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V TAR HEEL LAWS
Enacted at the Recent Session
of the Legislature.
ELECTROCUTION - NOT HANGING
Fr'-aie of Most Important Laws of
central Interest to the People of
1 . :th Carolina Many . Changes
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(I' .m the Charlotte Observer.)
Xs Observer has the satisfaction
s , :-. -s-.'ntiiHr a lucid review of the
;;-t L ul!:it ure's -work by Mr. Thom
as V,". Alexander, of the Charlotte
la:. Mr. Alexander, writing, very
'ti. iivilv, gives information other
v. ;.- .-.lavailalle to the general pub
His readers are fortunate in
C , '.rained "ability which he combines
vi;1; aj preeiation of their require
There will be surprise at some
ui;:;f overlooked legislative acts,
I , :e i I'ip.ted out and shown in the
yr ; : perspective.
Tiie l.une contains 1440 pages, or
J :parate enactments, together
will; resolutions.
'. . '. IS authorizes county com-luis.-tuners
to establish and maintain
"i Tiadosis dispensaries, or sana
toria." v aap. 32 changes time for filux
n:;-,' .rial man's lien.
(' rap. 49 affects the sale of prop-
i;r;.l.r mortgage. The boundaries
; r State wherever disputed are
axed by authority of Chap. 51.
iraaitlians are permitted to culti
vaic i he lands of their wards by
Chap. J)7
A t-aveat need not be published
r than four weeks, instead of
as formerly, by Chap. 74.
i'y Chap. 97 the test farms of the
S.au;- ar to be sold.
An act to "regulate the registra
tion and sale of concentrated com
mercial feeding stuffs" will give deal
er ;;r;d manufacturers some whole-scrai.-
reading.
Uy Chap. 159 every city and town
'.s required to appoint inspectors of
electric, pas and water metres.
The i onds of tax collectors are
cx vtrr.cil by an amendment" in Chap.
211.
There is a change and enlargement
ox Ionising physicians by Chap. 218.
"An act to facilitate the release of
uortua-'os and deeds of trust" is of
swaeonvenience, but j-ou have to
!ij"ikte just as before.
'--olid, through freight trains may
e q.rrated on Sunday if they are
careful not to stop too long at any
s-tati a. Chap. 285.
Taat the Baptist are alive to the
situation is foretold by Chap. 294,
vr'a; h declares it a misdemeanor to
"cm- for sale within 1 1-2 miles of
any meeting of the Lower County
Line Primitive Baptist Association,
nt any time during the three days and
lights ct the meeting, any confection
ary candies, lemonade, coca-cola,
pepsi-ula, soda water, ginger ale, or
any cold or soft drinks or concoc
tions f any kind, whatsoever, of any
kin!."-
The State beard of health is auth
ored by Chapter 3S0 to furnish
diptheria antitoxin under certain con-
-itiMiis.
ila iging as a mode of capital pun
Inn'.Tit is abolished and hepcafter
convicts in capital cases will be
tr:t to the State's prison in Raleigh
flwji tiectrccitted.
practice of optometry will
kr-riirr be under a bpard of e&tp
inors. whose duty it ia to license pra
i ha general school law was chang
ed m several respects.
Tise "Daniel Eccne Association"
to pepctttate the memory of 'that
.wand !J North Carolinian ""was
eai' d by Chapter 403..
hapter 555, an act to provide for
Mi Hiiiiid weight narkaas of meal
u.i
vi
and to prevent short
'ti' i i rature, Avhile "Stock or poul
try tcnic" is thoroughly regulated.
Chapter C28 allows the registers of
theds ( f the several counties of the
fctate to appoint deputies. Ilotels,
Sf' 'fi-, liospitals, etc., are admon
isnr. to have fire escapes by Chapter
-- County commissioners may now
;; ' r reward for the apprehension of
' "s attempting arson. Chapter
; ; ioides for the register of deeds
' ark the index "satisfied" in re
i to mortgages and other encum
y"' when same are paid and thus
r'sult in the saving of a great
( ' ; d' tiiiia in title searching.
r.ct to regulate the packing of
r; and the sale thereof will be read
iu the coast with some interest.
Kdtcr C77 authorizes clerks of
fc uLi0 increase allowance from $20
to " to mothers of indigent child
ren, i-ap. 42 raises salary of CothCiis-!:-fr
of Labor and Printing to
. py Chap. 83 the sum of $68,056.70
i(;.!rncd to the State's prison de
ji!VJ "!'t out f its former earnings.
-,i: !Cs Superior Courts now get
- .in week extra tor holding spe-
same are held.
C
. .... i'ia';. is very comprehensive in
' 'pung to render secure from
ouiands above the contour
U.000 feet,
By. Chap. 176 the pronertv of rpo-
plc discharged from insane asylums
is to be governed.
The assistant State Librarian gets
a raise to $900.
The oath of road overseer is affect
ed by Chap. 110.
Marriage may now be performed
by a "minister authorized by his
Church" in addition to" being ordain
ed." Real estate sold under execution
deed of trust or mot gage will have to
be advertised only "once a week."
Chapter 7C9 requires clerks of'
court to make entries descriptive of
land where judgment affects same. .
Druggists will have to refrain from
selling cocaine indiscriminately. This
amendment is a very worthy and im
portant one as police claim that the
habit is growing among the negroes
and is responsible for much crime,
the effect being to give the user a
great deal of "nerve."
Chapter 722 provides for the "reg
istration of deaths in municipalities"
and is very exacting in details.
The miiitia of the State will read
with great interest Chapter 745,
where many innovations appear. , .
It is now unlawful to manufacture,
sell or- give away duplicate SAviteh
lock keys.
Funeral directors and embalmers
are hereafter exempt from jury duty,
especially in capital cases.
A parent guilty of abandonment of
his children will hereafter .forfeit
custody of same.
The law of general assignment for
benefit of creditors is materially
changed.
Banks are granted immunity on
forged checks unless notified in six
months.
- "An act regarding corporations"
is one relating to corporations selling
securities. An act of great impor
tance is Chapter 504 which is design
ed to protect employes of corpora
lions engaged in industrial commerce
and to allow them the exemptions al
lowed by law.
An act which overrules the case of
IL M. Victor vs. Louise Mills, et al.f
143 N. C, 107, is Chapter 507 by
which , a corporation may insure the
life cf any officer or agent for its own
benefit.
An act to "require all employers
of female employes to provide seats
therefor" will be appreciated by
clerks and others who are now com
pelled to stand all day.
The giving of worthless checks,
drafts or orders is declared to be
prima facie evidence of fraud by
Chapter 647.
Another law in regard to corpora
tions is one making stockholders per
sonally ilahlo for costs of dissolution.
All dealers in seed or'grain should
not fail to read the law on "impure
or misbranded agricultural and vege
table seed." :
Chapter 853 goes after employers
who blacklist discharged employes.
Express companies will have to
make prompt settlement cf cash on
delivery shipments hereafter.
The "State Association cf County
Commissioners" i3 incorporated.
Life insurance companies are pre
vented from forfeiting life policies
without notice in the future, while
domestic insurance companies should
read Chapter 9220.
A new legal holiday, April 12, is es
tablished in commemoration of the
"Halifax Resolutions." The 20th of
May is of course one already.
Building and loan associations will
be interested in reading Chapter 893.
A proviso that no bank shall com
mence business with less than $5,000
capital is provided for in Chapter
91. -
Fire injuyanpe epmpanies are ""re
quired tP make deposits "with the
State to protect their contracts! etc.
Taxation.
The objects for which the State
taxes are levied are declared to be
for the expenses of the government,
support of charitable and penal in
stitutions and specific appropriations
and interest on State debt. The poll
tax is fixed at $1.20 while the ad
valorem tax is 43 cents on the $100
valuation; corporations to make-payment
to the State Treasurer of'-cer-tain
taxes. All exemptions granted
are repealed except where the pro
ceeds go to charity, etc. A graduated
inheritance tax is prescribed,
ranging from 75 cents on the $100
valuation to $5 on the same, depen
dent upon the degree of kinship,
"Was your gross income from salar
ies, fees, trades, professions, and
property not taxed, in excess of $1,
000?" is a stiff question to answer at
the rate of $1 per $100. Theatres
have a graduated tax along with
theatrical companies, circuses, ' etc.
Attorneys, physicians and denists
are charged $. Real estate, coal
dealers, undertakers, horse dealers,
fortune-tellers, gift enterprises, deal
ers iii futures, druggists selling liq
uor, and eo on through the list of oc
cupations. The revenue act is very
similar to the former act and pre
sents no novel features.
-The general law in regard to motor
vehicles (with exception of New Han
over county) provides for a $5 regist
ration fee payable to the Secretary
of State, $3 of which is -refunded to
the county in which the motor ve
hicle is operated, and for $1 annual
renewal fee. All motor vehicles must
bear a designated number and dis
play the same in front and rear.
There are many provisions in regard
to- operating and using motor ve
hicles, such as requiring all male oc
cupants over 15 years old of an auto
to get out and help hold a refractory
horse when encountered on the high
wy, etc , r-
TAFT TO VISIT SOUTH
President Will Come to Savan
nah, Macon and Augusta
WILL MEET PRESIDENT DIAZ
Announcement I Made of the Plana of
President Taf t for His Tour
West and South.
Philadelphia, Fa.President Taft,
while here, announced some of the
tentative plans for his trip west In
the fall. He also wrote to President
Diaz of Moxico that he would be
glad to welcome him at El Paso, Tex
as, probably on October 15. The pres
ident' expects to start wfist on his
fifty-second birthday, September 16.
He will head - direct from Beverly,
Wash., stepping at Denver, Salt Lake
and Spokane on the way. from .Se
attle the president will go to Portland,
Ore., thence to San Francisco; to los
Angeles, where he Avill visit his sis
ter; to San.Diegd, to New Mexico
and Arizona, to Texas, where he will
spend several days on C. P. Taft's
ranch near Corpus Christi; to Hous
ton, to New Orleans, stopping for a
time in the Toche country of Louis
iana; to Jackson, Miss.; to Birming
ham, Montgomery, to Macon, Qa.; to
Augusta, to savannah, to Wilming
ton, N. C.; to Richmond, Va., and
then home to Washington.
Macon, Ga. Members cf the Ma
con Chamber of Commerce were made
happy in the dispatches from Wash
ington, announcing that President
Taft expects to come to Mdcofi this
fall on his return frbin a western
trip that is already planned. A formal
invitation had already been extended
the nation's chief executive and cit
izens of Macon were then assured
that the matter would not he for
gotten. Savannah, GaA giant public re
coption will b3 on of the feature ?
of President Tart's visit to Savannah
in the fall, if present plans mature.
To ColocekG. Arthur Gordon and Rev.
Dr. Charles A. Strong,- who visited
the president, then president-elect, at
Augusta, is given credit for Taft's
pronYse to come here. A river trln
on the revenue cutter Tamacraw and
an automobile trip are suggested for
him.
$10,009,0003 EDUCATION.
RSBKefeiler Gives to General Educa
tion Board.
New York City. John D. Rockefel-
r increased his donations to the
snejpl education board by a gift73f
io,( "-o.ooo and arso released th
ben-.d from the obligation td held iii
r'rpetuity the funds eohtritJuted bv
J "nlj The gift, announced by Freder-
i k T. Gates, chairman, brings Mr
i ockefeller's donation to the board to
32,000,000. The gift was contributed,
according to the statement made by
Chairman Gates because the income
of the present fund available for
propriattion-had been exhausted and
a large income to meet educational
needs of great importance had become
necessary.
Mr. Rockefeller's action in empow
ering the board and its successors to
distribute the principal of funds con
tributed by him upon the affirmative
vote of two-thirds of its members was
said to have been taken in consider
ation of the possibility, now remote.
that at some future time, the object
and purpose of the Rockefeller foun-
dation might become obsolete. Under
the. original conditions imposed, the
fund would have had to continue in
perpetuity regardless of whether a
public demand for its continuation
evists or not.
HAN HAS IWEOTY-FOUft WIYES.
Bigamist Goes to Jail and Wives Are
Waiting at Home.
San Francisco, Cal. John Madson,
Wanted for bigamy in nearly every
large city in America, end in mny
ef the sjnaller ones, s in the hacds
of -the police here. The authorities
have established bis marriage to ten
women and his engagement to four
teen others, Each of ibe 24 women
duped by Madeon ia said by the police
to have lost more or lees money
through him.
M&dson is said to have deserted
each cf these women within a few
hours after marriage. -Among the
women to whom he was either en
gaged or married was one each in
Jonesburg, Ark.; Gettysburg, Ohio,
and New Orleans, La.
The strange history of Madson, who
Is an aged man, extends over only
a few months.. Almost without ex
ception his victims have been wid
ows or divorced women of middle
age. Madson may be taken for
trial to Stockton, where one of his
wives resides, but in the meantime
the police here are trying to secure
a somplete ssonfession irom mm.
CONSUL ATTACKED BY MOB.
Bolivian Mob Stoned Argentine
Legation.
La Paz, Bolivia. A furious mob at
tacked the Argentine legation.. Troops
were called out, to guard the Argen
tine minister. The trouble, is the .out
come of Tile decision rendered by
President Aorta of Argentine in the
boundary dispute between Peru and
J3plivia;. ' '.
Great crowds which had been pa
rading the streets, finally turned in the
direction of the Argentine legation,
which they surrounded. There were
Bhouts of rage, and stones and other
missiles were hurled at the building,
and the government found it neces
sai y io oi dei out troops, : r
"ELEVATOR ALLOWANCE" BARRED
Re-Shipping Prohibited Under Decision
of Interstate Commerse Commission.
.Washington, D. 0. The so-called
"elevator allowance" to dealefS in
hay, grain and grain products at
Nashville, Tenn., was declared to be
unlawful discrimination in a decision
announced by the interstate com
merce commission.
The complaint was .brought by com
mercial houses in Atlanta and other
Georgia cities, which alleged that the
carriers have granted to Nashville un
due preference in the handling of
grain, grain products and hay from
Ohio and Mississippi river crossings
to southeastern destinations thereby
eliminating competition with the
southeastern territory.
The commission held that 'the cir
cumstances and conditions prevailing ,
from those prevailing at other points
in tfce southeast 9s to warrant a con
tinuance of this privilege at Nashville
without undue discrimination, to the
prejudice and disadvantage of points
in that territory not having a simi
lar privilege;"
It was held further that "this priv
ilege" operates as a device by Which
tiafSc may move at less" than the law
ful ttrlff rate."
The defendants which include prac
tically - all of the lines operating in
the southeastern territory, are order:
ed to cease paying .by September 1,
next, any allowance for elevation, un
loading or handling grain, -grfiln prod
ucts or hay at Nashville, et for rS
billing or reshipping such products at
Nashville. They are directed to file
tariffs with the commission in con
sonance with the order.
FISH KILL MOSQUITOES.
Tip Minnows Swlrrt en Water's Sur
face and Exterminated Malaria.
Washington, D. C. The United
States is importing fish intothe Pan
ama canal zone now to eat up mosqui
toes. These fish belong to the group
broadly known as tip minnows, so
called from always feeding at or near
the surface ef the water, for which
the . structure of their mouths and
habit bf swimming with a large por
tion of their backs out of water,
admirably adapts them.
This habit, in connection with their
small size, is cf special value, as it
enables them to secure their food by
pursuing it across plats and masses
cf ftlgae over which there Is only a
thing film of water. They swim in
greet schools, are never over one and
cne-half inches long, and are foufld in
stagnant, sluggish and running Wa
ter, either fresh or brackish. The" ab
sence of malaria in Barbadoes has
been attributed to the presence of
these fish by their destruction of the
larvae of malaria carrying mosquitoes
BRISTOL VOTES JOB LIQUOR.
"Wets" W.ih by Majority 6f 33 Vtes
in Virginia "fowri:
Bristol, Va. By the narrow major
ity cf 3S votes out of a total of 84 i
votes polled, the anti-prohibitionisti
won the local option election held
here, following one of the most hot
ly contested campaigns of its kino
known in tb south. There were 401
votes against and 439 in favor oi
granting license.
The 4,wets" declare that the victory
here, following the recent one against
prohibition at Petersburg, Va., wiil
have the effect of checking the state
wide prohibition movement in Vir
ginia and will have some influence to
ward preventing further inroads of
the prohibitionsists in the south. They
say, too, that the winning of this
fight is but the opening wedge in the
greater fight for reclamation of lost
territory in the south.
THE GOSPEL Of PEACE.
Preached by President Taft, Ambassa
dors Jusserand and Bryce.
Bluff Point, Vt. With the arrival
of President Taft, Ambassador Jusser
and of France, Ambassador Bryce of
Great Britain, Secretary of War Dick
inson and Vice Admiral Uriu of Ja
pan, the celebration of the thre hun
dredth anniversary cf the discovery
of Lake Champlain oql on interna'
tional seope.
Ambassadors Jusserand and Bryce.
and President Taft all committed
their respective countries to nolieies
of peace, in the shadow cf old Ticons
derage, which had witnessed soma of
the bloodiest battles in ail history,
they expressed the hope that never
again would the peace of the great
nations cf the world be interrupted
by a war.
FARMERS LOSE $30,000,000 YEARLY.
Says Colonel Scott In Address to
Farmers' Union.
Conyers, Ga. The speech delivered
by Colonel Leonida3 F. Scott, editor
of tie Conyers Free Press, before
Oak Grove Local Farmers' Union,
has aroused a good deal of interest
in thi3 section. In his speech Colo
nel Scott made the statement- that
the south, loses $30,000,000 a year
from the one source of carelessly
packing a bale of cotton.
TARIFF BILLJS PASSED
Measure Went Through Senate
By Vote of 42 to 24.
UP TO THE HOUSE NOW
Insurgent Republican Senators Resent
ed Threat That They Would B
Read Oat of Party.
New York Mock Lxchange Guarded.
New York City. The stock ex
change was guarded by a score of ex
tra policemen and plain clothes men
to prevent the carrying out of a plot
to blow up the handsome- building
with dynamite. Word of the plot
was communicated to the police and
since then the building has been sur
rounded .by police.
Kew Cotton Pest in Louisiana.
Lcgansport, La.-Many farmers in
th:s section of Louisiana- report that
a new past, known &s the Mexican
Ilea, has appeared la great numbers
in their fields, and that the resulting
damage Is greater than from the rav
ages of the boll weevil.
HOUSE FIGHTS AMENDMENTS.
Tariff Guesticn Shifted to a Joint Con
ference Committee.
Washington, D. C The tariff ques
tion has now been shifted from botli
1 ouses of congress to a conference
committee. The house adopted a
lule whereby all cf the eight hun
dred and forty-seven amendments o.:
the senate were disagreed to and the
conference requested by the y senatf .
granted. Eighteen republican voted
against the rule and one dan$mrat for
i ' '
American Heiress to Wed Prince.
London, England. The Austrian
embassy here announces the engage
ment of Prinen Miguel of Braganza,
eldest son of Duke Michael, the pre
tender to the Portuguese throne, to
-Miss Anita Stewart, daughter of Mrs.
iomM smith '-of New York.
Miss Anita S'iewart is the daughter
of Mrs. James smitn, wno was ioi
m,w the wife of W. R. Stewart. Mr
Smith died while, traveling m Japan
two years ago, leaving an esiaie vai
ued at $30oo(jeee. . , . . v
Washington, D. C The tariff bill
passed the senate by a vote of . 45
to 34. Republicans voting in the neg
ative were Beveridge of Indiana, Bris
tow of Arkansas, Brown of Nebraska,
Burkett of Nebraska, Clapp of Minne
sota, Crawford of South Dakota, Cum
mins of Iowa, Djolliver of Iowa, La
Foieltt of Wisconsin and Nelson of
Minnesota. McEnery of Louisiana was
tfie only democrat recorded in the af
firmative. Mr. Gore delivered a final denuncia
tion of the entire system of protection
as. exemplified In the bill.
The failure of the senate to keep
the promise made to the people by
the republican party respecting a re
vision . of the tariff downward, was
the theme" of Senator Beveridge, as
the debate on the' pending bill was
drawing to a close. -
Mr, Beveridge was answered by Mr.
Aldrich, who said he had often seen
men interpret their own judgment
as the judgment of their party.
Mr. Aldrich declared that the pend
ing bill was a fulfillment of the par
ty's pledge. .. If senators wished to
vote against the bill, he said, they
should not attempt to speak for their
party; .
Mr. Crawford delivered a vigorous
protest against any attempt upon the
part of Chairman Aldrich to prevent
republican senators from the exercise
of their judgment.
Senator Clapp also joined in the
protest against any effort on the part
Of the present senator from Rhode Isl
and to cohtrol his actions. '
The bill was then put on its pass
age. It was passed 45 to 34.
Much interest was aroused in the
senate over the adoption of the amend
ment cf Senator Bradley removing the
restrictions on the free sale of tobacco
in the hand.
This action was the result of many
years of agitation and of much active
recent campaigning.
Thg Bradley amendment authorizes
anyone, the grower, any person to
whom he may make transfer, or. any
one else, to sell tobacco in the hand
without paying a tax, but requires
that when the sale exceeds . ten
younds, a record shall be kept for
fhe benefit of the internal revenue
service. -
The present law permits the grow
er to dispose of his product, but does
not allow his vendee to transfer it
without paying a tax of six cents a
pound. The prohibition has been: the
cause of much disturbance, culminat
ing in the forays of the night riders
in Kentucky and Tenessee.
TRAMP SAVES 200 UYES.
Man Goes Unrewarded in Subsequent
Excitement.
Canon City, Colo. The lives of
more than 200 persons on a west
bound Rio Grande tram were saved
by an unknown tramp, who was left
unrewarded.
The train had just passed Swal
lows, a little station two miles east
of Canon City, and was going at a
40-mile-an-hour gait when it was flag'
ged. The tramp called the engine
drivers attention to a serious under
mining of the tracks just below. The
roadbed was found to be in a dan
gerous condition for two miles.
In the excitement the hero was for
gotten.
YELLOW FEVER RUMOR.
Will Be Investigated by the State of
. ' Texas,
Dallas, Texas.-Dr. W. h, Brumby,
ptate health officer of Texas, has been
sent by Qovernpr campbeii to uuoa
to make a personal investigation o
health conditions on that Island. Dr.
Brumgy, on bis return, wijl officially
report what quarantine measures be
considers it will be necessary for
Texas to adopt against Cuba and
Mexico In order to protect the people
of Texas against ycnow rever.
PROHIBITION CAUSES LOSSES.
"Dry" Wave Has Hit Brewers and
Distillers in Wisconsin. ,
Milwaukee, Wis. The enormous
loss of business to brewers and dis
tillers, through the dry wave, ts
shown, indirectly, in the report of the
local internal revenue office for the
year ending June 30th, this report
showing a reduction of - the Internal
revenue amounting to $322,000.92 for
that period, practically the entire loss
being due to the falling off In the out
put of beer.
HYGIENIC SCHOOL ROOKS j
National Educators Ask for Better Sur- '
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rounding for Pupils. 1
round shoulders and a hacking cough
should be permitted in the school
room."
, "The city is responsible for lower
mentality and a weakend body in an
increasing number" of " school chil
dren," - - ,
"Give the physical body its educa
tion as you feed the brain its words
and figures."
William W. Hastings ot Springfield,
Mass., urged these ' precepts at the
convention of the National Education
al Association. The sentiment was
general for a more hygienic school
room, both from the standpoint of
the pupil and the teacher.
A d:scusion on health in the school
room brought out. the fact that most
of the teachers favor wider play
grounds and more work for the body.
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THREE-SCORE-AND-TEN
FOR ROCKEFELLER
Cleveland, Ohio. John D. Rocke
feller has reached the three-score-and
ten -period of his life. Seventy years
ago he was born on a small farm
near Rlchford, Tioga county, New
York. Beginning life as a penniless
farmer's boy, Mr. Rockefeller is now
reputed to bo the world's nearest can
didate for a gillionaire. Hi3 health is
good, and he 13 enjoying rugged old .
age. Mr. Rockefeller received sev
eral congratulatory telegrams and a
few callers, who extended' their best
wishes. His birthday was spent in his
usual manner, attending to business
alfa:rs andl playing golf. ,
RECORD IS BROKEN
FOR SIZE OF CHEESE
Utica, N- Y. The largest cheese
ever manufactured In the Mohawk
valley was shipped to a Chicago firm
by the local cold storage company.
The cheese was built in the usual
shape, but it measured 32 inches high
and 45 inches in diameter and weigh
ed 1,950 pounds.
It took about ten tons of milk to
produce it and it was pressed into
shape by a specially constructed press
in a cheese factory, where if was
bought by a Chicago firm through a
cold storage company.
MUST FACE TRIAL
FOR TRYING SUICIDE
Memphis, Tenn. So far as records
show for the first time in the history
of Memphis, the name of an alleged
wculd--be suicide apears on the police
docket formally charged with attempt
ed self-destruction, and will be used
as a test of the Tennessee statute
which declares attempted suicide a
felony and provides heavy punish
ment. The arrest was at the instance
of the superintendent of the city "he
pital, where the young woman was
taken for medical attention.
OFFICERS MUST EAT
FOOD SENT INMATES
Topeko, Kans. Governor' W. R.
Stubbs believes that the officers and
employees of the various state insti
tutions should eat the same food they
set out for the inmates.
"If "the grub is not good enough for
the officers and employes," said the
governor, -"it is not good enough for
growing children and invalids in the
institutions. If the officers cannut
live cn food the state furnishes Its
wards, they should -buy their own provisions."
CORPORATION CONTROL
Wickersham Says U- S. Should
Dominate Interstate Concerns. ,
TO HONOR FOUNDER
OF NEW ORLEANS
New Orleans, La. After nearly two
hundred years the first statue of Bien
ville, founder of New Orleans, is to
be placed in one of the public squares
of the city, according to plans which
have taken concrete form here. A
small statue of Bienville has been
placed in the exhibit room of the
Louisiana Historical Society and from
this model a large figure will bo
made. . .
TRAIN OVERTURNED.
Santa Fe Train Crashes Through
Bridge Into Water.
Kansas City, Mo. Swollen by un
precedented rains and by melted
snows from the mountains, brought
down through the Missouri valley, the
rivers have left their banks and caus
ed damaging .floods in many parts of
Missouri and Kansas. "
Train Uo. 5 of the A, T, and S. P.
Railroad met with a wrgeit at Po
mona, Kansas. Of the ten coaches
which made up the train, four- a bag
gage car and three day coaches left
the track and rolled into eighteen
feet of water.
The overturned coaches are suppos
ed to have been empty. ..
STATES TO REGULATE TRUSTS
Mr. Wickersham Urges Creation of' Na
tionally Created Incorporations to
Handle Interstate Commerce
VIRGIN BIRTH DENIED.
Despite Denial Fish is Ordained by
Presbyteriar3.
New York City The Rev. George
Pish, one of the three graduates of
the Union Theological Seminary who,
rn a recent examination, denied the
virgin birth of Christ, the historical
identity of Adam and Eve, the raising
of Lazarus from the dead and the
resurrection of the body of Christ,
was, nevertheless, ordained" by the
New York presbytery by a vote of
10 to 7i . v
WOMEN CONVICTS MAY
BE TAKEN FROM ROADS
Mansfield, La. Because of protests
by humanitarians, women oonvicts.
serving time on the-roads of DeSotQ
parish will probably be relieve of
hard labor and returned tp the jail
here to finish their sentences, The
authorities of the parish have been
deluged with petitions seeking tho
abandonment of the working of wom
en convicts.
Newsy Paragraphs.
A sensational action against Pope
Pius, in which a vast fortune is at
stake, is pending. It is declared that
unless there is an amicable adjust
ment suit will be entered by the
three nieces of the late Bishop
Adami, who will sue- to restore their
uncle's fortune to them, which ia now
held by the pope. The Vatican holds
the will, which, it is declared, leaves
everything to Monslgnor Sarto, now
the pope.
Justice Mills directed that Harry K.
Thaw be transferred from the Mat
teawan asylum to the White Plains
jail. ThhJ i3 a distinct victory for
Thaw. Justice Mills said he would
recommit Thaw to Matteawan if Jus:
tice Gaynor granted a change of ve
nue to the state attorney general.
Total receipts for the Charleston,
S. C, postofflce during the year just
closed were $151,533.20, the largest
in the history of that postoflice.
The gain o er last year's business
was nearly $3,000.
Among the latest civil list pensions
granted by the British government
are $125 a year each to Mary, Dor
othy and Bessie Dickens, grand
daughters of the late unanes uick
ens, in recognition of the literary em
inence of their grandfatehrv
The national convention cf the
National Woman Suffrage association
in session at Seattle,-Wash., elected
the following officers: President,
Rev. Anna II. Shaw, Moyan, Fa.; first
vice president, Mrs. Rachel Foster
Avery. Swarthmore, Pa.; second vice
president, Mrs. Florence Kelley, New
Ycrk: corresponding secretary, Miss
Kate M. Gordon, New Orleans ; re
cording secretary, Mr3. Ella S. Stew
art, Chicago; treasurer, Mrs. Harriet
Taylor Upton, warren, o,; nrst audi
tor. Miss Laura Clay, Lexington, Ky.;
second auditor, Miss Alice Stone
Blackwell, Boston.
Peducah, Ky. Congress should con
trol organization cf corporations do-,
ing an interstate business, according
to an liddi ess - delivered before , tho
State Bar. Association by George W.
Wickersham, attorney general of the
United States.
Of pai amount importance because
Wickersham gave complete treatment
of the trust question as it appears ij
the present national administration,
the address was notable chiefly for
the recommendation nada by the at
torney general that congress should
enact a law providing for nationally
created incorporations to carry on
intersttae commerce.
Previously by exhaustive reference
to important state and federal court
decisions, Mr. Wickorsham had sketch
ed the way3 by which states may reg
ulate .business cf foreign corporations
within their boundaries and had ad
vocated that the license of any for
eign corporation be vacated if 50 per
cent of its stock was owned by any
company, domestic or foreign, cr if
that amount became later -so owne r.
Taking up the definition of interstate-
commerce, thousrh Mr. WiCKOi
rham said "it would be rash at tbia
time to suggest a definition of what it
Is," he quotes Justice Harlan of the
United States supreme court, that it
is "not a technical legal concepuci.,
but a practical one."
This brought the attorney general
to hi3 main declaration ti:at congress
should organize corporations to carry
on interstate business, because of the
general legal complexity of regulat
ing that traffic.
Though in a national sense the ad
dress was chiefly notable for the rec
ommendation of national incorpora
tion, its effort to show the separate
states how they may control the busi
ness of foreign corporations in their
limits, was an important feature.
ECONOMY ON ISTHMUS.
No More Carriages for Government
Officials.
Washington, D. C. The wave of
economy first noticed at Washington
some time after the advent of the
Taft administration is reported as
having anived at the isthmian canal
zone. Its first effect was to sweep
away nearly all the government car
riages used by the commissioners and
other officials on the zone. Colonel
Goethals, chairman of the canal com
mission, has issued an order discon
tinuing tho use r,f these carriages
and directing the chief quartermaster
to sell all transportation equipment cn
hand, with tLra exception of a few sur
reys to be used exclusively tor tno
transaction of public business. Nona
of these is for the use of any mem
ber of the . commission. In contiaat
with this nolicv is to be noticed the
methods cf the French during their
attempt to construct the canal. The
comission Is now -offering for sale
between 80,000 and 100,000 of old iron
and steel left on the istnmus -ny me
French. i - , lvu
NEW TREATMENT FOR RABIES.
Physicians at University of PennsyN
vania nave New ineory.
Phllndelnhia. Pa. News of the
deepest interest to the world of sci
pnm nomea from the University of
Pennsylvania in the statement that
certain experiments now being con
ducted there point to an entirely
different theory from any hitherto en
tertained regarding the cause of hy
drophobia, and, if successiui, win
revolutionize every accepted theory
to date.
-rr nhnrlfls W. Dulle3. who anions
other physicians has been quietly
working in the university laborato
ries, declared it was not intenaea ia
make the results nublio until next
spring, but be added:
'if tne results Dear oui im new
theory, almost every accepted idea on
the subject of hydrophobia will Yir
tually be swept away. . . j
FASTINti KEC0R9 BROKEN.
Mrs. Hoag Gees Forty-Nine Dyi
Without Eating.
Los Angeles. Cal. Mrs. Lillian D.
Hoaz has set at naught all records
for fasting, abstaining from food for
forty-ninj days. The highest record,
previously was that of Etta Priscilla
Grove, a Chicago school teacner, wno
shuned food- forty-one days a year
ago.
This long period of fast was due
to an illness the woman bad hoped
to overcome by refraining from food
of any kind. The result was more
than hoped for.
EXPENSIVE RAILROAD COMPLETED.
$62,500,000 Spent on 32 Miles cf New
Alpine Road.
Gastein, Austria. The Tauren Rail
road, the new Alpine line connecting
Gastein and Spittal, was officially
opened . by the Emperor Francis Jo
seph in the presence of a large gath
ering of the Austrian archdukes, mem
bers of parliament and the public. So
great were the engineering difficulties
that had to be overcome in the con
struction cf the line that although it
is only 30 miles long, it cost $62,500,
000. Eight years were required for
the completion cf the Tauren tunnel,
The railroad greatly shortens the dls
tance between central Europe and ths
Adriatic.
CLAY ELECTED SENATOR.
General Assembly cf Georgia Voted
Unanimously for Present Senator.
Atlanta. Ga. Hon. A. S. Clay was
re elected for a third term in the Unit
ed States senate to succeed himself.
The casting cf the vote was mere
ly a formality, asrSenator Clay was
nominated in the primary of last yeai .
But the law says the general assem
bly shall elect,, so the two houses sit
ting separately elected Senator Clay.
He received every vote cast, 37 inj
the senate and. 150 in the house. ,