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Pales 3 and 4 I 11, , 9.1 . ! ELS FIGHHilKIJLOSIS Take Steps to Protect 12,000 Employes From Disease. Twenty Manufacturing Companies of . Worcester Combine Against the White Plague. i Worcester, Mass. More than twenty manufacturing companies in Worcester County, employing more than 12,000 men, women, boys and girls, have enlisted their support in ji campaign to stamp out tuberculosis among the working people. To this end each employing firm has agreed to pay the expenses of three months' treatment at the Massachusetts State Sanitarium at Rutland of an employe who may be found suffering from the "white plague" in its early stages. Some of the firms have even agreed to pay to the families' of such persons the wages earned by the employe who has been obliged to go to Rut land for treatment. The support of the manufacturers In the campaign against tuberculosis has been secured by Dr. Melvin 6. Overlook, of this city, who is one of the State health inspectors. His method of combining the manufac turing interests in the fight against the disease is new, and, although he has been at work on his present plan lor only, four months, already he has succeeded in protecting the health of 12,000 factory employes. Dr. Overlook has impressed on the owners and managers of the big man ufacturing concerns of the district that it was their duty, from an eco nomic as well as from a humanita rian standpoint, to help the move ment to stamp out the disease. He argued that the mills, as a general thing, from the nature of their work and the confinement of the employes, are sources of the disease, and when It strikes one of the employes that person's productive ability is lessened and there is danger of a spread t other employes, to say nothing of the danger in the households, which in many mill towns are not hygenic. TRAIN CRASHES INTO STATION. Goes Through Waiting Rooms at Montreal Four Dead; Montreal, Canada. At a speed of forty miles an hour the Boston ex press on the Boston and Maine Rail road, due at Windsor Street Station at 8.20 a. m., crashed through the thick granite walls of the station into the women's waiting room and the general -waiting room, where engine, tender and baggage car were smashed Into a shapeless mass of iron and steel. Four persons were killed and thir ty others seriously injured. The dead are: Mrs. W. J. Nixon, Montreal; her thirteen-year-old son and nine-year-old daughter. Elsie Villiers, twelve years old, Montreal. The most seriously injured are: John Garriepy, Montreal, leg bro ken; William Anderson, Salvation Army Home, head cut, taken to hos pital; Mark Cunningham, engineer, skull fractured jumping from train, cannot live; unknown foreign farm er, fracture at base of skull, may re cover; William Plante, Montreal, fractured ribs; Robert Buckingham, Toronto, scalp wounds; Miss A. Good leaf, Caughnawaga, Quebec, head in jured; Miss Cecilia De Lisle, Caugh nawaga, Quebec, head injured; Joijas Wells, Montreal, bruises, and Will lam Bock, Canadian Pacific interpre ter, legs crushed. CONFESSIONS OF A CLOWN. Dan Rice in His "Memoirs" Tells In side Mysteries of Show Life. Any bookseller will tell you that the constant quest of his customers Is for "a book which will make me flaugh." The bookman is compelled to reply that the race of American humorists has run out and comic lit erature is scarcer than funny plays. A wide sale is therefore predicted for the "Memoirs of Dan Rice," the Clown of Our Daddies, written by Maria Ward Brown, a book guar anteed to make you roar with laugh ter. The author presents to the pub lic a volume of the great jester's most pungent jokes, comic harangues, caustic hits upon men and manners, lectures, anecdotes, sketches of ad venture, original songs and poetical effusions; wise and witty, serious, satirical, and sentimental sayings of the sawdust arena of other days. These "Memoirs" also contain a series of adventures and incidents alternat ing from grave to gay; descriptive scenes and thrilling events; the rec ord of half a century of a remarkable life, in the course of which the sub ject was brought into contact with -most of the national celebrities of the day. The book abounds in anecdotes, humorous and otherwise; and it af fords a clearer view of the inside mysteries of show life than any ac count heretofore published. Old Dan Rice, as the proprietor of the famous "One Horse Show," was more of a national character than Artemus Ward, and this volume contains the humor which made the nation laugh even while the great Civil War raged. This fascinating book of 500 pages, beautifully . illustrated, will be sent postpaid to you for $1.50. Address Book Publishing House, 134 Leonard street, New York City. fRTCLLIAM G. MORSE LIBERATED. bharged With Killing Indian, Is Hon orably Discharged. Bnsenada, Mexico. William G Morse, son of the inventor of the tele graph, who was arrested here last December on the charge of having shot and killed an Indian laborer at Trinidad, Mexico, was honorably dis charged here by the Judge in the Criminal Court. It was proved be yond doubt that Morse killed the In dian In self-defense. II $50,000,000 TO REVENUE Inheritance Tax Expected to Turn in $20,000,000 Yearly. STEEL DUTIES CUT IN HALF Average Maximum Duty of Twenty Per Cent, in Excess of the Pres ent Tariff Provided For in Payne Measure Introduced in Congress. Washington, D.C. Revision down ward, with maximum and minimum provisions which impose an average maximum duty twenty per cent. In excess of the present rates, and pro visions by which it is estimated that the revenue will be increased $40, 000,000 and $50,000,000, are the sa lient features of the new tariff bill introduced in the House by Chairman Payne, of the Ways and Means Com mittee. The recommendations of President Taft for an inheritance tax and that a limited amount of tobacco and sug ar be admitted free from the Philip pines are included in the bill. The measure also provides for the issuance of Panama Canal bonds to the amount of $40,000,000 to reim burse the treasury for the original purchase of the canal, and re-enacts the provision for the issue of treas ury certificates, the amount being in creased from $100,000,000 to $250, 000,000. The Most Important Changes. Some of the most important changes made by the bill are: . Iron ore and basic slag to the free list. Pig iron and spiegeleisen from $4 to $2.50 a ton. Scrap iron and steel from $4 to 50 cents. Beams, girders, etc., to 3-10 of a cent a pound and a general cut in steel and iron and the metals schedule generally. Lumber duties cut in half, with kindling wood and fence posts on the free list Hides, tallow cottonseed oil and works of art twentv vears old. on the free list. No duty on coffee, but a tax of 8 cents a pound on tea and a tax on cocoa. The internal revenue tax on cigarettes is materially increased, while the tax on beer and whisky is undisturbed. Bituminous coal and coke free from every country admitting American coal free. The tariff on boots and shoes is reduced 40 per cent, .and on other leather manu factures in proportion. The pottery schedule remains about the same, but the duties on window and plate glass of the Bmaller sizes are increased, while the duties on the larger sizes are re duced. Reductions in the Woolen Schedule. The tariff on wool, of the first and sec ond class, used principally in clothing, is not disturbed, but on wool of the third class, known as carpet wool, it is reduced on the cheaper grades. A five-cent reduction is made in the duties on shoddy and waste, while wool tops are assessed six cents a pound more than the duty on scoured wool, which is unchanged. The recommendations tor placing wooa of the House, are incorporated in the bill. The duty on refined sugar is five one hundredths of a cent a pound and on dextrine one-half centra pound. A reduction of one-Half a cent a pound is made in the duty on starch, except po tato starch. Zinc ore is assessed one cent per pound for the zinc contained. The Brincipal Increases. The principal increases are made in the duties on lemons, cocoa and substitutes for coffee, coal tar, dyes, gloves and coated papers and lithographic prints. As stated, the bill is made on a maxi mum and minimum basis, with the pro vision that the maximum rates are not to go into effect until sixty days after the passage of the bill. Reciprocity provisions are contained in the paragraphs assessing duties on bi tuminous coal and coke and agricultural implements. Inheritance Tax Provision. The inheritance tax provision is similar to the New York State law. It provides a tax of 5 per cent, on all inheritances over $500 that are collateral inheritances, or in. which strangers are the legatees. In cases of direct inheritance the taxes prescribed are: On $10,000 to $100,000, 1 per cent.: on $100,000 to $500,000, 2 per cent., and on those over $500,000, 3 per cent. It is estimated that $20,000,000 an nually will be derived from this tax. Abrogation of Trade Agreements. The maximum and minimum nrovision does away with the necessity of continuing the foreign trade agreements. The abrogation of these is provided for in a section which authorizes the President to issue notices of the termination of these agreements within ten days after the bill goes into effect. The French agreement would, therefore, terminate immediately, while the German agreement would remain in force for six months. The time, that must intervene be fore the inoperation of the other reciproc ity agreements would become effective, ranges from three months to one, year. To Meet British Law. A provision is designed to meet condi tions resulting from the patents laws of Great Britain, which requires that pat entees must manufacture their articles within Great Britain. s This provision applies the same rules to patents taken out m this country by aliens as applies to Americans in the country of the aliens. . Drawback privileges are extended by the bill and the method of valuation on articles upon which the tariff imposes an ad valorem duty is broadened for the pur pose of preventing the practice of under valuation. Throw Man Into Canal. William McKenzie, thirty-five years old, of Washington, D. C, was held up by two men on New Jersey Rail road avenue, Newark, N. J., near the Morris Canal, and robbed of $50. He tried to flsht. hut his assailants eat his money and then threw him into the canal. Hanged on Bathrobe Belt. By tieing the rope belt of his bath robe around his neck and swinging himself from the transom of the door of his bedroom, Francis Gottsberger, an inmate of Bloomingdale Asylum, White Plains, N. Y., committed sui cide. He lived in Brooklyn. Cambria Steel Wages Oat. The Cambria Steel Company, Johnstown, Pa., which, when in full activity, employs 18,000 men, an nounced a ten per cent, reduction in wages, to take effectApril 1. NEW TARIFF BILL Suip on tne iree use ana reducing me uties on print paper, with certain re strictions, made bv the Mann committee THE POLK fOUNTY 1 Willie Whitla, Aged 8, Taken From School at Sharon, Pa NO CLUE TO THE PERPETRATORS Willie Whitla, 8 Years Old, Taken From His School at Sharon, Pa Held For $10,000 Ransom Terms Complied With, But Plan Fails. On last Friday Willie Whitla, 8 years old, was kidnapped from school at Sharon, Pennsylvania. A well dressed man drove up to the school and told the janitor that Willie's father had sent him to bring Willie to his office. Not suspecting any thing wrong 'the teacher fixed Willie up and pent him on, in light pleasan try saying she hoped he was not be ing kidnapped. All too soon she found that it was a stern reality. A letter was receive Friday in Willie's own hand which read: Dear Father : m Two bad men have me, and if yon don't send $10,000 they will Mil m in 10 days. Willie Whitla. There was nothing on the envelope to denote where the letter had been mailed. Frank H. Buhl, a millionaire uncle of Willie's took a decided interest in the case and will freely pay the $10, 000 for his safe recovery. It was reported from that city that two men and a box answering the description of the kidnappers and their victim have been seen there, consequently the supposition is that Mr. Buhl has received word which made him believe his nephew was in Cleveland or that vicinity. The bug- I GTV in which flip fhilrl was taVon -Pimm school wag located a't Warren vmo, ana as tne Cleveland papers ri -a the Cleveland were among those specified, in which the demand of the kidnappers for a $10,000 ransom should be answered by a personal advertisement, all evi dence seemed to indicate that devel opments in the mysterious case was centered about the Lake City. A clue was . secured Sunday, in which little credence is placed, show ever. On March 1 the local posjioffice department received a circular an nouncing a reward for a man de scribed as Samuel C. Leayanson, of Canton, O., said to be wanted there for the theft of $400. Janitor Wes ley C. Sloss, of the school from which W illie was taken, when shown the cir cular bearing a portrait of the man wanted, declared it bore a strong re semblance to the abductor. A Cleveland, 0., special on Sunday says: Whitla was instructed in a letter from the kidnappers to leave $10,000 in Flat Iron Park Saturday night. If no detectives were about the kidnappers promised they would deliver the boy safely to the father in a hotel at Ashtabula at 3 o'clock Sunday morning. Whitla deposited the monsy as requested, but the Ash tabula police learned of the plans to pay the ransom and went to the park; The kidnapers are supposed to have seen them, for at 3 o'clock the money was intact and jiot a man had ap proached the spot. Whitla believes that the failure to effect a settlement with him will frighten the kidnapers nd they will not communicate with him again. The police of Ashtabula are unwil ling to believe that the kidnaners have left that section of the countrv. TV. ii i m.'i icuci xiom inc. captors oi Wil lie Whitla came to the 'boy's parents in Sharon Friday afternoon. Upon receipt of the letter Whitla called in private dectives and asked their advice. They were anxious to capture the kidnapers ' and pleaded with him to permit them to place a aecoy package of bills at tfce desig nated spot and let officers lie in wait and capture the men who came aftex the money. Whitla would not agree to this. He finally consented to permit the detec tives to acompany him to this city and await his summons to start a search for the kidnapers. Promptly at 10to 'clock Whitla left the package of bills in the park. He went tto the designated spot alone, feeling certain that his .compliance with the request of the kidnapers would prove the means of delivering his boy back to him. Three policemen who had been sent out from the Ashtabula central sta-1 tion saw Whitla leave the money in the park. They appraised Chief Las key of their discovery and received instructions to remain on duty and capture the kidnapers should they appear. In the meantime Whitla returned to the city and communicated with his detectives in Cleveland. They ad vised him not to go to the hotel foi his boy a minute before the time set. After five hours of anxious waiting. Whitla stated after his boy. As he was .on his way, a policeman infoim j ed him that three officers had been on guard in the immediate vieinity oi the park and that no one had called for the money. Whitla was overcome when this news was broken to him. He went to the park and found his package oi money undisturbed. A dettachment of detectives was sent out from Cleveland as soon as it was learned that the Ashtabula police were working on the case. The father refuses to sleep at all, and keeps ud i throne shr voWS Dower. The mother, who will Bet al- NEWS. COLUMBUS low her daughter, Saline, out of hei sight, is showing the effects of the worry 1 Whitla returned to Celevland and after a conference with Detective Perkins the return trip to Sharon was made. Hundreds of letters from all ovei .'he country continue to come mltjoi the country continue to pour in from friends and strangers alike, tendering lympathy. But among all the corres pondence there has been no word Sum the abductors, nor any one who teemed to be in any way in toucli with them. WASHINGTON NOTES For four hours the House of Rep resentatives Friday listened to the reading of the tariff bill which was the only -business transacted. It was perhaps the dreariest legislative ses sion of any held by the body in re cent years. The census bill was received by the Senate from the House and referred to the committee on the census. After being in session eight minutes the Senate adjourned until Monday That the Payne tariff bill increases the cost of living; that it is crude, in definite, sectional and prohibitive; and that it is an open challenge to a trade war with every other nation on earth, are some of the criticisms of that measure made by Democratic members of the ways and means com mittee in the minority report submit ted to the House by Minority Leader Champ Clark Monday. The report is a severe arraignment of the revision which the Payne bill proposes. The countervailing duty provisions for coffee and petroleum, the maximum and minimum features, the "Cuban reciprocity clause, the woolen, glass, agricultural and sugar schedules are bitterly attacked. ' 'There are many changes for the most part minor changes,' says the report, "of the Dingley rates, some up and some down. Most of the changes in a downward direction are reductions more - apparent than real, the Payne rates being as prohibitive in their results in many cases as the Dingley rates." Declaring that a tariff is a tax paid by the consumer and that the only function of a tariff law is to raise revenue to supply the needs ef the government, the minority members of the committee insist that instead of an increase in taxes of a new issue of bonds, the correct remedy for the growing deficiency in the revenues is the cutting down of the expenses of the government. The first gun in the tariff debate was fired in the House of Representa tives by Mr. Payne, of New York, the majority leader and chairman of the committee on ways and means. Mr. Payne declared the country was overwhelmingly in favor of a protective tariff. "It is an Ameri can policy," he said, "and it seemed to be acquiesced in by the great ma jority of the American people." Coming to the Dingley bill Mr. Payne declared that it had proved, to be a boon to the people of the United States, in proof of which statement he cited the immense collections of revenue and expenditures under it, as given in his recent report on the bill Those expenditures, he said, included $50,000,000 for the Panama canal, for which no bonds were issued. "So that," he said, "the entire surplus over the ordinary expenditures of the government have been about $125,- 000,000 during that period." Triple Murder the Charge. Amita, La., Special. With the court house surrounded by - State troops, the trial of Avery Blount charged with the murder of Buzzj Breeland, his wife and step-daughter, Mrs. Joe Everett, near Tickfaw, oc the ight of January 29, was begun here Monday. Garfield Kinchen, al leged to have been implicated in the murders with Blount, is still a fugi tive from justice. THE HUMMING BIRD Do you know that humming birds. wfeich are the most beautiful of all the feathered creatures, are found only in this, our own America? Well, it is so, and you might just stop an I fMnV nt t.Vie mnA ha mar) V matlV other (beautiful things you have In your awn country when you are crossly wishing you could go to Eu rope like Tommy Tucker in your room at school did to Europe where there's something worth seeing. In the United States and Mexico there are four hundred different kinds of these brilliant little ceratures. Most neoole think that the hum ming-bird lives only on honey, gath ered from flowers. This, Mr. Job, who writes for the Outing Magazine, tells us is a mistake. The bird does secure same honey, but its food con sists mainly of the small insects which frequent the flowers. Some of tfhese insects are injurious to the blossom, and the tiny bird fulfills a useful function in destroying tnem That the hummer is an insect eater Is also shown by its habit of catch ing tiny insects on the wing, which is occasionally observed. Home Herald. METHOD. The Parson What! You want to be married to this man? Why, wom an, he's as drunk as he can be! The Bride Well, hurry, or he might sober up. Cleveland Leader. N, C THE CHILD IS RESTORED Required Ransom Paid Agent Thi Scene of the Reunion Was Hollen den Hotel, Cleveland, O. Cleveland, O., Special. Little Wil lie Whitla, who has caused the police of the entire country endless worry since he was kidnapped from school in Sharon, Pa., last Thursday, was re turned to his father at the Hollen den Hotel here Mlonday night at 8 :30 o 'clock. In compliance with an arrangement entered into between the kidnaped boy's father and an agent of the kid napers here Monday the boy was placed on a street car on the out skirts of the city and started to the hotel shortly after 8 o 'clock. Twu boys recognized the lad on the cai and taking him in eharge, conducted him to his father, who was in wait ing. The moment the anxious parent heard that a strange boy was in the hotel he rushed across the lobby, grasped him in his arms and smoth ered his face with kisses. Willie is in perfect health. He says that he has been well treated and ever since his capture has been constantly indoors. He .believes he was taken irom Sharon to warren and thence to Newcastle, Pa. It is his opinion, expressed in a happy school-boy way, that he was in Ash- abula on Saturday night at the tune his father was to leave his $10,000 in Flat Iron Park. Whitla, senior, refused to state whether he had paid the ransom or not. He said that he received a let ter Monday from the kidnapers at his home in Sharon, saying that if be called at a confectionary store in the east end of Cleveland he would be told how to secure his boy " unharm ed and well fed." In Mortal Terror of Kidnapers. Shortly after noon he left Sharon for Celveland. He was unaccom panied. His immediate family and the private detectives he had in his employ he apprised of the proposed seeret meeting, but insisted that he Jiake the trip alone. Every one of hem was warned that he must be allowed to go unheralded, and no at tempt at the capture of the kidnapers now be made. Whitla was certain that if he spoiled the plans of his son's captors he would never see the lad again. His experience at Ashta bula served as a warning. About 2 o'clock in the afternoon he went to a candy store in the east end. With him he carried the $10, 000, expecting that it would be de manded of him there., He was met by a woman who detailed to him the terms of the kidnapers. With all the eagerness of a distracted parent Whitla agreed to them immediately! Willie Unconscious of His Danger. In the meantime little Willie was being treated kindly and even at this time does not realize what danger he was in. The woman at the candy store had done her duty. She com municated with the captors of the boy and told them that the father had made no attempt to trap them. The boy was brought from his un known hiding place to a car line in the east end of the city. Part of Willie's" Story. "When we got to a town that the man called Newcastle, they took me to a big building and turned me over to a woman. She was good to me. The hospital, or whatever the build ing was, was a clean place. There was a man there who I think was a doctor. He looked like a doctor, be cause he had whiskers, short grey whiskers. , "The4 people in the hospital told me that I must do just what they told me to do. If I did not obey them, they said they would take me to a place called the pest house, where folks that have smallpox have to go. I walked the chalk line just like a good boy, papa, like you've told me, to. , "They told me I was taking a little vacation. I was not going to be hurt, they told me, so I just acted nice and had a good time playing around the hospital. I knew I would get back home all right and just supjpsed Mr. Jonse was one of my friends who was treating me nice because you wanted him 'to treat me that way, papa dear." Before retiring for the night, Mr. Whitla admitted that he had paid $10,000 to the woman in the candy store. Off For Africa. New Yoflc, Special. The steamer Hamburg dropped her mooring lines from Hoboken, N. J., pier Tuesday, and the long-heralded East African expedition led by Theodore Roosevelt has begun. The former President has intimated that he did not wish official notice of his departture to be taken by the municipal government of Hoboken, but the occasion was bound to attract as many well-wishers as the shores of the North rivei in mai vicinity ana available sea craft could accommodate and the "send-off" was one to be remember ed. Girls Whipped in Lieu of Fines. Atlanta, Ga., Special. Two girls one of whom had been married but had left her husband, were chastised at the local police v barracks Monday morning in the presence of the police matron by their mothers, following s declaration by the city recorded that a mother had the right to "whip' ! her daughter until she "was 21 years of age." This course was agreed up on in lieu of a fine. March 25, 1009 CENSUS BURp jpRT Amount of Cotton Stocks on Hand February 28 Was 5,252,663 Bales Report Preliminary to Official Statement and is Made at Request of Congress Total Supply of Cot ton. Washington, Special: The census bureau in a report Monday announce ed that the amount of cotton slocks on hand in the United States at tl:; close of February was 5,252,0(53 bales. The indicated consumption of cot ton is 2,521,436 bales. The report is a preliminary one, and is in response to a resolution of Congress. The stocks on hand are distributed as fol. lows : Manufacturers, 1,844,992; produc ers, 326,377; warehouses and com press, 2,306,786; transportation com panies, 518,479; other holders, 2 53.. 669. The total supply of cotton in the United States and the net imports for the six months' period ending Febru ary 28, last, were 14,340,670 and 98,000 bales respectively. The total stock held September 1, last, was 1,236,058 and cotton ginned since August 31, last, aggregated 13,000, 612 running bales. The total export of cotton from September 1, 1908, to February 28, last, inclusive, was 6, 566,571 bales. The approximate segregation of cotton stocks shown in the report re lates to location and not to owner ship. Cotton in warehouses owned and operatingin conjunction with mill9 is classed as in possession of manu facturers, under independent ware houses and compresses is shown all cotton so stored, regardless of its ownership. Cotton of foreign growth included in these statistics amounts to 55,629 bales, of which 50,561 are Egyptian, 1,859 Indian, 3,085 Peru vian and 124 others. Of the total amount held 3,721,971 bales were in the cotton-growing States and 1,530, 692 bales in all other States. Feudists Shot From Ambush. Huntington, W. Va., Special. John and Frank Flemming, alleged mem bers of a feud gang that has terror ized Harts Creek, incoln county, 40 miles south of this city, were shot from ambush Monday evening. Frank was Killed and John was seriously wounded. John Flemming was re leased Saturday from the peniten tiary, where he served two years for conspiracy to defraud the govern ment. When he learned that his young wife had secured a divorce and had married John McCoy, a hitter enemy of his, the Flemming brothers started for McCoy's home. They were ambushed en route. Five Persons Die in Mine Explosion. Evansville,Ind., Special. Five men were killed and a score injured in an explosion at the Sunnyside coal mine near this city Saturday afternoon. The explosion was caused by a windy shot due to an overcharge of powder said to have been placed by John Petit. Petit is burned over his entire body and will die. The dead were all killed by sulphuric fumes which fol lowed the shot. The mine was swept as if by a whirlwind. Twenty-nine were in the west shaft of the mine when the explosion occurred. Wild Train Hits Station. Montreal, Special. Four persons are dead and thirty others were more or less seriously inured as the result of the blowing out of a wash pipe on the locomotive hauling the Boston express of the Canadian Pacific Rail way Wednesday morning, three miles out from this city. Scalding steam filled the cab and the engineer and fireman were forced to jump. The train without a guiding hand at the throttle, dashed into the Windsor street sation, through the granite wall into the woman's waiting room and then into the rotunda. Furniture Shippers Must Pack Theil Wares. Mobile, Ala., Special The South ern classification committee adjourn ed to meet in Atlantic City in July. The committee devoted most of its time to correcting errors in the pack ing of freight, with a view to decreas ing the number of claims for dam ages. It was ordered also that fibre boxes must be made waterproof.. Shortest Bill on Record. Washington, Special. Representa tive Coudrey, of Missouri, has just introduced what is probably the shortest bill so far presented during the present session, yet if enacted in to law it would attract more atention than the Sherman Antitrust law. After the enacting clause the entire bill is as follows: That from and after the passage of this act all corporations shall pay a license tax of 1 1-10 of 1 per cent on their capital. Items of General Interest. Small pox is said to be raging in Guatemala and Mexico is making rigid quarantine against it. The latest prospects in the East are for peace. The Servian government acceding to Austria 's propositions. A case was handed dQwn'jfrom the higher courts of (Georgia recently, to the effect that for a mm to call a Georgian a liar meant alight and is to be construed- as an assault.
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