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CHURCHES MAY RUN DANCES , in QittuUit : i - Jfc-ins nt . proposition ia under svy in .bv scvcraJ o ? tht churches , by which they hope to provide four halls in whvch to Siold dances for the young people who now frequent the public dance halls of the city. It is planned to hold these dances a week and to have in attendance [ night oue of the church women , who be interested in this work for the .young people. Rev. B. H. Bell is at the 5iead of the plan. With a party of newspaper people , and mntler the protecting wing of two city de tectives , Rev. Mr. Bell visited the dance "Sails of Omaha and remained until a late Ihour to study the conditions under which | many young people take their Saturday j I Tnight amusement. After these visits rene of the detectives inquired : "What are you going to do ? They've got to have some amusement , these young folks.Many of the girls have no homes j where they care to invite their company and there is no place for them but the -dance halls and the parks and the thea ters. Why don't the churches get to gether on this question f.nd provide some wholesome amusement for these young ipeople ? " "We are planning to do this , " said Mr. TBeil. "We hope to establish at least four 5ialls in Omaha , where young people may . ; go to 'dance decently and in order. Danc- aug is a natural amusement for young Hieople and I am heartily in favor of it. But the romping and hugging which I Jhavc seen to-night is not dancing. If we " stablish our dance halls , as we hope to < Io , ' we' will have ladies in charge of the Sails who will look after the young people , ' sind sec that everything is conducted decently - i cently and in order. We recognize the fact that they must have proper recrca- ' j tion and that we must provide something Sfaetter in the place of these dance halls. * We hope to lay this matter before the j Omaha Women's Club and have their co operation in the matter. " Striking shirtmakers in Trenton , N. .J. , have decided to start a shirt company , with a capital stock of ? 25,000. East Liverpool , Ohio , with a popula tion of 22,000 , is one of the most strongly organized cities in the United States. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire- smeu has appropriated $1,000 for the ben efit of the Western Federation of Miners. Nou-uuiou garment workers in many of jthe shops of New York State have struck i for better conditions , and are asking to 3)e allowed to affiliate with the union. Recent statistics indicate that the total tirade union membership of Great Britain sind of the United States closely approx- /imate. The similitude ceases here , how- | Ac-vcr , as in the British Parliament labor lias 50 commoners. Max S. Hayes , writing of the printers' trike in the International Socialist , says that So per cent of the printers are now | -working on the eight-hour day , or about i -40,000 out of a total of 45,000. About I S.OOO are still on strike , and 3,000 , either iby agreement or other reasons , have not joined the movement. Two unidn iron molders were arrested 3n Minneapolis for an alleged assault i When the case came to trial they were -found absolutely innocent. Two private detectives for the non-union foundry , who .arrested the union men , were at once put on trial f < Jr assault , found guilty and sentenced to GO days each in the work house. Justice with a cap J that time. i Chinese residents at Panama are stren- tiously opposing the introduction of coolie 1 iabor , on the ground that the climatic con ) ditions are such that a heavy death rate I is sure to follow. Every political party in California has declared for the strict maintenance of the Chinese exclusion act , -without modification of any kind , and for the extension of the act so as to exclude Japs and Koreans. j From the Colonial Printer and Sta tioner , of London , England , it is learned that there is a movement on foot by the members of the Manchester branch of the typographical association which has for its object the increasing of wages for both liand and machine composition. The em ployes point out that the existing scale of washes in the Manchester district has prevailed for 32 years. In 1S9G the em ployes were granted a shorter workday , with no reduction in the wage scale. \ The Rhode Island State bureau of in dustrial statistics has issued its annual report for 1905. It shows that the num- l > er of wage earners has increased nearly 10 per cent over 190i , with 59,438 as against 54,189 the previous year. In the same period the total wages paid increas ed more than 11 per cent , from $22,630- 530 to ? 25,13G,300. An even greater in crease is shown in the value of products j with a gain of 1C per cent , the figures . showing $12G,440,252 in 1905 , as com : pared with $109,140,753 in 1904. The Michigan Supreme Court recently ! .gave the following decision of importance To all trade unions : "Workiugmen have } Ihe right to fix a price upon their labor and to refuse work unless that price is obtained. Singly or in combination , they . have this right. They may use persua sion to induce men to join their organiza tion or refuse to work except for an es tablished wage. They may present their -cause to the public in newspapers or cir culars , in a peaceable way and with no ! .attempt at coercion. If the effect iu such ' SL case is ruin to the employer , it is dam- j num absque injuria , for they have ouly ! exercised their legal rights. " The report made at the New Eugland label conference of cigarmskers' unions at Portland the other day were most in teresting. It was shown that there is ) but one non-union cigar factory in all , Xew England and that there are but 20 cigarmakers employed in the six States who are not members of the union. Net a child is working in any cigar factory in New England. The New England confer ence alone spent $20,000 on label agita I tion and advertising. The aggregate I gpent by the local unions in addition i/ j estimated at probably $200,000. DOGS TO AID POLICE. CRIME-RIDDEN CHICAGO CONSID ERING THE IDEA. Believes" They "Would Drive Out Hold-Up Men Cost Five Cents a Day Successfully Employed in Europe. Chicago correspondence : The use of dogs to rid Chicago of hold up men and of the creatures who terrify and slay helpless women is the sugges tion put forth by Capt. P. D. O'Brien , head of the city detective bureau. In it many persons see a possible solution of the puzzling problem , how to get rid of the desperadoes who are a menace to life and property in the city. It has there fore met with popular favor and the city officials are being urged at least to ex periment with , if not adopt it The adop tion of the plan would serve the double purpose of affording protection and rid ding the community of a growing nui sance. Besides , Capt. O'Brien believes it would check graft on the force. The experience of Ghent , Antwerp , Paris and other cities proves that dogs thus employed would cost the city only five cents each per day. For the regu lar , night patrolman's work Capt. O'Brien would have the best Belgian sheep dogs , Biards and Groennedaels , while St. Ber nards would be used as life savers along the lake and river and in the parks , and the bloodhounds would constitute the de tective force , to be used in trailing down criminals after a crime is committed. 3apt. O'Brien's schema is not a theory , aor does he claim any credit for original ity in it. He simply lias made a study of the methods of the French , German and Belgian police dogs , and he believes that , sooner or later , Chicago will adopt the jystcm and train dogs to be the compan- ons and assistants of the night patrolmen aid the night squadron of detectives. From an experiment attempted by the ) urgomaster of the thief-ridden city of Jhcut , the use of dogs was proved success ful. Thereafter dogs were trained and added to the force until now every patrol man in the outlying districts of the city , or in the dangerous districts , is accom panied by a dog , and the results so as tounded the police students in Europe that the idea has been adopted in dozens of cities. According to the reports of the municipalities of Belgium a trained , dog , iccompanied by a patrolman , accomplishes the work of two ordinary patrolmen aiid he and his master can do the work and cover the grouud thoroughly more thoroughly than four men alone could cover it. Freed of Thieves. So successful was the experiment in Ghent that , within a few months after the addition of dogs to the force , the thieves and criminals , after trying des perately to poison or otherwise kill the police dogs , gave up the efforts. The city now is declared to be clearer of crime than any city of its size in the world , and the arrest record shows that , with trained dogs , a patrolman can make captures which otherwise might cause need for a dozen men. "Chicago , " said one student of Euro pean police methods , who is enthusiastic in his support of Capt. O'Brien's idea , "could adopt the Belgian dog police idea with better effect tEan any big city in the world. The wide spread of the city , its great open spaces , the huge territory which makes it practically impossible for the present force to cover it thoroughly , the great railway yards , the docks and such places should be made safe by the use of dogs. In Antwerp , where I saw the dogs used , the idea came to me that dogs would solve Chicago's police prob lem better and cheaper than anything else. We have in Chicago more dogs than any city in the world , not excepting Con- stantinople , where they are used as scav engers , and most of them are useless and dangerous. " "Would Keep Out Creoles. "The fact that dogs wee on the force , " says Capt. O'Brien , "would have a big effect on crooks and criminals of all kinds. The dogs would be in charge' patrolmen and would be taught to catch criminals or disturbers by the back of the leg and hold them. Police dogs are taught that their only friends are the po lice , and that they must always look upon all others as their enemies. Further more , they are trained never to touch or eat any bone meat , or other substance thej' find while on their rounds. The dogs are trained to follow criminals over streams , fences ar l all sorts of broken ground , one of the police acting as the j criminal and fleeing before the dog. The ( young dogs arc trained and broken by the . use of the old ones , and in two months a , dog of good breeding and intelligence is j a capable officer. The dogs are kept iu | kennels , specially prepared , at the rear | of the bureaus of police. Always when ; on duty they wear a tight tin muzzle , so fixed that the moment the pathrolman iu charge of them looses the leas' * the niuz- zle drops off and the dog is ready for ac- tion. "It is wonderful to see how intelligent the dogs become in police duties. They can tell , seemingly by instinct , a thief or robber. Their intuition is keener often than that of their masters. There is another - other thing the dogs keep the patrol- I men from loitering on duty , and keep them moving. " The city authorities , in view of the inability of the police to deal with criminal - inal conditions here , are considering the suggestion and it may be adopted. Sleep Disease Puzzle Solved. Prof. F. G. Novy of the university of Michigan is said to have identified the germ of the "deadly African disease known as the sleeping fever , thus solving ttie problem which had baffled Koch , the great German bacteriologist. Prof. Novy will to find a curative antitoxin. To Pay Earthquake Losses. The San Francisco chamber of com merce has made partial estimates.of . the fire losses as the result of the recent jarthquake and finds that only forty-one insurance companies have paid prompt ind full claims. 35,000 Autos in a Year. At a recent gathering of makers of au tomobile parts it was estimated that the number of automobiles made in the Unit- sd States from Sept 1 , 1905 , to Sept 1 , 1906 , was 35,000 , of which 32,000 were gasoline cars. Professor James Laurence Laughlln , who says that if the United States , floes not enter into a reciprocity treaty LXUGHLTN. He was born at Deerfield , Ohio , in 1S50 , was graduated from Harvard .in 1873 and since that time has had a notable career as teach er and author. In 1895 he prepared f-or the government of Sail Domingo a scheme of monetary reform that sub sequently was adopted. Professor Laughliu was a member of the mone tary commission appointed by the Indi anapolis monetary conference in ISO" , and is considered an authority on mon- j ary subjects. . - * - ' Princeton , ImL , has a preacher who believes in printers' ink. The town has three daily papers and every Saturday Rev. H. G. Otto , pastor of the Chris tian Church , runs a display "ad" in these papers invit ing the people to come and hear his sermon on the fol lowing Sabbath. His "ads" are written iu an attractive way and Rev. Mr. Otto siys : his attendance EEV. H. G. OTTO. has greatly increased since he began to use printers' ink. Rev. Mr. Otto says a church has as much right to adver tise as anything else and he thinks the time will come when other churches will advertise their wares. In this day and age he thinks a preacher who does not advertise is behind the times. Rev. Dr. Sheldon Jackson , , general agent of the United States in charge of education in Alaska , has had note riety thrust upon him in a manner that has been any thing but agreeable , The doctor , how ever , makes a flat denial of the charge that government funds have been di verted toward the support of secta rian missions in Alaska and that he BEV. DB. JACKSON. . . . jg responsiblc op the official crookedness. The accusation was made by Frank C. Churchill , a special agent of the Interior Depart ment , who was sent to Alaska to in vestigate. No one , not even the offi cials of the government , believes that the doctor an estimable man is any thing more than the victim of an unfor tunate mistake. v * , Brigadier General John J. Pershing , who attained his new rank from a cap taincy by order of President Roose- volh mvps his nrp- ferment to the sol dierly qualities dis played at San Juan and in the cam paign in the Phil- , ippines. General Pershing jumps over the heads of nearly 1,000 officers who ranked him as'- ' ' captain , which has' ' stirred up quite a with Germany the latter country Aviil declare a prohibi tive tariff against American pro ducts , has been chief of the depart ment of political economy iu the University of Chicago cage since 1892. muss in the army.GEN- - J- General Pershing was in the West Point class of 1SSG and has repeatedly distinguished himself in the service during native insurrections. He vir tually subdued the insurrection of Min danao. * _ - - - John W. Yerkes , commissioner of - internal ternal revenue , who has issued the department - _ partment regulations controlling the" making and han dling of denatured alcohol , is enthusi astic in his predic tions"of what it will accomplish in the industrial world as an agent of light , heat and power. Mr. Yer- kes is preparing jf w. YERKES. for an increased force , especially iu field and chemical work , to carry out the new regulations. "Wife Baptizes Husband. The unusual spectacle of a woman evangelist baptizing her husband was wit nessed at Kokomo , Ind. , when Mrs. May Foster completed a series of revival meeet- ings by baptizing thirty persons in the river. Her husband was the last of the thirty to receive the rite. Si lie Industry in Oklahoma. George E. Gardner , who is acknowledg ed in Oklahoma to be the corn king be cause of his successful efforts In develop ing corn-raising in that part of the coun try , has begun the cultivation of the white mulberry tree , to develop the raw silk in dustry. Already he has a number of silk Worms feeding on the mulberry leaves and ac work spinning cocoons , and Kas sub mitted samples of the thread to Secre tary Wilson. The Duchess of D'Aosta made a balloon ascension from Milan , Italtr. GREAT LOSS OF LIEE. TERRIBLE WORK OF WEST , N DIAN HURRICANE. Cuba , San Salvador and Key * O * Florida Coast Are Dev Hlatcd Xumber of Persons Killed Esti mated at S73. Loss of Life in Hurricane. At Elliott's Key 275 Off Bahama Islands 50 Off Miami 28 At Havana 20 Total dead 373 Hundreds , perhaps thousands , of lives have been lost in a 'terrific hurri cane which swept from the coast of Venezuela on the south to the Florida coast on. the north , and which raged 200 miles out on the Atlantic ocean. So far as known the greatest loss of life was off the Florida coast. At Elliott Key a great tidal wave inun dated the island. The 250 inhabitants were swept into the sea. From appar ently reliable reports received the dev astation on Elliott Key was complete , every living being perishing in the flood. A barge containing 100 refugees from a neighboring key , which had anchored in the ice of Elliott island , was struck by , the tidal wave and swept out to sea. Fifty of those on board were eithefc swept into the sea or killed by the force of the wave. The survivors were carried on the crest of the wave fat out and were picked up late yesterday off the Bahama islands. Many of the survivors were in a serious state as the result of their experience and some may die. The extension steamer St. Lucie , which plies between one of the keys and Miami , was caught in the storm and sought the lee of Elliott key to ride it out. The St. Lucie was caught in the tidal wave which swept over the key and driven ashore , with the loss -twenty-eight persons and the wounding of a number of others. Northern Cuba , especially the prov inces of Havana and Pinar del Rio , felt the full force of the hurricane which raged there for over twenty hours , the wind at one time attaining a velocity of 120 miles an hour. Great damage was done in the city of Havana and to the shipping in the harbor and twenty lives were lost by the collapse of houses. In the republic of San Salvador many lives were lost in 'a terrific storm which raged over the country for ten days. In many instances the' topog raphy of the country has been changed and the bodies of dead persons and cattle are floating down the swollen streams. The Chinese Reform Edict. Since the publication of the imperial edict , which commits the Chinese govern ment to a modernizing policy of the laws , officials of all classes have taken a hand in the new movement. Forecasting by lot any of the temples has been prohibited by the chief of police of the inner city oi Pekin , and Viceroy Tuan Shir- Kai haa stopped the celebration of the Haulu fes tival on the ground of extravagance. The commission , which recently visited Europe and America , has asked the empress dow ager to remove the eunuchs from the pal ace on account of their evil influence. The constitutional government is to be estab lished as soon as the public mind can be prepared for it. In the text of the im perial edict occurs the following naive passages : "Since the beginning of our dy nasty , there have been wise emperors , who have made laws suited to the _ times. Now that China has intercourse with all nations , our laws and political system have become antiquated , and our country is always in trouble. Therefore it is necessary for us to gather more knowledge and draw up a new code of laws ; other wise we shall be unworthy of the trust ol our forefathers and the people. " Report on Tuberculosis. Dr. Lawrence F. Flick , director of tht Henry Phipps institute for the study , pre vention and treatment of tuberculosis , al Philadelphia , and his staff , have publish ed an exhaustive report of their re searches for two years , containing the latest revelations of science concerning the disease commonly known as consumption. It is found that negroes are far more susceptible than whites , and that the class designated as houseworkers has the greatest number of victims. The negroes are particularly dangerous to the commu nity because they constitute the servant class and are brought into intimate asso ciation with other people. As a general rule there in a close association between the death rate of tuberculosis and indooi life , hardship and want. To Investigate Capitol Scandal. State Treasurer Berry of Pennsylvania , after refusing to honor bills for the ex travagant trimmings of the new state capitol , put Gov. Pennypacker and Audi tor Snyder on record by asking them defin itely what authority they had to author ize the architect to spend $9,000,000 on trimmings and furnishings after the build ing had been declared completed , with the expenditure of the original $4,000,000 appropriation. Both Pennypacker and Snyder refused to answer , and Berry pressed his belief that from $2,000,000 tc $4,000,000 was expendad in excess of what should have been spent. It waa ex pected that the matter would be brought into court by refusal to O. K. biHs. A Business of ? 107OOOOOOOOO. The annual report of the New York clearing house for the year ending Sept. 30 shows transactions amounting to $107,721,580,115. The total of balances for the year was $3,832,621,023 , a gain of over $20,000,000 as compared with last year. Alexander Gilbert president of tha Market and Fulton national bank , was elected president of the association , while Albert H. Wiggin , vice president of the Chase national bank , was made .secretary and Manager William J. Gilpin waa re * elected. ' 1529 Siege of Vicuna abandoned by the Turks. 1610 First Duke of Ormonde , chief sup- i porter of the Stuart cause in Ire land , born. Died July 21 , 168S , 1G22 Peaceof Montpelier , euding the ! Huguenot wars. 172S City of Copenhagen , Denmark , nearly destroyed by fire. . i 1775 Continental Congress adopted the Pine Tree Flay. 1777 Gen. Gates defeated Gen. Bur- goyne at Saratoga. 1779 End of siege at Savannah , Ga. 1781 Americans and British opened bat tle at Yorktown , Va. 17S3 American Congress voted to disband ' band tha Revolutionary army OB Nor. 2. 1797 Bonaparte and Austrian Emperor concluded treaty of Campo Formio. 1S06 Battle of Halle. ' ! 1812 Second battle of Poltosk. . .French military forces abandoned Moscow. 1813 Bonaparte defeated at Leipsic. 1815 Island of Jamaica devastated by a hurricane. 1826 Last lottery sanctioned by the Eng lish government held. 1834 Old Houses of Parliament , Lon- I I don , burned. 1842 Grace Darling died. 1848 Mormon temple at Nauvoo , 111. , destroyed. 1856 Fatal panic at the Surrey Gardens music hall in London. 1SG2 The Confederate , Gen. Morgan , oc cupied Lexington , Ky. 1863 Departments of the " Cumberland and Mississippi consolidated and j placed under command of Gen. Grant. 1S64 Gen. Sheridan victor at battle of Cedar Creek , Va. 1871 President Grant suspended writ of habeas corpus in nine counties of South Carolina. 1874 Marriage of Gen. Frederick D. Grant and Miss Ida M. Honore. j i ' 1S9S Spanish evacuation of Porto Rico officially completed. 1S99 Arthur T. Hadley assumed the presidency of Yale University Rev. Dr. W. H. P. Faunce installed as president of Brown University. . . Boers defeated by the British at bat tle of Dundee Hill. 1901 Bi-centennial of Yale University celebrated. 1902 Lord Kitchener appointed to com- maod the British forces in India. . . Typhoon on coast of Japan ; 50,000 houses destroyed Total eclipse of the moon. 1903 Cresceus trotted mile in 1:59 : % . . . Alaskan boundary fixed. 1904 President Roosevelt invited powers to second peace conference at The ] Hague President directed Secre tary Taft to go to Panama to reas sure people of the pacific intentions of the United States. 1905 President Roosevelt departed , from Washington on a tour of the Southern States. RANCHES BECOME CITIES. Fortunes Beiiis Made in Transform ing ? Texas Panlinitdle. j The western laud fever which some ; years ago attacked Oklahoma and then shifted to Canada , is now tzr&f virulent- lv in Texas. In the last tw&ears "prac tically all the bly ranches in the Texas Panhandle have been bought by land com panies. These have arranged with the railroads to run excursion trains from as far east as Indianapolis at half fare. Their eastern agents gather up the farm ers who will come , and these are all bunched at Kansas City , Wichita or El Reno , and there westerners who know the land thoroughly and can talk a mum my into a purchase take charge. Amarillo , Texas , is the 'center of the big land boom. Two years ago it was a , cattle shipping point , the center of the gigantic LX ranch , with set-era ! hun dred inhabitants. To-day it has 8,000. and nightly people have to sleep on the streets for lack of accommodations. The old ranch was 27 miles wide and GO long , and was all under fence. There were 1.200 sections , or nearly 770,000 acres. The company bought the land originally for 29 cents an acre. The land boom in the Panhandle be gan when tfce company that owned the ranch divided it up into sections and be gan offering it at from $1,500 to $2,500 a section. A fourth of the land is yet un sold , but the company has gathered in six millions for the land disposed of. Its sale value is now from $10 to $20 an acre. There are other big ranches in the Panhandle , out in the Big Pasture , as they call it. These are all being cut up and offered to the hungry land seekers. There'll be a lot of dead towns in the Panhandle when the bottom drops out of this boom , as it will ; but while it lasts the folks are having a good time. Men who had nothing a few years ago are rich now. Two-thirds of the business blocks are occupied by land agents. _ J From Far and Kear. i Mrs. Lydia W. Clark died in Victoria , ] ; N. J. , aged 97 years , leaving ninety-seven i ' descendants. | Gov. Magoon reports finding over 1,600 | insane in the national asylum at Havana i in quarters built for not to exceed 400. CHANGES IN CABINET. SHIFT IN PRESIDED for FAMILY PLANNED. I Oscar S. Straus and George "Von. I * . Meyer Will Take Office Whc * Shaw and Moody Step Oat Pcr- Honncl ot Reorganized Body. President Roosevelt announced Tuea day night the reorganization of his cabinet made necessary by the retire ment of Attorney General Moody Jan , 1 and the retirement of Secretary Shawr of the Treasury Department March 4. The two new cabinet ministers will b& George V. I/ . Meyer , now ambassador to Russia , as postmaster general ami Oscar S. Straus of New York as secre tary of Commerce and labor. Messrs. Cortelyou , Bonaparte and Metcalf will have new portfolios. The rorganized cabinet will be as follows : Secretary of State EHhu Root of Nevr York. Secretary of the Treasury George B" Cortelyou of New York. Secretary of War William H. Taft ol Ohio. Attorney General Charles J. Bona parte of Maryland. Postmaster General George von L * Meyer of Massachusetts. Secretary of the Navy Victor H. Met calf of California. Secretary of the Interior Ethan Allen Hitchcock of Missouri. Secretary of Agriculture James Wil son of Iowa. Secretary of Commerce and Labor- Oscar Solomon Straus of New York. Mr. Straus is a well-known New York merchant who was formerly a. Democrat , but left the party on the free silver question , and has been a Republican since. He was minister to- Turkey under Cleveland's second ad ministration and was reappoiuted by McKinley. Mr. Straus is a Jew , and his appointment is remarkable from , the fact that he is the first Jew to bo a member of the cabinet of the United- States. BURTON IS IN JAIL. Former Senator Incarcerated In Ironton ( Mo. ) Prison. Ex-Senator J. Ralph Burton , the first United States Senator ever convicted ot a crime while holding a seat in the Sen ate , has begun hig term in jail at Iron- ton , Mo. The high est court in the land refused to intervene to save him from the six months' sen tence imposed for having used his sen- a t o r i a 1 influence with the Postoffica Department to pre vent the issuance oi j. E. BURTON. a fraud order against the Rialto Grain and Securities Company , a get- rich-quick concern which fiourishe'd in Missouri a few years ago. When Burton , at that time a United States Senator from Kansas , was con victed of the crime of using his official station to make money unlawfully , it was said that he would never be punished for his offense. He himself believed it would be possible to obtain immunity for his acts and that the humiliation and discom fort of serving a term in prison would not be his. Immediately after. , his con viction an appeal was made to the higher courts and it went as far as the United States Supreme Court. It had the effect of delaying his punishment , but the Su preme Court denied his petition for a re hearing in the case , and the ex-Senator has begun his term in. the little prison. Riots Sop French Races. The throng of spectators at the Long- champs course near Paris , last Sunday , was thrown into a panic by a riot in the betting ring , which culminated in the burning of the booths and the calling out of soldiers and firemen to save property end restore 6rder. The rioters retreated when the soldiers arrived , but much dam age had already been done. The disturb ance was brought aiiout by a bad start in the free handicap which left the favor ite and three other horses at the post and enabled an outsider to win the race. The government next day took cognizance of the riot by announcing that there would be no more racing this season. "Washington on Race Riots. In his address at the closing of the National Afro-American council at New York , Booker T. Washington spoke of the critical condition of the race problem in the South since the riots at Atlanta. . He condemned strongly violence as a re prisal of violence. He declared that the negro race must stand together in defense of its rights , and urged the importance of the northern negro making the best possible sample of what the race could attain to. He pleaded for eaual privi leges , and insisted that if arms were per mitted to be used by one race a like priv ilege should be conceded to th olhr. Paris Dames Discarding ; Corsets. There prevails at present an unprece dented corset crusade among the fashion able women of Paris , taking their cue from famous actresses. The society lead ers have adopted the theory that the fe male'figure is in reality more beautiful and graceful in its natural lines than with the construction and distortion of the corset. Sinee the empire style has come in the prevailing plan is to hava the weight of the garments largely BUS * oended from the shoulders. Supreme Court Contempt Cases. The answer of Sheriff Shipp of Hamil ton county , Tenn. , and nine deputies , to the charge of contempt made by the Su preme Court in connection with the lynch ing of a negro named Ed Johnson at Chattanooga last March after Johnson's appeal had been granted by the highest court , was filed at Wasington , by ex- Attorney General Harmon. The answer contends that the negro's case was not appealable , but that in any case tha i sherifl and his deputies did their best to- 1 prevent the lynching ,