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Tho iron Htoamor Czarina was lost
on tho north Hplt of tho Cooh bay
bar and thirty Uvea wore lost. Harry
Kontzol, first assistant engineer on
tho wrecked vessel, was tho only one
to bo saved. Ho managed to get
hold of a piece of timber and was
slowly driven shoroward.
J. PIcrpont Morgan has given
$100,000 to endow a chair at the
Yalo collogo as a memorial to tho
Into William M. Laffan, editor of tho
Now York Sun.
Speaking at Dayton, O., Congress
man Champ Clark paid his respects
to Joseph O. Cannon in this way:
"Tho speaker professes to lovo and
ndmiro u courageous man. It's a
strange commentary on his loud pro
fessions In that regard that ho bit
terly assails all those who havo cour
ngo to opposo his system, and 'deals
damnation round the land' on all
who aro not willing to bow tho knoo
mid kowtow to him. Ho strikes a
Louis tho Fourteenth 'I am tho state'
attitude and savagely belabors all
who would liberalizo tho rules of tho
houso. Against Hon. Joseph G. Can
non personally I havo nothing what
soever; ho has dono mo many kind
nesses which I havo tried to ropay;
but I am honestly of tho opinion that
what has como to bo known as 'Can
nonlsm' is a great ovil in our legis
lative system and should bo rooted
out; and tho tido is ovory whore ris
ing against 'Cannonism.' Sinco the
adjournment of congress, I havo been
over most of Iowa, Nobraska, Mis
souri, Kansas and Oklahoma, and in
to Colorado and South Dakota, and
ovorywhoro in that region 'Cannon
Ism' is tho resounding theme of
ovory tonguo and against It that por
tion of tho country is aflamo. Adam
Bodo of Minnesota, describes himself
as 'a Ctvnnonlzcd statesman,' slnco
ho was dofcatod for ronoralnatlon by
ndhoring to Uncle Joo, and tho signs
of tho times indicates that that pe
culiar class of Btatesmon to which
Adam claims to belong will bo much
incroasod this yoar."
tho opposite policy of the open door
in Asia, was fraught with grave mis
chief to tho empire.
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Bryan arrived
at Guayaquil, Ecuador, January 15.
They wore given a warm greeting by
tho American colony and left for
Callao. They will spend a week in
Poru.
Mayor Gaynor of New York is ap
pointing a number of independents
to ofllco and is picking good material
whorevor ho can find it.
An Associated Press dispatch from
Now York tells of tho Tammany
Bhalcoup there in this way: Tho
cleanest swoep so far in any city do-
partmont since tho beginning of tho
now administration took place in the
borough of tho Bronx today. Shortly
after Tammany had boon shockod on
learning that Park Commissioner
Higglns had dropped 158 men from
tho park service In tho Bronx, Presi
dent Miller, of that borough, an
nounced ho had received tho resig
nations of a dozen heads of borough
departments and holders of Important
positions within his jurisdiction.
Noarly nil were high-salaried mon
including tho chief engineer at
$7,500 per annum, and superinten
dents of highways and buildings and
uuiurs wnose compensation ran from
?3,000 to $5,000 each."
Maying report on the British elec
tions an Associated Press cablegram
from London says: "The results of
tho pooling today tend to confirm the
forecast that the liberals will retain
control of the government .with a
greatly reduced majority. The Union
ists have gained an encouraging num
ber of seats, although less than the
twenty-nine which they expected to
take away from tho liberals out of
tho sovonty-four balloted for. The
popular vote goes strongly against
tho liberals. Tho members of that
party who hold seats won them to
day by majorities ranging from 30
to 00 per cent below their majorities
in 190G, except in a few boroughs
whoro special conditions figured in
tho campaign. Tho popular votes
polled by the liberals for tho twelve
London seats show a stronger hold
on power than In the provinces.
Many of tho London boroughs were
labor districts. Of these tho union
ists carried five, threo being cap
tured from tho liberal column, but
by small margins."
Plinrlno T) TJntlrn nnnM4-n.. .l
treasurer of tho Sugar Refining com
pany, and Harry W. Walker, an as
sistant superintendent, together with
four minor employes, have been in
dicted in connection with the sugar
frauds against the government.
John W. Breidenthal, former state
bank commissioner of Kansas, chair
man of the democratic state .com
mlttoo In three campaigns, died at
his homo in Kansas City, Kan., aged
53 years.
issue of bonds of tho first construc
tion of tho railroad through Wash
ington. If the findings are sustained
by "the supreme cout of tho United
States on appeal, it -will mean reallot
ment to tho Indians and tho read
justment of tho entries of several
hundred homesteaders in the district
and also hasten the opening of 600,
000 acres of land in the reservation."
An Associated Press .dispatch from
New York, January 14, follows:
"Twenty million dollars in common
stock is to bo the share of the stock
holders of the International Harves
ter company in the profits of the
last few years. The announcement
that this 'melon' would be cut was
made at the offices of J. P. Morgan
& Co., here today. The distribution
is to be made ratably as a stock
dividend to the present $60,000,000
of common stock. The decision to
make the distribution followed a'
preliminary report to a meeting of
the directors today by the controller
of the company. This report showed
that after setting aside reserves in
excess of those set aside in 1908, the
earnings of the company for 1909
exceeded $14,000,000. The stock
distribution is not all that the stock
holders will receive, for the board
of directors today further recom
mended that $3,200,000 be set aside
out of last year's earnings as a 4
per cent dividend on the common
stock. This stock has heretofore
paid no dividends. A statement is
sued by George W. Perkins, chair
man of the finance committee of the
company, says: 'Formal action on
tho dividend matter will not be tak
en up at the board's regular meeting
for dividend purposes on January
29, at which time notices as to clos
ing of books for dividend purposes
will be given."
to a hospital and caused a detail of
police to be sent to the disturbances,
opened the balloting. The first blow
was struck when Ernest Smith, a law
yer and former Harvard oarsman,
who has been prosecuting alleged
illegal registration challenged a
couple of Fitzgerald men. In two
minutes a fight was on. Smith, bad
ly battered, was sent to a hospital,
and the inspector in charge of the
booth, John DeLorrin, had his nose,
smashed. Only the arrival of the po
lice stopped what would have been a
serious battle."
Theodore Roosevelt has been elect-'
ed president of the Harvard alumni.
(Continued on Page 16)
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Price Homestead
Tho Postal Telegraph and Cable
company officials deny that there is
any intention to have a merger of
tho telegraph lines of the country.
Charles R. Warriner, former
treasurer of the Big Four railroad,
is now in the penitentiary at Co
lumbus, Ohio.
Judge William Gaslin who, many
years ago, was a district judge in
Nebraska, died at his home in Alma,
Nebraska.
A New York dispatch carried by
the Associated Press says that the
entire telegraph business of the
country is soon to bo combined un
der tho name of the "transcontinen
tal telegraph company."
Tho India national icangroEs in ses
sion at Lahore, .QUtiiusiaBUcally
adopted a resolution .expressing ad
miration of the Indians' iieroic strug
gle In South Africa, and urging the
government of India to prohibit the
laW?0? if, inde Indian
laborers, declaring that the nolicv nf
5S!hB Au!atlc 8Ub3ects S5 HSS
British cltlzoMWp. while enforcing
An Associated Press dispatch from
Spokane, Wash, says: "Indians of
the Yakima tribe came Into their
own when Judge Whitson, sitting in
the United States circuit onnt
the district of eastern Washington
handed down a decision in the suit
of the United States against the
Northern Pacific Railway company
by which 160,976 acres of timber
and agricultural lands in the Cedar
River valley in the southern part of
the Yakima reservation reverts to the
red men. The land is valued at $2 -000,000,
and is covered by a mort
gage held by tho Mercantile TniRt
company of Now York, to secure an '
Former Mayor John F. Fitzgerald
was again elected mayor of Boston
at a special election held January 11.
A Boston dispatch says: "Mr. Fitz
gerald was elected this time for a
four-year term, giving him 46,968
votes and a plurality of 1,223 over
his nearest opponent, -James J. Stor
row, banker, former president of the
cnamoer of commerce and former
chairman of the school board. The
most remarkable feature of the elec
tion to many was the small vote of
1,783 given to the present mayor,
George A. Hibbard, who received
38,000 votes two years ago, being
elected on a 'reform' ticket over Fitz
gerald. The fourth mavoraltv nanir.
ant, Nathaniel H. Taylor, found only
629 supporters. The campaign, note
worthy in many ways, was easily
Boston's greatest. A record vote
95,125 -more than 85 per cent of
the registration, was cast. Fitzger
ald won his victory In spite of the
fact that not one of the daily news
papers of the city supported him. He
based his campaign on a plea of vin
dication, his previous term in office
having been conspicuous for the ex
posure by the finance commission of
graft among a number of his subor
dinates in the city hall. He Is a
democrat. Under the provisions of
the new charter the ballots bore no
party designations, but only tho can
didates names and addresses. Stor
row, who resigned the presidency of
the chamber of enmmown -
the campaign, made a determined
"but, ii winging tne citizens a pro
gressive, business administration
The campaign was nmhnhiir
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after nnrro In fTi -.
bought lor 'signed " adTr S2n2B
ftEdS th Va,rIous candItes dnd
the city was plastered with posters
Scores of halls were hired for rallies
and expensive headquarters were
maintained by the leading candidates
to each of the twenty-five wards
XV'f'ngin a polling booth
in West Boston which sent two men
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