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MS HIS ON HIKI Southern Colleges Crippled by O toma!nc Po'scfa, Probably in Boneless Ham. Atlanta, Ga., Sprial.—Willi ou» Southern relieve closed, the student body of another all but depleted and the work of a third seriously impair ed by the simultaneous appearance 11 these institutions of n strange mal ady apparently of an epidemic nature which for a time ha filed phiysicians, but which is now—in two of these schools, nt least—declared to he pto maine poisoning, due to the eating of impure Western meats, a serious sil aation has developed for the consider ation of the Federal and Slate pure food authorities. Th is announcement was made here n connection with the illness of more tan forty cadets at the Mili tary Academy, at College Park, eight mile from Atlanta, the majority of WlilHH' 1 wi"i e 1 u.ihi'd' to Atlanta ■ liostti ■ tals, seriously ill. The other schools affected are Lagrange Female College, Lagrancc, fla., with two hundred stu dents, and the Athens Fetnulc College, Athens, Ala., with one hundred stu dents, which closed early in the week, The eating of boiled boneless ham by the tai'e's of the Georgia Military Academy is believed lo he directly re sponsible for the development of pto maine poisoning in that institution. As Atlanta is Hie distributing eentor of a large section of the South, it is suggested by an ofiicial of the military 6chool that the diseased meats found their way from Atlanta to the other A MILLION GIVEN BY ROCKEELLER TO EIGHT HOOK WORM New York, Special.—A gift of sl,- 000,00!) by John 1). Rockefeller to fight the "hook worm disease" was annoiitu cd ;:t I lie office of the stand ard Orl Company here lute Thursday. A i!o/,cn well-known educators and ■cienti-is. r.clci Icd in large part from institniof learning in the South where the parasite is prevalent, were called i'.i ((inference with Mr. Rocke feller > representatives at the Stand ard Oil (,'oirpauy's offices at 'JO Broad way labt Tuesday, and at that meet ing ?.ir. Rockefeller's desire to or ganize a to carry on a campaign against the malady was dis cussed. As a resnlt of this discussion of the situation the " Rockefeller Commission For the Eradication of the Hook Woi •in Disease" was or ganized. The members of this commission, as selected bv Mr. Rockefeller, are: l>r. William 11. Welch, professor of pathology in Johns Hopkins Universi ty; president of the American Medi cal Association. I*r. Simon Flexner. director of SUFFRAGETTES TRY TO DE London, By Cable. —With the evi dent intention of destroying Tmllots in a box fit Jhe Herinondsey by-elec tion Thursday, as a protest against the exclusion of wonten from the right of franchise, Mrs. t'luipin, a suffragette, smashed a bottle contain ing corrosive acid upon the ballot box. What she accomplished was the painful burtiing-of some of the elec tion officers and the assurance of her own arrest. Slipping into one of he booths where perhaps a thousand ballots had been deposited, Mrs. Chapin drew from under her s eloak a bottle in which ink had been mixed with cor- GOMEZ ADMINISTRATION Hanvaua, lty Cable.—A meeting of the national committee of Conserva tives was held Friday with the pur pose of deciding preparatory to the opening of Congress November 1 what the future course of the party shall be. All the speakers agreed ♦ hat the administration of President Gomez was a failure and that it was the duty of the Conservatives to aban don the policy of ROV- EVIDENCE ACCUMULATES Now York, Special.—Extracts frocn letters written by officials of the American Ice company to agents and customers were read in court Wed nesday as evidence-that the company was guilty of illegal monopoly in its dealings with independent producers and retailers. "Our opponents nre steadily weak ening and nre very much worried,'' wrote President Oiar to R. F. Hop kins of the Boston Ice company in June, 1904, according to one letter ■"The icemen here are sick unto death and full of was an cx- WHITE SLAVERY IS SAID T Kc;r York, Special.—Jeremiah W. Jtnks, professor of political economy at Cornell, gave out a statement here in which he says that "white sla very" does exist in New York oa charged by a recent anti-Tammany magazine article but he does not hold any political organization responsibe for the traffic. Professor Jinks, who was a member of the eornmission ap pointed by Congress to investigate luwti'-' _ Y ,u L- .iir ■ institutions affected. "It is an alarm ing situation," he added, "and tail for' a vigorous investigation by th» authorities who have supervision ovc the food supplies which ar« shipped into Atlanta from the packing cen ters." At the Georgia Military Academy a number of the cadets ate heartily of the Loilod ham Saturday and Sunday. Two sons of President Woodward were the first taken ill, and a score or more were complaining Monday morning. Tuesday forty-three were violently ill, necessitating the remov al of most of them to Atlanta hos pitals, after the college infirmary was filled to capacity. The afflicted boys were first stricken with chills, follow ed by vomiting with pulse low and temperature sub-normal. TJiis con dition continued, with severe licad nehea aad"pains i« the -«nwnlag and limbs developing on the third day. Five of the boys have recovered sufficiently to go to their homes, whi'.e twenty-five are still in local hospitals and eight in the college infirmary. Several others are confined to their rooms. The studont roll at the military academy shows an attendance of 103. The school will not close down, tha authorities believing that the present situation is well in hand and are not apprehensive of the development of further cases of the illness. The temperature of the patients in the local hospitals is stated to range bet-ween 100 and 104 , although the condition of no one of them is con sidered serious. Rockefeller Institute of Medical Re search. I)r. Charles W. Stiles, chief of the division of zoology, United States public, health arid marine hospital service, and discoverer of the Ameri can species of hook worm, and the prevalence of the disease in America. Dr. Edwin A. Alderman, president of the University of Virginia. Dr. David E. Houston, chancellor of Washington University, St. Louis, Mo. l'rof. P. P. Claxton, professor of education in the University of Tennes see. Mr. J. Y. Joyner, State Superin tendent of Education in North Caro lina, and president of the National Educational Association. Mr. Walter 11. Page, editor of The World's Work. Dr. 11. P>. Frissell, principal Hamp ton Institute. Mr. Frederick T. Gates, one of Mr Rockefeller's business managers. Mr. Shirr J. Murphy, Mr. Rocke feller's counsel in benevolent matters. Mr. John I>. Rockefeller. Jr. ITHOY BALLOTS WITH ACID rosive acid, and before she could be stopped hurled the bottle ftpon the box. It broke into many pieces and the acid splashed upon the election officers. A number of those were so severe!? injured as to require medical atten tion. About the sr.me time a similar out rage was attempted at another booth by a young girl who wore the suf fragette colors. In the latter instance little damage wns'dotie beyond the burning of the finger tips of the elec tion officials who removed the bits of broken glass. So far as could bo as certained not much acid reached the ballots in either 'case. IS ADJUDGED A FAILURE eminent which hitherto they had fol lowed for the purpose of giving it a fair trial and to begin an active anti administration campaign in Congres? and the press. A resolution to thi.' effect was unanimously adopted. It is rumored that President Gomez probably will attempt to placate the Conservatives bv offering them posi tions in the Cabinet in which alreadv there are iwo *icancies. AGAINST THE ICE TRUST tract read from another letter sent I'ack Mr. Olar to Walter Lee, man ager of the company's Pennsylvania branch, three months later. "I think we ari- in a position (> expect our ad vice to be heeded arid our direction? followed," the same letter continued. The State's attorneys began presen tation of evidence to show that the American lee company, in order to enforce famine prices, "put the knife iuto the Maine ive industry, keeping the crop down to a minimum and al lowing most of its ice houses in Main* to rot and fall down." O EXIST IN NEW YORK CITY immigration conditions. says in part: "I have no knowledge as to wheth- v er the traffic is greater in New York than in Paris. Howevei 1 , I believe it is greater in New York than else where in the United States, because, first, New York is the largest city; second, because it ia the chief port oi entry. Women imported for immoral purpose* for Chicago and Seattle largely oome through New York and many of tbe dsalsrs are here. TUESDAY'S ELECTIONS L ' Summary cf Results in Most Issues c.nd Most Observed Localities—ls euo in Maiyland Yc-t in Doubt. Elections were held Tuesday in many States and cities throughout the country, with varying results, there being no national issue involved to bring about concerted action. In Massachusetts the returns up to midnight indicate that Governor Eben Draper, Republican, had beeta re elected over James H. Vahfcy, Demo crat by a greatly reduced piajority, estimated at 10,000. Governor Dra per's majority last year was 60,000, In Rhode Island, Governor Pothier, Republican, was re-elected over Olney Arnold, Democrat, by a substantial majority. * In Virginia the early returns indi cate that the Democratic ticket, head ed by Judge Mann for Governor, had been elected by about the usual ma- jority. In New York City, Which has been the storm center of the State, Tam many Hall scored a decisive triumph in the mayoralty election, Judge Wil liam J. Gavntau4hft»J2fiii:io :r atic nom- inoe, supported by Tammany, rolling up a plurality of upwards of 70,000 over Otto T. Brannard, Republican, who in turn led William R. Hearst by approximately 25,000. In Philadelphia another battle ground on reform issues, Samuel P. Rotan, Republican, was elected dis trict attorney over D. Clarence flib boney, representing the law and order society and the reform element. Ro tan's majority exceeded that in a pre vious reform campaign, being esti mated at upwards of 30,000. The Pennsylvania State elections, for Treasurer, Auditor General and judge of the Supreme Court, resulted in the usual Republican majority. In Maryland the constitutional amendment disfranchising the negro is still in doubt, the .Baltimore vote being strongly against the amend ment, while returns from the interior indicate increasing strength for the amendments Mayor Tom L. Johnson, the pictur esque mayor of Cleveland, has been defeated by a decisive majority by Herman Bnelir, Republican. In Indianapolis, wherp the temper ance issue lias figured, Lewis Shank' Republican, is elected over Charles A Causes, Democrat.—Charlotte Obsci v r. CONSERVATION OF RESOURCES. Discussion in Which tha>Womon Par ticipate and Will Add Their Power An Influence. New Orleans, Special.—lncidental to the Lakes-to-Ihe-Gulf Deep Water way convention, the Southern Conser vation congress held interest ing ses sions Monday afternoon and night. The feature of the meeting was an •address by Clifford l'inchof, chief for ester of (lie United Slates, who spoke along 1 lie same lines as those of his address before the waterways conven tion in the morning. Gov. Sanders of Louisiana, in re sponse to whose eail the delegates gathered, declared ""that the great questions for soft lenient in the future would be economic* and not political ones. That the women of the country are to make their influence felt in the great movement for conservation of natural resources was asserted bv Mrs. Hoyle Tomkies of Shrevep'ort, La., president of the Women's Nat ional Rivers ami Harbors congress. Mrs. Tomkies' address met v;li en thusiastic favor. Representatives from the following States were in attendance: Maryland. Arkansas, Ala'ama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia. West Vir ginia, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana. Georgia, Oklahoma, Kentucky, Mis souri, New Mexico, Texas and Ten nessee. Looking to the securing of uniform laws for the conservation of natural resources, forests, mines and unem ployed lands, resolutions were adopt ed at the night session of the conser vation convention. Heform in the methods of taxation of forest lands \vas stressed as being absolutely nec essary. With a view to securing de sired legislation it was resolved that the chairman of the various State conservation commissions in tk" South and repfrsentafives. one to be appointed by the governor of, each State, should meet in New Orleans January to name an execulicc committee, who shall draft recommen dations for the enactment of equita ble and advantageous laws. These recommendations, it is provided, shall bo referred to the conservation com mission for criticism and approval. McLendcn Wins in Contest to Regain His Office. Savannah, Ga., Special.—Quo war ranto proceedings in the fight between S. GF. McLendon of Atlanta and "Jo-| seph F. Gray of Savannah, for the position of Railroad Commissioner, were decided Tuesday in favor of McLendon by Judge W. S. Charlton. Gray was appointed Railroad Com missioner by the Governor after the ' ire had ousted McLendon. LABOR LEADERS LOSE Gompers, Morrison and Mitch ell Not Sustained in Appeal. ONE APPEAL YET FOR THEM. ~ • 9 Penalty of Imprisonment by Lower Court, For Contempt to be Fought to tho End. 0 A Washington, Special.—The decree of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia adjudging President Samuel Gompers, Secretary Frank Morrison and Vice President John Mitchell of the American Federation of Labor guilty of contempt of court in the Buck's Stove and Range case was affirmed Tuesday by the court of appeals of the District of Columbia. The case will now be taken to the Su preme Court of the United States. Chief Justice Sheppard dissented from the opinion of the court on con stitutional grounds. The court held that the fundament al issue was whether the constitution al agencies of the government should be obeyed or defied. The mere fact that the defendants were the officers of organized labor in America, said the court, lent importance to the Tause- and added to the gravity of the situation, but it should not be per mitted to influence the result. Court's Decision. "If the organization of citizens, however large," the courtJield, "may disobey the mandates of the court, the same reasoning would render them subject to individual defiance. Both are subject to the law and neither 13 above it. If a citizen, though he may honestly believe that his rights have been invaded, may elect who and to what extent he will obey the man dates of the court and the require ments of the law as interpreted by the court, instead of pursuing the or derly course of appeal, not only thn courts but government itself would become powerless and surely would be reduced to a state of anarchy." The action of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia in sen tencing Samuel Gompers, John Mitch ell and Frank Morrison of the Ameri* can Federation of Labor to 12, 9 and «i months' imprisonment in jail re sepctively, was the result of the fail ure of these three defendants to obey the order of the court directing them to desist from placing the Buck's Stove & Range Company of St. Louis, Mo., on their unfair list in tho prosecution of their boycott against the corporation. While the name of the corporation was romeved from the unfair list of the federation, Messrs. Gompers and Mitchell continued to keep alive the boycott by frequent refrences to it' in The Federationist, the official or gan of the federation. Mr. Mitchell was involved in the trouble by reason of his membership on the executive board of the federation and because it was alleged he had made no effort to prevent the adoption of a resolu tion at the convention of the United Mine Workers of America in antag onism to the Buck's Stove & Range Company. The result of the boycott, it was said was to cause a decline in the business of the stove and rang'! company of 50 per cent. The boycott placed by the federa* tion against the products of the Buck's Stove & Range Company grew out of a fight made by the metal pol ishers' union and supported by the federation for ,nn eight instead of a nine hour day. Avfts resisted by the company and The Federationist published the name of Bucks Stove & Range Company under the caption of "We Don't Patronize." Gomper's Comment on Decision. New York, - Special.—President Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor, issued a state ment in regard to the decision. "With all due respect to the major ity of the court I cannot surrender constitutionally guaranteed rights be cause a judge will issue an injunction invading and denying these rights. Chief Justice Sheppard's dissenting opinion is in defense of the, constitu tional and inherent rights. Minority opinions of courts ,in the past in which human rights have been invad ed have ultimately prevailed, become the law of the land and the generally accepted rule of life, and I have an abiding faith that the rule in this case will prove no exception. "If I must go to jail I shall have the consciousness of the fact that other.men have in the past been com pelled to suffer in defense of justice and right in the cause of humanity and for the maintenance of human liberty. ■'l intend to stay over here Wed nesday to finish my report for the an nual convention at Toronto and also to attend the wedding of the daugh ter of a very dear friend of mine, but 1 am going to change) my plans and shall leave so I can into Washington as soon as I can. 1 want to be within the jurisdiction of the court whatever disposal is made of the case.'' - Mr. Van Clesre's Comment. St. Louis. Special.—J. W. Van Cleve. president of the Buck's Stovt and Range Company. Tuesday in a statement concerning the decision in the case of (tampers, Morrison and Mitchell, said: "The assault upon me by the Am erican Federation of Labor in 190 C was plotted in cold blood. I was os-l saulted not ay an individual but ai president of the National Association of Manufacturers. The federation did this in order to s>ow its power. It aimed to strike terror into every body outside its own ranks—workers employers and the eeneral public alike, and to coerce the President of the United States, the Congress and the courts, Federal and State, to do its bidding. "It must be remembered that these men are not convicted because of their attempt to destroy the business of the Buck's Stove and Range Com pany but because they openly defied the order of the Federal court." TOURISTS IN CHARLOTTE End the First Week With Increasing ly Enthusiastic Receptions—Speed Excels Schedule Time—North Caro- lina Wild With Joy. Charlotte, N. C., Special.—With the Stars and Stripes afloat on ceaseless breoses, emblem of the common nat ionality of the North and the South which their tour is destined to bind with closer and more enduring ties ; 37 automobiles of modern make ending a six-days' journay of more than 600 miles from the metropolis of the nation somewhat weary and worn stopped Saturday evening in the me tropolis of North Carolina. The cheers of thousands of watching peo ple and the glad hand of hundreds more bade the participants in The New York Herald-Atlanta Journal pood roads tour, en route from New York to Atlanta, welcome to Char lotte and to Dixie. In the language of Mr. W. T. Wa ters of the staff of The Atlanta Jour nal in the stcry which be Sunday night wired his paper: "If the good roads tour of The At lanta Journal and The New York Herald has been met with ovations growing more enthusiastic vith each mile of southward progress until Sat urday, the receptions which were ac corded it on Saturday defy descrip tion. Nothing even half so cordial had been anticipated. Its movement on Saturday from Winston-Salem to Charlotte, 138 miles, has stirred the whole western half of North "Carolina. Its progress has been attended by such widespread and intense welcome that it seem* as if nothing could equal it. Yet so it seemed on Friday. On Thursday it looked as though the high- water mark of enthusiasm had been reached. "Winston-Salem bade the tourists a rousing farewell, and passed them on through Greensboro to High Point, where all business was supended while the whole city did honor to the dusty visitors. Thomasville indus tries and chair manufactures gave ail their employes holiday while the tour ists were passing. Lexington feasted them upon barbecue and flattered them with an ovqjipn that represent ed not only the city itself but the whole county of Davidson. Automo biles from Winston-Salem, thirty-two in number, met them again in Lexing-. ton. Other automobiles gatherod at Lexington from High Point and Greensboro. The way of the tour to Salisbury was preceded and followed by a flying squadron of automobile escorts,, and still on through Salis bury to Charlotte, where many of the unofficial visitors are remaining over Saturday night. Salisbury begged the tour to stop a few moments and par take of refreshments and finally com promised by putting the refreshments in the cars. Salisbury had already extended the courtesies of the toll bridge over the Yadkin river to ths tourists, every official car being pass ed with a cheer by the toll keepers. China Grove, Ijuidis, Kannapolis, Concord and Newell suspended every thing to give rousing acclaim to the passing tourists. Charlotte turned out as never before and gave the good roads army royal welcome." To the Maxwell Toy Tonneau of Marietl|B, Ga„ belongs the distinction of achieving the best speed of the day Saturday. It accomplished the allot ted distance in 0 hours and 33 minues, or in 1 hour and 37 minutes less than the time in which it was scheduled to cover it. A close second was fur nished by Mr. Jacques Futrelle. the well-known writer of Scituate. Mass.. who is driving his own car and' is accompanied by his wife and two children. He made the distance in 6 hours and 46 minutes—a differ ence of 16 minutes. Refreshed by the first day's rest afforded by their lone itinerary and, judging from their freely expressed comments, entirely delighted with Charlotte and the entertainment of- Sorded them here, approximately 150 automobilists journeying in 37 cars form the nation's New York to the New York of Dixie early Monday morning glided out across Several leagues of the finest roads they have experienced since they left the vallev uf the Shenandoah. For mfcre than 36 hour* they have been in a verv real ami manifest sense the guests of the xty of Charlotte and for not one single moment has that fnct been al lowed to slip from their minds. Mine Explocion Kills Twelve. Johnstown, Pa., Special.—Twelve men were killed in the Cambria Steel Company's coal mine 2 miles from here Sunday night, as the Result of what is supposed to have been a dyna mite explosion. All the dead are for eigners. Three men escaped with (heir lives by a-perilous* climb on Ufa 'adders through poisonous mine gas and falling Flute up the walls of Uie •nuin shaft. ' • r ,yy t ' ' SNAPPY AND BRIEF Items Gathered and Told While You Hold Your Breath. SOME EVERY DAY HAPPENINGS Lively and Crisp as They Are Gar nered From the Fields of Actios at Home and Abroad. Otto Mueller who murdered Annie Luther in New York State now con fesses to have murdered seven wives. His motive seems always to have been to obtain a few hundred dollars from them. Kentucky farmers Aot in the com pact are again uneasy and are arm ing against the outrageous barnburn ing night riders. A monument to the Confederate veterans of Granville, N. C., county was unveiled at Oxford last Satur day. * The New York to Atlanta autoiste reached* Charlotte, N. C., Saturday evening and left there Monday morn ing, Nine lives were lost in a burning ban!# building at Johnsburg, Vt., on last Saturday. Two men were killed and one was .seriously scalded in a freight wreck at Hannastown, Pa.@, Saturday. Near Yankeedom, W. Va., Satur day, a coks and coal train boiler blew up, killing five of the seven men of the crew. Cadet Eugene Byrne died at West Point, N. Y., Sunday from injuries received in a game of foot ball. Milton Mullen, an old man living near Rolfe, Logan county, W. Va., believinp t Vat he was going to die re vealed lo his grand sou 'the hiding place in the ground of $7,(>00 which be had accumulated. It was first thought that his mind was wander ing. A, J. Deaton was instantly killed and William Carroll was seriously in jured by a boiler explosion at Pur cell, Lee county, Va., Monday. Bad political blood is again at the boiling point in Jackson and Breath itt counties, Ky. John Stewart Kennedv, financier and philanthropist, died in New York Sunday of whooping cough at the ago of 80 years, less two months. I Practicing physicians, heads of medical colleges and prominent edu cators will convene at New Haven, Conn., on the 11th and 12th to con sider means to lessen the mortality pf infants. Forty-five fine horses and mules were burned in a livery stable fire at Pelham, Ga., on Monday. At Hamburg, Germany, Monday an aeroplane took fire high in the air. The manager glided to the ground gently but the flames were so near him at 15 feet in the air thart he jumped and was injured. The gaso line tank exploded and the envas was consumed. On account of the Jailttre of ves sels to keep up with the Oleander, President Taft's flag ship, his sche dule was greatly broken into.- The steamer Gray Kagle, of the presidential fleet, went aground near Helena Wednesday, and her cargo of officiate and delegates -were transfer red to the steamer Illinois. In a special election lield last Tues day in Duvall county, Fla., the sl,- 000,000 bond issue was carried. Thin money is to he used in building good roads to the county lines, connecting with roads from other counties. At Sun Dance, Wyoming, last Sun day, Sirs. Lent Henderson was in the yard with her small child. Hearing shrieks from her two children in the house she rushed in and found them bitten by a rattle snake. While do ing for them she heard a faint cry from the younger child and rushed out in time to see is fall into the well where it drowned. Coming back to the two she found them in the throes of death from the snake poison, thus losing three children in one day. The sickness among the girls that caused the temporary closing of the Athens, Ga., Female College, has been diagnosed as ptomaine poison from eating fish. . Mrs. John Kunselman, living near Punxsutawney, Pa., could keep the sceret no longer, though threatened with death if she divulged the secret, had her father arrested Tuesday for killing her mother a year ago. Gen. O. 0. Howard, the last of the Union commanders in the Civil war, >' died at hi 9 home near Burlington, Vermont, Tuesday. At Denton, Md., Mr. David Stewart found in an antiquated desk a check by George Washington for $1,317. Seventeen-year-old Elizabeth Mil ler at Mcßae, Ga., Thursday told en the stead in the trial of her father. W. A. Miller, for the .murder of her sweetheart, W. Thomas Poole, the story of the killing: and admitted as she wept bitterly that her relatione * with the young man were improper and that she was in fault of the , tragedy. The organization of Georgia cotton mill men have resolved to curtail pro duction 25 per eeat.
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