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Spectacular Elevator Blaie Cause
Loss of Over One Million
Dollars.
DEPARTMENT IN HARD FIGHT.
Bar Grain Storehouses Are De
stroyed and Fire Boat Za
Sunk.
One of the fiercest and moat speetne
Vlar Arcs that tins raped Id Chicago In
rears, which left a pijoperty loss of
1,658,000 In Its wake and threatened n
Repetition of the conflagration of
. started Monday afternoon In the dock
freighthous of the Chicago, Burlington
find Qulncy Railroad at 10th street nnri
the rlror. Two grain elevators, hun
dreds of thousands of btiHhels of grain,
freight depot, fifty freight cars and n
number of buildings and sheds were de
atroyed.
During the height of the blase h'lii
dreds of burnlDg boards and shingles
were cnrrled on the breast of a strong
southwest wind, and the situation be
came so critical at one time that Fire
ilarshal Horan prophesied a general
conflagration throughout the city, if the
fire crossed the river. Desperate work
by the firemen kept the flames from
spreading.
So Intense was the heat at one time
that the firemen could not approach
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Indianapolis News,
Within half a block of the flames and
the point on the boat Chicago, which
was nearest to the scene, was scorched
In several places. The grain stored in
the elevators was attacked by fire on
every side and its destruction gave ad
ditional alarm to members of the board
of trade, who are exercised over " a
! threatened crop shortage.
Wall Sinks Fir Tuff. ,
The Bteel fir ebon t Illinois, tho pride
of the Chlengo Are department, was
Bent to the bottom of the river at 8 :30
m. Tuesday as the spectacular cul
mination of the disastrous blaze of the
day before. 'The flreboat was sunk by
the collapse of the east wall of eleva
tor F, near 10th street and the river,
and a number of firemen were slightly
Injured and narrowly escaped death by
drowning when the crash came without
.anything to indicate that danger was
Hear.
; Two engineers and four stokers, to-
gather with Capt. Lyons, were on board
the boat and were rescued with dilileul
4y. A plpeman, who was standing on
the docks, was knocked senseless by a
ball of flying debris and was severely
cut on the head.
The boat, valued at $200,000 roeeived
the full forco of tho terrific crash and
was crushed In by the fulling wall. The
engine room and the fire-fighting ma
chinery were reduced to a tangled mass
of steel and the craft sank immediate
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Automatic Traluatop Wanted.
Secretary Norland of th Signal and
Train Control lioard of tht Interstate
Commerce Commission says it will be
worth J 1,000,000 to the person who In
vents aa automatic train stop to be re
lied upon and which can be installed at a
reasonable coat. After going over the
plans of many Inventors, thej board him
found none altogether acceptable, but it
was decided to give a trial to the Rowell
Potter system ou the Burlington road
over a period of several mouths.
SW Rcveaas Kale Eajotned.
Jndgn Thomson in the Federal Circuit
Court at Cincinnati, granted a temporary
injunction te stop the enforcement of
tlie new internal revenue rules against
th local distillers, lie holds that the
system of branding which has prevailed
for man years has not been abrogated
by the new purs fiod law, and that the
marking of certain product "spirits" and
others "alcohol" is still lawful, though
contrary to the new rules of the depart
ment. '
rtoars to Olebral.
Tlie executive committee of the Minne
sota Territorial Pioneers' Association Is
planning Ur special exercises as a golden
jubilee celebration at tb fair, ground
during Stat fair week this year. The
secretary of the association has received
a douatlon of $5X) from the State Argi
cultural Hociety for use in the colebrs
tlOQ.
WalkC BroacM Hack.
W. F. Walkr, the former bank cashier
4 New ISriUin, imn., at last ha been
.ctraditnd from Mexico and brought back
ao Uce trial tor bis crime.
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CHICAGO'S HEAT RECORD.
Temperature Rises to 00.4 Degrees,
Highest Since July 21, 1601. .
A heat wave thut killed, prostrated,
slokejicd, crazed and Irritated struck
Chicago Monday. The thermometer
reached 00.4 degrees. There was only
one place In the United Slates warmer
than Chicago, end that was Kansas
City, Mo. The federal , thermometer
there registered 08 degrees ns Its high
mark, but even with this record It Is
not certain that dltierent wind and hu
midity conditions may not have made
the Missouri city much more endurable
than Chicago. The odd part of It nil
ws that there was a wind of from
twenty to twenty-five miles an hour
most of the day. Not since July 21,
1901, has Chicago .had a higher ther
mometer. On that date the mark show
ed 103 degrees
AUTO BRAKES SNAP AND 5 DIE.
Huge Tonneau Plunges Down Em
bankment, Killing Occupants.
The second disastrous automobile ac
cident within forty-eight hours, involv
ing prominent Sun Francisco people,
occurred Monday afternoon near Bur
llnganie, the fashlonnblo anbury of the
city, when a huge tonneau occupied by
five women and two children plunged
down n steep embankment as the re
sult of the snapping of the brakes oud
caused the death of five of the occu
punts and Injury to two others.
Coming down a steep grade near
Crystal Lake, Miss Ethel MeCornilck,
who was at the wheel, endenvored to
check the speed of the car by applying
the foot brake. It failed to hold the au
tomobile, and she hastily threw on the
emergency brakes. They snapped.
Then the young woman endearored to
steer the car against the high bank on
the right. The front wheel, however,
struck a large rock, and the next mo
A DBEAM.
mcut the car plunged down the steep
embnnkmeut, thirty-five feet below.
Mrs. McCormlck was the wife, of
Thomns McCormlck, president of the
McCormlck Iron Works of San Francis-
co, and MrssjO'Rrlen'8 husband Is tho
proprietor of the Keystone Manufac
turing Works. Snturdoy afternoon
Mrs. Frederick Mnrrott, the wife of a
prominent Snn Francisco publisher, and
James I). Gilbert were killed In a simi
lar accident.
At Hutchinson, Kan., Judge George
A. Vnndcrveer; candidate for the Re
publican nomlnntton for Judge of the
Ninth Judicial District was killed when
a Uock Island tram Btruck the automo
bile In which he was finishing his cam
paign. or
. The three-mil open professional bicy
cle record was broken at Salt Lake City
by F. A. McFarland, whose time was
8:33.
President Roosevelt has sent a con
gratulatory message to the American rifle
team on its victory at the Olympic shoot
at Risley.
Reports that James R. Keene will ship
his stable to England this fall unless the
turf situation improve are current in
ftew xerk.
At Latonia, Will Fizer still leads the
whining owners with a comfortable mar'
gin, l'inkola being the nag that Is re
sponsible for it.
Allison Jack, well known throuzhout
the Souliieru Slate In recent year as an
11-around athlete, died from Injuries re
ceived during the track meet at New Or-
leaus, when he was struck on the head
by a thrown hammer.
V. Powers has no trouble holding his
place at toe Head or the jockey list
I-atonia, and Ills record shows a winning
percentage ot
Col. Milton Voting of Kentucky ha
decided to sell his famous McGrathlana
stud and to dispose of the 700 weanlings'.
yearlings, mares and stallions now on th
place.
President ltrycs of ths Columbus. Ohio.
baseball eiub and one of th founders of
the American Association, dropped dead
of heart diseaae in front of 8,000 people
at tne I olunimis ball park.
At Peoria, 111., Amy Krooks won the
2:11) trot in straight heats from Spanlah
(Jueen, the candidate lor the Detroit, M
and XU. stakes.
Tba Michigan Supreme Court has sus
tained th Circuit Court In refusinc to
issue an order prohibiting Sunday base
ball in Detroit.
For tb first time In many years Du
luth will be well represented In the big
bsruess races that will b pulled off at
tb western fairs tbls fall.
James O. I-sthrop, for twenty years
coach of tb Harvard track team, has
been dismissed as tb crimson's coach by
, Ut Harvard atnietic committee.
DEATH TAKES U. S. '
SENATOR V. B. ALLISON
Noted Statesman Succumbs to AN
tack of Heart Failure at His
Home in Dubuque.
FIGURE IN IOWA POLITICAL WAR,
Public Career Covering Move Than
Three-Score Tears Breaks All
Records for Length.
United States Senator William B.
Allison dropped dead at Dubuque,
town, Tuesday of heart failure. The
senior sen:! tor's decease comes on the
eve of his re-election to another term
In the upper house, where he had been
n lender for yenrs. His denth will per
haps throw lown folltlcs Into a turmoil
again.
William Itoyd Allison was born In
Perry, Ohio, March 2, IS'.':). He passed
his boyhood days on the farm, securing
his preliminary education ot the coun-
try s-IiooIh, and graduating from tho
'Western Reserve College In his native
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FKNATOR ALLISON.
state. Senator Allison was admitted
to tho bur In IS.'O nnd engaged In prac
tice nt Ashland, IJflilo, where he was
imirrled in 1HT2 to Miss Anna Carter
of Woostcr, Ohio. He prttctiyed law'ln
Ohio until ISo", when he moved to
Dubuque, Iowa. Here he entered poli
tics. Two years after moving to the
llawkcye State ho was a delegate to
the Republican state convention.
Young Alllsou represented his con
gressional district at the Republican
national convention nt Chicago In 18C0.
It was In that year that he was ap
pointed member of the governor's
staff nnd ns such engaged In raising
troops for tho Civil War. He was
elected to Congress In 18(13, represent
ing his district In the, lower house at
Washington until 1871. He retired to
tlie practice of law 111 1871, but tired
of private life nnd In 1S73 mnde u
successful campaign for the United
States seiintorshrp from his adopted
state. Senator, Allison's term In the
Senate would have expired the day
after his eightieth year.
For more than three score years he
was actively engaged In public work.
lie broke ull rccordH for mere length of
service. On three occasions lie de
clined a cabinet portfolio, Presidents
Gurllcld, Harrison and McKlnley each
having tendered the plnce of secretary
of the treasury to the distinguished
Iownn in 1881, ISKO nnd 1S97 respect
ively. He was in public life whon
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
and ho was a delegate to tlie
famous convention nt Chicago In
1SISO which put Lincoln In nom
ination. Passing through tho recon
struction time and following Grnnt
through all his troubled administra
tion, tho Iown senator, almost ot the
beginning of his career In the senate,
began to acquire n reputation ns a
financier.
The local fume of Senntor Allison ns
an expert on monetary mutters was ex
tended to international confines when
lu 1S:2 he was chairman of the Ameri
can delegation of the international
monetary conference tit Brussels. It
has been said that Senator Allison nnd
Speaker t'uiinon know more of the act
ual mechanism of the American gov
ernment tliau nil the rest of Congress
put together.
M omen After a Lawmaker.
Representative Glenn, who recently in-
trortuced Into "the Georgia Legislature a
bill to invalidate a marriage contract bas
ed upon false appearances of the woin
utie to me use ot pads, stays, crimps,
paints or other nrtiliclnl devices, has
asked tlie protection of the State owing
to tlie l.irj;e number of threatening letters
he has received from women in all parts
of the country. He say be takes it tiuit
the allegations must have some truth or
tho women would not be.. so angry.
'i4clira Cut Now Hall Diiuf,
Tho Washington office of. the Panama
Canal Coiniuisxioii bears that the big cut
for the canal at Culebra is about half
completed, a total of near 47,0,KMKK
cubic yards having beeu excavated. Of
this, however, the American workers have
dug only lS.-lt."i,4'MI yards, Chalrmun
Coct hals Una reori;:inized the canal work
so as to divulu the whole into three
geographical a"tioim, in each of which
the chief has chargu of ell classes o
woVk.
A lOOO.Kuot IluHJIna Neil.
Itefore the uew tower of the Metro
politan building is complete, with its litl
to the highest occupied structure In lli
world, New York is told that plan hav
been drawn for the erection of a towe
1,000 feet high on the Mills building, in
llroud street. The owner has not d
elded definitely.
A- patient in the Manhattan Kye. Ka
and Throat hositl at New Vork, whose
name th doctors refuse te reveal, is sur
fering from a peculiar form of blindness
which makes him sightless when atandin
np, but wh ' bis fisioo is un
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Impair
TAFT FOB ROOSEVELT'S POLICIES,
PLEDGES GOOTilJEE OF REFORMS
William II. Toft, standing on the
portico of hie brother's hum? In Cln-
clnnutl, the city of his nativity, formal
ly accepted the Republican nomination
for the -Presidency. Ilo pledged Alle
giance to the polli'ics of President
Roosevelt and 8S('rted that the chief
function of the net Republican ad
ministration would be to develop the
Roosevelt policies and clinch what had
been heyun by the present chief execu
tive of the nation.
-'In doing this, however, Mr. Taft
pointed out that there will he Kcrbim
and difficult work to do. principally to
"device ways nnd mentis by which the
high level of busier? Integrity Hiid
olx'dleiiefi to law which he (President
Roosevelt) has established may be main
tained and departures from It re-
Istrnlncd without undue interference
with legitimate business." In part Mr.
Taft said :
Senator Warner nnd Gentlemen of the
( oiiinvf tee :
I nm deeply iwisili.e of the honor which
the Republican liatiomil convention ha
conferred on me in tlie nomii4tion which
0'i formally tender. I accept It with ful',
appreciation of the responsibility it im
poses. Gentlemen, the strength of the Repub
lican cause in the. rntnpalgn at hnnd is
In the fact that we represent the policies
essential to the reform ot known sbuses,
to the continuance of liberty and true
prosperity, and that we are determined,
as our platform unequivocally declares, to
maintain' them and carry them on.
The man who formulated the exprew
sion of the popular conscience and who-f
led the movement for practical reform
was Theodore Roosevelt. Ilo laid down
the doctrine that the rich violator of the
law should be as amenable to restraint
WILLIAM H. TAFT, THE REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE.
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SALIENT SENTENCES FROM TAFT'E SPE.CH OF ACCEPTANCE.
Mr. Roosevelt's policies have been pro
gressive and regulative Mr. Bryan's de
structive.
The Republican platform well states
that w must have a "mora elastic and
adjustable" financial system.
Unlawful trusts should be restrained
With all the efficiency of injunctive pro
cess and the persons engaged in them
should be punished with all the severity
X criminal prosecution:
We are a world power, and, although
at peace with the world, wo must be
prudent and not be lulled into a sense of
security, which would possibly expose us
te national humiliation.
Never in the history of the .country has
there been such an insidious sttack upon
be judicial system as tlie proposal to in
terject a jury trial between all orders-of
the court made after full hearing aud
(he enforcement of su'h order.
Our position is clear and unequivocal.
and punishment as tho offender without
wealth and without influence, and h pro
ceedvd by recommending legislation and
directing executive action to wake that
principle good In actual performance.
l.kiila Hooaevclt'a Acta.
President Roosevalt demonstrated to tho
people by what he said, fcy what he rec
ommended to Congress, ud by what he
d'.d, the sincerity of his efforts to com
mand respect for the law, to secure equal
ity of all before th law and to save the
country from the danger f a plutocratic
government, towid which wo were fast
tending.
Cnder the present rate bill, aad under
all its imendments, tb burden of the
Interstate Commerce Commission la
r.ypervlsim and regulating tb operation
of th railroads ot this coustry baa crown
so heavy that it is utterly Impossible for
that tribunal to hear and dispose, in any
reasonable thus of the many eoBijtlaisU,
queries and lsaues that are brought be
fore It for decision. It ought to be re
lieved of it jurisdiction a aa executive,
directing body, aud it function should
be limited to th quasi-judicial investiga
tion of complaints by individuals and by
a department of the government charged
with th executive business ot supervising
fa operation of railways.
Take r Rata Qaastlea.
( Th question ot rate and th treat
ment of railways I one that has two
side. Th shippers ar certainly en
titled to reasonable rate ; but loss is aa
tajuatiea to th carrjere, Good bualneM
T.
for tlie railrnfiils Is eipentlal to general
pronperitj. Injustice r-i t'iem Is not aloa
injustice to slot kholders and capitalists,
whose further investment mar bn neces
sary for the good of the whole country,
but it directly affects and reduces the
wages of railway employes, and indeed
may derive them of the''places entirely.
From what bss been said, the proper
conclusion would iwm to he that in at
tempting to determine whether the entire
schedule of rates of a railway is excess
ive, the physVnl valuation of the road is
n relovant nnd Important but not neces
sarily a controlling factor.
Another Sussrstion in respect ts sub
ordimte nnd ancillary machinery neces-
sn.ry to carry out Republican policies is
that of the incorporation under national
laws or the liceDsin? by national license
or enforced registry of companies engag
ed in interstate trade.
The fact is flint nearly all corporations
doing a commercial business are engaged
In interstate, commerce, and if they all
were required to take out a federal li
cense or a federal charter, the burden
upon th interstate business of the coun
try would become intolerable.
niscanira llrphnrn Bill.
Mr. Roosevelt recommended an amend
ment to the anti-trust law, known as
the Hepburn .bill, which provided for
voluntary classification, and created a
strotut motive therefor by granting im
munity from prosecution' for reasonable
restraints of interstate trade to nil cor-
norations which would register and sub
mit themselves to the publicity regula
tions of the Department of Commerce anrt
Labor.
The tendency of Mr. Bryan's pro-
posals have generally been destructive of
the business with respect to which he Is
demanding reform. Mr. Roosevelt would
compel the trusts to conduct their busi
ness in a lawful manner and secure the
We are anxious to prevent even an ap
pearance of injustice to labor in issuing
injunctions, not in the spirit of favorit
ism to any set of our fellow citizens, but
in the interest of justice to all.
The Democratic proposal to supervise
the business of corporations iu such a
way as to fis the price of commodities
and compel their snie at such a price is
as absurd and socialistic a plank as was
ever itiserted in" a Democratic platform
The Democratic platform proposes to
take off the tariff on all articles coining
into competition with those produced by
the so-called "trusts," and to put them
on' the free list. Such 'a course, would
not only destroy the trusts, btrt all their
smnllor competitors.
The combination of largo capital In
plants; to manufacture goods with the
greatest ettinomy Is just as necessary as
the assembling of the parts of a machine
to the manufacture of what formerly was
nude by band. The government should causa js netpeu oy miBsiatemeuw, u
not interfere with the ouo any more than liberate or other. The necessity of
the other. inaintulnliu profits lu connection with
beneCls of their operation and the main'
tenance of the prosperity of the country
ef which thrv are an imnortant naif:
while Mr. Rosin would extirpate and de-
stroy the entire business in order to stamp
out the evils which they have practiced.
The comh'uatKm of capital in large
plains to manufacture goods with the
greatest economy is just as necessary as
the assembling of the parts of a machine
to the economical and more rapid manu
facture of what in eld timta was made
by baud. The government should not
interfere with one an more than the
other, whea such aggregations ef; capital
are legitimate and are properly controlled,
for they are then the natural results of
..kn i h ni
competition the public will ,m shar.
wirh Hi nium,fiiirr th sJvmtiva in
economy of operation aud lower prices.
One important phase at th policies of
th present administration ha beeji an
anxiety to ecur for the ,ag earner aa
quality of opportunity and such pisitiv
statutory protection as shall place him
oa a level in dealing with his esapioyer.
Tb Republican party has passed an em
ployer' liability act for Interstate rail
roads, aad has established so eight-hour
law for gaveruiaeut employes and on gov-
eminent construction.
In ordr toinduce their employer iato
a compliance with their request for
changed terms of employment, workmen
have the right to strike in a body. They
bar a right to use' such persuasion aa
they way, provided it doe set rtaca tb
feint, ef duress, to lead their reluctant
co-laborers to Join them la their union ;
against their employer, and they have a i
right, If they choose, to accumulate funds
to support those engaged la a strike, to
delegate to officers the power to direct the
action of the union, and to withdraw
themselves and their associates frost dil- j
ings with, or giving custom to those with
whom they are In controversy.
What they hav not the right te do Is
to Injur their employer's property, to
injure their employer's business by use
of threats or -met hods of physical duress
against those jwho would work for him.
or deal with him, or by carrying on what
is sometimes known as a secondary boy
cott against his customers or thos wit
whom he deal in business.
Take l' Iajaaetloa.
Threatened unlawful Injuries te busi
ness, like thos described, can only be
adequately remedied by an Injunction to
preveut them. The jurisdiction of a court
of equity to enjoin In such cases arisos
from the character of tlie injury and the
methods ot Inflicting It and the (act tnat
suit for damages offers no adequate rem
edy. Th man who has a business which is
being unlawfully injured Is entitled to ths
remedies which the lsw has always givea
him, no matter who has Inflicted the In
juries. Otherwise we shall have class
legislation unjust in principle and likely
to sap th foundation of a free govern
ment.
I come now to the question of notice
before issuing an injunction. It is a fun
damental rule of general jurisprudence
that no man shall be affected by a judi
cial proceeding without notice and hear
ing. This rule, however, has sometimes
had an exception in the Issuing temporary
restraining orders commanding a defend
ant in effect to maintain the status quo
until a hearing. Such a process should
issue only in rare cases where the threat
ened change of the status quo would in
flict irreparable injury if time were tak
en to give notice and a summary hearing.
Katie for Defendants.
The unlawful injury usual in industrial
disputes, such as I have described, does
not become formidable except after suffi
cient time in which to give the defendants
notice and a hearing. I do not mean to
say that there may not be cases even in
industrial disputes where a restraining
order might properly be issued without
notice, but, generally, I think it Is other
wise.
A statute may be framed which shall
define with considerable particularity, and
emphasize the exceptional character ot
the cases in which restraining orders may
issue without notice and which shall also
provide that when they are issued they
shall cense to be operative beyond a
short pcripd, during which time notice
shall be served and a hearing had unless
the defendant desires a postponement of
the hearing.
This inadequacy of our present cur
rency systom, due to changed conditions
and enormous expansion, is generally rec
ognized. The Republican platform well
States that we must have a "more elastic
and adaptable system to meet tlie require- i
mcuts of agriculturalists, manufacturers,
merchants and business men generally,
which must be automatic in operation,
recognizing the fluctuations in interest
rates, in which every dollar shall be as
good as gold, and Which shall prevent
rather than aid financial stringency to
bring on a panic." ' ,
Favors Postal Sarin; Banks.
, In 'addition to this, the Republican '
platform recommends the adoption of a
postal savings bank system under which,
ef course, the government would become
responsible to depositors for the payment
of principal and Interest.
The Democratic platform recommends a'
tax upou national banks and upon suuh
banks as may come in, in the nature of
ehforced insurance to raise a guaranty
fund to pay the depositors ef any bank
which fails. The proposition Is to tax I
the honest, prudent bankers fd make up
for dishonesty and imprudence ef o(bri,
No one can fores the burden which
would be imposed upon the sound aad
conservative bankers of the country by
this obligation to make good toe losses
caused by th reckless, speculative and
dishonest men who would be enable tO
secure deposits under such a system on
the face of th proposed insurance. In
its preseut form, the proposal would r j
move all safeguards against recklessness !
in banking and the chief and in the and
probably the only benefit would accru
to the speculator.
The Republican party has pursued con
sistently th policy originally adopted
with respect to the dependencies which
came to us as the result of the Spanish
war. The material prosperity of PortO
Rico, Cuba and the Philippines and th
progress of their inhabitants toward bU
tcr conditions in respect' to coaifort of
livins and P(hlcation ,aou)d mal,
American proud that this nation has beet)
an efficient instrument in bringing happi
ness to these millions of people.
Tbo Question ot Reasonable Front.
Critics of the tariff plunk In the Re-
publican platform are declaring that
there Is probably not a protected indus
try in the country that thinks it ha
"a reasonable profit," even under the
preseut law. That assertion is not true,
surely, and It may be doubted if those
who inuke it believe it to be true. o
an effort to etjunlize the cost of predue-
tlou ut homo with the cost or proauc
tlou abroad muy not be apparent At
the same time, not all tne men at tne
head of enterprises wmcu nenent oy
the ditties that are levied at p6rt of
entry are s foolish or short-sighted ai
to contend that they are not making
reasonable profits, nud some of them,
bent on securing cheaper raw mate
rials, have admitted over their own
signatures that they could compete on
almost equal terms with foreign rivals,
Protection that does not protect U of
no advantage, of course, and protectloa
fhgt d))(,9 Klve to uoulo producers what
ctlcsy nlouuts to a monopoly of
the home market must. In the nature of
things, yield a fair prorflt or business
would come to a standstill. Frovldenco
Tribune.
Khtat Klaal.
The protective tariff law, designed
for the purpose of fostering the rights
of the Araertcnu wage earner, from th
first until the present baa bees bitterly
opposed by Democracy, and yet no sin
gle law In alt American history baa
I been so prolific of good for the laboring
I man as this very law. It has made bin
tB. absolute blag of hie kind in all th
earth, and baa clothed him with a pre
ttge and a power not approached by tho
laboring Interests in any other land OaV
der the aua. Tulsa (Ok.) World.
SULTAN OF TURKEY '
TARGET FOR DAGGER
Stabbed in the Breast In Hi Pal
ace and Saved from Death
by Armor.
CAPTURE WOULD-EE SLAYER.
He Is a Minor Official and Gold
Found on Him Indicates He Had .
Been Bribed to Commit Act.
Sultan Abdul Hnmld of Turkey wa
stabbed in the breast tit Constantinople
t
y a minor palace oGiilal. Only the-
at of mail which the Sultan always.
wears saved Ills life. This deflected
the blow of the would-be nssassin'a
knife, nnd rendered It practically
harmless. Tlie Sultan's assailant wasi
seized nt once by the guards which,
enmo nt the ruler's call.
The Sultan's outcry as lie grappled
with the man aroused hundreds of 'pal
ace nttaches, and Immediately the
whole Yildiz Kiosk rns In nn lipronr.
Soldiers came clatteiiiu; lu nnd formed-
a strong guard around Abdul's pri
vate npartmenW. The commotion was
unusual, even for the palace, which tins,
been the scene of so mnny tragedies
arising from attempts nnd fancied at
tempts ngnlust the Sultan's life. The-would-be
assassin apparently had been
bribed to commit the net, ns he had a
ABDUL HAM ID II., SULTAN OF TURKEY.
largo sum of gold In his pockets and
his baggage was packed ready for
flight.
Abdul Hamid Is said to be the most
bated monarch in Europe, not even excepting-
the Czar of Russia, and during
bis long reign he has lived in continu
al dread of assassination. He is cred
ited with the blotting out of many lives
because of bis constant fenr of his own
life. Ills victims have been prlnclpnlly
meiubers of his household, who for
trivial offenses were made targets' for
the bullets from his beautifully jewel
ed revolver that ho carries constantly
on his person. Abdul has ruled over
the people of the Turkish empire for
more than thirty-two years, haying
come to the throne in 1870 after suc
cessfully' deposing his brother,.
Mourad V.
Former attempts have been made ou
the life of Abdul Hamid, the most sen
sational being that of July 22, 1905,
wien unknown assassins threw a
bomb at the red ruler as lie was leav
ing the mosque where the celebration
of Salamlk had taken place, ne es
caped serious Injury on that occasion,,
although thirty or forty people were
killed. Again in October, 1900, whei.
a report was spread that the Sultan
was suffering from a serious Illness, It
was later learned that the real canse
of his affliction was a bullet wound in
flicted by one of his Turkish wives.
SINGER'S FINGERS BITTEN 0FF-
Miss Emelie Gardner Has Encounter
with Ferocious Beast in Dark. V
Her left arm frightfully lacerated
and two fingers of her right hand chew- "
ed off, Miss Emelie Gardner, an opera
singer, is In n critical condition at thft
Coney Island Hospital as a result of be
ing attacked by n huge bull terrier.
Miss Gardner bus been spending the
summer In her cottage nt Seagate, Co
ney Island. Her housekeeper, Mrs,
Bangmnn, Is the owner of a big female?
dog, which she kept in the rear yard
Sunday, on account of the heat, Mrs.
Bangman transferred the dog and her
puppies to the pautry In the basement,
of the cottage.
At night Miss Gardner, who wa
alotie In the house, entered the pnntry
The room was dark, and as Bhe closed
the door the dog sprang upon her. Miss
Gardner threw up her arms, but the
teeth of the dog caught her left arm
between the wrist and the elbow, crush
ing flesh and bones. As she struck at
the brute with her right hand It snap
ped at the-hund nnd severed tho two
first fingers.
ALL ABOUND THE GLOBE.
The balloou "Hamburg," of the Ham
burg Aeronautical Society, met with an.
accident while trying to effect a landing:
at Lubeck.
The Mexican government now claims to
have caught the two chief instigators or
the recent revolt in the northern section,
of the country.
Correspondence between the republic
of Nicaragua and Guatemala has been,
made public in showing that the most
strained relations exist between the two
countries. Business was at a standstill and a
great throng of people assembled about
the harbor of Honolulu, when the Ameri
can battleship fleet arrived from San
Francisco.
Upon the advice of the American min
ister to Hay tl, Mr. Furniss, the gunboat
Paducah has gone to Haytbm waters, Th
government . of Nord Alexis is again
threatened with a revolt.
The international miners' congreaa.
meeting in Paris, adapted a resolution lis
favor of th nationalisation of miners,
but upon the condition that die miners be
secured in their right to preserve ehair
union organisations.