Nebraska Newspapers

    Loup City Northwestern
VOLUME XXVI
LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 27, 190S>
NUMBER 21)
A Boiling Down of the More Impor
tant Events Here and There
Foreign.
An empty ballon, the envelope of
■which had burst, descended near Lu
beck. Germany, during a storm. It is
thought that the aeronaut had fallen
into the sea.
Schefket Pasha, commander of the
constitutionalist forces, has been ap
pointed inspector general of the first,
second and third army corps, or in
other words, of all the troops in the
capital and European Turkey.
King Alfonso inaugurated the Regin
a! Exposition at Valencia. Spain. It
was followed by a flower fete in the
streets of the city.
Prince Lidj Jeassu. the 13-year-old
grandson of King Menelik. was pub
licly proclaimed heir to the Abyssinian
throne in the presence of many chiefs
and 30,000 soldiers.
A destructive tire at Kingston, on
the warf of the Hamburg-Ainerican
line destroyed the entire dock, which
was 130 feet long. Two-thirds of the
cargo of the steamer Prinz Joachim,
valued at $72,000. was destroyed.
That all of the members of his im
mediate family had survived the Ar
menian massacres was the cheering
word brought to K. K. Krikorian
(Gregory) an Omaha Armenian, in a
letter from his brother. Of all his
numerous relatives only one met
death.
Without any tlourish of trumpets
Japan has made considerable strides
in the matter of airship building, and
while the utmost secrecy is main
tained there is reason to believe that
an inventpr of some repute lias re
cently patented improvements that
are calculated to startle aeroists all
over the world.
It was learned at Autar. Asiatic
Turkey, that the local governor re
ceived from Constantinople on the
day following the outbreak of anti
Christian rioting at Adana a message
suggesting the killing of Armenians
as a precaution against insurrection.
General.
The president's wife .viH put asid?
social duties for a time in tile inter
est of her health.
Governor Hughes vetoed the Allen
bill, which proposed a bond issue of
$2.t)iK).<HiO to provide a pension of $6
per month to veterans of the civil war
who served for at least ninety days
and wiio were enlisted in this state.
A fire at Akron. Ohio, destroyed
$1 .J'Hi.OOO worth of property.
Unjust discrimination between white
and colored passengers paying the
same fare is not legally permissable
by a railway according to a decision
of the interstate commerce commis
sion.
Mr. Bryan has arrived home in Lin
coln and will remain for ten days.
Mrs. Helen Kelly Gould was granted
on interlocutory decree of divorce from
Frank .1. Gould by .lustice Gerad, in
the supreme court.
Abbott Lawrence Lowell, who for
the last ten years lias been Eaton pro
fessor of the science of government at
Harvard, has assumed the presidency
of the university as the successor-of
President Elliot without ceremony.
Owing to the Oklahoma deposit guar
antee law. which went into effect in
February. 1008. there has been a de
crease in the state during the year of
sixty-seven national banks.
Resolutions were passed by the
house authorizing the secretary of war
to loan cots arid tents for the thirty
third national encampment of the G.
A. R. at Salt Lake City.
Govenor Hughes of New York signed
a law increasing the penalty for extor
tion of blackmail from five to ten
years.
A new tariff sheet is being prepared
by transcontinental railroads which
will affect t-he country west of the Mis
sissippi. Will take effect July 1.
President Taft spoke at Petersburg,
Ya.. on the occasion of unveiling a
monument to Gen. Hartranft.
Nord Alexis, deposed president of
Hayti. will soon come to Peru. Ind.,
for a visit, as the guest of Jame3 Tur
ner. colored. Turner is wealthy and
has invited the ex-president to spend
s. the summer in the United States with
him.
Experts of xthe United States navy
are benuing every effort toward per
fecting wireless equipment, both tel
ephone and telegraph, for use by the
vessels of the navy and the naval
chore stations.
The town of Alger, O.. was almoat
entirely' wiped out by fire. The loss is
estimated at $*>0,000.
Sehefkct Pasha, commander of the
constitutionalist forces, lias been ap
pointed inspector-general of all the
troops in the capital and European
Secretary Ballinger has received the
resignation of W. Scott Smith, super
intendent of the Hot Springs reserva
tion. Arkansas, to take effect June 30.
Without a dissenting vote the Wis
consin , assembly concurred in the
senate bill fixing the penalty for kid
naping at life imprisonment.
A divorce was granted in London in
which White Cloud, an American
Indian, was cited as co-respondent.
Henry H. Rogers, New York, presi
dent of the Standard Oil company,
died from aploplectic stroke.
The “big hat" bill failed of passage
in the Uiinoia legislature.
It is the outcome of this year’s crops
not tariff revision, that interests the
people, says Jim Hill of the Great
Northern.
President Taft lias appointed Lieu
tenant Commander Leigh Carlyle Pal
mer to act as naval aide at the White
House. He succeeds Lieutenant
Simins.
An amendment to restore Dingley
tariff rates on razors was lost in the
senate.
According to the figures presented
the world’s stock of gold has increased
about one-half in the last decade and
doubled in the last quarter of a cen
tury.
A new freight rate schedule from all
the teritory east of the Missouri river
to all the western cities not located on
the Pacific coast will go into effect on
the transcontinental lines July 1.
The'United states dirigible balloon
No. 1. otherwise known as the Baldwin
air ship, arrived at Fort Omaha.
One hundred and seventy mules
were burned to death in a tire at the
Kansas City stock yards.
Thos. A. Creigh, past department
commander of the Nebraska G A. R.,
died in Omaha a few days ago after
five days' illness from pneumonia. He
was taken sick while attending the
state encampment at York.
W. .1 Furse, private secretary to
Gov. Shallenberger, announces in a
letter to R. Insinger, chairman of the
board of control of the national irri
gation congress, that delegates have
been appointed to represent the state
of Nebraska at the seventeenth ses
sion in Spokane, Aug. 9 to 14.
A friend of Petrosino. the Italian de
tective, was assassinated at Nev,- York.
The Great Northern railroad has
offered a reward of $10,000 for each
robber in the recent train holdup.
Speaker Cannon says it will take
100 degree temperature to get action
in the senate on the tariff bill.
President Taft attended the funeral
of Mrs. Mary Louise Dalzell, wife of
Representative John Dalzell of Pitts
burg, Pa., who died in Washington.
There was a large attendance in
Omaha of the funeral of I-orenzo
Crounse. former soldier, pioneer, leg
islator. judge, congressman and gov
ernor.
Washington.
Brigadier general John 3. Kerr, re
cently detached from command of the
mounted service and post at Fort
Riley, Ivas., has been placed on the
retired list of the army on his own
application.
Ensign Edward Guerrant Hargis, of
the United States navy, a nephew of
the noted (Judge Hargis of Kentucky,
was declared by a jury»to be afflicted
with "depressive insanity.’* He must
be taken care of by his father.
Representative Kinkaid invited Secre
tary Ballinger to visit North Platte ir
rigation district this summer, f.nd Mr.
Ballinger promised to do so. at a date
to be fixed later, when he is on his
way back to Washington after his
summer vacation.
There were 1,932 fewer fatalities to
passengers and employes in railway
accidents during the calendar year
1908, than in 1907. Comparing the re
turns of 1908 with those of the fiscal
year 1900.07, the decrease in Vitalities
was even more gratifying, being 2,173,
or 43.4 per cent.
These postmasters have been ap
pointed: Mallard. Palo Alto county, la..
Arvin C. Sands, vice A. D. Johnson,
removed. Palmer, Pocahontas county,
Martin A. Hansen, vice R. H. Borrey,
resigned. Spragg. Rock county. Neb..
George R. Sage, vice G. Spragg, re
signed. Spring Ranch, Clay county.
David M. Roush, vice J. D. Morehouse,
resigned.
James J. Hill, the railroad magnate,
called on President Taft. He ex
pressed the belief that if the tariff agi
tation was cut off short and the ora
torical steam in congress shut off, the
country would begin a great era of
prosperity at an early date.
That seventeen republicans have
pledged themselves 'to vote for the
compromise income tax bill is the
claim put forth by Senator Cummins,
leader of the republican movement for
this legislation. "This means that the
bill is likely to pass at this time,”
said the senator. “Though of course
accidents may happen.
Because nobody wants to he post
master the postofflce at Glenrose. Mc
Pherson county, Nebraska, will be dis
continued. Representative Kinkaid
has been so notified.
Personal.
“Civic betterment of cities” will be
the star to which the Iowa Federation
of Women's Clubs will nail its flag
during the coming two years.
Samuel Avery was made chancellor
of the state university of Nebraska.
The president struck a popular
ohord in his recent speech at Char
lotte. N. C.
Miss Helen Taft, daughter of the
president, has accepted an invitation
to unveil the monument erected at
Gettysburg, Pa., in memory of the
soldiers of the regular' union army,
who participated in the Gettysburg
campaign.
The Illinois legislature thus far has
been unable to elect a Unite! States
senator.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox believes in a
hundred years all drudgery will be
done by machinery.
Henry H. Rogers, New York, Just
deceased, was 69 years old.
Lieutenant General Stoesuel and
Rear Admiral Nebogatoff were par
doned by Emperor Nicholas.
Mrs. Annis, wife of the man killed
by Capt. Haines, will go on the stage
in vaudeville.
St. Joseph lawyers voted to inves
tigate the charges against Federal
Judges Philips and McPherson.
William Williams has been ap
pointed commissioner of Iro migration.
The president nominated Walter E.
Clark, a Washington newspaper m"ti,
*o be governor of Alaska.
LUTED IS ED I
UNION PACIFIC OVERLAND TRAIN
MEETS ROBBERS.
REGISTERED MAIL SACKS MEN
Four Men Concerned In Work Are Be
lieved to Be at Present
Hiding in Omaha.
Omaha—Overland Limited train No.
2 on the Union Pacific was held up
by four masked robbers on the Lane
Cut Off at 11:20 Saturday night, the
train crew and mail clerks subdued
with guns and seven sacks of regis
tered mail taken from the mail cat
by the robbers, who jumped into a
waiting automobile and escaped.
“One of me features of the holdup
was that the train was held less than
fifteen minutes,” said Mr. Foley, whp
was at ins home, but soon hurried to
his office to hear the reports of the
train crew.
The place where the train was held
up was on the country road between
the Northwestern crossing and the
overhead bridge, just' west of South
Omaha, less than a mile from the
west side of Hhnscom park. The
train had just crossed the big fill
over the Little Pappio when the rob
bers climbed over the tender into the
cab and ordered tne engine crew to
run the train a little farther before
stopping. Tue stop was finally order
ed on the county road.
The Limited was doming into Oma
ha over the Lane Cut off and had
reached a point this side of Seymour
when two masked men crawled over
the tender into me cab of the engine
and forced Engineer Ellick R. Mickel
jolin and Fireman Herman Prawl to
throw up their hands. After they
had been searched for weapons they
were toid to run the train a little
further and stop, the place of stop
ping having been planned with refer
ence to the waiting automobile.
A third robber soon appeared on
the scene and was jomed by a fourth
as soon as the train stopped. Taking
the engine crew along with them the
robbers went to the mail ear and
found the door open. They fired a
couple of shots and brought the eight
main clerks to the door of the car,
where they were soon confronted with
guns and lined up and searched for
weapons.
The robbers, after lining up the
mail clerks, forced the engine crew
to carry seven sacks of registered
mail to the waiting automobile, and
as soon as the seven sacks were
loaded, the four jumped in the auto
mobile and started for the north.
Late but meager clues, all tending
to show the men who robbed the mail
car of the Union Pacific Overland
Limited on the boundary line between
Omaha and South Omaha at 11:30
Saturday night are in the city of
Omaha have been found by Omaha
police and railroad detectives.
These officers believe the train rob
bers are in Omaha, and that perhaps
at their leisure they sorted the seven
sacks of registered mail taken from
the car while in hiding Sunday. The
amount of loss is not known and will
not be for several days.
Coney Island Still Does Business.
New York.—Two hundred thousand
persons, according to estimates, went
down to Coney Island Sunday to
watch the police clap on the lid, as
threatened by Mayor McClellan's re
cent declaration that the Sunday clos
ing law' would be enforced. Those
who expected a clash between the law
and the showmen were disappointed,
for no friction whatever occurred. All
amusement resorts ran as usual and
only six arrests were made during
the day. Two were peddlers and two
were for violation of the excise
laws.
One Hundred Engines for U. P.
Dunkirk. N. Y.—It is reported that
the Union Pacific railroad has placed
an order for 100 engines with the
American Locomotive company and
that they will be built at the Sche
nectady and Brooks plants.
Big Reward for Robbers.
Omaha.—Assistant Superintendent
Foley says: "The Union Pacific will
give a reward of $5,000 for the appre
hension of each of the robbers who
held up the Overland limited Satur
day night.”
HAMMOND FOR CHINA POST.
Famous Engineer is Said to Eie Slated
for the Position.
Washington—While it is impossible
to secure any confirmation of the re
po*t that President Taft will tender
the post of minister to China to John
Hays .Hammond, it is believed here
that such an offer will be made.
Whether Mr. Hammond would feel
that he could leave his business inter
ests in this country and take up his
residence in Peking without serious
detriment to the former has been the
subject of much speculation.
Fairbanks is at Tokio.
Tokio. — Former Vice President i
Charles ,W. Fairbanks and party ar
rived here from San Francisco. Mr
Fairbanks will be received in audi
ence by the emperor.
Kermit Gets Third Buffalo.
Xaibori, British East Africa.—Tho
Roosevelt expedition is still hunting
buffalos on the Nairobi river, and
Mr. Roosevelt and his son Kermit
succeeded in bringing down their
third animal of this kind. I
AN OUNCE OF EARLY PREVENTION.
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(M FORCES UN iPOLOSf
EARL OF RONALDSHAY “SORRY”
FOR HIS INSULT.
Called Countess Granard a “Dumped
American Heiress Fortunate
Enough to Secure a Title.”
London. — The earl of Ronald
shay's apology to the countess of
Granard (who was Miss Beatrice Mills
of New York) for publicly calling her
"a dumped American heiress who has
been fortunate enough to secure a
title.” has not even the merit of spon
taneity. The apology was made in
deference to the king's express wish.
Were it not for the American peer
ess and the American “millionairess”
that luxurious circle of English so
ciety patronized by the king could not
exist a month. So King Edward !
frowns on anvihing that might dis- |
courage English peers from marrying !
wealthy American women, or any
thing likely to render English society
distasteful to American women.
Lord Ronaldshay, eldest son and
heir of the marquis of Zetland, be
longs to an influential family. Ronald
shay is the unionist member of the
house of commons for the Hornsey |
uivision of Middlesex. Thither went |
the countess of Granard and opened !
a bazar organized by Lord Ronald- i
shay’s Liberal opponent. The count- i
ess. who has been active on behalf of
her husband's party, spent money lav
ishly at the bazar, and consequently I
made a deep impression on the voters. !
Lord Ronaldshay, much irritated,
made his insulting remarks about the
countess speaking in a North London
suburb.
DECISION AGAINST NEGRO.
Elack Does Not Suffer Same Humilia
tion for False Arrest as
White, Says Court.
New York. — A negro and a white
man do not suffer equal humilia
tion in the eyes of law for false arrest,
according to the appellate division of
the supreme court, which sustained an
order of Justice Dugro of the supreme
court, reducing the amount of dam
ages awarded George Griffin, a Pull
man porter, from $2,500 to $300. The
negro was arrested in Montreal,
charged with stealing a pocketbook,
but the charge was not substantiated
and he was released. He brought suit
against Daniel H. Mraily, a New York
manufacturer, who caused his arrest.
In his order, Justice Dugro said:
“While in some senses the negro un
der the law is just as good as a man
as the president of the United States,
it would be a bad argument to say
that he is just as good in some re
spects. The damages in a case of
this kind depend on a man's standing
and circumstances. It he is colored,
that fact should be considered."
KILLS SELF AND BABES
East Hampton, Conn., Woman Cuts
Throats of Children and
Herself.
East Hampton, Conn. — Mrs.
Louis Carsten cut the throats of
her three children and then her
own at the Carsteu home, a farm
about two miles from the center of
this village.
Two of the children, Louis, aged
ten years, John, seven years oid, and
a ten-months-old girl, are dead, and
Mrs. Carsten is dying.
Mrs. Carsten lived long enough to
reply to her husband when he asked
the reason for her acts: “I wanted
to die, and I wanted to take the chil
dren with me. 1 did not want to leave
them."
Miss Taft to Unveil Monument.
Washington.—Mi3s Helen Taft,
daughter of the president, has accept
ed an invitation to unveil the monu
ment erected at Gettysburg, Pa., in
memory of the soldiers of the regular
army \vho participated in the Gettys
burg campaign. The ceremony will
take place May 31.
Removes Duty on Coffee. %
Caracas.—President Gomez has re
moved the export tax on coffee, cocoa
and hides tor the purpose of stimulat
ing trade.
CONSERVATION WORK URGED.
Joint Committee Proposes a Plan to
the Commissions in the Va
rious States.
Washington.—Inventories of the nat
ural resources of every state and ter
ritory are proposed in a plan just an
nounced by the joint committee of
conservation in this city. The joint
committee is national headquarters
for the conservation movement, and
has offices in the Wyatt building. All
of the 48 big national organizations
now working with the joint commit
tee through their conservation com
mittees are to be asked to help, each
in its own special field.
The plan contemplates the practi
cal application by the states and na
tional organizations of the conserva
tion principles declared by the gov
ernors and presidents of the great
national organizations in their notable
conference at the White House a year
ago. Letters explaining the plan have
been sent out to the chairmen of
the official conservation commissions
which the governors of 28 states have
appointed, and letters to the national
organizations -will follow.
The joint committee suggests early
meetings of the state conservation
commissions to take up, first, the most
pressing conservation problems in the
respective states. For instance, in
Louisiana it is the terrific waste of
natural gas which the state conserva
tion commission is already trying to
stop. In Oregon a pressing question
has been water power, which is also
a leading issue just now in Michigan
and Wisconsin. In many states it is
the forest question. The question of
the conservation of water power takes
a front rank in a great many states,
and it is becoming more and more
of a general issue.
ROOSEVELTS SLAY BISON.
Ex-President Bags One Alone and He
and Kermit Kill Another
Together.
Nairobi. British East Africa.—
Theodore Roosevelt and his son
Kermit are continuing their hunting
excursions from their camp on the
Heatley ranch on the Nairobi river.
Two bull buffaloes have fallen before
their guns. One, the bigger of the
two. was brought down by Mr. Roose
\elt alone, while the other was bagged
by Mr. Roosevelt and Kermit together.
Nairobi, British East Africa. —
Theodore Roosevelt has begun his
hunting expedition from the Ju Ja
ranch of George McMillan, whose
guest he is. He went out and bagged
a female rhinoceros. The first shot
wounded her in the shoulder and the
animal fled to the bushes. Mr. Roose
velt followed on horseback and six
more shots were required to bring her
down. The head and skin weighed
532 pounds.
SHERMAN FOR GOOD ROADS
Vice-President in Address to National
Congress Favors Improvement
of Public HiJthways.
Baltimore, M<1. — With a speech
by Vice-President. James S. Sher
man. the National Good Roads Con
gress held its final session.
-I am interested in any meeting,”
said Mr. Sherman, ‘ which has for its
object the promotion of good roads
good streets and good highways in
general. It is the ability to transport
our goods which makes our country
so prosperous.
"We should devote our time and en
ergies to our commercial industries
and our internal improvements. Our
highways have not been developed.
The roads of England, France and
Switzerland put our roads to shame.”
Wreck Fatal to Three.
Grand Rapids, Mich —Two work
men were killed and a third was fatal
ly injured when a work train on the
Grand Rapids, Grand Haven & Muske
gon interurban jumped the track near
Grand Haven on the Highland park
branch Friday.
Paris Strike Sympathizers Riot.
Paris.—The strikers in Paris made
several attempts to invade the fac
tories and buildings where the men
had refused to quit work. Minor riots
and a number of arrests resulted.
AMERICAN BUSINESS WORLD
LOSES ONE OF ITS GREAT
EST GENIUSES.
LEAVES $75,000,000 FORTUNE
Successor of John D. Rockefeller as
Standard Oil’s Chief, King of Cop
per Industry, Victim of Apoplexy—
Funeral Services Friday.
New York.—The American business
world lost one of its greatest geniuses
when Henry Huddleston Rogers, vice
president of the Standard Oil Com
pany. leader in the Amalgamated Cop
per Company, director in a score of
big concerns, builder of railroads and
philanthropist, died Wednesday of
apoplexy.
Death came a little more than an
hour after Mr. Rogers had risen for
the day, mentioning to his wife that
he was feeling ill. At seven o’clock
he lapsed into unconsciousness and
before the family physician arrived
he was dead. Mr. Rogers was 69
years old.
While Mr. Rogers’ death was sud
den and unexpected, he had been in
indifferent health since he suffered «n
apoplectic stroke in 1907, and was
almost constantly under a physician's
care. His end was a great shock to
his business associates.
News of the financier's death did
not become generally known till
about two hours after it occurred.
The stock exchange had not opened
H. H. Rogers.
when the report reached Wall street,
but with the opening there was hard
ly an appreciable effect on the market.
Henry H. Rogers was a money
maker and one of the most successful
men of the so-called Standard Oil
group. He began life as a poor boy
at Fairhaven, Mass., where he was
born, and retained his legal residence
there until the day of his death. He
is variously reported as having com
menced life as a newsboy and as a
driver of a grocery cart, but whatever
his humble start in business he
achieved a success attained by only a
few men of a generation
Mr. Rogers was a man of many
friends and an enthusiatstic yachts
man. Until recently he had held the
reins of the Standard Oil Company
following the retirement of John D.
Rockefeller, although J. B. Archbold'
attended to the routine management
of the great corporation. Just how
much money Mr. Rogers leaves is not
known. His fortune is variously esti
mated at from $50,000,000 to $75,000,
000, which will make his son, H. H
Rogers, Jr., one of the richest men
in the country. Whether the son or
Mr. Broughton, son-in-law of Mr. Rog
ers, will carry on his affairs is a
matter of speculation in the financial
^district.
The widow he leaves is his second
wife, his first wife having died 14
years ago, and he is survived in ad
dition by four children, the son men
tioned, and the following daughters:
Mrs. W. E. Benjamin. Mrs. Urben H.
Broughton and Mrs. William R. Coe.
New York.—The funeral services in
this city of Henry H. Rogers, vice
president of the Standard Oil Com
pany, president of the Amalgamated
Copper Company, took place In the
Church of the Messiah Friday morn
ing. Rev. Dr. Robert Collyer deliv
ered a touching euiogy to the famous
financier.
The pall bearers were Messrs. El
bert H. Garry. George W. Perkins,
James A. Moffett, John D. Archbold,
C. A. Peabody, A. S. Paine, William
Rockefeller, E. H. Harrtman, Edward
T. Bedford, James M. Beck, Melville
E. Stone, James Jordan. John D. Ryan,
Samuel L. Clemens, Dr. C. C. Rice
and Raymond Dupuy.
Anti-Cigarette Bill Passed.
Springfield, 111.—The anti-cigarette
bill, providing penalties for the sale
or manufacture of cigarettes or paper
wrappers and prohibiting minors un
der 18 years of age from smoking the
seductive coffin nail, was passed by
the house of representatives Thursday
by a vote of 89 to 2.
Bank Robbed of $3,500
Lisbon, N. D.—The State bank of
Englevale was robbed of $3,500. Of
ficers are on the ground, but have no
definite clew.
ACCEPTS TILLMAN'S ADVISE
ALDRICH ADMITS HE DESERVES
SENATOR’S CRITICI8M.
Complaint That Too Much Tima !•
Spent in Useless Wrangling
Agreed To.
Washington—The unusual spectacle
of Senator Aldrich accepting the ad
vice and admitting he deserved the
criticism of Senator Tillman, was pre
sented in the senate Thursday after
the finance committee had triumphed
on the lead schedule.
Hefore another paragraph could be
taken up. Senator Tillman arose and
said he wanted to make a suggestion
to the chairman of the committee on
finance.
"We have,” he said, ‘‘just spent the
best part of a day in a useless wran
gle resulting in the usual victory of a
majority of eight or ten votes for the
astute manager in control of this bill.
I want to suggest that he might get a
good many more votes if he would en
force the rule which forbids a senator
to speak more than twice on the same
subject.”
"I am not sure," said Senator Aid
rich in reply, "that 1 do not deserve
the suggestion and criticism of the
senator from South Carolina. 1 have
been hoping that much of the discus
sion here which seemed unnecessary
would cease."
Senator Aldrich appealed for re
levancy in the discussion in the para
graphs of the bill. “I accept," he said,
"the criticism of the senator from
South Carolina because I think it is
deserved.”
Senator Tillman, being accussed by
Senator Bacon of being the chief of
fender in speaking many times on the
same amendment, protested, and Ilia
protest was followed by a statement
by Senator Aldrich that it was his in
tention at an early day to satisfy the
senator from South Carolina that the
tariff bill should be proceeded with
“morning, afternoon and night until
disposed of."
The lead duty fixed by the commit
tee was originally 2yg cents per
pound, but Senator Curtis, who is a
member of the committee, suggested a
reduction of one-eighth of a cent a
pound, bringing the figure down to
cents, and Chairman Aldrich accepted
the reduction.
Senators Beveridge, Bristow, Brown,
Burkett, Clapp, Cummins. Dolliver.
Gamble, La Follette and Nelson voted
with the Democrats. Senator Borah
voted with the Republicans.
"The trusts are ghosts," declared
Senator Heyburn in replying to sug
gestions that the “lead trust" was in
terested in the duty on lead.
CLARK MONUMENT UNVEILED.
Statue of Soldier and Explorer Ac
cepted by Gov. Deneen on Behalf
of People of Illinois.
Quincy.—Illinois' tribute to Oen.
George Rogers Clark, the revolution
ary soldier and explorer, an heroic
bronze statue, was unveiled Saturday
in the presence of an immense con
course of people. Gov. Deneen ac
cepted the monument on behalf of
the people of the state.
The statue, which is nine feet high,
is the work of Charles J. Mulligan at
the Chicago Art institute, and is pro
Statue of George Rogers Clark.
nouneed by critics to 'jo one of tUw
best In the middle west. The base of
the monument, designed by W. Cnrbys
Zimmerman of Springfield, the state
architect, is of gray granite on a ce
ment foundation and is 18 feet high.
Mr. Mulligan anil Mr. Zimmerman
were both present at the unveiling.
Standing on the brow of a hill from
which may be seen the expanse of
the Mississippi, the statue depicts the
American leader in a pose which la
thoughtful, gentle and yet heroic. It
represents him as elad in the uniform
of a continental general, as he was
when he captured Kaskaskia in 1778.
Elliott tc Philippines.
Washington.—President Taft scut
to the senate the nomination of Judge
Charles D. Elliott of the Minnesota
supreme court as a justice of the su
preme court of the Philippines to
succeed Judge Willard.
Gives Birth to Five.
Eau Claire. Wis.- The wife of Fay
Irish of Thorp, Clark county, has
given birth to five babies, three daugh
ters and two sons. All are alive end
well. There are now tea children ia
the family.