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111' ' came to earth as calmly and lightly ;
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, ) . the distance , 54.06 miles an hour , sur .
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Ilf , ' aeroplane in long distance flight , and
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If I [ i ses anything man has attempted in a
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f' I weather conditions as near perfect as
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minutes later he made his first stop-
I I ! ping place near Poughkeepsie , where
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. suming his flight at 9:26 o'clock , he
sped southward and landed within the
. boundry of Manhattan island at 10:35
o'clock. Only 100 yards north of thE
point where the craft settled stretch-
ed Spuyten Duyvil creek , separating
Manhattan : island from the main
land. Had he failed to cross this his
flight would have been in vain , but
as he swept over it the prize was his.
4 Paulhan's flight from London to
] \Ianchester-186 miles-exceeded the
Curtiss feat of Sunday in distance , but
not in speed and danger. The French-
man's average was 44.3 miles an hour
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land. Curtiss followed the winding
course of the historic Hudson , with
jutting headland , wooded slopes and
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treacherous palisades. He swung
i Tiigh over the great bridge at Pough-
keepsie , dipped at times within fifty
feet of the river's broad surface , and
jockeyed : like , a falcon at the turn.
Only once did his craft show signs of
rebellion.
COOK : IS IX SCOTLAND.
Mystery as to His Whereabouts Now
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The mystery of the whereabouts of
Dr. Frederick A. Cook , has been solv-
ed. He is in Scotland , preparing for
his trip to Etah , whence he plans to
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bring back the records of his discov
ery of the north pole and his instru-
ments , which are cached there. He
also intends to bring back the two
i Eskimos who accompanied him on
his dash to the north pole. Dr. Cook's
.objective point when he shall have re-
covered his records and instrument ,
will be Copenhagen. There he will
present his completed proofs to the
. -scientific body before which he ap
peared when he first returned from
the far north.
1DUAIi - ST PAUL TRAGEDY. -
Live Stock Commission Man Kills :
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sion man of South St. Paul , Minn. ,
Sunday shot and killed his wife at
their home. A few minutes later
Gibbons rang the bell at the door of
Father Walsh , the young pastor of
St. Augustine's Roman Catholic
church , and as the door was opened
fired two shots into the priest's head
killing him almost instantly.
Gibbons was arrested and was tak-
en to the Ramsey county jail in St.
Paul , as there had been talk of lynch-
ing at South St. Paul , where the priest /
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Test Case to be Brought.
An extreme example of the en-
forcement of the anti-Jewish law is
reported from Moscow : , Russia , where
the authorities have ordered the ex-
pulsion of a 5-year-old boy. ; The
Jews will carry the case to the Rus
sian : supreme court.
Poison in Ice Cream.
Sixteen members of the Fort Col-
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lins , Colo. , high school alumni asso-
ciation were made seriously ill from
the effects of ptomaine poisoning ,
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caused , it is believed , from eating im
pure ice cream served at a banquet
Sioux City Live Stock Market. :
Saturday's quotations on the Sioux
City live stock market follow : Beeves ,
$7.00@8.05. Top hogs , $9.40.
Tenement House Fire.
Three Chinamen were killed and
four more of their countrymen and
several Americans injured in a fire
that' destroyed a tenement house in
1\ew York Sunday.
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pany at Greenbrush , Man. , was burn-
ed Saturday. Rain Saturday night
. and Sunday subdued the forest fires.
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TEN HOMES WRECKED.
Tornado Strikes the Town of Picrc
City , Mo.
A tornado , which formed northwest
of Pierce City , Mo. , at 6 o'clock Fri-
day night , struck the western edg < .
of town a few minutes later , destroy-
ing ten dwellings and several barns ,
and swept southwest out of sight. No
one was killed. '
Cyclone cellars saved the families ;
of Edward Greer , William Tate , John
Shylock and James Abernethy. In
each instance the tornado swept the
houses from above the cellars where
men , women and children were hud-
dled together.
That many pers6ns were not killed
is due to the fact that the twister was
seen to form by those endangered , and
thus they had a chance to seek refuge.
The tornado swept trees , telephone
poles , houses , fences and vegetation
from a path 300 feet wide. Leaving
the town , it lifted , , and decended again
several miles south.
Meager reports of destruction to
farm property have been received.
Telephonic and telegraphic communi-
cation in all directions was interrupt- ;
ed for five hours.
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Advices late Friday night tell of
the serious injury of three persons
and estimate the damage at $30,000.
The injured are Myrtle and Frank
Stronsky , of Briceville , and Harrison
Rodgers , of Pierce City.
The damaged property consists .
mainly of residences.
CARRIED FROM MOORINGS.
Submarine Drifts Away After Divers .
Had Worked for Hours.
The French submarine Pluviose.
with her crew of 27 dead , is a vagrant
in the underwaters of the English
channel. For hours Friday the divers
had .struggled to prepare the way for
the raising of the 450-ton weight ,
when the wounded war craft , under
the pressure of the swift lower cur-
rent , shook herself , free from her
mud moorings and drifted away. Late
Friday afternoon she had not been
again located.
The appearance of the submarine t
on the surface for a brife period fol
lowing the , accident is attributed by
navy experts to a desperate attempt of
her commander to operate the flood-
ing machinery.
The channel steamer Pas de Calais
sighted the periscope of the Pluviose
some 70 feet ahead and backed , but
was too late to avoid a collision.
HERESY CASE IS DECIDED.
Xew York Synod is Practically Exon-
erated.
The Presbyterian general assembly
in session in New York , Friday prac-
tically exonerated. , the-iNew York syn
od in the heresy case. The report
of the judicial committee was a com-
promise.
The presbytery of New York City
was accused of violating the laws of
the church in licensing three students
after they had admitted disbelief in
he immaculate conception and other
teachings. Interest in the verdict was
intense and there was a full attend-
ance of commissioners when the as-
sembly began business Friday morn-
ing.
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At Friday's session all routine busi-
ness was cleared away in anticipation
of final adjournment.
Break World's Record.
A new world's record for big gun
! shooting , which incidentally empha-
sizes the superiority of United States
naval markmanship , has just been I
made by the new battleship South
Carolina. With her forward turret
12-inch she made sixteen "
guns "bulls-
eye" ; target hits out of sixteen shots
in 4 minutes and 51 seconds.
War Plans Xot Dropped.
Another large consignment of the
Peruvian army went to the front Fri-
day. Despite official assurance from
' Washington that Peru and Ecuador
have accepted the arbitration of the
United States , the popular opinion is
that war is inevitable.
Three Men 3Iissing.
The Goliath , cruising outside Cape
Flattery , near Port Townsend , Wash. ,
riday night picked up the 40-foot
gasoline ; launch Gracie L , near Dun-
can Rocks , waterlogged and abandon-
ed and the lifeboat is missing. It is
believed three men were drowned.
Hopes to See the Fight.
Patrick H. McCarthy , mayor of San
"rancisco , in an interview at Phila-
delphia , Pa. , Friday , announced that
he was in favor of the Jeffries-John-
son fight and hoped to see the battle.
Throws Self Before Train.
Mrs. William Stroker of Chicago ,
i3 years old , committed suicide Fri-
day by throwing herself in front of a
train. She is believed to have been
temporarily deranged.
Fire in Minneapolis.
Fire Friday destroyed five buildings
on University in Minneapolis , Minn. ,
loss $120,000. Several firemen were
badly burned.
Big Fire at Niagara Falls.
The plant of the Hooker Develop-
ment company , at Niagara Falls , N
Y. , one of the largest chemical con-
cerns in the country , was destroyed
by fire early Friday. Loss $400,000.
Jap Fishermen Drown.
Five Japanese fishermen were
drowned Friday in the surf north of
Cambria. Tliey were working close
to shore when a high . . . . . wind capsized
their boat.
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"Squeezed" by the Bears in Chicago
Wheat Pit.
The private settlement of Theodor
Waterman's "squeeze" in May wheat ,
the unloading of 8,000,000 bushels of
September wheat by James A. . and
George H. .Patten and the announce-
ment of their withdrawal from the
brokerage firm of which they have <
been members for a genti-ation , and at
least temporarily from business , caus-
ed a net decline in prices on the Chi-
cago board of trade Thursday ranging
from 4 % in September to more than
5 cents in May.
Altogether the day in wheat was ;
one destined to take rank with other
momentous details of the history of
the Chicago board of trade.
Traders are assured that Theodore
H. Waterman , the Albany miller , the
leading long in May , has carried his
deal through to a successful conclus-
ion and forced the leading short in-
terests to settle with him at his own
price , generally believed to have been
around $1.14. Any efforts to gauge his
profits , however , is futile. James. A.
Patten's losses are put at anywhere
betwen $640,000 and $1,200,000.
OKLAHOMA : TOWN HIT BY FIRE.
Parctically All the Business Portion of
Wister is Destroyed.
Practically the entire business por-
tion of Wister , Okla. , was destroyed
by two distinct fires Wednesday night.
Twenty-eight business houses were
burned , causing a loss estimated at
$100,000. Only a bank , two stores and
the depot remain in the business sec
tion. . A report that a man lost his
life at the Brown hotel was not true.
Wister , which has 600 inhabitants ,
is divided into two parts by the Chi-
cago Rock Island and Pacific railroad
tracks. The first fire destroyed all the
Buildings except three north of the
tracks. This fire had just burned out
when an explosion in a drug store
started a fire south of the tracks : , de
stroying all but one building. The
town has no fire department and the
high wind made fire fighting difficult
for the citizens who volunteered.
No residences were burned.
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sion.
A telegram received at the British
admiralty says that a French subma-
rine , the Pluviose , was rammed and
sunk in the English channel Thursday
by a mailboat running between Calais
and Dover. Her crew numbered 23
men , all of whom were lost.
The submarine was sunk by the
Calais-Dover ferry boat , Pas de Ca-
lais , two miles northwest of Calais.
The Pluviose sank in 160 feet of wa-
ter. The crew had no chance for es-
cape , as their craft plunged to the
bottom in the moment of collision.
The submarine was of the Laubeuf
type. : Her length was 160. . . feet and
her displacement 398 tons.
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New York Firm Suspended.
Announcement was made by the
Brokerage firm of E. F. Hutton & Co. ,
of New York , Thursday , that the , firm
had been suspended from the privi-
leges of the New York stock exchange
for the period of one year , following
submission of charges that the firm
had been guilty of . violating exchange .
regulations regarding sharing of com-
missions.
Watcher Falls Off Roof.
Scantily clad , Lambert Wilson of
wensville , Ind. , went to the roof of
his house to take an observation of
Halley's comet. His foot slipped and
he coasted swiftly down the roof and
fell thirty feet to the earth. He was
painfully > cut and bruised.
Jews Driven from Kiev. :
The exodus of Jewish families from
Kiev , Russia , has begun. The total
departures from that city up to Wed-
nesday night were 300 proscribed fam-
ilies belonging exclusively to the poor-
est classes.
Another Blow for Gamblers.
The New York assembly Thursday
passed the Agnew antioral bookmak-
ing bill by a vote of 92 to 45 , after sev-
eral attempts to amend it had been de-
feated. The bill now goes to the gov-
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One Killed : by Explosion.
One man was killed and several in-
jured as the result of an explosion at
the Dolores mine in the state of Chi.
huahua , Mex. , Wednesday. \
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Lynching in Alabama.
Reports of the lynching of Jeff Mat-
son , a negro who murdered Deputy
Sheriff Scott Taylor at the Acton mine ,
Wednesday , were received at Mont-
gomery , Ala. , late Thursday.
Premier Rutherford Resigns.
Premier Rutherford tendered .his
resignation as the head of the Alberta
government cabinet Thursday. Chief
ust-'ce Siften has been called on to
form a new cabinet.
Shoots Wife and Self.
J. W. Layton , of Cedar Rapids , Ia. ,
shot twice and fatally wounded his
wife and then committed suicide by
shooting himself at the home of his
Lther-in-law , four miles northeast of
Springfield , Mo.
Flour Mill Employes Get Raise.
An increase in wages is to be grant-
eed by leading flour manufacturers of
: Minneapolis. [ Increased cost of living
is eiven as the reason for the advance.
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FLOATING IN PLATTE RIVER.
Body of an Unknown Man Found Nea
Central City.
The body of a man was found in
the Plate river about seven miles
west of Central City ' Wednesday after-
noon. The body was in an advanced
state of decomposition. A hole
through his head would indicate that
he had been shot with a revolver. He
was dressed in a dark - tweed suit , had
no collar on ' \ and the pockets contain-
ed only a buckhorn knife , with two
blades and two blue and white hand-
kerchiefs. He had on a pair of Sun-
flower shoes , size 7. His height is
about five feet seven inches , . weighl
about 150 pounds.
No Age Given Yet.
Miss Sarah E Peck , a. member of
the faculty of Union college , near Lin-
coln , who was indicted by the federal
grand jury on the charge that she had
wilfully refused to give her age to
the census enumerator or to answer
questions as to whether she had been
married or divorced , was fined by
United States District Judge Munger
$10 , after she had entered her volun-
tary appearance. Her age has not
yet been made public.
Not Bothered by Boxers.
A letter has been received from
Horace A. Sibley , of Nebraska City ,
who went , with his wife , as a mission-
ary to China. He is located at Lao-
Ho-Kow , China , and says the boxers
have not disturbed his mission , but
the trouble was in a country or prov-
ince adjoining his territory. He has a
large mission and is progressing very
nicely in his work.
Officer Kills Timber Wolf.
Officer Kennelley is the latest addi-
tion to the nimrods of the Omaha po
lice force. Wednesday evening he
had a chase after a timber wolf at
Twenty-fourth and Hickory streets
and succeeded in shooting the quarry ,
not , however , until the beast had bit-
ten a man who lives in a grading
camp close by.
Wilson , is Held to Answer.
The preliminary hearing of C. P.
Wilson , chiropractic adjuster , charged
with illegal practice of medicine , was
concluded before Judge Holcomb
Wednesday in county court and - re-
sulted in the defendant being bound
over to the next term of district
court. The hearing created an inter-
est , every seat in the court room be-
ing occupied.
O. E. Manning Found Dead.
O. E. Manning , aged 32 years , a res
ident of St. Paul , Neb. , but who had
been undergoing treatment for his
eyes at the Methodist hospital at Oma-
ha since last March , late Wednesday
.afternoon was found dead in a tent
on the hospital grounds , a bullet hole
in his right temple and a revolver ly
ing by his side.
Death of Pioneer.
John B. Malady died at his home
at Kearney Tuesday morning of lung
fever , after an illness of several weeks.
He was 64 years old and leaves a wife
and three children. The deceased was
an old resident and for eighteen years
had held the position of engineer at
the brick yards.
Complains of Card Sharks.
A traveling man giving his name as
Curt Weber , and traveling out of Chi-
cago and having his headquarters at
Omaha , complained to the sheriff at
Nebraska City Wednesday , that two
card sharks with whom he got into a
game with on the Missouri Pacific
train , going south , had robbed him of . .
$40. .
Ditch is Completed.
The Fremont Drainage district has
completed dyking and jetty work for
the : season , and unless the Platte
should behave differently than during
the : last two years no more work will
be required for some time to come ,
and then only small repairs.
Demand Return of Money.
About two hundred Beatrice and
Gage county people who invested in
a land proposition at Cotulla , Tex. ,
have employed an attorney to begin
proceedings against the Kinney Land
company : to force the concern to re-
turn the money invested.
Meets Death in Mine.
News has been received at Nebraska
Mty of the death of H. B. Martin and
Miss Eva Wheeler at Thermopolis ,
WYo. They were smothered by ; the
fumes of sulphur in a mine , where
they had gone to take flashlight pic-
tures.
Litigation at an End.
The Beatrice city council has
brought to an end the litigation be-
tween the city and Mrs. Elizo J. MilC C
leI' , deciding to pay the lattter thesum
of $3,300 for her property.
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Replanting the Corn Fields.
Quite a number of farmers in Gage
county are replanting their corn fields.
The wet weather damaged considera-
ble of the grain planted early in the
season.
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Executive Mansion Scene of Festivit : ;
in Honor of Occasion.
I Twenty-five years ; ago Ashton C.
Shallenberger , _ bank clerk , and Mis
Eliza Zilg were married at Osceola.
Tuesday ; night Gov. Ashton C. Shallen-
berger and his wife observed * tha
event with a most delightful reception
at which scores of their friends called
and paid the respects and danced a'm '
shared the happiness of the couple.
The executive mansion was deco-
rated with southern smilax , palms and
cut flowers and a beautiful bouquet of
roses , the gift of some admiring
friends.
Mrs. : Shallenberger was born in
Wisconsin and Gov. Shallenberger
was born in Illinois. The two met
while the governor was clerking in a I
bank in the "Polk county town and
soon after their marriage they re-
moved to Alma in 1888. Here they ; "
have had their home ever since , the
governor being engaged in banking
and stock raising.
Members of the governor's staff
presented the couple with a beautiful I
chest of silver , 172 pieces , Adjt. Gen. i
Hartigan making the presentation
speech , which was responded to very
feelingly by the executive.
J. H. BROCK : SEVERELY HURT.
Workman at Columbus Injured While
Guiding Block of Stone.
While riding one of the capstones to
place on the First National bank
building at Columbus Tuesday after-
noon , J. H. Brock received injuries
that may prove fatal. The heavy stone ,
which weighed about 800 pounds , was
ready to be placed in position when
the clevis , which was defective , broke
and precipitated Mr. Brock and the
stone to the sidewalk below , a distance
of 25 feet. Mr. : Brock suffered a brok-
en leg and very probably internal In-
juries , although physicians are unable
to tell just what the outcome will be.
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Discrimination Case is Up.
The cases of the state of Nebraska
against the Home and Bell telephone
companies , charged with discrimina-
tion in rates . . - , in allowing - , ' : the county of-
ficers lower rates' than individuals ,
were called before Judge Pembleton ,
in the district court at Beatrice Tues-
day. The Bell company submitted the
case on demurrer and the court took I
the matter under advisement.
Supt. Myers Goes to Blair.
W. H. Myers , superintendent of the
Oakland schools , has been elected su-
perintendent of the schools at Blair.
Mr. Myers has been superintendent of
the Oakland schools for the last ten
years , evcept during Gov. Sheldon's
administration , when he served as as-
sistant superintendent of the boys' in-
dustrial school at Kearney.
. Discuss Water Bonds.
It is proposed by the Beatrice city
council to expend $70,000 In installing
a new water system , erecting a reser-
voir of 1,000,000 gallon capacity and
installing machinery with the end in
view of supplying the street lights of
the : city. A mass meeting of citizens
manimously indorsed the proposition.
Against the Saloon.
A remonstrance is about to be filed
with proper authorities , against Fred-
erick Peters , of Auburn , to whom a li- i
cnese to run a saloon was granted by
the council two weeks ago. It is
Charged that Peters sold liquor to ha-
bitual > drunkards and also to minors.
Arrested for Buying Liquor.
William Morton was arrested Saturi i
day night by the Fremont police on
the charge of buying liquor for Mich-
ael Reardon , a "black list" drunkard.
The offense is punishable by a fine of
$100 and three months in jail. . t
Pioneer Passes Away. ;
James E. Foote , one of the oldest
pioneers of southern Nebraska , and
one of the best known men in that
part of the state , died at his home
south of Nebraska City Sunday , after
an illness covering a period of two
months , having suffered a stroke of
paralysis.
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Ask for a New Depot.
A committee of citizens presented to
Superintendent L. B. Lyman , of the
fymore division of the Burlington , a
etition signed by about one hundred
business men and citizens , asking the
Burlington to build a new passenger
epot at Wymore.
Tarantula in Case of Eggs.
John Brun , of Elk Creek , found a
tarantula in a cas'e of eggs in his gro-
cery store. It is presumed the spider i
Ivas shipped in a bunch" of bananas , c
lell out of the same and proceeded to
make himself at home in the store.
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Anson" Brown living near Auburn ,
vaS" found dead in his bed Tuesday.
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Hot Springs , Ark. , will ' never be-
come an ideal health or pleasure re-
sort unless the t United States can ex-
ercise complete administrative jurIs-
diction over the entire region now
covered by the city of Hot Springs ,
its contiguous territory and the gov-
ernment reservation , according to a
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report to Secretary Ballinger by Clem-
ent S. Ucker , chief clerk. of the In-
terior Department , who recently in-
vestigated the conditions at Hot
Springs. Ucker added that steps in
the direction of such reform must
originate with the State of Arkansas.
The divided responsibility , he contin
ued , resulting from the national gov-
ernment controlling the reservation
and the municipal government admin-
istering the affairs of the city has
given rise to an administrative situa-
tion redounding to the disadvantage
of the visitor and patient.
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Time was when it took nearly six
years to build a battleship in private
yards in the United States ; but the
construction of the Connecticut at the
government yard at Brooklyn : set a
pace which has steadily accelerated.
The Mississippi , whose trials took
place as recently as October , 1907 , took
forty-four .months to construct. The
New Hampshire , December , 1907 , was
built in thirty-six months ; the North
Carolina ( cruiser ) , January , 190S , in !
thirty-six months ; Michigan ( battle-
ship ) , 1909 , in thirty-four and one-half
months ; the Delaware ( battleship ) ,
October , 1909 , in twenty-seven months.
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Eighty-two mail clerks were injured
last year : by : engines bumping into
trains standing at railroad stations , ac- .
cording to the report of T. J. Insten , . .
chairman of the claims committee , sub-
mitted at the session of the annual
convention of the Railway Mail ClerKs"
Association of America , held in Kansas
City. He said the greatest number of
accidents was due to collisions of
trains : , 143 clerks having been hurt in "
collisions last year. Two hundred dif- ,
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ferent kinds of accidents were men- ,
tioned : in the report.
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In a new book prepared by Secre-
tary of Agriculture Wilson entitled
"Habit Forming Agents , " various
widely advertised soothing syrups ,
medicated soft drinks , cough , catarrh
and consumption remedies , tobacco-
cures : , etc. , are pilloried as dangerous ,
to health because of the opium co-
caine or other habit forming drugs
they contain. He finds that the amount
of opium consumed in this country , ,
exclusive of smoking , has doubled in
forty years , and that the use of co- ,
caine is increasing at an alarming ex-
tent. ,
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That the United States will recei 7e
a million immigrants during the t ; sf
eal year ending June 30 is the pre lc- :
tion of the officials. During April
133,276 arrived , making a total of
801,225 thus far this year. The last
million immigrant year was in 1907.
'igures ' received at the immigration.
! ureau show that 4,246 Chinese enter-
ed Canada from July 1 , 1906 , to Dec.
n , 1909 , the revenue from which on
ccount of the head tax was $2,123,000 _
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Uncle Sam has proved such a huge-
iccess with the cook book that Sen--
tor Shelby Cullom , of Illinois , is in.
favor of going one further and estab-
shing a bureau of domestic science-
iO > that Uncle Sam may show the-
merican women how , to keep house-
roperly. Senator Cullom proposes
: lat the government appropriate $ S0 , -
)00 ) to 'maintain the bureau and run it
n 1 connection 'with the department of
riculture.
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It would- be unlawful for the Post-
, net : Department to print the name or
Idress of a business firm on stamped
ivelopes after June 30 , 1911 , if a bill
ntroduced by Representative Tou-
slle , of Ohio , and reported favorably
'rom the House Committee on Post-
Gees and Post Roads is passed. The
lill would discontinue the present prac-
ice of the department in doing a gen-
ral : business in printing return ad-
lresses on stamped envelopes.
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The census bureau has secured ex-
.ra floor space for carrying on it = -
Drk with the enumerator's schedules
'rom all over the country. It now
ilizes' a total floor space of 150,000
quare ; feet and employs a force of
3Q00 : clerks , who , with 300 tabulat-
ng machines , will be employed night
md day.
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One vote was lacking to make th&
icessary two-thirds in 'the House for
he adoption of the Henry resolution ,
to : fix the date of presidential- inaugu-
tions on thelast Thursday io ,
pril. .
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The whole question ' of the franking
ivilege ) and its alleged abuses is to '
be investigated by the Senate Com-
ittee on Post Offices , the Senate hav-
ng adopted the resolution of Senator ' \
! one so instructing the committee.
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Admiral Schley states that he stud- . . . . .
ed carefully the claims of Dr. Cook .
md came to the conclusion that he- t
'eally discovered the North pole. He-
says he sees no reason for altering his-
lelie .
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