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MASONS HONOR WASHINGTON,
f 1,000.000 Temple l I'lannrd to Da,
ISnllt at Alrtnnilrln, Xn.
The movement to erect a permanent
Masonic memorial to George Washing
ton took Its first definite form when
J. M. Dickinson, secretary of war. and
the grand masters of many Masonic
lodges met at Alexandria, Va.. to form
a National Masonic Memorial Assoc!
atlon. The visiting Masons Joined
with members of the Alexandria-Washington
lodge In a dinner commemorat
ing the birth of Washington, first mas
ter of the lodge.
The gathering was Impressive.
Alexandria Washington lodge, No. 22,
made Washington ita worshipful mas
ter In 178S. At his request In 1791 It
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MWJ:. Ill
WASHINGTON I.V MASONIC KF.OAUA.
laid the corner stone of the District
of Columbia, and two years later as
sisted In laying the corner stone of the
national capitol. In 1799 It performed
the Masonic ceremonies at hla funeral.
In Its halls hang many cherished Ma
sonic rclice.
In the quaint old town, upon a Btreet
laid out by the young surveyor, near
the spot where In 1754 Braddock's
young colonel quartered his troops be
fore the fateful march to the Ohio;
near the historic old lodge where he
was a master and in tho midst of a
field rich In the events of his lr?e and
memory, It will be the purpose of this
association to erect a temple to George
Washington, a Mason. Set apart in
the structure will be a hall of fame
In which space will be allotted to all
the grand jurisdictions in the country
to place tablets to the memories of
their distinguished sons. The men
who will form tho association met in
the same lodge room where Washing
ton occupied the master's chair. It is
the 'purpose of the lodge to raise
$1,000,000 to build and endow the me
morial.
Itrine. C'nrle Finds Polonium.
It was announced before the Acade
my of Sciences at Uerlln that Mmo.
Curie, who with the late Prof. Curie
discovered radium, hus succeeded after
140 days of research In obtaining a
4cnth of a milligram of the new ele
ment known us polonium. She states
that it possesses a radioactivity su
perior to radium, but disappears rap
idly, whereas radium conserves Its -jn-
ergy indefinitely. Polonium Is said to
bo E.000 times rarer thun radium. The
tiny speck produced was the result i f
treating five tons of pltclililend with
ydroohlorlc acid. It Is kept In a vuso
f quartz and the vase is split and
cracked In all directions from the rapid
hemlcal decomposition caused by the
polonium.
nook and Job printers of ltaltlmore,
Md., recently gained an Increase in
wages.
The Iron Molders' International un
ion paid out In skit benellts (122,472
in the lust llsc-al year.
Italian trade and labor unions show
a drop In membership from 191,000 to
175,000 during the year 1908.
The ship scalers of San Francisco
were organized as a union recently,
and will be ulltliuted with the San
Francisco labor council.
Tho combined aes of sixteen weav
ers employed in the handloom shawl
weavinK department of a Tillicoultry,
Scotland, firm total l,o:ifl years.
Tho Massachusetts wood. Wire and
Metal Lathers' unions. 1910 wage sc-iilc
asks the employers for an increase jl
25 cents for one thousand ordinary lath
work, and 6 cents an hour Increase t'oi
men working by the duy.
tuned on the amount of per capita
tax paid into the American Federation
of Labor during December, it appeura
that the agreate membership ol
printers under the Jurisdiction of the
International Typographical Union la
47.417.
The San Francisco (Cal.) labor coun
cil has declared in favor of a bill in
troduced In Congress to grant to post-
otllce clerks the right to crltielHu the
department of the postal sytitcm In
which they are employed and to pr-j
sent grievances.
Members of the National Union ol
Glass Workers, which embraces all
employes of "hand-made" window glasi
factories, recently received a 16 pel
cent Increase in wages. This is the
second IncreaBU the men have been
grunted In the l;int six mouths.
Statistics Issued by tho bureau of la
bor show that ut this time there ,ir
six million wage-earning women In t:it
United SStates. and mat they are not
only working for Icbs wuges In the
same Industries, but are required tc
work more hours than tho men.
Some of the labor leaders at Wash
ington, 1. t. are discussing the pr
Ject of forming a committee to co-op
eruto with the conventions' cominitto
of tho I'hamber of Commerce for thf
purpose of Inducing national and inter
national organizations of working-men
to bold their conventions In that city
In lIoboKcn, . J., an Increase from
$27 to $".0 a week took place recently
In tho printers' book, Job und new-spa.
pare scales, the contract to run fol
three years.
In order to encourage the purchase
of homes by married members, tin
Marble Workers' I nlon In San Kran
. . i .
Cisco nas uecuieu 10 sou euen buyoi
$20 toward tho price.
The members of the Western Feder
atlon of Miners, of South Dakota, ar
now on a strike to Increase theli
wages, shorten their hours of labor, U
strengthen their organization, and tf
, maintain Its integrity.
it
A UN
VOTE GENERAL STRIKE
Great Walkout In Sympathy with
Car Forces Decided On by
Labor Bodies. 1
FIERCE RIOTING IS RENEWED
Clergy and Priesthood Speak for Ar
bitration and Urge That Chll-
dren Be Kept Oft Streets.
Following a day of rioting and blood
shed during which two persons were
killed and a score more or leas injured,
organized labor of Philadelphia tho
other night decided to call a general
strike of 123,000 men, the next Satur
day In sympathy with the striking
street car employes.
Sympathetic action was decided up
on at meetings of the Central Labor
L'nion and the Building Trades' Coun
cil, both bodies holding that the future
of organized labor in the Quaker City
was at stake and the time had come to
deal a decisive blow. The building
trades Unions whleh nipt In n RPimra'rt
hall from the central labor body, fa
vored having the general strike called
an Tuesday, and the more conservative
action or the other body was taken
Dnly after six hours of hot debate.
The general strike, which every ona
fears will paralyze the city, was put
aff Until SatlirHav in fhA hnna thnf thu
Rapid Transit Company can in the
meantime be brought to arbitrate it3
differences with its employes.
From almost every pulpit in the city
Sunday the cry went up for the street
ear company to submit to arbitration
and end the struggle which is resulting
In the daily loss of human life and the
destruction of thousands of dollars'
worth of Dronertv. In everv Roman
Catholic Church a letter was read from
Archhlsnop Ryan urging parents to
keep their children nff th Rtreetii dur
ing the trouble, as much of the riot
ing nas Deen started by young boys.
For a day or so until this time there
had been less rioting and the order of
the director of public safety that wag
ons and vehicles of all kinds must stop
carrying passengers had resulted In
more cars belnr run and in thplr helnff
better patronized. Citizens were begin
ning to breathe easier when the riot
ing broke out In more virulent form
than on any day since the strike began.
TRAMP SAVES CHILD'S LIFE.
Kunelirr Traces Man Who Pullril
tilrl from In Front of Train.
Frank Strome a few days ago was
a tramp beating his way westward on
a freight train with El Paso as his des
tination. To-day he owns a half in
terest in the Valvedere cattle range,
said to be valued at nearly $1,000,000,
with Its 30,000 head of cattle and 100
square miles of land in Jeff Davis and
Pecos counties in Texas. The range is
owned by Samuel W. Jennings, reputed
to be worth several millions. A few
days ago the 7-year-old daughter of
Jennings was crossing the railroad
track. A train was bearing down on
her and she seemed doomed, when
Strome grabbed her and pulled her
from the track. Strome went on his
way, but persons who witnessed the
rescue reported the matter, and three
days ago he was located by Jennings
and taken to the ranch. A day or two
later a deed was filed transferring a
half interest in the property to the
girl's rescuer.
Hello! Hello! Mr. Bachelor.
Ninety-two per cent of the women
telephone operators of the United
States are unmarried, three per cent
are widows, and five per cent are mar
ried. These are some of the interest
ing detalU brought out by special in
vestigation made by the Bureau of
Labor and sent to the Senate by Secre
tary Nagel of the Department of Com
merce and Labor.
TRADE AND INDUSTRY.
To prevent the possibility Of an)
more trip-pass frauds being perpetrat
ed, the Great Northern has decided to
organize a labor agency of Its own.
The common council of Duluth
adopted the proposed franchise of the
Canadian Northern road for entrance
to the city. The road Is required to
pay street assessments the sume as any
other property owner.
Exploitation of tho benefits of good
roads to both State and farmer, meth
ods of road building, agricultural
schools as a means of Increasing the
State's wealth, and slmllur questions
will occupy much of the time of the
conservation and agricultural develop
ment congress which will be held In
St Faul.
The manager of the Millbrook Lund
and Cattle Co., of Wyoming, has laid
a wager of $10,000 with a syndicate of
farmers, near Litchfield, Alberta, Can.,
that ho can raise a heavier yield of
oats upon the Iiramle plains than can
be raised anywhere else In the world.
This farm took the koM medal at tho
St. Louis world's fair for oats In com
petition with the whole world.
Armour & Co. of Chicago closed in
Minneapolis a deal which means the
establishment at Hill City, Minn., of
large fuctorles for the manufacture of
lurd pulls und other packages for their
own use. This part of their business
bus been carried on at Ithaca and Ma.--ble,
Mich., but the supply of hardwood
having been about exhausted In Michi
gan they have been looking uhout for
several months for a new location
where the quantity of hardwood need
ed for tluir business was satisfactory.
Senator Stephenson, of Wisconsin,
owner of the famous cow. "Uertruda
Wuyne." last mouth received from the
cow tl'i pounds of milk, which yielded
twenty-tJx pounds of butter. Tills but
ter at 42 cents per pound amounted to
practically $11, to say nothing of no
drinking extras the cow provided.
Terms of settlement of the girl shlrt
wulstmakers' strike were agreed upon
at Philadelphia by a board of arbitra
tion chosen at a recent meeting of
strike leaders and manufacturers. All
the strikers are to be taken back by
their former employers, but the "opin
ahop" condition Insisted upon by th
manufacturers Is to prevail.
AD W0LGAST CHAMPION.
Defeat of Battling Nelson' Brings
Him Light-Weight Title.
Battling Nelson is not the durable
Dane any more. The conqueror of Joe
Gans was forced to relinquish his hold
on the lightweight boxing champion
ship In forty rounds to Ad Wolgast of
Milwaukee at Point Richmond, Cat.
Nelson was not counted out, but prob
ably would have been in that session
had not Referee Smith called a halt
and awarded the fight and title to Wol
gast. When the battle was stopped the
Dane was in a pitiable condition. One
of his eyes were completely closed and
the other parts of his face were swol
len to twice their size. Besides he was
tottering around the ring too weak to
hold up his hands. This was the fir3t
time that Nelson, since he sprang Into
the limelight in 1003 by beating Geo.
Memsic in Milwaukee, was beaten to a
standstill at his own game of slugging.
He met his master at the identical
style which won him the lightweight
championship of the world and also
made him famous.
Wolgast's victory was complete and
decisive. Had Referee Smith not stop
ped the contest 'and it had gone the
limit he would have been given the
verdict. He had the better of nearly
every round and during the course of
tho forty rounds struck probably five
blows to Nelson's three in every ses
sion. Wolgast has been fighting exact
ly four year3, having entered the game
In 1906 in Cadillac, Mich., where he
was born Feb. 8, 1SSS.
Snow Hide Uht Train Wrecked.
Unable to see the danger signal on
account of a raging snow storm, an
east-bound Northern -Pacific passenger
train ran Into a stalled west-bound
freight train one mile east of Stewarts
dale, N. D., fatally Injuring Fireman
Dahl and slightly injuring Engineer
Wendall of the passenger train.
Train Smashes a Street Car.
One man was Instantly killed, anoth
er was fatally injured and six persons
suffered minor hurts when a north
bound California and Kedzie avenue
street car in Chicago was struck by an
east bound Chicago, Milwaukee and St.
Paul passenger train. The car was de
molished lteatores Three-Cent Hall Fare,
Following the recent decision of
Judge Hook at St. Louis temporarily
restraining the Oklahoma corporation
commission from enforcing the 2-cent
passenger rate, the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas Railroad Company has be
gun charging 3 cents a mile in Okla
homa. llo.v runixhed Found Dead.
For some fault 10-year-old Gerald
Gulness of Providence, R. I., was
locked In a room by his mother, Mrs.
W H. Gulness, and when she went to
liberate him she found him dead. The
lad had accidentally turned on the gas
and asphyxiated himself.
Two Killed In Hotel Fire.
Two cnen lost their lives when the
Forney Hotel at Forney, Texas, was
destroyed by fire. Three store build
ings, with stocks of dry goods, gro
ceries, and drugs, were consumed. To
tal loss, $.10,000.
Famous Church A hiimloued.
After simple exercises the famous
Harvard Street llaptlst Church of Hos
ton closed its doors as a religious
abode. The shifting of the population
Is the chief cause of the dissolution
of tho church organization.
Kllla Alabniua Fraut-liU Tax.
Dy declaring the franchise tax law
of Alabama unconstitutional, the Su
preme Court of tho United States
knocked out another one of the antl
corporatlon acts of the radical Comer
legislature, and loses to the State
J13G.943.
Fin a era Worth fl.OOO F.arh.
A Jury In the Supreme Court In
White Plains, N. Y., awarded $4,000
to Peter Mandy, of Ossining, for the
loaa of four fingers, cut off in a planer
at th factory where he aa employed.
SPRING IS CO.MINfJ.
ROBBED BANK IS CLOSED.
Former Harvard President Stock
holder In Looted Institution.
Following the discovery that the Na
tional City Bank of Cambridge, Mass.,
had been looted of $144,000. the doors
of the institution were closed, proba
bly forever, by National Bank Exam
iner Ellis S. Pepper, acting in behalf
of the Comptroller of the Currency.
Six hours after this action had be?n
taken an embezzlement warrant was
Issued for the arrest of George W.
Coleman, the young bookkeeper of the
bank, who was last heard from In Kan
sas City a few days ago. The Institu
tion is Insolvent, the capital stock of
$100,000 and. the surplus having been
wiped out by the defalcation. John L.
Bates was appointed receiver. Among
tho stockholders is Charles W. Eliot,
president emeritus of Harvard. Under
the national banking laws the stock
holders are liable to assessment if the
assets are not sufficient to pay the
creditors in full.
ST. LOUIS CAR RUNS AMUCK.
llrnL.es Do Not Work and Troller
Tnkea Incline nt lllvrh Speed.
Its brakes out of commission, a Park
avenue car dashed a quarter of a
mile down a steep incline on Park
avenue, St. Louis, at full speed, spread
ing death and destruction, before It
was halted by colliding with the curb.
One man was killed outright, seven
teen persons were Injured, seven of
them seriously, and two carriages were
demolished, while the car was a com
plete wreck. John Voyoe, 54 years
old. was thrown beneath the wheels of
the car when it struck his carriage
and was crushed to death, while his
companion was badly hurt.
The German emperor and ministry
of war have decided to Introducu t:
aeroplane in some form into the regu
lar army equipment, with the intention
of attaching a flying corps to every
regiment.
Theodore Roosevelt, with his son
and other members of his African ex
pedition arrived at Gondokoro, Soudan,
at the head of the Nile, all reported
well and enthusiastic over their ex
periences in the Jungle. A native band
escorted the party Into the town with
tingles and drums, headed by tho tribal
chief. The party next day proceeded
down the Nile to Khartoum.
At Des Moines, Iowa, the court room
at the police station was recently
turned into a church, and a service was
conducted by the Rev. J. Calfee, an
evangelist, who took the Judge's usual
place and preached a sermon to the
entire night shift of tho Des Moines
police force. One convert was made,
John F.ergqulst, a policeman, usklng to
be received into the church.
Serious affrays between the police
and thousands of Socialists occurred
In Uerlln and other cities of Germany
when the Socialists held meetings and
marched in the streets to protest
against the proposed franchise bill of
tho government. The police used their
sabers in dispersing the marchers, who
in some places made a show of resist
ance by throwing stones and other mis
siles. Many were wounded on both
shies before the police, with the aid
of soldiery, wore ublo to repress tho
demonstrations.
The new premier of Spain is Joso
Canalejas Mendes, who was called by
King Alfonso to head the liberal gov
ernment and who boasts of being the
most radical of monarchists. In his
first public sentiment he says he be
lieves In acts rather thun words, and
will submit delinlte reforms shortly.
It is learned on excellent authority
that the emperor of Germany Intends
to go for a cruise in the Mediterran
ean us soon aa tho season is over, but
It la not likely that Greece will be vis
ited this year. The empress may -o
aguin to Abbasla with her daughter
and one of her sons for a week or two.
URGES YOUNGER NAVY.
Taft Asks Congress to Permit Offi
cers' Earlier Promotion.
The need of young blood In the com
mands of the navy was the keynote of
a special message which ' President
Taft the other day sent to Congress
urging legislation for improving the.
personnel of the fighting force and for
remedying what the President termed
"at, abnormal condition, the result of
past legislation."
Under conditions now existing, th
Piesldent declared, the promotion of
officers of the lower grades is stagnat
ed, to the great detriment of the ser
vice and the country, and because near
ly every offi'-er jvho retains his health
Is tUowed to pass through the various
grades and be retired as rear admiral
the greater number of commanding of
ficers have had Inadequate experience.
Under the ' existing system officers
now being trained in the command of
battle ships and armored cruisers could
not serve as flag officers on accouit
of their short time on the active list
after reaching that grade.
To remedy these conditions the Pres
ident indorsed a bill which had been
prepared by Secretary Meyer, wh'.ch
would promote officers to the grade or
rear admiral at an average age of 54 to
oo years and to captain at the average
age of 46 to 47. These changes, the
President said, in his opinion would
not provide men young enough for the
best success in a fleet engagement,
should war come; but he felt they wer
a decided Improvement, and he inti
mated that af'same other time It might
be advisable to make even further ro
ductlons in the ages.
"CLEVEREST CROOK" A YOUTH.
Victimises Harry 8. New, Widow
of I'realdrnt and Senator.
A smooth young man, representing
himself in Indianapolis as related to
various prominent personages, has vic
timized Mrs. Harrison, widow of the
former President; Mrs. McDonald, wid
ow of the late Senator Joseph E. Mc
Donald, and Harry S. New, former
chairman of the Republican National
Committee. When he approached Mrs.
Harrison for a loan the youth said ho
had become penniless on his way from
Hot Springs, Ark., to his home in Buf
falo, with a sick sister. He talked fa
miliarly of Mr. Harrison's cabinet
members. To Mr. New he represented
himself as a relative of Senator Gal
linger of New Hampshire and he was
so familiar with New Hampshire poli
tics that New was not suspicious.
When he mentioned his sick sister and
asked for a loan New promptly gave up
the money. The youth Is called by
New "the cleverest crook in the busi
ness." U. S. LEADS WORLD IN TOBACCO.
Value of Kaports from American
Forts Since 1 SOU U 10,000,000.
The United Stutes leads the world
as an exporter of tobacco and Is the
second market of the world for Im
ported tobacco, according to statistics
of the Department of Commerce and
Labor. Lust year the United States
supplied Ml.000,000 In a total of ap
proximately $150,000,000 worth of to
bacco and tobacco manufactures which
entered International markets. More
than one billion dollars' worth of to
bacco and its manufactures has passed
through ports of the United States
6lnce 1S0O, the value of the exports in
that period having aggregated $(116,
000,000 and the Imports into the Cub
ted States $380,000,000.
Heath for Wile M)tr.
Antonio Mangano, husband of the
woman who, with lier two little chil
dren, was found murdered In her home
In Cleveland Dec. 4. was found guilty
of murder In the first degree. With
out a reversal by higher courts, the
verdict means that Mansano must die.
(iaa Flrea Haft Fraeslna; Herda.
Many herds of cattle in the Osage
country of Oklahoma were saved from
freezing In the recent blizzard by their
owners tapping natural gas plpa llnel
and igniting the escaping gas.