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'.Stftta Historical Secity DAKOTA : COUNTY HERALD. V0LU3IE XVI DAKOTA CITY, NEB., FRIDAY, DECKS! BKU 18, 1907. NUMBER '1C. CURRENT HAPPENINGS FAITHFUL CHRONICLE OF ALL IMPORTANT ITEMS. AT DENVER JULY 7T11 DEMOCRATS NAMK TIMH AM) place ron coxvKXTir"'-. Wlilouus, Clayton and Smith Icnd Fight Against Acceptance of $100,. 000 Fund, Attacking Them as Bribe, Which Ilepuhllcaiis Rejected. After deciding to hold the next Democratic national convention at Denver, Colo., and fixing the date of the meeting; on July 7, 1908, the Dem ocratic national committee, In session in Washington, D. C. late, Thursdn entered upon a spirited debate on the propriety of Accenting more of the 9100,000 offered by Denver for the convention than actually needed to pay the convention expenses In that city. Tho opposition to the accept ance of the contribution took the form of a resolution by Representative Clayton, of Alabama, declining; money not actually needed for convention purposes, but after a long debate the resolution was laid on the table by a vote of 31 to 14. Mr. Clayton, Representative John Sharp Williams" of Mississippi, .and Gov. Hoke Smith of Georgia, spoke In" favor of the passing of the resolution. Mr. Smith was especially emphatic In saying that the $100,000 which had been offered to secure the Republican convention and refused by the Repub lican national committee had been offered to and was about to be ac cepted by the Democratic committee. He said the Republicans had turned down the offer because It was regard ed as In the nature of a bribe and that Democrats, In view of thut cir cumstance, could not "afford to ac cept It. - Mr. Williams spoke in a similar vein, as also did Mr. Clayton. Mr. Taggnrt advocated the accept ance of tho $100,000, saying it would be needed now even worse than money was needed In 1900. and that at that time It would have been practically Impossible to hove opened headquar ters for Judge Parker If they had not had tho extra money secured from St. Louis, where tho convention was held. Senator Stone, of Missouri, made a long speech in which he favored the acceptance of the rrfblYeyv ': .--. INDICT FATHER AXI SOXS. Four Accused as Result of Brooklyn Blink Failure. John CI. Jenkins, formerly president of the First National bank, of Brook lyn, and his three sons were indicted by tho Kings county grand Jury Thurs day on charges of conspiracy and per jury. This Is the first indictment against tho elder Jenkins, but his sons already had been Indicted on other charges. They are John G. Jenkins, Jr., former president of the Jenkins Trust company; Frank Jenkins, for mer president of the Williamsburg Trust company, and Frederick Jen kins, a director in these institutions. The doors of all these Institutions were closed several weeks ago. The four Jenkins had been warned that they would be wanted In court and wero present to be arraigned. Their counsel pleaded not guilty lu their behalf, and ball for John G. Jenkins, Sr., was fixed at $10,000', while that of his sons was made $2,500 as they are already under heavier ball in other cases. The charges against them are based on the loans alleged to have been made by the First National bank of Brooklyn and the two trust companies to the accused men. It is charged that they engaged In a conspiracy to secure these funds In excess of 10 per cent of the paid in capital stock of the various concerns, and that reports to the state superintendent of banks were so falsified by them as to con ceal tho fact that the loans wero made. The charges of perjury were based on this alleged concealment. X OMI XATIOX WITH DKAWX. Oregon Attorney Fulls to make Good In Prosecutions. It was announced at the department f Justice In Washington Thursday that the nomination of W. C. Bristol. United States attorney for Oregon, which had been sent to the senate, would- be withdrawn in accordance with the department's recommenda tion to the president.. " "Mr. Bristol's course with reference to the land fraud prosecutions In Ore iron has been unsatisfactory to the department, and the action of the de partment is due to this fact and to the attitude aken by Mr. Bristol in some recent telegraphic correspond, ence with the department." Kloux City Live Stock Market. Thursday's quotations on the Sioux City live stock market follow: Beeves, $4.75fi 5.75. Top hogs, $4.75. KnccN to Pray; Find Tliief. When Elizabeth Glauber, of Pitts burg. Pa., age.d 12, knelt beside her bed to Kdv her prayers one night re cently, hhf l;iu!t on the hand of a burglar hiding under the bed. To A'd 'Jujiun in Washington. W. D. Stevens, the American diplo mat who l as Just been appointed ad 'viser to the J a pant-so ambassador at I Washington, is en route to America. DISAStF.Il IN HXK)1)S. Loss of Life and Property In Pennsyl vania. High water Tuesday night caused the collapses of a new bridge in course of erection over the western branch of the Susquehanna river at MlfTln vllle, eight mile? north of Hloomburg. Pa., and resulted In the death of sev n men' and the Injury of nearly n score of others, two perhaps fatally. Forty men were at work in the trav eler on the middle span of the struc ture when It collapsed. Thoy were nil thrown Into the swollen river. The collapse of the . bridge war caused by the rapid rise In the river. The water rose during the day at the rate of almost one foot an hour and debris carried down the stream by the flood struck the false work of the bridge and caused Its collapse. A large tree trunk struck the false work- Just before the bridge fell. The accident occurred Just at night fall, when the men were preparing to abandon their work. As a result tho work of rescuing those who were thrown Into the water with the mass of Iron and steel was greatly retarded. The second span of the bridge vcti weakened, and it was this span thnt fell with the big traveler. The bodies of four of those killed were found floating on the surface of the water entangled among the bent and twisted girders and ironwork, but the others have not been found. Many of the men were caught In the rapid water and carried a rajle or more down the river before they were rescued. One of the most remarkable escapes was that of William Nesblt, who was caught in the ironwork and held a prisoner for an hour with his mouth ' and chin above water before being rescued. The bridge was being built by the state to replace the one carried out In a freshet In 1893. OUTSTRIPPED BY JAPAV. llead of a British Steamship Line Tells of Doss of Trade. Presiding at the annual meeting Tuesday afternoon of the Peninsula and Oriental Steam Navigation com pany at London, Sir Thomas Suther land, chafrman of the company, had to make the disagreeable confession that the entire trade of the line be-t tween Bombay and Japan had been' wiped out by its Japanese competitors, Speaking of tho startling strides made by Japanese trade in the cast, the chairman said It seemed to him that the "soul of a people that had lain dormant for centuries 11 sud denly awakened to almost supernat ural activity." He said he thought " the Japanese government, to a certain .extent un fairly, was "forcing the Japanese steamship companies to increase their Bombay sailings, and the result was that the Peninsula and Oriental com pany had been entirely left out in tho cold. BREWERS AS REFORMERS. They Declare Hint the Bow Dives Musi Go. Ways and means to combat the pro hlbitlon wave that Is sweeping the country were discussed In New York City at a meeting of brewers repre senting ail sections of the United States, Tuesday. No secret Is made by the brewery interests that unless something la done to check the local option sentiment It means the loss of business In territory heretofore ccn sldered by liquor men to be invulner able. The representatives to the confer ence discussed at length the policy to be pursued, and the view was ex pressed generally that the low saloons should be wiped out. It Is their the ory that these are responsible for much of the animus against the liquor traffic, and as the low groggerles are notorious violators of the law It Is de creed that they be destroyed. To Rebuild Telegraph I.'rifs. Plans have been approved by the secretary of war for rebuilding tele graph wires on the Yukon river, con struction of a second wire between Fairbanks and Valdez and In sections of wireless telegraph lines and im provement and extensions to the cubic lines. s Penalty $500 a Minute. A penalty of $500 a minute la Im posed In a contract just signed with the New York Edison company. The company must pay this if it falls with in three minutes after a Are alarm is given to furnish adequate power to operate pumps for the city's new high pressure mains. A Triple Tragedy. Isaac C. Wilcox, a telephone line man, shot and killed Mrs. Wilkinson and her brother, "Cotton" Hanson, at the home of Louis Leitz, in Hannibal Mo., and then blew out his own brains with a revolver. Leitz was the only witness to the tragedy. Rat Mudo Xcst of Money. Pulling up the flooring of his houso to locate a dead rat whose odor hail become obnoxious, John Warlowskl at Mlnersville, Pa., found a nest In which there was over $1M)0 In bank notes Most of them were badly chewed. Wan Prominent Southerner. William J. Rogers, for forty years prominent in southern cotton mar kets, Is dead at Lexington, Ky. II, i was a brother of John H. Rogers, fed eral Judge of the eastern district of Arkansas. Trust Ciimiuuiy ItCMiimes ISiikIiic.. The liath Trust Company, of Hath, Me., at one time controlled by Charles W. Morso, resumed business Monday after a suspension of several weeks FORBIDS THIRD TERM. Roosevelt Repeats Ills Election Night Statement. In view of the Issuance of the call of the Republican national committee or the convention the president makes the following statement: On the night after election I made the following announcement: "I am deeply sensible for the honor done me by the American people In thus expressing their confidence In what I have done and have tried to da. appreciate to the full the solemn responsibility this confidence Imposes upon me, and I shall do all that In my power lies not to forfeit It. On the 4 th of March next I shall have served three and a half years, and this three and a half years constitute my first term. The wise custom which limits the .president to two terms re gards the substance and not the form. and under no circumstances will I be candidate for or accept another nomination." I have not changed and shall not change the decision thus announced. If any man knew of the president's intention to make the foregoing dec laration at the present time he kept the president's secret well, for there was no intimation that it would be made for some time to come. When the president was In Tennessee lar.t October, returning from his bear hunt In the swamps of Louisiana, he was informed that the Republican leaders of that state proposed to hold their state convention as soon as possible after the call of the national commit tee for the national convention, and that they Intended to send a solid del egation instructed for the renomlna- tlon of Mr. Roosevelt. As the national committee was to meet In Washington early In December It was expected the Tennessee convention would be not much more than a month later; that Is, early In January of the new year. The president has told a great num ber of Individuals during the last few weeks that he would not be a candi date for the presidency next year, and he reiterated this declaration to cer tain members of the Republican na tional committee last week. MILWAUKEE TO PUT LID OX. City that Beer Has Made Famous Will Reform. Tho great temperance wave sweep ing northward and spreading in all di rections has hit Milwaukee, considered the invincible stronghold of the liquor Interests, with such force that the li quor men have hastened to Inaugurate certain reforms themselves, hoping to forestall more radical action by the. temperance element. This acknowl edgment of the strength of the prohi bition movement Is highly significant. It amounts practically to an epoch lu the history of that city, which hereto fore has sneered defiantly at all tem perance movements. Evidently the brewers and saloon keepers have had agents out through the country testing the real strength of tho prohibition movement, and know what Is coming. Hence the de cision to steal the thunder of their enemies, which took the form of a res- olution in the council to close all sa loons at midnight and keep them closed until 6 o'clock each morning. This resolution was backed by all -the liquor Interests and slipped through the council without any opposition. Other reforms afe being Instituted, and Alderman John Koerner, proprie tor of a saloon that heretofore has not had too much regard for the proprie ties, delivered an address in St. James Episcopal church, his topic being "A, Plea for Early Closing." DIES IX ELECTRIC CHAIR. Murderer Is Put to Death In . New Jersey. The first official electrocution In New Jersey occurred In the state's prison at -Trenton Wednesday when Severlo Dl Giovanni, an Italian, paid the death penalty for the murder of a fellow countryman at Raritan last September. The electrocution was pronounced a success in every way. Besides Dl Giovanni three other murderers are doomed to die in the electric chair during the present month. Two are negroes and the oth er is an Italian, and the sentences of all three are to be executed during the week beginning December IS. Threaten Life of Minister. The Rev. A. M. Couchman, of Farm- ersburg, Ind., awoke one morning re cently to find these words painted on his porch: "Leave at once or we will hang you.. Signed, Dynamite." V A bundle of switches and a flask of whis. ky accompanied the threat. ' Bank Manager Ends Life, Flllpe Pinnella, a manager of the Banco Agrlcola, at La Paz, Bolivia, has committed suicide. This, with the announcement mat a shortage of $140,000 In the funds of the bank has been discovered, has caused a sensa tion there. Sees First Iluy at Sixty. Although over 60 years of age and worth several millions of dollars, J. W. Dennis, of Hardlnsville, 111., never attended a theatrleul performance or was In a theater until the other night, when he visited the Heillg to see Marlu Cahlll. It mude a hit with him. Koiikii Fully Recovered. John Philip SouHn has fully recov ered from an attach of ptomaine poi soning from which lie bus been suf fering for the past ten days. Ho has left Chicago for Detroit. Cannot Collect Excchs Fore. The ,state corporation committee of Oklahoma has ruled that railroad companies could not collect In excess of 2 cents a mile from passengers who board trains without tickets. Nebraska State News t X ' AGED WOMAN CLAIMS AN ESTATE Is u Sister cf the Sell I trot her of Circus Fume. Charles Robinson, of Tccumseh, will depart for Columbus, (., within a few days, whom business matters of un usual Importance culls him. His moth er, Mrs. Aconlth Robinson, of Tecum seh, Is a slfcter of the late Sells broth ers, circus men of wide renown. Upon the death of her mother many years' ago, Mrs. Koomson claims sne siiouiu have come Into possession of a largo amount of the estate, valued at nearly $100,000, but she says her brothers pot hold of the entire estate of the parents and Invested It In the clreos business. For many years Mrs. Robinson tried to settle with her brothers, she clulrns, but could apparently do nothing. Now the last of tho Sells brothers of circus fame, Lewis Sells, has pussed away. For many years Mrs. Robinson bus re tained an attorney, at Columbus, the home of the Sells, to care for her Inter ests, and now this attorney writes the woman that there is a possibility of her getting a settlement from the heirs of the Sells brothers. During all these years the woman has scarce ly enjoyed the necessltes of life, while her brothers bocamo many times mill ionaires. With a chanee for a settle ment in sight, age has fastened Its clutches upon the woman, and she Is not able to Journey to Columbus, and so her son is going to look to her In terests. Should Mrs. Robinson come Into possession of the money shi claims rightfully belong! to her, she would onjoy It' for but a brief time, for she Is 'old and Infirm and not long fcr this world. SHOCK FOR PRISONER. ' Governor Says Hp Will Decide His Case on Friday, the 13th. Gov. Sheldon Tuesday evening con cluded a two days' hearing held in the Interest of Harrison Clarke, the negro murderer under sentence to be hang ed In the Btate penitentiary Friday, the 13th. Clarke, who practically acted as his own attorney, made a plea 'that was at times eloquent. When Gov. Sheldon Indicated that the hearing was at an end Clarke turned to him and said: "Governor, what kind oC u message can I send to my old mother In Mis souri?" Gov. Sheldon told him he had not fully reached a decision. "When wilL you reach a decision. governor? persisted Clarke. "On Friday, the 13th," was the re ply. Gov. Sheldon -visited the .cells of Gnthrlght and Wain, the two accom plices of Clarke, who have already been convicted and sentenced to long terms In the penitentiary, and ques tioned them concernig the murder. A' the men have nothing to gain or lose Gov. Sheldon hopes to secure from them a truthful story of the crime, and will base his action accordingly. TO FIGHT OMAHA SALOON'S. Citizens Organize n llrancli of Anil Saloon liCUKiic. At a meeting in Omaha at the Lyric theater the nucleus of a local branch of the Anti-Saloon league of Omaha was formed, when fifty prominent citl zens subscribed to an obligation to take up and push the objects of that organization. These fifty men will go to work at once to form a permunent organization In Douglas county, with a full set of officers. Tho meeting was presided over by W. T. Graham, a prominent real estate man, and thi principal speaker was Dr. Samuel Z. Batten, president of the Anti-Saloon league of Nebraska, and pastor of the First Baptist church of Lincoln. Dr. Batten said a set of books was being kept in which the record of every of ficeholder who failed to enforce the law might be found. Tho principal part of the business of the league, he said, would be to dig the political graves of these men. Dr. Ratten said the entire state soon would be organ Ized, Duniuge Case Appealed. -Frank Anderson, who was Injured In the Union stock yards at South Omaha and who prosecuted a suit for $6,000 damages unsuccessfully In Douglas county against the stock yards company, has appealed his case to the supreme court. He alleges as error that the trial Judge struck out of his petition the allegation that he com pany should have mainalned auto matlc couplers. Teaciicrs Meet at Tekamah. The Burt County Teachers' associa tlon was held at Tekamah on Friday and Saturday of lat week. On Frl day evening at the Presbyterian church an Illustrated lecture was giv en by Dr. O. E. Condar, of the Unl verslty of Nebraska, and whs a fine discourse on the physical conditions of the different portions of the state, Boy Promises to Be Good. August Schroeder, of Creighton, has asked Gov. Sheldon to commute his sentenco of liiiisonmcnt in the Lan caster county" Jail bo that he may g, home to his parents and be. good. He Is 19 years old and was given a long tail sentence for taklnir money fron his employers In Lincoln. IlCMiiiic Work ni Telephone I. Inc. The Nebraska Hell Telephoiiu corn pany, which bean the construction o a telephone line urrnKS the Indian res. ervutlon to Walthlll in the early pn of last summer, und who after work ing for a few days were ordered to seawe work by the United States In dlun agent of the Omaha tribe on the ground that they hail not secured right of way across the reservation, aguln have a gang of men on tho round and are going to yush tho worn to completion. SI JP-AUATE 11 NEUALH HELD. Mrs. Xcthnwny's Parents Veto PUuM for Btirliil with Husband. The last act In a double tragedy was plnypd at Norfolk Sunday when the . bodies of Valley D. Nethaway. mnr- 1 deter and suicide and that of MM, N'ethnway, his victim, were consigned to graves In opposite parts of the Prospect Hilt cemetery, Relatives of the husband dcslref a double funeral and a single grave, but the parent of the murdered wom an would not consent to have her body placed beside that of hor slayer. The funeral of Mrs. Nethaway wao held at 10 o'clock from the home of her friend, Mrs. Fred Harder, who was with her at the tlnle of the mur der. The services were conducted bjf Rev. W. J. Turner, pastor of the Flrt Consreiatlonal church. The obsequies were largely attended. The funeral of Nethaway In the af ternoon bad a dramatic ending. When the relatives were viewing the body for the last time Nethaway's little 13-i-ear-old daughter, and only child, steprd up to the casket and exclulm ed: "Oh. pupa, why did you hurt mamma!; The child was led awsr from the bier sobbing bitterly. Nethaway's funeral was held from his old home under the auspices of the Modern Woodmen of America and the Modern Brotherhood of America. Rev. C. W. Ray. pastor f the Meth odist Episcopal church, conducted the services. Hundreds of his friends were present to pay their last re- pects. Relative of lfe and husband at tended both funerals. The duughter will receive $10,000 Insurance. She to attending a convent at West Point. FEW SMALLPOX CASES. Situutlon at Wakefield Said to Hare Been Exaggerated. Wakefield, In spite of all the reports o the contrary, has but four mild cases of smallpox In the village. Two of these are confined In private homes, another at a boarding house. and Mr. Boyd, landlord of the Com mercial house. Is confined In the he el on the west side of the street. This house has been used only for rooming purposes. The first case was let out Monday, his time having expired, which will leave but three cases. So far only two places in tho country are :i Pfectel, one at Art Slaughter's, nine miles south In Wayne county, and liPinniy Iloogncr, four miles north west. The churches here were planning on their usual Christmas festivities and the merchants had already everything n stork for Christmas trade. Tho lo cal board of health, considering the nearness of the holidays nnd the safe ty of the public at lurge and to not Intimidate patrons coming to Wake field, met In Joint session with the school board and ordered all churchei dosed and public gatherings of all kinds stopped and the vllluge schools closed, the schools to remain closed until the first week In January, In this way losing but one week of school, as the usual tw weeks' vacation had been previously arranged for. Should there be no more new cases from ex posure within the next fourteen days the churches and public gatherings will be allowed to go on. It Is the aim nnd object of the board of health and the citizens of Wakefield to check this disease as speedily as possible. WOMAN ATTACKED AT WVMORE. Rufiiun Grubs Actress on Street, but Runs When She Screamii. The town of Wymore was consider ably excited over a cowardly assault that was committed on Main street. A woman member of the "Irish Sen ator" company returning to her hot-! from the theuter was accosted' by nn unidentified man Just the other sld of what Is known as "saloon row." She attempted to go on, but the man jrabbed her arm. The woman threat ened to shoot him, although she had io gun. She attempted to break away from his grasp and then the fellow ft ruck her in the face. She Bcreamed, but when men arrived from a nearby restaurant no one could be found. The woman's face wiis 'badly bruised. MISSOURI PACIFIC LAVS TRACK. New EI:hy-Flve.Pouiul Steel on Omaha-Kansas City Line. A force of fifty men began work this week v laying the new 85-pound steel on the Missouri Pacific road, be ginning at a point one and one-half miles west of Falls City. They will continue from thereas far as Union. The work will bo continued through the winter months, A large gang of graders have been working out of Au burn for the last two weeks widen ing the grade preparatory to the lay ing of the new steel. The Improve ment Is a long needed one and will bo greatly appreciated. Saloon Men to Plead Guilty. Attorney Matt Oerlng, of Lincoln, has notified the food commissioner that the saloon men of Plattsmouth. who were proceeded against for selling liquor from unbranded bottles will plead guilty and take their fines. The penalties run from $10 to $100 In the discretion of the court. Dry Farming Congress. A call has been issued for a trans Mississippi dry farming congress to meet In Lincoln, Jan. i!3-26, for the purpose of boosting dry farming methods. The governor la asked td appoint Nebraska delegates to the meeting. The coll Is issued by Fisher Harris, of Suit Lake City, Purcnls Surrender Deserter. Chief of Police Cooper, of Lincoln, left recently for San Francisco with nurry ittchard White, alias M. R Brooks, a youthful deserter from the navy. Whites parents live In Lincoln. nnd were making nn effort to secure his dliehaige from the navy at tha timn he newerted. ObJi-ct to In -lira nee Com-uiny. Ivlneoln Insurance men oppiured at the auditor's olilee tti protest agulnst ;idin!ttlnK to bu'iuers liv tho stute tho Great Western Insurance company, of Kansas city. The objections were ver bal and will biter bo reduced to writ Ing. Dutes f r Wlsni-r Sun k Show. ilio llrectois of the Winner Live Stock Show and Agricultural associa tion at a meeting Saturday set the dutes for ttio 1U08 fhow for Sept. 9, IV anu 1 1. WANT HALF PAY. Volunteer Army and Navy Officers, to Urge Their Claims, in Congress. Backed, by precedent established Ifter the Revolutionary Wnr, survlv- ling Volunteer officers of the nnny and nary of the Civil War ore to demand jf Congress the enactment of n lnw providing for their benefit a volunteer retired, list with half pay for life. In the Inst Congress a bill wns introduced providing for such a lis, but restrict ing it to volunteer army oKjcers. It lid not pass, largely because of the ,'ry of discrimination thut wns raised by nnvnl rolunteers and their friends. It Is now projiosed by a committee jf volunteer nnrnl officers to have pre pared a measure thnt shall Ik? satis factory to the nnry nml marine eon-. Circulars have been sent out to all surviving volunteer nnrnl officers !n due United States calling upon them to take nn netlve part In ;h Interest f the measure. These circulars re view the history or legislation for the benefit of volunteer veternn officers from the close of the Revolutionary Wnr to the adjournment of the Fifty ninth Congress, and it Is charged thnt there lias always been n systematic at tempt to eliminate the naval volun teers from the benefits of such laws. SKYSCRAPER MENACE. What a Conflagration Among These Cliff Dwellers Would Mean. A catastrophe that will eclipse the destruction of Sao Francisco Is the cheer ing prospect offered for the con temptation of New York by the president of the board of fire underwriters, says Collier i Weekly. And it is not New York alone that in threatened, but every great city that permits the construction of skyscrap ers. The underwriters think thnt there Is not only a possibility but a very strong probability of a blaxe starting in the top stories of a neat of these aerial hives ami leaping across the canyons that separate them, raging aloft like a Are in the upper branches of a forest, and sweeping un cheeked out of reach of the helpless fire men in the street. When office buildings go higher than the Washington uiouument all the ordinary methods of protection be come obsolete. No hose can carry stream half way to their roofs. No street mains can furnish pressure enough" to send water up In standplpcs. Of course there are satisfactory methods of supply' ing the upper floors in ordinary times, but they would count for nothing in a conflagration. The experience of Son Francisco has shown, in the opinion of President Bnbb. thnt "so-called 'fireproof buildings cannot withstand the attack of a wave of flame." If a fire should sweep the financial district of New York would cause a loss of from one to two billion dollars; the insurance companies would bo hard pressed to pay 20 to -3 cents on the dollar, title guaranty com pontes, mortgage concerns, savings banks, and all other financial Institutions would suffer, and the city would feel at once the loss of revenue from the destruction of taxable values. Another menace that hongs over the skyscraper districts of great cities Is the danirer of panic. It is said that if a sua den shock should send the swarming cliff dwellers all surging to the streets at once the highways would not bold the human flood. The streets of our cities were do- sicned to match buildings three or fou stories high. When ten such buildings are piled one on top of another, and the same thoroughfares are expected to ac commodate the people from all of them. the results are likely to be startling. The London '( Canada) Labor party has pronounced in favor 'of old-age pen sions. " ' 1,11 "" A majority of the musicians of Santa Ciua, Cal., met recently and organised a union. Organized labor In Seattle, Wash., has carried out its proposed plan of obtaining a coal mine. Snrimtueld (Canada) miners ask for another board of conciliation to investi gate the system of weighing boxes. The building trades of 8an Francisco are discussing a proposition to settle on a scale of wages for three years. The Central Labor Union of Scranton, I's., has decided to build a (.iO.OUU tem ple for the use of the trades unions of the city. . At a meeting of Engineers' local No. 1 of Denver, Colo., the finance committee reported that increased wages to the mem bers of the union during the last year amounted in the aggregate to ?l,!VI0. It was reported that conditions In this trade are very prosperous. The total number of men killed while mining coal In the United States during 11HK1, according to statistics gathered by the geological survey, was 2,(K11. The number of workmen receiving injuries in this industry more or less serious, but not fatal, wns 4,708 during the same period. Miss Marot, secretary of the Woman's Trade Uniou League of New York, a short time since delivered an address in which she urged women to urgnuize in ev ery branch of industry and co-operate in union agitation, holding that in that wny only emi women compete, on equal terms with men in the trades. The union men of Wilkes-Hurre, Pa., have started a movement to boycott the beef packers n. Inns ns prices remain at the present hiiih rule. The Federation of I.iihor nt Springfield, Mo., has decided to enter politics next year,, and will put forward its president hi n candidate for tlie lieneral .sseiiiiny, The Carpenters' Union of Winnipeg, Miiiiitolin, In three members who have been coin 'unions members of the oruanua tion for muie tuail lliirty-six years. Their years of membership total about 110 years. The union believes mw uots a rec ord. STOESSELON TRIAL; PLEADS NOT GUIL1 Y Officer Who Defended Port Arthur Charged with Surrendering Fort. DISPLAY OF RUSSIAN POMP. Crippled and Star-Spangled Veteran Who Fought Japan at Fortress There in Fore. Before a brilliant assemblage of hi old comrades In amis, Lieut. Gen.. Stoessel wns placed on trial In 8t l'e tersburg to answer with hla life and reputation for the loss of Port Arthur on Jan. 1. 1005, nnd In firm tones nnd with confident mnnner the general pleaded not guilty to the charge of needlessly surrendering the fortress) nnd thereby bumillnting the Rnsslaa army. The trial took place In the audito rium of the Army nnd Navy Club. The room resembled more a social gathering of oillcer of high rank than the seen of a court martini. Among the jndgeav gpectators, and witnesses were Gen. Kuropntkln, Gen. Llnevltcfc, Gen. Keit nenkampf. Vice Admiral WIren, and scores of other prominent leaders ' in the Russo-Japanese war. There wcr- LIEUT. (JEN. STOE88EL. also present 200 otlleers and soldier who bad liecn nt Port Arthur and who were elnd In their full dress uniform blnziug with stars nnd decorations. , Gen. Stoessel alone wns lnelvilla nttlre, nnd this innde him conspicuous, Ho wore proudly . arouud his ueck,th cordon of the military order of St George, which wns conferred upon hint by the eilH?ror during fihe siege, nntt ' on his breast wns pinned the cross of George III., awarded the general fof . conspicuous bravery In frontier-fight Ing. This same coveted decorntlon war worn by ninny of the wltuesses and Bpectntors. Kinpty sleeves and crutch es, especially among the men who had been at Port Arthur, showed that manyj of them bad seen hard service during . the wnr. J CHICAGO THE WINNER. Bepublican National Convention t Be Held There June 16. The Republican national conTentloa of 1908 will be held In Chicago, Junj) 18. This wns the decision reached bj the Republican National Committee it session at Washington, Chicago having thirty-one votes on the first ballot,, against eighteen for Kansas City and: four for Denver. Chicago won on a gunrantee, to paf the legitimate expenses pertaining t the convention, and without any prom ise to raise the nucleus of the cam paign fund for the national committee which will be chosen" td prosecute th work looking to victory at the1 telectle In the fall. It wns pointed out nt the meeting of the national committee that the next convention of the party will develop the only real contest incident to th nomination of n presidential ticket since 188ft, nnd that In consequence great crowd will be nttrneted. Chlca go wns the city that offered the facili ties to enre for the crowd, as well a the best facilities for the transmission of the news of the convention to 90 000,00 people vitally Interested in er ery feature of Its action. , FOREIGN NEWS NOTES. Chinese troops in Formosa mutinied nd killed sixty-three Japane.. Horace McKinley of Portland. Or, bored his way out of jail at Mukden. Two hundred students at Kiev Russia, were arrested to quell an Incipient riot. Itichnrd Croker announced his inten tion of leuviug Ireland to spend the win- tpr in Km-nt. The I'ope postponed until January the consistory which wa to have taken place in December. tilmlinl Kir Frnncftf LeonoM Met'lin-' tock, n mainstay of the Urltisli navy, died in I-ondnn. S The King of Spain wns euteiained at a ball given In the saMerrauean palace of the Duke of I'urt Intnl. A Une hurled tlii-(r.!!i a ear window in St. l'etersUii's injur vl I'm Austria ambas-ador, hat not seriously. It was reported that the Ka.-I of Yar mouth would seek n divon-u from hut w.fe, a sister of Harry K. lunw MiM Mary Ilo'oai.u)!'. a wl'invs !- the famous Drvu-e r.'S". fi.iuted in a London court rauiu, where was t-.'tlfying. The sission of the Kiis-T.ati djma open ed without extraordinary scem-s, it behaa. in marked contrast t former meetings, .'-