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A London cablegram to tho
Louisvillo Courier-Journal says:
"That the caliber of students sent to
Oxford from the United States under
tho Rhodes scholarship scheme is
poor was the statement of Dr. George
R.- Parkin, executive secretary of the
Rhodes Scholarship trust.
A translation of tho King James
version of tho Bible into modern
English by the American Baptist
Publication society in Chicago has
caused a stir among pastors.
A dispatch to the Louisville
Courier-Journal says: Examina
tion by specialists of students of
Highland college, in Breathitt coun
ty, disclosed that 90 per cent were
afflicted with the hookworm disease.
An Associated Press dispatch from
Salt Lake City says: Eight votes in
the electoral college for .vice presi
dent may be cast for a woman, Mrs.
Margarette Zeane-Witcher, of Salt
Lake City, if the wishes of Eph
Homer, one of the republican elect
ors chosen in this state, prevails.
Mrs. Witcher is herself an elector
and might be averse to casting her
vote in her own behalf, but there is
more than - a possibility that Mr.
Homer may persuade his two male
colleagues from Utah to vote for her
and will seek the support of Ver
mont, the other state to be repre
sented in the college by republican
electors. Mrs. Witcher is a daugh
ter of C. P. Zeane, former chief
justice of the supreme court of Utah.
An Augusta,' Ga., dispatch, says:
Thomas E. Watson, at ouo time
presidential candidate of tho popu
list party, now editor and publisher
of the Watson's Jefferaouian, was
indicted by a federal grand jury on a
charge of sending obscene matter
through tho United States mails.
The charges were presented in
connection with articles which ap
peared in the magazine under Mr.
Watson's signature, bitterly arraign
ing Catholicism. These articles wore
characterized by the grand jury as
too "obscene, filthy and improper to
be spread on the court records."
In the federal court at St. Louis,
the jury disagreed as to tho guilt
of E. G. Lewis, charged with using
the mails wrongfully. The jury was
discharged.
A New York dispatch, carried by
the Associated Press, says: Tho
federal government called for trial in
the United States district court here
what it considers one of its most im
portant cases growing out of alleged
misuse of the lails. It Involves the
integrity of tho so-called Hawthorne
group of mining stocks and brings
to the bar as defendants men of na
tional reputation. They are five in
number Julian Hawthorne, son of
tho novelist, Nathaniel Ilawthorno;
Josiah Quincy, former mayor of Bos
ton and assistant secretary of state
In tho Cleveland administration;
Albert Freoman, a promoter, Dr.
William J. Norton, a nerve pc3ciallst,
and John McKinnan, secretary-troas-uror
of the Hawthorne companies.
All were engaged directly or In
directly in tho stock of tho
Hawthorno silver anil Iron minim?
companies and other concorns and
were indicted in New York In
January last for allogod use of tho
mails to defraud investors.
Tho government contends that at
least $3,000,000 accrued from the
salo of securities; that sales were
offected through misrepresentation
of tho character of tho properties,
and that notwithstanding promises,
no dividends have been paid.
The defendants maintained they
have been tho victims of a ruthless
crusade on tho part of tho post-ollico
department. Before the case was
called a statement was issued In their
behalf In part as follows:
"The defendants contend that the
primary cause of tho suspension of
operations at their mines Is tho ac
tion of tho post-ofiice department, in
stituted two and a half years ago and
vigorously prosecuted ever sinco,
destroying confidence of stockhold
ers, their investment and in tho man
agement, thus compelling tho direc
tors to suspend operations until the
government case could bo disposed
of. The defendants contend that the
Hawthorne mining enterprises were
undertaken in good faith and were
based upon geological and mineral
conditions which gave sufficient
grounds for expecting the success of
mining operations and the stock of
the mining companies was offered to
the public with notice of its specula
tive character and of tho rluke of
mining prospects."
Moro specifically, tho action of tho
government In based on tho alleged
misrepresentation and tho falao
statomonls contained In tho litera
ture ont through tho malls concern
ing mines of tho continental syndi
cate located In Canada. Tho gov
ernment alleges these mines are out
side the silver producing belt at Co
balt and this fact was suppressed in
tho circulars and lottora sent out.
A terrlblo hurricane swept Ja
maica, and moro than ono hundred
persons wero killotl.
John Schrank, who shot Thcodoro
HooHQvelt, was declared insane and
committed to an asylum,
A New York dispatch, carried by
tho Associated Press says: "Dam"
fell from tho lips of Judge Coxo In
tho United States court of appeals,
as ho scrutinized the court calendar.
Tho startled clerk took tho papor tho
judge handed to him. Then tho
clerk, too, said "Dam." But ho got
no further. With the air of a man
who gives up guessing he called
"No. 17." Tho case up for trial was
"Dampstlesacktllztspabot vs. tho
United Fruit company." It Is known
as tho cmo of "Tho Alphabot vs.
United Fruit."
An Associated PreHs dispatch from
Springfield, 111., says: Insurgont
Woodmen won an Important victory
when Judgo Robert S. Shirley, In tho
Sangamon circuit court, granted their
plea for a perpetual Injunction re
straining tho head officers from put
ting Into effect the proposed rate in
crease. The decision affects moro
than a million members throughout
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