V AT PANAMA.
Vork Praft-resslngr on tbe Bl Daae
4 Other Main Peal ore.
The work on the locks and dams at
Panama tins taken mich nhnpe that it
In now possible to see something of
their form. It Is believed that the
actual masonry work enn be com
menced at the Gatua locks within eight
een months. Fonr steam shovels are
now digging out the sites for the looks,
and construction can be begun after tbe
excavation for the top lock of the flight
la completed. Two steam shovels are
preparing the site for the erection of
the spillway works of the Oatun dam.
Railroad trestles are being erected
across the line that will mark the In
side and outside boundaries of the big
'dam, and from one of these dirt trains
are now dumping dirt upon the site of
tbe dam. )
Preparatory to the Installation of
pipeline dredges, by which more rapid
work on the dam will be possible, the
Charges River has been diverted from
its main channel and dammed. The
pipeline1 dredges should be installed by
January 1, when the work at Gatun
will be as actively in progress as that
at Culebra. Suitable sand and rock for
the big masonry locks have been lo
cated, and, what Is equally Interesting
to the engineers, material for the man
ufacture of all the necessary cement
has been located on the Isthmus. It is
hoped, however, that cement can be
secured for such a price In the United
States as to make It more advisable to
procure the needed supply there In
stead of manufacturing It 6n the Isth
mus. The general features, designs and de
tails of the Gatun and other locks have
been worked out, together with the (
general type and numler of lock gates
to be used. The survey of all the coun
try to be converted Into the great Ga
tun lake has been completed and fin
ished reports show that the area will
be 171 square miles.
Cost of Living In lOOrt.
A summary of the report just sent to
the printer by the United Slates Bureau
of Labor, of which Charles P. Neill is
the head, covering the yyar 1000, show
that the prices of food were generally
higher during every mon'i of that year
than in the corresponding month of 1005.
Tbe price in December was 4 8-10ths per
cent higher than the average for the year
1000, and the year as a whole showed a
higher average than any since 1800, the
period covered by the bureau's investiga
tion. The increase of last year applied
unequally to twenty-five of the thirty ar
ticles showing the greatest advance were
lard, evaporated Apples, pork, brcon, ham,
fish, mutton and butter. The retail prices
of food were 2 0-10ths per cent higher
ythan In the previous year. t ,
. The report deals also with the queit'on
of Wages for manual workers, and gives
figures showing that the advance in wages
per hour over the preceding year was
greater than the advance in the reta'l
prices of food. That is to say, the pur
chasing power of an hour's wages as
measured by food wan greater last yeaf
" than the yenr before. The increase in
this 'purchasing iwer was 1 4-lOths per
cent. As compared, with the ten years'
average from 1NP0 to 1800, the wages per
hour were 21 2-lOths per cent higher, and
the number of employes 42 D-10th iter
cent greater, and the average hours of
labor a week 4 (i-lOtlis per cent lowar. In
the principal manufacturing industries of
the country the average wages wore
4r-10ths per cent higher than in 1003.
The greatest increase was in the manu
facture of cotton goods, where the wages
were 11 2-10ths per cent higher, and In
only one Industry, that of paper and
wood pulp, was there a decraasc, namely
1 l-10th per cent.
Farmer to Ft it lit tiruln Trust.
Open war has broken out between the
ao-cnlled grain trust and the farmers of
the Middle West. The farmers say they
have paid $ 1,000,000 a year tribute to the
grain trust, and have been organizing, un
til now co-operative elevators are in op
eration all over Iowa and are bt'ng ex
tended into Minnesota and Nebraska.
Their organization possesses a $50,000,
000 reserve fund, wlrile back of tbe trust
sands the wealth of the Armours an
other millionaire capitalists. The coop
erative elevators will get all of the grain
of th'ir own members, but, In order ta
win, must also get some if the rim in
from outsiders, thus crippling the trust.
There are now 170 farmers' 'co-operative
societies in Iowa alone, with a total mem
bership of 28,000, operating 250 eWva-ors,
" Also, the merchants of the Novdiwcst
are organising a co-operative association
to comlmt the mail order ltouses, the mer
chants so organized agreeing to advertise
under one management, in order ro lessen
the expense and secure an expert man
ager. This movement is of great econom
ic iuipsrtnnce.
Wl y Amcrlenu Marrlnue Fall.
Agi n a. woman is finding fault witb
American wives and coinplaiuing of the
failure of American marriages. This time
it Is Anna A. Rogers in the Atiuutie
Monthly, -who says that -"the excessive
education and excessive physical coddling
of young women," and their devotion to
physical culture and sports, 'has evolved
hybrid feminine who is a cross between
a magnified, rather unmannerly boy and
spoiled, exacting creature who sincerely
loves herself alone. Thus, explains this
.sociologist, "a slipshod, uuchivalrous com
panionship" has grown up between the
exes which after marriage Is found to
be "a cause for tears or temper." One
contributory cause, she suys, is the exist
ence of 2,021 courts empowered to grant
divorces. ' '
From Far and Near.
A thousand dock laborers are on strike
at Galveston, Texas. Trallic ou the
Si'Uth'-rn I'ucilii: is tied up.
Mi? Helen Williams of Allegheny, Pa.,
was ki'lt-d anj four other persons were
Injured in an automobile accident io
l'.ubi:rg.
Wil'iuui A. Culp, aged 21, awaiting
trial for the death of his brother, Floyd
C. Cu!i, last July at Turtle Creek, Pa,
roiiiiiuiied suicide in the county jail at
l'iltsLmrg by banging himself, using hie
suspenders as a rope.
Dr. Ioiigsia(Te, who Is mountaineering
in the Himalayas with two guides and a
iiiuki'4 officer has readied tbe summit
of Trisul, 28,400 f.t. This is tbe record
i the Ilimulsyos.
More pennus crossed the Atlantic ocean
f.u.n ibis tHo during tbe firt six niouiln
til the yrcM'-ut yvir than during any other
i.iuilbr p-rloJ. There wero 31,01)0 stuor-pnsheiigt-rs
io thut time.
TliO latest figures available, lao for
Jure, kIiow that the gross earnings of
' j)lrods oiM'iiiting over 03,500 liiilns
Amounted n thai month to $i:i.05(l,35
thei;uln ovur June, 1UOU, being $0,700,
4''3, or4 l;' 4 P"!' int.
OKLAHOMA CO3 DRY.
Election lirtarni irwm Jteer Stat
Indicate lirrtM of Prohibition.
Oklahoma hs ratified I he enabling act
eel become a State to fr s Oklahoma
and Indian Territory ore concerned. Re
turns from the Urgst ritiei and coun
ties of Oklahoma ud Indiin Territory
up to midnight Tuesday Indicated that
the comtitiition of the proposed new
State hai been adopted by large major
ity; that the prohibition clause of the
constitution has been adopted and that
the Democratic State ticket, headed by
C. N. Haskell of Muskogee for Gov
ernor, has been elected over Frank
Frantz, the present territorial governor
of Oklahoma, who was the Republican
nominee. In the enabling act Congress
provided for prohibition In Indian Terri
tory for twenty-one years from Jan. 1,
1000. The prohibition clause voted on
applies the same provision to the Okla
homa side of the new Slate.
All of the elements of a national cam
paign were at hnnd in the canvass. Secre
tary of War Taft was the chief represent- i
ative of the Itopubllcan side and William
J. Itrmn n-nm l.rnnulif In tn answer Sec-
retary Taft and to lead the Democratic
fight for the constitution and the Demo-
cratlc ticket. I New World and sailed for Spain.
The election was held under the terms 1009 Henry Hudson discovered the riv
of the act of Congress granting joint cr which benrs his name,
statehood to Indian Territory and Okla, mo.ri Stirling to whom James I.
noma Terr.tory. The statehood bill was gnye a inf p(,tion o( w,lat4g now
passed at Washington after a strenuous j tne Unt(l(, SutM nd Cnnadft died
fight which was carried through several ) jn rjOIion
seHsions of Congress. President Roose- J '
velt Intervened on behalf of the people 1C45z9,0Vf nBnt,.er dp,pated Mtmtr0M at
of the territories,, and, while each terri- I niliphaugh.
tory was anxious 'for separate statehood, 1742 Faneuil Hall completed and pre-
compromise was affected by whfch the sented to the town of ltoston.
friends of statehood accepted the joint 175!) Wolfe landed troops at Quebec,
bill rather than have none nt all. Iraine- i77.-,Gi.n. Washington began to commls
dlately after the statehood bill was sign- gjon wnr VPRSPiMi
ed by the President the battle for the po- . . r.- ,
litical control of the new State opened. . ".S-Renjamin I ranklin sent to France
minister plenipotentiary.
NEW CHARTER BEATEN.
Chicago's Proponed Measure I De
tented Two to One.
Chicago's proiosed new charter was
defeated at the polls Tuesday by a vote
of more than two to one. The measure
was snowed under in many strongholds
of both parties alike, losing in all but
four of the thirty-five wards. Fifty per
cent of the registered electors turned out,
and their ballots killed the act by a vote
of 50,581 for to 121,470 against.
Knowledge had hardly been obtained
that the charter was dead than a move-
meat was on foot to secure another io-
strument that will contain the good fea
tures of the defeated measure while hold
ing none' of the alleged defects that led
the voters to turn It down.
An analysis of the vote shows that the
campaign made by the' United Societies
bore much fruit in tbe shape of ballots
against tbe measure. A survey of the
situation indicated that the defeat of the
charter was due most largely to the con-
tentlon that taxes would be raised un-
dcr the instrument, and that the Sunday
closing laws would be put into force.
On the North and West Sidea hundreds
of small property holders turned out to
register an adverse vote because of the
taxes argument, while in tbe thickly set
tled foreign sections a heavy vote against l
the act was tallied vbccause of the "per--j
sonal liberty ' appeal.
The ward gerrymander, too, undoubted
ly played an important part in the defeat.
Tbe political aspect it gave to the char-1 v, ... . , (.,. , T
. , . . , r . . . . Virginia became Secretary ol the In
ter led many an independent voter to show
i.i . . i ii j terlor.
bis resentment by marking an adverse ,Q.Q u. , , . ,. ot., ,
. ,. y ISoo Steamship Austria, Southampton
Dallot I , to New York, burned at sea'; 471
8TANDARD OIL PROFITS. ,OP1li? 'T,'- r, i n
1S01 President Lincoln revoked Gen.
ttarnln. from 18t0 to 1000 Shorn. 1 Fremont's emancipation order. ,
to Ila 100,313,034. 1802 Governors of fourteen States met
Sensational disclosures regarding the I at Altoona, Pa., and approved of
fabulous earnings of Standard Oil. were emancipation as a war measure....
brought out InNew York at the hearing 1 Gen. McClellan appointed to coin
In tbe suit of the United Slates govern- mand the defense of Washington,
ment to dissolve tke corporation. Adroit 180-1 (Jen. Sherman entered Atlanta,
questioning drew from the reluctant lips ending the four weeks' siege. .. .Gen.
of Clurenco O. Fay, resident comptroller . Sherman ordered all civilians to
of the Standard Oil Company of New Jeave Atlanta.
Jersey, the admission that in seven years
Standard Oil's total profits amounted to
$100,315,031, or something over $70,000,
000 a year. )
Mr. Fay was also forced to admit that
in 1809 the profits were nearly $S0,0O0,
000 Instead of 34,000,000 as set forth on
the books of the company. The Standard
Oil managed to cover up its great earn
ings in that year by deliberately failing
to credit the earnings of nineteen subsi
diary companies that contributed vast
sums to the parent corporation. This
Is- the first time the company's earnings
have been mudo public.
Figuring on the capital stock now out
standing $U8,.130,.'!!S2 this is an annual
profit of something over 70 per cent. Fig
ured on the basis of the Standard Oil
trust, which had a capitalization of $10,
000,000 when it was dissolved and reor
ganized into the present company with;
out any additional investment on tho part
of Mr. Rockefeller and his associates, the
annual profit is something like 700 per
cent. On the basis of tho original Stand'
ard Oil Company, with a capitalization
of $1,000,000, the annual profit is a little
more than 7,000 per cent. On tho basis
of the little refinery Mr. Rockefeller had
when be started out, with an Invested cap-
ital principally of nerve, the percentage
of annual profit is well, the statisticians
haven't figured that out vet.
BLA3T ON JAPANESE SHIP.
Tmentr-Naven Men Killed br lx
Twenty-seven of the crew were killed
and nisnv wimo Inior.-.V nn it,. Jnn.
battleship Kashlma bv the explosion of
powder after target practice near Kure.
Tho Kashimn, under command of Captain
Koixuml, went to Kure, where the wound-
ed were placed iu the hospital. The dead
Included a lleutenaut, two cadets and one
stall officer.
Details regardiug the effects of the ex
plosion are lucking, hut it was terrific and
the ship was severely damaged. The blast
followed an attempt to remove an unex-
ploded shell from the gun. A majority of
uib uymuum-r. wero icamiuy muiliarea.
The explosion U under investigation.
It occurred inside of tbe shield of the
stuiboard after teu-iuch gun. It was not
the shell which exploded, but powder.
which evidently caught lire from the gas
emitted from the breech when 0xmed to
, . . ,, , , .
reload the gun. The bull of the Kushima
is not damaged
Jolnlnsr I'm ruie rand Consumer.
The Producers' and Consumers' Inter
national Kqiiily Union and Co-operative
Exchange has just bei o incorporated un
der the luws of New Jersey, with $1,0(X),.
000 Cupital stock, and the articles of in
coriHiration say the ohjects of the ex
change are "to pro!et the interests and
rights of organized producer and con
sumers; to brio:; farmers, producer and
workers into closer communication with
.he co-operative unions of the countr,
ud to to om rnie with the American Fed
eration of Labor lu promoting the Kale
and use of gooj hearing union labels."
The lacorputatars are Misfourians.
iTifOTClY
Itift"-rh'ts !!!'!! A,
'
"02 English
defeated
the Scott at
Homcldon Hill.
1504 Columbus took final leave of the
17S1 Gen. Washington arrived at Wil
Iiamtthurg ami assumed command.
17S2 Congress accepted the offer of
Virginia's western lanus.
17S0 Connecticut deeded western land
to Congress.
1788 Congress mode New York the
capital city of the United States.
17S0 Alexander Hamilton became Sec
retary of the Treasury .... Henry
Knox of Massachusetts beenme Sec
retary of War.
1803 Lord William Downs appointed
chief justice of Ireland,
1814 Rattle of Plattsburgh, N. Y.. . . .
British made an unsuccessful attack
on Baltimore. .. .British bombarded
Fort McIIenry, near Baltimore....
British abandoned their expedition
against Bultimore.
1820 Treaty of Adrianople, ending war
between Russia and Turkey.
1841 Walter lorward of Pennsylvania
became Secretary of the United
States Treasury,
1840 First Mississippi riflemen, under
command of Company I, Jefferson
Davis, charged the Mexicans at Fort
Tcncria.
1847 American army under Gen. Scott
marched into the Mexican capital...
Many lives lost in hurricane oil New
foundland. 1850 Jenny Llnd first appeared on an
American stage at Castle Garden, N.
V A . ,1- If II Uf,,r f
iSGO-i-Nntionnl Prohibition party organ-
ized at a convention in Chicago.
1S71 Ileury Irving first appeared in
"Fnnehette" at the London Lyceum.
....Mont Cenls tunnel opened.
.1872 Alabama claims against England
decided in favor of the United States.
1SS0 Cnnadiau Pacific railway tele
graph line opened for business.
1803 Gov. William McKinley of Ohio
opened his campaign for re-election
with a speech at Akron.
ISO I Hinckley and other Minnesota
towns swept by forest firos.
1808 British forces defeated the Der
vishes at Omdurman. .. Admiral
Cervera and other captured Spanish
officers sailed for Spain.
lOOO--Kniperor of China issued an edict
promising constitutional government.
New l.lfe-Kt-stiirlnar Apparatus.'
E. C. Hall, writing iu the August Tech
nical World Magazine, asserts that Prof.
GS" Iop of Sout" Norfolk. Vn is able
to r,'t,rc l'fe ,( apparently dead opimals,
h'8 t1,,ntm't being based upon the well-
known method of forcing oxygen into the
'""H- Kor tl,is Pnose he has devised
au artificial respirator, modeled in all
fcsj'octs after nature. It embraces two
i "mul1 cylinders, each having an inlet and
an outlet, with which plungers work sim
ultaneously, and from which tubes are
conducted to the nostrils or mouth of tbe
1 patient. One cyliuder is supplied with
oxygen, and the outlet of the other dis-
chur8,' cUy into tho atmosphere. The
plungers are worked by band and timed
l,cir1"1 nor,,,l1 respiration. Thus in
one vm" uoxiotis gases from the
hms are drawn 1,lto am clinder, while
the n,'xt ovt'"",nt ror'" .vgen from
the other Hnder '"to (he lungs. This
0,VKe n"8 11 l"'n",n - win soon ue
ipou the market.
lhotoKraplilnir Thuuitlitn.
Dr. Hippolyte Baraduc, a Voted French
physician, has recently published a series
different n,.,,,,.!, n, ,i, nvr.
n ,..,, ,ntiri.i:iti.n to tl.n tlie.iries f
the Theosoplusls. Dr. Baraduc, ou the
assumption that the humau being is com
posed of fluid or gaseous bodies as well
as that of flesh and blon.l, exposed vari
,, ,"'sili;E"J l,lul' ' the dark uear to
1Z '"V"'8 V " m nna Kl
differing results. lie sometime uses a
treen electric light.
I.aud win tiler Sentenced.
Judge Do llaveu lu the Federal Dis
trict Court of Sun Francisco has sen
tenced John A. Benson and K. D. Perrin.
leader in extensive California land frauds
against the government, each to one veer's
Imprisonment and a fine of $1,00. At
the same time both men were released on
$3,500 each, ponding review In the Court
t Appeal.
Anpendlrltl from Klonr.
The London I. .meet has published sn
article asserting that appendicitis ean ha
traced to the u c of American lluux uiadii
by the Iron roller process.
IMMUNITY FOR THE ALTON.
In Renentlnn; Sine on Ills ('art
Standard Oil l tilt br l.andla.
Another hrondslde wn directed
against the Standard OH Company by
J-idgc Lamlls In the United States Dis
trict Court at Chicago Tuesday. Al
though immunity was granted the Chi
cago and Alton Itnllrond by Judge Lnn
dls on recommendation of Attorney1
General Bonaparte, both the railroad
and tho Standard OH Company were
scored ttmn the liench and n subpoena
was Issued by the court for James A.
Moffett, president of the Standard Oil
Company of Indiana.
.Mr. Moffett was directed to nppenr
before the HiH'cliirgrand Jury that was
to have Investigated the Alton road
nnd "make good" charges made by di
rectors of the New Jersey corporation.
The court's latest action Is regarded ns
one of the most drastic moves that
Jl'IXiC I.A.N'llS.
have been made ngiiliist ofliciuls of the
oil corporation during the entire lltl-
gution.
Judge Lnndis' denunciation of v the
tactics employed by the directors of the
New Jersey eonoratlon nftcr the Im
position of the ?20,24O.00O fine on .he
Standard Oil Company of Indiana was
couched In language that could not be
mistaken. Sarcastic reference to the
Alton's posftlou regarding rebates given
the Standard Oil Conipnny were made
by the court.
In the pamphlet, distributed broad
cast throughout the country, the Sthu.!-
nrd Oil Company takes tho posltbli
that It Is being persecuted rather than
prosecuted by the government, nnd the
flat statement Is made that other cor
porations are just ns culpable of the
practice of, rebating as Is the oil con
cern. This Is what Mr. Moffett has
been given nu opportunity to prove.
WU TING FANG RETURNS.
Itetort!on of Chinese Lender n
Minister nt WnshltiKton.
Tho reappointment of Wu Ting Fan;!
to his formep post ns minister of China
at Washington Is reported from PcWhi.
Mr. Wu represented China at, Washing
ton for more than five years. Ho was
recoiled in November, 1002.
Wu is a dignitary of importance, lie
represents the progressive element among
his countrymen. He studied law for four
WU TING FA NO.
years In London and was admitted as bar
rister in the inner temple. He s.iciilj
Englisli wiili euse and fluency, and asi-t
many questions of everybody he meets
The minister has hosts of friends ir
Washington and throughout the United
States.
Find Itemalna of Mnatodon.
Word has recently been received from
Prof. C. W. Gilmore, who, accompanied
by Prof. : T. Shaw of the Washington
Slate College and a party of scientist!
from the East, is now in central Alaska.
that they have found a specimen of tluj
mastodon frozen intact in the great Muir
glacier, near the Chilkoot I'uss. The
party set out on this particular errand
anil their hopes were mere than realized
when they discovered this large and per
fect specimen imbedded in 'the great ice
field in very much the same .position ai
when overwhelmed by the frigid elements.
On some portion of the animal the huii
and flesh were still fresh, but crumbled
when exposed to the air. It is estimated
that the length ofthe mastodon from th
end of its trunk to the tip of the tail
was about 7." feet, and that when stand
ing on all fours the height must buv
been nearly 40 feet.
Short Ne Note.
As a result of the gathering of Wis
cousin Republican politicians at the State
fair at Milwaukee it is positively asserted
that Senator Ia Follette will be a candi
date for the presidential nomination next
yea r. '
Frank C. Barnes, conductor of a Lake
Shore Electric railway car, and Amos
Micrka of Fremont, Ohio, were killed and
Samuel Jones, the motorman, and thirty
passenger were Injured when the car ran
into nu open switch ut Woodville road,
nar Toledo.
A passeuger train on the New York
Cetittal road ran into a freight car near
Utica, N. Y.. t he locomotive und one cat
being derailed. Tho engineer, John Lber
le, was iujured.
Five cars on a passenger train ou the
Alabama und Vhksburg road were over
turned ami the whole traiu left the track
near Forest Station, .Miss. .No one Wat
injured seriously.
An obstruction on the tracks of the
Gre it Norl'n r:i ro id near Wiemlchee,
Wash., wiiik.'d the oriental limited. Twe
cu.j were des: roved by tire and one pas-
singer, a wonau. and iwo withers onMie
Uininj car we;e injured.
OET3 A LIFE TERM.
Cfclesuro Jerjr Convicts Conataatlae
f Marderlnar Mrs. Ueatrr.
- Crank J. Constnntlne was convicted
In Chicago Saturday night of murder
ing Mrs. Arthur Gentry and bis sen
tence fixed at Imprisonment for life.
After battling for two and one-half
hours over the fate of tbe prisoner the
Jury delivered a finding of guilty, and
fixed his punishment after the shortest
murder trial In the history of Cook
County.
Foreman Krognoss said: "There was
nevcY any doubt nlout Constantlne's
tfullt, but owing to the circumstantial
evidence the penalty of life Imprison
ment was agreed upon by the Jury."
The verdict, It Is reported, was a
keen disappointment to those In the
courtroom who bad followed the course
Of the trinl. They exjKH-ted a death
sentence. Constnntlne chewed gum nnd
aid nothing when the verdict was read.
Constantlne's story on the witness
stand was the most dramatic, tho most
sensational narrative ever recited un
der oath In a Chicago court. He
wenved a story into n manifestly weak
defense. He swore he did not kill her.
He awore that he stood by while she
rat her owu throat from oar to enr.
He swore that she had confided to him
her unhapplness; that she hud begged
him to take her away to go abroad
with her; that he had refused; that
ehe slashed herself with n razor. He
explained his flight by the fear that he
uld never bo able to prove his inno
cence by the' panic that seized him
when he realized how all the circum
stances pointed against him.
The story was lucid enough, but Con
Rtautine made a poor Impression as a
witness. . He contradicted himself sev
eral times as to dates,' seemed greatly
111 ut ease at moments and was seldom
convincing. A bootblack, as he ad
mitted himself to 4)0, lie still protested
from the witness stand' that the blood
of royalty in his veins.
And thus the curtain Is drawn upon
a tragedy the like of which Chicago
has not chronicled lu ninny u year. It
was one of such brutality as to shock
end awe society. Constantino, almost
a member of the Gentry family, who
had represented himself to be the son
of a millionaire lu New York when ns
a matter of fact he was a profligate
rx-lHiotblnek, deliberately Blushed to
death the woman who had befriended
him and who had housed hlui and lent
him money. Then lie fled.
It was n long and persistent hunt. 'Fi
nally he wits captured when nbout to
sail for Italy, the home of bis ances
tors, where he claims some of them
were members of tho royal family. He
bad gone to Italy Immediately after
the commission of the crime, had been
wept by the winds of Idleness and the
remorselessness of ghosts Into other
lands, nnd finally, lmivelled by that In-
tnnglble Instinct that belongs, to all
criminals, had to return to the country
of bis crime. ,
Finding the police determined to
have 1) lit), that the memory of that
tragic January day had not been for
gotten, fearful lest be be apprehended
and brought back to the bar of Justice,
he was nbout to sail away again, when
ho was arrested.
Brought to trial. In an effort to gain
bis liberty, he defamed the character
of his victim, n bride of sis months.
MILLIONS ARE SAVED.
Federal
Selcull Ito Not
Patent
Tlu-lr Invention.
Secretary Wilson of the Department of
Agriculture gave out the statement re
cently that millions of dollars ure saved
each year by scientists in the employ of
the I tilted States government. This fact
lone, he uminiains. should show the pub
lic the velue of the experiments being
coiulueird each day. If the scientists pat
ented their inventions, they might become
wealthy, but all they get for their reward
Is the passing fame attained by reporting
valuable finds.
Among the patents which have attract
ed national, attention are in relation to
the - labcliug of fresh meats that have
passed government inspection, the use of
fieldspathlc rock as fertilizers and the
pretention of curosion of fence wire and
rusting of iron and steel generally.
Secretary Wilson estiinu'ed that the
discovery of an ink which may be usei
in stamping carcasses ami which will not
stsin, spread or penetrate the meat, will
In itself save the government between
300,000 nnd f 100,000 next year.
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LABOR TROUBLES.
WluU nrtrr traaa Ita-i t lay
- mm Important Sabjevt.
Oscar 8. Straus, Secretary of Com
merce and Labor, has nothing to say con
cerning the status of the telegraphers'
strike, but tie ex
presses himself
plainly as not re
garding compulsory
arbitration as the
solution of difficul
ties between capital
and labor. He be
lyieves that differ
ent cases require
different remedies,
and that there is
no hard and fast
rule by which dif
ferences that arise
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between capital and labor can be adjudi
cated. "The importance of establishing good
relations between capital and labor," he
says, "Is recognized in all civilized lands.
Economic conditions within a country,
especially such as arise between indus
trial forces, have a far reaching effect and
are often the cause of embarrassing inter
national relations. More thnn one-half
of the troubles in this world arise from
misunderstandings. Especially is that
true when clnss's are concerned, such as
are brought about through labor disturb
ances growing out of disagreements be
tween employers and wage earners. No
one has recognized the Importance of pro
moting industrial peace, both with a view
of preserving continued peace nt home
and avoiding conflicts abroad, better than
J.
President Uoosevelt, nlio devoted the
world's peace prize awarded him last year
for the promotion of industrial peace.'
Secretary Straus believes the trouble
between .Japan and America on the Pa
cific to be more economic than racial. He
say that what might be called a Japan
ese situation does not exist.
All Around the Globe.
Theatrical combine of $100,000,000
capital .formed.
The world' population is estimated at
l,4SO,O0O,0IK person.
The decline of the tea trude is viewed
with alarm iu China.
Tcu million people have opened ac
counts with the postoflice savings banks
of England. j
Nevada seems destined to forge to the
first place in the production of precious
metals.
The government bureau of plant indus
try finds that ground granite makes , fee-client
fert.Iizer. I
Colorado, Montana and Utah have
shown a decided decline in the produc
tion of precious metals.
There is an average of one c hild killed
every three days iu "ev York City by
being run over by vehicles.
Missouri Pacific Kaiiro.id Company
claims ill co.irt bill that f,d" il ,inl m.i
Siale authority i in control of common
carrier engaged in interstate commerce.
A report is being circulated iu Wash
ington that President Uoosevelt, dissatis
fied with tho peace conferem-e at The
Hague, will call a conference of his own,
assembling the ambassador of the pow
ers accredited to Washington to take up
great questions.
Seventeen of the largest manufacturers
of pictorial postal cards In Austria and
Germany have combined to raise the price
of the.r production 0 to 7 per cent, and
their customers, timbering about T M
wholesale tiruis, 1wve resolved to make
tbe retail dealer bear this advance.
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WAR VETERANS CELEBRATE.
Onlr B20 of Gen. lentt'a Mexleaa
War Soldiers Are Still Alive.
There are In the entire country just
520 veterans of the Mexican war, end
these recently celebrated the sixtieth an
niversary of the fall of the City of Mex
ico in San Francisco. On that occasion
the rrjzzled warriors recalled the trage
dies that gave to the United States a vast
portion of her territory.
Major Edwin A. Sherman of Oakland,
Cel., Is the president of the veterans' as
sociation. In speaking of tbe Mexican
war Major Sherman said: 1
"Gen. Winfield Scott, the American
commander, fought and won the battles
of Contreras, Churubusco, El Molino d
MAJOR E. A. 8UERMA5.
Bey, Castle of Chapultepce, Vera Cruz,
and last the City of Mexico. The total
American loss was 3.204. equal to one
half of the army that captured the City
of Mexico.
"By the treaty that closed the Mexican
war, a territory over 700 miles north and
south and 000 miles, east and west, ot
030,000 square miles, were ceded- to the
United States, California, Nevada, Utah,
Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona and Net
Mexico were added to our national do
main and California saved from becoming
a British province, by sale for $50,000,
000 to pay the Mexican debt.
"For thepe reasons as well as other
the 520 survivor of the Mexican war
celebrate the sixtieth niinlversary of the
crowning victory of our arms directed by
our matchless general, Winfield Scott, un
der whom we fought and achieved suet
glorious results."
Candy and Alcohol.
Dr. A. C. Abbott, health commissioner
of Pennsylvania, has advanced the theorj
that "the appetite for alcohol and the ap-
petite for candy are fundamentally the
same, the choice of one or the other in
dulgence being determined by the temper
ament of the individual." In support pi
this, the fact is cited that there has been
a falling off in the amount of alcohol,
consumed per capita during the past fw
years, and a material increase in the con
sumption of sugar iu its various forms,
It is further stated that chemically sugar
and alcohol are similar, and their physio
logical uction is in purt, the same, and
l4tli to some extent supply the demand,
for a concentrated and quick acting fuel
for the body. Much of the prejudice
which formerly existed agaiust the use
of candy has disappeared, and it Is now
used, especially iu the form of chocol ites,
by exhausted business men, and even by
soldiers on the eve of buttl'.
Life on Mam Continued.
Prof. Pereiva! Lowell of Harvard, in a
communication to Nature, a British sci
entific publication, declare that the ob
servations made durng the recent oppo
sition of the planet Mars tends to estab
lish the fact that the planet is at present
lh aliislo of intelligent constructive life.
Speaking of the observations of the polar
cups, which were begun three mouths uud
a half before the opjHisition occurred, it
was possible to catch the south polar cap
nt Its maximum and the nortlnuu at it
uiiuiniuui extent. Prof. Lowell is sc.tis
lied that he was able to observe develop
ment' of the canal system in tho antarc
tic and south temperate zones.
lie says it is a direct conclusion from
this that the planet is at present the
abode of Intelligent beings. He add that
tbe theory of such life was not on a pri
ri hypothesis on hi part, but was the
result of observations now fully con
tinued. Ou the phoioi-r.iplis taken al
ready he has counted fifty-nix canals, and
it u.ipears now certain that the position
ing of points of the Martian topography
will be realized. Three of the photo
graphs are fiublUhed in Nature and slow
various canals hitherto unknown to Ear
ropcau astronomers.
