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At St. Louis boforo tho Leaguo of
Electrical Interests, Henry L. Daugh
terly bitterly attacked Gilford PInchot
as tho man wlio lias done more to
prevent the dovolopmont of water
'powor than any other. Daugherty is
'tho president of nineteen public sor
( vlco corporations, notably electric
( light and power companies.
Boforo tho Montauk club, celobrat
. lng his seventy-sixth birthday, Sena
' tor Chauncey M. Dopow said: "For
a long life, abounding in good things,
( in a capacity for onjoying everything,
In reciprocal attachments and con
- trlbutioiiB with multitudes of men
and women is moro than my share
of health and happiness, I roverent
.' ly thank God both that I am alive
and that I havo lived."
In a Are which destroyed the Hotel
Thoma, at Cincinnati, six lives were
lost.
"Hard work and right living" was
tho thomo of Thoodoro Roosevelt's
address boforo tho French Academy
,at Paris. Tho ox-president's recep
tion in Paris was marked by great
, onthii8iasm and handsome, entertain
. niont.
Abbott Lawrence Jessons, secre
tary of tho congregation of religious
affairs, at Itomo, has retired. It is
dOClarod that bin ronJfmn Hr tit no ,i
mandod by Cardinal Mnrrv rni vni '
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iua u result or mo abbott's visit to
Theodore Roosovolt following tho
lattor's decision not to visit tho pope.
That some of tho men implicated
in, tho councilmanic scandal In Pitts
, burg havo raised a largo fund to do
, feat tho onds of justice and that tho
.prosont panel from which will be
chosen jurors to hoar tho cases, is
being tamporod with, wore allega
tions mado to tho Pennsylvania su-
?xrr?,mo court by District Attorney
, William A. Blakely of Allegheny
I county. Mr. Blakely mado his charges
: in filing an answer to the petition of
I Max G. Leslie, delinquent tax collec-
tor of Allegheny county, Indicted in
tho scandal, who wants a change of
vonuo.
aviator, for some unexplained reason,
after making a successful now start,
at Iteade, where he made his Urst
landing, descended at Polesworth,
and no advices havo yet reached Lon
don of his having resumed his flight.
Whito was doubly unfortunate in
thus having victory snatched from his
grasp inasmuch as the wrecking of
his machine, after his previous at
tempt, delayed his flight, and yester
day believing that Paulhan would
not start until Thursday morning he
went to sleep, thus allowing his op
ponent to gain a great advantage. A
prizo of $50,000 was donated by Lord
Northcliffe for tho first aeroplane
flight from London to Manchester, a
distance of 18G miles."
The proposed south polar expedi
tion, under the joint auspices of the
Peary Arctic club and the national
geographic society, has been aban
doned for this year.
in shipments now enrouto, Liverpool
firms will be ablo to weather the $2,
000,000 loss from the Knight-Yancey
failure in Decatur, Ala. The cotton
association is urging Liverpool banks
to pay no further drafts from ship
pers who aro charged with frauds.
The frauds have revived the cotton
association's complaint that the
American system of bills of lading
for cotton invites fraud. The asso
ciation will make a formal demand
for the same system as used In the
grain trade."
After puzzling over his case for a
week or ten days the physicians in
attendance upon Sultan Mehemed V.,
of Turkey, have decided that he is
suffering from an attack of the
measles.
Supposed earthquake shocks were
felt in the region of Atlantic City, N.
Jersey., recently.
The Merriam commission, investi
gating charges of graft in the man
agement of the Chicago schools, has
discovered a theft of $55,000 in the
single item of coal during the last
twenty months.
The annual convention of the
United Confederate Veterans was
held at Mobile, Ala., and 50,000 vis
itors watched the parade.
Seven hundred . operatives were
thrown out of work by the closing
down of textile mills at New Orleans,
Fire at Lako Chari T.n
MgonnftPnntwent?i blocks' troyed"
?3, 000, 000 worth of property.
Thn rnmnlnn nf Cmv..,ni t i.
'. i i v 1 "uiuuui u, vjiemons
S Vest in tlle Clei"ens plot
w' " on Monaay of last
WODlC. Tho lArnmnnlnn 4.1.
. ; viuuiiHjo m my grave
' , i i i"1 , AU0 services
(f !10 ld rlck presbyterian church
'Henry Van Dyke.
Tho Chicago Tribune estimates the
losses caused by tho cold weather In
V April to be upwards of $30,000,000
ln the middle west. , '
a A,hJLaon cablegram under date of
April 27 says: "The Frenchman,
Louis Paulhan, whose efforts have
frequently been crowned with vic-
'ryi ,day won th0 greatest race in
the history of mankind and $50 000
when he flew into Manchester at 5:30
o clock this morning, having trav
olod by aeroplane from London, a
distance by railway of more than
180 miles with only a single over
night stop at Litchfield. His com
petitor, Graham Whito, tho English
An Associated Press dispatch from
Washington under date of April 27
says: "Theodore Roosevelt for the
United States senate as successor to
Chauncey M. Depew. This Is the way
the political prophets and wiseacres
in Washington have the situation in
New York state figured out today.
They arrive at this conclusion from
many different viewpoints, but there
is apparently a concensus of opinion
that this suggestion offers a solution
to a multiple of problems confront
ing tho republican party, not only
in the Empire state, but in the na
tion at large. In the general discus
sion of the situation growing out of
the appointment of Governor Hughes
to tho supreme court bench It al
ready has been agreed that his re
tirement from politics leaves Colonel
uoosevoit as ihe probable dictator of
the party in New York state. The
party loaders In Washington roniw
and they believe Mr. Roosevelt wili
come to realize the same thing, that
the exigencies in New York demand
a strong factor in the race this fall
if the republicans are to gain suc
cess at the polls."
Fire at Stflem, Neb., inflicted dam
ages amounting to upwards of
$200,0.00.
A move Is on foot to effect a mer
ger of the Postal Telegraph lines and
the lines of independent telephone
companies. Recently the Western
Union 'Telegraph company and the
Bell Telephone company were
merged.
Fire in the bottling house of a St.
Louis brewery inflicted a loss of
$250,000. Half a million bottles of
beer were destroyed, and several val
uable paintings owned by Edward A.
Faust and stored in the burned build
ing were included in the loss.
Rev. J. H. Booth, pastor of tho
Central Church of Christ, at Center
ville, la., has filed papers as a can
didate for congress In tho Eighth
Iowa district on the democratic
ticket.
A -reduction of twenty-five files in
rank and confinement to tho limits of
his station for six months i& the sen
tence imposed upon Captain G. N;
Murphy, 138th infantry by court
martial. His sentence was received
at Fort Leavenworth. The loss of
twenty-five files Is considered severe.
Captain Murphy was tried two weeks
ago on two charges embezzlement
of $28, and making false entries in
his company fund, and council b6ok.
He -was tried on similar charges Jn
1908'. .' ''.."-
F. D. Coburn, secretary of the Kan
sas state board of, agriculture, re
ports .the condition of the growing
wheat crop of that state as 71 per
cent. The report says that 35 per
cent of the wheat" acreage has been
winter killed. W. M. Maupih, deputy
commissioner of the Nebraska bureau
of labor and industrial statistics, says
tho condition of the 'wheat crop in
Nebraska is better than the report
ed condition in Kansas. While con
siderable wheat was winter killed in
Nebraska, the increased acreage so.wn
last fall will leave the acreage har
vested this season almost as great as
last year. The yield will doubtless
be somewhat curtailed. Miuch of the
wheat acreage in both Kansas and
Nebraska will be plowed up and
either sowed to oats or planted in
corn.
The trial of F. Augustus, Helnzei
charged with, misappropriating "the
An Associated Press dispatch from
Pittsburg, dated April 2G, says: "In
seven wards of the city today, special
elections of select and common coun
cilman were held to fill the places
of the city fathers who resigned after
uuiuB maicieci in connection with the
graft prosecutions. In the Twentieth
ward, George H. Riley, 'one of the
Immaculato six,' in common council
in iyus, when the alleged bribing
was going on, was defeated for com
mon council. Riley, it was testified
In the early part of the graft prose
cution, was one of the six men 'who
could not bo reached.' A unique
feature was also presented in the law
requiring saloons to be closed on
election day. In the present instance
saloons on one side of a street would
be closed, and large- signs hung out
side announced the reason therefor
Across the street in another ward'
where no election was being held, sa
loons did a flourishing business, and
displayed large placards reading. 'Bar
Boys and Girls Send
Post Cards
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address and we will send you
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of April 27 says: "The directors of
the cotton association today said that
if bills of lading frauds are stopped
and there are no further shortages
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