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DAKOTA COUNTY HERALD. Si VOLUME XVI, DAKOTA CITY, NEB., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 0, 1907. NUMBER 2. L LATEST BY TELEGiUPii SUMMARY OF THB NEWS OF THE WHOLE WORLD. HINDUS DRIVEN OUT MOM RAIDS MILL, WOHKKRS IN WASIIINGTO.V STATE. I'oflce Powerless to Protect Ulnck In vaders from India, Who Hail He come Insolent Victims Aro Severe ly Beaten. Six badly beaten Hindus are In the hospital at Bellinghnm, Wash., 100 frightened and half naked slkhs are In jail and In the corridors of the city hall, guarded by policemen, r.nH sonic, where between Ilellinghnm and the British Columbia lino 750 natives of .India, beaten, hungry and half cloth ed, r.re making their wry along the L. fyrent Northern railroad bound for the f "Canadian territory and the prptectlon of the British (lag. The lonp; expected cry, "Drive out the Hindus," was heard throughout the city and oion the water front Wednesday nirrht. The police were he!p!c:s. Authority was paralyzed and for five hours a mob of half a thousand white men raided the mills where the blacks were working, bat tered down the doors of lodging houses, and dragging the invaders from their beds, escorted them to the city limits with orders to keep on go . lng. The trouble started at C and Holly streets, a district with Indian lodging y houses. The houses were cleaned out ,Mf and the denizens started on trek for the Canadian line The mob then swept down to the water front, and mill after mill wm visited, the white employes joining the mob, and every black man was ..hustled outside, T He-e the police suggested hat the undesirables be taken to Jail. Tills was hailed with delight, and the blacks were hustled along. From this time on very few were beaten, the bloodthlrstiness of the mob seeming ly having been satisfied during the at tack an the lodging houses. The mob kept up Its wcyk along the water front . jjntll.. -:irlVi Thursday morning, when Larson's mill at What com lake was visited and 100 blacks brought In from there. Four women were. found Thursday morning among the crowd in the city building. ROUGHLY USER HY A CROWD. Artist Eurle In Danger of Tar and Feathers. Ferdinand Penney Earle, an artist, who sent his wife to France, her old home, to secure a divorce in order that he might marry another woman, re- celved a sorry welcome when he re turned to his old home at Monroe, N. Y., Wednesday night, after bidding his wife farewell at 'the steamer. Earle was met by a crowd of villagers as he stepped from the train, who insulted, then hooted him and finally dragged hlm from his carriage and into the muddy street of the village. Earle courageously faced his tormenters and exhorted the crowd in a vain attempt to vindicate himself, and then, goaded for an instant by the insults of the people, seized a carriage whip and slashed at the crowd. A man snatched the whip from the artist's hands and bystanders state he struck him, a sting ing blow. Further trouble was pre vented by the arrival of officers who forced Earle to drive to his home, though he persisted in trying to ex- ' plain his views to the angry crowd. V ' THY' TO DITCH EXPRESS. Wreckers Pull to Throw Fust New York Train from Track. Train wreekern were at work near Scott Haven und Sutervllle, thirty miles east of Pittsburg, Pa., Wednes day night. Spikes were drawn from the rail for the purpose, it is be lieved, of wrecking the New York ex press. The wreckers evidently were deceived by a number of other freight and passenger trains during the even ing and the New York express passed the point before the spikes were with drawn. A fast freight which followed "was not so fortunate, however, When the engine struck the rails they turned over and the engine and twelve cars were derailed. The tank of the engine is in the Youghiogheny river. . The fireman and engineer escaped Injury by Jumping. ' United States Leases Dry Dork, J A special dispatch from Shanghai says that the United States has taken a five years' lease of Norvik bay, south of Vladivostok,, and has also leased for next winter the floating dry dock at Vladivostok. Sioux City Live Stock Market.' Thursday's quotations on the Sioux City live stock market follow: Top beeves, $6.05. Top hogs, $5.95. Illg Smugglers Cuught. W. T. Hardy and Burton Baldwin, dressmakers of New York, who ar rived from Europe Wednesday, were I arrested for smuggling several thou ) sand dollars worth of luce. Roosevelt ApiMiliits IiKlian Chief. President Roosevelt Thursday ap pointed Tety Tiger ts chief of the five, tribes of Creek Indians to succeed Chief Pleasant Porter, who died at Muskogee, I. T. XKW LIGHT IN CHINA. Empress Dowager Puts; Liberals to the lrc. The dowager empress of China has appointed Puan Shi Kal to be a mem ber of the board of foreign affairs and a grand councilor of the fourth class. In the foreign office he will rank as third minister. Chang Chi Tung, vice roy of Shangsha, also has been ap pointed a grand councilor of the fourth class. The viceroy was sum moned to Pekin recently to consult with tire dowager empress regarding the alarming growth of antl-Manchu sentiment in China, on which subject Yuan Shi Kal has been consulting with her majesty. The action of the throne in calling to the capital Chang Chi Tung, who Is Chlna'B greatest scholar, and Yuan Shi Kal, the most liberal of the pro gressive Chinese' statesmen, has caused an excellent impression. No official change stnea the passing of Prince Tuan, Yunsr Lu and Li Hung Chang are comparable In importance with the steps just taken by the dowager em press. It was expected that Tuan Fang will shortly be made viceroy of Chill province, succeeding Yuan Shi Kal. The dowager empress In thus sur rounding herself with the strongest and most eminent men of the empire has surprised even those who were aware of the throne's apprehensions and Its determination to fortify the government to the utmost. The board of foreign affairs, with Yuan Shi Kal, Na Tung and Chang Chi Tung among its members, becomes the strongest in the history of China's foreign rela tions and is especially acceptable to Chinese ' unaggressive friends. It is reported that a place will be provided in the foreign office for Sir Chentung Liang Cheng, former Chinese minister at Washington, following his arrival here. THOUSANDS PAY TRIBUTE. . Archbishop Williams Hurled in Church Ho Unfit. The body of Rev. John Joseph Will iams, archbishop of Boston and dean of the Roman Catholic heirarchy in the United States, was Wednesday placed in a crypt beneath the high al tar of the Cathedral of the Holy Cross, at Boston, which stands as a monu ment to his labors. The occasion was honored by the presence of Cardinal tlibbons, of Baltimore, hosts of priests and other prelates, and hundreds of prominent citizens of Massachusetts. The solemn ceremony of transfer rthg the body from the catafalque to its last resting place followed a pontifical tttbfts of requiem; ? - ' " The mass was made deeply impres slve by a wealth of solemn splendor and elaborate ritual. It was celebrated by Cardinal Gibbons, whose rani: was bestowed upon him by Pope Leo XIII, at the request of Archbishop Williams, who had declined the honor in favor of his closest friend in the heirarchy, Prior to pontifical mass, masses were sung and chanted in all the parish churches of the city. Although admission was by ticket, the immense cathedral was crowded to the doors long before the beginning of the service,' and thousands stood in the street. Following the eulogy five ablutions were given by four sen ior bishops of the New England prov ince, and the final was given by Arch bishop O'Connell. WORK OF "DYNAMITKKS." Chicago Store is Wrccked.by the Ex plosion. By the wrecking of the store of Stanley R. Graham, of Chicago, In which an explosion occurred at i o'clock Wednesday morning, consider able excitement was caused in -the vl clnlty for a while. Several persons asleep in the wrecked building were thrown out of their beds, but no one was Injured. For several blocks around the explosion awakened every body and caused a small panic in the Virginia hotel, the Interior of the building where the explosion occurred being demolished. The police attrib ute the explosion to "dynamiters" who are said to be trying to revenge them selves upon the Chicago gamblers. Mr. Graham's connection with the matter, however, Is unexplained. Strike for Noonday Ileer. Over 175 lronmolders went on strike at Evansville, Ind., Wednesday be cause of an order issued at the five stove foundries preventing the drink ing of beer on the premises during the noon hour. Destructive Storm in Georgia, A heavy wind and rain storm passed over Fort Gaines, Ga., late Tuesday night. The Btorm prevailed over, a wide territory but no loss of life has been reported. Great damage Is re ported to crops. ' roMul Oflit lal Ends Life. Frank P. Van Horn, late superln tendent of carriers In the Jackson, Mich., postofhee, but who was under bonds for appearance on the charg vi Bieanng jnuii, commuiea suiciue Wednesday by hanging. Seven Babies oil Voyage. Seven babies were born on the Red Star steamer Kroonland or its voyage from Antwerp, which ended In New York. Onechlld was born every night for a week. Eastern Star Convention. The twelfth triennial convention of the general grand chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star opened a three days' meeting in the Masonic temple In Milwaukee, Wednesday. I Glass in Kent to Prison. Louis Glass, of Kan Francisco, vice president of the Pacific States Tele phone company, convicted of bribery was Wednesday sentenced to five years' imprisonment. MOORS COURT DEATH. Savages Lino Up Again as Targets tor Warshliw. Admiral Phlllbert, cabling Monday, reports that a serious engagement oc curred on Sunday near Casablanca, when a large force of Moors of the Taddert and Mzab tribes was dispersed by the French troops. The French cruisers Gloire and Gueydon partici pated in the action, firing sixty shells. Four French soldiers were wounded. The fanatics showed extreme reckless ness, but eventually retired under re peated sweeping charges of the French and the terrific bombardment of the artillery. The fighting was started by the Arabs attacking A reconnolterlng par ty which Gen. Drude had sent out, and which was reinforced by five com panies of Infantry and two batteries of artillery, and Spahls, Africans, Hus sars and Irregular Algerian cavalry. The loss of the Moors 1b not known. Tcdala, which the French cruiser Gueydon bombarded, was used as a supply center by the Moors. On learning of the determination of the American missionaries, Messrs. Clinton, Reed and Knyert, to remain at Fez while all the other Christians, soma seventy In number, were leaving there for the corst, the populace of Fez was convinced that they nui.st not be gejnuine Americans, but French spies. In consequence of the fierce hostility of the Moors ut Fez to every thing French theso brave pioneers of Christianity in Morocco were event ually compelled to abandon their work in mai city and are now traveling across the country bound for Tan gier. SCORES HURT IN THE WRECK. A Disaster Occurs on the Canadian Pacific. A Canadian Pacific special train car rying over ."00 passengers, bound for the Toronto exposition, was wrecked Tuesday morning at Horseshoe Falls. nine miles north of Orangevllle, Ont. Six people were killed and 250 in jured. The engine jumped the track on the Horseshoe curve going down the Cale don mountain. Five crowded cars were piled on top of the locomotive. The train was loaded to the limit. many standing. All the coaches were Jammed together by the force of the shock. Hardly a person out of the S00 was not Injured, and many were fatally hurt. It Is known that six were killed outright. " The orily""xplanatlon of the disaster so far is that the engineer was trying to make up a half hour of lost time. TRAMPS SHOOT MARSHAL. Is Himself Fatally Wounded hy Doctor Hnrryiiifr to Victim's Aid. Great excitement was caused at Pa cific, Mo., Tuesday by the shooting of Acting Marshal Al Kopf when he was attempting to arrest Charles Anderson, a tramp, and the shooting of Anderson by Dr. A. L. McNay. Anderson and three other tramp companions got In to a quarrel. Acting Marshal Kouf approached the tramps to stop the dis order, and Anderson suddenly shot tho officer and fled. Dr. McNay was hur riedly summoned to attend Kopf, who is probably mortally wounded. While driving to the spot Dr. McNay was In tercepted by Anderson and ordered to give him tho rig to escape. Dr. Mc Nay shot Anderson, who will probably die. FIGHTING THE PLAGUE One Death and Two More Cuscs in Sail Francisco. The health board of San Francisco reports one additional death from bu bonic plague and two additional cases under suspicion since Saturday. The death was that of a woman and occur red at Berkley, across the bay from San Francisco. This case falls within the limits of the statement by ho plague authorities that all ports on tho Pacific coast having Intercourse with trnns-Pacillc point are subject to pe riodic appearunces of the disease. The rat war here is being prosecut ed with energy and success under a system adopted last week by which thu city Is divided Into twelve districts. Increasing Violence. The violence of the locked out dock laborers at Antwerp and of those who went on strike In sympathy with them Increased to serious proportions Tues day when at least a dozen iersnr.s, In clviding strike breakers and members of the Bt earners, were attacked and badly wounded. Eight Per Mi In Flood. Word has reached Albuquerque, N. M., that Mrs. Louisa II. Carabajal, wife of a farmer, and seven children were drivvned in a flood resulting from heavy rains, in Sierra county. The flood caused damuge estimated at $60,. 000. Drowned While Rowing. Prof. Charles Woodbury, formerly a teacher in the high school of Lincoln, Neb., who recently began a post-graduate course at the University of Kan sas, was drowned in the Kaw river near Lawrence, Monday night while rowing. He was 25 years of age. Finds Wife. Murdered. When Jacob Murtln, who lives about five miles south of Firth, Neb., went home from tho polls Tuesday evening he found his wife lying under the bed with her head crushed to a pulp. Gen. Pleasant Porter Dend. Gen. pleasant Porter, the noted chief of the Creel; Indian nation, died at Vhiltu, I. T., Tuesday morning fol lowing a stroke of paralysis, at'tdUc 4' tars. ' News i ESCAPES FROM OFFICER Nebraska Murderer Now RiMrted Surrounded in Corn Field. R. M. Shumway, the alleged slayer of Mrs. Sarah Martin at Tecumseh. after a race across the county In an effort to avoid his pursuers, was ar rested at Seneca, Knn.. Just ncrors the line, only to make a dhsh for. liberty as he was being taken Trom a St. Jo seph and Grand Island train at that place by the town mars,hnl. Shumway caught thoj train nt some point south of Beatrice and the con ductor notified the authorities at Sen eca? The mnrshal met tho .train an: seized Shumway and started to take him off the smoking ear. Just as the marshal reached the platform with his prisoner the latter Jerke'rt himself loose from the officer and started for the country, Reports received by telephone state that Shumway was pursued hy officers and citizens and was hcliovyd to "oe cornered In a corn field.- The pursuing posse feels sure that Shumway will be recaptured. During a greater part of the flay before the news of Shitmwny's nrret was received a largo posse ef citlzenr continued their search, from around Tecumseh, but It was! Immediately abandoned when tho authorities .learn ed he had appeared at Seneca. Feel ing is running high, and If the man Is caught and brought back to Tecumseh summary vengeance Is hot unlikely to be meted out to him. ., ROADS ASK FOR MORE TIME. Attorneys Want Two Months for Hcjii Injr on Grain Rates. Attorneys for the Burlington, Union Pacific and Northwestern railroads ap peared before the state railway com mission at Lincoln and ilemanded two months' time to prepare evidence for the hearing on grain rates where were promulgated by the commission two weeks ago. These rotes cut the for mer schedules about 13 per cent. The attorneys asserted that each road will make an extended snowing nt the hearing, requiring the expenditure of thousands of dollars for experts. The roads will be revalued; the earnings and expenses will be compiled. Attor ney Edson Rich, of the Union Pacific, estimated that it will take three months for the commission to hear the testimony after It Is gathered. As two of the commissioners J are.' at their homes to attend prlmaiy election, no action will be taken on the railroad request for several days. TO TEST SUNDAY LAW. Lincoln Baseball Case Likely to Go to Highest Court. Manager Holmes, of the Lincoln baseball club, and Secretary Hughes, of the Des Moines team, appeared In Justice court and secured a contlnu ance until Sept. 17 of the case against members of the two teams charged with playing bnll on Sunday. It Is generally agreed that if the ball play ers are convicted the case will be tak' en to Jhe supreme court. The Western league, it is understood, Is behind ths novement. ' Girl Thrown from Buggy. The daughter of Richard Daniels, five miles southeast of Paplllion, was badly hurt by being thrown from a buggy. The horse became frightened by meeting a traction engine. Mrs. Jonas and Kelly were called and think the child will live, although she Is bad "y bruised. . . Stock Yard Are Enjoined. John Frazler secured a tomporary Injunction against the Union Pacific Railroad company at North Platte, re straining it from constructing or con tlnulng to construct the new stock yards which the railroad has been building at the Points, about three miles east. No Clmrsro to Visit "Pen." Tho state board of public lands and buildings entered an order that War den Iieemer, of the state penitentiary, shall no longer charge a fee of Hi cents for visitors desiring to Inspect the Institution. The board holds that the public Is entitled to inspect it? ttroperty freo of charge. Unidentified man Kl'led. An unidentified Syrian, who appar ently was beating his way over the Union Pacific railroad, fell from a freight train at Lexington, goinir west about 6 o'clock, and had botli Icrs crushed. He was taken charge of by Union Pacific Surgeon Rosenberg, but lied. Oats Yields ail liuslicN. J. L. Smith, of Ijiuiel, declares he hasthe best yield of oats in that sec tion, going better than 30 bushels to the acre, und of fairly good weight. The oats crop Is lighter - than It ha." been for years. Well Known Farmer Dead. Hans PoKKeuBbee, aged f 5, a well known farmer of Randolph, Is dead after a long Illness. He was born In Holsteln, Germany, Druggist Drops Dead. C. A. Jackson, head of the Jackson Drug company, .of Beatrice, dropped dead. He had ben in business In Beatrice since 1874 and was 67 years it age. Severe Storm at lieu trice. A severe rain and electrical storm visited Beatrice recently. Lightning fired the wheat stacks on the farm of H. Pheasant and a man's grain near Ellis, causing a heavy loss. Several barns were struck and badly damaged. Germans In Bi Parade. Nearly 2,000 Germuns paraded the itreets of Omaha following tho Labor day parady. They are veteruns of the Franco-Prussian and Prusso-Austrlan wars, who had gathered In Oinuha for a grand conclave. Nebraska i HARD LUCK STORY STICKS. Tale of Misfortune Told by.Al Ken ncdy Win His Release. When Al Kennedy, the man who was accused of stealing a 12,000 Htchell car from the Berger garage. was brousht back to Omaha he told a story of misfortune and 111 starred enterprise that he was released by request of Mr. Berger. Kennedy was supposed to have taken the car dur ing the night from the locked garage by breaking Into the front , door or by dodging out with it during tho even ing when the place was open. No one knew Just how 'ho had got away. He was cnuht nt Logan, la., and De tective McDonald went for him and made him drive (he machine, back. I was t-ying to make money for you. Mr. Berw." he snid. "Two fellows hired m? to te.Ue them over Into Iowa xt t" an hour going and coming, and they went until they owed $50. At djiy'.irenk the ;:;sollne gave out, and when we rtopped nt a village they ','.ivni! a le!:u:t ehock and skipped. I ho.vcn't soon thonv since." His tale was conslih red p'.usuii-bie and no action ,its taken. LEAP; ITitM HIGH WINDOW. Uot -.:;:i Ecnp'.tal Patient F.r.ds Life In Nci sc'ss AhM'iiec. , llr. Anna. Gormun, a patient at St. Joseph's hospital. Omaha, committed suicide by jumping from a third-story .vhi clow whll.; her nurse wns absent. Mjyi. Gormun had been at the hospital three weeks jfTerlnjr from a nervous disorder, but tho nurso hnd soen no signs which indicated the woman hould be clotely watched. When the nurse returnel to the woman's room lfter a brief absence she was sur prised to find the patient missing. Search was b.gun and the body was found on the ijround below. The wom an lived an hour, but did not regain consciousness. CITY OFFICIALS ARRESTED. Fremont Men Accused of Violent At tuck on U. I. Employe. City, Attorney p. E. Abbott, Chief of Police Peteri'on and Street Commis sioner Fletchev, of Fremont, were ar rested upon warrants sworn out by Union Paclfi.! officials for using vio lence onUabcrers who were laying track at Union and C streets. ' While the chief of police kept back the la borers with his revolver the city jtt torney and street commissioner tore up the track Just laid. Abbott Is a promi nent attorney and Is candidate for the nomination of district judge. The city officials have kix special officials guard ing the contented streets. SEVEN MILLION INCREASE. Bunk Clearings Show Gain In Augiu. Over Same Month of Year Ago. Bank clearings In Omaha for August increased $6,944,632.80, or more than 17 per cent over August of last year. Clearings for the month this year wcr $47,054,729.78. as compared with $40, 110,186.98 lust year. The last week showed the enormous Increase of about 30 per cent over the corresponding period of last year. The weekly clearings were $10,512,889.38 compared with $8,152,586.55 for the same week last year, an Increase of Riiiirtwid Puys HIrIi for Ranch. Information hns Just been received to the effect that James Payne has sold his large ranch about twelve mllea east of North Platte to the Burlington railroad for a consideration of $126.- 000. This is taken to mean that tha Burlington will at least establish a town site at this location. Tecumseh Woman Will Content. Mrs. Eliza H. Leonard, of Tecum seh, gave notice she will contest the wills of her brothers, Robert and John Pearson, who died within a few weeks of each other and. left property to theli relatives, but cut ht;r out. She alleges both wt-re of unsound mind. M.inncr of McGirr'n Death. Gov. Sheldon hns received a lettef from A. L. Steers, of Chapman, In Miicb it H claimed thnt James L. Mc ;irr, a Greek laborer, w,ho was found dead near there July 16, cumo to his -rnl at the har.d.i of a mob who club lied him to death. Commercial Club to Take Trip. The Commercial club of Grand Isl and has accepted an Invitation from the tnd Commercial club anil from the authorities of the Loup City fair to attend the fairs In those cities on the 12th and 2tith, respectively. ily Out of l.lliflng IliiHinew. - At a meeting of the city council of Falls City It was decided to make the following change In the electric light system Oct. 1: The plant will be turn ed over to a private individual who will run the plant and furnish an all night i-ystein for $210 per month. Union Pucllie PuHsongcr Killed. Philip Ferrant, a passenger on Un ion Pacific train No. 4, was killed at Rogers. He ullghted from the train when It stopped end was crossing the track when a westbound passenger train came along and he was rim down and Instantly killed. Piircnts Desert Child. Forsaken by a man and woman un known to the authorities, a child S months old wus left at the home of Mr. and .Mrs. Barbee, twelve miles west of Beatrice. Upon leaving the Infant, the couple stated they would return, but they disappeared and have never been seen since. Rock Spvlnvs Coal Gets Roost. F.ock Springs coal has been ad vanced at Sidney from $S to $9 a ton. The local dealer claims It bus gone $1 a ton ut the mines. DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI. Great Panrant to Honor HMtett Knrljr In Ortolter. For the first time In history a Presi dent of the l'n i till States Is koIiir to tnko a Journey on the Mississippi river, not for the puriKise of getting from one point to another, but to see tho great river, to meet the iieople who live along Its banks and to acquaint himself with the conditions ns they exist nt the present time In that territory ndJH'ot to tho "father of waters." True to Ills principle of seeing things for himself Instead of through the eyes of others. President Roosevelt is coinlnj to th Mississippi valley In October to flml out what the needs of this great water wny and tlmse tributary to it really are, nnd the members of tho Lakes to-the-Gtilf Deep Waterway Association hoio to so Impress him with the Im portance of their project that before ho leaves the middle west he will be sing ing "U feet throtnih the valley" ns lustily ns the rest of them. The entire river from Keokuk, Ind., where he embarks on the river boat Mississippi, to Mivnphls, " wheru his journey ciuls, will lie eu fete to greet htm, hut nt St. Inils the most elabor ate retvpUon wlll otvur. Hero the har bor nnd tho city will combine to do hlni honor, and the decorations ns well ns the program of events will be on the most elaborate scale iwsslble. The President will leave Keokuk on Tues day morning, Oct. 1, nnd will go down the river on tho Mississippi river Com mission's steamboat Mississippi, arriv ing nt St. Louis nlKitit 0 o'clock In the morning of the 2d. Here, ho will lie aiet hy tho Governors of 'H Mississippi valley States, tho officers of the Lnkes-to-tho-Gulf lHH'p Waterway Associa tion and the Executive Committee of the St Louis Business Men's League, who aro his hosjs on this occasion. He will remain In St. Louis a few hours, departing tlienco for Cairo nnd Mem phis. Along the river every town will be decorated In honor of the distin guished traveler, and every bont from one end of the river to the other Is ex pected to tnke some part In the great four-day imgennt. International SoclallM Congress. Eight hundred and eighty-six delegates, representing twenty-five of the lending nations of the world, which constituted the International Congress of Socialists, met for the first time on German soil t Stuttgart. Of these, 300 were from Germnra)-, ISO from Englnnd, UO from France, 80 from Austria, W) from Rus sia and smaller delegations from Switzer land, Bohemia, Hungary, Italy, Bulgaria, Itoumanla, Sweden, Holland, the United States, Argentina, South Africa, Austra lia and Japan. Secretary Van der Velde f the International Socialist Bureau, offi ciated at the opening of the congress. The opening ndtiress was raado by Ilerr Bebel of Germany. He laid stress on the So cialist pi I us during the past year In France and on the fact that for the first time Socialists had been elected to the British Parliament. In his own country, while the number of seats in the Reich stag had been reduced, he pointed out thnt the Socialist vote had Increased a quarter of a million since I'.XK). lie "ld the number of enrolled members of So cialist syndicates in ticrmnny lust year was 1,800,000. IIo referred to the "scan dalous prosecution" of Haywood In Amer ica, and expressed satisfaction nt his Ac quittal. Ilerr Singer presided. An open air mass meeting wns attended by 10,000 Socialists. The more Important subjects discussed during the week were immigra tion, the relations of tho party to trade unions and the proposal to introduce sim ultaneously In all parliaments a motion for establishing by law maximum working hours. W2f The shortage of fruit makes this a sort of canned-goods summer. The summer shoes this year bring us ont step neurer to the yellow peril. Schmitz, of San Francisco, Is going to run for Mayor as fur as the penitentiary will let him. Tho United States hns at last suc ceeded in shedding itself of its James llnzen Hyde. Uncle Sam, it seems, has lost an island In the Pacific somewhere Has Japan been searched? Astronomers have found a new cnnnl on Mars. But the one on Panama is Still subject to delay. Mr. Rockefeller's knowledge of the af fairs of his own coin puny is ulmost ns profound as his silence. Uncle Sum hits a hard time in summer with pauper immigrants pouring in and Amerieun money pouring out. Most of the summer hotel proprietors would give anything for a method for the painless extraction of pockctbook. What Is home without a Teddy hear? A New York child fell three stories, land mJ on its stuffed pet, and was unhurt. The King of Spuii announces that it Is a very happy feeling to be a father. Just wait, Alf, till teething time begins. It was a woman who figured that as a result of the telegraphers' strike the wires might become seriously damaged from rust. Men who have been trying to drink all the whisky in the country may feel en couraged to know that they consumed ll,4O0,'jrj2 gallons more last year than the year before. The Standard Oil Company has de clared another $0,000,000 quarterly divi dend. Reports that the Standard was about to go to tho poorhouse were evi dently without foundation. If the Standard Oil Company mude $IUD,SOO,000 in three years when its pres ident wasn't sblu to attend to business, what would it make Tf Jtdin D. Rocke feller was in working triuiV g5 A gonffral strike has been declared in Lodz, Russia, and more than 32,000 men re out. New Bedford (Mass.) Weavers' Union hns aznin affiliated with the United Tex tile Workers. The International convention of Steam fitters and Helpers will be held in De troit next yesr. The International Union of Ladies' Oarment Workers will hold a convention in Boston next yesr. Union labor is renewing Interest In the proposition to establish a magnificent la bor temple In Boston. Thirty-six unions, out of a total of forty-six in Duhitli, Minn., are affiliated . with tho trades assembly. A special committee of the St. Paul Trades Assembly is looking into the mat ter of building a labor temple. Vegetable Venders of Brooklyn, X. Y., are talking of organizing a union to pro tect themselves from the middlemen. Fall Piver (Muss.) weavers have ac cepted a compromise that J 71 j yards con stitute h cut, nnd tho threatened strike Is off. In the paper working Industry in India thi average wages a day for men is 15 cents; women, 8 cents, and children, 3 cents. The largest shipbuilding firms arc to he found intlie Baltic ports; largo firms have also established themselves on the Kibe and Weser. San Francisco (Cal.) Stone Cutters' Union, through its executive committee,' has decided to sulmtlt its differences with employers to arbitration. F.mma Gruher Foley, elected president recently of the Native Daughters of the Golden West, is past president of the Women's Auxiliary to Sun Francisco Typographical Union No. 21. All chnnncs of Boston jsirment work ers becoming involved In the dispute of the suspended locals of New York and the International Union are over. The Bos ton unions will support the national or ganisation, Sonio 70,000 Scotch miners have re newed their demand for an advance In wages of.l2Vj 'per cent. The present rates amount to sbout 0 shillings l pence a day in wages, so that the demand is considerable. Corporation laborers at Calgary, Can ada, have received an Increase, from 25 to 27 cents an hour, and it has been de cided by the City Council that eight hours -shall constitute a working day, except In cases of necessity. . A blind man's union has been formed -In Paris. The members are the blind em ployes of the National Institute for the Blind, who were dissatisfied with their salaries. They threatened to strike and received an Increase. The convention of theatrical stage em ployes, held recently In Norfolk, Va., had before It a proposition to establish a sick benefit fund, also a funeral benefit fund. It wns decided to submit this to the suu .ordinate bodies for a referendum vote. Large crews of men have beengolng to the West through the Minneapolis (Minn.) employment offices for a long time, Montana Idaho, Wyoming, Wash ington and Oregon taking the bulk. The work supplied is understood to be railroad building. About forty employes of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad have, been retired on pensions. The men so rs- tired have been in the employ of the com pany from thirty-five to fortjr years, and will now receive from ft! to $7 a week for the remainder of their lives. The industries of the United States ' suffered less from strikes during 10tK5 than In any year since 1802. In YM7 there were 221, OHO employes thrown out of work by 2,077 strikes undertaken by 170,337 strikers in 8,202 establishments and lusting an average of twenty-three days in each establishment Involved The terrible disasters which have re cently occurred In the local coal mines of Germany and France have directed the attention of scientists, especially in the former country, to introducing methods of protecting the miuers against a recurrence of such calamities, or at least of dimin ishing, as far as possible, the loss of life. A Pastors' Union, composed of all the Protestant clergymen of La C'rossi', Wis., is aililiated with the Amerieun Federation of Labor. In that town members of the other trades look upon the preachers as brother workers, admit their delegate to the meetings of the Trades and Labor Council and have a representative of that body at tho meetings of the clergymen. The organization of employes on the railway lines of the United States dates from tho organizing of tho Brotherhood of tho Footbonrd, at Detroit, Mich., May 8, 1803, by the locomotive engineers, which association Is known as the Broth erhood of liocomotlve Kugincers. Other brunches of the transportation service fol lowed, from time to time, so that now each branch of the service is organized. The Massachusetts State Commission on Commerce and Industry, recently ap pointed by Gov. Guild, has sent to many labor men, as well as business men and trade organizations' officials, a request to send to It before Sept. 1 a statement of the ways each thinks that the commercial and industrial prosperity of the State can be promoted, whether by changes in legis lation, by public or private undertakings or otherwise. Women of Jersey City have started a novel organization. To establish a school to Instruct women how and whore to spend their money most beneficlully for union labor wil'ibo one of the features of the body, besides boosting union labels and encouraging men to organize. On the subject of uniform design for all union labels, the executive council of the American Federation of Labor has de cided that the report of the committee at the Minneapolis convention lust year shall be given careful consideration. The matter will be again brought up at the com in u convention at Norfolk, Va f