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About Dakota County herald. (Dakota City, Neb.) 1891-1965 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 19, 1906)
The Brotherhood of Rallrnd Freight and Baggagemen doe not believe in strikes. It method are bused solely on Arbitration. M. D. Rutherford hm been reappointed at Slate Inbor commissioner of Ohio. He is a former president of the Ohio United Mine Workers. The managers of the Methodist Book Concern have announced their concession of the. principle of the eight-hour day for employes in all departments. The American Federation of Labor is attempting to reorganize the niotormen, conductors and other employes of the afreet railways of New York City. The brewery workers recently passed ft resolution condemning the employment of children under IS years old in bottling works in St. Louis and Milwaukee. In 188(5 carpenters in New York City made $.'1..V) a day and worked fifty-three hours a week. They now receive $4.80 a day and work but forty-four bors a week. It begins to look as if the farmers, nt least those in the South, were going to join hands with the other workinginen in the effort to improve conditions for the producers. Steps are being taken in Chicago for the formation of an arbitration board of teamsters and team owners, which will adjust all differences which may arise in the future. Columbia Lodge of Machinists of Wash ington, I). C, expects to have the entire force of 1,000 machinists employed at the Washington navy yard enrolled as mem bers within a short time. The Standard Oil Company has rein tnted the officer of the National Broth erhood of Stationary Firemen and has agreed to take up the question of Increase in wages as soon as possible. A proposition that all laboring people be entitled to Slate aid, or pensions, un der certain conditions as to age and health, will be presented to King Oscar f Sweden In the near future. The annual convention of the Carriage and Wagon Workers' International Union will be held in Buffalo, N. Y., OetotsT The special object of the convention la the framing of a new constitution. An international exposition portraying the life of the laborer for the last 2,000 years, showing conditions surrounding hi in from the time of feudal alnvery to the present time, is contemplated by the French parliament. The International Building Trades Council has placed itself on record as favoring arbitration as a better method of adjusting different between employes and employer than the usual plan of trikea and lockouts. Theatrical employes of Chicago, as well i many of those in the other large cities of the East, are formulating plans to op pose the transportation of foreign skilled and unskilled labor for American theaters and will ask all theatrical organlzATlntik to oppose the importation of foreign cTom girls by sympathetic strikes. 7 n CV 1 V .1. . I t .1! 1 ... A ll started by the Shoe Workers' District Council baa attracted attention, There are 3,000 he worker In the Chicago fac tories, of whom nearly two-thirds arc girls. They hone to make the Saturday half-holiday a benefit secured by agree ment witb the employer after Feb. 1. To enforce their demands of $4 per day and the Saturday half-boliday, 800 member of the New York and New Jer sey branch of the New York Metal Trades . Association went on strike, and the em ployer promptly decided they would em ploy ship carpenter on the opeu-shop basis. Step were taken to employ strike breakers. A number of Pennsylvania cigar manu facturers were arrested last month at the instance of the officers of the Clgnrmuk ers' International Union, charged with issuing and using bogus labels. As these labels are well protected by law, the union will have no difficulty in obtaining conviction in case .the guilt of the persons i established. : The Columbia Typographical Union of Washington, D. C, has voted to expel seventy members who refused to pay long er the assessment levied fer the strike benefit on account of the strike of the job printers In the District of Columbia which has been on since last January. The dismissed members are all employed In 1he government printing office, but l'ublic Printer Stillings made it known that no man should be molested because be did not belong to the union. The union's ac tion makes the government printing office an open shop in fact as well as In name. In the Southern States there are six teen carpenters' unions of colored men. The brotherhood claims jurisdiction over journeymen carpenters or joiners, stair builders, ship joiners, millwrights, pinning mill bench hands, cabinetmakers or men running woodworklngniachinery. But their claims to this extensive jurisdiction has not been undisputed. The Amalgamated Society of Carpenters, an English organ!' cation, and the Amalgamated Woodwork ers have both contested it before conrtn tions of the American Federation of La bor. The enmity of the Brotherhood and the Amalgamated Society was one of the main causes of the New Y'ork building trades' strike In 1003. The American Federation has not yet decided the juris diction dispute, but both sides are now working amicably under a compromise, The Amalgamated Woodworkers dispute the authority of the Brotherhood over men running woodworking machinery. The Boot and Shoe Workers' Interna tional Union recently, from January, 1004, to March, 1000, paid out $200,000 in sick and death benefits and $40,000 in aid of strike. There was at time of re port a balance of $100,000 In the treas ury. There Is at the present time a distinct movement all over the continent of Eu rope in favor of one dnys rest in seven, and the proposal usually is to make the day of rest the first day in the week, in stead of the seventh, which is still observ ed by the Jews in all countries in which they reside and labor. Sal's Cancer Is Incurable. Sir Thomas Harlow, physician to the British royal family, who sailed from New Y'ork recently, after a week's visit in this country, during which he attended the dedication of the Harvard medical buildings, said that the medical profession was no nesrer to the cause or the cure of cancer than it was 100 years ugo. "We till are delving, and hoping," be said "We are making progress slowly, but we are not yet in sight of the gosl. Asser tions have been made that the germ has been Isolated. This statement is falsa. The germ of cancer has yet ft be (lis coveren , Jnines Arthur Haggard, the "friend f Presidents," once wealthy, died re cently nt tlM county Infirmary nenr Kokomo, Intl. lip bud seen and mi tallied n personal acquaintance with n icreatcr nuinlK-r of the Presidents of the United States tint n nny other civ 11 In ii, perhaps. In the United States. When n youth In Cincinnati be met JAMES IIAdOARD. General Lit Fay ette, who was on n vlnit to this country In 181'.', mid nt the mime time slnsik hands with General Andrew Jackson. Mr. Haggard's first vote whs for Mar tin Vnu Ituren. Other Presidents ho knew were William II. Harrison. James K. Poll, James Buchanan, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, U. S. Grant. James A. (inrfleld, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison anil Williimi Me Klnley. He heard General Garfield preach once in the Christian Church nl Cincinnati. Mr. Haggard nerved in the Mexican War under (ieneral Taylor, and while In the service was well ac quainted with General Wlnfleld Scott and Jefferson Davis. John Lnne, who lives in Washington, D. C, is the only man living who has seen the face of George Washington. This was when the body was removed in May. 1834, from' the old vault to the tomb of Munt Vernon. W. W. Morrow of the United States Circuit Court nt San Francisco has &een ordered by his physicians to re frain from nil work und wear dark glass es for tlienext three or four mouths un der the penalty of becoming totally blind. Since last April the Judge has j suffered from his eyesight. The pliy slciaus state that it has been en used by overstrain und jiukik moiikow. jverstudy. Judge Morrow was lxtrn near Mlltt.;. Ind., July ir. 1H43. The family moved la Illinois in LSI.", but bo has resided in California since 1K.7.I. He was elected to the Forty-ninth Con gress from San Francisco in 1881 ami was re-elected in 188(1 and 1H88, but de clined reiioiulmitlon In lN'.H). Jud(;o Morrow was appointed United States District Judge of California Sept. IS, 181)1, und United Htutos Circuit Judge for the Ninth Jttdlelnl Circuit May 20, 1807. In 1800 lie received a degree from Wnbasli College. Bedros Kazanliun. a rich Armenian merchant of New York, has authorized ' and furnished funds for the American board of foreign missions io send an able educator to the Euphrates college, liar poot, Turkey, for five years. William L.. King, who was elected president of the Fire Underwriters' As sociation of the Northwest, Is recog nized as one of the scholars In the busi ness. He was born In Briliion, Wis., In IS.7, and after run ning a. ' country newspaper for a time ho entered the Insurance business In 1KS3 as local agent nt Lisbon, X. I. lie served for J klltl-I.Vll I VfMird tlU II WILLIAM I.. special agent In the Northwest, finally becoming an exam iner lina Chicago general agency. In 1001 he became assistant imimiger of the western department of the Queen. nnd In 1004 he was made western mali nger of the Providence Washington. Mr. King lias long been active In the association. John II. Converse, president of the great Baldwin locomotive works and one of the best known nnd most philan thropic citizens of the Quaker City, Is one of the victims of the recent trust compuuy exposure In that dignified municipality. II e Is one of the direc tors of the wreck ed company and In common with the other inemlx-rs of the board had such Implicit confidence J- eoaveasE. in its late self destroyed president, Frank K. Hippie, that he permitted himself to Iwcome hypnotized Into a feeling of security, the like of which the world has seen but rarely. That I nil the criticism thut can be urged against Mr. Converse. AH his friends believe him to lie the personification of 'utegrity Itev. Dr. Joseph Anthony Mllburn, who said lu an address before the Knglewootl, 111., Woman's Club that woineu are resHn slble for nuvt of the Immorality of the world, has beeu since April 1001. pastor of Plymouth Congrc gatlonnl Church of Chicago. Before coining to Chicago he was pastor of the Presbyterian church at Fc.ud dn .BIV. DR. MIIJll'BN. Lite, Wis., nnd of the Second Presbyterian Church at In dlanapolU. Dr. Mllburn was born In Knglaud In 18T8 und was educated In private and public schools. After com lug to the I lilted States In entered the Princeton Theological Seminary where be was given the degree of D. D.. and lie began hU ministry lit Fond du Lac. . m llll n iirmiain iii iilr ii P J wrrMilHHlKWieiiW fey COLDEST OCTOBER IN YEARS. Middle West Snffrrs from Prema tare Winter Weather. Wednesday was ilie coldest Octoltct day known In Chicago for ninny, years, the mercury reaching n minimum of 30 degrees, a drop of hi degrees from the registration of Tuesday, which was It self cold enough to suit most people. Besides, there were snow flurries, the earliest the Chicago weather bureau ever recorded. Tim high temjierature mark of Wednesday for the entire country was Ixis Angeles, Cal., where the registration wus 78 degrees. Low temperatures were general throughout the United States. Snow to the depth of two Inches, fell In Cleveland, while heavy snow storms were rcjHtrted from Pnlnesville, Ohio, nnd Bluefield, W. Vn. South Bend, Ind., reported four Inches of snow, a verit nble winter storm nnd the snowfall was heavy nnd general all over northern Indiana, -in Home places attaining al most the proportions of .t blizzard. Michigan City recorded two and a half Inches, and the oldest Inhabitant said he had never known such October weather since 1842. Pittsburg experi enced the earliest snow storm since 1RH0, nnd many Western Pennsylvania towns reported such a heavy snowfall that the snow plows had to be called Into requisition. A remarkable feature of the heavy fall of snow lu many localities Is there has not yet liocn a trace of frost. Ap ples are on the trees nnd com Is tin husked, the farmers having been caught napping. The sudden advent of cold weather lias seriously interfered with traffic on the lakes. The railroads are also hampered and grain Is not moving from the Northwest as rapidly ns it should. Prof. Deatsrh Defends Jews. tw r.,..tt,r,t iw..h of Hie Ilehre. union college of Cincinnati makes answer, in the New York Hebrew Standard to the charge recently made by Prof. Goldwin ' Smith, that the persecutions of the Jew! have not been prompted by religious fa nat'eism, but wcause the Jews are a parasitic race." Prof. Deutsch sirs that, even if the occupations of the Jews were. exclusively those of an Intermediary, that would not make them a parasitic race, but be denies that the Jew Is exclusively a middleman, referring to the hundreds of thousands of sweatshops and tailor shop workers. He tells how the Jew was excluded from manual trades and prohib ited froid holding lands, but to-day, all over Itussia, Jewish workers are found in the mills and tanneries. He denies that tribal spirit, prevents the Jews from assimilating with other nationalities, nnd concludes that "snobbery, bigotry and that mental inertia, which is responsible for the survival of many nntiipiated Ideas, account for the hostility to the Jews." I. m IU-.A ,.....ii.";--T.-fl - . In response to a letter sent to the State Minnesota railway and warehouse com mission by Uov. Johnson, the commission sent notices to all railroads operating in the State directing them to show cause why rates on coal and farm products should not be reduced. The Ohio Attorney General rendered an opinion to the State railway commis sion t3 -the . effe"t-.t?;nt railways have n? right to charge the usual ten-cent excess fare when cash fare is tendered, even where the company refunds upon presen tation of the conductors receipt. A new convenience for women travelers on sleeping cars has been introduced on the Northern Pacific railway. It consists of n large bag made of tough paper, with strings nt the top for closing it. Into this receptacle the traveler may put her hat, gloves, veils, light jackets and similar ar ticles of apparel which nre not in use in the car. Then the bag is hung up out of the way and its contents nre kept free from dust nnd cinders throughout file trip. I On nnd after Oct. 1 the Pennsylvania i lines west of Pittsburg will charge only , 2 cents a mile, within the Suite of Ohio. Travelem from that State, upon crossing the line, will bo charged with a higher rate, nnd tickets from points out of Ohio will bo figured at the U-cent rate only at the Ohio line. The Baltimore and Ohio and the Western Maryland announce that they will issue l.OOO-uiilo transferable tickets for $20, good for any number of persons, '.j The persistent public demand for lower , fares on steam rnilroatU that has prevail ed fos several years has r last been ae- . ceded to by the management of the Erie ltailroad Company, and commencing Nov. 1, the maximum rate per mile will be two and one-half cents. The action of th Krio In thus voluntarily redueii;,; its fiima lu n fmitmoml'ittltt mt.t ' Tim rnjunn. Vl - X-.a.JK.lf VTL -M VTWsV . s I I i v. e-i . ' vf tlou here may not bo amiss that passe "ntrl''K V will have to be aceoin ger fares lu this country, accommodations . l'Ushed on the premises where the dis consiilered, are already cheaper than In tilling Is done, in specially designated any other country in the world. Italy has perhaps the cheapest steam railroad fares of any of the foreign countries. The State of New Y'ork has an overage per square mile population of 133, Pennsylva nia 137, whereas In Ohio, where a two cent rate law has recently been enacted, the average per square mile population is only 03, compared with Italy's legal rats of 3.47 wnts and an average per squurs, mile population of 203. Tbe Great Northern Railway Company was convicted in (he United States Court for the western district of Wisconsin at La Crosse, of vi tiation of Uk. statute re quiring safety appliances on cars. The Goulds have decided to reduce th time for completing their new Western Pacific Hue from Suit Lako City to Sua Francisco, so that it will be in operation by Jan. 1, 1000, with through passenger and freight trains from San Francisco to Baltimore. Work is now in progress In Nevada and California, and forty-seven miles of track has been laid west of Salt Lake City, The Chicago and Northwestern lUilway is to begin work early uext spring on a uw Chicago passenger station destined to be the largest and most complete, with one possible exception, in the United States. This was announced tlie other day wheu the company's officials mads public the location of the greut new pas senger terminal for which preparation has beeu progressing secretly for live years. The new station will occupy thice solid blocks, taking in sll the space between Canal and Clinton streets and extending from West Madison to Lake street. The Improvement will cost not lesn thau $J0,- 000,000 at the terminal point, exclusive of other extensive improvements. The Isthmian Canal Commission has decided to call for bids to build the Panama Canal by contract. The suc cessful bidder will be required to take over all the work of construction, In cluding any contracts that may have ltoen made for the employment of Chi nese lalsir. The commission's principal reason for tills change of plan is the labor problem, ns It Is believed that the private contractor will lie less hamper ed by govern men t red tape In solving it. Nevertheless the commissioners In sist that the government will not relin quish the responsibility for the con struction work. The contract will be made with one Individual or corpora tion, which, however, may be composed of several subcontractors, each of whom will be expert in some particular branch of the work. The companies bid ding must have a capitalization of $5,000,000 over nil debts ami Incum brances, and tlie successful bidder must furnish a bond of $.1,000,000. The com pensation to the contractor will be on the percentage plan, nnd to the lowest bidder the contract will be awarded, the total cost of the Job being estimated by a board of engineers, two of whom will be nppolntcd by the bidder and three by the government. The compe tition Is not limited to American bid ders. Chairman Shouts says that It would take many years for the govern ment to get an adequate force of COlII nitt. Itlt nm.ltinnpa ,...t nvtutt-tu I ,.tri II u, ' ...... - ll"'N-' ' are now controlled ny me leading contractors of the United Mates. Consequently It Is n short cut to utilize the trained forces of the best construction companies. The lemon postcard is the latest. Hundreds of thousand of the cards bearing the picture of a wrinkled old lemon have been sold already. The picture postcard craze Is now nt Its worst. The summer's crop Is In. From every quarter of the civilized glolie they have been flying nil summer In in i 1 li ons. The business has grown to staggering proportions. New Y'ork Is the seat of the trade, and dealers esti mate that one person in every eight buys a picture postal every day. There are 80,000 stores in the United States handling them at present where three years ago there were not a hundred. It has frequently been remarked during recent years that the art and practice of letter writing have passed away, and the picture postal has helped on this tendency, people write less than they ever did. nnd yet they keep their friends at home posted ns to their itinerary during a long trip better than they ever did before. The picture postal tells a story. That is why it Is so pop ular. An Interesting bulletin recently Is sued by the Department of Agriculture Is designed to show how the cost of producing a crop may be accurately recorded. The report is based uikju ex periments made in Minnesota, where n large number of farmers eo-operated by making dally record of every cent spent for implements, seeds, materials, labor, etc. Thus the figures represent the work of practical, everyday farmers In the act of producing crops for profit. Taking barley as un example, the cost of production Is Itemized under the ' heads seed value, cleaning seed, plow ing, dragging, seeding, cutting, twine. shocking, stacking and threshing, de preciation of machinery nnd land rent al. Tlie figures represent the average of all farms in tlie group, the final figure being the cost per acre. The bul letin shows bow these statistics may aid In preparing for a system of crop rotation. The Commissioner of Internal Rev enue has Issued regulations controlling the manufacture of denatured alcohol and Its uses, pursuant to an act of Con gress which goes Into effect June 1, 1007. The Commissioner says there will be two classes of alcohol, first, that which Is completely denatured, which will pass Into general use and be pur chased without limitation, as against private consumers; and. secondly, spe cially denatured alcohol, lu which the material demanded by the needs of manufacturing Interests will be regard ed. Detatured alcohol will supplant a large consumption of wood alcohol, and the price, It Is believed, will not be more than 25 cents per gallon. The de- bonded warehouses. : : The sudden recalling of Brig. Gen. Funston from Havana after It was sup Itosed that he would coiuniund the first exiedltion of troop In Cuba Is now understood to have lee:i made at the suggestion of Secretary Taft, because Funston was distasteful to the former Cuban reliels. Funston was an officer of the Insurgents before the Spanish war, and the leaders of the recent Insurrection say he deserted because he could not stand for the butcheries of prisoners of war. Brig. Gen. Bell will dow have entire charge of the military iceupntlon of the Island under Governor Iagisjii. After a conf'Toiiee with Secretary of Interior Hancock, Monday, President Koosevelt decided Unit iitni should be no further delay lu the withdrawal from settlement of all public lands classed " eol lands. By early action he hopes to prevent RiHVulators and inouoiiollstle corporations from getting further hold upon the nation's coul uipply. Acting Secretary Newberry of the navy has approved the verdict of in1 qulttal in the case of Capt. Comly and Lieut. Pressy, who were tried on charges growing out of the eiil'.siou be tweeu their ships, tie Al.ib.'nia and th (UlluolH. FRAULEIN KRUPP MARRIED. Sltbonah Kaiser Mil Present, film pllrltr Marked Ceremony. At Kssen, Germany, in the little -chapel erected eHcially for the purpose on the magnificent grounds of the Krupp man sion, the religions ceremony was imt formed which nnd- Berthn Krupp. the richest woman in the world, the bride of Lieut. Gustav Von Bohlen und 'Hal bach, a penniless German noble. The civil ceremony which legally made the couple man and wife was performed Sat urday afternoon. Although the cereniotiy was performed N the presence of Kaiser William, rep resentatives of many noble families nnd aristocratic personages generally, sim plicity was the keynote of the whole wed ding. Mingled with the aristocratic and royal wedding go sis, olso, were deputa tions of workingmen representing tbe em ployes of the great Krupp industries. Fifty workinginen were in the wedding party and they attended not only tUe church ceremony, but the wedding ban quet. From the Krupp mansion the wed ding party passed on foot to the chacl. Ka iser Wilhelm, who arrived on a special train just in time for the ceremony, took his place near the altar and the service began. When the ceremony had been concluded, Kaiser Wilhelm, wearing the uniform of a field marshal, saluted the bride, kissing her on both cheeks. He then congratulated the groom Ind spoke to Mine. Krupp. A simple wedding banquet was served In the dining room of the Krupp man sion. In Hn eloquent speech in which he dwelt upon bis friendship for the late Baron Krupp, Bertha's father, the Kaiser proposed the health of the young couple. After the banquet came an unusual cere mony which illustrates the sentiment of tbe Krupp family in always recognizing its h ii inldo origin. Bertha Krupp's great grandfather, founder of the family, was SKINNED. 1 jllf the village blacksmith. Among the build ings of the Krupp works still stands the humble smithy with the nnvil at which this ancestor worked n century ago. A bronze bust of the first Krupp stands on the spot where he toiled as a laborer. It was to this spot that the bride made a pilgrimage to place a wreath on the bronze bust of the former blacksmith., Vfter paying this tribute to the bride forefather the couple -started on their honeymoon. In arranging her trousseau, the bride showed the same devotion to simplicity as in all the details of the wedding. Tbe FBAV1.KIN KKl'I'I. whole costs f.VI. But while avoiding extravagance in the wedding arrange meats Fraulein Krupp spared no expense in making her wedding an occasion to be remembered by the thousands employed in the Krupp plants. Toledo Strike Injunction. United States Judge Taylor of Toledo granted a sweeping injunction against the members of the machinists' association on strike at tlie Pope-Toledo Company, forbidding them from interfering in any way with the company's business or em ployes. The company complains that tlie local authorities had refused to give proper protection from the strikers. The injunction forbids any sort of threat or persuasion to induce employes to quit the company's service, und prohibit strikers congregating near the plant. While the strikers continued to use the threat of a national sympathetic movement, the lo cal branch of the National Metal Trades Association sought to iutlucnce pub 1 i opinion by large advertisement in the papers contending that the strike was not a question of wages or hours. They sav they are prejudiced arainst no man be- ause a memb r of the u;;iou. Kansas Wnllomluir lu Wealth. The Kansas bunk commissioner's state ment shows total deposits amounting to fHU,tKi,i"i, or tor every man, woman und child in the State. The in e reuse for I lie oust six months in mor lhau f 10,001 MINI, largely from furuiers' qeposits. Palnar Nan Frauclseo Claims. Six of the big Connecticut fire insur inee companies now have paid f l."i,'.l,"i2, TS'.I nn aeroiint of the San Francisco ll aster, or within it r cent of the total ( claims against tnem. S ,i J ij.swssawqwnsqrr ' ' -? ..iFiifcO MRS. JLFFERSON DAVIS DEAD. Wldovr of Confederate President Prunes Away In Sfw fork. Sv.rrounded by her only surviving daughter and other relatives, Mrs. Jeffer son Davis, widow of the president of the confederacy, passed away at the Hotel .Majestic In New Y'oik. after an illness of a week from pneumonia following a severe cold which Mrs. Davis contracted niton her return from the Adirondack, where she had spent the summer months. Mrs. Varinn I Iowell- Jefferson Davis was a native of Natchez, Miss., having been born there in 182U. Her early life wa's spent almost entirely at home, her MRS. JEFFERSON DAVIS. education being in tlie bands of private tutors and governesses, until 184,"i, when she married Jefferson Davis, who at the time of his marriage was a candidate for Congress. When her husband returned from the Mexican wor a year later Mrs. Davis went to Washington with him, where she lived from 1817 to 181.1, dur ing her husband's terms as Senator and Secretary of War. Mrs. Davis was always n southern woman in spirit and teaiiterament and strongly impressed with the confederate cause, and was of great assistance to her husband in the trying times of the Civil War. I luring the first years of Mr. Da vis' imprisonment his wife was not per mitted to be Willi hint, but later she re mained with him nt Fortress . Monroe. She acted as his amanuensis when lie wrote his "Decline and Fall of tlie Con federate Government" nnd since his death in 1SS0 had published extensively in newspapers nnd magazines. She wus olso the author of a simple but touching biog raphy of her husband, entitled "Jefferson Davis A Memoir by His Wife." It ace Dial urlmiiceN. At Mobile. Ala., 200 masked men held up a train and took two negroes from the sheriff nt noon and hanged them. The men were accused of attacking white girls. The conductor had the train held so that tlie passengers might see the linii'-inu. the men being hanged on a tree close beside tlie railroad track. The sheriff und bis deputies were disarmed. Only the presence of troops nt Macon. Ga., prevented the recurrence of an at tempt to lynch a negro who had shot two white men of that city. The mob had broken its way into the jail that night and released several white men charged w ith murder, one negro was shot but not killed, but the prisoners had been spirited away. The father of one of the wounded white men pleaded with the mob to let the law take its course. Later the accused negro was secretly taken to At lanta. George Blackburn, a negro f Argeuta. Ark., who was arrested on suspicion of being the man who fired from ambush on two white men, was taken from jaii Mon day night nnd lynched. Later it appear ed, Blackburn was not the guilty man. Four hundred negroes deserted their homes and went to Little Uock, becaust they were afraid for their lives. Short New Notes. The Maytield woolen mills at Louisville, Ky., were damaged $.'(."10,000 by fire. Two trolley cars collided head on at Trenton, N. J., and several persons were injured. Baron Paul von Mat hies, u private chamberlain of the Pope, who recently became a priest, wis received at Kome by the Pope, wli.i created him inonsig nore and nppoiuu'd him a priest at Cin cinnati. Prodigal as the Kothschilds were and are, nearly all of them have one trait in common. They will give thousands with out a moment's hesiiut ion ; they will not lie Hewed a penny after half an hour's discussion. The convocation of the second peace conference at The Hague is being urged by Great Britsin and also by Kussia, the latter wishiug to show that tbe internal situatinu in that country is again becom ing normal. Memlters of tbe Lithographers' Inter national Protective and Beneficial Asso ciation of the United States anil Cunada, who have been on strike at New York since lust August in support of a demand for a forty-eight hour week, will have the support of the International Federation of Lithographers of Kurope. P "Ifci, i m! 1 M -W' Mill I 118 Siege of Orleans begun. I 415 First c"ininencemer.t held at Har vard college. 1702 -Battle of Vigo. . I7(i'l City of Berlin taken by combined Itussiau nt:d Austrian forces. 1777 Kingston, N. Y., burned by the British. .1781 Americans attacked Y'orktown. 1707 Battle of Camperdown. 1S00- Attempted assassination of Bona parte. . 18CK1 Battle of Saalfeld, Saxony; Prus sians defeated by French. 181." Napoleon Bon.np.irte landed at St. Helena to begin his exile. 1S1"2 Brazil proclaimed independence. 1831 Anderson, nil Knglish vocalist driven from the stage of the Park theater. New York, for disrespectful remarks concerning the United States. 1848 Martial law proclaimed in Cape Town. 18;!1 Confederate steamer Theodore es- aped from Charleston, S. C, with Mason and Slidell on board. 18(52 Confederate cavalry under Gen. Stuart entered Chambersburg, Pa. 18(53 Wheeler's famous Confederate cav alry met with defeat at Farmington, Tenn. 18(58 Beginning of Cuban struggle for independence. 1871 President Grant summoned Ku-KIux-KInn of South Carolina to dis band.... The grcit Chicago fire con tinued to rage and destroy. 1872 William II. Seward. American statesman, died Vrchbishop Bai ley installed ns Primate of the Cath olic church in the United Stales. 1873 Kx-Senator Pomeroy shot by ex Congressman Conway in Washington. 1881 Arrest of Charles Stewart Par nell. 1884 Adoption of the Meridian of Greenwich .... Parliament building in Quebec wrecked by dynamite. 1803 Dean Itichmond foundered in Lake Krie; IS lives lost. 1801 Wiju captured by the Japanese. 1808 F.mperor of Germany started on trip to the Holy Land. ... Powers re fused to permit Turkey to maintain garrisons in Crete. 80!i Transvaal war begau .... Public re ception in Boston in honor of Ad miral Dewey. 1002 President Koosevelt appointed a commission to settle anthracite coal strike. 10(14 Frederick Augustus III. ascended the throne of Saxony ... .United States battleship Georgii launched nt Baih. .1iMI."i President Koosevelt conferred with leaders in college athletics with a view to improving standards. ... Sir Henry Irving died. .V Self-(.o eriiiiiK Scliool. An 'experiment in pupil self-government has been in progress in a village scliool in Macon county. Mo. In the main room, where the older pupils assemble, the self-governing class gathered about the table und elected its own officers, and the principal used a phonograph to dic tate problems, so that the pupils .should be relieved entirely of the supervision of the teacher. As the machine wns set :n motion tlie pupils copied the problems and discussed or worked out the answers, which were then tabulated by the teacher und turned over to the principal. Not one pupil ;im returned tc the regular classes from fa 'dure to keep up with the studies. This year the experiment is to lie extended to a number of other dif.riets. "ew York Hotel for lloys. Under the management of Miss Mary liidlaw Proudfoot, niece of the late Mrs. Luidlaw, who devoted much money to the helping of poor ltoys, the first real hole) for homeless boys has just Iteen opened nt .'!)." West Twenty-seventh street, New Y'ork City. At the outset there were eight patrons, self-stipisirting ofliee boys or messengers, and for the remaining six vacancies many applications were on file. The establishmt nt is not to be regarded ns a charity. Kach boy pays necording to his means, and this entitles him to a roir of his own. The public, however, is in vited to contribute toward the expense, fund and larger fpmrters will probably he secured. An i:irveiil ear-Old Freahmau. Norbert Weiuer, ut the uge of 11, has entered the freshman class of Tuft col lege, and is said to be the youngest col legian in the country. He is the son of Leo Weiuer. assistant professor of Sla vonic languages nt Harvard. The boy knew how to read at 3 ami was reailin, Darwin and Huxley at S. Medical I imucclloii fur Students. According to the School Joumul it is stmated that the expense of operating the new insiM-ctioii law in Massacliuse'ttr public schools is about $23 per 1,000 in habitants, in the larger cities, but t!i.".t in smaller places where tho doctor comes only when sent for the expense is $11 per I.IKMI. The law authorized the school board of each city or town to apitoint a school physician or physicians, and that the sight and hearing shall be tested an nually by I lie teachers. The expense U ta lie borne by a local appropriation. t'olleae (.Irla as Rarnc.-. The Columbia university committee of students reports that out of 3o8 who tp p'ied for positions during the recent sum mer vacation, 313 reported earnings i.g giegating $104,240. Most of the men re ceived positions as tutors, but some work ed as secretaries, clerks and salesmen. Their earnings averaged $113.43. The law students averaged $284.50, and th medical students S2O2.10. Tbe women students of Barnard, hawever, did a lil'le better. They were employed as clertts, stenographers, companions and gov ernesses, and their oruings averaged $117.10.