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Daniel W. Lawlor wao oloctod
mayor of St. Paul ovor Joseph Mc
Kibbin. Lawlor was tho democratic
candidate.
Tho people of San Francisco gavo
a groat demonstration May G to the
fleet of Amorlcan warships.
In tho Texas contest ovor the elec
tion of delegates at largo to tho dem
ocratic national convention, tho ticket
headod by Senator Bailey was chosen.
A Guthrio, Okla., dispatch to tho
St. Louis Itopublic, follows: "Gov
ernor Haskell today signed tho strln
gont anti-bucket shop bill, drafted
by'Durnnt, of tho house, and 'Frank
lin, of tho senate. It is modeled
aftor tho Texas law, and absolutely
prohibits trading In futures of any
sort, including hedging contracts. It
does not tako effect for ninety days
tho service for that ship was accept
ed by Captain W. L. Cottman, tho
commandor."
A Chicanro disnatch says: "In
nin'ety-flvo cases brought by tho gov
ernment against six railroad compa
nies charging violation of tho twenty-eight-hour
law for tho transportation
of cattlo, Federal Judge Landls, the
judgo who imposed tho $29,240,000
Standard Oil fine, imposed fines ag
gregating $18,150. Tho rallroadB
wofe the Chicago, Rock Island and
Pacific, forty-flvo cases, fined $6,550;
Chicago and Northwestern, twenty
six cases, $3, GOO; Illinois Central,
nine cases, $1,100; Chicago, Milwau
keand St Paul, seven, cases, $950;
ivtwuiBon, 'luiJOKtt u uu oauiu r o, tux. i
cases, $750, and Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy, two cases, $200. The
majority1 of the fines werd Imposed
on pleaB of guilty, but in all cases
the Chicago and Northwestern plead
ed not guilty."
A Pittsburg, Pa., dispatch under
date of May 7 follows: "William
Montgomery, cashier of tho Alle
gheny National bank for twenty
years, was arrested today on a
chargo of embezzling $420,000 of the
bank's funds. Ho was arraigned be
fore United States Commissioner
Lindsay tonight and held for tho
federal grand jury under a bond of
$50,000, which was furnished. Tho
financial standing of the bank is In
no way aJoctod by tho defalcation, as
it is in a position to bear tho loss
without embarrassment. The al
leged defalcation was discovered and
tho complaint filed by National Bank
Examiner William L. Folds. Soon
after tho close of banking hours the
warrant was issued and the arrest
followed."
for the peace, order ond welfare of
the earth-wide British Empire. It
was a great charge there la but one
In the world equal or gr eater and
wo may bo euro that amid all the
plaudit's nono was more grateful to
Henry Campbell-Bannerman than tho
proud smile of Charlotte, his wife.
In less than a year she waa gone
from his side for tho first time In
forty-six years. The steadfast man
went on he could not do otherwise
but the Joy of life and what made
it really worth while had gone with
her. He must have felt the truth
that an old English poet has sung:
The glories of1 our blood and state
Are Bhadows, not substantial
things;
There Is no armor against fate;
Death, lays his icy hand on kings;
Scepter and crown
Must tumble down,
And in the dust be equal made
With the poor crooked scythe and
spade.
In these days when we hear so
much of the troubles of men and
their wiveswhen it sometimes seems
as if fidelity had become unknown
among the conspicuous when we
are even told that no love of man and
woman really endures it is well that
our eyes be turned to some conspicu
ous example of the everlasting and
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Tho Indianapolis Nows prints this
Interesting story: "Dr. M. R. Combs,
one of Terre Haute's best known
physicians, is recovering from pneu
monia, and tho medical fraternity say
that his life was saved "by heroic
treatment, of which there is no rec
ord of a Uke caBe. A freezing water
bath was given him at tho moment
be was thought to bo dying to shock
tho respiatory centres and thus re
store respiration. Cold water baths
Iri cases of fever are frequently ad
iininistored to lower the temperature,
but Dr. Combs' temperature was nor
mal. He was kept in the bath three
hours. The death rattle coased after
a short time following the immersion
and respiration soon became stronger.
Tho entire staff of Union hospital had
been interested and assisted in the
fight for his life when, at tho critical
stage, Dr. Niblack suggested tho Ice
water bath."
Atlanta, Ga was visited by a groat
fire May 8. Damage Is estimated at
$1,500,000, two solid blocks in the
business section of tho city being
destroyed.
i A San Francisco dispatch, under
date, of .May 8, says: "Silver services
were presented this afternoon to the
battleship Nebraska and the armored
cruiser California. Governor Shel-
don of Nebraska made the presonta-
, tlon speech on board the Nebraska.
Tho service was accepted by Captain
iR. F. NichQlsonamid the cheers of
' the ofllcers. At the conclusion of
the brief formal speeches, tho health
: of the stato and a hearty good luck
to the battleship in time of peace or
' war, were drunk., Governor J. N.
Gillette made tho presentation
speech on tho cruiser California and
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman,
Prime Minister of Great Britain from
Doc. 4, 1905, until April 5 of this
year, died on Wednesday, his nearest
friends say chiefly because life no
longer seemed worth while to him
without the wife who had walked by
his side from his youth and obscurity
until he had reached the ultimate"
goal of a British statesman's ambi
tion, The tale is entirely credible to
those who have watched from the dis
tance that often gives" clearness' of
mental sight Henry Campbell-Ban-herman's
career, have judged him by
the men of similar character among
their acquaintance, and know what
suoh, men feel are the really impor
tant things of life to them.
His British contemporaries speak
much of Henry Campbell-Banner-man's
unfailing good humor, and that
impossibility of irritating him into
hasty speech or action which caused
his impatient Irish colleagues at one
time to term him "tho Scottish sand
bag." To those at a distance his
most striking trait of character
seemed his steadfastness.
A man who could succeed in repre
senting one constituency for forty
years who through all tho ups and
downs of his party and the successes
and failures of the governments for
which it was responsible was always
and invariably "the member for Stir
ling must have been one to whom
his fellow men who knew him best
gave their unchanging confidence.
And that sort of confidence is given
only to men of whom it is felt, with
the conviction of experience, that in
the homely phrase of tho dwellers by
our Western rivers "they will do to
tie to."
When ho was 24, tho younger son
of a Scottish laird, not rich as yet
ana years away from fame, Henry
Campbell and Charlotte Bruce agreed
to go through life together hand in
hand. Wealth came from an uncle
who would seem to have foreseen by
whom it would be well used. And
through all the political vicissitudes
of his party and its great leader.
Honry Campbell-Bannerman went
steadfastly on, Charlotte, his wife, al
ways with him, sharing successes and
failures, joy and sorrows always to
gether. And in time the steadfast and
faithful follower came to be acknow
ledged leader, and at last unnn bin
shoulders was laid the burden of re
sponsibility fo.- the government, not
only of his- native country, but also
lies.
here, in tho steadfast man who felt
his honors and the world's applause
but ashes and dust, because the wife
of his youth was no longer by his
side to share them. Chicago Inter-Ocean.
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THE COST OF STEEL
An article on "The Cost and the
Profits of Steel Making in the United
States" in the last Quarterly Journal
of "Economics .gives some Interesting
information. The writer says that
the United States steel corporation
can put down ore at Pittsburg for
about $3 for a ton of ore. The coko
and limestone cost ' less than $3,
while the labor and maintenance
charges at the furnace cost $1. Thus
tho total cost of production of a ton
of iron does not exceed $8, and yet
for many months in 19 0G and 1907
the prevailing price of iron was $20
a ton. That was the price paid by
the steel maker who was unable to
make his own iron.
Tho cost of converting pig Iron to
steel is $7 a ton in the less efficient
plants in some parts of the country,
but at Pittsburg it is about $4. The
rolling of rails from ingots costs $2
in a modern mill. Thus the total
cost of a ton of rails Is not to exceed
$15. The steel trust could sell at
$16 a ton if it had to, but it demands
and gets $28 a ton.
There is a duty of three-tenths of
1 cent a pound, or $6.72 a long ton,
on steel. Manifestly the United
States steel corporation does not
stand in need of the protection the
duty gives. That corporation can
manufacture more cheaply -than its
American competitors because of its
ownership of ore beds and coke
ovens and because the labor onnt in
less In its great plants than in their
smaller ones. But even the steel
makers with Inferior facilities do not
need so much protection as is given
by the present duty on steel, a duty
which contributes to the enormous
profits which the steel trust is mak
ing. It should not be allowed to
iorce American railroads to pay $28
a ton for rails when it could make
a handsome profit by selling at $20.
In 1906 the steel corporation manu
factured 13,500,000 tons of steel
ingots and each ton contributed
nearly $12 to the net earnings' of
the corporation. The steel consum
ers of the company had to pay ex
cessive prices in order that such a
showing might bo , made. Chicago
Tribune.
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