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A WELLMAN'S BALLOON
Cruise of World for Naval Cadets
rASHINGTON. The fighting ships
are going on another cruise,
partly fo rthe sake of the cruise and
partly to advertise the navy and at
tract young men to it. Sixteen of the
battleships will turn their prows away
from the home land and steam off into
the Atlantic, bound on a tour of the
European ports.
For months the publicity experts of
the navy department have been ex
ploiting the voyage for the purpose of
getting young men to recruit. Not all
of them will be chosen to go, but they
all have an equal chance and those
who do not go this time will go the
next time, for it is the purpose to
have these cruises every year to make
the service more atractive to young
Americans and cause them to enlist
i;i such numbers as are required for
The proper manning of the fighting
ships.
When this cruise was first an
nounced, several months ago, the navy
department issued advertising matter
to draw recruits. One of its most ef
fective documents was a circular let
ter, prepared at Washington, but sent
out from the various recruiting sta
tions. It was written in a heart-to-
heaft style. The cruise meant, ac
cording to the letter-writer, "that
thousands of young Americans will
have a chance to see the world and
get paid for it. Do people who save
for months or years to go abroad ever
regret it? I want to ask you this im
portant question: Are you willing to
travel if you are well paid for -it, or
would you rather stay at home and
read about it?"
Naturally, when it is put up to him
in that fetching fashion, the young
man concludes that he would a good
deal rather travel and get paid for it,
and he hies to the nearest recruiting
station and enlists. Long cruises cost
a lot of money, but they bring in
young men and the navy must have
young men even if they do come high.
Another heart-to-heart letter is ad
dressed to the young man who is
tired of his job. "Perhaps you are un
happy in your present job," writes the
recruiting officer. "Perhaps it doesn't
pay you enough. Perhaps there is no
future to it. Perhaps your present
work will never satisfy your burning
ambition to win great success. Well,
now if you want to change your job,
I'd like to have a talk with you and
tell you all about a bluejacket's life
in the navy."
If the young man isn't tired of his
job that letter is calculated to make
him tired of it, and the navy gets an
other man. Other appeals are mado,
but the cruise talks are what bring
the best results.
Put Under Bonds to Keep the Peace
JIJEXICO is a striking illustration of
It! the way modern business puts na
tions under bonds to keep the peace.
A naturally turbulent Latin-American
republic, mainly Indian in blood, pays
coupons on its government bonds to
citizens of 21 nations. That is the
number of countries represented last
year. In 1907, coupons on Mexican
government bonds were redeemed for
citizens of 16 nations.
Every country so interested, through
its citizens, in the stability and hones
ty of the Mexican republic, is an in
fluence on the side of peace and or
der in Mexico. In a very real sense
the Mexican nation has given bonds
to keep the peace by selling govern
ment securities to foreigners living
under many flags.
Less directly, but still in ways that
count heavily the sales of private
property to foreign investors are also
equivalent to giving bonds to keep the
peace. In the last quarter of a cen
tury American capital to the amount
of not less than $1,000,000,000, accord
ing to excellent authorities, has been
invested in Mexican mines,
tions, . railroads and other Mexican
property. European money has poured
into Mexico in a similar stream.
Of course, no Mexican government
ever guaranteed the security or the
profitableness of such investments.
No government of any great power
would undertake to collect from the
Mexican people, as a nation, money to
make good the losses sustained by
Americans making unwise invest
ments in Mexico. It is not a question
of such compulsion.
But every power which has many
subjects who have staked money upon
the stability of the Mexican republic,
the justice and solidity of the Mexican
government, and the general sanity
and regard for business obligations of
the Mexican nation, will exert more
or less pressure upon Mexico if that
country should ever default as a na
tion or encourage its citizens to re
fuse to pay their just debts. In the
aggregate these forces brought to
bear upon Mexico can be trusted to
have a deep and wide influence there.
Such international business bonds
of peace are constantly becoming more
important in many parts of the world.
Every year the financial and commer
cial ties which knit the nations to
gether increase in strength. Always
the tendency of the times is toward
the creation of closer international re-
Sqoare, oae ln$rtin $t.mm
One Square, two loertloas Kgm
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For Larger Advertise
ments Liberal Contracts
will bo mado.
FALLS HI OCEAN
THE TRANS-ATLANTIC TRIP
THE BALLOON AMERICA
ENDS IN DISASTER.
IN
AIRSHIP WAS ABANDONED
wenman and His Five Companions
s Were Rescued In Mid-Ocean by
the Steamer Trent.
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lations and a surer sense of common
planta- interest in the preservation of peace. J made aeronautic history in the first
over-ocean flight of an airship were
Bank Failures Due to Lax Examiners
banks had offered . excuses that they
had been unable to learn in advance
of a bank's true condition, that offi
cers and directors of banks would not
correct conditions brought to their at
tention, or any one of another dozen
reasons, Mr. Murray in his statement
says: - . -
,lany "of the examiners state in
their reports of examinations, forward
ed to the controller's office, that it Is
a hardship not only on the examiner
but upon many of the members of the
directory of country banks, to ask the
various boards to meet with the ex
aminer during the progress or at the
close of the examination.
This investigation by the controller
and his chief of the division of re
ports-is also an investigation into the
methods employed by every national
bank examiner, and upon seeing them
make an examination- of several banks
and afterward holding a meeting of
the directors, he will be able to deter
mine who of his examining force, if
any, are inefficient."
CLOSE upon the heels of the radical
shake-up In the ranks of the
United States bank examiners, by
which 20 men were shifted to new
fields, Controller of Currency Murray
announces that he will make a per
sonal investigation of conditions in all
examination districts. In -deciding
upon this course of action the con
"i roller says:
"In almost every case of a national
"bank failure since I have been con
troller the insolvency could have been
averted had the national bank exam
iner determined the true condition and
reported his findings in time for me to
force a correction in the administra
tion of the bank's affairs."
After citing that examiners of failed
Want to Shorten 'Long Green' Notes
f I DONT CARE
I WHAT SJZE JT 16
y JUST SO TJ
i; GOOD
THE length and breadth of the paper
money issued by the . government
are not fixed by statute, but by habit
the notes are 3.04 inches long and 7.28
'nches wide. The treasury department
renews the plan more than once pro
posed before to reduce, these di
mensions. The size talked about is
2 5 inches by six inches, which has for
tome time been used with favor in
the Philippines. Our people are fa
miliar with the notes as they are and
T511s have been fitted to them. But
traders and bankers handled the frac
tional currency of war times with ease
ti'i'l that paper was smaller than that
the treasury is now considering.
The cost of the change would ba In
tl"ovHlDK sc. entire' new series of
plates and that would be much great
er than the renewal of such as wear
out. On the other hand the experts
reckon that a saving of $612,603 a year
may be made by the reduction in size.
The secretary will ask congress to
conform the bank bills to the new di
mensions at government charge for
new plates.
The work of so modifying the paper
currency would require 18 months, so
that no sudden appearance of the
smaller notes can be" expected. While
engravers and printers might be busy,
the scheme would pass Into an old
story.
The department hesitates to go for
ward In the matter without public ap
proval and invites criticism and sug
gestion. The clipping off of more thjan
half an inch in width and 1.28 Inch'in
length saves so much in paper and
permits five notes instead of four to
be printed on a sheet. The guess how
much longer the smaller note will last
than the present paper can be veri
fied only by trial.
New York City. Man's first at-
tempt to cross any ocean in an $
airship has failed, but Walter
Wellman, five companions and
kitten, who essayed the voyage,
are safe. The airship the giant
America is a battered aerial
derelict, abandoned at sea, per-
perhaps still in the air, perhaps
sunk beneath the waves, with
her costly equipment. When de-
serted she had been in the air 0
probably 72 hours, a new world's
record for dirigibles, and, driven
by the wind, had traveled doubt-
less 800 miles. AVhether the dis-
tance record for dirigibles S70
3 miles also will be broken, re-
mains to be computed.
New York City. The royal mail
steamer Trent picked up Walter Well-
man and the crew of the dirigible bal
loon America in mid-ocean. The air
ship had been abandoned. The res
cue was made in latitude 35.43, longi
tude 68:18.
Wellman and his crew were picked
up at a point about 150 miles due
east -of Cape Hatteras on the North
Carolina coast.
When the America passed Nantuck
et Sunday morning, conditions seemed
favorable for the completion of the
journey across the Atlantic. It was
after it had gone past that point that
the conditions arose which finally
compelled the abandonment of the
balloon and the transfer of the men
to the Trent.
The life boat was finally launched,
with great difficulty, in a high wind
early Tuesday morning. The steamer
Trent had at this time been sighted,
two hours away.
As a precaution the Trent lowered
her lifeboats, which stood by until the
transfer was effected, and Wellman
and his companions, even down to the
frightened, squirming kitten, were safe
on board the liner, surrounded by the
excited passengers.
Driven by the winds, tne America
soon disappeared in the - dis
tance. The loss of the air
ship was witnessed with little
regret by those who had journeyed in
her. It was realized that she never
could have been used again. The
heavy equilibrator, which retarded and
dragged down the ship and interfered
with the steering, was said to be the
fatal mistake of this campaign.
Atlantic City, N. J. The start for
Europe of Walter Wellman and his
crew of five men in the dirigible bal
loon America was made Saturday
morning, October 15. The men who
Walter Wellman, commander; Melvin
Vaniman, chief engineer and next In
command; F. Murray Simonds, navi
gator; J. C. Irwin, wireless operator;
John Aubert and Albert Louis Loud.
TAMPA STRIKeTnDS.
35 Cigar Factories in Florida City
. Open Their Doors.
Tampa, Fla. The thirty-five cigar
factories, which have been closed
since the inauguration of the tobac
co workers' strike on July 25, were
thrown open. Probably 100 men re
turned to work and this enterfig
wedge will, it is believed, end the
(Strike. Fifty automobiles with more
than 200 business men sworn in as
special officers patroled the streets of
West Tampa and Ybor City, . dispers
ing gatherings of strikers and pre
venting meetings. - " -
Powers to Recognize Portugal.
Berlin, Germany. Great Britain
has proposed that all the powers rec
ognize the republic of Portugal at
the same time. Germany replied ap
proving the suggestion. ,
COTTON BILLS AGREEMENT.
Further Conferences "Will Be Held to
Perfect Plan for Guaranteeing
Cotton Bills of Lading.
New York. An extension from Oc
tober 31 to December. 31 of the peri
od during which American cotton bills
of lading will be accented in current
terms by foreign banks was announc
ed here by Sir Edward ILHcflden, the
English broker, who came to this
countcy for tie British and continen
tal interests. .
This course was recommended- to
the foreign bankers by Sir Edward,-
and, following the receipt of cable ad
vices from London authorizing him to
act, he issued a formal statement.
This is the first fruit of a series of
conferences Sir Ejdward has held here;
during the last w eek. -
The favor with which the plan to
have bills of lading guaranteed or in
sured has been received by interior
bankers of this counlry justified Sir
Edward, he said, in urging an ex
tension of the status mo as probably
two months would be required to per
fect the project. In granting this ex
tension the English bankers reserve
the right to renew conferences with
the American financiers to devise an
other scheme for safeguarding bills of
lading in event the guaranty plan
proves impracticable.
The British bankers refused to add
a word to his statement or explain the
contemplated plan of protecting bills
of lading in detail.
STORM WORKED HAVOC
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TO VESSELS AT SEA
CENSUS FIGURES PADDED.
COTTON SAMPLES COST $35.
Government Ready to Supply Nine'
Grades at Price Named.
Washington. The Department of
Agriculture has announced that it is
prepared to supply the nine official
grades of white American cotton re
cently promulgated by. the Secretary
of Agriculture. The grades will be
furnistied for $35 a set, the cost of
their preparation, as required by law.
The sale is begun in accordance with
the recommendation of the commit
tee of cotton experts upon whose ad
vice the grades were established, that
they be issued for general use during
the crop season of 1910-11.
The official grades are elaborately
prepared and , the integrity of each
type is attested by. a full-siz4d photo
graph secured in thet box cover and
bearing the signature of the Secre
tary and the seal of the Department
of Agriculture. The permanency of
the standard is to be secured by the
preservation of twenty-five sets iri
vacuum to be opened as occasion
may demand for purposes of compar
iron.
Numerous letters approving the of
ficial grades have been received from
prominent American cotton interests
Prominent members of foreign ex
changes who have seen the types have
ilso expressed themselves in terms of
high commendation.
SOUTHERN CITIES' RANK.
rrcytNT WEST INDIAN HURRU
CANE CRIPPLED AND DISABLED
MANY SMALL CRAFT.
Government Will Prosecute All Per
sons involved In the Fraudu
lent Enumerations.
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Tacoma, Wash. At a mass i
meeting of business men resolu- 4
tions were adopted denouncing i
the charge that Tacoma'B census i
& Wa a no Mo1 TVi oii,.inB Aa- J
THIRTEEN SAILORS DROWNED man1 that the - government 4
t mane ,a canvaas of the city. II 4
fraud has been committed, the 4
Number of Wrecks Occurred Off resolutions declare, the city of 4
Florida CoastSeveral Derelict Aacoma will do everything in its 4
t power 10 oring tne guilty to jus-
tice. 4
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POE IN HALL OF FAME
EDGAR ALLAN POE ELECTED BY
SUPPORTERS AFTER YEARS
OF EFFORT. .
Found Near Key West.
Washington. Staggered by th
enormous growth- shown by the re
JacksonivUe, Fla. Only thedisas
ters at sea remain to be counted in
'obtaining complete reports of the
damage done by the great hurricane turns of the new census for a numbei
which swept this state. Although the ot Western cities, Director Durand ol
total damage will reach into the hun- the census bureau ordered an Inves-
dreds of thousands, it is evenly dis- tigation, the result of which appeared
wiouiea, ana will probably - not fall m the announcement that gross fraud
as an oppressive burden on any par- had been perpetrated. Mr. Durand
ticular community. Thirteen drown- gave out also a letter from Presidenl
ed in shipwreck is the most authen- Taft, directing" that persons implicat
up count at nana. Including those re- ed "in the alleged frauds should be
portea on both coasts of Flor- prosecuted.
iaa, werd came from St. Augus- Cities specifically mentioned as be
tine that three dead had been found ins affected by the frauds are: Taco
in the wreck of a four-masted schoon- ma, Seattle and Aberdeen, Washing
er near Delray. The missing total is tou; Portland, Oregon; Minneapolis,
at least a half hundred, including the Minn.; Boise, Idaho, and Fort Smith.
crew of nine on the Texas Oil com- -Ark., but it is stated that there are
panys' barge, Dallas, which broke many others.
adrift during a 100-miIes blow. The result of a second enumeration
Key West, Fla., Via Hajvana. of Tacoma, Wash., w as announced ;
The captain of the Louisiana reports the city shows a population of 82,972,
it will be impossible to save his ship an increase of 45,258, 120 per cent.,
until the cargo has been relieved. All over the population of 1900.
passengers have reached Key West. The first figures turned in for Ta
The captain of the Norwegian steamer coma were 116,168. In other words,
Fos, which is fast in the quicksand tne actual population was padded to
at Marqueses, has arrived at Tortu- the extent of 33,296, which would have
gas island, and reports his vessel in , meant a further addition of 40 per
good condition. He will return to her cent. These additions were made In
to discharge her cargo whereupon he 34 out of 73 enumeration districts In
expects she will float. The bark Hugo Tacoma. In some of these districts
Tas towed into nort bv the tne As. the number renorted Droved to-be
tral. A derelict Is reported near Sand several times greater than the actual 42 Samuel Adams and Lucretia Mott,
?Iey. Cable Manager Adklns left with population. In ten districts the firsj P1 eacn
twn rhnrterod vocaolo Full iuitiiTma1 I eniimemMrm sVmwprl 29 75.1 Tin mo a I
make repairs in the Miami cable. whereus the correct number was I 1Ud otTo rnloUNcn rREti
New Orleans. Hope is almost found to be 11,646
abandoned for the safety of the Nor-
II CELEBRITIES CHOSEN
Doctor Maccracken of Now York Unl
versity Announces Successful Can
didates for Hall of Fame Places.
New York City. Edgar Allan Poe
Ib at last in the hall of fame. Years
sf effort on the part of 6taunch sup
potters to get his name added to the
list was rewarded by the announce
ment of Dr.' John H. Maccracken, the
chairman of the senate of the New
York university, that the author of
Raven," with ten others, had
'The
been accorded this honor. The eleven
names added are as follows :
Harriet Beecher Stowe, 74 ovtes ;
Oliver Wendell Holmes and Edgar Al
lan Poe, 69 votes each; Roger Wil
liams, 64; James Fenimore Cooper,
152: Phillips Brooks. 60: William' CuK
len Bryant, 59; Frances' E. Willard,
56; Andrew Jackson, George Ban
croft, 53 votes each, and John Lath
rop Motley, 51.
As a result of the election, the au
thors' corner doubles its population
and goes far ahead of the statesmen
in numbei. Eleven bronze tables for
the names chosen will be designed
with an appropriate quotation from
the words of each, and the formal un
veiling will take place in October,
1911, in the hall of fame, at New
Kork university.
Those failing of election ten votes
or less were: Francis P'arkman, Char
lotte Saunders Cushman, Mark Hop
kins, 43 each; Patrick Henry, 44;
viartha Washintgon, 43; Daniel Boone
Alleged Murderer in Virginia Jail Lib
erated by His Friends.
Lovingston, Va. The mountaineer
friends of John Moore, under sen
tence to be electrocuted for the mur
der of Frank Howl, descended upon
the Nelson county jail here, stormed
Population Figure for All Large
Southern Cities' Except Memphis.
Washingtcn. Nashville, Tenn.; has
a population of 110,364 under the new
census returns. The population in
1900 was 80,865, an increase of 36.5
per cent.
Omaha, Neb., has 124,096 popula
tion now as against 102,555 In 1900.
Atlanta. With the exception of
Memphis, census returns from practi-:
cally all the leading Southern cities
have been announced for 1910. In
terest now centers in the population
of the Tennessee metropolis. It is be
lieved that the census bureau " was
ready to announce the figures some
time ago, but that they have been held
up at the solicitation of Memphis busi
ness men.
Here are some figures for the lead
ing Southern cities returned to date:
City.
New Orleans
Louisville . .
Atlanta. . .
Birmingham '.
Nashville . .
San Antonio.
Dallas . .
Houston . .
Fort Worth .
Mobile: . .
Savannah . .
1910
.339,075
.223,928
.154,839
.132,685
.110,364
. 96,614
. 92.1D4
. 78,800
.73,312
. 51,521
. 65,084
1900
287,104
'204,731
'89,872
38,415
80,865
53,321
42,638
44,633
26,688
38,469
54,244
P. C
18.1
9.4
: 72.3
245.4
36.5
81.2
116.0
76.6
174.7
33.-
-19.
Entire t-amny convicted of Murder,
Blountville, Tenn. John Carletonj
his wife, Nellie Carleton, and their soil
Rupert, tried for the murder, last IX
cember, of Arthur Howard, were con
victed of murder in the seeond degree
and each sentenced to fifteen yeaFS
in prison.
Pope Recognizes Portuguese Republic
Rome, Italy. The possibility of an
alliance between the new republic of
Portugal and the ' Roman Catholic
church, by which the Vatican will of
ficially recognize the new government
upon condition that some of the Cath
olic orders be allowed to remain in
the country, has developed. It Vas
made known that Monsignor J. Tonti,
papal nuncio to Lisbon, who was re
called by the Vatican, has been order
ed to remain in Lisbon pending the
outcome of negotiations which are in
the tentative stage at present.
Cotton Seed Oil Dealers Fail.
New York City. Notice was posted
on the produce exchange of the fail
ure of Whitman Bros., cotton seed
oil dealers, with membership . in the
produce exchange, to meet their obli
gations. -No statement of . assets or
liabilities has been made.
Population of Massachusetts.
Washington. The - census bureau
made public the following population
returns: Massachusetts State, 3,366,
146; last census, 2,805,346; Increase,
29 per eent
Inventor of Stereotyping Dead..
Washington. Willard Stephei
Whitmore, inventor of the papiei
mache -matrix process of stereotyping!
used by nearly every newspaper in
the country, and from which invent
tion he gained no material benefit, is,
dead at his home here, aged 68. He
was born in Laporte, Ind., and was
founder of the Stillwater (Minn.) Ga
zette and Minneapolis Chronicle, then
the only paper in Minneapolis. Al
the time of his death Mr. Whitmore
held a position as stereotyper in the)
government printing office. -
Georgia Road and -Employees Agree.
Augusta, Ga. An amicable adjust'
ment'of the differences on the Geort
gia railroad and the Atlanta joint ter
minal was reached according to the
statement of E. P. Kelly, third vice
president of the Brotherhood of Fire
men and Enginemen.
The negotiations have been In prog
ress since September 14. A satisfao
tory termination of the matter was
reached with a " substantial wage in
crease and the adoption of a code of
working rules pleasing, to the men
employed by the road.
wegian steamer Blueflelds, long Q. B. HILL, DEMOCRAT, DEAD.
o t.iv wwmiu. upuu xxi i wonsspivuvUs rigure in national poii
: Tl eiDa' , J ? h tie." Passes Away,
is a light draft vessel of 650 tons. 1
built especially for the fruit trade. . Albany, N. Y. David Bennett Hill's
life work ended at Wolfert's Roost.
Norwegian steamship Belize reports "? country home, near Albany. The budding ed tte prtajier.
having spoken, about 100 miles south- interment iook place at Montour Falls " - j
east of Mobile bar, to a. three-masted in Schuyler county, where the former "UB "u
n u,i T,, governor and ex-United States senator When the people of the county seat
on s maM wu born sixty-seven years aeo. were asleep, a crowd of 7o fully-arm
n,oin. ry,m oolr ' Senator Hill had been ill neariv ed men 'rom the mountain section
they wanted assistance replied that tW weeks with a cold and a bilious WhT. c0mmI4ttf1d
they did not, but would like some tea, attacK. out nis condition had not been U7U ' , T ,
sugar and water. The lumber 'with considered serious. He was sitting mif;n was gained to the building,
which the vessel is loaded is keeoine UP in bed to a drink of wter a?d the guards awed into comparative
wmcn tne Vebei IS wauea lb Keeping . , , - -nnTY.roclotnnno Tho poll where Monro
her afloat. ' - wnen ne was seized -wun an acute tn-1 1 .v-. - . .
St. Augustine. Fla.-Telline harrow- tion of the heart. Death quickly mciLeo P uun ww. xuuuu uu
oic oi Aicr-t lfollowd. with no one but a nurse at ne was tanen out.
five sTrvivors of the XeSSS " j! feared at blhed Wi" rt
schooner, William W. Converse tof Although he retired from active par- suit from any -attempt of the author
Philadelphia were brought to the city ticipation in politics- following the ties to recapture the murderer. John
by a launch from a life-saving station. Presidential election of 1904, Senator Moore was -Condemned to , pay the
The vessel went to pieces Tuesday, Hill was deeply interested in the prog- penatty y m elec rution at
40 miles below this city. Captain E. ress pt tne present campaign, uecent- . 7 V Tll ,,VZZa
J. Miller of Hepizbahga; Mate Ander- he discussed the situation with heen convicted of having murdered
o tt Judee Parker, who was then nrenar- Frank Howl in Nelson county last
nn Jing to make a tour of the state In May. Many of the mountaineer
v .iJthe interest of the Democratic ticket, friends of the condemned man beliey.
struck him and killed him. His bodv Senator Hill had entertained many ed him innocent of the crime.
and Haves' were found on the ifieaeh.r11611 distinguished in state and' na-
12 miles apart. The captain's 13-year- tional politics at .Wolf ert's. Roost and
old son, Fred, three-seamen and two "10 6urau. "nft' a ,. - - v n
negro stewards made their way- to noBpuaoie nosu ine senator never
shore on the wreckage through a mile marnea, am not smoKe ana rureiy in
of surf The storm struck the vessel, dulged in intoxicants. - ,
whinh was hound for St Fraficis. Governor White issued a proclama-
p.,ih3 with roal while off Savannah, tion requesting that all the flags: on
Kef West. Fla.. Via Havana. Public buildings be displayed half
Capt. Bradish Johnson, arriving at mast until sundown on the dar of
Knights Key, reports that American Senator Hill's funeral, and that the
Lfour-masted schooner Edward T. . Ui ouw uu.w.ui ayyiu
stotoahrr o total loss on Pigeon Kev. Pate marKS oi respect to nis mem-
One man was washed overboard and I OT
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to the marine hospital here. The Rai,way Sued for 10'0,000.
choonor nantain Thirke raitimand- Chicago. Stockholders of the Uli-
SNOW FALLS IN TEXAS.
ing, was bound from Tampa to Bal- nois Central Railroad company were
timore with a load of phosphate. The given a lively hour at tneir annual
schooner Serafins has been towed . in-4 meeting through' the efforts of At
to nort. The Spanish schooner Mar- torney Maxwell Edgar. Holders rep-
ta from Havana has been dismasted resenting 784,866 shares of stock were
and abandoned. present.
Mobile, Ala. Wireless operator Ft. The subpoenas were in a suit for
More-an. Ala., reoorts that the Brit- $10,000,000 damages. Tne derendants
ish steam Belize, that arrived in the to the suit are the directors of , the
lower bay. has eight men of a crew road, whom -Mr. Edgar seeks to hold
of a wrecked vessel on board, picked responsible for alleged financial loss
nn on a dismasted vessel in Yucatan through car repair "graft," general
mismanagement ana aiiegea re Dating.
channel.
Two Inches of Snow Falls In- J exit
Panhandle, Breaking Records.
Fort Worth, .Texas. Following a
heavy rain storm the entire Panhan
dle and plains ' section of Texas got
its first taste of winter. In Amarillo
snow fell all day, a fall estimated at
two inches, breaking previous October
records, covering a period of eighteen
years. Keports from other ' portions
of the Panhandle indicate that the
precipitation has "been much the same
as In Amarillo, the difference being in
the character of formation, whether
rain or snow. Although the fall ol
temperature" has been marked, com
paratively little suffering is experienc
ed among live stock, for the reason
that cattle in general are in good
condition and vegetation is yet green
and abundant.
In Fort Worth and vicinity, follow
ing a- heavy rain, unusually cold
weather prevailed. Other sections In
Texas report comparatively like con
ditions.
No Negro Bishops for Episcopalians.
Cincinnati, Ohio. An amendment
to the constitution of the Protestant
Episcopal church calling-, for the es
tablishment of missionary districts
along racial lines, was voted down de
cisively by the house of deputies at
the triennial convention of that body
in session here. The negroes have
long wanted a bishop of their own,
but the vote taken by the house -of
deputies was of such a character as
to- quiet any suggestions along this
line that might be made in the near
future.
Lid On in Huntsville.
Huntsville, Ala. The city council
adopted all of the Alabama prohibi
tion laws a3 city ordinances, and will
put the laws into effect. During the
past nine months this city has been
wide open and no attention has been
paid to the state laws regulating the
sale of liquors.
Clower Is Re-Elected.
New York City. Robert C. Clower,
president of the Western Union Tele
graph company, was re-elected presi
dent of the company.
2,500 Men in Sympathy Strike.
St. Louis, Mo. Approximately 2,500
men employed in the mechanical
trades on the Missouri Pacific-Iron
Mountain system walked out in sym
pathy with the striking machinists.
Here less than 100 men are employed
in the mechanical departments, and
they walked out. The principal shops
of the roads are located at Sedalia,
Mo., and Little Rock,, Ark. Shops ar
maintained .at a . number of other
points, including Texarkana, Para
gould, Van Buren and McGhee, Ark.;
Lake Charles and rerriaay, ia.
Sea Island Cotton Congress.
Valdosta, Ga. The Sea Island Cot
ton Congress and Farmers' Union held
an important meeting here.
The congress is composed of cot
ton growers ana iarmers trom an
over south Georgia and northern. Flor
ida, and a large delegation attended
the sessions here. An executive ses
sion of the Farmers' Union was held.
It is understood that matters of very
great moment to the cotton growers
were discussed, one of which was the
question of holding back the market
ing of the crop.
Will Enforce Haul Provision.
Washington. In a -formal order Is
sued the interstate commerce commis
sion announced its intention to ad
minister strictly section 4 (tie long
and short haul provision) of the re
cently amended interstate commerce
act. The order waa the outgrowth
of a hearing held by the commission
two weeks ago on the matter of the
application of interstate carriers gen
erally for relief. . There will be no
change in the existing status or in
the present rights of carriers until
February 17 1911.
Perfecting Savings Bank Plan.
Washington. Secretary of the
Treasury Macveaga and Assistant
Secretary Andrew and Postmaster-
general Hltehcock, conferred concern
ing postal savings bank plans. The
treasury officails are working out the
plans steadily, but slowly, owing to a
desire to safeguard against any de
fects in a scheme of such, magnitude
where more than 60,000 postofflces
and perhaps 15,000,000 depositors, may
be affected. They ba3e these figures
on the work in other postal savings
countries.
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