly 200 persons fled in confusion to higher ground. $60,000 Necklace Stolen. Berlin.—A pearl necklace »f extraordinary beauty, $60,000, have been stclen Countess von Wartensleben. The Countess is the wife of General Alex- ander alry, of the Emepror valued at EXPLOSION KILLS NINE In a Powder Plant Thaw Out Dynamite. Montreal—Nine men were killed Workmen in recogniticn cf the growing inti- | plosive works at Vaudreuil, a summer macy between the of War Cliver Colonel E. M. We artillery has becn the new isi cf militia affairs ver cf the coast named as chies of ives Broskiyn Bridge Jump. rezuwlar army and je national militia, Acling Secretary has issued an order cre-! ‘inz a now division in the war de- partment to be known as the division | | paring 1 resort, 25 miles from here. All the particulars available about the explosion are that the men were thawing out dypamite and the explo- the result. cirmn wa S1CN Wa he Russian ministry of war is pre- plang for the speedy conver- | forte involving expenditures of about Sa Completicn cf the that Russia napping, as at in case of future trouble Irbe tre ative, in order | may not be caught Port Arthur, . | with Japan. Railroads Ask Hearing Washington, D. C.—Since the an- aguncement by the interstate com- merce com sion respecting its au- {hority to extend the nine-hour law to i telegraphers, which goes 4, application al- been made by four rail- ystems for a hearing on the Chicago, Burlington & Southern an Franc »7 for the hearing banking system from its foundations | as a circulating medium, have a bet-| “The diagnosis of the President is BOX OF CARTRIDGES SEIZED Washington Has Word of an Intended Revolutionary Plot In San Bomingo. Washington.—Rumors of a revolu- tionary plot in San Domingo ware received at the war department sev- cral weeks ago and prompt steps were taken to avert treubla. According to press reports from San Juan, several loxes containing -cart- ridges, but marked “old iron” were confiscated and five Dominicans and two Porto Ricans were arrested. The boxes contained a supply of 60,000 cartrdges, which, it is supposed were to be transported to San Domingo. it is not known to whom they were con- signed in San Domingo. The cruiser Tacoma left Hamptlon Roads yesterday for San Juan, and other ports in the West Indies, but it is denied both at the state and ‘the navy departments that her cruise has any connection with the rumors of trouble in San Domingo. BLACK HAND WORK 4 House In Rochester Blown Up With Dynamite—Decapitation Prom- ised Next. Rochester, N. Y..—Black Hand oper- ‘ators exploded a stick of dynamite under the porch of the home of Vin- cenzo DManelli, 107 Frankfort street, at midnight, blew the entire side of the bwmlding into fragments and en- dancered the lives of Mantelli’s fam: ily and two others that occupy the house. Soveral peeple in the house wera bruised by the flying debris. Manelli received three letters. last October, asking him Bo place $500 in a designated place, nder pain of death and a w vrocked Hao “Failure means decapitation,” the letters add- ed. DManelli did not comply with the demand. After the explosion he ran out ef hiz wrecked home, but saw no one nearny. STRIKE RIOTS IN ALASKA | Troops Ordered To Fairbanks To Pro- tect Russian Miners. Washington, D. C.—By direction of the President Acting Secretary of War Oliver ordered a company of in- fantry from Fort Gibbon in Alaska to Fairbanks, in that territory, to pre- serve order during the mining strike. telegrams from Fairbanks to the attorney general say open air mass meetings are being held by the strik- ers and that threats of violence have been made. The strikers have pick- eted the trail between Valdez and Fairbanks. Most of the newly arrived laborers are Russians. Ifairbanks, Alaska.— United States Marshal Perry has sworn in 250 spe- cial deputies. Mobs have been trying to capture recent arrivals here to de- port them. The marshal's force has dispersed the rioters. All saloons are closed. UNCLE SAM’S NEW CRUSADE Gets After Express Company for Car- rying Unstamped Letters. Cincinnati—Violation of the postal laws by carrying first class mail mat- ter was charged against the American Express Company in a suit filed in the United States district court here by District Attorney McPherson. The suit is the first gun in a: cam- paign which the government purposes to wage against comnion carriers for carrying first class mail matter. At- torney McPherson alleges the com: pany on January 6 carried an un- stamped letter from Belton, Tex., to Cincinnati, the writer ordering from a glove company 12 pairs of gloves and enclosing an express money order for $2.47." The penalty for thus vio- lating this law is $100. Mcre Pay for Enlisted Men. and other recidences from high water | and pin | from the | von Wartlensieben of the cav-] who is a warm personal friend | by an explosion in the Standard ex-| cn of Vladivostok into a first class | hin three years is held to | 1 Rai lw ay, the Washington, D. C.—The long defer: red agreement to report: favorably a substantial percentage increase of | rav tar the enlisted men of the Un- ited States army was reached by the house committee on military affairs. The committee has decided to recom- meénd an average increase approxi- mately 27 per cent, or 6 per cent less than was reauested by General Bell, chief of staff. This increas: | will apply also to the enlisted: men | of the marine corps. | OiL PRICES HAVE ADVANCED | Standard’s Quectaticn fer Indiana ‘and | Chio Crude Said to Indicat Increase, la barrel in the price of Ohio and | indiana crude oil made by the Stand- | ard Cil Company is said here to be a forerunner of higher prices for crude, | {here having been drains of from 500, | 000 to, 1,000,000 barrels’ in the past | six months. The increaze makes North Lima 99 | cents and South “Lima rand Indiana 94 cents. The added price is the first advance in the crude oil market of Obio and Indicna in a year. Former Geverncr Indicted. New Yerk-—Indictments charging perjury wore returred by the grand i jury again:zt Foster M. Veorhees, for mer gevernor of New Jersey, and | formerly president cf Bankers ot that company. The charges are based on reports. made to the New York state insurance department in 1904. Nine Miners Are Killed. Central City, Ky., Fcb., 10.—Nine miners were killed and one was prob ably fatally injured teday by an ex plosion of gas in the mine of the Moody Coal Company at South Gar roliton. "The ident was a slow bla ting off the a the i had accumt ‘corporations contributed to presiden- Lima, O.—The advance of five cents. TAFT WINS OUT IN Oni0 Carries Everything Over Foraker At The Primaries. PRIMARIES DECLARED LEGAL Decision Will Establish a Precedent in Matters Relating to: Au- thority of Committees. Cleveland, O.—Secretary of War William H. Tait, won a sweeping victory in Ohio at primaries which were held on the 11th, in 36 of the 88 counties to select delegates to the state convention. In only two coun- ties was any sort of a contest made, Cuyahoga and Knox. In Cuyahoga the decision of the state supreme court put the Foraker men out of the running, while in Knox the Taft tick- et was named, but Foraker men may contest. The other counties of the 88 held no primaries as there were but single tickets in the field and the state committee decided that it” was not necessary to go to the expense of holding primaries under such condi- tions. It is understood Foraker and Knox, claiming that the primaries of Tues- dav did not give a fair expression of the voters, will issue a call for mass state convention and: have pamed a contesting delegation from Ohio to the national Republican con- vention. Foraker men ako intend {© ficht Burton for renomination for | congress in the Twenty-first district | at the congressional convention next | month. Burton, however, will go to the national convention as a delegate from this district. Court Against Foraker. The supreme court knocked the last prop from under the Foraker men in Cleveland. The court not only af- firmed the common pleas and circuit court in refusing to grant an injunc- tion against the holding of primaries in Cleveland under the call of the Taft committee, but declared that the board of elections is without au- thority to ignore am executive com- mittee recognized as legal by the state central] committee. The deci- sion not only affirms the legality of the Taft committee, but established an important precedent in making the state central committee the final authority in contests between local committees. In Lucas county, where an inde- pendent ticket wags put in the field by those who object to the bossism of State Chairman Walter Brown of I'cledo, © court proceedings were brought that limited the delegates to those favoring Taft. The independ- ents claim they were not opposed Lo Taft, but want to oust Brown. The national committee probably will be asked to straighten out the wrangle. In several of the counties full tick- ets were nominated, but generally throughout Ohio, county tickets will be named at conventions. WHO PAID EXPENSES? Resolution to See Whether Violators of Law Were Coniributors in Years Past. Washington —A resolution was of- fered in the house by Mr. Pou, of North Carolina, directing the speak- er to appoint a committee of five represéntatives to ascertain what tial campaign funds in the years 1896, 1900 and 1904, especially with pn view to discovering whether such 2 list will include any of the corpora- tions mentioned as law violators by the President in his recent messages. The resolution requires the commit- tee to report to congress some time in the present session so that the facts may be laid before the people prior to the coming presidential cam- paign. To Disfranchise Negrces. Annapolis, Md.—The constitutional amendment designed to disfranchise the negro voters of the state was sassed by the senate. The measure will be submitted to the people for ;atification at the general election in November, 1909. It provides for an aducational or property qualification. $2,000,000 FOR MISSIONS Preshyterians tc Raise Sum and Con- duct Work Like Business. Philadelphia. -— The Presbyterian | Men's Foreign Missionary convention concluded its work here tonight. The one genera] resolution to henceforth carry on missionary work on the broad principles practiced in business was adopted. The most important business of the convention was the adoption of a res olution at the afternoon session ap- pealing to Presbyterian churches throughout the country to raise $z,- 000,000 for foreign missions next year. The resolution also call upon the men to pray at noon each day for the evan- gelization of the world. Yaqui Indians Captured. Hermosillo, Mexico.— The Federal! troops have rounded up more than 1.500 Yaqui Indians in‘{he mountains and valleys east of Hermosillo dur- ing a flying campaign covering a pe- | ricd of six weeks. Hundreds of | neaceful Yaquis and their wives and children are said to be included among the captives. All will be de- ported Lo Yucatan. Marked Increase In Railroad Traffic. Cleveland. — Railway officials here state that there has been a very marked increase in both freight and passenger traffic during the past two | weeks, The Lake Shore road is mov- mig more cars of freight than on any day since the first part of Deceniber. Passenger officials of both the New EPOCH IN IRON TRADE . - Concerted Movement Among Ore Pid« . ducers for Stable Prices Marks New Departure. New York.— The Iron Age says: The ore firms at Cleveland who find their market largely among the mer- chant blast furnaces of Ohio and Pennsyivania have fallen in with the general movement of producers’ of ig iron and steel. The decision reached at Friday's meeting at Cleve- land that no reduction«from last year’s -prices is advisable for 1908, marks a departure of the lake ore trade. Ore buying was not expected to follow it and time must be given for any effect of the action to appear further down the line. At present Lake Superior’s ores are being turned into pig iron at about 40 per cent of the rate at which they came down the lakes last year. Apart froma the ore meeting inter- est has centered this week in a con- ference of the pig iron producers of the Central West and the Chicago district, held at Cleveland Saturday. The previous effort in this territory to mantain a stable market has not heen successful. Some of the causes ot irregularities have now been re- moved and the furnace companies expect the action of the ore men to be of some avail in holding prices on a $17 valley basis for No. 2 foundry iron. Southern makes have of late re- ceived less than their usual percen- tage of orders in foundry and forge grades. All pig iron markets have been dull in fact. 'In the east pipe makers have been buyers on a mod- erate scale. In light rails the mills have done a surprising business. In general finished lines have shown some improvement upon Jan- uary, even though slight, and Janu- ary in turn was better than Decem- ber. Consumers of important products into which iron and steel enter are vet to pass on prices which thus far have not been seriously tested. The wire and tin plate trades still lead in activity. Wrought pipe mills have found it necessary to increase their active capacity. Current busi- | ness in railroad bridge work is less than 25+ per cent of the fabricating capacity of the country. Considerabl2 buying of cast iron pipe is reported and about a normal business for February being done. INDIANS JUMP INTO SEA Six Succeed, the Other Ten Being Dragged Aboard a Mexican Government Transport Mazatlan, Mex.—Sixteen Yaqui In- dians, deported from Sonora, and en route te the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and to Yucatan, tried to commit sui- cide by jumping into’ the ocean from the government transport when a short distance from Mazatlan. = Boats were put out, and 10 of the number were hauled out of the water. The other six were drowned. Those rescued declared they pre- ferred death to serving on plantations or in the army in the “hot country” of Mexico. * It ig reported from Sonora that there are now more than fifteen hun- dred Yaquis under guard in that state awaiting deportation. South May Get $10,000,000. Washington.—About $10,000,600 may be secured from the government by people from the South if a bill report- ed unanimously by the house commit: tee on war claims becomes a law. The bill gives to the court of claims jurisdiction of the claims for captur- ed and abandoned property, which was sold during the Civil war and the proceeds turned into the United * States treasury. Republicans for Taft. Resolutions endorsing the course of the National Administration and favoring the nomination of Secretary Taft ror the Presidency were unan- imously adopted by the Republican State Central Comniittee of Colorado. Republicans of the Fifteenth Mis- souri Congressional district instruet- ed delegates to vote for Secretary Taft for President. Attorney General °* Herbert S. Hadley was endorsed for ~overnor of Missouri. Recovers $8,000 for an Arm. Chicago. — Judge Pinckney ordered judgment for $8,000 to be entered against Armour and Company, in favor of Walenty Bunida, an employe who accidentally struck his wrist against a pickling needle used for the injection of a preservative into hams. Blood poisoning developed and it was found neccessary to ampu- tate his arm. : Oklahoma For Bryan. Guthrie, Okla—In the Democratic primaries in the state, to elect dele- gates to the siate convention, W. J. Pryan was indorsed by every one of the 75 counties. Burn $100 In Bills. Youngstown. O,— Children playing with fire in the recidence of Joseph Ferrao, burned $100 in bills. The nichey was secreted in a bed, which ignited. Other damage was small. CURRENT NEWS EVENTS. Governor Jchnson of Minnessta, has been invited to addre>s the members of tha Alabam Industrial Associa- tion at their annuzl convention here Mav 2) and 21. A jury in the circuit court, afier 40 minutes’ deliberation, acquitted Charies O. Fowler cf embezzling $7, 748.30 from the Fowler Fuel Company at Alton, 1H. Secretary Taft, in a spcech at Kaa- sas City, declared the 1a ard file of the Republican party are with tho President in his efforts to reform cor: porate abuses. “Ate” Ruef, in an aflidavit, declar- ed the San Francisco graft prosecu- tion had promised him immunity for telling ‘‘all he knew,” and has since broken faith with him. York Central and Pennsylvania lines gay that the number of passengers now being 5, if it does ried 4 not €xce In interview at Boston is? : - » AG iain is BAT » & che RU | A ot > a {eon od Tea pat sail oth G pacl Cut and
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